Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 9, 1922, Page 2

¥ ¥ PAGE TWO, ° L i THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER THURSDAY EVENING, NOV. 9, 1922 DESERT GOLD =5 NS Z £ 5525 COPYRIGHT “Z3C—~ “ HARPER AND OROTHERS. — (Continued from last issue) Lo SYNOPSIS i i R PROLOGUE. —Seeking gold In_the des- “Cameron,” solitary _prospector, forms & partnership with an unknown man whom he later learns is Jonas War- Ten, father of a girl_whom Cameron wr&nsed but later married, back in Illi- nois. ‘Warren, and the two proceed together. Taking - refuge from a_sandstorm in & cave, Cameron discovers gold, but too late:'both men are dying. Cameron leaves evidence, In the cave, of their discovery of gold, ard personal’ documents. CHAPTER I.—Richard Gale, adven- turer, in Casita, Mexican border town, meets George Thorne, lieutenant in the Ninth cavalry, old college friend. Thorne tells Gale he is there to save Mercedes Castaneda, Spanish girl, his afllanced wife, from Rojas, Mexican bandit. CHAPTER IL—Gale “roughhouses” Rojas and his gang, with the help of two American cowboys, and he, Mercedes and ‘Thorne ‘escape. A bugle. call from the fort orders Thorne to his regiment. He leaves Mercedes under Gale's pro- tection.-— - sotionso—: CHAPTER IIL—The pair, aided by the cowboys who had assisted Gale in the escape, Charlle Ladd and Jim Lash, ar- Tive In safety at a ranch known as For- lorn River, well across the border. CHAPTER IV.—The fugl Tom Belding’s home. Belding is immi- gration Inspector. Living with him are his wife and stepdaughter, Nell Burton. Gale, with Ladd and Lash, take service with Belding as rangers, Gale telling Belding the cause of his being a wanderer, | & misunderstanding with his father con- business abilities. ves are at CHAPTER V.—Mercedes gets word to Thorne of her safety. Dick also writes to his -parents, informing them of his whereabouts. Nell's personality, and her kindness, attract Gale. CHAPTER VI—RIding the range. Gale Blls in with a party of three Mexican ralders’ encamped at a water hole. Watching his opportunity to oust them, he sees two Indians ride into the camp. One of them, a Yaqul, is evidently badly wounded, and the Mexicans seek to kill him in a cruel way. Dick drives them off, conveying the wounded Yaqui to Belding’s ranch. ~7The 7 reports™ had . frightened the jhorses in the corral; and a vicious black, crowding the rickety bars, |broke thém down. He came plunging out. With a splendid vaulting mount, jthe hlgg.lgqn with the gun leaped to {the bagk ot 'the horse. He yelled and ,waved-his gun, and urged the black forward. The manner of all three was savagely Jocose. They were hav- ing spott. “fhe two on the ground be- gan to dance and Jabber. The mount- ed leader shot again, and then stuck like a leech upon the bare back of the rearing black. It was a valn show of horsemanship. Then this Mexican, by some sp'nmze grip, brought the horse down, plunging almost upon the body of the Indian that had fallen last. Gale stood aghast with his rifle clutched tight. He could not dlvine Ithe intention af the raider, but sus- Ipected something strikingly brutal. The horse answered to that cruel, - s, iThe Horse Answered to That 'Cruef] Guiding Hand, Yet He Swerved agd |. Bucked. K guiding hand, yvet he swerved and bucked. He reared aloft, pawing thé air, wildly snorting, then he plunged down ypon the prostrate Indian. Even in the aet the intelligent animal tried to keep from striking the body with his hoofs. But that was not possible. ‘A yell, hideous In its passion, signaled this feat of horsemanship. The Mexican made no move to tram- ple the body of the Papago. He turned the black to ride again over the other Indian. Gale was horrified to see the Yaqui writhe and raise a feeble hand. The action brought re- newed and more savage cries from the Mexicans. The horse snorted in terror. Gale could bear no more. He took a quick shot at the rider. He missed the moving figure, but hit the horse. There was a bound, a horrid scream. 8 mighty plunge, then_the horse went lameron’s explanations appease, Nt § E :?*fllght rapidly succeede¢d ‘the sinset. down, giving the Mexican a stunning fall. Both beast and man lay still. Gale rushed from his cover to in- tercept the other raiders before they could reach the house and their weap- ons. Then the frightened horses burst the corral bars, and in a thundering, dust-mantled stream fled up the ar- royo. The fallen raider sat up, mumbling to his sants in one breath, cursing in his zext. “Go, Greasers! Run!” yelled Gale. Then he yelled it In Spanish. At the point of his rifie he drove the two ralders out of the camp. His next move was to run into the house and fetch out the carbines. With a heavy stone he dismantled each weapon. That done, he set out on a run for his horse. Blanco Sol heard him com- ing and whistled