Evening Star Newspaper, May 9, 1930, Page 36

SYNOPSIS. Don Jaime Miguel Hipuemes, a Tezas Pancher, and Tom Antrim, a sheep owner, have been bitter ememies. Ken Robart, Don Jaime's manacer, believes Ms emplover's life is in danger. Dom Juime’s mind. however, duwells on other ®hings. He has fallen in love with @ Sicture he has seen in & magazine—a sicture of Miss Roberta Antrim, a society delle of Westchester. He is attacked from ambush and shoots it out with his eppoment. Hobart finds him wounded @nd the opponent dead. On the body is @ picture of Roberta and her address, With the request that she be notified in the event of Tom Antrim’s death. Don Jaime twrites her that Antrim was killed man mamed Jimmy Higgins. who lives with her uncle, BI" Latham, sees hersel/ as Latham wants her to marry Ais friend, Glenn Hackett. She goes to Pezas, whers she learns that Higoins and Don Jaime are one and the same. Since @he is in Don Jaime's household, she @ccepts the situation. NINETEENTH INSTALLMENT. OBBIE, his pale face glowing from his recent ablutions, ar- rived with Roberta and the four went in to dinner. With a nice consideration for her years, the host placed Mrs. Ganby's chair for her, then performed a similar service for Roberta and lastly for the little Robbie Ganby. “Instinctively kind,” Roberta thought. “Ohi-hnhmmpe hthe{ taught mmhm re- spect age. Democratic, too. His house- kee] eats with us.” ‘The table had been set in the gal- , Don Jaime explaining that during Summer they always ate outside. mh:m no, sooner .‘e,md’ than tvlv‘o ew in and lit on the floor le his chair. “Abelard and Heloise,” Don Jaime ed. “Mockers seldom migrate and two have been steady boarders for years.” He broke crumbs from a plece of broad and fed the birds. the table with the It was covered with lgan cloth; :l‘):.rt—aummhzd 1red Toses from a -green bowl in nel:'.zr; the service was of sterling silver and'very old and beautiful. On closer inspection she saw that it car- e, s i’}m‘ fent-great-grandmothy at at-grandmother’s ' g:n aime explained. “Fellow in New York once heard I had it and sent his secretary down to buy it. He offered me an unbelievably high price for the service and didn’t seem to be: Meve me when I told him it was not for sale. He just kept tilting the ante couldn't seem to see he was an- noying me. Some peo&le are like that. ‘They think money is the beginning and the end of eve = “Perhaps you would, also, Mr. nes, if you had ever been poor,” “Tve paid 13 per cent for rented money,” he retorted. “I've had the ranch , and Banks carried my in" bad Siseman 088 p! lack courage, can be really 2 think my people, who dwell in yonder, are victims of pov- erty? Not so. They are envied by their kind " “Do you not find life a little lonely here?” “A busy man is seldom lonely. My father spent his life in bondage to the irrigation system you probably observed en route here, but after his death I completed it and transformed a Semi- arid valley into alfalfa and cotton fields. I got rid of the scrubby long- horned cattle that were built for speed |and substituted Herefords, which are | built for beef. All this has been a con- | siderable task and fell to my hands | when I was 18. That was 10 years ago. | At college I majored in agriculture and | cattle husbandry, because I knew that | was going to be my job. My foreman, Enrico Caraveo, ran the ranch then and while I.was in the Army. “After I was demobilized, in the Spring of 1919, I really started to put this ranch on a paying basis. I cleaned up on cotton in 1919 and 1920. And cattle prices were unbelievably high. Why, a thin old cow for a cutter or canner was worth $80 then! I had a feeling, however, that such a_war-time prosperity wouldn't last, so I sold all my cattle in the Fall of 1920, and in 1921 I didn’t plant any cotton. Well, the market smashed on both—and lucky Jim didn’t have any! “Instead, I raised alfalfa and stacked it; then I bought cattle for a song when the banks and the governmental loan agencies foreclosed. Cheap cattle and cheap feed, you know. I sold them as 3-year-olds after the market had rallied and, in addition, had my ranges re- stocked with high-grade Hereford stock cattle. But all this, you understand, Miss Antrim, required thought and worry and some courage. I had my mo- ments of panic; the road was rough and rocky in spots, although that, of course, made it all the more interest- ing, the victory all the more delightful. I think that when one has had to fight for his land and his people he learns to love both, no matter how unlovely or uninteresting they may appear to those whose lives have been spent in shelter and without effort.” “My life has been spent that way, I must admit,” Roberta confessed. “And T like it,” she added. “Why not? You've mnever tried any other life, have you?” berta noticed at her host was much more at his ease, now that their conversation had veered into new chan- nels. His accent was less marked. Not once did he forget himself and pro- nounce his “I's” as “e.” It occurred to the girl, too, that Don Jaime Miguel Higuenes had lived more in five min- utes of his colotful life than had the last three generations of Hacketts. And the Hacketts