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MEDFORD MATL TRIBUNE. MED FORD. OREGON. TUESDAY. AUGUST 20. 1940.
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YESTERDAY: Without tailing
her family. Constancy Has to
California. Then she taku a
train to Fuller'! Junction end
itu out for tht ranch in a hired
car.
Chapter Tour
The Vaquero
CONSTANCE, iwunf onto the
road branching right.
At least f he was home. She was
en El Cabrillo property, free of
mortgage, taxes and ail encum
brances . . . save for Taylor.
If the fog would lift she would
be able to look up a two-mile
avenue of Eucalvptus and cedar
to the rambling ranch house,
with the smaller servants' quar
ters clustering nearby.
But the fog didn't lift and the
road seemed much too long and
there were no trees visible along
the road.
, Mayb- Taylor ha I seen It to
cut them down.
Oh well, she liked fog, fog
, scented with fragrant sweet grass,
eucalyptus, bay and -H of the
sea. As a child she h-d walked
through such a mist as this, her
hand aafe in her father's. They'd
made a game of it. Each brush,
shrub, or pile of rock was a fairy
o-a gnorr...
She forgot the fairies abruptly
. the car struck a chuck-hole.
The road was im usible. Surely
Taylor could have kept it in bet
ter condition.
It rrew narrower, more deeply
rutted, and the car labored as the
incline grew steeper. A hill
lumped out of the fog snd Con
stance dodged. "Idiot!" she
ito ed, and then, looking at her
watch: I wonder if I ve taken
the wrong road. I can't turn
around. I"
Out of the heavy mist loomed
a horse and rider. For a moment
Constance thought they were go
ing to lope straight Into her car.
She turned on the headlights
and the horse stood up and waved
its forefeet at her. She blinked the
lights and he presented a waving
tail and saluted the hill with his
feet
At least this gave her a glimpse
at the rider: a man who sat the
saddle like a centaur.
Constance breathed deeply with
pleasure. "A t'aquero." she mur
mured. "A real Cabrillo cowboy."
The horse turned again to the
lights, snorting his displeasure,
and above his snort the vaquero
roared, "Turn those damned
lights off!"
Constance complied. She also
turned off the motor and watched
the horse come back to earth, the
man still in the saddle.
"There is a sign at the high
way." offered the rider icily, as
the horse minced daintily around
to the side of the car, which
states this is a private road."
Constance pushed the curtain
aside and leaned out. "ImaRine
anyone wanting ti keep this road
private." she said.
"I" The vaquero stared at her
In astonishment "Seftorita, I . . .
( beg the pardon."
In one awift, graceful move
ment he had dismounted, swept
a sombrero from his head and
ted his mount to the car.
Constance blinked rapidly. It
must be the fog. No man could
look like this one. no modern msn.
He was a copy of the old prints
her father had shown her, one
of the tall, dark Basques who had
come to the new country with
the first Don Cabrillo.
He was tall; tall and dark ef
skin, an amber darkness of layers
cf sunburned skin.
And where but In Spain could
one find such smouldering black
yes, such long. Jetty lashes. And
there was a wave in his hair, a
slight one. probablv Incorrigible,
for it looked as though every
thing but honey had been used to
fatten it.
There was nothing Incorrigible
about his moustache. It was small
and very thin and very black.
That was probablv what made
his smile seem so dazzling.
Golden Land
"VOU are lost, Sefiorita?"
The magic of the Senorita
completed Constance's capitula
tion. She was hr le. She was a
Cabrillo, one of the old Cabrillos
who had ruled thousands of acres,
thousands of cattle; and dozens
of vaqueros like this one.
But would a Castilian Cabrillo
have been as stirred by a cowboy
as she was stirred? Could this ex
citing pulse-sccelerating response
be a strain of the shanty-Irish
cropping out?
"Perhapa I am lost." she con
ceded. "I thought I was on El
Csmtno Real
"But no!" countered the man.
"El Camino Real is many miles
beyond this road. It would not be
wise to try to find it. Fog is bad,
and fog and twilight is what we.
in this country, call the Devil's
brew."
"Then what shall I do?" begged
Constance, lucking hopelessly at
the dim landscape.
