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Instantly, old Hughey extricated
kdmsojf from the confusion of his
bedding. His sunken, dead -black
eyes began to gleam. IIo clawed
at Gary's arm, jerked him inside,
and slammed the door,
"Don't let none of, them folks
around licxie you," he warned. "Set
down. Yeh, I got a map, But ism
Beeping it. What you want with
"I'm studying the 'structures
around - here. Thought maybe
you'd let me look at your map.
Know this country pretty well, do
you?"
"Know it?' shrilled the old man,
lulling out a drawer from a lop-
sided chest and fumbling feverish -
1s' . • f�. r far:w every- fold and
fault and sand in it. Walked
every foot of it. Son, you can
look at my map, but there abet no
ail under this county, not a drop,"
* * *
He straightened, brought out a
packet carefully wrapped in oil-
cloth and secured with a tightly
knotted shoestring. Slowly, al-
most
lmost reverently, he untied a doz-
en knots. A roll of slippery maps
slid out, uncurled themselves,
grease -spotted and faded.
"
tot 'ern alt here," Old Hnghey
dropped on a stool and spread the
soiled sheets over his knees.
"Here she is, Look a' here." He
traced with a long and filthy fing-
ernail. "Thr.e see l.tp:: ..there's
the Sabine uplift—where they
found the big pool—and over hero
there ain't nothing. Lime and
salt water, I tell you."
With, swift, trained vision Gary
et .r.'ect re se.s. It w::s an old
print, he noted twenty years old.
'rimro was an uplift—but to the
north of It a fault --and on the edge
of that—his breath began to quick-
en a little,
"Thanks, Mr. Fothergill." Re
hane:re tate rasp back '" Fl„re-buy
yourself some tobacco. You're
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ISSUE 45-1546
quite surethere's no oil under
these structures?”
"Shake yourself well," advised
Adelaide as he went back to the
car. "L got the cold shivers when
he grabbed you. I was sitting here
wondering it I ought to go yell for
the police."
* * *
"He's got. the map --but its: an
old edition. I'll have to write
for a, new one, I guess."
"B'ut that will take days—let's
telegraph, can't we?"
sir 1 sent a wire eomebody would
start talking," he said. "You can't
hide oil -or even a suspicion that
there night be oil."
"Gary Tallman you 'did see
something on that maps .You're
trying to he mysterious and ob-
scure, but I can see right through
you. You've got red spots in both
cheeks.'
revel," ho said. "I've been with
you for hours. Flow do you expect
me to keep my temperature
dawn?"
• Y'. e're going straight home to
tell Dad."
I wouldn't want to raise any
false
"Dad could hire a geologist"
"A survey costs money, too. The
big oil companies keep their own
crews, hut an independent owner
would have to take his own risks,''
"Oliver works for a big oil cam-
pany,,
[Te sells leases, He doesn't
know anything about production.
if tlit'se t 01,, illy indices/ens Last
there's oil under your place, Kim-
ball wo^td want your father to sell
out to somebody,"
1•:a F Int all the credit,
and grab it, too. And probably half
the money. I wouldn't trust Oliver
an inch, Don't say a word, Gary,
when Oliver is around."
t ary a_recd promptly because
he did not like Oliver, either,
'1 hope nobody comes in tonight
then we ren tell Dad and Moth-
er," Adelaide ran on excitedity,
".And you tint advise Dad what to
do. Oh, Gary—suppose wo did VI
millions of dollars—" she was
breathless and her eyes ware like
two hot, burning stars.
"Now don't say a word," he
warned as they whirled through
the gate and around the drive,
missing the windmill by the thick-
ness of a coat of paint. 'Gary,
could you draw a sketch of that
anap? You could, couldn't you?"
''1 guess 1 tuuld, I euuld get it
down in a rough way."
"Torr go up and do that right
away, before dinner, And 1'11 fix
up some way to introduce the sub-
ject,,
Later, when ,she had time to
think about. it, Mona ,Lee remem-
bered the look on Harvey's face
when Adelaide said abrubtly,
"Now, Gary—now let's tell them!"
*
For a minute Harvey's face
darkened. Gary was a nice boy,
but they had had fine plans for
Adelaide whtoh did not include a
marriage to any young all man out
of a job. That was in Harvey's
face at first. And then, when Gary
spread out the sheet of paper with
the rough sketch he had drawn on
the table; Harvey's face changed
again..
"What's all this?" he asked
gruffly.
Adelaide drew a deep breath
and was tense and her eyes snap-
ped sparks, "011—on our land!
Gary thinks maybe he's found
oil!"
It was then that Harvey became
a stranger to Mona Lee.
(To Be Continued)
CHRONICLES
o F MA ` t• weneolinee P. :lark
We have jtist conic back from
the County Ploughing match. We
were all there Partner, the two
boys and myself. It was a glorious
clay, fine and warns, the first day
in years that it hasn't rained, or
been cold and rough for this big
county event, It was also the first
time I had ever gone to a plough-
ing . match and I found it well
worth the .trip.
The boys went early in the fore-
noon, Partner and I followed soon
after dinner — just in time to sec
the big bull -dozer at work. And
how it worked! What was a bull-.
dozer doing ata ploughing match,
did you ask? Well, you see this af-
fair was more than a ploughing
match — thanks to enterprising
men within the county. It was also
a demonstration and exhibition of
labour saving machinery, and,
while a bull -dozer can hardly be
classed as a necessary piece`' of
equipment on a hundred acres, yet
there are many, such farms where a
bull -dozer could be put to good
Use= thus the demonstration, the
idea being that a group of farmers
might find enough work between
tient to bring a hull -dozer in to
work for them.
