The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 10, 1920, Page 12

3 . " - . !_PAGE 18 a ———= “Completely, yet it is a story easily / * C OMRADES OF PERIL. tt ens i era ea aids 2 ool id each way on the transconti- RANDALL PARRISH nental journey—to We were there, back in those hills, when my girth broke—see, where I have fixed it, I fell behind, and they rode on, 1 thought to bit, you must know thor trafl was lost; “Good; then t have het a friend. standard sl ing car passen- gern only and to provide them with the jast word in ‘pose of this most a ‘ wrong turn, for comfory and service—that is the purpose of d (Copyright, A. C. McClurg & Ca, 1919) neal on this plain.” ‘excelleft train of the world’s greatest highway— a (Copyrighted in Great Britain) “And the others?” | Sans 3 “Went on, never missing me until| The Trans-Canada Limited too late If they came back, I have ancouver every afternoon eastbound, Fy gio almost instantly—the advance of @|Mexican saw him, throwing up ono) 100 Ite | Mf thé pile agp gore gg “ ernoon ‘weat: entiee dat nees Grove of cattle, devenching them the| band in a ewttt slamal, ane sneriag co hag Poco RO a and Montreal and Toronto every afternoon 'weat bound, from one coast to the other. Made up of dining ear, standard sleepers, compart ment and compartment observation cars, thie train takes you through the most spectacular scenery of eye an suspicious an ever, but his fingers no longer gripped on the revolver. The lant of the cattle had narrow defile, and spreading out @#|his horse recklenmly acroas the mr@ Saslng Sense, hening Se Deere they attained the wider open apase.|plain, They met half way, Shelby [back below the ‘ummit, nd qused | (06 pete Be Rigor dere eg Regge Teggedl Pp vnxioumly about it was lk dismal |7 omen | full epeed, hit horse brought fairly v hended, ho . disappeared down the coules, and the - aa 2 Lene lig nlf sag Bygone ing for: |to ite haunches by the cruel pressure the Canadian Pacific Rockies by dayligh . . © the north um-[@Ppeared in their rear, spurring for- | to red-beared White man was diduix .W-| fo te broken tor miles, until tt reached af Ward to turn them to the left down |of a Spanish bit ward them across the alkali, Neither Io tt iotrmetin ore ot - ottee lbouuted mat ee trren hillas These /@ shallow gulch |. The fellow was a handsome devil,| changed position until he came up, a| E. F. L, STURDEE, Gene Ftreny lawept closer toward the left. appar-| ‘There was no way he could escape| but for the evil in bis eyes, and Sliump of @ follow, with staring eves, » Mein 5509 y pomall m1 ding | disfiguring sear down one chetk}/and complexion the color of parch lently following the valley of the Cot-|observation no possibility of hiding Itonve wonling thelr rocky out-jon that bare plain, Me might fall| «warthy, black-mustached, long locks | ment | ton wood, often grotesquely shaped, and/flat on blx face, but the pony would| showing beneath the high Mexican) “what the hell i# all this, Juan?’ the dark ravines p ating into the | remain in full view; and, if thi was|hat, with white th BRleaming be-|he questioned roughly, “who im the }Bad Lands beyond. The soil left no|a raiding party of cattle thieves |tween red lips. The eyes of the twe | reliow?" ; trail, and, with the naked eye, Shelby | which undoubtedly it waa feturning|met, and the rid hand dropped| “i146 travel with Matt Hanley, an was Unable to distinguished a aign| With spoil, they would never pass by |Inatantly upon the exposed butt of | ger lost; no he way.” of life within the radius of vision, |4 riderless horse without Investi¢n-|@ revolver, “Hanley, hey Hat's some recom. The regularity pepe pam oe — presse eh Everything bad the appearance of|tion, Shelby's brain worked Jike| “ifenae senor,” he mid mendation. Who else was with your your bank account will prove to be an important jf) qecty—iie death of agen. He stood lehtning. There were five riders;| harshly; staring. “What Is the moan-| party’? up * he he could count them now! Indians |ing of-—thin?* man called Hank.” ; : spins btndaels ewe influence in your success. The difference be- Bir fnia tudace "ic was barely in|mostly, altho one wan surely white.