Paqe 6 Friday, March 21, 1941 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER authority ot the Secretary of the In­ terior and the President of ths United States; namely certuin HUGH S. lands . . ," He droned through his preamble perfunctorily; everyone in the crowd knew exactly what was involved. w. N.U. Release Something mart than land was here changing hands. To hold the Crying INSTALLMENT I Wolf would all but mean supremacy THE STORY AND THE AUTHOR— in the not th. But this thing was Alan LeMay*s reputation as a writer detail. Unlike many metropolitan writers LcMay'g "The Smoky Years" is a Washington. P. V. to rapidly growing among readers who (lowing, vividly written western ro­ bigger than that. The two organiza­ of western Action, he knows that part REVOLT UNDER HITLER prefer a good western story to any other mance which containa all the speed tions which here clashed again were of the country Intimately, and can set It Napoleon conquered a lurge part sort ot book. He has outstanding ability on paper without Iosins much ot the and colorful detail that la making him the great powers of the trulls; be­ of Europe. Because he had some to make his charac’ers live against a freshness and feeling of the plains and so popular today. It la his best work. hind each of them were whole coun­ idea of a sort of United Statin of background that is accurate to the Anest Don't miss HI mountains. ties of Texas mesquite grass plains, a a a • a • that continent, semi-sovereign states great areas of the middle short ­ CHAPTER I I run a crooked one. nor a square his old soft hat, nor the cracking united in a loose league, he nllowed | trick where he could play a mean ring of the spurs he was believed to grass country, scores of outfits. The the conquered countries a good deal struggle between them had devel­ This was the crisis—the climax of one; it's a long time since he rode sleep in. oped with the Chisholm trail itself of leeway. Perhaps his further idea The trail years had leathered his ell that long war. Here they sat, all night with his rifle in his hands, —a decade-long combat between of putting his own people, family these men who had fought a common but Lew, if he isn't stopped—there's face, but they could not diminish his men of diametrically opposed prin­ or fellow soldiers, on the thrones of enemy for so long: Dusty King, who, plenty he can hire to do his dark- gay exuberance; just as prosperity ciples and methods. And now— several of these states had some­ was unable to take from him the look with the hoofs of countless cattle, of-the-moon stuff now.” "This land,” the deputy commis­ thing to do with his liberality. "Dusty,” Lew Gordon said, "we’ve of the trail. Whatever Dusty King had carved many a Great Plains Whatever the reason, he didn't es­ sioner concluded, "is thrown into trail deep into the short grass; young blocked him every way we could." wore, he always appeared to be blocks. I think, gentlemen, you are ercise a close enough control to "That's why he’ll get you. and wearing disreputable saddle clothes. Bill Roper, who had begun follow­ already familiar with the placement keep some of them conquered. In Perhaps young Bill Roper had ing those trails with Dusty King be­ me too. in the end.” of the lands. Block 1 includes, as Prussia, Scharnhorst and Stein i*f Again the silence closed, with be­ picked up a lot of Dusty King's char­ fore he was big enough to hold a previously agreed, an estimated one fectually evaded his disarmament horse; and old Lew Gordon. Texas hind it the perpetual bawling of the acteristics in the course of an asso­ hundred sections, or sixty-four thou­ decrees by using the permitted man, whose wild marketless herds cattle, far off in the spring night ciation that had lasted almost as sand acres, known hereinafter as small Prussian army in a new con­ Dusty King said casually, "Cleve long as Bill Roper's life. had been the roots of fortune. 'Block 1*; bounded on the north cept, not as a fixed regular estab­ Everybody who knew King-Gordon Dusty King and Lew Gordon con­ Tanner's here.” lishment but as a military train!'.g by—" Bill Roper saw Lew Gordon's eyes at all knew the story of Bill Roper stituted King-Gordon, the famous school through which they rushed Cleve Tanner ieuned close to Ben partnership that had developed with flick up to look at Dusty King. and Dusty King. Fifteen years ago, yearly classes of recruits as rapid­ at the age of five. Bill Roper had Thorite, whispered, and Thorpe nod­ ly as possible. In this way, they the great cattle trails; until now "Cleve Tanner?" ded. been found hiding in the brush, like a their many brands marked far-scat­ "Here in Ogallala." forged the forces which finally sent "I shouldn't think,” said the depu­ tered herds beyond estimate. They "What the devil's the meaning of little rabbit, beside a wrecked outfit ty commissioner, "we need hear any Napoleon first to Elba and later, on the old trail to Sedalia. It was were here because of tomorrow’s that?" after Waterloo, to St. Helena. Dusty King who had found him bid of less than ten cents per year, Napoleon just wasn't tough enough. auction of land leases. Under the "Cleve and Walk Latham are the per acre.” hammer would go the grazing rights only two of Ben Thorpe's men that there; and it was Dusty King who We do a good