Zurich Herald, 1930-11-13, Page 2The Gringo Privateer
By PETER B. KYNE
SYNOPSIS.
Kenneth Burney, adventurer and one-
time gentleman, comes to BradOeYa13a -
Bar -
din, king of the cattle country,
Burney has had a fight with :Martin
Bruce, a rival cattle owner who has been
stealing the king's{,aided dby MTg-
uel Gallegos, a'Mexican
Icing, liking young Horsey, makes him
general manager of the ranch an condi-
tion that he put Bruce and Gallegos out
of the '.vay. Burney meets Bruce, who
has sworn ,tu kill him. heY both draw
their guns, but Burney outwits the wily
old cattle thief.
1Teanwhile "Muriel Bardin, beautiful
daughter of the king, becomes interested
in Burney. She tries to persuade her
Sather not to let Burney tackle the cattle
thieves. But Burney continues to lay
his plans for the battle that is sure to
come.
that he's going down to El Cajon Bon-
ita to bump off Miguel fallegos'."
"Oh, pad, this. iS dreadful:"
"Interesting, at any •rate."
"You must stop hint.''
The king dropped his chin on hie BY ANNABELLE WORTHINGTON
breast and commenced to snore loudly.
"Then stop hi," the
glcried.
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His Majesty op one eye and it:With Pattern
gazed upon his progeny. "Why?"'
"I don't want him to kill Miguel
Gallegos."
"That the only reason?"
".I dont want Miguel Gallegos to
kill him."
aawhy?"
"Becrnse--"
"Who cares?" he taunted her and
commenced to snore again, Muriel
commenced to weep.,"Hey! I3ey!" said
the king. He was instantly distressed.
"Very well, honey. You hop into your
car and overtake Sir Knight and tell
him your father says he is not to 'kill
Miguel Gallegos today unless Migusl
Gallegos kills him first; in whiche'vent
I imagine those three rowdies with
him •will take care of Gallegos."
Ten minutes later Ken Burney and
his riders pulled off to one side of
the road to let a car go by: To' -Ken's
amazement it stopped, and ;Muriel
Bardin was in it.
"My father says you're not to kill
Miguel Gallegos today," she cried ex-
citedly.
He touched two fingers to lits fore-
head in the Oriental sign of fealty.
"I hear and I obey. I hadn't intended
killing him today, anyhow,"
"And you are not to permit hint to
kill you, either, Mr. Burney."
He turned to his men. "Boys, you
hear that? Guard me well. My re-
spectful compliments to His Majesty
and tell him, please, that I'll be back
when I .return."
He lifted his hat and rode on, but
not before the girl had detected a
mocking light in his black eyes and a
shrewd little smile on his humorous
mobile mouth. Furious, she returned
major," he mucmmmred, "And what a
blood -thirsty old Quaker you turned
out to be." He picked up the tele-
phone and called the king. Muriel
Bardin answered. "I want to speak
to His Majesty," he announced,
"About Tom Bledsoe?" she queries.
"Good guess."
"His Majesty has retired and may
not be disturbed. I'll take the mes-
sage."
"Very well. Tell him please, that
I have raised Tom Bledsoe's wages
fifty dollars a month, because I have
discovered in him a man after my own
heart. If the king had been acquaint-
ed even remotely with Tom Bledsoe, I
wouldn't be his general manager to-
night."
"How interesting! Well, why 'not
turn the job over to Tom Bledsoe right
away, Mr. Burney? I'm sure it is not
going to be one you are going to en-
joy."
"That's where you are greatly mis-
taken, Miss Bardin. I'm going to
enjoy it immensely, Tom Bledsoe's
going to help me, though."
"I'nm disappointed in you, Mr. Bur-
ney. I thought you were a gentle-
man."
"Oh, no, no, no. Nothing like that,
Miss Muriel. No gentleman ever gets
the thrill out of life that I do. I
know, because I've been a gentleman.
Now I prefer to be a roughneck."
