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in view of Johnny’s tender years.
However, neither of them had ever
aspired to the job, so were perfectly
content to see Johnny get it.
Pink Crosby was a bright-eyed,
cheery young fellow with clean feat
ures and a peaches and cream com
plexion. Pod Fortune was hulking
and slow going, with a booming voice
and a laugh that made the walls of
the bunkhouse creak. Both were hon
est and faithful.
Delevan held Johnny after the oth
er two had departed.
“Son,” he said. “Seein’ as this part
nership is cornin’ up we’ll want a few
tallies to know where we stand, meb
be. So I’d suggest yuk take the boys
an' comb the plateau, particularly the
northeast side
the cattle yuh
the meadows,
generally hunt
range too, but more or less deserted.’
Johnny nodded and went away to
the corrals. A half hour later he and
Crosby and Fortune jogged off
around the crest.
The better part of an eventful week
passed, and then one day, when out
alone, Johnny swung into the upper
end of a little park and came upon a
rider spurring easily about a group
of cattle, apparently studying their
condition and numbers. The rider
was a stranger to Johnny and in
stinctively he bristled. He jogged
down toward the stranger and reined
in warily at a little distance.
“Hello there,” he drawled careless
ly. “Lookin’ fer somethin’?”
The stranger faced Johnny coolly.
He was a big man, and Johnny didn’t
like anything about him.
“I asked yuh somethin’,” snapped
Johnny, nettled by the silence of the
other. “Who are yuh an’ what do
yuh want?”
“I’m Silas Spelle,” was the even,
cold reply. “I’m merely looking over
what will shortly be mine.”
“Oh—yeah?" said Johnny, openly
skeptical. “Well, shore now that
sounds pretty thin. Suppose yuh am
ble over to the Box D ranchhouse an’
tell that same story to ole San Juan
Delevan. He oughta be plumb inter
ested.
“Doubtless. Only I don’t care to
talk to him today. My time to talk
will be a little later. Then I’ll see
him.”
“Naw,” said Johnny. “Cain’t let yuh
get away today without seein’ him.
Yuh better amble along ahead of me.”
Spelle stiffened and looked Johnny
over intently. His surface examina
tion was of a stalwart curley-headed,
good looking kid. Good-looking, yes
—but not exactly dangerous looking.
“Don’t to the fool,” growled Spelle
“I'm not interested today.”
He turned to ride away. The next
| instant a hissing loop settled over his
j shoulders and he was dragged back-
----- -------- - ------------ - ; wards from his saddle. Spelle, being
"be able to pay that back, I’ll be a heavy man, hit the ground hard,
| and for a moment he lay half stunned.
J By the time he had recovered John-
! ny had expertly frisked him of wea-
I pons and was back on his horse, roll-
' ing a cigarette.
“When yuh’re feelin’ up to it yuh
SYNOPSIS . . .Silas Spelle, high
handed, low-principled cattle baron,
is out to smash the local bank and
force foreclosure on the small ranch
ers of the Kanab desert country so
that he can seize their .range lands.
He is opposed by Ed, Starbuck, pres
ident of the Cattleman's Bank, and by
San Juan Delevan, prominent ranch
er who has been crippled by a fall
from his horse. Johnny Clehoe and
his partner, Tex Whipple, are cow
punchers employed b ySan Juan Del
evan to fight the rustlers and protect
his interests.
It took Tex a long quarter of an
hour to write four telegrams. They
were finished finally, however, and
paid for. Then Tex went out, took
'his three jaded mounts to a livery
stable, with advice that they were to
be fed and cared for until his return.
After that he ate a huge breakfast and
spent the balance of the time until
the train backed in and made up, doz
ing on a baggage truck in the sun.
For thirty-two hours Tex rode
west and south to the clicking of rail
and wheel. It was late afternoon
when he swung from the train at Sev
ier. He had hardly reached the plat
form before there was a leonine bel
low of delight and a huge, tawny
bearded man caught him by the
shoulders, whirled him around and •
began pumping his hand mightily.
“Tex, yuh old old sand hawk—how
are yuh? What’cha want? I got yore
telegram an’ come arunnin’.”
