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* 'm :' 9 2j Wi •X; < 4 / : * . V WMUMrriM. SYNOPSIS At th« oIom mt tta* Mazlcafl war, Rabin. Karahaw, with his hr id a, roda In northaaatarn California. Kara ha fbnnd an Idaal vallay for cattla rala- la*. Thay ehriatanad It Rdan VaHay. Balow Bdan Vallay Is a laas valuabla tract whfoh Karshaw'a wlfa namaa Rorlorn vallay. Joal Hanslay aattlaa la tha lowar half of tha vallay. Thara Is bad blood ovar fancas and watar for Irrigation. Karahaw kills Hanslay and tha blood-feud. Is on. By 1*17, Ranca Karahaw, his son Owen, and m^11 tk*t rom&ii)8 of one elan. Nate Tichanor Is tha sola survivor on tha Hanslay aide. Ha goaa to help Lorry In bar cat And finds har fathar baa dlad of heart disease. Bllas Babspn, banker, schemes to control tha Irrigation and, hydro-electric possibil ities of Eden Vallay, Nata tails Lorry he and Owen Kershaw, Lorry’s brother, met In Prance Just before Owen killed. They became buddies, and Nate promised that if he survived Owen ha woald look after Lorry as a brother might do. Babson, determined to'se cure Lorry’s lake-site and Nate’s dam- site, makes legal application for the allocation of flood waters to the Por- lorn Valley irrigation district, which ha organises. With money advanced by Nate, Lorry clears up her Indebted ness to Babson. "QQQj public Interest In the proposed Irriga tion district—not at airs difficult task, since the Valley Center Register was the only newspaper In the valley and Its editor, Joe Bralnerd, had financed his venture largely on money borrowed .from the Bank of Valley Center. Braln erd would see his duty sad do It nol^ly. He must attack thr power com pany and pay tbs community's re spects, la no uncertain terms to those two E$$n Valley outlaws who had be trayed them or at least sought to be tray them. -- Suddenly, as he drove home across Forlorn Valley, a thought occurred to him with such force that he Jammed on his brakes and stopped la the mid dle of the highway so suddenly that a car coming bphlnd him, smote his car la ths rear and skidded it off the right Juvenile Rodeo Makes a Distinct Hit With Youngsters; Characterized as Splendid for Lotting Off Youthful Steam. >1 Substitution of an old-timo Wild JUtoat rodeo with sddltlona Not the exhibition, howev novel features for the traditional “I think oo, too. No sens bar, in that event. She’s a capable girl and will make good if given u chance. So Pm going to give her that chance.” “By the way, I hear you’ve sold your dam site to the Mountain Valley Pow er company,” said Babson. “Yet, they made me an offer—a see^any pqpfit in rejecting it . . . mighty fine offer. In fact, and I couldn't News reaches yon very promptly," ho added. "A new company, 1 believe. Know anything about this outfit—who's hack of It and wbyf* “It Is a Delaware corporation capi talized for two million dollars with a license to do business In California. The corporation plans to erect a dam, rs of Eden Val- •rlth hlm-rand we might bo able to uy tbs company with ill Its assets. He’ll have to do soflis tall financing Just tha same. . . HU executor might not be capable of the financing —damnation, what am I thinking oft Bnt bo may ruin me. . . . We’ve got to have that water ... got to have 1L . . ." The phrase beat like a hammer la bis brain. > CHAPTER VIII Nate Tlchenor's action In admitting to Silas Babson that he was the sola owner of the Mountain Valley Power company had hot been predicated oa a desire to shock the banker. position of way Into a ditch. Babson emerged I ley creek after they have passed over (rom the wreckage unharmed, but the Circle K and the Bar H ranches frightened and exceedingly angry, Just I and use the water for the ^production | .In time to come face to face with a I of gpower." CHAPTER VII—Continued —8— “Why do you have to go away, Nater "Got *a couple of deals on and I cant handle them from here." “If you're coming back In the fall,” she suggested, “you should have the Bar H place put tu order. It's fallen Into decay > It swells -neglected. Isn’t a nice place for you to live, even with capable servants to care for you.” “I had thought of that