New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 12, 1923, Page 10

" COPYRIGHT 1923 BY NE A SERVICE: INC CHAPTER 1. Bodine Buys a Ranch The scorching rays of the no sin beat down upon the descrt, Across the waste two tiny specks moved, Save for them all life seemed dead, Hoth horses and men were gray with dust, The men's throats were bricky v; and yet the | taller of the two hummed song. | Ahead of them green trees beckoned. | Abruptly they hegan climbing the | beneh lands, The country of the! Litle Washoe burst upon them. | Paradise Valley spread out in a gi- gantic horseshoe., A range, the Santa Itosas, banked three sides of it, the never-failing willows marking where Rebel Creek came tumbling out of the ! hills at the apex of the horscshoe. | Tired and thirsty as he was, the tall man stopped for a brief second to! appraise that wonderful valley. “Ain't that a sweet country. " he murmured to the short, bandy-legged man, hard of faee and| slow of speech, who rode beside him. | Shorty's answer was a grunt. He glanced with ace of annoyance | at the suave, whimsical Buck, The grass was good in the buttes. They eamped there, Ior two nights| they had watched the twinkling lights | which marked the little town of Paradise. The lure was insistent, and on the third evening th rode into the town and to Benavides' bar, - Buck and Shorty edged to the bar and waited, One- d Manuel, the Mexican bartender, was busy else- shere, The delay irked Rodine. Catching the butt of his glowing cigarette between thumb and fore- finger, he shot it straight as a bullet into Manuel's face. | Manuel’s hand trembled as he set out the glasses for the two strangcrsw e smiled evilly. The ineident had passed quite un- noticed hy the crowd. Wash Taylor, a ragged old mule-skinner, had been | one of the very few to ohserve it. He laughed immoderately. When Buck bade him drink, he acquiesced with alacrity. ; Bedine drew from the old skinner the complete history of the valley. “I'm sort of lookin' round for a place,” *Buck = was '~ saying. “If 1 could find a small ranch hereabouts at the right price, I might be inter- ested.” 1 | “The only place for sale in l)||s! hull valley is the old Webster ranch. | No water there at all now. Used to be plenty in the old days.” Wash drained his gias “Used to be some place then.| Hank owned due west from where Rebel Creek forked into the Webster. He had all the water. A (‘In\)rlh\lrf!‘ changed that in one night. ~ When it was all over, Hank found the mouth of the Webster dammed up like a mason had done the job. Rebel | Creek has been some stream cver) since.'” “What happencd to Hank?” Buck demanded. “Oh, Hank gave up the ship. He's| runnin’ a store down in Golconda, ac-| cordin’ to last reports.” | Shorty and Buck came down from | the hills and camped at the deserted | ranch. . On the morning of the second day Buck called Shorty to his side. “I'm going into Winnemueca and | havea look at the county records 1t old Webster made a filing on hi water rights, I'm going to buy him out. If I go to Golcenda to see Web. ster, T may be gone a week. You wait a week. If 1 don't come back | by then, you find Gloomy and go over to the Malheur Lake country.” Five days later Bodine returned. Jehind him lumbered a freighter,| Eringing the tools and necessaries of | life. Shorty shook his head. No | need to ask; Bodine had donc as h's;‘ had said he would. | CHAPTER 11 | Acklin Buys a Ranch | In a thinly settled country, where every man's movements are marked, | rews spreads quickly. People talked and wondered about Bodine. ¢ Of all those who watched and won- dered, no one was more interested | than Dick Acklin, the Big Boss of the Double A. He had been quite con-| tent to see old man Webster go. Ior ten years the Double A had taken both its own and his share of water from Rebel Creek. ! He stood it as long as he could; and then, instead of bearding Bodine, he rode to the Rancho Buena Vista to see the Senor Arrascada. Jose | was the most powerful of the Basque gente. h-day wada Sloan's is rapidly mak- ing widespread suffer- ing from rheumatisma thing of the past. Mil- lions can testify to the grateful relief it brings. The moment you feel the first twinge of pain—apply Sloan's. Its tingling, pene- trating warmth gives instant comfort. Before you realize in disappears. “‘#ypltl—n‘yw find many _everyday uses for Sloan's, oans Liniment-ills pain/ o ARRY SINFLAIR DRAGO AND JOIEPH NOEL The quiet, half-darkened house was A reeLiNG OF SECURITY You naturally feel secure when you know that the medicine you are about to take is absolutely pure and con. tains no harmful or habit producing drugs, x Such a medigine is Dr, Kilmer's Swamp-Root, kidney, liver and blad- der medicine, The same standard of purity, strength and excellence is maintained in every bottle of Swamp-Root, It is scientifically compoundea from vegetable herb: it, “You and 1 can get every inch of water there ia in this creck. And we'll make the law help us, I'll get the water T need, and you'll get enough to irrigaté the entire upper end of the valley, Now, if you're willing to talk turkey, you come to my place in the morning. Think it over, . No néed telling you what I've got on my mind, if you're not inter- ented, I'm going to leave you here, . Adlos,"” Acklin rode on When he reached the Bull's Head he retired to the little room that served him as an office, a relief to Acklin after the noise and glare of the Bull's Head, Jose led him to the patio, where cool zephyrs seemed