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ark Lightniiij
by Helen Topping Miller
you do, Miss Mason?”
"So nice your know each other.
Bring your friend up to the house,
Gary, to meet Mother. ' Were you on
the same football team?"
' "Two years. Them was ., the days,
hey, Gary? And, now we're dirty
W. N. U. FEATURES working men and the gals don't give
CHAPTER VII «i o as a look. _ Not that you're 'doing go•
u said' you knew a good out- bad,though, you., mug, He always
M.', was, a heartbreaker Miss' Mason."-
SYNOPSIS • _
,
"Powers ,
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be can
he t aimagine," Al I
1 nAdelaide's s ed l de
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Gary Tallman, a young petroleum: equipment, and they,work All
and twos airy.' "I've .heard 'tales about
derricks falling' down, Mr. Grant. I
hope you're going to do a good job
on this one?"
"What happened to your shoul-
der, Gary? You look one-sided."
"Motor crack-up. Broke a collar
bone. But it's practically well now.
I'll
be pulling out of here in a few
and evidence of oil on the Mason worth" while going ahead with this days—for Mexico, probably." He
ranch, When ; Harvey Mason, Mona . proposition. And if they get a dry I could, he'd show her, be as aloof and
Lee's husband, decides to drill a well, hole, you will have saved yourself a J airy as she was.
Gary stays on to help. Now he and lot of trouble and money." But. A'delaid'e said blandly, "He's
Mr. Mason have gone tc see a man ( If they did get .a dry hole," ar- just talking. He's not going to Mex -
named Harper about supplying water gued Harvey stubbornly, "that ice. Re's staying here to help my
to operate the drilling machines. wouldn't prove that there wasn't oil father get out oil." ,
on the place. Maybe I've got oil and If he gets oil he won't need any
there isn't any on Harper's land. That
Old man Harper lived in a long,_would be a swell joke on the old bus -
unpainted house with a kind of open'zard, wouldn't it?"
hallway through the middle of it. The
engineer on his way to .a job in Mex- save money:"
ico, gets as far as Texas where he is "Well, you get Addie to take you
given a ride : by Mona Lee Mason. over to see them."
'They' have an accident, and Gary is "Mr. Mason, why not whit a little?
seriously injured. Mona Lee takes Grice-Morgan may decide to put'a
him to her 'home. There he finds test well on Harper's land. H they
two reasons for not going on to Mex- should do that—and the well came in,
ico-Mona Lee's daughter, Adelaide, You'd know definitely that it was
help."
"He'll need a couple of / rangers
to keep the get -rich -quick boys and
porch sagged in sad scallops, each ! Already, in his racing imagination, the promoters off of him," said Bill
depression occupied by a languid, Harvey was 'completely detached! Grant, "But if he gets a dry hole—"
long-tailed. .from the present. If he
g- dog. gets a dry hole, he'll be
Every dog's tail thumped like a Adelaide was too busy to drive
signal drum on the wooden floor as Gary over into the oil field.
they drove,up to the gate, and from "It's the dance at the country club,
within the house a woman's voice Gary—the spring dance. It's sup-
called nasally, "Pa, here comes some- posed to be Friday night and I'm on
body!" the decorating committee."
Gary grinned. "Now we return to
the original question, which is—how
Harvey and Gary waited on the
porch, surveyed with weary indif-
ference by the flat eyes of the dogs.
Then old man Harper came to the
door, He wore cowpoke boots and
a wide hat, and his• shirt had prob-
ably cost fifty-nine cents, two or
three years since.
"Howdy, Harvey."
"Hello, Harper." Mason pulled up a
chair and sat down 'between two dogs.
"Thought I'd conte over to talk a
little pieec of business with you."
"If it's about that note," Harper
said. "I'm fixing to pay it. When it's
due."
"It's not about the note. •If you
ain't able to pay it—or maybe pay
all of it, we can fix that up. What I
want to talk about is me running a
pipe down here through your pasture
and .pumping a little water out of
that creek. What you figure you'll
charge me for running the pipe line,
and the water?"
