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. • < • • • • 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 or! 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