SITEENTH INSTALLMENT
“In Nevada, the woman in the
saloon told me my fingering wasn’t
so good; took the guitar and show
ed me. That interested me a lot.
1 ask her to have supper with me.
“She had sung in the camps in
the Seventies, when mining was a
big game on both sides of the Sier
ras. In Placerville, on the Cali
fornia side, she had met a young
adventurer named Dalton. She took
him at first to be a prospector, and
he did prospect to some extent. But
a little later, when she became his
sweetheart, she learned that he
often took the road with a route
agent he called Reeves. They
worked the mountain passes, hold
ing up back trains and wagon ship
ments of gold till the country got
too hot for them, and they disap
peared.
"So May’s love affair didn’t last
long. I gathered it was she who
did most of the loving. Dalton was
a swaggering young rascal, with a
lot of life and good looks, and no
heart to speak of. It was that, I
think that attracted her. She was
used to to being courted.
"After Dalton left her she had a
baby girl. Whether it was his or
not, she didn’t know for certain.
She’d known him that short a time.
It interfered with her work, so she
sent it away to be cared for, shut it
out of her life and forgot about it,
as she tried to forget about Dalton.
"Then she met a rancher named
Owens, who was taking up a graz
ing claim on the Neveda side, south
of the Carson Valley. So she mar
ried Owens, and went with him tc
Neveda, to settle down and be a
faithful wife.
i icr inaiudgc lu wwciijj was uii
hapy. He was ungenerous and un
sociable—almost a miser. The
ranch was a day’s journey from any
neighbor. No one, hardly, came
near it. He was jealous of that old
life of hers—had suspected, when
he married her, what it had been.
He worked the ranch himself, so
there was no one to talk to but
him, and he didn’t talk.
"One night in summer, when
Owens had watered the stock and
she was watching him for the
umptieth time draw a lamp along
side the table, fix the wick and read
some month-old newspapers, she
heard a faint tapping on the door.
She opened it, and there stood a
visitor. For her!
"A little visitor about three years
old, and small for her age, with a
cute, solemn baby face, and wet
eyes blinking in the lamplight, look
ing lost.
"Nice mans said you know where
is my Daddy?”
"The woman gave a smothered
cry and gathered the child hungrily
in her arms, not asking yet how nor
why it had come there.
"Owens lit a lantern to go out
and see who had brought the little
one to the door. The rider was out
of earshot now, but on the porch
was a sack of gold and a note say
ing, 'This baby wandered off a
train during a hold-up. Keep her
till the pose comes looking for her.
The gold is from the robbed train,
and is yourn if you want pay for
your trouble.’
"That was all. The rest they
tried to piece together from what
they could make of the child’s talk.
"For hours Owens pored over
that note and over the gold, hand
ling it, counting it. . . . And the
woman was yearning over the trea
sure in her arms. Suppose, by some
great fall of chance, it was never
claimed?
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| night, and the next day they wait
; ed and watched the trails. The
same hope was in their minds,
though their reasons for hoping
were far apart.
"Several days passed with no
I sign of the posse. Finally Owens
; made a trip to the nearest freight
station to get the news. In his
j absence, the woman started making
a little suit of overalls for the girl.
I “Toward sundown she went into
the barn to look for eggs for the
baby’s supper. While she was grop
ing for nests in the hay, she caught
! hold of a man’s boot. She didn’t
'scream. The first thought that
j flashed through her mind was that
j mis was the man who’d brought
' the child and the gold.
I "But the man sac up and smiled
j at her, and then he knees almost
j gave away. It was Dalton—whom
j she’d never expected to see again,
j He’d probablv learned she was mar
|ried to the rancher, and had counted
| on her helping him, if it came to
! that.
"It was his turn to be surprised
when she spoke about the child and
the gold. He hadn’t had anything
| to do with leaving them there. But
I after thinking it over, he told her
| how it must have happened.
"He and the man he called
Reeves had been waiting by a
lonely stretch of railway track in
the desert to stop a pay train, when
a stranger on a bay horse rode by
place they were hiding. He looked
like a good gun hand, and they cut I
him in. During the hold up the
child strayed off the train. When
it pulled out and they found her,
Reeves wanted to leave her there.
They split on that; the man with
bay horse picked her up and rode
south alone, with his share of the
loot. Dalton believed he had hap
pened on Owen’s ranch by letting
his horse hunt water.
"The other two struck west foi
the mountains. Dalton’s horse hac
gone lame, and Reeves took all the
gold on his mount to lighten it:
weight. But it still lagged anc
when the pose caught their trail
Reeves was far ahead and kept go
ing. Dalton left the lamed horsi
on some rocky ground, so he woule
seem to have gone on with Reeves
riding double, and after several day
trailing on foot by a roundabou
way, came to Owen’s ranch.
