PAGE SIX
OUTI
of El
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By PETER
Vt\ X. U Sen-ire?Copyr:
"The result was that early in 1920 '1
1 fcunj myself footloose ar.i with!
a ' ' at a million dollars r- bank. Xow.''
While i was in France T securM a;'
< -i.:itL-si'jn. Sly captain an : I g "> t :'
along splondidiy together. I got to j1
juicw this man and tu trust him a:;.! |(
admire aim. In civil iiSe he'd been j1
general manage: of a ierge V.. Yori::
.. ibroxerag : house. He had about i
fifty thousand dollars and lie w i'
e:i to ouy a sea: on the New Y'.-rk ' '
Stock Exchange and go into busi- j j
uess fa;1 himself But he didn't have *
enough money to buy the seat and
finance his operations
"I to.'J him I'd finance him one I
hundred thousand in cash against hi? ^
fifty thousand in cash, his experience
an i abi-ity. and we would be equal
partners. We ina'to money from the j
day we opened our doors."
"And you say you're not a fioan- ;
CiC*!"."
"I he I list for nuney lias never I'
overwhelmed me I find, too, that I j
love Edeil Valley. I'm gre;?? to close j
out my interests in Nc.v York and,
return here in the fall "
l shall he Very lonely while you 5
away, Nate."
"And that reminds mo that i have
seat down to San Francisco for aj|
rir.e- and here it is. Tr it's too s>igr i1
w :: have a tuck taken in, ?ind if TTs !:"
tot. .-small or you prefer some oUier ]
stone I'll change it." And he slipped I -s
on her finger a square emerald worth
at . ist a hundred steers. It was the o
li st piece of! jewelry she had ever g
owned iirrR her hot tears ->f emotion ' a
baptized it. h-ji' iv.?rm dps c:ire.o;e<J 1
;t in a silent promise- ho knew would
rtever be broken.
Suppose '.ve pet married in r hurry
and make th New Vork trip a t
honeymoon." be said. c
Slit shook her head. Impossible f
uotil -lad's estate has bton .settled t
I can't leave here nctv. I have to I
w.rk this outfit out of debt, because
I can't afford a trousseau until I do. c
However, dear, you run on to New c
York complete your business tin re. i
and when you return we'll make those t
two mergers you spoke of. I'm too bury
now. I've got a lot of those I
early calves still to brar.d and I'll '
have to brand about a thousand late <
calves in the fall. I don't want to j'
} ieave ahy Worries liedllnu irie when j we
ft on our honeymoon " !i
"And We'll spend our summers inji
Eden Valley and our winters outside." . !
he suggested. 11
She leaned against him a little .)
wearily and held hirn tight but .ii-1 \'
r.ot answer
* r ? * 11
Somebody once remarked t.hatj
. .. ve vi surpassing interest
for a period creator than nine days
wjr forty-eight hours following the 0
unexpectedly lisinfill and highly dramatic
denouement if his plan to '
sway public opinion against Nate Ti- '
chenov and Lorry Kershaw, Silas!'
Babaon suffered acutely, not because
he was sorry for what he had done
but because the effect had been so
wholly tun spect'd. aim pregnant of
disaster to him. After having arraagea
to protect the expose or the
whole affair in court with probable
penitentiary sentences for a couple
of locen hitherto respectable but
mercurial citizens. he began to view
lift with a less jaundiced eye; and
SSwheit. at the expiration of the proverbial
nine days, he felt morally
certain that "that Eden Valley gang,"
as he now referred to Nate. Lorryana
Sv.be Tennev. was going to clir.g
to its ancient tradition and have
nothing whatsoever to do witn legal
reprisals, all of his old jauntiness and
optimism returned
K: waited two weeks longer and
when st the expiration of that period
Henry Rookby. looking faintly
reminiscent of a potato sprout put
forth in a cellar, returned to his labors,
Babson left the business of the
hank in 11 r. Rookby's hands and proceeded
to motor forth among the forlorn
Valleyites and argue them into
SlPTliTlP" tho n.?KifiAn ?
