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mEmoRy of
i tSTLRDAl: Pstfre tnflulres
uoovt John end John uirim
about Pedro. Constance fesls )M
at being honMl Willi Mllhir oj
thrm. Reexamining dr egret
ment with John the reduce
what a i pot she is In.
Chapter 73
'Try To Understand'
EVEN the fire, which had died
to coals, blued to new life
Pedro'i return. Flame a
leaped with the draught from the
door, to tnrow oronze imnia on
the dark face, to reflect flamea in
the dark eyes,
rnnctmr ran an InauirinK fin
err along the plane uf his cheek
and wondered if all thing unat
tainable became increasingly pre
cious.
"You can't borrow without se
curity. Pedro, she cniaea.
"Michael, hasn't anyone ever
told vou that you can't bargain
-.ah inv? Child, there no se
curity in it, nothing but loneliness
when you rt away; loneiinow ;;
doubt and . . . Michael, how could
r talk steer beef when I was
thinking of you? I was afrsid rd
try to sell some tough hombre on
a lot with Irish eyes and skin that
rated ninety-nine percent cream.
He released her to build up the
lire. The loga caught, blazed, filled
the room with golden light, as
Pedro's presence there seemed to
fill it with life and vitality.
"What have you been doing
while I've been away?" he de
manded.
Constance remembered. Think'
ln PHrn"
"Too much of anything Is
dangerous." he ehided, and leaned
forward to atudy her "what's
wrong?"
Constance sat thinking, sat
wat-hin Pedro. She was distrust.
Inn .inhn Raikthorne as she had
previously distrusted Pedro.
Why? Was she so fickle, so vacil
lating, she swung to the man in
whose presence she was?
Two months ago she had
thought. "It u Pedersen, ana i
against the Taylors and the Ca
brillos, with John to back me.
Now she thought. "It is Pedersen,
Peter Senior and I. against John
and the Cabrillos. with Pedro to
back me."
Until she was sure she wss not
lone In this fight for El Cabrillo:
until she knew, without question,
who would back her to win, she
couldn't speak; she couldn't risk
disloyalty. ,
"I can't tell anyone, Pedro," she
answered slowly.
"That's all right, providing It
doesn't burden you too much.
Why not tell me hypothetlcally?"
Constance wondered if she
could break down the essentials
and put them into a few words.
"Pedro," she asked, "what la
victory? Attainment of a thing, a
person, a condition, or what?"
To me, the victory lies In the
battle. No one can defeat you if
vou come out of the battle know
ing you've given your best. You
can lose every earthly possession,
every earthly love, but as long as
vou know you have played the
game to the best of your ability,
you're not defeated."
In the deep sigh which came
from Constance, came also her
doubts and fears. "Thank you,
Pedro." She stretched her hand to
him. 'That's what I needed to
know."
"And I think," added Pedro,
holding her hand tightly, "that
Michael Mahonev wouldn't count
a battle lost until he had been
slammed Into the bastile and the
key was turned on him. Even then
his luck might turn at the sero
hour."
"Now let's talk business," sug
gested Constance. "I'll have Juli
ano serve dinner In here; provid
ed he'll allow us to remain alone
without a duenna. Poor Juliano.
every time he sees me In slacks,
he heads for the chapel to say a
doren pravera for my soul."
Pedro was home and all was
right with the world.
Quickened Pace
ALL was right with ,"ohn Rask
thome. Constance wondered
how she could have thought John,
her friend, faithful ever-patient
John, would have taken advan
tage of their agreement. It was
ludicrous. They'd find a way to
keep the ranch In the hands of
the Cabrillos. Now all ennri must
he concentrated on making It a
success.
Pedro was home. He arrived
Just in time to save Constance
from something, she was never
sure lust what It was. The last
round-up threatened to be a fu
nereal affair. Little brown men
rode spdlv out of El Cabrillo.
herding the last beef cattle to
market. Pedro rode with them
Thry all returned together. In
high snirits.
