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6 THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE. ONT., THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1933 ROBBERS' ROOST CHAPTER I. rede doOne afternoon in 1 the long, ghastly desert slant in the (Erection of the ford at Green River. He was a young man in years, but he had the hard face and eagle eye of one .Matured in experience of that wild country. He ©strode a superb bay horse, dusty and travel-worn and a little lame. The rid'-r was no light burden, judging from his height and wide shoulders; moreover, the saddle carried a canteen, a rifle and a pack. At length he rode into a trail and soon came in sight of the wide band of green cottonwood, willow and arrow-weed, and the shining, muddy river. On the far side, up on the level, stood a green patch and a cluster of houses. This vas the town of Green River, Utoh. The rider needed to reach that town before dark. His food supply had run out two days ago. But unless there was a boat in which he could row across he would most likely not make it. His horse was too lame to risk in the eddies of that heavy, swirling, sand-laden river. He rode on down the trail to enter the rone of green. In the thick dust he"noted fresh horse, tracks. Under a cottonwood, some distance ahead, the rid-er espied ^^fcgddled horse, head down, cropping the grass. He proceeded more slowly, his sharp eyes vigilant, and wm certain that he saw a man on the rivsr bank. Presently he rode out into an opening from which ht could see a place where a ferry touched. Moored to the opposite bank was the ferryboat. The rider sat his horse, .aware that the man he had observed had stepped behind some willows. Such a move might have been casual. Then the man moved out into plain sight. "Howdy," he said, laconically. "Howdy," replied the rider. He became aware of a penetrating scrutiny which no doubt resembled his The rider saw a striking figure of .. man, gray with dust, booted and spurred, armed to the teeth. His wide sombrero shadowed a sharp, bold "Aimin' to cross?" he queried. "Yes. I see a ferryboat over there. But on the moment the rider ' wa watching his questioned. Then h swept a long leg over the pommel and slid to the ground, without swerving in the slightest from a direct front. "Lucky for me if I can cross on it. My horse- is all in." "Noticed thet. Fine hoss. Wal, I've been hangin' around for an hour, waitin' to go over. Reckon heT "/own of Green River, isn't it "Thet's the handle. You'n stranger hereabouts?" "I am that." "Whe-e you hail from?" "I suppose I might as well ' Wyoming as any place," returned the rider, casually. The other man relaxed with laugh. "Shore. One place is good another. Same as a name. Mine Hank Hays." He spoke as if he e pected to be recognized, but it brought r.o reaction from his listened. "You know this country?" queried the rider, and he too relaxed. "Tolerable." "Maybe you can tell me whether I ought to stop or keep on travelling?" "Haw! Haw! I shore can. But thet depends," he said, pushing back Back up the trail appe heavy man astride a 1 ing two pack animals. "I "Huh. You haven't them eyes fo nothin'. Wal, we'll get across now. The rider, after another glance a the approaching man with the horses took note of the ferry. Boat and third traveler arrived at the bank about the same time. Hays, after a sharp look man w th the three horses,, animal aboard. "How much is the fare?' the newcomer. "Tw- s sombrero. "Depends on what?" the rider "Wal, on you. Have you got any "About ten dollars." "Huh. You can't go in the ranch business with thet. Not regular ranchin'. ix>ts of cattle between here an' the brakes of the Dirty Devil. Henry Mountains, • too. Some outfit over there. Air you a cattleman?" "No," replied the rider, though fully. "Wal, thet's straight talk from stranger," replied Hays, who ev denUy took the blunt denial as som tiling significant. "Hullo, another rider . . . Shore the des strangers today." NEIGHBORS TALK [ am employed in a theatre and it i problem to make ends meet, as ilp support my mother and sisters, ke to dress well but haven't very •h to spend on clothes. To give the earance of variety to my slender drobe I change the color of a dress tockings as soon as the things be-ie faded. I always use Diamond a for the work--using them as dyes dresses and as tints for stockings, tve always gotten such perfect re-s that our neighbors talk about great number of new things I have, learned about Diamond Dyes from wardrobe mistress. She says she iried all the dyes on the market none do such splendid work and so easy to use as Diamond Dyes, derstand they are the world's most ilar dyes--and they deserve to be." L. P., Montreal. 1SSUF. No. 14--33 beast?" "Well, sir, the regular fa bits for each man an' horse.' Whereupon the stout mai the packs off his horses and carried them upon the boat. "Wal, now, what is this fussy old geezer about?" queried Hays interested. It was soon manifest. He tied the halter of his lead pack horse to the tail of his saddle horse. The second pack animal was similarly attached to the first. Then, bridle in hand, he stepped aboard. _^'A11 right, boy. Go ahead." ^'But, sir, ain't you- fetchin hosses on, too?" "Yes, but I'll swim them ov bind the boat. Get a move on i The ferryboy pushed off with his pole, and dropping that for the big oar he worked the boat on into the current, which caught it, and moved it across quite readily into the slack water on that aide. "Didn't like that, did you, Bay?' the rider said, as he led the anima Hays slapped his mount, driving him off the ferry, while he watched the stout man had his three hors< along the gunwale of te boat, unt they could touch bottom. Heavir and splashing they waded out, ar their