"If you will follow this road a
few miles, you will come to a Ca
brillo out-rider's post. Maria can
put you up for the night and to
morrow I will guide you to the
home ranch."
After one backward glance.
Constance decided this was the
onlv solution.
He said he would ride on
ahead, and promised she would be
out of the fog when she reached
the summit. Then, with a quick
movement he had mounted and
waa away.
Constance smiled as she fol
E
Portland, Aug. 20. (41
George Fiedler, acrving 15 years
In state prison for slaying Dt'pu
ty Sheriff Ernest Loll, should
pot be paroled, District A'.torncyJ
the moon
Bowman i
lowed, smiled In spite ot the
motor which protested more au
dibly with each steep mile. The
fog ahead was a curdled sea of
gray, and then it thinned to re
veal a stand of . redwood, next
turned a dull orange, and, as she
resched the summit disappeared
to let her ride out into clear, yel
low light
One look ahead and Constance
braked the car and turned off the
motor. Before her lay half of the
remaining Cabrillo acres, mel
lowed in the last rsys of the sun.
There were the hills of tan velvet
rolling away to plum-colored
mountains standing in a serrated
line sgainst the blue-gray sky.
Sell this? Never!
Yet no wonder Taylor wanted
it for his own. And no wonder
the vaquero looked as though he
had sprung from such a golden
land.
He was riding down the sharp
drop to where a wide adobe
house squatted In the lea of the
hill, dwarfed by the giint Euca
lyptus trees which towered above
it.
He stopped his horse before the
adobe, and a woman, built like
the house, squeezed through the
door.
Constance laughed as she
watched the pantomime.
The woman waved a red apron
excitedly. She threw it up over
her head and back down. Then
she raised her voice and the words
came to Constance through the
thin air.
"Josefa ... Jo see la! Marietta!
Juan! Carlos! Muy pronto!"
Children came scrambling muy
pronto from every direction, and
Maria, after a hurried consulta
tion, waved them on with her
apron. One to the woodpile, one
to the chicken yard, one to the
little garden beyond the grove,
and the girl Into the house.
"Maria." murmured Constance,
"Is preparing for a guest. What
will she think when she learns
that her guest is a Cabrillo?"
Miss Michael
SUDDENLY Michael Mahoney's
great-granddaughter sat erect
her eyes narrowed. The vaquero
had wheeled away from the house
to lope out to the stables where
two riders had just come in from
the hills.
Tonight, after the evening meal,
these men would ait around and
talk. If they didn't know her as a
Cabrillo, she could ask leading
questions and learn all she need
ed to know about the ranch be
fore Taylor knew that she was
within a thousand miles of the
place.
"What name shall I use?" she
wondered, then nodded. They had
called her a throwback. Very
well, she would take her great
grandfather's first name. She
would be Miss Michael for one
night.
A swift shadow fell over the
hills, and Constance shivered in
the chill November evening air.
She started her engine, to make
a alow descent, brakes, gears and
her own young muscles straining
to hold the car back from its im
petuous dash to the valley.
As she pulled up before the
adobe Maria appeared, now
clothed in black, hair pulled into
a neat bun, round face shining
with recent soaping and broad
welcome, a white apron replacing
the red one.
She burst into a flow of Spanish
which left the descendant of the
Dnna frowning in a concentrated
effort to follow her words.
"Welcome." concluded Maria,
and Constance relaxed. Maria, it
appeared, could speak English
after a fashion, and also, after a
fashion, could understand it.
"Si." she had one extra room,
but not for money, for a guest
And, "Si," she could arrange
such humble food as would pacify
the hunger of the Senorita.
Constance followed as she
backed into the long main room
of the house: a room which might
have looked barren with its
white-washed walls, hand-hewn
furniture and rock fireplace, had
not the rafters and windows been
festooned with rows of green and
scarlet peppers, yellow gourds
and strings of peariv white garlic.
And for the little Shrine set
in an alcove off the Inner door,
a small taper glowing before it
Maria backed towards the
Shrine, then respectfully stood
aside, waiting, and Constance,
reaching back in her memory, re
membered a tradition of the Ca
brillos. She had completed a hazard
ous journey. She must give
thanks for its safe termination:
for the welcome of friends and
for food and shelter.
