New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 31, 1929, Page 18

: . Lucy locks Henry @hief of police, into a closet. ) M8 suto and starts fer the te find Jerry Ogden, her - accuped of murdering his , Lacy §s waging a game fight net serius odds to prove Joerry iat and is anxious ta warn him ) the eharge before he is arrested. uncle, Jehn Peehles, follaws her Torridity, ghost tewn in Skull ley. Harassed by the blistering t, Peebles searches the town for Be pair but fails to find a trace "( them, g Chapter 19 IN THE DESERT TOMB | " It was close on four o'clock. Lucy. X |lery which ran | Doors and booths flanked the gal- | lery. peasoned, had got here about noon. TRy AR And Andrew Ogden had given her Torridity within the past ¢0 hours. a check for $1,000! But why? And why had the swashbuckling Alex Peterson. become the staid and re- spectable Andrew Ogden? And why had Dillen blackmailed him? Bick of mystery and bewilder- ment, I entered th resort, prepared for anything mow. It must have been a pretentious place in its day. A dance fleor occupied the middle of the building: At the upper end was & small stage. Along one side ran a bar. A stair led to a wide gal- around the hall. Broken bottles littered the sandy floor; tables and chairs lay in con- fusion, 1 thought of the boiaterous ln;'y and Jerry—heads together —racing toward the open deserty - 3 had found Jerry and they had fm together at once along the main “road, and by this time were probab- % approaching Shinbone Canyon on ! g7 ;‘0 west. Another couple of hours #hould see Welip ‘& Jnstead of following them T would Jemain overnight in Torridity and 4mprove my opportunity by nosing mround Andrew’s old haunts. Evi- * dence of some sort wasin my mind, of what nature end how I was . 49 find it, I hadn’t the slightest idea. ¢ 1 had knewn I wouldn't have . planned o casually! % The sun was waning, but the ‘Street waa still as hot as a boiler pit Bnd 1 looked about for a temporary garage. The wide-open doors of & fivery stable hinted of cooler re- S beyond and I drove through 5 into the building. Btopping th: them back in San mob that once had rollicked through the place. I Heard the whirr of the roulette wheel, the click of poker chips, the rattle of dice, the clink of glasses, the shrill glee of the women, the aswish of milling bodies. And I thought of Alex Peter- son swaggering, no, stalking ameng a pay-night erowd, his gold-mount- ed guns on his hips. In the dining room cheap cutlery and heavy crockery lay on . the tables . . Cues stood in their racks and lay athwart the peel- room tables. In the card room the roulette wheel waited. I spun it Poker chips . . . cards. Upastairs in the bedreoms were pillows ané blankets. A flimsy red dress hung in a closet . . and slippery to match. Names were scrawled’ on the walls® And so it had stood for 30 years. {The fury of a Skull Valley sand storm lashed Peebles mercilesely. engine, 1 tackled a pile of sand- hes and a bag of fruit. Refresh- | xl went out again. | ~ +1 had gone some 50 yards or so | whien I began to wonder if I were | completely alone as I had’ sup- | . The odd feeling grew upon me @84 | wished I had brought a re- | ver. | ,Bopping in front of a sort of | gance hall, saloon, and hotel, I con- | efuded that §t was a good place to | n my investigations. Most of the | mame on the building was obliterat- | of. It consisted of three words and | tBe last word seemed to be “Place.” T.a150 made out & J, &:“D.” The rest of it suddenly fl. upon me. “Joe Lundy's Place” t was it. . **Joe Lundy's Place,"” T shouted. | “§oe Lundy—that woman in black— the woman Andrew gave the check to!” *It couldn't he coincidence. of cburse. The woman in black was or .had been the wife of a man who | Bad kept this resort 30 years ago! And yet, this wholeaale abandon- ment to the contrary, I hadn't been able to rid myself of the feeling that I was not as comnlistalv atane an I seemed. Coming behind the bar where 1 had.not yet been, I tripped over a hundle of.soft stuff lying in the shadowy passage between the bar and the wall, and almost went headlong. I picked up the bundle and foumd myself staring at Jerry's white flan- nels! My amazement turned te dismay. Belief in Jerry's innocence was as firmly fixed in my mind as was my cerfainty of Dillon's guilt. But I also knew what conclusion Deacon’s | | tenacious mind would have drawn if he instead of I had feund bundle! Undeniably they were ry's. His intials, worked by ¥ inside the collar of the sweat- A pocket contained a packet of his favorite cigarettes. It was evident that the fannels had 1 planted. And by Dillon, I . Dillon, then, had been in the Arrange asparagus tips on shred- ded lettuce. Over them sprinkle diced celery, chopped clives and nut meats. Mix and serve with Rich, Creamy IvanHOE Mayonnaise » For all | knew to the contrary he ‘was here now. ‘The thought excited me and when sort was suddenly punctuated by the throb of an automobile engine, Dil- lon’s name sprarng. burning, to my lips. Was I coming to grips with him again? Why hadn’t I brought a re- volver! As I sprang, electrified, to my feet a sage green roadster flew past the open deor and my con- clusions collapsed. The Jerry's. and Lucy and the boy were in it, their heads together. T stumbled outside. The roadster was 100 yards dewn the street, bound for the open desert and, I suposed, the Devil's Mouth. “Lucy!" 1 roared. “Lucy! Jerry! Stop there! Where are you going? Lucy! Jerry!