HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1929-03-21, Page 7THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE
Harry Sinclair Dragoyand Joseph Noel
STORY
one of Acklin’s men, is
with a beautiful girl,
Arrascada.
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BEGIN HERE TODAY
Acklin, big boss of the Double A
Ranch in Paradise Valley, and
Buck Bodine, new owner of the
old Webster place, rob the Bas
ques of their water supply, Ack
lin secretly builds a dam and cuts
off the water from Bodine’s ranch.
To revenge himself upon Acklin,
Bodine plots with the Basques to
blow up the dam. Blaze Kildare,
in love
Mercedes
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This last statement carried weight
with Basilio. By the time Blaze
had turned My jM’an into the patio,
the child had recovered his smile.
Mercedes had been aware of Kil-
lare’s advent for five minutes or
more before Blaze dismounted. A-
warm glow of happiness enveloped
her as she saw him approach. Grief
and the brooding misery of weeks
left her immediately. Yet she held
back and trembled at the thought of
meeting him. Nervous fingers per
formed miracles with her wonderful
hair. Maidenly modesty bade her
lower her eyes, but a flash of the
carefree tomboy came back to her as
she darted a quick glance into her
or. There was color in her
eks for the first time in many
ays; a sparkle in her eyes.
Blaze, with Basilio in his arms,
reached the verandah as she
out.
every stifle of decoYaVxr^
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came
Language is useless to convey
what they read in each other’s eyes.
Hat in hand, he stood before her si
lent. A word would have broken the
spell the morning cast
Basilio's demand to
brought back to Blaze
of why he was there,
say something, but as
out her hand and his fingers closed
over it he became speechless again.
“Oh, Senor, you do not know what
you do when you come here like
this.”
Blaze
slightly.
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STEWARDSHIP AND MISSIONS
Sunday, March 24.—-Genesis 12:1-
3; Deuteronomy 8:17, 18; Jpnah, 3:
1-10; Malachi 3:7-12; Matthew 28:
18-20; Acts 1:6-8; 13:1-3; 26:12-
20; Romans 1:14-16; L Corinthians
16:2; II. Corinthians 8:1-15; 9‘.3-15*
Golden Text
Moreover it is required in stewards'
that a man be found faithful. I, Cox*.
4:2.)
Stewardship means that God has
entrusted something to us.. Mis
sions means that He sends us to
carry it to others,
When God’s repeated opportunities
given to the human race as a whole
had failed for 2,000 years, from.
Adam until after the flood—it was
not God’s failure, but men’s—<God,
chose one man, Abrham, to make of
him a family and a nation as recip
ients ofa God’s greatest blessings,
They were not to hold these blessings
selfishly, but to distribute them as
stewards to the whole world. Seven
centuries latex* God warned Israel
that they should remember that God
had given them their wealth, and
never think of it as something their
own hand had won. What a bless
ing to wealthy families, and to the
whole world, if every one of wealth
remembered that today. And it is
as important for those who have
little to remembex* it also.
The two great passages of missions
and stewardship in the Old Testa
ment are included in this lesspn. Jon
ah is 'the outstanding missionary of
the old dispension. A reluctant and
unwilling missionary he was, but it
is fortunate for all of us that God is
willing to use such. When Jonah
finally obeyed God’s commission and
preached repentance in one of the
greatest and wickedest cities in his
tory, Ninevah, one of the greatest re
vivals in history resulted', and a great
city was saved. If missions needed
a convincing argument, Jonah and
Ninevah are the answer.
