The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 27, 1919, Page 10

HCAIMS 0, APTRRS leave Henry Morgan, another |, who resembles himeectf, mak same search. Henry is in love pee beautiful adopted dounhier Spanish family. She cad a also A plot te fll sh Je foster parents to get Henry The way, He is Jailed and sentenced die for a crime he never committed, the ald of Francis and Leo i. from jail, and the three to Francis’ schooner. ‘They are Dy & posse, After landiny te the rough country The posse, fins landed from a (ag, continues The fugitives are captured for justice, they are taken to where The Cruet Judge of primitive Center forth. (Continued From Yesterday) CHAPTER XIII | A. week later, out of San Antonio 5OR & single day, three expeditions | Mtarted for the Cordilleras. The first ‘Mounted on mule Henry, Francis, the peon and his an a Parent, and of several of the peons, ch leading a pack fle burdened with supplies and out Ol4 Enrico Solano, at the last t, had been prevented from ing the party becausp of bursting open of an okt wound ived in the revolutionary fighting his youth. Up the main street of San Antonio cavalcade proceeded the wall of which Francis had mamited and which was only even @n being tardity rebuilt by the prisone Torres, sauntering the street, the latest wire from m tucked in his pocket, saw the outfit with surprise. “Whither away, senors?* Bo spontaneous that it might have rehearsed, Francis pointed to sky, Henry straight down at earth, the peon to the right, and father to the left. The curse [lFom Torres at such impoliteness all to burst into laughter, which the mule peons joined strode along. S) Within the morning, at the time ‘the siesta hour, while all the town Met, Torres received a second sur ‘This time it was the sight of and her younge: on mules, leading a third ‘was evidently loaded with a ing outst. third expedition was Torre Reither more nor less meager Leonica’s, for it was composed of himself and one Jose Mane & notorious murderer of p place, whom Torres. for private had saved from the buazards Juan. But Torres’ plans, in was composed of | passing the | ae. Ver “St aun bye then of Cotombia had ts governing it not power been too upled with rticular py al arm te own ¥ ith grate, have sent troy the pest hole And in this pest hole of the © Ma ish murderer cheno had been born of a father and a postina murderess: mother 1 to thi hot Mancheno Jowe was leading the commands homas Regan of Wa « in order that artied Lucky did." Fran ode prie He's a pretty ded, “Look at him The old man, aa he was forever pulling out tassel and mumbling and muttering as he fingered it AN ECHOED HO! old when we they Maya him Henry of found told rear last smile,” Henry ” led the way the sacred Hope the doesn't wear it out wish You'd directions once for a little «hile ally pawing them over They rode out thru the Jungle into a clear st that looked as if at some time man had downed the Jun and fought It Beyond, by vista afforded the clearing, ¢ mountain called E Rovalto ered high in the aky ld Maya halted his mule, ran over certain strir pointed to the mountain, and spoke in broken Spanish, It says: ‘In the footsteps of the God wait till the eyes of Chia fash,’ " | Hetindicated of a string as the source of his formation. Where are the footsteps, old priest?" Henry demanded, staring about him at the unbroken sward 1 But the old man started his mule. and, with a tattoo of bare he |the creature's ribs, hastened across the clearing into the beyond. “He's lke a hound on the scent Jand it looks as if the scent is get ting hot,” Francis remarked. | At the end of a half mile, where |the jungle turned to grassland swiftrising slopes, the old man gentleman was Henry's fervent think he'd read the and remember them instead of continu back by ance sunny he * in the tassel in Is on it jungle brother, | forced his mule into a gailop which | he maintained until he reached natural depression in the Three feet or more in depth, of area sufficient to accommodate a dozen persons in comfort, its form strikingly like that which some co- lossal human foot could have made “The footstep of the God.” the old priest proclaimed solemnly ere he slid off his mule and prostrated him jseif in prayer. “In the foosteps of a ground. the particular knots | on lhree®) > oman TURE gO laughing « appre May # no place ox for you fornia‘’s Women there The trouble is that is remembering th brought misfortune o of hin turned to the to read the it n travel the old mar woman wh nm bim in th youth,” Francis said peon, “Ask knot writing and for Against in the footsteps of your what nee aye wom ng | God. | In vain tur led the writing Th | was not to be found the test au thoritative objection to womat MIXING PERIENC He's mixing his own experiences with his mythology j srinned triumphantly, it's ty all right, Leonie for for a bite to This coffee's made, After that But ‘after that came before. had they seated themselves ground nd to eat Fran standing serve with tortillas his hat the ancient high priest sacred jup Francis So 1 guess pr tay eat Scarcely on begun up t had when s Leon [knocked off | My word jaudden, I he sald. That take