Zurich Herald, 1931-02-26, Page 2The Gringo Privateer
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T.
I laid the other on i)an Wi
IHe had timed this action, d4
I until the cook had rung ti
luncheon.
"L'et's eat," he suggest
"I've worked up an appeti
I with you." As soon ee JuneP
over Dan Wilkins niotore,
into town, where the latter'
train and went south•,
deSl. ; When h e pe
ying it i
Pell fur i Acted
heartily.
arguing It is an autumn afternoon in. 1598, ••
igen wee Rini eeeea, 1 nilo +cars malls their•
Burnet;; way down to the river. "Southward!
aught a 1) ' to .Y' hey, duel tittle rowboats
•r., clash n17 a11(1 --take thein across the
I ' - Tlralnes to Paris Garden Stairs. The
When the king calve da za to tinbe
office the day after his aii Baa home
.,I vitinglyflflana everyw ag over loae makes his sway
n W!1- to the theatre
Two galleries run around the In -
of fa,' side of the building ana look clown
h Bier- alma the stage, which projects into
the pit, There is no roof over the
pita and the yellow flag flaps noisily
above the tradesmen and- pickpockets.
Only the stage and the galleries are
sheltered from the weather by a nar-
row roof of thatch. Wooden pillars,
painted tc imitate n•arble, and car-
ved with masks and satyrs' heads, 1
support the galleries A green cur-
tain hangs across the stage.
The pit is almost full. Everyone is
talking in a loud voice. Shakespeare
himself is to act this afternoon in a
new comedy, the scene of which :s
laid in Rome, "Not Rome," says
some one, authoritatively, "but Lan-
don," and some one else has 'heard
that Venice is the place. Does any-
one know whose play it is? Some
new person has written it,- some shop•
keeper or something, whom Shake-
speare has picked up... .
Hawkers of gingerbread and pears
offer their wares in loud raucous
cries, tossing pieces of cake and fruit:
Ile found on Inc desk tis
sti
- laminating message from 11
CHAPTER XXXIV. found ' 1e I got x' kins:
'Wird have ±oun cin gene.
g After selling my enure i
wire yesterday from Jim Cheesebrothgh th �.
"The over to Umatilla, Washington manager of your El R?iehitcj di•
Bonita
d toney
g makm teen
�Id fox" Burney decided, "As,
soon as I cleaned np E1 Cajon
ousand cattle to T
me an offer I sure found harp re-�I find that the eozrtrft > sig •.
for him he decided to comm back to i sist. I'd have closed if I hadn't prom., vision, San Francisco. I'll bet a small five -1 ised you I'd hold off. Of course I've! ed has been signed. a n lLan`rsG t le
lnotbyth
cent bag of cigarette tobacco he is had plenty o' buyers to see rile since l vilelag
now the real owner of the Santa Inez the news leaked out that I'ii gofn' i. Company ive, by lshiin sO.K.?your
Rancho. He wants me to go to work. out o' business, but most of 'em are ' sent merely an overszght,v
for double-cross,
lsoe badly I' has descended t•� usln c heads
`was
him a few the ave •
1ne a cashier's ch q
give rill has g
s
I'llt
h
- ros ,
' sec
the doab� thousand dollar, very uncomfortable minutes for this."
From his hotel he wrote Bradley
Bardin as follows:
Dear M'_. Bardin:
Upon returning to California 1
learn that your chief counsel, Mr.
George F. Borthwick. has purchased
the Santa Inez Rancho from my
father. Fortunately he paid all the
ranch is worth.