™ They did not hear me. Shouting their names, I tore down the street. Still they di dnot hear me, and the roadster passed entirely beyond the range of my voice. Plunging inte the livery stable, 1 climbed unsteadily into the car, de- termined to catch them if I burned out the engine. The sun had gone to my head and my heart, not as good as it used to be, was thundering un. mercifully against my ribs. A s low of water revived me and I start- ed the engine. The car slid forward with a springless tnud, thud, that sent me tymbling out again. The tires were flat. They had been cut by seme one. I sank limply onto the running- board. You can hardly blame me for harbering the thought that Jerry and Lucy had seen me after all. But I didn’t harbor it leng. T knew my Lucy better than that. And Jerry was a fine manly young fellow with the instincts of a gefi- tleman and a deep affection for me. No, they had neither seen nor heard me just now, or, incredible as it seemed, when I first had come inte the town. But where had they been that the blaring of my car horn had not reached them? The Two .| Brothers Mine? Likely enough. And where were they off to now? San Filipe! On Lucy's account Jerry had insisted on the longer route’ across the valley instead of the shorter but meore dangerous one by the way of Pichfork Canyon. They would he in 8an Filipe before midnight. Yes, I Kknew my Luey! But net so well as 1 thought, it was fo turn out. Chapter 20 i What of the man who had slash- ed my tires? Dillan, undoubtedly. Knowing that Jerry was in Terridity, he had come to plant the flannels. The children, I decjded, didn’t know seen them. He certainly knew 1 was here. Why in the name of common sense hadn't I brought a pistol? I den't know what made me think of Furie just then. MacNair had assumed that Furie knew some. thing about the Two Rrothers mine; perhaps, indeed, had hrought Ogden the bit of quartz.” Moreover, Hub- ‘dard's descriptien of " him' strengly suggested the. old desert-rat type. Mightn't Furie be a relic of Tor- ridity's vanished prosperity? Was it Furie's presenee I had sensed in the town instead of Dillon's? Was it, indeed. Furie who had slashed my tires? And had Dillon, after “plant- ing” the flannels. taken himself off? T began to wonder about the Two Brothers mine. MacNair had con- nected Furie and the quartz speci- mens with it and I had concluded Lucy had found Jerry there. After swallowing a sandwich I set off up the street towards the flank of mountain behind the town. On the outskirts my feet found an indis- tinct trail of sorts and I let them carry me along it. The sun was declining towards the Skeletons, but the wind blew hot as a dragon’s breath and in its teeth whistled that sound I had heard as T drove towards Torridity. I thought it hissed at me, “Go back. you foel!” A thin sand haze hung in the air. A windstorm impended, T felt sure, and common sense urged me to g0 back; hut just then I saw the buildings of an abandoned mining property. Heading into the bite of the wind I quickly identified the property as the Two Brothers by the huge mass of splintered rock in N Ithe graveyard quietness of the re-’ car was | he was nere and he may nat have | tront of the entranes to the maln bere. s It took me half an howr to ex- plore the property. In ruin and a-creak in the _burning wind. the buildings were & sorsy. moss but the machinery was in: falr cendl- tion. Frem the “tallings”™ dump I follawed the erecart raile up to the great pile of debris which blocked the entrance. To remove it would be a sizeable job. - In & bern-like structure was the police car Lucy had commandeered. It cheered me mightily. Leaving the car where it was, for the time be- ing, T started back along the flank of the mountain. The sun was lower. The wind had quickened; its eerie note shrilled a little, After .1 had gone. 100 yards beyond the limits of the Two Brothers preperty I came upon & narrow gash slashed deep into the flinty mountainside which 1 hadn’t | seen as I'came up. A vague trail led into the gash and the imprint of shoes showed in a sprinkling of sand at my feet. Striking into the gash, T found | myself between towering walls of reddish rock which gradually wid- ened into a sizeable canyon that cut into the heart of the BSkelotona I had ~gone some 200 yards when T noticed a “V"-shaped joint in the south alape of the canyon. As I ap- proached the joint T saw it was real- ly a cavern-like slash in the rock wall. I had come within 30 fest of the slash when a rifle cracked and a hullet flattened against the rock 12 inches above my head! My eyes sprang up the opposite slope which ascended gradually and I saw not far above me a amall wooden shanty from which, I con- cluded, had ceme the shot. T weon- dered it T were to be dropped dead as I stood. The slash offered sanctuary. Only 30 feet away! Could I make it? I hurled myselt towards it. Before Y had covered a third of the distance the rifle cracked again and my hat leaped and fell over my face. Losing my balance, I reeled back against the cliff. 1t scemed likely that a thifd shet would put an ond te the feremost collector of pistols in San Felipe county and 1 stayed where I was. The sun was beginning to set beyond the crest of the Skeletons, It grew perceptibly darker. What were the man's intentions? Perhaps he merely intended to keep me out of the alash. Holding my breath, I edged away frem the plash. Nothing happened. Apparently T might take myselt off, but T mustn't go into the slash. ‘Why? Tt didn't take me long te epeculate about it. If the slash was not a new opening inte the compli- cated werkings of the Twe Brothers mine, what was it? 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