Indeed, It’s one of the reasons I have to leave Eden Valley.' Got to engage an archi tect to draw plans for a new house, new barns, four-car garage, kennels, and such. Got to engage a smart gar dener to put in a nice lawn around the new house and plant flowers. Got to grade a new graveled road from the main Eden Valley highway to the ranch house and plant a border of trees. And I wish you'd sort of super intend the Job while I’m away. And when the house is finished I'd be obliged to you If you’d run down to Ban Francisco and buy the furnishings for it" “Oh, 1*11 be so glad to. Nate, you’re giving me an Interest in life. A wom an's interest I'm kept pretty busy operating the Orcle K. hut it Isn’t illy Job and—” She sighed ecstatically. So he was coming hack, after all. He needed her and he hadn't scrupled to tell her so. That night, when he departed for the Bar H, the girl walked with him to the gate. A full moon rode the sky with the silvery light It was a night for love, and Nate Ticheoor, who had never felt his heart beat high in any woman's presence, was suddenly thrilled to the core of his being at sight of Lorry Kershaw leaning over the gate. He had a sadden mad im pulse to place his hand under her adorable chin, tilt her face upward and kiss her on the lips. For the strangest of all reasons he refrained. He bad been reared In Eden Valley; he was old-fashioned, the victim of an iron code of morals and social procedure. Her' father hadn’t been dead long enough! So he com promised and said, with an effort pa ternally patronizing: “Good night. Lorry dear. I’ve had a delightful eve ning.” But his burning eyes betrayed him. The girl smiled up at him wistfully. “Thanks to you, Tm happy for the first time since Owen went away,” she said. At his gate he stood for a little whll& gazing over the hills toward For lorn’valley. "Coyotes!” he growled. “Not one of you, except Doc Donald son, would come to her father’s funeral —and Doc couldn’t- And not nnm of . young man emerging from a limousine r uy s iivcncu CDRuneur. “What’s the matter with yon?” he cried furiously. “Can’t you stay on your own side of the road?” - “I’ll answer your question witn an other, sir. Why did you stop so sud denly, without giving the legal warn ing by thrusting your hand out? My chauffeur is not a mind-reader." _ —“You've wrecked my caf, d—b you,' and you’ll pay for It” _ Tm not wishful to argue that point" The young man's tones were crisp and unafraid. "I got out solely to see image has been doue to my car. ~ Very little, I observe. Bumper thrust hack on the frame and twisted a little, that’s alt" Then to the chauffeur: “We'll stop In st fi garage iu Valley Center and have It repaired. Lucky you had most of the speed off the car or we'd have knocked this peculiar person over into that alfalfa fleid.“ “This peculiar persop wants your name and your license number/* Bab son shrilled. Til give you my card, sir; help yourself to the license number. You Babson now remembered the daz- that had operated to wreck his automobile. “You may have noticed the large number of gasoline- driven pumping plants. Nate." i “I did, and guessed the reason. The water tables are receding and the Uft Is Increasing; hence more power Is re quired to pump. I hear the power com pany’s rates are pretty high, so I sup- pose tha farmers are trying out a cheaper method of pumping, although since gasoline Is not cheaper than elec tricity, I surmise the gasoline farmers must have had their power cut off be- ~CatiSA tMy aiant or couldn’t pay their hills to the power company." “You’ve gone straight to the milk In the coconut, Nate. I wonder If it wouldn’t be a good idea for the farm ers of Forlorn Valley to organize an irrigation district and make a contract with the Mountain Valley Power com pany to sell It water for surface Irri- where he fcbuld not Afford to promise Babson to enter into negotiations te seii Forlorn Valley water for Irriga tion. Before deciding to acquire Lorry Kershaw s lake site and pro ceed to the vest expense of building his dam and power station he had found It necessary to make certain of a market for the power he purposed generating, for