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Friday, October 14, 1932.
THE OLNEY ENTERPRISE
PAGE THREE
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Jim
the
Conqueror
.. By . .
Peter B. Kyne
Copyright by Peter B. Kyn*
WNU 8ervlcs.
dearly. Now. listen to me. my boy. i
Roberta’s gotns down to Texas to look I
after her interests. She didn’t want
to so if she could avoid it. but now
she’s beginning to think it is her duty
to go. She rnnst be on the job to
protect every dollar coinin'.: to her
from. Torn Antrim’s estate. She’s the
Little Mother now.' Got to take care
of poor I nch' Bill Latham, or else
poor old fncl* BP’ “’ill n«ver raise
THE STORY
CHAPTER I.—Roberta Antrim, beau-
tiful Eastern society girl, who live*
with her uncle, William B. Latham,
known as “Crooked Bill” because of
hi* amusing slyness, receives a tele-
gram from Jaime Miguel Higuene*,
owner of the Rancho Valle Verde, In
Texas, informing her her Uncle Tom
Antrim has died, a violent death. At
the advice of Glenn Hackett, who Is
in lovs with her, Roberta plans to go
to Texas to protect her Interests, since
■he Is her uncle’s sole heir.
CHAPTER XL—Don Jaime, unmar-
ried and romantic, half Spanish and
half Irish, Is attracted to Roberta’*
picture in a magazine. Some time be-
fore the girl hears from Higuenes, Ken
Hojbart, a Texas Ranger, agrees to
help Don Jaime protect his estate from
the Invasion of Tom Antrim’s sheep.
Antrim is warned to take the animals *
off Don Jaime’s ranch, at- once. '
CHAPTER III.—Antrim ambushe*
Don Jaime. They shoot It out. The
young ranch owner is wounded four
times and Tom Antrim killed. On the
sheep owner’s body are found instruc-
tions to notify Miss Roberta Antrim
In the event of Tom’s death. An-
other Higuenes’ telegram tells Ro-
berta her uncle was killed by Jim
Higgins (Don Jaime’s anglicized
name). Latham tells her his fortune
!s In danger, and she decides to go to
Texas to get Antrim’s estate for
Crooked Bill.
Roberta was dressing when slie
heard Glenn Hackett’s car rolling up
the driveway. She looked out her
window a'nd called, “Hello, old Stick-
in-the-mud! How are you?’’
He favored her with a not very en-
thusiastic wave of his hand.
“Still holding his little grudge,” Ro-
berta thought. “Well, I don’t blame
him. Nevertheless I loathe sulky
men.”
Crooked Bill received his guest at
the door and at once conducted him
to the library.
‘Tve got to talk fast, my boy,” he
began, “before Roberta comes down.
I’m supposed to have gone bust in the
market—Hillcrest has been gobbled
up by my bankers to meet my notes,
I’m down to a couple of thousand dol-
lars. In a word, h—1 pops generally.”
Glenn Hackett stared at the old gen-
tleman owlishly. Crooked Bill con-
tinued :
“T hope I do not have to assure you,
Glenn, that in so far as Bobby is con-
cerned I’m for you all the way.”
“Thank you very much,” Hackett re-
plied. “I have suspected as much for
quite a while.”
“That girl is too dog-gone high and
mighty to suit me,” Crooked Bill con-
tinued. sipping his drink with medita-
tive pleasure, “so I’ve cooked up a
scheme to bring her fluttering to the
ground. Roberta’s the light of my eye
and the apple of my heart, but never-
theless, as a reasoning human being,
I’ve got to admit she has her draw-
backs. She’s got to be yanked out of
the clouds of romance to earthly prac-
ticalities. and in my feeble way I’m
attempting to do it. All of her life
I’ve been busy spoiling Roberta by
granting every wish she expressed and
a heap she never thought of express-
ing. That’s had business. Now, then,
here’s my plan. I came staggering in,
play-acting all over the place, and
moaned aloud that l was out of the
market, that my brokers had sold me
out because 1 didn’t dare stay with the
game any longer. Well, as a matter
of fact I am out of the market. My
brokers did sell me out—but on the
right side of the ledger, and as a
result I’ve cleaned up about ten mil-
lions. I’ve arranged with a trusted
friend to pretend he’s bought Hillcrest
from the bank to which I had given a
deed. Well, I did give the bank a
deed, as security for more money to
play this crazy market, hut I could
afford to. I was miles ahead of the
hounds—playing on margin. I’ve
leased this place for July, August and
September—and Roberta is so sorry
for me she’s going to sell out her
Uncle Tom’s sheep and wool and take
care of me the remainder of my days.”
