The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 23, 1919, Page 4

: $ f = —— GTAR—SATURUAY, AUGUST 28, 1919 ast novel writlen by— COPYRIGHT F OF PRECKDING CHAPTERS | \t was, Two miles away, on a moun-| their backs, glared at him thru their | gotf hall, electrocuted an inspector of teaves|tain crest, the branch of a similar! eyes thelr common desire for his im: | police, battled with Tammany, or bid re) semaphore tree replied mediate extinetion |four nulios with five sure: tricks in RT Gerkrar” Benes Still beyond that, and further down | — Tor in "a genuine outburst Sf | one's own hand Heary Morgan, another od | the glopes, the flashing of a hand mir: | his passion, tho his rapid glances Huh! Henry vouchsafed half an . Who resembles himself, mak~ | ror in the sun hellographed the relay. had assured him of the helplessn uy later, as the trall from a lesser ere eee a aanghier |R& Of the blind man’s message from | of the two Morgans, seized her hands | crost afforded a view of higher crents fat family, She loves him, |the cave, And all that portion of/ in his and urged }heyond. “Huhbt and hell's bells! These wers ahé te failing in love |the Cordilleras became voluble with! “Leonica, as your husband I might | gsunny.sack chaps not animals or yg rll ra cn nee bY | ceded speech of vibrating ore veins,| be able to do something for Menry.| savages. Look, Francis! They are te Jaiied and sentenced (SUN flashings and waving tree| Even may it be possible for me to|semaphoring!, & that near tree committed. | branches save his life and neck, if he will/ there, ‘and that big one across the oe Wh Enrico Solano, slenderly| yield to leaving Panama immedi. | canyon? See the branches wave!” ‘are | erect on his horse as an Indian youth | ately.” Pei ahs HAS eh a ey ae After landing, they and convayed on either side by his You Spanish dog!" Henry snarled) pinafolded for a number o ramgh | co The pose. /sons, Alesandro and Ricardo, hang-|at him, struggling with his tied na gov nye’ a Oe * | ing to his saddle trappings, made the | hands behind his back tn an effort to le lant, the prisoners, att tht £ |best of the time afforded them by | free them eera WOte "tee SRN eve, where Bid prom Yeetertay) |Francis’ rear guard battle with the| “Gringo cur!” Torres retorted, as/ine jcruel, Justice relaned, When «Contin es ar |gendarmes, Leonica, on her mount,| with an open-back-handed blow, he | ¢ iat tuemniebee . pasa bya ® cave sat a man and a woman. /, _q Henry Morgan lagged behind. | struck Henry on the mouth cavern, Lighted by tapy torches, and, by, the latter was, and YounE. &/One or the other was continually) On the, instant Henry's foot shot | Coneronting thea « bin torches, and, je cheap kerosene lamp | cis overtaking them drove him staggering 6 directioi acheinh sented on ¢ Fead aloud from a Galf-bound) “Warching his opportunity, Henry of Prancta grag dil gang ite vg dette tg Renenth Rie Which was a Spanish transla:| took the back trail. Five minutes! with a kick of his own. Back and | yy, Bs roan OF a ere = Pyeeey [St Blackstone. Both were bare | arterward Leonica, no less anxious | forth like a shuttlecock between the | ‘the Giind me . Glad in hooded gabardines Of tha, for Francis’ safety, tried to | battledores, res waa kicked from|was the thin end’ hell and his voice loth. Her hood lay back on turn ) hetee went: Bett ant-|one man to the other, until the gen oof ain ase we ike silver of Mhoullers, exposing her black | maj, eager for the companionship of |darmes seized the two gringos and | "cre cruel Justice has b us head of hair Ra, wate abeod, reteset’ to obey | began to bent thom te thete nelsten-|eTan cree, Tumiee hes Bees in RBs old man’s hood was cowled| therein, cut up and pranced and de-| ness. Torres not only urged the gen-| vigor and eanitye ne his head after the fashion Of | Wherately settled into a balk darmes on, but himself drew a knife;| ai; hetd heck. and : The face, lofty and ascetic nting and throwing her|and red tragedy might have hap-| sets could mummon hone of ne Red with power, was pure Span | reing on the ground in th namian | pened with offended Latin-American i SUCHENNG Beate <6 courage Don Quixote might have worn | method of tethering a saddle horse, blood up and raging, had not a score | i eee @ Similar face. But th Leonica took the back trail on foot.