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Zurich Herald, 1930-12-25, Page 2The gringo Privateer By PETER B, KYNE 1t •••••"•••.-..... ••.• -- Y7ICIQJW YTJR7 OOR161i. t gi Norsxs I i t ded them in the rear horse truek Martin Bruce, cattle othper, and axiguel and proceeded to ti e international Jana 1t, steal oattie boundary where he formally declared to the United States officers the six definitely identified motor trucks, thirty-two saddle horses with full Ga11egos, lxexican from the ranch of Bradley i3ardur. •3ai din makes Iien Burney general nae• gel' on condition he puts Bruce and Gallegos skill out of the way. 13iuce Burney. Muriel Bardin falls i- love with equipment and two prick mules with Burney and persuades her father to keel, him from encountering the thieves, but taking Burney has already ]rid his plans and into Mexico and bringing backainto the trained thirty nten for the fight, �vbii*h the intends to hold in „Texico. CHAPTER XXIII. "You certain she's the sort of girl to make you happy, to snake you a crackerjack wife??" It seemed to Ken Burney that the Ming was paternally solicitous. "Remember, son, the girls nowadays are a lot differeit !rote the sort of girls your father and 1 mar- ried. They're high -rollers, but they don't know it, became the whole damn- ed world is rolling 'em high. They're high and nighty crd disobedient and independent. They think , man was made for their convenience, and the first little thing he does to inconven- ience them, they get rid of hint and all he Las is a memory and alimony. Be sure you're right, my by, before you take a step that may ruin your life." "Thank you, sir. I realize the truth of what you say. The girl of my choice, however, •has one advantage. She is lady. She has a high intent - Bence, good health and beauty. The only drawback is that she is inclined to be dominating and would rather have her ov"ra way than great riches. However, I expect to knock that at one of her. There's only go g to head to my house and that will be me. She'll do what I tell her to or hell will pop. "I'm not the ., ''rt of man o be twist- ed around a woman's finger by her tears and smiles and coaxings. I have observed that she happiest marriages are those where the wife trembles when her husband comes home, and gives three cheers when he leaves the house. An inflexible set of rules—fair, just and courteous—.from the altar to the grave is nay policy, and if my wife doesn't like that she can• take her straw suitcase .and her old tin trunk and go back to her former estate." "You're so young and cocksure, Ken, I could weep for you. Well, I hope you get away with it. I never could. So you' insist on going through with our contract, eh?" "Pll quit if you insist, but I prefer not to I need the reward and I must earn it, otherwise I may not accept it." "How about forgetting you want to go.lntre bteedner n 3+"us x3i curd 11-0101 ing on to your present job?" "Impossible. I promised Toni Bled- soe I'd quit and let him have his chance at it" "Well, suppose I give you a nice job in the main office in San Francisco?" "I should not accept it. I want to be able to go fishing or hunting when I want to." "You really think yo x can pull off this contract you've entered into with nie without getting yourself or any of my men hurl?" "I'm certain. I can." "Well, then," the king agreed sadly, "hop to it," and without further ado he returned to his house and sat on the veranda throughout the remainder of the day, staring gloomily off into space. At dinner he raised his head suddenly and fixed upon the princess a penetrating glance. "I've had a talk today with. Burney and offered to throw up the deal to get rid ,f Bruce and Gallegos. I offered to pay him for the job anyhow. He declined and held pie to my contract. Says he wants the money to go into business for himself and marry a girl he met a year ago. So I reckon that lets you out and puts my mind at ease." The princess' face paled. She stared at the king unbelievingly a half min- ute then resumed her meal. "Took it like a thoroughbred," her father mused. "Dalen that crazy Ken Burney, If he wasn't a blind fool he'd know I could make him the finest father-in-law in the world. Poor Muriel. Poor old sweetheart! Well, hard as it is on me, I'm glad I but- chered that dream before it took con- crete form." He ached to take his daughter in his great arms and permit her to spat- ter his vest with the tears he knew were e'elling in her heart but which would never show in her eyes. The princess did not sleep that night. At dawn she heard the exhaust of a number of motor trucks and ran to her bedroom window and looked out. Ken Barney's convo, was lumbering. down the road past the house. "Good -by, Ken," she called at the top of her voice. Good -by and good luck!" From the cabin of the leading truck an arni was waved at her; then the dila gray light swallowed them and the princess went bac': to bed—to weep at last—and hate herself for doing it. At eight o'clock Ken Burney's con- voy rolled into cuachi;.a. He paused at the livery stable long enough to pay the board bill on Rowdy and the other three saddle horses he had left there the night of his meeting with Martin Truce and Miguel Gallegos; then he United States within thirty days, From: the Mexican authorities he re- ceived a formal permit of entry for these same prenerties and the mem- hers of his party. Senor De Ha:s was at the Mexican customs house and greeted him warm- ly before entering his motor car with two officers of rureles and proceeding the Double B eouvo. down the narrow, rutty dirt road that led to Et Cajun Bonita. In order not to excite suspi- cion he speeded up and left the convoy miles behind. In