Evening Star Newspaper, March 21, 1935, Page 34

CHAPTER XXXV. SNARED. ELL, will Juan-Silva be- [ lieve you both?” asked Rosita. “Will he make guards of you? And| even if he does, will that give you a chance to set Rubriz free? | How can I tell? There is one chance in ten thousand—and that’s a good chance for Montana to take! Brother Pascuval said: “Friend, how has this happened?” “Two mad dogs. They took each other by the throat. The rest of what Rosita says—well, it's true enough. You see our ghost of a chance, Pascual?” “To walk in—freely—to give our- selves into the hands of Juan-Silva?” muttered the friar “Well,” said Montana, “I don't know & better way. And somehow, I'd rather take the first chance and die with it than to wait there in the hills. look- ing down into hell from the brink. The longer a fellow looks at the jump, the harder it is to take.” He could not help adding: "Buti why should two men go in, Pascual? | Whatever I can| Let me go alone, do. I'll try. And you wait out here— with Rosita—wait as many days as you have any hope—and then take her back to her peuplc “I have no people,” said the girl. “I have you. When you are gone, I have nothing. But you, Pascual, stay | out here with me. If we can't talk, we can pray. I've always wanted to be taught how!"” Pascual put his heavy arm over the shoulders of Montana. “Brother," he said, “let us go in.” “Rosita,” said Montana, “there’s no use talking to you—no use telling you that there’s danger from Juan- Silva’s wild devils of Indians. I know that. You'll wait out there for us with the horses. God bless you, Ro- sita.” £ And probably they were lost together. At least, to resist would be perfect folly. So Montana stood fast with the friar and three nooses whistled. He was caught about the arms at the elbows; about the body at the hips about the neck by a rope that burned | his throat as it was drawn taut. | The friar was snared in the same | fashion. And the leader of the party reined his Indian pony in front of the | captives. He and his men were| dressed exactly as Francisco and Felipe had been. The endless heat of the| Valley of the Dead made more clothes | folly. And always, in spite of the | huge width of the sombreros, the bodies of the men were sun-blackened almost beyond belief. | This fellow was an elder whom time had withered. His hair was gray. His skin was powdered over in places with | | gray, also. And on a skeleton neck a | skeleton head was placed, the hollow | eyes glaring down at the Kid. “How much fool are you, stranger?” he asked. “Or do you know what place this is?"” “Ask Francisco and Felipe how much fool I am,” said the Kid. “Francisco? Felipe? What do you Know about them? And who's this man in the friar's gown?” “Francisco and Felipe have just | finished each other off with their knives. They're lying in the sand out- side the mouth of the valley. And that makes room for two more good | men in the valley, doesn't it> You see, friend, that we've come to take | | the vacant places.” “A good face but a hollow brain, said one of the guards. “Go look for Francisco and Felipe, | Emilio,” said the commander of the guard. “The rest of you, bring the pair of them along. And mind you two—if one of you moves a single side- « Full P. K. Sewn “He knows nothing about me," said | the girl. “Child! Child!” reproved the fria “Hush and turn your head, Pa: cual,” answered the girl. “I have to say good-by to El Keed.” They walked in together. Running water must have cut the twisting channel through the rock, but the river of the Valley of the Dead no| longer flowed through the old outlet It had found an exit underground at | the base of the eastern cliff. what small part of the water was not used to irrigate the fields. « Washable o 4-button- length Doeskin Not a hundred yards through that | winding pass they came out upon a view of the valley floor. It was flat as leveling could make it, and from the fields, black with new water, arose a | great steam into the morning sun. That was part of the mist which from | a distance obscured the floor of the valley. They could see the caravan of the condemned going slowly up the road into the valley, and mounted men rode before them and behind. But it was strange that even the Valley of the Dead should be unguarded at the en- trance. Unguarded? As the two stepped into | the road a half-dozen mounted men sprang their horses out from angling crevices in the rocks. They came at the friar and Montana with fright- ful yells, ropes whirling over their heads. Such faces, grinning with such dia- bolic joy, the Kid had never seen, ex- | cept for Filipe and Francisco, who now lay dead at the entrance to the valley. And a thunderclap of conviction struck him as he saw the friar with raised head calmly await the onrush. He had come into the valley with a fanatic, not a quick-witted helper. WoODWARD 0™ 1I™F anp G StreeTs For a Limited Time 515 for Your Old Range On the Purchase Price of this Magic Chef Gas Range Regular Price $64.50—Less Range Allowance . Convenient Terms May Be Arranged for a Slight 4 No matter how old your range is—regardless of its worth Chaine and White i 1314 F St. N.W. & LoTtHrOP Prone DisTrict 5300 =N G GAS RANGE = $40.50 dditional Cost THE EVENING step, he’ll be dragged the rest of the way by the neck. He may get to the house of Juan-Silva with a bit of breath in his lungs, but hell be| missing some skin off his body. You, there, friar, do you know what place you've entered?” “The Valley of the Dead, I sup- pose it to be,” said good Pascual. “Well, why are you here?” “He's going to raise them,” sug- gested a guard. “He's going to raise the dead!” They all laughed. They laughed heartily, rolling a little in their sad- dles. “He'd better try to raise himself,” said another. “What will Juan-Silva say?” “It's a good net that the birds want to fly inte.” The beating hoofs from the rear ‘old that Emilio was overtaking them. | And now he pulled up his horse at the side of the man of the death’s head. “Francisco and Felipe—both dead— |cut to pieces—their knives beside them. Hai! 1It's a thing to see. There’s blood spread over half an acre. You wouldn't find so much | blood in & pair of bulls.” The leader heard this report with STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1935. “This is a thing that needs think- ing,” he said. “Even Juan-Silva will |close his eyes and smile when he hears about it.” | They had come out, now,-to the center of the valley, with tobacco fields on both sides of them, and Montana looked through the frightful sun glare and the rising steam at the heights that receded step by step into the distance. It was like a vast theater, with benches hewn out on which prodigious | monsters could seat themselves. And from all sides the reflected heat poured into the cup of the valley and was held there. To breathe was difficult. In this short time the clothes of Mon- |tana had become soaking wet, and | the huge friar was visibly soaking. But Brother Pascual kept his head high which went with him through life, as though he found something worthy of both pity and amusement |in all that passed beneath his gaze. | Never had Montana admired him as he admired him now. Only as Pascual saw the gangs of laborers in the fields did his smile go out and a great breath swell his chest. For they were scattered here and | there, long lines of miserable crea- an abbreviated skirt afforded some decency. For the men there was a loin cloth. And for the men and women, both, there were the huge sun hats which gave shelter from the killing strength of the sun. The swaying of the broad-bladed, short-handled hoes made irregular lines of light across | the fields. Labor in such a temperature as that? That, alone, was enough to Justify the signficant name of the Val- | ley of the Dead. And here and there, | behind the workers, went the over- seers—each with a whip in his hand. More than once Montana saw a long lash curl back behind the shoulders of an overseer as he dcove a laggard to swifter progress. He could see more deiails as they | drew closer. Tomorrow, Montana and Pascual meet the terrible Juan-Silva. e Boasts of Loud Voice. 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