owner followed, carrying or "Fetch my other pack, boy," 1 called. "Johnny, don't do nothin' of tl kind," observed Hays. "I reckon I didn't intend to," sai the boy, resentfully. Puffing hard, the stout man oarrii his second pack ashore. "You're not very--obliging," 1 said, gruffly, as he felt in his pocket foj. loose change. The ferryboat ea"nie ashore, roiwweu by Hays. Presently the stout man, grumbling and evidently annoyel at the necessity of producing a fat pocketbook, took out a one-dollar bill. The rider., amused and intereste-from his stand on the bank, sav something that made him start. Hay: whipped out a gun. "Throw up your hands!" suddenly yelled Hays. "What's this? R-robbers!" the stout man gulped. Hays reached for the man's wallet. Then he stepped back, but still with gun extended. "Get out of here now," he ordered. And apparently he paid no more heed to his frightened victim. "Pretty well heeled, for an old bird," observed the robber, squeezing the fat wallet. "You'll hear from me, you glib-tongued robber," replied the other, furiously, as he rode away. Hays sheathed his gun. He did »t need to turn to face the rider, for ngularly enough he bad not done anything else. "How'd that strike you, stranger?" "Pretty neat. It amused me," replied the rider. "Is thet all?" "I guess so. The stingy old skinflint preserved to be touched. Wasn't |. thatslick way to beat the boy here | An' thet's what riled me. Recken, though, if he j hadn't flashed the wallet I'd been a| little more circumspect. Is there a sheriff A New Role Jackie Coogan, now Jarom, th Santa Clara univei play. leper boy, in plied the robber, halting before a red stone building. A red-whiskered man appeared in the doorway that led into a saloon and lodigng house. "Howdy, Red." "Howdy, Hank." "See anythin' of a fat party, sort of puffy in the face? He was ridin' a "Oh, him. Sure. He rode through town yellin' he'd been robbed," returned the man called Red, grinning. The devil he did! Who was he, Red?" "I durino. Happy was standin' out here, an' when the feller stopped bel-lerin' thet he wanted the sheriff 'cause he'd been robbed, why Happy up an' says, "Hey, my friend, did be leave anythin' on you?' Then the fel-ler up an' rode off." It was this speech of Red's that decided several things for Jim Wall. "I want to look after my horse,' was all he said. "Take him round back to the barn I'm dog-tired. Send thet lazy Jake after my hoss." (To be continued.) True Service x ~' (Written in the album of a child) Small service is true service while it Of friends, however humble, scorn not The daisy, by the shadow that it cast-;. Protects the lingering dew-drop from the sun. -Wordsworth, in "Yarrow Revisited." Gems from Life's Scrap-book Thought single grateful thought towards heaven is the most perfect prayer."-- Lessing. There is nothing either good or bad it thinking makes it so."--Shakespeare. "Whatever guides thought spiritually benefits mind and body."--Mary Baker Eddy. 'Thought takes man out of servitude into freedom."--Emerson. 'The value of a thought cannot be told."--Bailey. 'Growing thought makes growing revelation."--George Elliott. 'The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."-- Marcus Antoninus. .Hof six b "It shore "I n I'll be ridin | Welsh Bards Help In Teaching Jobless Holyhead, Wales. -- Welsh bards, who are honored for achievements in R. the arts at the annual Eisteddfodau, Long-Lost Quarry Of Egypt Found Army Patrol Happens Upon the Didrite Source, Unknown for Some 3,500 Cairo.--Quite by accident an archaeological discovery was made early last Summer in Upper Egypt which has just now, after further investigation, resulted in the identification of a diorite quarry of the Old and Middle Kingdoms of ancient Egypt--lost 3,500 years--the location of which had been hitherto unknown to Egyptologists and geologists, although diligently sought It was last June that a car patrol of the Egyptian Army, accompanied by El-Farik Sir Charlton Spinks Pasha, commander of the Egyptian Amry, while passing through an unsurveyed part 6f the Western Desert about forty miles northwest of Abou Simbel, noticed twb cairns -oh a ridge. They appeared to be much larger than the usual desert landmarks of that type. Closer investigation revealed two most interesting inscribed stone blocks at the foot of one of the cairns. These were sent to the Cairo Museum for further examination. One bore the name of the little-known King Dadefre of the fourth dynasty, no monument of whom had been known hitherto south of Sakkara. The other block, made of almost jet black diorite, and very badly weathered, was a record of an expedtion sent out under King Amenemhet II of the twelfth dynasty to bring mentat stone from the desert. Mentat Is the ancient Egyptian name for the dark granite of As-Long-Sought Diorite Quarry After careful study, it was pointed out by Mr. Engelbach, director of the Cairo Museum, that it is not very likely that the ancient Egyptions would have sent an expedition far into the desert for something that could be obtained more easily in the Nile Valley. It is believed that the term mentat might have been used to designate all the dark hard rocks of the south, and that, therefore, this might be the site of the diorite quarry of the Old and Middle Kingdoms which has been so eagerly sought by Egyptologists and geologists. Several weeks ago Mr. Engelback himself visited the site and almost, immediately became convinced that the lost quarries had indeed been found-outcrops of magnificent stone showing in the afternoon light as a deep blue against the red granite • boulders. Every variety of diorite is to be found there, from the dark green and black stone used for the Old Kingdom Royal statues to the white stone, speckjed with blacV so °?te" "sed tor h»ws an»» T..e«. Cut Boulders in Quantity It seems that there \ quarry, but from the chips and other indications it appears that the Egyptians dug out boulders until they obtained one of the required size free from flaws. Here and there desert large blocks we showing traces of rough dressing, but all appear to have been a cause of flaws. A ramp was also found, made of the same stone, about ten yards long and a yard and a half high at the end, by which blocks could have been rolled up to load them sled or wagon. Near the cairns and here and there among the outcrops were of the huts used by the workmen, in which were potsherds, all of the Middle Kingdom.