the Mountain Vallay Power company was not In position to enter the field in competition with tha P. G. A E„ the company that already controlled the market In northern Cali fornia, with a dozen large plants scat- season may become the fash ion If other, secondary schools fol low the example set by the Chey enne Mountain bchool at Colorado Springs, Colo. Reports describing the event indicate that the spectators were thrilled by the live-stock per formance at least as much as they would have been by the game pliyetT with the dead pigskin. Descriptions of the event In the local press show that It was a color ful day at the school grounds, and that with such an auspicious start It might weti be poMThie td continue with this sport as s permanent sub stitute for football. At the rodeo which was held re cently at Colorado Springs, every child appeased In cowboy or cowgirl costume. A fifteen-piece baby drum -and bugle corps-, played during the tered through the mountains. In der to consolidate his position, there fore, he had already had the Mountain Valley Power company enter Into nego tiations for a contract with the P. a “I’ll Remember and Charge Accord- I ng I y—Coyotes!" will furnish me with your name and address, of course.” “My name Is Babson, and I'm a re sponsible and reputable citizen.” ”Ah, Mr. Silas Babson. I didn't recognize you. My name Is Nathan Tichenor and 1, too, am a responsible hut, alas, disreputable citizen—at least In these parts.” 'T beg your pardon, Nate. I didn’t know who you were.” “Your excuse Is a sound one and your apology Is accepted. Sorry wa couldn't avoid hitting you, Mr. Babson. However, since we’ve set you afoot some six miles ftpm Valley Center we’ll not desert you. Hop In and I’ll take you home. You will hare to send a “A good idea for the farmers hut a bad Idea for the company. Of course in years of unusually heavy freshet It might be glad to divert its excess wa ter to Forlorn Valley, but to subnormal years, such as we have been experi encing tha past three winters, the de mands of Forlorn Valley might lower the water In the reservoir to s point below the power company’s ditch and operate to close down its power plant “Yon seem pretty sure of your premise, Nate. How do you know that?" Tichenor smiled a prescient little smile. “Because Pm the president of the Mountain Valley Power company. In fact Pm the entire company." For the remainder of the trip Into Valley Center. Babson was giusS and siieift to such ■ degree that Nate ‘ Tichenor noticed his preoccupation, saw that Babson’i hands were'trem bling. "For seme reason or other,” Tichenor decided “that was a direct hit PU have to figure this out” On his part Babaon waa thinking confusedly. “As yet the Mountain Val ley Power company exists on paper only. It has ita charter from the state of Delaware, Its permit to do business In California, a dummy board of directors and the lands It has re cently acquired. If this wretch I am riding with should die suddenly, the Mountain Valley Power company might die with him—” “Do you mean to tell me. Nate, that you are alone In this power enter prise?" “I own all of the Issued capital stock of the Mountain Vklley Power com pany, and I Intend to keep it It'll be valuable.” “Guess It will, Nate." And again Babson's wild thoughts took possession of him. “This fellow Is liable to ruin me. He's do mean enemy. He may have more money than we have. He’ll fight as the power company and he’ll fight ua privately as a riparian owner. But If he should die, who are his heirs? He’s the last off'hla line, so far ZuZ in ILb \4 you came to my mother's funeral. She was ih ihgel aM lUBcs wasn’t less 4bap a man. If h* 4 pump Uncle Taylor off , . . Well, one day youll come asking me for a favor, and when you do, by gad, PU remem ber and charge accordingly. Coyotes!" Silas Babson rose next morning, sans headache, and frith a very definite realization that be had many busy days before him. He drove over to Gold Run first, to interirogato the coun ty recorder, from whom he ascertained that a deed to a quarter-section In Eden Valley from Nate Tichenor to the Mountain Valley Power company and