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PICOBAC
Pyle To6aeco
FOR A MILD, COOL,SMOKE,
by Helen `` 'opping Miler
CHAPTER IV
SYNOPSIS
Gary Talhnan, a young petroleum
engineee on his way to a job in Mex-
ico, gets as far as Texas where he Is
given a ride by Mona Lee Mason,
They have an accident, and Gary is
seriously injured. Mona Lee takes him.
to her home. Before he has recover-
ed sufficiently to go on to Mexico,
Gary discovers evidence of oil on the
Mason ranch. He tells Harvey Mason
Mona Lee's husband, but warns .him
that drilling is expensive and may be
useless. Now, . Gary • and Adelaide
Mason are on their way to Dallas to
get a map.
At least, Gary told himself in the
nrornig, 'he had this day. The sun
was golden; the, prairie blazed with
bloom; bluebonnets brought the sky
down and spread it in deep splendor
over. the earth . , . and Adelaide had
a saucy little curl in front of her ear
that blew about in the breeze and
danced when she laughed. She sang
softly as' she drove, and scolded every
vagrant dog and jalopy driver that
slowed down her skimming speed.
Gary sat back and held his hap-
piness close, keeping silent least it
burst before his eyes like the rain-
bow bubble that it was. No matter
what came --he hada this day.
They had lunch at a little road-
side place before they reached, the
city. Gary had some' money. He
insisted on paying for the lunch.
"You hunt the map, Gary. I'm
going to buy some hats," Adelaide
annourited, when they had left the
car in a parking lot.
"Remember, you haven't struck
oil yet," warned Gary.
"Oh, but we will." She was coolly
confident. "I'll wait in the car if 1
finish first."
Adelaide hurried away, She felt
exhilarated, and made over new.
Life would be very gay and chang-
ed and exciting if they found oil on
the ranch. She would be an oil heiress
—the idea intrigued' her but frighten-
ed her a little., The oil heiresses she
knew had gorgeous clothes and furs
and jewelery—but somehow they
hadn't much fun. Men—young men,
stood off from them a little. And, the
proud one kept quite far away.
Like Gary. She liked Gary—she'
could, she suspected, care for Gary
a lot, but he was proud, too. He
wanted to • make his own way, and
that was ' admirable and fine, but
exasperating. Gary would• never let
himself fall in love with an oil heiress.
Adelaide was feeling sober when
she went back to the ear and found
Gary sitting there, studying the map
that was spread across his knees.
"Put that away," she said abrupt-
ly. "Somehow I don't enthuse about
oil, this minute,"
"What, happened? Did you get an
extortion note?"
"Gary, there will be things like
that --if we strike ail, won't there?"
"One oil well won't make you rich
Are all these things yours?" he asked
as a boy stumbled up with an armful
of bundles.
"Have him put them in the -rum-
ble. I didn't buy so very much.
Just a few thing's I needed—three
hats and, a couple of dresses. Give
the boy a quarter, will you ? I spent
the last cent I had for some vanish-
ing cream. Dad will grumble when
he sees the bill — but he always
grumbles, I always have to have
quite a let of things in the spring."
She saw Gary's face close up in a
queer, withdrawn ' way, Men, she
thought wearily, were so touchy.
Just because she had bought three
bats was no reason- why Gary
should be remote and silent 'for
fifty miles. She grew a little snap-
pish about it.
"You're not terribly entertaining,
are you? I could have brought a
wooden Indian along -_.after all, it's
spring and all the little flowersare
blooming."
"I know it's spring," said Gary,
not looking at her. "And, in Mexico
it's summer."
"I think," she said, grimly, "that
you are being very obstinate to
keep talking about Mexico, Gary
Tallman. You know what a big ins
noeent Dad is. If he sets his, head
about this oil business he's going to.
need --somebody,"
I'He can hire oil men. The bushes
are full of them."
"Do You have to be nasty?" de
nianded
up into e '
Adelaide, red. spots, riding
have talked, r cheeks. "You :could
all clay ands not said a
W. N. U. FEATURES
thing like that."
"I'm sorry. . L'm ` not being nasty.
E CLINTON, NEWS -RECORD
Waiting!,
A flick of skirts, a breath of lilac
and she was gone, flying down the
--stairs,
And them it was Sunday morning,
and because he had lain a lopg time
awake, Gary slept late. He woke
to a . dazzle of sunlight . and mocking
birds, singing' hysterically in the
haokberry trees around the house,
and went downstairs apologetically,
intending, to promote a cup of coffee
;from Marie in the kitchen ands -then
find Slim and persuade the old cow-
hand to give him a decent shave. His
hand was still, awkward and his arm,
a little stiff, and his chin felt cloudy
and weedy and in need of a strong
arm job.
