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JOHN 1. HUGGABD
Barrister, &Reiter,
Notary Public,Etc.
Beattie Mock Seaforth, Ont
HAYS & MOIR
Succeeding R. S. Hays
Banisters, Solicitors, Conveyancers
-,and Notaries Public. Solicitors for
the Dominion Bank. Office in rear of
the Dominion Bank, Seaforth. Money
to loan.
, JOHN H. BEST
Barrister, rSolicitor, Etc.
Seaforth Ontario
VETERINARY
JOHN GRIEVE, V.S.
Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin-
ary College. All diseases of domestic
animals treated. Calls promptly at-
tended to and charges moderate. Vet-
erinary Dentistry a specialty. Office
and residence on Goderich Street, one
door east of Dr. Jarrott's office, Sea -
forth.
A. R. CAMPBELL, V.S.
Graduate of Ontario Veterinary
College, University of Toronto. All
diseases of domestic animals treated
by the most modern principles.
Charges reasonable. Day or night
calls promptly attended to. Office on
Main Street, Hensall, opposite Town
Hall. Phone 116, Breeder of Scottish
Terriers. Inverness Kennels, Hensall.
MEDICAL
DR. D. E. STURGIS
Graduate of the Faculty of Medi-
cine, University of Western Ontario,
and St. Joseph's Hospital, London.
Member of Gelleee off Physicians and
Surgeons of Ontario. Phone 67. Of-
fice at Dublin, Ont. 3493
DR, GILBERT C. JARROTT
Graduate of Faculty of Medicine,
University of Western Ontario. Mem-
ber of College of Physicians and
Surgeons of Ontario. Office, 43 Gode-
rich Street, West. Phone 87.
Successor to Dr. Charles Mackay.
DR, W. C. SPROAT
Graduate of Faculty of 'Medicine,
University of Western .Ontario, Lon-
don. Member of College of Physi-
cians and Surgeons of Ontario. Office
th'Aberhart's Drug Store, Main St.,
Stellorth. Phone 90.
DR. F. J. BURROWS,
Office and residence Goderich Street,
east of the United Church, Seaforth.
Phone 46. Coroner for the County of
Huron.
DR. HUGH H. ROSS
Graduate of University of Toronto
Faculty of Medicine, member of Col-
lege of Physicians ;k,ind Surgeons of
Ontario; pass graduate course in
Chicago Clinical School of Chicago ;
Royal Opthalmie Hospital, London,
England; University Hospital, Lon-
don, England. Office -Back of Do-
minion Bank, Seaforth. Phone No. 5.
Night calls answered from residence,
Victoria Street, Seaforth.
DR. E. A. MCMASTER
Graduate of the University of To-
ronto, Faculty of Medicine
Member of College of Physicians
and Surgeons of Ontario; graduate of
New York Post Graduate School and
Lying-in Hospital, New York, Of-
fice on High Street, Seaforth. Phone
27.
Office fully equipped for ultra short
wave electric treatment, Ultra Violet
San Lamp treatments, and Infra Red
electric treatmerts. Nurse in attend-
1111Ce. •
DR. G. R. COLLYER
Graduate Faculty of Medicine, Uni-
versity ef Western Ontario. Member
College of Physicians and Surgeons
of Ontario. Post graduate work at
New Yark City Hospital and Victoria
Hospital, London. Phone: Hensall 56.
Office: Iicsing Street, Hepsall.
DR. F. J. R. FORSTER
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
Graduate in Medicine, University of
Toronto.
Late assistant New York Opthal-
mei and Aural Institute, Moorefield's
Eye and Golden Square Throat Hos-
pitals, London, Eng. At Commercial
Hotel, Seaforth, third Wednesday in
each month, from 1.30 p.m. to 4.30 pxa.
58 Waterloo Street, South, Stratford.
DENTAL
DR. J. A. McTAGGART
Graduate Royal College of Dental
Surgeons, Toronto. Office at Hensel],
Ont. Phone 106.
AUCTIONEERS
HAROLD DA LE
Licensed Auctioneer
Specialist in farm and household
sales. Prices reasonable. For dates
and information, write or phone Har-
old Dale, p ne 149, Seaforth, or ap-
ply at The Exposdtor Office.
