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Show The Cache American, Logan. Cache County, Utah Pace Three 'real f S- OHARA u. the ITORT Tills FAR: Tbander-krad-, through them like hot lava, making commonly known at iht Goblin, It them rear and play and fight and tot only wblta kona tvrr bora oa tha Goota Bar ranch la Wyomlni. Ha (root wrestle; making their tails and Irom a mlatbapta coll u a powerful manes lift like flying banners; giving ytarllnf, retembllnf bit ral (randilrt a look of Individuality and passion morn every day. The (randtlre It a wild to their fsces and he had teen them Ullloa called the Albina. One day Goblla after. Seen the change In the carwaadert Into a mountain valley, meeu riage of the head, the look of the the Albino, and barely eieapet with hit the appearance of the colt, the life. Bbra bit wound! are healed. Ken eye, general behavior. Mrl.aufhlln. bit 12ytar-ol- d owner, Nothing would reconcile him. But to train him. Goblin, although dll bruit to handle, actatlonally tubmltt, hit father had decided. What could and runt with atlonltblnf tpeed and en one do In such a Jam? Fortitude durance. Charley Sargent, millionaire When you couldnt have what you borea breeder, tellt Kea that GobUa wanted you accepted defeat with mlfht become winning rarer. fortitude. His mother laid be-(I- nt you could pray but you needn't think youd get what you wanted, you'd Just get the strength to besr the disappoint- CHAPTER XIV ment. Those days made a change In Ken's face and character. He laid little about it. The more you ar gued and plead the lest likely his father was to yield. Hla mother was really on hla side, but she left such thing! to his father. She felt that fight. All right then let It be war. This he really knew best. It happened that on the morning battling with the ttalllon waa bringof the day of Ken's trial race down that out in the boy ing something the bad never been there before. He on the track a call came IntoLara-mieraised the light crop he held and office of the veterinarian at It was from Barney, the ranchbrought It down on the colt'a er west of the Goose Bar, Hating haunches as bard ai be could. Thunderhead leaped In the air and tried that he had a tick cow who needed to shake Ken off. Ken could feel to be cleaned out after a premature the power and anger surge Into hit calving. Could Dr Hicks come out own body. He raised his arm and and take care of her? Dr. Hicks and Bill his assistant, brought the crop down again. When arrived at the Barney ranch about the horte lit this time he waa going. one oclock. They worked over the It was the long floating effortless cow for a couple of hours. When pace that had been Rocket's. Ken they were leaving. Dr. Hicks said, tat moUonless on the tiny (addle. "Its only a few miles down the Down to the turn, around the posts, back road to the Goose Bar. Well up the other aide stop in there and geld those two- Nell glanced at Charley. "See that?" the said. "That's what I Ken brought his horse over the tine es he hsd done before the same, bard gallop, with the colt fighting his head and unwilling to obey. It made Ken mad that Just oow when he wanted performance Thunderhead would do nothing but tneaa" "And he'a not even trying," said Charley in a daze. "Hea coming! He'a coming!" screamed Howard. "Look at the watch Sargent gave a start. He hadn't bad his eyes of? the colt, he hadnt timed him. He waved his arm and yelled at Ken, "Keep going! Go around again! Ken's eyes flickered up to him as be passed, but be didnt turn his head. There was a rapt look on his face. "Gosh! He runs In the air!" bowled Sargent. "He doesnt touch the ground!" Howard was Jumping up and down. "Keep It up! Keep It up! Thunderhead! Thunderhead!" Nell felt hysterical She suddenly put her face Into her hands. The beauty of it The and Ken sitting so still the victory at last the battle the faith the exhaustion the cuts and bruises and strains she bad to bind up and now, Victory She raised her head and looked again. Coming back up the home atretch! Coming! One long sustained yell from Sargent and the horse over the line, Ken trying to pull him up swinging around In circles Howard's voice squawking "What did he make, Mr. Sargent? while SarWhat did he make? gent was trying to scramble down the rock. Thunderhead had made the half-mil- e in forty-seve- n seconds. "Oh, Kennie Kennie did it Gee! "Gee, Ken-- he "That horse! Hes one of the seven wonders of the world! Thunderhead was fighting. He wanted to keep going. Ken had hardly come back yet from the ecstasy in which he had ridden. His glowing face with the slightly parted lips was half unconscious. "Could he do it again? Has he ever done it before? Well let him rest a little, then give him another spin. "Rest? said Howard. "Hes not He never gets tired. He tired. hates to be stopped when he gets going. Thats why hes mad now. They decided to try the colt again; and again they climbed to the ledge and timed his start, and again Ken fought with him to control him, forced him over the line, and was shaken by the angry, rough gallop by his breaking through the posts. The struggle went on the lashing of the crop the scarlet face of the boy, while Charley grew grave and the little group on the ledge no longer chattered with excitement, but stood silent. At last Sargent was hopeless. "It was a fluke, he said. "Hes uncontrollable. "Look, look, Mr Sargent! Hes doing it again! The colt had broken through his He impediments. temperamental burst into his swift, floating pace, and wnt streaming around the track. As he crossed the line Sargent punched the watch. They held their breath. Sargents mouth was wide open in a crazy grin. His eyes popped. j - .. The H ' ... ..