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JIM THE CONQUERO
By PETER B. KYNE
Illustrated by Allen Dean
SYNOPSIS
Roberta Antrim receives word that her
uncle, Tom Antrim, has been killed in
Texas. The message is signed by Jaime
Higuenes. Roberta decides to
leave at once for Texas. Higuenes wel-
comes Ken Hobart to his ranch,
CHAPTER III.
"I don't want your poor house. All
I desire is accommodation and food
for my horse and myself until morn-
ing and—"
"Thog graceless one!" Don Jaime
murmured drowsily, but without of-
fense. "But what else can one expect
of a Texan—and particularly a Texas
Ranger?"
"I have never been invited to your
poor house," the visitor complained.
"I just come anythow, and, of course,
once Pin here you put the best face
possible on the matter and bid me
welcome. Besides I'm not a Texan.
I'm a Californian, and in California
we have a habit of asking a thirsty
man if he has a mouth. Don't tell
me, Jimmy, that I've finished the last
of your pre-war Scotch."
"You have, You finished it three
years ago you ungrateful animal,"
Don Jaime retorted, adverting again
to English. "And that highball which
you have just pinched from me while
1 slept :s Irish, not Scotch, and reach-
ed. this country via Mexico. Irish
whisky, I find, is not as changeable
as the Irish. In the national rush for
Scotch, Irish has been forgotten save
by those few discerning individuals
Who still entertain. a lingering
for their viscera. Kai Flavio I"
Bare feet pattered down the hall
from the interior of the hacienda. An
ancient peon, with just sufficient Cas-
tilian blood mingling with the Aztec
to arch the bridge of his nose, appear-
ed in the doorway, looked, and disap-
peared immediately. Presently he re-
turned with a full bottle, an old silver
bucket filled with ice, a ottle of soda
and another glass, a box of cigars.
The visitor laughed. pleasantly.
Flavio requires no orders when he
sees rne on the premises, Jimmy. Any
time I stop here he knows I've ridden
a hard twenty miles and am tired and
thirsty and need a generous pick up."
"He knows the capacity of Ken
Hobart, at any rate." Don Jaime
roused and poured a peg for his
guest, Shen helped himself to one.
"Indeed, Ken," he- assured Hobart,
"you are doubly welcome, because you
spare me the unspeakable depravity
6f drinking alone— No, don't worry
about the horse. Flavio will send a
boy to care for him, and your bath
will beemady in an hour. What brings
you eere?"
"A. desire to be neighborly and to
cffer a slight return for your many
evidences of princely hospitality—that
and a natural desire to enjoy it again.
Since when did you go into the sheep
business, Jimmy?".
Don Jaime's dark eyes opened wide-
ly and the hint of an ever -ready smile
faded from his handsome features,
leaving them unbelievably stern.
"Where?" he demanded.
"Aboat ten miles south of here. 1
same across country !min San Ysidro
and bumped into thein on your lenge.
about forty thousand of them, I should
saY, although I'm no judge of sheep
in quantity. There was a camp in a
cottonwood grove .in a little green
valley some twogniles farther on. Two
Men came out and loolted;;atme as if
1 wotildn't be welcome, sot tea.; on.
I judged the sheep might not be yours.
The brand is Circle A."
"Tom Antrim's outfit. Well, if he's
only ten miles from here he's tres-
passing on my range. Thanks for the
information, Ken. Feed is pretty
scarce to the east of me and I suppose
Tom Antrim got desperate. Yes, you
have your uses, gringo."
"If you care to run into Los Algo-
dones and swear to a warrant charg-
ing him and John Doe and Richard
Roe and James Black and Thomas
Green and say a dozen etheisep
gents with trespassing, I'll pick, 0.
boys up and lodge them in theS
gado; then you and your boys cal
the sheep off in peace."
"I don't want to run them a
peace, Ken," Don Jame repliedol.
guidly. "I've done that before 'a 4't
doesn't work. They always li : e
back. Sure you haven't got some
work..to do tomorrow?"