ARTHUR WEBER
Auctioneer's License
, Sixteen years' experience.
Satisfaction guaranteed.
Telephone: 18-67, Hensall.
Write ARTHUR, WEBER,
R. R. 1, 'Dashwood.
INSURANCE
THE JOHN RANKIN AGENCY
Instrance of all ldnds.
Bonds, Real Estate.
Money to. Loan.
Phone 91.
SEAPORT/1 ; ONTARIO
nchante
BY PETER B. KYNE
(Continued from last week)
She 'w'ondered how old he was and
deduced that be Might be anywhere
between twenty-eight add. forty. 'He
was about six feet tall, big -boned
with just sufficient flash en his frame
to spell the differenee between curves
and angles. He was not a handsome
man; his features were too- rugged -
too pharacterfal for that; he gave
one an impression of manly whole -
sameness, of one ;hundred per cent
maseelinity, of tolerance, gentleness
understanding. During the early -
morning visit of Jake Dort and his
braves she had seen that he was a
man of ready wit, calm, resourceful,
cunning and courageous-, but not of-
fensively so. He did not Daunt his
he -mannishness to the world, but hid
it behind 'natural and inherited good
areecting. Gail assured herself that
whatever of 'good or of evil this man
might accomplish, it would be done
deliberately, sanely and- without re-
gret for he accomplishment.
She liked him too for his tender at-
titude toward Hallie. When he had
carried; her light frail form from the
•living -room to her bedroom the night
before., theme had been 'paternity
more than fraternity in his action;
surely he must have been a man,
grown When Hallie -was a baby. Net
that he looked it and not that. he
lookedboyish either. Gail detected
in his face and. manner a maturity
that conies, not so much from the
living of years- as from years of liv-
ing. Very early in life, Gail theught,
this man had had his illusions shat-
tered in contact with men who "play-
ed for keeps."
Instinctively there Tose in Gail
Onneby's heart a hot resentment a-
gainst Todd, the man she had 'never
met..
CHAPTER VII
Chan and- Joaquin, summoned from
the caok-house, carried Gail's trunk
to her chamber. Here, while dress-
ing for the flight, s:he heard- from a
distance the explastve staccato of a
motor starting unnealled.
Came the Mexican woman, Con-
chiba, with the promised fleece -lined
leather coat and helmet, with a pair
of gauntlet riding gloves for addi-
tional protection against the chill of
the high altitudes at which Lee Purdy
always flew. When at last, garbed
for the journey, Gail emerged from
her room sae found Purdy waiting
for her in the patio. He too wore
leather coat and helmet, and he car-
ried a thermos bottle.
"Hot chocolate," he explained in
answer to Gail's inquiring look, "I'm
gein'g to fly argand the Cuyamaca
RE -serve while I'm out; no sense wast-
ing gasoline purely on a pleasure
flight, and this chocolate will be wel-
come when. we alight at your ranch."
'He led the way out the rear of the
patio and up over the crest of the
Enchanted Hill, which spread away
in a flower -spangled mesa. ,A.bout
four hundred yards from the house
skied his hangars, three in n,umlber,
and in front of one ;of therm a two -
seated airplane, with a vermilion
fuselage, stood, warming up, with a
mechanic standing by.
"The old; ship's shooting on all six
perfectly, Tommy," Purdy compli-
mented• his man.
"I overhauled and adjusted the
timing .Majlor," the mechanician re-
plied, "I have inspected her. She
is ready for flight."
"Thank you,, Tommy; I'm going to
fly around the Cuyamaca to -day, so
you need not bother going out with
the single -seater. Miss Ormsby will
accompany me."
