Evening Star Newspaper, May 5, 1930, Page 23

CONQUEROR By PETER B.KYNE Don Jaime Miouel Higuemes, a Tezas rancher, and Tom Antrim, & sheep owner, have been Bitter ememies. Kem Hobart, Dom Jaime's manaper, delieves his emplover's life s tn danger. . Dom Jatme's mind, however, dwells on other things. He has fallen tn love with @ picture he Ras seen in @ ‘magazine—a picture of Miss Roberta Antrim, @ society Delle of Westchester. He iz attacked and shoots it owt with his oppoment. Ho- art finds him wounded and the opponent dead. On the body fs @& picture of Roberta and her address, with the re- guest that ahe be notified in the event ©f Tom Antrim's death. Don Jaime writes her that Antrim was Rilled By @ man named Jimmy Higoins. Roberta, who lives with her uncle, "Crooked Bill” Latham, sees herself as an heiress. Latham wants her to marry Ais friend, Glenn Hackett, and tells her that he is on the verge of bankruptcy because of market losses. He outlines his match- making schemes to Hackett, urging him to offer to make good the losses. This generous gesture, he believes, will lead o Roberta’s Wcceptamce of Mackett's proposal of marriage. Meanwhile, Don Jaime takes care of Roberta's interests and she prepares to 9o to Tezas. FIFTEENTH INSTALLMENT. OBERTA shopped for two weeks, spent another two weeks on a houseboat party among the Thousand Islands and departed for Los Algodones. A spirit of thrift animating her at the last, she attempted to discharge her mald, but that faithful retainer, having been sub- stantiall; bsidized by Crooked Bill, |said, “I reckon b b = a much of your umfi“’mm as he used to | pri begged to be permitted to accompany her without salary. It seemed she had always yearned for a trip to the Far ‘West. Besides, what would Miss Ro- berta do without her? Crooked Bill asked the same question and informed her that he had recently discovered a forgotten asset, in consequence of which he could afford the expense. “You'll require Mignon for a chaperon,” he declared. drink and be merry,” he advised his niece, “for n week you'll be in the sheep business.” Roberta, who had never known what it meant to fend for herself when trav- eling, reluctantly permitted herself to D R heve. ShAll T address e “Where | you, Crooked Bill queried. “At the m House in Los Algodones?” “No, dear. Address me in care of Don Jaime Miguel Higuenes.” be'ewmt?" crookedu;l:nu:u:\ld 38 i: stung. 80! up s the Higuenes hacienda? vfiy—m. the man’s a bachelor.” “Well, his housekeeper, a Mrs. Ganby, has written me, inviting me to be his Ganby's letter, ‘Official: J. M. H.' Ganby says they have a lovely and that I'll be much more comf hotel in that country. She says Jaime instructed her to inform me that, Wwhile the Mansion House has an excel- lent reputation for service, that repu- tation is based entirely upon the that they have a bootjack in every Toom.” “That Don Jaime must be & comical devt/;’l." .croukeg Bill mum;rm‘mt enthusiasm. e was agal the feeling that, in some mxpllubbl! way, his well laid plans were doomed to go aft agley. “You'll write me fre- quently and tell me all about i, won't you, honey?” Roberta S ive dags later she ive days T and three huge sald Mignon apprehensively ane behind her.. "“Oh, it's 2 added, relieved. % i - pisin, I ‘compact mads, & Ruse. hera ] mass, & of white-faced cattle were mflllum slows ly and bello continuously against the inhibition of their imposed on them by numerous men, who rode the the herd and urged it slowl; tnemt” Robersa Sarped asid ang E ful that the station platform, :;:‘ ":l at lefln!st ‘:ve l{eec off the ground, ap- pear offer reasonabl from attack. e From around the corner of the sta- SDproached th aa embersatae mannas eml . “Miss Antrim?” he queried. o’ “Yes, indeed,” said Roberts grate- !;-:l Bill Dingle, ‘m‘unch Tom's BT et e to mo af uenes rancho lomuflu".g“ . 18 she a8 B ought troduce Mignon to Mr. Dingle, who was eyéing the maid as a fresh cow.in & re eyes a dog. “So I thoight I'd meet you here, miss, and exp) you how come it won't be possible for ‘me to meet you there,” Mr. Dingle went on, his embar- rassment increasing at every word. “It's about 20 miles straight east from here to your uncle Tom’s ranch, which is your ranch now, I reckon, and I fig- ured mybe it'd be better for all hands if you put up there instead of at the Higuenes rancho. Of course, it ain't as d as the enes place, and mebbe t's far from what you've been accus- DEPEND ON ZEMO TO STOP ITCHING Use soothing, healing, invisible Zemo for the torture of Itching Skin. This clean, reliable family antiseptic . helps bring relief in thousands of homes, stops itching and draws the heat and sting out of the skin. ZEMO has been used for twenty years with remarkable success for all forms of annoying, itching skin irritations. “Relief with first appli- cation,” thousands say. 35¢, 60c and $1.00. Al dealers. R_SKIN JIRRITATIONS | Neuriti ‘There is no t | in this count ‘warns {uln the matter in the smoke the first ime able to figger the warnin’s meant.” “Who warned you?"” b Hi “Indeed! By the way, what is a col- ander?” Roberta had never taken a course in domestic science and had no hesitancy in admitting her ignorance of culinary utensils. “It's & sort of dishpan with a lot of holes in it, ma’am.” “Oh! Why, I had no idea Don Jaime Higuenes was such a bloodthirsty man! Is the trouble between you some- that cannot be rectified? I should be happy to act as peacemaker, Blll Dingle, remembering his offenses, was honest enough to declare that the trouble could not be rectified and added something about the easiest way out of trouble being to go around it. Then he ‘was silent for quite a while, meanwhile scu toe and gazing a bit he]g- lessly around the horizon. Final 3 didn't _ th! as let on you did.” “I had never seen my uncle, Mr. Din- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, MAY 1930. gle; consequently he was no more to| Mr. Dingle raised his glance from the | went—in me, really, than » stranger, Our family | station poor Uncle Tom as more or less of a black sheep.” “Well, he wasn't exactly a tuberose, I'l admit, ma'am; but he had his good points just the same, ' on the mood you caught him Still, he one of your kinfolk. Don't you feel Tesentment agin the man that m dered him?” “Not the alightest. From all that can learn, officially, Uncle Tom was not murdered. The sheriff of this county wrote that Uncle Tom made the mis- take of in too much territory, which is a fatal error and tantamount to suicide. It seems he ambushed Jim got under cover and Uncle Tom and killed him. I am in- formed that he didn't know the menuq of his assailant until he saw the body.” “That's the story, but it ain't true. ‘This killer ordered your Uncle Tom to quit grazin’ his sheep on the free range or he'd kill him. warnin's & warnin' try, if a feller don't choose to obey it he's justified in ar- him an’ the warnin’ person meet up. Your uncle didn’t see no valid rea- son why he should have his liberty re- stricted by a private citizen. He con- sidered his life in danger, so when they met up on the range it was a case of | who could get into action quickest. It was a case of an old man agin & young man, an’ the young man won, as usual But your Uncle Tom never tried to kill nobody. He just naturally defended his own life an’ failed to do a' good job. An’, of course, a sheepman ain't in good standin’ in a cattle country. They got all the officials on their side, an’ a fair jury just can’t be got. Ninety per cent of the population of this county is greasers. You can buy 'em for $5.” “I have been informed, Mr. Dingle (Crooked Bill had been her informant) that it isn't considered a very repre- hensible crime to kill a sheep-herder in | this country.” “It's almost the principal outdoor sport, ma'am. An’ a greaser don’t mind bustin’ anybody. All that worries him his, Can he git lwe? with it? Person- ally, I'm only a hired man, but I got my vate opinions, an’ I'm here to say it just naturally don't look right for you to be the guest of—" n in his mind to say | the shadow of the stock cars. remained unsaid, and he was profoundly | credibly short space of time he was on s horseman who was gal- | his way home. flank of the herd, interested in herd e & ble ol.d“lmnofie observed in around the mfly with the intention of passing|geparture, spurred his mount to on in front of it. I'l be ma’am,” sald Mr. Dingle. ous galiop. Apparently it was his inten- moseyin' along, | tion to_intercept the latter as he fled “We can dis~' down the dusty road that ran parallel cuss our business when you come to the | with the tracks. Antrim _ranch.” ‘The horseman had cleared the herd | goramed. coming on at an easy gallop: behind him a boy on a small pinto pony and was to keep up. p. the man ‘that killed your vxndal x aw &mn'h u:ammn that | ing - n't care meel hon:;cnntl;‘nm xoem choose the time and | which compels those awaiting seats to “He's i to sl o et %R'm brute!” (To Be Continued.) —— Movie fans of place myself.” And without standing | stand outside instead of inside upon the order of his going Mr. Dingle | theater. 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