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Zurich Herald, 1945-12-06, Page 3LI 3✓ HELEN TO CHAPTER IX The Gimballs arrived and im- mediately Harvey brought out the map and the geophysicts' report and began expansively to tell everything that had happened. Adelaide slipped out and clutch- ed at Gary, in the hall. "Oh, dead He's telling Oliver! And I wanted him not to." "They'll have to know, sooner or later." "I suppose so," she sighed. "Go on in, Gary—keep Oliver from ruining everything if you can." But Oliver had already taken command of the situation, abetted and prompted by Grace. He wast' advancing arguments against wild- , catting an oil well, dilating upon the advantages of selling leases, and or once Gary found himself agreeing with Oliver. "I think Kimball's right, Mr. Mason," he said. "0 course he's right," Grace put fin. "Oliver knows the oil business —at it ever since he left school." Adelaide stood in the door, her eyes blazing. "Why don't you all let Daddy alone?" she demanded. "He knows what he's doing." "I wonder!" Grace was sarcastic. "Well, you can all come and eat dinner, anyway," sighed Mona * * * Adelaide edged Gary into a cor- ner as the family trooped into the dining room. "That was shabby— agreeing with Oliver," she snap- ped. "I thought you'd stick with Dad and me." "I agreed with him because he happens to be right," Gary said quietly. At the table, Grace looked across at Gary. "When are you leaving, Mexico, isn't it?" she ask- ' ed coolly. "I hope to get away tomorrow," Gary replied as casually and cool- ly. "What?" Harvey lifted his voice so that Maria jumped. "You're not going, I hired you. You found this oil. You won't like Mexico any- way, not in summer." "Dad, if Mr. Tallman has a job down there—" Grace was acid. "A man with a job in sight had better hang on to it," stated Oliver. Mona Lee looked at them all calmly. "Gary's not going" she announced with a serene kind of finality. "He knows we need him, and Gary wouldn't go and leave me when .I'need him. Would you, Gary?" He was on the spot. There was nothing to do but to agree. Later, when Harv"r had gone off to the canyon, dragging Oliver with him, Mona Lee came upstairs and t Aped on Gary's open door. "Gary," she said as he turned, "I do want you to stay! I'ni worried fF Cif s ,,,Ps - •ener„,Q....,zatc.Ifeeiet Yellow or pink Loses with lilacs, in easy stitchcry, will give color to your linens. just one spray would make any towel a handsome gift. Ifs fascinating to watch these flowers grow on your linens. Pat- tern 756 has a transfer of I2 mo- tifs 6 x 834' to 1 TA x 3 in.; stitches. Send TWENTY CENTS in coins (stamps cannot be accepted) for this pattern to. Wilson Needle- craft Dept., Room 421, 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto. Print plainly PATTERN NUMBER, your NAME and ADDRESS. PPING MILLER —about Harvey—die's so impul- sive," "I'll stay, Mrs. M:asc.n," Gary turned ,from the window. "If you ask me ...1 can't refuse very well after all you've done for me." * * * Gary sat in the living room that night and played double solitaire with Mona Lee. Harvey was out, he was always out now, roaring around somewhere in his noisy old roadster. In the middle of the gane,Mo na Lee laid her cards down and folded her hands. "Gary," she said. "You like Ade- laide pretty well, don't you?" Gary felt the hot blood flare over his "face and neck. He smiled wandly. "There's not much use trying to hide anything from you, is there, Mrs. Mason? But—what can I do? I haven't a thing to offer a girl like Adelaide—not a thing but love." • "You think love is unimportant? It isn't—not to a girl. Harvey Ala - son had nothing to offer me but love, either—and a few hundred acres of washed-out prairie land. We made the rest together." "I haven't even a piece of wash- ed-out land. There—" he threw a few crumpled bills on the table "— lies my fortune!" "You need another shirt, Gary. You buy one tomorrow. And don't you give up. Addie's a little crazy right now—it's the thought of all this money. She'll calm down pret- ty soon." * * Harvey came in late and tossed a telegram into Mona Lee's lap. She Looked frightened and picked it up gingerly with her fingers. "Oh, mercy!" she gasped when she read it. "It's from Junior. He says 'Hear we've struck oil. Stop. Swell. Stop. Just went out and bought myself a new roadster.' Harvey Mason, you get a wire off to him right straight and 'tell hint you haven't struck oil yet, and to send that car right back." "He had a new car last year," growled Harvey.. "That's the way with kids. They think you're made of money." But he did not write or wire to Ilarvey Junior. He forgot about it. He had to get ready to go to Austin to get his drilling permit so he rushed around, shouting orders all over the house. "Look here, Gary—you know about this drilling business—you oughtt o know a good rig when you see it. You take Addie's car and she can go along and drive, and you go over east and hunt ine up a good crew to get a well down," "You'll need two crews—riggers to get your derrick up and drillers to get your well down," Gary re- minded him. "And what are you going to do about water for the boilers and to run the drill? You wouldn't want to pump your well dry the first day—even if your pump would lift enough to run the drill—which I doubt. You'll have to arrange to pipe some in from somewhere. Any creeks or rivers near here with much water in then?" * * * Harvey looked thoughtful. There's a cistern at the barn. And that tank out there holds a hun- dred barrels." "Not enough. It will take a week, probably, to get your well down. And you can't run out of water while the dr/11's turning." "You get the outfits we need, and I'll see about the water." "You'll have to arrange for fuel to fire the boilers, too Have oil tanked in on trucks. On a field you'd have the gas from the strip- per, but out here you'll have to provide your own fuel. I'll have to find an outfit that's equipped with an oil burner." "Well, it's a good thing you've got Gary, Harvey, to think of everything," Mona Lee said, Ther - 's that little creek over on the Har. per place, Harvey, But you'd have to pay old man Harper—and tell hits what you wanted the water for—and then he'd probably stick