The men swung a smell, two-step,
wooden mounting ;block into position
and at a signal from Purdy, Gail
climbed' into the plane and took her
seat. Purdy wrapped the fur robe
around her, strapped her in, took his
seat at the wheel, taxied across the
mes.gand, coming up into the wind,
opened the throttle •and took to the
air. They were off the Enchanted;
Hal in a minute and climbing swift -
over the plain belo-w', headed
north. Up, up they went, in great
spiral; constantly galinling altitude
and constantly making their north-
ing. Presently they were up twelve
thousand feet and Purdy straighten-
ed the ship away on her course. Now
the grayish .whiteness over which
they had been hovering gave way to
a darker hue, constantly increasing
in density until it became a blur ex-
tending up the sides of the Cuyam-
aca range to where the last of t'he
snow 'of the preceding winter still
lingered. Purdy flew across the
south toe of the range and swung
north again; as he flew he scanned
the region below him on both sides
of the :plane.
They had traversed the eastern
boundary ;of the reserve and had
swung west around the northern
flank when suddenly Purdy glanced
hack at his passenger, satisfied him-
self he had caught her attention and
pointed dow-nward. Following the
direction' of his fin -ger the- girl des-
cried a thin wavering pillar of smoke
rising etraight upward from the dark
blue .blur of timber. When she lobk-
ed up Purdy was shaking his head
sagely; their the nose of the ship was
pointed downward and the earth came
rapidly up to (meet them.
At a 'height of about a thousand
feet even Gail amidsee that a fire
was smouldering in the woods. Pur-
dy came down slowly' and circled ov-
er the tree tops, honking -his holm,
peering ,dver the side for signs of hu-
man life in the vicinity of the fire.
'Finding vane, he climbed again and
flew south along the western base of
the range for about ten mile's; when
a flat green, 'field appeared outspread
beflere them he darted dawn to a
perfect landing. Two horses, vexing
in the field fled off frighbedly as Put.
MAW
Ely taxied across the field and pulled
up before an unpainted pine shanty
at the edge of the timber, In the
doorway a; man, clad in the 'heather -
green uniform of the forest ranger
serviee, stood and awaited their ap-
proaeh.
"Hello, Lee,," 'he salaited. cordially.
"Is this visit tme of business or plea-
sure?"
"A camp fire is coming to life in
the canon of the middle fork of the
Rio Honda, Mac," Purdy replied. "No
Dame as yet, but :plenty of smoke.
The fire is creeping along under the
grotund, in the .mattress +of twigs and
leaves. Better telephone Barclay. i
honked over his station but he wasn't
on station and as you know there's;
no landing place on his jurisdiction."
The ranger nodded. "See any
sheep, Lee?"
"Lots of them, Mac."
"It's those filthy Basque shepherds.
They haven't the remotest respect
for law and !order. They probably
camped on the micidde fork last night
-it would he like them to go away
and leave their camp -fire burning."
"What's the matter with Barclay."
a weak sister. I think the
.Basques have him bluffed. He swears
he hasn't found any sheep on his
range, but he admits he's found some
sig -n. Wherever I can fin:dfresh sign
I can find eheep. They don't get
down on my range."
He turned and entered th•e shanty
and Gail could' 'hear him grinclinig at
th-e crank of the telephone bell --one,
two, three, one, two, three. Fog ten
minutes she listened to his futile ef-
fort to raise tee other ranger sta-
tion; she could sympathize with his
air of impatience and disgust when
again he appeared at the door.
"Lee," he called, "I can't raise Bar-
clay, so it's up to tee to put that fire
out. Can you give rne a quick lift to
the Middle Fork? If you'll drop me
at the. raneberia of that old Navajo,
Bear Tooth, I'll borrow a .horse. GEle
arid his sons have a homestead on
the edge of the reserve. It's fenced
and they're raising Navajo sheep.
Bear Tooth will let me have a pony
and in an hour I'll be up on Barclay's
station. I can put out that fire if it
hasn't got too much headway; then
I'll trail the men who started it, and
•by Judas priest, if I catch them their
sheep will he 'ehephertiless to -night.
The juz.gade at Arguello is waiting
for thean."
