Zurich Herald, 1932-05-05, Page 2JIM THE CONQUEROR
By PETER B, KYNE
Illustrated by Allen Dean
SYNOPSIS.
Don Jainie Miguel iguenes. Texas
raneher, and Tom .aintrini, sheep owner,
have been bitter enemies. Capt, Ken
Bobart, Don Jaime's manager, rinds the
don wounded after shooting it out with
-Antrim, who ii, kiiled, Don Jaime takes
possession of .Antrim's sheep.
Roberta Antrixri is advised of her
uncle's death and leaves for Texas.
"Crooked Bill" Latham, another uncle,
wants her to marry his friend, Glenn
Beckett, and when Roberta wires her
approval of Don jairne. Latham leaves
for Texas. Be buys the Antrim sheep
under the alias of Blodgett. Don Jaime
introduces hirnseif and calls _Antrim's
bluff.
CHAPTER XXVII.—(Cont'd,)
"I think, jimmy, I'd better go toon.
There's really nothing more of a busts
ness nature for me to attend to. There
never was, in fact—just a few papers
to sign, some sheep to look at—and
they're really your worry, not mine."
He serugged, "Well, suit yourself.
But we'll tie a can to Dingle and his
raen before you go." He stifled a lit-
tle yawn. 'Pm tired, Bobby. Break-
fast at six tomorrow sliming. Will
you join me? Then we can get an
early start for she old Antrim ranch
and jolt Mr. Dingle out of his com-
placency."
She nodded and turned away to hide
the tears of mortification. that were
we/ling to her eyes. Why couldn't he
see that she did not want to leave
Valle Verde at all? Why had he not
urged her to stay? Of course, he had
urged her, but then he had not been
persistent in it. If he had persisted
she would have reconsidered. No, he
did not love her. Absolutely not!
Outwardly he was fiery; inwardly he
was cold, She felt very miserable as
she bade him good night with a little
catch in ha throat.
At breakfast he noted the circles
under her eyes and rejoiced exceed-
ingly thereat. "When they worry so
about a fellow that they can't sleep,
a deaf man may not infrequently
catch the faint sound of distant wed-
ding -bells," he reflected.
They chatted in desultory fashion
during the meal; than Roberta went
to fetch her coat and hat. She was
waiting for him at the patio gate
when he emerged from the ranch of-
fice a carbine in his hands, a belt of
ammunition around his waist and the
two pistols tied to his legs. Julio
brought the enclosed car up and when
they climbed in, Roberta noticed that
beside Julio sat Ken Hobart. He was
armed similarly to his chief and car-
ried a spare carbine,
An hour later they pulled up at the
.Antrim ranchhouse. It was a tumble-
down affair set in the middle of a
desolate field. Not much of a heritage,
Roberta thought, as she gazed on the
lonely and unpleasant seem. Ken
Hobart got out, walked to the front
door and banged on it loudly. A
Chinamane in a greasy apron, opened
it.
"Where's Dingle?" the foreman de-
manded.
"He go ketchum sheep."
Hobart walked around the house
and inspected the interior of an equal-
ly dilapidated barn.
linrsepoWer"
From time to time Dot Jaime s
riders had reported on the approxi-
mate location of the main body of
sheep still on the open range and the
direction in which they were moving;
consequently he was enabled to make
a good guess as to where he would
find them today. They left the Toad
presently and broke trail across the
sage to the foot -hills.
"Zen, you and Julio ride in a north-
easterly direction," Don Jaime order-
ed. "Miss Antrim and I will ride in
the general direction of that butte
yonder to the rmutheast—the one with
the old landslide scarring its western
ront. Aurelio, you will remain here
with the truck and the car. 'We will
meet here not later than four
this afternoon, Ken." , •
Roberta mounted the hunter Don
Jaime had given her. To her sur-
prise she found a light carbine pro-
truding from a holster swung under
the sweat -leather on her stock saddle,
ad a belt of cartridges hung over the
pommel.
They rode steadily into the south-
east, gradually climbing the butte;
when they reached its crest, Jaime
reigned in his horse. With his bin-
oeulars he swept the country for
miles in every direction.
"Do you see a slight film of white
dust in the sky—rising beyond those
low slate -colored hills yonder?" He
pointed. Roberta adjusted the glas.;es
and looked. The eloud in question
was very faint, but—it was a cloud.
"Sheep moving—south," Don Jaime
informed her laconieally, have a
hunch Mr. Dingle is headed for Mex-
ico with the said sheep."
"You mean—he's stealing them?"
"I do. There's fair range below
the Rio Grande—for sheep—and it
isn't at all a difficult job for the
Dingles of this world to get across
the line without being detected.
