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"June would fly off the handle for no
reason at all: I was really proud of her
bad temper, Then somebody put her
wise to Postern, Naturally she became a
different person, and within a month I --
had lost my favorite spitfire."
Mr. T. N. Coffee Nerves.
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beverages.
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CHAPTER 40
MOSLEY APPEARS
Silcott made the point that
there was a great deal of Don
Jose's writing extant
"But Don Jose wrote the let-
ter,' Anne broke in, "There is
no doubt of it. You believe that,
don't you?" --
"I haven't the least doubt,"
Stratton said. "But it will not
be admitted without a fight."
"We read six letters from him
and even more from his wife,"
Anne explained. "The letters tie
up with each other. In this one
he answers a question Donna
Maria had asked in a previous
letter, which is among those I
found. In it she mentions hav-
ing followed some instructions
given in an earlier letter from
Don Jose. There's a — what
d'you call it? — runs through
them."
"A continuity," Jim suggest-
ed.
"That will strengthen our po-
sition, if the connection is quite
clear," Stratton agreed. "It will
be more difficult to throw out
this letter without throwing them
all out. We are under obliga-
tions to you, Miss Eliot.'
"Don't you expect to win the
ease?" Anne asked bluntly.
"If I didn't think we had a good
case I wouldn't be engaged in it,"
the attorney answered dryly.
Before they had left the office
thirty yards behind them Anne
flung a query at her companion.
"Do you thinlc he is honest
that he' is really fighting to win"
An Honest Lawyer
"I'm sure of it. He is an ab-
solutely straight lawyer."
"Anyway, he has ice water in
his veins.
"He does seem a bit dessicated,
until he begins to try a case. You
should see him them. He is as
keen as a fine blaoe And cases
in the higher courts are not won
by oratory, lady. There won't be
a flaw in D. L.'s logic."
She laughed. "I aon't suppose
I ought to have expected him to
throw up his hat and shout. But
I do think he'd make a fine un-
dertakes. With that soft stud-
ied voice of his.- Is he married?"
"Yes, Ma'am. And you don't
need to pity his wife. They are
very happy together."
"You caught ire out that t•,me,"
sl.e admittea, mirth in her eyes.
1°The fact as that I'm a bao judge
of character at first sight, and
sometimes at second and third
Now take Mr. Mosley."
He shook his head, "Let some
e
one else take him. I don't want
him"
"I don't think I do either. But
he id certainly impieosive. When
I first saw him I thought he was
about the 1' nest-looicing man I
had seen, so big and masterful,
with that Greek god face of his,
and in a way likeable."
"LikeaJ?e?" he repeated. "I'll
grant you the rest, but I stick at
that"
Mosley -Discussed
"My notion writ that he had
just got off wrong foot first,
the way a blundering boy does,
and that all he needed was to
have his eyes epened. I couldn't
believe he was responsible for
the .death of my uncle and other
terrible things. But I know
better now. Morally he's color-
blind, It's funny too. He
doesn't seen to me as handsome
as he did. His eyes are a little
too close, and even when he
smiles they zere as cold as a froz-
en lake."
Jim answered with an under-
statement. He did not want to
talk too harshly of a man he dis-
liked so much. "Russ isn't just
what you could call warm-heart-
ed," he agreed.
"It would be awful to be the
wife of a man like that," she
said.
Silcott slanted a look at her.
He wondered why she had said
that, In his mind there had been
a suspicion that Russell Mosley
was much taken with her, Anne
-was the kind of woman likely to
interest him. There was the fine
race -horse look about her beauty
that he would think ought'to be-
long to him. Jinn guessed Anne
was fiwaie of the -cattleman's ad-
miration. '
I3e said, tentatively, Russ
would probably spend money on
a wife of whom he was proud."
"Yes, and she wouldn't have
the slightest influence with him.
She world be just one of his pos-
sessions."
Jim thoght that was a shrewd
judgment.
Hat T At Stake
Word came to Mosley by the
grapevine 'route that a letter
written by Gandara had been
found which would greatly pre-
judice his case, He wasted no
time in getting to Santa Fe,
where he was met by his inform-
ant. The spy had talked with a
clerk of Stratton who had not
seen the letter but had heard.
mention of it in the office. The
clerk knew that Sileott and a
young woman had brought the
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document to his employer and
that it had been found in the old
Gandara house where Lieutenant
Windom was now living. Of the
contents he could speak only by
hearsay.
