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ELEVENTH INSTALMENT SYNOPSIS: Ruth Warren, who lived} in the East is willed three-fourth inâ€" terest in the “Dead Lantern” ranch in Arizona by her only brother who is reported to have met his death while on business in Mexico. Arriving in Arizona with her husband Who has ailing lungs and their small child, they. learn that the ranch is located 85 miles from the nearest railroad. 01d Charley Thane, rancher and rural mail carrier agrees to take them to the “Dead Lantern” gate, 5 miles from the ranch house. As they trudge wearin through a gulch approaching the ranch house, a voice Whispers “Go back! . . . Go back!" At the ranch house they are greeted suspiciously by the gaunt rancher partner, Snave- ly, and Indian Ann, 9. herculean wom- an of mixed negro and indian blood. Snavely is difficult to understand but regardless, Ruth takes up the task of trying to adjust their three lives to the ranch and its development. Ken- neth, Ruth’s husband, caught in chill- ing rain contracts pneumonia and passes away before a doctor arrives. Ruth tries to carry on. She is not encouraged by Snaveley in plans to try and stock the ranch or improve Something struck the door heavily; little drops of water showeled in the air. The knob rattled and Ruth raised the heavy grun. A momentary lull let her hear the squelch of receding feet, then quick running steps, and the door crashed inward, pushing the trunk be- fore it. Th elamp went out. Ruth] stood before her baby’s crib, the gun held in both hands. Ann' filled the doorway; the continuous lightning played upon them weirdly. Ann’s hair almost covered her face; sparkling water dripped from the straight black it. She writes to her father in the East asking a loan with which to buy cattle. She receives no reply.‘ Will Thane comes home to visit his father and Ruth meets him. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY An hourâ€"two hours, Ruth cowered by DaVid's crib with her eyes on the door. She had been telling him stories breathless, incoherent stories. Now he was asleep and she could watch the door unhindered. 74 Yonge St. She had placed the trunk against the door and she watched the streak of muddy water reach its top, puddle, and run along between the slats and drip. She had long before, with her husband, fixed the loops securely in the walls and the bar was now in place. CHIMNEYS BUILT & REPAIRED EAVESTROUGHING \ FURNACES FARM Implements Cockshutt Frost & Wood The well known Samuel Trees Brand Sets from $25 up Harness ‘Wm. NEAL AGENT FOR THE FAMOUS DeLAVAL CREAM SEPARATOR and Harness Parts R. H. KANE PAGE SIX Joy/“LBAR g»? R > 7 J" 193.; PHONE 210 RICHMOND HILL. at new low levels RICHMOND HILL Roofing Phone 92F i Mingled with the memory of two .small arms around her neck, there [stood out in Ruth’s mind the picture ‘of a livid, tortured face, matted with lstraight black hair. . . . I This memory seemed to have been iwith her for a long timeâ€"since last month or last year or perhaps in last Vnight’s dream. Now she was quite comfogtableâ€"she had always liked to he rocked, especially when the chair squealied at every lock like this one. locks. Neither woman moved. The figure towering in the doorway mut- teredâ€"chantlik-e guttural words which seemed a part of the storm. Then silence for a moment, before the giantess crouched‘ low and came for- ward. Ruth pulled the triggerâ€"with both hands she pulled frantically, and re- membered when the gun was knocked from her hand that she hadn’t done somethingâ€"cocked the hammer, she thought. Thereafter she thought no more; she became a thing of pure in- stinct, a furious mother animal fight- ing a black monster that had broken into her den. . . . They crashed against the crib and David called out; once they tripped and for a moment separated, but as soon as she could‘ find her enemy‘ again, the mother sprang. She was} gripped in a crushing embrace whichi lifted her from her feet. The girl be-i came a scratching, kicking, writhingi demonâ€"every atom of her body strug gling with a blind ferocity which would not be quelled. Her fingers, talon-spread, searched for the eyes of the giantess and‘ her teeth bit into a bonelike muscle. Suddenly she was flung bodily across the room. Her limbs tingled numbly and for a mo- ment she could not move. It was dur- ing this moment that, by a quivering flash of lightning, Ruth saw a dark, jagged crack running from the upper corner of the Window to the ceiling. Without thinking, she knew what the crack meant, and heedless of Ann, she started through the sudden darkness to the crib where David lay huddled. The mother stumbled and as she was trying to rise to her feet, the light- ning came again. Ruth screamed: lightning shone like a livid snake through the jagged crack. The snake squirmed its way along the top of the