In vi.w of the fact that it is now
impossible for ire, to accept- the iinan-
cial aids you agreed to furnish use in
return for services rendered, you will
please accept this letter as a definite
and irrevocable declination of your
offer ani of 'all rights, even the most'
intangible, sought by you to be con-
e eyed under that offer. Indeed, upon
thinking over the events of the past
thirty days I am moved to the conclu-
sion that the services I rendered you
were so trifling as to be out of .all
proportion to the generous offer you
made lite. Moreover, the sale of my
father's ranch now makes available to
me more than sufficient capital to in-
sure the successful and profitable
consummation of my most cherished' interests rather than his own or those
plans. of the Bardin Land & Cattle Company,
Please, therefore, accept a hundred Two days sufficed Burney to dis-
and fifty thousand acres of the best cover that Wilkins' cattle were good
range land in the country, ten thou-� and sound—mostly Hereford grades
' lam shells an' woodpecker e e
for money, whilst em thati and thtContraCt,
money want to sort out the tops an'
me the culls to work off on which is very fair, gives use.-�a lien on
leave the cattle until they at,e. aid for,
1 repro•
hose; it
rause he
t
for fifty
somebody else. Please advise if deal is ('
"Then, too, they only want five hue. -1 Burney has legal author
dred or a thousand, all feeders, an' if
I sell my feeders I won't have nothin' 'sent you.}
left to sweeten a deal for workin' off "Hari" roared the ki
Mari Hari So the you
the aged stock. If I can work it I'd
prefer to sell the whole outfit to one
buyer, but I only know of two Coast
buyers big enough to handle such a
deal. Jim Cheesebrough is one an'
Brad Bardin's the other."
end that
o repre-
Ken .Purney nodded sagely. "Have
you heard from our main office as yet,
IIr. Wilkins?"
"Had a wire this morning asking
ore to telegraph complete description
of the herd an' the price at which I'm
holdin' it."
"Have you replied to that tele•
gram?"
"Yep. Wired 'em I wouldn't sell
until their representative showed up
here."
Immediately Burney adroitly switch-
ed the conversation. Thereafter he
talked of Dan Wilkins and the latter's
sand head of cattle and a private
cemetery with the compliments of,
Yours very sincerely,
KENNETH BURNEY-
That letter, with other mail, was
delivered to King Bardin by an office
boy, shortly after the king and the
princess had returned to their San
Francisco home. Having read it the
king handed it to his daughter. "Read
it," he said, "and -veep•" tons to permitting the pure haser o
"He's even more astute than I cre-1 his cattle the benefit of 'the use of the
reced keen with beingA he primers ranch gratis. To this Wilkins readily
remarked casually. "Anddeven more
• P*na aQ> G ^n^,. agreed
.
:idCe'
„Whys
"Because I am saved the ignominy
of having to take you over my kne=e
and warm you with the fiat of my
hand for selling me that perfectly custom among old-time cattlemen,
loony t, a." Wilkins agreed.
"But, darling, he can't proveae You I Wilkins was to continue at the
are the real owner of that ranch."
"He doesn't have to," the old man ranch in charge of the herd, at a sal-
roared. "He knows it! That's why ary of five hundred dollars a month;
with the super -courtesy of his infernal he was to retain his riders but Bur•":
Hidalgo blood, he has made vie feel iiey was to furnish the payroll. Wil
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like a dirty deuce ie a clean pack. Oh, kins was to furnish saddle stock with -
Lord, I'm suffering! And I can never out charge save for forage and other
square myself with ' him now. I necessary expenses, and the berd was
know that young man. He's implaa_ to receive, under Dan Wilkins' ad -
able. He wouldn't work for me now ministration, the same care as if he
for anything. And did you notice that still owned it.
he didn't even send ais compliments Burney explained that this latter
to you? He's off the whole family, t provision was necessary to insure the
tell you, and it's all your fault, and I trade; there had been considerable
wish I could find a hole to crawl into drought throughout the Southwest and
and ther, drag the hole in after me.
The longest day I live I'll owe Ken
Burney a debt I can never repay be-
cause he will not permit the pay-
ment; the iaea of your falling in love
with such a man when he never even
gave you a tumble !"
"Yes, he did, Pop," the princess
replied cheerfully, "but you didn't no- i The preliminaries having been dis-
tice it. Oh, boy, what that sweet thing posed of, they now locked horns on the
can say with his eyes!" She advanced
upon her father, sitting completely
crushed in his favorite armchair, grip-
ped his ample nose in thumb and fore-
finger and tilted his face up to hers.
