Show THE GARLAND TIMES GARLAND o o o o o © © © © © © © C Oeorg Aim CHAPTER XII— f— 14— Chamberlain Continued "You are to proceed alone tenor” announced their leader "It ' V o 7 UTAH is not well we should be seen yet be assured we will be watching — and our horses are much faster than yours You have only to follow the barranca to reach your goal” The sun was almost setting when he came into full view of the hacienda He could have made a shortcut across a stubble field but he chose to stick close to the barranca until he should come upon the rope bridge There was no need to pause to examine it since he had often crossed the same sort of thing before Swerving he rode straight for the eastern gate confident his be draggled appearance together with that of his scarecrow of a horse would protect him better than subHe was right and a few terfuge minutes later wa being admitted by Van Suttart and Arnaldo since Joyce recognizing his stocky figure while it was still afar had decided to receive him at her leisure and against her own background "You’re Mr Blackadder aren’t you?” said Dirk dis“Yes” said Blackadder "How did you mounting heavily know?” "I’m from the American embassy” said Dirk "My name is Van Suttart and this is Adan Arnaldo who happened to witness your capture I congratulate you on your escape” "Huh?” Blackadder grunted "Oh yes What about Joyce SewShe’s here isn’t she?” "I’ll take you to her” said Dirk "but she thought you’d be glad of a chance for a shave and a wash ell? first” "I haven’t a razor” grumbled Blackadder "and nothing to change Into” "I can lend you a razor” said Dirk “as for linen you’re too big for me but we can fix that too if you’ll put up with stuff from the hacienda' store Come along” He: led him to a room near his own showed him the bath provided him with shaving equipment and promised to send up an assortment of shirts and underwear from the store Scarcity of windows insures any Spanish habitation against curiosity on the part of the outer world but knocks the props from under individual privacy Since every apartment depends for light and ventilation on high doors opening on a central patio the price of seclusion Is apt to be darkness and suffocation On the way to do his errand Dirk saw Joyce standing expectantroom ly in her and pretended not to see her— the sort of thing he had been doing for two long days and longer nights On his way back she intercepted him "Dirk come in here please” "What for?” he asked blankly then remembered he was supposed to be a diplomat "Forgive me Of course I’ll come in” "Quit being polite!” said Joyce "I hate it It isn’t you sharply and you’ve been doing it for two It’s spoiled our rides It’s days For a while made me unhappy you were Dirk Van Suttart a lovable human being But now what A shell varnish floor wax are you? veneer I dislike you” “That goes for me” said Difk “I dislike actresses who hotly change their leading men but always use the same old stage set” ‘So that’s it” said Joyce "that’s really it! I couldn’t believe it Half my mind told me that was the met ter but the other half called the Why shouldn’t I first half a fool have taken Adan to the roof? Why? What conceivable reason?” "You’re asking me what business Dirk dully it was of mine” amid ‘ None— "and I’ll answer you none at all What it did though was to wake me up I felt miserable I thought it would pass by morning but it didn’t” He looked "I— I hate feeling misup at her erable” If you “Ohr Dirk— poor Dirk could only know what happened! He covered his nose and mouth with a silk handkerchief” "Why?” demanded Dirk bewil“What for?” dered “On account of the night air” They looked at each other and their eyes began to dance Another second and they would have burst but unfortunately into laughter Dirk’s thoughts veered into another '"channel There was something he had been wanting to do for his own personal satisfaction for what already seemed a long time and while her attention was still diverted he - took her chin in his left hand and studied the tip of her nose as if it Her startled and had a smudge puzzled eyes should have warned him but somehow her half parted He more seemed important lips leaned over quickly but kissed them slowly Joyce had not imagined she would mind being kissed by Dirk yet the light in her eyes dimmed and went out Instead of warming she turned cold— so cold he released By George Agncw Chamberlain her and stood back A sense of loss oppressed her What had happened? He had been Suddenly she knew selfish casual It wasn’t only that she had been taken for granted it went deeper— so much deeper He had destroyed something they both should have guarded "Dirk” she said "some day you’ll grow up and learn how foolish it is to cheapen another person I believe people can make beauty for themselves not out of whole cloth perhaps but when they have a fair start Friends are what you make them Love is what you make it Just now