New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 24, 1923, Page 10

COPYRIGH™ (23 BY N A e DBEGIN HERE TODAY Acklin and Bodine, plotters, rob the Basques of Paradise Valley of their water supply, Jose Arrascada, leader of the Basques, is shot and killed from ambush, Mercedes, daughter of Jose, accuses Acklin of the murder Kil- dare, one ot Acklin's men, is in love with Morcedes, Acklin secretly bullds a dam and takes the water supply from Bodine's ranch Bo- dine steals Acklin's cattle and the latter blames the Basques for the loss, Acklin plans revenge, NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY Buck, out of his saddle only some | ten minutes, had been on the point of sousing a pall into the stream at his feet when the creck that only a min- ute before had heen full to its banks dwindled to a thin trickle that lopped the stones old Hank Webster had used as a crossing. Reallzation caused an outhu of his predicament st of anger; it dulled his ears to the approach of two horsemen coming from the north, They rode at a leisurely gait that was little in keeping with their tempers. | the crowd as question, the Double A man, #tare calmly, for almost three weeks, HARRY SINCLAIR DRAGO VOOEPH NOEA RVICH: NG from side to side. “Acklin,” he muttered slowly; “he's feoled us all," “AcKlin " A rumbling murmur passed through it echoed Esteban's The boy turned on Blaze: “Is that right, Kildare?" The crowd shifted its attention to Blaze met their “Wa've up beyond the peak We haven't been 'No Corn Can Resist “Gets-t” o or soft,of No matter how lang you've h: ‘how bad they may be, whether h what you have tri ets-I! will end corn pains at once, and quickly you can lift the corn right off the toe or foot, with the fingers. It ends callouses, the same simple way. Millions use it. Money back guarantee, Costs but a trifle—everywhere. E. Lawrence i Sold in this city by . Mir., Chicago, The Fair, Axelrod's Pharmacy, City Drug Store, were but one man, High across the chasm before them bulked the mighty dam, the top of the solid mass of masonry bathed in the last rays of the called that he, the blundering, stupid idiot, had pulled this coal out of the fire for the Double A, he raved like a madman, Esteban spurred up to the big fel. low, the manner in which Bodine had given way, filling him with disgust, “Dry up that noise,” he called out, “That kind of talk won't get you any- thing," Blaze the young fellew's grit, caught the tone of authority volee, s'Well, what are we goin' to do?" h¥ demanded, “You forget that we stuff, Bodine," Esteban’ said hotly, 'What my peo- ple do, they'll do without any help from you. ‘We're not forgetting, you double-crossed stool-pigeon! | Acklin has played you for a fool, but you'd have driven us out if you*counld," + A guttural chorus approved his words, “Have it your own way," the big fellow roared, “I'd ‘a’ lined up with you; we'd ‘a’ give Acklin a taste of his own medicine, He couldn't liek us all. You go ahead, and see where'| you get off. You got two of his pets right her What you goin' to do with them ? Bodine was playing to the crowd now. There was a quick movement toward the Double A men, Blaze and Melody backed up against the stone wall, Esteban got in front of them, He faced his own people with his gun raised. “Firme amigos!” he cried to them in their own tongue. “This man let me get away the night T first came around the wire, I had a bullet through his shoulder; there was no felt a silent admiration for Bodine also in his but he did. It is have let me go, He and his VOICES IN THE AIR KDKA (Westinghouse—Kast Pltigburgh), Tuesday, April 24, 1023 6 p, m,~Organ recital from Cameo Motlon Plcture theater, Pittsburgh, Pa, Howard R. Wcbb, organist at “The Gfant Wurlitzer," 7 p. m~Current events, 7:16 p, m~"The Caré of Furs in Summer" by C. 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You will say that Kellogg’s Bran is a blessing to humanity, 1 All grocers sell Kallogg’s Branli . ait WEAF i (American Tel. and Tel. Co,, N. ¥.) (Westinghouse-Springneld) * * 7:30 p. m,—"Radlo in the Prisons,’! a talk by Mrs. Ballington' Booth] Co-Commander of the Volunteers of America, Recital by C. B. Sammis baritone, ’ The two riders were Kildare and Melody. ¢ They had almost reached his barn before Bodine became aware of them. He recognized Kildare, “Look at that, Kildare, he cried, pointing to the dry creek-bottom. *“Not a pailful Jeft!" Melody and Blaze exchanged a quick, uneasy glance, What had happened while they had been in the | hills? Had there heen another fight? “Goin,’ goin’,” Melody quoted face- tiously. “Goin’?"" Buck roared. gone! But I'ain't! I ain't gone! get the