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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1932-04-28, Page 2"vv•vvvyT777fY/vvv7v•T7TY Y.1TI.T.ts7T JIM TAE CONQUEROR By PETER B. KYNE Illustrated by Allen Dean SYNOPSIS Don Jaime Miguel Higuenes, axes rancher, and Tom Antrim, sheep owner, have been bitter enemies. Capt. Ken Boy bart, Don Jaime's manager, finds the don wounded after shooting it out with An- trim, who 3s killed. Don Jaime takes possession of Antrim's sheep. Roberta Antrim is advised of her uncle's death and leaves for Texas. "Crooked Bill" Latham, another uncle, wants her to marry his friend, Glenn Beckett, and when Roberta writes her approval of Don Jaimo, Latham leaves :For Texas, He buys the Antrim sheep under the alias of Blodgett. Don Jaime introduces himself to 'Blodgett." fl CHAPTER XXVI.—(Cont'd.) Crooked Bill liked this young man's gay frankness and humor, although it disturbed him. Here (he reflected) was exactly the sort of male biped to appeal to his niece. Undoubtedly Don Jaime was one who could fence with th :t young woman, a foeman worthy of her steel. He bad guessed as much after reading Don Jaime's letter to him and now he was certain of it. "I hear Antrim's niece, who is his heir, is a guest at your ranch, Mr. Higuenes," he said cautiously. Don Jaime nodded. "Is .;he anything like her uncle?" "Tom Antrim was her misfortune, not her fault, Miss Antrim is, with- out doubt, the most delightful, fascin- ating, provoking, adroit, belligerent, sportsmanlike and honest young lady it has ever been my fortune to meet." "You're in love with her," Crooked Bill charged. Don Jaime shrugged. "What else would one expect?" "Well, do you stand a Chinaman's chance?" "I killed her uncle." "Yet she's your guest." "Oh, she realized I had no other alternative. However, under the cir- cumstances I have thought it the part of wisdom to remain the good friend. I am afraid of that young woman. I fear she would not be an ideal wife for a Higuenes." "You're an ass, young man," Crook- ed Bill cried sharply, all of his love and loyalty to his niece instantly out- raged. "If she's all that you have just told me she is, she's a prize and you're a lobster not to go in and win her. Forgive me for telling you your busi- ness, but I'm an old man and I've known what it is to have that sort of wife." "I have some pride," Don. Jaime murmured sadly. "I could not risk a refusal. It would kill me. Moreover, there is another man—some fellow in New York.,. • "Ohl" Crooked Bill was relieved. He was discovering things, and dis- coveries were not unpleasant. He eyed Don Jaime closely. "Dog -gone fine, upstanding sort of chap," he solilo- quized. "So you're going to buy the Antrim sheep?" Don Jaime resumed. "I've bought them—subject to the approval of the heir and the probate court." "I'm afraid neither one will ap- prove, Mr. Blodgett." "Why? I'm giving all they're worth. Perhaps more." "Unfortunately, I want those sheep. They've been feeding for two months on grass that's rightfully mine and they've done so much damage to my range I might as well keep them there and 'make a profit out of them—for Miss Antrim. She tells me her uncle, who was very rich, has gone broke in the market, and she's hocked the sheep and the ranch to help him out. Says he was mighty good to her while he bad money and now she's not going back on him." "By George, she is a sport, isn't she?" "If I permit you to buy those sheep, where do you intend to graze thetas?" "Don't intend to graze them: I'm going to sell them immediately." Parker's Will Pay Mail Charges Both Ways Send your cleaning to Park- er's and you will always be sure of lovely .results. All garments are cleaned by the famous non -gasolene method which makes clothes Meaner, fresher and absolute- ly odorless. Questions gladly answered 1¢y our Mail Order Depart - Meat. Postage charges paid both Ways. DARKER'S DWORKS 11MlTED CLEAN ERS & DYERS 791 Yonge St., Toronto Specialists In both Clothes and Household '1~urnishings. ISSUE No, 17w-- 32 i Will Roger's Daughter "Locally?" "Perhaps." "That makes it a little binding. T wouldn't like to see you sell those sheep locally. While X can stand them on my range, for Miss Antrim's sake, .my forbearance would cease if they belongedto anybody else and contin- ued to trespass on my range." "Is it your range?" "No, it's state land, but I control the water. So I fear I'll have to out- bid you on those sheep, Mr. Blodgett;" "I've got my ,:heart set on them, son, and when that happens I usually get what I go after." Don Jaime concluded it was time to strike. "You went after my dad once—and you didn't get him. He got you—in the 'heel. And the old greaser spirit isn't frozen in the veins of Patricio's son, Mr. William B. Latham !" Crooked Bill appeared about to col- lapse in his chair. "I haven't figured out what you're up to, Mr. Crooked Bill, but it's dee vious, and Mr. Glenn Hackett is help- ing you out. You're framing some- thing on me, and I think you merely want to get those sheep out of the way so your niece