Evening Star Newspaper, May 6, 1930, Page 39

SYNOPSIS. Don Jaime Miguel Higuenes, a Tezas rancher, and Tom Antrim, a sheep @wner, have been ditter ememies. Ken Hobart, Don Jaime's manager. believes Ris emplover's life is in danger. Don Jatme's mind, however, dwells on other thinos. He has follen in love with a pioture he has seen in a magazine—a picture of Miss Roberta Antrim, @ society Delle of Westchester. He is attacked from ambush and. shoots it out with his opponent Hobart finds him wounded and the opponent dead. On the body 12 o picture of Roberta and her address, with the request that she be notified in the event of Tom Antrim's death. Don Jaime writes her that Antrim was killed by a man mamed Jimmy Higgins. Roberta, who lives with her uncle, ‘rooked Bl Latham, sees herself as en heiress. She leaves for Tezas and arrives at Los Algodones in time to see Bill Dingle, her Uncle Tom’s foreman, fee defore the fire of a man who is pointed out to her as Antrim’s slaver. SIXTEENTH INSTALLMENT. IX pistol shots rang out and Roberta saw little puffs of dust leap up beside Bill Dingle's right rear tire. A pause of about two seconds, then six more shots and six more puffs of dust beside the same tire. Then the horseman pulled up, turned and jogged quietly up to the station. He dismounted a little stiffly, dropped the reins over his horse's head and advanced, limping. to the station platform, upon which he climbed labo- riously and ‘disappeared into the station. “Did you see, Miss Roberta?"” Mignon whispered. “He was all smiles! A smil- ing murderer! Ugh!™ Thank heaven, a horse cannot outrun & fiivver, Mignon. Nor can a man on & running horse do accurate shooting. The range was too long and all his bullets dropped short. I wonder if this pale child on the fat pony is the rascal's son?” “This is exactly like the movies,” Mignon quavered. “It's wonderful! So thrilling! Oh, I'm so glad you brought me with you, Miss Roberta!” “When that man emerges you'll ex- perience some more thrills,” Roberta warned her maid. “I'm going to tell him some things about himself he has not, in all probability, been told before.” “Do be careful, Miss Roberta. He's 80 desperate——" “I'll reduce him to pulp. afraid of his guns. I intend to protect my foreman. That is the duty of an employer. This -Tim Higgins had his own witnesses when he killed Uncle Tom, but we can testify to his effort to kill Mr. Dinga <I shall have him arrested and tried for attempt to com- mit murder, The bloodthirsty wretch!” I'm not ‘The station door swung open and (be Don Jaime Higuenes limped out, stood as erect as his damaged und!rptnnms ‘would permit, bowed from the hips an all but swept the station platform with his sombrero. Then he straightened and said, “Mees—I mean Miss Antrim— I am devastated to think—" “How dare you presume to address me?” Roberta cut in icily. “I am not aware that I have the dubious honor of your acquaintance, sir, although I be- lieve you are my uncle’s slayer, Jim Higgins." | He stared at her without rancor, nor | did the pleasant smile that had crinkled |his undeniably good-looking counte- | nance fade the sli~htest. Roberta made | swift appraisal of him. He was about | six feet tall, strongly built, lithe and | graceful. An out-of-doors, athletic girl herself, Roberta knew that this man |was as hard as nails, with scarce a | pound of superfluous fat on him. His complexion was a reddish brown, a most agreeable color scheme when taken in conjunction with crinkly jet-black hair and large, black, snappy eyes. His hat was a soft lightweight white beaver, broad-brimmed, high-crowned and pinched to a peak. He wore an immaculately clean white drill shirt, open at the throat, sans necktie and sans sleeves below the elbow. His over- alls were blue and new and six inches to long for him, for which reason the excess been turned up in a cuff over his expensive high-heeled boots. His spurs were of the nfiproved stock- man’s pattern, brass with silver inlays and steel heel chains; around his waist was a wide, hand-carved leather belt | supporting two pistol holsters carved to match. From each holster the pearl butt of a pistol protruded; there were spare cartridges in the belt. “Yes, I am Jim Higgins,” he admit- ted, without a particle of shame or em- barrassment, and from the inflection of his voice, from a certain faint clipped manner of slurring his consonants Roberta knew that Spanish was this man’s mother tongue. “It was my mis- fortune to be the instrument of an in- scrutable fate that wafted your delecta- ble uncle to his mansion in the skies.” “Has anybody ever told you what a cool scoundrel you are, Mr. Higgins?” Don Jaime shrugged. “I dare say a few sheepmen have said harsh things ebout me—behind my back.” “Do you enjoy killing men, Mr. Hig- “Oh, no! Not even in self-defense.” Roberta had a feeling that she was not go! to make much progress in the face of the man’s debonair indifference. “I never