Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 19, 1922, Page 10

ae en a ee ly ROBERT Ww CHAMBERS | ©1092 GEORGES K DORAN COMBANY BRGIN HERE TODAY r step-father’s camp ts guard outside, STRAYER. the sole influence for stained career of ests and good in the c worth, the And now, outside in the forest, men trac}< one another with rifles. Quin- ot HAL SMITH. who had sworn to re 8 the gem to the now beggared Creeping Ike a snake outside yas the murderer, EARL LEVERETT, whe haf betrayed first Clinch and then Quinti to gain the jewel for himself. ym: ing of no harm, Eve thought of the new emotion tn her heart, her sud en love for Trooper Stormont. Go on With the Story. CHAPTER V. She anw him walk away—saw his shadowy, well-built form fade into the starlit mist. An almost uncontrollable impulse set her throat and lps quivering with Gesire to call to him through the night, “I do Iove you! I do love you! Come back quickly, quickly!—" The girl turned ffora the window, looked at the door for a moment, then her face flushed and she walked to ward a chair and seated herself, leav. ing the door unbolted. For a little while she sat upright, alert, as though a little frightened After a few moments she folded her hands and sat unstirring, with low ered head, awaiting Destiny. It came, nolselejly. And so swift ly that the rush of alr from her vio lently opened Goor was what first startiod her, For in the same second Earl Lev. erett was upon her in his stockinged feet, one bony ‘hand = gripping _ her snouth, the other flung around ‘her, pinning both arms to her sides. “The packet!” he panted, “—quick, yeh dirty little cat, “I'l break yeh head of'n yeh damn neck” She bit at the hand that he held crushed against her mouth. He lifted her bodily, flung her onto the bed, and, twisting sheet and quilt around her, swathed her to the throat. Still controlling her violently distort- ed tips with his left hand and holding her so, one knee upon her, he reached back, unsheated his hunting knife, and pr'cked her throat till the blood spurted. “Now, gol ram yeh!" he whispered fiercely, “where's Mike's packet? Yell, and I'll hog-stick yeh fur fair! Where is ft, you dum thing!” He took his left hand from her mouth. The distorted, scarlet lps writhed back, displaying her white teeth clenched “Where's Mike's bundle?" he repeat- ed, hoarse with rage and fear. “You rat!” she gasped. At that he closed her mouth again, end again he pricked her with his knife, cruelly. The blood welled up onto the sheets. “Now, by God!” he said in a ghastly voice, “answer or I'll hogstick yeh next time! Where is it? Where! where!” She only showed her teeth in an swer. Her eyes flamed. “Where! Quick! Gol ding yeh, IN shove this knife in behind your ear if you don't tell! Go on. Where je it. It's in this Dump som’ers. I know it is—@on't Me! You want that I- should stick you good? That what you want—you dirty little dump slut? Well, then gol ram yeh—I'll fix yeh like Quintana was aimin’ at—" He slit vhe sheet downward from her imprisoned knees, seized one ded foot and tried to slash the bandages, “I'll cut a coupla toes off'n yeh,” ried, “—'ll hamstring yeh fur keeps!''—struggling to mutilate her while she flung her helpless and en- ngled body from side to side and at the hand that was almost suf- focating her. Unable to hold her any longer, he Seized a pillolr to bury the venomous little head that writher, biting, under his clutch. As he lifted it he saw a packet ly ing under it. “By God!’ he panted. it she screamed for ack! Jack Stormont!” —and fairly hurled her helplese liltle body at Leverett, striking him full in the face with her head Half stunned, still clutching the packet, he tried to stab her in the stomach; but the armor of bedclathes turned the knife, although his vio- lenc dashed all breath out of her. Sick with the agony of it, speechless she still made the effo: stumbled to his feet and t cape, she struggled upright, choking. blood running from the knife pricks in her neck. With the remnant of her strength and still writhing and gaspnig for| breath, she tore herself from the sheets and blankets, reeled across the room to where Stermont’s rifle stood, to the window sill and fired. Then threw in a cartridge, dragged herself she fired again—or thought she did. e were