| “Shelby amiled, coolly returning his| “siginn “Well, the story sounds| Way I heard it he was winty anyhow, | People Go | Senn eb thebe ‘There was nothing left him but au-| glance straight so far; them two left here |4n’ &, down-eaxter.” F tween success and failure in life is very often [Ilinren’ fsccrtinis even thee, dacity, und lew He must take the| “The meaning of what, senort he|tomether: t Mapper to know thee | “Virginia; he’s my father Where They ey 1 “stick agalnat the black, overhanging rider) chance, the one chance, mad, dee questioned shortly, nave | * ered they ph yu ur anes ee |Are Invited, and only a matter of a few cents each day and “stick- [f}cf rou. male out two siowly mow Deraie, yet yielding 4 rowibiity of|" “Your being’ berealone! hy 0 Pasar clo | we.” his eyes wandered. Stay Where m1 Phe ve ot dint) oa eo @ ie the Sieve io 9 ws Dore . . ere hs ‘“ - ' ing to it.” ond ll yom pho eget Mean om ad fom his eyes—yes, One rider was white,|the Wolves’ Den.” | “That's some hell 0’ a ride.” |"#ounds kinder fishy, y une totter, They. Are Well e r -“ Joubt in hia & squat figure with @ red beard, and ‘Oh, in that it, senor?” indifferent-| “I, was; look at my brone; he's | but I ain't in no shape to te T, d ET re vas 00 Count oe ea lanothar, ton. S000E AA, Yaie ond, ap-|ty, “Then wuadhe- wan-will tell splat” reckon Matt Hanley kin straighten Treated. " Sines readeetp hill they Aisappeared | peared to be a Mexican, Then he| how I am to find a way into this den) “What's your name?” i ja Bo if on ng bred iar This Ja wit Ag Bom i i Ss $ y Sav 0 gr Bs ' ’ revo we do in to er it ractic 0" This bank is the oldest and largest strictly sav- |down ® coulee, and then carefully |lavmhed grimly; th Pea ct Malet volver Ears looked down — looked him squarely in the| best thing we kin do is to ts |teneuily for. twenty ‘i Bid a ; . pouree, his po id-| lass rested on the exposed flank of byonder,” hi © , in’ y damm | sina ings institution in the Pacific Northwest, and is [[):rket the course. Nie point stand. ihe Dearest steer. and he maw. the| "You acek It. then’ “Churchtt,” lean %yer thas so bentn with, but it| qe tat, cat te teed a . : yoo oat brand, By all the gods, they were! “Sure; otherwise why should I be| “What! Matt talked to me about tell yer that to th, |my article on (“Live therefore especially equipped to give your sav- age Fs Aap Fagen haahgr’ op. |his own cattle! ‘The humor of it|here? You will guide me? | that. | Fellow mumed Macktin atalkin’| Yer EAme to ride along. we'll see yer |Questiont: in le was an hour reac . : : ; 9 , Ke e ; i flashed in hin eyes, but the jaw of Caramba! It depends,” suapicious-|a girl down F way J - i 0" ings account the best attention and care. jective, but onoe there he found thei. man wet sternly. The damned ly, yet nomewhat distonderted by the| “Ho'n got her. xo He an‘|Juan; them Injuna will need us ‘fore | OR. BOWEN J. BROW [ian piataly tpnned OOee Pa e St thieves! He strode forward, the pony jother's quiet manner, “I would! that's what I'm here for—seef 4 |!ong. Como on, stranger Leading Dentist 2 jthe bank. It led in and out amid ling at his heels, and then the |the intricacies of the hills, taking, | "Mune jof necessity, so winding @ course aa to give Shelby no view ahead, and |s00a confured him in point of direc; tion. He could only move forward | Joautiously, fearful lest they might have halted for some purpose, and watehful of every trace of thelr pas lenge, as other ravines were constant ly uniting with thie thru which he | potand biindly feeling Ais way. He came to sand and lost all signa of the trail instantly, searching for it in vain for nearly an hour, before con fessing himself at fault, Then, leay ing the horse below, he climbed the nearest hill for a view of his eur roundings. The un gave him the proper ai rections, but all about stretched the same dreary, bare ridges of rock, of: fering no guidance. To hie right, however, these hills came to an end know more firet. You are lot?” | “fut you ain't OF Cours The! (Continued Tomorrow) 106 Columbia St. YOU MAY START AN ACCOUNT WITH $1.00 Washington Mutual Savings Bank 810 Second Ave Established Assets 30 Years $12,000,000.00 TRUSTEES . William Thaanum ©. EB. Vilas im another plateau, stretching away ames gray and somber into the distance Sacnien R res YW. Wet There was no life visible anywhere, Frasier . Waiem A. Peters David Whitcomb and. altho he waited for some time t Jansos James Shannon Bugene B. Favre, Spokane sweeping his glaawes back and forth F. K. Struve 1. ©. Janeck, No. Yakima |fi|he gained no glimpas of the two he jendeavored to follow. They had van lished as tho swallowed up by the came . earth The sun waa already in the —— West, and desperately he determined Aberdeen Crooks to try the level. Even this, amid the - intricacies of those branching pas ‘Thd quick action of simple witch C art Away Safe sages, between the round hills, was difficult to achieve, yet he finally die hazel, hy@rastis, camphor, etc, as| ABERDEEN, May 10-—Police