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Zurich Herald, 1950-06-15, Page 6VACUUM-SUALED COFFEE ( for the 1"10 POP by G. H. SHARP CHAPTER THREE (Continued From last Week) "Supposin' you go ahead like you're goin', son? Sooner or later them skunks that killed Bob Ander- son will give you a dose of lead poison. Mae will be goin' to an- other funeral. It will just about finish her, Webb, sell out to Abbot or to anybody. Give up that ranch. Sell your cattle, Marry that girl and pull out for a new range." Webb pulled up. They sat their .horses there in the faint light of the half moon. "They tell it, Hank," said the cowboy, speaking slowly, "that I killed Bob, I'm provin' to 'enm all that they lie. After that, if I'm still alive, I'll mebbyso head for a new range. But most mebby I'll stay on the ranch Ab Abbot is tr•yin' to steal off me. I'm provin' to this country that I didn't kill the best friend I ever had, I'd be a dammned coward and a quitter if I didn't." They rode on in silence, around the bedded herd. From out there beyond came the lonesome song of .a cowboy. Sheriff Hank Roberts had turned lip his hole card. He had lost! CHAPTER FOUR. Lead For A Lawman The Hoot -Owl Pool shipped their cattle. Webb was selling everything but his cows. They worned in the stockyards from day- light on in the thick dust, sweating, working on horseback and with prod poles, loading cattle. An un- shaven crew, red -eyed from lack of sleep and the dust and the wind that whipped into their faces. When the last car was loaded, when the yards were empty, Webb Winters and the lanky Tex rode to town with their tough cowboys. `They would paint the town red to- night, then pull out for home. Tex .and Webb (would go back to their ranches. The others would ride away separately to meet later at some place in time badlands. From there they would ride to- gether again. They would not be riding after cattle, however, Webb and Tex would be held up. A train would be robbed. A big gambling joint stuck up, They would ride that outlaw trail from Montana to Get these ready for the shower season! An ideal gift -lovely cro- chet and embroidery for towels, scarves, pillowcases and sheets. Make a matched set for a bride. Pattern $96; transfer 6 motifs 4/J x 6y to 7x14; crochet directions. Send twenty-five cents (25c) in coins (stamps cannot be accepted) for this pattern to Box 1, 123 Eighteenth Street, New Toronto, Ont. Print plainly pattern number, your namtie and address. ' .Alma Mater Moln-Colimnlencemnent s,teeches about going, out Mexico. And some day Webb into the cold, cruel )world held no terror for Mrs. Margaret Alin would find out who murdered Bob Landoll, Between feeding "sessions for her eight -months -old Anderson. By that (whispered (word daughter, Clierylalln; Mrs. Landoll received her bachelor's de - of mouth known to the cowboy out- gree in electrical engineering ai Fenn College. The 20 -year-old law as "the rusting of the 'leaves," co-ed married Leo Landoll, also a Fenn grad, ivilile midway he would.learn how Bob had been through her college career. Now, she'll nut aside her studies killed. Tlien he would pay off his and concentrate on her "Ma" de.e'ree. debt. That had been Tex's proposi- tion. Webb had accepted it, „ This would be his last night in Don't need em. Aly g:rl liv( Rimrock. From tonight on he down on the Rio Grande, a lbmm would be travelling that dim trail kvay off from here. 1 was aimd that twists down through Wyoin- to go down and fetch her up he,- ing, ering, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico but Ed gettin killed kinda change and Arizona. For '"'ebb Winters my plans, She's Ed's kid sister," there would be no more Rinuock as Tex was doing just what Web he had known it, hTo more dances had promised to do. They woul at the schoolhouse, no more rollick- ride with the outlaw bunch frog ing fun, now oil. He dreaded meeting Hanle Rob- "I promised her I'd settle -down, erts today, Hank, with his search- Tex went on. "I ain't let her knot ing eyes that seemed to read a about Ed yet. She's a fine ger man's every thought. Old Hank Webb. Too good for a renegad wouldn't meant him to do what he like me. She keeps books at had planned on doing. Hank wanted store. I'm mailin' her a letter to hila to sell out and quit the country. day, tellin' her about Ed." Hank wanted Iiiin to marry Mae and settle down on a new range. They rode into town, a dusty But Bob Anderson had been mux- dirty cavalcade. They stopped a dered, and Bob had been AVebb's the first saloon and had a round o! pardner. The only way to live long drinks, then put up their horses enough to learn who had murdered Vie Hoot -Owl fool was in town. Bob was to throw in with these 'Continued Next Week) renegade cowboys, trail with them until he found out what he wanted to learn. They had a man or two plantedwith the Triangle outfit to pick up news concerning the killing of Ed 11j��,$g Young and Bob Anderson, Sooner 11�®1® ��L or later, that information would drift down the hoot -owl trail and %INGERIPARDAthen Webb Winters would pay Gff Bob's debt with a smoking gun. G\V9, td.0Ur e D Clarke, Just the same, Webb dreaded meet- ing old Hank Roberts. "If -only it would rain!" That is ' Hank would insist on him com- what we were saying this time last ing to supper. Mae would be there. year .. , and today we are saying Chicken and apple pie, Real dishes it again. Everything is so dry -the and a clean tablecloth. A game or fields, pastures and gardens -yes, two of whist or seven up. Then and also the dust on the roads ... Hanle and his wife would go to bed, but definitely) We made our annual leaving Mae and Webb there in the inspection trip to Malton Airport front room. And Mae would make yesterday and we swallowed bush - a stab at talking him into selling els of dust all the way over and but. He'd have to lie to her. He most of the way back. But we for - couldn't tell her bow he and Tex got it all at the Alport as we looked had talked things -out and how he'd over the wonderful improvements told Tex that he'd ride the outlaw that have taken place since our last trail, visit. The old offices and waiting It was about noon. Webb rode room, have been converted into a with his hat slanted across' his modern, airy restaurant. Over in eyes. He was powdered with dust, the new building there are spacious sweat -marked, and unshaven. His waiting rooms and offices, and over bloodshot eyes were squinted, A the whole structure there is an ob- steer had hooked at him in the pens, servation roof, which, I would i" - ripping his cheek. It was an ugly- agine, would accommodate 1,000 looking cut, calved with dried blood people. From it you calm observe and dirt, at close quarters planes coming in "You ain't as purty lookin' as you for a landing, or taking off for mni.gh•t be," grinned Tex. distant points east and ,vest, i',ou Webb grinned back, He was can watch the ground crew chasing thinking just now of Mae. Ile around like so many ants -except hadn't seen her since the day rime that these ants travel by jeep and jury had acquitted him of Bob's tractor, murder, That was a few weeks ago. A plane lands immediately "Got your town clothes?" a little tractor manoeuvres a run - "At the hotel," Webb said. "How way into position for travellers to about you?" alight from the - ship,_ Another 11. Garden plot 41. T.evel e;rou;md CR0SSW RD 14.Baseball team by Bla;trram q=bp� {� 7.6. Liquor 43, Bleat 7 0. 30 owl P91���� 20• Craves 45. Employedq,� 21. Promontories 46. Spreads 2$, Not sleeping 47, Behave ACROSS 6. Man's 23. Dickens 48, American nickname 25. 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Turlrfirh Aittlwer elsewhere on tills Hage, I tractor, trailing three to five Iittle trolley cars, is loaded with passen- ger baggage which it toes around to the Customs Office, Passengers i alight as nonchalantly as they would from a streetcar . , nien with brief cases or golf clubs; fash- ionably dressed women, some with rather bored expressions; mothers with babies in arms, or youngsters toddling at their side -the children excited, the "others too occupied plane, the stewardess and the pilot and co-pilot. Then another ground crew takes ever .. . the big ship is refuelled for its next take -off; baggage is brought up by the little trucks which also carry a loading escala- tor, one end of which is evelated to the baggage compartment of the plane. The escalator is set in emo- tion and up goes the baggage with- out benefit of Red -caps. Then a jeep comes along with a box -like container carrying refrigerated food supplies. The entire container is raised to the level of the ship's receiving door by means of an in- visible hydraulic hoist. In a little while loud speakers announce the number of the flight and its destin- ation and presently passengers fill the ship again, helped by a trim Young stewardess receiving them at the door of the plane. Then the pilot and co-pilot, upon whose skill and integrity the lives of so many people depend, once more take over' at the controls; the ground crew finish their various jobs and the big silver bird roars into action again, As it wheels around for a take -off down the runway, those on the Ob- servation Roof hang "on to their hats and catch their breath as wind, created by time four whirling pro- pellers, swirls around them. I don't know why, but a visit to the airport - always increases my conviction that to travel by air is about as safe and pleasant a means of transport as one could hope -for in this day and age. And I never see a plane take off, or fly over our fariir without wish- ing I was one.'.of its passengers. Who knows , some happy day maybe I shall be! But right now we at Ginger Farmn, are not so much concerned with what happens over our )meads as vire are with what goes on under- foot, You see, right through the centre of our farm, and also through the two farms immediately east and west of us, there are little stakes here and there, complete with flags, indicating that time Depart- ment of Highways is at work on a new surveying job. The whole neighborhood is agog with curiosity because rumour has it that a new four -lane highway, running from Montreal to 'Windsor is being plan- ned, and will probably angle right across country leaving us with 45 acres, omen one side of time road and 55 on the other. Well, having had dealings with the highway depart- ment before we know it moves mightly slow its wonder to perform so at present we are just sitting tight and awaiting further develop- ments. Other changes have already taken place around here which are of more concern to us at the moment. We -are saying