The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 13, 1920, Page 13

| f f COMRADES OF PERIL BY’ RANDALL PARRISH (Copyright, A. C. McClurg & Co., 1919) (Continued From Yesterday) « CHAPTER XVU Shelby, while cautiously watchful of Laui’s every motion, was yet aware that the girl leaned suddenty Against the wall, her face white, her eyes staring toward him, and that Juan was leaning forward across the table, with gleaming teeth exposed. He was calm enough himself, how ever, for he had imagined this um Pleasant discovery might be made and was not entirely unprepared to meet it. “What brand?" he asked “You mean the Three Stare?” “That's exactly what I mean, pard ner, I happen to know where that brene com’ from.” “Then y& know more than I do coolly, Laud. I beught the pony from a livery man at Ger! he to ride out here on; some bucker, at that. Say come to think about it, those cows you were driving in were Three Stara.” “That is just what ey were, most © them t's what struck me as @amn furmy Those catth om’ from up on the Cottonwood; they be longed to a feller named Shelby “You run ‘em off? “That's none « our damn bust Ness. That's where they came from, &n’ Shelby’s dead. But what I'm in terested in is how the hell you got his horse.” He dropped his gun down on the table, and stared acrose into Shelby’s imperturbable face with hard, threat ening even “Now you look here, young fellow, you know who I iim, I reckon. It’s Indian Joo Laud talkin’ to you. May be yer all. ght maybe yer ain only I don't take no chances. Your story ain't sounded Just right to me from the start, but I'll give yer a chance to prove it. I ain't goin’ ter plug you now; not jf yer've got sense enough to behave yerself, Tomorror TN see what Matt Hanley has to say Dat till that time yer goin’ to be locked up. Goin’ ter make any row over that program “Not the least.” “All right, then. Juan, you take the gents gun; he's better off with Out it. That's right; now feel him Over, an’ see if he's got any other Weapona Heiter stand up, Church im ‘The ranchman, comprehending the utter futility of any attempt at re- sistance, 4id as he was told, manag ing to retain the same cool smile on * his lps. The murderous eyes of the equaw-man never once deserted his face, and Shelby realized that the slightest symptom of treachery would Prove his undoing. Laud was in no Mood to be argued with. “Nice of you to wait until after T@ eaten,” he mid easily. “It will (Copyrighted in Great Britain) give me a comfortable night's rest.” Glad you take it that way, That's |your Winchester over in the corner I reckon? Cleaned him up, have yous Juan? Now how about that room| yonder? Empty, ain't it? | “St, senor,” ft was Pancha who an |swered, opening the door | Laud took a step forward, and gienced dnto the apartment The swift scrutiny apparently satisfied jhim, fof he turned to the prisoner, his revolver still grasped in re: |for instant action. “Go on in.” he commanded harsh tomorror we'll settle th dines | ly. Shelby walked past him with |ao much as a side glance, to all ‘An’ at Wart appearance quite at his ea The girl had slipped silently to one side, while Juan remained in the middle of the room, his white teeth stil! gleaming. Laud closed oor. and the prisoner heard him secure it with @ stout wooden bar, He stood there motio endeavoring to « lect his thoughts, the amile no longer his lps. ng bis eyes to the rkness. There was a window high up, but seomingty too small for the passage of his body, yet a slight gleam of starlight found egress thru the open ing, which was further barred by two oyt wooden stakes. He stepped tly across and tested those, f = them solidly. embedded ‘in t m= his way cautiously about th which was of small dim ining only a single Stool, and a cot; the floor was puncheon, apparently Igid directly on the earth, and the walls of log, heav fly plastered with mud. The place offered apparently no opportunity for escape, and Shelby sat down on*the edge of the cot discouraged. He could distinguish the voices of the three without plainly determine who was speaking, th words tndisting uishab: Then murmur finally ceased, and he thou one of the men had left the house, perhaps bot et that was hardly likely. Someone r ed certainly, for there was movement and the sound of feet, mingled with the clink of dishes. Pancha was evidently clearing off the table. His |thought centered on her. Had he | made a mistake in.thus suddenly con. | fiding his true story to her ears?