The Delta Courier (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 38, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 22, 1942 Page: 3 of 4
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1942
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CHAPTER X
Synopsis
Dave Bruce, out of a job, ar-
rives at Wilbur Ferris’ Cross-Bar
ranch. Cumin, (he foreman*,
promises him a job if he can
break a horse called Black Dawn.
When he succeeds, he discovers
that Curran expected the horse
to kill him. A girl named Lois
ides up, angry with Dave for
breakirig “her” horse. She re-
fuses to speak to him ev*n when
he uses his savings to pay off the
mortgnge on the small ranch she
shares with her foster father, a
man named Hooker. But when
Hooker is shot and Dave i* charg-
ed with ,m,urder, Lois saves him ]
from being lynched. Wounded,
she guides him to a mountain
cave where she thiiiiks they will
be safe from Curran and the
sheriff's posse. A quarrel between
Ferris and Judge Lonergan re-
veals that Rsrri* had killed his
partner, Blane Rowland, many
years before. Thoroughly scared,
Ferris takes Curran into his con-
fidence. Dave leave Lois alone
for a while, not knowing that
Curran is hiding nearby.
For
When Dave and the horses had
finally vanished behind the sky-
line, Curran jumped to his feet.
He made his way along (the ledge
trail, past ‘the place where his
two horses were tethered, in the
direction of the cave.
Crouching in the last clump of
jackpine scrub, Curran watched
Lois as she returned from the
little pool and entered the ciave.
Then he crept on tiptoe after
her.
It was the shadow of the man,
falling across the floor, that
caused Lois to look around. She
thought it was Dave returned.
For an instant |the girl looked at
the foreman, frozen with 'terror.
Then she opened her mouth to
scream.
That instant Curran had leap-
ed upon her, clapping one hand to
her mouth, stifling her cry be-
fore she could utter it. In that
land was a gag, which he thrust
another bunk, and nothing more.
Out of the first bunk staggered
a Mexican.
“Well, yuh got here, Pedro,”
said Curran. “Did yuh warn
Ferris to be here an hour after you’re goin’ to have, Ferris.”
sundown ”
“Si, senor, I tell him, but he
sayl lie does not know 'the way,
and I must go back for him.”
“He was lyin’,” snarled Cur-
ran. “Ferris knows a lot more
than he purtends to knotv, and
he don’t know a whole lot of
ENLOE
* MRS. A. C. VOYLES *
+ +
+ + + + + •!• ♦4» + + + + + + *
Hurry Pato.erson made a busi-
ness t*'ip 'to Dallas Wednesday.
Jackie, daughter of Mrs. Irene
Davis, is ill ut this time.
Beverly and Shirley Iglehart,
!f | who have been visiting their
1 uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs.
| Ben Hagood, of Mineola have re-
turned home.
Gladwin Rainey of Washington,
1). C., visited friends in Enloe last
week while spending a short va-
cation with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. C. C. Rainey, who live near
I’attonville. Gladwin was a
member of 'the senior class of
1940 of Enloe High School and
went to Washington early this
year as a typist.
Mrs. Lane Young, who has
; spent several weeks with her
husband, who is stationed on the
•West Coast, came home this week.
*7--- i Mrs. Rooney Hooker and Miss
that cowpoke, and anyways, by WilUe Yeargan spent part of
tht. time I gu through with her, last week with their brother, J.
she II be all ready to hitcih up E_ yeargan, of Paris,
with me and help run the ranch i .. ... .. T , , ,
house. Nice little housekeeper! L Mrs' W\H' dacLks°"’ who has
u’re goin’ to have, Ferris.” ,been wlth her husband at a hos'
“Pedro told me a certain pa.-,pital ,Rt Pa"s’ isT at ho,me for,a
ty’s cornin’ about sundown,” said feW dayS' Mr' Jackson s condl'
Ferrig j tion is somewhat improved.
l4__ * Mrs. Alice Bryant of Cooper
teuh, Lonergan’ll be here. I and M(.s> Giliie Cross of Clark
baited the trap by tellin’ him I’d visited Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Cregg
got the girl and she was ready to -phur-day
make some int’restin’ disclosures |
i ii,.. inrcnim, Ir / oi with terror.
