Evening Star Newspaper, May 1, 1930, Page 52

JIM THE' SYNOPSIS. Don Jaime Miouel Higuenes, a Tezas fancher, and Tom Antrim, a sheep owner, Rave been Dditter enemics. Ken | Hobart, Don Jaime's manager, believes his emplover's life is in danger. Don Jaime's mind, however, dwells on other things. - He has fallen in love with @ picture he has seen in a fashionadle magazine—a picture of Miss Roberta Antrim, a society belle of Westchester. He is attacked from ambush and shoots it out with his cpponent. Hobart finds Rim wounded and the opponent dead. On the body is a picture of Roberta and her address, with the request that she e notified in the event of Tom Antrim’s death. Do Jaime sends her a messave saying that Antrim was killed by @ man named Jimmy Hiogins. Roberta, who lives with her uncle, “Crooked Bill” Latham, sees herself as an heiress. She considers going to Tezas fo.take care ©f her interests. Latham wants her to marry his friend, Glenn Hackett, and tells her that he is on the veroe of dankruptey because of market losses. He outlines his match-making schemes o Hackett. ELEVENTH INSTALLMENT. ROOKED BILL rubbed his hands together and smiled a coyote smile. “You're going to tell me that this rise in Motors is undoubtedly one of the greatest bull movements ever noted in the mar- ket, but that, from sources of informa- tion you cannot in honor divulge, you happen to know that the bears aren't licked; that they have the bulls in a tight corner and that Motors is due to crash. I want you to use the word CONQUEROR ‘crash’ It's a good word. It's—it's significant. Then you rawhide me rorl' not coming to you with my troubles when the going got slippery. You tell me I was a_tarnation old fool for not | doing so; that if I could only have| held on a little bit longer the tide would | have turned and that you would have been delighted to have loaned me & million to carry me over. Sabe that?” “Yes, sir. Then what?” “Why, I'll be overcome with emotion and say, ‘Glenn, you ought to know I'd be the last man in the world to suggest a loan from you, of all men—under the circumstances.’ And I'll give Bobby a look that will be—well, significant. She'll be grateful to me for not having placed her in position of having to be grateful to you for helping me. But at the same time she'll be grateful to you for suggesting it. Well, Tl tell you it’s too late now, and you jump up and yell that it isn't; that you will see the bank and get them to refrain from recording the deed I gave them to Hill- crest; that youll get them to accept PETER:B.KYNE your indorsement of my notes and con- tinue to hold the deed as additional security for the loans.” “So far I follow you. What next, Mr. Latham?” “You jump up and say you must have time to think. Prance up. and down the dining room, thinking hard. Act like a movie actor. Show Roberta, who will be watching you fascinated, that in an emergency nobody need look beyond you. Prove to her you are a strong man—a quick-thinking, bold, mdventurous, breve fellow—but be care- ful to ignore her completely. Make it plain that what you are going to do is because of your ancient friendship for mez. Disclaim any risk. Then out with your plan to save the old homestead and the family fortune.” “The plan,” Glenn Hackett demanded, “the plan.” Crooked Bill's old eyes fairly popped with delight at the part he was playing. “When I first jumped into the market on. Motors, Glenn, I sold 2,500 short. Then the stock started up-grade, so I sold out, took my loss and immediately bought double the amount I had sold and spread it as thin as I could on margin.” “Excellent strategy.” “Well, then, your plan will be to sug- gest that now, with the stock at its peak price, the obvious thing for me to do is .to sell 5,000 shares, or even 10,- 000 shares. You'll put up the margin for me. Assure me there is no risk, that the stock will drop a hundred points within 60 days. You can cite any number of stocks that have dropped that much—some of them in a week. Here is a list to refresh your memory. Re- mind me that for a while during the post-war panic Liberty bonds sold away below par. Advise me to make the gamble and assure me I will not be called upon for any more margin; that the. price of Motors has now reached a point that is unhealthy, wildly spec- ulative, not backed up by assets. Pretty soon it will begin to slide, and when it has slid far enough all I have to do is sell out my line, clean up and be back where I started, less the sums I owe you. Point out that by this method of proceedure I can, at least, get back & million dollars, but insist that when I do you must have my solemn word of honor never, never, never to do any more stock gambling.” “How will you receive this philan- thropic offer, Mr. Latham?” “I shall be overcome again at this exhibition of your friendship and gen- erosity, but I shall refuse to borrow money from you on my worthless note —and I'll give Roberta another mean- ing look, Then, do you know what shfi'll do?” “She'll get you off in & corner, pri- 'NOW IN WASHINGTON 7th Street Wharf The Ancient Famous and Infamous Australian CONVICT The Oldest SHIP Ship Afloat Built in India 1790 This Wonderful Vessel Has Made History During Three Centuries She marked the beginning and the end of England’s monstrous penal system. She has held lurid horror and dreadful iniquities beside which even the terrible stories of the Black Hole of Calcutta and the Spanish Inquisition pale into insignificance. 