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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1931-11-26, Page 2TVV•TTT•, uality has no substitute Tea 7esf/om tie9arckns" JIM THE CONQUEROR By PETER B. KYNE illustrated by Allen Dean ti SYNOPSIS Don Jaime Miguel Higuenes, who owns a ranch in Texas, is Informed by Capt.. L-obart oe the Texas Rangers, that Tom Antrim, a sheep owneris trespassing on his .rangedetermines Higuenes to drive Antrim from his property, regardless of consequences. CHAPTER III.—(Cont'd.) Ken Hobart lit a cigar and looked out over the pleasant garden. "Gosh, you've got a nice place here, Jimmy. I wish I'd been as discriminating in the selection of my ancestors as you. were." Don Jaime laughed lightly. "Only a little while ago I was reflecting that I have not had opportunity to prac- tice the discrimination evinced by my ancestors in the picking of wives, Friend Hobart," he replied. "If you would be lord. of a rancho, marry a lady who has one and doesn't know what to do with it. Fortunately, I possess thees—I mean this—rancho, so I do not need the lady!" "If you did, Jimmy, where would you find her?" • "You have the delightful habit of placing your finger on the weak spots, my friend. Where, indeed, would I find a suitable wife? I am too busy with tI:ees—I mean this—ranch, and when, once or twice a year I wander to the fleshpots it is to be filled with amazement and fear of what would happen to me if I marry a modern girl." "You have all of a Castilian's hor- ror of a woman who believes she can take as good care of herself as any man can. I suppose you want a girl who will consent to dwell behind bars. take no exercise and stand for a fat old duenna tagging around behind her, not to see that she avoids romance but to make certain that she doesn't act natural and seek it." "You are wrong, my friend. I ani quite modern but a bit old-fashioned, too. I have been in love many times, but only in love with love, I must think long and carefully before asking any woman to share this life with me. Here, she would be lonely. She would look from this hacienda to the horizon and see—cattle. She would look back and see—me. One grows weary of scenery. She would come to regard wise? At least you'd start with one last survivors of a fast disappearing me as a jailer, not a husband. So I advantage, She was still unmarried must be careful." when this magazine went to press." race. Guess I'll have to arrange to be "Well, when you meet the girl•you "One Antrim at a time, Ken. When present at the battle of the water - holes, even though I may shoot my- self out of a good job as general man- ager of Rancho Verde... What's the odds? I'll let the tail go with the hide... Tom Antrim': got to go.f' CHAPTER V. "Well, if she asks -t, you'll buy her a town house and live there with her part of the year, will you not?" "Asking is not ordering or deliver - ultimatums—" "Ultimata, Jimmy," the ranger cor- rected ham, mischievously. "At any rate," Don Jaime resumed, declining the argument, "it would be a delight to ae led but hell to be driven." "Well, when some girl starts lead- ing you, you'll need a good manager for this ranch, Jimmy. I'm growing weary of the reckless, modestly paid life of a ranger ... at least I could be depended on to keep this range free of sheep." "There are also bandits from below the border who raid my cattle. The cemetery of the Rancho Valle •Verde has grown fast of late years." "Border fighting is right up my alley, James, old son." "As a ranger you fight with the law behind you. You start with a moral victory. But as manager of this ranch, which God placed too close to the Rio Grande for comfort, you would have to be very careful. It is better to be the head of a mouse than the tail of a lion. However, Friend Ken, if the time should come for me to tie myself to a girl's apron -strings I shall send :fur you." Don Jaime lifted from the floor be He strolled away under the fig side his chair a copy of a pretentious trees.... To weary, sleepy Ken Ho- ers, Don Jimmy. I wasn't jesting when I said I'd like to be the manager of Rancho Valle Verde, if you should ever need me." "You are the maa .I have been seeking, Ken. When you reach town the-Higuenes tribe are easy-going ;,:eople. We do not require the ser- vices of supermen, for we have never had them, but we have been accustom- ed to loyalty. Because 1 know you are loyal to your job I have engaged tomorrow wire your resignation to the You. Governor of Texas, and as soon as (To be continued.) you are released return here." "Hope you'll be here when I arrive, Jimmy. You've got to fight that An- trim outfit, and when you do, be care- ful. I really want this job." "If I am still here, you will be assistant general manager. If I am not here you will be general manager —and executor of my estate. I 'ill make a new will tonieht. Your salary nished With 7i' ' •y will never be less than the one you enjoy at present. Write your own ticket," he added, with a touch of the tremendous prodigality of his Cas- tilian blood—a prodigality developed to an excess growth doubtless, hecanse of the tremendous inconsequence cf his rigged environment. "Thank you, Don Jaime." Never again would Ken Hobart address his friend as Jimmy, and Don Jaime, reale izing this, offered no protest, since to him, to the hacienda born, lord of a million acres and sixty thousand head of cattle, this was as it should be. "I think," said Don Jaime Mig•tel Higuenes presently, "that I must start now to pick those figs. The birds are raising the devil with the ripe ones. My great-grandfather planted those figs," he added, with just a touch {If. pride. "I have been thinking it would be a very great shame if I departed this world leaving none of niy line to care for them.... Well, now that I shall be tied to this ranch nolonger I suppose I must look around. . What New York Is Wearing BY ANNEBELLE WORTHINGTON Illustrated Dressmaking Lesson 