Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 13, 1922, Page 2

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER MONDAY EVENING, NOV. 11, 1922 (Continued_from Iast ixsue) | 7 syNoPsis I ! PROLOGUE.—Seeking gold in the des- ert, “‘Cameron,” solitary prospector, forms a partnership with an unknown mian whom he later learns is Jonas War- ren, father of a girl whom Cameron wronged, but later married, back in IIll nois. meron's explanations appeas ‘Warren, and the two proceed together. Taking refuge from a sandstorm in a cave, Cameron discovers gold, but too late; both men are dying. Cameron leaves evidence, In the cave, of their discovery of gold, acd personal documenta. CHAPTER I.—Richard Gale, adven- :t'f. in Caslta, Mexican border town, eots George Thorne, lleutenant in the Ninth cavalry, old college friend. Thorne tells Gale he is there to save Mercedes Castaneda, Spanish girl, his afflanced wife, fram Rojas, Mexican bandit. CHAPTER I1—Gale ‘“roughhouses™ Rojas and his gang, with the help o two American cowboyy and he, Mercedes d Thorne esca) bugle "call froi o fort orders Thorme to o leaves Mercedes under tection, CHAPTER TIL-The palr, aided by the cowboys who had assisted Gale in the escape, Charlie Ladd and Jim Lash, ar- Tive In safety at a ranch known as For- lorn River, well across the border. CHAPTER 1V.—The fugitives are at Tom Belding’s home. Belding Is immi- tion inspector. Living with him are is wife and aughter, Nell Burton. Gale, with Ladd and Lash, take service with Belding as rangers, Gale telling Belding the cause of his being a wanderer, a misunderstanding with his fi cerning the CHAPTER V.—Mercedes gets word to Thorne of her safgty. 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 lls In with a party of three Mexican ralders encamped at a water hole. atching 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 kiil him in a cruel way. Dick drives them off, conveying the wounded Yaqui to Belding’s ranch. —_— The morning was bright, still, and clear as crystal. The heat waves had not yet begun to rise from the desert. Nell sat perched high upon the top- most bar of the corral gate. Dick leaned beside her, now with his eyes on her face, now gazing out into the alfalfa field where Belding’s thorough- breds grazed and pranced and romped and whistled. Nell watched the horses. She loved them, never tired of watching them. But her gaze was too consclously averted from the yearning eyes that tried to meet hers to be altogether natural. A great fenced field of velvety green alfalfa furnished a rich background for the drove of about twenty white horses. Blanco Diablo was the only one in the field that was not free to roam and graze where he listed. A stake and a halter held him to one corner, where he was severely let alone by the other horses. He did not like this Isolation. Blanco Diablo was not happy unless he was running, or fighting a rival. Of the two he would | rather fight. If anything white could resemble a devil, this horse surely did. He had nothing beautiful about him, yet he drew the gaze and held it. The look of him suggested dis- content, anger, revolt, viclousness. ‘When he was not grazing or prancing, he held his long, lean head level, point- ing his nose and showing his teeth. Belding’s favorite was almost all the world to him, and he swore Diablo could stand more heat and thirst and. cactus than any other horse he owned,, and could run down and kill ary horse in the Southwest, | The cowboys admitted some ‘of Belding’s claims for Diablo, but they gave loyal and unshakable allegiance | to Blanco Sol. As for Dick, he had to fight himself to keep out of argu- ments, for he sometimes imagined he was unreasonable about the horse. ‘Though he could not understand him- | self, he knew he loved Sol as a man loved a friend, a brother. Free of heavy saddle and the clumsy leg shields, Blanco Sol was somehow all- satisfyihg to the eyes of the rangers. The dazzling whithness of the desert sun shone from his goat; he had thy . fire and spirit of the desert In W s noble head, its strength and power 'in his gigantic frame. % “Belding swears Sol never b aat Diablo,” Dick was saying. “He believes it,” replied Nell. s queer about that horse.” “T've often wondered how B elding ever came to give Blanco Sol t o me,” sald Dick. “I think he wanted to get, rid of Bol.” “Maybe. He surely has str ang » pas- | slon for horses. I think I -ander stand better than I used to. T owred a couple of racers once. ‘They were Just animals to me, I guess. But Blanco Sol!” “Do you love him?” 11¢%ed Nel'f: and now a warm, blue flath of eyes swept his face. “Do 12 Well, rathe r» “I'm glad. Sol ,g been idner, a better horse since yg a owned him. He loves you, Dick. ~Sol always hated Diablo. and fievers had much use for —— f Dad Dick looked up at her. “It'll be—be pretty hard to leave Sol —when I go away.” Fell sat perfectly still. “Go away?” she asked, presently, with just the faintest tremor in her volce. “Yes. Sometimes when I get blue— as I am today—I think I'll go. But, in sober truth, Nell, it's not likely that I'll spend all my life here.” There was no answer to this. Dick put his hand softly over hers; and, despite her half-hearted struggle to free it, he held on. : “Nell!” Her color fled. He saw her lps part. Then a heavy step on the gravel, a cheerful, complaining voice inter- rupted him, and made him release Nell and draw back. Belding strode into vlew round the adobe shed. “Hey, Dick, that darned Yaqui In- dlan can’t be driven or hired or coaxed