Pace Six
Illinois Valley News, Thursday, July 24, 1941
Kathl een Norris Says:
Mistakes to Be Avoided
In Summer Care of Dogs
Bv ALAN Li MAY
I Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.)
INSTALLMENT 9
TIIE STORY SO EAR:
Dusty King and Lew Gordon had built opposition by his sweetheart. Jody Cor ■nd (unman. His determination un
np a vast string of ranches in the West. don. and her father. Roper's successful changed. he now turned his attention
King was killed by his powerful and un raids against Thorpe's Texas holdings toward Thorpe's ranches tn Montana.
wiped him out of the state. When Roper Jody was aecretly visited by Shoshona
scrupulous competitor. Ben Thorpe Bill
Roper. King's adopted son, was deter visited Jody one night, she almost con Wilce, one of Roper's men. who warned
mined to avenge his death tn spite of temptuously called him a cattle thief that her father’s life was In danger.
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Roper shrugged again.
“Walk
were on the flats of the Little Thun
CHAPTER XII—Continued
Here, struggling wants no fight with me."
Jody Gordon’s eyes had darkened der, far away.
"You’re going to force the fight
In the dusk, making her face seem through a soft blinding snow, they
very pale. “What do you want me ran off five hundred head, and a few yourself! That's what you’ve been
days later three hundred more. They waiting here for. ever since you
to do?”
Any moment
Shoshone Wilce shrugged. “That Christmased in company with a herd came to Miles City
ain’t hardly up to me. Miss Gordon. of lifted steers somewhere between Lasham may walk in that door—”
But I’ll tell you this: many’s the Three Sleep and the Little Powder;
Marquita sat staring at him hope
time I’ve seen your father go stomp and New Year’s found them sifting lessly, in her eyas a fixity of devo
ing down the board walk right here the pick of Lasham’s cattle out of tion which his taciturnity seemed to
in Ogallala, alone, and not even his Lost Soldier range.
increase. Against his will he was
armed. That won’t do, Miss Gor
By the end of January they had becoming something that was hap
don.
If I was in your place, I moved three thousand head—the pening to Marquita.
wouldn't never let him out of the very cream of the wintering stock.
He remained silent; and, in a Lit-
house without his gunbelt is strapped Repeatedly they had driven cattle tie while, she went away.
on, and the iron free in its leather. incredible distances in impossible
An hour passed, while Roper,
And wherever he goes, there ought time.
drinking slowly, played his solitaire
to be three or four good hard-shoot
Yet he knew his work had only and watched the door.
ing cowboys with him; because, if begun. All their hard riding would
Then suddenly
Marquita
I know Ben Thorpe, he isn’t going fail of effect unless he could strike back. She came behind his chair to
into any gunfight alone!”
such a smashing blow as would speak close to his ear in a panicky
Jody peered at him intently. cause a split between Lasham and whisper. “He’s coming! He’s com-
“What made you bring this word to Ben Thorpe.
ing along the walk—”
me?”
And Roper had a plan—rash in
"AU right.”
“I’m a Bill Roper man,” Shoshone scope and method, but savage in ef
I
“Walk has two of his men with
Wilce said. "God knows. Miss Gor fect if it could be fulfilled. Already
“You
him,” she said rapidly,
don, stringing with Bill Roper has he had enough riders In sight to
haven’t a chance, not a ghost of a
never done anything for me. But— strike this last desperate blow. But
T
chance.
I can't bear to see you
well, I just thought Bill Roper would the men available to his purpose
killed! I know you don't care any
want you to know. I kind of got the were wild-eyed fighting kids who
thing about me. If you did I'd go
Alary gof into such trouble when 'he kept her girls and boy at home that
idea he thinks a heap of you. Miss could not be driven and could
anywhere in the world with you. during the first unbearable summer she opened a location school, with beach
Gordon.”
scarcely be led; Roper could not But now you have to come out of
picnics and back-yard cookery included in the course.
And now another pony came slash captain his campaign alone. So now
here—quick—by the back way. I'U
ing up to the corral. One of the load he fretted In Miles City, seeking
By KATHLEEN NORRIS |
do anything—”
ing foremen had come in.
TROl'BI.F.D SE.4S
three or four outlaw leaders who
Roper turned his head to look up
HE fact that thousands
It ith uar ei er creeping closer to
“I got to be getting along,” Sho would make his preparations com-
into her face, very close to his.
our shores, and living expenses ris
of American women
shone Wilce said quickly.
plete.