deal of talking about There was a moment’s silence, on the Crying Wolf Indian lands— raided the cross timbers with him in had buried the bullet-shattered body our great liberal free union of semi­ and the deputy commissioner got out those miles and miles of stirrup­ the old days; the only two he can of Bill's father beside that God-for­ a big silk handkerchief and mopped sovereign states, the United States saken trail. deep grass that King-Gordon want­ really trust, now.” his head, as King now let a slow of America. But we frequently for­ In the fifteen years since then. ed, and that Ben Thorpe had to have. "It's natural that Walk Lasham smile come to the surface of his get that, so far as the States of the It was curious that their long war should be here.” Lew Gordon con­ Bill Roper had learned guns and impassive face. A curious rumble old Southorn Confederacy are con­ with Ben Thorpe should have met its ceded; “but Cleve Tanner, all the horses and cattle, and the tricks of ran over the room, and the crowd cerned. there was nothing free or the trail as only Dusty King knew true climax here. The three in this way up from the Big Bend—” liberal about it. We forced them seemed to sway. them. He had been able to read room understood that the outcome to remain in the Union at the points "Shows you,” Dusty King said, "I got a proposition, ” Dusty King prairie signs before be could read would rest upon what the two older of bayonets. "what store they set on the Crying I print, and if it had not been for said. "Nobody is bidding on this men decided here. Possession of the It is worth remembering because, Wolf lands. Ben Thorpe is sold tomato can labels, perhaps would land but just us two; nobody means after the Treaty of Versailles, the Crying Wolf meant dominance in mighty deep into next year's deliv­ to bid. Throw the whole thing In one never have learned to read print the north to King-Gordon, or to Ben and : Allies, especially England eries. Already he's committed for at all. Everything he knew he had pot and we'll bid on the works.” Thorpe; there was no longer going same France, made exactly the more northern-fed cattle than he can •’I'll agree to that," Thorpe de­ learned with Dusty King. There to be room for both. mistake that Napoleon had made was every reason that he should cided. The black anger in his face | and made it with exactly the same "This is an old fight. Lew,” Dusty had submerged again, so that ho have grown to look something like King said. "It goes back as far as I warlike people, the Germans. the great trail driver who had was poker-eyed. that first time you backed me with a There was never a time, up to 1030 The deputy commissioner was be ­ brought him up. little herd, to see if I could make it at least, when with the controls at ginning to look like a man who Now, as they made their way through to Abilene. Don’t hardly their command, they couldn't have down the muddy street, before the wished he were some place else. seem like we better draw back stopped Hitler, as Winston Churchill “ If there are no objections — " false-fronted wooden buildings, half now." continuously urged that they should “Fifty cents," said Dusty King. the cowmen that thronged Ogallala Lew Gordon stirred, swaying his do. They didn't. As Napoleon had Ben Thorpe'S face had turned ■ hailed Dusty with comradeship and shoulders imperceptibly, like a stub­ done earlier, and as the North did delight; so that his progress was curious color, not gray, certainly I not do after the Civil war. they per­ born bear. "Credit's going to be that of a celebrated character, al­ not bloodless; an odd congested col­ mitted the conquered country to terrible hard, this coming year," he ready famous. The other half—they or, like dark sand. “Fifty-five," be said at last build up an overwhelming military were Ben Thorpe men—seemed not said. I superiority. under their very noses, Dusty King seemed to sprawl a "Sixty." to see him at all. It was hard to Now the situation is reversed. little more loosely; he was playing tell which tickled Dusty King more "Sixty-five.* ’ , . Hitler ells astride most of Europe. poker in a way of his own. Swag­ —the warmth of his many friends, or "K dollar,” said Dusty King. He has disarmed it and made Ila gering, easy-going, spendthrift—he the bitterness of his Innumerable "A dollar, five." vast military booty part of his own still was a man who believed in­ | enemies. “Just in confidence between you forces. He. like Napoleon, also con­ vincibly in himself. The bidding for the Crying Wolf and me.” Dusty King said; "Mr. templates some kind of compul­ “I passed Ben Thorpe K the road, lands was being held In a disused Thorpe can't pay that" sory United States of Europe Some today,” he said. “He was looking store, and here the sidewalk and “I think my name is good any­ observers, reverting to the Napole­ mighty prosperous. I bet he weighs half the street were filled with knot­ where in the cow country," Thorpe onic failure, say that it can't be two hundred and twenty-five pounds ted groups. Through this crowd said to the commissioner. done—that his conquest will collapse now, with his stomach pulled in." Dusty King and Bill Roper waded. through counter-revolution caused “It ain’t good here,” said King. "His backing is terrible strong,” Dusty trying to