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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1930-11-13, Page 2The gringo Privateer By PETER B. KYNE SYNOPSIS. Ii;enneth Burney adventurer and one- time gentleman, comes to Bradley.Bar din, !ring of the cattle country, for a job. Burney has had a fight with Martin Bruce, a rival cattle owner who has been stealing theking's stock, aided by Mi- guel Gallegos, a Mexican bandit. The king, liking young 'Burney, makes him general manager of the ranch on condi- tion that heputsBruce and Gallegos out of the way. Burney meets Bruce, who has sworn to kill him. They both'drahv their guns; but Burney outwitsthe wily old catle thief. Meanwhile Muriel Bardin; beautiful daughter of the king, becomes more In- terested in Burney than she cares to admit..- She triesto persuade her father not to let Burney tackle thecattle thieves, But Burney continues to lay his plans for the battle that is sure to come., .. CHAPTER XIV. • "You're developing too much inter- est in this young man, Muriel " "Well, I'll not have -you butting in on the rights of the general manager Of your social' department, Brad Bar - din, because the day you do, any ex- cuse for my further existence as the Bardin hostess will vanish and I'll be headed down the aisle with one of those ukelele -playing, wise -cracking, gilded young nincompoops in my social •set " "This," said the king, "is treason." "If`this be treason, make the most of it," she challenged. "You've intro- duced me to the realest man I've eves met and now you plan to keep me away from him. Haven't I any rights?" "This is 'all wrong," the king blus- tered. "If you please, Muriel, we'll not discuss the subject further. You may invite him if you please. I shall offer no objection and shall make hint welcome. But, I warn you he will not accept the invitation." "Why?". "Because he's as wise as a treeful of owls and knows his place. Be knows I'd fire him if he ne.epted. It would be presuming on grief acquaintance" "I've met him—and when I invite him he'll crone. Of course, as a mere rider he'd mount that fast horse of his and get out of the country before presuming so on brief acquaintanee. but as your general manager he'll feel he's stepped up a bit in the social world," "I'tn afraid you're right said the king, "Muriel, your interested in this Loy?" "Are you?" "Certainly." "Well?" "If you're not seriously interested, of Course—" "I ani seriously inters=ted—.ufi- n•iently so, at any rate. to do my best to prevent him from soiling his rather nice hands in human blood." "I'm all worn out,' the kin.r glow!- ed, and immediately rose end went to bed, In the realization that his Baugh• ter had eavesdropped an him he was profoundly irritated and disturbed. In a word, he felt like a tio7.eatIght ing eggs. El R .shite lied its own lighting system and a 111 -candle-power light burred over the entrance- the ranch office. Ken Burney se r:ho. th.r, :zgn desks urt!l ne felind a paaage thumb tacks. s.. e.::Fa e::- side and pcs-ed e - the f u rr.al etes.en epesietment ne ge:tel ' retired to Air: e sat dont en 71h,i--±r,r-Irrtr,e,ther. and drew' off _ i- - F,72' r time he sat there. .:.e var- ious aspects of ti:e Cro.rtptout which life had Executed ,r the past four day= when thele came e peremptory knock at cal:_.. o trance. Tien padded across in his b feet and found Tom Bie64.-e standing in the entrance. "Come in, Mr. Bledsoe," he leaned the riding boss cheerfully. "I've been anticipating a visit from you, but not quite so soon. I figured we'd have a conference in the horning, but since it's the mere shank of the evening now we'll fly at it." Bledsoe carie in and sat down on Made of pure mater- ials in modem sunlit factories. No expense spared to have it clean, wholesome and fullflavored. is wrapped and sealed to keep it as good as when it leaves the factory. WR'IGLEY's is bound to be the best that men and machines and money can make. The delicious peppermintt flavor freshens the mouth andaids digestion. °Pir'' ENJOYED BY MILLIONS 0Ki4 ISSUE No. 44—'30 draydon's desk. "I was settin' in front o' the bunkhouse, Mr. Burney, when I saw thee come into the office; then I saw thee ` cbme out an' tack somethin' on the bulletin board, so -1 drifted over to read what thee had tacked 'there. Then I made up my mind to call." "AndP resent to me your resigna- tion as riding boss, eh?" "Thee gets the mighty quick," Tom Bledsoe answered, "And I dispose of your resignation just as, quickly, Bledsoe. It's rejected. You're too good a man to leave the king's service and too old a man to go prowling around the sovereign state of New Mexico looking for ' another job. I doubt if you would find one as good as the one you wish to resign, and certainly you'll not find one with any decent future to it. So my orders to you are to withhold your resigna- tion for about sixty days. By that time I will have completed my tour of service as general manager and you can come over and tock a notice of your own on that bulletin board. How- ever, I'believe in liberty, and if you insist on resigning, I suppose I'll have to get new riding boss, but I warn you that, once you're out, you'll stay out." Tom Bledsoes dour face began to slip. Slowly a glad