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Ty te the name given 1 a size of leaf Some good, many poor, Orange Pekoes 2 most economical and yet the finest Orange Pekoe Sealed In cious --43c per 3-1b. led Kildare as he picked his way along &d Ld 4 \ ) the Little Washoe. The water gurgled "Orange Pekoe' is only J] lat his feet. He pressed his knees into {his horses sides and was about to ford are sold Ths : SAG €_ rr AN jis stress Wher the animal threw fiavoured is pres SALADA" { | back its ears was an unmistak- PRE. ERE \ N {al le sign. Some one was coming! Kil- Rigtats Pie siresh- -del -- -- 7% tdare reached for his gun. As he did g on 3 ran, 1 0, he heard a child crying. He wheel- Gh f /\ BY ted his horse and sent him along the 1a --- HARRY SINCLAIR DRAGO AnD [soft bank about fifty yards to where Lrves SPT REAT. 25 85 ne A Stace o aha NOEL | the river turned. { A burro stood knee-deep in the mie BEGIN HERE TODAY of him; but he dared not turn around. dle of the river. Marooned on his back Dick Acklin, big boss of the Double | Before Skip could recover his tongue, {was a frightened child, madly oe h- A ranch, calls on Jose Arascada, most! a voice droned in sweet ana dreadful [ing a fishing-pole in one hand, while | pow erful of the Basque gente in Par- adise Valley. Jose is owner of the Rancho Buena Vista and is father of Mercedes, Esteban and little Basilio. the old Webster place, is visiting Este-| ban. He meets Acklin and later they plan to rob the Basques of their w nie supply. Acklin rides to Bodine's ranch for instructions. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY Acklin nodded in assent. "Well, when the night comes I w ant | you to have your men ride your line. Don't let any one through. Keep your boys there for a few days Pass the word that some one's runnin' an iron on/your stuff. That'll be evcrse enough. We'll be safé then." Acklin had not even reached home before Bodine had started Shorty on his 'way to Malheur Lakes, to find Gloomy and his other men. And once Acklin had reached the Bull's Head, he immediately sert for Morrow, his foreman. "Cash," he said, "we've been thick-} headed. This fellow Bodine has put his finger on the thing we should' have seen first shot." He repeated their conversation to him, "Well, I'm tempted to risk it, Cash. Suppose we string along for a while. Tet him and his men do the actual! work. Lou just drop around about! the time they are there--you know, casual-like--if you ever have to swear to it. hole. with the calves. Don't tell them any- thing else is in the wind. Give them the word not to let any one through. Make Skip the straw-boss down ther I rather fancy him. far without a hitch. If Bodine turns the water, you run a drift fence along our line acr-ss the valley. Straight east and west with those dead trees is nea: enough. We've got the wire and posts. Most of the boys will be back from the north tomorrow. You can hat fence up in a hurry if you : to." mn CHAPTER 1V. BLAZE KILDARE ARRIVES. Ten days later a stranger crossed the desert from Golconda. He headed due north for the Benoit water hole. He. knew he was entering Paradise Valley by forbidde~ ways... The hint that he take the south road had reach- ed him a day back. The stranger sent his horse ahead at a hard gallop. He found that the spring had made a small pool in the willows. He swung to the ground and locsened the cinches, but almost in- stantly the animal lifted his dripping | muzzle and turned an inquiring eye | behind him. The stranger followed | suit. In the shadow of the trees two | men sat. The older of the two, a black-vis- aged fellow spoke: "Howdy, strang- er!" It was Skip Lavelle, Acklin's straw- boss. "Howdy!" Kildare responded in the same flat, tell-nothing tone in which he had been accosted. His keen eyes took in the rifles reposing so conven- iently in their laps, the soiled cards, and the interrupted game of monte. The man who had addressed him got to his feet. "What's your name, stranger." "Kildare; Blaze Kildare. id "Yuh ain't aimin' to linger around here, be yuh?" Blaze eyed him thoughtfully as he! drawled his reply: "Why, that all de- pends, don't it?" He turned and started to lift the saddle off his horse. ~ "No use takin' that down, mister; | nary nit!" For answer, Kildare pulled it to the ground, "Now listen to me, muchacho," he purred. - "I'm going to breathe my! horse, and we're going to drink our; bellies full of water before we light; out of here. What's all the big excite, anyways." I got a permit to cross this country." "Let's see it," Skip