The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 22, 1919, Page 4

MHearts of Siitee ek y em 24 om«doz | Se Norsts oF rrecemxc cHarrens young Prancts Morgan leaves ow York to search for burted treasure + Bia ancestor Morgan, bee * lem, beautiful adopted daughter Spanish fam: discovers she is falling inslove b ke ~aae oag5* wd < of Francis and Leonten, from jail, aud the theee schooner, They are After ban they rough country he ponse, has landed from # (ug, cot (Continaed From Yesterday) Augustino broke his sea! of silence < gain, “One never knows the way of Wee's return, if one ever returns HS e@unciated pessimistically. Klated hy the pear! of wisdom he had Propped, he essayed another, “Three Hundred in hand is better than three “Willlion in the bottom of a well we Never see again.” Pe One must descend into the “Well.” spoke Rafael, testing the bratd Tope with his weight. “See! The ig strong. We will lower a man Who is the brave one who gO down?” * said Vincente, “I will be the ‘one to go down--" Steal half that you find,” Bfael uttered his instant suspicion f you co down, first must you over to us the pesos you al Possess. Then, when you come We can search you for’ all you found. After that, when we @ivided equitably, will your Pesos be returned to you.” will T not go down for com who have no trust in me," Vin- said stubborniy. “Here, be- the well, I am as wealthy as ef you. Then why should | go T have heard of men dying bottom of weils.” God's name go down!” stormed “Haste! Haste!" am too fat, the rope is not And I shal¥fot go down,” looked to Augustino, the silent who had already spoken more was accustomed to speak |The water smells like fresh grave | o is the thinnest and the ." said Augustino. will go down!” the rest a “ Guillermo, “glaring apprehen- at the mouth of the well, away, vhaking his head and| They heard splashings and curses| tured forth, turned the mec himself. for the sacred treasure in COPYRIGNT Jubove my share,” he called up. You shall receive baptiam,” wae miled down to him, and, variously You will have your fill of water this day." “We will let go." “We will cut the rope. ‘There will be one legs with whom to share The water is not nice re plied, his volee rising lke a ghost's out of the dark depths. “There are lizards and a dead bird that etinks, And there may be snakes It welh worth ten pesos extra What I must do. We will drown shouted A BOLD THREAT “Shoot or drown me voice flgated up. nothing, for the be in the well ‘There was a pause, in which those at the surface questioned each other with their eyes as to what they should @o “And the ngoe are running away farther and farther,” Torres fumed. “A fine discipline you have, Senor Martang Bercara ¢ Hijos, your gendarmes “This ie not San Antonio. 7 flared back, “This is the bush of Juchitan. My dogs are good dogs in San Antonio. In the bush they must be handled gently, else they may become wild dogs, and what then will happen to you and me? | “It ts the curse of gold,” Torres |eurrendered sadly. “It is almost enough to make one become a so. | clatist, with a Gringo thus tying the hands of justice with ropes of gold | “OF sliver,” the Jefe corrected. “You go to hell,” suid Torrts, “As you have pointed this in not San Antonio but the bush of Juchi tan, and here I may well tell you to go to hell. Why should you and I | Quarrel because of your bad temper. }when our prosperity depends on standing together’ | “Besides,” the voice of Guillermo | drifted up, “the water is not two }feet deep. You cannot drown me lim tt. I have just felt for the bot jtom and I have four round silver | pesos in my hand right now. The | bottom is carpeted with pesos. Do you want to let go? Or do I get lten pesos extra for the filthy job? you! Rafael Quillermo's “but tt will buy you treasure will still out | yard.” | ‘es! Yea!” they shouted down | “Which? Let go? Or the extra ten?” “The gxtra ten!’ they chorused. “In God's name, haste! haste jeried the Jefe. | from the bottom of the well and, |from the lightgning of the strain on pthe beginning, a sort of seepage from & side atream off the main flow. A hundred yards beyond he came upon the flow itself, a river of of] that 6n such a slope woild hav cataract bad it b water But betng crude ofl, as thick as mo. lugmen, it cowed slowly doWn the hill like #0 much gmolamnes And hore, Meferring to make stand rather than to wade thru the atioky Frangis saat down on a rock, hit rifle on one site of him automatic pistol on the other side) rolled a cigaret, and kept his of the. pursuit And the beaten peor, threatened with more beating: dd belaboring