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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1932-05-26, Page 2JIM TIHIE CONQUEROR By PETER B. KYNE Illustrated by Allen Dean CHAPTER XXIX.2(Cont'd,) The sheep, in panic, fled wildly, leaping over each other, bleating, leaving a cloud of grayish white dust behind theta, Roberta rode into that Claud, Her horse, plunging and swerv- ing, was striving, with common eenso rather uncommon in a horse, to avoid the woolly bodies un ler his feet, and Robevta was forced to ride as she had never ridden before. Pistols popped behind her... She was clear of the sheep... Her dull little riding -acad- emy spurs prodded her mount's flanks, the quirt rose and fell... , She caught the gleam of sunshine as the last level rays of the dying day were reflected on a pool; Among some rocks beycnd the pool three fig- ures moved, the crackle of fire grew :..oder; she could discern the sharp, spiteful reverberation of it now. Where was the corral? Wherever it was, it could not be far distant. . Don Jaime was there, wounded, dying, perhaps... . She saw it—a circle of boards, nail- ed so close together that the fence ap- peared like a wall. Straight at it she drove her mount, realizing vaguely as she did so that it was a hurdle at least a foot higher than she had ever faced in sport. She saw her horse's ears flicker, felt his stride slacken a little; then his head shot forward and his ears came up straight. Good horse! He was not going to refuse the jump. She felt him gather himself for the leap, and took a firm grip on the reins. "Alley oop!" she cried. While in midair she saw Don Jaime on the right flank, standing in the bed of a wagon, firing over the fence; then she was over and inside the cor- ral with him. "Jimmy!" she shouted. Ile turned, staring at her amazed. Then he jerked the bolt of his Spring- field and yelled: "Down! Flat!" She rode up to the wagon, slipped off, pulled the rifle from the scabbard and untied the cartridge belt from her pommel. Then, with a slap on her rump, she sent him trotting across the corral. And then. Don Jaime leaped down at her, his powerful arm swept her backward and off balance; she slid to the ground and he threw himself be- side her. "Oh, sweetheart, why did you come?" he almost moaned. "Because I love you, Jaime Miguel Higuenes. You are in danger and I couldn't stay away. I'll help you, Jimmy. If you have to die I—want you to knowbefore that happens- that Iife without sort—will be deso- late--" "I always knew you were a thor- oughbred," he gulped finally. "Lie here and do not move, This'is a pri- vate fight and you haven't been in- vited. I've got to keep moving. I've run miles from one side of this corral to the other, firing through knotholes and gaps in the boards. If I stay still, they'll locate me and I can't afford that—now!" He rolled away like a. tumbleweed. .izbullet crashed through the fence and struck where he had been lying o second before. And then Roberta. fainted. CHAPTER XXX. Roberta came to in Don. Jaime's arms beside the waterhole. "Well, Jimmy," she murmured pre- sently. "We're back in the sheep business again," he assured her solemnly. A silence. Then: "Any casualties, Jimmy?" "Yes. Three dead horses and two wounded. Hobart's pinked, but no- thing worse than what he's been used to. Adolfo de Hero, one of my riders. is dead, and Lambert, O'Grady, and Martinez Trujillo are badly hit, but 1 do not think they will die. Julio Ortiz has lost a little finger. Dingle and nine of his men are dead to date and the final returns iron the river should make the affair unanimous. Fraser, Juan Espinosa, and Julio Ortiz are following them. They took cur mounts and now I'll have to get busy, load our wounded on Dingle's chuck wagon and go home." "Was that his chuck wagon in the corral?" "Well, it used to be your Uncle Tom's so I presume it's your now. Dingle got here first, ran his chuck outfit into the old branding corral to camp for the night and turned his mules loose there. Then he waited to see what might turn up before dark. I turned up —unexpectedly — rode wide around the herders, approached the corral from the rear and had opened the gate and entered before either side discovered I was trapped. They couldn't see me cleanly, but through the chinks in the corral boarding they could see something moving& against the light. At that they couldn't