were a long-lived race. Don Jaime turned to Roberta. “B: the way, what gainful occupation, if any, does Mr. Latham practice now?"” “He plays the stock market.” “With success, I hope.” A “He has always been very successful until recently, when he lost practically everything he had—or, at least, he would have lost it without the ald of some people who love him. We antici- pate & reverse in the market which will rull him out, if not with a profit, at least without terrific loss.” “My father loved your Uncle Bill, You Save $.00 on This C ovU Peeriess ~ RIER TRIPLE SCREEN GRID RADIO WITH ELECTRO-DYNA MIC SPEAKER Here is an Outfit that bodies all the latest, COMPLETE WITH DYNAMIC SPEAKER COMPLETE WITH 8 A. C. TUBES Mail Orders Filled— Send Money Order ALL STORES OPEN UNTIL 11 P.M. THE EVENING wit] politically. would be glad to give my father's friend & leg up. You live with your Uncle Bill, T take it.” “I've_been his ward and a member of his household since my tenth birth- day. 5 see, now that he's old and liable to suffer financial reverses, it is my duty to take care of him, and for that reason my Uncle Tom’s estate comes to me somewhat in the nature of a godsend.” “One more reason why I should be dealt with charitably in the matter of your deceased avuncular relative,” the young man suggested humorously. “Well, we'lll pull you out all right on the sheep.” “I fear,” the girl suggested, “that the Antrim sheep are proving to be a source of trouble to you.” “Not at all” her host protested. “I expect to collect from the Antrim e: tate a reasonable fee for my services, to reimburse me for my outlay or incon- venience."” “Why, Jimmy!" Robbie had piped up. | “Don’t you remember telling me the | other day that no gentleman ever told | a lie—not even a white lie?” N"’Now what are you driving at, Rob- e | “I heard you tell Ken Hobart the| other day that you'd see those sheep| dead before monkeying with them, if| anybody but Miss Antrim owned them.” | “So 1 did, sonny. Anything wrong| with obliging a lady? | “But_you said the sheep would do more damage to the range than they were worth.” “I know I did, Jimmy, but then I was | angry at the time. One of those old | ewes had just bitten me.” “But you knew she couldn’t hurt you, Jimmy, "because I heard Ken tell you | the old ewes were all more or less| toothless. And then you said: ‘Oh, Ken, | let's let the tail go with the hide! Drive | the old wrecks up into the alfalfa, so| they won't starve to death’ And Ken| said he never knew a photograph to af- | fect a level-headed man worse than it | had you.” Don Jaime was blushing as he met Roberta’s glance. “The subject of sheep baving been discussed -thoroughly,” he suggested, “what opinions, if any, have you, Miss Antrim, on the League of Na- tions and the World Court? Do you admire vers libre, and is & stump-tailed yellow dog the best for coons?” He was too much for her, and deep in her soul Roberta, grudgingly but admir- Three-Piece Fiber Suite The above sketch will give this suite. fiber in natural finish. retonne. Spring- Included are settee, chair and rocker of hand-woven ingly, admitted it. She had a feeling of helplessness in this man's presence, for he was a new experience with her. She had never met a man who remotely resembled him—so ruthless, forceful and dominating. Not knowing what to say, Roberta was silent and attacked her meal. When, presently, her glance met Don Jaim again, he was smiling at her; where- upon she itched with a desire to pull his nose. “He has all the audacity and as- surance of the Irish and all of the ego of the Latin,” she thought. “And he isn't good-looking at all. Still, he isn't bad-looking. He's just masculine and knows it. All of his life he has been accustomed to being high and low jus- tice on this ranch. Because these peones of his kotow to him he thinks he can get away with murder. He's just a feudal baron who has established his feudal sway just far enough north of the border to make good with it.” Providentially, it was not a long STAR, WASHINGTON, D. 2C,,. FRIDAY, course dinner, such as Roberta had ex- pected would be served and which she had looked forward to with dread. A soup, a salad, a roast, two vegetables, a light dessert and black coffee. That was all. “He runs his household like a sensi- ble man, at any rate,” the girl reflected. “And azard the thought that the average rancher possessed of a fine old gallery, facing on such a lovely ®ld- fashioned garden as this patio contains, would eat inside!” She watched a hummingbird flitting from flower to flower, saw a quail come forth and bear away a crust tossed him by Don Jaime. Then, as the shadows lengthened, the mockingbirds, replete with food and happy, perchéd in a lime tree and paid for their meal in melody. Roberta had never heard a Spanish mocker before and was delighted with the beauty and variety of their exten- M sive repertoire. (To Be Continued.) Are you rich? 100 to 1 you are not. Want to save a dollar? Sure you do. Then worn metal part at a fraction of the cost of a new part. Chevrolet Engine Heads, $4.50; Bumpers, $1.50; Stove Grates, $1.50, etc. Weldit Co., 516 First St. N.W. 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