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THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Friday Evening, August 30, 1940
say
But
of judgment.--Matthew
unto you That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day
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For War—and For Peace
The draftees who will converge on train-
ing camps sometime this fall in response to
conscription will follow in the footsteps of
some 3,000,000 of their elder brothers, fath-
ers and uncles of 23 years ago, but only up
to a point. One difference is that they can’t
be sent out of this hemisphere without the
consent of congress. Another is that those
who are charged with their calling and train-
ing have the advantage of many experiences
gained in 1917-18, and thus in position to
avoid many mistakes.
But the chief difference is more funda-
mental than either of these. In 1917 the coun-
try had to move with dizzying speed to train
and equip an army for overseas service. It
was squads right and bon voyage, almost in
the same breath. The men were poorly train-
ed, badly equipped, incompetently led.
There is more time now. There is better
leadership. There will be better equipment
and more of it..
And there is vet another fundamental du,,
ference. It was “mostly drill and no canteen
for the boys of 1917-18. The draftee of 1940
will be more of an apprentice mechanic than
a foot-slogging infantryman. There will be
less squads right and more technical training
with tools and machinery. The classroom
work will take more of his time than aimless
marching under a hot sun. The modern army
sits down or flies to fight. The master me-
chanic rather than the drill sergeant will be
cock of the walk. .
For the young recruit that means careful
and thorough training in any one of a hun-
dred jobs having to do with technological
subjects. He will emerge from his period of
training with skilled hands and a trained
brain, equipped for taking over and holding
a job in civilian life. He will have learned
a trade, not merelv how to shoulder arms.
This bi-product of compulsory training
will be of invaluable service to the individu-
al as well as to the nation.
orders any effort at wholesale evacuation of
British children.
The attitude of the Germans is understand-
able enough. It is a compound of selfishness
and caution. Permitting hundreds of thou-
sands of children to leave England would
simplify the British task of feeding its pop-
ulation and make harder Germany's task of
starving the islands out. But there is sense
in Germany’s claim that such guarantees
would be worthless, when hundred of mines
are floating in the sea and cannot be avoid-
ed Accidental contact with a mine and the
sinking of a rescue ship would horrify the
world. If Germany refuses her consent, she
will be able to disclaim any responsibility
whatsoever. If she gives her consent, she
would be unable to alibi herself out of re-
sponsibility, for her reputation for lawless
acts at sea and on the land is such that no-
body would believe her innocent.—
SHADOWED
No Bush League Stuff
That the latest Balkan flare-up isn’t bush
league stuff is attested by the presence in
the Vienna conference of the axis partners
principal troubleshooters, Herr von Ribben-
trop for Hitler and Count Ciano for Musso-
lini.
Any minor disturbance would have been
settled by a curt note from an assistant min-
ister of foreign affairs. ,
The conferees went to Vienna direct from ,
conference with Hitler in his Bavarian eyrie (
—and the fact that Hitler was in Berchtes- [
gaden instead of in France directing the as- |
sault on England is further proof of the
gravity of the Balkan situation.
It is significant that this momentous con-
ference in Vienna, designed to keep the Bal-
kans quiet for the time being, follows a “per-
manent” settlement of the question made
only a few weeks ago by Hitler. The Balkan
bad boys aren't minding der fuehrer as ex-
pected and as they promised. They are con-
ducting a little sit-down strike of their own
against the dictator's express orders.
Regardless of what the conferees may say,
it appears certain that Russia is at the bot-
tom of most of the difficulty. Russia prob-
ably has a double purpose in view—to gain
additional territory at small cost, and to pre-
vent Adolf Hitler from having too easy a
time subduing England. If Russia really is
the nigger in the woodpile she is vitally in-
terested in seeing that Hitler is engaged as
long as possible in Western Europe, for once
he is freed from active warfare there he will
turn upon Stalin for a final showdown on
an Balkan questions. Stalin, seeing the in-
evitable. much prefers to confront a Hitler
weakened by an expensive war upon Eng-
land than a Hitler who had achieved his
purpose in the West with a minimum of ef-
Bv keeping the Balkans in a constant state
of turmoil Stalin is being very kind to him-
self and very unkind to Hitler, his present
“ally” and his eventual enemy.
