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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1940-01-25, Page 6PAGE'SIX WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES Thursday, January 25, 1941 SYNOPSIS Let; Hollister, returning from a trip abroad to the Circle V ranch, owned by Matt Blair, who for twenty yeans had been like a father, to Lee, decides to surprise the family. He sends them no word of his coming and rides over the hills to (the ranch on horseback. When he finally sees the wide ranch­ land before him, he is astonished at the unusual aspect of the place. He is troubled, too, when he meets Slanty Gano on Matt’s land. Then Joey—old prospector befriended by Matt—tells him Matt is dead by his own hand. . . * ♦ * Joey told. Hard times had hit Matt heavily, and one disaster after anoth­ er had piled on shoulders already bur­ dened. Cattle had stampeded over a cliff, grazing privileges which he had rented for years from old Don Luis Ceballos had been refused by a new owner; there were notes in bank and the bank had unexpectedly pressed for payment; rumors also of disast­ rous speculations. “He must have been figgerin* on some deal that didn’t pan out," said Joey. "He hinted at somethin to me; come down here one night for a pipe with me—ye know how he did. Three days later he was dead, with a letter from the Assay Office teliin’ him that some ore samples he’d sent ’em didn’t assay high enough to be wuth •what it would cost to get it out" “Not the old Bonanza?" “No, they ain’t nothin’ there but cave-ins, We found a place down an one of the old claims where they’d been some fresh diggin’.*’ "H’m. Did anybody hear the shot?" “No. He was all alone. Looks like he'd fixed it up that way. He’d let the boys off to a barbecue. It was Ling that found him, just about sun­ up, sagged down in his chair like I fold ye, with his gun on the floor, it hsd slipped out of his fing- suppose,’’ said Lea sharply, “that the whole outfit had pawed the gun' bvcr before anybody thought of fing­ erprints?” *T defray they did handle it, but they ain’t any. use in tryin’ to figger it out that'-way. It was Matt’s own gun, and they was powder marks on him where it had -been fired close.” Silence fell heavily between them. I^e broke it presently. “Is Virginia -up at the house?” “No; she only stayed for a little while. She said the place was so full of memories she couldn’t stand it. Her aunt kep’ ccaxin” her to come back east and live with them, and so she went. Thev’s a manager here now, Lawler, his name is. Things is kinda runnin’ down. It ain’t the old Circle V any more. Thev’s nobody left of the old crowd but Curly and Darrell. I was hopin’ she’d come back, but Curly told me yestiddy he’d heard somebody was goin’ to buy it and turn it into one of these here gentlemen’s fancy ranches.” On the edge of Joey’s bunk Lee sat very still. “Ye don’t suppose Honey would let anybody jump my claim, do ye, Lee?” “No,” said Lee flatly. "This is your claim as-lung as you want to keep it. You’ll not be disturbed.” Women are doing their bit to win the war for Britain, not only in aux* ffiai-y services anti specialized army iWfeSy but hi the air as well. These pit* ots of the Royal Air Force made his* lory in England when they flew from factories to flying schools to reserve centres leccntly. It was the first time women were even allowed to enter a British military plane, let alone pilot one, The six women fliers are mem* bets of the women’s section of the air transport auxiliary. As far back as his memory of the Circle V went, that ravine had been Joey’s, No cattle were ever driven through there, no -timber was cut save for Joey s use. Years ago; so small a thing as a gopher hole had left Matt Blair in the middle of the desert with a badly wrenched ankle and two bro­ ken ribs, a horse that had to be shot and a water supply whose last drop trickled into the sand as he reached for it. It was not until late the next afternoon that Joe Kirby, a weather­ beaten little dessert rat who even then looked almost any age, had caught sight of something far ahead of him, crawling erratically on all .fours, ris­ ing and hobbling, crawling again, without aim or direction. They were long miles from the nearest water hole