The Flatonia Argus (Flatonia, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 21, 1944 Page: 3 of 8
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Ken McLaughlin, given an opportunity to
choose any yearling on his (afnlly's Wy-
oming ranch, picks the ftUy of a
- msW-MWfffctti'T. a. retired army ..11)
Is disappotnled by Ken's choice and by
his failure at schoq). ivhcn Flicka, <h»
Blly, ts Utility HBlf'tfytns 10 JIMM[I the
corral fence, Ken takes the opportunity
• to make friends wilh the wild little colt.
Although jje Is now convinced UiaLFlirka
Is not "loco" like IrrV mpiher.. Captain
McLaughlin does not think >he will get
well. BuMKcn, who always wanted a colt
ot bis own, Is still hopeful, lie believes
he ^an tame Flicka,. .who. is to him
.. aomethhit Bhe'and beautiful. • v-
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CHAPTER XVII
At .dinner, .Ken ate nothing How-
ard said, "Ken isn’t eatin^hfs dffev
her—doesn't he "have to cat, Moth^
er?”
But Nell answered, “Leave' him
• alone.!’
’. Ken had understood what, his fa-
ther meant when he said, “1 won’t,
have a thing like that on my place.”
To a.llo.w,'af» ahimal to d>* a'linger-
would not do. Flicka was to be shot.
• He didn 1 hear his fatlier give the'
order to Gus. "Pick a time when
in bed, .wide awake, and shaken by
a steady tints quivering, he could see
it reflected in the opened casement
Tfle hadn’t completely Undressed
but he had the' sheet' drawn up to
■his chin;, in anoo-his mat her nr. fil-
ther came in to.lobk’at him. He
heard them talking together in their
room as' they undressed. How long
they frjok. iV seemed to, him hours
before the whole house was quiet-1-
as quiet as the_njght was oytside.-^
He vvpi’tcd still another hour, till,
.everyone Was so deep asleep there
would be no chance of theft hear-
ing. Then he stole’out of bed and*
put on the resWof his clothes.- ...1
He carried his shoes in his hands
and -cr$pt down,.Uie hall; past the
door of ftis parents', room, faking a
half rtiinuteftbr a step.
- -On*the far eqd of the terrain, he
-sa.t down and put, on' fiis shoes, his
heart pounding and. the blood almost
suffocating him.
and fioid the life in her.
At dawn, when there should have
been ligjjj, there was, first, a gray
gloom, and then persistent twilight.'
The wind had failed and lb®.clouds
had their wav ot last, forced up
from all points of the edtnpass 'by
pressure in the lower areas behind
therr^ Laramie and Cheyenne, both
Fliekg—I’m coming
His feet pattered down the path.
.Bfi ran ,45 fast, as he .could.
It was so dark under the cotton,
wood trdhs, .he had to stand a mor
rhent,' getting used to the darkness,
^ iKSt' before he-nould b« sure that.•Flicka
sn nTromfif a^Tlake the ~b0r ther^ There .stood, her
Winchester and put tffe Ally out pf Tee3 box_but tf* ftlly w8* gflne.
.....7*'‘•trfmr~jSniTietti'iiig -had spirited, her
Ken watched the .gun fftCk’in tfte .*BL- •’ •■■■tat
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lowed in the bunk house. Going
■through the dining room to the krtch-
en» three times*-a day for meals,
l?en’s eyes scanned'the wpapons to
make sure they^were all there. That
night tftey weVe not’all'there. The
Winchester,was missing. *
When Ken saw that, he. stopped^
walking. He felt dizzy^He kept'
staring at the gun rack, telling him-
self that it surely Was there—he
counted again-— he .couldn’t ' see
. clearly. •- ’
Then, he fplt an' arm across His
» shoulders and heard his , father's
* voice. ”1 know, son. Some things
are ■ awful hard to take. We Just
have to take 'em. I have to, too.”
W* Ken gbt hold-of -his father’s hand
and held .on. It helped steady him,
■ Finally he 'looked up. -Rob looked
down and smiled at Tiifn and. gave
him a little shakeLAfld..jqneeze. Ken
■ managed a smile too.