"Woes look here, jimmy," the
ger protested, "you listen to me.;
Antrim's there to stay. Sp Pm
to hang around the n.eighborilmodil,
got twenty herders with hint :,en
noticed they all carried, rillee .
Well, here's mud in your eye.'‘'
They drank to each other. "A
house is his castle," said Don.
contemplatively, "and:1 presu that
principle applies to the:lands cuA itpt ed, iou make work for me and my
ous thereto. One has a riglifar e. —
'Mem • Myself, I'm a man of peace.
fend his castle from nu -warren - , . Consequengie it occurred to me—"
,
pass, anu I'm here to tell yeti, "You want me to give him another
keed, I am very weary of. tlaili chance—to appear weak and vacillat.
Antrim and his sheeps—Irneari3O ,.., -,
..1 ing by talking to that Antrim again?"
Will I never get over ihe;liaiiitfop Don Jaime charged instantly.
slipping on my pluralk„like anYillAitY "Thank heaven, my blood is the
can! Three weeks ago the slieribpi cool blood of an Anglo-Saxon ances-
this country arrested Torn A.Dtri isnius, try. If I had your hot corpuscles,
held him and his men long en.e l':.Friend Jimmy, I never would have
permit me to drive his she& risen to be a captain in the Texas
range; and before I called t• Rangers. I'd have been killed as a
in I talked with Tom:Antrim,. . •'private. Now, you listen to me, be -
him he must not corxia baeleakel - cause I have no interest at all in
cause eef—I mean if—he. dies-, Antrim. I have, however, a sympa-
Don Jaime shrugged eloqueit
ders—"well, I world not. boOs's
sheriff to fight for my right.g.
No, by Santa Maria la Pur"
is in the blood of the Higuenq,:,
to fight their own fights.'4;
"Yes, and enjoy them; too'*1
"We fight in the elmn," Dt4.4 ,
„i Antrim, and I happen to know the
old skunk don't take orders worth a
cent. Yet, he knows you mean busi-
ness. That's why his men are all
armed. He expects a battle and tie
knows you'll lead your forces. Now,
if you should get killed in the fracas,
your executor would be the one to pro-
test lgainst his trespassing in the fu-
ture. Who might your executor be?"
"The Federal Trust Company of
El Paso."
"Tons Antrimowes them a lot of
Money. In a, dry year they might not
be too anxittus to discover that An-
trim ras invading your range—that
i's, not until they had gotten their
Mime, out of the old hog. Now I like
y'du; Jimmy, and I don't want to see
you get killed. Besides, if you kick
rue
up a row and don't get yourself kill -
SION•114M0.
A new, different
Cover
Red leaves flutter,
Yellow leaves fall,
)3rown leaves gather
Along a wall. '
Brown leaves huddle
Against the gray
Stones some farmer
Set one way
Between two pastures.
Curled leaves keep
Any wall warm
When winter's deep.
—Frances M, Frost, in "Hemlock
Wall."
• Reflection
Beauty is a lily,
Sparkling and cool,
Its bowl of dewy petals
Stemming in a pool. ...
•' Meditate on beauty,
Hold it, and look!—
Beauty shall be doubled—
A lily in a brook.
—Lew Sarett, in "Wings Against
Moon."
He proposed and was
Again he proposed and was
Yet again—same result.
"Never mind," ho said, determin-
edly, "I can wait."
"Cau you really?" she
brightly. "Then, if ever I open a
restaurant I'll bear you in mind."
the
rejected.
rejected.
asked,
thetic interest in you. and your broad
fig acres. You plan to go over yonder
fle.,and start something. All wrong, old
son, all wrong. You take a ranger's
advice and let the other fellow draw
first. Then beat him to the draw.
• While tient policy is highly dangerous
to a .6'611 Arian, it is the safest for a
man" who knows how to draw in e
hurry and shoot etaiglit. It puts the
Isar/len. fof ,guilt on the, enemy and he
and not, you usually gets the flowers.
jimmy, knowing the impetuosity of
your nature .1, have ridden over hare
to stop yoefrom doing something in-
artistic."
"You are alWays my good friend,"
murmured Don Jaime gratefully.
