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JIM THE CONQUE.ROR
By PETER B. KYNE
Illustrated by Allen Dean
SY'NOP'SIS
Don Taime Miguel Higuenes, Texas
rancher, and Tom Antrim, sheep owner,
are sworn enemies. Antrim attacks Don
Jaime from ambush. Capt, Ken Hobart,
now armeidy of the Texas Rangers,
Don Jaime's manager, rescues Don Jamie
and finds Tom Antrim dead, Roberta
Antrim 1s notified of her uncle's death
at the handsof one Jimmy Higgins. Don
Jaime plans to deal with Tom Antrim's
men.
CHARTER VIII,—(Cont'd.)
The man galloped away. Don Jaime
smoked contentedly, while Mrs. Gan -
by watched him with curiosity. Pre-
sently Ken Hobart came to announce
his impending departure.
"Delay it until tomorrow, Ken," his
employer ordered casually.. "I have
a job for you." And he recounted the
tale brought by his visitor. "Take
forty men and ride for the river. If
this man's tale is the truth you will.
have work there. I think, however,
he Iies. Have Caraveo arm the other
men and instruct him to have them.
remain in the barns with their horses
until I send hini word that he is not
going to be needed."
"A plant, eh?"
"I've been expecting reprisal, Ken.
I told this messenger I had but forty
men available, but would send them
immediately. Go with them. Then we
shall see what we shall see. I smell
sheep."
Hobart departed, and Don Jaime
turned to Mrs. Ganby. "Please tell
Flavio to assist me to enter my
house," he said. "There is more dust
to the south. We shall have visitors
—about ten, I think."
The old peon pinked Don Jaime up,
carried him inside and laid him on
soca. Then he departed casually.
"You will oblige me by bolting that
door, Mrs. Ganby," Don Jaime re-
,euested gently,
Presently came the sound of hurry-
ing feet on the veranda, and through
tie iron-berr•ed tine window that gave
on the veranda Mrs. Ganby saw men
standing about. There came .a rap on
the door.
"Who's there?" Don Jaime chal-
lenged.
"Open the door," a rough voice com-
manded. "We -cant you."
"Ah, Bill Dingle. I have been ex-
pecting
xpecting you, ever since you so thought-
fully sent one of your men with a
false cry of raiders from below the
Border. I sent forty men. Your look-
out saw them ride out, and when they
had ,passed you decided to come to
my hacienda, deserted save for the
women and children, and kill me in
some unpleasant manner. Is it not
so?"
There was no answer to this and
Don Jaime's mocking laugh floated
through the window. "Now, Dingle,
consider the situatian. A hundred
armed men surround this poor house
of mine. Go to the patio entrance
and look."
A murmuring rose among the re-
cent arrivals, and one of them ran to
the entrance of the patio. A volley
of curses echoed thrcegh the garden,
then the man came running back.
"Is seeing believing, Senor Dingle?"
Don Jaime called pleasantly.
"You win, Higuenes."
"One by one you will go to the
entrance and give up your arms to
my riding boss. It would be madness
to resist. You shall not be killed and
Presently you shall all return to your
sheeps-I mean sheep. Forward!
March!"
A moment's hesitation, and the re-
treat to the entrance commenced. A
few minutes later Enrico Caraveo
thrust a smiling, sardonic face up to
the grilled window,
"I have the honor to inform Don
Jaime that his visitors await his
pleasure."
"Confine them in ehe barn under
guard. Feed them."
Mrs. Ganby, white-faced, speechless
with terror, watched Don Jaime blow-
ing smoke rings.
"Don Jaime Higuenes," she de -
mended, "after that exhibition of in-
gratitude on the part of those sheep -
men, are you still going to permit
them to trespass on your range?"
Don Jaime raised a deprecating
hand. "An Higuenes," he assured
her, "does not quarrel with a woman."
Mrs. Ganby's eyes blazed. "Now,
at least ," she declared, "I know why
Cervantes .wrote Dodi Quixote,. . Only
a Spaniard could have conceived such
a character and only a Spaniard could
—could—could—"
"Senora," Don Jaime protested,
"my name is jimmy Higgins."