Thewalked in to guppotMofioth*-
’__J^SaT-CVCi1 ate a ’htile, But Neil
or' of- hi? face; and at the little
"pul^e that was bating tn the side of-
hia. neck;- ft . .
After sppper'Ken carried Flicka!1
her oats, but he had to coax her
and she would hardly touch them.
She stood with her head hanging,
but • when he .stroked it, and talked
to her, she pressed her face ihto his
chest and was content.
He could feci the horning heat of
her bddy. -Ib didn’t seem possible
- that anything so thin could be allvCT
Presently Ken saw Gus come into
the pasture carrying the Winches-
ter. When he saw Ken, he changed
his direction and.sauntered along as
if he was out to shoot cottontails.,
TKen ■ ran to him, "When are you
going to do it,- Gus?”
“Ay was gqin down soon now, be-
fore it got dark—-” -
“Gus, don’t do it tonight. . Wait
till morning. Just one more night,
Gus.”.
‘“Veil, m de morning den, but It
got to be done, Ken. Yer ladder
gives de order.”
- “I know.' I won’t say anything
more-T-. . -
Gus went back to the bunk bouse
and Ken returned to Flicka.
At nine o’clock Howard was sent
,by Nell to call Ken. He stood at
the corral gate, shouting.
. 'Flicka Was still' starfding in her
“■nursery when -the full moon rose at
ten. It was the Hunter's Moon, as
yellow as the Harvest Moon.
Flicka’s wounds did not pain her,
but the suction of the down-whirling
spiral was an agony felt through
every part of her. Now add'then
her young body found strength to
fight against it; she struggled; she
lifted her head. • .
She., was thirsty.The smell of
the frVsh ^running water drew her.
She w\pdcd into the , stream and
drank; got1 her fill, lifted her head,
turned it again to the house. The
cool water rippled against her. legs.
Thpre' was no sound from the’
house, no feet running ' upon the
. payi, and_ suddenly, the-last of her
little ‘strength was gone. ^ Lunging
forward, she fell, "half on the bank,
half in tbe water^ and l.a'y there,
struggling convulsively.
At last she, was still.
Some minutes later, from ten
miles away on the towering black-
timbered shoulders of Pole Moun-
tain,’ there stole out the most deso-
late. cry in the wbrld—the howl of
the,gray timber; wolf. It rode on
the upper air without a tremor, high
and thin, pointed as a needle%
Through long minutes the dote Was
sustained,, mournful and remoter
. through long.tporn »*-**-'- -* a
ur-prr«oMri»l»Mie;s-
ness; and even Ijefore it ceased, it
had becon^p fttie^ very esSenye of.
, ihe guiet of the *nigfit. '
SSI
But for Ken, there waV first,- the
creeping numbness of those parts
where the head and
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from the cold water running over his ^ actor in Hollywood is you're | -
who is not—put this in your note
[ book. There will be a more lavish
use of fabric in home decoration
, Jhnn ever before.w/ii. be
many new types of textiles and
new weaves. Fabrics will
legs, his thighs, almost,up to his
mountain stream, was
waist.. The
worked to death. Sydney Green-
street knows all about that. -In less ’
Ift&h’ thrC# JliOTS ntre Sjidhdy, R'HO.I'
fed from the Snowy Range in the1
North West, and*the water was far
colder then the shallow, sun-dappled
surface looked. Ken’* legs were
shrivelled and cramped with the
cold, and long-before the night was
over, his teeth ^ere chattering and
his.body shaking with chills.
ft?”*' *<<"'• Wbl. ".m.. but
SHABBY
‘ ROOM
OF NO
is my idea of a really ekcellent ac
tor, has. made 12 pictures.
A Sydney Greenstreet part conies
close to being the kernel of any pic-
ture in which he appettrs. s '.JfjST-VLE Its
That’s "the wa^'lt turned out In ! Py»' [hnlL- \
-k "Tie. Maltese Falconj’diis first. Au-' |
to tJie%north and south.
Often McLauglUin studied the sky,
nrfswers to nearly-all the sneak pre-
view cards ask-
ing, “Who gave
the^best tferforrtv*|
a-'fi c e?” read:
'"■ike , fat man.”.