wall above the crib and reached the door. Slowly the earthen wall swayed inward, broke into great, ragged chunks and! fell. The stout timbers of the crib creaked under the weight of a slab and all was blackness, grinding earth, and pelting rain. A sheet of blinding light filled the sky. Ruth saw Ann a few feet away, half sitting, half kneeling, a chunk of adobe propped against her. The big face with its matted hair was stupid, stunned. The mother screamed at her “Davidâ€"my baby.” When next the lightning flashed, the stupid face had not changed its xpression, but Ann was looking at her. Again the girl screamed. The next flash showed Ann scrambling to her feet and from the quickâ€"thrown blanket of blackness thundered a great, sobbing voice: “My baby.” Ruth felt Ann beside her, big hands fumbled over her own, a great shoul- der edged itself under the end of the fragment. When light came again the giantess was holding up the slab and inside the crib David lay wide-eyed and gasping. . . . She became a thing of pure in- stinct, a furious mother animal fight- ing a black monster. . . . It a little have a. was strange, she thought, for girl who liked to be rocked to memory of a great, straining face with matted hair. . . . No, it wasn’t proper, somehow, to be rocked to sleep with one’s mother croofiing that old colored people’s song, and at the same time keep'feeling those little arms and seeing that terrible face which oddly enough was a lovely, wel- come flace. . . . Ruth opened her eyes. Everything swirled about confusingly. Then slowly, taking one thought, one thing at a time, she knew where she was. She was in the sitting room of the Dead Lantern ranch house; David lay asleep on a pile of comforts before the grate fire; the clock on the mantel said five minutes to four. . . . She was being rocked and at every swing for- ward she was being patted gently just where she herself patted David. She turned her head and looked into the face of Indian Ann. Ruth put up one arm and drew Arm’s bear-stained cheek down against her own. It, was half an hour before Ruth spoke again. “It’s all past, Ann, and I’m hungryâ€"I fihink.” The face smiled sadly. “Lire asleep, homey, lie asleep." “Arm, I’m awake now.” “Hush, little white girl, lie asleep, lie asleep.” Reluctamtly the giantess placed the girl beside the sleeping child and went into the kitchen. Minutes passed and Ruth became aware that Ann was not moving about in the next room. Painfully, she stood up. In the kitchen Ann was sitting on the woodbox, her big hands over her face. The girl went to her. “Please don’t. Annâ€"it’s all pastâ€"please, Ann dear.” “I ought to be kilt dead.” Ruth stood in silence, her arms drawing Ann close against her. After a time she said, “Come onâ€"let’s get some coffee. I’ll make the fire.” A moment later Ann was making the fire and Ruth stood at the sink, measuring out the coffee. “Ann,” She asked, “why did it happen?" Ann shook her head. “Did the voice tell you to drink and did it tell you to come back to the rock at six o’clock and then when you didn’t know what you were do- ing, did it tell you toâ€"to killâ€"” Ann nodded and two great tears welled from her eyes. “Ann, why must you obey the voice,” The Indian woman spoke, her eyes fixed through the window where the easteq'n sky was faintly tinted. “I doan know why I mustâ€"it is the fear”â€"she touched her breastâ€"“it pulls an’ I go.” “But what is the voice?" “I doan knowâ€"different things.” Ann’s voice dragged slowly, toneles‘s- 1y. “It’s the ol’ medicine man who was with my mother’s peopleâ€"he have the power over all his people an’ the blood of his peopleâ€"he have power on my blood which is the blood of them people.” Sh-e nodded. “It'seemled to me it was my baby under there. I never knowed until I brought her in hereâ€" I grabbed her away from youâ€"I brought her in here an’ built the fire an’ put her down. 'Then I seen she was whiteâ€"David. Afterwhil-e Iwent out an’ found you.” “Your baby is a girl?" asked Ruth. “Yes.” The girl looked from the Window. The ancient adobe was now a. mound of earth. “Ann, how did we ever get out of there alive?’ “It didn’t fall all at onceâ€"the side towards th’ Hun jest went down. First it was only th’ wall with th’ windowâ€"then jest as soon as I went back an’ got you th’ other parts fell.” The girl shuddered. “Ann, why did I stay behind after I pulled.I David out of the crib,” The giantess hung her head. “I didn’t know how it wasâ€"I thought you was stealin’ my baby whilst I was a-holdin’ up the wall. I hit. you an’ took th’ baby; when I seen it was David, I went; back an’ got you. . . .” “But that old medicine man must be dead long ago.” “That is why he speak so close ’thout our seein’â€"his body is no more in th’ way.” “Ann,” said the girl, rising and reaching her hand up to the great shoulder, “when you cried out you said, ‘My baby'â€"have you a baby?” “Ann,” said the girl impulsively, “you couldn’t help what you did. And you saved both our livesâ€"Iâ€"I’m sorry I bit and scratched youâ€"” The giantess smilled sadly and her huge arm went round the girl’s waist. “You feisty little ol’ wil’ cat!” Then her face was filled with despair. “I ought to be kilt dead.” THE LIBERAL, RICHMOND HILL. ONTARIO “Ann, I’m so happy! I’ve always ‘ been afraid of this place and of you and ofâ€"of him. But now! With you on my sideâ€"â€"why! I can do anything! We’ll stand together and We’ll go ahead and make this the biggest ranch in the world for you and me and David. I’m bound to win now, Ann!” â€"” Ann did not finish but turned and left the kitchen, crossed the back porch and entered her room. Ruth waited before the silent then a muffled voice cried out, Miss Ruth, no! ’Fore Gawd, I you!” For a moment Ruth was too sur- prised to move, then she ran to Ann’s door. “Ann,” she called, “oh, Anrnv!” There was no response, but Ruth thought she heard a slight movement just beyond the door. “Ann, please answer me'one thing; have I done anything, are you angry with me?” The key turned in the lock and there came a sound of heavy footsteps movirug away from the door. A few hours later the two women were working silently among the re- mains of the old adobe, salvaging Ruth’s belongings. The giantess said nothing unless it was absolutely nec- essary. To all intents the relations of the two women were the same as on that morning when they had first cleaned out the rooms. Yet, Ruth knew that never again would she fear Annâ€"beneath exteriors she felt that she and Ann were closer than sisters. Search as she might, Ruth could not find the big revolver which 01d Char- ley had given her; it was hopeles§ly buried. Snavely returned about noon and without any Mexicans. He gave as the reason, that no one in the little border town wanted to come very badly, and then, as he was spending the evening trying to persdade an old man and his son, the storm began. Snavely knew that the heavy rain would make work on the ponds im- possible. Aftecr they dried up again he’d get the Mexicans. Ruth was heartbrokenâ€"if only the work had been attended to before this rain, there would be water enough for a year. But Snavely reminded her that the rain must have completely filled the deep pond in the south pasture, and that often held the best part of a year. There wa no sense in get- ting any Mexicans at all now. Ruth waited before the silent door, then a muffled voice cried out. He made little comment- on the colâ€"‘ lapse of the old adobe. Ruth and David would have to live in the com- missary rooms. ' Coming! F. E. Luke, Optometrlst 167 YONGE ST. TORONTO’S EYESIGHT SPECIALIST Tuesday, Nov. 28th May be consulted about your eyes for glasses at GENERAL CARTAGE by 'h'uc-k WM. MCDONALB,_ Telephone 62. AUSTIN’§ DRUG STORE FromZp.m.ton.m. Continued Next Week From Maple Gravel Pit SAND â€"â€" GRAVEL Richmond Hill Thornhill door, 44 N 0’ loves Tax time is drawing near and the farmer is once more faced with the gigantic task of meeting. a. heavy tax levy from the decreased earnings of the produce he has to sell. A drastic cut in the cost of gov- ernment would result. in a. reduction in taxation. A reduction in taxation means a reduction in the overhead expense of every farm in York Coun- ty. That is What interests the far- mer to-day more than talk of more beer. "0° _ V _ _ v _ v 7 7 The returns just issued from thei‘ annual survey of live stock numbers] \veekly Crop Report in 1933 as compared with 1932 show? Thousands of barrels of apples. that in Quebec, Ontario and Manitobalwere damaged by a severe )fmsh. all classes of live stock, with the ex-I ception of cattle and sheep in Mani- toba, had a downward trend. In Quebec the decrease was: Horses 8.9%; cattle 6.29}; swine 27.8% and, sheep 11.3%. In Ontario the decreasel was, horses 0.9%; cattle 0.2%; swine‘ 8.5% and sheep 3.8%. In Manitoba the decrease was, horses 10.1% and: swine 22.4%; cattle showing an in-1 crease of 9.7% and sheep an increase" of 6.9%. ‘ Winter Fair Dates Royal Winter Fair, Nov. 22 to 30. Ontario Provincial Winter Fair, Guelphâ€"December 5 to 7. Torontoâ€"â€" Get Rid of the Barnyard Boarders In preparing for housing the stock for winter, all surplus work horses, finished beef cattle, boarder dairy cows or decidedly poor type heifers, old ewes and old sows should be culled nut and (“annalan nF fn. HM» Imma- ",1 ‘states a report from Peel County, and as a. result the cider presses are running to capacity. Most farmers in North Simcoe will be rather short of roots this winter as the crop would average less‘thian 50% normal. Short age of pasture in many districts will result in cattle going into Winter quarters in poor condition. Sugar beet harvest in Kent County is about completed and has