Oki Harper did not look up, but
there was about his mouth a sly and
contemptuous twist. "Don't figure
to charge ye nothing, Harvey,"
"Well, I'll pay you whatever the
damages come to."
"Don't figure to charge you noth-
ing."' Harper went on in a mad=
Bening drawl, "because I don't fig- Gary! What the heck are you doing
ure to let you have any water, be- hero?'' They beat each other on the
cause I'veleased every doggone acre
of this place to some fellers down in
Corpus Christi. And if there's any
more water izr that creek than what
my cattle can drink, I reckon they'll
want it theirselves. They're paying
me twenty dollars an acre for ten
years, and that's more than I can
Drake off'n a bunch of cows."
Harvey's neck was red and his eyes
glared. "Harper," he said, I sure
wish that note was due right now. I d
foreclose and sell you out!"
"Weil, it ain't due. And when it.
comes due' 11I have the money to
pay it. So looks like there ain't very
much you can do. Anyway you got
it all right in your own fainily. It
was your son-in-law, Oliver Kimball,
fixed up the leases for nye."
_"Who'd you lease to, if it's any of
my business?" •
"It • ain't, but I don't mind telling
for I reckon you'll find out anyhow. I
leased to Grice-Morgan—and if you
can get any water out of that outfit,
you're a good one."
"Well, I'll get it --if I have to ran
a pipe plumb to the Gulf of Mexico
after it."
Harvey stamped away, He trod
viciously on the . starter and raced
the engine till it roared. "What do
you know?" he demanded wrathfully.
"That dirty little heel! He comes to
my •'house Sundays and' eats any
chieken and drinks' 'rny liquor, and
then he setts me out—,like this. Son,
if it wasn't for Grace, I'd sure drive
into town and give Mr. Oliver Kim-
ball a good poke in the jaw!"
*"I'm, afraid you won't get any e'on-
cessions out of that Grice-Morgan
outfit" Gary was dubious.
"Yeah; I've heard, about them.—
"You might figure on running a
pipe line and tapping the city sun-
ply—that is, if they'd let you."
"I'll go talk to 'em, They've got
water to sell—they ,can sell it to
me."
"Do you want me to see .about the GRAPHIC WORK4Members• of the
concrete job? We can't put a der- British Women's Royal Naval Service
rick, up without concrete corners and "Wrens" are now trainingto take
we have to concrete' the surface cas- over all noncombatant forms of photo-
ing in." graphic work• Their .taining includes
hunting me with shotgun," grinned
Gary. "And Mexico, won't be far
enough away for me!"
"The boys on the jobs where I've
been working have been talking
about that Mexican proposition,"
Bill said. "I know a couple of fel-
lows who've gone down there. Trou,
am I going to get to east Texas? 11ble is, they've practically ruined
could go on the bus but it would take those properties now—turning them
all day to walk around the field over to people who didn't know a
after I got there. I'd lose a tot of darned thing about production,"
time."• The men on the truck began to
•
"Get Mother to drive you over. Ye "Gotta go, boys and gals," Bill
It will do her 'good to get out. 'And . „
don't forget,. you're invited to the air See you later." He strode
dance, Gary." away, his long legs swinging in easy
Gary said, a triffle stiffly, "Sorry rhythm.
—I'm afraid I'll be busy." Thinking "He's nice—I like hit"," Adelaide
that his best suit would look shabby said. "I'll invite him to the dance."
at a dance, no matter what a cleaner "He should be through and gone
could do for it—and, of course, Adel- by Friday."
aide would be going with some other "Oh, he'll staya4 know he will
fellow—Bob Ferguson, probably, if I ask him. He's a handsome
When the big red concrete ma- thing, isn't he? I like blond men.
chine came roaring up the drive, They look so ruthless=—like the vik-
Harvey had not been able as yet to ings."
complete arrangements about water. "Listen, Adelaide. Don't count
Adelaide sat, excitedly, on an over- on me 'for that dance. Ian all erip-
turned chicken coop, watching the .Pled ups and I haven't the right
forms being put together and the clothes="
cement poured in. "Oh, Gary, don't be such a mug!
