Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 9, 1922, Page 10

PAGE TEX BEGIN HERE TODAY It was QUINTANA and nis band of interna tional thieves who first stole the/ priceless gem, the Flaming Jewel.| from the SS OF ESTHONIA it to the MIKE CLINCH. HAL SMITH, Darragh works at the Clinch “hotel.” where he meets Clinch’s beautiful step-daughter, the one great influ | EVE ERAYER. | ence for good in the erimeetained| career of Clinch. When Quintana/ viein Smith ky * stop at n ig to regain, flched from the royal } ket. Clinch gives the Jewel packet | to Eve and tells her to go to the} mountains and hide tt in the} “hootch-cache.” Go on With the Story CHAPTER II LIM and straight as a young boy in her gray shirt and breeches, Eve cortinued on lightly through the woods. her rifle over her shoulder her eyes of gentlan-blue always alert The morning turned warm; she pull 4 off her soft felt hat, shook out her clipped curls, stripped open tho shirt at her snowy throat where sweat elim: mered like melted frost. ‘The forest was lovely in the morn- ing sunlight—lovely and atill—save for the blue-jays—for the summer birds had gone and only birds destin- ed to a long Northern winter now re mained. Eve's tread was light on the molst trail; her quick eyes missed nothing —not the dainty imprint of deer, fresh made, nor the sprawling insignia of rambling raccoons—nor the big bar red owl huddled on a pine limb over lead, nor, where the swift gravelly raches of the brook caught sunlight, ai sie miss the swirl and furrow!ng and milling of painted trout on the apawning beds. In her cartridge-pouch she carried the flat, sealed packet which Clinch had trusted to her. The sack swayed gently as she strode on, slapping her left hip at every step; and always her subconscious mind remained on guard and aware of it; and now and then she dropped her hand to feel of the pouch and strap. ‘i From Star Peak’s left flank an’ icy stream clatters down to the level floor of the woods, here: and it was here that Eve had meant to quench hev| thirst with a mouthful of sweet wator. But as she approached the tiny ford,, warily, she saw a saddled horse tied to a sapling and a man seated on a mossy log. The trappings cf horse, the g! green un'form of the man, left no room for speculation; a trooper of the State Constabulary was seated there. His cap was off; his head rested on his palm. Elbow on knee, he sat there Ing at the water—watching the slim fish, perhaps, darting up stream toward thei: bridal-beds hidden for away at headwaters. A detour was imperative. The girl, from the shelter of a pine, looked out cautiously at the trooper. The sud- den gght of him had merely checke her; flow the recognition of his uni- form startled her heart out of its tran- quil rhythm and set the blood burning in her cheeks. There was a memory of such a ran seared into the girl's very soul—a man whone head and shoulders resembled this man’s—who had the same bright har, the same slim and powerful body} —and who moved, too, as this young man moved. The trooper stirred, lifted his lead to relight. his pipe. The girl knew him. Her heart stood still; then heart and blood ran riot and she felt her knees tremble—felt weair as she rested against the pine's huge trunk and covered her face with un- steady fingers. Until the moment, Eve had never @reamed what the memory of this man really meant to her—never dreamed that she had capacity fr emotion so utterly overwhelming. Even now confusion, shame, fear Were paramount. All she wanted was gang arrive 1 The FLAMING; i JEWELS Wy ROBERT Ww CHAMBERS ©1002 GEORGE H DORAN COMBANY | voice halted her Love of | beggared countess forced! ARHAGH to seek the £€™] yolce from behind her. disreputabie | ered! in the Adirondacks owned/ Under the name of} to get away—get away and still her heart's wild beating — control the strange tremor that possessed her, re-} cover mind and sense and breath. | She drew her hand from her eyes| and looked upon the man she had at-| tempted to kili—upon the young man} who had wrestled her off her feet and handcuffed her—and who had bathed her bleeding mouth with sphagnum! —and who had kissed her hands— | She was trembling so that she be-/ came frightened. The racket of the! brook in h's ears safeguarded her in ® measuee. She bent over nee’ double, her rifle at a trail, and ¢: tously began the detour. When at length the wide circle! through the woods had been