been delivered to the factory in splendid condition. Lincoln reports that condition of fall wheat has seldom been better» than at present. In Frontenac the farmers have a big surplus of livestock and a large number will have to be sold owing to shortage of feed. In Tem- iskaming this has been the finest fall the farmers have had. for sevenal years for completing the season’s work. Harvesting and threshing were over in good time and farmers have had ample time to get their fall plows ing done. NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE BUSY FARMER 8.5% and sheep 3.8%. In Manitoba the decrease was, horses 10.1% and swine 22.4%; cattle showing an in- crease of 9.7% and sheep an increase of 6.9%. In preparing for housing the stock for winter, all surplus work horses, finished beef cattle, boarder dairy cows or decidedly poor type heifers, old ewes and old sows should be culled out and disposed of to the best ad- vantage. Overhaul the Farm Plant Now is the time for farmers to pay attenrtion to their buildings. Slacken all bands on stave silos; repair any Inez-mks in the roofs, check up on storm sashes; fit them, and repair broken glass; clean out all trap gmllbes; thorougth flush drains, clean out root cellar ventilators, fresh air inr- takes and foul air outlets in barns, stables, piggeries and poultry houses; thoroughly inspect and overhaul the water supply, if a pump service check up on the valves, if a presrm‘e supply see that all pipes and tanks are pro‘ bected from frost. Turkeys in Winter Breeding turkeys should not be con- fined to houses during the winter months but 2.111wa to roam at will during the day. The only shelter that is required for them at night is a straw barn or closed-in shed. They should not be kept in a draughty place, but any buildng that will pro- vide shelter from wind, rain and snow is quite suitable. Never house turkeys with hens or in heated hous- es because colds which later develop into roup are almost sure to follow. During the Winter months the breed- ing turkeys should receive only limitâ€" ed rations, as they have a tendency to become over fat if well fed. Hard grain shoqu be given in preference to mash or ground grains. Equal parts of oats, wheat and buckwheat are quite suitable during the cold months, but when the weather moder- ates in spring, the buckwheat should be discontinued. Once daily during the winter is often enough to feed, and fresh water should be provided at least once a day. Well-Finished Beef Cattle Will Never Stagnate Market “Market stagnation, in my estima- tion,” said‘ Garnet H. Duncan of Rich mond Hill, livestock investigator, OnA tario Marketing Board, “will never be caused by well-finished cattle. “In a survey of the leftâ€"overs, I have found that the good type well-finished shocker, weighing about 900 pounds. has been allowed to follow the fin- ished animal to the abbatoir, when it should have been returned to the feed lot. Too many inâ€"betweens' are being taken back to the farm. These are often in rough condition, illâ€"bred and Repairs for all makes of Stoves HARDWARE (SUCCESSOR TO C. N. COOPER) We Give Prompt Delivery I We carry a complete line of STOVES, pipes, elbows, etc. . Trowell, Hardware THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16th, 1933 “With the good abbatoir, and the inâ€"betweens being returned to the farm, it would seem that it is merely a question of time before all sales promotiom efforts, of the past twenty years, will be in vain. Statistics show "we are, feeding about 40 per cent less Icattle this year than last, with sup- lplies cleaning up and prospects of {better prices. It would seem that; 'farmers, having feed to do so, should. heed up all good stockm's." in many c3523., ill-fed. Many of them should never have lived beyomfl ’dhe veal stage.. Hints for the Poultryman In order to have pullets laying at their best in November and Decem- ber, the months of high priced eggs, the following points should be obâ€" served according to the Dominion Poultry Husbandman: See that the pullets have dry and bright quarters. Have the houses dean and saniâ€" tary without draughts. Give a. well balanced ration and be sure to give enough. Don’t forget the g'regn feed, pre- ferably clover or alfalfa. If you have milk give the pullets what they will take. Keep the laying pullerts or thosa that are near laying by themselves. Your treatment of the pullew now may mean profit or loss for the rest of the year. Give these every comfort and at tentionâ€"they are the money makers. Dispose of hens too old or pullets too young, it costs too much to feed them. The time of scarcity is the time to arrange for your market for the whole year. Just in at the Elevator, A car of Smokeless vinton, coal egg size, suitâ€" able for hot water or steam. heating. 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