"As to the child, Dalton though
it was a bad break to find her there
but he encouraged May’s desire t<
keep her—since giving her uj
would ruin his hideout. So th
baby had its hair cut, as well a
being put in overalls.
"Just after May had done thi
tash thing, Owens came in tha
night with the news. The pass
seemed to have lost the trail of al
three of the fugitives, but th
j father of the missing child had beej
! killed in the hold-up, and—wars
I than that—was a United State
marshal.”
i "The man in the barn had plent
j of time to take stock of Owen’
character and of his own position
As the pursuit died away and it
word came from Reeve', Daltoi
realized that his partner had desert
ed him. He had also done som
thinking about the way the poss
j had been mistracked.
j "Dalton proposed staying at tli
i ranch as a hired man until the trai
| was cold, and callinng himtelf th
'father of the little 'boy.’ The ver;
; daring of the scheme would protec
l them.
IFough the police had given u]
hope of finding th' lost child, ther
was no slacking in the hucr for th
three road agents involved in th
killing of the Federal marshal, am
Dalton knew that there won't! b
none.
"Deciding to have the country
he demanded a grubstake fron
Owens, to take h’m prospecting ii
the North. The rancher grudgei
’he money, but was anxious to ge
rid of him.
"Owen’s jealousy got worse afte
the man was gone. Ir his brood
ing rages, he spoke of Daltor.’s wil
lingness to appear as the child’
father as if that were a deeper sigr
of understanding between them
His fury drove him to charges tha
may have bordered on a truth hi
didn’t know.
"He gave her such a terrible tirm
that finally she left him and he
adopted baby, and went back to He
old life, where I found her, in thi
dregs of it.
"Some years later I came inti
Carson City, just before the rumo
broke about the big gold strike ii
the North. And there the thini
happened that begins to tie this uj
with—”
Fallon, twisting is his chair
caught her eyes now, squarely.
"You don’t face dare—!” hi
blurted outw ith a dark menace.
"Do you dare threaten a witnes
in Her Majesty’s Court?” Judgi
Dugas demanded.
Muttering something, Fallon bi
his tongue and waited.
"I was crossing a planked side
walk,” continued Rose, "when
almost bumped into a man stepping
down from the porch of the Neved:
Hotel. His face came back to mi
over a long gap of time as well a:
distance. He’d changed some,
passed him blank.
"We met again in a place when
I sang, and he invited me to drinl
something. I did, because it wa
rather funny to talk to a mar
who’d trickled me with April Foo
candy the way he’d done and no
be remembered.
"So I said, 'Your face looks kinc
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of familiar. Haven’t I seen it
tacked up in the post office or
somewhere?
"He almost jumped. I hadn’t
had a notice how near the truth a
reward poster might be. When I
smiled, he gave a laugh that sound
ed flat.
"You’ve got the start on me,
baby,” he said, patting my hand.
'The nearest I ever come to im
aginin’ you was a fool kid I met
once in Frisco. You’re pretty wise
and you’ve been around. Maybe
as a woman, you can answer a quse
tion that got me curious once. It
just come into my mind. Do you
1 believe a girl could be brought up
1 as a boy without anyone on the out
side guessin’ it?’
| " 'It depends on the girl and the
surroundings,’ I said, still not sus
| pecting anything in particular. 'I
’ think it could happen case without
seeing the boy you suppose to be a
•1 y
" 'Well, you’ll never see him,”
’ Fallon said, a little too offhand. "It
( just come into my mind.’
"He started his meaningless love
" making again and I left him.
"What he’d said chimed with
something else in my memory,
J Though I didn’t recall right at first
j what it was, I kept looking as 1
j i played the camp for a baby who
„ might not be so boyish except foi
) the clothes. The only one I no
, ticed was a boy with gold hair. He
, | didn’t look girish—wore his cloth
es, I mean, as if he had a right tc
_ them. But it struck me that ]
s i could have dressed him up as a
| stunning girl, and it was a crime tc
J see hair like his wasted on a boy. He
, | was with an older, whisky-facec
j man I’d never seen in the camps be
, j fore, and whose name I learned tc
„ | be Owens. The man was buying
an outfit to go to Alaska.
, "Owens are uncommon, but it
j was the name of the rancher May
, had married, and with that I re
, membered, in a shock of under
. standing, that the child left at the
ranch house had blonde hair anc
, had been dressed as a boy.
