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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1931-03-26, Page 6ltr� l axu AdValtee- A itnnes, Every Thursday Morning W. Logan Craig Publisher Published at WING:EIAM - ONTARIQ iascription rates -- One year $2.00. Six months $1,00, in advance. To U. S. A, $2.50 per year. Advertising rates en application. Wellington Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Es=tablished 1840 Risks takenon all class of insur- ance at reasonable rates. Head Office, Guelph, Ont, i1BNER COSENS, age -a Cuiaedta>rst J. W. DODD Two doorssouth of Field's Butcher shop. FIRE, LIFE, .ACCIDENT AND HEALTH INSURANCE AND REAL. ESTATE P. 0, Box 366 Phone 46 W IiNGHA1vf, ONTARIO J. W. BUSHFIELD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, " Etc. Money to Loan Office -Meyer " Block, Wingham Successor to Dudley Holmes J. H. CRAWFORD Barrister, ` Solicitor, Notary, Etc, Successor to R. Vanstone Viringham Ontario J. A. MORTON BARRISTER,ETC. Wixigham, Ontario DR. G. H. ROSS DENTIST Office Over Isards Store H. W. 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ALVIN FOX Registered Drugless Practitioner CHIROPRACTIC AND DRUGLESS PRACTICE ELECTRO -THERAPY Hours: 2-5, 7-8,. or by appointment. Phone 191. THOMAS FELLS AUCTIONEER REAL ESTATE SOLD A thorough knowledge of Farm. Stock Phone 231, Wingham RICHARD B. JACKSON AUCTIONEER Phone 613r6, Wroxeter, or address R. R, 1, Gorrie, Sales conducted any- where, and satisfaction guaranteed. DRS. A. J. & A. W. IRWIN DENTISTS Office, afacDanald Block, Wingham. A. J. WALKER "T1RNITi7RE AND FUNERAL SERVICE A J Walker icerrsed '.Funeral Director and Enibaltner. ffice Phone 106. Bee. Phone one 2 ' ire Funeral Coach. nam 19e 1i`IN.L`�!YMUM±Mtlisil j NI .'114.4` V F I NOflAM AD 1f F A N. V3..:{`'llMV.S Copyright by Charles Scribner's Sons WHAT HAPPENED SO, FAR Bud Lee, horse foreman of the Blue Lake ranch, convinced Bayne Trev- ors, manager, is deliberatly wrecking the property owned by Judith San- ford, a young woman, her cousin, p Pollock' Hampton, and Timothy Gray, I decides to throw up his job. Judith arrives and announces she has bought ig share in the ranch and will f' run it. She discharges Trevors. Ie The men on the ranch dislike tak- ing orders from a girl, but by subdu- n ing a vicious horse and proving her si thorough knowledge of ranch life, ri Judith wins the best of them over. a Lee decides to stay. th Convinced her veterinarian, Bill Crowdy, is treacherous, Judith die- to charges him, re-engaging an old p M friend of her father's, Doc. Tripp:' Pollock Hampton, with a party of su friends, comes to'the ranch to stay la permanently: Trevors accepts Hamp- ton's invitation to visit the ranch. Judith's messenger' is held up and robbed of the monthly pay roll. Bud Lee goes to the city for more money, getting back safely . with it, though his horse is killed under him. Both he and Judith see Trevor's hand in the crime. Hog cholera, hard to account for, breaks out on the ranch. Judith and Lee, investigating the scene of .the holdup, climb a moun- tain, where the robber must have hid. - den. Word is sent to Lee that Quinnion has been casting slurs on Judith's name because of the night she and: Lee were together in'the cabin. With Carson, Lee finds Quinnien,' worsts him in a fight and makes him confess ublicly he is a liar, and agree to eave the vicinity. After the kissing incident, Judith gnores Lee, who would go away, but Inds himself unable. Judith' sees: a tter to Pollock Hampton from , a f'rm .with which Trevors has been con ected, offering to buy a large con- gnment of cattle and horses at'a diculously low figure.' 'Hampton, is. ddressed as "general manager" of prone at his feet. Now lie was fight- ing for the simplest, most potent rea- son in the world, just because he was fighting. And, though he knew that he had found a man as quiek and as hard and strong as hitnself, still he 0l himself told n elf h sthathemust x st fight a win- ning fight --there was some good rea- son why'he must fight 'a _winning fight, His whole body was bruised and battered and sore. A glancing blow shot him through with pain. Trevors knesir how to put his weight behind his blows, and his weight was well over two hundred pounds. It was like being hammered with a two -hundred - pound sledge. Give and take it was from the first blow, with none of . the finesse of :a boxer's' match; with less thought of escaping punishment than of inflicting it. Vlore than once had Bud Lee felt that he was falling only. to catch his balance and come back at Trevors; niore than once had Trevors gone reeling backward, smashing into the wall. Many a time did'Melvin count his money won and lost.: And