smile lighted it. "Thee means that, Mr. Burney?" "Certainly. Haven't you known the king long enough to knbw that he never explains. He acts. And haven't you known him long enoug,t to know he's just? He knows you're capable and that, by reason of long and faith- ful service, you have earned promo- tion. You are going to get it. He told me so tonight. I'm just here to plant Martin Bruce and Miguel Gal- legos beneath the cactus and grana grass, and as soon as that job is clone I'll be on my way, although I must inform you. Brothel Bledsoe, that if I desire to do so I can remain indefi- nitely, and you'll he moved off to man- age some small ranch of the king's." "I vent 210 small job an' I want no charity, Mr. Burne;'." "I understand. You wa et your rights and you figure El Ranchito part of them. At present, however, clean- ing up El'Ranehito so it will be en the raying basis it should be is a job that would be repugnant to you, and the king knows it. So I'm to clean it up for you and after that it will run along under your management, like a new red buggy." Tom Bledsoe held ort his hand. "1'm obliged to thee, young man." "Not at all." "Perhaps thee might need help on This ee sting job, sir, Burney?" "'Yes, til require some help. I;1 wart about thirty good men who can 41005 and aren't afraid to. They may have to do cdattle down in El Cajon Bonita. although I shall try to .avoid that. However. I shall have. to stake n demonstration." The Quaker's face? 1 ad set again, "I will and thee such men, Mr. Burney, an' I will go with thee—for war or dereett.aation. It is not sinful to protect that n-hieli is thine." Purney stared at the man. "Whose Bread I sat hi cont; I sing. eh?" Tom Bledsoe nodded. He was of oOld school-rf cowmen. His employ- er's jou t, -,;rows and perplexities `Fre his. too. ^E cr :eh to ride down into El Cajon B:nisa and clean out this Eruee r ibo r - action. Mr. Bledsoe"." •'I tell thee this. It would have been my i . t not at general manager." "How fortunate you and I have so q:i! gotten to an understanding. Mr. Bt .::(e." ..The gene :l manager calls me Ton Mr. Burnett.'' "Tani goes with ate. Where can you find me thirty good ,nen and true?" "They will be thine own sten, Mr. Burney. Old hands." "I understand Gallegos :.os not, as yet, clone anything openly overt; that he merely- looks dangerous. Do you know that he and his men brand our calves?" "How do y0U know?" "I can't prove it, but T find calves on that range with the ends of their tongues slit an' wearin' the Triangle B Morse," chance he does in El Cajon Bonita, where he is immuno from United States law." "The hyena! Who is Miguel Gal- legos?" "A half-breed Irishman. His mother was an Italian an' he became a. natur- alized citizen of Mexico. During the Madero rebellion he was a general an' more recently he's heroine a sort a' bandit, but claitnin' to be a patriot. He's the law in that part .of Mexico an' after eighteen year o' war an' riot, about all the Mexican Government can do is handle the tough ones an' leave the little ones alone until they get too bad. He's got the local federal officials buffaloed, an' they're sort o' 'caterin' to him in the hope he won't organize, a revolution again 'em. He does about what he pleases." "Has Mr. Graydon complained to the Mexican federal officials about him?„ "No, sir. Ain't had nothin' to com- plain about. Allwe got is suspicion. Martin Bruce don't own a hectare o' land in Mexico, but the king's got a sound title to El Cajon Bonita an' we figger Bruce wants it, an',has set Gal- legos up to Makin' things so uncom- fortable an' unprofitable there we'll pullout to save loss an' bloodshed; then Bruce'11 take it over an' range his catty on it. I wouldn't be sur- prised if Gallegos is his silent partner, dein' the dirty work for his share." (To be continued.) What New York h Wearing CHAPTER XV. "I have never had any experience heretofore with rustlers, Tom. Tongue - slitting is a new one on me. Why de they do it?" "So the calf can no longer suckle its mother an' will have to start rustlin' a livin' on grass right off," "Oil, I see. That means the calf will leave its mother and, of course, once it has done that, there is no way of identifying it as that cow's calf, To all intents and purposes it's a maver- ick, and the assumption is that the first pian who finds it is free to use his iron on it." Tom Bledsoe nodded, "Bad for the cow' udder to have her call forcibly weaned before dee time, Mr, ljurpey." "Are the sante tactics follle W eu on our cattle north of the line, Tom?" Bledsoe llotkied. "Not to such an extent, however. We can watch our BY ANNABELLE WORTHINGTON Illustrated Dressmaking Lesson Fur- nished With Every Pattern Youth adores a navy blue woolen dress with the fresh charm of a white crepe collar. To this captivating model a little white frill has been added. The kilted plaits of the skirt have been stitched to give a trim straight appearance. Stitching them flat also keeps them in place so they do not need constant pressing. Its so easily made and the saving well worth ir. It's very voguish in patterned wool crepe particularly in pin dots. Rayon novelties, jersey, wool challis prints, featherweight tweed and the heavier e'.ttcn fabrics are suitable. Style Ns. 2698 niay be had in sizes 8, 10, 12 and 14 years. 