"Certainly, Mac." Pugler climbed
cut of the ship and bent his back be-
side it. "Please hop out on my ;back
and then jump to the ground, Miss
Ormsby," he commanded rather than
requested, and the girl obeyed in-
stantly, "Miss Ormsby, permit me
to present Ranger MacDonald,* he
canijneed. "Mac, Miss Ormaby is
old Aleck Garnett's niece and has in-
herited. the Box K Ranch. She's out
here leaking after the property and
I was about tb give her a Lift, over
to her place when I noticed the smoke
on the Middle Fork." He turned to
Gail. "If you will be good eiwoug'h
to remain here for half an hour and
make friends with Mac's collie dog
" he began, but the ranger in-
terrupted.
"You'll have to introduce yourself
to the cat, Miss Ormsby. The dog
goes with me. It would break his
heart to be left 'behind." He whistled
and a large, splendid sable and white
collie came out of the shanty and
stood yawning and smiling at the
guests. "He's an imipletted Scotch
collie," MacDougald an.nounteed
"Ills name is Whuskey. Whus-
key, pay your respects to the lady."
Whuskey smiler?, wagged his tail
and with many a smirk and twist of
his handsome body, came down the
steps and kissed Gail's hand. Mean-
while the ranger had got his coat,
pistol, belt, rifle and two pairs of
handcuffs, which he dnopped into the
bottom. of the fuselage and climbed
in after.
"I'll be back in about thirty min-
utes," Purd'y assured th-e girl. "You'll
be quite safe here," He lifted Whus-
key up into the ranger's lap, climbed
into his scat, taxied around the edge
of the fleld and was off on his er-
rand.
When the plane was out of sight.
Gail entered the ranger's cabin and
took stack of its cantents, Which were
few and simple. A small cuokstove,
a few kitchen utensils and plain dish-
es, some groceries on a shelf, -a flitch
of bacon pendent from ,a rafter, an.
oil cloth ceiverect, home-made table
and a packing case with a galvaniz-
ed ;bucket of spring water standing
on it completed the furnishings of
the kitchen.
The remaining room was a com-
bination living room and bedroom,
with' an 'open stone fireplace and a-
bout a quarter of a coed of two -foot
logs neatly stacked along the • wall.
A razor strop hanging to a nail driv-
en in an upright, a small cracked'
mirror on a Aelf, a tiny unpainted
home-made table with seine old' meg-
azalea on it, a sthelf with about two
dozen; hodk on fores-try, modern po-
lice methods, Hornaday's `Our Van -
airing Wild Life," a treatise on taxi-
dermy and a complete get of Dick -
en's .novels was- attached to the wall
within ready reach of the ranger's
hand as he Jay -on a collapsible -steel
oot with a woven wire me.ttress. Up-
on it new three .blarrikete lay folded
neatly. On top of a large ceder
chest in one corner lay an assortment
of taxidermist's tools, the cured; skin
of a ruffed re -rouse and a copy of the
"Use Book," the Bible of the forest
ranger service. In another cornier
stood a small soap box with some
clean rags in it; outstretched there-
on lay a large, contented rblaek oat,
suckling a litter of four black kit-
tens.
Nowhere was there a single sign
df the presence of a weanan. In the
back yard Gail found a small vege-
'''"',-IdN,,,:itt•tkdelgvktiokaiakzigtiw,00aaga44-'ok;•
table garden, enclosed by a twelve -
foot wire fence to protect it from
deer. Chained to the trunk of a fal-
len pine and reposirsg thereon was a
small, inquisitive and extremely
friendly black bear -cab. lleyond the
fallen, _pine and the bear lolomed a
small rough 'barn Apt' corral. In the
corral, 'whither iiheY%iact fled affright-
ened tune splendid big saddle -horses
rtiebed noses with a sagacious old
pack -mule, upon whose sorrel sides
tufts of white hair gave evidence of
ancient s -addle galls gained in years
of se-rvice.
As Gail walked over to the corral
to pet the horses and mule her foot
struck something. On the ground
;before her lay an old worn leather
wallet. She picked it up and peeped
iniside. It contained some frayed
newspaper clippings and five monthly
pay cheques drawn en the .Treasury
of the United States to the order of
Stephen MacDougalcb.
