Zurich Herald, 1946-01-10, Page 7DARK LIGIITN
t HELEN TOPPING NaLLER
CHAPTER XIII
The sun grew 'hot and Hickey
shut down his gear often to oil up.
But nights were still enol, and the
steamy mist drifted over the slush
pit, spewed out ,endlessly, bringing
nip from the earth the grist of the
drill. But stilt the rotary turned
and the bit went dpwn and Hickey
kept on grinning.
Eight hundred feet and a steamy
rinorning, and Gary looked up to see
a hairy figure leaning against the
tool box. A roughneck eased his
itching nose with the back of his
fist, and spat. ' "Yonder's old
Hughey, he said. "We're going to
get oil."
Gary walked over to the old man.
"Hello, Mr Gothergill. Come out
to see us bring in this dry hole?"
"I smelled her." Old Hughey
scratched himself in several places.
"I can smell a drill ten miles off.
What you got over yonder in that
pit?"
"Rock cutting. Lime, mostly."
"Yeah, I know. And you can
drill her to Chiny and all you'll
git is lime and salt water. I been
following oil all over this country
for fifty years. Reckon Harvey Ma-
son is fixin' to lose about ever' -
thing he's got on this here wild-
cat."
"I guess he's not worrying."
At dusk old Hughey disappeared,'
after borrowing another quarter.
But the next day, early, he was
there again and Hickey growled
when he saw him. "Mason had
ought to run that old hum off," he
grumbled. "He's bad Iuck."
But old Hughey only sat quietly
under a tree, taking out his plug
tobacco now and then to whittle
on it. Gary, feeling vaguely sorry
for the old man, begged a couple
of slices of bread and a chicken leg
from MMaria for Hughey. Hughey
accepted them with lofty grace,
but Gary did not linger.
Gary had heard voices in,the
Mason living room—voices rised
a little too loudly. Harvey's voice—
and another that he knew belonged
to Oliver Kimball.
He went back, intending not to
intrude unless he should be sum-
moned, but in the back hall Mona
Lee caught at his sleeve and drew
him aside. "It's Oliver," she whis-
pered, pale with a desperate kind
of excitement. "He came out and
brought some big oil man with him.
They're arguing in there, and Har-
vey's beginning to get tread. I lis-
tened upstairs. I want you to go
in, Gary. I'm going to speak to
Harvey."
CHAPTER XIV
"Please, Mrs. Mason—"
But she had walked away quick-
ly, to the living room door. "Har-
vey, Gary's here if you want him,"
she said.
Harvey got to his feet, and his
face was red "Come on in here,
Gary. You know Oliver—and this
is Mr. Paterson—Tallman's bossing
this oil job for me."
Paterson was a type he knew.
Suave, lawyer turned salesman.
"I don't think you need any out-
side help to get at the bottom of
this proposition, Harvey," 'Oliver
said. "You're not going tot lose a
cent by accepting Paterson's propo-
sition. On the other hand, you stand
to lose plenty if you refuse to lis-
ten."
"Mind stating the proposition?"
Gary asked politely.
Oliver bristled a little. "I don't
see why we should. We've made it
perfectly clear to Harvey."
"Perhaps I can make it plain in
a few words, Mr. Tallman." Pater-
son was blandly agreeable. " I hap-
pen to represent the people who
own the refinery nearest to Mr,
Mason's project. We don't at this
time wish to buy any more oil.
However, the people I represent
are willing to take over the lease
on this property—mineral rights
only, you understand—and hold it
for future development."
* * *
"You figured this out, did you?"
Gary said to Oliver, smiling coolly.
'Very clever job."
"It's a holdup. I don't care who
figured it out!" Shouted Harvey.
"You're quite certain then, Mr.
Mason, that you don't wish to pro-
tect yourselfby coming in with us?"
Paterson rose. "Your well is only
spudded in now. Plenty of trouble
can happen before you hit the sand.
We could save you from all that,
you know."
"I can save myself," snapped
Harvey. "Good -day, gentlemen."
"They aren't telling all they
know," Gary said 'when Oliver's
car had backed viciously out of the
drive. "Somehting's stirring—and
may not be pretty."