"Now I'Il tell you why I sold you the
idea that it would be a brilliant stroke
of strategy for you to buy his father's
ranch. I did it because the sale would
put him in funds. I concluded he had a
deal on somewhere or he would never
have left us in uch a hurry.
"Well, I preferred to see hint pad-
dle his own canoe. I wanted to dis-
cover whether, provided he could se;
euro the capital elsewhere, he would
not reject your aid. I knew he'cl feel
better if he could reject it, and so
would I. I do not worry .about hire.
Any man as smart as Ken Burney
could run a leather shoestri,ig into a
tannery before one could say Jack
"Hari
fox has
hung one on old Dan Willes! He's
got the :serve of a lion tai., er..".
(To be continued.
What New York
and considerably above the average
in point, of excellence and condition.
So he returned to the ranch and com-
menced his trade on the following
considerations:
The cattle were not to be delivered
t:ntil one year frora date, Burney ex-
plaining
xplaining that, since the buyers of Wil-
kins' ranch had given the latter on,
year in which to remove his cattle,
Wilkins could have no possible objet -
Is Wearing
BY ANNABELLE WORINGTON
litustratecl Dressmaking Zie'sson Fur-
nished With Every Fgttern
ins and Burney; the tally at time oa.
delivery should of course govern, and
all calves now running at their
mothers' sides were to go free with
the trade. This being the universal
2930
•up into the galleries and catching
pennies. noted soldier—winning the Victoria
A bugle blows, but no ova pays any Cross in the Boer War and the inti -
heard,
to it. A second blast is mate friendship of Kitchener (a rare
whose D C. he was
heard. The conversation- continues
loudly. A third blast is .blown, and thereby hangs this
lona. The noise lessens somewhat,
but a ,buzz continues.
A handsome Wei., crowned with a
wreath of bay leaves, step, in front
of the curtain. He 'lfolds up a placard
bearing the title of the play—"Every
Man in His. Humour," it says. He
speaks the prologue, and everyoue
begins to listen. This will be a
comedy of modern London, he says.
No silly romance, no supernatural
events, no battles. He hopes the
audience will be kind. He bows and
withdraws.
The audience seems disappointed.
They talk loudly again. No ship-
wrecks, no battles, no love -making'•
They shan't be backward about de-
manding their money.
Suddenl$+ the •.urtain
back .hid the play begins.
The behaviour of the audience
that afternoon was • lightly out of the
ordinary, Since the play is a comedy,
they laugh. But the :aughter does
'not come as usual, in boisterous roar-
ing ousts It is Iess raucous,bttt
he actors speak contazhs 'S nea•i w>}
Melt in body and delicate
glosso :i r its flavour
enneeena
been promised a C.B. (a decoration)
Kipling and Kitchener
—and I shall deserve it,,,
bundle ofpapers unearth- yoltowiug o11e of the last big drives
In an old tech
h ic. necessitated
• which eel by General C. R. Ballard—author , of the Boni• iced
of an extremely well done
Kitchener, the soldier — he cause
letter hath lie (Ballard)
" ife" of I p.itcliener'; abeetice from his need-
t ,o,
•ou h.
t
cit�'trter� a telegram was bl Q,
across
a e er ry h uitn at-tbe loess where he was din-
had
rig. He read it in silence and passed
had written home when a schoolboy
at Westward Ho, describing a school it routitl the table. Everybody ex -
"rag "
x -"rag." One sentence ran: petted to read uaolneutons news. This
"'Gagger' Kipling is a fellow who
thinks a good deal of himself be-
cause he is in the Fifth Form and
sub -editor of the 'School Chronicle."
It is amusing to remember (chuck-
les the general) that we called him
(Rudyard Kipling) "Gigger" because .?Clic great thing in life is to keep
he e s thet only boy out of 200 who } up full enthusiasm always, for every -
*
very
wore spectacle*. * * thing we undertake to do, and do it
AtOther of General Ballardes right :heartily, and never in a halt-
schoolmates
alt
schoolmates at Westward Ho was hearted way, nor to judge our.life t y
- Maxwell, who also became a present moods or depressions,
they will pass away.