- o f-n nvii lu uir; i,u Llil
board of supervisors for permission !
to organize the Forlorn Vailey Irri- c
gation district. Having had a surveyor
de-limit the areas susceptible !
to surface irrigation, he knew the
identity of every farmer whose sig- 1
nature was necessary for his pur- =
pose, so a week's time sufficed to aequite
the number of signatures le- 1
gaily necessary, and at the next reg- i
ular meeting of the board of super- '
visors, of which Eabson was a mem- c
her. he presented the petition in per- 1
son and addressed his colleagues at *
some length and with unusual elo- 1
quence on the desirability of favorable
action by the board. f
The chairman of the board rapped P
with his gavel. "The pros appear to f
hare their innings," he announced
smilingly. 'Are there any cons to be f
heard from
\ man rose in the rear of the hall, n
walked up to the railing in front of *
the dais upon which the hoard sat. a
and bowed first tc the board and c
I
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.AWS |
DEN
i
B. KYNE
igfifc bv Pete: B. Kyne
I 1
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ihen t< the su hence "Mr. Cniirmai
?gentlemen: My name :s John \v.
ji?an, a member of the San F'.uilisec
law firm of Brooks. Oagan and
Brooks, and I appear as the i eg a 1
representative of the three riparian
Wliejs along Eden Valley Creek, t
art. Estate of Ranceford Kershaw,
! e.l. the Bar H Land and Catlie
Company, and the Mountain Valey
I'ewor Company. the last two
y mpauies. as is generally known, bong
owned i:i their entirely by Mr.
Vathaa Tichenor. On behalf of my
hients, t desire formally to protest to
lib: hoigcrable board against the forliatior.
of the Forlorn Valley Irrigaioh
District and will state my reams
briefly."
Gagan immediately proceeded to do
o, painting to his auditors precisely
he picture that Nate Tichenor had ;
lainted to bin., challenging Lnn Mor- !
On to gainsay one single legal state- I
.rent Gagan spoke simply, earnestly
irraying his facts in legal sequence, j
When he had finished his address
lagan bowed to the board and start-1
1 to leave the chamber There was j
Hence until he was hat f way down J
he aisle, then a storm of hisses and ;
kjos broke around iiim. Gagan looked i
>ack as he reached the doer and saw i
hat Silas Bnbsor. was on ins feet, his I
land raised for silence.
"So you're goiajr to refute my
to'env "t. eh'" ' ?aga>l CP.!!''i hao.it.
v\- :;. before 1 depart ''?! give you
nd your deluded followers some very
rod advice, free The man who acts
s his own attorney has a tcol for
client."
vHAPTEk XII
The hoard of supervisors granted
he politic:. unanimously and amidst
heers and rejoicings. B:Ux?on's j
j>;ecb, in lebulti! to Gagan's proved
he the masterpiece of his caret r.'
is read to the meeting the law uiiler
which the district proposed to "pirate?read
it right out of the Code
if Civil Procedure, toe and poohiocetf
the idea of a slick metropolian
lawyer trying to frighten h on
vst and intelligent men with crazy
vagalxioa of unconstitutional lan that
.vas and for some years had been
unbodied m the code. "If this law
was unconstitutional," he yelled, "it's
ir, co:i.5 fitu Mhtraii fy Aouij ituvc hra
ILscovered hof.-.n- IK.. Kill
submitted to the Legislature and ^
t. hadn't been discovered then the
Legislature, a majority of whom are
practicing attorneys, would have discovered
it; and even ii the Legislature
had, unbelievably, faded to discover
it, lh: supreme court, whose
July it is to pass upon the constitutionality
of our State laws, would
iong smee have discovered it. Poobp?x>h
and a couple of what-nots for
the mighty Mr. Gagan! We are not
to frightened V>v mer. of straw "
The project moved forward without
ielav. Sixty days from the date of
the approval of the petition by the
:?oard of supervisors the Forlorn Val y
irrigation District had come into
egal existence, by a very substantial
majority of the residents ;u (he area
o be- irrigated. Silas Babson. tired,
jjt happy" and triumph ant. was its
President; Henry Kookby, who owned
eh acres in the district, was the secvtary,
and the Bank of Valley Genes
was the depositor)' of the funds
>f the district.