a squint who tried to pot shoot me The next moment, mve for peon's father, all eyes were peeping acroas the rim of the foostep, What they saw, creeping upon them from every wide | bizarrely clad horde of men. seemed members of particular but composed of all races, The of the human family med to have moulded their linea ments and vari-colored their skins. The bunch I ever laid my eyes on Francis’ comment They are the muttered, betraying And who in Instantly be amended the Garoos?” | “They come from hell! waa the |peon’s answer, “They are more sav age than the Spaniard, more terrible than Maya. They neither give in marriage, nor does a | priest reside among them. They are the devil's own spawn, and their |ways are the devil's ways, only war ary and the | was a nondescript and no race br = entire mangtest wan the Gar peon r began Francis | And who are nor take worse! | Here the Mayn arose, and, with ae cusing finger, denounced Leonica for Matter of an expedition, were | the God must we wait till the eyes | being the cause of the last trouble. far up the slopes of the Cor dweit the strange tribe of the Originally founded by run Negro slaves of Africa and Slaves of the Mosquito coast. |for the numbojumbo foolery to come | ve" of Chia. had perpetuated them pi¥es with stolen women of the! wd Caliente and with fugitive slaves like themselves the Mayas beyond and the t of the coast this unique had maintained itself in sem! » Added to, in later by runaway Spanish prisoners, we and a taint so bad that the aD HAN LOOK AFTER HIS FARM, NOW Taking Tanlac Schultz ‘as in Misery Both Day and Night “There is no doubt about this being a real medicine, for overcome my troubles after ing else I tried had failed even give me a little relief,” C. M. Schultz, a well known prosperous farmer, who liv | Hubbard, Oregon, while in the fi Drug Store in Portland the 4 day. *About six years ago,” continued Schultz, “rheumatism = struck in my right shoulder and final went down into my! right leg feet, and the pain and misery have gone through sin that fs more than I can tell about fingers and toes would cramp bad at times that 1 couldn't them at all. I was in #0 uch misery at night that 1 In't sleep a wink, but just had He in bed and suffer hour after fr. {his rheumatism finally got bad that for six months before L commenced taking Tanlac I had walk on crutches. My stomach fn bad condition, too, and Id sour and I would up with gas for purse at a time. I was badly con- ted and frequently had bad pelis of headache. All these trou- i all bloated jes just got the best of me, and} while I was under treatment all the , and tried many different “kinds of medicine, I gradually got worse right along. | “My daughter came to day, and she told me about the 4 Tanlac had done her, on my giving it a trial that medicine just got after that rheumatism ked it winding, 1 put ven't that day to this. as weil as I hustle around farm all right. ible is gone, too, hearty meals every ler suffer a particle Weill, right and my needed Why, ever did, and look My I can day afterwards SI have actually gained ten pounds I and feel time. I fine have dy, and just ndy all the jeed that I am not constipation like wen't had one of those als of Taniac. Y res all the go sir, Tanlac de that it is the only i has done me any good at all that I owe my good health to Taniac,” - Tanlac is sold in Seattle by Bartel! a Stores under the personal di ty me | and in-| and in little or| crutches them bothered I was and 1 bad head- since I finished my first bot- 4 things that are waid about it, and I'll tell the medicine of @ special Tanilac represen: | lead men ambitious than they appeared./of Chia flash—so say the sacred|A bullet knots.” “Pretty good place for a meal,” |Henry vouchsafed, looking down into the depression. “While waiting off we might as well stay our stom ache.” | “If Chia doesn't object.” laughed Francis. And Chia did not object—at lenst. the old priest could not find any ob-| Jections written in the knots While the mules were being teth ered on the edge of the first break a and breeds, possessing a/ nearby spring and a fire built in the | [Fr jfootstep. The olf Maya seemed ob- livious to everything, as he mumbled jendiess prayers and ran the kno lover and over. | “If only he doesn't blow upt Fran | cis anid. | “T thought he was wild eyed the |first day we met him up in tan," concurred Henry nothing to the way his | now.” |THE ROAD TO DEATH Here spoke the peoon, who, unable to understand a word of their Eng |lish, nevertheless sensed the drift | of it | “This is very religious, very dan | Rerous, to have anything to do with | the old Maya sacred things. It is the |death road. My father knows. Many men have died. The deaths are sud den and horrible. Even Maya priests jhave died. My father’s father so | died. He, too, loved a woman of the tierra caliente. And for love of her, for gold, he sold the Maya secret, and by the secret and by the knot writing led tierra caliente men to the treasure. He died. They all died “My father does not like |women of the tlerra caliente |that he is old. He liked them well in his youth, which was his «in |And he knows the danger