G-NASH1NG
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AXIS'!
OSOfN NASH
\inerican freedom
Or else Japaneedom—
< )f which are you fonder?
lie a victor) bonder!
Illustration by Gib Crocket.
BUY WAR BONDS
AND STAMPS
U. S. Trsatury Dsportmmt.
SIX INCH
SERMON
REV. ROBERT H. HARPER
PAGE THREE
Roi Cornish of Commercq and
Milliard Oats of Llano were in
I Cooper Monday. Mr. Oats will re-
turn to Cooper in October to
have a new telephone directory
| published.
Flying Minister
and how you was cornin' here to
Misses Hibernia Smith and
Betty Zo Cregg, students of
I ETSTC, aft Commerce, spent the
things he thinks he knows. How- (hear them.”
ever, if that’s his message, yuh’d j “Ourran, we can’t—can’t kill , , ... . .
best ride and bring him back, j Lonergan with her in the next pBfk, e"d W'th 1 P“ 6 ‘
d^tamP” at SCVen Pr°nt°‘ Un~ir°?.Tr!” whispfred the ,anehman’ ! M«. B. W. Chambers, who has
Curran. ‘You saw him yester-1 Mrg> AHen return*d from the
day?”
Mexican.
Swiftly Curran seized Lois in
bis arms and pulled her to the
floor. He stood with his hands
upon her shoulders, holding her
fast.
; hospital, came home Thursday
“Yep, he drove up to the house ' T1jKht
and demanded my answer to hisj ' Rk:hard( the litt]e son of Mr.
proposal. I stalled him at first, I, Mrs Paul Hervey, is ill at
like you said, and when he in-jth, time of a throat infection.
Are yuh goin’ to marry me? ! sisted I told him where I’d see, Jerry thfi six year old son of
he demanded. |him first.” | Mr. and Mrs. Truett Carrington,
Lois struck at him, and he, “That’s the stuff, Ferris. Have , seema to be the chanipion cotton
laughed. She screamed—and , a drink,” said the foreman, pour- piek,er of the community. This
I Suddenly, as if in answer to her1' ‘ — '
cry, both of them heard the
hoofbeats of a horse * pounding
along the rocky trail toward the
cabin.
First Lieut. Harold C. Tiiens, 26,
is shown In the cockpit of his plane.
He is an ordained minister and for-
mer army chaplain at Fort Sill,
Okla. The minister’s heart told
him he should be in the thick of
the fight, and he has always prac-
ticed what be preached—so here
he is.
Joseph: An Example of For-
giveness.
Lesson for September 27: Gen-
esis 15:1-45; 17.11, 12.
Golden Text: Ephesians 4:32.
In the present lesson the writ-
er is reminded of a touching
scene he beheld as a boy—the
reunion of u brother and a sis-
ter after a separation of 25 years.
How blessed were the circum-
stances of life that brought them
together again! And how re-
markable were the circumstances
that brought Joseph and his
brothers together in Egypt!
The lesson caption indiciy.es
the forgiveness of Joseph as an
important thing to be considered,
and so it is. But Joseph stress-
ed the providence of God—by
which his father’s family were to
be sustained in Egypt. “God
sent me before you,” he told his
brothers, “to preserve you a rem-
nant in the earth.”
The beautiful story, so simply
told, is complete in itself—
Joseph’s revelation of himself to
his brothers, his interpretation of
the tragic past as the working out
of God’s providence, and his an-
nouncement that full provision
would be made for them and all
their father’s household in
Egypt.
Then Joseph “fell upon his
brother Benjamin’s neck, and
wept.” And he kissed his other
brothers and wept upon them.