Within two weeks after the district
iad come into official being, the slate
vater commission obligingly allocat1
to it the flood waters of Eden
Galley creek. A bond issue was got
but within a week; within two weeks
he State board certification committee
had certified the bonds as legal
investment for tru3t companies and
savings banks and. by unanimous
/ote, Silas Babson was given the job
>f disnosine' of thprn trv rV>o vucrv^erf
bidder. A New York house wired in a
ii<I of ninety-one. and after devoting
i month to the task Babson decided
:his offer was one point higher than
le could secure locally, so the district
closed on the offer and. with the
cceipt of the money, proceeded at
nice to spend it.
Although Bahson took measures to
ipprize himself of the return of Nate
fichenor to Eden valley, his scouts
irought him no news of the latter's
irrival, although as a matter of fact j
Tichenor had returned some four I
nonths after his departure. He came j
n over the mountains to the south in
i four-passenger cabin plane and lanled
in the meadow just below the j
Cershaw ranch house. Lorry was in
lis arms before he was half way up |
o the house. I
"Well, I'm all cleaned up in the
last," he told her. "How far have you |
vrogresscd in the settlement of your
ather"s estate?"
"All ready to close as soon as I can
ind the money to pay the State and
federal estate taxes. They aren't
early so much as I had feared they
rould be. The cattle, of course, were
ppraised at the low price existing I
n the day of father's death?and i
WATAUGA DEMOCRAT- -EVE
"It Pays To Smile'"
| NEW YORK . . . Mian Mildrpl
omiic, air^i, nos ?J>
her tome town of Wilbur, Wash.,
population TOO. one year ago. , . .
Today she is hero to pose for artist
McClelland Barclay, with her loriest
4'Queen of Dental Charm" smile,
the title she won orer 23,000 other
American beauties.
beef is f}p to nine and a half in tfc
r audi n w .tr.d slioiild b-? twelve cent
within a. year. I'm told by my catt
brokers And the federal tax apprals
I er decided the land has been great 1.
, depress?in value by reason of th
j diversion of the water to Forlorn V.i.
Vy I
"That's a. favor Bapson didn't real
o he was u-nr.g to do you. Is every
thing ?n tho ranch running smooth
Iv th. coining up that Rub
Texiuey can t attend to""
fc'he. nodded "As noon as beef got
to crnt.s I'll sell five Sbousan
I fat steers pay the taxes and close th
estate."
"Don't. Hold them over till sprii)
an i ;levcn cents mav'oe. I'll loa
you the money to pay the taxes. H \
so-a can you roarry me?"
In about! three minutes, if we ha
a licence and a preacher bandy."
He gli - t the sun. "Justice
ion}; leisyc !. m:.ke!h the heart sick
I he orated ''Likewise marriage a?l
! or you've ma le up- your mind. V 1
jskin right into the liouse. climb inc
I your Sunday dress, throw a few art
jcles in your aid straw suitcase ar.
j meet me here in ten minutes. We v
[just, about got time to get over lb
mountains ana Into Keno before dari
In California i\c have to annoutu
our intention to get married and the
wait for three days, in case we d
uido to change our mind. M;. inind
made up, so we'll take our trade I
Nevada an 1 avoid annoying delays."
you're a man after my own heart
Lorry cried joyously, and came in!