I think you yourself are too small to know what I’m talk- - - ing about” He threw up his head rebelliously and made an impulsive forward movement but something in her steady eyes stopped him in time He turned and walked blindly to' ward his room: — tunately you're still you hear? A minor” a minor said Joyce “Yes “you don’t have to shout Well what you— a minor WMU Do him o o o o o o o o o o Blackadder snorted stared at him then turned away with a shrug Here certainly was no aUy and he dismissed him from mind But not for long At dinner where Blackadder sat in brooding silence Dirk was the mainspring that kept the ball of conversation rolling lie egged Don Jorge and Arnaldo into one of their perferyid political discussions then bargained with the latter to alternate with him at playing a The dance tune Adan to go' first Dirk fairly challenge accepted forced Joyce to dance but when it came his turn it developed he scarcely knew one note from another Joyce had been puzzled by his high spirits in violent contrast to tbe gloom which had enshrouded him from the moment of the rebuke she had administered It wasn’t the kiss she had minded nor its manner not even its humiliating assumption The truth was' she had been hurt rather than angry and had spoken straight from the heart in protest against a blow struck at some vague beauty still bud yetpresent to them-botBut no sooner did he slip his arm afound her to dance than his strategy throughout dinner became evident “This is the only way I could think of" he whispered “to be alone with you To tell you I’m sorry — sorrier than I ever was about anything else in my life You were quite right to say what you did Please don’t stay away from me Please Please give me a chance as though go for a ride tomorow nothing had happened” “Will you promise on your word of honor— your given word I believe you called it — never to do it again?” “No” he said after some deliberation “I can’t honestly promise any such things I’m through with giving my word All I can say is I’ll do my best — my level best” It was all Joyce could do to keep from laughing and what stopped her strangely enough was his sincerity — the very thing that made him comical They rode the next to Blackadder’s disgust morning After they were gone for hours their return came lunch and the siestaEven then Blackevitable adder got no chance for a further talk with Joyce for she was busy with the myriad details tossed up as steadily as a playing fountain by a family of 500 souls How long was this sort of thing to keep up? He could imagine himself hanging around for days without ever securing five minutes free of interruption The dinner was an exact replica of that of the night before except that his surly abstraction was more profound— so dense it gradually spread its wet blanket over everybody else At last Joyce surrendered crushed into submission by a prolonged silence “I’m afraid you’re having a misWhat erable time Mr Blackadder can we do to cheer you up?” Helm raised somber eyes to her “You know the answer to face that Joyce" he said with over“All I ask whelming simplicity from these gentlemen and yourself is an hour's uninterrupted talk with quietly yes” I heard of It?” "Your stepmother has appointed me your guardian and by the laws He of the state of New York—” halted by a clear laugh stopped "Excuse me” said Joyce control“but that sounded so ling herself The state of New York Elfunny sinboro you my stepmother— it’s all thousands of miles and a hundred years away There you were weren’t you? Mr Mr Blackadder and a power in a Helm Blackadder small way Well here you’re nothUnless you find some work to ing do around the place you haven’t the right to eat breathe sleep or live” t’You talk to me like that” ex"a man twice ploded Blackadder your age who—” "Please don’t shout” interrupted realize to it’s only beJoyce "Try cause I hate bloodshed that you CHAPTER Xin weren’t shot That’s easy enough to understand but what about this? If Blackadder recoiled from his first you had been it wouldn’t have afglance in a mirror in five days - He fected the course of mypTesent life in the slightest— it wouldn't even felt grateful to that young Van Suttart for saving him from showing have rated an added inconvenhimself to Joyce looking like a ience" “Are you crazy?” gasped BlackBeing a stickler for daily tramp shaving he hadn’t seen his beard in adder years and was shocked to find it "Perhaps” said Joyce “but that He took joy isn’t what matters is it? What splotched with gray in getting rid of it in steaming in a stands for a whole lot more than you seem able to comprehend is that I’m mistress of La Barranca” "Anything I can do to help Joyce?” asked Dirk sauntering in from the balcony I’m glad you came “Oh Dirk Do you mind showing Mr Blackadder around for a while? I’m going to be busy until dinner time” Blackadder though annoyed at the interruption promptly saw the value of a chance