Very early next morning Gary
saw the man in the brown suit
walking across the field. `Ouch!"
he said to Hickey. "I knew it.
Here it comes."
"That feller?" drawled Hickey.
"He's a lawyer. Slide Ellis, from
up in town."
"Might as well slog along down
there and see what he wants."
Harvey and the lawyer walked
toward the house, and Gary went
back to the slush pit, but unease
made him prickly. He went to the
house an hour later, heard loud
voices barking at each other in the
living room, and slipped upstairs
unobtrusively.
* * *
He heard the front door close
while he was shaving, and then
the sharp slam of the back door as
Harvey went out. Then Ellis' car
went snarling out of the drive and
when Gary went down again, Mona
Lee was lingering in the hall.
"Gary, Slide Ellis was here," she
began at once. "There's some kind
of trouble. I couldl hear from up-
sairs--part of it. It's something
about this place."
"This place? But you own it.
You've owned it for years."
"We haven't owned all of it for
years. We started with this hun-
dred acres along the road and year
by year we bought more. Harvey
traded for some of it and then he'
bought up some mortgages and
foreclosed when he knew the people
didn't have any intention of paying
them off."
"Don't worry till you have to. If
it's serious, we'll hearlabout it soon
enough—and until then we won't
worry." Gary gave her a filial hug.
"You're a big comfort, Gary,"
she sighed.
* * *
Gary went back tot the derrick,
found Harvey standing there glar-
ing at it.
"Well, it's begun," he snapped.
"That was Slide Ellis. He says he's
going to get oirt an injunctioii to
keep me from putting down this
well. It's al a cooked -up mess, and
01 Kimball's at theb ottom of it. I
fc,und out he'd been to considerable
expense, travelling around, seeing
the big oil fellows."
"Just how is this fellow Ellis go-
ing about stopping you on this
well?" Gary asked.
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"Ile thinks he's turned up a flaw
in this title --title to that piece of
Pasture out there that I bought
from Iilihu Plummer, Lack in '28.
Slide says he represents one of
Plummer's minor heirs."
'Tuckey, who had sidled nearer
and was frankly listening, spat dis-
gustedly. "How could old man
Plummer have a minor heir?" he
demanded. "Plummer wasn't nev-
er married to nobody,"
"Slide Ellis claims there's a boy
seventeen years old that he can
prove was Elihu's son—and that the
boy's property rights in this land
were violated when Elihu sold out
to me."
*
"A holdup," said Gary. "Old
stuff. But he may he able to get
an injunction, you know."
"I won't compromise with a low
heel like Slide Ellis—nor with that
crummy son-in-law of mine, either.
I'm going ahead with this .well, if
I have to fight the whole state .of
Texas to do it."
"I'd advise you to see your own
lawyer, at any rate," Gary said.
"I'll go and see him the first
thing in the morning. And I'll let
those birds know they're in a fight."
"The thing to do now," Gary told
Hickey, "is to rush this well down
as fast as we can, safely, before
somebody comes along to stop us."
"O'K, young feller," Hickey said.
"We'lI jam her down till they come
out with the papers."
Gary stayed out late that night,
watching the drilling, and Adelaide
came out with a flashlight and
perched on the. tool box, watch-
ing too. Gary went and leaned on
the box beside her. "Lord, I wish
she was down," he said.
(To be continued)
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of GINGER FARM
By
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* se U n
Officially, this is the last day of
the year. But there is a fly around
here that thinks it is the first day
of Spring. He's a noisy little beast,
hopping around under the lamp
shade. "You 'had better look • out,
young fellow, or first thing you
know you'll get a dose of D.D.T."
1 suppose I should give him a dose
anyway but it hardly seems worth-
while hunting the spray -gun for
just one fly. Or is it? Supposing I
tet that one fly live will its pro-
gency run into the hundreds or
thousands? Does anyone know?
However, I am not really worried
—thanks to D.D.T. Come to think
of it, one might almost call the re-
lease of D.D.T. one of the high-
lights of 1945.
* * *
1945—what a year! Do you re-
member the snow last winter .. .
and the rain last spring Remem-
ber V.E. Day •...'V.J. Day ... and
after that the boys coming home?