|or more of armed men silently @D-|tinued the blind brieand “Let my ° Em difference. The eyes of this | so rapidiy did she follow Henry that | peared and silently taken charge Of|seak first. All mortal Let her Sian were closed in the perpetual | she was almost treading on his heels the situation, Some of the myaterl-| women are guilty ot manag nt Mf the blind. Nover could he be! wen he encountered Francis and| ous newcomers were clad in cotton | tse are charged by (hele te or Sent at which to tilt. the peon. The next moment both|singlets and trousers, and others|amenuicne ee eh Bat, while the pretty mestiza prenry and Francis were chiding her | were in cowled gabardines of sack - apa OBR Ro him, listening and brooding. | for ner conduct. but in both their | cloth LEONICA GOES FORWARD Bi the world in the pose of voices was the involuntary tender-| The gendarmes and haciendados re-| Henry and Francis were for with p Thinker.” Nor was he / ness of love, which pleased neither | coiled in fear, crossing themselves, |#training her, but with an equal Fwd s tilter of windmills, | to near the other uttering. muttering prayers and ejaculating:|*Mile to them she addrensed the ixote. | ‘The blind brigand?" “The cruel just | Crue! Just One in clear and ringing hi blindness, that ever pe 2 La ds poe one!’ “They are'hia people!” “We are | tones | the apparent face of the world | CIRCUMSTANCE lost!" “1 only havé’ aided the than I am bility, he was 4 man of &¢-| ‘Their hearts more active than| But the much-beaten peon sprang |¢M#aged to marty to e from fis soul was anything but) their heads, they were caught in to forward and fell on his bleeding | 4eath for murder he did not commit trating unerringly beneath | ta) surprise by the party of jen-| knees before a stern-faced man who| “YOu have spoken,” said the blind of things to the heart and) dadog that dashed out upon them appeared tobe the leader of the blind | >rigand. “Come forward to me of the world and reading | w {th covering rifles from the sur: brigand’s men. Fras the mouth of| Piloted by sackcloth men, while the sins and rapacities and MO | rounding jungle. Despite the fact| the peon poured forth a stream of |tWo, Morgans who loved her were and virtues. {that they had thus captured the run-| loud lamentation and outery for jus | | reatlens and perturbed, she was made his hand and put ® pause | away peon, whom they proceeded to. tice. to kneel at the blind man's kn | Feading, while he thought) kick and cuff, all would have been |. “You know that juitice to which |The mestiza girl placed his hand on the context wf the read:/ wei! with Lednica and the two Mor-|you appeal?” The leader spoke gut,|Lonica’s head. For a full and sob ~ |gans had the owner of the peon, the | turally. e mn minute silence obtained, while! itaw of man.” he said with! oiatime friend of the Solano family “Yeu, the cruel justice! the peon |the steady fingers of the blind one de, “is today a game Of been present. But an attack of the replied. “I know what it means to|tested about her forehead and regis Not equity, but wit, is the| malarial fever. which was his dué/appeal to the cruel justice, yet do tered the pulse-beats of her temples. : Jaw today. The law in its in-| every third day, had wtmetched him/1 appeal, for I seek justice and my|Then he removed his hand and Was good; but the way of the /out in a chill near the burning off | cause is just.” j leaned back to decision. Practice of it, has led men | qejg too, demand the cruel justice’| “Arine, senorita!" e pronounced false pursuits. They have) ertheless, tho by their blows a. cried, with flashing eyes, at-|“Your heart is clean of evil. You the way for the goal. the they reduced the peon to weepings tho she added in®an. undertone to|S° free. Who els® appeals to tho| § for the end. Yet is law law | and pleadings on his knees, the hact ancis and Henry: “Whatever the | Crue! Justice?” | and