can be ordered home, leaving little Jaime Miguel Hi- guenes bereft. Not so, Bolivia. Those sheep stay and Roberta stays. I've got to have my chance. I'm a fast worker, but there's such a thing as indecent haste in courtship and I de- cline to disturb my dignity by ap- pearing clamorous. That sort of thing would be fatal to me chances, Your niece is an outrageous coquette, if you must know it—and I bet you do—so it's my job to marry her, and I'd like to see the photograph d the ante- diluvian uncle that can throw a cold chisel into my cogs and get away with it." Crooked Bill thought of all the things he would have to explain if Roberta ever learned what he had been up to, and his thoughts saddened him. "Can you fix it with the judge to disapprove the sale?" "Certainly I'll offer ten cents a head more for those sheep than you have. I can't spare that amount of ready cash to put into sheep just now, so you'll loan me the money, secured by a chattel mortgage on the sheep." "But I've already agreed to turn the sheep over to someone else," said Latham. "Who is that person?" °'Bill'nisg3b;<:Ihaven't'sold them to him yet,"but the deal is ready to he closed." "Ah, on jawbone, eh? You're going to take a chattel mortgage and sell at a loss, for Dingle is too good a sheepman to give you a profit en your ueal." Don Jaime commenced to chuckle. "You're doomed to pay a high price for your fancies, Uncle William. Dingle will sell those sheep as soon as he can and beat it for parts unknown with the money, leaving you to charge that chattel mortgage off on your next income tax statement." Crooked Bill's face registered alarm. "Yost think so?" "Well, after you've closed the deal, he'll try to. And he'll succeed unless he's stopped. You've bought yourself a little shooting serape, that's what you've done. Let me know the minute the deal with Dingle is closed, because immediately thereafter I'm going to guard every waterhole, and those sheep of yours will die of thirst before Dingle can move them off that range." "You appear to be holding all the aces." "It's a habit of mine. What are you going to do about it?" "I think I'll sell you those sheep," Crooked Bill faltered. "You're regaining your senses. I'll buy them at two dollars a head less than you ;paid for them." "If I sell to you, will you give me your word of honor never to tell Rob-' erta a word about this?" "I'm willing to make that stipula- +ion a part of the contract and set an agreed amount of damages to be paid if I fail. to keep my covenant. However, most folks in this country usually take my word of honor, which I now freely give. Let's shake hands on it." That night Crooked Bill left ;for home, He knew when he had met hi9 match. CHAPTER XXVII. When Crooked Bill boarded the train for El Paso, he sent the follow- ing telegram to Glenn Hackett: "The ship is sunk without a trace, so braee yourself for news. This Higgins boy gave lime cards and spades, four aces, big and little casino, and beat me to death on the sweeps. I am mighty sorry you have lost but far from depressed that he appears to be going to win. f1owevee we will keep on trying altho sgh I have no hope. I eblong iii e home for 'the feeble-minded." At almost the same time Don Jain,&' ,;fined Tien Hobart 'in front of 'dr lansion house., "Any lack?" Hobart veiled no, uusly, "I'm in the ,brag hu•,ineas, 7x'' Tomorrow morning we'll pay oil that gang of murderers Dingle has herdi+,.g i thowe sheep and put our own inert on i the job, Dingle gets the rens, too," ?Glary Rogers, daughter of Wi 1 Rogers, humorist, is shown helm splashing in the pool, and one thing and another. Certainly- California. "Well, you'll clea a profit, won't you, chief?" "What," replied Don Jaime mourn- fully, "doth it profit a man if he gaineth the whole world and suffereth the loss of the lode -star of his exist- ence?" "None whatever," Ken admitted, without knowing in the least what he was talking about. Five miles outside Los Algodones his sharp eyes observed something far ahead and off the side of the road. He called Don Jaime's attention to it. In the starlight a tiny red dot gleamed. "Cigarette - Mexican — careitita Don Jaime murmured. "Ah, he's doused it. Getting ready for business." He reached down into the tonneau and brought up a carbine; simultaneously Ken Hobart swung the car off the roadand went through the low sage in a wide are. "There may be holes and dry watercourses on this road," he announced calmly, "but we'll have to take a chance." He switched off the lights just as a volley of rifle fire broke the stillness of the night. The car was hit twice, but most of the bullets droned over- head. Don Taime pumped his carbine, fisting atthe flashes, and the car crashed on; when the magazine was empty he set the rifle back in the tonneau. •They reached the hacienda without further incident. Don Jaime alighted and entered the patio. Roberta ran swiftly to meet him. "You're safe, Jimmy?" she cried. "Reasonably so, Bobby," he replied. "My information was correct. Dingle's crowd of imported killers laid for us." He held his hat toward her and ran his fingers through two holes in the crown. "And that bonnet cost me forty dollars," he grieved. "Oh, Jimmy! 