The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 17, 1923, Page 11

TUESDAY, APRIL 17 CHS PERL NG <oPy eine 142 BEGIN MERE TODAY Roding, new owner of the old We ster place, to rob the Masques Paradise Valley of their wate ply, Esteban Arr eads asques A ranch NOW GO ON WITH STORY CHAPTER X The Mark « Long before th dawn had tinged the sky, the R was awake. Merce First her bre nm her father had ridden had failed to return Unable to stand inaction any | er, she loft the houss and walked far as the creek-bottom here } When Mariano returned with on Henaro, Mercedes’ face fell. She h not known t e be the oth sheep. in di patching the ant nero for Kent. Old He Mariano was put In service; she » him to Ugarde's place, because !t w Dearest, “Don't come back them, will go Lop! ght, Mercedes’ mind Bull's Head and what she wot here. Acklin's dow dark of her thoughts. But even so sh became aware of the insistence the coyotes’ barking. Mercedes sent her horse into gallop. When she topped a sh until you fin At daylight arroyo her heart stopped beating as! quien te Ia dice she caught sight of her father’s pow- erful bay standing riderless, his head lowered and sweeping from side ¢ side. Ringed about him, red tongu: crouched the coyote pack. Merced emptied her gun at them; elunk away. She walked her pinto to where the dow nward and pulled | the old man’s | OF THE THE ROU and way and J, listening for any ad with as} “A ding out over their wet fangs| ADVE NTURES Olive Roberts Barton 1998 By HARRY SINCLAIR DRAGO VODEPH WORK 3 OY NEA SERVICE: HE re stood awa And t there at her feet, she saw the b d body of her fuer Mercedes got to her kne hand. She b Id be brave *\w e way, Then. e she saw the +| y her hand beard and hair; up Jose's rifle, She b had not be aid it bestde him. shed her carefully down Sm ter of a bh came t nhc n, the pitte ed Kildare. horse's sides, and My Man raced to|thing some day ly | where Mercedes stood, The grim nd} ure on the ground, the over nt and the empty-saddled t thelr own story The message ug down beside Jose and » torn’ chem. long-range gun and a power. bullet did this," nd| After he got to his f 1 J rim-rock : an excuse to get th u'd better ride to amined t he ac acienda hink you're able to make it.” If you will we 1 e| Ir on his head. “There ts a Basque hist -a | | mured . what you call ‘La ve w | saying na.” The ¢: ix bitter; he who speaks like ¢ 9 esteems t very much paused. The man‘a oyes [her own, “We will speak the t | c 4 to each other, I guess, Senor. 0! ce * CHAPTER XIV aI Ritter Words TWINS GH RIDERS Niok took his place at the head of the army The Tinker-Man in Bing-Bang|ed against his shoulder. Land made Nick a soldicr hat a of @ newspaper and carved him a} And away they all v he painted a /right, heft right, left right, wooden sword. Then silver star on big shoulder. “Now you are General Nick,” he | each step. ’ jbridge and Nick led them right said. “Ready! March!’ he cotar | wooden legs thumped the ground At last t And as Nick was going to help |over. the Bing-Bang army by driving «| Red Cross ambulance, the Tinker | Man gave her a belt with a strap that went over her shoulder. Off went the Twins then to find} the wooden soldier army again. The wooden soldiers rtopped | ward. They found them where they had |enemr. left them, standing in a stiff, straight line and staring ahead at nothing, their colonels and majora|brown suits and big hats ca gal- | and captains all in their proper|loping over the hill on their tin places. Nancy scrambled up on the ambu- jance seat at once and etarted the| But when they saw the water engine. Then she fixed the handles |guns of the wooden soldiers, they and let out the clutch just like a real grown up person. The car started to move slowly. Nick took his place at once at the head of the army, bis «word press-! | just then some tin rough r horses. Bang, bang, bang! went their gui fled in dismay. getting rusty. ; (To Be Continued) we and felt) th 1d; the fine strong f W disturbing the sand, Blaze rugged even in d arched for other signs that might! been kind to him under e-like, she got to her feet and|tell him something pke it,/about where the walst of des caught sight of him as ack the fat that stretched back | The > the rocky defile, With a thrill | bent inward. was ahead /that mark,” he murmt nt her would haye to wait now,| Little Basilio ex * he told t nervously, and rt get a rig; that ts, {fy Tl go at once,” Istvely she placed her hand| was left of Old I In low tones she mur ria! busy at thelr task, Basillo had con dad es amerga "| rurrledly Blaze turned Jose's face! hag Senor Blaze, please,” the ¢ at | to the came to “Halt! he commanded suddenly. | 20 quickly they nearly fell over back Then Nick took his spy glass out of fis pocket and looket for the|Boaw sent me down to get you.