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MEDFORD MAIL TRfBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1940.
mEmpRij of
rtSTEROAr. Pedro Mils Com
$tanct the only explanation he
viitl tccrpt u immediate mar
naat. He doem'l wail to (war
he rfunu for fltr refusal. The
next day the mtlkina iiffer be
cause (ha hands celebrated loo
trail.
Chapter 27
'Old Sour Puss'
IT DEVELOPED that Lamson
knew something of cow. He
could "strip" them, and ho ;ould
watch the anlker in one Darn
Constance could watch another
and keep records for the three
barns, watch the milk troughs
and, by using Pancho. could see
that the lone sober man on the
ranch didn't fall asleep and let
the cans overflow at the depot
It was nine o'clock when Lam
son, donning hit coat and hat.
saw Constance riding back to the
barm. Lamson was in high leather.
He had stripped. He had mixed
feed. He bad tossed hay. He had
sung "coo bossv" to his heart's
content.
Constance, disheveled, angry
and distressed, found Pedro wait
ing with hiin.
"You're right In one thing.
Pedro, conceded. "You can trust
this man. He's worth a dozen Ca
brillos." Lamson smiled happily as Pe
dro rode off. "A fine young man,
Conchita," he murmured. "H'about
those keys. Juliano took them
from your desk for Master Don.
H'l took the liberty of telling Mis
ter Taylor."
They rode quietly back to the
ranch house. Constance was
thinking. "This is a foretaste."
She thought: "worth a dozen Ca
brillos." She was i Cabrillo, but
so was Donna.
The weird whistle of a work
train in the hills of El Cabrillo
echoed and re-echoed. She
thought: "Saturday Donna will
ride a train; ride through the rib
bon barrier of El Cabrillo: Donna
who cares nothing for El Cabrillo.
Whv? What's wrong with me?"
She arrived at the ranch to find
Don already in his car.
"Hi. Connie, I'm on my way to
Brachport, anything vou want
there?"
She shook her head. "No. But
I want the keys to the wine cellar
and I don't want them taken from
my desk without my permission."
And she told him what had oc
curred. Don looked at her angrily.
"Who in the devil owns this
place?" he demanded. "Those
keys belong to mother and Donna
and me as much as they do to
you. remember that. And those
men are as much under our di
rection as yours"
"They are under the manager."
Constance reminded him.
"We'll see." retorted Don. "I'm
going to need those musicians
over the week end. so If you have
anv of the poor devils milking
cows, find someone to take their
places. I'm of! to buy a station
wagon -and get some lights In this
plnre."
"Don." Constance cried, "we
can't afford lights and . . . and
station wagons."
"You can't." Don corrected.
"Old sour puss." And he was off.
Constance sought her mother.
Mia. Cabrillo was still in bed a
maribou jacket, fire in the hearth,
and yellow sunshine streaming In
through the windows, all warm
ing and glorifying her.
"Chita, good morning." she
freeted. "Dear. I believe I'm go
ing to like it here."
Constance watched Juanlta.
J'liiano's granddaughter, come in
with a tray, watched her rapt ad
miration of the seftora and un
derstood. Nadine would have the
adoration necessarv to her exist
ence. "Now child, tell mother all
bout your farm. How are things
progressing? Are vou going to in
crease our Income this year?"
Constance considered telling
her the truth. That thev could not
expect to profit the first vear.
Nadine would not understand,
simply because she wouldn't
listen.
Always Waiting
"VOU may count on the usual
1 income." she evaded. "And
things were going very well,
mother, until last night."
Carefully the explained what
the dereliction of the employees
meant. "Mother, vou must insist
upon letting Mr. Tavlor keep
those kevs."
"Constance, must you take that
tone? Here these dear people
have looked forward to our re
turn for vesrs: it it only natural
that they should want to cele
brate "
Constance wondered what
other response she had xpected
She told then of her conversation
with Don.
"Oh, Chita." moaned Mrt. Ca
brillo. "Don't you see we must
keep Don contented? And we
need lights. We can't have guests
stumbling around in the dark. As
for the station wsgon. how else
could we bring them from the
airport'
"Just remember. Conttance.
that if you had not been to stub
bornly insistent upon keeping
this ranch, this condition would
not have arisen. You've worked a
great hardship on everyone."
Constance went on to her room
with that last phrese ringing in
her ears: a great hardship on
vervone."