Men can rob -God, he says. They
do it when they withhold from Him
the tithes and offerings He asked
them to bring Him. They are bound
to suffer for this, for it is folly to
suppose that man can get any bless
ing for himself by opposing God. On
the other hand, when men give God
what He asks He promises to “open
you the windows of Heaven, and
•pour you out a blessing, that there
shall not be room enough to receive
it JU As Paul' -Rader • used Ao say,
“You can’t beat God giving.”
a. ...The... Great ..CStot&riSSipp., pLihe.LQVJ,
Jesus to the disciples and the Church
is the Magna Chal'ta of missions. The
last three verses of Matthew contain
it; they may well be memorized by
every Christian. Because Christ has
all power, or authority, in Heaven
and in earth, He commands His' fol
lowers to go out into all the world
and teach all nations, doing two
things as they go: baptizing all wh«>
will believe, in the name of tho
Father, the Son and the Holy Ghent,
and teaching them to observe all
that Christ has taught. The n‘o-
mise that empowers this commWcn
is the thrilling word: “And, lo, J
with you alway, even unto the con
summation of the age,”
He gave I-Ijs disciples the promise
also that they should have a new
power after the Holy^Ghost had cenm
upon them, and. in that heavenly
power they should be His witnesses-
at home and-abroad. His word was
kept, as it always is. The Holy
Spirit came upon the disciples in a
new way on the day of Pentecost,
the Christian Church was born, and.
that same/Holy Spirit has been in
and upon the .Church from that day
to this. We may have that same
power, simply by yielding to Christ
as Saviour and Lord and trusting
Him fully.
As Jonah was the great missionary
of the Old Testament, so ‘was Paul
of the New. He and Barnabas were
the first Christian missionaries, set
apart for Ahis work by the Holy
Spirit, who has continued tp appoint
Christ’s missionaries from that day
to this. It is a tragic thing, to re
sist His call. Saul the persecutor of
the Church had been stricken down
under the noon-day»sun by the great-
lex* light of the glorified Christ, and
had been instantaneous conversion o£
Saul’s nation, Israel, when that same-
glorified Christ speaks to hex* at His
Second Coming. Saul was commis
sioned to carry the Gospel to the
Gentiles, and he could say to.King
Agrippa, “I was not disobedient unto
the heavenly vision.” God given
heavenly visions today; are we obed
ient to ours?
Paul was so overwhelmed by his
debt to Christ that he counted him
self debtor to all for whom Christ
had died, Greeks and barbarians, the
wise and the unwise. But only debt
or because he was “not ashamed of
the gospel of Christ; for it is -the*
powei* of God unto salvation to every
one that believeth;' to the Jews first,
and also to the Greek.]” Christ and
His Gospel are “just the same today.’
The lesson closes with othex* pas
sages on stewardship, simple, search •
ing, practical. Systematic giving to
God is enjoined, op the first day of
the week, as God has prospered us.
If we set aside methodically and pro-,
portionately from what God has (
given us, we shall always have plenty
to give. And God, will always give
us plenty. Poverty »s no.barriqi^to
giving; riches~is much more "likely to
be a barrier. With the Macedonian
Christians “their deep poverty
abounded unto the riches of their
liberality.” . The secret was that
they “first gave their own selves to
the Lord.” There is no problem in
stewardship and. missions when we
do that, ' ,
weighty statement, the little chap
wandered back to the barn. When
he was out of hearing, Mercedes ap
pealed to Kildare.
“What can I do?” she asked. “That
is not Esteban’s habit to go away
these days without telling me where
he is,going. He is not himself any
longer, "The fire, and all these
other things—■”
“I understand,” Blaze responded.*
. “Will you take my word foi* this?
The Double A has had no hand in
these reprisals.”
Mercedes eyebrows lifted as this
seeming heresy.
“I saw ’Liotard’s sheep killed.”
“You saw it, and did nothing?”
“There was nothing I could do.’’
Blaze answered her.
buttes opposite his cabin,
takes hours to come down and get
up- to his place. As far as the fire
goes, I know there wasn’t a Double
A man in the valley that time of
night.”
Mercedes was silent in the fact
of his amazing statement.
“What you say is hard to believe,”
she murmured at last. “But I do
believe you.” Sthe trustingly raised
her eyes to his. “I am not to be
blamed if I seem hard to convince,
Senor Acklin has crushed the heart
of my people with his scheming.