good. Only law. | endados were courteously gentle to | cruel justice is.” Francis immediately stepped for . tice today, has gone aMray. | Teonica and quite decent to Francis It will have to go some to be un-| Ward a and lawyers engage {M/and Henry, even tho they tied the| fairer than the justice we can expect! “I likewise helped the mgn to em | and affrays of wit and) hands of the latter two behind them | from Torres and the jefe,” Henry re-|C®pe from an undeserved ba The quite forgetting the plain jin preparation for the march up the plied in similar undertones, then|™man and I of the mame name, and | defendants, before them) ravine siope to where the horses had i stepped forward boldly before the | distantly of the same blood.’ | them, who are seeking | been left. ut upon the peon, with }cowled leader and said loudly: “And| He, too, knelt, and felt the soft | And justice and not wit and) yj atin.American cruelty, they conyp I demand the cruel justice!” finger lobes play delicately over hin! , ued to reiterate their rage. The leader nodded. brows and temples and come to rest | ot is old Blackstone right. Un-| yer were they destined to arrive THE JEFE OBJECTS finally on the pulse of his wrist j IN at the bottom of it all. at nowhere, by themeolves, with thelr Me, too,” Francis murmured low,| “It is not al} clear to me,” said ling of the building of the) captives. Shouts of joy heralded the and then made loud demand. the Blind One.. “You are not at! ies of the law, is the quest, the! gesouchment upon the scene of the| ‘The gendarmes did not seem to|rest or at peace with your soul. | et and sincere quest of right-| sore’s gendarmes and of the jefe and| count in the matter, while the hqci-| There is trouble within you that) a a for justice and equity. But! aivarez Torres, Afose at once the | endados signified their willingness to | exes you.” | > it that the preacher said? [rapid-fire staceato men of both par-|abide by whatever justice the blind| Suddenly the peon stepped forth | themselves many inven | ties of pursuers trying to explain |brigand might mete out to them.) 4nd shoken unbidden, his voice evok. | jand demanding explanation at one | Only the jefe objected. ing @ thrill as of the shock of bias | ‘the law, good in its begin’! and the same time. Maybe you don’t know who 1|Phemy from the sackcloth man. ‘ been invented out of all) And while the barrage of all talk-|am!” he blustered. “I am Mariano} “Ob, Just One, let this man go! eterna « soe ee ing simultaneously and of no one} a ¥ Hijos, of long illustrious | *d ste peon, passionately, “Twice | @nes, but mei winning anywhere in understanding! and long and honorable cn. | W@% I weak and betrayed him to hi TT ° \ fed Judgee and the lean and made anarchy of apeech, Torres, with |reer. I am jefe pailtico of San An enemy, and twice, this day has ne | f The crack of a pistol—and the world had another rere “Whe Sciye |@ nod to Francis and a sneer Of tri-|tonio, the highest friend of the gov. | Protected me from my enemy and | ¢ “ pPaunches if they prove them-|umph to Henry, ranged before -T- |ernor, and high in the confidence of | sved mot” - “sensation.” What though the “other woman” was all micleverer than their opponents| onica and bowed low to her {n true|the government of the republic of| And the peon, once again on hi that a woman should be? Friends, home, honor _ fell the judges who render de) ana deep hidalgo courtesy and re-4 Panama. I am the law. There is but | Knees, but this time at the knees o ti. : 2% 3 : as Roain'a | "22% one law and one Justice, which la of (Justice, thrilled and shivered with au: | away. Only love remained. Then in love’s own way— ® paused, eyed in’s| “Listen,” he said, low-volced, as| Panama and not the Cordilleras, 1) Perstitious awe, as he felt wander rou’ e a ] 716) . i i ’ tnd meditated, while the |ahe rebated him with am asm move [protest again this mountain, ha ever, him. tho light But frm ner but 4 Il have to see beautiful Elsie Ferguson in this woman walt js customary | ment of repulsion. “Do not misun-|you call the cruel justice, I shall|touches of the strangest judge man | “Ww 1 ” } resume the reading. At last, derstand me. Do not mistake me. j70% an army against your blind|@¥ér knelt beforé Bruises and lac: | great heart-warming picture before you. can guess its & profound of thought in |1 am here to save you, and, no mat:|brigand and the buzzards will pick|¢rations were swiftly explored, even | power. had been weighed in| tor what may happen, to protect you.