his anus. Ke hold her oUscr hw. fii
ger under her chin, tip-tilting hi
sweel fane toward him, the while 1
| appraised her hungrily, comparir
| her w ith the girls of her age in tl
world he liud known before the hon
ling instinct had brought him hack i
| Eden Valley. He thanked God si
I wasu't soft, that she had high eou
! age .initiative, and the power of u
stantaneous decision in an emerge]
cy: that hers was the old, fierce, tu
questioning loyalty that was his ow
heritage. A man could rely or. h.
always the told himself), know a
ways exactly where she stood SO
I was incapable of fibs, evasions, or tl
tears that camouflage little ferainir
ieceits Her code was a masculir
one, but >f quality rare enough
this decadent generation- the code <
i gallant gentleman, plus that of tl
very finest of her own sex. Yes, st
bad character, courage, humor, set
relince, capabilities of extreme sel
sacrifice, tenderness, helplessness?s
lngel with a touch of the devil i
her. . . Well, better a touch of tt
j devil than a trace of the cat.
Dear little outlaw. I love you so
he murmured, and kissed her a doze
times. "Make it snappy. Time an
visibility wait for no pilot."
(CONTINUED NEXT WEEK!
UPPER VALUE CKUC1S NEWS
The children of our community at
happy again, as school opened Mot
day.
Mr and Mrs. Don Isaacs and soi
Billy, of West Virginia, visited horai
folks over the week-end.
Mr. Melvin Townsend returned t
Shepherds, Va., last week, takin
with him Miss Thelma McGuire, wit
has accepted a position there.
Mrs. Dee Coffey and Mrs. Jamf
Brown visited Mrs. Jim Shuli lai
Wednesday
Mr. and Mrs. Everett Honeycult t
Hickory spent the week-end wit
home folks in this community.
Mr. Raymond Ecker of Brooklyn
V V tr - ?
? .., juus .via dim erown, Mr. Ha
Coffey and Mis3 Snow Brown wen
to Richmond, Va., last Tuesday. The
had an enjoyable trip.
Mrs. John Griffin is visiting he
mother, Mrs. Mary Brown.
At
BOONE DRUG CO.
The REXALL Store
:RY THURSDAY?BOONE. N. C.
BUSTER RUST PROJECT
COMPLETED FOR SUMMER
j Howard K. Clapp, district leader of II
j blister rust control, has completed his|!
{work here for the summer, and in or
St..i men-. Mot.Jay 'lisdostKl that his i
tore. :.a j c tvered ll.oob acres of pine <
ati! protective zones anji removed a '
total of 0 <147 curriutts or.J goose ber- i
r!e-- M: C'app's statement, in part. 1
follows:
"Tn:re is still .about one BO'ih's
v. rk ' i.e.- i n-.- in this county beforej
ail the pile has been scouted. The j
w ,rk v.:!! be started again next spring)
g dining around the first of April, j
I r lis S' on as the loaves begin to come
ut The i i.'ivated gooseberries and!
iii"rants that have not been removed I
wi:: be rente, ed next year, as a Wis- j
tor rust control area must be deter- ,
::Sefor the State has the authuity
to go forward and remove:
th that have 'oeei: left this hum- ;
vr Ti c ? rerati n of Watauga
:>e lie has been fine and 1 hope that'
th. wrk u have done this sens.in (
wili be of benefit to the people La 1
sect I ?.?. :;ivThe
following local men have been j
assisting Director Class in his work !
during- Lhe summer: Claude Farthing.'
Stanford Berry, Milton Winkler and !
0*car Brown.
Anyone desiring information con-1
coming this work may do -so by writing
to Mr. J. a Ferree. State Leader,
004 Comity Goiirtbouse. AsJitville. X.
- C. at any time during the winter
months. j
Philippines' Fore?t Lxnds
There arc 40,1"X),0L<J acrns of forest
lands in the Philippine islands.
\ Ol'H DAUGHTER?Distinguished
president of a college for women discusses
modern girls and advises
shucked and worried fathers and
mothers what to do about things they
don't approve. An iiifceiesting article
, I in the American Weekly, issue which
: comes with the Baltimore Sunday
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