| He had obeyed an impulse, inspired | by the artless speech and manner of the girl, which now he almost re gretted. Yet, so far as he knew, she had said nothing to injure him, and| had made no effort to reveal his| secret. Indeed her actions had rather | expresned fear of Laud, and a cer tain sympathy for him; surely that lwas what he had read in the depths | of her eyes. Yet how could this be| enough to but main se it Daily tizing, it is real mustard. diments. Eon \ Re EY ‘ Picture of Health test master-piece in the of Life is Nature's Health’’. Hit He it i i” a ele Measfacterers: LYKO MEDICINE. COMPANY . KANSAS CITY. MO. Sale at All Druggists—Always in Stock at the Owl Drug Com: Spicy and Appe- Pure ULDEN’S Mustard | When you smell the richness of Gul- den’s Mustard it makes you hungry. 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He eat with head in his hands: deavoring to solve the mystery out the dark, a anation flashed into mind Macklin. “Could any relation might have had with this fellow court for a desire to wish % It might; the fac y the husband of the woman planned marry would nrally explain the entire sit en and. ox from poraible him emcape that he was uation under certain conditions. If that rascal had made lov to her, nd now deliberately planned to desert her for another, the Spanish blood would account for all the reet By Heaven That must be it! He recalled the insistence of her ques tioning; the flash of her eyes, the threatening gleam of her white teeth By God, that would be it! Uncen sclously he had touched the meret ape and unloosed the tiger, Jeal ousy was the weapon—« love turned to hate, the fury of a woman storm ed. To get Olea out of her path forever, she wold rink anything dare anything. Here then, was his ne and only chance. . Hut could the girl serve him, even if she desired to d¥ #0? He realized the seriousness of -his .poaition; his helplessness without some outside aid He had been a bitnd fool to venture into this den al and even A dlinder fool to claim friendship with Hanley, The morning would find him completely exposed, and he had little doubt what form vengeance would assume at the hands of these men. Mercy was plainly no part of thelr cod there was no plea he could advance which would have any weight with them. He was like @ congemned man in hie ¢ waiting he y for the certain hour of ex ution. Worse n that even: for his fate must Inevitably seal also the fate of his wife. Her only of rescue lay In his efforts, and he was helpless. Shelby cursed his stu pidity, pacing the Moor from wall to wall, but it all ended with him upon his knees with hid face buried In his hands. There was not a thing he could do; yet he tried again and chance fons of the floor, block by | block. digging at the dried mud between the logs of the wall; endeavoring to gain some leverage upon the hinges of the door, and tugging once again furtous}y at those wooden stakes pro- tecting the narrow window. His fingers Died from the frantic effort to thus loosen something to yield hin 4n opportunity to really exert hie strength. These efforts were utterly uselesw; there was not 4 spot of weak ness to be vered. If the pl had been originally constructed as a on, it could not have been more securely built, Mentally and physic ally exhausted, he himself up on the floor, and lay there, quivering from head to foot, with nerves com pletely shattered The silence became ghastly; any sound would have been a relief. There was no one moving about even n that other room, and the door be fitted too closely for him te perceive any gleam of light. He istened intently, holding his breath but head sank back once more ejection. Why in God's me hadn't he fought it out fike a ? Why had he ever permitteed himself to be thus caught Hke a trapped rat? With ug in hand he was not afraid of Indias? Joe Latd, or that*grinning Mexican with him: and yet he had let them with him strip hin of his weapons.