There was more to this girl than |
ing faster than income in manv
She turned away, but instantly
were
dragging
their
Still studying everyone who came there was to the rest of her kind.
cases, Kathleen Norris warns us of
turned back again, and gripped Sho Into the bar, Roper broke open a Even now he was unable to recog households along in a contin-
future difficulties, unless ue plan
shone's arm just as he was sliding
wisely for the future. Her examples
nize that Marquita was capable of ’ ual state of debt and disor
out of sight.
*
of how others hare weathered their
a sincerity of purpose, and a pas ganization was one of the
“Stay around,” she ordered him
troubles will encourage many uho
sionate preoccupation in her pur-
are now concerned about th» prob
supporting causes of the long
“Stay here until—"
pose, not to be expected here. “I
lems that may lie besond.
"Miss Gordon.” came the quick
depression.
wouldn't step aside two feet," he
whisper, “Tve got to get on to
told her, “to pass Walk or any man.
Now, with the conditions
trying for commissions and Mary,
Miles City. I—”
I tell you. Walk won’t fight!”
made by another great war with three children of grammar
"I thought so. Bill Roper’s some
BUI upon us;
Suddenly she whimpered.
supplies costing school age, counted up her liabilities
where up there, isn’t he? Yes. Well,
Roper saw that three men had come
I'm going to join my father there—
more than they did, money and found herself $1,880.22 in debt.
into the front of the Palace Bar.
Just how she extricated herself
I’ll ride with you In the morning."
The first of the three, a dark, lean worth less, it might be well I’ve told here before.
First she
"Four hundred miles! And no
man with wide, bowed shoulders, for every woman to get her moved to an old barn of a house in
coach until—"
was Walk Lasham.
house in order. To shorten a long-deserted part of town, behind
"Don't worry about that. It takes
Marquita caught Bill's bead in her sail and batten down the factories and warehouses, but quiet
saddle ponies to make time.”
arms, forced up his chin, and kissed hatches before the storm.
“But—I’m afraid your Paw might
and spacious enough.
Then she
him. He was surprised at the unex
think—”
If you are in debt, get out of it. turned four rooms into an apartment
pected softness of her lips, hot
“I don't know how Bill Roper ever
Begin tomorrow to pay off long and rented it. The nearest school
against his mouth. Then abruptly
used you,” Jody said with contempt.
standing bills by small degrees; two was a dreary great structure swarm
Marquita stooped, and as she sprang
Shoshone winced. “I — I’ll
dollars on this one, three on that. ing with the children of foreign-
away from him he felt the weight of
around.”
Make a cheerful list of everything born parents; children who had
his gunbelt ease.
She flung over
He fuded into the shadows as Jody
you owe, and show it to the children to be taught American speech,
her shoulder. "It's for your own
walked out of the stable, her eyes
when they demand dimes and quar taught to take baths and use tooth-
sake!” Her face was white, fright
hard and bright in the dusk.
ters for movies and cones. Wear brushes, taught to stop swearing.
ened.
\ it slowly down, and while you are Not like her children!
He half started up, in instant
Opens Own School.
wearing it down cut out every pos
anger, but the girl was running
Mary got into such trouble when
sible needless expense. Even if it
down the room. He saw her put
Bill Roper sat alone at a rear ta
means following the experience of a she kept her girls and boy at home
something under the bar. and he
ble in tlie Palace Bar, in Miles City
friend of mine years ago. Living that during the first unbearable
knew it was his gun.
—the young, turbulent center of a
in a quiet, respectable New York summer she opened a vacation
Roper rang his wl hiskey glass upon
vast, raw range, the possibilities of
street he was once forced to hunt school, with beach picnics and back
the
table,
trying
to
catch
a
bar-
which were still unknown,
| in desperate pain and emergency yard cookery included in the course.
tender's eye. If I Lasham had not
For three months Roper had rid-
for a doctor. The family baby had In October she began regular school
They first struck at Muddy Bend.
seen what the girl had done, one of
den through the bitter Montana win-
poked a firm little finger into Dad- work with 16 paid pupils at $10 a
them could bring him his gun be-
ter. It had been no trouble for him deck of cards and laid out a hand of
dy's eye, and Daddy was mad with month. That winter she enrolled 21,
fore it was too late, But the bar was
and the next autumn opened the
to sweep together u dozen malcon solitaire.
pain and apprehension.
thronged; the bartenders were work
school with a registration of 40.
tent cowboys who hated Lasham or
Reducing the Overhead.