6'ur• Pattern magazine devoted to country life in America. "Here is a photograph of a girl," he said, turning the pages indolently, "whose face and figure would cast a halo over Texas. Now, if she were as good and sweet and womanly as she is beautiful—`Miss Roberta Antrim'," he interrupted him- self to reacn from the caption, "'one of the enthusiastic members of to Westchester County Hunt, mounted on her crack hunter• Croppy Boy.' Must be an Irish hunter," Don Jaime opined. "Look at that, Ken, and see if you can work up a cheer or two." The ranger studied the page casu- ally. `Well, why don't you pull out for Westchester County, New York, secure an introduction to her and sae if she's too good to be true or other - Bart there came presently, as from a great distance, the flute -like tones of Don Jaime's whistling; he trilled a mournful waltz that had been com- posed five hundred years before, in- spired by the exit of the Moors from Granada. "That boy and a gringo flapper would get along together as comfort- ably as two tom cats—cats tied tail to tail and thrown over a clothesline," the ranger decided. "Guess I'll have time for a siesta before Flavio draws my bath. Hum -m -in! Strolling around his old-fashioned garden, picking ripe figs and dreaming of his proud an- cestors and his duty to posterity. And within forty-eight hours there's at least a fifty per cent. chance he'll be dead! Good lad! He's one of the truly fall desperately in love with, and she reciprocates your passion—" "She," quoth Don Jaime Miguel Hi- iienes solemnly, "shall be the mother of my children" "Where? Here?" I've disposed of Tom it will be time to dream of having a look at Roberta." "You aren't afraid they're relate i, are you?" Don Jaime favored his guest with a withering lganee. "A man named Jini "Where she will, my friend," Don Hobart was hanged at Austin last Jaime replied with simple sincerity. week," he retorted. "Was he a rela- "Then, Jimmy," said. Ken Hobart, tive of yours—this train robber and "I hope, for purely selfish reasons, murderer?" "Yes," Ken Hobart answered even- ly, "he was my half-brother. And 1 tracked him and captured him. A black sheep will crop out in the best of regulated families, you know." Don Jaime's hand caressed that of his friend. "I did not know. I am sorry, my friend." Ken Hobart turned bleak eyes upon his host. "I want to quit the rang - you'll meet your fate before long and that she'll refuse to marry you until you sell this ranch and move to Hous- ton or Dallas or San Antonio or---" "The Higuenes men do not take orders from women," Don Jaime inter- rupted. "And this rancho will never be sold. Four generations of my fam- ily have owned it and fought for it. I love it." ssEtsenbnisisgranSSOK A treat For all Every member of the family can en)oy Velveeta at any Meal . . It's "digestible as milk itself." Serve it spread on bread or crackers, sliced, in cooked dishes or toasted. KRAFT' Made in Canada l{acte by the makers of Kraft Cheese and Kraft Salad Dressing Don Jaime made a new will that night and handed it to Ken Hobart at breakfast the following morning. "Your instructions are all in that envelope, too," he explained, •"in case I should be unfortunate. Enrico Car- aveo, my riding boss, has the run of things pretty well. He's a good man, and a Caravel) has always been rid- ing boss of the Rancho Valle Verde. I shouldn't want you to make a change, Ken. "I have some Mexican first cousins; they're emigres, living in Los Angeles, and I'm leaving them the ranch in trust, with you as trustee and man- ager, The revolutions have ruined them and I support them now. So- cially, I'm proui of them, but the fact remains that they're spendthrifts, and if they had their way they'd sell this ranch and the -cattle for fifty cents on the dollar in order to start splurging again. And a Mexican ` grandee is much too conscientious a splurger to centime) on the job indefinitely. Con- sequently I, with my acquired Amer- ican conservation, must look after the poor devils."rnet,, "Don Jaime," Hobart protested, "*.'.'mnegligiblenegligible'place in his big, ho your employee note. I'll wire the goy cruhumorous nature. or of Texas my resignation and, Laughing heartily, he got eto his without waiting for its acceptance, "feeH whenAntrim'se had first claim to the.right of I'llride dsheep e to to the Present way, that fellow," he said to his nom - Den water -holes.' � panion. Have l not earned thousands g Don Jaime smiled. ".As you win, of scudi by the help of his bristles? Ken. While I require no additional And yet 1 have never given to one ,of 1n•oof that 1 he c m,ada no mistake in his Family a Cup of minestra," hiring you, st.l1"---he shrugged 'rtricl A.niclia Wofi`ord. ifs§ to hav0 it. MI yatt knew,IVe pi ISSUE No. 47—'31 The Least of These This is the season of the year when the responsibility for the welfare of. unfortunate children, old people and animals, rests most heavily upon the shoulders of those standing i>i the noontide of life. It seems sad and inconsistent that the holiday seasons, Thanksgiving and Christmas, should also be the season of greatest suffering for many inno- cent victims of circumstances. Our rejoicing becomes a mockery if in our observance of these great Christian holidays there is no record of a heart 'cheered, a burden lifted, a life made more happy because of us. Let us pledge ourselves this year to share more bountifully than ever be- fore with our less fortunate fellow creatures, man and beast. Let the lit- tle -folks scatter a generous meal of crumbs for the wiuged sparks of energy flitting about. our homes—A bit of food placed where the wander- ing, homeless cat or dog may find it, may ease their pangs of hunger;—and. will not make them. any more of a nuisance than they already are. The north winds blow cold and cut- ting. These homeless creatures have the same sense of suffering as we. 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