Evening Star Newspaper, February 25, 1935, Page 20

SYNOPSIS: Mateo ‘Rubriz and Brother to the United Ruth Lavery. his bride-to-be. Now they have told him about the crown and he insists on helping them, giving as his reason the daughter of an inn keeper of Duraya. CHAPTER XI. IN DURAYA. HE fiisr walked or ran most of the way south, and he seemed to spend more energy pulling the mule after him than in getting his own bulk over the ground. Only when the way was level and there was a chance for a lope or a brisk trot would he step into the saddle and ride the mule through the dust which the horses raised. “Why does he do it?” asked Mon- tana. “Once a mule that was carrying him through the mountains slipped on a frozen rock and broke its leg,” an- swered Rubriz. “Since then he takes pity on four-legged beasts. I had to stamp and rage to make him ride on the way north with me. Even then he would not take a horse. A mule was too good for him, he said. You see, he is but a child.” “A child that moves mountains, eh?” said Montana. “But why did he come north with you?” “He had heard the thousand stories | about you, brother. He was hungry | to see your face. That will make him | a great man with the shepherds and | the villagers.” “Ah! So that was the reason!” murmured Montana. But though he smiled, the first doubt had entered his soul, coldly. He saw that he would have to be on his guard from now on. As they came through the hills into view of Duraya, the sunset flared and died quickly. It made the white walls of the town bloom for a moment. It made the looping river run red. Then the soft twilight rose out of the val- leys, overflowed the hills, invaded the sky and brought down the stars, They descended into the plain. “You tell me, Brother Pasqual,” said Montana. “Shall I pass as a true Mexican cowboy?” “Why not, dear friend?” asked the friar. “Your hair is black, and now that you have rubbed a little of that stain into your skin, you are as dark as most. Your hair is already black, and as for the blue eyes, those are found in Mexico often enough. «Besides, the red mare is the sort of horse that a famous charro would ride. And you have a suit of yellow leather with silver spangles all over it. The good Mexican speech comes so easily off your tongue that even ; 4 who know, at times forget the truth about you.” “Tell me also,” said Montana, laughing, “if you think that you could ever really open your heart to a gringo.” After a long pause the friar said: “I can at least try, my friend. Al men are the children of one God. S0 I can at least try!” In Duraya they separated. The friar went to the church, but the bishop was not there, so he went to the bishop’s palace and climbed the stairs, which were open and unguarded day and night, in order that the poor- est of the poor might come to the Bishop Emiliano in the little bare upper room which was all that he re- served for himself out of the splendors he might have enjoyed. That was why little Bishop Emili- ano, kneeling in prayer, with only two candles to light the wooden cross on the naked wall of his room, paid no heed when the friar entered and kneeled in turn. The poor often did this. The bishop was only vaguely aware that another presence was there, and it was some time before he looked over and found that Brother Pasqual had returned to him. He started up at once and went to the kneeling giant. “Give me your blessing,” said the friar earnestly, without rising. Even on his knees he was almost as tall as the bishop. “Give me a blessing of a special grace, for I have done a thing that will bring much evil on my country.” “What thing have you done?” asked the bishop. “I have helped bring into Mexico & terrible man,” said the friar. “I have brought El Keed all the way from the north to Duraya.” “Ah, my son,” said the bishop, “why have you done this? That is & known man and a lawbreaker.” “He is a lawbreaker,” said the friar. | “And in fact he breaks the law so well that Rubriz would not try to steal| away the emerald crown of Our Lady unless he had the help of the gringo.” “Are they not great enemies?” asked the bishop. “The story is that | the gringo stole away the foster son of | Rubriz.” “They are great enemies, but also they love one another,” said the friar. “What sort of & man is El Keed?” asked the bishop. “He is a man swift enough to catch & mountain goat and almost big enough to eat one.” “A great, sour brute?” “It would be better if he were a sour brute. No, he is a smiling dan- ger. Men cannot help trusting him. ‘The women look as though they were seeing their first man.” “But has he actually come to help Rubriz steal the emeralds?” “That is why he has come. Partly — to steal the emeralds, but more to find trouble and adventure.” “Will he need a large reward, Pas- qual?” “The danger he finds will be his re- ward.” “You speak of a reckless fellow, but not of a bad man, I think,” sald the little bishop. “I speak of a fire,” sald Pasqual. “Some men may be able to warm their hands at it, but others will soon be yelling inside the flames.” Mateo Rubriz, at this time, was sit- ting in the house of a friend at the of ’dobe with only one room. On & mattress in a corner lay three grimy children, sleeping in spite of the lamp- light that shone in their faces. The wife of the family was un- dressing behind a rag of an old red curtain, Her husband sat at the table with Rubriz. The peon kept smack- ing his thick lips over his pulque. He looked at his drink with astonished eyes and with continued amazement stared at his guest. For here sat a fortune in the skin of a man. But to Onate and to Onate’s family the bandit appeared as a good angel. He could trust them absolutely. They would hardly allow him to spend enough money to buy the very food that he consumed. And they dreaded almost more than they desired the gold piece which he always left behind him when he disappeared. It was in the house of Onate that Rubriz had wished to put El Keed also, but Montana refused point “You'll lie in a soft bed,” sald Rubriz, “and you'll sleep sound even after the rurales are in the room!” ‘Well,” Montana would answer, d rather wake up and see rurales than chickens on the rafters and pigs on the floor.” So now he was verging toward the most prosperous inn in the town, and the mare passed like a sheen of red silk through the lamplight that passed gut. a few steps from door and win- oW, She went daintily, snifing at the myriad odors of man and cookery and dogs and pigs and chickens that crossed and recrossed in the air, be- sides that other scent which sometimes made her throw her head high as she perceived the acrid air from the mountain desert blown in from afar. Her rider sat crosswise, with his left leg thrown over the high pommel of | the saddle. He carried under his arm |a guitar, which he had picked up | cheap in & music shop. Now that it {was tuned, he struck out a few soft | chords and then let his voice start |ringing in a very old Spanish song. ‘That song penetrated into the inn of Miguel Santos, where every chair around the little tables was filled and cigarette butts lay about everywhere |on the earthen floor, and the lamp- | light showed nothing very clearly ex- cept the faces of the dirty playing cards and the lower twists and whorls of smoke. Miguel Santos himself had stepped out from behind his little bar and had gone into the small back room, where the more serious games of chance were in progress. Tomorrow—Montana meets Rosita. | blank. Fifty Women Are Candidates. Fifty women are candidates for Par- liament in Turkey. A WORD 70 THE WIVES IS SUFFICIENT The meals you serve help keep the family fit, In many homes, com- mon constipation develops as a re- sult of insufficient “bulk” in the menu. This can be overcome by a delicious cereal. 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