CHAPTER IX.
Roberta. Antrim's limousine rolled
up the graveled driveway to the wide
portals of Hillcrest, and Harms, the
butler,, came down the stepe and open-
ed the door.
"Mr. Latham came home an hour
ago, miss," he confided. "Something
must have happened in the city today,
miss. He's worried -walking up and.
down the drawing -room and talking to
himself. I'm a bit worried about the
master, miss."
"Thank you, Harms. You're very
kind,
A foreboding of disaster brought
Roberta flying into the living -room.
Crooked Bill sat huddled in a reading
chair, his face in his hands, his atti .
tude reminiscent of profctntd de -
spell%
"Uncle Bill! What's happened?"
Crooked Bill's old hands merely
clasped' his features tighter. He wag-
ged his head and moaned:
r"
Ar1
eyou in a' Uncle Bill?"
pain,
"The market only jumped fifteen
points. I'm through. My brokers sold
me out this afternoon. Oh, Bobby,
Bobby, what a massacre! I stayed as
ling as I dared, but when the last
jnmp came I realized that only a
crazy roan would continue in this
crazy market. I declined to invest an -
her dollar—for the reason that I
didn't have it. I told my brokers I'd
gone the limit and to sell nee out. My
five thousand dumped on the market
like that broke the stock'two points,
but that was to be expected. I'm all
washed up."
"Must we leave Hi'icrest?" Roberta
queried in a strangled voice.
"We must," Crooked Bill replied
heroically. "I nave enough to pay off
the servants and maintain us in res-
pectability at some modest hotel until
we can look around and see what the
future holds for us, but after that—"
"After that I'll take care of you,
dear Uncle Bill." Roberta's voice was
very tender, the touch of her lov sly
cheek to Crooked Bill's wrinkled jowls
was very soothing to that wretched
wreck of a financier. "Sheep are up
and so is wool, Uncle Bill. Don .Pru-
dencio Alviso writes me that Uncle
Tom's sheep are worth at least two
hundred thousand as they stand, and
he has .over a hundred thousand
pounds of wool in transit to a wool
house in Boston. And good wool is
quoted in today's paper at thirty cents
a pound. Uncle Tom has a ranch of
sorts also. Don Prudencio doesn't
think much of _t and says it is not of
ready sale, but we can live there and
carry on in the sheep business—"
You have no conception of what
you are proposing to me," Crooked
Bill groaned, "Sheep are terrible."
"'Well, you've always taken care of
me, haven't you, darling? What a poor
sport I'd be to desert you when you're
down and out. No, no, dear. We'll
battle along together to the last
sheep."
Uncle Bill Latham sighed and gazed
drearily out the window. "If you'd
only fixed it up to marry Glenn Hack-
g Tormynr right eves aee steep drop control.
• Motoring Hazards peer
In the Jungle embankment, and to my left the side
of a hill The road was narrow so
ett—"
"If we didn't have those sheep and
the wool I'd marry him and risk learn-
ing to love him, just to keep you from
worrying about me," Roberta assured
him heroically. "But, of course, thanks
to that odious Jim Higgins, I find my-
self in rather an independent position.
We will sell off all the sheep and wool
and live comfortably and economically
on the income from that until—"
"Hackett is coming for dinner," he
interrupted. 'Be nice to him. He's
my attorney, of coarse, and I'll have
to tell him what's happened to me. If
he elects to forget that idiotic tiff
you and be had recently, for heaven's
sake hold out the olive branch. You'll
never have a chance at a better man,
Bobby."
"Perhaps he will not be interested
in me, now that I am not your heir-
ess, as I . dare say he believed me to
be once."
"Well, give him a chance to play
his hand," Crooked Bill protested.
"Promise me, Bobby, that if he re-
news his suit you'll accord him kindly
and respectful consideration."
