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.t!- > "^t. I^l:'. ^ J A C I OjJ. 01 REVENGE B Y KSON*COLE Chapie IV; The r*d hfadwl avciifior »r- rivei In Patsauo VnlU-y and tho vHlaso of Luna Uoja vvlitro (jnrviii li vva. C'uu- tiuualy valnlMK intramv to Ciarvin'ii llum(^, V«M«R rinda htinselt bpfi>ro the cloned duor of Iliiynmnd CWirvin'v i>frice. CHAPTER \' His lips tightened grimly, Be- hind tliat door was one of the men he had hunted so rolontlcssly for five years. He threw open the door and stepped into the office, both hands dropping to the silver-decorated holsters of his heavy six-guns. He closed the door behind him and leaned carelessly against the wall beside it as slowly, mockingly, he removed the scarlet handkerchief, revealing his face. The man before him did not ex- actly face him, for Raymond Car- vin had his back to the door through which El Caballero Rojo had quietly entered. Never would he forget that ca- daverous face, the lips that were pale brown lines over discolored vulpine teeth, the tlian the youth of eiRhtcen had instantly pictured when he had heard his father whis- per his name. Garvin's hair was now sparse and gray, for the years of continued brutality had not dealt lightly with this ruthless iiiai]. * * ♦ Rut one thing had not changed â€" his love of gold. ICven believ- ing himself alone, his movements were quick and furtive as he fin- gered a gold piece from a stack in front of him. With abruiitncss he seemed to sense that he was not alone. He spun half around in his chair to glare at the red-headed man who stood against the wall. Carvin'i piercing green eyes below the overhanging brows were shot with sudden accusing anger. •'What do you want here?" he barked. "Who arc you anywa;^â€" V' and how did you get in?" Kl laballcro Kojo laughed,. It v\as low, harsh laiiyliler that (^s- - ed on an ominous note. ' "^ ^^â-  "I've come to settle the afTairs.of. the de Cuevas place up the val- ley," he sai(f tightly. "Maybe one or two other things while I'm about it." "The de Cuevas place?" Garvin's fingers heat a tattoo on the desk. "Unini, let nie see . . . Oh, yes, the de Cuevas place down the val- ley." He added sharply, "I know the place now, but there is no loni;ir any chance for discussion about it. The bank has foreclosed. I â€" erâ€" the bank has already taken over the property -- the ease is closed." » • * "Hut the case is not cloaed," El Caballero Rojo drawled mean- ingfully. "Because I'm right here now to reopen it. Two lives were taken this morning on that little rancho. All the money you have to your name can't give them back. But"â€" his shrug brought fresh glitter in the lamplight from his conchas and silver trappingsâ€" "I still can take your money from you to help all the other folks you've cheated and robbed here- abouts." While the man sat at the desk as if paralyzed, the unwelcome visitor's voice grew commanding as he pointed to the safe. "f)pen that I" he ordered. Raymond Garvin's slack mouth gaped as he stared into the hard, cold eyes of the man who con- fronted him. The land hog, tlie man who had demanded usurious interest from the peons who had trusted him, who had over and over sold the land he had taken back from his devastated victims, cringed. Me got up from the <Iesk and ap- proached the safe in tlic wall hack of the desk at which he had been sitting. He knelt before tlie \)\k ir(m box, spmi the dial and threw open the safe door. His hand went inside it toward a row of labeled drawers. It came out suddenly â€" and as it moved, an arm clad in a silver- braiiled sleeve readied over his shoulder. The hand at the end of the arm gripped the gun ihilehed In the banker's hand. "I llhiti«lil \cMi were entirely loo willing to open up the safe for me," said the red-headed man. Then his tone grew grim, menacing. "Now bring out the money â€" quick. .\nd every cent you've got cached in there! .Xnd every blessed mort- gage you've got in any of those labeled drawers! Quick, I said. I've got a nervous trigger finger." Once his clumsy trick at trying to outwit 1-1 Caballero Rojo had backfired, Raymond Garvin had no choice. It was obey or be killed. The muzzle of the gun that bored into Garvin's back sent shivers down his .spine. 