The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 25, 1919, Page 11

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Rose Co., Cleveland, O. i 1221 °T # COR, UNIVERSITY: Show Good Profit n to Mayor Ol Murphino, a in a the 19 per cent more car a in hird Ave,: THE SEATTLE STAR—MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 1919, Last Novel Writ ten by Jack London hted) SYNOPSIS OF F Wealthy you HRS) pursued by a pose, After landing take to the rough country whiel tas tas porwuit (Continued From Yesterday) “Before a score of witnesses he threatened to his face to kill the man, Within the hour we found him bending over the man's dead body that was yet warm and limber with departing life.” Ho speaks true,” Henry affirmed 1 did threaten the man, both of us heady from drink and hot blood. I was so found, bending over his dead warm body Yet Idid not Nor do I know nor can I coward hand in the dark 1 out his life thru the back from behind. Kneel, both you, that I may inter the Blind Brigand com trong rogate you manded 1 LOVE HER Long he interrogated with his sen sitive, questioning fingers, Lone and still longer, unable to attain de. cision, bis fingers played over the faces and pulses of the two men “Ia there a woman? asked Henry Morgan pointedly } A woman wonderful. I love her.” “It iw good to be #0 vexed, for| a man unvexed by a woman is only half a man,” the blind judge vouch shafed. He addressed the jefe. “No nan Vexes you, yet are you trou 4. But this man"—indicating Hen “I can not tell if all his vexation is due to woman, Perhaps, in part, | it may be due to you, or to what some prompt of evil may make him m t you. Stand up, both men of you. I can not judge be tween you. Yet is there the test in fallible, the test of the Snake and ¢ Bird, Infallible it is, as God is ible, for by such ways does God maintain truth in the affairs of As well does Blackstone men tion just such methods of detern h by trial and ordeal.” | ertent men. clapper of it from making noise intended of the clapper against ide of the bell, Should he do then will immediately here both of y s, rifte to that you the infract any of rules. And God be with right, proceed The jefe turned slowly about and] listened, while gin gerly caused t to tinkle We | he die. are nbove you, in hand, ne nors, nee die you the ow, Henry, exsaying with the bell, The rifle was quick to| upon the sound, and to pursue it aw Henry ran, With a quick shift] transferred the bell to the other nded hand and ran back in the porite direction, the rifle sweep after him in inexorable pursuit, the jefe was too cunning to risk on a chance shot, nd slowly ad vanced across the arena. Henry stood still, and the bell made no sound, Ko unerringly had the Jef the last «llvery tinkle so wtraightly did he walk despite his blindfold that he advanced just to the right of Henry and directly at the bell. With infinite caution, pro voking no tinkle, Henry slightly his arm and permitted the Jefe's head to go under the bell with a bare inch of margin. | His rifle pointed and within a foot of tho pit the jefe halted in indecision, listening vainly for a mo. then made a further’ stride that collided the rifle mule with the wall, He whirled about and, with the rifle extended, like any blind man felt out the air space for his enemy. The muzzle would have touched Henry had he not sprung away on a nolsy and zigzag course. A HOPELESS TASK In the center of the pit he came to a frozen pause, The jefe ntalked wall, | past a yard to the aide and collided with the opposite wall. He circled the wall, walking eat-footed, hin rif'e forever feeling out into the empty | air. Next he ventured across the pit After several such cronsings, during which the stationary bell him no clue, he adopted @ clever metho Tossing his hat on the ground fe the mark of his starting point, he cromned the edge of the pit on a shal low chord, extended the chord by a pace farther along the wall, and felt him way back along the new and longer chord Again against the wall, he verified | the correctness of the paralleiness of | the two chords by pacing back to his CHAPTER XI To af intents it might have a tiny bull ring, that pit in the heart of the Blind Brigand’s domain. Ten feet in depth and 30 in diameter, with level floor and perpendicular wall, {te natural formation had required little work at the hands of man to complete ite symmetry. The sack- cloth men, the haciendados, the gen. darmes—all were present, © for the Cruel Just One and the mestiza land all were lined about the rim of the pit, as an audience, to gaze down upon some bullfight or iatorial combat within the pit At command’ of the ntern-faced leader of the sackcloth men who had captured them, Henry and th descended down a short ladder into the pit. The | the brigands ac “Heaven alone knows what's going | to happen,” Henry laughed up in English to Leonica and Francis. “But if it's rough and tumble, bite and | gouge, or Marquis of Queensbury, or | London prize ring, Mister Fat Jefe is my meat. But that old blind one is clever, and the chan he's going to put us at each er nome ia of evenness. In which case Wo you, my audience, if he gets down, stick your thumbs up and make all the noise you can. upon it, if it's he that’ crowd will thumbs up.” The jefe reome by the trap into which he descended, in Spanish ad: dressed the leader “I shall not fight with this man. He is younger than I, and has bet ter wind. Also the affair is illegal. | It is not according to the law of the republic of Panama. It Is extra territorial and entirely unjudicial.”