Show C I 1 M 1 A ARRON R R 0 N by edna ferber ser vica corber copyright t by edna XII continued U 19 sabra was revolted alarmed and dl distressed stressed all at once she gained reassurance by telling herself that tills this was just one of 0 donnas queer jokes part of the streak in her that sabra had bad never neier understood band i and that corresponded to the I 1 ucal joker in ya yancey necy that too had always s bewildered tier her ab sobbed in the workings ot of the grow II 11 ing thriving newspaper the com conversation er bation faded to a slim and almost unimportant memory i sabra was sufficiently shrewd and level headed to take sol levys sound advice you lou settle down to running your paper sabra and you wont need any oil wells you sou can call have cave the best paying pa ing paper and the i most powerful powei ful in the southwest J bigger than houston or dallas oi 01 asim 1 san antonio because osage Is go ing to be bigger and richer than any of them you mirk mark what I 1 say hardy any oil in the town of osage but bat millions of barrels bin els of oil ali all around it tills this town wont be torn to pieces then grow and grow i fire years from now look like chicago calcag go oil oh sol how can that be see there where the rg 1 ga nibling ambling tent stood with a mud bole in front of it a few years ears ng ago go see in another five years a like those to in new york 1 she laughed at that S just as she had known that yancey lancey had bad again left her on that flight lit 0 of f tile the mescal ceremony so pg now rh she e hellse sensed that he would come back in the midst of tills this new in isaal ty that had seized all okla homa oma and come back lie he did from pod god knows where on the very erv crest t the oil wae nave and bringing with him news dews alint overshadowed his return lie he entered as lie he had left with kith no word of explanation so bizarre as to cause everything else to 0 o fade into the background k lie he came riding as always but it was as a sorry bedou enough ii na that ile he bestrode this time and his white sombrero was grit grimed lied and battered tithe he prince albert albeit coat was spotted bahe it linen I 1 nen framed f ra I 1 the whole figure et feied with t the ii heavy red dust of he be trampled rond road ile he must have I 1 bidden adden like an avenging angel tor for Vs ils long black locks were damp his yes red rimmed and when she eisaw saw this don quixote so sullied suil led tso iso shabby her blood turned to awater water within her veins for pity t she thought it will III always be like this as long ions as lie he lives and I 1 each time he be will be a little more broken older less and less tile the figure of f splendor splendor I 1 married until at last she only dy said yancey ancey quietly 1 he was roaring he was reeling with hovlan laughter as he strode into futo tile the wigwam Wg vain office where she pat at her neat orderly desk just HS as she had sat at on that day years sears before Pe fore for a dreadful moment she thought that he was drunk or mad V he flung his soiled sombrero to t the e esk top he swept tier her into ills his irnis he set her down sabra I 1 heres news for you feasel esse I 1 heh bell jesse 1 wheres that urn soaked son of a printers devil 1544 essel pesse come in herel G d r ive teen en laughing so that I 1 almost oiled off my horse he was cg g up and down as of old his tabby abby coat tails falls spreading with ie vigor of ills his movements the SE beautiful hands gesticulating the ji ne eyes bloodshot now still ashing with the alie fire that would I 1 urn until it consumed him film 03 1011 oil my more oil than nytody ever thought there was in ill pa by y one spot in the world and cherel h 1 erel where 1 on the osage in 1 lan an reservation it came in an ww 0 U r ago like the ocean it makes very ery other field look like the sa iara a m there never was such a 11 1 a 0 oke kel 1 its cosmic its terrible if low ow the gods must be roaring 4 daughter aughter unquenchable among the leased essed gods Af yancey dear were used to oil t here its an old story come low W come home and have a hot aith h and clean clothes in her ands nu s eye site she saw those fine white pen en shirts of his all neatly sta stacked clied 1 the drawer as he had bad left them vor tor answer he readied reached out with ne great arm and swept a pile of cli anges copy paper galley roofs and clippings olt off the desk hile with the other oilier hand band he seized he a typewriter by its steel bar and lumped it to the floor with a force tv hat at wrung a protesting whine and ring ng from its startled insides lie ile it always ways se scorned tried to use a type ter er the black Sat bes of his 0 bulean pencil bit deeper into atit papers surface than any type tors metal teeth po not hot bath hot h 1 bonell lo neyl do realize what this means do understand that two thousand uge ge indians squatting in their f ga CS lu in front of their miserable Ki antics antles are now the richest na n la fit tile the world in the world I 1 you they were veto given that rod nd the barest meanest desert aind d in the whole of the oklahoma lla aud add the alio government of joese se united states said bald there wn red dogs take that and live it t and it if you cant live on it W sea n dip die on IL it god almighty I 1 