eternally playing. The old man clapped his hands, and the wrinkled, leathery Mariano, his mozo, or house-bhoy, came on the run, Jose sent him for refreshments, ‘By the way,"” and Acklin's big, blue eyes contracted until they seemed to shade to gray, “have you seen the fellow who bought the old Webster pla eral times, He's here today, down at the corral. Estaben and the vaqueros are breaking horses." A little tot of six, unnoticed by them as they talked, had felt his way upon the veranda, He was a beauti- SHE FELT HIS FINGERS PRESS- ING HER OWN. 1IN A FLASH SHE JERKED HER HAND AWAY. ful child. made a mute. appeal foe. Tor close to five years, Jose had been both father and mother to the little blind Basilio. From the fence at the end of the patio, a magpie scolded in raucous tones. Basilo knew that - particular magpie. In & flash he slid off the steps and ran down the graveled walk of the patio. When he had almost reached the fastness of the vine-covered fence, a His brown, staring eyes to friend and black head bobbed up beyond it, and | calling again, dashed up a side-path of the garden, with the boy in keen pursuit. It was the Senorita Mer- cedes. In answer to her father's call she came up the steps truculently, the {boy hanging on to the ribbons of her | dress. The old Basque caught up Basillo and said goodby to his guest, plead- ing the need of his presence where, Jose knew that extreme youth and old age are not hand- maidens to love, Acklin held up a small package. He waved it in front of her eyes, as cne does with a toy for a child. Mer- | cedes clapped her hands joyfully. “You like me so much, mister?” she said. “You know I do. This littie pres- en came all the way from the city"” “City” in that country meant San I'rancisco. else- | and smoked many pipefuls as he pondered over the astuteness of Mr, Bodine, In the clean blue and white morn- ing Acklin rode to Webster, Creek. “All right, Acklin,” Bodine ‘an- swered In reply to the other's ques- tion, “I'll put my cards on the table, Here they are, I'm going to turn that: waterback into the Webster! I've been over the spot where the creeks used to fork a hundred times, Nature changed that water in one night. I'll do it quicker than that, There is nothing but sand and small rock there, Two days after it I8 done, no man on earth can prove that old lady Nature didn't twist it for the second time, My boys will he heré in a day or so, they'll do this job, They won't talk either. T'll tip you off the night I intend to do it. You be there, or send your foreman, Just so Tl know I don't stand alone” Bodine bent over and picked up a gtick . With it he drew In the sand at his feet a rough map of the valley, “It's almost due east from here to the old forks of these creeks. But right there, just as Webster Creck neared the other one, it turned north. For almost half a mile they paralleled each other before they met. Your line follows this creek across the val- ley, only it keeps straight on right into those foothills. That means that Webster ' Creek flowed through your | property for that half-mile. That's \rlgh!, ain't 1t?" It is not a stimulant and is'taken in teaspoonful doses, Itis not recommended for every- thing, It is nature's great helper in reliev. ing and overcoming kidney, liver and bladder troubles, \ A sworn statement of purity {s with every bottle of Dr, Kilmer's Swamp- Root, If you need a medicine, you shounid have the best. On dale at all drug stores in bottles of two sizes, medium and large. However, if you wish first to try this great preparation send ten cents to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y., for a sample bottle. When writ ing be sure and mention this paper dine lounged against a pillar at the end of the veranda “I sure didn't know I was intruding on any party, Senorita. T just came up to say goodby. I broke that bad gray for Esteban. That cagallo’ll he | gentle enough for you to ride now." Acklyn got,to his feet. “Well, 1 guess I'll get my hat and run along,” he said, in that tfred way which was common with him. “Which way you going?" asked. “Back to the Bull's Head." “T'Il side you as far as the Web- ster, if you have no objection.” “No harm in that,” Acklin swered. “Come along.” CHAPTER III. Two Schemers Meéet. Buck was the first to break silence. “These foreigners seem to be |damned prosperous around here, don't they? From your nest at the Bull's Head, these ranches down here must look pretty sweet. What a place this valley would be to fatten cattle in. And to think that you could have had it for a’song.” Bodine clucked his tongue at pity of it. “Well 2" Acklin’s patience was running out. “Those Basques have got the wa- |ter that belongs to me by rights. {You know that, Acklin.” “Why don’t you go after it, then?" “I'm going after it. ~ Don’t let that {worry you. And if you are half MI ——— e e No remedy can cure all aii- ments of the hu- man body, but y an immense . number of ple suffer from aches, pains and dis- ' easesymptoms when their real trouble is lack of iron in the blood. It is the iron in your blood that enables you to get the nourishment out of your food. Without iron your food na:;éy passes you - x::f{ohumwm:m the out of it r’b"u ilmn- 3odine (i (Continued in Our Next Issue) e e e l VOICES IN THE AIR KDKA (Westinghouse—East Pittsburgh). the 6:00—Organ recital from the Cameo Motion Picture theater, Pittsburgh, Pa., Howard R. Webb, at “The Giant Wurlitzer."” 7:00—Current Events. 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