Do you remember how glad they
were to be home, and how confi-
dent that a grateful peo$le and
government would give them a
square deal?
(Thank goodness—Partener has
killed that fly Now that's a funny
thing—I never even thought of
stivatting it.)
And now let's take a look at
what 1946 has in store for us—or
at least what some folk think is in
store.
T'here is the weather, for in-
stance. We are supposed to have
a colder winter and more snow
than last year. The summer and
spring are to be wetter and cooler
—all that because we are at the
tail end of an eleven year weather
cycle.
However, prophets are like doc-
tors—they don't always agree with
one another. So I guess we can
leave the weather to look after it-
self, take what comes and make
the best of it.
* * *
And then last Sunday we were
listening to two religious broad-
cas+s—one right after the other.
(It wasn't nearly so slippery list-
ening to the radio as it would have
been walking or driving to
church). The first speaker said he
was sure this country was in for a
period of prosperity such as the
world had never known. The
second reminded us of the fallacy
of "crying peace, when there is no
peace", that in some quarters there
were already rumours of a third
great war, that the set-up of a
world wide government Was doom-
ed to failure and that the Bretton
Woods agreement would prove to
be a wasif-out.
* * *
Farm and industrial reports are
also contradictory. We have been
toll' there will be a steady market
for farm products for the, next five
years; but then it is also rumoured
that there is bound to be a revision
of the present subsidy system. 1
expect a lot of people have forgot-
ten that the government is paying
a subsidy of two cents a quart on
every quart of milk that is sold.
How long will that be continued,
and if it is removed what will hap-
pen—will the milk go up in price
or will farmers have to take the
loss? I don't know the answer—.
only the powers that be in Ottawa
can tell us that—and I doubt very
much if they know either.
* * *
In trade`;circles' various controls
have been lifted but ceilings still
remain in ; effect which means
manufacturers will not bother
making* a cheap line of goods be-
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As for :'instance in the case of
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price would bother some people.
There are a fair percentage I ani
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The pity of it! If only we, as a
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Hot Deserts
Frosty 'sinter days 'call for hot
desserts. If the pudding has a rich
spicy flavour, is economical and
also easy to prepare, it always
meets with the approval of busy
homemakers.
Steamed and baked puddings
have all these advantages. Steam-
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considered bothersome on account
of the special utensils required, but
modern methods of steaming in a
double boiler or in a pan in the
even, overcome the difficulties.
The home economists of the
Consumer Section, Dominion De-
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suggest : hree puddings to round
out cold weather meals, and they
throw in a new pudding sauce for
good measure.
Cranberry Pudding
2 cups cranberries
1/2 cup brown sugar
/ cup molasses
3f cup boiling water
/ teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
Wash and halve cranberries. Add
sugar and molasses. Let stand 1
hour. Add boiling water. Sift salt
and baking soda with flour and add
to other mixture. Beat well. Pour
into greased custard cups. Set cups
in a pan of hot water. Cover and
bake in a moderate oven, 350 deg.
F, for 1 hour. Serve with pudding
sauce. Six servings.
Oatmeal Fig Pudding
1 cup quick -cooking rolled oats
/ teaspoon baking soda
1✓s teaspoon salt
/ teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 pound figs, uncooked, cut fine
2 eggs, well beaten
1/3 cup molasses
2/3 cup water
1 / tablespoons lemon juice
(/ lemon)
Mix rolled oats, soda, salt, cin-
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molasses, water and lemon juice
and add to the dry ingredients.
Pour into a greased mould, cover
and steam for three hours. Eight
servings.
Chocolate Batter Pudding
/ cup mild -flavored fat
2/3 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup plus 2 tablespoons sifted
all purpose flour, OR 1/ cups
sifted pastry flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
teas): oon salt
1/2 cup cocoa
2/3 cup milk
Cream fat well, add sugar an4
cream well together. Add welt,
beaten egg and vanilla, Mix .and
sift dry ingredients, add alternate»
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i cup jelly (crabapple. red cur-
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1 cup boiling water
11/2 tablespoons cornstarch
2 tablespoons cold water
Pinch of salt
1 teaspoon lemon juice
1 tablespoon butter (optional)
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