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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1931-06-18, Page 3THE EXETER TIMES-AE.VOCATE l’lUJtSBftV, m 18tb, 1VS1 •z 4 fti’P AA you’re bound to hunt our ent-’ tie, i guess we better work together she said cheerfully. “This is awful rough country,” “Go awn home like I told yo’all,” “Oh forget it!” she snapped. “I’m not going, and that settles it. If you want to get rid of me so bad, hurry up and find our cattle.” “If i wasn’t for your mothah, T wouldn’t turn mv hand ovah foh yo'all!” the kid blurted fiercely. Continued next week NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY ■ It was morning and it was rain­ ing with a cold, steady drip on the Spruce boughs that sheltered’ him like a thatched roof, Another day of hunting a den tor the tiger that would be a scourge to all killers, ly under found it lip, He cn Im afcling with vicious tugs of the strap. He stood up tall and full of pride in the man who wouldn’t kill be­ cause he didn’t want to kill. Didn’t have to kill to make men afraid or Mm. They’d look over their shoul­ der when they spoke- his name, and when any one mentioned the Brazos they’d look at each Other, thinking that was where Tiger Eye came from. All that day it rained in windy gusts, With periods of-quiet drizzle between. That afternoon he came upon the- plafae he was hoping to find. A rock cabin built of fragments of the cliff it hugged close. Half the roof liad fallen in. It was the upended ridge pole with a corner -of the too? attached mid showing above • the Tmslies that had caught the (kid’s at­ tention when he looked that way. Except ’for that tell-tale fragment, the cabin was absolutely hidden in the thicket When lie. looked be­ yond, he saw where there had been ■ a c-orral and stable, all built of rock cunningly piled for .strength and con­ cealment. There had to ,be a spring too, of (course. H'e found it, ice cold and crystal clear, in a. niche of the cliff that was a part of the back wall of the cabin. He also saw a rock-walled meadow swelling out like a great fat jug be­ low its narrow neck of a pass not wide enough to let a hayrack thro’ without scraping the wall bn either -side, The ikid climbed’ upon a bowlder and for five minutes he gazed out over this lost paradise, Dost from the world, to be fouww by him when he needed it most. It took the kid nearly a week to make the place habitable, though.he worked furiously from sunrise un­ til it was too dark to. see what he was doing. It took him two days to find his way out of the intricate net­ work of canyons to- the open range beyond. The kid drilled himself and his horses in the twisted canyons of Wblfe Buttes , and let the swbrd of justice dangle awhile ovei’ the un­ suspecting heads of the paid (killers, of the Boole. Let Nellie wonder awhile what had -become of him, too. He reckoned it wouldn’t hurt her to wonder and guess. Bound to guess plumb wrong, and he’d prove it to her, when he got good and ready. His gr,ub was getting low. ITe wanted more money than he had in his pocket. Wouldn’t be working for wages now for awhile, and grub costs money. So he sat one- night in a poker game with three cowboys from over toward the Rosebujl and a lucky prospector just in from the Black Hills. Walked out at daylight with his pants bulging at the- sides like a pocket gopher packing grass to its burrow, Honest player, though,. Never caught him >n any funny business. Plain, lucky, that kid with the one yellow eye. He rode -out of town at noon, Bar­ nep taking careful, nippy steps to balance the big and bulging palck on his back. Pecos, too, carried more- than his master that day. ‘ To­ bacco and five pounds of candy and a songbook and two cartons of cart­ ridges Wrapped in the kid’s slicker and tied behind the cantie. The kid’s pockets sagged with six' new mouth organs, keys C and D in bright red pasteboard boxes. The krd- was almost ready now to «how Nellie Murray he was neither a killer nor a cur to ta.ke a licking and crawl,off under the brush and whimper over his hurts. He- was just about-ready to start in taming the killers. Right soon, now, name of Tiger Eye would men’s glances back over jshbulders and make a prickle into the roots of their hair, range tiger was going on the- prowl. It was hot dovhi in