cuckoos that did this. wait." The clatter of his boots on the wooden steps that led into his kitchen drowned his angry words as he dashed for his rifle. “Look at whispered. setting sun, A heart-rending cry arose from their lips. “They had crossed frowning seas; broached high hills and leveled them; they had wrested from the desert a grudging foothold ,and the fighe had been a bitter one. They had faced the loss of their dear ones, wept their | tears, and plodded on ugain, Nothing had daunted them, Now they looked on Acklin’s handiwork and their hearts sank. It was the cunning of the devil that confronted them, eban recalled the words the Big Boss had often used to them: “Possession is nine points law." He had possession now. it to him. A feeling of fatality grasped his comrades, This thing of rock and concrete crushed and destroyed their spirit. Like {he luw and the ways of God, Acklin and his dam were not understandable to their primitive minds. Som> of them got to their knees and prayed; others raised tfeir hands to heaven and moaned ‘or blas- phemed. But above all sound arose the croaking voice of old Ortega as he repeated his oracular. “It is a isitation of God upon us for our sins! The astonishment of the Double A men was equal to that of the Tiasques, To Melody, the dam was cnly nother evidence of Acklin's ability to get what he went after, In Kildare it awakened strange emotions. For one thing, it revealed the Big Boss as he had seen him; hard, uncompromising, ruthless, But a sense of loss, a feeling of sadness, 8:156 p. m.-—Program to nounced by radio. WBZ (Westinghouse—Springfield). | 7:30 p. m.~Uncle Wiggily bedtime story. 7:45 p. m.~World market survey from Dept. of Commerce at Boston. 8 p. m—Concert by James Ciark- son's orchestra of Springfield. Ken- neth Roane, cornet; Gene Johnson, ) saxophone; Mrs. Reid, planist; Mr. Jones, banjo; Mr. Mebins, clarinet; after every meal. 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He marveled at the unconcern with which his friend led the way down the little avenue of hostile guns that could have blown them to pleces with a touch of the finger. of anguish EVERY W STEPS HE WOULD TURN, AND, SHAKING HIS FIST AT THE DAM, POUR OUT CURS THREATS, “You mean I You (Continued in Our Next Issue) Makes ’Em Tut! of the seen a Double A man gince we left.,” “W you been ' doin' in the Butte: Bodine growled, “You ought to know,” Melody snapped back, too late for Blaze to check him. Side by side the twe parties moved slowly at first; but as they found nothing to reward them, their pace quickened until it became a mad scramble, as if each was trying to be the first to find the answer to the mystery. And then, as they rounded the bend where the k narrowed as it came dashing out of Martin Canon, the truth struck them as though they This gave the ground,” Melody “It's all pawed up. He got our stuff, Drove right by here.” “Don’'t say anything,” ,Blaze cau- tioned. *“'He'll try it again.” Bodine was back the next instant. “Come on,” he cried. ‘We'll get inside the wire here and hit it up for the forks. They hain't no damn Basque goin’ to put this over on me.” CHAPTER XXITI. Basque Bewildered With a rattle of hoofs they thun- dered across the wooden bridge Bo- dine had built over the Webster. RBut even before they were out of sight an echo of the calamity that had befallen Buck had reached the men toiling at the barrier between the two creeks. “Keep vyour guns handy, the youthful leader sang out. “It's a trap. The fence was left unguarded purposely.” The trees that lined WGY (General Electric Co., N. Y) Echenectady, 6 p. m.—Produce and stock market Miss A. 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He was through, | double-crossed, and in the very man-} ner in which Kent had predicted he | would be. | Blaze watched him. dismounted and was pacing down the dry creck-bed. Every ten | or twelve steps he would turn surl-! denly and, shaking his fist at the| Tut! Tut! Can't you hear the beach gilant wall, pour out a string of curses |censors tutting when they sce Miss and threats that burned the air. He |Alice Cody wearing the new Tut bath- would have killed Acklin on sight in fing suit? And it isn't one-piece, his present mood. = Whenever he r(‘-;ri(hor. DOINGS OF THE DUFFS Arrascada — . | asuéfi | CouLD (( i ’ GET A JOB IN )= X ( HELEN, CAN THE FIRE DEPARTMENT! & b DO ANYTHING FOR You ? or six companions beating through the brush. They were back in fiftee) minutes without having seen a sign of an enemy. . By the time they had heid a con- sultation Bodine and the two Double A men had drawn into sight. 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