“Very nice of Roberta. I should say,
Mr. Latham. But then Roberta was
always a good sport. Witness the
sporty manner in which she took that
beating I was insane enough to-inflict
on her in a moment of pique. 1 wish
ray tongue had cleaved to the roof, of
my mouth.”
“Don’t vou wish anything of the
sort. Women—Roberta's type of wom-
en—love rough stuff from their men.”
"I’m not her man.”
“You follow my lead and you will
be. You’ve given her one licking and
I’m giving her another. Right now
she’s figuring ways and means of
avoiding all her old friends. She’ll
never place herself in- the position of
being pitied hv her set, of being pat-
ronized. of being the recipient of
favors she can’t repay. She knows
her set—knows that mor.*.v is king,
and that those who cannot hold their
place in the race must fall behind
and be forgotten. My hoy, a change
of fortune is going to make that girl
do some solid, constructive thinking.”
“Still I do not quite follow you.”
“I’m not surprised. Where Roberta
is. concerned you do not think very
“Roberta’s Type of Woman Love
Rough Stuff From Their Men.”
his head again. I’m going to give you
a chance to be a hero, to put Roberta
under obligation to you. Tonight, at
dinner, this sad story I’ve just told
you is going to come out. You’re go-
ing to suspect something and start
probing me—and when you discover
all is over you’re going to suggest
saving me.”
“How?”
Crooked Bill rubbed his hands to-
gether and smiled a coyote smile.
“You’re going to tell me that this rise
Is, undoubtedly, one of the greatest
bull movements ever noted in the mar*
ket, but that from sources of informa*
tion you cannot, in honor, divulge,
you happen to know that the bears
aren’t licked, that they have the bulls
in a tight corner and that securities
are due to crash. Then you rawhide
me for not coming to you with my
troubles when the going got slippery.
You tell me I was a tarnation old
fool for not doing so; that, if I could
only have held on a little bit longer
the tide would have turned and that
you would have been delighted to have
loaned me a million to carry me over.
Sabe that?”
“Yes, sir. Then what?”
“Why, I’ll be overcome with emo-
tion and say: ‘Glenn, you ought to
know I’d be the last man in the world
to suggest a loan from you, of all
men—under the circumstances.’ And
I’ll give Bobby a look that will be—
well, significant. She’ll be grateful to
me for not having placed her in posi-
tion of having to he grateful to you
for helping me. But at the same time
| she’ll be grateful to you for suggest-
! Ing it. Well, I’ll tell you it’s too late
i now, that the fat’s in the fire, and
! you jump up and yell that it isn’t.
! “You prance up and down the dining
i room, thinking hard. Act like a
movie actor. Show Roberta, who will
be watching you fascinated, that in an
emergency nobody need look beyond
you. Prove to her you are a strong
man—a quick-thinking, bold, adven-
turous, brave fellow, but be careful to
ignore her completely. Then out with
your plan to save the old homestead
add the family fortune.”
“The plan,” Glen Hackett demanded,
“the plan.”
Crooked Bill’s old eyes fairly popped
with delight at the part he was play-
ing. “When I first jumped into the
market, Glenn, I sold twenty-five hun-
dred of a certain stock short. Then the
stock started up grade, so I sold out,
took my loss and—immediately bought
double the amount I had sold, and
spread it as thin as I could on mar-
gin.”
“Excellent strategy.”
“Well, then, your plan will be to
suggest that now, with the stock at its
peak price, the obvious thing for me
to do is to sell five thousand shares
or even ten thousand. You’ll put up
the margin for me. Assure me there
is no risk, that the stock will drop a
hundred points within sixty days.
You can cite any number of stocks
that have dropped that much—some of
them in a week. Here is a list to re-
fresh your memory. Remind me that
for a while during the post-war panic
Liberty bonds sold away below par.
Advise me to make the gamble and
assure me I will not be called upon
for any more margin, that the price
of my stock has now reached a point
that is unhealthy, wildly speculative,
not backed up by assets. Pretty soon
it will begin to slide, and when it has
slid far enough all I have to do is
sell out my line, clean up and be back
where I started, less the sums I owe
you. Point out that hv this method
of procedure I can, at least, get back
a million dollars, but insist that when
I do you must have my solemn word
of honor never,' never, never to do any
more stock gambling.”
