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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1930-11-27, Page 2The gringo privateer By PETER B. DYNE S'iNOPSIS. Itenneth Burney is given the Job of general manager of Bradley 13ardin's ranch providing he gets rid of Bruce Martin and Miguel Gallegos, who have been stealing l3ardin's cattle. Burney has outwitted Bruce twice efore and Bruce r iscoieMuriel has me nterestd n Burney and his bodyguard go into town and in an encounter with Bruce he calmly accepts an insult, much to the disgust of his men. Later he crosses c boundary into Mexico and calls on Senor to allow. Bry Mexican nd ban lfl who daparty Into iguel�Gallegos and histexicrovidclowd. out CHAPTER XVII—(Cont'd). proceed immediately to confer with His Excellency, your governor? I should like to have his rea'stion to my plan before committing; iryse'f to it. 1 will return one month from today." CHAPTER KVIIi.• "Thank you. Now, I am going to ask the same favor for Senor Martin Bruce and an armed party I have' reason to suspect he will lead across the international boundary. It would be to our mutual interest if he should remain undisturbed on his journey." "But why permission for Bruce? He is a bad egg, that old man." "He will come to El Cajun Bonita to fight me." "And you desire this fight?" "I do not desire it, but it is neces- sary, senor. If we fight on the soil. of our own country there will be dis- agreeable results for those that sur- vive, whereas, if we. fight on foreign soil the survivors may return to their own country, which will ask no ques- t'ons. And once we are out of Mex- ico yot.r government will of course have no interest in making an inves- tigation," "True. Well, Senor Burney, I think the matter can be arranged. I will close my eyes to much, provided we- get rid of -his fellow, Gallegos. And to get rid of him it is necessary, I suppose, to fight on Mexican soil. And it wili be a private war?" Burney nodded. "I have a plan for getting rid of Martin Bruce on Am- erican soil, provided he escapes the fight I am preparing for him in El Cajon Bonita." "Provided he comes to the fight, senor?" "He will come. I have laid my plans for that. While I live he is in danger. I am a menace to his enterprise, and niust be disposed of. And he will pre- fer to dispose of nee in Mexico, since, in the United States, he will be im- mune from punishment for the crime committed in Mexico. In the United States he is not so certain that I may not succeed in disposing of him. He is worried." "But can you prove that this Senor Bruce brands the cattle of Senor Bar - din?" "I expect to prove it, Senor De Baro, within one week, and when the evidence is adduced it would please me to have Your Excellency and a num- ber of competent Mexican witnesses present There is still law and justice in Mexico and cattle thieves are as amenable to the law here as they are elsewhere." Senor De Haro bowed. "I shall be happy to be present, senor." "I will send you word in ample time. Meanwhile, may I hope that you will A Santa Fe Ticket to California Will take you through Phoenix on Santa Fe rails "all the way" from Chicago and Kansas City. You leave on the Santa Fe and arrive on the Santa Fe. Warm days in the desert and along a. sunny seashore, • • • • Golf and horseback rid- ing keep the pep up and the pounds down. 0 •0 Fred Harvey dining service another exclusive feature Make yourPullman reservations early, P. T. HI3NDIt!, Gen. Agent • SANTA 604 Transportation Bldg., r51 TItOIT, MICA. Phone; Randolph 8748 ato Back at the Hotel International half nr hour later Ken Burney and his bodygusrd pined in „he hotel grill, while across the roo,n old Martin Bruce, Miguel Gallegos and the other man ate and eyed thein c r• l.y from time to time. After dines Burney went to the hotel desk and asked for a telegraph blank. As he leaned across the counter writing on it, Martin Bruce came up along.ede of him and stamped on the small toe el his left foot. Without a wore. Burney moved over to give him niore room. • "Lemme have the key to my room," Bruce ordered the clerk, and drove his elbow into Burney's ribs. "Oh, good evening, Mr, Bruce," the latter saluted him politely. "Sending a telegram for more help?" the old wolf queried harshly. "I would, if I was you. You'll need it." "What a seer you are, Mr. Bruce. Are you, by any chance, the seventh son of a seventh son and born with a caul? You must be, for you have made a most astonishingly correct guess. Read that,' and he handed Martin Bruce the `elegratn. It read: Golden. West Arms Compaiy, Los Angeles, ,California. Please express collect immediately two light Lewis machine guns and thirty Springfield rifles United States Army Model.' Also one hundred'thou- sand rounds ball cartridge. Bill to El Ranchito. Division Bardin Land and Cattle Co., Kenneth Burney, General Manager. The old scoundrel was interested. "What you aim to do, sonny boy? Start a revolution across the line?" "I intend to make El Cajon Bonita a mighty good place for you and your men to keep away from; I intend to make the Bardin lands there safe for the Bardin cattle." "Why, our Willie's on the peck, ain.'t he?" Martin Bruce murmured sneer- ingly. He handed back the telegram which Burney gave to the clerk to file.. "Well, thanks for the tip, son. I reckon I can pick up a couple of ex- perienced machine gunners myself, an' if you can buy Springfield army rifles I reckon I can, too. Pleased to meet you