Now one of the dance hall girls
Thorpe, or both. Already they knew came to his table, slipping uninvited ing fast, in the thick of the evening
The big eye specialist across the Now there are 20 boarders and
rush
Bill Roper’s name.
street was "at the clinic.” the but about twice that many day scholars.
into a chair This was a girl whose
The bar flies had made room for
Mary has bought the old house
ler announced. So Daddy dashed
Against their common enemy Attention bothered and embarrassed
Walk Lasham at the end of the bar,
three blocks to the clinic, waited 15 and the adjoining property with two
these youngsters could be led. wild, Roper every time he came here.
and Lasham and his two cowboys
minutes, had his free treatment, houses; she has painted back walls
reckless and crazy for raid; and Her name was Marquita.
had their heads together now. con
Roper had led them as Texas had
paid five cents for a prescription, green and planted trees. Her school
He didn’t know what attracted her sulting.
and went home cured. The office will never be fashionable, but it is
taught him.
to him; he didn't know what attract
One of the cowboys, a man with a
inexpensive, as private schools go,
His new northern wild bunch faced ed nny particular woman to any scar across his face that distorted visit would have cost him just $25.
A wife I know had her third baby and it is good. And Mary licked
conditions in many ways bitterly ad particular man It may be that his his mouth in the manner of a hare
In a hospital ward last year. For the first depression and she knows
verse. Here in tile north were no very disinterest was what caught
lip, went quickly behind the bar.
the two earlier babies hospital ex she can lick the next, if and when
ousted cattlemen, no established her Attention first, and later gave
hunted beneath it, and returned to
penses had averaged $100 for hos It comes. In years when dismay
population to which he could look for him the desirability of the unobtain- Walk,
Roper saw Lasham’s long
pital visit. $100 for doctor. $60 for and doubt and change were shaking
help. The Canadian border was far able.
’
face se
He said to himself. “Walk
nurse, and about $25 for presents, domestic economy everywhere, the
away, and no market awaited the
She spoke to him
fl quiet, knows
tips, telephone, taxis and so on. Casemans knew nothing but prog
hard-pushed herds on the other side lifeless voice. "Wh
you like
Walk Lasham was fiddling with
This third baby’s bills came to less ress. prosperity and security.
Whut Montana had that Texas did me?"
his empty glass on the bar. and the
You can assure these to your own
than $100.
not have was a concentration of In
“I like you all right." he said.
scar-mouthed man was watching
"It wasn't quite as comfortable.” family by taking matters in hand
dian tribes, principally Sioux and
“No, you don't, You don't even Roper covertly with one eye from
she reported. "But then a baby par now. For the next few years, more
Cheyenne, deprived of their hunting see me at all."
under the brim of his hat. Lasham
ty isn’t a picnic, anyway. Jim didn't than at any time in our history,
grounds, and dependent for food
He noticed now that she looked reached for a bottle, filled his glass.
know anything about it until he got we will need family unity, family
upon beef which the government
different tonight; and after a mo- tossed it oil. Then he turned square
home from a trip, so he-wasn’t em co-operation and family strength.
was pledged to supply
It was to
ment he recognized that this was ly toward Roper, and came walking
barrassed or shamed.
The ward We will need freedom from entan
tins circumstance that Roper had
becau se there was no paint on her back through the big room.
was amusing, really, and the nurses gling indebtedness and extrava
turned.
face. That would be because he dis
Roper played his cards, his hands nicer than any private nurse I ever gance, so that our hands won’t be
The giant beef contracts which tile
liked paint—though he had no Idea visible upon the table. It seemed to
had. Meals arc just the same all tied by yesterday’s mistakes.
government threw upon the market
how she had found that out. Her take Lasham a long time to walk
Entire Family Most Help.
over the hospital. And Jim's bewil
had inevitably uttructed more thnn
washed face was a perfectly sym the length of the room,
Roper dered face as he looked at my bills
We need, all of us, each other’s
one kind of graft
The result wus
metrical oval set with black eyes a glanced at the lookout chair, where
Tired men
was worth seeing! Doctor $35, ward help and confidence.
famine—pitiful, relentless
Starva
little slanted, and her black hair, a salaried gun-fighter usually sat
$1 a day. anesthetics and delivery must come home these days to
tion stalked through the lodges of
parted in the middle, was drawn It was empty now.
peaceful and cheerful households, to
room $20 ”
tiie Sioux, the Cheyenne, tiie Crow
back severely, in the fashion of the
Walk Lasham was standing in
If you cannot possibly lessen your a hundred little items of good news
—and with it. Roper's opportunity.
mestizo girls of the Texas border front of him.
debts where you are now. with rent to make up for the waves of bad
Scouring
the
country.