But, as he passed through the
hall, Adelaide looked, ; up from the
breakfast table and the Sunday pap-
er'and smiled at him.
"Hello, lazy. Come on in. The
scrambled eggs are fine."
"I'm very late—P thought every-
one would be gone—to church .or
somewhere." Gary: began.
"Mother went. Dad's out—down
IV that gulch, probably, wandering
around picking up rocks. Sit down
, Marie!" She raised her voice
in a youthful yelp. "Bring this hun-
gry man some hot coffee,"
"Have a good time last night?"
he asked in the most casual tone he
could manage.
"Not specially." Adelaide set her
small teeth into a scrap of toast.
"We saw a show—and the place was
full of noisy little boys and cow-
hands so we drove around a little
—and then came home."
Gary made •a wild and vicious
stab at a piece of bacon- and it,
skidded and flew into the air, land-
ing on the rug.
"By the way;" .he announced
firmly, not looking • at her, "I'm
leaving in the morning. E'arly."
Adelaide's face changed a little,
withdrew, and somehow shut him
out. "Well—if you've made up your
mind, I suppose there's no use ar-
guing about it. But you did get
Dad into this oil thing—and if he
needs you .. "
"He won't need me. He can hire
the people he needs. But 1 hope
you can persuade him to lease and
not involve himself,"
"Nobody," said Adelaide a little
stiffly, "has ever beenable to per-
suade Dad against his will."
"Think P11 stroll into town after a
He grumbled' and, tramped around little --ought to see about trains --I
like' an uneasy •lion, need a little exercise . " he
And then at last the three men moved toward the door, but not too
drove away, and the Masons sat in quickly,
"Pin going for Mother at twelve
—you may as well ride." She was
very casual, too "Unless you'd
rather walk,"
"I need the walk -I'm too soft.
Got to get the old muscles in shape."
"011, very well." She turned back
to the society page. '
With his hands jammed in the
pockets of his khaki trousers; Gary
slogged along the sun -washed road
to town. Before he had gone far
he realized that his pfiysical
strength was still far below par,
but his moody anger at life drove
him on, And then a car swished to
a stop in the dust, close to his elbow,
and Adelaide said briskly, "Get in,
silly, Unless you feel that you've
got to pout some more."
Gary was too tired to argue. He
got in.
"You could have telephoned. from'
the house, you know, and founds out
all about the trains in five minutes,"
she went on, looking straight ahead
from under the brim of the new
spert hat. "That is --if you have to
find out about trains,"
"Listen, my girl," Gary's jaw
was so stiff that the words clipped
off like lengths of wire. "Can't I
make you understand that t can't
be under obligations to your family
any longer?"
It was an "Oh," she said • flatly. "That's
odd evening. They the reason, is it?"
walked around like wooden people, "That's the reason." Equally flat,
they spoke very little. Gary acI d Itnowi-'
I'M simply facing things -as! they
are, Adelaide. If I' have any influ-
ence with your, father at all, I'll use
it to try to persuade. him 'not to
wildcat a well down, if it turns out
that there is oil under hie land.' He
can lease and keep his royalties—
and let somebody: else take all the
grief."
"He won't do it. He'll be excited
Don't you like us, Gary? Don't you
want to stay?"
'"Great Scott, Adelaide --don't you
know I like you—too much? And do
you know how much money I've got,
at this moment?"
"I can't see what " difference that
makes."
"It makes a difference to me. I
have exactly forty-one diallers. If I
paid even a tenth of what I owe
your family now—"
"Oh, my heavens,' are you still
thinking about that?" Adelaide de-
manded.
"Certainly, I'm thinking about it.
And as for thinking about—anything
else—"
"What for instance?"
"A lot of things." He looked
straight ahead, with his face set
and a lit't'le pale. "Things D can't
'talk about --and can't even dream
about!"
The geophysic crew, arrived on
Friday, and Mona Lee thought them
a particularly grim and unfriendly
lot. They said nothing except polite
evasione; they treated Gary Tallman
with condescension and Harvey they
ignored till he took to stamping
around the bedroom at night barking.
"I can't get a thing out of 'em.
I don't count. They go out there
and monkey around and get into
their car and drive off, and never
even look back. I'm just the guy
who owns the land. I'm the fellow
who pays the bills. I've got a notion
to hire some riggers and put me a
well down anyway. Those guys, can't
see through the groundd. They've got
to guess= -same as I have."
a numbed circle in the dining room
and looked at each other with a
sort of stunned, incredulity in their
eyes.
