New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 21, 1923, Page 13

by WARRY SINCLAIR DRAGO Anp COPYRIGNS MRS BY M. A STRVICH: INC BEGIN MERE TODAY Diek Acklin, big boss of the Double A ranch, plots with Buck Bo. dine, new owner of the old Webster placke, to rob the Basques of Paradise Valley of their water supply. Este- ban, son of Jose Arrascada, riding Wwith a party in an attack on the Double A, Is wounded and carrled to the home of Acklin. Jose, while searching for Esteban, is shot and killed from ambush., Bodine pursues Mercedes, the daughter of Jose, NOW GO ON WITH THF, STORY The horsemen Tuscarora had seen were swifter. Rounding a bend in the road old Peter drove right into them. With a distinet sense - of alarm, the girl recognized Bodine. The men with him were little calcu- Iated to restore her composure. Rodine had no intention of letting them go. He knew they were fright- cned, and he reveled in it. He bent down confidentially. “I lost my head a bit the last time I was at the hacienda. 1 was as blind as the kid here, I guess. And I'm sorry for what I said; though I ain't sorry I kissed you.” He felt, rather than saw, Mercedes wince. “I learnt somethin’ that night, though. I'm a peaceable man from now on. day morning in Winnemucca that'll keep anybody from touching that creek for thirty days. Sein’ is be- llevin’. I want to show it to you." Mercedes' eyes snapped. “You waste your time,"” she said de- flantly. “I do not care what you lave, or what you say. I know, 1 do not go with you." “Oh, yes you will, Senorita,”” he smiled. “We ain’t startin’ no argu- ment we can't finish. Now you turn that team around, old graybeard!" he bawled at Uncle Peter. Blaze and Tuscarora crested the rise at that instant and rode rapidly down the draw. They saw the frac- {lous, panicky team with the horse- men trying to turn them. “Something stirring, all right,” Kentcalled to Blaze. “Better take this gun. T got my rifle.” They were within a hundred yards of the rig before Bodine discovered them. “What's the big excite” manded in steely tone Basilio had recognized Kildare. want to go home, Mr. Blaze!" cried. 1t snapped the tension. “It's home-for you, little chief.” Mercedes hit her lip as she saw Kildare lift the blind boy te his horse’s back. Why did this man al- ternately hurt and befriend her? She became conscious of the gradual swing of his horse to a position pro- tecting her from the sinister look of Bodine's companion. Tuscarora’s carelessly held rifie did not escape her,’'nor did it escape the attention of Gloomy. * “Ain’t you afraid that might go off, you?" “My name's Kent—and it might,” the lover of peace drawled. It Lrought a.laugh from Bodine. “By the way,”” Joe went on, ad- dressing the rancher, “don’'t you get to thinkin' we're licked because old Jose is gone. 1 aim to string along for quite some little while yet. 1 got a date to talk to the law right now.” “You're Blaze de- ur he there gun slow!” DBodine grinned nastily. “I had my talk with the law yesterday. There won't anybody touch that creek for thirty days at Jeast. I'll see that my injunction is renewed, too." Kent concealed <ais chagrin with a cackling laugh. But Bodine knew he had given his foe a jolt. “Let’'s hit dirt,” he shouted to his men. He waved his hand at them airily, as he and his followers pulled How To FORGET TROUBLES 'ROUBLES knock up your sys- tem like Jack Dempsey knocks | down his opponent. Troubles deal blows both in the head and stomach—and they hurt the stomach more than they do the head! Troubles give the stomach indi- m‘ slow up the liver—and ollow constipation and iousness. ‘The way to get rid of troubles to invigorate digestion, stimu- i late liver and bowels and tone up A § the entire system. The best way @ 8 to do this—has been for the past 80 years—is to take Beecham's | Then you will feel 80 yo:d that N “troubles” become merely prob- lems, to be solved re: liby the clear, keen brain of healt § FOX’S NEXT MON. “THE TOWN THAT FORGOT GOD” I got an injunction yester- | JOIEPH NORL Tuscarora. shook his head, "He sure put one over on the old man that time,” he murmured, “That's what he wanted to show you, eh— that Injunction? Brand is waiting for me down at the hotel. TI'll burn it back to town, You go along to the Kancho,” Baslllo hugged Blaze ent uttered thig dictum, Peter pulled up his horse patio gate, Basilio waved his tiny hand as Plaze walked My Man down past the corrals, Mariano, the Mozo, lounged against the barn, He took off his hat to Kildare. “Bad times, these, for Vista,” Blaze sald to him. tightly as at the the Buena KILDARE TOOK THE X-GUN SCARORA HAD LENT HIM AND GAVE IT TO THE OLD-MAN, “Madre de Dios, but yes!"” “What would you do, it the ‘devil- men’' came?”’ Blaze asked apprehen- sively, ‘At night the gate ees shut, Senor. I sleep outside the Senorita’s door.” “Good! Here is a little present for you, Mariano.” Kildare took the six-gun Tuscarora had lent him from his holster, and handed it to the old man. The servant's dark eyves fairly glistened. He had long since de- spaired of ever rising to the dignity of possessing a gun of his own. CHAPTER XVIII. Master and Cow-Puncher A broad grin spread o the face of the Big Ross whei dare told him of Bodine's injunct: Kildare wondered just what amused him so muc M out. July. “Suppose you're goin' down to Gol- conde’ with the boys,” he grumbled. Cash’s tone showed plainly enough his lack of pleasure in the coming day. Kildare shook his head. A dance, in his present frame of mind, held no lure for him, By supper time the specter of Bo- dine had become so menacing -that Blaze decided to ride down to the Rancho. He waited until the boys tad left and then silently followed them. Dawn had found him lying sleepy- eyed on the little mesa that rose back of the hacienda. He had had his vigil for nothing. It was after seven when he rode by the Rancho. He saw a table set with white napery, thin glasses, heavy silver, and delicate, cream-colored porcelain. Daintiness, cleanliness, ancestry all spoke there, My Man whinnied. Basilio heard him and jumped down from the wide portico. DOINGS OF | HAVE AN AWFUL HEAD= ACHE THIS MORNING, row halled Blaze ‘as he came Tomorrow was the Fourth of IN MAKE You A CUP OF COFFEE °, “I know you be here today, Mr, Blaze," he called as he ran toward Kildare, “T tell Mercedes you come this morning." Mercedes came out of the house at that moment, Blaze greeted her with a cheery “Good morning." “Why you sleep out night?" she asked at last, gently, Fasilio gave him his answer, “I hear My Man single.foot along the road last night, He stopped by the fence, I told you mo, didn't 17" “Afn't no use lying about it," Blaze sald rather shamefacedly, “I figured Bodine might try to pay you a visit. I knew you were all alone here.! He stopped momentarily, “Didn't see anything of him, though." Mariano ‘came out with the coffee, Mercedes turned to him, “Serve the Senor at once, Mariano," she ordered, “He has a long way to go." The old mozo hastened to her side, “Senor Kildare thanks you for car- ing for his revolver,” she began. “He wishes you to return-it.” The old man lifted a mournful fuce to her as he pulled the revolver from his pocket. He put the gun on the table, Basilio had caught the seriousness of the conversation, It kept him silent, though several times he tugged at his sister's skirts as if to catch her attention, Mercedes was so en- grossed she paid no heed to the boy until Acklin rode into the patio. “1 wanted to tell you gome one was coming,” the sensitive child whis- pered in the natural lull of surprise, following the appearance of the Big Boss of the Double A. Mercedes flashed a quick glance from Acklin to Rlaze, who held his position near the table. His face was emotionless. Had he known the rancher was coming? Only by the slightest inclination of her head did she acknowledge the cattle-man's greeting. “Sorry I couldn't get down to your father's funeral,” he sald. The lie did not pass Mercedes. ¢ “Your man do very well in your place,” she answered. Acklin looked from Blaze to her, and back again. The little by-play that her words carried was beyond him, “Better drift to the Bull's Head," he sald to Blaze. It was lightly purred, but carried with it the dismissal of the man on the veranda. Acklin followed him to where My Man stood. Kildare's stock had taken a decided drop in his mental ledger. “What kept you down here?" he esked when they were out of hearing of the girl on the veranda. Kildare's imagination was equal to the occasion. “The boys wefe seen when they went out,” he drawled. “I ran into Bodine and six or seven of his men. He didn't have a good excuse for be- ing where he was, so 1 hung around to keep my eyes on ['m.” Blaze jabbed his thumb in the direction of Mercedes. “I didn't tell her.” Acklin began to readjust his notes again, as far as Kildare was con- cerned. Acklin was sipping the coffee that IVER TROUBLE Oull pains in the back, often under theshoulder blades, poor digestion, heartburn, flatulency, sour risings, pain or uneasiness after eating, yellow skin, mean liver trouble—and you should take SCHENCKS MANDRAKE PILLS They correct all tendency to liver trouble, relieve the most stubborn cases, and give strength and tone to liver, stomach and bowels. Purely vegetable. _Plain or Sugar Coated, | 80 YEARS® CONTINUOUS SALR PROVES THEIR MERIT. | Dr.J. B. Schenck & Son, Philadelphia there not all un- | | THE DUFFS WELL, YoU STAY X% OH BED AND V'LL DAILY FASHION SERVICHW,* == Many Types of Sleeveless Gowns This Summer There are several ways for a gown to be gleeveless and the summer styles show them all. The dress may simply be cut off at the shoulder, that's one way. 1t may continue in a very short kimono cape. It may have a tiny shoulder rufile. Or it may have a band out- lining the armhole, Any of these ways is good and assured of popular- ity during the hot weather. The four models sketched show these four varieties of sleevelessness | as well as four particularly charming summer frocks in styles that are as-| sured of fame. hadheen met out for his hired hand, as Blaze looked back in answer to Basillo's call. “8it down, Mercedes,” Acklin sug- gested quietly after he had watched her for a few seconds. “I want to talk to you." The rancher fell back before fire in her eyes. “What the devil—," he began, as he got up; but he did not finish his sen- tence. He was alone. Mercedes had caught up Basilio and entered the house. He tried the door. the It was locked. 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