The cattleman called on Win-
dom at once. The officer was not
at home, but his wife was quite
willing to talk with this bronzed
Westerner who looked like a
Greek Hermes. He gave his
name and mentioned the letter..,
"Oh, the letter Don Jose wrote
to -his wife! Isn't it amazing that '
it would lie here in an old trunk
fifty years and be found by ac-
cident just in time to be of use
in some lawsuit about land?
Anne was pleased as punch. St/
wrote a letter to 'a friend at
Blanco - and he came right up
here. A Mr. Silcott — lots of
Erin. He's in town now, I don't
suppose you know him?" Hen-
rietta slanted a smile at him. She
was thinking that he would be a
nice new man to take to the dance
tomorrow.
"Yes, I know him." His answer-
ing senile was grim. "Do you know
what Miss Eliot did with the let-
ter?'.'
"They had it photographed.
Hea ens knows why. The origin-
al they left with. Ijr. Stratton."
"I'm interested' in old Spanish
records," the Hat T owner sug-
gested. "Do you happen to re-
member what the letter said
about the land grant?"
"Oh, nothing much. Just that
1 on lose had all the land he need-
ed without bothering with this
grant the king had made him."
"Sometimes they worded their
phrases very quaintly, Mrs. Win-
dom. I don't suppose you recol-
lect the exact translation."
"Goodness me, no. He just
told Donna Maria to tell some-
body or other not to worry abort
so. land he had bought; since
he had given up his claim."
I'_osle disentangled the ro-
Yp
in her sentence and found
uncus e
smell comfort in the informa-
tion. If Don Jose had actually
put it down in black and white
that he was relinquishing his
claim this . would tell heavily
against the Hat T interest.`
(To Be Continued)
Silver Cams May
enlace Tisa Ones
Fruits and Vegetables May
Be Preserved In So -Called
Precious Metal Cans
It may yet be that Canadiaitd
will be eating fruits and vege-
tables preset ed ,a s
instead of tin cans' ba—me t...s
war is over,' authoritative offic-
ials indicated recently,,
Ono source said that experi-
ments looking toward the use of
silver instead of tin because of
the tin shortage now are under-
way. If they are successful they
may lead to silver tins for canned
fruit and vegetables and already
silver has replaced tin in some
small articles on an experimental
basin. -
Silver, ",generally considered
one of the precious metals, is one
of the few metals of which Can-
ada and the United States has a
large surplus( Demands for tin,
on, the other hand, far exceed
the supply, and drastic Govern-
ment orders have been issued to
restrict its use,
In Canada experimental work
has so far been confined largely
to using silver as a base for solder
but in the United Status experi-
ments aro being conducted inthe
use of gilver for a - base in tin
cans,
A large part of Canadian farm
produce 10 calmed and it has al-
ready , been recognized that
shortage of cans will be one of
the most serious problems can-
ning companies will face in 1942.
It is likely that bottles will be
used to a larger extent their be -
:fore but this .ehenge is not likely
to provide solution for the tin
shortage,
The Allied Nations
Lead In Manpower
Some Comparative Figures of
Allied and Axis Resources
Tho Census Bureau at Wash
ington has just issued some strik-
ing statisties as to the manpower
available to the .Allies and the
tie
s vs
eti
1 for ware
respectively t
axle 9pe y
on land, in the air and on tate
ocean, The tally shows an advan-
.tags of two to one in favor of
the Allies, who can muster 56,-
643,000 men between the ages of
18 and 36, as against a potential
axis total of only 28,660,000,
Even these estimates do not in-
elude the enormous • potential
man -power resources of China,
India,: and , The ' Netherlands in..
dies.
But this two -to -one advantage
would soar to six -to -one if it were
possible to mobilize the entire Al-
lied reserves, including those of
China and India, but without tak-
ing The Netherlands Indies into
the reckoning. For then the total
Allied strength would reach - the
tremendous total of 163,887,000
then between 18 and 35 years of
age.