“Lafe—I need five thousand dol
lars. Got a chance to buy in fer
Johnny an’ myself on a regular spread
over the sweetest bit of range yuh
ever saw. The present owner, name’s
Delevan, is crippled an’ he’s fightin’ a
range grabbin’ skunk who bought up
all the mortgages on a local bank that
went under due to a robbery. This
grabber gets ahold of a ten thousand
dollar mortgage against Delevan who
he wants special to put on the rocks.
Delevan told me his story so I’m fig-
gerin’ on steppin’ in an’ takin’ up that
mortgage for a partnership split. I
got five thousand of my own saved
up. Been waitin’ for a chance like
this to get Johnny started on some
thin’ worth while. If you. can see fit
to let me have the money on a per
sonal note, Lafe, I’d shore be oblig
ed.”
Lafe Stillman’s answer was to draw
a checkbook from his pocket and
twist the end off an old-fashioned
fountain pen.
“Five thousand be enough, Tex?”
asked Lafe. “If you want more jest
say so.”
“Five’s plenty Lafe, an’ shore I’m
thankin’ yuh. We’ll go round an’ see
a lawyer an’ have him fix it up
legal.”
“Like hell we will,” growled Lafe.
“Yore word’s plenty for me. An’ j
lemme tell yuh somethin’. If I hear j
yuh’re scrimpin’ an’ scratchin’ so’s to •
an’ make a count of
find holin’ up out in
The wildest critters
that range. It’s good
damned if I’ll take it. Savvy?”
During Tex’s absence Johnny found
plenty to keep him busy. Early on
the same morning that Tex left, Del
evan called Johnny and Pink Crosby
and Pod Fortune to the ranchhouse;
and announced that Johnny was now < can fork yore hoss again an’ we’ll
foreman of the Box D. Johnny hav- J amble in an’ see ole San Juan,” sug-
ing already talked the thing over with ■ gested Johnny mildly.
Tex, knew what was coming, but the : Spelle cursed venemously. Johnny
other two were somewhat surprised, listened patiently to the tirade, calm-1
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ly smoking until the cigarette
reduced to a butt. This he crumpled
in his palm, tossed away, then reach
ed for his rope once more.
“All right,” he snapped, the levity
wiped from his face. “I give yuh a
chance to ride in like a man. But yuh
ain’t no man. Yore a stubborn damn
fool. When I runs into that breed of
cats and they won’t listen to me I
winds a maguey round their horns
an’ drags ’em."
He shook out the loop and rose in
his stirrups.
“Wait!” snarled Spelle. “I’ll go.
But yuh’ll pay heavy for this, my
smart young friend.”
“Yeah?” draweld Johnny again, in
insultingly frank unbelief.
San Juan Delevan was seated in his
usual place on the veranda when
Johnny and Spelle rode up. An am
azed curse fell from Delevan’s lips
at the sight.
“Spelle!” he rumbled. “Where in
hell did yuh pick him up, Johnny?”
“Back along the crest aways. He
was snoopin’ around some of the
stock. Said he was jest lookin’ over
what he was goin’ to own pretty
quiGk. Sorry I mussed him up. But
he got kinda salty so I rubbed him
over once or twice,”
Delevan grinned. Spelle did look
disheveled.
“Better git off an’ have a seat,
Spelle,” invited Delevan. “Seein’ as
yuh’re figgerin’ so strong on ownin’
this layout yuh oughta get acquaint
ed a little bit at least.”
“I’ll stay, where I am,” snarled
Spelle. “When I get ready to sit on
that porch, it’ll be when it’s mine.”
“Then yuh’ll never sit on it,” rasp
ed Delevan suddenly, leaning forward
with fiery eyes. “I know all about
yuh Spelle an’ the things yuh been
try in’ to do to bust me. Yuh bought
off my own punchers to rustle Box
D cattle an’ throw them onto yore
range over’northeast. Yuh even paid
’em to try an’ wipe me out. They did
their damnedest an’ halfway succeed
ed. I’m a cripple for life but thank
God my gun hand ain’t crippled. An’
then again I been hearin’ things.
Don’t ever figger everybody is for-
gettin’ that bank robbery an’ mur
der of tjiree good men. Somehow,
someway that affair stinks of yore
paws, Spelle. It works out jest a lit
tle too smooth to yore advantage.
Mebbe what some of us know’d sur- I
prise yuh.”