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You will be in daily communica- tion regarding the market. That will be your sole interest, your sole topic of conversation. While this mythical deal is on not a word of love to Roberta. There must be no- sentiment in this business or you'll spoil everything. “Well, in’the fullness of time when the market breaks—as you and I know blamed well it will—you make the mythical clean-up, hand me back the deed to Hillcrest and a fake check for my . winnings—or, rather, let Roberta do it, so she'll feel that the credit for the coup is all hers—remind me of my word of honor.to quit gambling, shake hands all around, bid Roberta a some- what suppressed good-by and announce you are off for a trip around the world, to be gone a year. And at that moment, old son, if you play your cards with skill and judgment, Roberta will go with you or I'm fit for an insane asylum.” Glenn Hackett looked genuinely dis- tressed. Crooked Bill rambled on: “I want Roberta to go to Texas to look after that estate. She has a jolt com- ing to her when she gets there, and I'm the little boy that knows it. Twenty- five years ago I was in the cattle busi- ness myself, iu Las Cruces County, Tex. I owned the Rancho Verdugo and sold out to a chap named Bill Hobart. I know this Higuenes family. I don't know Don Jaime Miguel Higuenes, but I knew his father, and a grand piece of work he was. Spanish with a broad streak of Irish, or Irish with a broad streak of Spanish, I forget which. Not a drop of Indian blood in the family. T remember the old man had an infant son named Jaime, so this chap who killed Tom Antrim must be that boy.” “Higuenes says & man_named Jim Higgins killed Antrim. Roberta told me over the telephone.” “Jalme is Spanish for James, readily corrupted to Jimmy, and Higuenes is sp-n&h for Higgins. Don Jaime went over to Antrim’s camp to order him and his sheep off the Higuenes range. An- trim figured on murdering the boy without risk to himself. Fortunately, a third man was present at that confer- ence just before the killing—a ranger named Kenneth Hobart, son of old Bill Hobart, to whom I sold the Rancho Verdugo. Higuenies borrowed the rang- er's rifie unknown to Antrim, and al- though Antrim shot Higuenes three times, eventually Higuenes got out of WASHINGT! D. C., THURSDAY, range. ‘Then he stalked Antrim and killed him. I have had a report on the matter by telegraph, colleet, from the coroner at Los Algodones.” “Very interesting, Mr. Latham.” “Best news I've had in 50 years, Glenn. But what challenges my in- terest is this: Antrim is dead, Higuenes lives and is not seriously injured, yet Antrim’s sheep, with the tacit consent of Higuenes, continues to tre!luss. Meanwhile, Higuenes is doing all he can to protect Roberta, whom he has never met—and all at considerable loss and inconvenience to himself, because those sheep are ruining his range. Sheep foul a range up and cattle will not graze where sheep have grazed. Also, a sheep destroys the range. Now, why is Higuenes doing this?"” “Search me, sir.” “He has some ulterior motive and Roberta will discover it, of course. Well, I want Roberta to go down there all het up with the mental picture of this romantic Higuenes. She’ll find a brand of man she never met before. All T hope is that he makes love to her with Latin impetuosity, because if he does he'll be put in his place. Roberia wiil not be rushed by any man.” “There may be a great deal in what you say, Mr. Latham, and perhaps your plans will work out exactly as you ex- pect, but I'm here to tell you they not, and for one very potent reason. I'm ot 50 blamed certain that I want Roberta.” Crooked Bill stared at the young man in amazement. “I'm afraid of her,” Hackett resumed in his slow, methodical way. ‘“She's too blamed modern and I'm too olé- fashioned. I'l not change and she can't. I fear we would be mismated and Il not risk a brief happiness. I can stand to lose Roberta now, but I wouldn't care to have to stand to lose heg after I'd won her. It'd break my heart to discover at some future time that she wasn’t happy with me.” “Mares’ nests!” Crooked Bill protest- ed. “I tell you I know women. They may hoot for years at a masterful man, but they'll end up by marrying him and adoring him until death do them part. Go through with my plan and then stand by to see how the cat jumps. Nothing like worry and adversity to clear a proud head, I'm telling you.” “Well, it cannot hurt to try the thing out, Mr. Latham. If there’s any backfire later, yow'll be the one to get scorched for deceiving folks who trust you.” m‘l‘lspoken like a man,” said Crooked (To be Continued.) Liner's Keel Laid. GENOA, Italy (#).—The keel of a new 47,000-ton liner for the Naples- New York service is being laid here. The ship will be called Rex.and is to start service by October, 1932. COL. MOORE TRANSFERRED YO0 FORT LEWIS DUTY Lieut. Col. 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