and Matt was twice Joey’s size'and unconscious part of the way, but somehow, coaxing, cursing, pulling, dragging, with grudging help from a small and resentful burro, the wiry little prospector had sitaggered with him to water and safety. And from that day what was Matt Blair’s was Joey’s. And so, drifting one time to the Valley of the Sun, Joey had stayed.ed on the Judge bein’ here to advise “I’m going East to bring Virginia back”' Inveterate olti prospector that he was, he had at once begun puttering about for gold. Joey had located a fairly promising streak in the ravine. “It’s yours,” said Matt Blair. “You stake your claim anywhere around here that you want.” So Joey had staked his claim, care­ fully and conscientiously, giving Matt a painstaking diagram of its limits', but the whole ravine had been Joey’s from that day. * Lee turned back tto Joey abruptly. “Nobody’s going to jump your claim, Joey. If anybody tries it, you let me know and I’ll take him apart. And the Circle V isn’t going to be sold—not yet. I’m going back east to bring Virginia -back.” “Now, Lee, you-be careful!!” Joey sat up suddenly and fixed a worried eye on him. A brief grin (twitched the corner of Lee’s mouth. Both he and Joey re­ membered the blazing temper -of the waif Matt had brought to the Circle V years before. The temper was still there, but, as Joey said, it knew who was boss. He stood looking toward the head R.A.F. RANKS INVADED BY ENGLISH WOMEN FLIERS of the ravine where the trail was still greyly visible running up and out. It would be nearly dark in that great grassy bpwl, with the $un dropping ■ like a plummet behind the hijls. A match rasped in the .cabin, lamp­ light wavered and grew Steady, a stove lid rattled. Joey’s voice came 1 out to him. “Ye goin’ up to the house, Lee?” “No." The monosyllable was clip­ ped, “I was going -up to look' things over, but that will have to keep. You needn’t .tell anybody I’ve been here, Joey. I’ll (turn up again before long.” “Mind 1 Don’t'you dast go anywhere else, Lee Hollister. Now I’ll have sup­ per ready in two shakes.” , • Lee nodded acceptance. “This Lawler business,” he said slowly, “I don’t get it yet. Who pick­ ed him, with good men like Curly and Darrell already on the place? Who is winding up Matt’s affairs? The bank? Judg-e Harvey?” “Neither of ’em. Honey is.” “Honey! Not all alone?” «• “Why—yes.” Joey sounded apolo­ getic. “That’s the way Matt fixed Tt in his will. I guess Matt kinda count- her anyway, and you around to help her run things, but now ’ that she’s back east, it don’t seem to-work out that way.” Joey's voice trailed off on. a dis­ couraged note; but picked up quickly in defense of Matt’s mistaken judg­ ment. "Ye see, it was an -old will. Matt was aimin’ to make a new one but he never got around to it.” . Joey smothered a sigh and went back to his pans. Lee stayed for a moment longer in the doorway, star­ ing out at the thickening dusk with thoughtfully narrowed eyes. Yet, it was pretty clear that the shrewd old. judge was not advising Virginia. May­ be he’d better drop in and see the Judge himself. He did full justice to Joey’s meal. An hour later the last crumb.was fin­ ished, the dishes were washed, and Lee had saddled the buckskin again. His movements were light and quiet, his voice low. Voices carried on these still nights. “By the way, Joey, what’s Slanty Gano up to now?" “Slanty? Where’d ye see him?” Joey peeved back suspiciously, “Just -outside Valley Pass. First time I've seep him on Circle V land since Matt ordered him off and told him to Wy off. He offered me a job and said he was looking for strays, I persuaded him that he wouldn’t find any here, and he sidled off," “I bet ye did!" Joey snorted glee­ fully. “Sianty’s had a run of luck late­ ly, and it’s swelled his hat size some­ thin', outrageous. He's manager for the old Cabellos place—yeah, manag­ er! Ye know it was (took over for the mortgages when old Don Luis died, Some company’s got it now. I disre- member the name, -but Slanty’s been put in charge," From the cabin door Joey watched Lee go, tal.1, -upstanding, strong, An upturned universe was grinding slow­ ly back to its. foundations, Matt wias gone and that was irreparable, but the rest would come right somehow. Lee