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About The Times-herald. (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929 | View Entire Issue (April 19, 1919)
1 snumm. 3 n ZMVMSWiJ) wl Pi 'WJUirsiv Cv .. SYNOPSIS. CHAPTER I-K. C. Ttlrknnl. nn onjtl netr of the Overland Pacific, Is culled to tho ofll'-e of rresliloiit. Murshn.il in Tur on, Ariz. "Casey" Is mi enigma to IBS offleo force; he wears "ilinlc" cloth, but ho hud resigned a clinlr of engineer ing In tho East to go on the rnnd us it flretnnn und his promotion had been mihv taeular. While milting for Marshall Klck ard re.ids n import on the ruvuges of the Colorado despite the efforts of Thomas llnrdin of lli" Deserl Itei laouttton 0OID- party. This Hardin had be. n student under Rlokard and bud married (l.ity Holmes, with whom Kb Kurd had fancied he was In luve. CHAPTKR IT- Marshall t Dl Ttlrkard the Overland Pacific has got to step In to save the Tmporlul Vnllev and sends him to the break. Rlcknrd declines be cause ho does not want to supplant Har din, but Is won over, "fltop the river; damn the expense," says Marshall. CHAPTER IIT-R.lck.in! tourneys to Cnlexlro. sees the irrigated desert and icacn much aboul Hardin and hw work. CHAT'TETt IV-At the hotel he meats Mr. nnil Mrs. Hardin and Innea Hardin. Hardin's half sifter. Disappointed In her husband and an Incorrigible coquette. Mrs. Hardin sets her cap for her former lover and Invites him to dinner. CHAPTER V-Rlcknrd visits the com pany's offices and takes control. He finds the engineers loyal to Hardin and hos tile to him. Estrada, a Mexican, son of the "Father of the Imperial Valley," tells him of the general situation. CHAPTER VI-Rlckard attends a meeting of the directors and asserts his authority. Hardin rages. Estrada tells Hickard of his foreboding that his work will fall. "I can't see It finished. " The working force was Informally discussed. Hardin MM they could de pend on hobo labor. Itirkuni ograifi that they would Hud such help, but It would not do to rely on It. The lil sewer system of New Orlenns whs about completed ; lie h.nl planned to write there, staling tho need. And there was u man In Zncntecns, named l'orler "Frank Porter?" eneered Hardin, "that murderer V" "His brother," Rlckard answered pleasantly. "Jim furnishes the men for the big mines In Nonora and Sina loa. He'll send us all the labor we want, the best for our purpose. When It gets red-hot, there's no one like a peon or an Indian. "You'll be Infringing on the Interna tional contract law," suggested Mae Lean. "No. The camp Is on the Mexican ide," laogbed Casey. "I'd thought f that. We'll have them shipped to the nearest Mexican point, and then brought to the border, Mr. Estrada -Will help us." The meeting had already adjourned. They were standing around the flat top desk. Estrada Invited tben ad t lunch with liim. In the ear on tin- sid ing. MacLean said thai be had to get hack to Lot Angeles. Mr. Babcoch was going to lake lilin out to Grant's Beading In the machine. He bad nev er in en there. They bad breakfasted late. He looki d very ranch the colonel to Rlcknrd, iiN fall chesl and stilt car riage made mere military by his trim uniform "f kbakl-colored cloth. "May I speak to you shoot your boy, Mr. MacLean?" Hardin caught a s I i ' 1 1 1 Hint was net Intended. He pushed iim the group at the door without civility or cere mony. The ateady grave eyes of tin' big frame looked si Rlckard Inquiringly. "He wants i" atay out another ye ir. I hope you v. in lei him. It'a not disin terested, i shall have to take a stenog rapher to the Heading this summer. There Is a girl lure; 1 couldn't take her, and th a, too, I'm old-fashioned ; I don't like women in offices, .My posi tion prom! lea to be a peculiar one. I'd like to have your son lo rely on lor emergent les etenograpber could not cover." MacLeon'a grave features relaxed as lie looked down nil Hie engineer, w ho was no email man himself, and sug gesiod thai Ids son WOS not very well up In stenography. "Thai's (be least of It." "1 hope thai he will make a good Stenographer I Oood morning, gentle men." At table, neither Kstrndn nor Ms guest uncovered their aelive though) which revolved around Hnriiln and his hurt. Instead, Itieknrd had questions to ask his host on river history. As they talked, It came fo him that some thing was amlSS Betrada was ac curate; be had all his fads. Was if enthusiasm, sympathy, he linked? pres ently be challenged him with It. Kstrada's eyes dreamed ouf of the window, followed the gorge of Hie New river, as though out there, somewhere. Hie answer hovered. "Do you mean, do you doubl It?" ex claimed Hickard, watching n,e melan choly in the beautiful eyes. Kstniilu shook Ills head, liul without decision. "Nothing you'd nol lottgh at J i. in laogh hi it myself, sometimes." Rlckard waited, nol sure thai any thing more was coming. 