'What if he'd aimed lower!" "Have you been worried, Bobby?" he asked gently. She nodded. "It's been a long time since anybody worried over aIle, Bobby. What will 1 do when you're gone?" "What did you do before I came, Jimmy?" (To be continued.) ' "Pardon me, old marl, but people are wondering how you can afford to buy yon* wife the clothes she selects." "I dou't blame them. I wonder myself." .Exhibit Ex -Kaiser's Trophies S :h.wecltAnl Oder, Germany..- 7eror Willielrn's hunting troph'c, i exhibition here in the margf'a• :: 1 casl:le, which lie still owns, . Garden Chats A Garden For Bouquets To avoid marring the beauty of the regular bower garden by cutting bon, suets, a supply of flowers should be grown in the vegetable patch for this purpose only. Here too are produced those: 'flowers such as salpiglossis, scabiosas, sweet peas, and cora flow- ers, which have beautiful blooms but poor foliage. Planted in rows with vegetables and receiving regular tivation these are more easily looked after than when grown in the bower garden and, of course, they may be cut freely without disfiguring any bor- der. Building and Filling, Window poxes Hanging pots and whitlow bexes will. add to the attractiveness of any home. Boxes can be purchased and stained green or any 'other„ calor to blend with the surroundings, though arrange- ments will have • to be made for sup- porting them.. They should be placed in such a way so as not to obscure too muG_h of the window when the plants are growing, and they must be very strongly supported by stout wire or chains as'they will weigh very con- siderably when Oiled' with earth. In building your own, use inch lumber and re-inforce corners with angle irons through which screw nails are inserted. These can be purchased at any hardware store, and they are es- sential to prevent the box warping or bursting after the same has been watered a few times. The box should be at least eight inches wide and the same deep, so that there will be less chance of the soil drying out. It should be as long as the window -sill, but where the latter is over six feet, it may be advisable to use two boxes for convenience in handling. Window boxes and hanging pots should have holes in the bottom and also a layer of cinders, broken pottery or gravel, to provide drainage. Then, if procurable, put in a four inch layer of well -rotted manure, and on top of this two or three inches of fine, rich garden soil. Press down firmly and after watering you are ready to plant. As the box or pot is very much exposed to the air. it.. will be necessary to water every day' and even oftener during very hot weather. It is also usually best to add some chemical fertilizer dissolved in water, from time to time, to keep the flowers constantly in bloom. At the back, pelt in geraniums, ferns, and or- namental grasses. in the middle, pe- tunias, nasturtiums and other medium height' flowers are advised. At the front, alyssum. ageratum and lobelia can be placed with one or two trailing plants such as German Ivy, Wander- ing Jew and climbing nasturtiums. The latter can be placed as seeds. Shade for a few days after box is filled until plants get thoroughly established. Right Time to Plant l!lvery married man 15 personally acquainted with the speaker of the Usually the beginner Is inclined to be too eager and get some things planted long before the right time. True, there are a few vegetables and one or two flowers which can hardly be planted too early, but these are easily remembered. In the vegetable line, we have leaf lettuce, onions (in- cluding onion sets), spinach, radish, cress and similar things. These can go in lust as soon as the ground is ready and will weather any amount of cold and wet. Peas are another crop it is well to get in first thing in the spring. 1f the ground is fit to plant You can put half .your peas, radish, cress, spinach and some of your let- tuce in quite safely, and if the weather continues favorable, make a second sowing in about ten days to two weeks. With peas, radish and spinach, early sowing is imperative and successional sowing, that is, planting four or five tmes at ten-day intervals, is net re- commended. These vegetables must get their growth early, while the soil is wet and cool, and before the weath- er turns warm,, In order to make the crop last as long as possible instead of successional sowing, rely on varieties, that is, get early, medium and late sorts and make two plantings. In this way you will have along season. In the flower line, one can safely • sow those things that ordinarily seed them- selves just as soon as one can walk over the ground. These include cos- mos, calliopsis, poppies, calendulas And a few other extra hardy flowers. They grow rapidly in the cool, w"et weather of early spring. But for other vegetables and flowers one should not be in. a hurry. 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