safely | accomplished and F as moving! out through the th: ranks of! which seemed to! nd she leaned} against a shoulder of rock, strangely| tired. j Aftcr a while she drew from her! Pocket his handkerchief, and looked at it. The square of cambric bore his! initials, J. S. Blood from her I'p re- mained on it. She had not washed out the spots. | She put it to her lps again, me: chanically. A faint odor of tobacco still clung to By every law of loyalty, pride, self- respect, she should have held this man her enemy. Instead, she held his| handkerchief against her lips—crushed it there sudden closing her eyes while color surged and surged ‘arough her skin from throat to h Ti wea: she lifted h and looked ou ty vieta her} YeRrE seemed to st. id ; Pocket, shouldered her rifle, moved on} | without leoking about | which oniy the emotion ¢ | her—a mistake; could aci ated to caut! a few rods vefore “Halte ta! “Drop that Crosse en air! rifle another You're cov- gun on the ground?” } She stood as though paralyzed. To came Throw your thn right and left she heard people trampling through the thicket Woward | her | “Down with that gun. repeated the voi running. All ar floundering and crs n through the undergrowth. She could, © some of them. | As she stopped to place her rifle on the deal leaves, she drew the fiat packet from her cartridge sack at tho same time and slid it deftly under a rotting log. Then, ca: 3 pale, she stood upright to face events. The first man wore a red and yel low bandanna handkerchief over the lower half of his face, pulled tightly dawn yout’ IN A STEEP WET DEER-TRAIL RISING BKYWARD. | across a bony nose. He. heid a tong! Pistol nearly parallel to his own body; and when he came up to where shy Was standing he poked the muz: into her stomach, She did not flinch; he said nothing; she looked intently into the two ratty| eyes fastened on her over the edge of his bandanna | Five other men were surrounding} her, but they all wore white masks of vizard shape, “revealing chin and| mouth. | They were different ‘otherwise. also wearing various sorts and patterns of} sport clothes, brand new, and giving them an odd, foreign appearance. | What troubled her most was the! silence they maintained. The man/| wearing the bandanna was the only} one who seemed at all a familiar! figure—merely, perhaps, because he was American in bu'ld, clothing an/1| movement. He took her by the shoulder, tur her around and gave her a shove for | ward. She staggered agstep or two he gave her another shove and she! comprehended ‘that sha was to keep on! going. Presently steep, dy she found herself in a} wet deer-trail rising pward through a gully, She knew that rur way. It led up Star Peak i Behind her as she climbed sho he the slopping, panting tread cf men;| her wind Was better than theirs; #he| | climbed lthely upward, setting a pace which finally resulted in a violent 4erk backward—a savage, wordless admon- itfon to go more slowly ab | As she climbed she wondered wheth-| er she could have 1 an alarm shot} on the chance of the State Trooper,| Stormont, hearing it | But she had thought only of the} packet at the moment of surpris®. And} now she wondered whether, when! freed, she could ever again find that} rotting log. 4 | Up, up, always up along the. wet| gully, deep with silt and frogt-splint-| ered rock, she tolled, the heavy gasp-| ing of men behind her. Twith she was Jerked to a halt while her escort rest- ed. Once, without turning, she sa'd un: stendily: "Who are you? What have} I done to you?” There was no reply. “What are you going to dé to me. she began again, and was shaken bj the shoulder until silent. At last the vast arch of the éastern sky sprang out ahead, where stunted spruce stood out against the sunshine and the intense heat of m’dday fell upon a bare tableland 6f rock andj moss and fern. | As sile came out upon the level, the] man behind her took both her arms) and pulled them back and sont body bandaged her eyes. Then a hand closed on her left arm and, so guided, ashe stumbled and crept forward across the rocks for a few moments until her guide halted her and forced ner into a sitting position on a smooth, fat boulder. i She heard the crunching of heavy| feet around her. whispering, m: hoarse by breath exhausted, movement | across rock and serub, retreating steps. For on interm'nable tinte she sat] there alone in the hot suy,. drenched} to the skin in sweat, listening, think-| ing, striving to find a reason for *his| lawless outrage. > | After a log while she heard sor) body com'ng across the rocks, § f- fened as she listened with some vague presentiment of evil. i | (Continued in Our Next Insue) | CHICHESTER S PILLS Heat Ask 1 —_—— _ a =~ re BARNEY GOOGLE--lf Spark Plug Doesn’t Weaken, Bamey Can Eat Again. 