was home. Lee topped- the rise from Joey’s rar vine into the Valley of .the Sun and kept going. Tonight, by plane if he could get one, he was starting east. Whatever clouds might he hanging over the;Circle V, beauty and late af­ ternoon sunshine lay like a mantle on the cottage which Mrs. T. Ellison Ar­ cher had taken for .the summer sea­ son. It was a cottage only by. com­ parison with ' the more pretentious places nearby .and the great estates along the shore^road, and it was more expensive than .the T. Ellison Archers could afford, -but it was in the heart of a fashionable summer colony, and Mrs. Archer was not the woman to neglect her duty toward a marriage­ able niece, especially, where duty and personal comfort marched side by side s,d agreeably. In the .safe seclusion of her room she sighed a little over the task of balancing accounts that were much too heavy on. the debit side. Figures were so depressingly obstinate, but after all*most pf the bills were really Virginia's; and. the ranch sale would attend to them. Mir.s. Archer bright­ ened visibly. ' •, There was no doubt .in her mind that she had done well by her sister’s child. To be sure, |:here had been at firs-t.au intractable streak in Virginia, a vigor of speech and action, a habit ’of making friends of-quite impossible people that had caused her aunt some anxiety, but the vigor h.ad toned into £;careles§ compps-ure, and Mrs. Ar he­ ar had diplomatically Censored Virgin­ ia’s friends for six years. Now she could sit back and view her far-from unpaid labors with complacency. Vir­ ginia was a success.’ She was yonng, beautiful and popular. She could dance all night and be as bright-eyed as a kitten the next day; she .had been assiduously trained in every art and accomplishment that social Success might demand. In Mrs. Archer’s heart there was a secret relief that her bro- therTin-law’s tragic death had remov­ ed the last link between. Virginia and the appalling place that had been her home. Virginia must not bfe wasted there. She mustt marry well. It was necessary, for more reason than one. And Virginia, for the past few months, had been unusually docile. After her first passionate outburst of grief and self-reproach that she had not been with her father, and- the days of haunted restlessness which had fol­ lowed in ithat place of memories, she had dropped into an indifferent acqui­ escence with her aunt’s plans. Already (Mrs. Archer was planning to spend the next winter at Palm Beach. By that time Virginia would have sold the western property, and they could afford it very nicely. It was wonderful, she. reflected, what a price the elder Bradish was willing to. pay for a whim. As for his son-r*wejlt Stanley could be relied upon to prefer civilization to a ranch, It was work­ ing out beautifully. • Sounds drifted in through the* open window. A car was coming into ithe drives Mrs, ‘Archer had a glimpse of two. young.heads,! one gay and wind blown, with, a copper sheen, the other smoothly dark, She sighed comfort­ ably; and pushed the accusing bills aside, Down below the parley was brief' and careless, “Come on. We’ll get out there ahead pi’ the mob," “Can’t promise. I have a lot to do.’’ The car shot out of the drive. The g^irl with the coppery head turnqd arid went in, arid a neat maid just crossing the Hall checked her steps and waited for possible orders, '\Any calls for me while I was out, Anna?” “Yes,., miss. Several. I've left a note of each one on your desk.’’ “Thanks; mfcy.be I cap lose them.” Virginia grimaced frankly. Halfway up the Stairs the coppery head turned. “Oh, Anna, if anybody comes in the next Hour or sc I’m not at‘home.’’* Virginia went on upstairs. Her aunt’s door was slightly ajar, but she hurried on.- . “ . ' ‘ - (Continued Next Week) LEMON JUICE RECIPE CHECKS RHEUMATIC ■ PAIN QUICKLY . If you suffer from rheumatic oi neuritis, pain try this simple inexpens­ ive home recipe. Get a package of RU-EX PRESCRIPTION from your druggist. Mix it with a quart of wat­ er, add the ’juice of 4 lemons. It’s easy. No -trouble at all and pleasant. You need only B'tablespoonfuls two times a day. Often within 48 hours— sometimes overnight—splendid results are obtained. 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