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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1931-01-29, Page 6TLyis ADge Pekoe tea costs less thaw the s ORANGE PEKOE BLEND TLA 'Fresh from t garden 280 r I. The gringo privateer By PETER B. KYNE .. ' By PETER B. KYNE SYNOPSIS. Burney is given the general man- agership of Bradley Bardin's ranch, pro- vi,ting he rids Bardin of Markin Bruce and Migu I Gallegos, cattle thieves. Who have been stealing Bardin's cattle. Ken and thirty picked men meet Gallegos and his band of two hundred Mexicans and decisively defeats. them. Muriel Bardin falls in love with Ken and tries to per- suade het. father to stop him. from under- taking h' hazardous adventure, but Ken goes ahead with his plans and agrees *o •t Martin Bruce in El Cajon Bonita. Bruce will have the assistance of Gal- egos,but Burney iS not deterred. CHAPTER XXVIII. "It was wrong of you to suggest the enteryrise to him," the girl quavered. "And' now, if he's killed, the memory of it will always be, between us." To hide his discomfort and eontri- t•on His Majesty elected to pretend ar.ger. "Why should it?" he charged. "He wouldn't be the first man to .e killed in my employ in the discharge o: his duty; the men on my payroll may not select the peanuts and leave the hard walnuts to somebody else. pay accordingly." "But he's .such a splendid young man to be asked to risk his life to save you some more filthy dollars. As :r you haven't got more money now thin you know what to do with." "It isn't the money. Money means nothing to me. Forty years ago I started playing a game and now the game is playing ole. I can't let go. 1 have many mouths to feed and my honor is at stake. Twenty years ago I would have washed my own dirty linen in El Cajon Bonita, but now that I'm old I have to hire it done. I tell you, Muriel, I'd rather lose every dollar I have an start in all over again with tubercular scrub cattle, leased land and outlaw horses than take order:, from two crooks and pretend I like it." "I can understand that. Dad, but oh, it does seem too terrible to send a man like Ken Burney to do the job!" "My dear," the king sighed, "I've got to rend him. He's the only man I've been able to find with any relish for the job and the only man I think who steads a chance of putting it over. It would be murder to send anybody else." "The only capital he has is his life and you're asking hint to invest that in your bushiest, It isn't fail;? The k,ng realized he had to be rough with her. "What the devil causes you to think so well of this wandering troubadour?" he roared. "He's a man. A' first 1 suspected— almost believed—that he was all an the surface—a cheap movie -actor -hero type, se I did not hesitate to high -hat him. But after he showed me I eouldn't walk on hint and get away with it—when '. realized he wasn't the sort of man who would admit en error he hadn't committed to tickle the van- ity of a capricioue woman—the sort of Man who would never be a door -mat well, I just couldn't help comparing him with other young men I know, "No girl with a sense of fairness could "^i-' neereciating his many qualities. And after he mopped up El Cajon Bonita with that odious Miguel Gallegos I knew he was real. There are so few real men in the world— and besides, he's such gorgeous com- pany. Really, Dad, he's quite an, old= fashioned gentleman. You just know he isn't. the type that thinks that every girl that looks at him is' his slave." "Oh, my great .patience, Muriel. First you couldn't bear the thought of him having human blood on his hands and yet the minute he admits having knocked off eight men you cheer for him." "That was a fair and open fight, in self-defence, with the odds seven to one against him." She mopped her eyes, led him to a big overstuffed chair, made him sit down and then sat down on his lap with her arra around his peek. She was smiling whimsically now through a film of tears. "I hive a report of Ken Burney, Dad," she confessed. "The devil you have. Where'd you . get it?" "I wired your general counsel to proame it for me. He did." "Oh, Lord," the king demanded, "why weren't you .barn a boy? I'd (retire and make you president of the Bardin Land and Cattle Company to narrow if you had been. What's the 'report?" "Kenneth Burney is thirty-two years old, son of Felix Ortego Peralta i Burney and Margaret McConnell-- ' dash of Irish or Scotch in him, yeµ see. Graduate of Tres Pinos High School with three years in Santa Clara Uni- versity, when: he never had a high mark and never failed to pass a course. He was a member of the glee club and did well in college dramatics, with a leaning toward burlesque. "When the Lusitania was sunk and we :ailed to declare war he decided to declare it himself, so he went to England and enlisted in a cavalry regimei.t, the Berks Yeomanry. He served during 1.915 and 1916 in France and 'then his regiment was sent to Egypt. He served in Egypt and Pal- estine until the end of the war, was wounded twice, has twQ medals Q£ serfs, and between battles learned to play polo on the desert sands. Return- ed to his father's ranch after the war and raised polo ponies and trained them and played polo at Santa Bar- bara and Del Monte. "He has already informed us that he went into vaudeville to reimburse his father for a note the latter had endorsed for him; when that was paid he quit vaudeville; then you teak his father's cattle; his father hail to lease the ranch and Ken made up his mind there wasn't anything else to do ex- cept follow the line of business he loved best the cattle business. So here he is," "What ro you deduce from all this?" the kine queried warily. Ile was be - �Y�\�\p \\\� \\\\ rte . •,' .