Other Viewpoints
Shotguns and Beartraps
From the Minneapolis Star-Journal:
We find ourselves wondering occasionally
whether the United States, in its prepared-
ness effort, is giving enough leeway to good
old fashioned Yankee ingenuity. We must
have, of course, certain standard equipment
for defense—tanks, planes, and all those
things. But merely to imitate and outdo the
German army at its own technique does not
suffice. We might well be reminded that dur-
ing the World war Germany protested to
The Hague against two “illegal” practices of
American troops in France. One was the use
of sawed-off shotguns in the trenches, which
made hand-to-hand trench-knife and bayo-
net fighting obsolete. The other was the
Americans' use of bear traps under the barb-
ed wire entanglements to capture German
prisoners, virtually unharmed, for the pur-
pose of obtaining information. Both are ex-
amples of the kind of thing we’re thinking
about. Assumedly our purpose would be
served if we genuinely scared the Nazis into
keeping out of this hemisphere. Probably
they would be much more afraid of devilish
Yankee inventive genius, if they knew it was
at work against them, than they would be of
sheer numbers of equipment with which
thev themselves are familiar. We would be
beating the Nazis at their own- psychological
game which has played so big a part in blitz-
krieg. _____________
Cranium Crackers
NEIGHBORS OF U. S.
European war has focused increasing at-
tention on U. S. amity with our neighbors to
the south. How many of these questions
about South America can you answer’
1. What is the form of government in
Chile?
2. Who is the president of Brazil?
3 What city is the capital of Uruguay?
4. What South American nation reaches
farthest west into the Pacific?
5 What is the largest city of South Amer-
ica?
Answers on back page
All the Nazis have to do to dispel this talk
about a famine in Germany is to shove Herm
Goering in front of the lens again.___________
News dispatches hint shakeup in French
cabinet, with Laval on his way out. More
propaganda, or is it on the Laval this time.
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_ by Jeanne Bowman ------ €
"You - you act as though you
were giving me the world, she
charged
ere has been a world, complete
to me.” he confessed, and jumped
to the rock beside her.
“Why the past tense?
“Michael!" He held her arms
the tight grip of his hands, tower-
ing over her, looking down at
her, and she waited.
About them the storm winds
blew; weird wind; with voices un-
heard in the lowlands: strong
winds rich with scent of the sea
and pines. Constance wonder-
ed If they were stronger than •
she. If she could fight them in a
gale, oi if she wouldn't want to %
"The throwback Old Michael Ma-
honey, to skirts. All right, she'd
bargain. She'd bargain El Cabrillo,
security, everything she’d thought
vital for a gypsy toe with this man.
•■Michael." be began again.
The moment passed and even
the - atmosphere changed. The
clouds deepened to a dull, brown-
ish black and the wind grew in
fury.
Pedro looked at the sky. "We’d
better get out of here if we don’t
want to be caught in a storm," he
said “Wait. . not like that.
Michael, you don’t understand—"
For Constance had slid down
the rock, mounted, and was riding
Yesterday: At the barbe-
cue Constance realises that she
to not the only woman who
feels attracted to Peter Later
she visits Mrs MacKeivey’r
- dairy farm and decides thus
she can succeed, too.
Chapter 13
FROM DREAM TO REALITY
Pedro wasn’t around when Con-
stance reached El Cabrillo, but Meg
came down to say he’d been there
the first thing to the morning to
take her for a tour of the ranch.
"He’ll need respite,” she added
moodily. "The doctor cracked Big
Pete’s shell today, and the divil
himself would run for hiding.
You'd be thinking he’d grown a
love for that cast, the way he
took on
That and other things is both-
erin’ him," she concluded.
Constance knew and felt a
twings of sympathy for Peter
Taylor, senior But after all, she
reasoned, the Cabrillos had owned
the land first.
That night the weather changed,
and when Pedro rode up with the
horse the next morning, the sky
was overcast, the hills blue with
the promise of rain.
"I want to get back in time to
make the six o'clock out of Beach-
port," Constance told him.
"So soon?” asked Pedro, and
Constance thought he appeared
startled.
"I took only three days leave:
I'll be three or four days overdue
as it is."
And having told him this much,
she told him of her work.
For a long time afterwards he
rode in silence and then he turned
to her and smiled "Well, now it's
up to El Cabrillo”
What is up to the ranch?" she
asked.