that willow growth through which the (kid was riding. They 'oame out finally ■against a barbed-wire fence, built straight across through the thicket. ■Stout posts that looked solid as the teeth in the kid’s mouth. Four wir­ es strung so tight they like a tunning fork when the kid loaned over and gave one a jerk. No ■fooling with that fence. Cattle proof and storm proof, like the fen­ ces the railroad built along their right of way. Plumb -strange to find a fence like that over country, ami he over in coming Shoah was mysterious. They followed the- fence for half an hour of steady plodding along the narrow lane cut by the fence the and \vlec his The kid fished blind­ blankets for his hut, put it on as he sat -out o£ his blankets, gun belt around him sandstone pecos stop- long ridge legs, com- steep climb consideratebeen come up on his j- time to rest and wind pleasantly hills can- little- ! builders. They came, slap up against a sandstone le.dge where the last post stood ip a hole drilled! into solid rook ’ and was -set there with cement. And that was plumb strange too. Nothing to do about it, though. Couldn’t even ride back along the ledge of the willows be­ cause it was just a mess of broken rock and rubble from the -steep slope that evidently stood above the ledge, Once- more the kid turned Pecos 'short around, and rode back along the fence He crossed a creek bed covered with hot sun-lbleaehed cob­ blestones with stagnant pools in the hollows. There the fence became a brush -and wire- 'barrier higher than the kid’s head. No animal bigger than a rabbit could wriggle through there. He rode another half mile or two before he came to the 'edge of the fence and found it anchored to the other arm of the ledge. A hour or more later ped. on the icrest of a and stood with braced pletely winded after the though the kid had enough to come to own feet. He had plenty of doze while the dried his sweaty hide, for the kid sat down w«4h his knees hunched up to brace -his elbows, and through the glasses very carefully examined this strange conglomeration of and hollows and wild crooked yons The kid moved his glasses a 'and saw a horsman just riding out of sight behind a'ichockcherry thick­ et. He seemed to be coming down the canyon. The- kid rode slowly along the canyon bottom, playing his mouth organ as he went, and letting his long legs sway to the rythmn of the tune. The kid’s eyes lightened with a peculiar gleam but the tune he was playing never -missed a note, until a black horse and rider came into view. The kid gave one startl­ ed look and the music/ ceased with a squawk. Nellie Murray, dressed in her dead father’s overalls ‘ and blue gingham’ shirt, with her thick braid ■of yellow hair sweeping the cantie of her saddle as she’rode. -She ‘car- ’ ried her dad’s rifle in the lerook of her arm, as if she meant to meet danger a little more than halfway and as the two horses stepped of their own accord, she lifted the- rifle mid-way to her shoulder, then let it down again. The kid looked at her with that curious Steady stare of his yellow right eye, and his face had the ex­ pressionless look of a trained gamb­ ler. Cold and hostile- and ready for war he looked, but he didn’t feel that way. Hot crimpies went chas­ ing up his spine and the back of his neck had a queer tightened feel­ ing, as he stared at lier. “Well! I’ve found one of you, any­ way!” she exclaimed, in a tone that was worse than another cut of the quirt. “Where are the cattle?” “What cattle?” “'Our cattle that you Poole men stole out of our pasture last night Every hoof we own! get them baic.k, if I every Texas killer in “I’m a Texas man, I’m no killer Told yo’ll that -befo.’ “Well, that remains to be seen. You’re a, Poole man, anyway. You must know where the cattle are.” "Shoah wish I did. The Poole’s fighting nestahs, I know that. But they don’t steal cattle, Miss Mur­ ray.” “Qh, don’t ought to raise ing that!” "He- kain’t. the iPoole.,, “No? How long since?” “Since that night we got out Cold Spring Cabin.” “I suppose the Poole fired you Eor pool’ shooting!” Her short scornful laugh turned the kid’s ears red as if she slapped them, but he mb.de no answer to the taunt. Wbat’s was the use?” He wrapped the bridle around ethe saddle horn and began to roll a cigarette taking plenty of time. A mall could do a heap of thinik'ing over a cigarette without giving himsdlf away. “You must know the Poole.ran off with our c'attle.” “No, kain’t say I do.” “Well, they did,” “You’all rights shoah it was the Poole?” “I woudn’t say it if I wasn’t sure she retorted sharply. “None of our neigli-oburs would do it, and besides I trailed them up on the Bench -and over this way. The Poole wants to run us out of the country know ivhy, don’t you?” “Kain’t say I do, lessen it’s be­ cause yeah a nostah.” I’m going to have to fight the country, all right, but the ■send their go up The hummed in this part of the wastn’t Poole’s land heard of any nesters direction. Na trails no nothing. This never this up this way. “Oh, of jcourse all the pesters being made the goats for Walter Bell! He’s got to lay the blame somewhere for his stealings, lie’s and got blit too. they? Walter Bell yopr wages for say- Babe reins But scared to death of us Murrays he meaps to drlye us out. He Ed and father out of the way, he’s afraid of Mother and mp You know why, don't you?” “Kain’t blame ’em for that,” he said drily. Nellie flushed and looked down ■at th© rifle sagging in her grasp, ”Tts because old Walt. Bell is afraid Mother and I know what Ed found out aib-otrt the Pople, Ed caught the Poole cowboys stealing Poole cattle, that’ why! 'Some of them—that stand in close with Wal­ ter Bell. Joe Hale for one and Jess Markel for another He- caught them running a' wildcat brand on Poole calves, over this way somewhere. He found out a lot, and then he wrote back to the head moguls in New York told them what was go- i?»g on,” She bit her lip. “That was away last March, and they haven’t done a thing -about it, though Moll­ er says Ed. sent proof enough to put the whole outfit in the pen.” -Shoah had nerve, that boy.” The cigarette was lighted but the kid forgot to smoke it. His mind went shuttling back and forth, weaving Nellie’s story into certain puzzling fragments of information he had never of. “Of much, on that bunch without dragging, the neighbours into it. He never told them what he was doing, -but he told Father.” “Plumb strangs yo'all nevah men­ tioned it, when we things over at the like I wasn’t trusted “I didn’t know it knew, but they weffe about it much. She early this morning, when we found our cattle were gone. I rode down to the pasture t-o bring up- the cows and there wasn’t a hoof in sight. I saw where they’d been driven off, and then when I went to- tell Moth­ er, she told me the whole- story.” . “Shoah would like t-o know what yoh mothah said,” he observed, in what would have been a cold land formal tone, except that the kid’s soft Texas voice made a pleasing melody whenever he spoke. “Mother told me Ed was always trying to- figure out why the Poole had it in for the nesters, after Iqt- ■ing them settle in the valley without making a fuss Ed did a lot of rid­ ing outside the 'valley. The Po-ole claimed lie was. rustling calves, but that’s a lie I know how he got every hoof we owned. We only had forty- two head. Now we haven’t g-ot any.” “If yoh brotliah got proof—” “He got enough to put the fear of the Lord into Walter Bell,” she de­ clared bitterly. “We don’t know whether they saw Ed watching them or whether the Eastern owners wrete back and told Walt what Ed said about him and his outfit. 'The Poole certainly must have found -o.ut -somethow, and it wasn’t from any- of the valley folks, don’t ynow it. in—drygulchiiig, that, means, and all right.” She glancft and looked away again when the kid failed to meet her f , es. “Before, tricks—hogging the - range and ac­ cusing the nesters. of rustling calv­ es and killing beef and all that. But all at once they started killing Ed was one of the first—” ■ “If yoh’d give me the brands so I'd know yoh mothah’s (cattle when I find ’em—” "Well, it’s Reverse E. But I couldn’t think' of troubling you, Mr- Reeves. I intend to get those cattle myself.” “It’s a man job,” the- kid said gruffly. “Well I’m the man of the family now, so it’s rniy j.ob. iSo long Mr. Reeves!” -She gathered up the- reins and tapped her horse lightly with the’ quirt—just is if it never had been put to a more sinister t use— and rode on past the kid with her chin tilted upward .and her gaze bent -ostentatiously upon a strag­ gling'small hefd of cattle feeding