to sound out Van Suttart Whose ally would he turn out to be? What was he doing here How had he got here and anyway? when? He accompanied him with alacrity glad of a chance besides to reassemble his shaken wits and to all his questions except the first and most important obtained ready answers At the end of half an hour he could murmur: "So that cable of mine is really all the authority you have for being away from your post?” "Why yes I guess so yes” said Dirk a little troubled by the tone of the statement “I hadn’t thought of it in exactly that way” “Now that you have and that I’m "it here” continued Blackadder sort of does away with any reason for you to continue hanging around doesn’t it?” “I Sort of Don’t Seem to Give a “Eh?” said Dirk beginning to Tinker’s Dam About My Post” wake up then he laughed “Well hot bath and in sHpping into under- there’s certainly an answer to thatl The only method of departure at wear and shirt coarse but clean supplied from the hacienda store In present happens to be ride or walk spite of his wrinkled suit he felt in a hundred miles” Blackad"Not better humor than at any moment necessarily” said der "I have reason to think my since his departure from Elsinboro driver may come to his senses and Joyce was h fool he reflected compWhat a chance she- - had return there’s also the possibility lacently-” he may have reported to the ammissed by giving him this opportunity for recuperation! In his mind bassador Say I manage to get a he credited her with tactical error car Would you be inclined to help me persuade Miss Sewell to leave number one But the moment he was shown at once?” "I’m not sure” said Dirk frownif into her presence he wondered ing thoughtfuUy "I’d have to talk you” and where he had gone wrong AlJoyce knew when she was fairly to her about it first” of her flowered in dressed one ready “I’m sure that can be arstand caught frocks she turned in the chair at for“That’s an extraordinary any time you like” she said ranged to take” you She her desk but did not rise best of it “Shall we the making' "Why?” looked unbelievably cool—cool in“If you can’t see it” said Black- say in my sitting room in half an side and out — as she passed slow “I won’t try to show you For hour?" adder his and Here face over figure eyes “Splendid” said Blackadder and was a man out of her past ac- your own good I might point out promptly turned affable again that your justification for aband he had curately? remembered To the amazement of everyone sence from your post terminated not changed yet he was distant though he had appeared deaf to As with my arrival" divided 'from her by a world he “I can’t blame you for being puz- such talk as there had been Don for Blackadder he beheld a person where took up a discussion said Dirk Blackadder” zled Mr he know felt he not a he did person Arnaldo had left off enuand I’m a bit Jorge that "since way slowly might never know ’ He had been the omissions made by myself I don’t know quite how it’s merated thinking of her as a young I sort of each and arrived at an unanswercome about but somehow violent in her reactions don’t seem to give a tinker’s dam able conclusion astonishing to both but young unformed and conse(TO BE CONTINUED ) Now he stared about my post” quently malleable at something as fixed as a portrait alive yet baffling impenetrable InInventions for of stantly his own plan of attack went into reverse with an almost audible Office Get but stripping of mental gears and as an discovered he added humiliation he the rate issued are at The these the in of patents minute day Every would have to speak first or not at thousands of persons of about 3500 a month In 1936 a United States ail total of 39793 were issued in 1935 brainstorms “Hardly what you’dj:all a warm are having productive in 1934 48239 In 1932 when bearing" now ideas in the bathtub or 40038 welcome Joyce”" so many people were home thinking chewing pencil stubs as they strug“No” she admitted then continof their there were 53573 issued final ued in an even tone "Why have gle through the Of thephases of hundreds Everything is listed in the patent “invention” of a you come and what do you want?” thousands of ideas produced few of books Next to a description He was at a loss for an answer scientist's new method for the rethe patent office them through get should outThat a covery of hydrocyanic acid from oil this lot relatively small as it is but face him roused his always unmanenough judging from products might nestle the new vegeageable temper and abandoning the appears large shelves in the table slicer conceived by a resident sensible course he had just deter- the rapidly filling shoe the of the Chicago public of Harrisburg room patent he to mined upon foolishly reverted in the Chi- with a spring bellows in the heel a writer notes — and library a prepared speech prepared Mass the disman! 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