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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1943-12-02, Page 60 annus for flavour since 1892 the 'Salado' name assures you a uniform blend of quality teas. CHAPTER VI At the end of the short street the sage began, mingled with patches of range grass. Hooker struck a trail that ran outside the bottleneck of the valley and wound upward toward the mesas. For half an hour the two rode in silence. Hooker now and again reining in to drink from a bottle that he carried in his saddle pocket. Invariably he tendered the bottle to Dave first, but Dave declined it. They had reached the lower mesas and the upper mesas. The sage had given place to a thin scrub. Looking back, Dave could see the whole valley stretched out beneath him, and Mescal a mere blur on the landscape, far below. He spoke for the first time. W * * "Seems to me pardner, you got mighty poor grazin' up here," he said, "Looks like a self-re- apectin' cow would have a hard seratchin' for to make a livin'." Hooker swayed in the saddle, leered at him as he rode closer. "I've only got one cote, Dave," he answered, "and a rundown ranch." "Different when my wife liv- ed," he said. "She stuck to me. But she died three years ago, and since then I haven't cared much about anything excepting —well, let's be getting home." Just visible at the edge of the brush was a small cabin, with a wisp of smoke eddying upward from a stovepipe chimney. The little place was a mere shack, and looked utterly forlorn, "Well, we're home, Dave.," said Hooker. "Here's where we hang our hats under our hos- pitable rooftree." He took the lead, swaying from side to side in his saddle as NEW RICHES from famous 8 famous Cobalt mines now under the single central- ized control of 8llanco Mining & Smelting Comm, ation. An effic- ient profit-making mill. Now In pro- duction and mak- ing money. Read the amazing Story why present offer of shares at only 11.00 represents rare speculative Opportunity f o r today's investor. No obligation. 0. E. Hepburn & Co., 45 Richmond 80. Wont, Toronto 1 inform- ation about Sild me nneo Mining &f Smelt- ing Corporation. NAME ADORES he grossed the strip of green. The horses, wild -looking bronco, scattered, snorting. And then, Dave saw something that momen- tarily brought his heart into his throat. * w * For in front of the door, stand- ing with neither bridle, saddle, nor halter, was Black Dawn,. Old Hooker shouted, and the door of the cabin opened, The gill, Lois; stood in the entrance, a frying -pan in one hand, and her arms white with flour to the elbows, "Howdy, Lois!" Hooker bawl- ed. "I've got some news for you. I've brought me back a partner, named Dave Bruce, and the inter- est on the mortgage is paid, He's going in with us, fifty-fifty. Come and shake hands with our new partner, Lois!" Dave clap- ped knees on his horse's flanks and rode quickly up. Lois was staring at him with dimay and anger on her face. He slipped to the ground and moved forward, but she made no response to his approach. "So you've come back!" she said in tones of Litter auger, "I told you never to cross my !lath again. What have you come for?" "Why, I told you, Lois he's gone into partnership with tyle—" Hooker began. "I don't believe it. You San take this man back where you found hin,, and when you've done so, I'll come back and talk to you. Till then you needn't expect to see me again!" "But Lois—" protested Hook- er, # * * Ignoring the old man's shrill vociferations, the girl vaulted upon Black Dawn's back and clapped her knees to his sides, Ha started at a swift lope along the mesa, followed by the whole Lerd of bronco, and in a few moments they were lost to sight in the scrub. There were two rooms in the cabin, and a tiny kitchen, with a sink and a flow of water from a strewn above. There was a bunt_ in either room, a table and two chairs, a few pathetic touches of a woman's untrained hands, such as the chintz curtains at the windows, two cheap rugs, and several pots of wild flowers blos- oming in tin cans at the win- dows. In the larger room, into which Hooker had staggered, there was something that bore out the old man's boast of his past, in the shape of a bookcase containing some three dozen tattered books. Dave glanced at them and saw that they were plainly historical volumes. r * * Hooker saw him