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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MAY 27, 1935

The Great Mountains

[Continued From Puga 10)

"I don't remember.”

softly.

Yes-but he's no damn good.” The triangle sounded at thel

house. -That's supper,

In his excitement Jody had lost ranch his shyness. "Don't you remember Jody cried. "Come on up to anything about it?”*

supper."

Gitano's mouth opened for a As they walked up towards the word and remained open while his house Jody noticed again that brain sought the word. "I think it Gitano's body was as straight as was quiet-I think it was nice." that of a young man. Only by a Gitano's eyes seemed to have jerkiness in his movements and by

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for they grew soft and a little smile be seen that he was old seemed to come and go in them.

"Didn't you ever go back in the mountains again Jody insisted.

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The turkeys were flying heavily into the lower branches of the cypress tree by the bunkhouse. A fat sleek ranch cat walked across “Didn't you ever want to?”, the road carrying a rat so large But now Gitano's face became that its tail dragged on the ground impatient. "No,” he said in a tone the quail on the sidehills were still | = that told Jody he didn't want to sounding the clear water call. talk about it any more. The boy Jody and Gitano came to the was held by a curious fascination. back steps and Mrs. Tifin looked sounded from way over the bill on He didn't want to go away from jout through the screen.

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Jody picked his way across the dark yard. He could Gitano His shyness returned.

them..

see a light through the window of "Come running Jody. Come in.) to supper, Gitano.”

the little room of the bankhouse. Because the night was secret he walked quietly up to the window and peered in

"Would you like to come down' to

the barn and see the stock" be

Lasked

Gitano stood up and put on his hut and prepared to follow.

......

Carl and Billy Buck had started to eat at the long oilcloth-covered table. Jody slipped into his chair

forth in front of him.

open and

It was almost evening now. They without moving it, but Gitano stood Gitano sat in the rocking chair stood Merr the watering trough holding his hat until Carl looked and his back was towards the win- while the horses sauntered in from up and said, "Sit down, sit down dow. His right arm moved slowly the hillsides for an evening drink. You might as well get your belly back and Gitano rested his big twisted hands full before you go on." Carl was Jody pushed the door on the top rail of the fence. Five afraid he might relent and let the walked in Gitano jerked upright!! horses came down and drank and old man stay, and so he continued and, seizing a piece of deer skin, he then stood about ribbling at the to remind himself that this couldn't tried to throw it over the thing in dirt or rubbing their sides against be.

his lap, but the skin slipped away;

Jody stood overwhelmed by the Heng in Gitano's hand, a lean and

the polished wood of the fence.! Gitano laid his hat on the floor! Long after appeared over the brow and diffidently sat down

"What is It?" Jody demanded. Gitano only looked at him with stop resentful eyes,

and be picked up Eaven't the fallen deer skin and firmly

part wrapped the beautiful blade in it.

Jody put out his hand. - “Can't 1] 3000 see it?**

Gitano's eyes zimouldered angrily there and he shook his head.

of the hill and came painfully down. wouldn't reach for food. Carl baby rapier with a golden basket It had long yellow teeth; its to pass it to him. "Here, Aupark The blade was like a thin ray hooyes were flat and sharp as yourself up." Gitano ate very of dark light. The hilt was pierced. spades, and its ribs and hip-bones slowly, cutting tiny pieces of meat and intricately carved Marseilles, Havie, London, Bambusjutted out under its skin. It hob-and arranging little pats of mash-

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bled up to the trough and dranked potato on his plate. water with a loud sucking noise. The situation would not

"That's old Easter, Jody ex-worrying Carl Tilin. plained. "That's the first horse my you got any relatives in this father -ever had. He's 30 years of the country?" he asked old.” He looked up into Gitano's Gitano answered with old eyes for some response. pride, "My brother-in-law is in

"No good any more." Gitano said. Monterey. I have cousins Jody's father and Billy Buck too." came out at the barn and `walked over Carro only. + Calls Camblades. § Calls Port Sudam

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Jody's mother. came in from the got it from my father." Carl Tiffin caught the last words. kitchen carrying a large

"Well, where'd be get it?" - He hated his brutality toward old tapioca pudding.

Gitano looked down at the long Gitario, and so he became brutal Carl chuckled to Her. "Did I tell don't know."

deerskin parcel in his hand. “T

avain.

you what I said to him?” I said. "It's a shame not to shoot if ham and eggs grew on the side! Easter," he said. "It'd save him a hills T'd put him out to pasture, lot of pairs and rheumatism." He like old Easter”

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(Continued from Page 5) Favourites Triumph

Most of the favourites wo out Stanley Lunt, the holder of the

"Can't I see it again?” The old man slowly unwrapped the shining blade and let the lamp] light slip along it for a moment. Then he wrapped it up ázain. “You

He blew out the lamp almost before come down to water with the other go now: "I wanf" to go to bed." last.”

Jody had closed the door.

horses.** de bé went back towards the

In the middle tharks. walked house Jody Imew

morning Billy Buck broke in, "They got through the kitchen and out the

one thing more Jess Taylor from the ridge ranch a right to rest after they worked back door. Jody sat and secretly anything. He must never tell any

sharply" than he

had ever known rode dowa, Sydney all of their life. Maybe they like watched his father. He knew bow one about the pier. It would be crowhait of yours, did you, Carl?" "You didn't sell that old grey to just walk around.”

mean his father felt Carl had been looking steadily at

a dreadful thing to tell any one "No, of course not. This country's full of these old about it, for it would destroy some "Well," Jess said.