another deed fof four thousand acres, Prom Lorraine Kershaw to the same company,.had Just been sent ever by. the First National bank to be re corded. Well, he had been thwarted by this laterlepinf power comporstioa. Just is he had feared Would be the case. Well, Tha Mountain Valley Pew- ild sot thwart him la hit plan te secure from the Depart- meat of the Interior permission te erect a dlrerstea dam la tha Handle aid dig a canal bam Bdcn Valley ssask dawa Icysad the wsters bat- tvesa of FaHora Valley* Thay might with the con- Tansy- “Thanks.” Babson stepped tsb^Well, welt” he began unctuously, “you’ve changed. Nate, f should never"havg recognised you. Back in Eden Valley to stay? “Perhaps. How are things with you, Mr. Babdonr “Fair, fair! Forlorn. Valley, like the rest of the country, is recuperating gradually. The bank’s bad to carry this doggoned valley since the post war depression struck ua" / “Well," Nate soothed, “you’ll soon begin to get your loans In. Beefs coming up. The cattlemen have cer tainly taken a bad licking, but those who have held their breeding stock intact wlD make a clean-up within three yean. 1 was saying as much te Lorry Kershaw recently. Old Ranee’s estate Is la a bad way and Mias Ker shaw was fasting a hit downhearted." “Well, she’s light-hearted today." Babsoa was pleased that his host had •peaed this subject of conversation and little dreamed that Tichenor hed purposely dene oo. "8he*s sold foiur thousand acres of worthless land bar father'gave har te tha Mountain Val ley Fewer company* Moat hava got at laast three hundred thousand dollars far H Oaaaod ap tha as I know. Qis executors would not A R., whereby that company was to purchase all the power Tlchenor’s com pany could deliver. While this con tract did not restrain his company from selling weter for irrigation, and Tichenor had hoped to sell water for that purpose, he dared net consider the proposition notll quite certain ha could do so without threat to MS pro duction of power. Instinctively can- tiouA he declined to commit himself even to a half-way promise to Baboon. He had discerned that his refusal to enter Into negotiations had shocked Babson, hut ha bad no Idea aa to the extent of the stUKk. Other than the knowledge that Bab son had organised a raid to ruin Lorry Kershaw, Tichenor had no cause to dt» like tha man. Indeed, the knowledge that he, Tichenor, had alwaya been la poaitlon to frustrate that raid, had operated to dun the edge of his resent ment He knew the world was quite filled with Silas Babsons; Indeed, dur ing his busy years In New York he had met more than one of them, had crossed financial swords with them, had d» feated them And been defeated by them. Such men were all In the day's work for him, and such Irritation at he bad felt against Babson was solely out of sympathy for Lorry Kershaw. If the Impending disaster appeared to affect Babaon only, he would have dismissed all thought of him. Octal* ly he would not have wasted any sym pathy on him. But without water, eventually hundreds of people In For lorn Valley would be reduced to pow erty. And with the collapse of the Bank of Valley Oenter, the absolute ruin of the valley would be hastened and completed. Nate Tichenor, ostracized as he had been by the people of Forlorn Valley In his boyhood—ostracized as aU of his people had been—had, not unnaturally, acquired a fierce resentment against these people who looked to him for succor. But his resentment faded bow before the realization of the tragedy they faced. His heart welled frith pity for them. “I’ll have to do something about thlA" he decided. “I’ll defer signing the cod* tract the P. G. A E/s counsel Is pre paring; PU defer building the hydro electric plant until after rverexperi- mented with tha water. Perhaps I’ll not build the power plant PH show Forlorn Valley cattle that ttl entire event But, according to local accounts, the leader had a difficult -time keeping the corps together, so interested were they In the more vig orous eventA ^4 The rodeo began at two In the afternoon with a parade led by the young queen of the day and two col- or-bearen. Behind them rode the broncho-busters, the