his overridden mare, rode across the top of the ravine gbove Francis and at the oil well itself, had hin ex hausted animal collapse under him. | With his heels, he kicked her back to her feet, and with @ stick be labored her to stagger away from him and on into the jungle. And the first day of his adventures, altho he did not know it, Whe not yet over He, too, squatted on a stone, his feet n the oil, rolled @ cigaret and, as he smoked it, contemplated the flow ing ol weil The noise above been a his mess, laid his of approaching men lwtartied him, and fled into the immediately adjacent jungle, from whieh he peered forth and saw two [strange men appear, They camo dix rectly to the well and by an iron wheel turning the valve, choked down the flow still further THE PEON TRAPPED ‘No more,” commanded the one who seemed to be leader, “another turn and the pressure will blow out the plpes—for so the Gringo engh neer has warned me most carefully.” | And a alight flow, beyond the lim ited mafety, continued to run from the mouth of the gusher down the mountain side, Scarcely had the | two men accomplished this, when a | body of horsemen rode up, whom | the peon in hiding recognized as the hactendado who owned him and gis overseers, and haciendados of neigh boring plantations who delighted tn running down a fugitive laborer in |much the same way that the Eng | lish delight in chasing the fox No, the two ol] men had seen no jbody. Hut the haciendado who led jeaw the footprinte of the mare and purred his horse to follow, his crowd at his heels, » The peon waited, smoked his cle jAret quite to the finish, and cog | tated. When all was tear, he veo ania controlling the well Wide open, watehed the of! fountalning upward p secret city of the Mayas,” he | the riata. knew that Guillermo had| under the subterranean pressure and Jefe pulled his revolver and to the remainder of the posse é With eyes and é- they gave it. in Heaven's name go down,” he the little gendarme.) iad make haste, or I shall put you @ fix that never again will | on by the handthrus #. stepped upon the gat down on it with lege about it, and was lowered y aut of the light of day. he screamed up fhe shaft. Btop! the water! I am upon on the sweep held it with weight. I should receive ten pesos extra IE TOOK TANLAC UPON ADYICE OF HER PHYSICIAN Angeles Woman Had Al- Given Up. Hope— ‘Just What I Needed” when IT had about given up} hope of, ever my physician taking Tania iB to be the very medicine for it overcame my troubies getting told me to 1 am now enjoying splendid | ith again.” said Mre. Ed Kempt, lives at 4238 Louisiana st., Los the other day, uble began about three @g0."’ continued Mrs. Kempf, diagnosed as intestinal pot Al was confined to my bed the entire time and the awful and misery | underwent can be told in words. Of course, I ¥ the best of treatment, but Ing seerned to do me any good and I was finally ordered to hospital for an operation. After to the hospital I decided that I would not submit to an op- and after staying there ea I went back home. Well, 1 yas certainly « sick woman when I jot home, and it was then that my ketor put me on Tanlac | “In three or four days after I com: taking Tanlac 1 surprised ‘mother by telling her that I was Mery. Now that was the first time tad wanted anything to eat since I i my first attack of this trouble. 10 my great surprise and de- I didn't suffer a particle after and from that time on I just up until I am now up and and enjoying good health once All my friends and neighbors talking about my wonderful re- very, and they know that Tanlac ble for it, too. During the my health was #0 bad I went in weight from 150 to 129 but I have almost gotten it ek, and if I continue to gain as I ‘now | will soon weigh more than did. 1 can easily take care y five children and do all my fork. My husband says that the happiest man in California Tanlac has #0 wonderfully re my health, and we are both to tell the world about my - ey me Jac te sold in Senttie by Bartell Stores under the personal di of a special! Tanlac represen !dark, slimy fluid that his eye told|ecreature’s intention dvertisemens, s and it turned | 1} left the bucket and was floundertag | | for the coins. | “Put it im the bucket, good Guill-/ lermo,” Rafael called down. “I am putting it in my pockets,” up came the reply. “Did I put it in the bucket you might haul it up first \d well forget to haul me up after ward. “The double weight might break the riata.” Rafael cautioned. “The riata may not be so strong as my will, for my will in thie matter is most strong,” said Guillermo. “If the riata