Why?".. the skinny horse, "You can't im- paisanos, Carl said to Billy Buck fragile structure of truth. It was this morning early, and I saw a title, playing with ease and confid- agine now what Easter used to look! They're damn good men," "Billy wath that might be shattered by funny thing." I saw an old man on an Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan like," he said softly. "High neck, defended them.

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jump a five-bar gate in stride of them a hundred and five years Jody passed Billy Buck.

On the way across the dark sard rope for a bride. He wasn't on the W. Street, of Wollaton Park. · won a flat race on him when I was old, and he could still ride a horse wondering where you are,"

"They're road at all. He was cutting right Eric Fiddian, champion three

Billy up-straight through the brush. 15 years old. I could have got 200 Yoo don't see any white men as old asid

Iyears ago and a Walker Cup player. dollars for him

think he had a gun. any time. You as Gitano walking twenty or thirty

At least I saw was three down with five played to wouldn't think how pretty he was." miles."

Jody slipped into the living room, something shine in his hand." fand his father tumed to him.. He checked himself, for he hated

F. A Naylor, the Notts champion, "That's 'old Gitano,” Carl Tiflin'] "Oh, they're tough, all righty""Where have you been?" softness. But he ought to be shot (Carl agreed. "Say, are you stand-

said "FI see if any of my guns a player with a well controlled "I just went out to see if are missing." He stepped into the threequarters swing. From this ing up for him too? Listen, Billy," caught any rats in my new trap." house for a second. "Nope, point, however, Fiddian, playing "He's got a right to rest," Billy he explained "Tm having a hard It's time you went to bed his here which way was he heading, better golf, captured five of the next Buck insisted.

jenough time keeping this ranch out father said.

Jess?"

nize holes. He won by 2 and 1 Jody's father had a humorous of the Bank of Italy without taking Jody was first at the breakfast "Well, that's thought. He turned to Gitano. "If on anybody else to feed. You know table in the morning. Then his He was heading straight back into the course intimately, Fiddian will the funny thing. Playing extremely well and knowing ham and eggs grew on a sidehill I'd that, Billy.”

father came in, and last. Billy the mountains.”

have to be reckoned with. turn you out to pasture too," he "Sure, I know," said Billy. "If Back Mrs. Tifin locked in from said. But I can't afford to pasture you was rich, it'd be different.”

Carl laughed. "They never ret

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too old to steal" he said. “I guess Cup player, defeated a young Lon- man, Billy?" he just stole old Easter"

don player, H. Richardson. to pasture you in my kitchen.”

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"Want to go after him, Carl?"

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The Day's Surprise on toward the Monterey. Why should worry about said “I looked in his room and he that horse. I wonder where he got house "Be a good thing for all of him?”

The big surprise came late in the wasn't there.”

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"That's right, and it isn't like he "Where's the old didn't have relatives to go to. A she asked.

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His father knew every place in the There were ranges back as far 28 After breakfast Jody walked ridge after ridge until at last there Although he lost the first two boy where a word would fester you could see but behind the last down to the bunkhouse. Flies were was the ocean. For a moment be holes, Eisdon was not dispirited. "He's only talking. Jody said range piled up against the sky flashing about in the sunshine thought he could see a black speck He held on determinedly and, win- "He didn't mean it about shooting there was a great unknown coun- The ranch seemed especially quiet crawling up the farthest ridge.ning four holes in a Easter! He likes Easter. That try. And Gitano was an old man. this morning. When he was sure Jodge thought of the rapier and of 6th, turned two up with was the first horse he ever owned." until you got to the dull daric eves, no one was watching him. Jody Gitano. And he thought of the 35

The sun sank behind the high And in behind them was some unwent into the little room, and look great mountains. A longing from an attack of

Francis, who was mountains as they stood there, and known thing. He didn't ever

sayed into Gitano's sack An extra caressed him, and it was so sharp often in difficulties. the ranch was hushed Gitano enough to let you guess what was pair long cotton under that he wanted to cry to get it out The 13th was halved in. 2, and at evening. He made a curious sharp himself irresistibly drawn towards pair of jeans and three pairs of green grass near the round tab at seemed to be more at home in the inside, under the eyes. Jods felt wear, was there, an extra of his breast. He lay down in the the 15th Risdon hit one of the sound with his lips and stretched the bunkhouse. He slipped from worn socks.

Lest shots imaginable one of his hands over the fence. bis chair while his father was the sack A sharp Imeliness fell eyes with his crossed armus and lay ricocheted or to the green Driving thing else was in the broth Ime. He covered his second dived into a gorse bush and.. Old Faster moved stiffly to him and

out the door on Jody. He wilked slowly back there a long time and be was Gitano rubbed the lean, neck puder

trapped,

the mane

like him?ody asked far

cises

magand

the house. His father stood of a nameless BOITOW.

the porch tailding to Mrs. Tin

guess old-Easter's dead et

THE END

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