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g, HELEN TOPPING MILLER
CHAPTER X111
The sun grew hot and Hickey
shot down his gear often to. oil ep,
But nights were still cool, and the
steamy. mist drifted over the slush
pit, spewed out endlessly, bringing •
upfrom the earth. thegrist of the
' drill. But still the rotary turned
and the bit went down and Hickey
kept on grinning.
Eight hundred feet and a steamy
morning, and Gary looked up to see
a hairy figure leaning against the
tool box. A roughneck eased his
itching nose with the back of his
fist, : and spat. "Yonder's old
Hughey, he said. "We're going to
get oil."
Gary walked over to the old man.
'Hello, Mr Gothergill. Colne out
to, see us bring in this dry hole?" •
"I smelled her," Old Hughey
scratched himself in several places.
"I can smell a drill ten miles off.
What you got over yonder in that
pit?"
Rock cutting. Limns, mostly."
"Yeah, I know. And you can
drill her. to Chink' and all you'll
git is lihmeand salt water. • I been
following oil all over this country
for fifty years. Reckon Harvey Ma --
son is fixin' to lose about -ever'-
thing he's got on this here wild -
"I guess he's not worrying."
At dusk old Hughey disappeared,
after borrowing another quarter.
But the nett day, early, he was
there again and Hickey growled
when he saw him. "Mason had
ought to run that old bum off," he
grumbled. "He's' bad luck.
But old Hughey only sat quietly
under a tree, taking out his plug
tobacco now and then to whittle
on it. Gary, feeling vaguely sorry
for the 'old man, begged a couple
of slices of bread and a chicken leg
from MMaria for Hughey. Hughey
accepted them with lofty grace,
but Gary did not linger.
Gary had heard voices in the
1011111, Mason living room—voices raised
a little too loudly: Harvey's voice--
and
oice—and another that he knew belonged
to Oliver Kimball.
He went back, intending not to
intrude unless he should he sum-
moned, but in the back hall Mona
Lee caught at his sleeve and drew
him aside. "It's Oliver," sh4 whis-
pered, pale with a desperate kind
of excitement. "He came exit and
brought some big Olt man with; him.
They're arguing in there, and Har-
vey's beginning to get mad. I lis-
tened upstairs. I want you to go
in, Gary. I'm going to speak to
Harvey."
CHAPTER XIV
"Please, Mrs. Mason—"
But she had walked away gtuick-
ly to the living room door. "Har-
vey, Gary's here if you want him,"
she said.
Harvey got to Isis feet, and his
face was red "Come on in here,
Gary. You know Oliver -and this
is Mr. Paterson—Tallman's bossing
this oil job for me."
Paterson was a type he knew.
Suave, lawyer turned salesman.
I don't think you need any out-
side help to get at the bottom of
this proposition, Harvey," Oliver
said. You're not going tot lose a
cent.by accepting Paterson's propo-
sition. On the other hand,: you stand
to lose plenty if you refuse to,lis-
"Mind stating the proposition?"
Gary asked politely.
Oliver bristled a little. "I. don't
see why we should. We've made it
perfectly clear to Harvey."
"Perhaps 1 can stake it plain in
a few words, Mr. Tallman." Pater-
son was blandly agreeable. " I hap-
pen to represent the people who
own the refinery ,nearest to Mr.
Mason's project, We don't at this
time wish to buy any more- oil.
However, the people I represent
are willing to take over the lease
on thisproperty—mineral rights
only, you understand—and (told it
for future development."
*
"You figured this out, did you?"
Gary said to Oliver, smiling coolly.
"Very clever job." •
"It's a holdup; I don't care who
figured it out!" Shouted I-Iarvey.
"You're quite certain then, Mr.
Mason, that you don't wish to pro-
tect yourself by coming in with us?"
Paterson rose. "Your well is only
Spudded in now. Plenty -of trouble
can happen before you hit the sand.
We dould save you from all that,
you know."
"I can save myself," snapped
Harvey, "'Good -day, gentlemen."
"They aren't telling all they
know," Gary said when Oliver's
car had backed viciously out of the
drive. "Somehting's stirring—and
may not be pretty."
Very, early next morning. Gary
saw the man in the brown suit
walking across the field. ''Ouch!"
he said to Hickey. -"I knew it.
Here it conies." -
"That feller?" drawled Hickey.
"He's a lawyer. Slide Ellis, from
up in town,"
"Might as well slog along down
there and see what he wants."
Harvey and the lawyer walked
toward the 'house, and Gary went
back to the slush pit, but unease
made him prickly. He went to the
house an hour later, heard loud
voices barking at each other in the
living room, and slipped upstairs -
unobtrusively,
* * *.
