Evening Star Newspaper, May 10, 1931, Page 50

; D. 0. MAY 10; 1 PART FOUR. :_____________—_____—__—______._———————J————————-—-—-————— Caprright 1990 by Jumas W. Brosks Historieally Correct Skotches All Rights Reverved By CALVIN FADER ’ % : i z 4 2742 ] ¢ r o F A o B ASHINGTON had arrived at Le Boeuf on the by ZANE GREY /7 Z ~.% Z Z Governor Dinwiddie and two days later, he embarked &7 2 W5 4 -% 4 L. % / & 7z Z apon a perilous return, accompanied by his aides and A R % %7 7 4 A O . ¢the reluctant Half King who was loath to part with SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING get there. . . . Jim, you come with me ; I 2 2 7 8 3 % P INSTALLMENTS. | ™ “Hays, I'm in need of some thing / " ’ ¢ : ; % = French liquors. Utah and bought | says Wall. ¢ Sovealthy Ene | Hays drew out a handful of bills and He"iics 2 hovar experl. | pressed them upon Wall. desporadoes (o Work “Shore. Buy what outfit you need an’ for him. { fehting them. | aon't forget a lot of shells,” replied Tstend 0 e Ao e e Siocre’ | Hays. “If I don't miss my guess we'l man, bitter enemics. Hays meets a |have a smoky Summer. Haw! Haw! Toue Telow Whe"wys mi it s i | Here's the store. | . o i - = tome Stoubie” i Wyomins. Hads télls | A bright young feller, who looked to | GAT biting winds and snow, accompanied by Half OUR days later and very tired, e be the son of the proprietor, took charge e - King, White Thunder and two other chiefs, Washington delivered his message from Govern- oz [ " of Wa v saddls ket was L - . . y " o sme N . L et Btee atier which e : and his staff rode into Venango on December 4,1753. Here he was || or Dinwiddie to French officers at Fort PSSP NP PR | bought horseshoes and nails, a hammer | / entertained at supper and afterward set down in his diary that he Le Boeuf. He was made welcome by Le "'"'ln | ,,mlm? i 3 " | and file, articles he had long needed, | / s z 4 . % I Bik of whidhi had made Bay| 3 e had never had better cause {o hc.fl\nnk‘ul for his sobriety. W:.ne Guardier de St. Pierre, the commandant, lame. After that he selected a com-| |~ = and brandy loosened French tongues as to their intention to seize who desiced to be remembered to Lord d bl y Hadileng OHIER oL eSS apparel, 4 | z = and hold the country. Fairf ki he had k a2 . . gnd » gambler known as Stud, who hat |new tarpaulin, a blanket, & rope, and 3 ‘airfax whom he had known in Paris. 1 aeenes him of cheating, Wall preaks ia | Wound up with a goodly supply of shells | & up | for his .45 revolver. Likewise he got Optem o ihe Gtk | some boxes of .44 rifie shells. | | | Half an hour later th= four men, driv- tled down. One by one they sought | Washington Reserve officers of the will be relleved of this duty on October | mailed to the respective sapproving su- five packed horses and two Un-'ipeir beds, and Wall was the last. | Mlll{-{;'dmral‘llence Department will 2o‘d1‘flzx:‘ksecond L::!. L. Boyd Tall- | thorities s0 as to reach them not iater imee sday evening. | madge, Corps Reserve, 1810 Con- | than May 15. , rode off behind the town across | = a4 s t ard the west. Coming to & awn foun; em up and doing. Finance Reserve officers of the Dis- | necticut avenue, will be relieved from it e A TUD'S lJean, Jittle hands Toad, Hays led on that for & mile or | Wall fetched in some of the horses, | trict will meet Thursday evening at the | extended active duty with the Alr ” lifted quiver s0, and then branched off on & seldom- | Lincoln the others. By sunrise they |Army Finance School, Temporary | Corps on June 30. th“"fig},"",‘{’fn‘;”";‘h““‘; e “Don't draw!" used trail. | were on the trail, which about mid- | | Bullding No. 5, C street between| Ten Reserve quartermasters will be- (147 a o is slightly worn “The man doesn’t live 1| Toward sunset they drew down to the | afternoon led down through high gravel : | Twentieth and Twenty-first streets. | gin on June 1, in the office of the Slothe® accessories to charity every sit at a table and beat me to a N a vast swale, where the green | banks to a wide stream bed, dry ex- | ‘Ten Reserve officers began last week, | ters, at which Maj. P. X. English, C.|This conference will be conducted by | Quartermmster General of the Army, 14 | Y¢AT: S Nl T - o fhtensified. and the eye of the range | cept in the middle of the sandy waste, | in the office of the Assistant Secretary |W. 'S, will discuss chemical warfare | First Lieut. H. M. Snyder, Finance Re- days' active duty training. They are R D fell—you say” panted Stud. But Tider could see the influence of water. | “This here's the Muddy,” announced | of War, 14 days' active duty training | supply problems. | serve, who wiil discuss accounting. | Lieut. Cols. Edward J. Brady, Lee H. ANSWER TO YESTERDAY'S PUZZLE (hat Finging taunt had cut the force of | Hays halted for camp at a swampy Hays for Jim's beneft. “Bad enough |in connection with procurement activi-) Ma. LaR. L. Stuart, C. A. C., will . | Landis, Frank 8. Long; Majs. Daniel | crrpmr his purpose. 