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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1932-03-10, Page 2JIM THE CONQUEROR By PETER B. KYNE Illustrated by Allen Dean SYNOPSIS. CHAPTER XIX. Aon Jaime Miguel Higuenes, Texas 1 Robbie, his pale face glowing frenl Ynncher, end Tom Antrim, sheep owner, ]bhis recent ablutions,arrived with Rob - ale been bitter enemies, Capt. Tien Ho- bart, former Texas Ranger, now Don erta, and the four went in to dinner. Jaime s manager, Sands the Don wound- with a nice consideration for her ed after shooting it out with Antrini, pri,o is fulled. Don Jaime takes posses- years, the host placed Mrs.. Ganby's Sion of Antrim's sheep, chair for her,then performed a SIM - eon Antrim Is adrised of her uncle's death at the hands of one Jimmy 1iiggins, "Crooned Bill" Latham, an- other uncle, wants her to marry his. friend, Glenn Hackett, Roberta leaves ilar service for Roberta, and lastly for little Robbie Ganby, "Instinctively kind," Roberta fey Texas, and on alighting from the t3 -ought. "Old-fashioned father taught train sees Bill Dingle, her uncle's fore- man,flee from a elan she understands Mini to respect age. Democratic, too. to bHiggins. when she arrives at Don His housekeeper eats with us." Jaime's ranch she accuses Don Jaime of duplicity. He recalls former ties of The table had been set in the gal - the two families. 1ery, Don Jaime explaining that der- ing the summer they always ate out- CHAPTER XVIII.—(Cont'd.) side. They were no sooner seated than two Spanish mocking -birds flew "How tremendously interesting, Zion Jaime." "Well, it's nice to find out who has proud flesh and who hasn't. You were certainly saddled with a prize pair of uncles, weren't you? Does Uncle Bill treat you with civility and decency?" "Of course he does. He's adorable, he's a love." "Very well then, I'll not kill him. You must agree, though, that I did you a real service in bumping off old Uncle Tom." "Uncle Bill says you did," Roberta athee ted. "But then he's biased." "My father always declared that Uncle Bill was all wool and a yard wide. I wish you'd brought him down with you—no, I do not. I don't want him around cramping my style.. . Dinner's ready. That stout saddle - colored female who appeared in the door just now says we'd better come and get it or she'll throw it out." him it was not for sale. He just kept "I must. run to my room for a hand- :tilting the ante and couldn't seem to kerchief; I forgot to fetch one," said see he was annoying me. Some people Roberta, and ran upstairs. I are like that. They think money is Don Jaime gazed after her. Thera the beginning and end of everything." was no doubt but that he approved I "Perhaps you would, also, Mr. Hi - of her mightily. When his gaze shift- guenes, if you had ever been. poor," the more interesting, the victory all Robert suggested. ed 't met Mrs Ganby's the more delightful I think that in and. lit on the floor beside his chair. "Abelard and Heloise," Don Jaime explained. "Mockers seldom migrate and these two have been steady board- ers for years." He broke crumbs from i piece of bread and fed the birds. Roberta appraised the table with the eye of an expert. It was covered. with a white linen cloth; short -stem- med red roses peepel from a jade - green bowl in the centre; the service was of sterling silver and very ofd and beautiful. On closer inspection she saw that it carried a coat of arms. "My great -great -great-grandmoth- er's silver," Don Jaime explained. "Fellow in New York once heard I had it and sent his secretary down to buy it. He offered me an unbeliev- ably high price for the service and didn't seem to believe nae when I told Equals World Record Dminett Topping, flash sprinter from Loyola University, is shown here after equalling the world 60 - yard record 6.2 seconds. when the banks and the government loan agencies -foreclosed. Cheap cat- tle and cheap feed, you know. I sold them as three -year-olds after the mar- ket had rallied, and in addition had my ranges restocked with high-grade Hereford stock cattle. But all this, you understand, Miss Antrim, requir- ed thought and worry and some cour- age. I had my moments of panic; the road was rough and rocky in spots, although that, of course, made it all "How does she impress you?" she ( "I've paid twelve per cent. for rent- ' queried. Mrs. Ganby had a brimming ed money," he retorted. "I've had the I awnd hen islp people he to st toloveboth, measure of feminine curiosity. ranch mortgaged nu bad yer Miss Antrim is physically' beauti- banks carried my father half his life- ful and mentally alert.