Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 25, 1922, Page 10

PAGE BS BEGIN HERE TODAY. ' Through the Adirondack forests a savage battle rages for possession of the Flaming jewel, originally stolen! from the refugee. COUNTESS OF THEODORICA, of Es-| Quintana was robbed of sol MIKE dier, CLINCH, an American who brought the gem back to! guiding hunting parties had been destroyed years ago by the uncle of JAMES DARRAGH. Darragh, 50 Te FLAMING JEWEL. by ROBERT Ww. CHAMBERS ©1002 GEORGE H DORAN COMbANY scarecly dared touch the childisii lps she offered. | t when the sacrament of the kiss! E had been accomplished, shu rested one dre him with her ‘hen his moment came; he drew opened it, and in silence iaid it in her| hands. The blaze of the jewelx thesunshine al.cst blinded them. That was h)s moment j The next racment was Quintana’s. | in sreputable hunting amp| Darragh hadn't a chance. Out of » lived a life of crin hes two pistols were thrust his legitimate business hard against hts stomach. Quin- tana’s face was behind them. He wore | no mask but the three men with him watched him oyer the edges of Ha«w2- Si ag Tal Erith, loves the soun.(Kerchiefs—over tho sights of leveled ink 9% Halo Smith, ae gy ss ana as sro! wtore th a Seas Ane nas sworn to restore She| ihe youthul Grand Duchess had jewel to be r turned deadly white. One of Quin Clinch fs \padsionately fighting for Pvc l a aah the jewel as {¢ represents the sole |t#4’s‘men took the moroc aso mea giving bis beautiful step daughter, | EVE STRAYER, the “education of a! lady Eve and her lover, TF.OOPER STORMONT, escape from | Quintana, who with his gang has| come to the camp to regain the jewel. Eve swims Star Pond with what she bélieves to be the realj jewels. fn her) mouth. Darragh | takes what Eve thought was an| empty jewel case from Quintanr.| and finds the,real jewels in a false bottom. Darragh learns that the countess and-her companion are about to arrive at his hunting lodge. Go on With the Story. CHAPTER IIl. It was afternoon when Derragh awoke in his bunk, stiff, sore, con- fused in mind and battered in body. Wier, hearing him astir, camé in. { “How long have you been back! Did you meet the ladies with your fiivver?” demanded Darragh, impa- tiently. “I got to Five Lakes station just as the train came in. The young ladies were the only passengers who got outn I waited to get their two steamer trunks dnd then I drove them to Har- rod Place—" “Where did you say I was?” asked Darragh. - The tust I saw of them, Mrs. Hay haa TOOK THE MOROCCO CASE FROM their handbags and Jerry and Tom HER HANDS AND) SHOVED were shouldering their trunks HER) ASIDE. I'm going up there right away hy rrupted Darragh excited tana, “do you recoliec’ what it' was In @ pathetic attempt to spruce/¥OU say “to me? Yes? _ How up he knotted the red bandanna round | Ofte: it is the unexpected which 60 nis n«ck and pinched Salzar’s slouch /USsually happen? You are quite cor itou peak. rec’, 'am! Smith, It has happen.” You bums.” honesty. Darragh, chagrined, went to h's bunk, pulled the morocco case from under tlre pillow and shoved it into the boson of his flannel shirt. “That's the main thing anywa: he thought. Then. turning to Wier, he asked whether Eve and Stormont bed awakened. it appeared thgt Trooper Stormont had saddled up ‘and cantered away shortly after sunrise, leaving word that he must hurt up his comrade,| Trooper Lannis, at Ghost Lake. | “They're coming back ihis even- ing.” added Wier. “He asked you to} took out for Clinch’s stepdaughter. “She's all right here. Can't you keep an eye on her, Ralph?” “Very well, sir. But suppose she takes it into her head to leave—” Darragh called back, gaily: “She can't; sho hasn't any clothes! away he gtrode in the gorgeous sun- shne of a magnificent autumn day, look Jjike one of Cinch’s remarked Wier with native all the clean and vigorous youth of} him afre in anticipation of a reunion which the letter from his lady-iove had transfigured into a tryst. For, in that amazing courtship of a single day, he never dreamed that he had won the heart of that sad, whitefaced, hungry child in rags— silken tatters still stained with the