Evening Star Newspaper, April 23, 1930, Page 6

o JIM THE PR 8.2 CONQUEROR By PETER B. KYNE ot 3 Mok At N Al B SYNOPSIS. Roberta Antrim, an American oirl, re- eeives word that her uncle, Tom Antrim, Ras deen killed in Texas. The message s signed by Jaime Miguel Hiouenes. Roberta decides to leave at once for Tezas. THIRD INSTALLMENT. SABBATH calm lay upon the haclenda of Don Jaime Miguel Higuenes, lord of the Rancho Valle Verde, notwithstanding the fact that it was not Sun- day. The splash of water in a fountain, the occasional chirp of bird, the faint diapason of insect movement and the occasional complaint of a| distant calf lulled, rather than dis- | Hobart, at any rate.” a lingering respect for their viscera. Kai, Flavio!™ Bare feet pattered down the hall from the interfor of the hacienda. An ancient peon, with just sufficient Castilian blood mingling With the Aztec to arch the bridge of his nose, ap- peared in the doorway, looked, and dis- appeared immediately. Presently, he returned with a full bottle, an old silver bucket filled with ice, a bottle of soda and another glass, a box of cigars. The visitor laughed pleasantly. “Flavio requirés no orders when he sees me on the premises, Jimmy. Any | time I stop here he knows I've ridden a hard 20 miles and am tired and thirsty and need a generous pick up.” “He knows the capacity of Ken Don Jaime turbed, the half-formed dreams of the | roused and poured a peg for his guest, temperamental Don Jaime, where he | then helped ‘himself to one. “Indeed, streatched in a long chair on his coo), | Ken," he assured Hobart, “you are red-tiled veranda and gazed out through | doubly welcome, because you spare me the arched entrance of his patio_to- | the unspeakable depravity of drinking ward the distant, blue, serrated hills where the United States of America ended and the Republic of Mexico be- gan. The smoke from & fragrant cigar curled lazily around his dark coun- tenance; from time to time he reached forth to the liftle table at his side and helped himself to a sip from a high- | | Since when did you go into the sheep ball. “I *‘wonder,” thought Don Jaime presently, “what is going to become of | ,,33ihie" hint of an ever-ready smile | “The problem proving too much (mifnded from his handsome features, the Higuenes family.” him, Don Jaime did that which all of his race do with the utmost ease and without preliminary notice. He fell into a gentle slumber. And while he slept a man on & honey-colored horse with a dark stripe running the length of his backbone rode up to the hacienda entrance, dismounted, dropped his reins | over his horse’s neck and strode stiffly | | came out and looked at me as if I through the arched entrance and down the flower-bordered gravel walk to the veranda. Observing Don Jaime at peace in the arms of Morpheus, the stranger removed a full cartridge belt, with two gistols, and hung his arma- ment on of a row of huge spikes driven into the abobe wall of the . Quiently he drew another chair alongside Don Jaime, disposed his tired body in it, sighed, caught sight of Don Jaime's highball, which was at least three-quarters present, helped himself to it and drank slowly and with much appreciation. “That’s good liquor,” he murmured, setting down the tall glass. “You bet your sweet life that's good liquor,” Don Jamime murmured, without troubling to open his eyes. | “Who are you?” “Wake up, you lazy greaser, and see,” the visitor retorted. “Now that you speak in your maturally loud, vulgar and irreverent | tone of voice I recognize you. I do not have to look.” Don Jaime spoke perfect English, but the faintest clip) accent denoted it was not his mother tongue. He added in Spanish: “Wel- come to my poor house. It is yours, ingo.’ “T don't want your poor house. All I desire is accommodation and food rordmy horse and myself until morning snd—" _ “Thou graceless one!” Don Jaime murmured drowsily, but without offense. “But what else can one expect of & Texml—?gnd particularly a Texas “I have never been invited to your poor hotise,” the visitor complained. “I Just come anyhow, and, of course, once. T'm here, you put the best face possible on the matter and bid me welcome. Besides I'm not a Texan. I'm a Cali- fornian, and in California we have a of asking & thirsty man.if he has Don't tell me, Jimmy, that of your pre-war “You have” You l!nkh:li it three years - #go, you animal,” Don Jaime retorted, adverting English. “And that highball which you have just pinched from me while I slept is Irish, not Scotch, and reached this country via Mexico. Irish whisky, 1 find, is not as changeable as the Irish. In the national rush for Scotch, Irish has been forgotten save by those few. discerning individuals who still entertain 10 | mé. No, by SBanta alone—No, don't worry about the horse. Flavio will send a boy to care for him, and your bath will be ready in an hour. What brings you here?” “A desire to be neighborly and to offer a slight return for your many evidences of princely hospitality—that and a natural desire to enjoy it again. business, Jimmy?" Don Jaime's dark eyes opened widely leaving them unbelieably stern. “Where?” he demanded. “About 10 miles south of here. I came across country from San Ysidro and bumped into them on your range. About 40,000 of them, I should say, although I'm no judge of sheep in quantity. There was & camp in a cottonwood grove in a little green valley some 2 miles fartirer on. Two men wouldn't be welcome, so I rode on. I judged the sheep might not be yours. The brand is Circle A.” “Tom Antrim's outfit. Well, if he's only 10 miles from here he’s trespassing on my range. Thanks for e in- formation, Ken. Feed is pretty scarce to the east of me and I suppose Tom Antrim got desperate. Yes, you have uses, gringo.” “If you care to run into Los Algidones and swear to a warrant charging him and John Doe and Richard Roe and James Black and Thomas Green and say a dozen other off-color gents with trespassing, I'll pick those boys up and lodge them in the juzgado; then you and your boys can run the sheep off in groce. “I don't want to run them off In peace, Ken” Don Jaime replied languidly. “I've done that before and it doesn't work. They always come back. Sure you haven't got some other work to do tomorrow?” “Now, look here, Jimmy,” the ranger protested, “you listen to me. Tom Antrim’s there to stay. So I'm going to hang around the neighbirhood. He's got 20 herders with him and I noticed they all carried rifles. . Well, here’s mud in your eye.” They drank to each other. “A man’s house is his castle,” said Don Jaime contemplatively, “and I presume that principle applies to the lands contiguous thereto. One has a right to defend his castle from unwarranted trespass, and I'm here to tell you, old kneed, I am very weary of this Tom Antrim aud ‘his sheeps—I mean sheep. Will I never get over the habit of slipping on my plurals, like any Mexican! Three weeks ago.the sheriff of this county arrested Tom Antrim and held him and his men long enough to permit me to drive his range; and before I called |sheep off the anerit ih I tatked with Tom Antrim. I told him he must not come back again, because eef—I mean if—he did” —here Don Jaime shrugged eloquent shoulders—“well, I would not bother eriff to fight for my rights for Maria la Purisima! It is in the blood of the Higuenes family to fight their own fights.” “Yes, an ean them, t00.” “We fight in the open,” Don Jaime assured him. “I never said you had any Indian blood in your veins, did I?” Don me laughed. “I must have THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDN anguogy or_invaged anothers ristis| DERMANENT CAPITAL EXHIBIT IS PLANNED cent i i ict|has had such roject in mind for B DePlctlwl:e umes,“;ut um:dej it clear that he‘v now installed in the old Ford Theater does n esire to detract from the|Building. It is felt that this collection, lniflnll\"): odf the Women's City Club,| which excited the interest of lovers of which has taken up a program favoring | Washington, should have a place in a such a project. Col. Grant sug:esudipermnnem collection. that the new George Washington Memo- the figs in my garden picked,” he . “The birds are gathering for Of course, the mock-birds roost in my fig trees and sing sweet songs to me, but the little rascals are too_greedy.” “Don’t try to switch the conversation,” the ranger protested. “From sheep to figs is a jump from ridiculous to the sublime. I heard all about the famous defi of yours to old Antrim, and I hap- pen to know the old skunk don’t take orders