of lead ling you to the treasure many men [have sought during the centuries “But eyes are it's the now |Of those who found It, not one came | |back. It is said that even conquixta dores and pirates of the | Morgan have won to the hiding p' jand decorated it with their bonen.” | “And when your father dic | Francia queried, “then, being 1 son, you will the Maya high | priest." “No, be | senor,” the peon shook head. “I am only half Maya. 1 can jnot read the knots. My father did not teach me because I was not of the pure Maya blood.” “And if he should die, right is there any other Maya who |read the knots?” No, senor. My father is living man who knows that | language,” But the conversation in upon by Leoniea and |who, having tethered their mules with the others, were gazing sh ishly down from the rim of the pression. Th faces of Henry Francis lighted with joy at the sight lof Leonica, while their mouths opened and their tongues articulated |censure and scolding. Also they now, can the ancient was broker Ricardo, “But you can not send me |before giving me something to she persisted, slipping down th 1 of the depression with pure feminine jcunning in order to place th sion on @ closer and more basis »| Aroused by their voices Maya came out of @ tran nd observed her with jin wrath he burst out, intermingling O¢casional Spanish words and | phrases with the flood of denuncia | tion in Maya “He says that women are no good," the peon interrupted in the first | pause. “He says women bring quar. n | Fels among men, the quick steel and sudden death. Bad luck and God's || wrath are ever upon them. ‘Their ways are not God's way and they to destruction. He says momen wee the eterpal sweasy, ok God intimate the old p of prayer wrath, And Jucht | too} English | hin | ant | in and | sisted on her returning with Ricardo. \ after | stom h and 1 eat nd diseus- | used his shoulder and half whirled him about “Drag him down! Henry shouted to Francis. “He's the only man who |knows the knot language; and the whatever that may mean, have not yet Mashed.” | Francia obeyed, with an outreach jof arm to the old fellow's legs, jerk jing him down in a crumpled, skele | ton-tike fall Henry loosed his riffle and elicite a fusillade in response. ext 4 cardo, Francis and the peon joine in. But the old m still running C had become a hotch@tch | of woods, water was fetched from a| bis knots, fixed hin gaze across the rim of the footstep upon rugged wall of mountain beyond “Hold ont shouted Francis, in a vain attempt to make himself heard | above the shooting. | He was compelied Jone to another and shake them into ceas from firing. And to each separately, he had to explain that all their ammunition was with> the and that they must be spar th the little t had in their and be to craw! from mules. ing w magazi | “And don't let warned Henry muskets and b them hit They got old under-burses that wi you ve |drive holes thru you the size of din. | ner plates." ly leave several the Iaat Francis later in cartridge automatic | pistol, was gone; and to the trregu lar firing of the Garoos the pit re plied with Jose Mancheno was the first to gueas the situation He cautiously crept up to the edge of the pit to make sure, then aig naled to the Garoos that the ammu nition of the besieged was exhausted CELY TRAPPED | “Nicely trapped. ulted down at the defenders, while all around the rim laughter arose from the Garoos. But the {that « ailence. senors!”* next moment the chang over the situation w astounding as a transformation in a pantomime, With wild cries of terror the Garoos were flee and scene ing. was their disorder haste that numbers of them dropped | their muskets and machetes. Anyway, I'l get Senor Buz ward Francis pleasantly assured | Mancheno, the time flour you at stol at his but reconsidered the trigger. | “I've only three shots left,” he ex [plained to Henry, half in apology And in this country, one can never tell when shots will come in handiest found out, beyond a doubt | “Look! peon cried, pointing to his father and to the distant moun That why they ran They have learned the peril of same him weapon as Man and did not draw three as i the tain side is awa | the sacred things of Maya! | The old priest, running over the knots of the tassel in an ecstacy that |was almost trancelike, was gazing jfixedly at the distant mountainside from which, side by side « | gether, bright flash were repe: elves nd close to: * of light uid do it in the | of a man,” was Henry's com ment } "They | peon repe eyes of Chia," “it written in the knots, as you ha heard m father say. Wait in the footsteps of | the God till the eyes of Chia flash The old man rose to his feet and wildly proclaimed: ‘fo find the treas- ure we must find the eyes! ‘All right, old top!’ Henry soothed him as with his small traveler's com. pass he took the srings of the | flashes “He's compass inside his Henry remarked an hour later old priest, who led on the fore most mule. “IT eheck him by the compass, and matter how the natural obstacles compel him to de- viate, he comes back to the course if he wore himuelf a magnetic nee ee I eo Vit ee © the ted the got a no ae ~ FE STAR. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1919. ...and at the four great Stock whol Fatia’s sales are highest cA fact: These four big financial centers are per- haps the last places at which one would expect the formerly-fashionable straight Turkish cigarettes to lose their leadership. But at all four places, these expensive straight Turkish brands are far less popular than the inexpensive, just-enough-Turkish cA Sensible Cigarette Not since leaving the footstep had c D r the flashings been visible | that pot wnels, at abandoning the Only from himself with a evides aid’ the c au by | rugged landscape permit the seeing of them. Rugged the country was broken into arroyos and cliffs persed with stretches of » At last the way b jble for their mounts, and Ricare was left behind to keep charge the mules and peons and make remainder | the party continued on, sealing | jungle-clad that blocked their | way by hoisting themselves and one wnother up from root to root. The old Maya, still leading, was obliviou » Leonica vad equipped ne ly sted rong rope A PLACE OF ECHOES again. or the island of Kauai wailan i ywn in the Ha quite encoun they repeat | inter I more e forest On. trials and and of patches and voleanic ast ame impa similar for a ws often as six or Wasn't it Mark tour tinctly eight times bette tim Twain who wrote hobb noisier man whose was mak of to of | phen “The scientists mu Francis mp. The highbrow theorie It ac menon the t places in the of egion ubt steep There that ts which © the plac Ur sacred, ev to follow the compass lead ht do bark, but t been known to bit A HARD TASK ! last of Suddenly, half a mile farther on persuaded he halted and shrank baek as if stung roceeded by a viper Francia laughed prayer across the wild landscape ¢ of a discordant, mocking echo jest of the Mayas ran hurriedly picked out a string, ran its knots twice announced When the God D way the knots.” ifteen minutes were Henry and Francis succeeded in only partly convincing him, by repeated trials of the that @e was an ech Half an hour rag yong always en be prese and Spaniards came © old natural causes of ut the the pric of his ctr in ts o¢ the m dd them over M long enough t impassioned Maya nnd pas not be myst altho him mut @ oh that out herd a ry with a capital the disturbing and supernatural in origi om hin flood and ne back he last the knots particular and then many minutes afte le crannied rward they el and ledge ifeand exchanged their mode of progression t The ground emerged on an open space ape se under the ot ‘ sit we are bent that the us. He will go bode of Chia | died there the May there, He is ‘The miserable Franet the ghe echo, wh three priv hard no nearer to the Nor will. H us is well known ” ve ® was a that In an ebw ring to keep both hands a ed then dread crust father | ine and dr Amongst not die die laughs, beware an ne t else er to suggest it was au dry all the tion of spirits old octogenarian!’ | men on 1 by |eized their sand At the end of half a ¢ uth disaster har Hoenr Le hind them but er down lost ere 8 says he will old enough to ices, thing laughed, and was tly, mock ull about ed How tar laugh of them the ing the ru later they debouched of abrupt dunes Again the old man back, From the sand in which t strode a a clamor of noise, When they stood still all was still, A sin gle step, and all the sand about them became vocal “When the God Ia the old Maya warned. Drawing @ circle in the sand with his ntrac ming The peon the noisy cirele, whe finger, th: Id man w alistic figures and designs Leonica was overcome and clung to Henry and Fran Fiven Francis was perturbed Jon a series rolling sand | dunes t Horus ful to die! Are lawhile?"" and dd back, moving her #0 to bring ™ from the sand b contrary, I the ur Let to those th young to shrank bout y onion? ray ou dic yet) the “Say,” she ami |foot slightly of reproach Jit, “on the | to die just because laughter back sand hills b | We ry | Let ole ulmo: Henr eath she, beware! am too old cliffs ee? our knees there arose a “y of father with sound. insted: his for re and trumpet joined his are very close the old man wait \ until we come b She off their stepped forward, lowed all the dune late, while one, | the sides of which ran a slide of sand he sald. /rumbled and thundered. 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Are you, personally, smoking too much—or too little—or just enough Turkish? nm Not hen¢ the selves waist ing at A their ir st danger iggles, they that th gravity of the situation wughed at the predic: first did they fully It was when, by 1 arby cliffs on all sides and end leasiy and sibilantly repeated. ju 3d Ave.; downtown, 913 appre found them p and steadily sink two men grasped the Leonica still am nt, for it eemed no more than that to her, “@ BELLEVILLE Apparently | plan trot here icksand Francis gasped. TWO AVIATORS KILLED ng cor e, Floyd Me and Chauffeur Harold instantly Mar yesterday d to the of 200 feet O., were when ground Aug isenheimer, their from an of of eir De Ice. of | killed machine alti 1221-Third Ave *COR.UNIVERSITY: EECHAMS PILLS Constipation is the arch-enemy of health. 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