'Jremhiing in every limb, a ruth- less man gone cowardly when hig own skin was menaced, he brought out what he was ordered to produce, under the watchful eyes behind the steady gun. .\ heavy bag of coins was plopped on the floor, then stacks of currency. Then the long reaching arm, exploring the safe, brought out a stack of folded papers bearing red seals. "These papers won't do you any good, you devilish red-headed out- law!" Raymond Garvin burst out in fury as he threw the last of the lot on the floor. "Vou can't collect on 'cm â€" nobody can but mel And-" ".\nd you neither can, nor willl" Valdcz snapped. "Now dig out that yellow-backed box down there in the corner of the safe. It looks like a letter file from where I stand, and I'd he plenty interested in read- ing your personal mail." • * » Garvin reluctantly did as be was ordered, and the man holding the gun on him took one hand to pick up the box and lay it on the desk beside the other loot. Garvin got waveringly to his feet and turned to face the red-headed menace. "You don't think you're going to get away with this, do you?'' he burst out furiously. "You won't! Because you'll never get out of here :^aIive^-uot out of this place! Unless •"Bjrou kill me in cold blood â€" " ^i- "V\ hich I'm not aiming to do, not just at "present â€" unless you plumb '^â- 'forget to keep your shirt on," drawl- ed the red-headed man. Then his voice grew hard and cold. "I'd like to know the name of the man you're working for, .Senor Garvin. What's more, 1 want to know where to find him â€" and mean to know, savvy?" "You're loco," Garvin growled, "I haven't any boss, nobody I'm be- holden to. I run my own business, 11 ml â€" " "(iive me the name, (iarvin," V'al- dez said wearily. "You should know 1 mean to have it â€" because maybe you know who I am by now." "Who hasn't heard of V.\ Cabal- lero Rojo?" sneered (iarvin. "The road agent, the imitation Robin Hood, so thoughtful for the op- pressed â€" when it gets him any- lliing! .Masquerading in a lot of .Spanish gewgaws and a red hand- kerchief over his face!" * * * "Listen, Raymond Garvin!" Val- (lez said coldly. "Many would like lo know just who I am. I'm going to tell yonâ€" here and now. Maybe you'll be particularly interested. My name is Michael Valdez y O'Brien. \'-a-l-d-c-z! Savvy that? Does that name mean anything lo you?" "he s<'l( appointed banker's eyes went wide with sudden shock as he heard the name. A flickering tongue wet his thin, brown lips. His glance darted to ihe window as if only now he- had fully realized tliat he was Irapped. But in the fare of that glit- lering gun held steadily on his mid- ille he could make no move. "f iloii't know any such name," lie said siirily. "Never heard of it ill my life." "Then I'll help you lo remem- ber," \'alde/. said coldly. "The slory is all about the lime about five years ago when you and a couple of your partners were in the busi- ness of freighliiig selllers into a new valley you were opening up, down not far from the border. Imiii- iiy thing what trials and Iribula- lions those selllers had. Just one misforliiiie after anotherâ€" like as if a mjse was pursuing tlicm. 'Then one (lay a man named N'aldez be- gan lo wonder just why it was that all these folks should be so unlucky . . ." (To Be Contiinied) GIRIS! WOMEN! TRY THIS IF YOU'RE NERVOUS.CRANKyjlREP«0(IT On 'CERTAIN DAYS' of The IMonthI Do female functional monthly diaturhoncos make you feel ner- vous, fidgety, cranky, so tired and "draggea out" â€" at such times? Then do try I^ydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to relieve 8UCI1 symptoms.'l'hiii fine medicine is very effective for this purpose! For over 70 years thousands of girls and women have reported benefit. Just see if you. too, don't report excellent results! Wortli trying. cCfdia tO^tMutttA llVfiSkl Grand Charr.p of Canadian Fairs â€" Grand ciiaiiiijion at various Canadian fairs 17 times, "Oma Vanlandephcn," 2,200-pound Belgian staJiioir, gets admiring glance from Inez Bean of Paris, Ont., at tlic C.N.E. liorsc show. AN1^£ HIRST Wv cry his Young Husband Offers Chart For Happiness I'VK ONLY ".ad the pleasure of * ffdiowing