"That's much too bad, Mr. Burney.
Good night." And she hung up.
"Poor old king," Ken Burney.mnur- to the king.
mored, "she must be giving hima (To be continued,)
rough ride about me. As if it's any of
hes business," he murmured and
switched off the light.
At the same moment Muriel Bardin.
stood beside the king's bed and de-
livered his general manager's mes-
sage. Whereat His Majesty smiled a
satisfied smile.
"I'm not going to invite him over to
c;inner after all," Muriel announced.
"Jake with me," said :he king.
"Good night, honey."
Immediately after breakfast Tom
Bledsoe.:reported to the new general
manager. "Well, 1 lave thirty good
men signed up for thee, Mr. Burney,"
he announced. saddle
"Fast work. How many
horses have you. ;got in the remade?"
"About three hundred."
"Cut me out six bays, two buckskins
with black points, five light bays with
blazed faces and white socks, five
blacks or very dark bays, five chest-
nuts, two palominos; one sovieno and
two black -and -white pintos. Here's the.
list to aid your memory.
"Gues• we can fill that bill, Mr.
Burney. We got all colors in that
remuda, an' they're all good horses."
"Thanks. Send over to me three of
your fastest wing slots with pistols,
wearing two guns each. I'm going to
Huachitr in the gen•.ral manager's
automobile and these three are to be
my bodyguard. Hand-pick 'em, Tom.
While I'm gone rake up a few men and
round up the horses I require."
Within ten minutes the trio report-
ed. One of them, it developed, was
Art Graydon's chauffeur when he was
not otherwise engaged, and he had
to report that Mr. Graydon planned to
use the ranch car that day.
CHAPTER XVI.
CHAPTER XV. (Cont'd.)
"Well, as a cattle range, El Cajon
Bonita is certainly worth fighting for,
Tom. It's well watered and. I never
slid see such a thick growth of grarna
grass anywhere else. So the situa-
tion has resolved itself to this. We've
got to keep a force of men down there
sufficient to stand. off Gallegos. That's
too expensive and dangerous. To leave
our cattle there alone and unprotected
means that presently every head of
stock we've got there will disappear.
That's too expensive also. So the
third alternative is to go down there
and wipe this fellow Gallegos
shand thes
men clear off the map.
plan I've adopted." the gloomyAin t no other out,"
Quaker assented. "But Art Graydon,
be never suggested that an' the king
couldn't on account o' bein' respon-
sible, if he did, for the kills ' of a lot
o' his good men. An' then there's the
international complications to consid-
er, Mr. Burney, the situation has sure
had the king goin'."
"Well, he isn't sending me down
there. I've volunteered and he isn't
going to know when I start or when
I finish, until he gets the news of the
clean-up. I figure that with thirty
good men I can take care of two hun-
dred of the Gallegos followers, but to
be successful we must be superbly
equipped, superbly mounted, well
trained and have a definite plan of
campaign, from which we must not
diverge, once the action is joined. Once
we wipe out the Gallegos gang, Martin
Bruce will keep clear of El Cajon. Bon-
ita and it will 1 e a long time before
another bandit adventurer undertakes
to start something with as. I expect
to get the law on Bruce in this state
and jail him."
"He's too smart to be caught brand-
ingthe king's calves himself."
• "A master is responsible for the
acts of his servants, Tom, and the
servants will be easier to catch than
the cautious Mr. Bruce. Once I get
an indictment voted against him in
this state he'll remain in Arizona;
then some night we'll sweep down on
his headquarters on the Triangle B,
burn it, and run his criminal riders off
the range, unless by doing good de-
tective work, we are able first to land
most of them in jail. •
"This situation doesn't present any
insuperable obstacles, Tom. All it re-
quires is some resolution, a definite
plan and a ruthless follow-through.
Before I get through with Martin
Bruce he'll sell his range and all his
cattle to the king and pull out of New
Mexico forever."