- Yes, she's as time. Only those who are poor in smart a young women as you and I spirit, who lack courage, can be.really will ever meet. Well raised, well; poor. Do you think my people, who spaded, haughty, aware of her power dwell in the pueblo yonder, are via over men and just loves to use it.I tins of poverty? Not so. They are Sound at heart, though, I think. No -f envied by their kind." thing spurious about her!" I "Do you not find life a little lonely "I think she has a temper." , here?" "Of course she has. If she didn't `. "A busy man is seldom lonely. My h 'd b dull. But I do not think she father spent his life in bondage to se eu no matter how unlovely or uninterest- ing they may appear to those whose lives have been spent in shelter and without effort." "My life has been spent that way, I must admit," Roberta confessed. "And I like it," she added. "Why not? You've never tried any other life, have you?" Roberta noticed that her host was much more at his ease, now that their holds grouches, for her sense of hu- the irrigation system you probably conversation had veered into new mor would preclude that. And she's ', observed enroute here, but after his channels. His accent was less mark - too healthy, too normal, to be a picky i death I completed it and transformed ed. Not once did he forget himself woman. After hanging a mouse on a semi -arid valley into alfalfa and her enemy's eye,she'd run to the drug ! cotton fields. I got rd of the scrubby store to buy a leech to put on it. I long -horned cattle that were built for like her. She lights up my old house." speed and substituted Herefords, "Will she be here long, Don Jaime?" which are built for beef. All this has "I do not know. In all probability been a considerable task and fell to she will not be here long enough to my hands when I was eighteen. That please me. In fact if I hadn't .run was ten years ago. At college I ma - that Bill Dingle scalawag down the jored in agriculture and cattle hus- road she wouldn't be .fere now. She's bandry, because I knew that was go - a new niote•in life to me, but I'm not' ing to be my job. My foreman, En - going to let her know she is." He rico Caraveo, ran the ranch then and looked at his housekeeper seriously. "Do you realize, Mrs. Ganby, what a serious thing it is to have killed a sheepman that wanted killing, only to discover he has a niece that can set a man's reason tottering on its cattle prices were unbelievably high. throne?" Why, a thin old cow for a cutter or Mrs. Ganby was amused at his canner was worth eighty dollars them frankness. "Has Miss Antrim set I had a feeling, however, that such a your reason tottering on its throne war -time prosperity wouldn't last, so already,?„ I sold all my cattle in the fall of 1920. "No. I do not totter that readily— and in 1921 I didn't plant any cotton. riot in fact until I know that the ob- Well, the market smashed on both— jeet of my delusion is worth tottering and lucky Jim didn't have any! for. But something tells me this "Instead I raised alfalfa and stack - young woman has possibilities." ed it; then I bought cattle for a song and pronounce his "i's" as "e's." It oecurred to the girl, too, that Don Jaime Miguel Higuenes had 'Arid more in. five minutes of his colorful life than had the last three genera- tions of Hacketts. And the Hackett were a long-lived race. Don Jaime turned to Roberta. "By the way, what gainful occupation, if any, docs Mr. Latham practice now?" "He plays the stock market." "With success, I hope." when I was in 'lie army. "He has always been very success• "After I was demobilized in the ful until recently, when he lost prac- spring of 1919 I really started to put tically everything he had—or at least this ranch on a paying basis. I clean- he would have lost it without the aid ed up on cotton in 1919 and '20. And of some people who love him. We anticipate a reverse in the market which will pull him out, if not with a profit at least without terrific loss." "My father loved your Uncle Bill, even if he did shoot him in the heel and disagree with him politically. I would be glad to give my father's friend a leg up. You live with your Uncle Bill, I take it." "I've been his ward and a member of his household since nay tenth birth - Just wash the dirt away... FREE BOOKLET: The ell- tett'a Lye Booklet shows many ways to save drudgery by using this power- ful ower-f l cleanser and disinfectant. Contains fun directions for tree spraying, soap mating, disinfecting, and other ,farm uses: Address Standard Brands Lim- ited, Fraser Ave, & Liberty Street, Toronto, Ontario. GILLETT'S LYE *Never dissolve lye In . hot Water. The action of the iye EATS S 1) I R T Itself heats the Water. Gillett's Lye lifts off Grease, Grime and Stubborn Stains without scrubbing . . 