and the other, Chet Devine, demanded. "Now what did I do with that per- mit?" He took off his hat, and peered into it, "Oh, yes!" He laughed. "Here it is}? i And in his hand Kildare held a derringer that had been strapped in his sombrero. "Stick em up!" he said in velvety tones. "Well, I'll be damned!" Skip began. He stopped short, and instinctively Rlaze sensed that some oma was back blind | Suck Bodine, new owner of | In the meantime send some of ; the boys down to the Benoist water-! We are having trouble enough | : e. | We can go that i he held a string of small That's awfully good! It's your turn bas Struggling in the water at the I'to elevate, stranger!" |burro's head was a girl; the most Blaze felt a gun-barrel boring into beautiful girl Blaze had ever seen. his neck. He obliged with slacrit v. | Neither the girl nor the boy had | With nimble fingers his guns were [seen Blazes Suddenly the girl slipped, taken from him. las she tugged at 'the rein, and sat | This detail attended to, the man at|down unceremoniously in the water. jis back continued not unpleasantly: | Blaze laughed outright at that, and | "Take your hands down, and shake. then, unmindful of his clothes, jump- {I'm Cash Morrow, the foreman of the jed in and picked her up. tones in Kildare's ear: "That's good! in the other outfit these innocent little lambs be-| He then waded out to get the boy. {long to; but I can appreciate art when !As he reagh®d up his hards to lift I see it. The bronzed, lean. si all his years, was a fit big man before him. Kildare Shake!" him, he spoke. i i, ford ¥ Here we rare, Basilio," the "Dx drop those fish now." he said. 21 at him as Cash handed back his guns. know the baby's name?" A freckled face topped by a shock Blaze hung his head sheepishly. of red hair appeared above a green "Why, missy," he stammered, "I mahogany bush. The red-haired one just guessed at it. But I reckoned I sized up Blaze. [knew who you were as soon as I saw "Say, pardner," he asked, "whg.are you. 1 allowed he was your brother, you ridin' for?" | too." "Why," and although Kildare an-{ "How do you know me, swered the man with the flaming hair, Senor?" she pursued. {his eyes followed Cash. "I'm riding] "Well, youseea ... er for the Double A, if the foreman gets [once told me, that . . ." Blaze knew tthe right dope. We," nodding toward [his feet were stepping on each other 'his horse, "been gttting our eats from [in embarrassment . . "some day I'd the Lonely O up in Monty. Old Ted meet a Basque ireckoned I'd wind up here." ful black hair. "Take him on, Cash," the ow ner of and pearly white teeth. . . 'Yes, and the: frecides. uy ged, coming out of the [when you do, he said, 'you'll Bits call this place Paradise." | Blaze regarded his twitching feet. {| The girl's long lashes dropped over her eyes. | "Virgin santa," she murmured soft-} ily. "But you say very nice things, Senor, . 7" { "Blaze." | "Senor Blaze," she said. (To be continued.) a 3 . aman . and black eyes . rere ee why Cthoy { SAT. $ i i] Ne La 1 { --_---- Sonnet behold the mo- H i { Oh, thoughtless one, ments go; | The tours, the dars, the years | and soon is fibwn "The whole of life, fp i alonazg > yoX Or lonely, tirtat wa§ drunk of youth. i For lo! aks SE [ Age has you, with a creaking step i and slow. {Now match your dancing gait to his. | Wind-blown in the water at the bur-iy,14 the darkness, and what have you Struggling re! s head was a girl; a most beautiful i { girl. known? {Count our your little days shelter of the bushes. Cash cut in. | Pow. "It'll be forty and cakes until the! fall round-up is over, Kildare. Arve! set Tow on A moment here, a moment there, of love 99 4 you ons | res wag too light, and blew away Blaze grinned jorfal Wet a 3 : , with dawn. "You've sure hired a man, mister. He Nothing but memories of things that "Skip will tell you what to-do," | | fell Cash went on. "You better drift into, in arclasi inc ars {the valley tonight, Skip. String out| 00 S00 throngh eatelesy/fingers « {along the old Webster wash. Don't] _ nothing of = ai. hilt has {let any one through. Here, Kildare That beatty never sen, that sill has you take my rifle." drawn eae Tey eh He mounted his horse and rode off. | Men for, Wig err osu he "Here's where the boscos get it," an, nT fa York Melody said gloomily as he made cof-| Z=Hremgin 19s Lids 4 fee for Blaze. Skip and Chet were | Et asleep. "All this talk of losin' stock | Candin Workers in the is bunk. We're just gettin' ready for | United States IL.e Monde Ouvrier {Ind.): A Cana- another grab. I got eyes and