Slowly, as she changed to blur
slacks, white shirt and scarlet
Waterworks Boom
Washington, Sept. 18 iJ'i-
Alt BARKER topcoats
are thower proofed
$19.95 to $50.00
Barker's
MEN'S STORE
the moon
cardigan, she conceded that her
mother was right. She had
worked a great hardship on
everyone from the Taylors, the
Cabrillos. John, the employees,
down to herself.
And for what?
"Senonta Conchita," Dolores
rapped on the door, "the Sehor
John iss wait breakfast with you."
John was waiting in the patio,
a warm, sunny spot John's greet
ing was as warm and cheering.
"Lamson told me you'd been toe
busy for breakfast," be explained,
"so I waited."
He had waited. Would he never
stop waiting?
Despite her depression she was
hungry, and with food and hot
coffee her spirits revived.
"I suppose you're wondering
why I intruded." John observed,
as he lighted her after-breakfast
cigaret "I felt you'd need some
one here to handle things for vou.
The Taylors alone are enough for
a little girl, but the Taylors and
the family combined"
Constance leaned back In her
chair. "You still feel that the
Tavlors are enemies?"
John looked at her sharply.
"Don't you?" he countered.
"I've had no reason to think
so."
"I have." he said earnestly.
'The old man practically told me
last night, that he had staved on
because he thought vou couldn't
pull through and he'd buy in
when you failed.
The voung fellow believes In
taking an easier route. He couldn't
set iou. so now hes trying for
Donna. He's taken her nn a tour
of the place already.. They rode
out a little while ago . . . that is."
he qualified. "Donna rode out to
meet him someplace, she didn't
say where."
Donna, up at this hour? Con
stance wondered why her heart
felt dead, a heavy burden in her
breast.
John laughed. "And looking
like something off a dude ranch
poster"
Dispute Over Pancho
"CENOKiTA!" The patio door
" opened ana tne stauieooy stooc
there. Donna behind him. "Am 1
to saddle Pancho for times young
lady.'"
Constance didn t know the
cause of tier revolt. One thought
na&ncd through her mind: one
question, was Donna to take
everything tnat belonged to her?
You are to saddle Pancho tor
no one but me," she snapped: and
to Donna, "Pancho is mine, and
no other person on this ranch is
going to ride him."
Donna Hashed into the patio.
"He's not yours. He's no mora
yours than mine or Don's ox
mother's. You don't own this
place and you don't own anything
on it, alone. I'll ride Pancho . . .
Juliano." she called to the major
domo who had appeared as
though he'd been waiting for such
a call. "I want Pancho saddled
and this . . . tins boy won t do It,
will you?
Juliano gave Constance one
triumphant glance as he passed to
follow Donna to the stables.
It would seem, observed John
whimsically, "that vou own only
one-fourth of Pancho."
Constance looked at him with
unseeing eves. In hei mind was
a marble shaft, tl. 'tying Heaven,
and at the base was cut the
phrase: "You win what vou
light for."
John. I must attend to some
business; can you amuse yourself
for an hour or so?"
She didn't wait tor an answer.
She ran through the patio gate
and up the hill to come face to
face with Pedro. Here was her
chance to unburden her heart:
her golden opportunity to explain.
She looked at his expressionless
face and the anger of the morning
rolled into a barrier between'
them. She hated him.
"Your newest victim will meet
you at vour rendezvous immedi
ately." she informed him. bitterly.
Pedro stared at her a moment.
then his face became radiant. Ht
laughed at her. "Oh, so my devas
tating charm still works. Well,
be seeing you." And he strode ofl
towards his horse.
Constance arrived in Peter
Taylor's ollice. blinded with an
ger. "I'm going to buv Pancho."
she Informed him
Peter Tavlor shook his head as
though to clear lis eves of the
shacsv brows which had iutted
lorward at the voung tornado.
ihounhl vou owned him.' he
observed.
"Only his tail." said Constance
"He's a Cabrillo possession, and
I m not a Cabrillo. I haven't even
bought a shoe-lace ,-jt of that
monev I borrowed on mv soul,
and so help me . . Pancho isn't
going to be ridden to ribbons if I
can help it. How much is he
worth?"
Peter Tavlor rumbled like an
approaching strrm. "You would
have to choose the most valuable
palim:no on the ranch."hr burst
out "Whv must vou buv him?"
ll(vau.se. Constance cried,
"because . . . rh." ler voice broke.
"Damn it. I'm goir.g to ... to crv.1
"Michael . . . now Michael"
pleaded Tavlor. getting un from
his chair with ditticultv. I'm not
m a singing mooi this morning.
Don't do that. Hell's bells, girl. I
can't allord to buv the horse for
vou and I'd buv the whole outfit
to stop Piat nnise"
I ... I'm sorry." sniffled cjn
stance.