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WASHINGTON DAYBOOK-By Stinnett
WASHINGTON—At the Depart- on the continent where rubber
ment of Commerce, they tell you first bounced into the economic
that the No
1 problem for the picture. Africa, Ceneral America,
economic trouble shooters to the other South American countries
national defense program is Rub-I and India account for the rest
ber. I Looking over the record and
Funny thing bout rubber—
It’s as American as Indian corn.
But now that this hemisphere is
facing a crisis, an adequate rub-
ber supply is almost as far away
as star dust.
Rubber was unknown until
wandering adventurers before the
17th century watched South
American Indians playing with a
considering "any eventuality," it
does look pretty black for rubber
if worst comes to worst. But even
though you might have a year-
and-a-half of discomfort. In event
of a rubber shortage, there's no
more use worrying about rubber
than about tin
SYNTHETIC ON THE WAY
______________Synthetic rubbers (there are
ball that bounced like nothing the | several) are well on their way.
We produced 1,700 tons of usable
synthetic rubber last year. If this
white men had ever seen.
BACK TO BUGGY RIDES ---------.
Yet to day, if rubber imports to seems only a drop in the bucket,
the western hemisphere were note that we will produce 10.000
shut off, about 30,000,000 motor tons this year
vehicles would cease to chug, the Under government -- subsidized
defense program would be dead plant expansion to the tune of
and the horse-arm-buggy nays -" - -- 4-1--
(without rubber tires) would
come back.
The United States uses 50,000
tons of rubber a month. Seventy-
five per cent for tires. Ninety-
eight per cent of the world sup-
ply of rubber comes from the
Dutch East Indies and British
Malava (each produces around
376,000 tons a year). A paltry 16.-
000 tons a year come from Brasil.
about half a billion dollars 'one-
twentieth of the present national
defense outlay) we probably could
be supplying the full demand in
eighteen month to two years.
Synthetic rubber is three to five
times as costly as the natural pro-
duct under the present set-up.
This will not be true even s year
from now. It does not mean that
finished synthetic rubber products
will cost anything like that much
more.
To conserve rubber, we could
have driveless days for our 30,-
000,000 cars and trucks. We could
use retreads when the old tires
blew out. We could decrease the
national speed limit (rubber ex-
perts estimate that if everybody
held throttles to 30 or 40 miles per
hour, it would add months to our
rubber supply). We even could
reclaim rubber from worm-eaten
rubber bands, burst toy balloons
and tired blimps Somewhere along
the line we would turn to our ap-
proximately eight months' supply
of raw and finished rubber.
MIGHT GROW OUR OWN
It might be tough, but it un-
doubtedly would work, and per-
haps in a year or two. Department
of Agriculture experts, working
with the natural supply to South
and Central America, and Cali-
fornia. would have a satisfactory
crop of natural rubber to the of-
fing.
The Department of Comme-ce
says that if we have an enemy to
the world, he had better not pan
on licking us by snapping up all
the world's rubber.
He might upset the rubber-tired
apple cart for a while, but to the
end, we'd be pop-poping along on
all four wheels as if nothing had
hapened.
"Wait,” he suggested.
Riding out, winds carrying the
dead scents of late autumn, damp
on her cheeks. Constance found
Taylo- quiet, thoughtful.
At each point of interest he
reined in to give her a detailed
report of its relation to the life of
the ranch — "this stream never
runs dry—” and—"here is a stand
of timber which will give El Ca-
brillo firewood for the whole of its
existence, if it is cut over properly."
Here was the family orchard
and here the kitchen garden.
Here, they dismounted, was the
dug-out of a great cavern, the walls
lined with crocks and jars of
canned fruit, the floors with bas-
kets of potatoes and onions, ap-
ples and squash
“We don’t have to buy much
here," he offered as they mount-
ed again. "El Cabrillo is almost
self-supporting."
"Pedro,” cried Constance, "you
are the most astonishing person.
You haven’t said anything against
the ranch. You are stressing its
selling points as I would stress
them to a prospective buyer. . .
why. Pedro, why?"
Taylors glance barely flecked
Constance, but she was stirred by
the intense emotion she saw visi-
ble in his face "Perhaps" he said.
"I am proud of its response to
good management and want you
to appreciate It: perhaps I am
putting it through its paces to
show it off, and perhaps—"
"Yes, go on; perhaps what?”