His dam!” she cried scornfully,
is a monument to his thieving,
is big and strong, and he makes
on the weak and helpless,
know what I say is true.”
Blaze chose neither to deny
affirm her statement.
“At least,” he said instead, “the
dam was a blow to Bodine’s plans.
It sure sat him down with a dull
thud. But he isn’t through yet. You
tell Esteban wliat I’ve said; but see
that he keeps mum about it. If I
were him I’d stick to Kent. He’s
got vision enough to see this thing
through. Anyway, I may get in
touch with Esteban soon.
“Don’t risk coming again, Senor,”
She 'begged, her quick concern for
his safety immediately overshadow
ing all thought of her own misery.
“It is to dangerous. Even now some
one may come at anyjnofiient# - I
know it is best you go.” .
Blaze saw her lips-tremble-.- The
urge to take her in
great.
“You’ll go round
won’t you—please?”
further. “Don’t .go through the val
ley.”
Kildare turned and held out his
hand to My Man; otherwise he would
have been unable to stop the words
that were on his tongue. He vault
ed into his saddle lightly; Mercedes’
eyes followed him.
“You know,” he began, more at
ease from the safety of his position,
“I once said that I would
thing through,
this before?”
charm that Melody had found.
No trace of recognition showed in
Mercedes eyes.
. “The man who owned that,” Blaze
went on, “murdered your father.”
‘You mean,” she gasped, “that
you know who did it?”
• “I’m not giving him a name
but I will before I’m through.’’
Mercedes bowed her head,
hand against her cheek,
knew the memories that were flood
ing, her mind. His voice grew husky
as he went on:
“I told you the morning we found
your father’s body that I would stqp
at riothing in your service. I haven’t
forgotten. You wonder, I know,
why I stay with ’ Acklin. He’s as
hard and unrelenting as a steel trap;
a throw-back from thirty-five years
ago when the big. cattlemen were
all like him. He’s got an evil name
—well earned, no doubt—and with
good reason, in that I am in his em
ploy, you find it har'd not to suspect
.me at times. Yet in spite of that I
have tried to be a real friend to you.
Men have called this valley a desert.
But it bloopied once. The fields
were green; flowers fought for your
favor here in this patio. Little
.things sometimes are able to win
great good from most hopeless clay.
If you ever have cause to think of
me, remember, that. You kuow
nothing of my past, and my talk
tells yon little; but i’ll bo keeping
my word with you. Goodbye!”
They shook hands. Blaze saw
her eyes were misty. My Man had
reached the gate when he turned for
a last look at her.1 She was leaning,
against a pillar of verandah..
He saw her lips trembte*. .Sweet and
lew, her words reached him.
“Goodbye, » . . Blaze!”
Minutes passed as she stood there.
Kildare was long out of sight before
she sank into a chair
straining at the
beyoud. the Rebel,
ordinary sound,
must be safe in
Rosa hills by now
father hovered in het mind. :
of this | wondered why she found Blaze
over them,
be let down
a realization
He began to
Mercedes put
nodded- his head ever so
The risk was worth it.
like Ortega or Ugarde will
kill you on sight.”
A sujlden impulse made- Blaze
lean toward: her,
“I wonder if you’d /care very much
if they did get me?”
He had won from hei’ the confi
dence a woman usually gives only
to one man; but true to her sex, the
thought of being forced into the op-
ep filled her with alarm. And' be-
ause in such matters women are so
touch for the masters of themselves
han’men, she answered Blaze with
a tantalizing laugh that carried him
back to that day up the river, when
she had awakened emotions
dead in him.,
To f atone for the confusion
caused him, she added:
“Of course I would care,
have been kind to me. I told you
I would ’speak true words to
But why do you come?”
“I’ve been into town—Winnemuc
ca; some things I had to look after
for myself. I kept clear of the val
ley, but when I looked down from
those hills below the river and saw
how near I was to the hacienda, I
had to risk coming. I wanted, to
talk with Esteban. Basilio tells me
he has gone to Kings River.”
