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THC STORY TnU8 FAR Melody
Jones and George Fury rode Into Payne
Till oq s route to California While
there Melody trsi mliUken for tbe want
d outlaw Monte Jarrad and Fory or
U > hall wit uncle Roicoe Cherry a
Itl friend of Montef roihed them oat
of town to the farm where tney met her
brother Avery Informed that a posse
was after them Melody and Fory left
for the border Avery and Cherry went
to Montei hide away In the barn and
eiplalned aboot Melody In tbe mean-
time Melody and Fnry returned They
bid In the attic of the borne and tiler
beard Avery and Cherry dUenii them
They were soon discovered and troutbt
dovriu
CHAPTER VII
Out by the kitchen door the bear
cub had uttered a little explosive
snarl almost like a bark and It
wai growling through Its nose now
In a high trill very shrilly Melody
swung his feet to the floor took a-
long step to the lamp and blew It
out As he sat down again on the
edge of the bed there was a moment
of complete stillness so that they
could hear each other breathing in
the dark
Then he heard her come close to
him and drop to one knee so that
they could speak even more softly
than before Her hands found his
armWhy
Why did jou do that
That bear seen somethin M Mel-
ody told her
I suppose he did she said at
the limit of exasperation Hes al-
ways seeing something Theres coy-
otes all around here
It was something else Melody
said vaguely
They were quiet again and he
could almost hear her thinking
What was It you wanted me to do
for you he asked her
Its changed she said Her
breathing had altered so that he
knew some new angle had come up
to frighten her Ill tell you about
It Ill tell you the whole thing But
I have to show you something first
I cant show you until morning So
youll have to stay right here until
daylight
Whut
You can sleep right where you
are Thats what you want isnt
it It Is Isnt It
I dont believe this Melody
said
Ill make out all right some-
where else she said shortly Will
you do It Will you do what I ask
and stay put for something new
The moon was well up now and
very bright Its gunmetal halflight
color blind to all red or yellow tones
was so clear In that dry desert air
that he could have read an obituary
notice by It but the shadows were
as black as If they were painted out
with soot Keeping to the band of
darkness close to the house wall
Melody Jones moved around the cor-
ner of the house to the back where
the bear cub was chained
The bear cub growled at him once
and then accepted him perhaps be-
cause he had come from within
While It snuffled at the wool sox in
which he stood Melody sifted the
night with his eyes
Where he now stood he faced the
barn and the broken upcountry He
combed the foreground first then the
distant contours and he had time
to estimate this country into which
he had ridden by mistake sensing
its shape
The bear cub stopped snuffling
and began to worry at Melodys
sock Melody moved out of reach
and sat down The cub followed to
the end of Us chain then sat down
beside him with Its hind feet in its
paws and looked at the country like
Melody It both looked and acted
like a very little potbellied dwarf of
a man so much as Melody could
see Melody first knew something was
wrong again because the bear cub
was so still Leaning hard upon
pure instinct Melody centered the
whole soul of his attention upon the
shadow of a rock halt way up a
hill behind a steep corral
Not because he was brave not
even because he was curious but
because it seemed to be the next
thing to do Melody Jones relaxed
his hands and stepped Into the moon-
lights He knew he could be killed
from almost any place within rea-
sonable gunshot but nothing hap-
pened After a moment or two of
standing there Melody walked for-
ward silent In hit sock feet toward
the door of the barn
Melody Jones vague bewilder-
ment was a wild and casual thing
compared to Monte Jarrads total
astonishment Monte had not seen
Melody moving in the black shadow
of the house He had not even seen
him when Melody silently crossed
the thirty yards of open moonlight
between house and barn In those
moments Monte had been standing
braced between the bales and be
was holding hU eyes shut while he
waited fdr certain amount of thun-
der and lightning to stop playing
around In his wounded side He
was mending very fast much faster
than he could have hoped but the
first exercise in three day was
something be bad to pay for
Then he thought he heard breath-
ing where DO breathing should have
been and he opened his eyes to see
Melody Jones silhouetted In tbe
moonlit door easily within reach of
Monte hand
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Monte Jarrad had no notion of
who Melody was he had never seen
