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For isle al hardware. drug end grocery sterol. BBKin II SHEETS THE DANBIfRY REPORTER. DANBI RY, N. C.. THURSDAY. AUGUST 10. 1944 THE STORY IHUS FAR: Mary Sulh-' •Hand, an eastern girl, is lured to Arl tana by the adverUiementi ol the Wagon Wheel dude ranch operated by Ma and Pa Burdan. She l> met at the station by Len Henley, rodeo rider, who tells her that the Wagon Wheel hai gone out of business. Len takes her to Phoenix. Bearing that the Wagon Wheel Is broke, Ham Henley, Len'* lather, purchase! the Burdan notes from the bank. While •t Phoenix Len enters the rodeo, draw ing a bronc known ai Mad Hatter, tough ■lt borse In the West. Ham bets Len three to one he won't be able to stay on the borse. Mary learns that Len loves her. She wagers one thousand to three thousand that Len will ride Mad Hatter. CHAPTER VIII Ham Henley still did not know Where to find the Burdans but he suspected they would visit his son as soon as the doctors would permit it; so he had a man sit in a car in front of the hospital with instructions that if an elderly couple should drive up in a station wagon he was to follow them when they emerged and se cure their address. When, at the end of four days the Burdans had not appeared he com menced to be anxious. In order to file foreclosure suits against them he would have to have them served personally with the summons and complaint in action and undue delay in locating the defendants would make it incumbent upon him to pe tition the court for permission to enter upqn the Wagon Wheel ranch to conserve its assets. And, if it could possibly be avoided, he did not wish to enter foreclosure suits; he did not want the Wagon Wheel ranch to be thus advertised as a property upon which a supposedly experienced cowman had failed. While Hamilton Henley's thoughts were thus engaged, Pa Burdan had kept his promise to uncover the lat ter's sudden interest in the Wagon Wheel ranch—a task which, it must be confessed, was not remotely com plicated. He telephoned the presi dent of the State Bank at Prescott to inquire if payment of the delin quent interest on the loans, the de linquent taxes on the collateral and a payment of say five per cent on ♦he principal of the loans might op erate to forestall the filing of suits in foreclosure. He was not sur prised when informed that the bank was no longer interested in that matter because Hamilton L. Henley had purchased both mortgages. So that was how the cat was about to hop! Pa came in to Ma and said proudly: "Well, Ma, I told you I'd ferret out Ham Henley's interest in the Wagon Wheel an' I have. He's bought the mortgages!" "You through ferretin'?" Ma de manded. "Ain't nothin' more to ferret," Pa protested virtuously. "Very well, then, I'll start. Ham Henley wants an assignment of our state land lease to make sure no body else slips in ahead o' him an' gets it after the state land com missioner cancels our lease for fail ure to pay the rent." "I ain't a-goin' to deny that, Ma." "An' he wants a bill-o'-salc to the cattle an' a quit-claim deed to the home ranch so's he won't have to enter suit in foreclosure an' can enter on the property an' take charge right off. He knows we can't protect ourselves nohow so he's gone big-hearted an' offered us as a gilt just about what it'd cost him to enter suit." Now that Len was out of danger and permitted a few visitors for a few minutes daily, Mary wondered if he still harbored his plan for ac quiring the Wagon Wheel ranch. She suspected he was sulliciently tena cious to cling to the idea; that while unable to attend to the details him self he might engage a lawyer to attend to them for him, for she doubted if he would ask his father to serve him. In order to verify her suspicions, therefore, she asked him about it. He replied, sadly, that he had abandoned the idea. The Burdans had fled from the Wagon Wheel in panic; when their panic subsided they would, of course, return to pack their few personal belongings, but they would not remain there until legally evicted. Pa had to do something quickly to earn a living for himself and Ma . . . Hence somebody had to take charge of the ranch at once and the bank would, of course, petition the court for per mission to do so in order to avoid waste and spoilage of their collater al prior