to leave Forlorn River. He's well enough to travel. I offered him horse. gun, blanket, grub. But no zo.” “That's funny,” replied Gale, with a smile. work.” “It doesn’t strike me funny. But Tl tell you what I think. That poor, homeless, heartbroken Indian has taken a liking to you, Dick. You saved his life. That sort of thing counts big with any Indian, even with an Apache. With a Yaqui maybe it's of deep significance. I've heard a Yaqul say that with his tribe no debt to friend or foe ever went unpaid. Perhaps that's what ails this fellow.” “Dick, don’t laugh/’ said Nell. “I've noticed the Yaqul .It's pathetic the way his great gloamy eyes follow you.” . “You've made a friend,” continued Belding. “A Yaqui tcould be.a real friend on this desert., If he gets his strength back he'll by of service to you, don’t mistake me. He's welcome here. But youTe respcnsible for him, and you'll have trouble keeping him from massacring all the Greasers in Forlorn River.” * & s s s s s The probability of -a wisit from the raiders, and a dash 'oolder than usual on the -outskirts of & ranch, led Beld- “Let him'stay—put'him (0 Her Color Fled. He Saw Her Lips Part. ing to build a new ¢ orral. It was not sightly to the eye, b ut it was high and exceedingly strong. The gate was a massive affair, 8w inging on huge hinges and fasten ing with heavy Thains and padlocks, At night Belding locked hls white horses in this cormil. The Papago herdsmen slept in th : adobe shed ad- Jjoining. Belding did’' not imagine that any wooden fence, however substan- tially built, could keep determined raiders from breakizig it down. ThHey would have to tnke t inse, however, and make conslderable r oise ; and Belding relied on these facts. Belding did not believe a band of night: r.iders would hold out against a hot rifle fire, Ladd did not share Relding's sanguine hopes. : One January narning Dick Gale was awakened by a shrill, menacing cry. He leaped 1ip bewildered and frightened. He he 1rd Belding’s boom- ing voice answerir g shouts, and rapid | steps on flagstones . But these had not awakened him. H 2avy breaths, almost sobs, seemed at' his very door. In the cold and griiy dawn Dick saw| something white. Gun In hand, he bounded across 7:he room. Just out- side his door sto« »d Blanco Sol. the corral. it meant ralders—no less. Dick called softly to the snorting horse; and, hurriedly getting intc clothes and boots, he went out with a zun in each hand. Sol was quivering in every muscle. Like a dog he followed Dick around the house. Hearing shouts in the direction of the corrals, Gale bent swift steps that way. He caught up with Jim Lash, who was also leading a white -horse. They reached the corral to find Belding shaking, roaring like a mad- man. The gate was open, the corral was empty. “Tom, where's the Papa- go?” said Ladd. N “He's gone, Laddy—gone!” “Double-crossed ‘us, eh? I see here's a crowbar lyin® by the gatepost. That Indian fetched it from the forge. It was used to pry out the’ bolts an’ steeples. Tom, I reckon there wasn’t much time lost forcin’ that gate.” Daylight made clear some details of the rald. The cowboys found tracks of eight ralders coming up from the river bed where their horses had been left. Evidently the Papago had been false to his trust. ‘His few per- sonal belongings were gone. More horses were found loose in the fields. The men soon rounded up eleven of the whites, all more or less fright- ened. Belding was unconsolable. He cursed and railed, and finally declared he was going to trail the raiders. “Tom, you just ain’t agoin’ to do nothin’ of the kind,” said Laddy, coolly. Belding groaned and bowed his head. “Laddy, you're right” he replied, presently. “I've got to stand it. T can't leave the women and my prop- erty. But it’s sure tough. I'm sore way down deep, and nothin’ but blood would ever satisfy me.” “Leave that to me an’ Jim,” sald T.ada (Continued In Next lssue) may come. It was not unu sual for Sol to come poking his head i n at Dick’s door dur-| ing daylight. B ut now in the early! dgwn,_when_he. had:been. locked in' men cad women may ! el TO SE SOMETHING YOU NEED! SOMETHING YOU WANT! SOMETHING YOU CANNOT BUY ANY PLACEELSE IN THIS CITY AT ANY- WHERE NEAR THE PRICE— MAKE WAR ON “BABY TALK” Cincinnati School Authorities Have ls. sued Special Appeal to Women's . Clubs of the City. An appeal -has been made by the 8chool authorities of Cincinnati to the mothers of that city to enlist in a war against “baby talk,” and its effects on their children, and a special speaker has been appointed to carry this cause to the mothers’ clubs. While much of the talk with wHich fond mothess beguile their babies may sound very foolish'to others, it seems to sound good to the baby, and while the claim that it makes stutterers and causes other defects of speech may have some truth in it, the “baby talk” will bear comparison with much other talk heard by children. ‘While good speech is important, the matter is of more importance than the manner—in fact, good matter naturally tends to good matter in speech. It is at least quite as important that par- ents, fathers as well as mothers, are careful to select the right subject mat- ter for talk before and to their chil- dren as that baby talk be eliminated, Try, as they may, the teachers are likely to have a hard time anyway to convince many mothers that baby talk 1s not the proper language in which to address the baby, both as to sub- ject matter and method of speech.— Pittsburgh Dispatch. 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