Spelle, obviously very angry, and
not a little fearful, whirled his horse
and rode away.. There had been a
ring of truth about Delevan’s last
words which Spelle could not shrug
off. Delevan knew something and if, j
as he had stated, he could pay off
the mortgage at any time, it meant
Spelle’s big gamble ’ had come to
naught. Of course Delevan might be
bluffing. He would have to find out
at any rate and see the thing through
to a finish, whatever the outcome
might be. Not that Spelle was really
considering defeat. He’d win, what
ever the cost or methods necessary.
In the meantime, he’d do a little
thinking and figuring.
When he reached the Double S
ranchhouse, Spelle’s first move was
to go directly to his office and send
a messenger for Montana Wade, erst
while foreman of the Box D.
“Wade,” asked Spelle when the
I Jean Lee, H. Cantelon.
Total 750, Honors 562, Pass 450.
Final Examination — Edna Hogg
631, V.. Ohm -557, N. Mundy 553, N.
Fry 551, C .Hamilton 535, L. Lloyd
531, F. Pickell 529, A. VanWyck 512,
i E. Deyell 503, H. Lee 502, N.
' Finley 494, W. . Harris, 487, W.
Groves 482, F. Barnes 480, D. Mellor
465, John Lee 456, J. Wilson 452, D.
Murray 451, M. Campbell 450.
Recommended — George Johnson,
on account of illness.
Senior Third to Junior Fourth
Promoted on year’s work — Grace
Hingston, Louise Thompson, Ellen
Bailey, Eileen Dark, Jack Hopper,
Betty Groves, Josephine VanNorman,
Laura Collar, Grace Hutcheson,
George Lloyd.
Total 650, Honors 487, Pass 390.
Eric Schatte 560, Clarence Ohm
526, Joe Falconer 516, Carroll Case-
more 512, Harry Howard 512, Eva
Lediet 506, Jimmie Kennedy 496, Al
an Williams 490, Jimmie Cameron
483, Kenneth Crawford 469, Bill For
syth 467, Junior Nivins 463, Georgina
Evans 461, Jack Gorbutt 455, Jack
Rich 452, Jack Carter 450, John Wil
son 424, Allan Hyndman 411, Betty
Fitzpatrick 397.
Junior Third to Senior Third
Promoted on Year’s Work — Bill
Galbraith, Carl Clark, Grace Parker,
Douglas
Chittick,
Patrick,
strong.
Fry, Donald Hastie, Robert
Ruth Harris, Mildred Fitz-
Jack Ludwig, Craig Arm-
turncoat had arrived. “D’yuh know j
of any way Delevan could have got I
hold o’ some money?”
“Nope. He was plumb broke when
I left. Any surplus he mighta had
was in Starbuck’s bank an’ that went •
with the hold-up." .
“Uh-huh. Who’s that smart youqg ■
jasper workin’ for him? Reckon he j
must o’ jes’ took him on. Struck me I
as bein’ a stranger.”
“Reckon that must be Clehoe. You
didn’t see another with him, leathery,
silver topped ole ranny?”
“No. Was there two hired?”
“Yeh. Clehoe an’ the ole jasper,
named Tex Whipple. Don’t know
what could o’ become of Whipple.
Most generally him an’ Clehoe stick
closer together than two sheets o'f
fly-paper.”
“H-m. A’right. Better get word to
Art. Yuh twfr'wanta watch yore step
pretty careful. I understand there’s
been talk goin’ around about the hold
up. Mebbe we slipped a leetle some
where.”
On the morning of the third day
following, a little cavalcade headed
away from the corrals of the Box D
and clattered off along the narrow,
winding road which skirted the edge
of the San Juan plateau on the west,
to lead out across the eastern face of
the Kanab Desert.
In the lead rolled a buckboard with
Pink Crosby at the reins. Beside him
sat Ronny Delevan, a soft dark head,
a voluminous linen duster swathing
her from ears to heels against the in
evitable dust. Behind the buckboard
rode Tex Whipple and Johnny Cle
hoe, jogging easily stirrup to stirrup.
It was early and the sun not yet
up. The keen, crisp air was a tonic
to vitality and the lean broncos drew
the lighr buckboard along at a spank
ing pace. Johnny Clehoe’s eyes were
bright and he whistled softly between
his teeth. On the other hand Tex’s
face was seamed with thought and
weariness, for only late the night be
fore had he come in from his trip to
Sevier.