3 plot where water oozed out and | when the water's up. But nothin’ to | ties. The Reservists taking this train- | conduct the Coast Artillery conference Officers assigned to the 320th In- | N. Casey, Carl A. Loeb, Joseph S.| ARTEC! You've got a gun in each inside vest 8' was thick enough to hold the|the Dirty Devil. Nothin' at a ing are Lieut. Cols. Willlam A. Crede, | Tuesday evening, at which will be | fantry, 313th Field Artillery, 343d En- Crane, James D. Turnham; Capts. | (Al Al pocket,” said Wall, contemptuously. horses. 2 “What's the Dirty Devil asked Quartermaster Rese: William F. | taken up mobilization plans and Sum- | gineers and the 364th Medical Regi- | Herbert A. Blogg and John A. Lindner, N ‘The gambler let his hands relax and Ah! Good to be out again, boys.” | Jim. Long, Air Reserve: Arthur H. Richard- | mer active .duty training. This con- ments, all Washington Reserve regi- | and First Lieut. Lloyd N. Tatem. | slide off the table. said Hays, heartily, “Throw saddles an’ |~ “It's & river an' it's well named, son., Specialist Reserve; Kendall Ban- | ference will be held at Reserve head- | mental organizations, who contemplate | Stud shuffied to his feet, malignant | Packs. ‘Turn ti loose. Happy. | you can gemble on that. We'l cross | ning. Signal Reserve, and John P, Frey, | quariers. On this same evening Air |active duty training with their organi- and beaten for the moment you're el cook. Rest of us rustle | it tomorrow some time.” ¥ialist Reserve. The majors taking | Corps Reservists of the District will |zations this Summer, are urged to sub- | Chemical Warfare Reserve officers of “Ha gy en.” he said, Somethin 4 Next camp was on higher ground | this training are Jay H. Dreibelbls, | hold their conference in Room 2055-57 mit their applications for training with- | the District will undergo their active gruffly. “But Il our pa Jim rambled far afield to collect an above the Mudd Here Hays and | Specialist Reserve: Charles T. Harding, | (Air Corps projection room), Munitions | out delay. Selections of officers for | duty training this Summer at Edge- some other time P armload of cead stalks of cactus, grease- | Lincoln renewed thelr argument sbout |Quartermaster Reserve; Walter D.|Building, Twentleth and B stree(s | training are now under consideration at | ¥ood Arsenal, Md., from August 2 to showdown."” wood. sunflower; and dusk was mantling the Herrick ranc 2 v Koch, Ordnance Reserve; Charles E. northwest. This conference will be|local Reserve headquarters, and recom- | 15. Applications from branch mlm-‘ “Shore, Stud. No hard feelin’s on my desert when he got back to camp, | what Wall had divined—this Brad Lin- | Walsh, Engineer Ressrve. and Capt. | conducted by Capt. W. E. Farthing, A.C. | mendations will be forwarded to 3d | ment group Reserve officers should be | side,” drawled Hays. K whistling about a Httl* | coln was shrewd, coid, doubtful and Horace T. Herrick, Chemical Warfare |Who will discuss recent laws and regu- | Corps Area headquarters, at Baltimore, | Made to the Chief of Chemical War- | ‘The little gambler $talked to the bar, 2 inelt bafore a pan of dough, | aggressive, Hays was not distinguished | Reserve. Jations affecting the Organized Re- on or about May 10, |fare Service through the corps area | SRk And Jett' the saloon, which he was kneading; Lincoln was| for any cleverness. He was merely an = serves. Preceding the Air Corps meet- | insll | chemical officer, while those Chemical | Hank Hays turned round. mp chore unserupulous robber. These men were | Due to the fact that thelr respective |ing a dinner will be held at the Army | Lieut. Col. Arthur C. Turner, Military | Warfare Reservists who have procure- “im. thet feller did have two guns| “Wal. I don't like store bread.” Hays | going to clash. That was inevitable, | Citizens' Military Training Camp quola | and Navy Club at 6:30 pm. Officers | Intelligence Reserve, of the District, be- ment assignments should forward their inside his vest, I mever saw them. till | Was saving. “Give me sour-dough bis- | Jim calculated. for the 1931 camps have been filled, ! desiring to attend this dinner should |gan last week his six months' active applications to the executive officer of it away. He—would have Cuits. . . . How about you, Jim?" Eatly the next day Jim Wall had | C. M. T. C. procurement sctivities for notify Capt. Leroy J. McCarty, Air Re- | duty as an additional member of the | the procurement district in which they | Me too. And I'd like some cake |Teason to be curifous about the Dirty | the District of Columbia and the four | serve, phone District 94 ‘War Department General Staff. He 'resid The applications should be “I think he would. Hays" returned replied Jim, dropping his load. *" | Devil River, for the descent into the [nearby countles in Virginia has been “You were sitting bad for ac-| “Cake! Wal, listen to our new | defiles of desert to reach it was a |discontinued. These four counties are hand. Jack, you bake cake?” most remarkable one. The