steer rlden, bareback rider* and other contest ants. Next came smaller children on bicycles, with wooden horse beads fastened to the front of the wheelA ~ and finally a legion of little children of the first and second grades on hobby-horses. Dr. Lloyd Shaw, superintendent of the school. In cowboy hat and high- ITLiJ "heeled hoots, made the announce- meats. All the events took place Te Proaerve Polish oa Brass — , Brass bowls gnd other articles are besutira only when kept pollshedL This Is usually difficult to do. How- ever. If you M»^*»«ngt»iy brass, removing all stains and i and then apply a coat of clear coptil varnish, your howl will look beauti ful and will retain ita polish Indeti* within a large circular corral fence, which had been built of railroad ties and stout poles. Outside were parked about 200 automoblleA from which spectators watched the show. One of the new sports Introduced st the rodeo was ‘‘steer decorating/ which Is • contest to see which per former can most quickly attach a rubber tip bearing ribbons to one of s steer's horna The rest of the pro- tram included, besides the parade, calf riding, yearling steef riding for grade-school boys, steer riding for high-schooi boys, bucking horses, harebsck riding, steer decorating, wild burro races, calf roping, saddle changing raceA Jumping, blka horse- {aces for grade-school boys, and a hobby-horse race for primary boyA The Idea for a juvenile rodeo of this kind occurred to Lloyd Shaw. superintendent of the Cheyenne Mountain school, who wanted to adapt this old western sport to the sports program of s modern school. Eaeoaragiaf tha Praachar Wa shank) not he beyond taking encouragement from the little things in life. An earnest young Scots mln- THS HOUSEWIFE. Copyright by Public Lodger, fwo.- WNU Service. Expact Maoaiak'a Ratara Several Americans have made e» tensive preparations for the return of the Prophets and the Meosial^ writes Mr*. P. M. Kills. San Dlegat CaHf.. tn Collier's Weekly. Oul* standing among them Is a man hi California who has built and deeded g large house to David, atari a woman on Long Island who has turned bm beautiful mansion Into a replica off a Hebrew home so she can appropst- ately welcome tha Savior. Bveu her wardrobe contains Palestinian dresses. ister was speaking to one of the el ders after .the service. "My sermon seemed to rouse the people up,” said he: “I do hope good will result “Verra like, verra like,” replied the elder; “God often does great things with sma’ means. Ye’ll no forget Samson, an' the wonderful things he did wi’ the Jawbone of an ass. CAl/h \fountr ha' liable to carry through his plans TorthaUbunLOB despised Hensley chm managed t» breed * hums* being and a nuhUo- I dttME ifer - TO BB CONTIJUtBD. CCOOOC^>CCOOC<X>COCOCOCCOCOC^OC<>C<X>3<>OOOCOCOCOOCOCCCOC< Only Few Stone Age Men Lived in Caves, * According to Analysts of Numerous Sites "Uataas yeu Stone age man was not necessarily a cava nun, says the Providence Jour nal Doubt In cast on tha prevalent conception thnt nil our hairy, dub- wlelding grandsires and great-uncles had “walk-ups” In cavenu, by Dr. Ales HrdUcka of the United States Na tional museum, who has nude an an- alydls of 800 sites In Europe and Asia where human remains or stone im plements of Old Stone age data hava bean discovered. Tha earliest evidence of human activity. Doctor HrdUcka findA wart found predominantly tn open si tea, away from eavfrA As time went en and the climate grow colder with the coming ef the last greet advance of Ice gladera, saaa took man and ■eve te the cevee finally awglw lute the open ■rale, this time ee e with the coming ef the years ago, the presence of man is eel deuced only by crude stone artlfnoU, and out, of 04 places where these have bees found only two are caves Thee comes the Acheulian, dating appro* tmately from 180,000 to lotjOOO & a Only 10 oat of 46 Identified stfew tie In caves / With the coming of the Neanderthakt daring the next state af pre-history— the Meusterlan—the practice ef eai dwelling became considerably mo widespread, but ■an stttl clung te the open. 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