* “Tt is the Snake and the Bird,” the leader shut him off. “You shall be the Snake. This rifle shall be in your | hands. ‘The other man shall be the Bird. In his hand shall be the bell. Behold! Thus may you understand the ordeal.” At this command one of the bri |gands was given the rifle and w | blindfolded. To another brigand, not | blindfolded, was given a silver bell. “The man with the rifle is the Snake,” said the leader. “He has one| shot at the Bird who carries the) | bell.” | THE GAME EXPLAINED | | At the signal to begin, the bandit |with the bell tinkigl it at extended arm's length and sprang swiftly aside. The man with the rifle low-/ lered it as if to fire at the space just vacated and pretended to fire y understan the leader de-| manded of Henry and the Jefe The former nodded, but the lat exultantly: “Am I the Snake “You are the Snake!" affirmed th leader. | And the jefe was eager for the} no further protests | extra-territoriality of the been wa on me * | | jer > you going to try to get me?"| enry warned the jefe | “No, Senor Morgan, I am merely going to get you, I am one of the| jtwo best shots in Panama. I have two score and more medals, I can shoot with my wyes shut I can shoot in the dark, I have often shot, |and with precision, in the dark Al | ready may you count yourself a dead | man? Only one cartridge was put into} the rifle, ere it was handed to the jefe after he was blindfolded, Next, while Henry, equipped with the tell |tale bell, was stationed directly lacross the pit, the jefe was faced to} ‘the wall and kept there while the bri- | fends climbed out of the pit and drew the ladder after them, The leader, from above, spoke down “Listen carefully, Senor Snake and make no move until you have heard, The Snake has but one shot The Snake can not tamper with his blindfold. If he so tampers it 1s our duty to see that he immediately dies. | |The Snake has no time limit. He| may take the rest of the day, and all} of the night, and the remainder of eternity ere he fires one shot As for the Bird, the one rule that ‘never must the bell leave his} | hat. | Ber. | shoulder, This time, with three paces along the wall from the hat, he ini Uated his third chord Thus he combed the area of the pit, and Henry saw that he could not escape such combing. Nor did he wait to be discovered. Tinkling the bell as he ran and zigzagging and hanging it from one hand to the rt he froze into immobility in a new place, The jefe repeated the laborious mbing out process; but Henry wa not minded longer to prolong the ten | sion. He waited tll the jefe's latest chord brought him directly upon him. He waited till the rifle muzzle, breast high, was within half a dozen inches of his heart. Then he ex-/ ploded into two simultaneous action: He ducked lower than the rifle an yelled “Fire! in stentorian com mand. Bo startled, the jefe pulled the trig: ger, and the bullet sped above Hen-| ry's head. From above, the sackcloth | men applauded wildly. The Jefe tore of his blindfold and saw the smiling face of his foe. “It Is well—God has spoken!” an-| nounced the sackcloth leader, as he descended into the pit. “The man uninjured is inno Remains now to “Greetings, Henry grinned. u did try to get me, It's my turn now. Pass over that rifle!” But the jefe, with a curse, im his disappointment and rage, forgetting | that the rifle haa contained only one | cartridge, thrust the muzzle against Henry's heart and pulled the trigger The hammer fell with a metailie click. “It is well,” said the leader, taking away the rifle and r reing it. “Your conduct shall be reported. The test for you remaina, yet must It ap- pear that you aro not acting fike God's chosen man.” Like a beaten bull in the ring seek ing @ way to escape and gazing up at the amphitheatre of pitiless faces, #o| the jefe looked up and saw only the} rifles of the sackcloth men, the tri umphing faces of Leonica and Fran- els, the curious looks of his own gen darmes and blood-eager faces of the haciendados that were like the fac of any bull fight audience. The shadowy smile drifted over the stern lips of the leader as he handed the rifle to Henry and started to blindfold him. A VERY GOOD REASON “Why don't you make him face the wall until I'm ready?” the jefe demanded, as the silver bell tinkled in his passion-convulsed hand. “Because he is proven God's man,” was the reply. “He has stood the test. Therefore, he can not do a therous deed, You now must} stand the test of God. If you are| true and honest, no harm can befall| you from the Snake. is | God's way.” | For such Far more successful as the hunter t than as the hunted one did the prove. fe nervousness, as Henry's rifle swept around him, his hand trembled and the bell tinkled. ‘The rifle came al most to rest and wavered ominously about the sound, In vain the jefe tried to control his flesh and still the bell. But the bell tinkled on, and in despair he flung it away and threw himself on the ground, But Henry, following the sound of his enemy's 1, lowered: the rifle and pulled trig The jefe yelled out in sharp in as the bullet perforated his rose to his feet, cursed, sprawled back on the ground and lay there cursing. +e Again in the cave, with the mes. 2 beside him at his knee, the Blind ‘and gave judgment. | “This man who is wounded and who talks much of the law of the tierra caliente shall now learn Cor- dilleras law. 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WOMEN ARE WADE STRONG | Mrs. Westmoreland Tells in | the Following Letter. solved WORLDLY WISE ‘The old man’s blind facp up to transfiguration “You, too, speak with God's voice this day, regenerate one,” he ap-| proved Put Francis, who had been serfh- | bling hurriedly in his check book handed a check, still wet with the ink, to the mestiza “I, too, speak,” he said. “Tet not the man die the dog’s death he de serves, proven treacherous hound that he is.” ‘The mestiza read the check aloud. | ‘It is not necessary to explain,” | the Blind Brigand shut Francis off. | “I am a@ creature of reason and have | not lived always in the Cordilleras. I| was trained in business in Barcelona I know the Chemical National Bank | of New York, and thru my agents| ave had dealings with it aforetime. » sum is for $10,000 gold. | ni# man who writes it has told the truth already this day, The check is good. 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