Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 41, Decatur, Adams County, 17 February 1927 — Page 6

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■ The | Understanding Heart By PETER B. KYNE •'Well, If anybody could dodge a forest tire, Bob Mason could. wouldn't worry about the boy, Monicy. If he's lost, his troubles is over. I If he's alive, his troubles have just < omuienced.'' He spat at a chipmunk that had adventured close to him.| ■ Monicy. where’s that deed 1 give your father to that section ofchill land on the north rim of Honey Valley?” "I don’t know, Uncle Charley. I never saw it." ‘‘Well, dog-gone Ashford Dale for a crazy pocket-hunter anyhow, even if he Is dead. H ( . never had no sense in life and he was the worst partner 1 ever had, an’ I reckon it's a mercy he's dead. I'd sort o' figured when he kicked the bucket I’d never have to cuss him again, but ’pear like 1 got to, Monicy. Do you know what that poor, misfortunute, addlepated horse-thief went an* done? He never| recorded the deed 1 give him. I'd ought to suspected he hadn’t, too, because the tax bills have been cornin' to me.” ’’Yes, you paid them, and I reimbursed you. 1 didn’t think there was anything wrong because the tax bills continued to come to the former owner. 1 supposed the county recorder's office force was behind in its work and in due time the cliange of ownership would be noted on the record and .then the bills would come to me. Father's only been dead two years. ’ and the tax bills for those years have been sent to you. “Perhaps the bill will com,, direct to me this year.” "Your father was a wool-gatherin’, jay-walkin,’ scenery-lovin' prospector, who spent his life pocket-huntin’ an’. placer-minin’, when evtTy day of my | life for twenty year I told him nobody ever made a ’ strike except by locatin' a good, wide, gold-bearin' 1 quartz ledge an' —” | “Yes, Uncle Charley, I remember.] The eternal war between a hard-rock pessimist and a gravel-washing optimist." j “I’m a poor man today beettz o’ that no-account father o’ yours,” Uncle Charley shrilled. "I’d ought, tq have cut loose from him. As a partner he was a total loss. The only time in all his fool life he was right 1 wouldn't believe him. an' as a result he talked me into spilin’ him that section on the north rim of Honey Valley.” . “Yes, I remember, Uncle Charley. But [dease don’t scold poor father. He isn’t here to defend himself, you know, and I just cannot quarrel with yon. After all, he was an honest, loyal, faithful partner.” “All right. Monicy. I wasn't aimin' to be too pernickety about him, but dog his cats, he useter make me awful mad. You remember how he always claimed there was a prehistoric river] channel runnin’ jflumb through the' heart of them hills 1 sold him? He was always sayin’ that if a feller had capital he could drift into that hill, locate that old buried channel a coupler hundred feet below the surface.’follow it an' clean up millions.” “I remember. Nobody agreed with him.” “Well, the Hercules people do. Monicy, I’ve just sold that section of yours for a houndred and fifty thousand dollars, net. and that means the Hercules crowd pay the incom« taxes on it for you! All you got to do is figger out the tax an’ they'll give you . check for it.” “You’ve sold my land?” Monica was certain Uncle Charley, whom she had always suspected of being just a trifle “balmy," had started down a mental toboggan-slide. “Sure enough—an’ at that I don’t think I druv much of a bargain. Their superintendent didn't argy with me a second.” "Uncle Charley! Look at me! Are you crazy?” "Crazy—like a fox, Monicy. I reckon the Hercules people have been runnin’ down the title, an’ when they found the pruppety still in my name a feller named John Thurlow, their super, come up to my shack this mornin’ and’ I sold out to him.” “But, Uncle Charley, you couldn’t sell my land. Os course I haven't bothered to probate father’s estate, but you know why!” “Certainly. You nor nobody else ever figured he had any e-state. That land wasn’t salable or worth the cost of probatin’ this here alleeged e-state! ” "But I’ll have to probate it now, Uncle Charley!” “What? An' run into expense! Hell’s bells, girl, how you talk! I’ll sell the pupperty direct an’ hand you over the check. Goin’ to close the deal tomorrow. I reckon I sold cheap, but it’s the only offer you’ll ever git, an’ you’re a heap sight better off with a hundred an’ fifty thousand dollars than you be with that, wild land on your hands. Unless," he added, with a return of his old vindictiveness, “you’re as crazy as your fool of a father an’figger on operatin’the pruppety yourself!” “Are they going to drift through the hills after locating the old channel, or are they going to use the giants and hose those hills down into Honey Valley?” “They’ll hydraulic it, of course. Cheaper an’ quicker.’ “But the debris will destroy Honey Valley.” "What difference does that make, Monicy? Bob Mason owns Honey Valley, but he's doin’ life in San Quentin, ain’t he?” "No,” Monica said quietly, "he's out.” "Well, the chances are he’ll git caught, an’ the chances are he’s already met a run o’ hard luck over in that smokin' hell” —Uncle Charley jerked a soiled thumb northward. "He can never use Honey Valley again, so I reckon if he’s alive he’ll

