Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-04

Don Jaime MIGUEL Hi0uenes, TeIds
: fdRcheT, and Tom Antrim, a sheep
: owRer, hare been bitter enemies. Ken
Hobart, DON Jaine's mand0er, believes
I his employers life Is In danger. Don
< Jotn1e's mind, hopeUer, diDells on other
: things He has fallen in lore NTH a
( picture he has seen in a md0dzine-d
picture OF Miss Roberta Antrim, society
belle of Westchester. He is attacked
from ambush and shoots it out NTH his
opponent. Hobart finds him tDounded
: aud the opponent dead. On the body is
picture Of Roberta and her address.
: NTH the request that she be notified
In the eUent OF Tom Antrims death.
z Don Jaime tprites her that Antrim Dds
killed BY man named Jimmy HIGGINS.
Roberta. who Hpes NTH her uncle,
= CROOKED BilP' Latham, sees herself as
an hetress. Latham wants her to marry
his friend Glenn Hdckett, and tells her
that he is on the verge OF bankruptcy
because of market losses He outlines
his matchmaking schemes to Rdckett,
urging him to offer to make good the
losses. This generous gesture, he be-
Heres. nil lead to Robertd's acceptance
OF Hdckett's proposal Of marriage.
FOURTEENTH INSTALLMENT.
HERE is nothing quite so salts
flying and reStful to human
being as the knowledge of a
i sly deed successfully, nay, bril-
liantly, performed. 1t is not
to be marveled at, therefore, that both
Crooked Bill and Roberta slept well
that night. At breakfast neither had
ever felt nor looked so clipper in years,
albeit, in order to accentuate his pose
of abandon and despair, Crooked Bill
neglected to shave, had little to say
during the meal and sighed gustily from
time to time. He caught an early train
to the city, explaining that the sooner
he swept up the fragments of his scat
tered fortunes the better for all con-
cerned.
Roberta motored in little later and
went at once to Glenn Hacketts Office,
where he prepared and she signed a
formal assignment of all her right, title
and interest in and to her Uncle Toms
estate to Hackett for and in consider
alton of certain moneys to be advanced
to her by Hackett. The further details
OF saving something out of the wreck
for her uncle she left to the lawyer.
"Now, then, Roberta" Hackett said
when the document was signed, 'you
understand that this is a business deal
from first to last. Not speck of senti-
ment in it so far as I am concerned.
While you have given me security for
the funds am to advance, it may be
that will be called upon to advance
q sum in excess of the total value of
your Uncle Toms estate. Consequently,
it is Of the utmost Importance that the
estate should be administered wisely
and conservedly. have looked up your
lawyer at Los Algodones, Don Pru-
dencio Alviso, and he appears to have
an excellent record for probity, but is a
poor business man. If ="
HE assures me Don Jaime Miguel
Higuenes Is most reliable and is doing
all that anybody can do to conserve the
estate" Roberta fastened to assure
Hackett. =
81 know. But what do we know about
Higuenes? Nothing except what we
have heard and the fact that his cor
reSpondence would indicate he is a
kindly. humorous and wonderfully oblig-
ing gentleman. But lawyers look at all
things from q cold and conservative
angle and the thought occurs to me:
Why is Don Jaime Miguel Higuenes
taking all this trouble? What do you
mean to him? He is a cattleman, so
why should he bother with your sheep?
My dear Mobby. am highly suspicious
Of that fellow"
4O16y 4AP AAOPPCA. So41C AAdo k4Ot
thought of Don Jaime in that light be-
fore, and her common sense warned her
that there might be more than modi-
cum Of truth in Hackett's suspicious.
He saw the doubt he had planted bur-
geoning and hastened to aid its growth
"As told you before, it is impossible
for me to go to Texas to look after your
affairs, Bobby, notwithstanding the
fact that it would be privilege to serve
you. Unfortunately, others have a prior
claim on my professional services and
may not evade them. Your unfortunate
uncle dares not leave New York at this
time either. His creditors might think
he was endeavoring to flee the country.
Consequently think it is of the utmost
Importance that you go to Los Algodones
Immediately and investigate everything
thoroughly"
But. Glenn, I don't know thing
about business and I'm afraid it's too
big an order. Quite usually I believe
what apparently decent people tell me-"
81 disagree with you. You have a
feminine intuition of the highest degree
Of development. You could sniff out a
crook at sight. If you go there, get &C
quainted with your lawyer and Don
Jaime and after few weeks discover
that you have absolutely no mental res
ervations regarding either or both, I
shall think it quite safe to leave your
affairs in their hands, for the present
at least"