| his bones in San Juan.” to the shoulders and down the back } > “ : he spoke: }¥ou are the Indy of my dreams. I| “Remember.” Torres sarcastically | “The other man goes free!” the From Henry Arthur Jones’ Celebrated Play, (we have law, here in the Cor- | wili die for you—yes, and gladly, tho| warned the irate jefe, “that this is| Cruel One announced. “Yet there is | “We Can't B d ora. 3s : Panama, that is just anditar more gladly would I live for/not San Antonio, but the bush of |/‘rouble and unrest within’ him. Is / e Can't Be as Bad as All That all of equity, We work for | your Juchitan, Also, you have no army.”|0M¢ here who knows and will speak a a . fe Ba as i tba on ‘and serve not even paunches.| «1 do not understand,” she replied,| “Have these two men been un. | up?" " a says th and not broadcloth con-| curtiy, “I do not see life or death | just to any one who has appealed to| THE TROUBLE WITHIN * . ° - e equity of judicial decision. | in the is*ue. We have done nv wrong.| the cruel justice?” the leader asked! And Francis knew on the instant This picture is here now. Aside from the power on, Mercedes. Blackstone is @l-|} pave done no wrong, nor has my | abruptly the trouble the blind man had di id th f i i 2 rent it <ipes agen tead-—~| father. Nor has Francis Morgan, nor| “Yes!” asneverated the peon, ““They | within him—the full love that woreed and pathos of its story, its wonderful showing of the called paradox, and/iag Henry Morgan. Therefore, sir, have beaten me, and without cause. | ‘or Leonic 4 tha % i i i Modern law ordinarily is, @/ the matter is not a question of life|My head is bloody. My body Sal euea to, wh vr othe fu es ron | Venetian canals ad something long to be remembered. Read on. Blackstone is) or death.” lbruised and torn. Again I appeal to| must ever bear to Henry. | ) foundation of human law) Henry and Francis, shouldering|the cruel justice, and I charge these| No less quick was Leonica in know-| é , Oh, how many wrongs are clev-| close to Leonica, on either side, lis | two men with Injustice!” ing, and could the blind man have a committed by clever men in his! tened and caught thru the hubble-| The le nodded and to his own|beheld the involuntary glanc typi ry oe " bathe many peices the conversa-|men Indicated the disarming of the | knowlec the man and womas | ny sna Berea Re: nym a: wan’ . ’ THE LAMP tion of Leonica and Torres prisoners and the order of march threw at each other and the PE grep needy " Th An Se Ce F Musk j fen Minutes later the blind thinker| “It {# a question absolute of cer-| “Justico—1-demand equal justice!” | ate embarrassment peyton eco as At The & team, ne ayes ee — e swer to ven- nt ares in egon ‘ this head, sniffed the air, tnd |tain death by execution for Henry| Henry cried out. “My hands are tied |he could have unerringly diagnosed |<" pease renee Medina. The Bol H the girl to pause. Taking | Morgan,” Torres persisted, “Proven | behind my back. All hands should be| Francis’ trouble. ‘The mestiza girl| ent yas weome, A dead i an Fee from him, she, too, sniffed:|beyond doubt in his conviction for|so tied, or no hands be #0 tied. Be| saw, and with a leap at her heart} tase fetter than a live d jon is} be it is the lamp, O Just|the murder of Alfaro Solano, who| rides, it ix very difficult to walk when|scented a love affair. Likewine|t mys, better than a live Gog: | ghe sugested. | was your own full-blood uncle and| one is #0 tied!” l had Henry eedn. and uneoneciousiy | noe en ee, oe * 7 4 tl r But as the peon, at a signal from fs burning oil,” he said, “put Your father's own full-blood brother. The shadow of a smile drifted on | scowled. the mestiea, started to ties, the blind not the lamp. It is from far| There is no