should break,” fael began again. “I have @ resolution,” enid Gull “De you come down. Then I gO up firet. Second, the treasure shall go up in the bucket And, third and last, alall you go up. Thus will justice be triumphant.” Rafael, with dropped jaw of din may, did not reply. “Are you coming, Rafael?" he answered. “Put all the! silver in your pockets and come up) together with it.” | “I could curse the race that bore| |me,” was the impatient observation | jot the Jefe. “I have Torres. “Haul “I have everything in my pockets| save the stench, and I am suffocat-| ing. Haul quick, or I shall perish, and the three hundred pesos will per. ish with me, And'there are more than three hundred. Me must have emptied the bag.” * Ahead, on the trail, where the way grew steep and the horses without stamina rested and panted, Francis| overtook his party. A BRILLIANT IDEA “Never again shall I travel with out minted coin of the realm,” he| exulted, as he described what he| had remained behind to see from the edge of the deserted plantation. | “Henry, when I die and go to heaven | I shall have a stout bag of cash along with me. Even there could it| redeem me from heaven alone knows | |what scrapes. Listen! They fought like cats and dogs about the mouth of the well. “Nobody would trust anybody to descend into the well unless he de | posited what he had previously pick ed up with those that remained at the top. They were out of hand |The Jefe, at the point of his gun had to force the littlest and leanest jof them to go down. And when he |was down he blackmailed thém be- | fore he would come up. And when he leame up they broke their promises land gave him a beating. They were still beating him when I left.” “But now your sack is empty,” said Henry. “Which is our present and most pressing trouble,” Francis agreed. “Had I sufficlent pesos I could keep |the pursuit well bebind us forever I'm afraid I was too generous. I did not know how cheap the poor devils were. But I'll tell you some- thing that will make your hair stand up. Torres, Senor Torres, Senor Al- varez Torres, the elegant gentleman }and old-time friend of your Solanos, |is leading the pursuit along with | the Jefe. They almost had a rupture because the Jefe couldn't keep his men in hand, Yes, «ir, and he told the Jefe to go to hell, I distinctly | heard him tell the Jefe to go to hell.”’ Five miles farther on the horses of Leonifa and her father collapsed wherg the trail plunged into and ascended a dark ravine. Francis urged the others on and dropped behind. Giving them a few minutes’ start, he followed on behind, a self. constituted rearguard. Part way along, in an open space where grew only @ thick sod of grass, he was dismayed to find the hoof prints of the two horses staring at him as large a8 dinner plates from out of the «od, Ra ready cursed it,” said} away!” shouted Guillermo lbubbling of the escaping gas. flowing down the mountain in a veritable river, Also, he listened to and noted the sobbing, gasping and ‘This he did not comprehend, and all that MORE MORE All pe to | saved him for his further adventures was the fact that he had’ used his last match to light his cigaret, In and his hair. He was out of matches. Bo, chuckling at the river of oil he saw was only running to waste, and remembering the canyon trail below, he plunged down the moun tainaide and upon Francia, who re ceived him with extended automatic. Down went the peon on his frayed and frazzled knees in terror and sup plication to the man he had twice betrayed that day. Francis studied him, at first without recognition, be- cause of the bruised and lacerated face and head on which’ the ,blood had dried like a mask “Amigo, amigo,” chattered peon But at that moment, from below on the ravine trail, Francie heard the clatter of a stone dislodged by some man's foot. The next moment he identified what was left of the péton as the pitiable creature to whom he had given half the con tents of his whisky flask “Well, amigo,” Francis said in his native language, “it looks na if they are after you.” NO WAY OF ESCAPE The} will kill me! They will beat me to death! They are very angry,” the wretch quavered. “You are my only friend, my father and mother, save me.” “Can you shoot?” Francia demand ed. “{ was a hunter in the Cordilleras before I was sold into slavery, Senor,” was the reply Francis passed him the automatic the | motioned him to take shelter, and told him not to fire until sure of a hit. And to himself he mused: “The golfers are out on the links right now at Tarrytown. And Mrs. Bel lingham is on the clubhouse veranda, wondering how