Obediently she knelt and when
she arose found Maria, a fatu
ous smile on her face, nodding
to someone across the room.
Constance turned and her heart
tightened, then quickened its
beat The roqtiero had come in.
Did she imagine disappointment
and vague pain in the expression
m his eves, or was it the shadow
of the fast falling twilight?
Confusedly Maria introduced
him "Senorita Micheel, thees las
Pedro," she offered, then raised
her voice. "Marietta!
Marietta, a pocket edition of
her mother, came scurrving in,
and Constance, aware only of the
slight bow the vaquero had given
at the introduction, followed the
child out of the room and down
a tiny hall to the room she would
occupy.
"Is Pedro your uncle?" she
ssVed of Marietta.
Marietta gave her a startled
glance, then hid her face in
shocked denial.
Te eentlnaeg
James R. Bain of Multnomah
county wrote Fred Finsley
state parole and probation di
rector, yesterday.
Loll was fatally shot Septem
ber 1935. attempting to ar
rest Fielder and Ferdinand Wes
ton for shooting pheasants out
of season. Weston was given
life sentence.
Fiedler will have a Scaring
hi lore the state piruie board
Nov.
8.
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NAZIS' BIG GUNS
OF LITTLE VALUE
London, Aug. 20. HP) Brit
ish military circles acknowledg
ed today that at least one big
German gun in France lias bom
barded the English southeast
coast.
The possibility exists, they ad
mitted, that the Germans might
shell London from across the
channel. But they declared such
a bombardment would have
"only a nuisance value".
There has been only "very
little shelling" of the southern
coast, they said, and "no great
damage."
They reported the crosvehan
nel bombardment possibly came
from a four Inch gun.
Nobility a Prisoner
Edinburgh, Scotland, Aug. 20
(JP John Alexander Buller-
Fullerton-tlphinstone, 26, mas
ter of Elphinstone and nephew
of yueen LUzabeth, was dis
closed today to be a prisoner of
war in Germany.
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
END UP BV EATlN6,vlERV UHCOMFORf
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Washington, Aug. 20. 'Pi
Dr. Dexter M. Keezer. piesident
of Reed College. Portland, was
en route home by plane today
after suggesting that his name
be withdrawn from further con
sideration for the City College
of New York presidency.
He asked the boar l of higher
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DIRT PAINTER
Claiming a new note in softness of coloring. Mrs. Lura Era Purtell. California artist,
"paints" with ordinary dirt, first covering her canvas with a special adhesive, she sprinkles the
dirt in place with a tin spoon. She uses more than 250 different hues in her work.
PASSION FLOWER
This flower was named because it seemed to typify Passion, or last sufferings of Christ.
The corona of the blossom was Imagined to represent the crown of thorns, other parts iha nails
or wounds, while the sepals and petals were taken to symbolise tha ten apostles the two omit
ted being Peter, who denied, and Judas, who betrayed.
Tomorrow: Six knockouts in one nightl
education, however, to complete
investigation o( charges against
him and "bring In a final re
port." Dr. Keerer, informttl tnat the
board would not meet again un
til about September 16. wrote
that it would be unfair to Reed
college to allow his plans to
remain uncertain another
month.
He explained he did not want
to 'run sway from the rort of
attack which the recommenda
tion that I be president of City
College has prompted." and pro
posed that the board make a
final report "on my leputation
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of which it has been forced to
make such conspicuous custody".
Mine Pays Dividend
Yakima, Aug. 19. P) Dir
ectors of the Sunshine Mining
company here today declared a
regular quarterly dividend of
40 cents per share, a total pay
ment of $593,528 going to soma
9.000 stockholders. This makes
the total Sunshine dividends, in
cluding today's. $19,771,544. All
directors attended the meeting.
Closing time for Too Lata te Clae
airy Ada le t 30 p. m.
by JOHN HIX
tWIftNICAU6fNW6H-
10 JNVENWKlbUGt
A4 PATTERN? foR ,
FLYIN6 MACHINES
Wrl COMMON EARTH
$ OJRA VA PUR4EL.I,
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By HAL FORREST
By SOL HES3