^*wr»fti*i II i iji^<»i ^1 â- M^.fc-rwfci » 1. - Hi ^af [.'9 l'«. ^e^c^oa4 "SAIAM EA BABQ ^ J A e K 1 Synopsis. CHAPTER XXV: Pete Haikell, head of the cattlemen, holds a meet- ing for his men who are angry at Bank's plan to fence in more land for tobacco farms. Haskell goes to Barlle with an offer to buy the property. CHAPTER XXVI "Why not?" he drawled. "But it'll cost you exact t' ce hundred thou- sand dollars â€" cash." llaskell • aved is hands angrily. "Twenty times what its worthl You must think you've got the whip hand, uh?" He got up from his chair, bitter, belligerent. "All our ranches and stock put together won't fetch that." "Why, I always thought you lords of all creation were worth millions," Bartle sneered. 'Tatkel' tried to keep his temper, but it was difficult. He felt the hot blood of rese"htment suffusing his face. "Listen to me I" he made a final plea. "We ranchers can raise maybe seventy-five thousand cash between us. We'll buy â€" " * « « "Three hundred am- fifty thousand •â€" or nothing." Bartle's smile was Infuriatingly triumpl'.ant. Haskell could stand no more of the banker. He turned and trudged heavily to the door. "I've had my say," he growled over his shoulder. "I'm telling you that no tob ceo man sets himself up iu the north end of IJccp Water .Valle- â€" and that's flat. Now go on with your blasted plans!" lie slornr td downstairs and out, slamming the ©utcr door after him until the glass In it rattled. I! rtle smiled. He knew the iuv Inintnce of oi n warfare between cattlemen and tobacco farmers, but what matter? Let them fight! Noth- ing could fit irto his own plans bet- ttr. For under the smoke screen of OF REVENGE Just look! You can make this fresh, cool, chic, slender - looking pruxch coat ii no timet Pattern 4879 is easy sewing, no sleeves to Mt in, only 4 main pattern piecesl This pattern, easy to use, simple ^ sew, is tested for fit. Includes ilomplete illustrated instructions. Pattern 4879 comes in sizes 34, 1-, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, SO, Site M take.t 4^ yards 3S-inch fabric Send TWEHTY • FIVE CENTS (25c) in coins (stamps cannot be Mcepted) or this pattern to Room a', 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto. Print plainly SIZE, NAME, AD- DKESS, STYLE NUMBER. ISSUE •â€" I94t â- Y N • e O L K battle there would be safety, profits for himi As the cold gray of daybreak paled t" z eastern sky, sober-faced, solemn, bitterly silent riders converged on Pete Haskell's Half Circle H Ranch in the north end of Deep Water Valley. Pete Haskell himself, with Tim Callan, whj had ridden home with him from Gold Creek, solemnly greeted each new arrival who swung down from his horse and entered the ranchhouse. Twice Haskell sur- veyed the big room which, big as it was, soon became uncomfortably crowded with these men of the raage who had ridden here at his behest and were waiting for him to tell them what he had in mind. • • * "I have been palavering with Russ Bartle," Haskell began seriously. "But I didn't get anywhere. He knows he's got the whip hand, and he aims to use the whip." Luke Wallace edged closer to the table over which Haskell spoke. "Did you offer to buy all the Jorth end of the valley â€" as we sug- gested?" he asked. "Yeah, I did." Haskell's lips tightened grimly. "But Russ has been bookkeeping so everlasting much that he hasn't got any re- spe.t for anything less than six figures crowding one behind the other. The price of the north end of the vallej- â€" he says â€" is three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Cash!" "That's plain higluv.iy robbery!" crit'il Wallace. "Did you tell him thtre wasn't that much n oney in this whole half of the country? inquired Cal- lan. "Of course I did," Ha-kcll an- swered. 'But I should have known enough not to. It didn't mean any- thing to him, and he cared less." "Did you tell him we wouldn't lit any tobacco farmers sijnat in the north end of the valley?" ask- ed a whiskered old-ter from the back of the roon'i, his voice qui- vering with emotion. "Yeah- I told him that" "And that it one fence uciit up to keep our cattle away from the water we've gi t a right to, that we'd take the l:av inin our own hands?" urged Luke Wallaci. ".Vol" Haskell cut liim oft. "I've been hoping that sonic of you tnen have tlioiight of sonietliing less mangy than riding rough-hod over farmers that are only ti>ing lo i make a living, after all." He paused for suggestions, glancing from man to man of the grinifaccd ranchers in front of him. "We're going to do something!" Luke Wallace barked, "an<l