Car- son, crouching now, tense, eager, a little fearful, muttered constantly- to himself. "They've both got the - sand!" grunted Melvin. ' "'Which one draws the luck?" But luck stood, by and did not en- ter into the battle that grew ever hot- ter as Bud Lee's and Trevors' gorge rose higher at every blow. It was to ` be the best man wins, and none of the six: men who watched knew from the beginning until the end who the best man was. What tricks Trev- ors knew, he used and they were met by what " cunning lay in. Bud Lee; what strength, what resistance, what power to endure was in each panting body was called upon to the last re- serve. Already the spring had gone` out of their steps. They came at each other for the'most part more slowly, more cautiously, but more`. determin- ed not to 'give over. Faces glistening with sweat, grimy with the_ dust their pounding -feet beat: up from the floor, the roots of Lee's hair red where with :a bloody hand he had pushed it back, Trevors' lips swollen and ugly, they fought on until the men who looked at' them wondered just where lay the limits upon which' each de- pended. "Lee's tough," Carson whispered to himself. "Riding every day an' work- ing ..Trevors has been setting in a . chair .. Eud'll wear him out , My G—d! Bud, look out!: Foot work „ e Blue Lake outfit. Judith is vag- Yes,' footwork, but not: as Carson uely unseasy, In her absence Hemp- expected it, not the thing Bud Lee n decides to accept the offer. Lee looked' for when he ' sensed rather rotests strongly. He learns from than looked.for when he en'sed r - s ra arcia Langworthy that Judith is ther than read in Trevors' eyes that pposed to have gone to see her a fresh trick was coming. He was wyers at San Francisco. A tele -ready for a lifted boot, and, instead, gram from her orders Hampton to Trevors, rushing down upon him sell the stock at the prices offered.,' threw grasping arms; about him, heed - Lee refuses to accept the message as less of the 'fistsmashing again into coming from Judith, the conviction his cut lips. Trevors doubledand forcing, itself upon him that Trevors twisted and got a grip about Lee's has kidnapped her and is holding her middle, seeking to throw him. prisoner. Down they went together with no particular advantage to either man. But as they ;rolled apart and Lee threw out an arm to lift himself Tre- vors saw the chance he sought and mightily, larutally, cursing as he jumped for it, he drove the heel of his boot down upon Lee's' hand on the floor, From Lee's white lips burst an in- voluntary groan as it seemed ..to him that every bone inhis hand had been crushed, from Carson a chocking cry of rage, from Trevors a short, laugh. as he called out sharply: "Hands off, Carson! Out fight- any way--" Again on their feet, Trevors a sec- ond first and with the advantage all his now rushed Lee, :seeking to fin- ish what he had begun, And Bud Lee, his face white and drawn, look- ing ghastly with the blood smears upon it, :moving swiftly, but not swiftly enough, went down, Trevors' weight against, him. "Five hundred on Trevors!" shout- ed Melvin. Carson did not hear him. "At hire, Bud, go at him!" shouted Carson, over and over. "That's the Iast dirty trick he's got. Get him, Buddi.e. Oh, for Gawd's sake, Boddie, go get Min!" Trevors was upon him again, but Lee slipped aside, even rolled over,_ managed to get to his feet, Again Trevors bore down upon him, e new leaping fire in his eyes, Again, now barely in time, Bud Lee slipped away from: him. He drew Trevors' harsh laugh after him and ,Trevors' quest- ing, eager fists. Lee put up his artn, his right arm, guarding his. face, and drew away, back and back. Carson was almost_ whinxpering, calling, whiningly ; "Stand upto him .Bud! Oh,'. g o get ,yy b " Buddrel Still tip and down the Toofit they went, ~Trevors rushing at Lee, Lee talonwhat 1310. he rn3tst t g blows , striking out but little seeking trove anly to poll it if together, to get hisheadclear; A cabin in a flower -planted clearing excites Judith's admiration. It is Lee's, though he does not say so. They are fired on from ambush, and Lee wounded, Answering the fire, they make kr the cabin. Here they find Bill Crowdy wounded. Dragging him into the building, they find he has the money taken from Judith's messenger. Beseiged in the cabin, they are compelled to stay all night Hampton, at the ranch, becomes uneasy at Judith's long absence. With. Tommy Burkitt he goes to seek her, arriving in time to drive the attack- ers off, and capturing one man, who is known as "Shorty.", "Shorty" escapes from imprison- ment in the grainhouse of the ranch, to the disgust of Carson, cowfore- man, who had him in charge. Lee be- gins to feel a