Money sometimes does it, more fre-
quently guile."
They rode on, keeping to the back-
bone oe the western fringe of toot
-
hills. An hour of hard riding brought
them. to the crest of the slate -colored
hilLs. Below them a plain. sloped
gently into the bluish haze; faintly to
them came the continuous bleating of
sheep; a dirty gray blur indicated the
flock—and it was moving southward,
slowly, tortuoraly, as a worm moves.
At its rear and on the flanks, little
black dots, that were herders and
sheep dogs, urged the weary animals
along. Don Jaime counted the 'argest
dots.
"Twenty herders," Roberta beard
him remark, "Hunaman! It doesn't
look as if it would be quite safe to
give Bill Dingle his walking papers
• oclaye He is not in a mood to accept
them:" He cased his binoculars,
whirled his horse and, without even a
look at the girl beside him, started
back the way they had come.
"What are you going to do, Jiii.
my?" she asked anxiously, spurring
up alongside of
"We're going back to the tar, Bub -
by. I'm going to send Aurelio back to
"I imagine the Chinaman's telling Valle Verde or reinforcements."
the truth. Dingle's car is not m the eWial there be a fight?"
barn," he reported. "I think so, Bobby, Dingle has
.wenty herders. Six, with the dogs,
should be ample to manoeuvre those
sheep. So it looks as if he had pe -
pared for trouble, and when men pre-
pare for trouble, it's a pretty s,00d
sign they will not avoid it,"
"I don't want a fight," the girl cried
passionately. You and some of your
men may get hurt --killed."
"Quite likely. I have no intention
of making this anything but a
slaughter."
Roterta commenced to sob. ' Oh,
Jimmy, Ian afraid—terribly afreiet I
I have a presentiment ycu'll be killed,"
"Would that matter so very much to
you?" His hand closed over her arm.
"Look at me, Roberta. Would it 'nat-
ter very much?"
She nodded an affirmative, unable
to trust herself to speak.
He said something in Spanish. Rob-
erta suspected it was an oath!
"Oh, Jimmy! Please—pIease, for
my sake."
He pulled up his horse and glowered
at her. "My dear girl," he cried
sharply, "you're trying to make a
quitter out of me. When a man per-
mits a woman to rob him of his
strength he might as well get killed
and have his shame over with, it
that understood?"
Roberta nodded miserably. What
argument of hers coeld prevail above
his logic. And yet, beneath her cold
fear there burned a wild pride that
he had made his deciaion so, and deep
down in her rebellious, belligerent
heart she knew that, come what
might, she would not have it other-
wise now.
C,HAPTER XVIII, •
Cantering where the ground per-
mitted, Roberta and Don Jaime reach-
ed the truek and motor -car in thirty
iniutttes. Throughout the journey
(following her host's announeement of
his inflexible purpose to fight Bill
Dingle and his headers before sunset)
no word had passed between the two.
"We've had our dive for nothing,
Ken. Well, we'll go back to Valle
Verde, put a couple of saddle -horses
in a truck and run down to the range
where the sheep are. We'll go as far
as we can with the truck, and this
car, then unload and ride up into the
hills. Game for the journey, Bobby?"
She nodded and they whirled across
the dusty plain to Valle Verde. Here
four horses were saddled and led -up
a ramp into a large motor truck, anrl,
preceded by the motor -car, they head-
ed down the road toward Los Algo-
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Don Jaime rode ahead, occasionally
looking back to see that all was well
with the girls seemingly, in las eager -
teas for conflict, be would gladly have
disposed with her society if he eatilds
st,
Famous Russian dancer, Alexis
Dolinofe, who takes the role of
horsepower in a strange amelera-
istic ballet given. at Philadelphia.
Leopold Stokowski directs.
At least, Roberta. thus read his
thoughts, nor was she far wrong, as
his first subsequent words proved.
"Bobby, this job of mine is man's
work. Aurelio is going back with the
truck, so if you'll be good enough to
take the car and drive it home for me'
I'll be your debtor."
"No," she answered sharply. "My
horse and the car should remain here.
I might need the cav to carry sone
weuncled men to the doctor in Los
Algodones or some dead men to the
morgue. When this issue is settled,
I'll know what to do and I'll not have
to be told."
"The objection you raise is a logical
one. Have it your own way." He gaee
Aurelio his orders in Sanish and when
the latter had departed with the
truck, Don Jaime sat down on the
running -board of the car and motion-
ed to Roberta to dismount and sit Andre Taedieu, "l'Americaine," to his
beside him. predecessor, the Marquis de Talley-
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Notes From Geneva
DIPLOMACY ON SKIS.
