The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 7, 1920, Page 10

COMRAD YES OF BY PERIL RANDALL PARRISH (Copyright, A. C. McClurg & Co., 1919) (Copyrighted tn Great Britain) (Continued From Yesterday) they naturally decom’ mighty fn Merested. Cornelius, as I understand, Swas the brother of Rose's father, an ‘the property was put in his hands Piles trustee on behalf of the girl! s he was a straight enough guy hy speaking, but he had ex ‘Pected to get most of his dough after “he girl skipped out, an’ was conse |? y he} quently almight hot, Nature ted to keep the stuff, an’ Yt make no great effort to locate heiress. Ry the time he did learn she had married, Rose died, leav @ daughter, By the terms of the if she died chilklless, the entire | ‘estate reverted to Cornelius, and he “Wasn't the sort o’ guy to lose that Kind o° bet.” ‘An’ this soldier never suspected mothing™” “Not a thing, He was a colonel by time, out at some frontier post, ‘@nd left his baby to the care of some >) Felatives in the Bast. There wasn’t a fuss made, an’ so Churchill sorter affairs slide along. He had the Mae of the money, an’ begun to think Phere never would be no trouble, Of ourse he kept a line on the husband, vere mean the colonel never even Wnow'd he'd married a rich girl? "So it see I reckon she didn’t @¥en kfow it, bis wife But after ‘G@while some inkling of the truth have reached him, for he went and began to make inquiries ‘a lawyer, When Churchill heard this he got scared. I reckon played hell with the trust funds that time, an’ with the husband Dis trail got mighty desperate hile, the daughter was in convent school, and not to be Carlyn struck a hot trail all but, before he could take any was shot and killed In a street with some roughs In Sheridan. ly knows for sure just how it but it's my opinion Hl got up the row just to get out o' the way. It all happened an’ unexpected, the only fel- F with the colone! at the time be- an old sergeant, named Calkins. was shot himself, but got ly, and took care of Carlyn till he maybe an hour later. Enyhow, | _ the fellows from getting hold @ny papers, an’ I reckon the col- Bive him an idea of what was - makes you think sot” way he acted afterwards, Mi had got Carlyn out of the MOTHER! California Syrup of Figs” Child’s Best Laxative bottle, You must say “Call- There Jost trace of the kid entirely.” | y, but he idn't susp } first, nor for a time. He was a foxy guy, and stuck to the army for | se rs, never makin’ a move, just or the but never goin’ near her body had qu midn’t locate the gtr! girl's ache Then, when hin’ him, , papera, ped out, takin’ the girl with ow could he do thatt™ “That's what [ asked Macklin, an’ he maid they'd finally found out that durin’ the time between when Carlyn was shot, an’ when he died, he'd t the sergeant at] he 4 eay it was an Infun job, Oh,/ od up things all right You it straight now?" | nk drew up his feet until his ted on hin knees, the tip of ot glowing it straight enough, ® what the hell we're goin’ to get it.” “You've got the same love for the Kid I have, ain't yer?" Hank grinned, “Just about, I reckon. I'd eure ike to take & good swipe at the ornary cuss.” signed a paper makin’ Calkins the girl's guardian, an’ gave him the key | to a deposit box in Kansas City where all his papers was, A lawyer named Weeks, at Sheridan, did tt for him, You see the colonel di have no near relatives, an’ he an’ Calkins had been soldering together for years; he sorter trusted the sergeant to play square, an’ by God! he sure iat" “The hel he did! Never made a peep for the money, did he? An’ just hid out ‘round the country with} the girl I don't call that playin’} very square.” | “Well, it was just the same damned square, if you ask me It |was what Weeks advised him to do, after he went to Virginia, an’ got 4 peep at a copy of the will This girl had no legal righ un she wan of age Churehill knew this, an ‘he didn’t do much o° any thing else fer ten years, but try to/ get his hands on her. OM Calkins! was smart enough to fool him. The cok i had money ‘enough in that deposit box, so they could live on It quietlike, and the sergeant never wasted a cent. He just naturally | lived for that girl, till about a month jago, He was amart enough not even }to trust her: she never knew what! they was hidin’ from.” | Hank touched a match to another |eigaret, impreased with the story. “Rum kind of a business, I'd may,”| he admitted at last, “but just where | did this devil's tmp of a Macklin fit) ~— “I ain't got that all figured ont jyet.” admitted Hanley. “You know jpretty near as much about him as I do. Furst time I saw the feller he} jrode in yere along