I'm not a young man any more, and I've been here too long to be driven out of house and home by any barbed wire. And since there's no hope of help from the law, then we've just got to forget about the law and use â€" "' * * • "I'orce?" a.sked Haskell. "Well," he Itemporizcd, "we can do one thing. As soon as a fence goes up around sweet water that we must have, that fas. we rip it down." "And if that way won't work?" Vallace snorted. "We'll cross that bridge when we come to it," Haskell said firm- ly. He had just opened his mouth to say more when the front door burst open so unexpectedly that Haskell himself, as well as every men present, swung around as if yanked by wires. Ryes popped. Jaws dropped. Men were speech- less with a'lia.-ement. For on tlie threshold stood a man in the garb of a Spanish don of long ago, a man with flaming red hair beneath a cone-shaped sombrero, and with a red kerchief drawn up over (hri lower part of his facet . (To .be Contintied) All This and Washable Too â€" Model Marge Kerrins shows off her green and white striped cotton dress by forming a perfect circle with its five-yard swing skirt. The dress is one of 15,0(X) new styles for spring. ANy£ HIRST Girl In Love Fools Parents Month after month, year after year, I go along warning young girls how foolish they are to <:lip out Jind meet boys of whom their parents do not approve. Yet week after week, month af- ter month, girls write me and tell me they are doing just that foolish thing, and ask me to please help them Well, sometimes I forget that there's another generation I'ra writing for, since I started this olumn 20 years ago. Maybe these girls read it for the first time, or perhaps I helped friends v.ho suggested they tell .\nne * Hirst .ibout it. "She'll fix it.' * At any rate, here goes for the * umpteenth time in the past few * months. If other readers are * bored, I hope they'll remember * that I'm advising this one girl * who trnts me. * HURTS HER CAUSE This cjhl is 18. She's in hr.f uith a boy a year older. Her parents -^i'oii't alloxi.' her to go xvilh him "for Your Handwriting and You ^,„ f> Alex S Arnott Lower Loop Letters How d(jcs yuur handwrilin:4 com pare with this week's illustration shown below? Docs it liave some of the features indicated in this script? If your writing is similar to Ibis there arc some interesting features about your personality and hand- writing that yon might like to know. Comiiarc your lower looped letters of "f", "g". "p" and "y". with these; arc ihey wide and spaciims or do they have a long slender aiipe.-irance about tlicin? This variation denotes a dil'l'erence in the writer's person- ality for o!w is indicative of an adaptable, fri.n'iy, cimgcnial nature. an excellent social mixer, while the other shows the writ'er to be more conventional, exclusive and a careful chooser of friends and associates. The writer of this style of script does not mingle freely with others but is crintent to Iia\e a small circle of C(pn!p:inions. .\notlicr itueresliiig cun'.iileration is that these lower looped letters also reveal to what extent yon enjoy com- paniou'^liip anil sociability. The writer of this week's script woidd be a "natural" at any social event for there is a wealth of adaptabilitv and friendliness written in every lower looped letter in the writinR. An active imagination is e\ ident in this scvijjt. indicative of a nature that can meet and cope with new and varied situa- tions. Good judgment, generosity and adaptability make this writer n good companion and an excellent host or hostess. Our readers may receive an in- teresting and instructive /irr.tcii.i/ analysis .of their .handuritin;! by sending an example of xriiing uilh 2S cents and a stamyd self-addres- sed envelope ^' Hav Ii. ropin 421, 7,1 Adelaide Si. M'w«, Toronto. no definite reason," so she sneaks auay and meets him. She is falling more and more in love, and so. she adds, is he. Such deceit, apart for its being •wrong, can wreck the cause she pleads. Her parents are bound to find outâ€" and then zihat will they think of the lad? They mil censure him roundly (as they should) and remind her that this is "just what •ue expected of him." They zvill blanu her, of course: for being weak; they zi~ill be shocked by her dis- honesty. But' they will still say, "We told you so. Any boy xvho lets you meet him against our wishes doesn't care enough for you to protect you from gossip. He is nj good." And that, I'm afraid, will be that. Parents hare good reasons, usually, for objecting to a certain boy their daughter likes. If they