chance to save Henry|the lips of the leader as he directed! The Just Onespoke Saat aerial tae bicie . Also, I heard shooting in the jean es poateg a Morgan can I his men to cut the lashings that} “An affair of heart undoubtedly,” ” ; a poly 9 qivaisiel diab eal a | save invidiously advertised the inequality |he dismissed the matter, “The eter-|thig day hae been born man, what heard nothing—" she began. | “If?” Leonica queried, with almost | complained of |nal vexation of woman in the heart|was the cause of all your troubles?” ter, you who see,have not | the snap of jaws of a ghe leopard: | “Hunt Francis grinned to Leonica]of man wertheless, this standa| The oeon answered cis d to hear that I have. There HIS CONDITION and Henry. “I have a vague mem:|free. ‘Twice, in the one day, ‘has he| «My heart waa weak and hungry been many shots fired in the ory that somewhere around a million | succored the man who twice betrayed |Q Maye one toe mixed-breed | Order my children toinves-| “If you prove kind to me, and| years ago I used to live in a quiet| him. Nor has the trouble within him | w a oe tha li Tt “ TEenkies report jmarry me,” Torres said with magnifi. | old burg named New York, where we | aught to do with tht aid he rendered |ectt am mountain born yap ie bes : ng reverently to the old man|cent steadiness, altho two gringon, | foolishly thought we were the wildest | the man said to be sentenced to death i : ao if debt to the ha vil i " : hee not see, but who, by keen | helpless, their hands tied behind! and wickedest that ever cracked at a| undeserved ah peice gp ~sfboret roe ee led hearing and conscious tim —- - —_—— ~| “Remains to question this last|with the money and another man, I goat ont sae 2 A ’ se cg Bradlan “ ra this beaten | remained the slave of the hactendado, y that she had bowed, the yor All R h ON hbo L creature before me who twice this|who is not a bad man, but w man lifted the curtain of blankets 1g) t; elg. rs, et's day has proved weak out of selfish rad revi ‘a % becunanase re ind passed out into the 4 At : . ness, and who has just now proved ‘1 have tolled, been beaten, and iii ce te covemmcrith vats Hang Our Latchstrings Out |e sone out oe ncdinthnees yack Minor ee ave long seats a of the peon class. Each was | for another |my debt is now become 260 pesos, with rifle and machete, while Fully 59,000 out-oftown, visitors will be in Seattle during “Fleet He leaned forward and played his|and yet 1 possess naught but these u their girdles were thrust naked-)| Week,” beginning September 8 fingers searchingly over the face and rags and a body weak from insuffi ed knives 4 Seattle hotéls are pretty well filled, 80 are apartment and room. || YTOWs Of the peon cient food.’ the girl's order, both arose and | ing houses. But the visitors must be housed) and Jim Lansbury, chair “Are you afraid to die?’ he asked |, t ; ee Wed, not to her, but to the com: | man of the fleet housing committee, has undertaken the task suddenly THE WOMAN WONDERFUL and the invisible source of the aking everybody to do their bit,” said Lansbury Tues reat and Holy One, I am sore Was she wonderful—this woman d. One of them tapped the opening our homes, hnd in no other way, will we be able to || #fr"id to die,” was the peon's re of the terra cadsiente the blind bek of his machete, against the! ommodate the crowd,” } “Then say that you have Hed about Judge querie oftly € upon which he had been sitting, If you have a room, or more, fill dut the following an@ mail it || this man; say that his twice succor I was mad for her, Holy One, 1 en laid his ear to the stone and lis | to the Fh Housing Committee, 205 Commercial building ing of you was a lie, and you shall do not think now that she was won. In truth, the stone was but : live derful. But she was wonderful then.| When the Muskegon, Mich., traction interests tried to collect 7 cents for a city ride, the patrons quickly p outjut of a vein of metalliferous |} 5 Under the Blind One's fingers the!The fever of her burned my heart| made their sentiments known, And the pictures show their answer, At the left are two cars badly smashed P that extended across and thru | Name»... tevese Phone peon cringed and wilted and brain and made a task slave of| by rioters of the mountain. 