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...Story. It seems there were two Irish people, Larry O'Shea and his sister. The sister was called Nora. She had mothered the shpalpeen from breechcloth to long pants, and when he got off on a fine big ranch in Arizona she kept writing him to say his prayers and be a good, happy boy. He wrote back that he was all that, and what a grand gentleman was the Mr. Morgan he worked...
Nora journeyed to Arizona ana found Mr. Morgan going in for drink and devilment. Larry was carrying on with gun-smugglers. Some black villains (including Injun Pete) were getting Mr. Morgan's ranch away from him, simply because he had no good woman to be good and happy for. All the kindhearted cowboys cheered when Nora, with her dear smile and heart of gold, helped Mr. Morgan save his inheritance and married him. Larry repented of his bad ways, just before he was shot...
This favorable impression was quickly dissipated when news came from Manchuria that Morgan Palmer, U. S. citizen from New York State, had been killed while helping the inhabitants of a village near his ranch to beat off a horde of brigands. At the same time the brigands seized the person of Dr. H. J. Howard, eye specialist of the Rockefeller Hospital in Peking, who was visiting Mr. Palmer at his ranch, dragged him to their mountain lair, since when nothing has been heard of him. Mr. Palmer's mother, Dr. Howard's son, one Harold Baldwin (formerly...
...knew better than ever that she wanted no man, but only to be very still. And she found the place to be still-a ramshackle ranch high among mountains where inexorable spirits resisted any tampering with their scorched, flinty domain and promised life, straight from its source, to the dedicated listener...
Died. Mrs. Henrietta King, 93, owner of the world's largest ranch (1,280,000 acres, near Kingsville, Tex.); in Kingsville. Her home on the ranch, the finest in the Southwest, contains tapestries, woven from her own designs, depicting the history of Texas and the cattle ranges...