The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 29, 1919, Page 14

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Great Alamo Shows on the ground all week. to the Fair by Anto Sunset Nleatts of Thtee®) | st novel writtert | | Failing eyesight means loss of power energy that spells success SYNOPSIS OF PREOR that creative period sete in, have to Spanish family “atipping,” let | ith Prane Leonien’s fost glasses [escape to Francia’ # | pursued by a posse, about us.” Justice, they a ® cave, where The Oruet Jw weird Judge of primitive Central Amerion shudderingty “Gaze on that for Necessary to see, Hal passage dressing was exquisite. it was made to dovet “rll wager he taken of children’s teeth. | Maya's father died" iscount to Union | claimed oted, as you'll observe tered skeleton. left of him. us.” Cor, James St. fonica reminded Henry {A BULLET HOLE Henry elamation and ered right.” Horse races. |amall but men. [there a machete. very it comes to the choice of his Suit for Fall and Winter wear. Style changes in Mens Wear are in the little details, and while he will find all these little points carefully incorporated in a “Bradbury” Suit he will find the great BIG POINTS of QUALITY AND WORKMANSHIP to the limit. Prices from $25 and “CREDIT GLADLY” 1332-34 Second ING CHAPTERS | Amertcn another blood whe resembles himself, mak Henry be in and also discovers she is fi A (Continued From Yesterday) — | Leonicn passed the grim figure |e¥es of the clephanteared one are} This time passage was very dark Henry, who had changed into the| 0° large to possess fair carat value lead, to light numerous matches “Hello! he said, as he paused at | the end of a couple of hundred feet workmanship! Look at the dressing of that stone!’ From beyond gray Nght streamed into the passage, making matches un. into a niche was thrust a stone the size of the It was apparent that it had been used to block the passage. rapelling | oF dreamed of edges of the block precisely with the place in the wall into which where “He knew the secret of the balances and leverages that the stone, and it was only partly piv “Look! Henry interrupted ing before him on the floor “It must be wh: It's fairly recent, | would have been mummified. Most |lkely he was the last visitor before | | “The old priest said his father led [men of the tierra caliente here,” Le “Also,” Francis supplemented, “he | said that none returned.” who had located the skull —~—|and picked it up, uttered another ex | summed up. lighted a match show the others what he had discov | Not only was the skull dented | to make w from a/the old gentleman and hin sacred to| things remain for us to do with what had been a & sword or a machets, but a shattered hole in the back of the skull showed . the unmistakable entrance of a bul-| go back and bring them up, |let. Henry shook the skull and was| volunteered when they had threaded | rewarded by interior rattling: shook | again, and shook out a partly flat | of the erect dead and won to the sun |tened bullet. Francis examined it “From a horse pistol!’ | cluded aloud. “With weak or greatly | deteriorated powder, because | place like this, it must have been fired pretty close to point blank | range and yet failed to go all the way | thru. And it's an aboriginal ekull, all | A right-handed turn completed the Thow and gave them access to a ell-lighted rock chamber | From a window, high up and barred | |with vertical bars of stone a foot |thick and half as wide, poured gray |daylight. The floor of the place was sly venture [littered with white picked bones oc] 2000, Manchene onutiousty / ‘An examination of the skulls |showed them to be thone of Europe lana, Scattered among them were ri fles, pistols and knives, with here and | “Thus far they won threshold to the | Francia said, “and, from the looks, began to fight for its possession be fore they laid hands on it the old man isn't here to see what happened to his father.” | “Might there not have been survi vors who managed to get away with | |the loot” suggested Henry |} But at that moment Too bad! ack eyes from the bones to a the chamber him say Without doubt, no, Se gems in survey of] Francis saw what made those those eve Rut never saw a ruby They foll statue of a squat and hea wed his gaze to the atone female redeyed and was the « caricature of Renide it, carved who stared at the open-mouthed. & lar | mouth that it mad the rest of the f similarly of at and on somewhat more heroic lines, was a more hide ous male statue, with one ear of pro portioned sine and the oth gro tesquely large as the female's mouth he beauteous dame must Henry ntleman grinned friend r and the green Chia, all right “But who's her with the elephant eyes? “Search me!’ Francis laughed “But this I do know: Those green the largest emeralds U've ever seen | Bach of them is reall [They should be crown jewels or | pething “But a couple of emeralds and a couple of rubles, no matter what/ Jaize, should not constitute the total | lity of the Maya treasure,” Henry | contended. “We're now across the} threshold of it, and yet we lack the! key" } “Which the olf Maya, back on the barking sands, undoubtedly holds in that sacred tassel of his,” Leonioa said, “Except for these two ntatuen and the bones on the floor, this place ts bare.” | As she apoke she advanced to look the female statue over more closely. | The grotesque ear centered her at! tention, and she pointed into it as pivoted | she added: “I don’t know about the | key, but there is the key hole.” | True enough, the elephantine ear, | | instead of enfolding an orifice, as an) ear of such size should, was com-| pletely blocked up save for a small | Japerture that not too remotely re | sembied a key hole, They wandered vainly about the chamber, tapping | the walle and floor, seeking for cun ningly hidden passageways or un-| guensable clues to the hiding place of | the treasure. “Bones of terra caliente men, two idols, two emeralds of enormous size, [two rubles ditto, and ourselves are all the place contains,” Francis “Only a couple of Go back and bring up Ricardo and the mules mp outside and bring up knots if we have to carry him.” “You wait with Leoniea, and I'0 Henry the long passages and the avenues shine and the sky outside the face of the cliff. A WARNING Back on the barking sands the | peon and his father knelt in the etn }cle #0 noisily drawn by the old man’s! forefinger. A local rain squall beet upon them, and tho the peon shiv ered the old man prayed on. oblivious }to what might happen to his ekin In the way of wind and water, It war because the peon shivered and was | uncomfortable that he observed two | things which his father missed. First, he saw Alvares Torres and out from the jungle upon the sand. | | Next, he saw a miracie. The miracte| was that the pair of them trudged steadily acroms the sand without causing the slightest sound to arise |from their progress, When they had | disappeared ahead he touched his fin-| ger tentatively to the «and and aroused no ghostly whiapering. He thrust his finger into the sand, yet all was silent, as was it silent when [he buffeted the sand heartily with the flat of his palm. The passing shower had rendered the sand dumb He shook his father out of his prayers, announcing: The sand no longer is noley, It is as silent an the grave. And I have seen the enemy of the rich gringo pase across the sand without sound. He is not devoid of sin, this Alvarez Torres, yet did the sand make no sound. The sand has dic The voice of the sand ie not. Where the sinful may walk, you and 1, off father, | may walk.” | Inaide the circle the old Maya, with trembling forefinger in the sand traced further cabalistic characters and the sand did not shout back at him. Outside the circle it was the same—because the sand had become | wet, and because it was the way of | the sand to be vocal only when it was bone dry under the sun. bd He fingered the knots of the sacred writing taawel. “It says," he report ed, “that when the sand no longer alks it is eafe to proceed. So far I have ‘obeyed all instruction. In or- der to obey further instructions, let us now proceed,” So well did t proceed that, shortly beyond the barking sands, | they overtook Torres and Mancheno, | which worthy pair siunk off into the| brush on one side, watched the priest | and his son go by, and took up their | trail well in the rear, while Henry, taking @ short cut, missed both CHAPTER XV | “Taven #0, it was a mistake and a! weakness on my part to remain in Panama,” Francia was saying to Le onica, as they sat side by side on the room outside the eave entrance, wait ing Henry's return “Does the stock market of New York, then, mean so much to you?" Leonica coquettishly teased; yet only | part of it was coquetry, the major | portion of it being temporization, She was afraid of being alone with this man whom she loved so astound. | ingly and terribly. Franots wag im nt “Lam ever a straight talker, Le oniea. I say what I mean, in the di rectest, shortest way—" Wherein you differ from ua Span- jards,” she interpolated, “who must garnish and dress the simplest thoughts with all decorations of speech.” But he continued undeterred what he had started to way | “There, you are a , Leonica, whieh was just what I was going! to call you. I speak straight talk and | ue talk, whieh i a man's way. You | baffie in speechy and flutter like a