Evening Star Newspaper, April 29, 1930, Page 25

SYNOPSIS. Dom Jaime Miguel Hipuenes, & Tezas fancher, and Tom Antrim, a sheep owner. have been bitter ememies. Capt. Ken Hobart, formerly of the Tezas Rangers, Delieves Ris @mployer's life {s in danger. Don Jaime's mind, however, dwells on other things. He had fallen in with picture he Ras seen in a fashionadle m: Dicture of Miss Roberta Antrim, delle of Westchester. He is att @mbush and shoots ft out with his Opponent. Hobart Ands Aim wounded and the opponent dead. On the dody is @ picture of Roberta and her address, With the request that she be notified in the event of Tom Antrim’s death. Dom Tom Antrim was killed by a man named Jimmy Hiooine after & . Roberta, ®Ro lives with her uncle, ““Crooked Bill"” Latham, sees herself as a heiress. considers going to Tezas to take care of Rer interests. NINTH INSTALLMENT. HE assistant general manager of of the Rancho Valle Verde walked into the vine-inclosed veranda where Dom Jaime lay at ease in his chaise longue, while a nurse, almost old enough to be m mother, sat in an adjacent chair tting. "W’:lt how's our boss, Mrs. Ganby?” Ken Hobart queried. “His wounds have all healed by first intention,” the nurse answered. ‘I should say he'll be up and around again in a month. Probably lame for a month or two thereafter, At any rate, he loses me next week.” Don Jaime, with a polite request to be excused, read his mail. Presently he looked up and there was a glint of deviltry in his black eyes. “Don Prudencio Alviso writes me that he has been engaged by Miss Antrim as attorney for the estate; that Miss Antrim has given the Federal Trust Co. & check in payment of the notes it held against the estate and that the bank has resigned as co-executor. Old Prudy writes to thank me for sending him the business. He tells me that with his appointment he received a retainer of a thousand dollars and instructions to secure a good man to count those sheep. He suggests you, old leather-face, and 1 second the nomination, which is tanta- mount to election where Judge Aurelio ‘Vasquez is concerned. Miss Antrim says a dust cloud was gathering on that road. “Somebodv is coming in & hurr{.“ he murmured. “When they hurry it's al- ways bad news.” A horseman , threw himself off and hurried up the steps. “Well, my friend,” Don Jaime queried, “what evil message do you bring and from whom?” “Thirty riders crossed the Rio Grande at daylight, senor. They are rounding up several hundred of the senor's cattle. It is a raid.” “My thanks are due you, my friend. :’hes; will not get far. Who sent you ere?” “The American customs agent at Los Algodones, Don Jaime. He bids send your riders to head them off be- {m'e1 they recross the river with your cattle.” “Return and tell him I have but 40 men available. The others are attend- ing a baile at the Rancho Verdugo. Forty men will be suffclent, I think. Return to the customs agent with my gratitude for his warning and tell him my men will start in 10 minutes, per- haps less.” The man gumd away. Don Jaime smoked content , while Mrs. Ganby watched him with curiosity. Presently| Ken Hobart came to announce his i.m-l pending departure. “Delay it until tomorrow, Ken,” his employer ordered casually. “I have & job for you.” And he recounted the tale brought by his visitor. “Take 40 men and ride for the river. If this man’s tale i the truth, you will have work there. I think, however, he lies. Have Caraveo arm the other men and instruct him to have them remain in the barns with their horses until I send him word that he is not going to be needed.” px.;.:é eh?” ve n_expecting reprisal, Ken. I told this messenger I had but 40 men available, but would send them im- mediately. Go with them. Then we shall see that which we shall see. I smell sheep.” Hobart departed, and Don Jaime turned to Mrs. Ganby. “Please tell Flavio to assist me to enter my house,” he said. “There is more dust to the south. We shall have visitors—about 10, I think.” ‘The old péon picked Don Jaime up, carried him inside and lald him on a sofa. Then he departed casually. “You will oblige me by bolting that door, Mrs. Ganby,” Don Jaime re- she's going to leave everything in her lawyer’s hands, with instructions to con- sult with me, and whatever we two decide to do will meet with her approval. She says she dreads coming down here in Summer and she has accepted so many engagements of a social nature.” “Who is Miss Antrim?” the nurse juired. “The niece and sole heir of the man Antrim I killed after he'd busted me, Mrs. Ganby.” “And you are her adviser—she's friendly with you?” “Oh, she doesn't know I bumped old Tom off. I wrote her a chap named Jim Higgins had done it.” Ken Hobart chuckled. ‘The first Higuenes to be heard of Spain_was called James Michael Hig- gins. But the Spaniards gave it a Span- ish twist—the ‘Y’ has the sound of ‘e’ in Spanish and they have a habit of adding ‘es’ to things. Sometimes they say sheepes or sheeps as the plural of sheep, for instance. So with the mfi of time James Michael Higgins, the b! Mick, developed into Jaime 1 .Iyltlu!un l,lal. When did that