-and throw him into this The frenzy of dingust he felt sused him to #it up and stare once more at the single star shining thru the window. What was that, a shadow? Surely something out yon tween hin in |der moved! Silently the stool, and looked out between the bars, his heart beating like a drum. Perhaps it was a bird, a wisp of cloud sweeping by, the flutter of some near-by shrubbery. At first he saw nothing, the blood seeming to stand still as he @azed—then the fingers of @ hand graxped one of the wooden bars, and a face rose slowly just in front of his own. In the darkness he could not tell who. this was, and leaned back #0 as not to be seen by the one peering In. A whisper revealed tht identity of his visitor. ‘Senor, come quietly do not speak loud.” ‘Pancha, you! You would talk with then? I must know some things, senor 1 must be sure,” she said flercely You tell me tonight the truth, to window |senor; you not lie to me.” “Not a single word, eagerly. t with need until he assuerd his heart beginning to new hope, his face ad. only the bars divided ther. , He could perceive now the outline of the girl's tures, and touched the fingers clinging to the wooden stakes. “I trusted you.” * 1 was a woman?” nd because I thought you could be trusted.” cause “You are Senor Shelby?" “Yes.” “And she, this wonthn, is your wife? “Yes,” “She in pretty won verra pretty; you not married long?” “No, only a few days; we had just come to the ranch when she was taken away sut, wenor, why she go away it she be just married ike you say? Why she le you, an’ run off with Senor Macklin? She love heem bet ter than you?” “Love him! She did not run off. He stole her, he and four Indians, after leaving me for dead. he say she want to marry heem, an‘ not you. That he took her to from you; that she would not let heem leave her, Then you fight, an’ so get keeled,” Shelby laughed softly. “So that was Macklin’s story, was it? Well, it is not exactly true. I or nothin’ like that, but she sure don't hanker none after that chap, I'l tell yer why he took her—cause she’s got a bunch of money comin’ her way down East that Macklin would like to get his hands on.” “He marry her?” | | “Ho not tell.eet to me like that;!out of here ave! others do not. ain't saying she's ip love with me, | safe.” * THE SEATTLE STAR —TH ERE kind of man forwhomwe have made the Big Fellow—the man is working mightily with hand *‘cautiomiy he wteoretoor| ANG brain. The Gillette Big Fellow is bigger in handle and who head. It grips Gillette Blade—adds its weight to the sharp, smooth edge. ¥ou don’t have to learn to use it—you don’t have “That's his game, no doubt, if it works, If not, he'll evolve some other, I don’t think he gives a cuss how it's done, #0 he gets the, and Kis precious fathe “Hees father?” -"Sure; the old man ts back of the whole scheme.» Macklin’s real name, I am told, is Churchill, and ghat ¥ the name of Olga’s mother.” She stared at him, with lips par "Maybe I see it more clear now,” she exclaimed. “He not love her then; he just want. her money, bah! I care not how he get that, if he not get her. You take her away, Senor Shelb$, where he never see her again “Of courne. “An’ you keep her married to you?" “1 do the best I can, What do you méan, Panch Can you get us “si, I know the way that I get you out, but,” passionately, “eet is not to save you. I belong here—see; with Juan, my brother. I am born outlaw, yet she must go! That I resolve, If she stay here I keel her. But ‘tis easier way to have her married to you, an’ senor; “You love Macklin? “Si, senor,” proudly, “why not? He say he love me; yet she come. Madre de Dios? I hate her! She take my love! She! Ket shall not be, You swear, nenor, that she go with you, jan’ never come back any more?” v URSDAY, MAY 1! is the the thin to waste time stropping or honing. to make it perform. It is ready for work when you are—a few clean strokes and you’re through with a work- manilike job. One Big Fellow will Made for Men The Gillette Big Fellow | last you a lifetime Gillette Blade gives you / many velvet-smooth shaves. Then you simph a new one. ’ ‘Ask one of the quarter million Gillette Dealersto put you down for a Big” Fellow. _ “Yes, Pancha, I swear tl Once we are away she shall never come back,” soberly, im: pressed © of her pas |sion, * y is that to be done?” She glanced apprehensively behind, ill clinging tightly to her perch, But now he sleep in there; I creep t while he breathe, an’ not wake m. "Dis because he drank. Juan, my brother, go up to the cove to find Senor Hanley, an’ he not be back tee! morning. ‘Tonight eet must be don an’ so they will not, know I helped, Ix eet #0?” “Yes; I understand; yer have op- portunity tonight; but I must get away #0 no one shall suspect yer had any hand In it “That in cet, rly, “Indian Joe, he keel me if he found out; may- be my brother, too, I see heem keel men, quick, like that. Then he laugh, So I think; he look in here, but not to search, so he not sure what might be, Perhaps there was a knife under |the bed, or dropped somewhere what you found-—see? 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