And it is said they talked to-
gether—how long and affection-
ately can only be imagined.
The last two verses of the
text tell of Jacob’s settlement in
Egypt, under Joseph and a
friendly Pharoah—where they
were destined to remain in peace
until there rose a king “who
knew not Joseph.”
ing out a stiff measure of • .g the first) year that jerry has
whiskey into the cup. Feri is J re{l]]y tried to pick cotton and he Review and Courier $1.50 a year
took it with shaking hand ami picked one hundred pounds
drained the contents.
and over per day. He is not only
„ , . _ . .. u “I m trusting you, Curranj,” j intere8ted in gathering the crop,
Curpan released Lois with an |he said. “I m not imagimn ^ jn a„ other kindg of farm
down Lois’ throat. With his I oath, clappped his hand to. his you’re cornin’ in with me out of ! work ag weR and often drjves the
other hand he brought the
springs behind her head- Hold-
ing her to him, so that her at-
tempts to free herself were fu- yet set, the whole wild terrain
holster and crouched, listening. | friendly feelin’. I’ve convinced | tractor' for his father when extra
The sun was already behind the you that it’s to you'’ advantage, . . , .
and I’m willin’ to sign that pa-1 P 1S
mountains and, though it had not
per givin’ you a thitd i f the
i Yvonne Medlin, daughter of
adjusted. She half broke free.
Curran grasped her in his arms
again.
“Goin’ to set the herd on me,
NOTICE OF SALE
STATE OF TEXAS,
COUNTY OF DELTA.
Notice is hereby given that by
virtue of a certain Alias Execu-
tion issued out of tjie Hon. Coun-
ty Court of Delta county, Tex-
as, on the 11th day of Septem-
ber, A. D., 1942, by C. V. Ste-
phen on, clerk of said court, for
the sum of $239.45, and costs of
suit, under a judgment against
Joe P. Blackwell, in favor of
Cooper Grain and Grocer Com-
pany, a partnership firm com-
posed of E. F. Smith, J. E. Mc-
Bride and J. R. Lowe, in a cer-
tain cause in said court No.
1462, and styled Cooper Grain
and Grocer Company vs. Joe P.
Blackwell, planed in my hands
for service, I, Willie Wilson,
constable of precinct No. 1,
Delta jeounty, Texas, at 5:30
o’clock p. m., did on the 11th
day of September, A. D., 1942,
levy upon the following describ-
ed real estate situated in Delta
county, State of Texas, and be-
longing to the said Joe P. Blank-
well, to-wit:
23 acres of land out of the
Benj. J. Fry Survey, in Delta
county, Texas, and being fully
described in a deed from Mary
Ann Pollard to Joe P. Blackwell,
recorded in Vo!. 76, page 390,
Deed Records, Delta county,
Texas, and levied upon as the
property of Joe P. Blackwell; and
that) on the first Tuesday in Oc-
tober, 1942, the same being the
6th day of said month, at the
court house door of Delta nounty,
Texas, in the town of Cooper,
between the hours of 10 o’clock
a. m. and 4 o’clock p. m., I will
offer for sale and sell at public
auction, for cash, to the highest
bidder, all the right, title and
interest of the said Joe P. Black-
well in and to said above describ-
ed real estate.
Witness my band, this the
11th day of September, A. D.,
1942. c.‘!9
W. G. WILSON
Constable, Precinct No. 1,
Delta County, Texas.
Miss Dayton Kerbow will leave
Wednesday for Waco where she
will enter defense school. Miss
Kerbow will be in the sheet
metal department.
C. A. COCKRELL
INSURANCE
NOTARY PUBLIC
PECAN GAP — TEXAi
Jo Relieve
Misery of
DEAD
0
Horses, Mules, Cows
Removed Free
Call 827 Sulphur Spring*, col-
lect.
