Evening Star Newspaper, May 4, 1930, Page 74

PETER. Don Jaime Miguel Higuenes, a Tezas fancher, and Tom Antrim, a sheep owner, have been bitter ememies. Ken Hobart, Don Jaime's manager, believes plover's life ‘is in danger. Don mind, however, dwells on other = things. He has fallen in love with a © picture he has seen in a magazine—a icture of Miss Roberta Antrim, a society belle of Westchester. He is attacked from ambush and shoots it out with his opponent. Hobart finds him wounded nd the opponent dead. On the body is sieture of Roberta and her address. Fwith the request that she be motified tn the event of Tom Antrim's death. Don Jaime twrites her that Antrim was killed by @ man named Jimmy Higoins. Roberla, who lives with her uncle, “Crooked Bill” Latham, sees herself as *an heiress. Latham wants her to marry Ris friend. Glenn Hackett, and tells her that he is on the verge of bankruptcy Decause -of market losses. He outlines his match-making schemes to Hackett, wroing him to ofler to make good the losses. This oenerous gesture, he be- leves, will lead to Roberta's acceptance ©f Hackett's proposal of marriage. FOURTEENTH INSTALLMENT. HERE is nothing quite so satis- fying and restful to a human being as the knowledge of a sly deed successfully, nay, bril- liantly, performed. It is not to be marveled at, therefore, that botn Crooked Bill and Roberta slept well that night. At breakfast neither had ever felt nor looked so chipper in years, albeit, in order to accentuate his pose of abandon and despair, Crooked Bill neglected to shave, had little to say during the meal and sighed gustily from time to time. He caught an early train to the city, explaining that the sooner he swept up the fragments of his scat- tered fortunes the better for all con- cerned. Roberta motored in a little later and went at once to Glenn Hackett’s office, ‘where he prepared and she signed a formal assignment of all her right, title and interest in and to her Uncle Tom's estate to Hackett for and in consider- ation of certal moneys to be advanced to her by Hackett. The further details of saving something out of the wreck for her uncle she left to the lawyer. “Now, then, Roberta,” Hackett said when the document was signed, “you understand that this is a business deal from first to last. Not a speck of senti- ment in it so far as I am concerned. ‘While you have given mes security for the funds I am to advance, it may be that I will be called upon to advance a sum in excess of the total value of Uncle Tom’s estate. Consequently, is of th: utmost importance that the estate should be administered wisely and conservedly. I have looked up your lawyer at Los Algodones, dencio Alviso, and he appears to have an excellent record for prebity, but is a poor business man. If I—" “He assures me Don Jaime Miguel Higuenes is most reliable and is doing all that anybody can do to conserve the te,” Roberta hastened to assure “I know. But what do we know about Higuenes? Nothing except what we have heard and the fact that his respandence would indicate he is , humorous and wonderfully oblig- ing gentleman. But lawyers look at &l from a cold and conservative Don Jaime Miguel Higuenes all this trouble? What do you to him? He is a cattleman, so should he bother with your sheep? lobby, I am highly suspicious dropped. She had not Jaime in that light be- lon sense warned her £ B89 BNREAE . RELIESE Al el New York at this reditors might think to flee the country. it is of the utmast “But, Glenn, I don't know a thing about business and I'm afraid it's too big an order. Quite usually I believe ‘what apparently decent people tell me.” “I disagree with you. You have a feminine intuition of the highest degree of development. ' You could sniff out a crook at sight. If you go there, get ac- quainted with your lawyer and Don Jaime and after a few weeks discover that you have absolutely no mental res- Don Pru- | fiel B.KYN This adroit speech flattered Roberta, since it was corroborating a belief she had always entertained—i. e., that she could look through men as if they were glass, Her respect for Hackett's intelli- gence and ability increased at once. “I'll go to Los Algodones just as soon as I can get ready,” she declared. “That’s fine, Roberta.” He escorted her to the elevator and upon returning to his office pressed a buzzer three times, whereupon his secretary ushered in to him from an adjoining room no less a person than Crooked Bill. “Well, have you sold her the idea that she should go to Los Aigodones?” e demanded of the lawyer. “I have. She promised me she would g0 just as soon as she could get ready.” Crooked Bill rubbed his hands pleas- | urably. Hackett handed him the as- signment which Roberta had just given him and Crooked Bill set fire to it and dropped it into Hackett's metal waste basket. “Have you confidence in this Jaime Higuenes, Mr. Latham?" Hackett in- quired. “How do I know. stranger to me. However, his father and grandfather were both muy cabal- lero on the nth degree and never cared enough about money to get it by crooked or unfair means. And I'm a great be- liever in heredity. I have a strong sus- picion that Don Jaime is equipped with a complete set of Hibernian inner works and I have never known a highly courageous man who was a weak man. The crooks of this world are recruited from the weaklings, my boy. However, why should I worry about a smear of sheep? I don't care two hoots in a hol- low if they all starve to death. I'm } solely interested in promoting for Rob- erta a journey to Los Algodones, in order that she may see the other side of the picture. Don Jaime is unmar- ried (I've discovered that), and if he | fails to fall in love with Roberta he's fit for treason, stratagem and spoils. It she doesn’t quarrel with him about that, they're bound to fall out over business, because no man ever managed & wom- an’s business affairs without discovering in the long run that he had performed a thoroughly thankless task.” “I wish I didn't have to mix in her affairs. I dislike deception, even inno- cent deception, Mr. Latham.” “You ungrateful pup! Why, I've placed Bobby under a tremendous ob- ligation to you and made it possible for you two to share a delightful secret in common—all of which is equivalent to