Roper
“So you," he said, “are the tough
She leaned toward him now. and
and schooling as high as they are. news sweeping over a troubled
turned up four Indian agents who
gunman
that
killed
deve
Tanner."
spoke rapidly, her voice low and
and the car. radio, telephone, gar world. Children need lessons in un
were already badly scared. They
Bill Roper raised his eyes to Walk
compelling. "Listen— I hate Walk
dener once a week too expensive, selfishness and self-sacrifice: these
had overplayed their hands, and
Lasham’s face “And you." he said,
Lasham. too "
then move. I Move to some other are the months when they must
were now faced with a loss of life
“Listen," she insisted. "You have “are one of the dirty cowards that neighborhood, Put the children into learn to contribute what they may
umong their charges about which
murdered
Dusty
King."
public schools, Let the maid go and to the general home atmosphere of
they could do nothing without re to listen to me. Walk Lasham’s in
A hush had fallen upon the room,
vealing their own corrupt Inefficien town. He came in this afternoon." unbroken by the clink of a glass or manage with i a cleaning-woman love and service and absolute belief
Roper thought, the time had
in the eventual victory of good.
once a week.
cy
These men had connived with
the rattle of • chip
Lasham and
We will survive these days
But
I’ut Domestic Vestel in Shipshape.
Lasham in bringing about a condi come to move on again, with his I
He didn't like It, Roper looked at each other through
For believe me. the time is com meanwhile we must throw over
tion of tribal starvation; they were work undone.
a moment of silence.
ing when you’ll want your little board everything that we may of
willing to connive with Bill Roper much
He dropped his eyes to Roper’s
“Well, thanks," he said; "I’m glad
cluttering
extrava
domestic vessel to be all ready for unnecessary
to cover up their position in any
k
hands,
and
his
own
right
hand
start
to know "
If the whole family is gance. debt, waste, pretense, and
heavy seas
way they could.
ed
a
tentative
movement
toward
the
"He knows you’re here—and what
pulling together then, children un with them their spiritual counter
By delivering beef to the reserva
butt of his gun. His spread fingers
derstanding and helpful. Dad re parts of hate, fear, revenge, preju
tions under these highly irregular you’re here for."
shook
a
little
as
his
hand
crept
down.
"1 suppose he does.” Roper said
assured as to solvency, Mother dice. So that when it comes we shall
conditions, Roper's wild bunch could
"You're waiting here for Lash But he was grinning now. sure of explaining and managing every- be ready for a brighter day.
little moie than make expenses. But
his ground.
thing, then you're going triumphant
tiie advantage was this-a beef herd am." she accused him. "You know
“Looks a little different to you
he'll
come
here.
You
’
re
going
to
try
Device for Stopping Speeders
ly to weather the storm. But if you
delivered to an Indian tribe disap
now,
huh?"
“Hook ’em if they don’t stop.” is
can't manage now to keep your
peared over night, leaving little shooting it out—"
"A coyote always looks like a coy
Roper shrugged and was silent.
heads above water, you most cer a plan of Denver R King, of Seat
trace.
thousar
A thousand
hands skinned
ote to me."
"Bill.
It
’
s
hopeless'
Walk
Lasham
tainly won't be able to do it when tle. to curb motorists who drive
out tiie b< ie«<. destroying the portions
The
snnle
dropped
from
Lasham
’
s
of the hides Co an taming the brands, Is the fastest gunfighter in the face. "I'm going to give you every taxation and higher prices and the through red traffic lights. He has
north!"
patented a device to hook them as
Constantly cl hanging horses, per
chance," he said. His voice swung strain», demands, shortages, depre
deftly as ever a bass was caught on
petually in tiie saddle. Roper's sad-
in even rhythms, low and sing-song. ciations of war days gather strength.
Mary Caseman is a Philadelphia a plug. As King explains it, his de
die hawks swung across Montana,
"I’m going to count five. Draw and
They first st truck at Muddy Bend,
fire any time you want to; because woman who had to face just these vice would lay flat in the street
picking up I four hundred head of
on five I m going to kill }ou where problems 15 years ago. The depres where the traffic lights are green,
sion struck the Casemans early, then pop up out of the pavement as
steers in tiie f breaks of the Yclluw-
you sit"
from a salary of six thousand a year they turned red. A hook would
atone. Three ! days’ hard driving de-
“1 don't think you are."
John Caseman was reduced to no snare a passing car. but would not
livered these l to a village of Ass ml-
"One; two—“ Lasham said.
salary at all. He struggled along yank out parts of the chassis.
borne. Only tour days later they
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