. Tliat was Sydney,
who weighs ir^ at
280 pounds on the
hoof.
Warners, whore
Sydney checks in,
knew- ri^ht then
. Dim. they, . had
something. Tak--
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Sydney
Greenstreet
and said, "It’s trying its . best to Ing advantage of
„»™. b„.« —. ^>r gtensass?
WITH
CLEVER
USE OF
FABRIC
AND
DETAILS
be designed to’wear' longer and
to stay clean longer. *A feeling of
Spaciousness will be obtained by
blotting out some walls with cur-
tains. .
Tfii? homemaker who can sew a
straight seam will save many a
doilar for she may have curtains
of any length, width., or fullness
merely by stitching straight widths
together. And here M? a decora-
tors’ tip for hei;— allow a hundred
and fifty per cent fullness ifFrench
the mouptnmx '
Now Uicy had got b'ver.. There
wasn’t room for them all. They, ob-
red tl
Be No Night,” Warners rushed him cur*a'ns-
into his second, “They .Died. Wath NOte-
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But
^patuc.-
hefftoffy'Tnat ourned his
ward morning Ke knew that the heat
had gone, and, it wds-.nbt death';
wbon he spoke^to. her, .her eyes still
■looked bAck into his. He was fujl
of thanfifulnRSRy. , '
The alarm clock broke the early
morning silence oT -the bunk hujjse
and jangled for sixty secon’cfs.-" ”
Before it stopped Tim and Gus
were sitting, naked, on the edge, of
their bunks, yawning apd rubbing
their heads.* ■ • .
Gus reached for his. clothes and
began to draw them on, rememberi.
ing as'he did s& that something tin!
plbasa’nt was"aheqiof him. It vVa
r ttie T.liflTs* woun'er up
f1 i,
shown In
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Tetlj hove shown that a slngls
skid may taks 100 milss off the
lif*-Of
BlTflipr —;fk~ jTliEi-i
Not a Novice
Sydney, \ylio.is fi-C-Has'been act-
ing 44 yeane. His stage record reads
like a’ Who’S Who of the Theater?
and in fact he has to- refe’C to that
musty torijc himself iff order fa re-,
coH nil that he has done, v . .
f w The worl^ has been Sydney’s oys-
ter*- There’s hardly a spot on, the
globe he doesn't know-—Canada, the
; Americas, the British Isles, Indta'.
Ceylon. Holy. France, Malta, a-nd
North Africa—alL these he toured
not once but many times.’
it Sydney Greenstreet, who was bor^f
$ | in Sandwich, Kent, Epgland, Decem-
this sketch. -Tf" Is
Easy tO; make fsoi sti aUdiLtuliuIJuuibor.
A| Isv ‘I«k 'UrtUti tiWRkF1.'1 “ h-cce aUkamt,
a.s»R-wi'av -Ns- -p4ni'fd wrn+rr-Tfir- I'lifse1 mfi
to give a decorative .effect. “ Ask tor pat-
tern No. 254 and enclose 15 cents Address-
M[IS. Rt'TII WYKTII SPEARS
Hedlord Hills , ■ New* Y ork
Drawer 10
• Enclose J5 cents.fop-.PaUern No 254
Name ................................
Hi}If of IJfiX'or •R^heHion
Award Returned by U, S.
a moment or tw<T before it came ber 27. 1879,1^ all through traveling.
to him—th^e shooting of Flicka.
"When he renTcmbereft he dropped
both-handj on Vis knee* and. satin
silence: Nothing for it, it'must be
done. The filly might' have been
He dikes our town and has seltipd
down for go^d on a high mountain
Overlooking the town. He greeted
me Where recently among jfticojess
obje-ts d’art. ‘
^ left to die of heT own accord, but *--ft»i';.u »errHedda, I am’comfort-
'tot,,waj ^^rk^^U^g^tom^^or^Ut^^ablo ^at^ last^Lya.- Itone with' 'my
Gus finished dressing,
- -firet-and
Ken had ‘ seen the ‘Hunter's
Moon-rise over the eastern horizon
before he went upstairs, and lying
The water rippled over Ken’s legs
and over F.licka’a body. * .
