Copyright by Peter B. Kynd WNU Bervice CHAPTER IV—Continued wn “That's his gringo alias, Mrs. Ganby, The first Higuenes to be heard of in Spaln was called James Michael Hig- gins, But the Spaniards gave it a Spanish twist. With the passage of time James Michael Higgins, the big Mick, developed into Jaime Miguel Higuenes. When did that happen, Don Jaime?" “When the first J. M. married a red- headed Spanish woman who insisted on spelling the name as it was pro- nounced. My ancestor was a good- natured man; having taken on Spain and the Spaniards, he did not object, Anything for the sake of family peace. So the tribe of Higuenes was born, The family migrated to Mexico early in the Nineteenth century, and my great- grandfather married the daughter of an Irishman who owned this rancho. That brought the Celtic strain up a little. My grandfather added to it by marrying a girl who was half Irish, and when he looked at his offspring he was glad he'd done it. He noticed the cross had increased the height, breadth, genera) appearance, industry and temper of the Higuenes tribe. We looked much more like Black Irish than Mexicans now, and were prob- ably, a little more than half Celt. But we had Spanish customs and a Span- ish outlook on life and Spanish was our mother tongue. Also had no reason to be other than proud of our Spanish blood, we never mixed fit with Indian. When we moved to Texas my grandfather fought under the Stars and Bars. He sent my fa. ther to the Virginia Military institute and father married a Carrol of Vir- ginia and begot me.” “You have never been marr nurse asked, “Never.” “Aren't you “I fear not. The coyote chorus on the tate against it, Mrs, “The right girl” sald Mrs. Ganby, “wouldn't mind it in the least. forth and search for her, Don Jaime” “Impossible,” the master of Valle Verde replied lazily, “1 have sheep on my hands “If 1 can credit In Los Algodones, er of those shee them.” Don Jaime “Well, why them, then?” “The foreman, lying and In He's a bad man old Antrim. sheep off my range now, they go? Why, to range, of course, and then trouble and we might lose Bill “So you're putting up with sheep on your range merely this Antrim girl “That's the “Why, Is si friend of yours? “No, I've never met her. But then no Higuenes has ever quarreled with a lady.” “l fail to see how you are going to escape a quarrel with her, Don Jaime, You killed her uncle Don Jaime winced, will believe th we 80 ied?” the going to be? loneliness here—the all mili- buttes— Ganby.” (io the LOSKID i killed p trying to get heard the own rid of you nodded. don't you get rid of Bill charge and a better shot if I get still sheep than those Dingle, is of those deside Ss, where will somebody else's there'd be D ngle™ those because is her uncle's heir.” proposition.” i of vou a ie A “Perhaps she at I had no alternative: that, not until after I had killed him did 1 know he was her uncle In fact, I didn’t know I had killed any- body until Ken rode down the draw and informed me of my luck™ “Well, the fact that you are being 80 excessively nice to her since may mitigate the affair, although one can never predict the attit woman will take, A woman is usually guided by her heart, not her head. Don Jaime.” Don Jaime appraised the old nurse with kindly interest. “1 take it, Mrs. Ganby, that you are old enough to be guided by your head. You told me you are a widow. Have you any chil dren?” “One—a boy of fifteen. He has heen quite crippled since his twelfth birth- day. Infantile paralysis” Don Jaime considered this. *“Sup- pose you had a comfortable home where you could be with your boy al ways—no necessity to hustle hither and yon nursing people? 1 should have a hostess here. For some time 1 have felt that Flavio's wife is too well, elemental, for the job. This hacienda should know a gentlewom- an's management--at nurse's wages. There are always some puppies around here, and the boy could play with them, He could raise rabbits and pigeons, 1 dare say, and if he ean sit a horse I'll stake him to a pretty little Sonora pony and a Mexican youth to look after him. I suppose you could carry on with his schooling—you know, it does get lonesome here sometimes ™ “Oh, Don Jaime! You mean it!" He nodded. “I'd like to be able to invite nice people to visit me, Mrs. Ganby., 1 should like to have my friends from the surrounding country come to dinner oftener, but I'm never satisfied with the appearance of my board, the menu or the service, I have no time to train maids and. house Keepers—and if 1 did I wouldn't know how” ;* “Yes, a man Is very helpless. 