| But he hadn't long to wait, for They dared not run the risk of | Ranctio. (Copyright, 1923, by Seattle Star) emt HE SEA Al Was Elsewhere— Home and Go Back to i the rim-rocks, ands and knees te i. 8 » yards he studied! Shall She Do? t y k. He came to a flat ys Sa t, three yards square, Fine sand Dear Miss Gre lled the pockets In the decomposed ear Miss Grey In one of them was| band, he was engaged to another woman. of a boot. threw himself down unmistakable imp ! agined the assassin had di from toe-mark to elbow all of this when he . good five inches longer than! honest with me always would. I knew Jone his ow y mad to give me a home dis-|ant should have he disco The | the die-clear stamp of a Navajo lu - be dy ype & thane ‘The outlines were clear ana| Still loved her and he has alwa ky | distinct | ture has stood on his dresser always, Kildare’s brow wrinkled as he stared at the and perhaps if he Looks as if a watch have changed her a gr tractive to him any more. That ought to ats ot w dwartea 228 him look her sage-bruah, two yards away, where| Proved fatal. He o| the efector had thrown ft vived, net her beside sper It seems that her | Dry-eyed, Mercedes watched as| left her and so she held the 1 e fellow on his and petted him, Basilio had at for anyone but my husband. ve back now. X arched| not stoop to any deceit. ¢|his neck and whit as he re-itold me the truth. Bh fa 2 cll ‘id was Fe) called this woman ¢ + help, all that} consented to give him his cannot, This woman has t great many friends who value wrong to run her But I want her to give ly play-| SHE will haye to be th Ing with the canteen that h from|it. Can you help me? Can your d)the saddie, Morcedes’ face grew| readers help me/ 1 want to try to | wistful as she regarded the little fel-|reach that good strain in her. I low. On the heels of this, gratitude! want to write a letter to her first for the man's thoughtfulness showed, | and I do not know what to nay. too. | I want to ask her tf sho will see “I want a drink from your water-|me. ¥ am afraid if 1 just write a the will refuse to nee And if I do see her, what shall Then, with Me vides was placed In the wagon. While they had be al tinued his friendsh They were ready t Mercedes and Blaze ty eyes at the boy. Re was him up ne to dc nild | formal reques: | begged. me Mercedes looked at and} I say? I must not make any mis as he nodded ready she | takes—too m dependa upon it. ached to the horn of the saddle to] I dare not give you my name. We ft the ¢ are #0 well known here that I must not even let you know, but will you lp me? Wilt you publish my let he saw the capital) ter, please, so that perhaps I may A A" with which Acklin stamped his| receive help thru some letter some- perty. one may write 1 wer | Mercedes caught emember, that I have come to clous! hands. There, canvas coverin, and tiger Swinging Blaze, good in her fe | waited for no answer, Her lips that way in |in contempt: “A Double A spy We adopted a little girl who ts | Blaze felt his face go white. With|13 years old, and she proves cruel insistence Mercedes’ far further complication In the matter of | eyes mwapt him. neparation. D. “It is not enough that they kill) Judging from other and similar jmy father; Senor Acklin must send/ circumstances I have known about, | you here to spy and pretend to help) it would do little or no good to ap- j me.” | peal to the woman. It ts to your “Don't convict me without giving) husband's better self that you should me a chance to defend myself,” Ki!-| make your appeal. That he should| dare pleaded. “I am a Double A/ continue to cere about a woman who |man; but I didn’t come here to spy.| betrayed Ais love and confidence| | You don't know what you've sald.| seems indeed mrunge. Many men Spy? I'd sure take that word from) would refuse to give her a second |no man! ¥ do you way Acklin| opportunity. Their love, however killed your father?” strong, would revert tinctively to “Who else so much wanted him) something akin to hate, for the one out of the way? He had no enemies. | thing that man moit demands of Acklin!” It was an unholy word 45/ women is loyalty at all times, under she uttered ft: “And his greed; they | ail circumstances. | were all my father feared.” Some persona will doubtless reply | “Even 0," Blaze countered, “It's! that you have no right to interfere not a cow-man's way to shoot In the) since you married for a home, when back or from ambush. I was golng| you knew your husband cared more nda when I met you.” | for another. But you have been } There was frank disbelief in the | everything to him that the woman he girl's eyen. Blaze knew there was! professes to love has not | nothing to do now but to tell her the] stood by him, ‘uth, You have hetped him, tried