be sure that something was me, my horse, or their mules, and they didn't want to hit the mules, so they were careful. "It. was close work, and after I'd located all the chinks in the boards I made them keep their heads down. Then when the firing started out on the flat, and they saw Ken's men, led by you, making a pistol charge on the men with the sheep, Dingle got cold feet. You rode through quite a bar- rage, sweetheart, but once you'd top- ped the corral they figured I had reinforcements, so they ran for their horses and rode south. That is, some of them did. I climbed upon the wagon seat and fanned their rear; as they fled down the south side of the valley they bumped into Ken and Julio, who emptied two saddles each. Do you know, darling, that you have a pistol bullet through the muscles of your back, rather well on the right side? Nothing fatal, but you'll sleep on your left side for a month!" "I'm a fool," Roberta murmured weakly. "Yes, but a gallant little fool." "Are you hurt, Jimmy?" "Not a scratch." She raised her left arm and curled it round his neck; he lowered his face until his cheek touched her. "You're such a terrible man," she whispere°l. "Oh, such a terrible •man!" "But you love me, just the same?" "Yes, but I wouldn't have told you —I'd have died first. It's all due to Ken Hobart. He told me—" "Hush, sweetheart. IIe's confessed. He told you a few of the most won- derful onderful lies on record, and when he found you'd been hit he cried like a baby." "Ken!" Roberta called weakly. The ex -Ranger got up and limped painfully over to her. "You're a grand liar," she murmured, "and a grand fighter, and a grand friend -- and now I'm going to decorate you." "Kiss her, fool," Don Jaime roared. "And you can kiss her again the day we're married, That's the privilege of the best man, but after that, believe you me, partner, she's not going to give away any more samples to hard- boiled old waddies like you." So the embarrassed wretch obeyed orders, and Roberta fainted again. About noon the next day Jaime Miguel Higuenes carne into Roberta's room and sat down on her bed. She reached out a hand to him and be took it in both of his. "Caraveo and his men have just got back safely," he informed her. "Not a man of that bandit gang got back across the river, so I venture to say this has been a lesson to them. "I wired your Uncle Billy a hearty invitation to come down and visit ,ts, and he has accepted and is on his way." Notice to Anglers New 1932 Illustrated Price List and Prize Contest now ready for mailing FREE. 32 Pages. 21 Prizes Delivery Free in Ontario. Write today for Your Copy. SKINNER'S 78 Victoria St., Toronto The Golden Province of Canada In the mi4t of a world of depression, the Gold Mining in- dustry of Ontario has risen to -.anew record production. The o1 ,Mines of the Province in 1931 produced precious metal to the value of 43 Million Dollars, which is 20 per cent in advance of the output for 1980, and four-fifths of the total gold production: by the Dominion of Canada, 000 Cieol'oyicai Maps and exploration reports of Specific areas, and for genera! information, apply to T. P. SUTHERLAND, Acting Deputy Minister of Mines, Parliament Btritdings; Traont'b, Canada. HON, CHARLES McCREA, THOS. W. 01BSON, Minister of Mines. Deputy Minister. KUAFT CIIEES �. an economical, healthful food Bich in vitamins ... Energy - producing ... An economical source of highest quality protein . fully matured ... Kraft cheese is a healthful, body- building food. Serve it with every meal. 3. Ib. packages or sliced from the famous 5 Ib. loaf. Look for the name "Kraft" as the only positive identification of the genuine. Made in Canada "You're such a dear, Jimmy. So thoughtful. Dear Uncle Bill. Does he know I'm hurt?" "Yes, the paper.. carried the story. I've wired him to save his tears until our wedding day." "Are we engaged, Jimmy? I can't. remember that you've ever asked me to marry you." "Oh, didn't I, sweetheart?" "Never." He bent low over her and swept her. cheeks with his eager lips. "Still in- terested in boll -weevil and irrigation, brown babies and cholo men and wo-' men, heat, dust and purple ligate on the buttes at down and sunset, darts ing?" She nodded. "I can be a good part ner, Jimmy. I never had any respon sibilities—and now I want so badly` tt share yours—always." Don. Jaime produced a telegram and; read "I never