to securing judgment in foreclosure suits. Consequently, the moment such suits were instituted, competition to secure the Wagon Wheel at an obvious bargain, would be keen; and, of course, a mnn flat on his back in a hospital, doomed to remain there not less than two months and facing an additional con valescence period of a month or more, could not compete. When she terminated her brief visit Mary went to the local bank where she had opened an account by depositing Ham Henley's check and asked a bank official to recommend a good local attorney. He suggested a Mr. Henry Buller in the Henley building and to Mr. Henry Butler's oflice Mary at once repaired. Upon returning to her hotel she visited Ma and Pa Burdan. "I am thinking seriously of acquir ing the Wagon Wheel ranch," she began. "What price will you accept for your equity?" Ma's acquired sense of leadership bade her answer: "Ten thousand dollars!" Young as she was Mary realized she was about to be played for a dude, that Ma and Pa were not above employing a modicum of rural cunning. So she decided there should be no temporizing. "For an assignment of your state land lease —for a deed to your home ranch, subject, of course, to the deed of trust held by the bank and for a bill-of-sale of all of your cattle, sub ject to the mortgage on them held by the bank, I will give you twenty five hundred dollars and not a penny more." "Take it," said Ma. "Leave all your papers with me," Mary directed. "I must have a lawyer verify your lease and your right to assign it and approve the title to your real estate. As soon as he has done that I will issue you a check. In the interim let us go to the lawyer's office and sign an op tion." The moment the Burdans were back at the home of the relative with whom they were staying Ma picked up the telephone and called Ham Henley's number. Pa put his hand over the mouthpiece. "Aimin* to gloat a mite on Ham Henley, eh?" For a plaything she had taken the ranch. he growled, "before the deal is closed final. Ma, you're askin" for it, so as soon as we git the money you take half an' I'll take half an' we'll go our separate ways." Ma trembled and hung up. That afternoon Buller verified the fact that the Burdans had a land lease, that it was still valid and that they had a legal right to assign it. The following morning the title to the real estate was found to be in order and at two o'clock that after noon the deal was formally closed— whereupon Ma Burdan picked up Henry Buller's telephone and de manded speech with Hamilton L. Henley. Evidently her request was granted for Mary heard her toss over the line a bit of ancient child hood doggerel: "Smarty gave a party And nobody came but a big fat darkey." Then she put the receiver back in its cradle and smiled happily. "If Ma hadn't had her gloat over Ham Henley I reckon she'd have busted wide open," Pa opined. "Why is she gloating?" Mary asked. "On account Ham Henley's bought our notes from the bank an' was hell-bent on buyin' from us what you've just bought." "Why didn't you tell me Hamilton Henley had bought those notes?" Mary demanded. "You never asked," Pa replied, in all innocence, "besides which, if I'd volunteered the information you might have figgered we was tryin' to whipsaw you. You offered a thou sand more'n Ham Henley so we took it." Mary sighed. It was one thing to high-pressure a bank but she had a very strong suspicion that to high pressure Hamilton L. Henley was quite another pair of boots. How ever, the fat was in the fire now and all she could do was to go to the assault. "I think I'll handle Mr. Henley myself," she told Henry Buller, "while you go over to the state land office, pay that delinquent rental and file with the land com missioner that assignment of lease." She picked up the telephone, called Hamilton L. Henley's office, and *sked for an interview. That morning Ham Henley had dropped in for a minute to visit his son. "Len," he said, "you've win tered for several years on the Wagon Wheel. You sort o' like that prop erty, don't you?" "It's beautiful," Len sighed. "I've always wanted to own it—and I would have, too, If I'd gotten off Mad Hatter sooner." "I been thinkin* maybe you'd be happier with a spread of your own, son," his father went on. "I'm in position to pick up the Wagon Wheel for a song, an' if I thought you'd