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So, you see, now that he's old and liable to suffer financial reveries, it is my duty to take care of him, and for that reason Illy Uncle Tom's estate sones to me somewhat in the nature of a godsend.", "One more reason why I should be dealt with charitably in the matter of your deceased avuncular relative," the young man suggested humorously, "Well, we'll pull you out all right on the sheep." "I fear," the girl suggested, "that the Antrim sheep are proving to be a souree of trouble to you." "Not at all," her host protested, "I expect to collect from the Antrim estate a reasonable fee for my ser- vices, to reimburse nae for nay outlay or inconvenience." "Why, Jimmy!" Robbie had piped up. "Don't you remember telling me th th d that no gentleman ever e 0 er ay a told a lie—not even a white lie?" "Now what are you driving at, Robbie?" "I heard you tell Ken Hobart the other day that you'd see those sheep dead before monkeying with thein, if anybody but Miss Antrim owned then." "So I did, sonny. Anything wrong with obliging a lady?" "But you said the sheep would do more damage to the range than they were worth." "I know I did, Jimmy, but then I was angry at the time. One of those old ewes had just bitten me." "But you knew she couldn't hurt you, Jimmy, because I heard Ken tell you the old ewes were all more or less toothless. -And then you said: `Oh, Ken, let's let the tail go with the hide! Drive the old wrecks up into the al- falfa, so they won't starve to death: And Ken said he never knew a photo- graph to affect a level-headed man worse than it had you." (To be continued.) Defining a Collector Superb Qualify Always TEA "Fresh From the Gardens" Russian Culture .All Russians of rank speak French well, using the popular idioms and the fashionable phrases quite as if they were natives of Paris. They even un- derstand the French of Duvert and Lausanne, which is so thoroughly and entirely Parisian, that many provin- cials understand it with difficulty. They speak without accent, though with a little singing tone, that is very pretty and contagious. The women, too, are very cultivated, with the facility characteristic of the Slav race, and read and speak several languages, Many have enjoyed Byron, Goethe, Heinrich Heine, in their orig- inal tongue, and should a writer be mentioned, they show by a well-chosen quotation that they are conversant with his writings. As for their toilet- tes, they are of the highest elegance, more fashionable than the fashion. Diamonds flash on lovely bare should- ers, white gold, chain bracelets, from Circassia or the Caucasus, alone show by their Oriental workmanship that it is Russia. After dinner, people scatter over the drawing rooms. On tables albums, beauty books, keepsakes, landscapes, are lying, for the comfort of the timid or embarrassed. Stereopticon views provide amusement, and sometimes a woman, yielding to persuasion, seats herself at the piano, and sings to her own accompaniment a national air or a gypsy song in. which the melancholy of the North is intermingled with the ardor of the South, with a strange ac- cent. It is like a cachacba danced on the snow by moonlight. From "Rus- sia," by Theophile Gautier, translated by Florence Maclntyre Tyson. What is a collector? If a person acquires things without reference to their use, merely to satisfy his fancy, he is a collector. The objects thus acquired may be paintings, postage stamps, violins. But whatever the specific character of the appeal may be, it never proceeds—and therein lies the crux of the matter—from the thing as such; that is, from its primary at- tributes. Which naturally at once raises the question: "What then is it that stirs the fancy, what is it that stimulates the interest for collecting?" It is the "fringes" of things. Things have an entity which constitutes their identity; and they have fringes which constitute their differing. It is these fringes which fasten themselves upon the fancy. Let it be watches. One does not collect watches to be the bet- ter posted on the time. A. single watch would fulfil the need. It is the peculi- arities which the different makes of watches display which clinch the ap- peal. .A man becomes charmed with the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, He after- ward comes across another edition of it, and he acquires that as well. Later, he discovers that there is still another edition, and this he also procures, and then another, and many more yet; un- til he has gathered together maybe a hundred different editions. Does he read them. all? Plainly, no. What he does is to note their variations to the delight of his fancy. A famous American book collector at an auction in London paid a tre- mendous price for a copy of Venus and Adonis—a sum of money large enough to buy a mansion. 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