He turned to his saddle to look
away.
As she rode her anger mounted.
What did he think he was doing,
playing a Don Juan game? Let
him try that on his red-headed
ranch girls who had time for silly
flirtations not on a business girl
like herself.
And then her anger turned to-
ward, anger at herself for lower-
ing her guard, for being so sus-
ceptible. . for. . oh, she might
as well be honest with herself. . .
for wanting to bargain her future
away: to exchange El Cabrillo for
the transient Joy of a moment.
"Fool!" she stormed, and leaned
forward to Pat Pancho who’d
quirked a backward ear, at the
word. "I didn’t mean you. Pancho
and I'm going to miss you, but
I'm coming back. I’m coming
back and I have to rob a bank sin-
gle-handed!'’
Pedro's horse was pounding
close behind her It was all right,
she was on guard now She was
Michael Mahoney’s offspring. She’d
laugh at him. She’d never let him
know.
’GOODBY. LITTLE MICHAEL’
The rain started fell In sheets,
and when they reined in before
the ranch house. Juliano and a
boy rar for the horses and Meg
and Drlores came out with every
kind of coat and umbrella.
Constance faced Pedro under
the dripping willows. "Goodby."
she said extending her hand,
"and thank you so much for your
kindness these few days. I won’t
forzet.”
Pedro looked at Dolores and
Meg and gave up, defeated, he
even turned brick red as Meg be-
gan: “For the sake of me ears.
Petey-boy, go call that blond fluff,
Ivery tin minutes she's ringin’ with
—'Is Mr Taylor goto' to the dance
tonight?’ Faith, I told her. Mister
Taylors to bed with a mendin’
leg and how will he dance on
that—'
Meg followed Constance in and
talked while she packed. She sent
Dolores for hot tea and toast, and
at last, when the ranch car was
ready, took her hi strong arms.
“I’ve a feelin’ to me bones that
44
Bits of
Sidelights on the Capital Scene
By The Associated Press I penny due the state It would be
The state’s new fiscal year be- illegal to charge off this ancient
gins Sept. 1 and that day the comp- account. The legislature could
troller’s department will open a give authority but never has.
ledger sheet—Just as It has for 89
years—for the escheated estate
fund.
The legislature
could
directly at her.
"Perhaps I wan’ nothing in this
world that is not mine by divine
right.”
Constance stared at Pancho be-
cause she could not meet Pedro’s nt
eyes. Vhat bad he meant? There to
were two interpretations. He
might mean he was playing fair
to his attempts to buy the place.------------ .
regardless of his silence on the says to him I says, look out for
you’re cornin' back.” she said.
"Big Pete feels the same. He says
no Michael Mahoney could resist
. Chucklin' the old divil is at
watchin’ you get in above your
ears Says he’s always wanted to
watch a Mahoney whipped. But I
railroad right of way
And-"don’t be an idiot,” warned
her mind, but her heart’s reason-
ing thought—"he might want me to
come back "
DON JUAN?
That thought was pleasing They
rode up a canon where the man-
zanita was scarlet but no more
This fund shows $375 is due the
state but it never will collect the
money. Unless the legislature gives
the comptroller authority to charge
off the account workers will con-
tinue to open a ledger sheet for it
every year unto Kingdom come.
The fund represents the amount
of two personal promissory notes,
the first of which was dated 1885
and executed by J. R Stevens and
L J. H. Minnis Who they were
and why they made the notes is
hidden somewhere in the piles of
musty records.
Unless the ledger
maintained the fund would
balance and because
troller must account
sheet
not
the comp-
for every
In the capitol basement thou-
sands of books line the corridor
walls. They are the tax rolls of
Texas counties—dating to the days
of the republic—and have been
temporarily removed from the base-
ment rooms for the installation of
new cases which will permit their
storage to smaller space. These
are valuable records and would
reveal for the researcher some
economic phases of the state’s his-
tory Digging into these volumes
would reveal the ownership of a
given piece of property at any
time since It was assessed for tax
purposes It would show also the
fluctuation to property valuations.
The oldest volumes even list the
valuations placed on negro slaves
which were taxable as property.