blood of massacre—the very soles of her shoes still charred by the embers of her own home. About half an hour later he came to his senses with a distinct shoc Straight shead of him on the trail and corsing directly toward him, moved a figure fi; knickers and belted tweed. : Flecked sunlight slanted on the stranger's cheek and burnished hair, dappling face and figure with moving} golden spots. But Theodorica of Esthonia had known him only in his uniform. As she came toward him, lovely in her lithe and rounded groce, only friendly curiosity gazed at him from her blue eyes. Suddenly she knew him, went scar- let to her yellow hair, then white; and tried to speak—but had no con- trol of the short, rosy upper iip which only quivered as he took her, hands.| The forest was dead still around them save for the whisper of painted | leay aboy sifting down rom a sunlit vault Finally she said in a ghost of a!/Tagh. “One of my men remains hid- voice: “My—friend. ” |den very near. He is a dead shot.| “If you accept his friendship. . His aim is at your—aweotheart’s-< | : body. You understan’?? “Frienaship is to be shared. “Yes, Ours Your you.” All you have to give me, then.” “Take it all I have. . . Her blue eyes met with a lttle effort. All courage is an effort. Then that young man dropped on both knees at her feet and lala his Ups to her soft hands. In trembling silence she stood for a moment, then slowly sank on both knees to face him across their clasped hands. So, in the gilded cathedral of the woods, pillared with ellver, and azure- mingled—on share that day. is—as much as pleases domed, the betrothal of these two was sealed with clasp and lip. Awed, a tearful lover's eyes with to a pur she lIcoked gaze so things into her and } And! ” | Behind him of her! from her hancs and without ceremony. shoved her aside j Quintana leered at Darragh over his level weapons: | “My ‘frien’ Smith?’ he exclaimed softly. “So it is you, then, who Mare | twice try to rob me of my property. | Yes? “Ah! You reoollec’? you have rob me of a p How Smith,” repeated Quin-| face helpless rage. “My frien’, was burning with He gh which one at he the open jewel box masked men heli, his sinister ¢ of then, Uke lightning. focused on. Darragi he said, “it “So,” Was aiso you who rob me lgs’ night of my property - «+ Whatvyou do to Nick Salzar, eh?" “Killed him,” sald Darragh, dry. lipped, nerved for death. “I ought to have killed you, too, when I had the chance. But—{'m white, you see.” At the insuit flung into his facc over the muzzlas of his own pistols, Quintana burst fato laughter. “Ah! You should have shot You are quite right, my frien mius' say you have behave ver’ ish" lie laughed again so hard that Dar. ragh felt his pistols shaking against h's body. “So you have kiJi Nick Salzar, eh? continued Quintana with perfect good humor, ‘My frien’, I ‘am oblige to you for what you do. You are sur- prise? Eh? It is ver’ simple, my frien’, jSmith. What I want of a man who can be Hill? Eh? Of what usc is he to me Voila!" | He laughed, patted Darragh on the shoulder with one of his pistols. Why? Because you are a better man than jwas Nick Salzar. He who kills is | Detter than the dead.” | | Then, swiftly altering his dark fea- tures altered: “My frien’ Smith,” he sald, “I have come here for my property, not | |to kill. I have recover my property.| Why shall I kil! you? To say that| I am a bettgr man? Yes, perhaps.| | But also I should be oblige to say that} also I am a fool. Ygas! A poor dam- fool.” A Pe: Without shifting his eyes he made a motion with one pistol to his men. | As they turned and entered the thic-| | ket, Quintana’s intent gaze became murderous. “If 1 must kill you I shall do so. Otherwise I have sufficient trouble to keep me from ennui. My fréen’, I am going home to enjoy my property. If you live or die it signifies nothing tome. No! Why, for the pleasure of killing you, should I bring-your dirty |gendarmes on my heels?” He basked away to the edge of the thicket, venturing one swift and evil glance at the girl who stood as though dazed. “Listen attentively,” he said to Dar- “Yer’ well. 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