The rigging craw arrived, and Why, I turned down half a dozen
Gary watched 'thorn pilling off the dates to go to that dance with you.
truck, and gave a shout. "Bill Grant! Don't you want to take me?"
You old son -of -a -gun!" - "Oh, Great Scott—" he burned
A tall, bronzed, muscular with confusion. "0f course I� want
Young to! But—I thought you'd have an -
fellow took a 'broad, jump off the other date—"
truck and came running. "Hi— ;
back and pumped hands, while Adel-
aide watched,
"Putting down this well, Adel-
aide, this is Bill Grant, the rottenest
football player that ever fumbled a
ball. Bili was in school with me.
What are you. doing 'with this bunch,
Bill?"
"Still sticking 'em up.. Worked at
it three vacations—then I got out of
school and there wasn't any job—so
I'm back being: a ,punk again: How do
"You could ask couldn't you? I
never saw such a stubborn mule as
you, Gary Tallman. 1 have to black-
jack you, practically, if I want you
to take me places",
Gary drew a long astonished
breath. He would . never, be was
certain, understand' women.
"You're sweet, Gary." She pat-
ted his arm and he forbore to wince
when she bit a lame spot. "It's too
bad you are so awfully dumb!"
The shining steel went up and
Gary's heart seemed to soar with it,
J ea.•'', I , gee •
BRITISH WOMEN UIND'ERTAKING RTAVAL AND AIR FORCE FROM
six hours' flying to gain air camera
;experience. Picture shows: An R.
A. F. Sergeant instructor teaching
twa "Wrens" how to work an enlarg-.
toeov
wes
glittering
web against st the
April
sky. Y. ' He ,dpi not ,climb, be-
cause his grip. was still precarious,
but he was rigging that derrick in
his mind, clinching every bolt, swing-
ing every hununing beam.
At noon he "sent. word to the house,
by Slim:_ that he was staying • on the
job and sat down with the rigging
crew to
shar
•
e the lunch
that had been
brought out in the clattering truck.
Bill .Grant had declined the invi-
tation to have lunch at the 'house, be-
cause he was wearing working clothes
and hadn't had time .to shave for ;a
couple days. •
" if I'd known L was going to 'meet
a girl like that, I'd have put on some
clean corduroys, and bear's grease
on my hair. Some guys have all the
luck. This Mason has money, hasn't
he? Any roan who'll put a wildcat
down on his own must have a roll.
Maybe I won't go down to the coast.
Maybe P11 stick around for the dance.
2 can always get a job."
And that, Gary thought dubiously,
was not such a good idea either..
Gary thought even Iess of the idea
when at night Bill appeared, shaven
and spruce, all dressed' up in gray
slacks and a snappy plaid coat.
They'd been having a nice, quiet
game of three -handed rummy when
Bill arrived. And in four .minutes by
Gary's watch, the radio was going
and Bill and Adelaide were dancing
in the hall, while Mrs. Mason sat and
beamed and murmured how much she
liked boys and wasn't Gary pleased
to see his old college friend again?
"Oh, yes," grumbled Gary,
all right. He'll get along."
"You get along too, Gary. Now,
THURS., DEC. 10, 1942
yougo
straight ar ]it
out
and
g
make,
a
d-
Ae
laide dance with you. I'll get Bill' out it on op of is a oulittle pipe? take
in the kitchen and make him squeeze of the ground—won't take
lemons:"- q long: Got to have water to drill
well, haven't we?"
(TO BE CONTINUED)
-But Adelaide `was out of breath,
she protested --ands why not every-
body go and. ` help squeeze .lemons?
Harvey came tramping in at eleven
o'clock, all aglow, pleased with him-
self. He banged Gary vigorously on
the back. • •
"Well, old croak r 11 nailed , ' em to
the cross! I'm getting my water from
town—all I want."
"But you have to lay your own
pipe?„
IT'S
ON HIS MIND
Hitler promises that he will
never flee across some neutral
frontier as the Kaiser did. But, all
the same,, his utterance shows "that
his mind is dwelling on the thought
of - a 'getaway.
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