look like something by a combination of interior strains Lew Gordon said, his eyes on the The deputy commissioner slapped bewildered, from the tall country. and stresses with outside pressure. floor. his pen down on the table. “ Gentle ­ Beside the door was posted a hand­ Will it? Napoleon, himself, fre­ No one knew better than Lew Gor­ bill in black type, giving due legal men." he said, "I'm sorry to do this; quently said that all empires of con­ but in the interests of the govern ­ don that Dusty King, in tackling the notice of the auction of leases, and quest die of indigestion from over­ impossible a hundred times, bad a Dusty stopped to study this with a ment, and of the Indian Department eating and referred to the crackups which I represent, all further bids hundred times shown the way for grave empty face, as if he had in this auction will be accepted only , of the empires of Alexander, the the rest. But Gordon remembered never heard of it before. ( Romans. Ghengls Khan. Charle- as representing American gold." too the poverty of the cattle-poor I magne and the Caliphates of Bagh­ "Mr. King,** somebody said. Maybe thirty-five cents an “Cash on the nail?" King asked. days before any outlet was found for "they've beer waiting for you. fully acre.” Texas beef. To risk all they had “Immediate payment In Ogalla­ dad and Cordova. an hour." On all the evidence to date. Hitler won, in a single slashing stroke at show—unless he can get the Crying la.” There was no question now Dusty looked blame. Then he an old enemy, was almost more than Wolf.” about the sweat that stood out on is not likely to repeat the blunders clutched his hat to his head in a of Napoleon and the Allies through Gordon could bear. Slowly Lew Gordon got a frayed startled way, and rushed Inside the commissioner's forehead. any lack of toughness, efficiency or “Seventy cents," said King. "You know why Ben Thorpe’s tally book out of his back pocket with a clownish representation of cold-blooded cruelty. Let's not kid strong,” Dusty King said. “And you "The survey—" Lew Gordon's voice “I'm already bid a dollar, five!” haste. ourselves too far from realism. know how he got his start We know was curiously bewildered—"it’s hard “Sure; but we got different rules • • • Within, the crowd of plains-coun- why it is that so many Texas out­ to believe there’s any land as good try men—bronzed men, saddle-faced now. God knows Thorpe can't back COLUMN AND NOSTALGIA fits stand in Ben Thorpe’s name; as this.” a dollar, five in gold. What kind men, sometimes bearded men—gave This column has been accused by and how many different ways he's Their private survey had been way as King, followed by Bill Roper, of shenanigan is this, anyway?" some of its best customers of nos­ found to jump down on little lonely made by Bill Roper; it represented The eyes of the deputy commls- shouldered his way to the back. talgia or too much yearning toward Texan cowmen and leave them weeks of hard riding, and shrewd "Is this the place," King asked, sioner went to Ben Thorpe's face World war precedents and experi­ broke or dead. And we know what's calculation ot the strength and depth “where the feller is selling the again, but there was nothing to be ences in mobilizing American in­ happened to many a little outfit that of the feed upon the surface of the read there. Thorpe seemed so dustry and man-power for defense. horse?” started north, but never brought broken land. lumpishly still that it was not ap­ Sometimes from the hostiles this The deputy commissioner took his their cattle through, nor got home." "One place here reads fifty head feet off his table.. "The sale was parent that he breathed. • criticism takes the angle that the "Every year,” Dusty King said, to the section,” Lew said wonder- “Seventy cents,” said Dusty King supposed to start at two o’clock,” “nostalgia" is for a government job "since we began driving up the big ingly. "Fifty head of cattle grazing again in the silence. "Whoop 'er on the defense front he complained. More fre­ trails, we've locked horns in one one section of land! It’s past be­ up, boys—I’ve only begun!” quently it is from sincere and un­ A little tribute, there. The com ­ way or another with this one gang lief." Silence again through the pack of derstanding personal friends, and is missioner—perhaps already in Ben I'm not forgetting who started the "This isn’t Texas. Lew.” Thorpe’s pay—hardly dared start an those saddle-faced men; perspiring that too much emphasis is put on Red Crick stampede where Dave and “I figure we might pay as high as silence on the part of the deputy Bob Henry died under piled up cat­ thirty cents to the acre,” Gordon important sale, without present this commissioner, dead lumpish si­ mobilization principles and experi­ ences 23 years old and that, like "a slouching, nondescript-looking repre ­ tle; nor the Tularosa shootings, with said, "by the year’s lease.” lence on the part of Ben Thorpe. quail a day for 30 days,” it gets too sentative of King-Gordon. four more of my boys dead. There's A flicker like that of beat lightning monotonous for the readers* relish. "No word has come from your Cleve Tanner, his hands locked back some good cowboys under the prai­ showed for a moment behind Dusty of his neck, looked at the ceiling; No, this column is not in rebuttal