she is going to pay the three thousand points she's hind and praying for a change of luck, and—-here am I—Lord! Lord! backed up to a river of oil His musing céased as abruptly as appeared the Jefe, Torres, and the gendarmes down the trail. As abruptly he fired his rifle, and as abruptly they fell back out of sight He could not tell whether he had hit one, or whether the man had merely fallen in precipitate retreat. The pursuers did fot care ado make 4 rush of jt, cbntenting themselves with buehwhacking. Francia and the peon did the same, sheltering be- hind rocks and bushes and frequent ly changing their positions At the end of an hour the last cartridge in Francis’ rifle was ail that remained. The peon, under his warnings and thr sul retained two cartridges in the automatic the hour had been an hour saved Leonica and her people, and Francis was contentedly awore that at any moment he could turn and escape by wading acrons the river of ofl So all was well, and would have been well, had not, from above, men, who, from behind trees, fired as they descended, This wax the hact- endado and his fellow haciendados, in chase of the fugitive peon—altho Francis did not know it. His con- clusion was that it was another pouse that was after him, The shots they fired at him were strongly confirm. ative The peon crawled to his side, showed him that two shots remained in the automatic he was returning to him, and impressively begged trom him his box of matches, Next, the peon motioned him to cross the Into the hoof prints had welled a him wee eon ot! hie woe bie bottom of the canyon and climb the other side. With half a guess of the Francis com niied. from hia new. position of van vain he searched his rags, his “ears, | come an eruption of another body of! by <a aes siete THE SEATTLE STAR-—FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1919. CLOSING OUT OUR ENTIRE LINE OF MEN'S AND BOYS’ WEAR, AND OUR ENORMOUS STOCK WILL BE SLAUGHTERED! Everything Marked Down to a Ridiculously Low Figure—A Bona-Fide Sale—Everything Thrown at Your Mercy » pricked for the first sounds Will Be Sold at Prices That Will Astonish You Why Not Save at Least Five Dollars? $190 Underwear $1.00 Dress Shirts T5e Suspenders $1.00 Wool Sox $1.00 Leather Work Gloves CuT TO We have been here { in business in the Northwest for the past 30 years, and every dollar's worth of goods you buy carries our rep- utation and guaran- tee back of it. You do not take chances here — you know you are safe when you trade with us. Every Pair in the Store Will Be Sacrificed — No Reserve — Men's and Boys’ Dress and Work Shoes Must Go $25.00 Suits, fine ma; terials, cut to $12.85 $15.00 Men’s Suits cut high grade, hand tai- lored, cut to $24.85 $35.00 Suits in very fine Tweeds and Serges, cut to $16.85. $15.00 Boys’ All-Woel Suits cut to $6.98 $3.50 Men’s Dress Ha! cut to $1.38 $2.00 fine Black Sat- een Shirts cat to $1.18, All wearing ap- parel has been con- stantly advancing for the past three years, and if you wish to feel the real delight of Old Times, come in and see the ridiculous prices we are sell- ing our stock for. UNION STORE COME EARLY 25e Garters Se Dress Ties 20¢ Handkerchiefs 15e Canvas Gloves 20 Men’s Sox $12 Boys’ Suits cut to $5.95: 75c Work Gloves cut to 8c $7.50 Genuine Panama Hats cut to $3.89 $2.25 Overalls, Union Made, heavy, cut to -$1.25 $3.50 Durable Work Pants cut fo $1.68 $3.50 Heavy Shoes cut to $1.98 $2.00 Wool Underwear $1.50 Union Suits. * $2.00 Flannel Shirts $2.50 Wool Underwear $2 Men’sSweaterCoats $5.00 Straw Hats CUT TO 98c This is a bona-fide sale. We are pioneers here and we have the biggest bargains in town. Just gaze at these prices: $1.50. Tennis Shoes $1.50 Men’s Caps $1.50 Dress Shirts $1.50 Work Shirts $1.00 Athletic Union Suits CUT TO $3.00 Boys’ Shoes ecut to $1.65 $11 and $12 high- grade Johnson & Mur- phy and other makes in Dress and Work Shoes, cut to” $7.00 and $8.00 Shoes, both work and dress, $5.00 Girls’ and Miss- es’ Shoes, cut to $2.98 15¢ Arm Bands cut to 6c $6.00 Boys’ Suits cut to $3.48 25¢ Arrow Collars, slightly soiled, cut to 5c ao ©" Palace Clothing Co. go emptying his last rifle cartridge | peso,” lat the advancing posse and sending it back into shelter down the ravine. | ‘The next moment the river of oil flared into flame from where the peon had touched a match to it. In the following moment, clear up the |mountainside, the well itwelf sent a fountain of ignited gas a hundred feet into the air. And, in the mo ment after, the ravine iteelf poured a torrent of flame down upon the| posses of Torres and the Jefe Scorched by the heat of