��1`\� ,�\ \ ewe, Pure, crisp, light, flaky and -always FRESH ginning; to have a new respect for his daughter's intelligence and adroitness. "Well, he's bred right. to begin with. His original Spanish ancestor arrived with Don Gaspar De Poitola in 16?0 and there isn't the faintest taint of aboriginal blood in his veins. The familyrecord on both tides ,appears to be clean. There is no history ,of feoble minded, moronic, physieally weak, in- sane or criminal individuals in his tribe. That is very important. He was not a brilliant,boy in school, but be made good. .r Has it ever occurred to you that the honor men in college are seldom heard of in after life?" "I never pinned my faith in one of the meteoric brand. They learn 'quick. ly and easily ant: forget the same way," the king agreed, "Give me the steady, safe, conservative fellow wbq makes a good general average. He improves with .tge and experience:" "Then you'll adlit," the princess continued, "that if courage and in- telligence constitute, as Plato remark- ed, a man's real virtue—" "I agree with you Ken Burney's got that sort of virtue. Go on." "He is industrieus, he is honest, for he paid hi' note in sorrow, doing some- thing he loathed; he is independent, fiercely :proud, but not, I think, the. possessor of more than sufficient ego to make him normal and mentally healthy. One must have some ego to stimulate ambition." "He has plenty, my dear. His ego is in direct ratio with his ambition." "He has nice manners and they are instinctive -as niuch a part of hint as his black hair and sooty eyes. He would be kind and courteous and graceful even ii his parents had not insisted that he should develop those social attributes." • "Correct, Muriel. Go on." "He has a gorgeous sense of humor, even if at times it is grins and deadly. It, pleases hint to give the other fellow big and little casino, cards and spades and he four aces, in order that he, Ken Burney, may conquer him with the sweeps. I think that indicates a touch of knight-errantry. Yes, I'm sure he is chivalrous. There is no- thing.borrowed in his wit; he makes no modern wise -cracks, and he is never so humorous as when he is in deadly earnest." "That's the .ouch of Celt in him, my dear. The Irish have a reputation for being drell, but as a matter of fact they are the most serious and sad race on earth. When thee are funny they rarely know it." "You've got to admit he's tremen- dously good-looking, Dad, and not in a pretty way, either. He's masculine." "Well?" "He's my ideal of a husband, dari- ing "But he hasn't one nickel to rub against another—and until he is his own man—" "Rubbish. There's enough money in the Bardin family for three, isn't there? You could make hien an exe- cutive of the company and give him a good salary. I'm sure he'd earn it." "Muriel, don't dissemble with your old man. Are you in love with this young fellow?" "Yes, I ani. I never dreamed I'd be so unmaidanly as to admit it, but I have to, otherwise my chances are terribly slim. I've got to have you to pinch-hit for hie, darling. Come now, Pop, don't dissemble with The. Don't you think he'd make you a won- derful son-in-law?" "Honey," said the king sadly, "I see I've got to give it to you between the eyes: You've got to forget Ken Bur- ney, and the reason is, there's another girl in his life. He told me all about her. The desire to harry her has fired hint with ambition to be his own man and—" "Is he engaged to her, Dad?" "No, not yet. In fact, he told me he had not even asked her, nor will he until he has something tangible to offer her." "Well, of course," said the princess, "I wouldn't be a poacher, but as you present the cast it's a fair field, so I'm not going to be down hearted. You never wanted anything you didn't reach for, did you, Dad. Suppose I' do get my knuckles rapped? I can assimilate defeat, but I'll not acknowl- edge it until I've fought myself out," (To be continued.) Dawn When clouds loom black we're apt to' think The sky has lost its blue, That rising suns no more will drink The morn's translucent dew— And Suddenly, from some slight chink, Tlie sun comes shining through. When troubles follow thick and fast We fancy joy has fled, That all the pleasures of the past I Are lying cold and dead— And suddenly, the sky o'ercast, The dawnlight blossoms red. When failure, fills the heart with fears, And makes all morrows dark, Too apt are we, through blinding tears, But hopeless gloom to mark But suddenly the sun appears And upward springs the lark. A.B.O. Try this delightful` Next timeyou•re entertaining, try this delightful Tea .Menu, suggested' by Miss McFarlane, Dietitian of St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto. 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