and|covered an exit, and ventured to mixed in Lavoptik eye wash, will) sheriff's forges today were scouring|strike out toward the north, confi surprise Seattle people. One girl the hilly near here for & huge|2°At that the Cottonwood myst eure h weak, strained eyes = nenene sife containing $488, which was ly Me somewhere In that direction. a: He came upon it #0 suddenly and stolen from the Union dairy here unexpectedly an to almost dase bis early Sunday. The thieves placed |facultion Almost without warning was the fe in an auto and drove off. |he stood at the very edge of a yawn. ® amall Marks in the roadway show where|ing hele, and stared tn amasement ANY the safe fell out, some distance |down into thone depths below. Again flamed eyen Aluminum eye cup/from the dairy, and waa reloaded,|and again he had heard this scene FREE. Swift Drug Co. and leading | after which one of the tires of |deseribed, yet had never before com- the thieves’ auto blew out. prehended lt» reality. A huge cut rt ———___-_~|ttraight down, fully a mile wide, cleft the plain in two, with no visible signs of ite presefce until one stood At the very crater’s edge. At night . he would have ridden off without the slightest warning of danger. And { below! Feeling sick, dimay, Shelby: swung himself from the mddle, crept . ‘ ve Sei ha cn —Th eals hd fin “ i oi . oe Priecsets t= ree Mm eac ay are fom, Fg Peo Cpatt "theod chew pray how much = fiz iur take “squared up” by the why, if it wae actually the Cotton . |Wood ft must be a hundred feat ugar from bank to bank! God! What a| hole! What a freak of nature! What | a wilderness hiding place! you can He lay motionless, with eyes |searching up and down the valley To the right he could not determine how far it extended, but to the left ave jhe could discern the silver shield of water, where the Cottonwood came tumbling over a precipice. One of the two possible entrances waa the $ . re by using the other milat be along some one of | thore numerous side ravines, whone| The foods into which OLYMPIC goes make your meals more satisfying. Learn how to make a greater variety of such foods at the OLYMPIC demonstra- tion at a leading grocery store in your neighborhood. Ask your Grocer \\s WY x 8 black entrances he could dimly per- | QQ N WY N \ Wr \X 3 elve. ‘There werg groves of trove OY Oy A W ; down there, and strange, fantastic i \. \\ ; \ \\ RIMSONRAMBLER ©2202: wd 5 cbc &_5 c. : lence of human beings. Once he was » S \ \\ \ \ sure he saw & spiral of smoke, but| \\ N wa — CAA AG -— ee it faded away before he could trace a jit to any source. ‘There were black ; things that moved far up the gorge he could not quite make them out ; even with the field glasses, but sus ‘ pected they micht be cattle grasing. a It was all go serene, #0 peaceful, the a truth seemed imponsible—that he wan ; : actually guzing down into a veritable os hell on earth, a rendezvous of white ‘3 thieves and Indian murderers, a bor : it dor fortress for all the nameless devil try of the frontier in your cooking And he must invade the Hole ulone, if he would be of service to Il i. . d! thie woman captive! By sheer reck ‘ . jongnens he must plerce the thing tc F —you surprise . the heart. Yet how? What would i ie be his next step? His eyes searched the precipitous walls, as the question dinned itself into his brain. How was to be done? Not even a moun tain goat could find passage down those rocks, even by daylight, and in another hour, all would be dark ness. On neither side, poring along the rim, could he discover any break in the stern front of rocks which promised an opportunity. And yet he could not remain there; before night made the search impossible he Must at least find water, an@ a place in which to camp, He ‘stared down into those deepening mists below, al- ready beginning to blot out the fea- tures of the valley, “God, what a hole,” he breathed, “it im ike looking straight into hell. The only way down must be some where to the lott. Case told mo they Passed in under that waterfall,” rw . rt e He pe ba Ba and, with the nigatand FLOUR : [ W pony trailing Ind, moved ‘back. 5 Bo) atid? 7 b f b tt b k h nen) : ward away from the edge of the i, iprverinchonr ‘ o e sure e * ed M8 = ind CONNER |ch*#™ Into the open plain. suaden- 4 mid ly, an his glance wandered searching de Flour $a ‘ ‘OL YMPIC “ you order » Say » AND ly toward the chain of rock hills, the man stopped, his heart pounding. Co, What was that moving yonder, just emerging from out the mouth of that Portiand | ravine, and becoming clearly outlined Oregons. jagainst the gray alkali? He knew