Those uncashed 'pay cheques; spell-
ed mach to Gail Ormsby. They told
her that Steve MaciDougald cared
little for •Money because the simple
life he lived demanded little; they
Spelled an unusual devotion' to duty
since the ranger had not been to
town for five months, ;otherwise srure-
ly he would :have banked them.. Here,
with •his work, his amateur taxider-
my, ;his' proximity to the wild life of
the forest reserive, his collie dog, his
cat with kittens, his -pot bear and
saddle -horse. and padk-mule, • this
ranger dwelled ,in• contentment.
Gail laid the wallet on the cedar
chest in the shanty. Half an hour
after his departure the distant hum
of his lector told Gail that Purdy
was returning. He swooped down in-
to • the field presently and came bump-
ing up to the ranger's cabin..
"Well ?" Gail queried.
"Ranger and dog delivered safely,"
he reported, and climbed but for the
purpose of assisting the girl back
into the ship.
"I've known men who loved their
dogs but never one who insisted up-
on taking his dog up in an airplane
rather than be separated from him."
"There's method in Mac's madness.
When he's making am arrest that big
collie is as good as an ;assistant ran-
ger. One day Mac got a telephone
message from the sheriff to the ef-
fect that a' couple of bad boys who
had- held up the Overland and killed
t'he express messenger were headed
up into the Cuyamaca. Tommy, fly-
ing cm parol that morning, had seen
their camp -fire and horses and hap-
pened to mention the matter to 'Mac,
who took a chance that they might
be the men wanted and started out
to interview them,
He surmised they would head up
through Hot Creek Meadows, riding
in the stream to hide their trail, so
he had Tommy give him a lift aver
the range into the meadows, where
he 'holed up and waited. Sure en-
ough the birds fluttered into his hand,
Mac got the drop on them, handcuf-
fed them together and started back
with them. Arrived at this cabin
they made a sudden doncentrateci
rush ;on him; before he could protect
himself they had butted him in the
mid -die, knocked the wind out of him
and thrown 'him flat an his back.
Then they started to kick the life
out of him, figuring that after they
had killed him they would get the
keys out of his pocket, shuck the
cuffs, mount and continue their in-
terrupted journey.
"Uhfortunately, they neglected to
figure on Whuskey. He tore their
throats out -you see they were hand-
cuffed tog:, Llier and coaldn't fight
him off very well. Any rate, when
Steve came to, his prisoners; were
dead, and that collie was licking his
master's face and whimpering. The
government, offersa reward' of five
thousand dollars, dead or alive, for
a mail robber -and Mac brought in
the bodies and the stolen registered
mail. Then what do your suppose
Mac did?"
Zhefeeaut?d" t'he reward. Said he was
employed by the government at a
regular wage and that it was his
duty to do the government's work
without extraeomrpensatio•n ! Ever
since, whenever anybody plane to en-
tertain Mac, they've got. to figure the
dog in tot. . . . Well, let's go."
Half an hour later they landed i
an alfalfa field .that sloped very
gently up tna cluster of forlorn -
looking =painted sheeks, for tle
most part made from small logs,
with th-e inc'ratices ;between the loge
calked 'with cement. A neglected
barbed-wire fence surrounded these
shacks. In the yard half d dozen
mowers', sulky rakes and hay wagons
stood parked, ex/lased to the weather,
rusting, deteriorating, neglected. Not
a chicken or milch cow appeared in
sight. Four cow-poniea stood with
howed heads, tethered to a hitching -
rack in front of the bunk-heuse, anl
on a long bench just outside the ;bunk
house four men, booted and spurred,
eat idly talking; and em.odentg.
Gail sat in Purdy's, airplane and
gazed upon her heritage. "So this
it the Box K Ranch, is it?" she quer-
ied presently.
Purdy nodded.
"What a filthy, neglected, lonely,
heart -breaking place!" she protested
and there was a quaver in her voice.
"Why, I-1.--1 had no idea it was like
th ite"
"Well, I had," Purdy replied dry-
ly. "I wouldn't kennel a mean dog in
one of those dreary shacks. I could
have told you about it, but Hallie
seemed to think you had better see
the place first. -Seeing is believing:
. . . Well, you do not have to stay
here, that's one comfort."
