Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 1, 1922, Page 4

B T N RV (Continued from last issue) e — EYNOPSIS N PROLOGTP.~Seeking gold in the des- ert, “Cameron,” solitary prospector, forms & partnership with an unknown man whom he later learns is Jo'nu W\l‘- ren, father of a girl whom wronged, but later married, back in llll- nols. Cameron's explanations appease arren, and the two proceed together. 'rlllnl refuge from & sandstorm in & Cameron discovers gold, but too uv.e "both men aré dying. Cameron leaves evidence, In the cave, ot thelr discovery of gold, ard personal documents, —— s CHAPTER l.-xh:hnd Gale, _adven- turer, In Caslta, Mexican border town, orne, lieptenant in the . esvnllv, old college friend. 'Thorne :uu- GBIQ be is there to ve Mercedes Castanods,” Spanish’ gir, aflanced Wite, fro: RO"D. annl'::n 1L _Gale “roughhouses” Rojas and his’gang, with the help of two American cowboys and e, Mercedes and ‘Thorne . esca) 1o call from +lie fort orders Thorne to his regiment. He leaves under ‘Gale’s pro- CHAPTER ITL—The pair, aided by the cowboys_whd had u-utod Gale in the eseaps, Charlle Ladd and Jim Lash, ar- rive in safety at & ranch known as For- lorn River, well across the border. _ Dick heard Mre, Belding walk away. +Shere she's powerful particular aBdut ‘that girl” observed Laddy. “Say, Tom, Nell knows she’s pretty, doesn’t she” “She's lable to find it out unless you shut up, Laddy. When you vis- fted us out here some weeks ago, you kept paying cowboy compliments to her.” | “An’.J's your 1dea that cowboy compliments are plumb bad for girls?” “Downright bad, Laddy, so my wife Bays.” i “I'll be darned if I belleve any girl cgn- be hurt by 8 lltua sweet talk. It pleases 'em. . o .” “Chop It Interrupted Belding. “Here comes Nell now.” Dick’s tingling ears took in the pat- tering of light footsteps, the rush of someone running. . “Here you. are,” cfled a sweet, hap- py volce.. “Dad, the senorita is per- Tovely. I've been peeping at “fier. She sleeps llke—like death. _.She's so white. Oh, I hope she won't How strange and sad, that about her! Tell me more, Laddy. Yoir promised. I'm dying to know. Didn't you say the senorita had a sweetheart " b ‘{fl\, I did.” ! he the young man who came witou?” “Xgpe. That fellow's the one who saved the girl from Rojas.” “Ah! Where is he, Laddy?” “Hels in there asleep.” s, he—=-nice, Laddy?” “Shore" “What,! 118 he ltke?” “Well, 'm not long acquainted, np\er'}gw him by day, but I was some tolerable took With him. An’ Jim here, . Jim says the young man can have his gun an’ his hoss.” “Wonderful! etirth @id this stranger do to win you cowboys in just one night?” “I'll shore have to tell you. Me an' Jim was watchin’ a game of cards In the Del Sol saloon in Casita. That's across_the line. We had acquaint- ances—four fellows from the Cross Bar outfit, where we worked a while ““Dack. This Del Sol is a billinrd hall, _.saloon,_ restaurant, an’ the 1i it was full of Greasers. of mpo's rebels were there drinkin’-an’ layin’ games. Then pretty soon in come Rojas with some of his outfit. Z+/They were packin' guns an’ kept to themselves off to one side. “A little while afterward T seen it _fellow standin’ in the restaurant oor. He was a young Ameri “dressed in corduroys an’ boots, like TLaddy, what on/ (nh’mfilfl' ’b‘.& HARPER AND BROTHERS. | within him went out to the cowboys, An' | ens, saw the red of roses and green of ‘grass. Then he saw, close to the prospector. He looked round the sa- | jas ne loon, an’ when he spotted L sorta jerked up. Then he pulled his | slouch hat lopsided an’ began to stag- ~.ger down, down the steps. First off T = made shore he was drunk. But T re- membered he,didn't seem drunk. be- was some queer, So [ a that young man. Y e “Pellow ~Who Wwas ' drunkern’ a‘ lord. ‘Nobody but me seemed to notice him. <& hens hie: began to stumble over pool- layers an’ get his feet tangled up in ojas, then he made for us. T tipped n u§ ‘cowboys. ‘He gave another gfirt. like the ope when he first seen Jim off that somethin’ was doin’ $'hen this queer young man shot some :£gool, polite words at me an’ Jim. ’ at bein' drunk rough house. The bandit was after a ] ¥ i in the hotel, an® theart of a soldier, young fellow’s fricod. The hotel S “umm»u by Rojas’ Lu.urd-( n’ the plan was'to make a fuss an’ get the Shirl, away in the exeitement. well, 2 ‘e ol a hint of our Dein' eled ‘around’ the room like a ‘hairs an’ bump against tables. He | nt some pretty-hard looks, He cawme | l%gur way, ap’ all of a sudden he | Ammericans—that