happen, aime ?” “When the first J, M. married a red- headed Spanish woman, who insisted on spelling name as it was pronoun My ancestor did not object. So the tribe of Higuenes was born. The family mi- grated to Mexico in the nineteenth cen- tury, and my great-grandfather married the daughter of an Irishman who owned o strain up a 3 grandfather add- girl who was half he'd done it. e Belgnt, breadti, seneret "'g:.m““"‘ in , general ap] ce, in- dustry _and temper of Higuenes tribe. We looked much more like Black Irish than Mexicans now, and were robably, a little more than half Celt. t we had Spenish customs and & Spanish outlook on life and Spanish was our mother tongue. Also we had no rea- son to be other than proud of our Span- ish blood, so we neeer mixed it with “ln, Indian. When we moved to Texas my andfather fought under the Stars and ars. He sent my father to the Virginia Military Institute and father married a Carrol of Virginia and begot me.” “You have never been married?” the nurse asked. “Never."” “Aren't you going to be?” “I fear not. The loneliness here—the coyote chorus on the buttes—all militate against it, Mrs. Ganby.” “The right girl” said Mrs. Ganby, “wouldn't mind it in the least. Go forth and search for her, Don Jaime.” Don Jaime appraised the old nurse with kindly interest. “Mrs. Ganby, you told me you are a widow. Have you any children?” s “One—a boy of fifteen. He has been s:ne ofirmfled since his twelfth birth- y. Infantile paralysis.” Don Jaime considered this. “Suppose you had a comfortable home where you could be with your boy always? I should have a_hostess here. For some time I have felt that Flavio's wife is too—well, elemental, for the job. This haclenda should have a gentlewoman’s manage- ment—at nurse's i “Oh, Don Jaime! You mean it!1” He nodded. “I'd like to be able to in- vite nice people to visit me, Mrs. Ganby. I should like to have my friends from the surrounding country come to din- ner oftener, but I'm never satisfied with the appearance of my board, the menu, or the service. I have no time to train maids and housekeepers—and if I did I wouldn’t know how.” “Yes, a man is very helpless. I should be glad to come, Don Jatme.” “You are very kind, Ken, you run up to El Paso and get the boy. Mrs. Ganby will arrange that detail for you. the |8 quested gently. Presently came the sound of hurry- ing feet on the veranda, and through the ifron-barred tiny window that gave on the veranda Mrs. Gandy saw men standing about. There came a rap on the door. “Who's there?” Don Jaime chal- lenged. “Open the manded. “Ah, Bill mfln' you ever since you 8o ly sent one of your men with a false cry of raiders from below the border. I sent 40 men. Your lookout saw them ride out, and when they had passed, you decided to come to my haclenda, de- serted save for the dren, and kill me in some unpleasant manner, Is it not s0?"” ‘There was no answer to this, and Don Jaime’s mocking mgn floated through the window. “Now, Dingle, consider situation. A hundred armed men sur- round this poor house of mine. Go to the patio entrance and look.” A murmuring rose among the recent arrivals, and one of them ran to the entrance of the patio. A volley of curses echoed through the garden, then the man came running back. ing believing, Senor Dingle?” leasantly. shall not be killed, and presently you shall all return to your sheeps—I mean sheep. Forward! March! A moment’s hesitation and the re- treat to the entrance commenced. A few minutes later Enrico Caraveo thrust smiling, sardonic face up to the grilled ‘window. “I have the honor to inform Don; Jaime that his visitors await his pleas- ure.” “Confine them in the barn under "fird'-. [ h"yh hite-faced, speechls anby, w! A less watched Don Jaime blow- enes,” she demanded, exhibition of ingratitude on the part of those sheepmen, are you trespass to )nrmn them to on _your range?” Don Jaime raised & deprecating hand. “An Higuenes,” he assured her, “does not quarrel with & woman.” Mrs. Ganby's eyes blazed. “Now, at least,” she declared, “I know why Cer- vantes wrote Don Quixote. Only a Spaniard could have conceived such a character and only a Spaniard could— could—could—" "Een:r:.x;l)mflhlml protested, “my name my ns.” (To Be g::tlllucd.) b SPINACH l is @ very important food. You can make It very appetizing with LEA & PERRINS For Safety’s Sake-demand CARPUNA Now clear out and let me sleep.” ; Cleaning Fluid Mrs. Ganby, with tears of happiness in her middle-aged eyes, followed the assistant general manager into the ranch office. | “Why do you suppose he engaged me, Mr. Hobart? Do you think he sus- he was doing & very wonderful g for my boy and me?” “Yes, I think so. But he engaged you principally, I think, because he in holds and he should have the honor of entertaining Miss Roberta Antrim and her duenna.” “ghe’ll not have a duenna.” “Oh, yes, she will. You'll supply that lack. Don Jaime is very tactful and 1 . “Why is he 5o interested in the niece of this viclous old man he had to kill?” “Because Don Jaime Miguel Higuenes 1s a romantic Mick, that's why. 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