The reservoir of man power in
these age brackets is estimated at
22,796,000, and is barely sur-
passed by that of Russia, which
total 23,574,000. Great Britain
and her dominions, but still ex-
cluding India, — have 10,273,000
men in the same age group. As
against these totals, Japan's po-
tential man power is placed at
10,839,000, Germanys at 11,281,-
000, and Italy's at 6,440,000,
The preponderance of the Al-
lies in material resources, raw
materials, industrial organization
and equipment, transportation fa-
cilities and potential war supplies,
—is even more .marked, although
precise figures axe in the nature
of the case impossible to obtain.
Ili steel and iron the Allied advan-
tage is at least two -to -one. In oil
and gas, it ismore than five -to -
one; In base metals it is seven
or eight -to -one. The American
industrial machine has a potential
capacity exceeding that of all
Continental ,h urope, and Great
Britain's alone is about equiva-
lent to that of Germany, while
that of Russia rivals closely that
of either of the great European
powers. If this is to be a war of
endurance, the superior staying
power of the Allies ishardly a
matter of serious- question.
Source Of Rubber
In •South America
Henry Ford's Rubber Plan-
tation in Brazil Producing
on Limited Scale
Henry Ford's new rubber plan-
tation at Belterra, Brazil, is with-
in a few miles of the spot where
in 1876 Henry A. Wickham ob-
tained 70,000 seeds of the Hevea
tree and smuggled them out of the
country to England. These seeds
became the ancestors of nearly
the rubber trees of the East In-
dies, from which the United. States
obtains 93 percent of its rubber
supplies, Science Service points
out.
Althaugh-the 3,651,000 rubber
trees planted at. Belterra (the
name -means beautiful land) are
still quite young, they are already
in production on a limited scale.
About 750 tons of concentrated
latex will be shipped to Dearborn
- 3n 1942. By 1950 the estimated
production is 7,500 tons, and the
eventual goal is 38,000 tons an-
nually.
While this is only a fraction of
the 600,000 tons the U.S.A. nor-
mally consumes in a year, experts
believe that in time rubber pro-
duction in "the Western Hemis-
phere can be brought to the point
where bringing rubber half -way
around a hostile world will not be
necessary,
There is also the MYIexican
guayule shrub, - which grows well
in the Southwestern United States
and is already wider cultivation
there. As a quick source of iia-
rural rubber, this plant is unriv-
aled', Rubber can be obtained
after one year's growth, although
it is better after four years. With-
out a de-resinating process, the
rubber is not the equal of that
from the Hevea trees and is mote
costly. But as a stop -gap until .
the new }levee trees get going, it•
may be a life-saver.
New Year Cupid
Flat Footed Flop
As Dave Boone writes in The
New York Sun: "And as• for the
old conception of the New Year
it's all wrong, The artists who
sketch him as a naked babe with
curls, ribbons and pink cheeks,
are crazy. He's a seared acid sort
of weird looking midget. He's
got a prematurely gray head, a
wrinkled brow and two cauli- -
fibWer ears on hint before he
starts, lie's Wearing a steel hel-
met, carrying a gas mask, eating
concentrated foods and nursing a
bloody nose. And lie's got flat
feet to boot,'. '
WE FOUND ALL -BRAN
SUPERIOR TO
HARSH CATHARTICS
Says Mrs. R. E. Etches; Dorval,
Quebec; "KELLOGG'S ALL
BRAN has so many Rood qualities
it really is the Better Way'.
It has been a family favorite for
many: years, and as long as it
retains its qualities, ALL -BRAN
will continue to be a big favorite
in our home."
Why don'tyar, try ALL -BRAN'S
re,a4504 fir
aaa
"Better Way" to correct the cause
of constipation due to lack of the
right kind of "bulk" in your diet.
But remember, ALL -BRAN doesn't.
work like cathartics. It takes time.
Get ALL -BRAN at your grocer's.
in two convenient size packages, or
ask for the individual serving pack-
age at restaurants. blade by
Kellogg's in London, Canada.
TABLE TALKS
By SADIE B. CHAMBERS
Value of Milk
In Daily Diet
I, am sure we all know that for
proper nourishment each adult
should consume one pint of milk -
a day and each child one quart.