He heard the front door close
while he was shaving, and then -
the sharpslamof the back door as
Harvey went out. Then Ellis' car
went snarling out of the drive and
when Gary went down again, Mona
• Lee was lingering in the hall.
"Gary, Slide Ellis was here," she
began at once, "There's some kind
of trouble. 1 couldl hear from up-
sairs--part of it. It's something
about this place."
'Timis place? But you own it.
;You've owned it for years."
"We haven't owned all of it for
years. \Ve started with this hun-
dred acres along the road and year
by year we bought more. Harvey
traded for some of it and then he
bought up some mortgages and
foreclosed when he knew the people
didn't have any intention of paying
then off."
"Don't worry till you have toP 11
it's serious, we'll hear•about it soon
enough—and until then we won't
worry." Gary gave her a filial hug.
"You're a big comfort, Gary,"
she sighed.
*• * *
Gary went back tot the derrick,
found Harvey standing there glar-
ing at it.
Well, it's begun," he snapped.
"That was Slide Ellis. He says he's
going to get out an injunction to.
keep me from putting down this
well. It's al s cdolcid-up nese, and
01 Kimball's at theb ottom of it. I
recut out -he'd been to considerable
expense, .travelling around,: seeing
r the big oil fellows."
"Just how is this fellow Ellis go-
ing about stopping you on this
well?" Gary asked. -
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"He thinks he's turned up a flaw
in this title -title to, that •piece of
pasture out there that I •bought.
from Elihu Plummer, lack in '2S.
Slide says he represents one of
Plimniter's minor heirs."
, Hickey, who had sidled nearer
and was frankly listening, spat disc
gustedly. "I-Iow could old man
Plummer have a minor heir? he
demanded. "Plummer wasn't nev-
er married to nobody.'.'
"Slide Ellis clainss, there's a boy
seventeen years old that he can
prove was Elihu's son—and that the
boy's property rights in this land
were violated when Elihu sold out
to ate."
* * *
"A holdup," said Gary. "Old
stuff, But he may be able to . get
an injunction, you know."
"I won't compromise witha low
heel like Slide Ellis—nor with that
crummy son-in-law of amine, either.
I'm going ahead with this well, if.
I have to fight the whole state of
Texas to do it."
"I'd advise you to see your own
lawyer, at any rate," Gary said.
Fll go and see him the first
thing in the morning. And I'll let
those birds know they're in a fight"
"The thing to clo now," Gary told
Hickey, "is to rush this well down
as fast as we can, - safely, before
somebody conies along to stop us."
"O'K, young feller," Hickey said:
"We'll jam her down till they cone
out with the papers."
Gary stayed out late that night,
watching the drilling, and Adelaide
came out with a flashlight and
perched on the tool box, watch-
ing too. Gary went and leaned on
the box beside h -r. "Lord, I wish
she was down," he said.
(To be continued)
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By
Gwendoline P. Clarke
of UNGER FARM • • • •
Officially, this is the last day of
tl a year. But there is a fly around
here that thinks it is the first day
of Spring. He's a noisy little beast,
hopping around under the lamp
shade. "You had better look out,
young fellow, or first thing you
know you'll get a dose of D.D.T."
1 suppose I should give him a dose
anyway but it hardly seems worth-
while hunting the spray -gun for
just one fly. Or is it? Supposing I
let that one fly live will its pro-
gency run into the hundreds' or
thousands? Does anyone I. -now?
However, I am not really worried
-thanks to D.D.T. Come to think
of it, 'one night almost call the re-
lease of D.D.T. one of the high-
lights of 1045,
* * *
19499—what a year! Do you re-
member the snow last winter ,
and the rain last spring Remem-
ber \ 1. Day .•, V.J. Day .. and
after than the boys coining hone?
Do you remember how glad they,
were to be home, and how confi-
dent that a grateful peo le and.
government would give thein a
square deal?
(Thank gpodnes's—Partener has
killed that fly Now that's a funny
thing—I never even thought of
swatting it.)
And now let's take a look .at
what 1040 has in store for us—or
at least what some folk think is in
store.
There is the weather, for in-
stance. We are supposed to have
a colder winter and more snow
than last year. The summer and
spring are to be wetter and cooler
-all that because we are at the
tail end of an eleven year weather
cycle.
FIowever, prophets are like doc-
tors -they don't always agree with
one another. So 1 guess we can
leave the weather to look after it-
self, take what conies and irnake
the best of it. -
rind then last Sunday we were
listening to two religious broad-
casts—one right after the other.