In her great distress at the catas-
trophe which had overtaken her guar-
dian Roberta was in a mood to prom-
ise anything—and did. Crooked Bill
appeared to rally immediately and
mixed himself a noggin of his favor-
ite beverage.
Roberta was dressing when she
heard Glenn Hackett's car rolling up
the driveway. She looked out her
window and called, "Hello, old stick-
in-the-mud! How are you?"
He favored her with a not very
enthusiastic wave of his hand before
his car disappeared under the ports-
cochere.
"Still holding his little grudge,"
Roberta thought. "Well, I don't blame
him. Nevertheless I loathe sulky
men."
Crooked Bill received his guest at
the door and at once conducted him to
the .ibrary, where the old schemer's
favorite penenthe awaited.
"I've got to talk fast, my boy," he
began, "before Roberta comes down.
In the first place you must brace
yourself for a not very ,cheerful din-
ner. I'm supposed to have gone bust
in the market—Hillcrest has been
gobbled up by my bankers to meet
my notes, I'm dowel to a couple of
tlousand dollars."
Glenn Hackett stared at the old
gentleman owlishly. He was a man
who seldom asked questions before he
had all the facts in hand, Crooked
Bill continued:
"I hope I do not have to assure you,
Glenn, that in so far as Bobby is :on-
cerned I'm for you all the way."
"Thank you very much," Hackett
replied. "I have suspected as much
for quite a while."
(To be continued.)
(that it was impossible for No to pull
A vicious gale was Paging through one side; It seemed that nothing could
the African forest. :prevent a head-on crash: An instant's
It twisted and tore tender saplings. 'delay meant positive disaster,, so that
It shivered older and sturdier tree almost automatically I decided to take
trunks. And at some of the huge, ma•'the leap over the sheer edge, and
jestic arboreal kings of the Nigerian I dropped auto thick bush, fifteen feet
jungle it tugged and wrenched until flow the level of the trail: Portun-
they were uprooted and came crashing ately I was unhurt.
down thunderously, crushing all that After having cut away the bush to
i
h
was in their way, make a path by which to extractthe
No time for the tined to be abroad' car, I found to niy pleasure that the
Cautious men and cautious beasts had engine was in order, and the car un-
decided that discretion was the better damaged except for the bent ,car
of valor, and had taken to cover. handle. So with little delay, and the
But no, not all. On the read from help of friendly villagers a couple of
Sapoba to Benin, "by the old trail by 'miles away, I was able to bring the
way of Agbor," was a .notable excep- car up the bank on its own power,
tion, Along the narrow trail a motor- This curious fall was my most serious
car„was "speeding along as fast as the mishap during hundreds of miles of
bends would permit, we read in motor -trekking in tropical Africa.
Travel. Richard St. Barbe Baker, late In the course of one of my tours 1
Assistant Conservator of Forest, Ken- conducted a party of chiefs and .head-
ya Colony and Nigeria, was making m:gee Ch
his way through the jungle for Benin theeet Nigero.th.& convoyalabar Exof carsibi andionacross vans
and a party of friends, as fast as carried the chiefs, their retinues, and
motor and wheels could take him. He exhibits. I thoroughly enjoyed the
tells the story of his ensuing adven- keen and intelligent interest in the.
ture in an article on "Motoring in I driving of my car shown by the Ashodi
Equatorial Africa.” I of Benin, who was my passenger.
Suddenly disaster loomed in his Other chiefs were owners themselves.
path. One of them, Chief Momu of Auchi,
"I was speeding along," he writes, , was an all-round sportsman and the
when "I saw just ahead of me a tall proud owner of a race -course.
forest tree falling across my path, I The readiness of the chiefs in adapt -
"I was traveling too fast to pull up, ling themselves to the use of the motor
and so I stepped on the gas, and got 1 "is shown in their increasing tendency
under just in time for the forest giant :to demand a high-powered car which
to crash down across the trail behinds will become practicable as the roads
me. improve," Mr. Baker tells us as his
"I stopped and got out of my car, 1 narrative runs on:
thankful to be alive. I Already, during the past few years,
"After saying a heartfelt 'Te Deum,' thanks to the policy of the Govern -
1 proceeded on my journey only to find ment, there have been great develop -
around the next bend a still greater ments in road improvement and con -
obstacle in the 'shape of a larger tree, struction. This is especially notable
which had also fallen directly across on the road from Lagos to Ibadan, and
long stretches of it are now equal to
any first-class roads n other parts of
the world. Incidentally, the bend on
my trail.