(Continued Next Week)
PUBLIC SCHOOL
PROMOTION EXAMS.
Wellington Mutual Fire
Insurance Co.
Established 1840.
Risks taken on all classes of insur
ance at reasonable rates.
Head Office, Guelph, Ont
ABNER COSENS, Agent.
Wingham.
Dr. W. A. McKibbon, B.A.
PHYSICIAN And SURGEON
Located at the Office of the Late
Dr. H’. W. Colborne.
Office Phone 54. Nights 107
DR. R. L. STEWART
PHYSICIAN
Telephone 29.
A.
J. W. BUSHFIELD
Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc.
Money to Loan.
Office — Meyer Block, Wingham
Successor tp Dudley Holmes.
Dr. Robt. C. REDMOND
M.R.C.S. (England)
L.R.C.P. (London)
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
* J. H. CRAWFORD
Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc.
Successor to R. Vanstone.
Wingham -:- Ontario
DR. W. M. CONNELL
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Phone 19.
R. S. HETHERINGTON
BARRISTER and SOLICITOR
Office — Morton Block.
Telephone No. 66
W. A. CRAWFORD, M.D.
Physician and Surgeon
Located at the office of the late
Dr. J. P. Kennedy.
Phone 150 Wingham
F. A. PARKER
OSTEOPATH
All Diseases Treated.
Office adjoining residence next to
Anglican Church on Centre St.
•Sunday by appointment.
Osteopathy 9 Electricity
Phone 272. Hours, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.
j*unior Fourth to Senior Fourth
Promoted on year’s work — F.
Robinson, M. Gjousher, H. Ham
mond, B. Gannett, L. Reid, L. Dore,
On Exams., Total 630, Honours
473, Pass 378.
Margaret MacLean 511, Lorraine
Brown 509, Jack Day 509, Norma
Brown 502, Frances Durnin 501, Lois
Adams 494, Frances Brophy 492, Mar
jorie Falconer 489, Joyce Carter 472,
Doris Finlay 465, Doreen Garlick 464,
Iris Templeman 458, Isabel MacLean
454, Grace Small 453, Bud Cruick-
shank 452, Ambrose Zettler 446, Don
na Buchanan 445, Mary Lepard 441,
Lloyd Mundy 431, Harold Hutton
430, | Pat Fitzpatrick 427, Wallace
Hutton 412, Donald Campbell 402,
Alvin Seli 394, Margaret Finlay 378.
Senior Second to Junior Third
On Year’s Work — Annie Shiell,
Lillian Angus, Elizabeth Hare, Frank
Zettler, Lauretta Everick, Norman
Anderson^ Shirley Edgar, Muriel Ev
ans, George Copeland, Harold Seli,
Joyce Walker.
On Promotion Exams. — Total 550,
Honors 413, Pass 330.
Orwell Allen 393, Fred Templeman
365, Jean MacLeod 365, Jimmy Stoak-
ley 364, Marie Lockridge 363, Evelyn
Allen 343, Helen Carr 343, Edward
Fitzpatrick 337, Madeline Mellor 336,
Ileen Morris 333, Jimmy Sanderson
330.
Junior Second to Senior Second!
Passed on Honors, 75% on Year’s
work — Jean Stewart, Grace Bailey,
Donald Lloyd, Marjorie French, Jean
Town, Pauline Clark.
Examinations, Total 550, Honors
413, Pass 330.
Margaret Angus 486, Marjorie
Sinnamon 458, Jean Prentice 446,
Jack Walker 431, Jack Ernest
415, Cecil Yeo 409, Jack Montgomery
407, Evelyn Evans 401< Mary Forsyth
399, George Breen 398, Isabel Brown
391, Eddie Carter 390, Raymond Bell
388, Billie Hilbert 386, Billie Lee 384,
Freddie Ohm 359. Walter Burgess—
Recommended.
First Class to'Junior Second
Promoted on Honour Standing —
Milton Brown) Jack Lockridge, Mar
garet VanNorman, Donald McLeod,
Jean Willoughby, Teddy Bailey, Jim
mie Colborne, Billy Field, Helen
Forbes, Alma Thompson, Shirley
Lloyd, June Everick, Gerald Brophy.