This milk need not be taken as a
beverage it may be used in cook-
ing in such dishes as soup, cus-
tards, and other dishes.
The world's best authorities
agree that you should eat every
day the necessary amounts of
"protective foods," These foods
_are milk and milk products, po-
tatoes and other vegetables, whole
wheat grain breads and cereals,
raw fruits and canned tomatoes,
eggs, meat and fish.
When there is not much money
to spend for food, first on the
shopping list should be milk or
cheese, then potatoes, and whole
grain products (rolled oats, rolled
wheat, and whole wheat bread.)
Use foods in season, when the
price is lowest. When fresh vege-
tables are high in price, buy can-
ned vegetables particularly toma-
toes, Cheese may replace some
of the milk, using one ounce of
Canadian Cheese in place of one
glass of milk.
It might be wise now to take
an inventory of our weekly
menus, to check up' oh their nu-
tritional values. A breakfast menu
of the quickly -snatched rolls and
coffee type, should be erased
from any well balanced diet.
Start breakfast with the day's
quota of raw fruit, vegetable, to-
mato or orange juice; if tomato
juice" is used (it may be cheaper)
two glasses will be 'necessary to
obtain the required amount of
vitamins.
The next course of your break-
fast should be some type of cereal
with milk, cooked cereal prefer-
ably in winter. The beverage
should be a milk one — cocoa and
hot chocolate are high in nutri-
tional value and help prepare an
adult as well as the child for a
difficult day.
A noon meal, whether luncheon
or dinner, might start with a milk
Then thereare pian -
soup. The x y in-
teresting and very simple desserts
such as junket, custards, etc.; each
may take care of part of the daily
milk requirements. The salad
may contain cream cheese one
ounce will be equivalent to one
glass of milk.
The following recipes contain-
ing milk, •are requests:
'Custard Pie
Beat together 8 eggs, one-half
cup sugar, and one quarter tea-'
spoon' salt. Stir in 2 cups of
milk. Pour into an unbaked pie
crust, sprinkle with grated nut-
meg, and bake in a moderate
oven. .The custard must not .boil.
To test, when done, slip a silver
knife into the centre, not deep
enough to pierce the crust. If
knife conies out clean the custard
Li cooked. If the knife is milky
it is not done,
Southern Corn
2' cups canned corn
2 to 3 eggs
1 teaspoon salt
iii teaspoon pepper
2 tablespoons butter
1 cup milk
1 - cup soft bread crumbs
Nlix, the corn with slightly
beaten egg, • Add salt, pepper,
melted butter, scalded milk and
broad crumbs; combine well.
Turn mixture into a greased
baking dish or casserole; place in
pan .of hot water and .bake in a
slow oven, 325'F,, for about 86
minutes or until firm.
Mime Olutasocre welcomes personal
letters from Interested readers. She
le gleaned to receive suggestions
on Nolte for her column, and le
even rends. to listen to your Niel
-peeves." Bequests for reetpes or
Insider atenns are in order. Address
year lettere to'"MIs,, Sadie D. Chant.
hers, 73 Went Adelaide Street, To.
.route." Send aunnped, self-addressed
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was addressed:
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Flirtation With
Nazi Searchlights
When heavy bombers flew
from an unnamed airport in the
Middle East over Athens to bomb
the - great oil tanks near there,
another smaller plane deliberat-
ely flirted with the searehlights
in order to detract attention.
from the heavier machines flying
a thousand feet above it.
The pilot of a heavy bomber
told of how they were sitting in
a tent trying to keep warm while
awaiting final instructions for
the attack on the oil tanks. It
was heavy and cloudy and the -
freezing level was, 1,000 feet.
Taking off eventually the heavy
bomber headed north and after
two hours flying the navigator
picked up the Crete mountains,
The temperature was 22 degrees
below zero.
"When we arrived over Athens
we circled a few minutes to get
the wind and work out the best
run up on the target. We could
see the tall tanks standing up
clearly in the moonlight. Then
we were playing hide and seek
with the searchlights, but sud-
denly we were free of them. We
looked down and there was an-
other - plane a thousand feet be-
low us, which was deliberately
courting the searchlights. It took
attention away from us and we
were able to go in and drop our
bombs and get away without be-
ing caught ourselves.
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