Evening Star Newspaper, September 21, 1931, Page 24

aws By Peter ‘ess: i lon_ and_ power ' project. He aims to play one against the ot} the strength of the ancient f Nate does not carry on the feud. e helps lay out Rance Kersha and attends to funeral arrangements. lorn Valley buzzes with the news that survivors of the Eden Valley feud have buried the hatchet. INSTALLMENT VIL RRIVED back at the Circle K| headquarters with Lorry Ker- shaw and Miss Lizzie Bach- man, Nate Tichenor, after the f2shion of a rural neighbor, did the chores. He realized that, with , Lorry would have had to do' them. | He ate his dinner in silence, for | both he and Lorry were acutely aware | of the presence of Miss Bachman and | distrusted her. After dinner he kin- | dled a log fire in the living room fire- place. He was a straight, well set-up young man, not overly thick, but mus- cular; he had a little crescent out of his left ear and a faint white scar about three inches long ran across his Jeft temple and disappeared into his heir. His teeth were strong, even, white and well cared for. His nose, thin and high and a fraction too long, tended to spoil what would otherwise have been a handsome face, but lent to him an air of distinction. It was the nose of a thoroughbred, a thinker. His eyebrows, heavy and almost black, were a bit overhanging, thus giving to his glance an ‘expression .of alertness and directness, particularly when he asked one a questioh. Lorry had already observed that he moved with quick, precise motions, like one very sure of himself and in the pink of physical condition. About 8:30 the murse retired; as her bed room door closed behind her Nate Tichenor arose, shoved an old easy chair toward the fire and waved Lorry into it. He remained standing until she had seated herselr. “Too bad your father 'wasn't ‘here when I called this m I might have preserved his life for many years.” Tichenor snapped his fingers. Kisme he murmured. “We thought you were waiting until we got in so deep we couldn’t swim out, then you could smash us®more easily.” “Had I hosen to smash you a long time ago there was nothing to stop me. You were helpless. “Then why didn't you! “I didn’t need knew I could always protect myself. “I could have gotten the ranch at 25 per cent of its value. As a mat- ter of fact, I did plan to buy your mortgage. Surely you do not think I am so careless as not to have kept a close watch on the Kershaws.” i “Your people always wanted all of | Eden Valley, of course. So you planned | to buy the mortgage and foreclose.” “No, I planned to buy it and hold | 4t, because only in that way could I be assured the Kershaws wouldn't be | annoyéd. I planned to give you time to work out of the jam you are ing then, if you couldn’t make the grade, | I planned to buy your outfit, lock, stock | and barrel, at a fair price. Owen w:s dead, your father was a_ cripple and you couldn't operate the business——” “Of ‘course I could operate it,” she, challenged. “And I shall. The cattle business is bound to recover. It's get- every day. Within two will be selling af 10 cents on thé ranch.’ “I do not doubt that. Who is your Ry Sin ;rmm from the “I am. ce e university in 1921 I have -operated this business. I do a man’s . I know cattle and I know my job. I ¢an ride, Tope saddle had to do it. S le | his firm mouth. the mroney - and- I-|- “And you want to keep on doing it?” The. nodded. | “Well, carry on.” L “I cannot unless you buy ‘the ranch i THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1931 PIM!M d;‘im of No. 4 tuc:t.lm afmm: and my gun got small *shell-hole in the road. The teams were new, half-trained and un- used to draft—and the drivers were worse, s0 I had a lot of plunging and —no co-ordinated effort—and { | there we stuck. There was an infantry B. Kyne mortgage to protect me—and yourself, otherwise it will be foreclosed.” “In a few days” he , “go to see Babson and. say that I am “It's & fault I inherited from my father. tiny smile flitted around tried hard to be neighborly to my randfather, but my grandfather was -bolled and me>n and stupid and wouldn’t play the game; as a result he spoiled all subsequent opportunities for his clan. It's my chance now and I have a curious yearning to make good, perticulerly since it will not cost me anything,” he added bluntly, as if ashamed of his chivalry. “I thank you more than I can say. ‘We've been paying the bank in Valley Center 12 per cent on our unsecured loans."” “Well, 12 per cent is legal in this sfate, Miss Kershaw. However, strike Babson for a reduction to 7. Give him an argument. You may win. Babson's probably as hard as a picnic egg. but he may have an unsuspected soft spot.” “I wish I could agree with you, but I find that impossible, Our ranch was mortgaged to a San Francisco bank, &R recently Babson bought it from em—" “Personally. Immediately he called it.” “He has a hen on,” said Nate Tichenor, “and I'll have to find out whether it's a Bantam or a Plymouth Rock. A coward and a potential crook. Money-mad. A schemer. Miss Lorry, he wants the Circle K ranch. When he ascertained from my sttorney that the Bar H was not for sale he decided to acquire the Circle K, so immediately he purchased your mortgage.” “But why has he developed this sud- den ‘interest in Eden Valley?” “I do not know, but I intend to find out. However, he'll never own the Circle K. Whenever you find yourself unable to hang on to it, I'm the right- ful heir to it. Understood?” “Perfectly, You're sure you will not germlt him to crowd me? Sure this n’ J A& generous impulse because you find me in such a sad case today? An impulse you may, with reason, regret next week?” He drew a checkbook from his inner breast pocket, went to her desk and signed a check in blank. “You fill that in for what your father's estate owes Babson and his bank,” he ordered curtly, “and secure me with your promissory note.” She tossed the check in the fire. “What's your interest in me?” she de- manded. “I can understand sympathy and gentlemanly kindness, but not a blank eheck that could be filled in for nearly 32'80.000' Mr. Pyle says: service that N saves and | satistes. G ING RUGS for thosé sSMOVING. The kind “af work that makes’ the rugs look © . like new. Call Mr. Pyle.. .. NAtional 3257:4201.2036 'Rug Cleaning Co. ' 106 Indiana Ave. O utkis o e THE HECHT CO. F Street at Seventh . 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Perhaps Owen did, too, because he commenced to cry silently, and then he came toward me and I com- menced to cry, too. We didn't say anything because there was nothing to say; just leaned against eich other and thumped each other's backs and were quiet about it. Owen walked be- side me up the road a little, his arm through -mine, and finally he said: ‘Nate, maybe my dog tag will beat me back to Eden Valley. But if you take care of yourself you're liable to go back ith both your dog tags, and when you do, call on the old man and Lorry and tell them it's an order from me that you're to stay for din- ner.’” £ 9 he say anything about the ron “Yes, he sald we were to have it and that he’d write home about it as .soon as he got the opportunity. So I told him you'd already promised to let my people have it and that pleased him. And I promised him I'd be a good neighbor and fight as hard for the Kershaws hereafter - as -our -clan had ever fought against them. 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