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W. N. U. FEATURES
CHAPTER 1 may,be—"
Synopsis "Well, what do you think? Me,
with no job and sixteen dollars in
Gary Tallman, -a young petroleum my jeans. The lady likes. money,
engineer on his way to a job in Mex- she doesn't, like oil men."
ico getsas 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 er lion' There T e e he finds two
reasons for not going on to Mexieo—
Mona Lee's daughter Adelaide, and
evidence of oil on the Mason ranch.
Harvey Mason, determined' to pot
down 'a well, goes ahead despite
Gary's protest and the •crooked
efforts of his son-in-law, Oliver Kim-
ball, to stop him. When Mason's you want detailed information you'll
water pipe line is cut and he is faced have to asst him."
with an injunction, Gary suspects ` "I've got all the inforrnation,','
Oliver Kimball. But Kimball tells Grice said. "I know how much he's
Mason that Gary is an agent for Re- sunk in that well. It was as fool
public, a large oil company. Although propositions from the start'•and• we
innocent, Gary leaves., Later when tried to sell him that idea—indirect-
Mason has to go to Virginia he per- ly, of course. But we didn't get any -
suedes Gary to come back. , where with it. We thought Kimball
could handle the business, but he
bungled it every time he turned a -
Adelaide wandered around the round. He told us he could get us.
place, being very polite and aloof, the lease on Mason's land. This
and Mona Lee, after two or three stuff down here isn't big enough --
telegrams from Virginia, went we've got to expand. If we had
around stony -faced and with agony Mason's stuff we could go some
in her eyes. where. But Kinnball fell down on it,
Obviously, Harvey Senior had win- and so I was thinking, now that Mas -
d his banker for more money, for on's quitting definitely — maybe
Mr. Bradley came out, grayer and you..."
ore disapproving than ever, if that! "You want me to talk Mason into
ere possible, bringing papers for leasing to you, in that it?" said
ona Lee to sign. Gary, in a cold, level tone. "So you
She smiled, white-faced and strick- can go out and sell stock in an oil
it, at Gary when the banlcer had field to little school teachers and
•iven away. "We may not have any- widows with a little insurance—and'
ling left when we get through with bring 'em out here to see derricks
his," she said, "But we'll be back going up and drills going clown—and
here we started, from. And. we got everything but oils"
ong then, and we wern't afraid." •"Look here—I'm ready to make
ut she asked' in a hopeful tone, "Do you a legitimate proposition. The
u think we might get oil, Gary? well up there is no good to Mason.
'd be so glad—on account of Harvey. He'll pull, his derrick down, and
hate to have •hire disappointed so having an abandoned well only a
13'•" quarter of a mile front us isn't going
Garytried to to be good for our business. You're
be optimistic. in a better position to handle Mason
We're down almost five thousand right 'now than anybody—and we'll
t. Mrs. Mason. If it were my take care of you, of course . , ."
we
I couldn't give up—because I'm "The way you took care of old man
evinced this is deep. structure. And Harper. when he went out and cut
faet that Grice.Morgan are going Mason's water line? And Slide Min,
ead makes me think it might be ,when he trumped up a fake lawsuit
peful. But Mr. Mason told me to to harass'Mason and delay work on
p drilling at five thousand. Unless' his well?"
changes his mind—"
Maybe he'll change his mind -if "Listen, buddy when a business
cavy" Mona Lee said. man won't listen to a business argo-
t ten o'clook Hickey came back. relent ..
the men began swabbing, and "You heard what he . said, Bill,"
n Mora Lee carne out to watch. Gary was grim. "Keep: it in mind.
!aide stood with her fingers lock- I may need you. An for you, Mr.
o tensley that her knuckles were Grice—I'nr young .and out : of a job
te, • and because I was in' a tight spot
I worked for you for two days. But
I don't want the money. You can
tear up the check. I've never worked
for a' Brook and I don't expect to
begin. Good day, sir."
He 'ttuned away but Grice .sprang,
in front of him, squaring • his thick
body.
"Look here, you young, pup you
can't talk that way to ries' P1 run
you, out of the county—I'1.1-•"
"A11 right." Gary set his jaw,
drew back his. arm. "I'll give it to
you in the way you will understand,
then!"
He swung once: at the pulpy, crim-
son face. Grice, went down with a
wheeze and a grunt.
Red-hot pain shot along Gary's
tortured shoulder, but ire was too en-
raged to notice it. He scrubbed) his
knuckles on his shirt and strode off.
Bill Grant trotted 'along beside hint.
"Boy; what a sock!" tae panted.
"Well, now I guess we're both out of
a job. Yippee!"
Gary had promised Harvey Mason
to stay on the job till he returned,
and a promise was a promise. He'd
help Hickey clean, up. the area around.
the well, and in the meantime some-
thing might turn up—a, good job
"M'm," mused Bill. "Say, I for-
got to tell you what I came up here
for. Grice is on the job. I got my
orders to bring you on< down."
"I Can listen, But it won't dohim
any good."
Grice was a red-faced man with a
cold gray eye,
"Hear you're abandoning your
well," he said. "Money run out?" '
"We're abandoning drilling en Mr.
Mason's order's," Gary said. If
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You amt got no oil down there,
Hickey," said the swabber. "You
ain't even got yoti a good water well.
Well, that's the way she goes."
Adelaide began to cry. "We've
got to tell Dady" she said.
"We could wait till morning," said
Mona Lee.
"We can go on clown," Gary said
"But Mr, Mason's orders were very
definite. We've drilled to fifty-three
hundred feet .now—three hundred
farther than he instructed us to go."
Mona Lee turned to the crew on
the derrick floor. "You've 4111 worked
so hard—anti. 1 know you're disap-
pointed. to. I want you all to come
up to the house. Maria's frying
chickens and I want to give you a
good lunch."