"Now, listen, Jimmy," Ken Hobart
continued. "Tomorrow I shall make
it my business to drop in at that sheep
camp for luncheon. A little later you
will ride up, alone and unarmed. I'll
report to Antrim that you're bent on
an argument, but not in the smoke;
and he'll go out to talk to you, because
I shall advise it strongly. When he
does you give him final warning in
language most becoming to a hidalgo
of your proud ancestry. He'll think
you're weak and afraid and of course
lie% disregard the warning. . . .
"Wel:, having warned him, you ride
back home, gather your gang together
and take possession of the water -holes
where Antrim must, of necessity,
water his sheep tonight. Don't let
him water them. He'll fight for the
water, rather than back -track with
his flock over ground that's been eaten
over, only to find your men guarding
tbe water -holes in that direction, too.
.A sheep can't stand much hardship,
and three days without water will see
his sheep dying by the thousand. '
"You understand me'jimmy? You
provoke the fight, but he shoots first.
Theu you clean up and clean up good,
because that's the only way yoa.'re
ever going to have peace. Antrim's
fate will be a lesson to any other
grass thief with cl-signs on your range
—and I don't think any jury in this
country will convict you of murder,
because Antrim and his men will have
been clearly outside .he law; you have
a record for patient forbearance in
the pass. And I will be your witness
to prove that you :ode up to Antrim's
camp unarmed and talked to him like
a gentlernan.--sabe .14.,ted, amigo? A.
captain of ranger's testimony carries
Weight with a jury. Anyhow, it just
isn't possible to conv'et a Higuenes in
his county. You have never killed any-
body or invaded another's rights—and
that old buzzard, Antrim, has never
done anything else but."
"You are always," Don Jaime said,
"my very good friend. And you aro
as wise as a treeful of owls. You
plot with all the consumate craft of
my own people."
(To be continued.)
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assured
"1 neve anit ydu nct"triiIssr
blood in your veins, did. I.?"
Don Jaime laughed. "Liriust hire
the figs in my gar,den picked,' lie dey
clared. "The birds 'aresiathering for
the feast. Of course the mocking-
birds roost in my fig trees and sing
sweet songs to me, but the little rag-
cals are too greedy."
"Don't try to switch the conversa-
tion," the ranger protested. "Froen:
sheep to figs is a jump from the'ridi-
culous to the sublime. I heard all
about the famous defi ofyours to old
This delightful tea menu suggested by Madame R.
Lacroix, assistant director at the Provincial School
of Domestic Science, outstanding Montreal Cook.
Ing School, will come in very handy next time
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TEA MENU
Fruit Cocktail
Hot Cheese Biscuits*
Salad Marguerite
Assorted Tea Cakes
Pineapple ice Cream
Chase & Sanborn's Tea or Coffee
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11/2 -cups flour Fig cup milk
4 teaspoons Magic 3. cup grated
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2 tablespoons butter 1 teaspoon salt
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AMBITION
An ambitious man puts it into the
power of every malicious tongue to
throw him into a fit of melaneholy.
ISSUE N. 46—'31
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A hard day at the office, and a head-
ache homeward bound. All for the
want of two little tablets of Aspirin!
Don't be helpless when you suddenly
get a headache; carry Aspirin with
you. The pocket tin doesn't take up
any room, but what a comfort when
itPsFliateiegudeecliwill frequently bring on a
headache. It lowers the vitality and
invites a cold. Take Aspirin and
throw it off! Don't wait until you are
miserable. There is nothing in Aspirin
to hurt the heart or upset the stomach
or harm the system in any way. Your
1014,
doctor will tell you that! But, get
Aspirin—not a substitute!
Follow the proven directions to be
found inside each package. They cover
colds, sore throat, headache, tooth-
ache, neuritis, neuralgia, sciatica,
lumbago or rheumatism, muscular
pains, and, other pains and aches for
which these tablets are a positive
antidote. Keep your pocket tin filled
from the bottle of 100 tablets. Every
drug store has Aspirin in bottles, as
well as the familiar little box.
Aspirin is made in Canada.
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