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ou the present and Z Thank /Our Majesty
ality never
variesfrom the bottom of a heart that,
of
v -
late, has been some xhat heavy.
How-
ever, I warn you that once I have cor-
rected the situation witch an ioys you,
do not be surprised if I quit your em-
ploy on short notice. I'm the, Knight
of the Wandering Hoof. I'm one of
those fellows who just naturally has
to go and find out."
"Seems to me rou've, }rade cow-
780 mendable progress in my employ," His
1Vlajeaty retorted dryly. "If your abil-
ity is at all commensurate with your
ego you'll be running me off my job
t:fore the month is out,"
"Yes—and you'll let out a few shrill
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'Fresh front time.. gardens'
11
The Gringo Privateer
By PETER B. KYNE
SYNOPSIS.
Kenneth Burney, adventurer and
one-time gentleman comes 'o Bradley
Bardin, king of the cattle country, for
a job. Burney has had a fight with
Martin Bruce, a rival cattle owner
who has been stealing the king's stock
aided by Miguel Gallegos, yau g Bu n
banliking dit. The king,
i.eys style, offers him the ;gob of get-
ting the cattle thieves. Burney accepts.
Be meets Muriel, the king's beautiful
d:.ughter. Muriel; who is more inter-
ested than she cares to admit, tries to
persuade her father not to let Burney
tackle the cattle thieves. The king de-
cide., to test Burney's courage by mak-
ing him ride Geronimo, the toughest
broncho on the ranch. Burney passes
the test with flying colors. At Hua-
chita, . a nearby town, Burney runs
rto Bsuto the anchand its him. to report. then
CHAPTER XI.—(Cont'd.)
His supper eaten, Burney telephon-
e'3 to the king. "Ken Burney speak-
ing, sir. Mr. Graydon instructed me
to report to you the moment I return-
ed to the ranch, I have returned.'
"You've taken your sweet time about
it. Conte over immediately. I'm on
the western verandah. Don't bother
to announce yourself."
Three minutes later His Majesty
was interested to hear a man running
at top speed along his verandah. He
looked up just as Ken Burney turned
the corner, running, and with a broad
jump landed squarely in front of him.
He greeted the somewhat astonished
king with a breezy, military salute.
"The late Mr. Burney reports to
His Majesty," he announced.
"What's your mad hurry, you young
idiot?"
"Mr. Graydon informed me that
*e ' was Your Majesty's middle name
and that whenever you instructed a
man to report to you that man had
better take it on the run or get fired."
"You're too doggoned literal," the
king laughed in spite of himself. "So
you went to town for a haircut, eh?
Where have you been since?"
"Well, after the barber finished
with me I had to collect two months'
pay due me from Martin Bruce—"
"'You lunatic! What I append?"
"He paid me. Tried to kill me first,
but as the ancient philosopher once
remarked, 'to be forewarned is to be
forearmed.' In other words, I got the
drop on Martin and he cane through
like a sport."
"Tell ane about it," the king urged.
"Nobody ever ells me anything ex-
cept hard luck stories. ' Make me
laugh, son."
So Ken Burney told him in meticu-
lous detail of his encounter with Mar-
tin Bruce, and the king did not laugh.
"He tried to draw on you and got
tangled in the barber's apron. Was
his gun in the holster or in his hand
when he saw you had the drop on
him?"
"It was in his hand."
"For the love of 'ife why didn't you
bust him? A tear case of self-de-
fence. You had three barbers as wit-
nesses that you spoke pleasantly to
the Tuan and he attempted to shoot
you. Why, the coroner's jury would
have exonerated you. Boy, boy, you'll
never get another chance at him as
lovely as that one. You had a good
hand and you played it like a foot.
I'ni ashamed of you."
"You needn't be—yet. I told you 1
wasn't hiring out as a killer. 0 course
I'll kill if I hare to—in self-defence,
but it's always been my policy to
walk around a fight"
yips of satisfaction if I succeed in do-
ing it. You're tied to your job, and
unless you can grit eoeneb'xiy te handle
it as well as you handle .it ;:ourself
yoa'll live out che renin inh er of your
life just scared to death' at what's
going to happen to your kingdom
when you leave this vale rf tears.
You haver't a son to take your place,
have Jou?"
The king sighed. He _was touched
on a tender spot. "It is the tragedy
of my life that I have not, Burney."
"I can understand your tragedy and
sympathize with it. But thats' only
tragedynumber one. If that lovely
daughter of yours should marry some
fellow without sufficient cow sense to
tail a calf, your kingdbm might event,
tally find itself threatened from
within. I have observed frequently
how supermen . have built up great
enterprises; then when ,age or death
snatcher'. the reins from their capable
hands that enterprise slow y withered
and decayed under the,management of
mediocre men ... Yes, you've got
your troubles."