a welcome, and when Gale ran up the horse was snorting war. Mounting, Gale rode rapidly back to the scene of the action, and his first thought, when he arrived at the well, was to give Sol a drink and to fill his canteens. Then Gale led his horse up out of the waterhole, and decided before re- mounting to have a look at the In- dians. The Papago had been shot through the heart, but the Yaqui was still alive. Moreover, he was consclous and staring up at Gale with great, strange, somber eyes, black as volcan- ic slag. “Gringo good—no kil,” he said, in husky whisper. His speech was not affirmative so much as questioning. “Yaqui, you're done for,” sald Gale, and his words were positive. He was simply speaking aloud his mind. “Yaqui—no hurt—much,” replied the Indian, and then he . spoke - a strange word—repeated it again and again, ¥ An Instinet of - Gale's, or’ perhaps some suggestion In the husky, thick whisper or dark face, told Gale to reach for his canteen. He lifted the Indlan and gave him a drink, and if ever In all his life he saw gratitude in human eyes he saw it then. Then he examined the injured Yaqui. The Indian had three wounds—a bullet hole in his shoulder, a crushed arm, and a badly lacerated leg. The ranger thought rapidly. This Yaqui would live unless left there to die or be murdered by the Mesicans when they found courage to sneak back to the well. It never occurred to Gale to abandon ‘the poor fellow. All the same, he knew he multiplied his perlls a hundredfold by burdening himself with a crippled Indian. Swift- 1y he set to work, and with rifle ever under his hand, and shifting glance spared from his task, he bound up the Yaqul's wounds. At the same time he kept keen watcly The Indians’ burros and the horses of the raiders were all out of sight. Time was too valuable for Gale to use any in what might be vain search. Therefore, he lifted the Yaqui upon Sol's broad shoulders and climbed Into the saddle. At a word Sol dropped his head and started east- ward up the trall, walking swiftly, without resentment for his double bur- den. Gale, bearing in mind the ever-pres- ent possibility of encountering more ralders and of being pursued, saved the strength of the horse. Once out of sight of Papago well, Gale dis- mounted and walked beside the horse, steadying with one firm hand the help- less, dangling Yaqui. Gale kept pace with his horse. He bore the twinge of pain that darted through his injured hip at every stride. In the heat of midday he halted in the shade of a rock, and, lifting the Yaqui down, gave him a drink. Then, after a long, sweeping survey of the sur- rounding desert, he removed Sol's sad- dle and let him roll, and took for him- self a welcome rest and a bite to eat. The Yaqui was tenacious of life. He was still holding his own. For the first time Gale really looked ay the Indian to study him. He had a large fead nobly cast, ‘and - face:that re: sembled a shrunken mask. It seemed chiseled in the dark-eyed, voleanic lava of his Sonora wildetnesy. The Indian's eyes were always black and | mystic, but this Yaqul's encompassed all the tragic desolatfon of the desert. They were fixed on Gale, moved only when he moved. Gale resumed his homeward jour- ney. He held grimly by the side of | the tireless, implacable horse, hold- ing the Yaqui on the saddle, taking the brunt of the merciless thorns. In the end it became heartrending toil. His heavy chaps dragged him down; but he dared not go on without them, for, thick and stiff as they were, the | terrible, steel-bayoneted spikes of the choyas plerced through to sting his legs. To the last mile Gale held to Blanco ahead on fhe trail. Then, with™ the Mattie wer afternoon callers at the Peterson home Friday. sacted business in Bemidji Friday. Lester Peterson called at the Wm. Grey home Sunday. Miss Jessamine ong left for Hen- ning, Minn., ast week, where she is dressmaking. Mr. and Mrs. Henry King and daughter ‘Mrs. Joe Montgomery call- ed at the eterson home. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Peterson and Christ Bjurke transacted husiness in Bemidji Friday." i BYS: Got ‘duplicate keys made while you wait! A complete stock of blank keys here always. Given Hardware —PHONE 57— low, flat houses of Forlorn River shin- ing red in the sunset, Gale flagged and rapidly weakened. The Yaqul slipped out of the saddle and dropped limp in the sand. Gale could not mount his horse. He clutched Sol's long tall and twisted his hand in It and stag- gered on. : Blari8d Hol whistled a plercing blast. He scented cool “water and sweet al- falfa ‘ha: Pwinkling-lights-ahead eant’ rest. The melancholy desert TEA. tuated the forlorn ldiéliness It; ac nd.and ofjthe gray, winding rixe, of its grayer -'shoreg. * Night slinadowsy: t;upqd aown from: the black' and’ I ming mountains. 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