some bright day over in El Cajon Bonita. Good night!" With the word he again dug viciously at the younger man's ribs with his right elbow. In- stantly Burney's left arm slice under Bruce's crooked forearm:; his fingers grasped the left lapel of Bruce's coat in a firm grip, while his right hand closed over Martin Bruce's right wrist. Then he pressed downward, bending Bruce's arm across the iron muscles of this i,wn left arm, which acted as a fulcrum. "Just try reaching for a gun with The "elti,4"RRl iiwnIr/ ISSUE No. 47—'30 I think I'd go if I were you. Really I would, The atmosphere is a bit sere charted !wee, Ae you pass out will you kindly return these guns to your friends? I can only use two :at a dale myself " "With pleasure, senor" Miguel Gallegos pocketed both guns, and bowing again, smiled, showing .a set of teeth that would 'have won hint first prize as a dentifrice advertisement.' "We shall, perhaps, meet again, Senor, Burney?" "Sonia day, over in El Cajon Bon- ita. I understandthat's your stamp- ing ground, Senor Gallagos. We'll be branding down there presently and if you should happen to be traveling past our chuck -wagon, drop in and have a bite with us." "You are very hind, senor., I will make it a point to come by your chuck - wagon. I may have a few friends with me." "Bring them, too. The more the merrier." "Buenas Roches, senor." "Buenas noches," Burney turned to his bodyguard. "Well, I've cleaned up all of the busi- ness that brought ; us to Huachita, boys. We'll leave our saddle horses in the livery stable and pick them up next week when we passthrough this. way enroute to El Cajon. Bonita. Meanwhile, this town isn't the pleas- antest place in the world .air us, so we'll just hire an automobile and drive back to the ranch. And we'll stick the king for the bill." King Hardin and the princess were. lounging on the veranda about nine, oclock that night when Ken Burney and his bodyguard drove up in the hired car. "All intact?" the king demanded eagerly. "Right -o, Your Royal Highness." "Come up here and tell me about it, Mr. Burney." "Do, please," the princess pleaded. To her father she said: "Something must have happened. He went to town on horseback but returns in a rented c " Ken Burney came up on the ver- anda. The king motioned him to a chair. "Lovely evening," the general manager murmured, "but almost too warm for comfort." "Never mind the weather," His Ma- jesty warned with a slight show of impatience. "Report!" So Ken Burney reported in meticu- lous detail and, in conclusion, added: "I had a feeling that if I. went into the stall in the livery stable to get my horse, some inconsiderate wretch might rise up out of the manger and shoot me with a forty -five -calibre pis- tol. So I hired a car and cane home in order to avoid the occasion of sin." (To be continued.) The Dark Pines This fibered beauty, this Iricl bark, This harmony of height and girth, These wafted, plumes at heaven's are, Are things of earth, yet not of earth. • There bides a Breath upon by brow And in niy soul a certain sign, Else would I kneel, a Druid, now, Idolatrous of this dark pine. I swear this is no mortal tree. No perishable root would dare. Stand robed in such sublimity, Exhaling a celestial air. The Road Along the autttnul road, As elle robins go to sleep, The brown -backed Wide-eyed Partridges creep, Up into the tress, As a dog lopes by, The road -haunting Thunder -winged Partridges fly. When winter night comes, Where the white drifts furrow The snowshoe -footed Furry -legged Partridges burrow. On the fallen logs, When the spring -time's come, The green -ruffed Partridges drum. —Kemper Hammond Broadus. What New York Is Wearing BY ANNABELLE WORTHINGTON Illustrated Dressmaking Lesson Fur- nished With Every Pattern Who drew my dreaming to this hill? Who set this snare? A falling cone Is overshadowing my own. your left arra, old settler," he warned, Alone responds. Some hidden Will "and I'll break your right arm. Then I'll take your guns away from you and this time I'll keep them... Poor old Martin Bruce!" He pursed his lips as if to spit in the snarling face, but refrained, while Miguel Gallegos and the other man stood helplessly by, for Burney had adroitly twisted his victim until Bruces body presented a shield in the event the letters' friends should open fire. "Close in," Burney ordered his henchmen. "If they otart anything, you finish it." He half squatted and presented his left knee as a seat for Martin Bruce; a violent downward pressure on the latter's arm caused Bruce to squat in pain on that left knee, whereupon Burney suddenly withdrew it and with a violent shove hurled Martin Bruce over backward. H3 struck the floor with a rib -cracking .jolt; before he could scramble to his feet Burney had possessed himself of the small gun worn inside the trousers band on the right side. • "Quiet," he warned, and helped himself to a forty-five worn under Bruce's left coat lapel. "That's the third time I've disarm- ed you and the second time I've man- handled you within ten days, Mr. Bruce," he explained, as the latter hisfeet. "Each time you have gotto been the aggressor. I tell you, you're too old to be picking on the young fellows." Martin Bruce stood staring at him, ashen of face, the glint of murder in his cold blue eyes. Suddenly his lower lip commenced to tremble; then two big tears started' across his sun -bitten face and he turned and Walked out of the hotel. . "My friend," said Miguel Gallegos softly, •;,'when men like Martin Bruce weep a niap always dies. Only death. can avenge that insult—and you ha e signed your own death warrant. I am truly sorry for you, my friend. Be- cause ;ton are very young, you have ber.n vert, f' olish." ,Burney bowed to the speaker, "And wouldn't it lie a bright idea, Senor Miguel Gallegos," he purred, "if you hopped ac Nag the Line to territory upon wErh you have a cit• ten's right to air your unimportant opinions re- garding the antics of two foreigners?' My feet are- lost; I am waylaid. There is a Witness watching me. Beauty from• her bright balconade Leans like a living deity`. 