he glad to sell out for whatever he cun glt for it.” "But do you think they’ll buy him out ul a fair price, Just to have it place to impound tbe,r debris "10. they'll have to buy Honey Valley if I sell them niv section. They cant sluice their debris down__onto DogI'wood Flats and out into the San Dima.s, you know. Even if the federal I government di<i not object, I would. I’d have the California Debris Commission at their throats immediately.’ I "Well, if Bob sells to them "He’ll not sell—unless I ask him to l—unless it seemed to him that his refusal would kill my sale” “kt, would, Monicy.” I "Decidedly? Monica thought, Im cle Charley isnt crazy on that point. Aloud she said: "The Hercules Hydraulic Mining Company were mighty eager to see Bob Mason convicted. Uncle Charley. In fact, they spent considerable money to convict, him,! although the man Hob killed deserved killing and hadn’t been in their em-, ploy more than six months. I ncle Charley, they had their -plans made then! They know that in three years would bp finished with the ground they’re working now, and then they would want to acquire my land and .Honey Valley. "I have a suspieion they will not | bother to attempt to buy Bob Mason’s! I ranch. They’ll think nobody in this country will fight Bob’s battle against them and he will bo unable to fight it himself because he will be iu prison or, if he succeeds in escaping, he will never be able to come here and fight them.” . CHAPTER 23 “It’s too derned bad we didn't knew all this yesterday, Monicy,’ said Uncle Charley. "We could have took ’it up with Bob an’got his ideas on the subject. There’s more'n a chance he'll refuse to sell Honey Valley to that Hercules outfit. They're no friends O' hisn. the money, they’d pay him wouldn't do him no good where ho can’t git out to spend it,, an’ Honey jValley'd do the Hercules crowd a I whole lot o’’good." He considered for a minute. “Danged if I’d sell to I them if I was Bob.” Monica nodded. A hillwoman, she knew the temper of hillmen. “But Bob would sell rather than have his refusal block my deal. Uncle Charley. The Hercules people must feel morally certain they can infpound their debris in Honey Valley—otherwise they wouldnt consider buying my section. Without Honey Valley for their debris, they cannot operate my property.” • “I reckoned that’d be the way of it myself. Monicy. If I hadn’t figgered we had an ace in the hole I wouldn't have been- so fly" sellin’ your property without consultin you. All we got to do now is to make up our minds how deep we’ll stab them for Honey Valley.” And the humor of the situation appealing vastly to the old gentleman. he laughed his dry, senile, mirthless laugh. No doubt about it. Uncle Charley was a heller! “I have an unrecorded deed to Honey Valley,” Monica’ confessed. I “Bob gave it to me to hold in trust I for his baby. He was afraid to deed it to Kelcey; he knew she hated Honey Valley and would sell it to the first person who made her an offer.” She gazed tolerantly and kindly upon