accept it I'd buy it an' give it to you an' there wouldn't be no strings to the gift, son, except that I'd like you to put up at my house when you come to town an' keep a room for me at the Wagon Wheel so's I can visit you when I come up to Yavapai county." Len looked up at his father and the latter saw his son's eyes grow moist, saw his one sound arm come up from under the sheets and grope toward him. "I'll be mighty happy to have the gift—now that I know your love goes with it," he said with some difficulty. Ham Henley laid his big hard hand across his son's eyes to hide the emotion in his own, for he was not given to being soft and it dis turbed him. "Why, son," he said gently, "there ain't nothin' I wouldn't do for you if I could. I know I was hard on you when you was in your teens . . . I—it hurt me—because you accepted your mother's leadership instead o' mine —I got the false n.otion you wasn't a Henley . . . When I seen you ride Mad Hatter to a gaspin' finish I knew you'd done somethin' no man o' your mother's clan would have done . . . I'm right sorry for a lot o' things . . "You talk too much," his son said. "I don't need a blue-print." "We'll gather them Burdan scrubs an' culls, an' sell 'em for what they'll bring; then I'll stock you up with high-grade cattle. You visit all my ranches an' help yourself to the best horses in the caballado an' as soon as you're up an' doin' again I'll buy you a car like mine." "It isn't considered good—medical practice— pappy—to pull the nose— of a fellow with a fractured skull— but keep on—if it pleases you—" "You keep your tail up," his fa ther roared, and fled from the room. Back in his office ha said to Jess Hubbell, "Jess, Mrs. Bill Burdan i 3 out to swindle me on that Wagon Wheel deal. I don't know her scarce ly, but Len's fond of her ... so let her get away with her swindle. When she calls up again you handle her. She riles me." "How much?" "She's asking twenty-five hundred. It's a gift so give it to her. I want the Wagon Wheel for my son and I've got to get the Burdans out of my way so I can send a manager out to look after things." "Where can I find the Burdans, Mr. Henley?" "I don't know. But you needn't bother lookin'. She'll be callin' up this afternoon to accept my last of fer . . . Poor devils, they got to have some getaway money." He gazed upon his general-manag er a moment, then laid a hand on the latter's shoulder. "Jess," he said, "I pay this crazy government too much income taxes, so I'm a goin' to reduce the inflammation by in creasin' deductible expenses. Gim me the office payroll ... I aim to whoop salaries, startin' with you." "I'm glad," said Jess Hubbell, "that the boy's going to live. I'm glad you're happy and thanks for the raise." "Happy? Jess, I'm happier'n a coyote in a watermelon patch. Jess, my boy's always been right fond of me—an' I didn't know it. Can you beat that?" "It ain't up to me to tell you how dumb you've been," Jess Hubbell n plied diplomatically. "You know somebody by the name o' Miss Mary Sutherland?" "Yes. What about her?" "She telephoned to ask for an in terview with you al eleven tomorrow morning. I told her ''d call her Lack at her hotel." "I'll see her, Jess." All the remainder of the day he '.\ondered what the object of the in terview might be. He felt vaguely disturbed about i) after Ma Bur dan had telephoned him some eryp. tic nonsense about a party aivl a fat darkey and his perturbation had not abated when Mary was u»l»- ered into his oflic». "Good mornin', dude," he greeted her. "What's on your mind?" "Good morning, Don Hamilton. On my mind this morning are two sour loans you purchased from the State Bank of Arizona." "Hum-tn-m!" "Do it again. 1 own the Wagon Wheel state land lease and the Bur dan equity in the Wagon Wheel home ranch and the cattle." He blanched and flushed. His face went out of control and as a mark for concealing his emotions he waj aware it was no longer of any use to him and this knowledge, combined with the blow below the belt this dude girl had so calmly and forcibly given him, filled him with anger. He thought rather incoherently: She's robbing my son. For a play thing she has taken the ranch he's yearned for years to possess and she's robbing me of the fun of mak ing his dream come true. 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