Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, June 15, 1914, Page 6

BEDEPIDET DI BBED I Ry B e GCRNE B B DD B IO GBS B e RS NG T T & SRS L A AT BT IR 1 A SO R T X AT TR lifference in the bank. hetween Ford cost and heavy A is “velvet” for the prudent buyer. Ile knows the Ford not only saves him It's a bettér dollars but serves him best. 1d car sold I'ord service and guarantee, a lower price and backed with €300 for a runabaout; $550 for the touring car and $730 for the town car—f, o b. De- troit, complete with equipment. Get cata- log and particulars from Lakeland Automobile & Supply Co. Lakeland, Fla, Mayes Grocery Company WHOLESALE GROCERS “A BUSINESS WITHOUT BOOKS” We find that low prices and long time will not go hand in hand. and on May Ist we will instal our new system of low prices for Strictlv Cash. We have saved the people of Lakeland and Polk County thousands of dollars in the past, and our new system will still reduce the cost of living. and also reduce our expenses and enable a5 t)> put the knife in still deeper. We carry a full line groceries, feed. grain. hay. cratc material, and Wilson & Toomers' ldzal Fertilizersalways onhand Mayes Grocery Company 211 West Main St., Lakeland, Fla, JUST LOOK AT THIS fart, Schafiner & Marx Suits Selling as Low as $16.00, $18.00 & $20.00 that were originally $20.00, $25.00 and $27.50. Mohair Suits as low as $9.60 to $12.80 now. All our Im- ported Straw Hats cut way down in price. Don’t miss this Suit and Pants Sale as it is your only chance to get a good thing for a song. Tiie Hub The Home of Hart Schaffner. & Marx Clothing JOS. LeVAY PHEBY DEDEDEDEDDIOUSDEDHE 05§D BEBOBHSDEEEBRNNSDHEE SED DG THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAK The L.and of Broken Promises A Stirring Story of the Mexican Revolution B DANE COOLIDGE Ausher of *"The Fighting Fool.” “Hidden Waers,” ""The Texican,” Etc. HllustrationsblyDON J. LAVIN (Copyright, 1914, by Frank A. Munsey.) of Del Rey. I would come myself fT 1t wasn't sure death. Be quick about it, Bud; I count on youy, it was the mine that Bud was fighting first. The railroad was torn up now, and a flight with Gracia was hopeless, but it was just as well, for he never | would abandon the Eagle Tail. | In two months, or three, when the | rebels were whipped off, his papers might come. Then he could pay his taxes and transfer his title and con- ! sider the stealing of Gracia. But since he had seen her and touched her hand | something held him back—a grudging reluctance—and he was glad that his duty lay elsewhere. If she was his girl now he would come down and get her anyway. But she was not his girl and, gazing back grimly at the seething plaza and | the hotel that hid her from sight, he | rode somberly down the road. After all, there was nothing to get excited about—every revoltoso in the country was lined up around Agua Negra and, with four hundred soldiers to oppose | them and artillery to shell their ad- vance, it would be many a long day be- fore they took that town. Twice already Agua Negra had fallen before such attacks, but now it | was protected by rifle-pits and ma- chine guns set high on mud roofs. And then there were the Yaquis, still faith- ful to Madero. They alone could hold the town, if they made up their minds to fight. So reasoned Hooker, mulling over the news that he had heard. But he watched the ridges warily, for the | weather was good for raiders, A day passed, and then another, and the big whistle blew only for the shifts; the loneliness of the hills op- pressed him as he gazed out at the quivering heat. And then, like a toad | after a shower, Amigo came paddling into camp on the heels of a thunder- torm, his sandals hung on his hip and his big feet squelching through the * | mud. i Across his shoulders he wore a gay serape, woven some patient woman | of his tribe; and in the belt beside ! Bud's pistol he carried a heavy knife, blacksmithed from a ten-inch file by some Yaqul hil'man. All in all, he was a fine barbarian, but he looked | 8ood to the lonely Bud. | "“Ola, Amigo!" he hailed, stepping out from the adobe house where he ‘had moved to avoid the rains; and Amigo answered with his honest smile which carried no hint of savagery or deceit. Try as he would, Bud could not bring himself to think of his Yaqui as dangerous; and even when he bal- | anced the Indlan’s murderous bowie- knife in his hands he regarded it with L3 e R QRGBSR Srfoeied 3 Frgrege s Foelo oo BB 5 S-S o O3 i 3 s » V s ‘llvlng out in the brush, but he had rocks somewhere, probably with his | tlence and circumspection the unwel- | come visitors would doubtless move | | on. | decided to go to a show-down—and if The other letters were all like that, | | but nothing about the mine. And yet | send them on their way. for—that they had fought for from the | out the tin plates for them. “Come and ! ing there was so far, and, seized with i trance by the warning click of a gun- ELAND, FLA., JUNE 15, 1914. politely. T have never Deen f (hat . Is it far?” cu‘y’l‘en miles by the trail,” responded Hooker, by no means reassured, and under pretext of inviting them to eat, he took a look et the other men. 1f they had mnot stopped to eat, what | then was their errand while the sun was sinking so low? And why this sullen refusal of the coffee which every Mexican drinks? o Bud stepped into the house, as if on | some errand, and watched them un- seen from the interior. Seeing lhexvn exchange glances then, he leaned his rifle just inside the door and went about his cooking. It was one of the chances he took, come to know this low-browed type of semi-bandit all too well and had small respect for their courage. In case of trouble Amigo was close by in the gun in his hand—but with a little