The big basement, In fact, has
yielded many items of historic val-
ue. Rummaging around it to a
search for extra office space Fat
Dooley and Bob Calvert of the
comptroller's office once unearthed
from a battered old desk a com-
plete set of blueprint plans of the
capitol building.
Another time Dooley found a
roster of the Texas Navy.
These old documents are now to
the state archives .
Jerry Sadler, member of the rail-
road commission and late candi-
date for governor. Is expecting his
trusty blue serge suits back almost
any day now
Shortly after the July primary to
which Sadler ran fifth, he was ob-
served on the capitol steps talking
to Senator Joe Hill of Henderson
He wore a brown suit with match-
ing accessories, even to a tan straw
(Contiuned on Page 131
yoursilf, Peter, or this young
Michael will be bestin' you’."
"Meg,' cried Constance, “you
, . .you believe In me. You're
part of the Taylor household, and
yet you're betting on me?"
Meg laughed until she shook.
"Go on with you, it’s blind ye
are to both ears Im bettin’ on ye
both. Now, God speed you and
keep ye out of them airships ’
The skies of El Cabrillo wept
when Constance left She sat be-
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Rights of Free Labor Disappear From Europe as Totalitarians Gain Ascendency
wark of democracy to the old
As Labor day approaches.
John Q Winant. former gover-
nor of New Hampshire direc-
tor of the International Labor
Office, and one of the recog-
niaed world authorities on la-
bor problems, here gives his
own answer to the question of
what war is doing to labor to
Europe
By JOHN O. WINANT
Director, International Labor Office
On September 1, 1939, Hitler
in speaking to the Reichstag
said
“For six years .now I have
been working on the building up
of German defenses Over 90
millards (90 billion marks) have
been spot on the building up of
those defense forces.”
Measured under any reason-
able exchange rate this would
exceed the total gold reserves
held in the United States. It
was so large a part of the total
nasiodal income of Germany as
to materially lower ths living
and social standards of that na-
tion or any nation attempting
to meet them on a defensive .
armament: basis. It explains the
literalness of Goerings blunt
demand of bullets instead of
butter
In a peace period only a gov-
ernment organized on force
rather than on consent could
have accepted the drastic depri-
vations compelled by this war
spending policy Under these
conditions there was establish-
ed a combination of the puni-
tive system of the middle ages
harnessed to modern machine
technology with the individu-
al subject to the will of the dic-
tator
Something of these sinister
changes are known to us through
the news carried to the daily
press and to broadcasts But
how many realise that the so-
cial gains that have been won
through years of effort are be-
ing ruthlessly swept aside?
It is not only political leader-
ship in conquered democracies
that la being liquidated Labor
leaders meet the same fate.
Trade unions and employers' or-
raise the workers’ standard of
ganizations, as well as parlia-
ments have been destroyed
Collective bargaining in con-
quered territory has ceased to
exist Hour regulations have
been completely broken down.
Wage rates have been reduced.
The cost of buying has increas-
ed while the standard of living
of the masses of working men
and women has been progres-
sively lowered
In attempting to suggest
something of what the war has
done and is doing to labor to
Europe. It to necessary to look
hack for a moment to the situ-
ation that existed before the
war While the aggressor na-
tions were building their war
machines, the democratic states
worked to maintain the civil
liberties of their people and to
living.
Much has been accomplished
toward the realization of those
objectives. A moderate but
steady increase to national In-
come and in the volume of
wages, a more equal distribu-
tion of purchasing power due to
social security and public wel-
fare measures—all bear witness
to the preoccupations of the
democratic countries of conti-
nental Europe until war forced
change. Until then, little by lit-
tle. through untiring effort,
those countires had erected a
social structure protecting the
decency and dignity, of man
This structure included the
limitation of hours of work to
industry and commerce, the
protection of working women
and children, the protection of
the health and safety of work-
ers, compensation for Industrial
accidents and occupational dis-
leases, a system of old age pen-
sions and pensions for widows
and orphans of deceased work-
ers. the arbitration of Industrial
disputes and the determination
of labor conditions by collective
bargaining Membership to the
International Federation of
Trade Unions, the largest inter-
national organization of work-
ers numbered in 1939, twenty-
one million
This situation has been com-
pletely changed by the Invader.