1 should be glad to come, Don Jaime” ude a ed Bill" because Valle Verde, In Hackett, Texas, Jaime, unmarried and romantic, owner the event The young ranch Roberta Antrim in get Antrim’'s estate for Crooked Bill who lives with her uncle, receives a telegram Antrim has half Irish, is attracted Tom Antrim killed, On his body known as "Crook- of the Rancho of Glenn William B. Latham, owner death, At the advice Don An- They shoot it out, to notify Miss was killed by Jim Don Jaime, are found Instructions “You are very kind. Ken, you run up to El Paso and get the boy. Mrs. Ganby will arrange that detall with you, Now clear out and let me sleep.” Mrs. Ganby, with tears of happiness in her middle-aged eyes, followed the assistant general manager into the ranch office. “How Jaime?" “A long time. long have you known Don she asked Hobart. Went to the state uni- versity with him. My father and I had a cow outfit down in the Big tend country but we wept broke dur- ing the post-war deflation period. Don Jaime and I enlisted for the World war—and spent two years guarding the border. At that we dodged more lead than some of those who went to France. After bank in on the Hobarts I joined the rangers; now I've left them to work for Don Jaime” “He i8 congenitally magnificent.” Ken Hobart laughed. “Always embers he's muy cal Canby. He does things with ish. It Isn't always done It. the closed re- ymllero, Mrs, a flour pose His people have His father died when he was twenty. fle's twenty-eight now. His mother died giving him birth, go you see he's mar t “Why you raged me, Mr. Hobart? Do you t nk he sus- pected he was doin ful thing for my boy 1 “Yes, I think through a ladder. you, principall wants the Ci ning in civilized luck holds and honor of enterta Antrim and her “She'll not have “Oh, . he that Don and formal.’ “Why 1s he niece of this to kill? “Beca is a ro He saw a ful ture of her | man, and pie his ehildren.’ “Oh, dear, he's pite hope ' fully even w do Suppo can see ie engaged he run 80, hecause te lack use nenes ith but ean and s¢ and thout man photograph beaut] red hale, freckles also be m fia green eyes, ghe may fish frrit ners.” “In that “she just children. Do mn Higuenes tribe earth, but ys them vanish rather than thing fgnoble. Where will IT find this boy of yours?" he demanded, to change the conversation, “I'm starting for El Paso now.” Mrs. Ganhy wrote a note to the peo- ple with whom she boarded her crip- pled son and returned to her pa- tient. “What a charming man your Mr. Hobart 1s, Don Jaime!” she began, “He'll do in a pinch"—laconieally. “He is very devoted to your in terests”™ Don Jaime ath wg: she may be w Hobs ther of event.” sald Ken won't be the me 1 Jain to would pref e doesn't want from er to have breed some igh yal did not answer. His glance was out through the arched gateway, from which the road ran straight down the valley. A mile away a dust-cloud was gathering on that road “Somebody is coming In a hurry,” he murmured. “When they hurry it's always bad news.” A solitary horseman galloped up to the gate, threw himself off and hur. ried up the steps, “Well, my friend? Don Jaime queried in Spanish. “What evil mes. sage do you bring and from whom?” “Thirty riders crossed the Rio Grande at daylight, senor. They are rounding up several hundred of the senor's cattle, It is a raid.” “My thanks are due yon, my friend. They will not get far. Who sent you here?” “The American customs agent at Los Algodones, Don Jaime, He bids you send your riders to head them off before they recross the river with your cattle” “Return and tell him 1 have but forty men available. The others are attending a balle at the Rancho Ver dugo. Forty men will be sufficient, 1 think. Return to the customs agent with my gratitude for his timely warn- ing and tell him my men will start In ten minutes, perhaps less” The man touched his hat, flung him- self on his horse and galloped away. Don Jaime lighted a cigar and smoked contentedly, while Mrs. Ganby watched him with alert curiosity, Presently Ken Hobart, arrayed in his “town” clothes, came to announce his impending departure, “Delay It until tomorrow, Ken," his employer ordered casually, “I have recounted the by his recent visitor. “Take forty men and ride for the river. If this man's tale Is the truth you will have work there. 