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I must be slient, here ..., there is no word So weightless and so golden but would break This haunted dream in which no sound is heard, This golden sleeping that must never wake ' Till the last leaf has faltered to the Iground With something less .. and morel ,than any sound. -David Morton, cattle closer an Bruce daren't take the' Use Minard's Liniment for Toothache. Swordfish Game To- the List Gasp A Graphic Description of the Pursuit of Wary Fighter of the Ocean A lightning -quick hinge of the strong, barbed spear—a, writhing, swirling flash cf lustrous blue just beneath the Barked blue surface of the ocean—a lusty shout of "Got him!"— a square, sure bit -and for the rugged striker's prize, '',giant swordfish, nine feet from sham point of sword to tip of quivering tail -fin! '• Sucks is the thrill of the pursuit of the succulent swordfish off,.Block Is- land, as .described in the Hartford "Courant." A eporter went sailing with Capt. Jack Millikin and • Wilfred Pollard, the striker, on the sturdy Helene M. He, listened to their tales and watched them playing with and hauling in the catch. With a; harpoon deeply embedded in his flesh, we read, "the stricken mon- star darts away, finning with racing- car swiftness." Thereaft,.r: Swimming, twisting. thrashing mad- ly, he strives framically to tear him- self free ofthe biting iron spear point. He cuts along the surface of the waves; he dives -or the bottom of the sea; but the harpoon and the harpoon rope hold tightly and the bulky keg, floating a, the other end of 300 feet of hemp, hampers and exhausts him. "The fishermen -watch hiss go. Not a move to stop him. They know he hasn't one.chance in a hundred of liv- ing more than an hour longer. Give hint his last desperate frolic with the waves—when he has spent his last strength in vicious, vain surges, he will be hauled aboard with less danger tc man and vessel from tossing bulk and three-foot rapier." Most of the day, however, the thrill- hunting reporter had to forego such exciting scenes, and take his adventure at second hand, in the form of stirring tales of swordfish catches of the past. c was a day when the fish were keep- ing themselves out of sight, as, indeed, they have been doing to a decided ex- tent this season. But, suddenly, at about two o'clock in the afternoon something happened, an which we read: On deck, no one knows just what is going on; all that is evident is that the schooner's course has been changes, the engine slowed, and that all three of the lookout men are peering to port. No commotion, no shout of "look, over there." But Ernest Pollard :las spot- ted a fish, finning leisurely and nim lessly, 300 yards away. The next move -strongly indicative of approaching excitement—Wilfred does a "wire act," with an agility worthy of a big -top acrobat. In 0 twinkling he slides down the wire from the masthead to its end halfway out on the pulpit plank. A step and he is on the platform, the harpoon unbound and poised, the thrower leaning over the iron railing, awaiting the exact instafit for the $50 thrust! Tense and ready he stands. The bow slowly swings around. Now, for just a fraction of a second, the pulpit, bobbing twelve feet above the water, i. exactly over the great fish. The thrust --a short powerful stroke downward, shoving the dart sharply through the scales and into the flesh of the fish, swimming tree feet below t'ie surface! • Frantic, desperate—the great fish, luminous blue in a frame of white as churns the water, twists and whirls and darts off. "Got him!" the shout goes up with enthusiasm. "He was on the move, so I couldn't hit him quite square; but I guess it'll stay in," from Wilfred, relaxing after the tense moment. All in the day's work for him, but, exciting, and hard on the nerve and muscle, all the sante. "What a swell shot—•that was just great," acclaimed the thrilled city boys, The fish is out of sight, "perhaps on his way to the bottom of the ocean, but the harpoon rope is strongly tied to the dart, and the clumsy keg re- stricts the swordfish's death dashes. The keg bobs around on the sea, and we know that the fish is down there, somewhere, but aside from that we forget him for the moment. Reading on: The engine sounds again, the look- out posts are manned, and the Helene M. cruises for nearly halfan hour. If there was one swordfish in the vi- cinity, why not another? But no more are seen, and tate craft circles back to the. keg. There is elation aboard as the keg is picked up and as Wilfred begins to play the fish. He hauls in a dozen feet of line and then feels half of it slip back through his hands as the fish displays reluctance aplenty. Thus it goes for fifteen minutes, with the man gaining on the lisle and the coiling twenty feet of rope for every ten that he yields. Finally the sword breaks the sur - Salada Orange Pekoe .bas by far the finest flavour 'V Ili ORANGE PEKOE LEM 'Fresh from the gardens' 749 face. The captain sinks a boathook into the twisting body. With a butcher knife mounted at the end of an oar he slashes at a vital spot. A cloud of blood darkens' a square of water; thus is fish vitality sapped and the task of cleaning made easier. A fluke -rope is slipped around the body, the tail fins holding it in place. The hoist turns, the rope tightens and the fish rises, shimmering, twisting, splashing. Tail first and sword last, he leaves his blue ocean home forever, to flop ignominiously on deck. It's all over, and time enough for a few appraising glances at the catch before returning to the hunt. "A good fish," the captain observes, summing up , a ` paragraph in three words. A finefish in fact, three feet of sword and six feet of ash! And round and fat, round as a beer barrel. and fat as a corn -fed pig! 