5 SPARKY - IF SUMP N Doesnt “TuRN UP SOON OM AFRAID DU HAVE TS AYCTION You OFF To THE GLUE FACTORY —— Pook, FELLER - ITs BEEN So LONG SINCE HES HaD SOME OATS HE THints “THEY VE Qur Bungie ayincs 1siseD 24 SAY = IM The owneR OF THE RIDING SCHOOL DOWN STREET - Im SHORT ON HORSES © HIRS OuT THIS ANIMAL OF YouRS' Te ME 4ND Dir PAX You €1GhT Dowars 4 DAY. BES\DES HIS BoARD AND “KEEP - seeak ve, rM . 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SHES WONDERFUL ect LIKE ACAD TO FOLLOW HER, | iy WHERE SHE : BUTT MUST FES THE LOVSLIEST GIRL TVE SEEN IN ALL SWE WENT IN THERE! 1 WONDER |} WHY-ER- I DIDN IF SHE WORKS FOR THAT DOCTOR || TO SEE,THE DOCTOR -ER iE SUST A PATIENTH] OR YES-OF COURSE t WANT DID -HOW SILLY OF ME- 12S 1S NOT. MY KIND LiLLUMs —TIS’ You, UTTLE GIRL, WHO \S THE UGHT OF MY ]CONSOLIDATED NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. wane: - Department of the Interior, Uni- ted States Land Office, Douglas, Wyoming, September 28, 1922. The following named entrymen have filed their ri es of intention to make final proof on their home- stead entries before Register and eceiver, United States Land Of- tice, Doulas, Wyoming, on the 8th day of November, 1922: Mathew J. Austin, of Waltman, Wyoming, on homestead entry Se- vial Number 029394, allowed Octo- ber 29, 1921, for S% Sec. 5, T, 35 Nw R. 87 W., and additional home- BUT DOCTOR- ER-ER- 1M NOT REALLY SICK YOu JUSTCAME IN THE NICK OF your. HEART 15 IN AWFUL SHAPE !! TTS PUMPING LIKE A STEAM READ The Casper Sunday Morning Tribune “Everybody's Paper” stead entry, Serial Number 029395, allowed December 16, 1921, for Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, St N% Sec. 5, T. 35.N., R. 87 W., 6th P. M. Witnesses: Leo F. Finn, R. D. Cempbell, M. T. Shelton, and C. March, all_ of Waltman, Wyoming. Leo F. Finn, of Waltman, Wyo- ning, on homestead entry Serial Number 025054, allowed October ‘4, 1920, for NE% Sec. 4, T. 35 N., R. 87 W., and additional homertead ntry ‘Serial Number 025055 _al-, owed March 5, 1921, Ws Sec, 4, T. 85 N., R. 87 W., 6th P.M Witnesses: M. T, Shelton, M. J. Austin, C. P. March, ard E. D. Samptell, all of Waltman, Wyo- ning. B. J. ERWIN, Register. October 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, pee NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION, - Department of the Interior, U. S. Land Office at Douglas, Wyoming, September 28, 1922. Notice is hereby given that Emma 3. Woelfert, deserted wife of Will- am R. Woelfert, of Casper, Wyo- ning, who, on December 15, 1921, made additional -homestead entry No. 017836, for Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, EX W%4; SEX, Sec. 19, T. 34 N., R. 80 V., 6th Prin. meridian, has filed no- ice of intention to make final three- rear proof, to establsh claim to the ‘and above described, before Marion ?. Wheeler, U. S. Commissioner, at Casper, Wyoming, on the 8th day of November, 1922. Claimant names as witnesses: Richard McDermott, Elisworth Tubbs, Alexander Svare. Allen B, ompton, all of Casper, Wyo. The entryman, William R. Woel- ‘ert, is notified that, by submission of said proof, his wife, Emma C. Woelfert, seeks to obtain patent for the land in her own name. * B. J. ERWIN, Register. Publish Oct. 9, 16, 23, 30, (922. , _—_ NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Department of the Interior, U, 8. Land Office at Douglas, Wyoming, September 28, 1922. ° Notice is hereby given that Ed- ward G, Marquis, 0° Waltman, ; Wyoming, who, on December 7 | 1920, made Additional Stock-rai: ing Homestead Entry, No. 017905, |for E%W% Section 14. SW iNWX, NW4SWA, EXNWY Sece {tion 23, N%SE%, NESW, |SEXNWX Section 22, Townshi |83 North, Range 87 West, 6th ; Principal Meridian, has filed notice jof intention to make final three- i¥ear Proof, to establish claim to jthe land ahove described, before {Marion P. Wheeler, United States |Commissioner, at Casper, Wyo- ne on the 4th\day of November, Claimant names as witner: Joe L. Marquis, of Casner, Wyo- ming; Frank Twidale, of Barnum. Ww coming; Samuel Twidale, of Wyoming: Robert oo for SE%\,, ° 7