"It's terrible," the girl quavered.
"IV'hy, what *mid Mr. Todd hatvie
been thinking of , bo suggest that 1
come here?" .
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tnbeize yoeuortwasomia 'Avveaelaalineterdeee ces,-4ht manalah f,threie4tted. "wail* rt04;x4etl.14-141..;.,
more anuicably. Remelt/her, ii/Dy plan is ey
te shoka the* out 104?„ e
Ormsby, I am disobeying eratere in gavernOieat attlega,,deateadiateh't a
landing here, I'm out of boundea" let the start drifting."'
The girl obeyed, but Purdy saw fire chueltled,„ "Dace a cow is
her head -
her hand tremble as she Imbedded ed Dor her somener tame She objects
the helmet. They dismounted farm strenuously to 'being driven back to
the plane, leaving the melee teeing, the winter range, so 1 thozzaht that
and together walked toward the men if the Southwestern Cattle. Loan Oor-
on the benole who eose to meet them. paration wishesraa„,,foreclose en your
They weaa not armed, for they lived cattle we .shoutlitia't deny it the *fa
in a peaceable country and feared no of gathering them; let them pull of
man. Indleed, they were the sort of a round -up. Let them hire ridersand
cowboys ;who, militia niealizing that comb the chaparral for a 'hundred;
the ;possession of a reliable forty-five square miles; if they want those cat -
calibre pistol is occasionally an as- tle had enough. Let them cut your
set, keep that aseet modestcon- brand out of . a dozen other brands
ceaded in the bunk -house or their bn the government range and' see
bedding rail. blow thek like it. It's a forty -man
They looked at Lee Purdy and his jo'b and the riders have to knew the
companion with frank curiosity and country. I hazard the guess that
surprise and raised their hats po- there isn't a rider in a11 New Mexico
litely when his companion's sex was low entrugh to hire out to them for
revealed to them, despite her inaecu- that round -up."
line attire. "Howdy, Major Purdy! The girl looked up at him with ad -
Howdy, miaaaart," they ,saird, and stood miratilon and gratitude. "Then they
twirling their old broad -brimmed, cauldn't foreclose, could they?" she
weather-beaten headgear. queried.
"Goad morning, gentlemen. 'Miss "Oh, they could if they wanted to,
Ornesbry, may I be permitted to pre- but after figuring the trouble and
sent Mr. Pete 'Hbwe, Mr. Anse Ma- expense, they'll come to the conclu-
gender'Mr. Hank Orton and -Mr. Art sion. that there is more profit in bee
Appleton?" in,g decent and human. They'll hold
This, e`gentlemen," bowed owlishly off until the cattle are back in the
and murmured, "Pleased to meet winter pastime late next fall. Of
yell." Gail 'distributed a waneernile domes, that gives you all of six
among them and Purdy explairfard just months in which to grow out your
who Miss Gail Ormsby was. "Of young stuff and put fat ron the ribs
course," he crontinuedigtervely, "I of the aged stuff, which means you
would not have alighted in that al- will 'have an opportunity to add twen-
fajfa iesithiout Mae Oemalloy's ty to twenty-five diallers a head addi-
permission." tional ;value to your critters, and! it
Thera fell an embarrassing silence. will only cost you sixty cents a head
Then Pete 'Howe found his tongue. grazing fee forthe season. And of
"I'm right sorry Mr. Todd• ain't here, course there .is the.ehaneethat by
zna'a.m.. • Ile went to Arguello day be- next fall the 'beef market will have
fore yesterday with Jake Dort, the rallied; and yoa may be able to find
foreman. IWe been expectOn' 'em somebody who will lend you enough
back .this forenoon." to pay off the Southwestern Cattle
"He'll not be -back for at least a Loan Corporatien and permit you to
few days," Purdy -informed the man market your cattle at prevailing
and explained the reason. prices."
Jake'll be back," Pete Howe "Your logic is unassailable, Make-
,
suggssted g1�mily. 1"We got te Purdy. Have you started your cattle
have somebody to run this ranch." drifting?"