the flagration, Francis the clawed up the opposite si ravine, circled around ar tered rags. “And other property?” The wretched creature his shoulders in token of his utter | | destitution, then added bitterly “f oan hothing but a debt owe penos life, damned- with it for life like a @ slave to the haclendado. “Huh! Franeia could not forbear to grin. “Worth 260 pesos less than nothing, not even a cipher, a sheer |abstraction of a minus quantity with: |the biasing trail and, at a dogtrot, | Ut existence save in the mathemati i cihed ‘epyidine reciveted. trait cal imagination of man, and yet here | a |you are burning up not less than | CHAPTER X millions of pesos’ worth of oll, And | While Francis and the peon hur if the strata is loose and erratic and |ried up tho raving trail in mfety, the | {Mell leaks up outside the tubing lra vine itself, below where the oi |the chances are that the oll body of Shived in, had bere G tiver the entire field is ignited—say $1,000,- | Ifame, which drove the jefe, Torres {000000 worth. Say, for an abstrac and the gendarmes to scale the ateep | Hon enjoying $260 worth of nonex:| wall of the ravine. At the'same time |!#tence, you are some hombre, be ‘the party of hactendados in pursuit | Heve me ‘of the peon was compelled to claw! Nothing of which the peon under. jback and up to escape out of the | Stood save the word “hombre.” roaring canyon | “1 am @ man!’ he proclaimed, | Ever the peon glanced back over| thrusting out his chest and straight jhis shoulder, until, with a ery of joy,|ening up his bruised head. “I am a ihe indicated a second black smoke | hombre, and I am a Maya!" jpillar rising in the alr beyond the| “Maya Indian—you’” Francis | first burning well | scoffed | “More,” he chuckled, “there are| "Halt M& was the reluctant ad more wells, They will all burn, And| mission, ‘My father is pure Maya so shall they and all their race pay| But the Maya wognen of the Cordil | for the many blows they have beate |teras did not satisfy bir He must on me, And there is & lake of oil|love a mixed breed woman of the T was #0 born, but jthere, like a sea, like Juchitan inlet | terra caliente, |she afterward betrayed him for a con. peon it is #o big!’ And Francis recollected the lake of | Barbadoes nigger, and he went back oil about which the haciendado had| to the Cordilleras to live. told him—that, containing at least); “And, like my father, 6,000,000 barrels which could not | yet be piped to sea transport, lay open to the sky, merely in a natural | I was born | to love a mixed-breed of the tierra caliente, She wanted money, and my | head was fevered with want of her, |depression in the ground and con-|and I sold myself to be a peon for tained by an earth dam, | 200 pesos. And I saw never her nor “How much are you worth?” he|the money again | For five years T |dernanded of the peon with appar-|have.been a peon, For five years, I ent irrelevance, | have slaved and been beaten, and be But the peon could not understand. | hold, at the end of five years, “How much are your clothes worth | debt fe not 200, but 260 pesox!” all you've got on?” And while Francis Morgan and the “Unf & meno: nev. half of @ halfllongesuffering Mava halftbreed | my | (Continued Tomorrow) Copyright, 1919, International Service, Ine.) plodded deeper into the to overtake their party, Doesn’t hurt! Apply a few drops of *‘ bothersome corn. hurting. Corner First Avenue and Spring Street the peon admitted ruefully, | further on, in the heart’of the Corai:| CQUPLE REUNITE AFTER | surveying what was left of his tat-|leras, were preparing other events| | destined to bring gether all pur- suers and all pursued—Francia and shrugged | Henry and Leonica and their party; | the peon; the party of the hacienda | | dos, and the gendarmes of the jefe,|Vorced, Mr. and Mrs, Charles Rich 1| 4nd along with them Alvarez Torres, ardson have been reconciled and are I am tied to it for | eager to win for himself not only the | pow promised reward of Thomas Regan man with a cancer, That is why I am | but th® possession of Leonica Solano. | TRUCKEE, years Aug. of separation, at the Mills. 20 visiting son in Hobart separated |sons years Feature | placed their children in orphanages. | “ Neither applied for divorce and the} ordilleras old relationship legally and while | during | the ofl felis of Juchitan continued | children, to go up in increasing emoke, still | turity the long now three are widely Hard corns, soft corns, corns between the toes, and the hard skin calluses on bottom of feet lift right off—no humbug! 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