0 Being, so superbly seen, Betray me not upon the steep. O God of this dark evergreen, Beware! I have my soul to keep. —Clifford J. Laube. A black canton crepe endorses the wrapped flaredtunic skirt, It's so smart for Auti, nn wear. The curved seaming and button trim of the hip yoke are decidedly slim- ming details. The supple bodice shows slight all- around blousing. Pin tucks narrow the shoulders. The dainty flared lace cuffs of the long sleeves make the arms appear very slender. Style No. 2561 is youthfully smart and wearable. 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"I've spenthundreds of dollars of my savings sending my boy to a good school, and the young scrondrel does not even trouble to write to me," said leobinsc,u. • "That's funny, replied 13oot.s. , "I a1. ways manage to get my son to write.", "Oh," said Robinson. "How do you do it?" "Easy," replied Bnots. 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Becoming ex- tremely expert on these, as the stilt walking shepherds of the French sand dune country in Gascony still are, the fen dwellers could move across the country much more rapidly than run- ning men; finding no difficulty, for ex- ample, in cutting off and killing out- side invaders not equipped with stilts or in reaching the outer end of some road into the marsh long ahead of ,fleeing invaders. Many of the legends of the "seven league boots" describe their owners as giants, which would be a quite natural conclusion of dwell- ers outside the marsh land who saw these marsh men walking along at a distance, `apparently with their heads 10 oil 12 feet above the ground. As time passed the marsh lands were drained and reclaimed, the use of stilts ceased and was forgotten, but the memory of speedy fast •walking giants persisted, took on a superna- tural cast and became part of general European folklore. A Handy Xmas Gift A nice Christmas gift for a man is a soft -collar case. You can make it from any 'mate- rial you like, but a black, or maroon red, navy blue or brown faille silk case, lined with scarlet, silver or beige, makes a good eolor combina- tion. Your finished case can be either long enough to lay the collars out straight in it, or it can be long en- ough to fold them through the back and have ample space for them that way. The majority of cases fold the collar, but if a man is fussy, and would be bothered with that crease through the centre of the back, make him a long one. For the full-sized case, have it fin- ished to measure 17 or 18 inches long, not counting the flaps that fold over and fasten. Cut both the out- side and the inside of the case twice that long and from 12 to 16 inches wide. Fit a piece of Cardboard in through the centre and stitch the case all around the cardboard to hold it in place. Then cut out the corners, so that the flaps fold down over the collars, and stitch the outside edges all around. 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"Of course, Jock," said the girl. After she had complied, there was another long silence. "And What are you thinking about now, Jock?" she asked coyly, after a while. "Another kiss?" "Na,lassie," na, said Jock: I was just thinking that it was about time you were paying me that penny for me thoughts." Optician: "You doubt if your eyes are strong enough to get you a driver's license? Well, sit here and tell me how many letters you can read on the number plate of that car outside." "Would-be Motorist: "Car? 'I can't see any car." COAL MERCHANTS On the Wing The very rich man gave his way- ward son a thousand pounds and pack- ed him off to South America, telling him not to•come back again until he. . bad made good. Sonie months later the rich man re ceived a cablegram from his son. It read: "Have bought ranch and fifty head of cattle. A feather in my cap." The rich man sent a cablegram con- gratulating the boy. Two months passed and he received another message from his son: "Have bought fifty acres of land and two hundred head of cattle. Another feather in niy cap." Again the rich man cabled a mess- age of congratulation. Another cable quickly followed from South America. It read: "Ranch des- troyed by forest fire. Cattle lost. Please wire passage money home," Father cabled back: "Cannot send passage money. Suggest take feath- ers from cap, stick in self, and fly home." Medic_ ie Co., Brockville,. Ont. "How old is your baby brother?" asked little Arthur of a playmate. "One year old," replied Bennie. "Ahl" exclaimed Arthur, "Pve got a dog a year old and he can walk twice as well as your brother." "Well, so he ought to," replied Bennie, "he's got• twice as many legs." t ATTiC CiiY.N. J. Just Off the Boardwalk Fireproof Construction On a Residential Avenue Harmonious, restful surroundings with recreational advantages. 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