"This is the only time that I was
actually trapped between two trees,
and my thankfulness at having es- the side of the hil land the scene of
caped alive prevented my annoyance my adventure has been more than
at not being able to meet my friends trebled in width, and now there is a
from England." splendid sweep upon which one can
Fallen trees, Mr. Baker explains, are speed without fear of a collision.
one of the hazards of jungle motoring. i Occasionally, during the tornado
You never know when one may block season in the rain -forest region, one
your progress. Sometimes there is , s comes across a fallen tree, but delays
nothing for it but to cut through the need not be long, for no motorist in
obstacle. But now and then, when' these parts would be without a sharp
you are playing in luck, one may fall axe. 'When a number of sturdy tribes -
across a gully in bridge -like manner, ' men arrive on the scene little time is
leaving enough space beneath for yon lost in cutting a way through.
to pass through. Or, in case you don't: In some parts of Africa travel is
encounter a fallen tree, you are as very difficult, if not impossible, during
likely as not to run plump into a giant the rainy season. In Nigeria, how -
ant -hill, as tall as yourself. These ever, with a light car, one can trek
anthills are another reason why the right through the rains In some cases
jungle motorist seldom know dullness. i newly cut trails are improved and
But, in spite of such hazards as , hardened by a heavy downpour, and
these, Mr. Baker assures us, "trekking in consequence traveling is made
in the tropics is no longer the arduous easier. It is safe to say that on Iater-
business that it once was." 1 ite and sandy soils the roads are equal -
Mr. Baker believes that he has prob- T Iy good all the year round. On the
ably motored farther in Africa than;low=lying grounds, where almost pure
any of his contemporaries, and it was `sand is met with, the roads are even
the exception rather than the rule for,
heavier in the dry season.
him to use the best roads. He tra-1 In the African tropics the hinter-
veled in a light car, which was invalu-i land is rapidly being opened up
able in trail -breaking, and in the :"through increased opportunities for
course of a 10,000 -mile trek he was not , the transportation of raw products to
once delayed through a breakdown orthecoast," we are told further:
a serious accident. Automatically, cars that prove their
Throughout the whole of his jour- merit will be in increasing demand,
net's, the only damage other than that not only by the chiefs and headmen,
necessitating tire replacement was a !but by others as they prosper. The
bent starting handle and a few dents {primitiveness of his environment does
to a fender. i not necessarily prevent the African
This bent starting -handle was "the native from discriminating most wise -
result of a spectacular drop over a { ly, and when once convinced of the
steep embankment," of which we are integrity and service rendered, his
told: :natural conservatism makes him loath
I was driving from. Lagos to Ibadan to change.
in the Southern Provinces of Nigeria.:+ To -day, the automobile is an accom-
Rounding a sharp bend on the side of,plished fact in Africa. Whatever the
a hill, I met a loaded lorry coming to- season of the year, whether in torren-
ANNOYANCE
By a patient and loving endurance
of. annoyances are we preparing our-,
selves gradualiy for the discipline of
trials.Demi Goulburn.
Proud Owner Displays Champion Calf
"Midnight," 10 -months -old Polled Angus calf, and his owner, D3r0 .lry
fleury, aged 20, Charleston, Ili, "Midnight" won. Grand eliampiouship
of the annual calf club contest in St, tends, Mo,
Salads Green tea drinkers
drink the . best green tea
IP
LA A!'
GREEK TEA"
'Fresh from the gardens'".
tial rains or glaring sun, in towns or
trekking along tropic trails, one's car
is invaluable for travel and protection,
The automobile has largely eliminated
human strain, and has macre it possible
to travel long distances in several days
which formerly took as many months.