away—he would never see her again
—Gus tv»d come down—his father—
He ran wildly here and there. At
last, when there was no" sign of
her, he began a systematic search
all through the pasture.- He dared
not call aloud, but he whispefed—
"Flicka— Oh, Flicka — where are
yo«-”
At last he found her down , the,
creek lying in the water. Her head
had been on the bank, but as she
lay there, the current of the stream
ha.d sucked and pullet} at-her.. and
she ha’d had no Strength to resist;
end little by little ^hep. tjead had
slipped down until ’wh’en Ken got
there only the muzzle was resting
oh the bank, and the body and Jegs
were swinging'%in*lhe stream.
Ken slid into the water, sitting on
the bank, and he hauled at her head,
But she was heavy, and the currfent
dragged like a weight; and he be-
gan to sob because he had no
strength to draw her out *’'
Then he found a leverage for his
heels against ^me pocks injhg bed
of the stream, and he braced him-
self, against, them, fand pulled with
all his might; ahd her head came
up- onto his knees,-and he held it
cradled in his arms. . -
He was^glad.that she had died of
her own accord, in the cool water,
under the mobn, instead of being
shot by'Gus. Then, putting his face
dose trrhtrrsr-aTid looking seorching-
ly into her eyes, he saw that she
was alive and looking back at him.
And then he burst out crying, and
hugged her, and said, “Oh, my lit-
tle Flicka, my little Flicka.”
■- •m\ 'm * * ‘ - -
The long night passed.
The moon slid slowly across the
heavens. , *
'The water rippled over Ken’s legs,
and over Fl;cka’s body. And gradu-
ally the heat and tffe fever went
out of her, and the cool running wa;
ter .washed and -washed her Wounds.
The night took a he*vy toll from
Ken, but for Flicka. there was re-
surgence. At the moment when Ken
dreW her into, hjs arms ..and, cried
her name, the. spring of'the down-
whirling .spiral was broken, Flicka
was released and not Once again did
sbe f?el if. The life-iurPeWfiTTn' her
body turned, and in-Weak and wa-
veping fashion, flowed'upward. A
power Went into'her fpom Ken; all
4iis yo.uth and strength and mag’-
netism given her freely and abun-
dantly on the stream of his Jove—
from his ardent eyes to hers.
vcling. I’m 64k and I think there
;tS tremendous scope
here.
In 1902, Chirta, awarded the Unit-
ed States $24,440,000 to indemnify
the government and American cit-
izens'for damages and expanses
tesultihg fyom the Boxer Rebel-
lion. In, 1908, after all accounts
had been 'settled, there still re-
mained $l.Ij)C0,fl00 or n«.--irly'hnlf
of the award. So tbe United Staten,-
ih a unique* ^estC^e, returned this
• balance to. the Chinese govern-
Tfffflg ready excopt frying the
eggs and bacon and makir* the'eof-
fee,,he’d go down to the'.Calf Pas-
ture with, the Winchester. It
wouldn't take a minute. He had
the gun with him there In th» bunk
house. It stood in the corner, still
loaded. . He’d be back before Tim
had finished milking the cows and
have plenty of time to make break-
fast. . # .
Gus walked down to the ranch
house, stood the gun against the
house outside/ and went into the
. -* «..**• " <A'"
kitchen to make up the fire.
Gus’ shaking down of the ashes
every biorning was the rising bell
for the family. When the kindling
me in picture^js to keep from being
, typed. I started as; an arch-villain
in ’The Maltese Falcon';* and feared
t. for a while that I’d stay a big bad
man.
From Good to Worse
“Luckily, arrd I intend to keep.it-
that way, I haven’t. My characteri-
zation. was “changed in ‘They Died
With Their Boots On,’ when I played
General.Scott. I was a heavy again
in ’Acposs the Pacific,1' and a sort
rot benevolCht mystery man in ‘Casa-
blanca.’ . . t. ...... ...