fondness for Judith, tho' he realizes she is not his womanly. ideal. ' Marcia Langworthy, one of Hampton's party, typical city girl, is more to his taste. ra The discovery is made that pig- re geons, with hog cholera germs on ag their feet, have been liberated on the br ranch, Lee captures a stranger Dick Donley, red-handed, 'with an aeeont- dr plice, a cowboy known as "Paket hi Face'; Donley has brought more pi- an geons to the ranch. bi At a dance given in honor "of Hampton's friends Lee appears in ev- Btg ening dress. tete is by recognized one Th g of the party as an oldacquaintance. dit Dave Lee, once wealthy but ruined pu by. false friends:. Judith, ire w. r wemanl finerymakes such t t �' c an $ al e to L. t Lee that, alone ` e e with; he d p, r r fo c bl ki r i x,U'S her, t cs t. receivitxp y the r l� ake deserved. NOW READ ON -- He broke off, forgetful of his own words. The two men met again,,clung to each other in a ludicrous embrace, broke asunder and Lee struck so that his fist, landing fair upon Trevors' chin, hurled the bigger man back, stumbling, falling -- But not fallen. For his back found the wall and saved hien.: As Lee came on, rushing at him like a man .gone mad, Trevors slipped aside and struck back, for the critical moment gaining time to breathe. He spat, wiped his bloody mouth with the back of his. hand' and again eluded a rushing at- tack by ducking and stepping to one side. And ever, when he sought to. save his own ` body, he struck back, grunting audibly with the effort. They fought everywhere, up and down, back and forth, until every foot of the; floor felt their heavy boots, until each of them was fighting with all of the force that lay in him, fight- ing with that' swelling anger which grows in leaps and bounds when two men strive body to body,' when the hot breath of one mingles with the hot breath of the other, when red e looking ook x out of one eye sees its � ge Y flection in the other, Again amid aln Melvin muttered: "An even eakt By G—d, an even break!" And over and over he saw Bud Lee ive Trevors, and over and over did s heart sink when he saw Lee sway d reel under the sliedge-hammer ows beating at face and body, rn the beginning there had been in d Lee's mind but one thought:— is man had laid his `hands upon h; this man trust be punished and ' nihc s db none ni. otlxer:xn God's wide orld than Bud Loc. Now all cool ought had fled, leavingjust the'hot t f5 o sire to beatat at ll at lic h r S`t owe strike him: down, to master hit eriexny,. to tine great, powerful body Thursday, Mardi 20th, 1931 of daze and dizziness. 'Run away, will you?" panted. Tr vors, "I've got you, d' ---n you. G you right:"' Lee didn't answer. Ede was think ing dully that Bayne 'Trevors wa near telling r that to h .g the truth, t i<rt Bud Lee was almost beaten—almost, '1"hat was as far as gentlemen ever went -just to that desperate "almost beaten." Not quite, Nol not quite, Never that, Both men were nearly spent; Car- son saw that while he cursed softly in his corner;; Melvin saw it and watched for the end, wondering just how it would come. Trevors should swing for the point of the jaw, put all that was in him into a final, smashing blow, beat through an in- sufficient guard, do it now, quickly. For both Carson and Melvin saw an other thing, a thing which both• had sensed at the outset: Bud Lee was harder than Bayne Trevors. Lee, slipping away ai; ,every. step was get- ting. something back which had near- ly gone from him;Trevors was breathing in noisy jerks; save for the vital fact that he now had two hands to Bud Lee's one, Trevors was show- ing more signs of weariness than Lee. e- ot muscles of -the cleaving throat, crook- ed like talons, white and hard and re- lentbess, Trevors' eyes were terrible, filled with hatred, red -flecked with rage. s IHe sought, with a great sudden heave ,. to roll over. But he could not steal€e. off the legs which were like stubborn. tentacles . about him, could not free his throat of the tensing clutch. lie tore at the wrist, smote again at Lee's head, set his own hand to Lee's throat. In an instant his hand was back at the hand worrying him, but he was unable to drag it away, His face went white, flamed red, grew purplish. His eyes bulged up at Lee's his deep chest contracted spasmodically, Lee, summoning all of the force within him, drove thumb and fingers deeper. "Got enough?" he panted. For the last time Trevors strained with him and they rolled' like death- locked mountain -lions. But still Lee's left arm was about Trevors' neck, his Iegs about the tossing body, his' hand at. Trevors' throat. Trevors' breath caught, failed him. . Then and then onlydid a new look come in the bulging eyes, A look