your column for a .short * time," writes a young husband. * I'd like to congratulate you on the * valuable advice you give young * folks who are dating, courtin.u and * luiparing for marriage. B u t w h a 1 ;d)out after mar- riage? People must work just as hard for hap- jiiness then. I feel thai couples marry with every intention of being good husbands a n d wives, and want to point their efforts in the right direction. In many cases, \vc nmst learn by the trial - and - error method. The question isn't : Who is right. It is; "What is right. "1 'lease correct me if I am wrong hutâ€" as 1 sec itâ€" the Art of Love, so far as the man is con»- cerncd, is ihc art of pleasing his * wife. The woman's love is the art * of luring and enchanting the hiis- * hand, while leaving to him the * aggressive role appropriate to * male. * THE BIBLE SAYSâ€" •'.IS Ihe liihU- slates. 'Let e one of yoH I'li particular so lin'C wife even as himself ; and Ihe vife see that she reverence her husband. Ilo-a' coK/i/cf 1(111 a[<[<ly Ihis lo ev.-ry tlay living should make valuable in- formalion for lliein." I agree with yoit that if wife and husband kcl>t in mind Ihe conslaiil need of pleasing the other, Ihe divorce courts icould have littlr business, /hul as yon say, it is What is right thai is Ihe vital gueslion. So many rules of huniait conduct are urillen so simply in the Hible that any inlelligen' person can apply them personally! During and since Ihe war, I learn that daily Hible- rea<ling has increased tremendously, and I wish with all my heart that the habit became universal. The wisdom, and Ihe comforl, of the ages is ours for the seeking. .Marriage uncovers hidden faults III Ihe best of us. Daily a-isociatioii uilh each other shows us how to deal with them and, as we try, 7i'e cultivate patience and 'under.slanding, tolerance and true charity. So, we can make married life a thrilling and Modern Etiquette By Roberta Lee ..Q. Is it permissihic to conlradici another person in conversation? A. No. If you can politely present an opposing view|)oint, it will create further conversation. But drop Ihe subject if yi)U lind that Ihc other person's feelings are becoming hurt. Q. Is it correct to cat cake with the lingers? A. Small cakes and slices of plain cake arc eaten with the fingers, but soft-frosted cake or I'rench pastries require a fork. Q. If a woman is standing directly in a man's way, must he tip hii hat when he asks her permission to pass? A. Yes, as she steps aside he should tliank licr and tip his hat. Q. If a man and a woman are dining togellirr in a restaurant and the tea is served in pols, who pours it? A. If the waller doc* not pour for them, the woman should attend lo thll rite. and You bcauhjul c.vpcncnce for Ihe one tve love and, in doing that, we find our own happiness as surely as the sun rises. TO "YOUNG HUSBAND AND * r.\THER": As you continue to * read t'.ie varied problems in this * column ,you will find repeated * again and a.uiain the Do's and * Don'l's for marriage which the * .situations presented indicate. I am * alwa>s happy lo have suggestions * from my readers, and I shall * welcome others from you. t t * To "MRS. V.C.": How often I wish I could exchange names and addresses of my readers! Yel that is Ihe one rule I dare not break. I'm sure you understand. » t * MARI\1.\G1'. is a two-way adven- * lure ! Anne Hirst can help you * make it work, if you'll write her * frankly at Box A, room 421, 73 * Adelaide St. West. Toronto. Your Handwriting By Alex S. Amott Can you read the writing in the example below? It can be read, but with difficulty. The handwriting is a good example of a common criminal, a person whose mentality and environment have made him everything his writing indicates. Notice the smeary .script with feather edge downstrokes of the letters and the dirty appeara.ice of the writing, also the scrawly, disorderly ar- rangement of the whole script. The "a's" and "d's" are open at Ihe bottom, a real give away of a writer who would deceive at every opportunity. » » ♦ Notice, too, how Ihe crosses of the letter "I" stop short of the stem, an excellent example of caution, as though he were avoid- ing being caught in a dishonest