"Here" Tcter Tavlor held out a
large bandana. "Now Wow."
To b ronflnurd
A total of 21S waterworks pro
jects were commu ted at a cost
'of 17.l!i:.7S by fur north
we.-t states whieh took artvant
age of the WPA's sevenycar
construction program.
i Jones Succeadt Hopkins
Washington, Sept. 16 i Vi
The senate confirmed Saturday
the nomination of Jesse II. Jones
as secretary of commerce to
succeed Ha r II n-kins. re
i'.'pod
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FRED MEETING HIS WIFE'S MOfriER
At THE StATiON , 60t SO EN6RD$$EP LISTENING
TO "THE BALL 6AME ON THE RADIO IN ERNIE PLUMER'S
CAR THAT BEFORE HE KNEW IT THE 515 HAD COME AND
GONE AND HI5 WIFE'S MOTHER HAD BUNDLF.D HERSELF AND
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but there is complete religious
liberty.
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Reply!
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APPEASEMENT AT
Sun Valley, Idaho. Sept. 16.
iP) Allied surrender of Czecho
slovakia to Germany, Novelist
Frnest Hemingway observed to
day, was "like arming a gang
ster with an unlimited supply
of tommy guns and saying,
'Here, take these, I know you
won't use them.' "
The author's theory, advanced
in an interview, was that with
out the arms obtained from
Czechoslovakia's famed muni
tions plants, the Nazi war ma
chine could never have rumbled
so pulvcrizingly across western
Europe.
In support of his argument,
Hemingway cited the compara
tively poor showing of German
tanks on the testing grounds of
the Spanish revolution, of which
he was an on-the-spot observer.
"The success of the German
tanks," he said, "came after
Czechoslovakia was sacrificed
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
SliIyas
E-L.YERS ClLKl'T fkt OBOEBCD
A60UT LIKE CAB DRIVERS
TOUR FATHER MOT Bfc MY
BOSS ..RUT I'M .STILL THE
COMMANDER. OF THIS CLIPPER.
SHIP.. UNTIL I LAND Htl
BACK IN NfcVH YORK.'
r SUIM . UNTIL I L&ND MeI I IV ' V I! i I. s. I
V-BACk.NNtwYoaK. OV7
to Germany at Munich. The
tanks the Nazis used in France
came from the Skoda works
and were the finest in the world.
'Those tanks are not the
same as the ones the Germans
used in Spain. Instead, they are
the ones the Czechs would have
used against the Germans had
not Chamberlain handed them
over at Munich.
I "Chamberlain's appeasement
gave Germany Bren guns, which
were being made for the allies,
the finest anti-aircraft guns, the
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INSECT BOMBER
K strange parallel of human vlclousness exists In the Insect world In the Ocnaea smith!
Cole fly, which sprays eggs by hundreds over land inhabited by trap-dobr spiders. The lar
vae bore into these "air-raid shelters." then kill the spiders by boring into their bodies.
JOB INVENTOR
Eight-year-old Charlotte Schnitzer of Chicago needed money) so she invented a job. She
organised a Junior summer school for small children, in her own home. Now 16. she has
found the job profitable.
Have you invented a job? To encourage initiative among employment seekers, John Htx
will pay $2.00 to any "Job Inventor" featured in Strange As It Seems. Write to John Hix.
care of this paper. Tomorrow: Saccharin Discovered.
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finest war material! in the
world."
Hemingway is here with two
sons for a bunting and fishing
holiday.
Noted Engineer Dead
Washington, Sept. 16. tF)
John Possehl. S4, general pres
ident of the International Union
of Operating Engineers (AFL)
died today.
French Warships Depart
Vichy, France, Sept. 18. 'rP
The admiralty announced today
port,
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rAATAiu TVmxji is i a. i c '
TIAm?..
WHAT
q,UITE SURE THAT YOU
H.-I rot. JHtKE
MAKES
By COMMAND... RUT
-you
CMwltt,'
THINK.
SO?
that three French cruisers and
three destroyers had Jett th
naval base at Toulon, on th
Mediterranean, for Dakar. Sena-
gal, in French Africa. The ships
were understood to nave left
three days ago.
Loan Idea Okayed
Washington, Sept. 16 iJPh
The house approved confer
ence report Saturday on legisla
tion authorizing $300,000,000 for
loans to South American coun
tries by the export-import bank.
by JOHN MX
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WHO HOLOS ALMOST
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WHOSE LIFE DEPENDS
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