looking at them and came staggering up. "Queer tricks life plays," he hiccoughed. "You wouldn't be- lieve I used to be a professor of ancient languages, would you? And now I'm just •.n old bum. A pest, as that Lonergan called n:." "You'd best lie down and sleep. Mr. Hooker," said Dave. In spite of the incongruous old figure, he couldn't help feeling both respect and pity for it. "Lie down, and I'll see about rustling up a meal. How about your daughter? She won't come to no harm, will she?" "She's all right," hiccoughed Hooker. "Nobody around these parts would dare to touch her. They're plumb scared of her. She's got them wild broncs so I •�'i tO. Co .�Qu �vr:2 �` aF1F 'MOST i013A( 00 ��e eettete*�\o���\\\\\�\\\� THEY FLIRT WITH DANGER Another "man's job" gives way to the ladies, as the trine trim above takes over test pilot jobs for Grumman aircraft. They make pre -combat tests of high-speed Navy Hellcats and Avenger torpedo bombers. they'll eat out of her hand. Grew up with thele, running wild on the mesas. "I did all I could to educate her. I knew I hadn't long to live, and I wanted to help her, so that she could go out into the world and make her living. But the country's got her. She's a half - tamed thing, and sometimes I'm plumb seared of her myself." "Why- didn't you quit this mesa and take her to a city?" asked Dave. * * W He grasped Dave by the sleeve. "I've done my best by her, but she's not my daughter. Unner- stand that?? 1'll tell you — fl1050—" Sleep overcame Hooker even as he stood talking. His tali frame swayed. Dave caught hila and, carrying him to the bunk, laid • hint down. .Night fell, and Lois had not returned. Ilow Iong• did the girl intend to stay• away? When Hook- er was sobered up, Dave meant to thresh !natters out with him, and come to an understanding with Lois. Suddenly he realized that he was dog-tired after the exertions of the day. He went into Hooker's room and spread his blanket on the floor, making a pillow of his coat and slick- er. In a moment he was sound asleep. . * * Hooker was awake and stum- bling about the room, mattering to himself. Dave started up, sleep still in his eyes. "Hold on, pardner," he called. "Don't go treadin' en me." He heard the heavy body lurch against the cabin well "Who are you? What are you doing here?" called Hooker. ".fust take it easy, Hooker, I'm your pardner, Dave Bruce. Maybe you don't remember sign - in' up with me." Dave turned up the wick of the lamp that he lad set on a shelf beside the open door. He could see that LLis' bunk was empty. Hooker was leaning against the wall beside the little window, breathing heavily, and staring at hint. Outside it was pitch dark, but a glance at the clock showed Dave that it was within an hour and a half of sunrise. Hooker :,tared at Dave in the light of the lamp and passed his hand across his forehead. "Yes, I remember," he sail thickly. "I was dreaming. Where's Lois?" "Slue ain't cotyle in." (To Be Continued) It's The German People Who Spit Telling of their experiences while prisoner in Germany, American soldiers relate how the German people spit on and stoned Allied fliers captured after para- chuting to earth in enemy terri- tory from their disabled planes. These are the people we are fight- ing. The atrocities and cruelties practiced in Nazi prison camps Lan be laid to officials. The spit- ting and the stoning were the work of the conuncn folk of Ger- many. Such instances should not be necessary to convince anyone that we are fighting all of Ger- many, and not merely a party or a clique. But the stories should be valuable in straightening out the thinking of those who still cling to the belief that the rank and file of the German people are merely pawns of Hitler, more to be pitied than censured. —Windsor Star. Britain Bears Bulk Of Empire Burden The United Iinigdonl hears the bulk of the cost of defence of the Colonial Empire; these terri- tories pay only a little more than they did in peacetime, which was generally under five per cent. of their total budgets, Britain gives financial help on a large scale for India's defence, to the extent of millions of pounds sterling, and bears the cost of India's troops abroad. It would seem from these patent facts that the burden of empire is borne largely by Great Britain.—Montreal Gazette. 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