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4 IMRK UGHTNINC -*, A » «. ^^H ELEN TOPPING MILLER . CHAPTER IX The Gimballs arrived and im- mediately Harvcj brought out the map and the geophysicts' report and began expansively to tell everything that had happened. Adelaide slipped out and clutch- ed at G;iry, in the hall. "Oh, dear! iic s telling Oliver! And I wanted hi:a nut to." â- 'Tlicy'll have to know, sooner or later." "I -.uppose so," she sighed. "Go on i:'. Gary â€" keep Oliver from ruininy everything if you can." 7'v.: Oliver had already taken Ci! .r.:::nd of the situation, abetted ar.d prompted by Grace. He was advaiu-.iig arguments again.st wad Cittini:; an oil well, dilating upon t)-.( advantages of selling leases, and or once Gary found himself agreeing %with Oliver. "I think Kimball's right, Mr. liI;isoii," he said. "O course he's right," Grace put in. "Oliver knows the oil business â€" at it ever since he left school." Adelaide stood in the door, her eyes blazing. "Why don't you all let Daddy alone?" she demanded. "He knows what he's doing." "I wonder 1" Grace was sarcastic. "Well, you can all come and eat dinner, anyway," sighed Mona * * • Adelaide edged Gary into a cor- ner as the family trooped into the dining room. "That was shabby â€" agreeing with Oliver," she snap- ped. "I thought you'd stick with Dad and me." "I agreed with him because he happens to be right," Gary said quietly. At the table, Grace looked across at Gary. "When are you leaving, Mexico, isn't it?" she ask- ed coolly. "I hope to get away tomorrow,'' Gary replied as casually and cool- ly "What?" Harvey lifted his voice •o that Maria jumped. "You're not going, I hired you. You found this oil. You â- won't like Mexico any- way, not in summer." "Dad, if Mr. Tallman has a job down there â€" " Grace was acid. "A man with a job in sight had better hang on to it," stated Oliver. Mona Lee looked at them all calmly. "Gary's not going" she announced \wth a serene kind of finality. "He knows we need him, and Gary wouldn't go and leave me when I need him. Would you, Gar>-?" He was on the spot. There was nothing to do but to agree. Later, when Harvey had gone off to the canyon, dragging Oliver with him, Mona Lee came upstairs and tapped on Gary's open door. "Gary," she said as he turned, "I do want you to stay! I'm worried Yellow or piiii; roses with lilacs, in easy stitchery. will give color to your linens. Just one spray would make any towel a handsome gift. It's fascinating to watch these flowers gro'w on your linens. Pat- tern 756 has a transfer of 12 mo- tifs 6 X iyi to I'^'i X 3 in.; stitches. Send TWENTY CENTS in coins (stamps cannot be accepted) for this pattern to Wilson Needle- craft Dcpt., Room 421, 73 .\dclaide St. West, Toronto. Print plainly PATTERN NUMBER, your NAME and ADDRESS. â€" about Harvey â€" he's so Impul- sive." "I'll stay, Mrs. Masc.i." Gary turned from the window. "If yoj ask nie .' . .1 can't refuse very well after all you've done for me." * » » Gary sat in the living room that night and played double sohtaire with Mona Lcc. Harvey was out, he was always out now, roaring around somewhere in his noisy old roadster. In the middle of the game,Mo na Lee laid her cards down and folded her hands. "Gary," she said. "You like .Ade- laide pretty well, don't you?" Gary felt the hot blood flare over his face and neck. He smiled wandly. "There':; not much use trying to hide anything from you, is there, Mrs. Mason? But â€" what can I do? I haven't a thing to offer a girl like Adelaideâ€" not a thing but love." "You think love is unimportant? It isn'tâ€" not to a girl. Harvey Ma- son had nothing to offer me but love, either â€" and a few hundred acres of washed-out prairie land. We made the rest together." "I haven't even a piece of wash- ed-out land. There â€" " he threw a few crumpled bills on the table " â€" Kes my fortune!" "You need another shirt, Gary. You buy one tomorrow. And don't you give up. Addic's a little crazy right now â€" it's the thought of all this money. She'll calm down pret- ty soon." * * « Harvey came in late and tossed a telegram into Mona Lee's lap. She looked frightened and picked it up gingerly with her fingers. "Oh, mercy!" she gasped when she read it. "It's from Junior. He says 'Hear we've struck oil. Stop. Swell. Stop. Just went out and bought myself a new roadster.' Harvey Mason, you get a wire off to him right straight and tell him you haven't struck oil yet, and to send that car right back." "He had a new car last year," growled Harvey. "That's the way with kids. They think you're made of money." But he did not write or wire to Harvey Junior. He forgot about it. He had to get ready to go to Austin to get his drilling permit so he rushed around, shouting orders all over the house. "Look here, Gary â€" you know about this drilHng business â€" you oughtt o know a good rig when you see it. You take Addie's car and she can go along and drive, and you go over east and hunt me up a good crew to get a well down." "You'll need two crews â€" riggers to get your derrick up and drillers to get your well down," Gary re- minded him. "And what are you going to do about water for the boilers and to run the drill? You wouldn't want to pump your well dry the first day â€" even if your pump would lift enough to run the drillâ€" which I doubt. Y"ou'll have to arrange to pipe some in from somewhere. Any creeks or rivers near here with much water in them?" * * * Harvey looked thoughtful. There's a cistern at the barn. And that tank out there holds a hun- dred barrels." "Not enough. It will take a week, probably, to get your well down. .