the heart of El Cajon Bonita Burney spied a motor car coming to- ward him. "If our friend Miguel Gal- legos is not approaching in yonder cur," he told Tom Bledsoe, "I'm a Chinaman." "Thee are not a Chinaman," the Quaker deeided, as the motor car pull- ed off the road to permit the heavy trucks to go by them on the highway. In the front seat with his chauffeur sat Miguel Gallegos. As he recogniz- ed Burney on the seat of the leading truck he ordered his chauffeur to halt the car; with hand upraised, palm forward, he signalled Burney to halt. CHAPTER XXIV. "Hello, Miguel, you great big lovely knockout," Burney saluted his enemy, as the truck halted. "How's every- thing over at Los Osos, where you hole up?" "Not quite as fine as I should lilts it, Senor Burney," Gallegos replied smilingly. "I thought you told me you would give rile ample notice of the date of your arrival, in force, in EI Cajon Bonita. Is this one of your Yankee tricks?" "Not at all, my dear bandit, not at all. I cold you I'd give you notice :.f the day I was due in El Cajon to argue with you your assumption of proprie- tary rights in the land and cattle own- ed by the Bardin Land and Cattle Company. This isn't .-,y day foe argu- ing. Like your amiable self I am not creite ready." "Still, like all gringos, you are not afraid to take a chance, no?" - "You read me like a paper. But Pm not lookiig for_afight tnda.+> �n riiilitary language, I'm merely malt- ing a reconnaissance." "You are a very astute young man, Burney. I have for you a great ad- miratioe. It is too bad you are so headstrong." He lifted his sombrero courteously and drove on and Burney's convoy continued on up the valley to a spot which he had, on his first lone trip into El Cajon Bonita, selected because of its natural advantages for defen- sive warfare. To the north the en- circling hills, rocky and covered with a scrubby growth of pinon pine, cedar and giant cactus, converged to a pass perhaps two hundred yards wide, and through this pass a trail led to an arid plain beyond—a plain that stretched to the international boundary. About a thousand yards south of this pass a barranca ran east and west for three-quarters the width of the valley which at this point was .bout a mile wide. South of this bar- ranca the valley commenced to widen and stretched away for miles in an unobstructed view. Due to the rocky nature of the surrounding hills and the impassability of the growth on them a flank attack was so remote as to be scarcely considered. An attack from the south would have to be across open and level terrain, entailing terri- fic losses under the calm and accurate rifle fire of the El Ranchito cowbows, while the same fire concentrated on the mouth of the narrow pias, where the enemy would necessarily be bunched when emerging, in the event of an at- tack :from the north, would be equally murderous. Even if the enemy succeeded in em-. erging intact he still had a thousand yards of open country to cover before getting to close quarters with Burney's men crouched in the barranca, a na- teeal trench. Burney believed he could beat off very Dandily an attack in con- siderable force from either direction and thus have open to him two avenues of retreat. At his order his men picked their way down the banks of the barranca at a shallow spot and the trucks cross- ed, turned at right angles and parked, at intervals, along the north bank of the barranca. Then the stock was un- loaded by means of a ramp, led clown into the barranca and made to stand, in bunches of six, a truck forming excellent protection for each bunch in the event of an attack from the south, in force—an attack that might not be repulsed—the animal: could be mount- ed and screened by the trucks, a re- treat could be made through the pass to the north. Should a party of the enemy be encountered in the pass Bur- ney depended upon a api.r.;ted pistol charge to disperse it. At any rate the eilenmy vV.auld have ria advantage Chic! This junior softens too youthful lines, with eggshell crepe and black satin combining in chic flared tunic and skirt. frock Sky's Big Dipper is Drawing Asunder 'Two of It's Stars Leaving Rest as Constellation Moves Toward l)s There Is discord of a serious nature in the most 1i kiely known and most 'popular family of stars. Astronomers at Lick Observatory have found that the famous seven stars making up the Great Dipperare drifting apart, five going in one direction and two head- ing in another, with the result that eventually the outline of the constel- lation will no longer be recognizable in its present form. "Because of this difference in direc- tion; these stars have. not always formed a dipper," Dr, Frederick. C. Leonard explains in a .bulletin of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. "Five of them are moving across the face of the sky at approximately the same angular rate and in a direction nearly parallel, while. the two other are moving in roughly the opposite direction with comparsble angular speeds." According to the Licit Ob- servatory, the constellation as a whole is coming closer to the solar system at a speed x'angiilg frons about five to ten miles per second for its various stars. All seven are known as "giant stars," and are between fifty and one hundred million light years away from the earth. They give off much more light than our own sun, two of the group giving off fully sixty times as much. The seven stars form the constella- tion of Ursa Major (Great Bear). On star maps they are usually referred to by Greek letters or the names given to these stars by the Arabians of old. Thus, the four stars making up the bowl of the dipper are known in Greek as Alpha, Beta, Delta and Epsilon, while 