, "Dalton had gone North. Owen;
, had staked him. A man like May’s
„ Owens wouldn’t make that trip
j without a solid lead to go on. 1
, remembered his passion for gold,
Dalton must have made a strike and
sent for him.
Certain tins was tne same man,
( I wondered how much Fallon had
| guessed. Maybe he just suspected
. a girl in boy’s clothes and was curi
ous. She was young and innocent,
. and he liked them that way. Her
name, 'Pete’ was as boy-like as pos
sible, but since it didn’t fit her ap
pearance, it was a kind of givc
L away.”
The chortling voice of the river
. rippled through the silence as Rose
, paused. Speed leaned on the bat
of the prisoners’ dock, intenly
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LOS ANGELES..Ginger Rogers
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She won the right to be because her
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watching her across the red-coattv
shoulder of the police guard. Fal
Ion half-reclined in his chair, in
smouldering silence—the sheathe:
fire of one who holds a final ansew
in reserve. -
"That some night, the big Yukoi
news came down on the wires fron
Seattle. Prospectors who had 'oeei
waiting and ready were pulliri;
stakes for San Francisco and th
first steamers. Owens beat the gui
by starting ahead of them am
showed that he’d had a definite iea<
on something.
"I caught a train for Seattle, an<
overtook Fallon’s steamer there. H
was w'ary enough to keep Owen
out of my way. Pete talking t:
Fallon may have given her the ide
I was a friend of his, and she mis
trusted him by instinct.
"Fallon started the rancher Ow
ens drinking and gambling—a firs
sign that he had guessed true abou
the gold. That it was true, I mad
sure in a more direct way.”
Wade rose to object.
"Your Honor,” he said, "I hav
listened to the witness’s vivid stor
without offering an objection til
now. I feel it my duty, as counse
for the Crown, to object to it ~a
theoretical and move that it b
thrown out.”
Judge Dugas looked reflective!
at Rose. "How did you prove, Mis
Valery, that there was a gold min
at stake?”
FINAL CHAPTER ON PAGE
Plan Hog Pastures
For Next Summei
The need for summer pasture
becomes apparent 'in the montl
of June, especially to those farm
ers who failed to provide adequat
summer grazing for their hogs.
During this time when the lacl
of good pastures is particularly
noticeable, farmers will do welf ti
plan for growing a satisfactory
pasture next year, said W. W
Shay, swine specialist at State Col
lege.
He discontinued the belief, heh
by some farmers, that permanen
pasture crops should be avoided
Some of the permanent crops an
ideal for hogs, he pointed out.
There is no better hog pasturi
than alfalfa, he stated. Mediun
red clover, where it can be raisec
successfully, is a close second. Al
sike clover is almost as good; oi
acid soils it is better. White Dutcl
can be raised almost anywhere i:
the land is not acid. Although no
quite so palatable, lespedeza make
a good pasture.
Grasses are far better that
broomsedge, he continued. All th
pasture crops named above shouh
be mowed occasionally to keep th
weeds down and to keep the past
ure tender and succulent fo
frowing shoats.
When hogs are placed on ful
feed preparatory to marketing, h
added, the variety of pasture use<
is not very important, but for th
breeding stock, legumes ?*-e prefer
able.
Among the temporary pasture;
soybeans are perhaps the best, Sha
observed. But they should not b
fed to hogs being finished for th
market, since they have an under
sirable affect on the quality of th
meat.
Poultry Problems
Increase In Summei
Summer brings a number c
problems to the poultryman.
Hot weather tends to decrease
egg production and to increase the
spread of disease, warns Roy S.
Dearstyne, head of the State Col
lege poultry department.
Hfe advises the marketing of
early moulters and other hens not
laying regularly. Cockerels not
kept for breeders should be sold
when they reach broiler size.
Non-layers and unneeded cock
erels increase the feed bill and
crowd the laying birds. Only late
moulters should be used for breed
ing purposes.
Portable range shelters are a
help in providing adequate venti
lation, and should be moved to
new grazing sites when necessary.
See that the birds have plenty of
feed and fresh water.
Do not try to reduce costs by
skimping on feed, Dearstyne points
out, as this will tend to keep the
birds from developing farge frames
and building up the needed body
reserve for future production.
Worms and parasites, internal
and external, flourish in summer.
When parasites are found, imme
diate treatment should be given.
Poor development, leg weakness,
and drawn face-parts are symp
toms of worms. County Agents
or other agricultural advisers may
be consulted in regard to parasite
control.
Vaccinating against fowl pox is
an inexpensive form of insurance
against this disease, Dearstyne says.
Weak or poorly developed birds
are possible sources of disease and
are seldom profitable. Remove
them from the flock.
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