"You bet I have," the king admit-
ted, strangely confidential under the
stimulus of this young inau's under-
standing and sympathy. "They do
not call me .the cattle, king without
reason. Uneasy lies the head that
wears a crown. You fortunate fellow,
Ken Burney. Not a liabilitr in the
world except your impulsiveness and a
faint strain of Spanish blood, and not
an, asset in the World except a pack
horse, a top cow horse and the clothes
you stand in. Only one life to worry
about, your own, while ,I have thou-
sands of lives—at least the happiness
and 'prosperity of thousands of lives
—dependent upon my continuous en-
ergy and abilite to beat the bandits
who are busy tryin_; to take a dollar
away from me as fast as I can make
it. What a hell of a world:"
"Did you ever, sir," Ken Burney
e ursued, "test your ability to assimil-
ate electricity? You remember those
contraptions 'hey used to have at
country fairs? You took a steel handle
in each hand and pulled in toward
you= -and the farther, yo Ian
the niore voltage you gave yourself,
until finally you reached a point where
your brain sent a hurry -up message
through your nerves to the muscles
of your arms, saying: 'Let go!' Then
ou discovered you couldn't let go and
had to yell for somebody to tear you
loose, and, of course the instant that
somebody took hold of you he had to
split the charge cf electricity with you,
and between the two of you the job.
was done."
The king chuckled. "A very apt
description of my predicament, son.
Yes, I'mn looking for a good man to
tear me loose to split the voltage of
my high-powered existence with me."
"Well, take a free look at me, sir,"
Burney suggested.
"I have. That's the reason you're
general Manager.
"Oh, no, it isn't, Your Majesty. I'm
just a pinch -hitter. You've hired me
and made me general manager for one
reason only, and that is to rid you of
Martin Bruce and Miguel Gallegos."
"Well," said the king unashamed,
"what objection have you got to that
program?"
"I object to your effort to hand me
what is practically a fatal problem,
under the guise of being nice to me—
under the pretense of having seen in
me a futuie executive of your coin-
pany—a smart young fellow who
..ught to be given his chance. Unfor-
tunately for your reasoning, I don't
want your job of general manager for
more than sixty days, and I think I
would be less than fair not to tell
you this."
(To be continued.)
CHAPTER XII.
"That's been Art Graydon's policy,"
the king retorted bitterly, "and where
has it gotten us? I had an idea when
I made you general manager that I
was hiring a fighter, not a pacifist."
"Oh!" Ken Burney was faintly
amazed. "Am I your general man-
ager?"
"Yon are. I'm going to take a
chance on you—for a while, anyhow."
"In that event," the other replied,
"the dignity of my,new job indicates
that I should sit down, even though I
haven't been asked."
And forthwit he dragged up a
chair and sat down.
"You remarked that you have con-
cluded to take a chance on me," Ken
Burney went on. "That decision does
infinite credit to your well-known re-
putation for sagacity. Of course I
know you are not taking a chance on
me at all, but that remains to be seen,
as the monkey remarked when he
dropped the kitten down the well."
"Three days—or the butt end of
three days—have passed since you col-
lected your wages from Martin Bruce.
How have yon spent those three
days?" the king persisted.
"Since I am not, as yet officially,
on your payroll, you will pardon me,
I'm sure, if I ask ycu not to press
that question."
"You were on .ny payroll," His Ma-
jesty assured him wearily, "from. the
moment I watched you jump your
horse over my gates and fences and
cut corners to have an interview with
me."
"Well, if I've been drawing salary
since that night, you are, of course,
entitled to my confidence. You have
a right to know what I do on your
time. Well, I've been down in El
Cajon Bonita making bad medicine
for the hombre that has a habit of
branding your calves down there.
There seems to be some doubt, as near
as I can gather from the local gossip,
whether Martin Bruce and Miguel
Gallegus are partners in crime or
operating independently, and as this
is a point that must be cleared up be-
fore I proceed farther, I went down
::ere and set my trap. In a short
time we should discover that which we
shall inevitably' discover."
"Tell me about; your trap, son."
So Ken Burney told him. "Har!"
roared the king. "But in all probabil-
ity you'll never get back that five dol-
lars' worth of new quarters you plant -
e 1 in those calves, so put it on your
monthly expense account.."
"Thank you, sir. I'll credit you
with whatever salvage I recover.
When my films are developed they
should show the Double B brand on
the cows and no brand on .he calves.
And I have been careful to photo-
graph all my test cafes in the act of
nursing their mothers, the idea being
to establish maternity to the exclusion
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of twelve good men and true."
"You forget the trial of the thieves,
if any, will occur in Mexico."
"It will," Ken Burney replied enig-
matically, "it certainly will. How-
ever, I'm also going t, put a number
of your El Ranchit,o calves north of
the line on a free -silver "Ails, and if
Martin I3ruce's1 brand should appear
on them a little Later, why we'll just
have Mr. Bruce arres d the first time
thereafter he steps across the state
line. We'll have a secret indictment
all ready for the old gentleman, and
he'll be tried in New Mexico where
the crime has been committed. In his
own country of Cochise, Arizona,
where he is sheriff, 1p wprilecl have at
acivantaie over us, in that he cauid
have his chief deputy select the right
kind of jury—and thereafter when-
ever his men decided to run the Tri -
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examine the hide first for hidden trea-
sures;; if they found any they'd leave
your calf alone."
"No, they wouldn't," the king con-
tradicted. "Those petit larceny skunks
would just help themselves to the evi-
dence and brand the calf anyhow. By
the way, Burney, your salary as gen-
eral manager is five hundred dollars
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