“As far as that?” A note of anx
iety crept into her voice. "He left
without telling me where lie was
going/*
“He wouldn’t take me,” the little
fellow chirped up. “He said it
too dangerous.”
• “Dangerous?” Both Mercedes
Blaze asked the question.
Basilio repeated Iiis words,
same thought flashed intoAhe minds
of both.
If any danger w.as attached to EsA
teban’s trip, it could, only be because
he was taking a short cut across the
Double A country, by. way of- the
buttes. ,
“He ought to .know better than to
try '-that;.” Bl$ze. said with a -shade
of annoyance at the boy’s foolhard
ness.. , *•
« “Did he- hjtye a gpoxl horse??
“He took the buckboard and a
teaiiu” : ’. . «
“Why, you can’t
buttes with a rig.
every foot of that
pointed to” the child,
lips with his fingers ____ __v
“He’s going around by the crossing,"
all right. There’s three or four hun
dred Indians from the reservation
over on Kings right now, helping
.with the haying, I guess Esteban was
afraid Of them*”
Mercedes tried to reward him
with a smile, but her,, misgivings
were only aroused the more by what
Blaze.had said. Basilio did not take
kindly to his words either,
“Injun?!” he cried sarcastically,
“I’m not afraid of Injuns.
Is an TajuiK Wish I had a
my own.”
Having relieved himself
long
she
You-
once
you.
was
and
The
;et through, (ho
I’ve been over
country.” He
and tapped his
as he went on.
Teresa
horse of
“It
He
war
You
nor
his arms was
by the river,-
she implored
see this
Did you ever’ see
He held out the little
yet,
her
Blaze
her eyes
distances that lay
her ears dulled to
She knew Kildare
■ the lower Santa
. Thoughts of her
She
: so
much like him.
Suddenly th‘ere burst upon her
consciousness the mad gallop of a
horse. Esteban was coming, back!
She felt relieved. She came alert,
her senses on edge again. The pat
tering hoofs sounded very near; they
seemed to be on the porch itself. Ris
ing,* she hurried round the corner of
the verandah and came upon Basilio
beating out a barbaric rhythm on an
abandoned flower-tub. In lieu of
drumsticks, he had possessed him
self of part of the lid of a box; and
despite sharp nails,, the little tot held
the sticks in a vise-like grasp.
‘Where did you get these things?’
Mercedes 'demanded as she stooped
down to take them away.
“In the barn. Don’t take them
away,” Basilio pleaded.
“But, nino, they are covered with
nails. Eeel!”
■ As she held1 out one of Jhe sticks
to him, she saw some strange, mean
ingless marks on it. Curiosity
prompted her to put the two pieces
together. Her heart topped as she
read the words they made: “Dyna
mite—Dangerous. ’
. (To be continued)
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Miss Gertrude Weber, who pent
the past week 'in London and Har-
rietsville, has returned home and re- „
sumed hei* position in J. Gascho &
Son’s general store. *'
Mrs. Wm. C. Wagner, of town, ac
companied by (Ml's. Simon Sararas,
of Cromarty, attended the funeral
of Harold Bender, in Detroit;
Messrs.’ Fairburn & Hudson, of
Hensail, have leased the garage from
Mr. A. G. Edighoffer, known as.the
former Commercial Hotel barns, and
occupied the past Slimmer by Mr. L,
O’Brien, as a general garage. ..
Mr. Orville Witmer, of -the Baby
lon Line, has taken a position with
Mi*. N. W. Trewartha, of C'linton, in *
the produce business.
Miss V. V. Siebert, who spent sex’-
eral weeks visiting friends, at De
troit, lias returned to her home here
and ,is getting a position fox* the
spring sason..
Mr. E. Haist, our popular baker,
has purchased from Mr. John Gascho
the business block, now occupied by
Miss Siebert as a millinery store, and
Dlr. L. W. Hoffman, as a gents’ fur
nishing More. Mr. Haist intends con- .
verting this block into a modern
bake shop, etc.
Mr. Garfield Witmer is at present
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