suspected my uncle's murderer was such a frontier dandy,” she said witheringly. Don Jaime drew one of his pistols, flipped six empty brass shells out on the station platform and thoughtfully reloaded the weapon. “One is liable scare most anything out of the brush in this county, Miss Antrim. I suppose you entertained the popular impression that a frontier murderer is physically as well as morally unclean.” He loaded the other pistol. “I'm sure I shouldn't blamed if my parents preferred cleanliness to certain brands of godli- ness. The grows as the twig is bent, you know.” “Was your father & man of violence, ! gl No need now for constipation Often the diet bulk, needed by your system for regular, complete elimina- tion, is missing from the food you eat. 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We're allowed one a day, and old Dingle Bell is the first I've flushed a week. “He'll be the last you'll flush in many years if there is such a thing as law and justice in Texas.” “Oh, we're very law-abiding, indeed! Very few of us on this side of the Rio Grande kill for pleasure or profit. You're going to have me arrested, I pre- sume.” “I certainly am.” “Well, when the warrant is issued the sheriff will telephone me about it and tell me to come in and talk it over. 's to0 indolent to take the trouble to motor out to my place and put the bracelets on me. By the way, what are you doing around here, anyway? Is it your intention to camp all inght on this platform or were you expecting somebody to call for you?" Is it possible that in a _moment of exuberance I frightened Dingle Bell away and thus deprived you of your transportation?” “No; I'll excuse you for leaving us stranded. Mr. Dingle would have de- parted in a little while, but not so_pre- cipitately. And it's none of your busi- ness what we're doing here. = However, I do not mind telling you that we are waiting for Don Jaime Miguel Higuenes to send a car over for us. Do you know Don Jaime?” “I've known him all my life.” “What sort of man is he?” “We-ell, average, I'd call him. Just & fair sample of a greaser. Folks in this country don’t seem to mind hav- ing him around. Guess Don Jaime has them fooled more or less. Are you cer- tain Don Jaime knew you were due here today?” “Why, I wrote him a week ago.” “Well, the hair must have slipped somewhere or he’d have had his car here to meet you—yes, and a light motor truck for your baggage. One thing Higuenes prides himself on is his punctuality and hospitality. To have a guest standing around on this hot platform all day waiting for a car that never came would just about break his heart. I'm very much afraid, Mees— 1 mean Miss—Antrim, that unless I get word to Don Jaime that you're here ‘he stationmaster will have to take you in, and I know that he isn't equipped for company.” Roberta’s troubled gaze met the young man’s with just a hint of tolerance now. “T suppose you have your humane mo- ments, Mr. Higgins. Remember, how- ever, I am certainly going to prosecute you for the attempted murder of Mr. Dingle, so don’t tangle yourself up in rash promises to render first ald. You may send word to Senor Higuenes if you wish, but all it will awv you is my thanks.” “You may even omit the thanks” he replied brightly. “I am delighted to have an opportunity to withdraw from your peppery presence, so With your permission, senorita, I shall ride swiftly to|to the humble abode of this fellow Higuenes and tell him to here like the devil with his ca Again his hat swept the platform be- fore he climbed down and limped to his horse. “Did my Uncle Tom puncture your rear tire?” Roberta called after him derisively. He ignored her, climbed on his horse, spoke a few words to the boy who was waiting there for him nu} set off down the road at a smart lop. . [ int any cultured, most woman will ever meet,” Roberta de- clared. “I do hope his lameness will not be permanent.” “He's marvelous, gorgeous!” breathed Mignon. “I wonder why he doesn’t go .. Hiweins ought to get along beau “Mr. Higgins oug] - tifully in that profession,” Roberta sighed. “He certainly has admirable control of his temper. to insult him. I wish that boy would come over here. I'd like to ask him some questions regarding Mr. Higgins.” But the boy had ridden away and joined the riders with the cattle herd. In about an hour & handsome sedan appeared, accompan! y a speed Wagon, Both “were driven by, youths of undoubted Astec ancestry. ~Without & word they fell uj Roberta’s baggage and stowed it the speed wagon, whereupon the driver of the sedan ap- proached, hat in hand, and said: “The Senor Higuenes sends thees car and the compliments of heem to the senorita. Don Jaime tell to me to say to the senorita he ees ver’ sorry he have to_make the bonehead play not to come | PILES -~ FISTULA A New NOVATHERM npiscorery HEALS WITHOUT OPERATION No pain. No narcotics. Dc not suf- fer. 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