you.,, (To Be Continued) Change in Paint Surface Ordinary paints should dry with a glossy surface but they can be made to dry with a flat finish by 'decreasing the oil content and increasing the proportion of tur- pentine or other volatile thinner, Pr You'll enjoy our ��'. Oran,* e Pekoe Ilei IT'S GOOD TO BE BACK IN CIVVIES! Y,L", . iih9A'.vhv^Il:SG� i'iF6Y.n:c6( �„.?0'{i> It's back to the plumed hats and pikes for the men of Britain's fancy dress units, many of whom served in the armed forces during the war. Picture above was made while pikemen and Yeo- men of the Guard waited for the Lord Mayor's procession to start in London. f GINGER FARM By Gwendoline P Clarke 0 e ® A We have had our first week of winter—and I don't suppose you have enjoyed it any more than we have. It has been a little too rough and windy for that. But at least we can be thankful to have a roof over our heads, and, if you ask me, we who live on arms can also be thankful for that fact too. At least we have no union to tell us when to work and when to strike, although I have heard some people say it would be "a good thing if farmers did have a union and went on strike once in a while. Well, I don't know .. it is too big to ever think about, especially with indus- trial strikes getting more terrible with each passing day. Far be it for me to say who is at fault—there are always two sides to every ques- tion—and it is difficult for us who live on farms to form an unbiased opinion. But it is by no means •difficult, even from a distance, to realize the suffering and hardship that is the inevitable result of a prolonged strike. It might also be well to realize that a strike of such tremendous magnitude as that in Windsor has far reaching results and will ultimately be felt even in the farms. Reduced income, as we all know, means reduced purchas- ing power and thus the vicious circle widens and widens until farm produce becomes a glut cn the market. * * * Speaking of buying and selling brings up another problem. We need to be or. our toes these days —on guard against the wiles of high pressure salesmen who know there is a little more money on farms these days and that returned service men have gratuity cheques they might be persuaded to part with. We had two such agents around here just recently—and how theycould talk! * * * To tell you the truth we rather enjoy matching wits with these fellows. One night a would-be salesman.paid us a visit, he wanted to talk to all three of us, IIis form of attack was a rush order . . he had so much business he could- n't spend much time at any one house . . either we wanted to buy or we didn't. Partner suggested that it might be a good idea to give us time to think the matter. over, The salesman said he was sorry but he had no time for a re- peat visit. He came over to the t: ble where I was sitting and be- gan filling in his order sheet, "Just a minute," I exclaimed, "we haven't said we would take it yet." He was profuse in his apologies. He finally went away without a sale, expressing regret at his inability to make a return call. But he was back on our doorstep by ten o'clock next morning—a special favour of Course! I was alone when he called. He was very affable and persuasive and persistent. But I had a few Housekeeper Wanted -41Rt, OR WOMAN FUn RIO - tined !tome. Pions/int working conditions. Gond Wnec+a. Pare Paid, 'W'rite stntIng run parti- culars to — MRS. SAIR, 44 Ridge still Drive, Toronto 10, Ontario. things to ask him regarding the validity of what he was offering. When he realized I knew a litt e more than he expected his affab'1- ity disappeared, in fact I could see he: was so mad it was an effort for hint to civil when he bade me • goodbye. May I be forgiven if 1 confess to being amused. * * * As I said before, we 'need to be on our toes. These travelling saldsnuen are trained to sell their gogds. Their product—so they say—is practically a gilt-edged security. They tour the country, many of them with the mistaken idea that farm folk are particularly gullible, an easy nark for their high pressure sales talk. But a lot of farm folk are very far from he- lms slow. Many of them have `"reason to reinembei a 'few deals they made following the first Great War, whereas service men have pretty definite ideas as to what they intend doing with their gra- tuity—when they get it. At the same time when an agent comes along offering you a deal on something of which you know little, or perhaps nothing, and makes it sound good, the chances are he has you signing on the dot- ted line before you have had a chance to figure things out for yourself. And you'll notice there . isn't a salesman who spends much time talking once he has persuaded you to put pen to paper. But please don't think I am knocking all travelling salesmen— there are agents .and agents—but it is up to us to be wary, to use a little common sense so that we recognise a genuine business deal from a shady racket. Dancing Jumbos A German posed this problem to American military government of- ficials: What was he to cla with four dancing elephants which he could not feed? Never at a loss for finding ways out of, knotty occupation problems the military government managed to sell the prancing pachyderms to a travelling show. Do you suffer from MONTHLY NERVOUS Ptl0U8 TENSION with its weals, tired Feelings? 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It is by our "good works," by following the example of the Lord, that we shall best shine for Him and glorify our Heavenly Father, Believer and God's Laws 43-46.—While we are told that we must hate the evil deeds of our enemy weare not to hate the enemy himself, Christ asks us to act just as God acts toward men. In His dealings with mankind. He does not treat men as they deserve to be treated. He does not confine His loving kindness and tender mercy to the good. If He did where should we stand? As God blesses all men alike so we are to show love and goodness to all, 46.—To love those who love us shows no great merit, for we are rewarded in their love to us. Even the publicans with all their hateful selfishness loved those who loved them. Love for love is manlike but love for hate is Christlike. 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