"Mis' Mason, I .sure wish I could;
go on down there a ways farther."
Hickey argued. "I hate• to give up.
on a well'
"I know. We hate to give up,
too, but there's just nothing else to
do, 'I guess the Mason's will be start-
ing in again now—starting in with
nothing much, the way we did twenty-
five' years ago."
Gary stayed - at the well ali_ day,
watching the drill pipe being hauled
up; disconnected, and,piled in an somewhere.
orderly stack; Hickey sat on the 13111 carne to.say good -by:
ground with..a bucket of yellow He was
paint, off + to the Pecos River fek,
and every joint was dMed and scoured L11 be waitingly, yotn big'fel-
clean and treated to a coat of .paint low he said blandly, as lie departed.
to keep the threads from rusting. Ill nail down a bed for
"Well, we did our ;best, Malmo- with no corncobs. in you—one es.if
Gary said. " the gasless if
"And now I guess_T'1l possible -rand' I'll look the gals over•;
be on nny way—Mexico or some other they're sheep r'anch'es out there
place. So I may as well say good -by goats and Might evens all kinds of money.
find'
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Hickey held out Widows? aIwa Yon a rich widow,.
a paint -sheared ys. have a •weakness for
hand. "If you ever get .broke and curly hair.".
ain't got nowwhere to go, you know Adelaide had stood b ,
where I live."Y IBeeni r
Iron face cool and aloof,: "Be sure
"112u01r obliged, Hickey. L won't Bill, that she enjoys starvin
r 'et. B weird places," she .said nastily. in
forget. But I think I'll drift along
—farther.•. Gary felt a hot, savage sur
gra
Hsaw Bill grant. coning up the anger, but he kept .his control with
slope front the Grice-Morgan lease. difficulty, "1 don't want any wid-'
The three derricks wore up down °W,' he said, curtly. "I don't want
there now, and Bill would' be niov- —any woman."
nig on presently, too. Her eyes blazed at him, her lip
Heard about a job over in the curled. ''Did you ever see such a
Pccos country" B71I said, "Nice, -`rule'?" she asked,Bill, scornfully,
lonesome' country ;over there. So All right," Gary flared at.her.
. thought. ITn a mule! A mule has sense.
everything's bust, is it? I
He knows when he's licked. He
doesn't knock himself to pieces try-
ing to do the impossible—he just
quits, Now,_ if you'll excuse me,
I'll go out and clean up that slush
pit." He stalked away and he slid not
look back,
He worked till he ached with
weariness- and then, very late, he
went upstairs and threw himself
across his ,bed. But he • could not
slee'p. He jerked erect, later, when
someone tapped on his door and
Mona Lee called anxiously, "Gary?"
Be opened the door. .She was
standing there, and her eyes had an
odd, excited look in them, 1
"Gary, Mr. Hickey's,- downstairs.
He wants to talk about the, well—
and I don't know what to say. Yon
come, Gary." ,
Hickey sat in the living room,
looking strange and stiff in his Sun-
day clothes. Ile was turning his•
hat round and round in .his hands.
"Here's Gary,' Mr.. Hickey. Now,
you tell him what you've just told
me."•_
Hickey scratched his head. "I was
telling Mis' Mason here—looks like
a plump waste to pull the casing on
that well. Looks to Inc like we're
mighty near, dawn --did you take a
look at that stuff we was drilling
yesterday,"
"Yes, I looked at it. Sulphur in
"Yell, and where you got sulphur,
a lot of times you got oil. 1 figured
maybe we could shoot that well."
"But look here, Hickey — I haven't
any money .. .
"Yeah, I figured on that. But I
figured if you was to help me—kind
of take the responsibility and fix
things up with Mason—Pd buy the
stuff. As. the well stands to be a to-
tal Ioss the way it is now, I figured
maybe Mason would, be willing- to cut
us in, for say an eighth, and, if we
went ahead and fetched him in a pay-
ing Tvell."
"But you've got anhydrite down
there—and . shale—"
"I Irnow what i gat down there,
But lookit here, son, I was putting
down wells over to Burkburnett and
up in Smackover and all thein places,
when you wan running around, losing
the safety pins out of your three -
cornered pants. If Mis' Mason, here,
wants to make an agreement with us,
say an eighth for you and me..."
"I wouldn't rate any royalty, 'Hick-
ey. Not if you do the work and put
the money."
"You rate—or D don't," Hickey
said pulling his long lips grotesque-.
ly, We couldr maybe go ahead with
it before Mason got back. But I'd
want a paper drawn up -and Mis'
Mason, here, to sign it, It's just a
businesslike way to do."
"Of course," said Mona Lee, a
little breathlessiy. "What do you
think, Gary?"
"I think—well, I think `it's just a
wild chance. As Hickey says, there's
nothing to lose, anyway. But an
eighth is a pretty substantial royal-
ty.
"I wouldn't undertake it for no
less," Hickey insisted. "I reckon
Mason would 'rather pay an eighth
royalty and have him an oil' well -than
to pull that derrick down and listen
to all the people around telling him was a fool to spud in a wildcat on
his own, in the first place."
"Oh, he wouldl" said. Mona Lee.
"Gary, I'm going to do it. Harvey
left that power of attorney for me --
I can do it,"
The .excitement gripped Gary.
"You Write out a paper, son" Rick-
ey said, "if .Mis' Mason's agreeable.
Make it an agreement' between Mis'
Mason and Harvey and you and me,"
instructed Hickey when Gary was
ready to write. "And we want it'I
witnessed—two witnesses. It's got
to be a paper that will stand in law."
(TO BE CON'T'INUED)
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