"For ‘Background to Danger’. I
reverted.to evil again as head of
the Nazi Gestapo, but in ’Conflict’
I am a psychiatrist who sends Mur-
5L.,..
rubber is again available In
quqntity the . industry; Wilt
so improve the quality of
' synthetic rubber'that it Will
be equal to the farmer for
many^ses.
It’s important io put your spare
In Service when' making periodic
tire switches. In that way the
wear is distributed over five
tires Instead of four. .
In oz peace
B E Goodrich 1
PIRST IN RURRrp
had caught, and the flames were
licking up aroumj the blocks of coal, ‘ derer Humphrey Bogart to hrs exe-
Giis closed the back draft and went' "
out. He took the.gun and .walked - Devotion has me cast as Wil-
slowly across the Green, to the gate Makepeace Thackeray, a per-
of the Calf -Pasture. fectly lovely gentleman, "but in ’The
A-few minutes' walk brought him Mask of Dimltrios’ I again switch to
to Flicka's Nursery and showed him a man °f mystery and dark doings,
thaL Flicka was not there • He Still Learning -
walked down stream and soon found
sitting in the *ater. Flicka’. The movies are'new
ASK MOTHER, SHE KNOWS
Ken
to me,” he
head in his arms. My«. “but 1 think I am catching on.
One look aj - the boy’s face wa'*..
enough.
' Gus crossed the c/eek, laid down
his gun, and seizing the filly by
tthe head, dragged her out onto th£
grassy bank, as doctors drag in-
fants into the world by the head—
never, safely, by any other part
Ken could not move. Gus lifted
him in his arms and again crossed
the creek. Ken’s head dropped back
over the" Swede’s shoulder, turning
to the filly for one last look. ^
“Good-by, Flicka.” It was only' a
whisper. •
Rob was standing at his window
fastening his belt, when he saw- the
foreman passing, carrying K«i. He
embarrassed,, I got the shock of my
life, ^wanted to die. I knew I was
pretty bad. but there I was on the"
screen—a horror. The lens is the
.actor’s best critic—it shows the
mind working. It shows feelings. You*
can get wonderful cooperation out of
the lens if you are true, but God help
you if you play it false.”
"Greenstreet has what I call a
background. While .still a young-
ster he drifted into amateur theatri-
cals until, encourajtec} by his riloth-
er, he Joined the Ben Greet Players
and made his debut in “Sficrlock
Holmes” in 1902.
In 1904 he came to Amerjca,. join-
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t it
.thought;’ “Flicka died—I didn’t hear ing fofees with Sir llerhert Tree and
the Winchester—Ken’s found her Margaret Anglin. . For'seven years
dead—fainted—” ' . _ ■ he'flayed with the Hints In’ "The"
Hp ran downstairs and out took ' laming of the Shrew,"- "Idiot's De-
the boy fron> Gus’ -arms, antf'then 'flight,“iAmphytrion 38," “The Sea
noticed the unbelievably shrunken,
drawn features, and the violent
chills. This was more than .a faint.
Gus told him how he had' found
Ken, and Rob carried him ip and up
to bed. •
Rob and J^ell put Kert to bed be-
tween hot blankets and tried to feet
some brandy between his lips.
Guj returned to the Pasture to
get the gun. Flicka was lying as he
had left her, blit 'at his approach
held up .her head. Tfie man knelt
down op the grass by her and felt of
her head, her neck, looked into her
eyes. "Veil—veil—Flicka, liddle
gurl—” He Was astonished to feel
that her body seemed to have lost * war corre
its great -fiwv <i>wf gone. who ° got
He looked at the two "Wounds. The
cuts were .clean and all the hard
Gull,” pnd “There fihall Be No
Night.” Then Warners caught him.
if-Gre'onstreet has any criticism of
Hollywood actors—and he is very
loath'to criticize any onfe—it is'that
they don’t work hard enough. "•
.“Maybe I cao’.t help it,” he says.
’“Maybe it's old fashioned on rpy
pBrf, but I have to be letter , per-
, feet in my lines, before setting foot
on a stage. I was brought up that
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Nycum, T. F. The Flatonia Argus (Flatonia, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 21, 1944, newspaper, September 21, 1944; Flatonia, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth988645/m1/3/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fayette Public Library, Museum and Archives.