* * ,k
On this particular farm where
the match was held the machinery
was lined up in a pasture field. In
the field there was a huge stump
from which an elm tree had recent-
ly been felled. It isn't necessary
for Inc to tell you the work involv-
ed in prying a green stump front
its moorings. No doubt you have
seen the men on your faint work-
ing with picks, shovels, axes and
even dynamite' for days at a time.
But on this stump the hull -dozer
went to work. It gouged out the
dirt from around the stump; it cut
through its confining roots; it
groaned and whined against the
resisting fibres, while a ring of
men, women and boys looked on itt
breathless expectancy. "By Jintiny,
that there stump will take some
moving," one fellow said. "Just
watch — it'll do it," said another.
Fascinated I formed nay way 'to
the front of the ring and front this
vantage point I noticed that at
first the stump was as solid and de-
fiant as a rock. And then, slowly
but surely it started giving a lit-
tle. Came the time when it shud-
dered from the impact of the huge
steel monster and then gradually
gave way before its repeated on-
slaughts. Finally the crowd could
see the battle of mechanismagainst
nature was just about won. Two or
three more gigantic shoves and the
great root was pushed over and
NAVY SUIT
Believe it or not, Joy Hardy
wears a reconverted WREN'S
uniform, All that happened to the
uniform was an addition of fancy,
dark blue braid and. the removal
of the three additional buttons
which gave it doable -breasted
style. The original fine tailoring
of the uniform is retained.
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if you follow these instructions.
Just as soon as feel the cold cor-
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in the back or limbs, soreness through
the body, take a Paradol tablet, a Bood
big drink of hot lemonade or ginger tea
and go to bed.
The Paradol affords almost imtaed-
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iielps'you to get off to sleep. The dose
may be repeated, if necessary, accord-
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Paradol tablets dissolved in water. Just
try Paradol the next time you have'a
cold and we believe that you will be
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point.
driven unresisting away from to
soil which had held it for so many
years.
Bob was particularly interested
in this demonstration because he
had seenbull-dozers at work so
often in British -Columbia and used
to write and tell us about them,
Also he had wished several times
this fall that.he had had one around
here for an hour or two. He has
been ploughing partly cleared vir-
gin land up in our bush and has
been having one sweet time, what
with stumps, trees and boulders.
He would come in at noon some-
times and say, "What I -couldn't do
with a bull -dozer up sit that fields"
There was also a demonstration
on ditching today with the bull-
dozer pulling a huge 'grader. That
was interesting too. Then there
was a power chainsaw in operation
which we couldn't see at all for the
crowd. If only some of the offi-
cials' had been, there forcing the
crowd to forst a larger ring then
everyone would have had a chance
to see what was going on. Another
thing that claimed our attention
was a tractor pulling about every
implement used on a farm at one
time.
* * *
And the ploughing? Oh yes,
there was ploughing — lots of it
—and it all looked grand to me. In
fact I don't know how the judges
could come to a decision when
there scented so little to choose be-
tween all those ridges of well-
turned sods, gleaming moistly in
the warns autumn sun. I heard'
Partner and another farmer argu-
ing about the respective merits of
team and tractor ploughing with
Partner all in favour of the latter.
No doubt tractor ploa,vhing is more
practical in this clay and age but I
had a sneaking preference for those
team ploughed ridges with crowns
so evert they might have been
measured with a foot -rule.
* a *
SO 'hat was, our County Plough-
ing match. And, ladies, when the
next one rolls along, just forget
there's washing to do and climb in
the old jalopy along with the rest
of the family and have a day out
with the sten. It's a wise woman
who interests herself in what in-
terests her men and you will find
a ploughing match, be it county or
provincial. quite worthy of your
consideration.
"Methodist" Preferred
A flight officer wanted to buy
some war. bonds at the war fin-
ance office in Lawrenceville, I11.,
and was asked in what clenomina-
tion he'd like to have then, "Me-
thodist," he replied.
Daily Air Service
London to Vienna
R.A.P. Mosquitoes are now
making daily runs between Lon-
don and Vienna in just over two
and one half hours reports the B
BC correspondent in Vienna. He
adds that London morning news-
papers are now arriving in the
Austrian capital by 11 a.m., This
service is being operated by Brit -
Isis Transport Command, The
makers of the Mosquito aro now
working on a peace time version
which is stated to . be specially
suitable for world-wide operation
and moderate size airports. It will
carry eight' to eleven passengers
and have a -cruising speed of 160
miles per hour,
Ex -Servicewomen
Want Own 'Homes
The girls in khaki aitd blue have
their hearts seton a home of their
own rather than a career, it would
seem.
The re-establishment credit of
85% of the girls discharged from
the services up to the end of Aug-
ust, a sunt totalling 570,570 has
been used to buy furniture and
household equipment, None of the
girls has yet used her credit to
purchase a business,
'Let Us Bind Up
The Nation's Wounds'.
The principal purpose of the
Ninth Loan is to pay for bringing
our fighting men home and put-
ting them on their feet in civilian
life, says the Peterborough Lxam-
iner. Particularly appropriate to
this loan are these words of Abra-
ham Lincoln:.
"With malice toward none, with
charity for all, with firmness its the
• right as God gives us to see tf e
right, 'let us finish the work we
are in, to bind up the nation's
wounds, to care for him who shah.,
have borne the battle, and for his
widow and his orphans, to do all
which may achieve and 'cherish a
just end lasting peace among our-
selves and with all nations,"
Let us undertake the Loan in
this spirit and make it at least aa
much a success as those which
have gone before it,
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