It was only reeenily, et the Disarm-
.
moat Conference, that the ski became
an instrument of diplomacy. Other
sports have for long enjoyed political
favor. Tennis, for nstanee, was a
game of kings and ministers centuries
ago; an. expert falcon was the accept-
, ed. equipment for aa ambassador;
many spits in one way or another
,have helped along int.'n'national pour -
parlors. Golf has in recent years
been the most famo. e, although not
entirely of good repute, as witness M.
Aristide Briand's luekless adventure
on the links at Cannes in 1922 which
drove Lim out of °Mee. But golf, on
the links at One; near Geneva, is tetal
a useful method of achieving intimate
and private contact. Skiing, however,
has only this winter become a diplo-
matie sport. During he Disarmament
Confere.nce, on many successive week-
ends, the more adventurous diplomat-
ists here have gone from Geneva to
the near -by Jura, or farther afield in
the Alps, and under She radiant mid-
winter sun of Switzerland, on its vir-
gin slopes, have regained fresh vigor
for coining days, or even done a spot
of business amid scenes of winter
sport.
A, CONTRAST IN CONFERENCES.
When Erik Charell'e brilliant film
on the Congress of Vienna was chosen
to welcome the Disarmament Conler-
mice delegates to Geneva, it became
fashionable to compare the current
meeting with that which regulated
Europe's destiny in 1815. But, in the
midst of world-wide economic stress,
the 193's conference has been scrupul-
ous to avoid anything remotely resem-
bling extravagance, and outwardly its
resemblance to the ostentatious.
Vienna gathering has been nil. One
remarkable coincidence, however, Alas
struck historically, minded observers.
In the absence of Sir John Simon, the
chief British delegate here is Lord
Londonderry, and the first British
delegste to the Congress of Vienna
was Viscount Castlereagh, also Lord
Londonderry. The present Maneuis
strikingly resembles his very distin-
guished ancestor in appearance. But
to carry the comparison of these two
critical conferences aurther is to hit
upon a series of vivid differences. How
unlike is the brisk, frank, peremptory
have to teach that below -the -
Bonder gang a lesson," he said casu-
ally. "They =et learn to stay at
home. I'm four men shy on a fifty-
fifty break in my ruckuses with thee
animals—four good men. One of them
was Julio's father—and Julio shall
have his chance at reprisal this day.
This matter is personal, Bobby, and
I'm going to get every mother's son statesman will follow Count Neeeel-
of those renegades if I have to follow rode, and invent a pudding? And in
them to Mexico City."
"You are going to wait here until
A.urelio returns with more men arid
horses? How many men have rat
sent for?"
"Twenty. Caraveo, the riding boss,
will pick the best. That will be five
trucks with four horses and their
riders to each truck, Don't talk to me
now, Roberta. I have 'to formulate a
battle plan,"
He took out a note -book and pencil
and commenced writing. "Here," he
said abruptly, when he had finished,
"please hanct this to Ken Hobart when
he reports here. If nobody returns
by twilight, drive the ear back to the
ranch. You know the way." He stood
up, bitched his belt and held nut his
hand,
rand, 'whose name hes become symbolic
of suavity and patient, devious wait-
ing! But perhaps they will be 'equally
successful, How far removed is Max-
im Litvinoff, People's Commissar,
from the mystic Tsar Alexander!
Where will the Conference find its
Metternich? Does Mr, Henry L. aim-,
son fancy himself in that role? Which
(To be eontiuued.)
the realm of ideas, how different is
today's insistent clamor for change---
thoUght it does meet with denial 'roni.
'one group—from the overwhelming
movement against change which was
Vienna? Vienna brought Europe
peace for forty years. Geneva hopes
to do better than that.
THE WORLD'S CITY OF DRUMS.
Basel sprang into the headline
when the World Bank was established
there. Already that old town on the
Rhine had given the world its shate
of philosophers, of painters—Hans
Holbein lived tere—of poets and set-
diers and men of letters, But it is
Lot so Well known that Basel gives the
world its best beater e of drums. It is
all because of the Basler Fastnacht,
the carnival by which Basel celebrates
Mardi Gras. For, unique in the world,
the Basel carnival is a matter of
After drums. Every citizen has his drum,
When 1 grow old, sweet earthand and for three days on end he beats
,
thou more fair; upon it. There are processions in the
streets, with magnificent and gro-
Whea I have seen the reins, heard
the crask tesque costumes, but everybody drums.
Of many temples falling; felt the glare With so many drums, there :nest be
h
Of sunlight through their shattered ehytm. Naturally every man or boy
domes, the ash, or woman .or girl meet keep the beat.