4 “Think well!” came the so me, tho she fled in the night and ow —— — —— - beyond, on the opposite slope, AEBTERG voices esgic over ee Seehes prereset eres warning. “Death is not ¢ 1 knew her never again.” | ways been apd shall continue always|;men, Go free. You are half Maya?"|there be true justice here in this eyrie commanding the mag-\P ot Gar Line Sen, eb tue be erunmioving, as the ‘The peon waited, on hig’ knees,|t0 be until the end of man’s time and| “I am half Maya,” the peon mur: | cave of the Cordilleras.” panorama of the descending | ° =gps foi A 5 pea Me ea - . rock, is not good. Say that you have | With bowed head, while to the am man’s loving on earth |mured, “My father is a Ma But the jefe interrupted.* of the Cordilleras, sat another a ne led and life is yours, Spbak! ment of all the Blind Brigand vd; A profound. of silence fell within} “Arise and go free, And remain " ‘ P who first listened with his ear || “Ble Rooms Dotan. Toe: | But, altho his voice shook trom the|deeply and seemed to fost na ns) jthe cavern, while the Cruel One med-/in the mountains with your Maya! ‘oo, ye eprrgaahe nant Feature feseed to similar metalliferous | sincie Reds .......0+ PA Reap duble Melia s.c.0.0caM Jexquisiteness of his fear, the peon|Place, His hand strayed involuntar. | !tated for a space. At the last, with a father, The tierra caliente is no place | wae “a iz, and next tapped response | , |rone to the full spiritual stature of a/ily and automatically to the head| touch dared of familiarity, the pretty |for the Cordilleras-born. The hact- | then eis machete. After’ that, he|} Male or female) fale or femals) | man of the mostiza, caressed the shining | Mestiza touched him and roused him |endado is not present, and therefore 1 ipped half a dozen paces to het welne: i ate Parties Preferred “Twice this day did I betray him,| black hair ontinued to ss it| to remembrance of the peon still/can not be judged, And, after all, he Sa mon Ruasied half dead, reached into the hol- r id P by | Holy One. But my name ts not Pe-| while -he spoke. | erouching at bis feet is but a haciendado, His fellow haci Heav I Re rt W heart of it, and pulled on the Pp narky .....cs00 e % sey |ter. Not thrice in this day will 1 be “The woman,” he said, with such| “I pronounce judgment,” he spoke. | ¢"dado, too, go free."* Siren vy» bd b ‘po! e within as a man might pull who, 4 ay tray him, [am sore afraid, but 1 can |gentlenesx that his voice, still clear|You have received many blows.| ‘The Cruel Just One waited, and| KETCHIKAN, Aug. 23.—Saimon ringing # steeple bell. Me ose of osc0 Fidonen i (Jawias cou bows de iscbdes ths’ not betray him thrice nd belllike, wae barely a whisp Each blow on your body ts quittance | without waiting, Henry stepped for. @ré running heavy here for this sea- tut no sound was evoked. Instead, + The blind judge leaned back and “ver the woman wonderful, All| in full of the entire debt to the haci-| ward son of the year, All the canneries fty branch, 50 feet above his | his face beamed and glowed as if women are wonderful--to man, They | endado. Go fr But remain in the| “I am the man,” he stated boldly, |are working full time taking care , sticking out from the main Gansfigured. love our fathers; they birth us; we|mountains, and next time love a|“sentenced to the death undeserved “ esac MM MUMOROEN AEM, MOVED IE. 0c cccescoss<svcesasyossspcssececserscesesqpersotens the Wall spoken.” he sail. “You have|love them; they birth our sons to| mountain woman, since woman you/for the killing of a man I did not of the big run. The season in Bem ‘and down like the semaphore arm | he makings of «man. 1 now lay my jlove their daughters and to call thelr | must havg, and since woman Js in-|kill. He was the blood-uncle of the |ing sea has been very poor, accord : isentence upon you; From now on,|daughters wonderful; and this has al- | evitable aKa ‘eternal in the affairs of {girl 2 love, whom .1 shall marry it!ing to reports, reaching: here.