over bn the farther slope. “Adios, Miss Murray!” The kid kicked Pecos into a trot and rode playing his he cracked buzzed like We still hava the quilt to dispose of Delegates were sent to the follow-i ing conventions; Mrs, Harry Carey io Rondon to the J. Convention held in November 1980, expenses were $6.00; Mrs, B. W. F. Beavers to the Ontario Educational Conven­ tion held in Toronto in April 193'1, expenses were $19.00. The flower committee remembered' a number -of sick and shut-ins'with flowers and fruit and cards during the year. Our total receipts for the year was $879.18, balance in bank’from the previous year $112.59, total $391,77 Our anee Mrs. Wf AliDISON-^BEADLE The marriage took' place of Flor* euce Ellen, only daughter os a>d Mrs. Chas* Beadle, of Auburn,. anil EdWard Earl Allison, of Goderich, at the rectory in Blyth with Rev. L» V. Pocock, of Auburn officiating. The young couple will reside in Goderich, BOTH ANNIVERSARY OF CHUliCH You been ajble to make anything course he had nerve! Too T-Ie wanted to get the goods talked cabin. at no then. Mother afraid to talik only told1 me these ’Peahs time.” for they The Poole started if you know what I suppose you do, sent -him a quick it was just mean range Her. Didn’t W, I. REVIEW WORK OF YEAR The report Of the year’s work in the Exeter Branch of the Women’s Institute is as follows; Members enrolled for year were* 42 with an average attendance of 21 and 57 visitors during the year. We held eleven regular meetings and four executive meetings. 9 The fallowing papers were given: “Cultural use of spare moments” by Mrs. Browning; “Pioneer Days” by Mrs. Gardiner, Kirkton; “If I were starting at 21 again” by Mrs. J. S. Grant. These were in connection with our Grandmothers’ Meeting. “Care of the Teeth” by Dr. G. F.l Roulston; “Food for the Family" by-Blair 66. Mrs. (Dr.) M. G. Fletcher; “Good! II—Bobby Blair 72. Reading for Winter Evenings” by J <Jr. II—Allan Elston 93; Betty Miss L. M. Jeckell, “'Travelogues" McDonald 80 Mr%L7t0n„.a^l 1st—Birdine McFalls 85; Beryl Miss Mildred Rowe. ‘DavHo,, rx.-n+u>. .. » by Mrs. Thos. Diniiey. ■.......... _ . Abbott gave a demonstration on the preparing a chicken for broiling. We held our annual story-telling content for the children in the pub­ lic school, books being given as prizes. Our expenditures flor this amounted to $-15.00 and we received $7.3-5 in collection. The contest was a decided success, A play which was put on by lo­ cal talent and trained by, Mr. Haw­ thorne, of Hamilton netted us $6 8.- 90 profits. A Sunshine box was sent to io<ne of our former members who has been confined to her home for some time. Our donations included the follow­ ing: Exeter Santa Claus fund $5.00; Children's Shelter $10.00; Byr.on Sanit-orium $10.00; Ounty Home in Clinton, home-made candy at Christ­ mas; Citizen’s Relief Committee in Exeter $25.00; Canadian National Institute for the Blind $5.00. We also provided a practical nurse fm- a needy family in Exeter. The cost was $22, We supplied a Layette for a needy family, the cost being $10.97. An autograph quilt was made on which we realized $315.65 to date. expenditure was $312,80, bai- inbank $78.97, W. H. Harness, Sec’y.-Treasurer REPORT S| B. NO. 0, RIDDDLPH The following is the report of B. S, No. 9, Biddulph, for the month of May. Those marked with an as­ terisk missed one Jr. IV—-Donald Smyth 85; Ralph drew Blah' 59*. >• -Sr. Ill—Beta Isaac 76; Borden Smyth 7 6 both equal, Jr. Ill—Leonard Smith 75; Jack examination, Blah* 89; Irene Atkinson 7 5; An- Gai dep flints , Me-Enll^ ycMrs. W. F. M ’IS 7G’ On Sunday, June 7th the pankhill Baptist church celebrated its fi0th birthday. In the year 3.871 the church was opened with Rev. A. Mar* telle as pastor at that time th? charge included a church at Henry whfch was closed aome years ago. The present pastor Rey. J. P, Mc­ Lennan, who has been there about two years. Anniversary services were held on the occasion. Lillian E. Kennedy, teacher ENGAGEMENT ' WILSONS FLY PADS r WILL KILL MORE FLIES THAN/ L'SEVERAL DOLLARS'WORTH/ ANY OTHER FLY KiLLE^f 7f - The engagement is announced of Ann, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. MjoFarlane, of Clinton, to Mr. K, M. Taylor, eldest son of the late Mr. and Mrs. C. K. 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