HOWARD “Speck”
WILLIAMSON
tile, Curran quickly had the gag outside was plunged into a shad-jranch. I wrote it out and'Mrg Bonnie Medlin, who is vis-
brought it along. YoU| can read __j ,___!
owy twillight. For an instant the
girl was on the point of throwing
herself upon Curran, to wrest
the six-gun from him, to save
huh?” jeered Curran. “I told j Dave’s life.
yuh I’d git yuh, Lois.” I But then she realized that this
It wad the work of a moment I onepnp^'g horse was neither
or two fto slip the knotted ropes, | Black Dawn nor Hooker’s, and
which he had alreday prepared, j with a !fctiL gasp of relief she
over Lois’ arms and to fasten j sank back against the bunk. A
their ends to the horn of his! moment later Curran straighten-
saddle. He set her upon one of
the horses and sprang upon the
other. Holding her fast, he
started thd two horses down the
trail. ,
Still weak from her wound,
half choked by the* gag, utterly
helpless to cry out or attempt to
ed himself. He had seen the
horseman rounding the curve of
the trail and recognized him.
it.” He drew a document from I
his pocket and unfolded it.
“Fine,” said Curran, laying it
on the table. “I’ll read it lat-
iting her sister and brother-in- J
law, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Oyler, I
in Dallas this week, is in Galves-1
ton with Mr. and Mrs. Oyler. j
“Of course we’ll have to wait
till we gee back before signin’ it,”
said Ferris. “We got to have
witnesses.” I
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Reynolds of
^ Longview and Mrs. Herman
| Stringer of Greenville visited rel-
atives in Cooper Sunday.
K
8JE•~r
‘Well, we got 'two ain’t we?” and rose to his feet. Underneath ^
roared the foreman. “That girl him the water was still running
and Lonergan.” | down the ravine, but it had dried
“Lonergan?” cried the ranch-1 to a thin trickle in places.
J , o rider pulled in a littlu d:r-lman. | Suddenly Dave perceived some-
tance away and hailed, glancing | “Sure, that’s what I said. We j thing white gleaming underneath
suspiciously about him. j will make him sign before we the sunshine. It looked like—it
“It’s all right, Mr. Ferris,” i bump him off.” Jwas a parti of the skeleton of a
called Curran. “I got her here | “Don’t talk sol loud!” whisper- man. Those ribs were human
escape, Lois managed to keep and nobody else.”
her seat until the horses reached | Ferris rode up to the entrance I
the ravine. Instead of making'and dismounted. “I got your j keep y re nerve? ftiuly,” replied j earth piled about it.
for the trail that ran toward j message,” he said, “but I didn’t, Curran contemptuously. “Weife; it was evident, from the
Hooker’s shack, Curran turned , know if I could find my way j all in this up to the neck. When whiteness of 'the bones, that the
(he horses’ heads toward the here. At first I told Pedro he’d ; Lonergan comes, I’m goin’ to skeleton had lain in the ravine
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1 ed Ferris. I ribs, not bovine. And there was
“Here, take anoth" drink and the skull, just visible under the
mountains.
Lois, who knew the mountains
like a book, had already guessed
where Curran was taking her,
and as the route confirmed her
have to bring me, after he’d string him along a li'ttle bit. He f0r
considerable time.
gone I thought I’d see' if I could
find the way alone.”
“So yuh didn’t meet Pedro? I
sent him back for yuh,” said
belief her heart sank even lower. I Curran. He had planned Ferris’
For Dave would never be able to
trail her here, and she would be
utterly at Curran’s niei-cy.
His destination was a spiall
shack, about four miles aWay,
where a prospector had once
advent for a little later, and the
disturbance of his plans momen-
tarily disconcerted him. ’“Come
in. I got her, like I told yuh, and
Pedro give Sheriff Coggswell an
idea of where that murderer’s
lived while engaged in a fruit-i is hangin’ out.”
loss search for gold in the moun-1 Lois ran forward. “Mr. Ferris,
tains. Nobody ever traveled in j help me,” she pleaded. “Take me
that direction. There was no
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pass through the perpendicular
cliffs that walled in the blind
canyon which Curran was already
entering.