Harvey brake the silence at last.
"Well, if it isn't there, it ought to
be. It cost enough to find out."
He looked ruefully at the stub of the
check he had written.
"A test well will show," Gary
said. But drilling a test well, as
Gary had reminded :Harvey a little
too often for his patience; would
run into money, "I'd certainly ad-
vise you to lease."
"Lease—and let the Dohertys and
the Mellons and the rest of 'em get
richer than they are now?" bleated.
Harvey. "My gosh, have you, any
idea how much an oil well earns?
And. it wouldn't be one well. If
there's any ell there at all, there's
a pool—so these fellows say."
Mona Lee lookeda little sick,
"I•Iarvey." she said. "There's just
one thing I• want you to promise me
--that you won't borrow money and
put mortgages on this place to
finance this business. I couldn't
stand it—to risk what we've worked
so hard to get."
"Look here." He was indignant,
"Did I ever act the fool yet?"
"No," sighed his wife, "but
there's always a time to begin "
Ins suitcase again: He. had packed
it twice already. But now he would
go. And before, he went he would
make a note of every cent he owed.
the Mason family, for the doctor and
the nurse and everything; and he
would pay it back if it took him
years to do it. Then, perhaps., when
hie conscience was clear and he
could •hold up his head and look
them all in the •eye, he would come.
back. And that, he told himself
wearily, •would, probably be a fool's
errand.
Adelaide dressed, hersele inthe
new chiffon frock and high -heeled
sandals, and Gary heard her dial-
ing the telephone in the upper hall
and talking to Bob Ferguson,
For goodness' sake Bob, come
out and take me somewhere! We've
struck. '1and this h is 'ons '
g that he was telling only
half the truth—less than half, to be
mathematical about it. Knowing
that the other half—the other three-
fourths --could, not be told. Not till
he owned more, worldly goods than
could be carried in one battered
suitcase.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
LADY BADEN-POWELL RETURNS
- TO •AIR IN'' WAR tFFORT
Lady Baden•Powell, widow' of the
founder of the Icor Scout Movement
has returned to England, from Kenya,
Africa where she ` and Lord Baden-
Powell had lived for Some years. The
Chief Girl Guide of the World said on,
her arrival in London, "1 came home
beeauee 2 felt I must be in Eingland
in the centre of activity. I do not
oz ers, fu]I of mind danger—in faet I Iike it. 'My
people with faces like doom. I wantlidea ie to urge the Girl Guidon in Big -
to • go some place and' raise the roof tarn to do even more 'wonderful+work
—I'm ready: now. All ,,right,
I'll be, than they are doing :cow.
DUNG.AaNNON
'Friday, evening and Saturday after-
noon and evening the home of Mrs.
Thomas Dickson was the scene of a
delightful trousseau tea in honor of
her daughter Miss Corabelle, a bride -
t b f thisi
re-
ceivedthe callers at;the door: and
an were much admired, b
THURS., NOV. 19 1942 l l
"-KEEP 'EM HAPPY WITIi MAIL"
the finding of Postmaster -General Mit•.
Nothing is more importattt to a sold- lack' in his recent trip to Britain made
ter 'than, mail—not eyed, pay day --iso for the express purpose •of checking ug
sa i' 17' recently returned Dieppe her- onmi uI and parcel deliveries for the
y a" troops. " When troo
.oes;`and they should know. Letterstroops have been away.';
o- e o week. Miss, Dickson from; home to fighting 'troops are Pike from home for years it becomes a
II h 'ammunition, to weapons -the more very important matter fol them to be
the trousseau of gifts were displayed the et the quicker' bite Hun will• be ',n touch with their homes arid• famiC-
b' the Misses Cora Fin i t g „ les." said Col, ul
Y n Kati and Cora destrpyed. Say Lt: Col, II3ollard Men- M cele, Upon its xo.
Culbert. d turn to Canada the ,
.. Y aidi awarded the D.S:0. on the Dieppe Postmaster Gene: --
a11. The pupils of Nile school
where ; C. . Murphy,M.M, of ai told a Riess eonferemce that Cama
action. EMU' S M
Miss Dickson is teacher turned' out we g et ;da must consider establishin a tra
in-largethe :Royal, Regiment of Canada g g ns
numbers about r atlantic`serviee to r
50`,in all Ln u �,.. .. g . ..
--� the foremost thou ht in a soldrai s Tac Irtate the move-
eluding their parents' mg present. t el£are of his Tamil , •Ills,
mind rs he W Y
Ohritmas boxes Were packed for heart is at .ease when mail arrives
James and Filmer Phillips who,are regularly. Mali from Home does more
now .both in hospital overseas, at the to keep .0 the morale'tharu anything
home of,Mrs. Elmer Phillips, where "" p
else.