Gail flattened him with • another "Indeed, yes. Abotzt a week ago."
smile: "Well, Mr. Howe; suppose I "Then, if I can get my cattle out
try -my hand at running it." on the government range, I'll be safe
Pete Howe smiled at that and his until that."
comrades, sensing the humor of this "I'll make a small bet atllong odds
dainty girl's attempting to operate that ...you will be safe."
the Boa K iReneh, permitted their
grave features to lighter} a little el-
se. The quartette shrugged.
"Weil, we reckon you're who Pur-
dy says you are, ma'am," Pete Howe
admitted. "We know Mr. Todd has
been expectin' of you, but we're sort
of used to receivin' orders from him
and Jake Dort."
"Well, he cermet give- you orders
now and Jake Dort isn't here," Purdy
reminded Hcrwe. "MeanwhilMies
Ormsby has an 'order to give you.
She wants you boys bo mount up,
outside the fence and let them drift."
ride down ;into the winter pasture
along the upper Hondo, round up ev-
ery head of stock there, shoo them
outside the fence and; let them thift."
"I'm afraid we can't do that,
ma'am," Howe replied, addressing
himself to Gail and ignoring Purdy.
'Mr. Todd never starts the stock to
driftin' up to the summer range be-
fore the first of June, an' here it is
only the middle o' May. We've had
a more than usual hard winter an'
the snow in the reserve ain't ,melted
long enough to give the feed a chance
to start."
"Miss Ormsby will take a chance
on that, Howe," Purdy suggested.
A calmly hostile look was Pete
Illowe's answer.
"Mr. Purdy has transmitted my or-
ders correctly, Mr. Howe," Gail re-
minded him., notwithstanding the fact
that until Lee Purdy had spoken she
had had not the slightest idea. of what
her orders were.
al reckon we'd better wait until
Jake gets back," Art Appleton mete
mure4 apologetically. "I see a dust
cloud off ponder, eo I reckon maybe
Jake will be here in about ten min-
utes."
Following the direction of his,gaze
Purdy saw the dust cloud and observ-
ed that it was coming rapidly toward
them acro -ss the plain. ''That is most
probably the lestimalble Jeket" he
agreed. "Tie save argurrnent and em-
barrassment we will not press the
matter until he arrives:"
"Won't you set, ma'am?" Pete
Howe pleaded hospitably, and wav-
ed Gail toward the bench. She
thanked him and seated herself; ap-
parently by mutual consent, the cow-
boys stalked away, sat down on the
tongue of a hay wagon and commenc-
ed cerivereing in ' Law tones. Purdy
sat en the ;bench beside Gail, who was
gazin-g with frank disapproval at her
un I o vely surroundings.
"I think," she com-plained, "that,
there must be something wrong wall
a .men who neglects to plant a tree
or two or three around his, home."
"Your late Uncle Aleck was inter-
ested solely in cows," he reminded
her. "He never 'married; consequeaa
ly the ranch has never known the re-
fining influence of a woman,"
She ahivered. "This is A terriols
place. I could never live here, even
for a part of 'each year. I shali sell
it as soon as I return to Los An-
geles."
"Why be in a hurry? Is La Cues-
ta Encantada an unlovely place from
which to direct the destinies of your
properta? Hallie and I talked it ov-
er this morning just before we left,
and it was our opinion that after
to.oking the Box K Ranch over it
would be imtreh easier for her to per-
suade you to stay with us until your
;business in this country is settled.
Hallie will issue the formal invita-
tion as soon as we -maim home.
Whenever it may be njcessary for
you to come over here Tommy or I
will be glad to hop off with you."
"Pm sere I do not know what
saould have done if 1 hadn't met you.
You're); so kind and Pin sure I ex-
press "my gratitude most inadequate:
"'As Pete ;Howe would say, don't
mention it."
"About those orders you gave him.
Why did you do it?"
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"Then out they go. Needs must
when the devil drives. I'm a poor,
lone, lorn lady, and provided I do
nothing illegal, my conscience will
not trouble me over the little feelings
of the Southwestern Cattle Loan Cor-
poration."