act. There is nothing refined or graceful about this writing, it is as hard as Ihc writer and as dif- ficult to understand. Study this script and you will sec how the criminal covers up his writing, blots and smears cover up let- ters so that one letter cannot be distinguished from another, and the up and down trend of every word reveals the shiftiness of the writer's habits in that it is hard for him to write in a straight line even if he wishes. « « * This, of course ,is the writing of a common crook. There are other types of criminals â€" the em- bezzler, Ihe fellow with a smooth, shady kind of writing; the forger, whose artistic touch can be de- tected by his too light and too dark pen pressure in every word of the script. l'',ach criminal has his way of revealing his bad ha- bits easily picked out by the hand- writing expert to reveal them for what they are. Anyone tti.\hiiig a more complttt analysis pleast send self-addrttiti stamped invrlopt to Ito.r B, reom «1, 73 Adelaide SI. U'tst. loromlo. Thtrt it Mo charge for Ihit ttrvire. ISSUE 87â€"19*7 ^UEtiiQV Sc^ioal Lss^on The Way to Peace .V. ri','- 'urc: I'roverbs 3 :.W-3 1 ; 1 .v 1 , IS; 2?:24-2.i; 2.^:18, 21-22; 26:20-21; Mallhexv S:9; James 3:17. The dictionary defines li:irmony as "concord or agreement in facts. opini(>ns, manners, iiileresls. etc." But most of Ihc passages cited from the Book of Froverhs have lo do with the best way of getting on with an.f;ry and disagreeable people. In general, the basic advice is that if other people are mean toward you, don't be nasty yourself. If a man is angry with you, that's the time to control your own temper. ".\ soft answer tnrncth away wrath; hut gric\ ous words stir up anger." ".Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shall not go; lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare- lo thy .soul." Proverbs that recall Pal's counsel, "Ss much as licth in you live peace- ably with all men." Ill a similar spirit, Ihc Proverbs stress the wisdom of regulating one's own life with good .sense, and not according to what others arc doing. Peace of mind is of the very es5(;;ice of inward harmony. The passages cited in inir lesson deal chiefly with wisdom in fjcrsonal altitudes and relationships, but it is obvous that our world today pre- sents great problems of harmonious living between groups, races, peoples and nation!,. '* In our personal lives we can do much to avoid people who don't like us, but in the larger social and in- ternational relationships we are con- fronted with conditions and sitalions that we have to take as they are : situations involving sharp differences if not conflicts. Yet unless we can achieve some measure of mutual good will, tolerance, and forbearance, dark tragedy looms again upon the nations. The proverbs and counsels that make for wisdom and harmonious living in individual life ought to be watchwords in Ihe • affairs of the nation. DOTTY MARIE â€" Marie Mc- Donald features these red and white polka dotted tailored pyjamas with a matching rose-wool robe in her next picture, "Living in a Big Way," in which she plays opposite Gene Kelly. Just Strange Discussing his efilaph. Sir John Strange said, "I xvant no fuss, noth- ing fancy. I simply tvani these words on my stone : 'Here lies a la^vyer who always spoke Ihe truth'." "But," a friend protested, "no one zi'ill know tt'/io rests there." l "Oh, yes, they xvill knojv," Sir John replied. "All who read will say, "Thai's Si-,â€",u-;' " How Can I? ; By Anne Ashley 0. How can 1 prcrent mofd in tk* fruit closet ? A. Place a can of lime in the fnitt closet, or on the shelves with fellies and preserves. Q. How can I keep the skin soft? A. The skin will be soft and fin* if a healing astringent cream is a^ plied regularly. By doing this» cham- ped, dry skin, and blemishes arc healed. The astringent closes the pores and makes the skin silke* smooth. Q. How can I thorouglHy cieam greens ? A. Add a handful of salt lo the second water when cleaning greeojL This makes all the sand sink to IIm bottom of the pan. Another rinsinc will make them thoroughly dean. Q. How can I make cut flowert last longer? A. 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