Dolores, watching, shook ber
head. "Pedro, she sighed, from
his hand he can make them eat
Life on El Cahnllo quickened
Its pare. False soring came and
the fields were planted. The
Dutch Belted herd moved into the
first quarters, ready, and Immrdi
ately started giving the ranch Its
flrt feeling of a dairv.
Trurkloads of lowing, nrotest
Ing cows came in from the south
to stumble down the runw
look about with resigned eves.
then sniffing food, amble over to
feed bins and accept El Cabrillo
as home.
hven the taonuo men grew
contented.
"Senorila," Francisco, a milker,
railed one evening, "look. Saint
Channel Daisy, she tsa eive in.
crease. Since L Franceesco, have
Closeout of
$2 & $2.50
Dress Shirts
$1.65
Barker's
MEN'S STORE
the moon
fed thees Guernsey herds, they
have grow in thees mielk and
thees butter fat. Manuelo. he who
hath thos Dotch Belted, he has
not soch butter fat" And his
brown face beamed with pride
above the starched white collar of
his uniform.
Now it remained only for the
railroad to be completed so that
they could bring in the rest of
the herds and start El Cabrillo
Rarcho on its road to security. ,
Meanwhile Constance and Pe
dro rode. The hills were no longer
sear brown but the tender young
green of new grass, and the can.
yons were filled with mauve
mists. Purple rain clouds capped
the peaks to shed silver streaks
on the lowlands.
The poppies came like golden
coins scattered by the careless
hands of a Cabrillo, or heaped in
mounds flanked by purple lupin.
Constance, watching the dark
quiet man who rode beside her,
found her own likeness to this
land. Something new. tender and
selfless was growing in her heart,
veiled from maturing by a prom
ise given In the winter of
strsnge country.
"Who said the sands or time
ran swiftly?" demanded Pedro, a
they sat in the shelter of a live-
oak while the spring shower pep
pered their retreat. "Michael,
why three years?"
Constance sprang up and
walked to the edge of their shel
ter, then turned back. "Because I
Dromised. Pedro. You said, that
first day, "how explain love to one
who has never loved.' How did I
know you couldn't bargain with
love?"
He was beside her. was holding
her arms tightly. "You made some
such bargain when you were
east," he stated. "Didn't you know
then?"
"Oh Pedro, how could I tell It
wasn't an infatuation, some ro
mantic dream, propinquity . . ,
Pedro, how do I know now that
it isn't?"
"Don t you know?"
I Didn't Think'
THE rain droned on the trees
and the rocks. Constance lifted
clear eyes to Pedro's. "That niehl
I came back; then when you re
turned from your trip: those two
short times I spent in your arms,
I didn't think. I didn't want to
think, it was enough to be ... to
be there with you. Thai's why I
asked you to promise there'd be
'no more of this.' "
Love ..li t a matter of the
brain," Pedro protested. "Mar
riages that are thought out are
loveless affairs. God knows. Mi
chael, I didn't want to love you. I
wanted El Cabrillo more than
anything in the world, until I met
you, and then I couldn't fight you
to take it away from you.
What I should do is lift vou by
this mop of blue-black hair, drag
you to Beachport. fling vou down
before the magistrate and say-
come on, say the necessary. I
want this woman bound to me so
she won't be able to go out bar
gaining with love." And then drag
vou home ... to our home. Mi
chael."
Constance knew In the next
moment that was what she
wished he could do. All of her in
dependence fled; her desire to
prove herself to the world: her
responsibility to the family. Even
El Cabrillo was no longer home.
Anyplace with Pedro would be
home.
He released her suddenly.
Damn civilization." he snaoDcd.
mounted, and waited for her.
She saw then it was no longer
raining.
I hey rode silently down to the
ranch, their horses lifting minc
ing leet from the puddles; the
puddles giving the gold of the
sun back with doubled radiance.