\nd you can't run out of water while the drill's turning." "Y'ou get the outfits we need, and I'll sec about the water." "Y'ou'U have to arrange for fuel to fire the boilers, too Have oil tanked in on trucks. On a field jou'd have the gas from the strip- per, but out here you'll have to provide your own fuel. I'll have to find an outfit that's equipped with an oil burner." "Well, it's a good thing you've got Gary, Harvey, to think of everything," Mona Lee said. Thcf- 's that little creek over on the Har- per place, Harvey. But you'd have to pay old man Harper â€" and tell him w-hat you wanted the water for â€" and then he'd probably stick you." (To Be Continued) Change in Paint Surface Ordinary paints sliould dry with a glossy surface but they can be made to dry with a flat linisli by decreasing the oil content and increasing the proportion of tur- pentine or other volatile thinner. Yoti'll enjoy our Orange Pekoe Blend "SALAM TEA IT'S GOOD TO BE BACK IN CIVVIES! It's tack 10 the plumed hats and pikes for the me.. Ol britain s fancy dress units, many of whom served in the a-rmed forces during the war. Picture above wag made while pikemen and Yeo- men of the Guard waited for the Lord Mayor's procession to start in London. CHRONICLES oi GINGEB FARM By Gwendoline P Clarke We have had our first week of winter â€" and I don't suppose you have enjoyed it any more than we have. It has been a little too rough and windy for that. But at least we can be thankful to have a root over our heads, and, if you ask me, we who live on arms can also be thankful for that fact too. At least we have no union to tell us when to work and when to strike, although I have heard some people lay it would be a good thing if farmers did have a union and went on strike once in a while. Well, I don't know . . it is too big to ever think about, especially with indus- trial strikes getting more terrible with each passing day. Far be it for me to say who is at fault â€" there are always two sides to every ques- tion â€" and it is difficult for us who live on farms to form an unbiased opinion. But it is by no means difficult, even from a distance, to realize the suffering and hardship that is the inevitable result of a prolonged strike. It might also be well to realize that a strike of sucli tremendous magnitude as that in Windsor has far reaching results and will ultimately be felt even in the farms. Reduced income, as we all know, .neans reduced purchas- ing power and thus the vicious circle widens and widens until farm produce becomes a glut >. n the market. * * * Speaking of buying and selling brings up another problem. We need to be or. our toes thes-e days â€" on guard against the wiles of high pressure salesmen who know there is a little more money on farms these days and that returned service men have gratuity cheques they might be persuaded to part with. We had two such agents around here just recently â€" and how theycould talk! * • ♦ To teli you the truth we rather enjoy matching wits with â-  these fellows. One night a would-be salesman paid us a visit, he wanted to talk to all three of us. His form of attack was a rush order . . he had so much business he could- n't spend much time at any one house . . either we wanted to buy or we didn't. Partner sugges-ted that it JTiight be a good idea to give us time to think the matter over. The salesman said he was .sorry but he had no time for a re- peat visit. He came over to the tible where I was sitting and be- gan filling in his order sheet. "Just a minute," I exclaimed, "we haven't said we would take it yet." He was profuse in his apologies. He finally went away without a sale, cxpressin.ij regret at his inability to make a return call. But he wa< back on our doorstep by ten o'clock next morning â€" a special favour ot course! I was alone when he called. He was very affable and persuasive and persistent. But I had a few Housekeeper Wanted illtl. OR VVOMA.N FOR UE- fined home. Pleii^nnt worliinc coiniitiorts. Good WMtres. Fare Pnld. Write .itiitlnir full pnrtl- CUl!lVB to â€" MRS. SAIR, 44 l:i.lu<- Hill Llrlve. Toronto 10. ()nt;irio. ioveMS eoios- ^^ ^^ YOU CAN'T BEAT BUCKLEY'S MIXTURE Do jrov suffer from MONTHLY things to ask him regarding the validity of what he was offering. When he realized I knew a Httle more than he expected his affabil- ity disappeared, in fact I could see he was so mad it was an effort for him to civil when he bade me goodbye. May I be forgiven if I confess to being amused. * • « As I said before, we need to be on our toes. These travelling salesmen are trained to sell their goods. Their product â€" so they say â€" is practically a gilt-edged security. They tour the country, many of them with the mistaken idea that farm folk are particularly gullible, an easy mark for their high pressure sales talk. But a lot of farm folk are very far from be- ing slow. Many of them have reason to remember a few deals they made following the first Great War, whereas service men have pretty definite id^as as to what they intend doing with their gra- tuity â€" when they get it. At the same time when an agent comes along offering you a deal on something of which you know little, or perhaps nothing, and n'.akes it sound good, the chances arc he has you signing on the dot- ted line before you have had a chance to figure things out for yourself. .And you'll notice there i.'n't a salesman who spends much time talking cnce he has persuaded you to put pen to paper. But please don't think I am knocking all travelling salesmen â€" there are agents and agents â€" but it is up to us to be wary, to use a little common sense so that we recognise a genuine business deal from a shady racket. Dancing Jumbos A German posed this problem to .American military government of- ticials: What .was he to do with four dancing elephants which he could not feed? 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Responsibilities of Christians Mat. 5: IJ. â€" .As salt, when it loses its savor cannot he turned to useful agricultural account, so a believer, whei. he loses his influ- ence for good, is utterly useless to God and man. 14â€" 16.â€" Our Lord t^ s tlia* to attempt to conceal our Christian faith is as foolish as to put a lamp under a bushel. It is by our "good works," by following the example o< the Lord, that we shall best shine for Him and glorify our Heavenly Father. Believer and God's Laws 4;i-45. â€" While we are told that we must hate the evil deeds of our enemy weare not to hate the enenu himself. Christ asks us to act just as God acts toward men. In His dealings with mankind He does not treat men as they deserve to be treated. He docs not confine His loving kindness and tender mercy to the good. 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