mild d die myself with laughing mons and millions of ollars dollars d feyre heyre eyre spattering I 1 tell you nil all yer er the asa osage ge reservation theres sp stopping slopping that flow kery buck d squaw on the osage reserva it lion a Is a millionaire they own JK at land and by G C fl put IMI coln eoens r w I 1 seo bea that no M one lae takes takers lt it awn away Y lr om them I 1 ob yancey ze ae careful I 1 ile he was driving ills hla pencil across pie paper send this out A 11 ry f they tried to keep it dark when the now flow came but IT ill show them sabra kill your editorial lead whatever it was ill write it make mahe this your news lead too listen the gaudiest gau diest star spangled cosmic joke that ever was wa played splayed on a double dealing government burst into fireworks reworks Il today when with a roar that could be hen heard d for miles around thousands of b barrels r of oil shot into the air on t the ie miserable desert land known its as alie t ie osage indian reservation and occupied by those duped and wretched we cant use that I 1 tell you why not I 1 this isu t the cimarron CS marron n its it 8 the he state of 0 oklahoma that treason anarchy its the truth its history I 1 can prove it be down on those usages like a pack of wolves at least ill let them know expected ill run the story by G d ns as I 1 want it run and they can shoot me for it and I 1 say you wont you cant come in here like that im editor of this paper lie ile turned quietly and looked at her the great head jutting out the eyes like steel who Is 1 I am without a word he grasped her wrist and led her out across the old porch down d own the steps and into th the street estreet there on pax paw huska avenue in the full glare of noonday he be pointed to the weatherworn weather worn sign that lie he himself aided by jesse jess e richey had hung there almost twenty years before she had had it painted and repainted she had bad had it repaired she had never replaced it with another THE OKLAHOMA WIGWAM yancey cravat prop and editor when jou take that down sabra honey and paint your own name up in my place be the editor of this newspaper until you do that I 1 am As they stood there she in her nent neat blue serge lie he in it ills his crumpled and shabby attire she knew that she never would do it al young calill came home from fro colorado for tile the summer vacation was wai caught up in the oil flood and never went nent back with his geological kno knowledge Medge slight as it was and ills his familiarity with the region he was shuttled back and forth from one end of the state to the other curiously enough dm like his father was more an onlooker than a participant ti in this fantastic spectacle the quality of business acumen seemed to be lacking in both these men or perhaps a certain mad fastidiousness in them kept then them from taking part in tile erash right fight A hint of oil in this corner a trace of oil in ill that and the thousands were upon it pushing scrambling nose to tile the ground down on OD all fours like pigs in a trough A hundred times limes yancey could have bought an oil lease share for a song head lolling on his hia breast lids lowered over the lightning eyes lie he shrugged indifferent different tri shoulders 1 I dont want the filthy muck he said it stinks let tile indians have it its theirs their and the big boys from the east let them thein sweat and scheme for it they know where oklahoma Is now all right ills comings comille s and goings had ceased to cause sabra tile the keen agony of earlier days she knew now that their existence so long TEL T v ALOO cu 4 r when you take that down sabra honey be the editor of this newspaper as yancey lived would always be made up of just such unexplained absences anil and melodramatic homecomings she had made up tip tier her mind to accept the inevitable she did not mind that yancey rancey spent much time on the oil r fields lie ile knew the men lie called the cie big boys front from the east cast and they often sought him out for his company COm PaDY which they found amusing and for a certain regional wis dom that they considered valuable ile he despised them and spent most of his time with the bumpers and roustabouts roust dr illers and tool dressers and shooters a hird hard drinking hard talking hard crew in ills his white sombrero and his outdated prince albert and ills his high bleh heeled boots he ua as known as a picturesque character years of heavy drinking were taking th their e ir toll of the magnificent body and mind the long locks allowed streaks of gray local townsmen who once had feared and admired him began to patronize him or to laush laugh at him tolerantly many of them were rich now counting their riches not in telous thousands ands but in millions the had owned a piece of oklahoma dirt or a piece of a piece of dirt and suddenly through no DO net of theirs thefts it was worth its weight in diamonds pat leary the pugnacious c ous little tile irish lawyer who had bad once been a section hand in the early days of the bull building ding of the santa le fe road was now so rich through his vast oil holdings hold that his indian wife inife crook nose was considered a quaint and picturesque note by the wives of eastern operators who came down on oil business after the first shrill excitement of it