-cC- So Thunderhead waa not gelded. A year before, the Albino had recognized in Thunderhead a reflection of himaelf In miniature. But gelding would have changed that It would have left the colt perhaps, a successful racer; it would have "great swallower" made him more useful to men and amenable to their demands; bul never again would he have been a creature who could have commanded the notice of his royal great grandfather. Nell had hardly recovered from the emotion she had felt when she saw Ken t triumph. And the fact that the colt had escaped gelding (for Rob had said that sines Doc bad come and gone he could wait another year) gave her an even Ain't It the Truth: On One Sth stranger feeling of unreality. When Avenue, a patron was telling a barobstacles vanished, they Just floated on the atomic tender hit view away ai If they never had been world. "Jet planes, sky highways "He la going to be a racer after and there'll even be machine as all. isnt he. dad? bartenders! These machines will do "Looks like It, aon." everything you do!" "And all our troubles will be "Mebbeso," said the bartender, over." "but those machines wouldnt last "What are you going to do with all a week. They might mix you a drink and hand it to you but no the money, Ken?" "Hes going to pay back a lot machine would ever put up with some of the lushes we meet!" that he owes me! "And he can pay for hi own eduQulteso, Quite: Marie MacDoncation! arrived for the premiere of ald, "And pay off the note on the her just film ("Getting Gertie's latest ranch." waa asked If she wasn't And put wooden fence around It Garter"), bored with people who keep callhe'a promised me that!" ing her The Body. "Mother, you've got to tell me said Marie, "I found out "No, what you want! Ive asked you and in Hollywood a gal can't get that asked you and you never have." anywhere by being referred to as "Can I have three wishes?" The Brain." "Ves three things. Make them big things, motherl" Arlene Francis relays the one I want a Swan sleigh all covered about the Hollywood producer who with bells! I want a monkey tree! squawked when he got an estimate And I want a little girl! depicting Civil war scenes. It was What la a monkey tree?" asked for $1,000,000. Why, you money Charlie. wasters!" barked the producer. "Its a kind of big old pine tree The battle between the North and here on the ranch there are only a the South didn't cost $750,000!" couple of dozen of them," Howard "The original battle," snapped an explained. "We were looking at one accountant, "was a flop." one day long ago They are a queer shape with branches all twisting evBoris Karloff met Boo, Yaclf! ery which way, and mother said It Bela Lugosi the other had a face like an old monkey's." and compared notes. "I had "Mother," insisted Ken, "tell me a wonderful day," said Karloff, "I some other wishes real wishes that picked up three more corpses!" I could get you. "Ydont say!" said LugosL "He wants to buy her "Thats wonderful You must come clowned Howard. to my house some time and see my "Better cross your fingers, Ken," bathtub full of blood! said Charley. "Many a slip betwixt "I'd love to, exclaimed Boris. the cup and the lip, you know "Whats your phone number?" Call me any time," giggled Bela. In the interchange of talk and flashing glances that played around "I'm at PLazma the table, Nells look crossed Rob's. A Bollywood star and a West They stared a moment She felt the haven't Dorothy Parker impact of his animosity. He hadnt Coast forgiven her for what she had said talked for years. They met at a last night. When they were alone party the other day, and the actress The critics all say my purred: together, he was smooth and easy as If it were forgotten but with latest picture is a must. "That makes two in a row," said people around, he lowered his guard the other. "You mussed up the last and let her see the truth. While they argued as to whether one, too!" it would be better for Thunderhead to be raced this coming fall or wait , New Yorkers are talking about Truman's very good until he was a and President decided on the latter, she sat at friend from Missouri, who recently the end of the table, feeling all her went to the White House for a favor. elation dying down. Thunderheads "My boy is overseas, and his old success began to seem very remote mother may not live. Can you help indeed, unlikely. No. The odds me bring him home right away? A few were, nothing would come of it. The Mr. Truman obliged. colt had, apparently, run a half-mil- e weeks later the same old pal went faster than it had ever been to see the President for another He hoped Mr. Truman run before. Could that be true? "break. could the transfer of some to recorded arrange runs, According yes But there were many colts In the factories (in the reconversion manworld besides those who ran in races ner) for him. "It would put me on many colts who had been clocked Easy Street," said the Old PaL . . : said Truman on makeshift tracks like this one "Now look here, who might have must have, broken sternly, "helping get your boy back records, and yet, for one reason or to see his ailing mother was human. another, never were heard of. Why? Don't ask me to fix anything in Things happened. They got hurt, or which money Is involved. Im not gostale, or proved a flash in the pan, ing to be part of any Harding or unmanageable For you see, said Charley, we New Yorkers are talking about the know now hes got it in him. Its headaches Paul McNutt will inherit there. But he's an unmanageable brute. He cant be