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Zurich Herald, 1932-03-17, Page 2ORANGE PEKOE BLEND "SALA ria "Fresh from the Gardens" 201 JIM THE CO'NQUEROR By PETER B. KYNE Illustrated by Allen Dean 1 he said gently "I prefer the mus c • `i NOI SIS. Don Jaime Miguel Higuenes, Texas' of my people." rancher, and Toni .Antrim, sheep owner, ]~groin behind the climbing passion ..save been bitter enemies. Capt. lien Iso -g p hart, former Texas Range., now Don Jaime's manager. finds the don woun•led .after shooting it out with Antrim, whr, is killed. 1)on Jaime takes possession of Antrim's sheep, and advises Roberta An- trim of her uncle's death. "Crooked Bit.' Latham, another uncle, wants Roberta to marry his friend Glenn Hat:Kett. Rob- erta arrives in Texas and sees Bili Din- gle, her uncle's foreman, flee from a man whom. she understands to be liiS- ens, her uncle's slayer. When she ar- rives at Don Jaime I:liguenes' ranch she understands that Higgins int Higuenes are the same person. Young Robbie, J'on Jaime's protege, recalls au incident of R.nberta.s photograph in the papars. CHAPTER XIX.—(Cont'd.) Don Jaime was blushing as he meb Roberta's glance. "The subject of sheep having been_diseussed thorough- ly," he suggested, "what opinions, if any, have you, Miss Antrim, of the League of Nations and the World Court? Do you admire vers Libre, awl' is a stump -tailed yellow dog the best for coons?" He was too much for her, and deep an her soul Roberta grudgingly but admiringly, admitted it. She had a feeling of helplessness in this man's presence, for he was a new experience with her. She had never met a man who remotely resembled him—so ruth- less, forceful and dominating. Not knowing what to say, Roberta was .silent and attacked her meal When presently, her glance Piet Don Jaime's again he was smiling at her, whereupon she itched with a. desire is pull his nose. "He has all the audacity and assurance of the Irish and all the ego of the Latin," she thought. "Anti he isn't good-looking at all. Still he isn't bad looking. He's just masculine and knows it. All of his .;fc he has been accustomed to being high and low justice on. this 'ranch; because these peones of his hotow to him he thinks he can get away with murder. He's just a feudal baron who has established his feudal sway just far enough north of the Border to snake good with it." Providentially, it was not a long Bourse dinner, such as Roberta had expected would be served and which she had looked forward to with dread. A soup, a salad, a roast, two vege- tables, a light dessert and black coffee. That was all. "He runs his household like a sen- sible man, at any rate," the girl re - fleeted. "And I hazard the thought that the average rancher possessed of :. fine old gallery, facing on such a lovely old-fashioned garden as this patio contains, would eat inside!" She watched a humming -bird flit- ting frons flower to flower, saw a quail come forth and bear away a crust tossed him by Don Jaime. Then, as the shadows lengthened, the mocking- birds, replete with food and happy, perched in a lime tree and paid for their meal in melody. Roberta had never heard a Spanish mocker before and was delighted with the beauty and variety of their extensive repertoire. CHAPTER XX. • "You are fond of music?" leon Jaime queried. Roberta nodded and Tee tossed a quick order in Spanish to one of his dusky maids. "Going to turn on the radio," the girl thought. "Why does he do it? It spoils everything." Again she had evidence of the .fact that, whether she -wanted to or not, she was destined to tune in with this alma's peculiar personality. "Not the vadio, senorita, nor yet the victrola," 1 MOURNING WARDROBE. "A death occurred in our family and I had to go in mourning. I could hardly afford to buy all black clothes, so decided to dye what I Mid. I consulted our druggist and IRe advised. using Diamond Dyes. It*erything came out beautifully; eoats, wool dresses, stockings and. all. I have since learned to appreci- ate the excellence of the black Dia. Mond Dyes. I tried another black dye and the results were impos- sible. I had to get Diamond Dyes and do the work over. Recently I Iaave tinted niy curtains a beautiful raspberry shade and dyed. a rug a lovely garnet with Diamond Dyes. They are real money savers the finest dyes money can buy ---I truly believe," Mrs. ( ,1 .L., Montreal, ISSUE No, 11 —'32 vines on the gallery across the patio a guitar was strummed; Roberta heard the mellow notes of a harp as unseen fingers ran the scale. Then a g'irl's voice—without much volume, but wondrously sweet and sympa- thetic—commenced to sing "La Galan - "When I am unhappy," Don Jaime explained, "they sing that sad song to me and make me unhappier." "Why don't yon have them sing something joyful? They will sing whatever you desire, I take it." "My dear Miss Antrim, no Higgins ever wants to be made happy *hen he's unhappy. It's like enjoying poor health. We must feed our racial melancholy." "You incorrigible Celt; Are these professional entertainers 'Drought out from Los Algodones?" "No, they're part of the ranch assets. That harp has been in our family since the first Higgins emi- grated to Madrid. Carmen Caraveo, my riding boss's daughter, yearned to play it, so I sent her to El Paso for six months to get the hang of it. After that she had to figure it out for her- self. She'd never do for the Metro- politan Opera, of course, but she's pretty good for this corner of Texas. When she has finished singing `La Golondrina' to her own accompani- ment her sister Conchita will strum a wicked guitar and sing `EI Cielo'— ones. Where I came from olio doesn't do that sort of thing, you know," "Don Jaime is a free soul. Ile cluee es he pleases." "Flow long have you known him, Mrs, Ganby?" "Since three days since he killed your uncle. I ani a trained nurse and came down hero to tend Ills wends, although he would have recovered without my aid, for he is as healthy as a horse, Later he asked me to be his housekeeper, but since he docs not appear toe regard me as a servant, I imagine I am a sort of paid hostess. I think he hacl a hope that you might crippled son he sent visit the ranch some. day, and, of course, you would never have been invited unless he had a duenna.,here. He is very punctilious in matters of social propriety." "And Robbie?" - "hen he discovered I had a little !xis general,nian- ager to EI Paso to bring the.boyhere. He knew I'd want him with me, of course." understand. Innocence and help- lessness. Of course hi;; heart went out to Robbie." "Children understand, Miss Antrim. I think Don Jaime is a .Man who likes a fight—any kind of a fight. He is tremendously interested in that atro- phied leg of Robbie's. Lately he has. started massaging it stretching. it, studying it. He has been sending for medical treatises on infantile paraly- sis and talks of sending Robbie Eea.st to be treated." "Apparently he has a mania for making people happy." • "He env: money is round and made to roll." Further'confidences were interrupt- ed by the return of the host. He called something in Spanish to the singers and presently one came and handed him her guitar, received the, thatiks of her audience and departed, cover- ed with embarrassment. "Now then," quoth Don. Jaime, "we'll have a little old Anglo-Saxon minstrelsy from the boss himself." He smote the strings with a firm, as- sured hand and in a perfectly thun- derous basso began. "The Yellow Rose of Texas." To his great delight Rob- erta joined in the song. He cocked one lazy eye at her inquiringly; at a half -rest in the music he demanded: "How come?" "Uncle Bill," she replied, and he nodded comprehension. Yes, of course, Uncle Bill would know that one. But Don Jaime played now while Roberta sang; he drew Robbie'r vacant chair toward hien with one foot, swung his legs up onto it and settled back for a good old evening of music. Hello, bub, you getting sleepy? Tired (To be continued.) after your long ride today, eh? I told you so." Robbie had left his chair and clines The First Sweet Breath ed up into Don Jaime's lap; his thin little arm was around the brown, powerful neck, his head caddied under the big square chin. Don Jaime held him close with his left arm, and Rob- erta noticed that with his right hand he gently massaged the atrophied ninnies of the boy's left leg. The purple shadows crept over the patio, the music sobbed and mourned behind the passion vines, and the saddle -colored ..,laid carate out with some meat scraps on a plate and set them on the table beside her master, who whistled shrilly, whereupon two English setters crashed the screen door leading to the gallery and came leaping to accept, in the polite