htm In his life He failed to match
up this unaccounted visitor with the
tramp rider who had been mistaken
for Monte himself In Paynevllle Be-
yond the fact that the figure was
that of a stranger and had appeared
with amazing stealth Identity made
no difference The country was full
of people hunting for Monte Jarrad
Melody Jones finished scratching
his head and wandered off a little
way through the tangle of impedi-
menta in the barn
As soon as his back was turned
Monte drew his gun Melody seemed
to hear the faint whisper of the
leather He turned back looked
about him suspiciously and then
walked straight toward Monte The
man between the bales could not
believe that he was unseen the thin
stripes of moonlight made the figure
of Melody Jones so plain Montes
sixgun centered on Melodys belt
buckle and the hammer moved back
silently just short of the click
Monte Jarrads first astonishment
had passed off and he knew now
what he had to do He still did not
dare to fire He believed now that
his vne best bet was to brain the
stranger with his gun barrel as
quietly as Mas practicable and hide
him under the hay
Melody Jones unhurriedly stood
up Casually he hitched up his belt
as he strolled to the moonlit door
Monte subsided Into the shadows as
Melody took one more leisurely look
at the hay rake the wagon wheels
and the dark space where Monte
stood Then Melody left the barn
and moved without haste toward the
house
Changing his position Monte
watched Melody as he walked past
the door of the de Longpre house
and proceeded without any particu-
lar caution along the house wall
He saw Melody come to the window
which Monte knew belonged to Cher
rys room Nonchalantly as mat
You liaie been mixing with the
wrong people
teroffactly as If he were vaulting
onto a horse Melody put his hands
on the window ledge and swung a
leg over the sill Still unhurriedly
he disappeared within Montes
breath sucked in through his teeth
George Fury was riding in relax
ing caution as he came close His
carbine was in his hands but he was
now in the act of putting It away in
his saddle boot This nonchalance
puzzled Cherry until a moment later
when she saw with a keen chagrin
the reason for George Furys assur-
ance Melody Jones was up already
and sitting on the kitchen steps in
full view He plainly had been up
for some time for he had had time
to find and catch the horse he called
Harry Henshaw The pony was sad-
dled and packed wth Melodys bed-
roll and was now finishing a heavy
bait of oats laid out on a gunny sack
at the edge of the rickety gallery
Cherry lay back soundlessly more
than willing to hear what Melody
and GeorgeFury had to say to each
other when they thought they were
alone
George Fury looked Melody over
ironically which was mostly wasted
In lc bad light Then he stepped
dovii dropping his split reins to the
ground and loosened his cinches
with elaborate deliberation before
turning upon hi partner
I went and looked for you by the
crick where Z left you Melody said
and I found Harry Henshaw where
you tied him But you was gone
George eased himself stiffly to the
step beside Melody Expect me to
set there all night he grunted
Melody looked at him gravely
George he said Ive rode with
you a fur piece and r swar a feller
dont Jive that can say you would or
you wouldnt
Georges customary snort came
out only ai a long sigh he needed
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HEMPHILti COUNTY NEWS CANADIAN TEXAS
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his coffee I been down to Payne
vllleI
I brung you a message George
began digging in his various pock-
ets I got It somewhercs here
Message I dont know anybody
in Paynevllle
You know one feller at least
the feller you hit This heres from
him He handed Melody a balled
up wad of wrapping paper You
better read it If you still can read
The note George Fury had brought
from Paynevllle didnt have much
In It either It simply said
You better come down here and talk
And quick
Taint signed
Names Ira Waggoner He was
the stage driver on the coach Monte
Jarrad held up on the Stlnkwatcr
road Give this to Monte Jarrad
he says He still thinks joure Mon-
te Jarrad
I finally found a man a feller
could talk to down there George
Fury went on The town Is Just as
crazy as it was their minds is et
out by drinking water from the
Poisonberry River I figger now But
this feller was a bullwhackcr just
passin through and he hadnt drunk
any water so he was all right
Is he the one that give you the
black eye
That come later This fel
ler told me a pile of stufT about this
Monte Jarrad joure supposed to be
Everybody in the whoop hurrah
country knows more obopt him than
you do I dont know how it is but
somehow you are the one blink that