Constance was thinking, it a too
late now. I can't sell out. I can't
do anything. I'm tied for the three
years. I owe that to everyone.
Pedro, she rode close to him.
please try to understand."
Some of the sadness she had
seen in his eyes, that first evening
at Marias was there, disappoint
ment? I am trying. Michael." he an
swered. "I have been, right along.
i can t understand why. if vou
love me. vou don't trust me
enough to tell me everything.
"I won't ask vou further. As I
said, it's your battle. But from
now on . . . it s up to you. He
leaned forward to look down into
the valley. "What's going on
down there ... at the ranch?"
Through a break in the willows
Constance saw the sun glinting
down on the wet hood of a car.
Don a car. Behind it was her own
little coupe.
Oh dear." she breathed, "it
. it looks as though the family
had arrived. Oh dear." she said
again, and rode forward, leaving
a completely puzzled Pedro, fol
lowing. The Family had arrived. Con
stance knew it the moment she
saw Juliano's face. It was radiant
He bestowed upon her a most su
perior lifting of evebrows as he
made the announcement.
'The Cabrillos." he said. loftily.
"have come to their home ... to
live."
To live ... the Cabrillos.
"Constance1"
John Raskthorne stepped out of
the door and took Constance in
his arms. "Darling, I couldn't stay
sway from you a minute longer.
I He looked up. aware only
then of Pedro.
Constance looked also. The con
tempt she saw In the eves of
young Peter Tavlor seemed to
paralyze her tongue.
Te bt rontlnard
Highway To Reopen
Salem, Sept. II. .?) The
Pacific highway between Sa
lrm's "south city limits and the
12th street cutoff will be open
ed Saturday. The three mile sec
tion has been closed six weeks
to permit reconstruction
The last census of New South
Wales. In 1938. showed roughly
1.380.000 males and 1.336.000
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I Pi Construction of a 901-build-ing
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SEPTEMBER 11, 1940.
OF
HOEHNE AGENT CASE
Los Angeles. Sept. 11.
Unexpectedly, charges against
Herbert Hoehne, 29, accused of
being an unregistered Gerrrfan
agent, were dismissed in federal
court today on recommendation
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS
ILLINOIS
Hr0 3 PIFFsrshT CAPiToL
IN 19 (1820-W)-
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j y miit ' r w fav
( 9" IM I'WW rutw, trtfrlt hi
WILD WEST IN AFRICA
- Predominantly a war .of mounted troops, the Boer war in South Africa was largely dependent
upon its remount service. By far the largest source of supply for mules and cavalry horses was
the United States, which supplied the British with more than 100.000 little cow ponies from the
western prairies.
The British used more than 300.000 horses In an effort to catch the Boer general. De Wet.
whose small force of 2,700 men was mounted on cross-bred Blach Dutch and Armenian
Arab horses.
Tomorrow: Bolt from the Bluel
of the United States attorney
general's' office.
Federal Judge Leon R. Yank
wich dismissed the charges on
motion of United States Attor
ney William Fleet Palmer, who,
only a moment before, had an
nounced he believed he had a
"complete case" against Hoehne
and asked the latter If he wish
ed to change his plea from not
guilty to guilty.
Palmer read a telegram from
O. John Rogge, assistant U. S-attorney-general
in Washington,
which said the arrest of Dr.
Emi! Wolfe, 52, German chemist,
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Sy 'MP0RUH6 100,000 'SMALL Coh 'frNZd
FROM THE PRAIRIE?
in Balboa, Canal Zone, on
similar charge and Wolfe's re
cent guilty plea accomplished
the object in view."
Wolfe was given a suspended
$2,000 fine.
Washington, Sept. 10.-
Commenting on dismissal of
charges against Herbert Hoehne,
accused of being an unregister
ed German agent, justice depart
ment officials said today that a
trial would have forced the de
partment to reveal certain
sources of information It wished
to protect at present.
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