Mrs. R. McWhinney, Mrs. William J.
Reid, Mrs,' Jennie Fitzgerald and Mrs.
R. Davidson gathered, to assist in
packing the following ,articles for the
boys, a gift from the congregation of
Erskine Presbyterian church of'which
both are members, a Neer Testament,
a sleeveless sweater, a pair of glov-
es, cookies, chocolate bars, gum
cheese, and powdered chocolate. '•
V
FOURTEEN YEAR OLD BOY
SCOUT IS HONOURED FOR
RESCUE
Fourteen year old Vincent Dooley of
Vaudreuil, Que., has been awarded the
parchment Certificate of the Royal
Canadian Humane Society for the res-
eue from drowning of four year old
Theodore Reid. The child fell off a
wharf into '12 feet of water. Despite
the fact that he cut his head on a
stone when diving to the rescue, Doo-
ley brought the child to shore and
rendered efficient first aid to revive
him. He learned his resuscitation work
in the Boy Scouts.
Mrs. Roosevelt has found the same
thing during her stay in Britain.
Speaking at the Washington Club, the
American Red Crose's biggest service
centre in Londen the famous "Eleanor'
said, "One thing I've learned already
you would like more letters. One 6f
you told me he hasn't had any mall
for two months. My boy in the Solo -
mons (Major James Roosevelt) said
the thing they missed most was mail.
It's aimost'impossible to get letters to
them out there but there's no reason
why you shouldn't have more mail
here."
R.C.A.F. headquarters at Ottawa in
their list of what the men and women
of R.C.A.F. want for Christmas puts
at the top in number one • place—a
batch of letters and Christmas cards.
That little white envelope postmark
ed "from home" puts heart into the
forces.
"Mail from home does more for the
morale than a four -days leave" was
meet of mail to those of the armed
forces overseas.
Now you'Irnow how important it 14
Keep 'em Happy With Mail.
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DON'T MISS YOUR NAME!
The Plan in A Nutshell
Each week there will appear in an
advertisement on this page, the name
and address of someone residing in
Clinton or district.
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WATKIN'S
Service Station
Huron St. Phone 18
Sunoco Products
Goodrich Batteries
Lubrication,
Brucefield Garage
WM. IL DALRYMPLE
Sunoco, Gas—Oil—Grease
General Repairs to All Makes
of Cars, Acetylene and Electric
Welding, Machinist and Mill-
wright.
Phone Clinton 618r4
Brucefield, Ont.
REG. BALL
Shell Service Station
Gas and Oil
Your present ear may have to
Iast a long time. Have us lubri-
cate and inspect it at regular
intervals and keep it rolling.
Phone 5 No. 8 Highway
JOE McCULLY & CO.
General Merchants
Sunoco Gas and Oils
Seaforth Clinton
si-sea at -bib
Brucefield, Ont.
H. F. BERRY
Groceries, Dry Goods
Boots and Shoes, Hard-
ware, Paints and Oils.
Flour and Feed, Etc,
• Phones
Seaforth Clinton
23.659 . 23.618
Brucefield, Ont,
Simply locate your name, clip out the
advertisement and present it to The
Clinton News -Record Office, and you
will receive.
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BOTTLING WORKS
Tweedies,
Popular drinks
It is safest to get
the best "
58 Picton St. Phone 489
Uoderieh, Ont
R. V. IRWIN
Dry Goods
Women's and Children's
Ready -to -Wear
Phone 96 -- Victoria Street '
When you buy here you
can take your change in
War Savings Stamps
PUBLIC UTILITIES
COMMISSION
CLINTON
Repairs and Mainten-
ance Service
Phone 20
C. V; COOKE
Florist
Flowers for AIi
Occasions
:66w Phones 661
Orange St. Clinton
John Huller, R. R. No. 2
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BUY VICTORY BONDS
EAT LESS MEAT
EAT MORE EGGS
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THE KOZY GRILL
Clinton Ontario
"Not just a place to Eat
But,a place to eat An-
other."
Meals—Lunches—
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With so much low testing bar-
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ing high brings a nice premium.
Bring in samples of your bar-
ley. If the test is high, I am
sure you will find the price I am
offering interesting.
FRED 0. FORD
frain and Seed Phone 123w
SUTTER & PERDUE
Hardware
Plumbing and' Heating
Deal Here and Take
your change in
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Phone 147w Albert St.
Buy War Saving Stamps and
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