'Hie .Mexi can's dark eyes wen- troubled : a pussle brooded In them, "lis a purely nega tive sense tbul I've had, since i was a child. Something falls between BJM and a plan. If 1 said It was a veil, It levuld be something !" Ills voice fell If EDNAH AIKEN mceoaocsiavzu. conwy to n ghost of tunofulnoKs. "And It nothing. A blank I know then not going to happen. It Is terribly Unull It's happened, often, Now, x wait for that -veil. When II falls, I know what il means, ' "And you hare hud that nhoui this river bnetnesaf Ivlrnila turned his pensive gate on the a i lei it. "Yes. often. thou after Father's death, thai Unit was whal it meant Bui it came again, it kept coming. had It while you Were all talking. Just now. I don't speak of this, n sounds chicken-hearted, And I'm in tills with all my soul my fa ther I couldn't do It any Other wuy, but" "You think WO are going to fall?" "1 can't see It finished," was Kstra da's mournful answer, lie turned again to slare out of the window. "Who are the river men In the i,l IcyV" demanded the newcomer. "I want to meet them, to talk to them." "Cor'nel, he's nn Indian. He's worth talking to. He knows Its history. Its legends. Perhaps some of It Is his tory.'' "Where's he to be found?" "You'll run Stipes him ! Whenever nnything's up, ha Is on hand. He senses It. And then there's Matt Hamlin." "I'll see him, of course. Hiis he hot n up the river?" "No, but I'll tell you two who have. Maldonado, a half-breed, who lives some twenty miles down the river from Hamlin's. He knows the Clia as though be were pure Indian. The fiiia's tricky! Maidonados grandfa ther was a trapper, his grent-erandfa-tber, they say, u priest. The women were all Indian. He's smart. Smart und bad." Kstrada's Japanese servant came back Into the ear to offer teu, freshlv bed. "That's what 1 want, smart river men, not tea !" laughed Itieknrd. "I want river history." "There's another man you ought to meet. Be was with the Second I'owell expedition. He's written the best book on the river. He knows It, If any man dues. v,,u untiled these maps." Ks traila wns gathering them together. "Thank you. Ami you can Just strangle that foreboding of yours, Mr. Estrada, For I tell you, we're going to govern that river!" Estrada's pensive smile followed the dancing step of the engineer until It Carried Mm OUl Of sight. Perhaps? Because be was (he son of his father, he must work as bard 03 If conviction Went With him, as if success awaited at the oilier end of the long road. But ii ".is not going to in', lie would never see that river shackled Tic Windstorm the previous wee', had made a sickening devastation ol her labors. The morning glories statu were scatheless, a pink olenndei (hooped many broken branohea fron Which miracles of perfect ttOWOTI were unfolding. The preltlesl blossom t Hardin was the gardener herself. Slu was vlx til from eager toll. Ilnrdlp looked nt her approbatlvely. He liked her khaki suit, simple as a uniform wllh Its flowing black He and lenlfiei In II. She looked more like herself In day. She bail hleachetl out, In Tucson She had been letting herself gel tin tanned, running around without huts I Sunburn paled the value of thosr splendid eyes of hers. He could Blwoyi . tease her by likening them to topazes. i Ills ey. s ran over the pink and pur i pie lines of cord-trained vines which made Moral screens for her lent, r re. Of the StTlbgS everlie: l, they rloiec over the rauadUi the i cond roof, ol living boughs, lie mi.ii wledged iheti beauty. They cave grtu-e to bare Be resalty ; they denii rt the panting I hi n ty do- ri i I be ml. lie rem I I d hi. own rainniVi i. 'i it, hint complaint d ol It SO I v, !;on slie onuie Ixiiim iron N' w orft thai in- had bad n . II V Mint d pin boni ;loi Ii uly. Oi rtj A ?,., 'n fMtfv '1 CHAPTER VII. A C.lrden in Desert. His dwelling lea I Into sight - Iliuiiin turrtedthe corner of the street. There was but one street running through the twin I mm flanked bj the ditches ni running water. The reel Were ditches Of running water edged by footpaths, Scowling, be passed un der the ". rhi in us bird esses of the Desert hotel without a greeting for the loungers, whose chairs were drawn up against the shade or the brick wails. The momentum slackened as Hardin neared the place be called his home. An inner tenderness diluted the sneer thai disfigured bis face. He could sea limes as she moved around In Ihe lit- tie fenced In ship thai surrounded her i deserl tent She insisted on calling ii a garden, In spite of bis raillery. "'lert.v's in bed, I suppose," thOUghl Tom. He had a sudden vivid picture i oi iii r accusing martyrdom. Ills mouth hardened again, lanes, stooping over a rose, passed out of bis vision. ii cams to Hardin suddenly thai man has made a circle of failure when he dreads going to bis office and shrinks from the reproaches at home. "A 'has-been' at forty!" he mused. Where were all his ships drifting? lanes, stroigbtaaing, waved a guy band. "She's raising a goodly crop of bar rels." ills thought mocked and ca ressed her. Her garden devotion was a I, nder Joke with him. He loved the Hardin trait in her, the persistence which will not be daunted. An oeenjaV 1 Hon with a Hardin was a dedication. lie