1 think, however, he lies. Have Caraveo arm the other men available and instruct him to have them remaln In the barns with their horses until I send him word that he Is not going to be needed.” “A plant, eh?" “I've been expecting reprisal, Ken, I told this messenger 1 had but forty men available but would send them im- mediately, Go with them, Then we shall see that which we shall see. 1 smell sheep” Hobart departed to fulfill his orders, and Don Jaime for his siesta, Suddenly he turned to Mrs Flavio to nssist me to enter my house, a job for you.” tale brought And he stretched himself his and “Please tell ” opened eyes Ganby. Valle Have of i “Impossible,” the Master Verde Replied Lazily Sheep on My Hands" he said. "Ti here We shall I think.” south ten, pean stron laid hi casually. *You will bolting that Jaime Presently ing feet on the the iron-barred on the veranda standing about. rap on the dor. “Who's there? Don lenged nm a ringing voice. “Open the door,” a rough voice com- manded. “We want you and we're go- ing to have you" “Ah, so It is my friend Bill Dingle. I have been expecting you, William, ever since you so thoughtfully sent one of your men with a false ery of raiders from below the Border. [I sent forty men, Your lookout in the hills saw them ride out, and when they had passed you decided to come to my hacienda, deserted save for the women and children, and kill me in some un- pleasant manner. Is It not so? There was no answer to this and Don Jaime's mocking laugh floated through the window. “Now, Dingle, my poor fellow, consider the situa- pic ked door, tod 2 came reques the sound of hurry- veranda, and through tiny window that Mra. Ganby saw There came a smart gave men on Jaime chal- “Quien es?" tion. A hundred armed men surround this poor house of mine. Go yon, Friend Dingle, the patio entrance and look.” A murmuring rose arrivals and one to among the recent of them ran to the entrance of the patio. A volley of good old Anglo-Saxon curses echoed through the old-fashioned garden, then the man came running back to join his fellows, “Is seeing belleving, Senor Dingle?” Don Jaime called pleasantly, “You win, Higuenes, “One by one you will go to the en- trance and give up your riding boss, It would be resist. You shall not be presently you shall all ret mean sheep, "” arms to my madness to killed and urn to your sheeps—1 Forward! March!” A moment's hesita voleed colloquy, a the retreat fo menced. A few later Enrico Caraveo, a litt marked Mexlean, thrust a smiling, sardonic face up the grille : ; “1 has he hono o in await his pleas tion, low curse the minutes ie pocl more or two, and entrance com- form Don boss, Mrs with terror, ing rings eat her whit smile Pres TS eves urse x» after I in once n thereir *Don Jaime Hig ed, "afte ore tude on are you ved sud » protested, * ® rolls : to the wide and Harms the » steps and opened he door, “Mr. Latham ago, miss” he must have happened In day, He's worried and down the drawing re ing to himself. I'm a about the master, misa™ “Thank you, Harms, ind.” A foreboding of disaster brought loberta flying into the living room. Crooked Bill sat huddled in a reading chair, his face in his hands, his at titunde reminiscent of profound despair, “Uncle Bill! What's happened?” Crooked Bill's old hands merely clagped his features tighter. He wagged his head and moaned, “I'm through. My brokers sold me out this afternoon. Oh, Bobby, Bobby, what a massacre! 1 stayed as long as 1 dared, but when the last jump came I realized that only a crazy man home fed came an hon "Something the city t Walking wom and (a bit a ate is miss, You're very would continue in this crazy market. One old writer tells us that: *“Cat- tle are struck with such terror at the approach of these insects (flies) that they forsake the pastures and run, fu- rious, In every direction, until exhaust. ed by fatigne they sink down and ex. pire. Even the elephant and rhinoceros, though they cover their thick hides with a coating of mud, are unable to protect themselves from these trou blesome persecutors. Their attacks are not confined to the brute creation; and when they sting a human being, violent tumors are produced, and ev- ery part of the body becomes as if infected with leprosy.” When to this graphic description of the terrors excited by the advent of such flies, are added the further well known facts that in the East, some make their way Into the nose, ears and eyes to breed, others bore into and deposit their eggs In the flesh, where maggots are produced, frequent causes of