There has been complete de-
struction of the trade union
movement in Germany, Austria,
and Czechoslovakia and in the
conquered democracies. All that
the free trade union movement
has stood for—the right of be-
ing heard, the right of consulta-
tion. the right to negotiate—has
been abolished These righto
were consecrated by the consti-
tution of the international la-
bor organisation established to
1919 to promote social justice.
In Great Britain, the last bul-
world, the organised workers
have accepted freely, spontan-
eously, and in common accord
with their employers, compul-
sory arbitration and the outlaw- .
Ing of strikes and lockouts for
the duration of the war. Their
.action is based on their know-
ledge that today with them all
things depend on the strength
of national defense British un-
ion workers have themselves
recommended the adoption of
the emergency powers defense
act which grants the most dras-
tic authority a free pople has
ever conferred upon its govern-
ment
This authority includes power to
control all persons and all prop-
erty. to conscript labor and reg-
ulate conditions of employment,
to control banking and finance
end to impose an excess profits
. tax of 100 percent The secretary
of labor and national service
has been charged with the crea-
ruddy than the cheeks of Senorita
Conchita Cabrillo And Panchos
hoots on the rock of the mountain
trail kept time to the quickened
beat of senorita’s heart
Pedro took Constance to a spot
high on the second range, above
the timber line, an area covered
with great boulders
On one side were blue forests
and mountains, their snowy peaks
vivid against the dull sky On the
other were the rolling hills of
El Cabrillo, dotted with cattle:
with groves of trees, and beyond
the next range the Pacific, dull
gray, except where the sun, try----—_
ing to filter through the clouds, tor. brakerman and porter APE
lay a shining slate gray path on
the waters.
Pedro helped Constance from
the saodle then with (one swift
movement lifted her to a high
boulder
"There you are" he said
aide the ranch boy who was driv-
ing. conscious of Juliano to his
Sunday best, behind, and refused
to look back. To look back would
mean to see the managers house.
She looked instead at the turbu-
lent ocean, at smashing waves
rolling viciously to
Beachport was dreary, the de-
pot chill and ugly, and even
Juliano’s ceremonious attention,
seeing the was comfortably seat-
ed to the train: that the conduc-
New Orleans Quarter
May Be Cleaned Up
1 BATON ROUGE, La., Aug 30.-
(AP)—State Police Superintendent
Steve Alford today had accepted an
invitation from New Orleans Police
Chief George Reyer to meet with a
citizen group seeking cleanup of
conditions to the city's 200-year-old
Vieux Carre, mecca for tourists
Property owners in the French
quarter, as the ancient section with
Ita picturesque buildings and narrow
streets is known, have voiced Joint
demands for elimination of alleged
vice and corruption.
clated her importance, couldn’t
lift the despair settling over her.
"God go with you,” Jullano said
in Spanish as the conductor warn-
ed him they were pulling out, and
he placed an envelope to her hands.
She ihougbt nothing of It then,
but sat watching the landscape
blur past the rain streaked win-
dows. Wondering if she had been
a fool to return to El Cabrillo.
She had 1< ved it as a dream, now
she loved it as a reality And what
light had she to refuse to sell If
it meant El Cabrillo would go "to
seed as the Cabrillos had "gone
to seed?"
And if she didn’t agree to sell-
WHEN • •'
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be sue
tion of e new arbitration boerd
to adjudicate disputes on work-
ing conditions.
On the outcome of the pres-
ent struggle between Great
Britain and Nazi Germany de-
pends the future of labor and
the labor movement to Europe
If Britain falls the whole of
western and central Europe will
pass under a totalitarian rule
that will obliterate the gains
made to one hundred and fifty
years of struggle and sacrifice,
and place the American work-
er in the front line of defense.
Ing. how and where would she
raise the money to revive it?
Money! She wondered if it had
been a bill Juliano had handed
her. The envelope had the ranch
name stamped on the corner.
Anxiously she ripped it open.
The signature seemed to leap
from the page — Pedro. And then
she read the message—“Goodby,
little Michael. The things men
♦
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FREEZIN
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would say with their hearts are
better left unsaid by their lipa.”
Constance looked out of the ,
window Funny she thought the
sun had come out: but no, twilight
was settling and It was darker
than ever. The note crumpled
to her hand, she leaned a cheek i
against the window pane and
watched the lights of little homes
flash to their forests, then disap-
pear. (
“I’ll raise the money" she
thought, confidently
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