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Uncle Charley. "You probably do not know that my father induced Bob to buy Honey Valley. Dad that the Hercules outfit would buy it from him some duy uU a huge profit." "Well, whatever else I lie. I've got ter he just," Unde Charley declared “Your kilo parent didn't have enough minin’ sense to pound sand In a rathole, Jmt I got to admit he showed a flicker o’ judgment, now an’ then.’ "Do be charitable toward your Into partner, Uncle Ch#ley." "He weren’t my partner, Monicy. He were jest the cross I had to bear." “You didn’t have to bear with him. You could have dissolved partnership by dividing four burros, four shovels, four picks, n ease of dynamite and a quart of red liquor.” “Yes? An’ whal'd become of your father if 1 had? Why, he leaned on me. You now yourself, Monicy, what a weak vessel your paw was." Monicy sighed. For twenty years Uncle Charley and her lute father had , quarreled lovingly, gipsylng joyously (together to lands beyond the horizon, dreaming, planning, disputing, disagreeing. blaming each other for the smiles that fortune withheld, drinking deeply of the springs of life and finding them good. There could be no profit in an attempt to reform Uncle I Charley now. I "bfow, unless you've inherited your paw’s weakness.” Uncle Charley went on blithely, “you're settjn’ in a man'ssized game with a pat hand that’s goin’ to be might-ee hard to beat. Ikm’t let ’em bluff ye, Monicy. See that, they don’t come a slick swindle on ye.” He snicked his teeth together and looked valiant. "Es they do.l’m goin’ to make lit my business to see that a coupler new faces’ll soon be whinin’ around the Devil. I won’t stand by an’ see my pardner's little gal done outey her rights. When that miserable. no-'count parent o’ yourn was about to cash in his chips, he says to me: ‘Charles Albert' —he was always a mite formal when his luck was runnin’ bad —'I leave Monicy to youj care. Es anything happens to her I’n come back to ha'nt ye. ye pusillanimous piece o’ pestilence! In all your fool Ikfe ye* never done nothin’ noble, A Word the Old Folks Elderly People Are Learning Importance of Qood Elimination. IN the later years of life there is ppt to be a slowing up of the bodily functions. Good elimination, however, is just as essential to the old as to the young. Many old folks have learned the value of Doan’s Pills when a stimulant diuretic to the kidneys is required. Scanty or burning passages of kidney secretions are often signs of improper kidney function. In most every community are scores of users and endorsers who acclaim the merit of Doan’s. Ask your neighbor! DOAN’S p, 6 L 0c LS Stimulant Diuretic to the Kidneys Foster-idilburn Co., Mfg- Chem.. Buffalo, N. Y-

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hut try now to ntako amends for 'Sfc puHt’." Uncle Charley got out bandanna handkerchief and blew his nose with a report that echoed nil over Bogus. "There vHI» worse than him. he concluded magnanimously, and added "but I'll bo danged if ever 1 met up • with 'em!" Monica's benignant eyes appraised the old man lovingly. What a goldenhearted old fraud he was! Dear old Uncle Charley, who strove to conceal his abounding generosity, his tremendous unselfishness, his deathless loyalty to his friends and his ideals behind a camouflage of abuse and mock deviltry. He wanted to he known as a "heller"—a very devil of a follow, a brand rlpo for the burning, the overripe fruit of Hie gibbet, a creature “fit for treason, stratagems and spoils.” "Oh. Uncle Charley, you worry mo so!" the girl declared gravely, “You're such a tempestuous, wicked old man! Why don’t you try to reform? You don't K now how much it would please mo.” “Can’t teach an old dog new tricks,. Monicy.” “Oh. do try, Uncle Charley—for my sake!” “1 was born a heller an' I’ll die one, | Monicy." (TO HE CONTINUED) Copyright 1926 Peter B. Kyne by arrangement with King Features Syndicate, Inc O ! Get the Habit—Trade at Home, It Pays Doctor’s Discovery Heals Eczema One Minute Test Shows How Are you tormented with the p'vnv es a humirg, itching skin vl.— i seerrn t'jdr/y n-liet? you suffer frui.i eczema, rlmplsc, sr.J other forms cf uda trcuhkt? At no risk to you, we invite you to try this one minute test: '.'-o to any drug store and get a of D. D. D. on trial. Gently wash the por cakt rs yoi’r skin with D. D. D. prescrip’. 7:1, tie healing lotion. 'Then watch forrc*v ‘s. you do not experience that crim, cofl *<?“>, if that iten is not e'ofref in or.e minnte. ’U't bring the bottle back and vour money w ; .l her.funded atones.

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