trail, now | Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun and Prince \ght you are, Jim, and I'm much| “Sure. We got flour an' sugar an’ |ODly a few dim old hoof tracks, wound (Willlam. The procurement activities in to you. I'd like to know some- milk. Did you fetch some eggs?” | tortuously down and down into deep |the four Maryland counties, comprising 4 | ““Haw! Haw! . .. That reminds canyons. | Montgomery, Prince Georges, St. Marys ‘What's that?” me, though. We'll get eggs over at| The tracks Hays was following falled |and Charles Counties, will be discon- “Did you bluff him?” Star Ranch, None of yoii ever seen |angd he got lost in a labyrinthine maze | tinued on and after today. “Hardly. I had him figured. It was such a ranch. Why, feilers, Herricl of deep washes impossible to climb and = & pretty good bet he wouldn't try to bought every durn’ hoss, burro, cow, |seemingly impossible to escape from. Cavalty Reserve officers of the Dis- draw. But if he had made & move——" | stecr, chicken in the whole country.” Lincoln got off his horse and went | trict will meet at the Fort Myer riding hus. Tt'd beem all day with him| “So you said before.” returned Lin- |down the canyon, evidently searching |hall today at 9:13 am. for instruction . . . This gambler Stud has a ‘name > “Tm sure curious to see this | for & place to ciimb up to the rim in equitation under the direction of out here for bein’ swift on the draw. Englis Must have more money above. He returned in an assertive [Mai. E. W. Taulbee, Cavalry. 2 Reserve quartermasters of Washing- He's killed—" 2 ins.’ manner and, mounting, called for the A “Bah!” cut in Wall, good-humoredly “He i any sense, But, others to follow. ton will hold their instructional confer- v handle guns don't p Lordy. money he's spent!” | "I hear the river an’ I'm makin’ for | ence tomorrow evening in Room 701 vay. Jim sat down t> rest and listen. it,” said Lincoin. Waslker-Johnson Building, 1734 New York avenue, at which Maj. W. R. Presently they bade Red good night ar deal—a rich Englishman | Jim heard a faint, low murmur, which K us to run his outfit,” |had puzzied him and which he had not | White, Q. M. C., will discuss & solution They il followed Lincoln, |of & map problem. This meeting will ‘Where you sle:pin’?” asked Ha e incoln, in & puzzled tone. |recognized. eft my pack in the stall out on't understand it.” Eventually he led them into a narrow, |be the last regular class night of the with my horse. What do we do tomor-| _“Wal, who does? I can't thets high-walled canyon where ran the 193031 scason. In_sddition to tne 1 @ . 2 3 roin | Dirty Devil. The water was muddy, but | problem, details concerning the s g o il o o P e i to be given the latter part of May will was thinkin' of that. We'll to be € rich pr ot w .t | 88 it was shallow the riders forded it a the dust of Green Ri\ I re about kil each ]u‘.l:lr':"' thet well Jest | 0 1 out more mishap than a wetting. | be announced. Chemical Warfare Re- morrow we'd bett-r stock up on every- ore tr n fun in thet. Hank, | Still they were lost. There was noth- | serve officers of Washington will meet thin’ an’ hit the trail for the Henvys." | old boy ¢ "t you forget it re- | Ing to do, however, but work up a side | this same evening at local headquar- “Suits me,” replisd Wall, joined . “How d» you aim to canyon. Hays led them to a camp site - - . ——— n e “Wal, th night. Br gt ric that never could have been expected | here early,” c 1ded Hays, “Shore, I've mo idee. ‘Thet'll all there. camp down to where the canyon opened A ged sunrise greeted Wall upon his | come. I've got the step on Heeseman | “Fellers, Tl bet you somethin'” he upon & nothingness of space and black- awakening. When, a little later, he an’ his pards.” sald before dismounting. “There's & [ness and depth. The hour hung sus- presented himself at the back of Red's| “Hell be aimin' at precisely the |roost down in thet country where never pended between dusk and night. He » in Gawd's world could anybody find | felt sn overpowering sense of the im- ) house for breakfast he was to find Huys, ' sal deal us you. Happy Jack and Brad Lincoln ahead of | “Skore. We'll have to kill Heeseman | | mensity of the region of mountain, him. an' Pregar, socner or later. I'd ltke | “Ha! An’ when they did it'd be only | gorge, plain and butte. ‘They had breakfast. “Brad u fetch | it sooner.” our bleached bones.” scoffed Lincoln. | While Jim meditated there in the your pack hosces round back,” ordered “I don't llke the deal” concluded There never had been any love lost | gathering darkness he was visited by the leader, when they got outside. In, foreibly. between these two men, Jim conjec- an inexplicable reluctance to go on with | n “Happy, you got yoursell o hoss. Then ently they sat to their meal and | tured. | this adventure. ¥ 4 store quick as you can | ate almost in silence. Darkness set- | After supper Jim strolled away from (To be Continued.) 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