Results of Examinations, Total 250,
Honors 187, Pass 150.
Helen Lockridge 222, Billy Temple
man 221, Dorothy Wells 212, Mary
Prentice 121, Betty Finlay 206, Jack
Lloyd 185, Jack Musgrove 183, Wan
da Cowan 178.
Primary to First Book
On Year’s Work — Tommy Lock"
ridge, Grant Ernest, Jimmy Benning-
er, Betty Sanderson, Ross Johnston,
Gerald LaRue, Maryltt Connell, Helen
Arthur, Donna Tervit, Alan MacKay,
Ruth Gannett, Ronald Brown, Ther
esa Fitzpatrick, Donald Schatte, Char
lie Lee, Bttddjr Wild, Dawna Walker,
John Armitage, Donna Lockridge,
Pauline Cowna, Robert Finlay, Rose
Marie Ohm, Betty Mae Hutcheson,
Examinations — Total 160, Honors
123, Pass 100,
Iona Henderson 146, Helen Sturdy
139, Greta Hyndman 138, Buddy Mor
ris 136, Laurene Prentice 134, Edna
Templeman 126, Wilma Dark 122,
Florence Harris 122, Madaline Deyell
117, Joyce Kingston 109.
Music
In the, Music tests, the following
were the results: Miss MacDonald’s
room, Jr. Ill, 75.8%; Miss Reynolds’
room, Jr. IV, 74.3%; Miss McLaugh
lin’s room, Sr. Ill, 66.4%; Miss Ben
nett’s room, Sr. II, 60%. Louise
Lloyd arid Helen Hammond were the
highest individually, each having 100.
OUR MINISTER
Not fettered by/u*narrow mind,
But ready with a helping hand:
But with a loving heart and kind—
The sense to sSe and understand.
To understand that all are one,
No matter’what their name or sign,
That all in one great race can run
And in one Brotherhood combine.
He cheers the sister churches on,
Hje gives them all the help lie can;
’Tis thus the glorious day shall dawn,
When man shall love his fellow
man,
He tries to. kill contention’s weeds,
The weeds that would all good
destroy;
HYDRO LAMPS
The Lon& Life Lampe 99
Crawford Block.
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to tee Hou oe
Wingham Utilities Commission
Phone 156
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Thursday, July 2nd, 1936?
HARRY FRY
Licensed Embalmer and
Funeral Director
Furniture* and
Funeral Service
Ambulance Service.
Phones: Day 117.Night 109.
A
THOMAS FELLS
' AUCTIONEER
REAL ESTATE SOLD
Thorough knowledge of Farm
Stock.
Phone 231, Wingham.
i
“““111 1 ..... i ■
It Will Pay You to Have An
EXPERT AUCTIONEER’
to conduct your eale.
See
T. R. BENNETT
At The Royal Service Station.
Phone 174W.
J. ALVIN FOX
Licensed Drugless Practitioner
CHIROPRACTIC - DRUGLESS
THERAPY - RADIONIC
EQUIPMENT
Hours by Appointment.
Phone 191. Wingham
A. R. & F. E. DUVAL
CHIROPRACTORS
CHIROPRACTIC and
ELECTRO THERAPY
North Street Wingham
Telephone 300.
Less talk and more of Christian deeds
These things do all his time employ.
Oh, that all ministers work as lie,
The reign of love would then begin;.
Then men would surely brothers be,
And unity the day would win.
Lord grant our friend long life, we
pray,
To/Iive and labour in the town,
Be with him always, night and day,
And bless the Churches of Wing-
Mlam Town.
—Katherine Currie.
Wheat Exports
The exports of Canadian wheat to
Great Britain during the first three
months of 1936, namely 11,604,111
cwt. showed an increase of nearly 70
per, cent, over the quantity shipped in
the corresponding months of 1935.
During the same period, Canadian
flour exports to Britain advanced from
883,084 cwt. in 1935 to 944,445 cwt.
and the sales of Canadian lard on the
British market were more than treb
led, according to British statistics.
“How can you talk to me like that,”
she wailed, “after I’ve given you the
best years of my life?”
“Yeah?” returned the husband .un
impressed by her emotion. “And, who
made ’em the best years of your life?”