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The Huron Expositor, 1929-04-26, Page 79 A Ana By Mai BEACH -.1Pu1lishers Ws Mussonkok Company, Vitd. ionto • (Conthrned from last week) The men stared at each other for a moment that seemed interminable. Gray was watchful, expectant; Nel- son was plainly shaken by a desire so desperate that resistance left him weak. He was like an animal frozen in the very attitude of pringing. "Foxy, aren't you?" he managed to say, at last. "Tempting me to - make the first move.' With a mighty effort of will he forced his tense body to relax. "The act of a bully! Bah! Wouldn't I be a fool-" "A bully is usually a coward," Gray said, slowly. "Neither of us is a coward. I'm not ready to -join the issue that way, especially in a place like this. The game is too exciting to--" "You'll get all the excitement you are looking for," Nelson cried, wrath- fully. "You've cost me a lot of 1,444 ltmd, nantrarrz EPRIEPT0N, 0117,_ MocaceaaIl Tomato ac.eeereee. ,..,:45 -they call him 'The man YOU can't rattle' Many successful business men regularly use Wrigley's. The act of chewing has a soothing effect. The healthful cleansing action of Wrigley's refreshes the mouth - gently stimulates the flow of the natural juices -steadies the nerves - aids digestion. Oar, IAA Tel% CO oopt Me POP iT you h t tO haaa eeboatt Slye eae wj.Now-r-ru sP ou out of Teem* afeet. "Oizr baeig poems, but never on my'ceat.." trout another We'd the banker passed en, bet he Went- blindly, for his Mand was in bleak 'chaos, No chance new for secrecy; he Was in for a bit c Teel He managed 'to kill the story in the local, papers, but it -.appeared in the alias journals, which was even worse, and for the first time in leis life he found himself an object of ridicule. The Arkansas transaction was made to, appear the most out- rageous. swindle of recent oil history, and, coming so quickly/ after the Jackson exposure, it excited double interest\ and arausemeet. In truth, the facts about the salt- ing of that Arkansas tract did make a .story, for the methods employed had been both new and ingenious. Nel- son had been fooled by a showing of oil in an ordinary farm well, and by a generous seepage of oil in an ord- inary farm well, and by a generous seepage into a -running stream some distance away. Not until a consider- able sum had been spent in actual drilling operations, however, did those seepages diminish sufficiently to ex- cite suspicion sufficiently, in fact, to induce the crew to pump the water well dry. This done, an amazing fraud had been discovered. It had been found that the vendor of the land had removed the rock curbing and behind it had packed a liberal quantity of petroleum -soaked cotton waste. Naturally, when the well had been walled up again and permitted To resume its natural level, the re- sult was all that the unscrupulous owner could have expected. The creek seepage had turned out to be equally counterfeit, but even more ingeniously contrived. It had manifested itself where a stratum of clean white sand, underlaid with clay, outcropped at the foot of a high bank. In the undergrowth, quite a way back from tbe stream, tardy investigation disclosed that a hole had been dug down to that layer of sand and into the hoe had been poured several bare eels of "crude." The earth from the digging had been removed and the hole had been cunningly covered up. Naturally, the oil from this reservoir had followed the sand stratum and -the resultant phenomenon at the water's -edge had been well calculat- ed to excite even the coldest -blooded cbserver. It had excited Henry Nel- son to such an extent that he had bought not only this farm, but a lot of other farms. And Nelson was shrewd. Oh, it was a great joke! The whole mid-continent field rocked with laughter at it. Nelson, senior, returned from Tulsa bull -mad, and he came without he Money he had expected to get. What went on in his office that morning af- ter he sent for his son none of the bank's employees ever knew, but they could guess, for the rumblings of the old man's rage penetrated even the mahogany -paneled walls. " CHAPTER XXIV Gray had once told Barbara Park- er that there was no one quite like him -a remark more egotistical in the sound than in the meaning Un- usual in many ways he probably was but, like most men, the discovery that his proudest virtues were linked with 'ices of which he was ashamed struck him as extraordinary. As if nature were not forever aiming at a balance. In spite of the fact that he was impulsive, headstrong, „swift in most things, this girl possessed the unique faculty of rendering him acutely self- conscious, and it annoyed him the more, therefore, to find how timorous he could be in putting her feelings to the test. That was the one thing he could never quite summon courage to do. She was so young, so cool, so di sconce rti ngly straightforward that, in contrast, his own age appeared the greater, and his many counterfeit qualities were thrown into uglier re- lief. Then, too, her answer meant so much that fear of refusal became an actual torture, and the mere thought of it left his arrogant spirit strange- ly humble. To a man in his vengeful mood, to a men whipped by one sav- age purpose, love had come as a blessed relief; and in consequence, anger at his indecision was the great- er. Sometimes he told himself that he deserved to lose her. One such occasion was after he had ese-e-s,--aseasesT,ee-e..." 