- The only other document discovered here was a block bearing the name of King Isesi (Assa) of the fifth dynasty. My Star All that I know Of a certain st i him if there is. Wal, are rallying to instruct and entertain i jobless here. Classes and lectures nln | in both the Welsh and English lang-[ uage are drawing numbers jj eager tha| listeners.- Lectures include "The World oul' Crisis," "The Ideals of Education." I "Poetry," "Some of the Elements of >in" Humor in English Literature" and "The History of Civilization." Is, it can throw (Like the angled spar) Now a dart of red. Now a dart of blue: ilt my friends have said They would fain see, too, My star that dartles the red and the Then it stops like a bird; like a flower, hangs furled: They must solace themselves with the Saturn above it. What matter to me if their star is a world? Mine has opened its soul fo me: therefore I love it. ^Robert Browning, "Poems." Autos Less Used in Belgium last two I bumped ii Brussels.--Motor cars, probably no less numerous than before the crisis, are being kept in the garages in Belgium, private cars only coming out for church parade or on some such solemn occasion. Horse-drawn vehicles are becoming very common, while the neglected dog-d*a^n--eart is seen frequently, even in the streets of Brussels. The problems of the traffic police are greatly complicated by the varying speeds of the different vehicles. j The sole en 1 for which mankind ar ' warranted, individually or collective! in interfering with the liberty of tion cf any kind of their number, self-protection.--John Stuart Mill. ORANGE PEKOE BLEND "SALADA "Fresh rrnm th? Gardens7' Sir Christopher Wren Visits Paris Writers who have failed to realize the importance of this visit of Wren to Paris at the impressionable age of thirty-three, when his faculties for absorption were never higher--and most of them have failed to realize it--have lost the real key to Wren's greatness. I doubt if it has been realized to the full, even yet, how important this short visit of sx months was to Wren and how greatly it affected his after life. As soon as he set foot on French soil he seems to have been caught by the sight of a few French domes and to have been filled with creative ideas. There was plenty of Flamboyant Gothic for his admiration if he chose to lavish it; he seems to have passed it by. The fame of St. Peter's had begun to affect Parisian architects and builders; the church of St. Paul and St. Louis, close to the Place des Vosges, for example, attracted Wren's eye probably no less than Ste. Marie des Feuillantnes; that he was deeply impressed with the domes of the Sor-Bonne and the Val-de-Grace is quite certain. The facade of the Sorbonne gave Wren something toxponder over, and there is little doubt that he made a mental note of the saucer-domes of the interior, for those with which he subsequently decorated his vaulting at St. Paul's are very similar in appear- I point again to Oxford. His surroundings there surely should have set up in him a desire to express himself architectually, for no city in England has more to offer hm. He had never seen a dome worth calling a dome until he visited France; spires he had seen in plenty. So that his English surroundings in the most English of all English cities had not captured his spirit. He lived in a city of spires, but he devoted his time to the study of the heavens. Then we find him taking a short holiday in France* and 'we also find him combining has classic thoughts with what France, had to show him of clas laginat fired from the first hour he set foot in Paris. However general his thoughts may have been at first, the desire to specialize was quickly .paramount. This was Renaissance architecture he was admiring; there was Gothc, too, but he had seen enough and had never wished to concern himself with it. Now he had seen a style of building that appealed to him as being a form in which he could express himself, his whole outlook on art instantly underwent a change. That is what I feel so many writers have missed. They have not realized that, without any preconceived ideas worth calling such, Christopher Wren suddenly found himself face to face with something that made an architect of him in a second of time. The sight of a few domes--not'very wonderful domes, but domes--brought about a climax in his artistic career. -- From "Sir Chistopher Wren, His Life and Times," by C. Whitaker-Wilson. (Ne^ York: McBride). Air Freedom Urged By British Expert London.--A greater degree of international freedom of passage foi commercial aircraft is essential to the progress of civic aviation, Mr. G. E. Woods Humphrey, managing director of Imperial Airways, told a gathering of members of the Institute of Transport here recently. There could be only two possible reasons for obstructing freedom o' international flight, he said -- first fear of the misuse of civil ajrcrafl for military purposes, and, second material gain might result from hold ing an international line up to som* sort of ransom. 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