APRIL 4, 1940
CHAPTER X
Synopsis: IHollister, returning
unexpectedly (rum a trip
abroad to the Circle V ranch, his
home from childhood, is troubled
by signs of neglect. Joey, an old
prospector friend of Matt Blair,
Lee's foster father and owner of
the ranch, tells Lee that Matt has
killed himself, probably discouraged
by hard times. The ranch is
going to ruin under Lawler, manager
appointed by Matt's daughter
Virginia, who is staying in NewYork
with her aunt and uncle, the
Archers. Lee is worried when he
sees Slanty Gano, a trouble-maker,
now manager of the old Ceballos
place, hanging around the
Circle V. He hurries east and
urges Virginia to go home. Cancelling
an engagement with young
Stanley Bradish, she hurries west.
From the side of a rock on the
hillside Francisco watched his flight
with a grunt of contempt.
"I thcenk you not fool 'round
here no more." he said calmly, and
went back to his sheep. He had protected
the honor of his house efficiently
and in his own way.
Stanley drew in his sweating horse
only when he came in view of the
Circle V ranch house. Virginia sit
ting at Mali's desk, heard her aunt's
terrified scream.
"Stanley, what has happened? Virginia!"
Fear gripped her. She ran.
Stanley was just coming in. Blood
stained his shirt on the shoulder,
blood was crusted on the fingers of
one hand, where he had pressed
them against the wound to stanch
the flow.
"Stanley! What is the matter?"
"Oh. nothing to be frightened
about." He smiled pallidly. "Somebody
winged inc. Just a pleasant
little attention."
Mrs. Archer moaned, but Virginia
was very quiet. She was as pale as
Stanley now. but her voice was
steady and cool.
"Sit down here in this big chair.
Curly, please help me."
They worked quickly. A call to
Lang brought warm water, iodine
and bandages, and Curly's strong
lingers made short work of Live
stained shirt.
Curly squinted at the wound judicially.
"Whoever plumed ye must'
ve been considerable higher up than
you was," he said innocentlv. "Did
ye get chance at him?"
"i don'i go around armed," hi
said curtly, "and he took good can
not to show himself. I was on my
way hero, just entering the mouth ol
Turkey Gulch."
Mrs. Archer sho' a triumphant
glunce at her niece; Virginia looked
steadily down at the wound she was
bathing. Curly's brick red face was
as nearly expressionless as a human
face can be. The mouth, of Turkey
Gulch was in a direct downward
line irom Lee Hollisier's cabin.
"We should have a doctor. Curly.
Will you get iiini? ' That was the
only comment Virginia made.
"I'll go and bring him." suggested
Curly obligingly. Mrs. Archer followed
him with a nervous backward
glance at Virginia as she left the
loom.
"Stanley, how did it happen?"
Virginia's low voiced question
came the moment they were alone
"Why just as I told you, Vee."
"But you suspect someone," she
persisted. "Who is it?"
"No one tiiat I would care to accuse,"
he answered evasively.
She ignored his light tone, but
she could not ignore the implication
back of it. "But I'm sure that nc
one here would do such a thing."
"No one?" he queried ironically
She flushed. "If you mean Lec
1T,.11.V??^ 1 ? It--'
i:unou;i, nc nuuiu iicvci ngui uiui
way, from ambush."
"Oh, I'm not accusing him." He
raisetl cynical hrows that did accuse
Out on the veranda Curly tooV
some hastily written messages from
Mrs. Archer and started back to the
corral with Stanley's waiting horse
"He's a liar," reflected Curly dis
passionately. "I've been plugged
myself, and I'll bet two dollars Mes
that he carried that cat scratch from
a blame' sight further than Turkej
Gulch."
The doctor came and went, pro
nouncing Stanley's injury only
flesh wound that might be painfu
for a few days, but was not danger
cus.
Virginia wandered restlessly fron
room to room. It was all maddenint
and impossible. Only one thini
stood out definitely. A guest in hei
house had been the victim of i
cowardly attack from ambush, al
most within the limits of her owi
land. That could not be passed it
silence.
Footsteps on the veranda caugh
her attention. She went to the door
"Good evening." said Lee. "I hea
Bradish met with an accident."
"I should scarcely call it that,'
Virginia chilled instantly under tlii
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casual reference.