manner of their breed, the meat scraps Don Jaime fed them; retiring, when the meal was finished, to a discreet dis- tance, where they sat and gazed at the master with Iove in their lambent brawn eyes. Presently Don Jaime shook Robbie gently. "Conte, son," he said softly. "Say your prayers in Spanish, as I have taught you. Nuestro padre—" The sleepy voice spoke haltingly the unfamiliar words, the man prompting from time to time. When the prayer was finished he rose and, with the boys in his arms, stooped over Mrs. Ganby • that she might kiss her son. good night. Then he passed around the table to Roberta's chair. "Innocence and helplessness," Roberta heard hint murmur. "Who could not love it!" He stooped over her and lowered the boy until the childish lips brushed her cheek; then he bore the lad off to bed. The two women exchanged glances, the mother's eyes were moist. "That is the Latin in him, Miss Antrim.•He': not ashamed to demonstrate his affec- tion, What a pity he hasn't • a son of his own to waste the thrills of his big boy's heart on!" of Spring! With the joucluills, comes tile'grst sweet breath of spring. •' Through the earth their firm straight spears are seen, Then shy buds all veiled in lender green, Till the sunbeams brush their veils aside, And fair blossoms, — starlike, — open wide, Pouring forth their fragrance with de- light, ' Each a chalice, filled -with radiant light. With the jonquil's, conies the first sweet breath of spring. —Susan F. Campbell. LovelyThings All things lovely and righteous are Possible for those who believe in their possibility.—Ruskin. Roberta did not answer. She was thinking of a remark that Crooked Bill had once made in her presence. "When children and dogs love a man a woman is usually safe with him." She wondered now if Glenn Hackett loved children and dogs and decided presently that he would love his own children, if and when he had then. but that he would not be interested in dogs or human beings beneath hint in the social scale, And she thought of Julio Ortiz, with a bullet through hie belly, dying in a Border foray For Hon Jaime Miguel Higuenes, filled with pride in his sacrifice, sclaced at the last by that perfect torch of demo- 'cracy which had"' decreed he enol'd i perish in his master's' aims. • , "He is a etre nge than, Mrs. Gan- ; by" she said at last. "I have never met his kind before. I do not know what to snake of him—whether to ilk him or dislike him, to fear him or t-> i trust him, Ile killed my uncle and I then, nelequeritding under the name of Jim ifiggins he induced me to ac- cept the hospitality of Jaime Higu•' Radio Debut Ton probably "listened ,i 1" edien Mrs. Lindbergh went on t ie air recently. She made her radio debut with a dramatic story of the Chinese flood, -k; G,Qssip - (1585 A.D.) aoodemorl'ow, neighbor! hast thou heard the prate? Some wags at Charlecat Ii`l%ve slain a deer; They've found young Sbaltspeare's lanthorn by the gate— Sir Lucy's in a proper wax, I bear! Ay, that's what comes of dallying with skites And di"lu>bling after player folk in pubs; Young Will, they say, would - tarry on. o' nights And tipple were the glass Beelze- bub's. Ah, wellaway! He'll set no worlds agape! And now he's skipped—gone Lon., don-ward—Poor Will! - That trollops' town will take bim by the nape And snuff bim like i, rushlight on a sill. I' faith, ten. shillings • to a groat, 1'11 bet The merry whores on rides a gibbet yet! --Mildred. Plew' Merryman in Scrib- ner's Magazine. From $500 to Fortune How Dominion -Wide Indus- try Began in a Store WHAT CONSISTENT ADVERTISING WILL DO President of Biscuit Company Tells Success Story A romance of modern business that should be an inspiration to every small store -keeper was told to newspaper men today (Friday, February 26th), by ldr. C. E. Edmonds, President of Christie, Brown and Company, Limit- ed, who is completing his fifty-sixth years of service with the company. Mr. Edmonds, who can recall per- sonally much of the rise of the Christie, Brown organization, told how the giant biscuit company was started in a small store on ronge Street, Tor- onto, by two men with a working capi- tal of probably not more than $500. To -day the business they founded is capitalized at millions of dollars and is the largest industry of its type in Canada. 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