partner at all,” the commissioner rie, Lew.” King’s eyes; but his voice was low Walk Lasham sat motionless, his of any of these criticisms about nos­ said. Gordon said almost inaudibly, and monotonous as before. "Thirty eyes on the face ot his boss. talgia. It is just to talk some of "He ain't coming." "Never could prove anything.” cents be damned,” he said. "You—” the deputy commission­ them over. Three men who sat in chairs "His herds have grown faster than Lew Gordon looked at him for a er wavered, "you—you can back this As to nostalgia for a job. That ours have grown,” Dusty King's ex­ long time. How deep you figure to grouped around one end ot the table bid in gold?" isn’t good sense, Any man would looked at each other. They ignored pressionless voice droned on. "He’s go?” "Immediate delivery by Wells, like again to have some active part as big as we are; he'll be bigger ‘'Get the land,” Dusty King said. King and Roper, as hostile dogs ig­ Fargo,” King said. “Right now, in in a great national effort in a crisis, nore an enemy of whom they are soon. From the Big Bend to the “Ben Thorpe is liable to go crazy but that natural wish was aban­ Ogallala.” not yet keenly aware. Tetons, he owns more outfits than and bid his head off.” doned long ago. Quite understand­ "Mr, Thorpe,” the commissioner The big man in the light-colored he knows the names of. He’s never "We’re looking down his throat," ably, this administration would not wavered, “Mr. Thorpe, will you—do run an honest deal where he could King said for the second time. “The hat was Ben Thorpe — the Ben seek out a critic for any more im­ you — ’ ’ least the deputy commissioner can Thorpe, whose far-scattered hold­ portant job than janitor in its dog. They waited for what Ben Thorpe accept is drafts on Kansas City. Ben ings perhaps already exceeded those house. It is not to be blamed for would say. His face was expres­ of King-Gordon. Thick-shouldered Thorpe hasn’t realized the value of that. Any other course would be bad. sionless still, as he got up from his Honest Bill Roper turns the land. We’ll catch him short and now, heavy-bodied, he was today It wouldn’t make for harmony. chair; but men stumbled over each more than ever a power feared in force him off the board. ” outlaw. Or so it seemed. On the other hand, the adminis­ other to get out of his way, as he "At what cost to ourselves?” Gor­ the cattle country—still unscrupu­ tration has shown great considera­ There was a reason. There walked down the length of that lous, still menacing, but now ot a don demanded. tion and restraint. This column different sort—a power of wealth, of packed room, and out into the street. is also a girl you'll like in "At all costs.” could have been silenced any day, The deputy commissioner seemed organization, and ot bought-up law. Slowly Lew Gordon shook his without justifiable criticism from head. “Maybe thirty-five cents an Beside him, the tall man, lean and melted down, unrecognizable now as any source, by simply calling its the crisp little man who had opened acre." narrow-bodied as a slat, was Cleve conductor to active Service as a re­ I the bidding. His face was white Dusty King's voice rose explosive­ Tanner; a hawk-faced man, keen­ By Alan LeMay serve officer—a course which would and set, and his eyes showed fear. ly tor the first time. "Thirty-five eyed, so cleanly shaven that the also have put him in a considerable "Well?” said King. cents,” he echoed—"or fifty cents, tight skin of his jaws seemed to Start Reading It Now financial crimp and could have re­ • ‘ The Crying Wolf, ” the commis- or seventy-five, or a dollar! Get the shine. Cleve Tanner was maneger sulted in no more interesting em­ sioner said huskily, “the Crying land!" of Ben Thorpe’s Texas holdings, the ployment than counting coconuts Wolf landi if — if there are no oth- Lew Gordon sighed, and he looked breeding grounds from which »» at San Juan de Bac Bac. like a man who was weary and old. Thorpe's whole organization drew er bids—go to King-Gordon . . • • • Something like a sigh, a general “You want that land,” Gordon said, its strength. tf release of tension, ran through that As to nostalgia for World war "even if—' The other, the man who seemed methods of mobilization, they were "At all costs,” Dusty King said uncommonly dark, even among jam of men. Close to Dusty King’s ear Bill Rop­ adopted for manpower. For indus­ again. these sun-darkened men, was Walk trial mobilization, the President is Gordon looked his partner in the Lasham. He was Ben Thorpe’S man­ er asked, out of the side of his mouth, “How high would we—how reported to have said of the war eyes.. ager in the north, now; under his high could we have gone?" department’s plan (which followed "Go in and bid!’* poker-faced watchfulness lay Ben The mask of Dusty King's face see our World war model) that we need Thorpe’s northern holdings, the feed­ broke up; every muscle in his face a 1940 mobilization and not a 1018 Swinging down the board walks of ing grounds now necessary to any came into action, every toeth Ogallala in the cool spring sunlight, wide operation in the cattle trade. blue print. That isn’t what the Ger­ showed as he grinned. Dusty King and Bill Roper looked a The deputy commissioner raised mans said. 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