very painful and often dan. gerous ulcers, we can readily under. stand the awfulness of the plague whereby Almighty God would drive Pharaoh and the Egyptians to do his will, before he should be compelled to inflict greater troubles upon them. Exchange, Silver as Germ Killer Although it was discovered In the eighties that water kept in a silver or copper vessel acquired certain germ. killing properties, it was-only recently that a scientist in Paris found a com mercial adaptation for the phenome. non, Silver chloride mixed with potter's clay and baked at a high temperature is employed as a filtering Medium, says Popular Mechanics Magazine, and it has been found that water passing through such a filter has the property of killing typhoid and other germs, while itself containing no silver, Previous researches had demon strated that, if silver is to sterilize ef. fectively, it must have enormous sur. face, It was therefore converted into minute bubbles, which make It pos sible to kill all germs In 10/09/09 u- ters of water, 1 declined to Invest another dollar— for the reason that 1 didn't have it. | I told my brokers I'd gone the limit and to sell me out. I'm all washed up.” “Must we leave Hillcrest?” Roberta queried In a strangled volce. { “We must,” Crooked Bll replied | heroleally. *1 have enough to pay off | the servants and maintain us in re spectabllity at gome modest hotel until we can look around and see what the future holds for us, but after that—" “After that I'll take yon, dear Uncle Bill." Roberta's voice was tender, the touch of her lovely cheek to Crooked Bill's wrinkled jowls was very soothing that wretched financier. “Sheep are up and so Un Bill Don Prudencio writes that Uncle Tom's two hundred and he has pounds of wool house in Bos. care of to wreck of a is wool, Aly 80 sheep me least thousand as they stand, over a hundred thousand wool In transit to a ton. And good wool is quoted in to- day's pag thi Uncle Tom has a Don Prudencio doesn’t think much of it and says it Is not of ready s¢ bt on In oy are worth at er at rity cents a pound ranch of sorts also, ile, b we can live t sheep business—" “You has you are my boy" eria comes down. gave gone bust in the been ge bhled meet my I'm supposes market—Hillcrest up by my bankers I'm down to a cou In a word, h- Glenn Hackett stared at the old gen. tleman Crooked Bill con. tinued: “I hope 1 do not have to assure you, Glenn. that in so far as Bobhy is con cerned I'm for you all the way” “Thank you very much,” Hackett re. plied. “1 have suspected as nuch for | quite a while” “That girl is mighty to suit tinued, sipping tive pleasure, schema to bring has {to notes, de of thousand dol lars, 1 pops generalls owlishly. too dog-gone high and me,” Crooked Bill his drink with medita- - I've cooked up a her finttering to the | ground. Roberta's the light of my eye | and the apple of my heart, but never theless, ns a reasoning human being I've got to admit she has her draw. backs. She's got to be yanked out of the clouds of romance to earthly prac. ticalities, and in my feeble way I'm attempting to do it. Al of her life I've been busy spoiling Roberta by granting every wish she expressed and a heap she never thought of express. ing. That's bad business, Now, then, here's my plan. 1 came staggering in, playacting all over the place, and moaned aldud that 1 was out of the market, that my brokers had sold me ohit because | didn’t dare stay with the game any longer. Well, as a matter | of fact | am out of the market. My brokers did sell me ont-—but on the right side of the ledger, and as a result ve cleaned up about ten mil tions. I've arranged with a trusted friend to pretend he’s bought Hillerest from the bank to which 1 had given a deed. Well, | did give the bank a deed, as security for more money to play this erazy market, but 1 could afford to. 1 was miles ahead of the hounds—playing on margin. [I've jeased this place for July, August and September--and Roberta is so sorry for me she's going to sell out her Uncle Tom's sheep and wool and take care of me the remainder of my days.” con- sn (TO BE CONTINUED.) Beware the Couth or or Cold that Hangs On Persistent coughs and colds lead to serious trouble, You can stop them now with Creomulsion, an emulsified creosote that is pleasant to take, Creomulsion isa new medical discovery with twofold ae. tion; it soothes and heals the inflamed membranes and inhibits germ growth. 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