"Stanley was shot in the back this
afternoon by some contemptible assassin
who hadn't the courage to let
himself be seen. He is a guest in
my house and a friend, and I shall
expect every man connected with
the Circle V or interested in it to
make it his business to find the man
who did it."
His stcadv eyes were on her. unsrnilingly.
"Men don't usually ask
women to fight their battles for
them." he commented.
"He hasn't asked anything!" she
flamed back at him.
"Hope you find your man." he
said politely. "Is Bradish in? I'd
like to sec him. Alone, please."
Stanley looked up sharply at the
tall figure in the door.
"How d'you do," he said languidly.
"Looking for Miss Blair? She's j
just stepped out."
"No, I'm looking for you. I hear
that you're spreading the report that.
some friend of mine tried to kill you |
in my interest. You happen to know |
that it's a lie. In the first place, I
wouldn't take the; trouble to have [
you killed. In the second place, I
din t hand over dirty work to other
people, and in the third place, my
friends don't miss."
The curt contempt of it brought
dull red to Stanley's face. "Look
here." he began angrily, but the
sardonic voice went on.
"If any friend of mine winged you
like that, he wasn't trying to commit
murder. He was posting a warning,
and i advise you to take it. Whatever
you were up to when that thing
happened, don't do it again."
Without waiting for any reply he
turned to go, not by the way he had
come, but by another door.
From the veranda Virginia saw
him go without making any attempt
to see her again. She went slowly ,
into the house to meet her aunt.
"1 thought I heard voices," Mrs.
Archer glanced nervously past her
niece. "You really ought not to
leave that door open. Virginia. You
don't know who may be out there in
the dark."
"There's no one out there. It's
perfectly safe."
"Safe!" Mrs. Archer cried hysterically.
"How can you say such a
thing when Stanley has been nearly
murdered! I shall not feel safe for
one minute until we get away from
' here. I have telegraphed to your
' uncle an' Mr. Bradish?"
- .-^Obj^darling! Without even tell:
ing me."
Mrs. Archer Mushed guiltily.
"Why not?" she demanded with injured
dignity. "One might almost
think that you were trying to shield
this criminal."
She shot an indignant glance at
1 her niece and then broke into hys1
terical sobs.
"Oh, I can't stand it any longer!
I've been worried to death for
weeks, ever since that insolent, lawless
man came east and persuaded
you to come back here. He's at tiie
' bottom of all this; I know it."
"Aunt Adele, please. That isn't
so."
"It's true. Virginia. And you iust
1 keep on, dropping money into this
Iuvinvum-oo i-ui, in piiuai.y tut.* grccu
of that man, instead of taking the
wonderful price Mr. Brndish has ottered
you just out of friendship and
sentiment for the place!"
On and on and on. Accusations,
picas, babbling, hysterical reproaches.
Virginia closed her eyes.
"You needn't worry any more."
she said wearily. "1 wrote to Mr.
Bradish some days ago that I was
; ready to sell. I'll keep my word.'
A second telegram a few days
. later announced the hour of Milton
Bradish's arrival. Virginia went to
meet him, and he greeted her ger..
tally.
"How'd you do? Has that boy of
mine been making trouble for you
i up here? I'll take Him in hand. By
. the way, just drive around to Gideon
Morse's office first, will you? He has
! something there that we'll both
want to see."
She drove him there. Half an
i hour later, when they left Saunders,
. Bradish was in an expansively contented
frame of mind. Virginia was
. unusually quiet, with steady eyes
, fixed ahead of her.
1
"Well, what have you been up
to?"
t It was the first moment that Stan;
ley and his father had been alone,
; but there was more suspicion than
r svmDathv in the stare that Rradish
? bent on his son.
Stanley looked sulky. "I've told
1 you I was riding horseback in this
i infernal desolation, and some sniper
tried to pick me off."
t "Don't talk bosh with me! You
were probably meddling around with
r some girl. One more affair of that
kind and I'll cut off your allowance.
You must think I'm asleep."
5 "Far from it." Stanley drawled it
hearing ,
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out with the slightly natronizing air
that his father particularly hated.
"But I'm not exactly unconscious
myself. And something seems to
tell me that Matt Blair's ore samples
weren't quite so?er?harmless as
they were assayed."