depended on. when he lands in the Philippines. . . . Blanche Fayes new understudy He needs a lot of training and discirole (to G. Niesen) in Follow the Besides, he hasn't got his pline. Girls, a funny show. . . . The digest In another when year, yet. growth mag which expects to have a circuhes settled down, hell be unbeat- lation of forty million one day. If able! He gave Kens back a resounding Russia permits it there. . . . Greta Garbos spurning of the leading role whacki Young fellah, me lad In "Bella Donna" because, she said, you'll have a winnerl Howll it feel she will never again play the part to be the famous owner of a famous of a sinful woman. . . . The exciting horse? Warner short titled: Hitler Lives? But Ken had a thought. Sup. . . The record night at a midtown "we said lugubriously, pose, he get him all trained for a race, and then spot: $10,000 (on the Sat night of be runs away and we cant find the army game). . Burl Ives and Helen Payne, who cancelled their him? Rob glanced at Ken, then at Nell merger plans recently, deciding to wed in the next fortnight. . . . PlayHis expression was sardonic. "Ken, wright Lillian Heilman switching you take after your mother more producers after all those successful than any boy haa a right to. years! . . . The backers of a flop and show who Nells eye met Roba complained to the D. A. looked down She and clashed again. about the alleged misuse Saturday finished her sliced peaches. Whal of their monies. A producer and aswas the matter with him? It wasnt sociates will be . investigated. of last night that The fact that if you dial the letters only the quarrel had left him hard and cold toward MAE WEST on your phone (tee-heeher, but now he was In a state-h-ad you get a busy always ever since been all evening ever since yes, ever since he arrived at the race track In that ridicuNew Yorkers Are Talking About: lous cart what had he been doing The $100,000 per annum offer J. Edbefore Oh, yes, he went out on Hoover turned down recently to Gypsy went out on Gypsy to see gar the FBI. He didn't want to be quit if he was going Bellamy and ask window dressing" for the firms to take the lease again this fall That fight in an East product. . Ah! Side swank spot, which ended huShe put down her spoon and sat motionless, staring a hole through morously. The tuxedoed fellow and his elegant Mrs. (who started the the table her mind rushed forward. fracas) were both knocked flat. . . Charley was shouting that with s The much publicized glamour girl horse of such potential value ai wed to a millionaire, once whe would Thunderhead, they nevei dream of putting him out on the hocked her mink coat for $300. 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IF YOU BAKE AT HOME, be sure to get Fleiachmanns Yeast with the familiar yellow label. Dependable Americas favorite yeast for more than 70 years. frefch & PjabDLcKECltaER?MK middle-of-the-nig- e The gelding. For days and nights Ken had been thinking of it. The better the colt behaved, the more speed he showed, the more despair Ken felt. They told him, and they argued with him, and they proved it to him. The colt would lose no iota of his speed-mi- ght even have more, because his energies would not be wasted in fighting, in running after mares, in breeding them. It made no difference to Ken. He had seen the colts before gelding, the power that flowed Maturism Swallower FMi Iiai an F.xtra Slomaclt TIRED, ACHY MUSCLES Stiff Lets Finish It Joints Buy Victory Bonds! three-year-ol- "Hows your muscle?" asked Nell year-old- s of Captain McLaughlin. They arrived at the stables soon after Rob had driven off with the blacks. Gus went out with a bucket of oats and called in the colts, and the men got to work. "Is that all?" asked Doc, when he had gelded seven. "I thought the Captain said eight." "Deres one more," said Gus, Kens colt. De white one. Oh, the throwback!" said Doc. The one Ken thinks is going to be a racer. Hows he cornin on?" "He runs right gude now, said Gus. Maybe they dont want him geld- ed." "De Captain wants him gelded all right. Mebbe you cud wait a little, while I go down and help Tim wid de milkin'? Ken tuk de colt out a while back he might be home any minnit." Doc and Bill took seats on the corral fence and rolled cigarettes and waited. The shadows grew longei. They heard the cowbells as the cows, after being milked, wandered out into the pasture; then the sound of the separator whirring in the milk house as it cut the milk In half, pouring a rich, foaming, white fluid Into one ar, a thick yellow cream into the other. At last Doc told Bill to pack up the stuff. They got In the car and drove away. Ken felt almost awed when be arrived at the stables with Howard, having driven the blacks home in the Jouncing cart," and heard from Gua what had happened. There stood the seven gelded colts in the east corral, their heads hanging lifelessly, their hind legs covered with blood. Thunderhead. said Gus. had come galloping In with Touch And Go some ten minutes after Doc had left. He had unsaddled him and turned them both out into the home pasture. Ken stared at the geldings while the blood rushed through his body This meant- - this and sank again meant Doc had made his trip to the ranch! His father would never order him up again to geld one colt! Ken leaped In the air with a whoop of triumph 'You re "Goshl" said Howard shot In the head with luck!" ... ... 'iiiittirrtlJ I ceap yup up ffpudlx yupse00 If you need your car (or truck) this winter, you need weed tire chains, too ; : ; because you may be stuck without them. 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