“How will you receive this philan-
thropic offer, Mr. Latham?"
“I shall be overcome again at this
exhibition of your friendship and gen-
erosity, but I shall refuse to borrow
money from you on my worthless note
—and I’ll give Roberta another mean-
ing look. Then, do you know what
■he’ll do?”
“No.” - - '
“She’ll get you off in a corner, pri-
vately, and make you figure out for
her just how much money will be re-
quired to margin five thousand shares.
Then she'll ask you, secretly, to make
the deal In her name, and accept an j
assignment of her Interest in Tom \
Antrim’s estate at something less than [
It would bring at a sacrifice sale, as j
security for the money you will put ,
up for margin. She will jnsist on this •
and reluctantly you let her have her j
way.
“You two will now have a delight-
ful secret together. You will have a
community interest—my abject., hope-
less self. While this mythical deal is
on, not a word of love to Roberta.
There must be no sentiment in this
business, or you’ll spoil everything.
“Well, in the fulness of time when
the market breaks—as you and I know
blamed well it will—you make the myth-
ical clean-up, hand me back the deed to
Hillcrest and a fake check for my win-
nings—or rather, let Roberta do it,
so she’ll feel that the credit for the
coup is all hers—remind me of my
.word of honor to quit stock gambling,
shake hands all around, bid Roberta a
somewhat suppressed good-by and an-
nounce you are off for a trip around
the world, to be gone a year. And at
that moment, old son, if you play your
cards with the skill and judgment
which a lawyer of your proved ability
Should, Roberta will go with you or
Frn fit for an insane asylum.”
“I’m not so certain your plan will
work out as perfectly as you appear
to think, Mr. Latham,” Hackett re-
plied doubtfully.
“Of course it will. Why not? Ro-
berta will be serious now. No more
flirting, no more attempting to work
her wiles on you to see you squirm
and satiate her with a seuse of hej
power over you. She’ll begin to study
you then, to appreciate the fact that
you have qualities she must respect;
she’ll feel grateful to you, but owing
to the fact that she secured your loan
the obligation will be more mine than
hers. No love. Business. Then love
will bob up of its own accord.”
Glenn Hackett looked genuinely dis-
tressed. Crooked Bill rambled on; “I
want Roberta to go to Texas to look
after that estate. She has a jolt com-
ing to her when she gets there, and
I’m the little boy that knows it. Twen-
ty-five years ago I was in the cattle
business myself, In Las Cruces coun-
ty, Texas. I owned the Rancho Ver-
dugo and sold out to a chap named
Bill Hobart. I know this Higuenes
family. I don’t know Don Jaime
Miguel Higuenes, but I did know his
father, and a grand piece of work he
was. Spanish with a broad streak of
Irish or Irish with a broad streak of
Spanish, I forget which. I remember
the old man had an infant son named
Jaime, so this chap who killed Tom
Antrim must be that boy.”
“Higuenes says a umn named Jim
Higgins killed Antrim. Roberta told
me over the telephone.”
"Jaime is Spanish for James, read-
ily corrupted to Jimmy, and Higuenes
is Spanish for Higgins. Don Jaime
went over to Antrim’s camp to order
him and his sheep off the Higuenes
range. Antrim, the skunk, figured on
murdering the boy without risk to
himself. Fortunately a third man was
present at that conference just before
the killing—a ranger named Kenneth
Hobart—son of old Bill Hobart to
whom I sold the Rancho Verdugo.
Higuenes borrowed the ranger’s rifle
unknown to Antrim—and although
Antrim shot Higuenes three times,
eventually Higuenes got out of range.
Then he stalked Antrim and killed
him. I have had a report on the mat-
ter from the coroner at Los Algo-
dones.”
“Very interesting, Mr. Latham.”
“Best news I’ve had in fifty years,
Glenn. But what challenges my in-
terest is this. Antrim is dead,
Higuenes lives and is not seriously
injured, yet Antrim’s sheep, with the
tacit consent of Higuenes, continue to
trespass. Meanwhile Higuenes is do-
ing all he can to. protect Roberta,
whom he has never met—and, all at
considerable loss and inconvenience
to himself, because those sheep are
ruining his range. Sheep foul a range
up, and cattle will not graze where a
sheep has grazed. Also, a sheep de-
stroys the range. Eats the grass down
to the roots and then some. Now,
why is Higuenes doing this?”