Bradish's eyes horcd into the insolent
weakness of his son's face.
"Well?" he snapped. "What of
it?"
"Oh. nothing," Stanley was bland.
"I just thought I'd remind you that
1 have some business acumen myself.
How about a half interest, giv- |
ing ycu a first option on buying me \
| out? You know." he added, "I i
might have advised Virginia not to j
sell, and managed my wife's inter-j
lests myself." j
Bradish regarded his son with a
heavy stare.
"Trying to buck the old man, are j
you?" he demanded. "Bigger men
i than you have tried that, and most '
of 'em are in the bread lines or adding
up columns of other people's assets."
'
Stanley looked annoyed. "Hollis- !
tcr bucked you pretty successfully
until 1 took him in hand." he hinted
sulkily, hut got no further.
'What's that out there?*' his
father demanded abruptly.
Stanley went to the window.
"The gentleman himself/* he murmured
maliciously. "That's your
amiable friend. Mr. Lee Hollister. 1
wonder what he's up .to now?*'
"Humph! Looks like a competent
young devil." Bradish stared after
him with interest. "I was a fool not
to get him on my side," he reflected.
"Maybe I'll do it yet. Rides like an
Indian and lias as cool an eye as I
ever looked at. Bet he can handle
men. I'll gel him. I'll have him on
ray payroll inside of two weeks."
Lee had been looking for Virginia,
going first to make his inquiries of
the friendly Ling, but Virginia was
not there. She had slipped out without
a word to anyone, wanting only
to get away from the house and
everyone in it. High up on Monument
Rimrock where they had carried
her father to look down forever
on the Valley of the Sun, she sat in
a disconsolate little huddle, her chin
in he; hand, staring out at the rugged
country he had loved. Hot tears
came into her eyes. She. laid her
cheek against the rough rock. "I
had to do it! I had to! You understand,
don't you?"
Quiet and solitude were around
her. Far above, a hawk wheeled in
smooth corves, watching for prey.
Back of her was a grassy flat where
a few pines whispered. A squirrel
whisked up a tree; a darting wren
scolded.
Virginia jumped up quickly. The
girl from the sheep ranch stood a
shoYt distance away, leaning against
the rough trunk of a pine.
"You wish to see me?" asked Virginia.
"No. I not u ish to see you. 1
hate you. But I come."
"But why do you hate me?"
"I hate you because he love you!
I hate you because lie thecnk always
of you and never of me. I hate you
because you throw heom away, iiko
the soiled rag, like a poson snake,
because you see heeni touch me."
Virginia listened, astonished end a
little angry. The last words caught
her attention sharply.
"What are you talking about?
What have you been doing?"
(Continued Next Week)
MABEL SCHOOL HONOR ROLL
First grade: Mary Lou Greer,
Nancy Lee Greer, Shirley Trivette,
Welda Critcher. Janis Wallace, Billy
Wallace, Berl Recce, Robert Wilson
Beri Norman Recce.
Second grade: Frank Combs,
Walter Kirby, Lizzie Brown. Mary
lune Stevens, Virginia Wilson, Lucille
Winebarger, Jackye Lou Wilkinson.
Third grade: Fred Anderson. Reed
Fotter, Blane Wilson, Gene Wilson,
Josephine Greer, Pauline Holman,
Irene Miller, Pauline Norris, Ruby
Smith, Geneva Wallace.
Fourth grade: Ruby Nell Recce.
Ruby Trivette, Faith Thompson.
Irene Townsend, Jean Younce. Elsa
Mac Warren. Nolan Church, John
r^uwiiiu uDinub, lummy iireer, vi
Wilkinson.
Fifth grade: Margaret Burkett,
Cora Lee Trivelt, Christine Oliver.
Lester Warren. Frank Thomas. Shirley
Max Swift. Ruby Dean Wilson,
Bobbie Younce, Fay Wilson.
Sixth grade: Pearl Wilson, Mae
Norris. Mary Lou Miller, Rainy
Lawrence, George Thomas. Eugene
Wilson. Betty Greer. Ruth Miller.
John Henry Oliver, Edna Miller.
Rosa Lee Warren.
Seventh grade: Mary Sue Eggers,
Juanita Warren. Sophia Thompson.