(It wasn't nearly so slippery list-
ening to the radio as it would have
been walking ordriving to
c:hureh). The first speaker said he
was sure this country was in for a
period of .prosperity such as the
world had never known. The
second reminded us of time fallacy
of `crying- peace, when there is no
peace , that in some quarters there
were already 'rumours of a third
great -war•, that the set-up of a
world wide government was doom-
oci to failure and that the Bretton
Woods agreement would prove to
Ix a wash-out
Farm and industrial reports etre
also contradictory, We have' been
tole. there `will be, •a steady market
for fanis products for the next five
years; but then it is also runmonred
that there is bound to be a revision
' o1 time present -subsidy systems. • I
expect a lot of people have forgot-
ten that the government is. paying-
salbsidy of two cents a quart :on
very quart of 'silk that is sold.
1-lcw long will that be continued,
and if it is removed wimat will hap-,
pen—will the milk go top iri. price
'
or will farmers have to take the
loss? I don't know the answer -
only the powers that be in Otta va
can tell us that -and I doubt very
mach if they know either.
* * *
In trade circles various controls
have been lifted but ceilings still
remain in effect which means
manufacturers will not bother
making a cheap line of goods be-
cause there is too little profit. It
pays them better to make higher
f.riced articles—and because, when
people have the money and want
to buy, they will buy, no matter
what the cost. And that brings us
back again to that old bogey 'in-
flation".
As for instance in the case of
sugar. We have been told that
sugar can be bought in countries
other than Cuba—that there is no
reed for sugar rationing in Cana-
da But there is just one snag—tt
would cost twice as much Now do
yott suppose that little natter of
price would bother some people.
There are a fair percentage I am
sure who wouid say "To the dick-
ens with inflation—we have the
stoney so let's have the sugar."
The pity of it! If only we, as a
people, could be less selfish, if only
the Golden Rule were more gene-
rally applied there would be no
need for world government or con-
ferences regarding atomic energy.
Surely we can wait for sugar and
other things until some order has
emerged from the present chaotic
conditions.
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TABS E TALKS . .
Hot Desserts
Frosty ; winter clays call for hot
• desserts, If the pudding has a rich
spicy flavour, is economical and
also easy to prepare, it always
meets with the approval of busy .
homemakers,
Steamed and baked puddings
have all these advantages. Steam-
ed puddings have sometimes been -
considered bothersome on account
of the special utensils required, but
modern methods of steaming in a
double boiler or in a pan in the
even, 'overcome the difficulties.
The home economists of the -
Consumer Section, Dominion De-
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suggest three puddings to round
out cold weather meals, and they
throw in a new pudding sauce for •
good measure.
Cranberry Pudding
.2 cups cranberries
54 cup brown sugar
3.4 cup molasses
'13 cup boiling water
• teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 %• cups all-purpose flour
Wash and halve cranberries. Add
sugar and molasses. Let stand 1
hour. Add boiling water. Sift salt
and baking soda with flour alid add
to other mixture. Beat wefl-c.-Pour
into greased custard cups.'05et cups
'in a pan of hot water, Cover and
bake in a moderate oven, 350 deg. -
F, for 1 hour, Serve with pudding
sauce. Six servings,
Oatmeal Fig Pudding
1 cup quick -cooking rolled oats
teaspoon baking soda
'Al teaspoon salt
• teaspoon cinnamon
yi pound figs, uncooked, cult fine
2 eggs, well beaten
1/3 cup molasses
2/3 cup water
1 ;i tablespoons Iemon juice
(r_ leucon)
Mix rolled oats, soda, salt, cin-
namon and figs. Combine the eggs,
molasses, water and lemon juice
and add to the dry ingredients.
Pour into a greased mould, cover
and steam for three hours. Eight
servings.
Chocolate Batter Pudding
cup mild -flavored fat
2/3 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 eup plus 2 tablespoons• sifted
all purpose flour, OR 134 cups
sifted .pastry flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
54 teaspoon salt
yt cup cocoa
2/3' cup milk
Cream fat well, add sugar and
cream well together. Add well -
beaten egg and vanilla. Mix and
sift ,dry ingredients, add alternate-
ly with the milk and beat thorough-
ly, Bake in 8" square pan in mod-
erate oven, 350 deg. F, for 40-45
minutes. Cut into squares and
serve with Jelly Sauce. Eight serv-
ings. ?
Jolly Sauce
;., cup jel;y (crabapple. red cur-
rant or grape)
1 cup boiling water
134 tablespoons cornstarch
2 tablespoons cold water
Pinch of salt
1 teaspoon lcmotr -juice
1 tablespoon butter' (optional)
Melt jelly in ,boiling water, Stir
over low heat until melted. Blend
cornstarch and cold water to a
smooth paste Add slowly to
melted jelly. Cook over low- heat,
stirring constantly until clear and
thickened, about 5 minutes, Add
salt and lepton juice, and butter if
desired, Yield: 1% cups sauce.
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