FREEDOM.
wa:i the massage:
"Torr Bloody Bird ill. Staff in
tears.. Return at once.
"MAXWELL."
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ENTHUSIASM
Little daughter will-lot'e this model
,with such a grown-up air.
It buttons down the back—quite the
newest idea of Paris in the elder mode.
The pointed outline through the hips
is modish.
And you'll be startled to learn how
easily it is made. Merely a two-piece
circular skirt to be seamed'and joined
to the bodice. `+
Style No. 2930 inay be had in sizes
8, 10, 12 and 14 years. Size 8 requires
2 yards of 39 -inch material with at
the rainfall in California had been be- yard of 39 -inch contrasting.
low normal, hence if he moved the It adapts itself beautifully to wool
Wilkins' herd immediately, the prob- jersey, supple tweed, wool challis
lem of finding range for such a large .prints, wool crepe, rayon novelties
number of cattle or short notice would and the heavier weight cottons ana
prove embarrassing. linen.
CHAPTER XXXV. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS
is pulled
honor, indeed) A.
for a time. And ie 1 upon tthe infinite Wrhical and eath aof human per-
sonality, and its direct relation
with
E e
the Divine Personality, has
direct source of all that is noblest hi
modern civilization, -
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"Dearest Annabelle," wrote Oswald.}
e 1 front its alt• who was hopelessly in love. "I could,
juries,
it swim the mighty ocean for one glance
juries, the starling ecame a prowl•
hent member of the headquarters
l a ben of its from
a wdalltof flame for one touch
mess, with Maxwell fr little would
welfare on order from Iiitchfuoe� i of your
treanlh�torsa Z'ord from ap the
your
Often wring ll would get up lsay: lovely lips. As always, your Oswald.
table during dinner and
"Excuse me while I see whether oe�iit.11aln over
eRoyai Saturday
Arcanunt if Bul-
if _the
Bloody Bird has had its dinner; ,
if the beast can be kept alive I have letin.
The conception of man's freedom.
subject of price for each .class of cat-
tle. Burney had already wormed out
of Wilkins the best price the latter
had been offered to date and promptly
offered one dollar a head more,
straight through. Wilkins demanded
on extra dollar; whereupon the two
ehook hands and the deal was closed.
Having settled the matter of price,
Burney now approached a task of
great finesse, to wit, the terms of pay-
ment. He suggested fifty thousand
dollars down payment upon the sign-
ing of the contract, and two hundred
thousands dollars in six months, two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars in
nine months and the remainder upon
delivery of the cattle Deferred pay-
ments were to bear six per cent. in-
terest.
He spoke of the tightness of the
money market, of other plans which
Robinson.. He's not a fortune hunter. 7equired huge outlays of cash, of the
and he has too much pride to ask any I desirability of a sound six per cent,.
woman to marry him until he can offer investment for the money derived
her a home, three square meals Pei I from the sale, in the event Wilkins
diem for an indefinite number of diems ( had no other investment plans, and
and sufficient creature comforts tol pointed out that with the deferred
' please any woman not a gold-digger. payment: secured by the cattle the
"So, ...ing Bardin, if you want my deal could not possibly be bettered.
opinion, he's off to a running start,' Dan Wilkins would have preferred
i d 1 lettert!" better terms and said so but Burney
Write your name and address plain-
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patterns as you want. Enclose 20c in
stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap
it carefully) for each number, and
address your eider to Wilson Pattern
Service, '73 West Adelaide St., Toronto,
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Finding the Right Road
(Translated for the Christian Science
Monitor.)
Father and son walked jointly through
field and busk: one clay;
tale:
Kitchener, who was very fond of
birds, had a pet starling known as
the "Bloody Bird" --because of its
terrible condition, "a wishwelled mass
of blood and feathers," when rescued
by the great soldier on the field of
battle, during the Boer War.
had recovered
clone, expression that everyone has
used since childhood. The expres-
sions sious are satirized. They man ridi-
culous.
idi
culous. Everyone in the audience
laughs at himself and thinks he
laughs at his friends. , . •
As the curtain is drawn after (meltact, the applause is tremendous, and
after Shakespeare has spoken the
epilougue, the pit bursts into load
cheers.—Byron Steel, in "0 Rare Be'
Jonson."
sueaiseiffsrogfamoasgatsawogtazsoea
Scientist Reveals
Metal As Element
Washington. --Another mystery of
science has been cleared up ay a
scientific "detective," who has identi-
fied
dents
fied and "fingerprinted" a new metal.