with Cassldy’s| Joutfit, after that N. P. hold-up, an [he's been trainin’ with Cassidy more or lens ever since. After I had this talk with him, when he was drunk, I put him to bed, an’ picked up a| |letter, or two, what fell out of his| | pocket. I got some o’ this stuff out| 0’ them. One of them was written | by Churchill, an’ judgin’ from the way it read, the Kid ain't really named Macklin at all—he's a Churchil himself, the olf cuss’ son.” “Weil, I'l be damned! j “You know the rest; how he atum- dled onto OF Calkins down in Ponca, | an’ what happened. You can't make me believe the old fellow killed hiny self; he wasn't that kind But, how-| ever, it happened, the girl was left! helpless; then damned if she didn't marry that rancher over on the Cot-| tonwood, an’ spoil the whole game.” “Tough luck; but the Kid played his hand all right.” “Sure he did, but he had to bean this fellow Shelby. Except for that Job it wasn't so bad, for it was easier to get her where he wanted her. I don’t know how he'd have managed | at Ponca, but there was just the) three of ‘em on the Cottonwood.” “And dead men don't talk.” “Well, they're safer than live ones enyhow. Then this Injun outbreak | comin’ right now makes the get-a-| way plum easy. He can hide her) away back in the Hole as long as he! damn pleases. Everything will be laid to the Sloux for awhile.” “It's a sure break, then?” “Sure; all the young bucks are al-|>y impenetrable mystery, but armed|iwo homes. ready out. Macklin had four with| with facts. he comprehended clearly | judge told Powell, “and for hi him on this chase—took ‘em on pur. pose, so if they was ever trailed |the Kid has got In his mind right “That's what I thought. Well, he} ain't goin’ to do nothin’ desperate! to this young woman till he hears from the old man, This affair haa| been pulled off hurried lke, an all) now is to hide her away somewhere, until old Churehill shows up, and de old what to do with her.” “What do you suppose hel de elder" “Well, my notion ts that If Macklin ie the olf man's son, he'll try to force her into marryin’ the boy. That would be the easy way, an’ I belleve| that will likely be their achema My idea is to put a crimp in It* hold of her ourselve: man shows up, an nese with him. Ac in for a| could hold 1 share of the stuff.” + husband ts dead at the Injun said; you brained with an ax before th then dot contin’ to bunch o* him vu heard helve.” Then what's the matter with my marryin Hanley chuckled. Not if she ever saw you first,/ Hank; but we might make a bluff at ft, an’ seare old Churchill that way. Enyhow, onct we get the girl the money fe a sure thing.” | “Where'll we take her? | “Tack into Wolves’ Hole; there's hidin’ places there a plenty, * with them Injuns raisin’ hell up north. itl! be mafe enough, till the war over enyhow, What do yer say?” “Hell, I don't care; there ain't nuthin’ to lose. You got the Kid them Injuns, didn't yout’ “Yeu; he never told enybody what was up but mo. All right, let's mosey along; there's no use stayin’ here.” him; her?” CHAPTER XIV, | ‘The Trail to Wolves’ Hole } Shelby lifted himself on one elbow, | and ventured to breathe easily once more. The vague shadows of the| two men had vanished, but their/ Progress thu the underbrush could be plainly distinguished. Feeling themselves absolutely alone tn that) wilderness, neither made the alichtest effort to proceed silently. Their horses must have been hobbled at) [the edge of the grove, for the men Ungered there for several moments, the sound of volces drifting back | thru the night air, rds indie tinguishable. They they rode off at} & walk, the soft impact of hoofs! dying slowly away in the distance. Shelby mt upright on the edge of | the gully, straining bis eyes thru the darkness. A strange fortung had brought him the very Informatidh he most needed. He no Jonger blindly confronted a mystery, but was left face to face with a real danger. Yet this revela tion had occurred #0 suddenly, #0 unexpectedly, as to leave him dazed | and bewildered. Lying there, lsten-| ing to those strange voices droning out thelr almost unbelievable tale, it was impossible for him to weave the| story into one connected narrative:| but now, In the silence, he grasped ( ita full import, and began to definite. ly plan some way to overcome this} open villainy. Confronted no longer his own situation, (Continued Tomorrow.) 'THE SEATTLE STAR—FRIDAY, "MAY 7, 1920. Imagine: They F ight i Over Mere Water | TERRE HAUTE, May 6—Proht-| bition may have been responsible for the fight over water indulged tn, by George Powell and his neighbor, Mrs, Emma Jackson. 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