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He calls it • "The Tale of the Baited Haversack." The device was used by Lord Allen- by in October, 1917,' to _'deceive the Turks. "By successful surprise, Sir George writes, "a very strong . position, vitally important for fur - that operations, was taken with trif- ling loss,,' In the Summer of 1917 the Turks were strongly entrenched in a posi- tion that extended from Gaza, on the Mediterranean Sea, inland about thirty miles to Beersheba. Allenby's (rent extended from the coast oppo site to Gaza for a' distance inland of about', twenty-two miles to a place called Gamli. Surprise Deemed Essential "Allenby decided that surprise was essential to. avoid the .holocaust • of slaughter, with uncertain results," Sir George writes, "which would have been involved by undertaking anoth- er big and decisive 'attack upon the barbed-wire entanglements and ela borate defences of the Gaza sector.. If, by any possibility, the Turkish left flank could be turned, the' Gaza defenses would' perforce be evacuat- ed. "This was Allenby's plan: An at- tack would be made upon Gaza sup- ported by a bombardment from the sea to deceive the enemy. On the other, decisive, flank (inland), Beer- sheba would first be, taken by sur- prise and then, helper by the walls. et Beersheba, the troops for the main. attach could assemble on the high ground north anis northwest or the place. 'Secrecy first' was the motto. 'While secrecy meant almost certain success, discovery might mean costly failure.". An official of the intelligence de- partment, to whom Sir George gives the name of "Mannsring," was called in. Oct. 31 was to be the fateful day for the surprise attack upon Beershe- ba. The object wile to convey two• misleading impressions to the Turks. One of these was that there would be no serious attack until late in Novem- ber and the other was that the attack, when it did come, would be made• against the Gaza position on the ex- treme left. Sent Misleading Messages "September was spent in creating. an atmosphere by various methods,. such as sending misleading messages which the Turks, by various ruses, had been tapght how to solve,•with- out realizing the -situation. Sc,, yale able were these disclosures believed to be that one •of the Turkish wire less receiving stations was specially allotted the task of listening -In on the, British wave -length so that nothing should be missed." "Manneriug" decided to deceive the. Turks by losing a specially baited haversack under such conditions that would avert all suspicion of a ruse. In deciding upon the nature ofthe• bait, the impression that was likely to be conveyed upon the Germanll and Turkish minds was the main point. To avert suspicion that the saok had been lost purposely, five twenty - pound, notes were placed in a note- book which went into the sack. The notebook was a certain "army form," and contained abundant evidence that it was the property of a staff officer serving at Allenby's general head- quarters. It was . a genuine note- book, with plenty of old entries of interest '(though none of value) to. 'the enemy, but the latest entries and enclosures were calculated to mis- lead. The next thing' put into the. bag had an intimate .human touch.. It was a faked letter to a husband from his wife in England reporting the arrival et a first-born son. It. was calculated the Turks would be- lieve that no man would part willing- ly with such a letter. Chased by Turkish Patrol Then into the sack went the y4tat.• military material which was designed to deceive the Turks as to the com- ing movements of the British. These, consisted of letters, general orders. and maps. On Oct. 10 "Mannering" adiied a parcel containing luncheon to the contents of the baited haver- sack, mounted his horse and rode off into No Man's Land.' Zoon he encountered a Turkish mounted patrol, which gave chase., Mannering fled, loosening` the straps of Itis baited haversack, his field glasses, waterbottle, and rifle, which he had first smeared with fresh blood. The Turks recovered the baited sack and were deceived by its con- tents,. Sir George relates. Work on the Turkish trenches at the point where the British intended attacking began to slacken and troops were concentrated at the wrong point to. meet the attack. As a consequence, Sir George relates, the Tnrlcs at Beer- sheba were taken by sitrpl'ise. This success by the British, be says, laid open the left flank of the main Turk- , lsh. position for a decisive blow by the British. The British military success continued and on the follow ing Dec. 9 Jerusalem was stli'rendel- ed.