The metal is rhenium, first isolated
two years ago by two German scien-
tists, The "detective" is Dr, W. F.
Meggers, of the Bureau of Standards.
He has obtained the first complete
"spectrum" of the new metal,
It gives, he says, the first definite
confirmation that rhenium is an ele-
ment, one of the ninety-two sub-
stances like oxygen or gold that can-
notstances. be sub -divided into other sub -
Rhenium in Pura form is a black
powder like lampblack. Dr. Meggers
has a pinch of it weighing about one -
twenty -eighth of an ounce in a tiny
glass tube, which is practically the
whole supply iu the United States.
Rhenium has no known uses, but
may find application in the electrical
Having strayed far by nightfall, they and metallurgical indus»ries because
lost their homeward way. it will not melt until heated to about
4,500 degrees Fahrenheit.
The son looked hard, alt :,very rock, at At present rhenium is rarer than
every treeradium, and it constitutes about one
Hoping in each a guiding.sign to see. part in a million ill the ear'th's crust.
Dr, Meggers did his detective work
The father meanwhile upward by analyzing the light given off by
raisd to the stars ,his ayes, rhenium. Ile sprinkled some of the
As if the earth's direction, he would metal on a special arc light. The
find in the skies. rays from this arc were reflected
front a mirror and a metal plate, so
Silent reniain:ed the racks; the trees that they broke tip and focused on
helped not a mite; photographic films. There they
The stars, However, pointed with a registered the spectrum "lines" of
ray of light.. the metal
These lines differ from every elem-
Homeward they led' the wanderers ent, just as the fingerprints of every
who had discerned, + human: They can bo used to detect
That only in heaven can wisdom for - the presence of rhenium's in other sub -
i t his proves i + , , statices.
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B.,aaing planted his barb in the out -talked him, out -reasoned him that I+reidrie1i ltuckert,iin "Lyric. Poetry"! About 2,000 new lines were pro -
king's heart, Ken Burney departed via out -gamed him, with the res1 duced on the plate when the light
the air mail plane to Oregon, took a1 old. Dan only haggled twenty-fo'iv Froin rhenium was photographed,
Hb1VKl••HONK! I
Mr -
local train down to Harney aiul hired! hours and then signed the co` tract Di Ever -"I wasn't going forty miles tering from the lines produced by
a ear, to take hint out to pan Wilkin:i', which Burney instantly produc c foe any other element These form
ranch.: `'Well, Mr. Wilkins," he salt,! his inspection. Wheii he had Signe+l,, en hour, nor thirty, nor even twenty.' rhenium's "tingorpr!iil" record,
after iuth•ciduc!ng Morsel{', "I'm he) ,z' Burney handed ' im a cashier's cheque . Judge --`Here, steady now, or Milly
t metliin .1"-~-$1tn•
"1 drink Clue -c-Lnt•ry is heavenly,
'•Ilia, 1 don't, know. Tahe away the
within the two-week period I stated, 50 for fifty thousand dollars, made pay- lie beaking in o sn
p you. still have your catty able to Kenneth Burney and endorsed ma -Seamier.,
1 asum" ! by the latter;; and while Dan Wilkins]
on hand. } , ,. •ii - ttoceived 15 to i J:iiiui.afns anti the laky :incl it is just
"Yes, bat if you'd been a day lata, 1 was atudyle the cheque, Butn., , The true tr'..y to ,•' t ail. o 1i• like anills an t i5,i."•--Ietistige 'Oehler
.�...... -- - contract, blink ones<;'li incl°E iciia+izr g It
signed both copies of the
ISSUE No. 8- -i3l I folded them, put one in his pocket and ors, --La llochcfottcauld. W011nug,
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