dont never seem to get the word 1
Heck George Melody seemed
depressed I dont know why you
talk thataway A feller would think
I done something
Melody studied the note from Ira
Waggoner again Cherry he
said without raising his voice
come out here a minute
There was a moments silence
and Cherry sounded chastened ai
she answered him All right Mel-
ody
Cherry looked pale and showed
blue circles under her eyes Her
hands were trying to unrumple her
hair which still looked lighter than
her face There was no exchange
of greetings Melody handed her
the note George had brought
You know somethin about this1
he asked
Cherry studied the message for a
long time This Isnt for you she
said at last She looked humorless
and scared
Is that what you wanted me to
do Melody asked go down there
and straighten this feller out
No Cherrys nervous balance
was breaking up Thats the one
thing you must not do
Well Melody said slowly If
you dont want me to go down there
I suppose we could hae him come
out here
You mustnt talk to Ira Wag
goner at all Cherry insisted on the
verge of hysteria Not now or any
other time no matter where you
run Into him next
What fur not Cherry He know
somethin
Cherry looked as If she were go-
ing to burst Into tears but she pulled
herself together I didnt soy that
All you said was Melody ad-
mitted you was going to show mc
something you wanted me to do
Cherry snuffled back the threaten-
ing tears and made her oIcc quiet
Im going to Hook up the buck-
board for me you know the team I
use Ill get you some breakfast
while you hitch And Ill take you to
where where we have to go
All right Cherty He went to
get his lariat off of Harry Henshaw
Melody George said when Cher
ry had gone Into the house you
going off some place with that girl
Aint you comin George
George seemed weary and old
Melody I aint
When they had got the buckboard
down the axlecracking trail to the
valley floor with Harry Henshaw on
lead behind It they drove about
four miles along the twisting Poison
berry River Then Cherry de Long
pre turned the team out of the ruts
into the unbroken sage They pres-
ently came out into an open space
In which lay the charred weathered
ruins of a ranch Cherry pulled up
and sat listening
She asked nervously Did you
hear a horse whinny
No Melody said because
there wasnt any done so If they
had this team would have knowed
It whether we heard it or not
Whuts the matter You expecting
to meet somebody
No of course not
Then why did you bring that six
gun Cherry looked startled
I see you put it under the seat
Melody explained
I brought It Cherry said slow-
ly because youre In bad trouble
If you had to fight I meant to help
you Honest You did You mean yod
know how to fight a gun same aa a
man
1 know how to fix em Cherry
said sheepishly because I clean
em for Fever Crick and Avery all
the time put I dont like guns
very welt Ive only fired one off
about tiro or three timea
TO BE CONTXHUKDI
sriiTO i mmstj
Wallace s Job Program
Packs Political TNT
Reorganization of Commerce Department
First Step Forward in Formulation
Of Full Employment Policy
4 A L
By BAUKHAGE
Veuj Analyit and Commentator
WNU Service 1616 Eye Street NW
Washington D C
The recent operating and or-
ganization program for the depart-
ment of commerce created very lit-
tle excitement in Washington or else-
where when it was released I think
it made page 15 of the New York
Times The Times gave much more
prominence recently to another doc-
ument from the pen of Henry Agard
Wallace his new book Sixty Mil-
lion Jobs of which I shall speak
later
Congress may slumber on the re-
organization report for yet a little
but when Washington wakes to the
real significance of this 10page
mimeographed document it will find
between the lines much upon which
to ponder Maybe that is why it
was doublespaced
To me this is a threelnone In-
strument just as its author Henry
Wallace revealed himself as a
threeinone personality when I
called on him just before the pub-
lication of his program his first ap-
proach to the governmental lime-
light since the change in adminis-
tration
The report on what Mr Wallace
In his capacity as secretary of com-
merce hopes will mean the revitaliz-
ing and expanding of his depart-
ment envisions the metamorphosis
of that somewhat turgid and Impo-
tent institution in to a vigorous and
human organization which will reach
out and touch millions of Individuals
just as the governments most virile
department agriculture does Sec-
retary Wallace said frankly at his
press conference and also in more
detail privately to me that he
thought that the department of com-
merce should do for the business-
man big and little what the de-
partment of agriculture does for the
farmer big and little And it will if