The journey was nearly ended,
the shack came into sight at the
end of the canyon, down which a
thin stream of water trickled. A
rotting cradle still lay on the
bank, and beside it a blade of a
spade protruded from a mound ol
earth almost eaten away with
rust. Curran reined in and dis-
mounted. He slipped the rope
from Lois’ arms and carried her
inside.
The shack contained a small
room and another smaller one,
with a plank door between. In
the first room was a table fash-
ioned from packing cases, and
some tree stumps that had been
used for seats. In one corner
was a bunk with a rotting mat-
thinks yo’re goin’ to be the in- looked as if it had been buried,
nocent victim. Ho, ho! underneath by flood waters, bur-
“Ho, ho!” echoed Ferris. But jPd under an accumulation of
there was a note of uncertainty debris that they brought down,
in his voice, that of a bewildered and washed up again,
man, striving to steer himself | Instantly curious, Dave began
through currents tha't are bear- ] scrambling down the side of the
ing him away. [ravine. There was a sturdy
“Listen!” Curran whispered. j growth of pine saplings 'that af-
The hoofbeats of another horse forded him hand hold and, brac-
could be heard coming along the ing his feet against the rocky
trail. Ferris was shaking.
“Lonergan!” he mumbled.
“Maybe Pedro come back. But
he wouldn’t have time to make
wall, he was able to make the
descent without any especial dif-
ficulty.
Between the bank and the
the round trip,” Curran whisper- j skeleton there were about two
ed back, pressing his body j feet of muddy water. Dave re-
against ithe wall and peering out moved his shoes and socks and
through the entrance.
“Nope,” he said’ a moment
later, ‘fit’s Lonergan. We got
began wading 'through it.
It was undoubtedly the skele-
ton of a man. One of the legs
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SAVE LIFE,
RTY
AND THE PURSUIT
OF HAPPINESS
away. This man kidnaped
this morning. He—he—”
Curran scowled. “I’ll put her
in the next room, and then we
kin talk business, Ferris,” he
said, picking up the gag and rope
from the table, where he had
deposited them. [that feller in the trap, Ferris. I protruded stiffly out of the mud,
Lois, utterly worn out, and j Just follow my lead, and when and Dave saw that it had been
realizing that Ferris, who was we’re through with him he won’t I broken near the thigh. It was
standing with averted head, had I be in no position to make trouble | evidently had been badly set, for
no intention of aiding her, was again.” ;the broken ends were not in j
incapable of any resistance worth
mentioning. In a couple of min-
utes Curran had her gagged
whispered Ferris, staring with di-
lated eyes at the approaching
again and carried her to the j rider, while his body shook like
smaller room. After birdingjan aspen. “Outside, where she
‘But outside—outside, Curran,” | alignment, and there was a eon-
her securely, he went back to
where the ranchman was stand-
ing.
“I don’t like this business,
Curran,” mumbled Ferris. “That
girl will overhear everything.”
“Well, that couldn’t be help-
ed,” ahswered the foreman. “May-
tress. In the smaller room was be Qoyswell won’t find
won’t hear when—when we1—”
Dave watched the horses
grazing on the young grass that
was already springing up with
incredible swiftness, after the
night of rain. He lay back,
dreaming of Lois and h of their
future. Finally he stretched him-
self, rolled and lit a cigarette,
siderable thickening of bone
about the side of the fracture.
“Some waddy kicked by a
horse,” Dave thought. “But how
come he was riding the trail up
there? And if his horse slipped,
where’s the horse?”
The water was washing over
the skull, alternately exposing
and revealing it. Dave put his
hands benewth it and lifted it
clear. Then he whistled.
To Be Continued
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