worth a cent. Yet, he knows you mean business. That’s why his men are all armed. He expects a battle and he knows you'll lead your forces. Now, if you should get killed in the fracas, your executor would be the one to pro- test against his trespassing in the future. Who might your executor be?” “The Federal Trust Co. of El Paso." “Tom Antrim owes them a lot of money. In a dry year they might not be too anxious to discover that Antrim was invading your range—that is, not until they had gotten their money out of the old hog. Now I like you, Jimmy, | and I don't want to see you get killed. Besldes, if you kick up a row and don’t get yourself killed, you make work for me and my men. Myself, I'm a man of peace. Consequently it occurred to me—-" “You want me to give him another chance—to appear weak and vacillating | by talking to that Antrim again?” Don Jaime charged instantly. “Thank Heaven, my blood is the cool blood of an Anglo-Saxon ancestry. If I had your corpuscles, friend Jimmy, I never would have risen to be a captain in the Texas Rangers. I'd have been killed as a private. Now, you listen to me, because I have no interest at all in Antrim. I have, however, a sympathetic interest in you and your broad acres. You plan to go over yonder and start something. All wrong, old son, all wrong. #You take a ranger's advice and let the other fellow draw first. Then beat him to the draw. While that policy is highly dangerous to & dull man, it is the safest for a man who knows how to draw in a hurry and shoot straight. It puts the burden of guilt on the enemy and he and not you | usually gets the flowers. Jimmy, know- | ing the impetuousity of your nature, I have ridden over here to stop you from doing something inartistic.” “You are always my good friend,” murmured Don Jaime gratefully. ‘Now, listen, Jimmy,” Ken Hobart continued. Tomorrow I shall make it my business to drop in at that sheep camp for luncheon. A little later yo will ride up, alone and unarmed. Ill report to Antrim that you're bent on an argument, but not in the smoke; and he'll go out to talk to you, because I shall advise it strongly. When he does you give him final warning in language most becoming to a hidalgo of your proud ancestry. He'll think you're weak and afraid and of course he'll disregard the warning. “Well, having warned him, you ride back home, gather your gang together and take possession of the water-holes where Antrim must of necessity water his sheep tonight. Don't let him water them. He'll fight for the water, rather than back-track with his flock over ground that's been eaten over, only to find your men guarding the water- holes in that direction, too. A sheep can’t stand such hardship, and three days without water will see his sheep dying by the thousand. “You understand me, Jimmy? you provoke the fight, but he shoots first. Then you clean up and clean up good, because that’s the only way you're ever going to have peace. Antrim's fate will be a lesson to any other grass thief with designs on your range, and I don't think any jury in this county will convict you of murder, because Antrim and his men will have been clearly outside the law, you have a record for patient forbearence in the past. And I will be your witness to prove thta you rode up to Antrim's camp armed and talked to him like a gentleman—sabe usted, amigo? A captain of ranger's testimony carries weight with a jury. Anyhow it just isn’'t possible to convict a Hilguenes in this county. You have never” killed FRED J. KRIEG formerly president and genera] manager of Krier's Expres: Storage Co., is now in bu for himself at— 904 10th St. N.W. Storage, & (pad- ded’ ing. . 15 W HERE is the first place people look when they want to reach you? TheTelephone Directory! ...And they expect to find your name never done anything else but.” “You are always,” Don Jaime said, “my very good friend. And you are as wise as a treeful of owls. ~You plot with all the consummate craft of my own people.” Fur Handbags Are In. PARIS (P).—Shaved lamb and calf- | skin handbags are being shown with fur-trimmed coat-dresses this Spring. | to depict the histor The bags are flat pochettes with metal | Capital, mountings and the envelope type. 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