two shots, came Stormont's sharp cry, “what the devil are you trying to do to me?” His cry terrified her; clattered to the® floor. - next instant he came running bere ‘headed, and halted, horrified of her. Goa!” er blood-wet the rifle he body whispered into his aftef Leverett,” she gasped. the nymph of the Under Eve's pillow heavy | “He's robbed daddy. He's running! {2 vay—out there—ac bere—" { “Where (id he burt you, San go" she wailed— “I'm! He only pricked me with Int not hurt, I tell you after him! Take your pistol and follow him and kill him. { “Onl « she od hystericaiy. | twisting nd sobbing in his arms,| “don't lose time here with me! Don't} 4 here while he's running away dad's money? ‘Oh—oh— ob sxe sobbed, collapsing his and clinging to him convulsively as} he carried her to her tumbled bed and laid her there. “Dad's money low,” she wailed. make me tell where it was was under my pil- “Leverett tried to I would | | not, and -he hurt me— “How?” | “He pricked me with his knife. | When I ecreamed for you he d to choke me with the pillow. Didn’ t) you hear me scream?” "Yes. I came on the jump.” “Tt was too late she sobbed; “—! too late! He saw mey packet | under my pillow atched .it | and ran. Somehow I found your rifle and fired. I fired twice.” “ANSWER OR I'LL HOGSTICK YEH NEXT TIME!" i Her only bullet hac torn his cam- paign hat from his head. But he did not tell her, “Let me see your neck," he said, bending closer. She bared her throzt, making, a soft, vague complaint like a hurt bird—lay there whimpering under her breath while he bathed the blood away with lint, sterilized the two cuts from his emergency packet, and bound them r He was still bending low over her when her blue eyes unclosed on his “Thrt ts the second time I've trie’ to kill you,” she whispered. oh g thought it was Leverett. 8 have died if’ I had killed’ you.” There wes a silence. wie very still" he said huskily,’ 11 be back in a moment to reband- age your feet apd make you fortable for the night.” “I can’t? sleep,” she repeated deso- lately. “Dad trusted his money to me and I've let Leverett rob me. How can T sleep?” ' “Il bring you something to make you sleep. “I con’ “I promise you you will sleep. Lie still He went away downstairs and out to the barn, where his cam. paign hat lay in the drilled through’ by a bullet. There was something else lying| there in the wee(s—a flat, muddy, shoeless shape sprawling grotesque ly in the foggy starlight. | One hand clutched a hunting knife the other a packet. | Stormont drew the packet from the | stiff fingers, then turned the body over, and, flashing his electric torch, examined the ratty visege—what re- mained of it—for ‘his pistol bullet bad crashed through from ear | to cheek-bone, almost obliterating | the traprobber’s features. Stormont came. slowly into Eve’ roorg snd laid the packet on the sheet beside her. “Now,” he said, “there is no reason for you to lie awake any longer. I'll fix you up for the night.” rose, wees | Deftly ‘he unbandaged, bathed, dresse®, and rebandaged her slim white feet—little wounded feet so. lovely, so exquisite that his hand trembled as he touched: them. “How did you get back dad's money?” she asked in an odd, emo: tionless way as though too wecry for further surprises, “Tl tell you-in the morning.” “Did you kill him? I didn’t hear your pistol. “TT tell morning. *Good night, Eve.” As he bent over, she looked up into his eyes and put both arms around his neck. It was her first kiss given to any min, except Mike’ Clinch. After Stormént “had gone out and closed the door, she Jay very still for a long while. Then, instinctively, -she touched her lips with her fingers; and, at the contact, a blush clothed \her from | brow to ankle. | ‘The Flaming Jewel in {ts morocco casket under her pillow burned with | no prurer fire than the enchanted flame glowing In the virgin heart of \15ve Strayer of Clinch’s Dump. | (Continued Tomorrow.) you all about it in the BUY PIGEON’S COFFEE It’s Fresh Roasted Pigeon Tea & Coffee Co. Phone 623 be € OH 898. THtS Trip 15 BEGINING TS GET MY Nanny - Ll HOPE WE GET Te HAVANA “SOON -- T WONDER VWIHAT Tie GANG BAtk Home 1S DONG Now - — SAY. MASEL. 1 SEE BY He Parsee THAT BOBBED HAIF. \S_ Gone OUTER. = ‘SURE. 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