"All the king has ever needed is the
-right general manager an' in thee he
has found the man. Mr. Burney. I'll
be right proud to help out."
"Thanks Tom, I know you will. 1
expect to clean the situation up in
thirty days, although unforeseen com-
plications may require more time. It
wouldn't be fair to have a good man
like you marking time on the same old
salary, so from the first of July your
salary is upped fifty dollars a month."
"Thanks. That makes me the high-
est-paid ridin' boss on the Bardin pay-
roll, don't it?" Bledsoe replied pride-
fully. He rose. "Well, I reckon Pd
better be off. Pll tell the boys of thy
plans an' select the dependables."
Ken Burney watched him depart
into the night. "Good old sergeant-
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'Fresh from the gardens'
Autumn
I want to come to autumn with the
silver in my hair
And maybe have the children stop to
look at me and stare;
I'l like to reach October free from
blemish or from taint,
As splendid as a maple tree which
artists love to paint.
I'd like to come to autumn, with my
life work fully done
And look a little like a tree that's
gleaning in the sun;
1'1 like to think that I at last could
come through. care and tears
And be as fair to look upon as everY
elm appears.
But when I reach October full content-
ed I shall be
If those with whom I've walked
through. life shall still have
faith in me; .
Nor shall I dread the winter's frost
when brain and b-dy tire
If I have made my life a thing which
others can admire.
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Canvas or coarse huckaback is used
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taught the intricate threading of a ,
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Ken Burney telephoned the king.
"Well, what now?" His Majesty de-
manded.
"I want to borrow your car for the
day."
"Sorry, Ken. I haven't one, but I'll
ask my daughter to loan you hers.
Wait a minute."
The minute passed and then Muriel
Bardin came on the line. "Father tells
me you want to borrow my car, Mr.
Burney."
"If you please, Miss Muriel, provid-
ed it's a five -passenger one."
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Two in Cane
It was Paddy's first trip in an aero•
plane, and when he reached the
ground again he turned a very palel
face to the pilot.
"Sure and begorrah, but I thank ye'
for those two rides,' he said,
The pilot looked puzzled.
"Two rides," he echoed. "But you've
only bad one
"No, two," replied the Irishman.
"My bust and my larst and all."
For Dry Skin—Minard's Liniment.
Knetw Too Much
The two club members were talk-
ing about the coining election of ofi-
cers.
"if Brown and Smith are put up for
the post of treasurer, who will you
vote for " asked King.
"Browul every time," replied Tripp.
'But I thought you knew Smith
well?' said King.
"So I do," came the reply.
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"Not to save me a forty -mile ride
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Flow many fish was it you caught i
plied and hung up. Half an hour later ! ,en Friday, Jack?" she asked.
iSSUE No. 45—'30
she saw him, on Lis pinto horse, ac-
companied by three heavily armed
riders, pass down the road in front of
the king's castle. He waved to her;
she shook her small fist at him, where-
at he drew a carbine from the saddle -
boot and exhibited it. "I may never
come tack," he called.
"Who cares?" she cried back.
"I do " the king, from his seat on
the ea.tern veranda, reminded her.
"Seems to me you're unnecess'•iily
nasty toward that boy,"
"When you get through with him,
Dad, you should buy him a first-class
passage to China and give him a let-
ter of introduction to Chang-tso-lin.
Chang could 'doubtless use him at a
huge salary to murder missionaries."
"Is that so?" said the king. "Well,
well, well. Notice that horse he was
riding? That's the one you fall heir
to after Bunny's been killed."
"I shall not accept hint. What are
he and those three ruffiians with hint
going to do now?" • '
"I should shy, ofl hand, however,
"Six, dear," ,returned her husband.
"And better fish you've never seen."
She looked at the bill in her hand.
"I thought so," site replied. "That
fishmonger has made a mistake again.
He's charged us for eight."
X—"How slid your garden do this
year?" Y—"Gu eat.! My neighbor's
chickens took fmr,.t prize at the poultry
show." ,
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