butterfy—which, T grant, is a wom an'# way and to be expected. Never. theless, it is not fair to me, 1 tell din a ENE A NENAEENINN NET TAS THE SEATTLE STAR—FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1919. Dou bye—a Londo COPYRIGHT you straight out the heart of me, and you understand, You do not tell me our heart, You flutter and baie und 1 do not understand, ‘There: ‘ou have me at @ disadvantage. You know I love you. | have told you plainty, 1? What do I know about yout With ant eyes and ris! color in cheeks, she sat silent unable to rep You naisted, “you do not answer ok warmer and mor beautiful desirable than ever enticing, in short me and tell me not In tt beeau! and yet you ing of you heart or intention. woman? Or because you are ninh he Qit herself stirred profou Beyond herself, yet in cool contre! of herself, she rained her eyes and ed steadily in his as steadily she aald I can be Anglo Saxon, or English or American, or whatever y the abliity squarely im the face“and to tals ely inte the fa to name to look aqui of things.” polly with 4, “You complain thit while you have told me that you love me, I have not told you whether or not I love you, 1 all gettle that forever and now I do love you" She thrust his eager from her “Wait the woman now? the paused and debat herself and ¢ res arms away she commanded. “Who ts Or the Spaniard? {had not finished. [love you. I am proud that I love you, Yet there You have asked me for my heart and Intention. I have told you part of the one. I now tell you all of the other; I intend tomarry Hen ry Such AngioRaxon directness left Francia breathless “In heaven's name, why?" he could utter A DOUBLE LOVE “Because I love Henry™ she an swered, her eyen still unshrinkingly on his “And you ss love me?" he quavered. “And I love you, too, I love both of you. Tam « good woman, at least I always used to think wo, I etill think #0, tho my reason tells me that I can not love two men at the more was all you my you same time and be a good woman, 1/ don't care about that. If I am bad it te T, and I can not help myself for being what I was born to be She paused and walted, but her lover wan atill xperchions “And who's the Anglo#axon now? she queried, with a slight smile, half of bravery dumbnens of consternation her words had produced in him. “I have told you, without being, without flut tering, my heart full and my inten- tion.” But you can't! he protested wild ly. “You can't love me and marry Henry" “Perhag® you have not tend to marry I love Henry. Henry, 1 love you Rut 1 can not marry both of you. The law will rot permit Therefore, | shall marry only one of you. It is my intention that that one be Henry “Then why, why he demanded. ‘did you persuade me into remain ing?” It Doesn’t Require Much Time to Con- vince a Customer that a Dundee Suit is the kind he ought to buy. UNION TAILORS It isn’t necessary to use much selling talk. Dun- dee woolens speak for themselves, 304 PIKE half of amusement at the} | “Because I loved you. I have al ready told yout’ If you keep this up 1 shall go mad!" he ered. I have felt lke going mad over it myself many times! she assured If you think it t# easy for me thus to play the Anglo-Saxon you ure mistaken, But no AngloSaxon not n you-whom I love #0 can hold me in contempt be cause I hide the shameful necrets of the impulses of my being. Lesa shameful I find tt for me to tell them, right out in meeting, to you If this be Anglofaxon, make the! t of it. If it be Spanish, and 1 Solano, still make the m Spanish, and] me yomar beat of it, for I mana Spanish woman of the So lanos But | don't talk with my hands. jshe added with # wan smile in the silence that fell Just he was about to speak #h hushed him, and beth listened to a crackling and rusting from the un derbrush that advertised the passage of humans she whispered, hurriedly laying ber hand sudder on his arm. as if pleading. “I shall be finally Anglo-Saxon, and for the last time when I tell you what I am going to Lister Don’t Wish You Had After It Is Too Late Buy now while you still ‘an buy at last season’ prices. Suits and Overcoats At virtually the whole- sale cost of today. Come Saturday, for here you will find tell you. Afterward, and for always, I whall be the baffing, Muttering fe male Spaniard you have chosen for my description Listen: I love Hen ry, it is true; very true. ‘I love you, | more; much m I shall marry Henry because I love him and am pledged to him. Yet ramos shall I love you more fore he aya priest and his peon son perged from the underbrush close upon them. Searcely noticing their the priest went down on knees, exclaiming in Spanish “For the first time have my eyes | beheld the eyes of Chia" | He