The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 30, 1931, Page 6

I'D BROKE A HUNERT, BUT HECK! 1 THOLIGHT X THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR THURSDAY, JULY 30, = PLAGLIE TAKE (‘ RS 1931. By CLIFF STERRETT A HUNERT AN’ TEN IS PLENTY, q SYNOPSIS: Br and his stcpscn, Roy Donovan, comb Mother Mcuntain for the fa- mon: t gold vein as ] braves Nevada desert perils in a hunt for Bruce. Though his love for Bruce's wife, Ann, is honerable, Bruce's desertion has been explained in let- ter, charging a love affa tween her and Pierre. knewing that Bruce's panion is his own fathe: plcds cn, hoping to bring him ba before the law does. For Bruce, like Ann's father, suspect in an Ohio cashier’s murder, and Pierre kncws that his arrest would disclose the shameful pretext for his flight, thereby disgracing Ann. Mean- while Doncvan and Bruce, so far unsuccessful in their gold hunt, discover that their water cupply is almost gone. THE HIDDEN wITNESS Roy Donovan shook the canteen he had t from Bruce's anxiously mating its conten Then he looked up at his com- panion. “There’s barely enough w: left mow to get one man to Drip- 'n ping Spring,” Donovan said slowly,' “and it's got to do for us two. Do you ' understand? ¥From mnow on Tl take charge of this. get a drink when I give it to you, and T promi you tk t will be damned little at a time and as long as you can keep on your feet between times.” “Oh, is that so?” r ted Brut sullenly. Donovan put the canteen c fully down close to his hand made up the packs of food W they must carry. After watchi ance, aske You'll companion curiously said at last, “you staying here, are ‘Well,” he not thinking of | you?” m not going back to Red| Butte.” J The agony of that was re- vealed in the man's haggard and | twitching features told Donovan' more than the words, that his com- | panion was facing a desperate is- ehind the dyke of rock, Pierre | heard in Bruce's voice all that Donovan saw in the bank clerk’s| fac { as if he sought by| manner to steady the younger an, Donovan lowered his pack to the ground, put the canteen care- fully down, and moving leisurely to a seat near Bruce began tc| roll a cigarette. Pierre held his place—he could | not move. | Bruce, with a little more flssur-l ‘Didn’t you say there was a way we could go from here o Gold Center?” i Donovan answe ven't enough us half way | calmly, “We| ter to last one to Gold Cen- ter.” i “Well, we're going to Gold Cen- | ter just the same,” returned Bruce with sullen, unreasoning stubborn- | ness, | ovan, watching his compan- asked calmly: “And what are going to do when we get to Gold nter” “We're going to get another out- fit with a supply of provisions and go prospecting again. Ther: ! must be some place in this des-! ert, where a man can live.” | “So that’s it!” said Donovan. “I | e thought when you told me to call you Fred Burnes that omething wrong.” there was “Come on,” called Donovan, * move on.” his companion for a minute, Bruce| ‘“What are you going under the! again seated himself on the rock |name of Colorado Bill for?” flash-| and bowed his head in his hands.|ed Bruce angrily. | “Come on” called Donovan pres-| “Keep your shirt on, son,” re-| ently. “Get a move on, will you? |turned Donovan coolly. “I read| Here's your share of the grub.|about that Orchard Hill bank af-| We've got to get out of here” He fair in the paper the morning we | swung the small bundle of provi- |left Red Butte. You thought when sions over his shoulder and picked |you used the paper to start our| up the canteen. Bruce did not move. Pierre was making his way up a long sandy wash toward the hol- Jow between Mother Mountain's breasts when suddenly he heard or fancied that he heard, a hu- man voice. He stopped and listen- ed. His heart beat so loudly that he could hear nothing else. He restrained an impulse to shout and went on. The sound of voices came again —louder. He was sure now, He was about to rush forward but checked himself. The voices were angry. It might not be Bruce and the man called Colorado Bill. Tt Would be better to make sure be- fore revealing his presence. wash made no sound as he moved cautiously toward the point bm which the voices came. As drew nearer he heard more and more distinctly. Then he was near—only a low dyke or wall yock scarcely higher than his hid the speakers. He could clearly now, every word. One he knew—it was Bruce. The woice was strange. He was to make his presence known made him_hesitate. feet on the sandy floor of | the stranger spoke again|you | campfire, with that night that I hadn't seen it but I had. And it wasn't hard to guess why you |wanted to be called Burnes, That‘x} why I told Jimmie Harrigan at! Dripping Spring that we were go-| ing to my claim in the Painted' Mountains. | “I turned our burros loose for a: blind, figuring that we'd get away from here while there was still enough water ,and that we'd man- age to pull through to Gold Cen- ter somehow—making it look like we'd wandered off in the desert somewhere and died. The longer we stayed here leaving a show like | we were simply prospecting, pro-| i viding we didn't stay too long, the better it would look. I miscalculat- ed, that's all—cut it a little too fine. With no more water than we have now we can't go any- where but back to Dripping Spring, which means Red Butte because we can't carry enough grub to last us more than three or four days.” “But why didn’t you tell me that you knew?” Bruce cried. “I knew you would talk when you got in the proper frame of! mind,” returned Donovan.. “There, wasn't any need for me to rush How did you make your get- away from Orchard Hill anyhow? Maybe they\mven‘t succeeded in { ”/m& 4/ % Don’t Rasp Your Throat With Harsh Irritants “Reach for a LUCKY instead” Place your finger on your Adam’s Apple. You are actually touching your larynx = this is your “'slce box =it contains your vocal chords. When s0u consider your Adam’s Apple, you are cone sidering your throat=your vocal chords. Den't rasp your throat with harsh irritants. Reach for @ LUCKY instead. 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Green, the latter returning there and get away again.” tell me just what happened from, ‘ RKELEY |1» about six weeks. “I never killed Campbell” saig|the start?” OFF FOR+ ¥ plaa it A e Bruce, “that is—I mean, I never | (Copyright, 1930, by D. Appleton SPRING COVERS 18 ACRES meant to.” and Co.) Miss Dorothy Bakke, graduate| ARKADELPHIA, Ark.—Mammoth of the 1931 High School class, is|Spring covers 18 acres and re- “No? But you got the money Honor among thieves? Not :on her way to Berkeley, Cal., where | ssmbles a lake. More than 600,000 when that bank door opened “I didn’t get it from the bank.”| ©R a fatal quarel, disciosed “You didn't” | tomorrow. “No—I got it from Campbell,; ————— the cashier,” l Old Papers ai {he Emplre, o all right, didn’t you?” 7 5 she will enter the University of California which begins regular ses- sions next month. 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