sense." | "Land?" Blaze queried. | : } "No. We got all the land in the | dian worker with a visa can enter the world. It's water this time." United States to lool for work, and As Blaze ate, Melody explained him. | if successful in finding it can stay self, and his surmise was more cor-| there in perfect security, but if he is rect than he knew: "There wasn't a engaged in Canada to go and work in thing in the wind until this fellow | | the United States, he enters the coun- Lips in the old Webster place." | try fraudule Se i he, a8 do € 3 Is s.r American visa--and ig liable to a sta- Th ue Wii be $ doom pein) i tutory penalty. It is not our intention If you're done let's ride up and have, ia look at the valley." They sat in their saddles and smok- 'ed as the red-haired man talked. | "That's a big place there in the] World. -Brace Company and authorities, but one {tween the Fra 'the American {one thing is certain--the law i bend, just before Rebel Creek gets to | "only wish to warn workers that they | | cannot enter the United States under | even if they are to be em- | i ployed in the United: States by the the river," Blaze drawled. | "That's the Rancho Buena Vista. | contract, Wait till you see the girl that lives | 'there--O0ld Ironside's daughter. the reason they named this place i Paradise. Her daddy is the king-pin | 'of the Basques. He's got a son, too. | Always pullin' on the bit, that boy. |?" : ; ; Too much fire in him! Then there's | thing for the worst with our ne a blind kid--Basilio. No mother, | POrs across the line, a terrible "tra- either. Pretty tough that, en? I|Vesty of the truth. { Canada. To profit by this incident, to try and make us believe that every- thing is for the best in the best of all { t spunk. But wait till you see this| i Land Mercedes girl. Man, when I look at! 12 Sjeceed in In ker I don't miss sugar. She's sweet. | . .. Gwan, you old fool," he growled | to his horse. "Let's go back." "You go on, Melody. I'm going (41 down. to the river and let my horse Somtne roll around in the water. He needs |>'® ing. Tis . . er folly than to sit on thé roadside ' + o 3] | J > it if I'm going to use him tonight. until someone comes along and in- you want to | portunities as you go-on. The man 1who waits for some seventh wave to seventh wave is: a long time CHAPTER V. A CHANCE MEETING. The first cool hint of evening rents' youd influence..--John B. Gough. ISSUE No. 502 inet "Senor," the girl asked, "how you] then, | girl here, with beauti-| Fd you kave been | 'to take part in the controversy be-| must | ihave been broken somewhere. We | ori > Boe 5 1 v 3 1 Yd re pany which employs them in She's | Very company which nploys them | possible worlds in Canada, and every-' tknew the old lady. Wasn't any Basque. | IT TT AE 2 Guess that's how the Senorita gets her Check Golds. with, Minged's kiniment. | world you must make, your own op-| 'toss him on dry land will fing that! You can commit no great-: } vites you to ride with him to wealth | | ORANGE PEKOE BLEND + 289 Natural Increase in Population of - Over 10 Thousand Issued by Bureau of Statistics--More Mar- riages Than For Years The last Dominion-wide survey of births, cates a natural increase in Canada's =population of 10,852 during the month jof May. The total number of births tin all nine provinces is {against a death toll of 9,410 for the! | month. | The number of marriages given as ing represents the highest figure since 1921. Ontario was the leader, i with 1,577 weddings, while Quebec fol. {lowed closely behind with a mark of 1,410. Compared with the same month {last year, the birth rate suffered a | slight decline, the only provinces to | show increase being Ontario and | { Manitoba. Quebec, however, still leads jie other provinces with the highest i birth arte, of 33.1 per 1,000 population. | | During the month 7,420 births were | reported in the province, compared with 5.971 in Ontario. Other prov- inces follow: British Columbia, 228; Alberta, 1,284; Saskatchewan, 1,710; Manitoba, 1,184; New Brunswick, 905; Nova Scotia, 845; Prince Edward | Island, 115. E---- 4G + = mrt IMPOSSIBLE! said mother, in dis- may, "how did you get that awful black eye?" hs "I've been fiighting Jimmy 'cos he said a lady looked, like an old ewe dressed lamb fashion." But, dear, it wasn't worth cetting punished for that. Jimmy was right. You know how silly some women look, with bare arms, low necks, and short skirts. ple absolutely---- "It was you he meant, terrupted Tommy, very red in, the face. 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