ran the knots of the sacred t prayer in Maya have understood. could protest the presence a eel and begen « | which, could they ran as follows ‘O immortal Chia, great spouse of the divine Heatel, who created all things out of nothingness! O tm ortal spoure of Muatal, thyself the) of the corn, the divinity of art of the husked grain, god the rain and the fructifying *, nourlsher of aff the grains and roots of man! O glorious Chia | whoxe mouth ever commands the ear | of Heatsl, to thee humbly, thy priest jt make my prayer. Be kind to me. nd forgiving. From thy mouth first ue forth the golden key that opens ‘ the ear of Hzatsl Let thy faithful priest gain to Heats!'s treasure—not for himself, O divinity, but for the sake of his son. |whom the gringo saved. Thy chil dren, the Mayas, pass. There is no | need them of the treasure, Tam lthy i With me passes all understanding of thee and of thy t priest under. |Teat xpouse, whose name I breathe stood.” whe Chided: gravely. “I in-| only with my forehead on the stones Hear me, O Chia, hear me! My head |in on the stones before thee! Yor all of five minutes the old | Maya lay prone, quivering and jerk ing as if in a catalepay, while Leon fen and Francis looked curlously on, themselves half swept by the unmise takable solemnity of the old man’s prayer, nonunderstandable tho it wa Without waiting for Henry, Fran. leis entered the cave a second time. | With Leonica beside him he felt | quite Mke a guide as he showed the | old priest over the pla ‘The latter lever reading the knots and mum. bling, followed behind, while the peon was left on guard outside. In the avenue of mummies the Ipriest halted reverently—not #0 jmuch for the mummies as for the nacred tansel | “It is so written.” he announced [holding out a particular «tring of [knots “These men were evil, and robbers. Their doom here ia to wait | forever outside the inner room of | Maya mystery.” |AN INSPIRATION Francis hurried him past the heap of bones of his fath and led him into the inner chamber | where, first of all, he prostrated him elf before the two idols and pra and earnestly. After that jetudied certain of the strings very arefu Then he m announce. | ment, first in Maya, which, Fra | @ him to know was unintelligib! and next in broken $ | “From the mouth jear of Hzatzl—so it is written.” | Francia listened to the cryptic ut-| terance, glanced into the dark cavity! of the goddess’ mouth, stuck the blade of his hunting knife into the} key hole of the god's monstrous ear, | Ithen tapi the stone with the hilt of hiy knife and declared the statue to be hollow, Back to Chia, he was tapping her to demonstrate her hol when the old Maya mut before him, | | ever taken that does just what the neat appearance they say it will do,” said Mrs, J that boys and girls »iL. Rock, R. F. D, No. 4, Piatt, M1, like in telling her experience ‘with . Pehee’. gloven® sank ntinue? CHILDRENS “Prices” are higher Mrs k, “l suffered with ste FOOT FORM SHOES this Fall, but do not anixh | | lowness, tered 1 The feet of Chia rest upon noth | ingness. | Francis, caught by the idea, made} the old man yerify the message by | the knots. | “Her feet are large.” Leonica laughed, “but they rest on the sotid| rock floor and not on nothingness.” | Francis pushed against the female | deity with his hand and found that she moved easily, Gripping her with | both hands, he began to wrestle moving her with quick jerks and | | r the strong man and unafraid will Chia walk,” the priest read “But the next three knots declare ware! Beware! Beware! * Wet, [ guess that nothingness, whatever it is, won't bite me,” Fran: cla chuckled, as he released the statue after shifting it a yard from its original position “There, old lady, stand there for awhile, or sit down if that will rest | your feet. They ought to be tired after resting on nothing for so many | centuries.” A cry from Leonica drew his gaze to the portion of tne floor just va cated by the large feet of Chia, Step-| ping backward from the displaced! roddess, he had been just about to| fall into the rock-hewn hole her feet | had concealed, It was circular, and] a full yard in diameter, In vain he tested its depth by dropping lighted matches. ‘They fell burning, and, without reaching bottom, still falling. | were extinguished by the draught of their Might. “It looks very much like nothing:| ness without a bottom,” adjudged | GREATEST VALUES fach Chia to the)" SEATTLE’S Upstairs $15 to $45 Every Garment Guaranteed — Alterations Free SEPARATE TROUSERS of all kinds—and Upstairs we save you money on every steeeeseeeeess+ $3.00 to $10.00 Store Hours 9 A. M. to 6 P. M. 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