scattering 6 inches of tanbark on the hard, macadamized road of true love. By pretending to lose my fortune, I drive off about 80 per cent of your competitors and shoo Bobby out of her set, in which she might find other com- petitors for you. As a promotor I think I'm just about the bee's knees myself.” ‘l‘BI:t you're giving Don Jaime a free He's a perfect “And why not? He's short and fat, weighing about 200 pounds. If he isn't, the scientists are all wrong about hered- ty “I have known tall, graceful and exertmely charming Irishmen, Mr. Latham!"” “But the Spanish blood predominates it did in his ky. In all probability he takes a the Fall round-up and has never seen & bath tub except in a hotel. He will have a luxuriant Niagma Falls type of black mustache and use per- fume. He will talk with a strong Span- ish accent and four-fifths of life is undoubtedly spent in his .shirt- sleeves. He's just a husky border cow- man, I tell you. Do you see Bobby fall- ing f¢ like that?” *“No-0-0 “You're a suspicious Yankee, Glenn. Your motto is, ‘Trust everybody, but cut the cards.’ . .d’kaellelutbewd- hain drug stores. Meanwhile, you keep pi on Roberta to get her out of town; and in order to soothe your New land conscience I'm going to spread about a hundred thousand mar- gining a line of United Drugs for you. If the deal shows a profit by the time you marry Roberta, it will be yours. It it shows a loss, send me a reasonable bill for professional services.” ‘As a pinch-hitter for Cupid I think you're a total ruin,” Glenn Hackett de- clared. “How come?” “I'm satisfled that Roberta .isn't in love with me.” “So am I. But I'm also satisfied that she thinks a thousand cent more of you than of any man living, and if you remain indifferent to here—even let her see you out with another girl occa- sionally—you'll have to marry her in self-defense. Apples are most desir- able when they are green, inside a 6-foot barbed-wire fence and guarded by a ervations regarding either or both, I shall think it quite safe to leave your | affairs in their hands, for the present | at least.” I ‘The Navy Department has announced that it has authorized the assignment of 70 officers of the Naval Reserve of the country to billets on ships of the battle fleet for 15 days of active duty training between May 8 and May 25. Of this number the local Reserve .as been allotted two places and they have been assigned aboard the battleship Mississippl. Sixteen ships have been as- signed to take these officers. Expansion and organization of the volunteer communication Reserve is said by the Naval Reserve Bureau to be pro- ceeding satisfactorily in a number of districts. Considerable activity is be- ing shown in the fourth naval district where a number of former members of the Navy amateur radio net are now enlisting in the Naval Reserve. This is also sald to be true in the first naval district, where unusually fine results have been obtained in the organization of the net. In order to clear up any misunder- standing as to the difference between the Navy amateur net and the volunteer communication Reserve, the bureau says that the former is a non-enlisted or- ganization, which has been organized in some districts as an auxiliary to the Naval Reserve. Persons interested in radio who own and operate amateur stations may, upon application to the commandant of their district, be given a certificate of membership in the Navy amateur radio net. This membership involves no physical or _professional qualifications, but affords a means for radio operators to become acquainted with the Navy and Naval Reserve with the idea that such members of the net who are qualified will eventually enlist in the volunteer communication Re- serve. ‘The Bureau of Navigation of the Navy Department has announced that it recelves many requests for waivers in rd to enlistments and promotions of enlisted personnel. The bureau adds always hesitates to disapprove of requests of commanding officers, as it wishes to give them as free a hand as possible, but there are usually cer- tain definite standards that must be met and the bureau adds that it must savage bulldog.” He shook his stick at Hackett. “Remember, your battle-cry is ‘On to Texas!'” (To Be Continued.) Is it to the best interests of the Re- serve as a whole? The following enlisted in the local Reserve last week in the ratings given after their respective names and all of them were assigned to_the 3d Fleet Howard G. Bradford, 1923 Thirty-fifth street, seaman, second- class; George E. Rogers, 1617 Massa- chusetts avenue northeast, fireman, third-class; Laurence M. Goodridge, 21904 Eighteenth street, fireman, third- class, R Dr. Thomas J. Kennedy, head of the medical detachment of the 1st Bat- talion, United States Naval Reserves of the District, has been commissioned a lieutenant commander as a result of a recent examination. Willlam H. Wagner, jr., fireman, third-class, has been ordered to an in- definite period of active duty and as- signed as a shipkeeper aboard the U. S destroyer Abe! P. Upshur, training ship of the local battalion. He is at- tached to the 2d Fleet Division. The following promotions of mem- bers of the 3d Fleet Division have beer | ordered: Emory W. Hart, fireman, sec- jond to first class; William Swart, sea- |man, second to first class; Albert E | Harned, seaman, second to first class; Harold G. Nicholas, fireman, third to second class, and Alfred T. Degge, fire- man, third to second class. There are at present 66 seamen, second-class, undergoing instruction at the Naval Air Station at Pensacola, Fla. They are divided into four classes, all en at different times. The class that entered July 18, 1929, is about to complete its course. A statu- tory board has been ordered to ex- amine them for commissions as en- sign in the Naval Reserve. There are 16 remaining of the original 20 in this | class and if they successfully pass their examinations for ensigns they will be glven an opportunity of performing | one year of active duty with the fleet At the present time there are 502 | ,officers in the Naval Reserve aviatior | | organization, divided into the following | classes: A-F, 107; A-G (G), 311; A-V T(8), 84, and A-V (K), 1. 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