of more than fear, or utter, desperate terror. Trevors threw up 'his hand weakly, then let it fall so that it hit the floor heavily, a dead weight. Lee's grip: at the strangling throat relaxed: But he did not move his hand. "Got enough?" he panted again. The answer came brokenly, weakly almost -inarticulate. But it did come and the men drawn close heard it: "Bud'll get hint -somehow, whis pered Carson, "Good old' Bud. Some how." What Carson aiid' Melvin sense Trevors knew: He saw that Lee wa having less trouble in eluding hi now, that Lee's feet were quicke lighter than his, that Lee was begin ning to strike back viciously at him and when the blow landed, Trevor big body rocked, shot through wit pain. There came to him the though which was Melvin's, but it came . t him in+ Trevors' way: Now quickly before Lee was ready for it, mus come the end. So, for the third tim that day Bayne Trevors; with mue atestake,, resorted to "what weapon God gave him, what weapons 'h could lay his . mind to, his eyes -to his hands to"—his feet to.. Resorting to the old trick which had come up South American ports in disreputabl wind -jammers which is known to the San Francisco waterfront, he raised a heavy foot, striking for Lee's stom- ach, seeking with one low, horrible blow to double up hisalready handi- capped antagonist in writhing pain on the floor. • "An' I gave my wordl" bellowed Carson, the sweat on his own tortur- ed brow. "Oh, my Gawd." But just thatone brief instant too late did Bayne Trevors lift his foot. For Bud Lee had expected this, nev- er ewer had forgotten it, had prayer within his .soul that the man he fought- with would use it. Just by that fraction of,time which has no name was he quicker than Trevors, and he knew it. Now, as he read -the sinister pur- pose in Trevors' glaring eyes, as he glimpsed the raised boot as it left the floor, he lowered his own head, avert- ed it ever so little, stooped—and his hand closed like locked iron about the "calf of Trevors' beg. A stifled cry from the bulkier man, a little grunt of effort from Lee,; Lee strain- ing, heaving mightily, and Trevors went, -back, toppled, fought for his slipping balance, and fell. As -he went down Lee 'was upon hint, Lee's arm about his neck, Lee's weight flung upon him, Lee holding his body be- tween a, powerful pair of knees which rode him as they rode daily some Struggling Blue Lake colt. d s m r, s' 1i t 0 e h s e e "Yes." "You'll get out of the country?" "Yes." Bud Lee drew back and rose, go- ing to the door swiftly. He stooped fer his hat and passed out. And as Bayne Trevors got unsteadily to his feet and " sank 'slumpingly into the chair offered him, two big tears for med in . his eyes and rolled down his cheeks. The first tears in many a year, the tears of a strong man bro- ken for the first time in his life. "Sand did it!" grunted Melvin. "Jus.t sand, Carson!" "1'11 stick around an' see be moves. on, Bud," Carson followed Lee to say. "Oh, he'll go. But I'll just tell him how the boys is headed this way by now an' it's tar an' feathers for him if he don't mosey right along. That's something he couldn't- stand right now. An', -Bud-" He put out- his hands and locked Lee's in a grip that made the sore fingers wince. Then, swinging upon the heel of his boot, he went backto collect 'a hundred dollars from Mel- vin and help Bayne Trevors shape his plans. But Btd. Lee did not wait. He was on his horse, swaying a little, an .arm caught in a rude sling, glad to be out in the late sunlight. "Fog along. Little ..horse," he was saying dully. 'For fight along. She's waiting, little horse. Judith is wait ing! Think of that. That's right fog right along." CHAPTER XVIII Yes, Judith Was Waiting At the old cabin above the lake Bud Lee dismounted. His hand in its rude sling was paining hiin ter- ribly, demanding some sort of first- aid treatment. Tomorrow he could take it to a doctor; perhaps in an hour or so he could get Tripp to look to it; just now he must do what he could for it himself with hot water and ' strips torn from an old shirt. Night had descended, serene with stars. He wondered if the boys were back yet from the lumber -camp. He had met them, as Carson had pre- dicted he would, riding in a close - packed, silent, ominous body, "He felt assured that they would find rio work to do at the company's office, that Carsonwas right and Trevors would "be on his way." But he stop- ped at the, bunk house. •`o, the boys hadn't conte in yet, But there was a message for Lee, just 'received by the cook. It was frogs Greene, the forester., brief and to .the Ir ita:: (0rsett 'bat$ ,1t»rte si,t eriffl 4t "Got Enough?" He panted. Now Bud's left arm, defying fig: agony of a broken hand, was