goodbye to our tried and trusty horses; also to our big high-powered oil -burning tractor, and in their.place we have a small, exceedingly mobile tractor that will, we hope, take the plae 'of the horses and yet be equal, on a small- er scale, to do time field work for- merly done by its big brother tractor. With all this going on we have also beef( entertaining, One of our nieces, who is now a nursing sister at Suntlybrook Hospital, spent a few days with us last 'week, Satur- day night ,Bob took her ,flack to Toronto and they] cable hone, bridging with hint daughter arta a friend. And I ant still busy with the •paint -pot! ANNE 4IRST y cottoRhe&t V i "Dear A ii n e * l;ejat you contented by his ap 9 :Hirst: ,1've been * predation of all -vain did and ni a r r i c d 30 * were,. years, and I " It is too late to change him 4 Nvouldnt com- A: now.. The best you can do is tp ' M. kzkas r 'plaJti-]r only I * adjust yourself to, him as lie is, r f were ?owed by 4' and cease to, expect »nything the man I near- 41 more. 3s 7 riecl. * I urge you, to try,, even so late, "Th ❑marr!age t to build some, social life among bond i,; assum- 4: ed to be a legalized affectionate cur neighbors and through your church, and to, find in your chil- partenemship, but mine is the un- dren the comfort denied' you by derpaid servant arrangement. I arxt your husband.. regarded as the permanent cheap cook. I do the milking, I feed * Can you justify leaving home, calves, pigs and chickens --•besides, * with Your chil'd'ren, still needing' of course, all the houseivork. I you? Or are they able' to. shift have good health, and I'nm not for themselves? When, they are laze "' settled, you might indeed con - "I would enjoy doing all this. if * Sider it. Just now, what sort any appreciation were shown. But * of home life would they have there in never a tt ofd of love from *without you there? t inm, nor a caress, nor a good-bye, Yours has been,. and ie, a sad. 9Te has never voluntari'y taken * lot. I have heard of other hus- me to a show. (In all these years, * bands like your own, in lesser we have been to exactly five movies " degree, yes. And their wires have together) - , , He sneaks off to continued to submit throughout town alone, never asks ma to go " the years. There seems little to. aiong. He devours his meals in * do about it -except,. as I sug- silence, hidden behind a newspaper " gest, to rind some pleastue and or a trashy magazine. He seldom s' change in associating more Svitla speaks to the children unless to * other people -around you. gave a coilinmand. (We have two, * If men (would only realize how in their teens.) little it takes to, make wives• A LONELY LIFE * happy, there would be fetaer dis- "My husband keeps everytbinp, contented (women in the worK. bottled up inside Imimn. Then when '" You have my deepest sympathy, he does blow his top, I am the Y. V. Ir target for his temper. He is always If your lot in life is a .inhappy unfriendly. He has sulked from one, and nothing can be done to three to six months at a thue! better it, tell Anne Hirst. She has. "He never thinks I need any ideas that may help you make life cloaking, but he is dressed like a more interesting. Address her at dude every day. My winter coat Sox 1, 123 Eighteenth St, New is 25 years old, and my mother Toronto, Ont. gave it to me, He spends lavishly for anything for himself. I am Reporter: "And what would yore too proud to beg. sav has been the chief source of "What I'd like to do is to go your strength and health?" away and get a job -I need every- 100-7ear-old: "Vittle's." tiling. I can't see any future here except a lonely old age, waiting on one who considers only him- Upside down to prevent peeking. Self. I have no social life. I feel tI - S U C) O a more like a robot thaim a human � R 1 being. I a% simply starving for A -L { q :) 1 love. N A A V• 3 -1 S �' 1 �3 Vb "What shall I do? Go away and .1 V -i- 389 work -or stay -and grow.o'der, and S S © R a 2i. g ' wiser? Are there other husbands 1y $ 1'9 0 1 k - like mine? (I've been told I did too $ ®g3 I much for him). I am so very- t d UNHAPPY" "7 *fig b' G V N N A b' � It may be true that mvhen you first married * you spoiled your l husband (as most wives do), and EL L V X 3 did not assert yourself Ander his 1 ! 121 O � O ?1 * growing indifference. Yet if' he b 3 ., S b Sts * had the milk of human kindness * in him, -he would have at least ISSUE 24 - 1950 WORTH OF TRACTOR A Limited dumber of New 2 -PL -%'01W N%S WITH try 9411' E R F l) L aw TRACT01M ` ILLYS MOTO0 AVAILRAMBLENOW A NEW, custom-built tractor for only $875.00 Co.b, Toronto! Why this startlingly low price? just this - these internationally -known tractors were manufactured by the Empire Tractor Corporation of Philadelphia, for rugged South American duty, Dollar difficulties killed the deal. The result -you get a tractor for only $875. It's a lot of tractor -you'd pay upwards of $1775 for one like it at regular prices. Look at its big features - All keplaceabie Parts --Engine, transmission and differential all made by nationaliyknown automobile manufacturers. Spare parts available anywhere in Canada. Horsepower -Maximum HP: 60 at 4000 RPM, Maximum belt HP; 40 at 2000 RPM. Rated drawbar HP., 25. Capacity -Two 12 -inch plows. 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