would not acknowledge the nnoa blood in her. I.Ike lti.it fniii'i'mollicr of in r v tones wus a Hardin through ami through ! "ll's in Hie blood," ran his thought. "Bbe cant help It. All the llardins work thai way. The Hnrdnis always uiaku fools of them nn' . tin i . her eyes from u erlp- 1 1' d i aw that the black di sei'u ion cluing him again. "Vill yon look ut thU wreck 1" uue cried. Itlstieil r 1 w -is , . M ; i In III lo!l " felt tl I She lived I : ilIW house I ' '. till l .illntis bav mails , thel-e s no ,; ,,ly roll-..', Il'.lll't lie had urged i Iml the desi Iwellen bad valuable It its fn rtve in. Bui what Im, "i-: nythlny lei I Hardin turm to leave, She did 001 want him I' ' PI 'ell She ; lilted ; a new vine tn him i She had bn , lit It ftl . i '. Ill "i ; I "Kudtu." ii) v colled It ; a Jaanesi Ami ii, i-e was another ' ro ". quite in "iid the help of i irlpped hundk : hieis and i a quit i He followed her areumi ilia tent, her prottli I lag from Ids grim llMWtl, Hi was i log of her Me. i except as a ; . , V'e der r4 sfor'n Imd i mile a havoc ol h:s gai'eii a Ix ! 'i of hla ttfu. He und Innes . d been trying to make a r di Ii OUl Of U 'b ' rl ; like desert I nl Booted m m. It .i : not ids fault. Something had happened; som Uiliifl quite ! Mind his power. Link was turning agalnsl him. inmr-. why, she was playing as with a toy. It was tin natural instinct of u WOttOn to make things prelty arounil her. But he had sacrificed his youth, his chaiice. His domestic life, too he should never have carried a dainty little woman like (Jerly Into the des ert. He had never reproached her foi leaving him, even lust time when In thought it was for good. The word bullied his wound. Whose ROOdt His or Getty's 1 Somehow, though the wrangled, he always knew it would turn out all right; life would run Smoothly when they left the desert. Pnl thing-: wire getting WOTSej hi mouth puckered over some ret ' tlons. Yet he loved tierly ; he couldn't ! picture life without her. He decided ; that It wus because there hud urn r i been anyone else. Mosi fellows bad ! bad sweethearts before they married ; I he bad not. nor a mistress when she ! left him, though (nil knows, ,i would j have been easy enough. His mouth fell Into sardonic lines. Those hail i br I women ! No one, even when a , divorce had hr.ng over him. Oh, he j knew what their friends made of each j of (lerty's lengthened Mights; he knew ! Ibil Halt bail bed. spared him, that vulgar grisly spectacle of modern life when two people who have been lovers he carcass of Ibeir love over Hi, grimy lloor of a curious gaping court. lie shuddered, Oerty loved blra. t'1 e, why had she cine back to lilmV Why had she tad kept her threat when he refused to abandon bis desert project and torn hi'- abllltli into a more profitable dedication? He conld t her i. is stared flushing up Into bit thai nipplno cold doj when he had , run Into hi r on 'Broadway. Be reman bered her coquetrj when she kur 1 id that there vvic i f room Ii iier apartmenl i nis v. ire i Bhe spol oi seeing nis picture! In I tie papers "lie had grown in be a great meal" That piquant meeting, Hie v.ce!. fol lowing bad been die I. lightest of hi Ufa, lie was Mile tin II Hi. il lei c. loved him. The wrangles were unlj their different ways of looking at i thing-'. Of course, they loved eucb other, Put Qarty couldn't Stand plo m r life, ."'b" had wvi d him, or she would not so easily have hecn per suaded to try ii over again. Sue yearned to make him comfortable, site a!il. So she had gtni" back, and pulled down ins remade, and pm his clothes in the lowest bureau drawer! "It wasn't either ,,f our faults," he ruminated, "it was tin- fault of the In stitution. Marriage Itself is a failure. Look at the papers, the divorce courts, A man's Interests are no longer his wife's. Curious that It should be so. Put It's a fact. II is the modern dis content. Women want different careers from their husbands'. ' Yer, how could be help throwing his life into his work? lie had committed himself; It was an obligation. If it were not for that Indefinable some thing, bis allegiance, to the cause which mocked ut reasons and definitions; oh, he knew! he hud tilted with Oerty and been worsted ! he would have re signed from his company, his company which had dishonored him. Why should be slay to got more slabs, more wounds? And (be lust blow, this pel of UarsbaU'sl Hardin gave a scant ling in hla path ii vicious kick. The girl's prattle bad died. walked Willi l,m silently. At the door of her tent, i bo stopped, looking at lilni w 1st) ally, she wished be could hide his I, art. If he hud olilv some ut Innes' pride I mtwl JMi Steer Into Us He Loved the Hardin Trait In Her. "How are thlngsf fil (heir fond little formula. "h, rotten:" growled Hardin, Hing ing away. The gate slammed behind him. (To be continued next wei i i NAVY BANDS WILL SPUR PATRIOTISM IN VICTORY DRIVE Mure Inland Commnnrjant Of fers Marines and Jackie to Aid Fifth Loan Vnptaln Kduari 1. 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