sabra cravat relinquished the hope of making sudden millions as other luckier ones had done her land had yielded no oil she owned no oil leases it was a curious fact that sabra still it in osage and had bad actually become a power in the state the paper was read respected and feared throughout tile the southwest it was said with ill pride by usages civic minded that no oil was rich enough to stain the pages of the oklahoma wigwam though few realized it and though sabra herself never admitted it it was wag yancey who made this true lie he neglected it tor for years together but lie he always turned up in a crisis whether political economical or social to hurl burl his barbed editorials at the heads of the offenders to sting with the poison of 0 his ridicule ue lie championed the indians lie he denounced the oil kings lie he laughed at the money grabbers he exposed the land thieves ile he was afraid of nothing ile he would absent himself for sir months the wigwam would run along smoothly placidly ile he would return torch in hand band and again set fire to the paper until the town the country tile the state were ablaze the usages came to him with their legal problems and lie he advised them soundly and took a minimum fee he seemed always to sense an important happening front from afar and to emerge growling like an old lion from his hidden jungle lair broken mangy but fighting the fine eyes still slight alight the ma magnificent head still as inet menacing lacing as that of a buffalo charging ho he had on one occasion come back just in time to learn of dixie lees death dixie had oil and had retired a rich woman she had closed her house and gone to oklahoma ORIa homa city and there she bought a house in a decent neighborhood and adopted a baby girl she had gone to ro kansas city for it and though she had engaged a capable and somewhat bewildered nurse on that tri trip P dixie herself carried the child home I 1 in n her arms its head close against the expensive satin bosom N 1 no 0 one knew what slie she had used to pull the wool over the eyes of tile the kansas city authorities she never could have done it in oklahoma slie she had had the child almost a year when the women of osage oame got wind mind of it they say slie she toola it out herself in ats perambulator daily and perhaps some one recognized tier her on tile the street though she looked like any plump and re spectacle spec table matron now in her rich quiet dress and her pince nez a little gray showing in the black abuD abundant dant hair sabra cravat heard of it sirs mrs wiatt mrs doc Ni bett sirs mrs pa pack ck thy they took the child awny away from her by law six months later dixie lee died the sentimental salt salil of a broken heart it was yancey cravat who wrote her obituary dixie lee tor for years one of the most prominent citizens of osage and a pioneer in the early days of oklahoma having made the run kun in SO one of the few women who had the courage to enter that historic and terrible race is dead she was murdered by the fit e good women of osage the story was a nine days wonder even in that melodramatic state sabra read it white faced the circulation of the wigwam took another bound ull upward ward some day said osage over its afternoon paper is going to come along jarad find shoot old cimarron 1 I should think ills his wife would save them the trouble some gome one suggested it if Yance yanceys Yan coys ys sporadic contributions increased the papers circulation it was steady drive that maintained it it was a gigantic task to keep up with the changes that wore were sweeping over osage and all of oklahoma yet the columns of the avig wigwam want recorded these chances in its news columns in its editorial pages in its personal persona and local items and its advertisements as faithfully ns as on the day of Its first issue when yancey had told them who killed perhaps it was because sabra even during yanceys Yance ys many absences felt that the paper must he be prepared any day to meet his scathing eye strange items began to appear dally daily in the papers columns strange to the eye not interested in oil it but there was no such eye in oklahoma nor for that mutter matter in the whole southwest cryptic though these items might be ta dwellers in other parts of the unit ed states they were of more absorbing interest to oklahomans Okla homans than front page stories of war romance intrigue royalty crime indian territory illuminating oil company coni pany swabbed 42 barrels in its no S 3 lizzle in the northwest corner of the southwest of tile the northwest est of 1186 11 8 fl 6 after timing plugged back to feet and shooting itla knitli 52 quarts the wildcat test of mcconic two mo miles north of keeoka which Is no I 1 sutton in the southwest cortier corner of the southeast of the northeast of 35 2 0 5 was given a shot of quarts lu in tile the san sand from fret feet and hole bridged As it stands it 19 estimated good for 4 0 barela baals daily llie life papers ads reflected the change 1 alie I lie old livery stable with its 13 buggies and its alu slugs s to be lured hired its tobacco chewing loungers its dor of straw mantore mn tore and asle axle grease was swept away and in its place was pinks inks garage and auto livery repairs 0 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