pa- So he thought, but instead they lin- ! | gered, and when supper was cooked he they again refused to eat he would “Ven amigos,” he said, spreading eat!” The three low-brows glared at their leader, who had done what little talk- a sudden animation, he immediately rose to his feet. “Many thanks, senor,” he said with a crinzing and specious politeness. “We have come far and the trall is long, so we will eat. The times are hard for poor men now—this traitor, Madero, has made us all hungry. It is by him that we poor working men are driven to insurrection—but we know that the Americans are our friends. Yes, senor, I will take some of your beans, and thank you.” ! He filled a plate as he spoke and tinuing with his false patter while the others fell to in silence. : “Perhaps you have heard, senor,” he | % went on, “the saying which is in the land: Mucho trabajo, paco dinero; no hay frijoles, viva Madero! [Much |3 work, little money; no beans, long |4 llve Madero!] “That, in truth, is no jest to the | » Mexican people. This man has be- trayed us all; he has ruined the coun- | & try and set brother against brother. And now, while we starve because the | mines are shut down, he gathers his Bud was thrown completely off his guard. That was the way they all talked, these worthless bandit-beggans —that and telling how they loved the Americanos—and then, if they got a | cheree, they would stick a knife in ! your back. : | He listened to the big man with a | polite toleration, being careful not to ! turn his back, and ate a few bites as | ne waited, but though it was \-nming! dusk the Mexicans were in no hurry! to depart. Perhaps they hoped to stop for the night and gt him in his sleep, Still they lingered on, the leader sit- ting on a log and continuing his harangue. Then, in the middle of a sentence, | and while Bud was bending over the fire, the Mexican stopped short and leaned to one side. A tense silence fell, and Hooker was waked from his CP R PP RGP R PRI T P B Py B PO lock. Suddenly his mind came back | ¢ to his guests, and he ducked like B3 flash, but even as he went down he K heard the hammer clack! The gun had snapped! a grin. It was a heavy weapon, broad | across the back, keen on one rda:o.‘ and drawn to a point that was both | sharp and strong. The haft was { wrapped with rawhide to hold the | clutch of the hand “What do you do with this?" queried | Hooker. “Chop wood? Skin deer?” “Yes, chop wood!” answered Amigo, but he replaced it carefully in his belt. He looked the adobe house over | thoughtfully, listened long to the news of the border and of the rurales’ [ rald on their camp, and retired to the | rocks for the night. Even Bud never knew where he slept—somewhere up on the hillside—in caves or clefts in the rocks—and not even the most pressing invitation could make him share the house for a night. To Amigo, as to an animal, a house was a trap; { and he knew that the times were | treacherous. So indeed they were, as Hooker was | | to learn to his sorrow, and but for the Yaqui and his murderous knife he might easily have learned it too late. It was evening, after a rainless day, E and Bud was cooking by the open fire, when suddenly Amigo vanished and four men rode in from above They | d with rifles, as befitted the | times, bul gave no signs of ru:‘.nml)'l bravado, and after a few words Bud in | vited t em to get down and eat. Muchas gr the | senor,” sald | i Hooker, who made it a point to feed | every one who stopped, r t their me e - Y v At P can dec his Bud looked at him sharply, for his r iid not augur well, and it struck him the He was tall heavily built, but ter cast of counte- man’s face was fam for a Mexican with a rather s nance. “Where have I seen you asked Bud, after trying in place him. “In Fortuna?” “No, senor,” answere before > vain to the Mexican | and hurled himself over backward into | | Their chie | liberate Instantly Hooker's hand leaped w"" his pistol and he fired from the hip & pointblank at the would-be murderer, With a yell to the others, one of the Mexicans sprang on him from behind | i’ and tried to bear him down, They | ¢ struggled for a moment while Bud ‘;: shot blindly with his pistol and went | < down fighting. 4 Bud was a giant compared to the stunted Mexicans, and he threw them about like dogs that hang on to a bear, With a man in each hand he rose to his feet, crushing them down beneath him; then, in despair of shakin his rider, he staggered a few | | ¢ | steps the fire. i A vell of agony followed their fall | and, as the live coals bit through the Mexican's thin shirt, he fought like a cat to get free. Rocks, pots and ket- | | AR B . A tles were kicked in every direction, and when Hooker leaped to his feet| & the Mexican scrambled up and rushed madly for the creek But, though Bud v tle had turned ags brief interval of two Mexic The inst his fig s had run for escaped I's shot, gave a them to halt. Cheated of hi the first he was clain kill. As Hooker stood blinde smoke and as} stood ag lure of the 8 ang of a Mauser rent the crumpled down i An Instant later a shri from up the canyon and, Mexicans started and stared, Amigo|% came dashing in upon them, a spitting | & Pistol in one hand and his terrible < I the leader “wood-chopping” knite brandished | high in the other, 13 (To Be Continued,) | lifted a biscuit from the oven, con.'uifi"!fli”&"i"&éfli"l" L b Lt S T T R T T R e S ] xnfl"‘—___‘____; e 59_5 = Low Round Trip Ry FROM JACKSONVILLE . $37.75 Chicago = = « $43.50 Ci 58.6 AL @ SuPul - LI Degver « « - o Springs - 58.60 Duluth - 6l ST e TG0 Winnpes 15 Yellowstone 78.00 Toronto = 48. : Portland - - - 106.00 Montreal - ® 5545 French Lick ttle « » 106.00 Petoskey « « « 5158 Toledo . 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