“Search me, sir.”
| “He has some ulterior motive, and
Roberta will discover it, of course.
Well, I want Roberta to go down
there all het up with the mental pic-
ture she has painted of this romantic
Higuenes. She’ll find a brand of man
she never met before. All I hope is
that he makes love to her with Latin
impetuosity, because if he does he’ll
be put in his place. Roberta will not
be rushed by any man. All the men
she’ll meet there will he so different
she’ll be disillusioned. She’ll begin to
appreciate a man who bathes and
shaves daily, who dresses in good
taste, who knows something besides
cattle and sheep and local politics,
who lives in a regular house and
moves in cultured society. She’ll see
the other side of the picture—and it
will be good for her immortal soul.”
“There may be a great deal in what
you say, Mr. Latham, and perhaps
your cute financial plans will work
out exactly as you expect, but I’m here
to tell you they will not, and for one
very potent reason. I’m not so blamed
certain that I want Roberta."
Crooked Bill stared at. the young
man in undisguised horror and amaze-
ment.
“I’m afraid of her.” Hackett re-
sumed in his slow, methodical way.
“She’s too blamed modern and I’m too
old-fashioned. I’ll not change and she
can’t. I fear we would be mismated
and I’ll not risk a brief happiness. I
can stand to lose Roberta now, but
I wouldn’t care to have to stand to
lose her after I’d won her; it'd break
my heart to discover at some future
time that she wasn't happy with me.”
“Mares’ nests,” Crooked Bill pro-
tested. “I tell you I know women.
They may hoot for years at a master-
ful man, but they’ll end Up by marry-
ing him and adoring him until death
do them part. However, why cross
the bridge until you come to it? Go
through with my little plan and then
stand by to see how the cat jumps.
Remember, we’re out to humble this
proud damsel, to make her see life
without looking at it through amber
glasses. She lias some things to learn
and some to unlearn. Nothing like
worry and adversity to clear a proud
head, I’m telling you.”
— CONTINUED NEXT WEEK —
Esperanto Will Be
Taught At Texas U.
Austin, Oct. 4.—Esperanto, the
"‘universal,” or international lan-
guage, will be taught at the Uni-
versity of Texas this year. Prof.
Alfred Kenngott, instructor in ro-
mance language, will have charge of
the classes, held once each week,
in the evening. The classes will be
extra-curricular in nature, no credit
being given for the work.
“Esperanto is not mere project
or experiment,” Professor Kennyott
said “but an established language,
having passed the stages of experi-
mentation. It is a living and func-
j tioning international language, recog-
j nized as such by the International
: Telegraph Union and Radio Com-
munication League.
“Esperanto has been offigialy
recommended for the World Court,
and has been used a great deal by
the Hague Peace Confernce. Es-
pranto is a real basis for world
peace. It tends to dispel the preva-
lent hatred of people towards that
which they do not understand. It
does not supplant nat onal languages,
but supplements them. It is spoken
by progressive people all over the
world.
“More than seven thousand books
and periodicals are published in
Esperanto. The language is espe-
] daily interesting to those in the
| teaching profess on, not only for the
sake of the language itself, but for
the prestige and wider viewpoint
it gives to those Avho know it.
“Esperanto is required at present
in English preparatory schools as
a prerequisite to any modei-n foreign
language. It is a clearing house to
get a condition of all modern for-
eigin languages. Esperanto is of-
fered as a regular course in the
universities of Oxford, Geneva,
Prague, and Liverpool, and as an
! extension course in the University
| of Texas.”
; Traffic stop signs in Cagnes sur
| Mer, Cannes, and Nice, in the south
t of France, are printed in two lan-
| guages, French and Esperanto, Pro-
: fessor Kenngott said. The first fe
for the natives and the latter for
| the tourists who throng France at
all seasons.
There is no such thing as success
in a bad business.
POLITICAL
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Democratic Nominees
For County Judge:
E. M. REMINGTON
For Sheriff:
J. B. FOSTER
For County Attorney:
W. W. FARMER, JR.
For County Clerk:
MISS PEARL MATTHEWS
For Tax Collector:
I). D. CUSENBARY
For Tax Assessor:
0. H. (Mack) McKIBBEN
For County Treasurer:
MRS. LEAH HARTZELL
'-'or Representative, 109th District:
J. H. FISHER
For Commissioner, Prec. 3:
SAM BIRD
For Public Weigher. Pree. 3:
H. WOOD
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