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There was 'more than one well by this time; Avenger Number Two and Three and Four were going down, and offsetting the first Avenger were three of Nelson's rigs. "Bob" studied the situation brieflly, then, with a dubious shake of her head, she an- nounced: "You are taking a 'big risk, Mr. Gray." "You mean these new holes may come dry? Of course, but I believe in crowding my luck. I don't know any other way to work." "You have been lucky, haven't you. She stared at him with a detached, impersonal interest. "Everything is coming your own way, even down in the Ranger district." "Oh, I have my share of troubles. I lost a crooked hole, recently -bad to skid the derrick and start over. Then a pair of chaintongs was drop- ped into another hole-" "That makes an expensive fishing job." "The worst ever." "Somebody must have it in for you. When Gray nodded, "Bob's" face lit up with surprise. "Really. Do you suspect someone in particular?" "I know." "How interesting." After a mom- ent had passed and he had explained no further, the girl went on: "Every- body is talking about you and your success. They say you have the gol- den touch." "That is a good reputation to en- joy; hut this country is full of fel- lows who came here knowing as lit- tle about oil as I knew and who have accomplished more sensational re- sults. I've come up like a rocket, to be sure; it remains to be seen whe- ther I shall fall like a stick." "You won't fall." "Do you really believe that?" The inquiry was eagerly put. "I'd trust your intuition, Miss -"Bob." Some- times I have moments of uneasiness, for, you see, I'm drilling more wells than I should. It is double or quits, you understand? If my luck breaks, so do I." "You have always impressed me as (Purity Flour 5 -hour Dinner Rolls) Here fis a pleasing change in the daily menu - crispy, dlelicious, Dinner r olls--fu1111 of nourishment and michly satisfying in flavour. Made best with Purity— the flour of strength and quality. 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"Why 1 end, Li •you only knOVI what it is knew ibot.a wlItirel signifies, m4tePt as tf;mans to ae thoramt Lcryas,not ,zattch'107,re than oil, "1 thought you 'Were /like all the others here -absorbed only in the game." "I. was, at first, 1 bad reason to be; a very great reason, I assure you. Then I saw something far more de- sirable than fortune, far more absorb- ing than -than the motive that brought me here. Some days, like to- day, 1 think I'm going to win it, then. again I grow faint-hearted." "Faint-hearted? Ton?" There was an elaborate skepticism in "Bob's" tone, but as the meaning of Gray's ardent gaze struck home to her, she treed her head with a lightly affect- ed laugh. She was coloring, but she knew that her companion's agitation was so much greater than hers that he did not notice it. "Fair lady," he said, a bit uncer- tainly, "you multiply my courage ten- fold, and I shall retain the guerdon of your faith_ sut we swashbuckling fellows are proud; we must come as victors or not at all, and I am any- thing but victorious, yet. I've had many a fall, and my armor is dented in a dozen places. I have a record' of failures that only a lasting suc- cess can wipe out. When, if ever, that record is wiped out, why -my tongue shall be my heart's ambas- -sador." This was the boldest speech that Gray had ever permitted himself. Never had he felt "Bob" to be so close to Min as on this day, and in consequence he made of it a festival. He played the lover with a respectful ardor, doubly thrilling by reason of its restraint, and that night it was not Henry Nelson's face that lingered last in his memory. He wondered, before he fell asleep, if he had acted wisely in letting slip his hour. Op- portunity has a fickle way of jilting those who ignore her, and yet -how could he speak with honor to him- self ? It must not be inferred that Henry Nelson endured with patience the blows that were rained upon him. On the contrary, he fought back with every weapon he could lay hands up- on, and there were many. In this he was aided by Old Bell, for father and son were much alike and their friction had been only such as results from the rubbing of two hard bodies of identical composition; now that they were put under heavy pressure, they adhered and functioned without heat. They were handicapped, however, in that they had the bank to think about, and, in times of frenzied fin- ance such as this, a banking business is more of a liability than an asset. Under normal conditions no single in- dividual of Gray's limited resources could have caused them more than temporary annoyance; but in the midst of a speculative freify, in a time of vast "paper profits" and over- night losses, at an hour when they themselves were over-extended and the financial fabric of the whole oil industry was stretched to a point of inflation where a pin prick was apt to cause complete collapse, the feat of warding off a lance in the hands of a destructive enemy was one that kept them in a constant state of ner- vous panic. To make matters worse,, the crest of the wave had passed, the boom was nearly over, and money was no longer easy. Outside investors were cooling; mysterious and powerful in- fluences were at work, and there were rumors of a break in the price of crude. Meanwhile, so far as the Nel- sons were concerned, it wasnecessary to pour a steady stream of dollars in- to the earth in order to save that which had been accomplished at im- mense cost, and such oil as their pro- ducing wells gave forth vas swallow- ed up in other holes. It became, with them, a problem of how to hold on, how to finance from day to day until production returns overteok exploita- tion expense -a problem that put gray hairs in their heads and lines about their eyes. They were farted to many expedients. How they managed it at all baf- fled Gray, and worried him, too, for he knew that if ever they turned the corner they would be safe from him, and his vengeance would fall to the ground. One big well would set them .up, and there was always that dan- ger, for scarcely a week went by with- out news of some gigantic gusher. Knowing all there was to know about their field activities, he set himself to the task of learning more about the bank itself and about their method of operating it. This was a task, indeed and he spent much time at it -time he could ill afford, by the way, for he, too, had about exhausted his last resource. He was surprised one day to re- ceive from Roswell, the banker, who had first backed him, an almost per- emptory summo-ns to Dallas. Gray had made much money for Roswell and his crowd; they were still heavily interested with him, and heves count- ing upon their further support. The tone of this letter therefore, gave him a disagreeable shock. Oh'the whole, however, he was glad of ;an excuse to go, for' the Briskows had returned and had bought a home in Dallas, and be was eager for a sight of them. (Continued next week.) OPSse TIOMAS CLECTROC 0 RI EL U AIM YS BE KEPT . AS A 5I05JE8ER- EABLE PHLPAR- t ;1111N 81,'IN8Nu8 E Focii10. 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