cowboys generally had a name for loyalty te women. Then this amazin® chap—you can't | fmagine how scornful—said for me | an’ Jim to watch him. “Before I could catch my breath an® figger out what he meant by ‘rush’ an’ | “rough house’ he had knocked over a table an’ crowded some Greaser half oft the map. Then, quicker'n I can tell you the young man dove at Ro- jas. Like & mad steer on the ram- page he charged Rojas an’ his men. | ‘The whole outfit went down—smash! I figgered then what ‘rush’ meant. The young fellow.came up out of the pile with Rojas, an’ just like I'd sling an empty sack along the floor he sent the bandit. But swift as that went he was on top of Rojas before the chairs an' tables had stopped rollin’. “T woke up then, an’ made for the center of the room, Jim with me. I began to shoot out the lamps. Jim throwed his guns on the crazy rebels. an’ 1 was afraid there’d be blood spilled before I could get the room dark. Bein’ shiore busy, I lost «lght‘ of the young fellow for a second or so, an’ when I got an eye free for him | T seen a Greaser about to knlfe him. | Think I was considerate of the ' Greaser by only shootin’ his arm off. | Then I cracked the last lamp, an’ in' the hullabaloo me an’ Jim vamoosed. | “We made tracks for our hosses an’ packs, an’ was Dhittin’ the San Felipe road when we run right plumb into the young man. Well, he said his name was Gale—Dick Gale. The girl was with him safe an’ well; but her sweetheart, the soldier, bein’ away without leave, had to go back sudden. ! There shore was some trouble, for Jim an’ e heard shootin’. Gale sald he had no money, no friends, was & stranger in a desert country; an’ he ‘was distracted to know how to help the girl. So me an’ Jim started oft with them for San Felipe,. got switched, an' then we headed for the Rio Forlorn.” ! “Oh, I think he was perfectly splen- did!” exclaimed the girl. “But, Laddy, yon haven't told me what he looks like.” At this juncture Dick Gale felt it absolutely impossible to play the eavesdropper any longer. Quietly he rolled out ‘of “bed. “Belding’s kindiy interest, Laddy's blunt and sincere cowboy eulogy, the girl’'s sweet eager- ness and pralse—these warmed Gale's heart. He had fallen among simple people, Into. whose llves the advent of an unknown man was welcome. He was wild to be one of Belding's rangers. The idea of riding a horse in the open desert, with a dangerous duty to-perform, seemed to strike him with an ‘appealing force. Something to this blunt and kind Belding. He was afraid to meet the girl. If every man who came along fell in love with this sweet-voiced Nell, then what hope had he to escape—now, when his whole inner awakening betokened n change of spirit, hope, a finding of real worth, real good, real power ia, himself? i Gale lmagined he made mnolse enough as he clumsily pulled on’his boots; yet the volces, split by a merry laugh, kept on murmuring outside the door. It was awkward for him, hav- ing only one hand available to lace up his boots. He looked out of the window. He heard bees, birds, chick- wall, a tub full of water, and a bench upon which lay basin, soap, towel, comb and brush. The window was also a door, for under it there was a stop. Gale hesitated a moment, then went out. He stepped naturally, hop- ing and expecting that the cowboys would hear him. But nobody came. Awkwardly, with left hand, he washed his face. Upon a nail in the wall hung a litfle mirror, by the ald of whi¢h Dick combed and brushed his hair, He jmagined he Jooked.a most haggard wretch. With that he faced forward, meaning to go round the cor- ner-of the house to greet the cowboys and these new-found friends. el Dick ;had. thken but one step when he was halted by laughter and the patter of hght feet. He saw a little foot sweep’into view, a whife dress, then the’ swiftly-Mmoving “form’ of “x1 girl. She looking backward. “Dad, I shall fall ig love with )nqr' new ranger.” “FwilLT have—? 2 Then she plumped squarely into “arms. (Continued In Next issue) Reluctant Admiration. “D’jevver see Harold Heartbreak ' on the screen?” asked Sayde, who pre- sided over the tinware counter, *Yeah, I've seen him,” said Flora Bell of san-openers and cutlery; “that } fellow’s a snake. that’s what he “Yeah, he's n snake all right, bat ! Qawd, what eyes!” [ s e ey 2 L LTI NEW WINTER COATS Out they go in a final clearancé at unheard of low prices—Come in and see some of the prettiest Coats in Bemidji sacrificed at extremely ' low prices. 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