figured on you taking, ever my principal responsibility but; row that you insist in being recklee,i take a tip from one who knows.. DO not spoil her. I did that long a-;, You are as welcome in our fami' the silence that fo11owa a Co al oration. • "Sheepishly.. yours, ' "UNCLE BILL."'' "Why does he sign himself 'sheep- ishly yours,' Jimmy dear?" "Some far-fetched allusion to the sheep that brought you here, Bobby. Just some of his gringo humor, I' imagine." "I see." She was s.lent, turning his brown, strong, useful hands, counting the calluses on them. "It will be forever and ever, Jim- my," she whispered, "and I'm so happy—and grateful." "The Higuenes men keep their wo- men," he assured her gravely. She thought of Glenn Hackett. "Poor dear," she murmured absently. "He never had a chance," Don Jaime assured her, with a flash of that prescience, that clairvoyaney, that would always make hint, for Ro- berta, a new, puzzling, yet wholly understandable human being and a joy forever. Yes, he would be the same always, yet always new, always challenging her interest, always hold- ing it. Of him (the girl thought) it might be said that age could not wither nor custom stale his infinite variety. "I'll get my guitar and sing you a little Spanish love song my grand- mother taught me," he suggested. "It's very old, It came to Peru with Pizarro and worked north. Oh, by the way, I forgot something! Let', get this on record officially, Miss An- trim, will you do me the great honor to marry me?" "You outrageous Celt," she laughed. "You're the last of the troubacloue ,. Of course I will." (The End.) Week's Offerings Of Science Ocean Chemical Changes -- Sterilizing By Sound The materials that are swept doevn into the ocean by wind and rails, vol- canic upheavals and slowly moving glaciers .are subjected to a vast mill- ing of chemical changes., Reacting, dissolving, precipitating, redissolving, these materials are taken up by living plants and animals, go through the life cycle and are then set free again, The ocean is forever stirred by wind, tide and current --horizontally and vertical- ly—exposed to change of temperature, exposed to light of various intensities and colors, so that almost every kind of reaction has a chance to occur. The composition of the ocean as it now exists is the result of millions of years of these reactions. According to Dr. Harden F. 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Silver is also reported in varying amounts—about 10 mg. (.1543 grain) per cubic meter. Dr. Fritz Haber, Nobel prize winner, internationally known for having developed the pro- cess for making ammonia synthetical- ly, has determined the amount of gold and silver from many localities and depths w".h distinctly disappointing results. He reports amounts in a few thousandths of a grain in sea water to as much as 4.8 mg. (.074064 grain) in melted polar ice, and silver from .01 mg. (.00015 grain) to 8.9 mg. (.137327 grain), the latter in 2,000 meters (1.24 miles) depth of the Atlantic, and 20 mg. (.30860 grain) in polar ice. Dr .Haber says that looking for a depend- able richness of precious metals in an .endurable climate is like looking for a needle in a haystack. He found de- cidedly more gold 'in the living or- ganism than he did in the water itself. x A SACRED WORD Mother! next to the Divine Father, the most sacred word human voice can utter. 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The apparatus used consists essen- tially of a nickel tube -which is made to vibrate electro -magnetically at the rate of about 18,000 swings a second. This causes the tube to emit a note of such high pitch that it can just about be heard. In his original experiments, con- ducted in collaboration with Professor 0. B. Williams, Dr. Gaines held bac- teria cultures above the sound waves. Much of the sonic energy was thus dis- sipated so that the organisms .in a small volume of liquid were destroyed rather slowly. Still, in repetitions of these earlier experiments 99- per cent, of the bacteria in milk were killed af- ter forty-five minutes. In an improved apparatus devised by Drs. Chambers and Gaines the milk is continuously sterilized by forcing it into close contact with the vibrating nickel tube. Thus a hundred quarts of milk can be treated in an hour—by no means the limit of the principle. Drs. 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