don't tell her the reasons, it is because they knoiv she isn't mature enough to realise hozv important they are. They only hope she will accept their judgment, and behave like the lady they've brought her up to be. "This boy has a good job and makes good money!'' cries the girl. ./ill/ thinks that's all that matters! Her parents knozi' more about him Ihiin she beliezes. They are not for- bidding her to date hi\n for the fun of it. nor just to shozi' their authority. Tliey zian! her to have good times â€" but ziith boys they can approve of. It Zi'ould be far easier for them to say. "Go ahead, i^ou're old enough to knozi your ica.v around." and let her au'ne. But responsible parents realise that her zihole future may depend upon the sort of boys she dates noii', and she is too precious for them to risk a 7nislake. I hope these parents tiiV? tell their daughter jtist Ti'/iv this bov is not ' Sunday School Lesson By Rev R Barclay Warren What We Know About Jesus : His Nature John 6:35-40; Colossians 1:9 20. GoldenTextâ€" Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.â€" -Matth- ew 1C:IG. Last Sunday the humanity of Jesus was noted in the reference made to his birth. To-day we face the fact of the deity of Jesus Christ. This doctrine is the corner stone of Christianity. * c • What mere man dare make such statements as, "1 am the bread of life; he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that belicveth on me shall never thirst"; "1 came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of Him that sent me"; 'This is the will of Him that sent me, that e.ery one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day". These words are credible only on the lips of Christ, the Son of the living God. The Saviour gare many gracious invitations but perhaps none has given comfort to more despairing hearts than the one, "Him that cometh to tne, I will in no wise cast out '. Men and women, their minds distraught, their bodies broken by sin, literally outcasts of acceptable, and remind her thai they put her on her honor from noir on. * T. "TROUBLED SUE": Tell * your parents immediately that * you've been deceiving them, but * you are through with that now * â€" and ask mem to be frank with * you. Otherwise, you are head- * ed for more trouble than you can * know. .\nd through j-ou ,this * boy will suffer, too. // you persist in dating a boy your parents have forbidden you to see, you are only creating trouble for that boy â€" and yourself too. .-Inne Hirst zijll show you the right zvay out. Address her at Box A, Room 421. 73 .-idelaide' St. West, Toronto. Modern Etiquette By Roberta Lee Q. Who are the first to leave the church when the wedding ceremony is over and the bridal party has departed up the aisle? A. The ushers escort to the door all the women who are in the first pews, the bride's mother, the bridegroom's, mother,, then, the other women in the first pew on either side of the aisle. Q. When a man is accompany- ing a woman on the street, should he take her arm when crossing the street? A. Yes. Q. Isn't it poor manners for one to sip coffee or tea while food is in the mouth? A. Yes; it is much better to wait until the mouth is clear of food. Q. Is it all right to use "Re- spectfully" or "Respectfully yours" as a close to a social letter w-ritten to a person of social position? A. No. This closing is usually reserved for a business letter. society, have seen a light in the window here. With dauntless faith and courage they have gone out to bless the world which had come to despise them. Thank God for that wonderful promise. « * * Saul wao a fierce persecutor of the disciples of Jesus. But after his conversion on the Damascus road, he became the church's most ardent missionary. He boldly af- firmed the deity of Jesus Christ who appeared to him. "We have redemption through his blood, eveo the forgiveness of sins"; he is "the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature"; "All things were created by him and for him: and he is before all things, and by him all ,things consist"; "That In in all things might have the pre-eminence. Foi it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell". Ko wonder Paul was thrilled with the Gospel. Be- cause of its power he is justified in challenging the church unto a "walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work." « * • After the first world war a group of men told Gypsy Smith that the world was so changed that the pro- gram of the New Testament must be shoved into the museum. 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