So due and grey, like grief itself des-
In the schools, children are taught
•carefally to drum. Furnished with
eend,
That once was new.built citiepros- ;ooden sounding boxes, the schoolboys
perous known; s, ..-
leern all ;the world's maeiches. If an
When I hall say, Behold the tides
American or an Englishman or a Jan -
b
tbat wash . anew comes to Basel he will recognize
O'er yonder mudflats, end the winds many of his own tunes, adapted and
t tl . fitted into their Rhert'eh. setting, Oe
ilOps taples he thinks his very own
Tbe outstretched wings of oorinor. —nm2
ant an his' •
came originally from Basel. Basel has
throne:
also its *inseam of drums, elaborate
With ever movo resisilesS urge they; ht.yond. comprehension of the uniniti-
moveated. And its libraries of drum music.
To that sad age -long sighing round It is the world's city of drums.
the shore NEWSPAPER MEN'S PARADISE.
Which is of earth and sea the whisper- The League of Nations has been ac-
ed love; cused for many years of being unduly
For mau is dead, his voice is heard solicitous for the welfare of news -
no niore; 1 paper men, The League's Information
'rhea, only then, eonte.ettrient will be Section is a vast body always at the
long; I dieposal of journalists. As a (anise -
In that eternal resting and sublime 1 qucnce, newspaper mrn of long rail -
Por ever on Wins (Tag that beetles.' deuce in Geneva have become increas-
o'er i iugly proud of their prerogatives and
Bo:ti land and sea, I'll hear the gentle I increasingly insistent upon their
song. I rights. Dat all that the League has
They call inc Time: 0 Tiredness of ever done to make easy the task of
!rime: correspondents accredited here has
----Romney John, in the Speetator. this winter been east deep in the
es, talfaUE GREATNESS
e —
Great is he
Who uses his greatness for all.
Ills name shall stand perpetually
As a name to applaud and cherish, read th.e full verbatim account of the.
Not only within the civic wall . Disarmament Conferenee oe of the
For the loyal, but also without . Council or Assembly of the I.cague, a
For the generous and free. t•tew minutes after speeches or an-
,
jest Is he., • nouncements have been uttered. Not
aVlio is just for the popular flue a inere scrappy licle.r leilletin; a full
.
shade. For, through the intiative of
an enterprising news-tieker eoropany,
the leading Geneva cafes have instal-
led. tickers in their establishments,
where the wanderinr newsman can
As well ee the private debt. verbatun account. .1 cones-
-LISlizaboth Barrett 'Weenies, pendent telly PR RIO"q h eee ;Able,
"Poenes,"
end his news is brought to h:in free of.
Lowest Price in 15 Years
"Fresh from the Garden,ts
charge on a plated platter! But this is
too shaniefel, and correspondents have
not been seen availing themselves of
the privilege. The Geneva eafetiere
have, veritably, gone too far.—The
Christian Science Monitor,
Holds Coin Record
Belgrade, rugoslavia.—According to
a recent report, the Belgrade National
Museum has acquired since 1921 more
coins of ancient orign than any other
museum in the world in so short a
time.
_among the new acquisitions are 11,-
000 pieces of Roman money dating
from about 240 AD., another Roman
collection. of 9000 pieces dating from
a slightly later period, and 1600 very
old Greek drachmas. Hundreds of
coins struek by the famous Serbian
kings of the Middle Ages have also
been found.
HOWLERS
A contortionist is a lady who recites
pieces.
Average means something- that hens
lay eggs on.
A corps is a dead man; a corpse is
a dead woman.
The Solar System is a, way of teach-
ing singing.
King Alfred conquered the Dames.
A goblet is a male turkey.
The feminine of bachelor is lady in
waiting.
Certain areas of Egypt are culti-
vated by irritation.
A cynic is a receptical in which dirty
crockery is washed.
The chief occupation of the inhabit-
ants of Perth is dying.
Acrimony, sometimes called holy, is
another name for marriage.
The Climate of Bombay is such that
its inhabitants have to live elsewhere,
avows...mm=0m.
20,000 Make Living
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The game of bridge is now bigl:
business and expenditures on the
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are making their living from. it.
Waterloo Bridge, in London, one de
the main, highways across the Thames,
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'lo repairs in 22 years,"
says home owner
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West Virginia, "The locks ., and.
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22 years, and during this time /
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I've never used anything but 3 -in -
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Many housewives who pride them -
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Try a few drops of 3 -in -One Oil to-
day and see how quickly it brings
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For 35 years 3 -in -One has been
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