he has his way
Active Department
Secretarys Goal
Wipe out of your mind If you will
that onetime problem child of the
New Deal the agricultural adjust-
ment administration Now weigh
the testimony of observers Includ-
ing antiWallaccftes and I think you
will learn that as secretary of agri-
culture the author of Sixty Mil-
lion Jobs did a good job in re-
vitalizing his department
How much it will cost to do as
much for commerce we couldnt get
him to estimate but he finally told
us that It would be less than one
sixth of the cost of one days war
at VE Day By a series of calcula-
tions we arrived at the figure of 40
million dollars Since the commerce
department spent about 121 million
dollars last year Mr Wallaces
changes would make a total cost for
his revitalized department of 161
million dollars
Those who cry economy will
shudder at that figure but they will
bear this answer If business big
and little wants help similar to that
which agriculture demands and gets
It will cost something The depart-
ment of agriculture cost approxi-
mately 769 million dollars to run last
year and the farmers wouldnt
want It to do less
There will also be another explan-
ation of the figures which will at-
tempt to show that part of the ex-
pansion of the reorganized depart-
ment Is really contraction and that
brings us to the second Integer of
the threelnone composition of Mr
Wallaces plan The plan Is more
than a blueprint for changes in a
Blngle governmental institution It
fs definitely a part of President Tru
mans reorganization plan which it
is fair to assume would bring back
under the commerce rooftree the
horde of agencies and commissions
which have to do with industry and
business
And now we come to part three of
the trlpartible function of the Wal-
lace program It Is by his own
implication a part of his recipe for
full employment included In his
book Sixty Million Jobs and men-
tion ot that brings me to an ex
amination of Mr Wallace himself
X said that like the program of re-
organization for his department Mr
Wallace seemed trlpartltent to me
When I called upon him he came
down the great cavernous room
which Herbert Hoover planned for
his successor and we sat In chairs
about a little table that made a hos
pltable oasis In the midst of the
desert vastness of high walls and
lofty celling
A Presidential
Ghost Emerges
X had really come to see Henry
Wallace the author of Sixty Mil-
lion Jobs which had just been re-
ported a best seller In two New
York stores We discoursed at some
length on that opus and gradually I
found myself also talking to Henry
Wallace secretary of commerce
for as I suggested earlier many a
strand from Sixty Million Jobs
may be discovered In the warp and
woof of the department reorganiza-
tion plan
As the conversation moved from
book to report and back to book
again never getting far from the
theme of full employment I thought
I could moke out an ectoplasmtc
form arising from what had been
up until then my twopart author
secretary host The third being al-
though not yet completely mate-
rialized little by little became
translucently visible to the naked
eye This party of the third part I
thought I recognized as Henry Wal-
lace presidential candidate 1948
or at least 1952
Perhaps I would not have believed
my eyes If it had not been for a
statement which a stout supporter
of Mr Wallace had made to me
Sixty Million Jobs comes pretty
near to being Just about the best
political platform the Democratic
party can run on In the next elec-
tion
In one place Author Wallace says
There are a few of course who
think that any government servant
who uses the phrase full employ-
ment Is engaged In some deep dark
plot But they are the exceptions
that prove the peoples sanity and
soundness as a whole
Senator McClellan might be con
sidered one of the exceptions from
his remarks in the debate on the
full employment bill He said that
the measure says a great deal
and actually means nothing except
to create an erroneous Impression in
the minds of the people He later
described It as soft soap
Sixty Million Jobs
Draws Commendations
Whatever the lawmakers think
the reviewers certainly are full of
praise for Wallaces book The New
York Times calls It a thoughtful
and thought provoking discussion
of American political economy and
the Saturday Review of Literature
agreeing with the Times adds that
more than any recent work on
economics or politics it can serve
as a moral testament and intel-
lectual guide In the eventful diffi-
cult days ahead
The work appeared first In a busi
nesslettersheet size with paper
cover it followed In orthodox book
form Later the author hopes he
told me that it will be printed in a
cheap pocketsize edition
When Mr Wallace said that I