The man without a car in Africa to-
day, whether he be native or Euro-
pean, is severely handicapped.
When You Are Old
When you are old, and I am
away—
Passed, and your face, your
face, is gray—
I think, whate'er the end, this dream
of mine
Comforting you, a friendly star will
Blaine
Down the slim slopes where still
you stumble and stray.
passed
golden
So may it be: that so dead Yester-
day,
No sad -eyed ghost, but generous and
gay
serve your
May
Dear
memories like al-
mighty wine,
When ycu are old,
Heart, it shall be so. Under
the sway
Of death the past's enormous disar-
-' ray
Lies hushed and dark. Yet though
there tome no sign
Live on well pleased: immortal and
divine
Love shall still tend you
angels may,
When you are old.
—W. E. Henley, in The Montreal
Star.
as God's
Power of Gold
Three golden waves, spreading over
the world from new discoveries of this
metal to work vast changes in econ-
omic history, were traced by Mr. Roy
Gienday, British economist, before a
recent meeting of the Royal Statistical
Society, in London. The beginning of
the modern industrial world may be
dated, Mr. Gienday believes, at about
1520, when the Spaniards discovered
the enormous stores of gold in South
and Central America and began to well below the hips. The hem dis-
bring this metal back to Europe. This p; ays a comfortable circular fulne as.
gold was the stimulus of geographical The diagonal line of the upper edge
and scientific discovery and of Indus- is interesting for the V -cut .cress
trial development during the next two neckline.
centuries. The second golden wave of
stimulation to industry is dated as be-
ginning about 1850, with the discovery
and rapid mining of the gold deposits
of California and of Australia. The
third wave began about a half -century
later, as a result of the gold dis-
coveries in the Klondike and South
Africa. One reason why these three
periods of rapid rise in gold produc-
tion were so effective as stimulants to
business all over the world was that
on each of these occasions large parts
of the earth's surface were still unde-
veloped and waiting to be exploited,
especially in North America. The gold
could be used at once to build ships
and railways, to found new cities and
to open up new lands to agriculture
and to industrial civilization. No such
unexplored lands are left now, so that
another great gold discovery, even
should it be made, probably would not
revive world business as definitely as 4,788 Watches Shipped
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Porto Alegre, Brazil.—Customs of -
"Tell World By Advertising ficials here were puzzled over the'
/-ivis€s Prince of Wales arrival of two columns of cement
shipped from abroad to a well-known
concern operating in the interior of
Porto Alegre State. Their minds
were set at rest, however, when one
of the officials had a bright idea.
"Let's demolish one of the col-
umns and see what's inside,"
They found 4,788 watches, which
otherwise would have entered: the
country duiy free.
What New York
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London.—In a recent address be-
fore the Travel Association the
Prince of Wales urged the nation to
tell the world that Great Britain "is
still alive" and able to take advan-
tage of the most modern methods of
advertising.
"Too little Is known abroad of
i what Britain and Ireland have to
I offer," the Prince said, "while there
is too much talk of financial and
industrial difficulties which we in
common ,,'ith every otber country,
are suffering."
"If we always stay at home and try
to eke out a livelihood by taking iu
each other's washing, I am afraid .it
will be a precarious livelihood for
the whole world,"
The Prince said he desired to ac-
knowledge the aid of the foreign
press associations ancl foreign corre-
spondents in London in distribution
of information about Britain. He also
said he hoped the volume of British
news to South America would be
increased,
Exhibit Ancient
Vanity Case
Philadelphia.—An ancient vanity
s rise, dating from C00 B.C., is now in
the museum of 'Iiaverford College as.
part of the collection gathered by tho
college archaeological expedition dur-
ing work at Beth Shemesh, in Pales-
tine.
"I'm going to ask the boss for a
raise in salary the first of the year."
"But suppose he refuses?"
"Oh, well, I11 ask him again next
year.
GOOD COMPANY
"I{eep good Company, and yore
shall be of the number," George
Herbert
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