Clyde Miller. Carl Campbell. Edd
Anderson, Claude May, Otto
Thomas, Paul Younce, Geneva Buntgardner,
Pauline Thomas.
w* i believe]
| after all these
h yea fx my wife
p is developing
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3.Y THURSDAY?BOONE. N. C
Three Boys Bu
Jamesburg, N. J.?Two of lb
automobile shown wilh Ihc car ]
(left) and Frank Baurngarfner.
of Ihe car on which lhey workc
eludes iwo house radiators and p
a wood fire in the hood. The fj
gas stove. A small sleam engine
sion came from a truck and the *
I were astonished when they first
a stream of smoke behind.
Gilbert Patten, who wrote th
"Frank MerriwelT" stories of dim
novel ciays. received six dollars icj
his first two short stories.
It it were not for the rotation f
the earth on its axis, the directio
of the trade winds would always b
the same.
The new law extending the ir
come tax to public employees
estimated to affect 2.300.000 pei
iKG AL NOTICES
NOTICE OF COMMISSIONER'S
SALE
By virtue of an order of the st
perior court in that certain proceed
ing entitled "Fred E. Payne, admir
istrator of W. W. Greene, decease*
against Willie Gods, et al," appoint
ing the undersigned a commissions
to sell the lands described in th
petition. I will on Monday. April 2!
1940, at the courthouse door of Wat
atiga county, at 1:00 o'clock p. m
sell to the highest bidder for eas
the following described land, to-wi
Being in Stony Fork townshii
Watauga county. North Carolin;
and bounded as follows: On the we.'
by the lands of J. G. Greene: on tl1
soulhside by the lands of Clenar
Greene; on the oast by the lands <
F. Ij. Greene heirs; Oh the north b
the lands of J. G. Greene, and cor
taining 3,'i acres, more or less,
his the 27th day of March, 194
AIONA BINGHAM,
4-4-4c Commissione
ENTHY NOTICE
State of North Carolina, Walaug
County; Office of Entry Taker fc
Said County?No. 2504.
H. J. McGuirc locales and enter
02 acres of land, more or less, on tli
waters of Buckeye creek in sai
county, beginning en a stake in In
noir school line running north 7
poles to a sugar tree, corner to H. .
McGuire's line; then east 76 poll
to a beech corner; then to A. I
Reynolds; then east with his line 17
poles to a stake, corner to A. C. Fai
thing's; then south 75 poles to
slake in Lenoir school line; the
west with said line 196 poles to tl
beginning, for complement.
Entered the 27th day of Marc!
1940.
MRS. H. JOE HARDIN,
3-28-4p Entry Take
NOTICE OF SUMMONS AND
WARRANT OF ATTACHMENT
North Carolina, Watauga County;
the Superior Court, Before the Cler
Don Trivet t and wife, Mary Trivel
vs. H. R. Trivett, et al.
The defendants, H. R. Trivett ar
wife, Mary Trivett. Willie B. Trive
and wife, Alice Trivett; LeeBowm;
and wife, Ida Bowman; Harve Bov
man and wife. Bowman; Bi
Bowman, Byrd Trivett Yates at
husband, Alfred Yates, and Donn
Trivett, will take notice that tl
summons in the above entitled a
lion was issued against said defcn
ants on the 18th day of March, 194
by A. E. South, clerk of the supe
ior court of Watauga county. Nor
Carolina, for the partition of certa
real estate in Watauga count
known as the Wm. G. Trivett land
containing about 75 acres, more i
less, which summons is retumab
before the said clerk of the superb
court of Watauga county, at his o
fice at Boone in said county, on tl
29th day of April, 1940, at 1 o"clo<
p. m., when and where the defeni
ants are required to appear and an
wer or demur to the petition or tl
relief demanded will be granted.
This 18th day of March, 1940.
A. E SOUTH,
Clerk Superior Court for Wataui
County. 3-21-1
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THE FAMILY
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y Yearly Benefit
40 $ ,10.00
.SO 100.00
160 10000
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axpayers
on the dates mentioned for
Vatauga county:
il 4
9 to 12 a. tn.
April 5
9 to 12 a. m.
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9 to 12 a. m.
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tpril 8
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2 pay their taxes before penaer
the 1938 taxes will be adVERY
GREENE,
c Collector, Watauga County.