"Sploken like a man," Purdye com-
plimented her. "And now, here comes
our ;old friend Jake Dort. Jake must
have distributed his load of lynchers
among the other automobiles after
leaving my place and headed straight
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East
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2,410
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7.22-4 338i
7.83 3.81
7.42 8.43
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11.19 944
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11.50 10.11
12.10 10.37
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Dublin
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Dublin
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6.04
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11.43
12.01
12.12
12.28
12.34
12.41
12.46
for home. Hope the ride Haas cooled
him dewn. Jake isn't a half -bad
sort. The trouble with him is that
he knows no middle ground. He's an
extremist. W!hert he's faithful he's
faithful to the death and when, he's
ornery he's awfully .ornery. This- is
his ornery day. The sight of my old
bus parked in the alfalfa has riled
him again. . . . Well, you know
your ;orders now, Miss Ormsby. Give
them to Jake and do not say please.
No requests, mind you. Nothing but
an order. Be a commanding officer.
If you believe yourself to be one Jake
may believe it too. He's going to
pitch into me for daring to come
here. Beat him to the assault. Fly
at him, girl, fly art him."
(Continued Next Week.)
e S NAPSI-1 OT CU IL
LET'S GO HUNTING
It's the wise hunter who keeps his camera loaded and ready to snap the
real story -telling pictures such as this one. so,
ON'T these cool, crisp fallmorn-
ings sort of give you the hunt-
ing fever? In spite of all the pleas-
ure you had during the good old
summer time you probably look upon
the fall hunting season as one of the
highlights of the year, and as you
sit enjoying a good evening smoke,
isn't it a lot of pleasure to talk over
the happenings of the day?
There should be more to a hunting
trip, however, than tracking your
game; or anticipating that tense
moment when the antlers of a fine
young •buck make their appearance
through the trees; or he carelessly
makes a wild dash into the clearing
and you put up a valiant fight
against a severe attack of "buck
fever."
The appearance of your game and
the exciting moment when you
Quickly raise your gun to your
shoulder and pull the trigger, is one
of the thrilling adventures of a hunt-
ing trip.
There are, however, many mo-
ments of relaxation and leisure, too.
It is then that you should do a dif-
ferent kind of shooting. "Shooting"
with a camera should not be over-
looked for it is with snapshots that
you can make a picture record of
your trip and enjoy your expedition
over and over for yearn to come.
Your snapshots can picture your
trip from the time you and your
hunting pals load your duffel bags,
guns, blankets and other equipment
until your return with -we hope -
Your trophies.
Space will not permit enumerat-
ing all the picture possibilities on
such trips. Piciers taking opportu-
nities, however, seam to have the
habit of appearing at the Mostene
expected moments so its the wise
hunter who keeps his camera loaded
and ready for action.
If you have never before taken
snapshots under overcast fall skies
it is important to remember that it
will be necessary to give a longer
exposure than, ordinarily made un-
der summer's bright 'sunshine.
But your snapshooting should not
be confined to outdoor pictures for
it is at night in the cabin or lodge
you can take pictures of your party
seated around the open fireplace
swapping yarns and reviewing ex-
periences in this and former hunt-
ing expeditions.
You will find that Photoflash bulbs
will serve your purpose admirably.A
Photoflash bulb is similar in appear-
ance to a common electric light bulb
and can he screwed into.a special,
but inexpensive holder, resembling
an ordinary band flash -light tube.
This ean he purchased at almost any
store selling photographic. supplies.
The flash is set off by pressing the
flash button and it gives an intense
light without any noise or smoke.
After placing your camera on a
tripod or some solid support look
into the finder and be sure you can
sal all who are to be included in the
picture. Set the diaphragm at 1.8 or
17. S. 4, open the shutter after hav-
ing been set for "time" and then
flash the bulb. Be sure to close the
shutter immediately after the flash.
It is not necessary to have the
room in total darkness when the
flesh is made but be sure that a
bright light is not shining directly
into the - lens of th4frcarrtera.
Make your cartiettstO important
part of your hunt.4*(iziptateat and
on your return haagatarieture story
to show to your friendS.
JOHN VAN titt/LI)Elt.
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