thought I caught his ectoplasm J c
triplet nodding emphatic approval
while ghostly lips formed the words
for every voters pocket
Much water will pass beneath the
Potomac bridges between now and
1948 or 1952 We have with us at
present a conservative congress and
the political veterans say that no
matter which way the wind may
blow abroad It Is blowing to the
right on Capitol hill and they add
hopefully perhaps not too leftward
at the other end of Pennsylvania
avenue
Secretaryauthorcandidate Wal
laces full employment program re
quires much more legislation than
the full employment MIL That Is
only the first step The expansion
and reorientation of his and other
departments will be required Then
there will be special taxation there
will be at least the blueprinting of
public works there will have to be
a settled policy providing for foreign
loans the Bret ton Woods program
and other stimulants of world trade
and tourist traffic
If a too conservative congress did
not grant the minimum legislative
Implementation the Sixty Million
Jobs plan could not be carried out
That however Mr Wallaces sup-
porters Insist will simply make 60
million people who want jobs plus
their families vote for the man
who believes they can be produced
BARBS by Baukhage
Two hundred thousand of Berlins
three million population are mem-
bers ot trade unions But what hive
they got to trade
It anybody asks you Don you
know theres a war on the an-
swer Is yes and whether you
like It or not It will be for six
months after a formal declaration ot
beace which Isnt even In sight yet
The White Souse had lis first real
paint job since tbe war began and
looks like a new place The scaffolds
were up before Jsurrender day I
wonder If the painters had a Up
We have 20 million less horses and
mules to feed than we once had In
this country But the land used to
raise food for them Is now feeding
human beings
rniDAY OCT 12 1915
CLASSIFIED
DEPARTMENT
HELP WANTED MEN
INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER CO
DEALER Wants mechanic to operate re
pair shop Work to be on Interantlonal
rector and trucks Commission bailsj
plenty of work permanent
NONKEN EQUIIMLNT CO
Maekevllle Kant
S get se
are 850 to 70 per week on flat rate plant
percentage basis and guarantees good
working conditions large FordMercury
and Lincoln dealership Write J n TAJ I
At OHIO Uedern MoUri St Joseph Me
HELP WANTED MEN WOMEN
SKILLED and unskilled male and female
help wanted for work In the Deshler Broom
Factoryespecially broom and whlik broom
makers Good working condlUons Write
call or wire the employment department
THE DESULEIt BROOM FACTORY
Deshler Nebraska
BUSINESS Sc INVEST OPPOtt
Established Trucking Business Cash In-
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Bex 1201 Wichita Kansas
FARMS AND RANCHES
226 ACRES GOLIAD TEXAS SO acres
Kasture balance cultivation 13 room
ouse large barn large chicken house
52 00 acre 4 royalty reserved
Mns LUDWIQ It l Odem Texas
100 ACRES Vt trass
Make line postwar farm t
goee Unimproved 20 miles east Wichita
Good roads w400
BOX 64 Mnrdoek Kaa
197 ACRES MPnO ED FARM
Anderson County Kansas 35 per acre
A 4 PARCELS Klncald Kansas
WHEAT LAND and LIVESTOCK Itaneles
for sale at bargain prices
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economical to operate gasoline and elec
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Meat and veiietable display cases
Grocery restaurant refrigerators
Refrigeration machines
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AND CESSPOOLS cleaned the new vacu
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REAL ESTATE BUS PROP
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more Big 100 tablet aize for only 35c
Beware Coughs
from common colds
That Hang On
Creomulslon relieves promptly be-
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trouble to help loosen and expel
germ laden phlegm and aid nature
to soothe and heal raw tender In-
flamed bronchial mucous mem-
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a bottle of Creomulslon with the un-
derstanding you must like the way It
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40 43
Oil Production
Crude oil production In California
during 1944 was 310992000 barrels
valued at 323432000
Disease Incidence In Britain
Both meningitis and diphtheria are
more common In England than lo
the United States
Guess as te Earths Core
Scientists believe that the earths
core Is almost entirely composed ot
nickelIron alloy
Boiling Egga
Before boiling eggs wet the shell
In cold water You will find the egg
will not craclc
Yankee Doodle Dutch Air
The Yankee Doodle song was
taken from an old Dutch harvest
song
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