'the corresponding Arabian names are Dubhe, Merak, Phad and Megrez. The three stars forming the handle of the dipper, sometimes re- ferred to as the "three horses," are Epsilon, Zeta and Eta, or in Arabic, Alcor, Mizar and Benetnasch. Probably the most interesting of the seven stars is Mizar, rhe one at the bend of the handle. With its com- panion, Alcor, it makes a wide and readily distinguishable pair, popularly known as "the horse and the rider." Actually, however, it is a double star by itself, this fact having been dis- covered with the aid of a telescope at Bologna in 1650. , By means of an opera -glass many faint stars can he, seen in the same field as the seven Great Dipper stars visible to the unaided eye. Even a small telescope will show the region literally powdered with luminaries. On a clear night, the seven giant stars may be seen from twilight un- til dawn. They do not, however, main- tain the same position throughout the -rcrwnt.' "rise group swings nacitward, in a direction contrary to the hands of a watch, half way around the Pole Star, in that period. It is because of this steady' rotation that the Great Dipper answers the purpose of a clock in the sky from which one can gain a fairly good idea of the time. Many legends surround the famous seven stars, which have been the most commonly known objects in the heav- ens from ancient days to the present time. Shepherds attending their flocks have sung to them; philosophers have mused long over them; lovers have kept trysts under their kindly canopy, and astronomers with telescopes have striven to penetrate their secrets. choice of ground, and a meeting en- gagement, Ken Burney knew, is usu- ally won by the side that exhibits neither surprise nor consternation but charges instantly, regardless of the odds. (To be continued.) . Jacob's Well Here, after Jacob parted brother, His daughters lingered round this well, new -made; from his Here, seventeen centuries after, came another, And talked with Jesus, wondering and afraid. Here, other centuries past, the em- peror's. mother Shelter'd its waters with a temple's shade. Here, 'mid the fallen fragments, as of • old, The girl • her pitcher dips within its waters cold. And Jacob's race grew strong for many an hour, Then torn beneath the Roman eagle lay; The Roman's vast and earth -control- ling power Has or like these Shafts d But sti l.t a waters, led by dew and shower, Come up, as ever, to the Light of clay, And still the maid with her urn, Well pleased to se its glass her lovely face return. —James Freeman Clarke, gious Poems." TO A CAT. Persis Greeley Anderson. His whole existence is a dream. His failure is a nine -page scroll. His eyes are meditative slits Where one can glimpse, the soul. His every want is tended by The goddess of the blue -rimmed dish. His sole philosophy is sleep. His destiny is cream and fish. He worships at the human shrine And offers up a wistful purr. He bears no gift—but lo, himself Is gold and frankincense and myrrh! —In. "Our Dumb Animals" Mrs. Hood—"Was your husband in comfortable circumstances when he died?" Mrs. Paul—"Not by a jugful! He was squashed between a five -ton truck and a concrete well." Minard's Liniment for Frost Elite. bends downward in "Reli- mystic 7,I i epi: en ewiththe finest flavour in all the world I[ `Fresh from the gardens' - World -Wide Culture Prevalent As Far Back As 400,000 Years Ago Finding Identically -Made FlintAxes in. Palestine a and England Said to Indicate Man Was Pursuing .Liv g as Early as First Interglacial Period London.—The passage of time would made like those which had been found seem to have less and less meaning in large quantities in E'uglend in de in the light of discoveries of traces of posits of the second interglacial so-called prehistoric man. Moir Reicl period, and they were made by exactly at a meeting of the Royal Anthropo- the same technique. logical Institute mentioned a period As the earlier forms hadalso been 400,000 years back as being the date found in Africa and India, Mr. Reid of certain flint implements found in said that some explanation was neces- Palestine by the British School of sary of the prevalence over such wide. Archaeology in Egypt. These flints areas of the earth's surface of pre- wer'e found in the Wadi Gaza and its historic industries which were evi- tributary valleys. dently carried on on similar bighll The oldest of these flints were specialize' plans. He thought himself coarsely flaked, said Mr. Moir, and that it could only be supposed that comprised massive ,beak -shaped axes. centers of the dispersal of cultures Similar specimens have been found in existed in remote prehistoric times. east England. The ones found in It was not reasonable to suppose Palestine had obviously been in col- that a race of people living' in Egypt lision with other stones, but those would merely by coincidence proceed found in England were generally to make their flint axes on exactly striated and eroded by ice action. the same precise plan as another race Mr. Moir thought that the Palestine living in England. The existence of instruments were of early Pleistocene world-wide cultures in Lower Palaeo- date or the first interglacial period of lithic days such as these necessitated some 400,000 years ago. Another invoking extended periods of time in group of hand axes were very differ- which a certain method of implement ent, being skillfully and beautifully making spread over the earth. ISSUE Na, 51 lir Economy Corner Zwieback Apple Pudding One q.art apples, 1 package an - sweetened zwieback, 3-4 cup sugar, }/ BY ANNABELLE WORTHINGTON cup butter. Pare, core and stew apples. 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