around him, Lee's Legs were about the fran- tically fighting body, and at last Lee'= right hands went its sure way to the thick, bared, pulsing throat. Trevors' right arm was caught at his side, held: there by the body upon his. His lift hand beat at Le cisI x f ce strut 1` and battered again otily to come back like a steam-drivenpiston to ha tntr again. But ut l3ud Lce . s pain -racked body clung on, his thumb and fingers sank and sank dceper;inta the carded time in finding the adjoininff county Wins; gods 2r31 ira going with him tte OW* niy had frond Quin - i za.. 14 vra;s; dead, Ai; manner of e.ewil,y . %racfasater , Por he et' glee n rt a d Jiffs straight as ante Ra•re s tnrotadn, hiss face ter eratc:Meet by a mad cvx,rt ata c, rcailo, the,'. mad woman ber- m iyinif, huddled arid still close be- little. f•ii<, had allowed': the escape hercaptive; she had accused him. after the two of thctn had gone hack tr; the cavern, had thrown herself• up- ' him, tearing at his fare, and the ti5'c, had fallen. Mother and son? Lee shuddered, hoping witli?n his heart that Judith had been mistaken. n. ('. It was too terrible. But, Bitch isoath Y , snc h is love. tut promptly`forgot both Chris Quinnion and Mad :Ruth as he went through the lilacs to the: house. He remembered liow Marcia had flown vs' TooggesmatwarwrFofftw once to Pollock Hampton when he had 'made a hero` of himself, how again just today she had gone swift- ly to him because he had niacin fool, of himself and because it seemed .she loved him. yIn clue untie there was go- in be a e in t to v dd a Bl e Lake g g u ranch, A wedding! YTust one? Lee. hurried an, ,h ,N ; :r• Yes, ,Tudith was , waiting for him'., She was there in the living -room, curled up on a great couch, lifting-• her eyes expectantly as his step. sounded on the verarida. A wonder- fully gowned, transcendently lovely - Judith; a Judith of bare white armsy tender curves; a Judith softly, allur- ingly feminine even in 'the eyes of Bud Lee, no longer `theorist a Jud- ith whose filmy gown clung linger-• inglSS to her like a sun -shot mist, a Judith whose tender mouth was a red'. flower, whose eyes were- Aphrodite's.. own, glorious, dawn -gray, soft with: the light shining in them, the unhid- den light_ of love for the man who. came toward her swiftly; the Judith he had first held in his arms and' kissed. He came in quickly, his heart sing - big. The color suddenly ran upp hot and vivid in the girl's cheeks. Stand ing over her he putout his hand. But she slipped her own hands behind her.. "Good evening, Mr, Lee," said Ju- dith brightly. "Really, you have tak- en aken ' your time in making your first call. Won't you sit down?" "No," said Bud Lee gravely. "I'11.-'. take mine standing, please!" "Like a man to be shot at dawn?"' cried Judith. "Dear me, Mr. Lee, that- sound so tragic. What pray, are youtr taking?" "A new job," said Lee. "I've come. to tell you that just' being horse fore -- -man doesn't suit me any ` longer.. What you need and need right away is a general manager.That's what. I want to be, your general manager., Judith. For life!" Judith laughed softly, happily. Her, hands flew out, to him like two little homing birds, and she followed them. -home. "You'lI find your work cut out for you, Mr. Lee," she told him. "It's the kind of work I want," an- swerved. Bud Lee. Then suddenly her arms went about , his neck and tears sprang into ber eyes and she .set her lips to the cut he had sought to cover with his hair,. and took his sore, swathed hand ten derly into her own two hands, laying; it against her cheek. "Carson telephoned me," she whis- pered, her lips trembling all of a sud- den. "He told me how Trevors: fought . and how you fought! And' he wai half crying over the tele hon he was so proud of you. And I am`e proud of you-And—oh, Bud Lee,, Bud Lee, I love you so!" * * * • ., ,;a * From without came the sound of the Blue Lake boys returning, Carson at their head. Riding close together they were singing, their voices float- ing through the night in an old cow- boy song. Mrs. Simpson heard and' ran out into the courtyard to listen. Marcia and Pollock Hampton, -lost to - all save each other in the shadows. far down the veranda; listened, and' Marcia clapped her hands. The voices.. were to be heard from afar, fhe• strong voices of a score o strange thingis that tn. The at neither- Judith nor Bud Lee heard; that neither had: the vaguest •consciousness just then that there were in all the world any - other mortals than—Judith and Bud: Lee, (THE END.) Some children were telling their father what they got at school, 'The eldest got reading, spelling and def-' iriitlons. 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