to | make him happy when hia heart was elsewhere, You and yous adopted | daughter have some rights. He was 4 some shooting at tho ch to Blame for the marriage The Big! ag you were and I believe thot it is sacrilegious to jugol at's the business that brought melabout to sult one's ¢. We took the boy In as soon as | shims, we found hi a week or ac 1 Just wou matrimony own personal In the face of everything the} He'll be all right in fact remains that you have made for | him @ home, have made a brave ef. "The Double A covers ftself with | yort to gather up the broken threads {the blood of my people,” she cried. | of nig life and bind them securely to- | gether in a worth-while manner, The CHAPTER XV | other woman has done little or noth- The Accusation ling except to flounder about and fait Kent was waiting for them at the|in everything she has attempted. Jose's death affected Tux-| yyy sympathies are all wlth you| | carora visibly, Ho tried his best to! and your huaband isn’t much of a| jconsole Mercedes. man {f he till not put the past for-| When they had fintshed thelr sal ever out of hie 1 dane by yo task, the two men went outside. te lhe . %, ony ia Ba | 1, Stale % a 965 THE ADVENTURES OF LITTLE MAY Once upon a time there lived a little girl whose name was May. At the very end of the story we'll tell you who she but “once upon a time” she was just May, and as bubbling a is now, spring of mischief as any plo- neer mother ever had to control. There were many acres of new land to be cleared on that new bought tract of land, which '« now Bucoda, and the father of little May was using Indians to help with the clearing. Back of the house nnd along the creek (May called it tho “pranch’) they were camped with their wives, their dogs and their children. Muy’s mother was @ gracious woman, #0 good to the Indias and #0 kind to the tiown moth ers and their children that for miles around Indians knew and Joved her. But ifttle May had no particn- lar eentiment for the {llsmelling, troublesome brown folk, who were forever begging at the back door. The house in which she lived was just sich a ploneer houne ‘ag you've often read atout, with its chimney and hearth of rubble stone up to the mantic shelf, and beyond that of sticka and) mud, the sort of chitnney which | “May” says she can remember how calmly someone would sity, “The house is afire. Gut a bucket of water and put {t out,” The house stood nearest of all the little scattere settlement to the frame schoc ouse, and when Christmas c ne any other bi celebration, all the mothers wou come with their children to this home, leaye their children there to play while they went on to decorate the school house and make ready for the celebration. But with May for a leader the children didn't wait for date nor day nor hour; the “celebration” for them began when the last | mother disappeared down the school house road. “Les go't the barn and play!’ May cried as soon as they wero gone. “Le's slide down the hay mown; they're slick ua slick!’ Now, there were two of these hay mows; one, higher than tho other, and May's {den was to “chute the chutes’ from one to the other and make a grand landing on the barn floor. Up they climbed, like monkeys, to the top of the highest pile, “Tl go first and show you how,” May volunteered; she, being all of 6 years old, was 4 very good dried out and caught fire just for guide. (To Be Continned) es HAT HT i edes Joined them, ready for} yw», ? | ; pat tan auteslasis deed? | the ride to the Bull'n Head. A stolcall 4 title of conveyance operating by calmness rested upon her, leaving her] iain of releana tha;t ts, tntended t0 | , madonna-like creature r? ( a eee crauure: || pass any title, interest, or claim | which the grantor may have in the mile before he turned for town. He|Promisey bat not professing that | had offered to see the undertaker and | 2Cmset ¥ y | f | such title tg valid, nor containing any priest and do those other errands| saate PORCTNG sd | warranty or co | eat? ecenn | ‘sherbet eicemenp lier eg enh | person executing a quiteciaim deed | When they rode into the yard at | e esponsibility a o |the Bull's Hend, Acklin met them. | “"dertakes no reap mes iets | title, or of any other nature; the| He dismissed Kildare with a curt nod| : | grantee assumes all riske. A quit- but turned a covetous, ingratiating | claim deed conveys oly the interest amile on Mercedes. ‘The whiteness of |CoNr | dor na the thie cof, ne |ther face and her tired eyes were not| °/ *¢ grantor a: \ bed Aon ged conveyance, but such a deed 3 aa| effectual to divest and teansfer a | Mreeden followed the big .ranch- ‘ |man along the porch to where two| ommete title as any ear antly Hders sat opposite the entrance to| the stairway, As they drew near they heard a voice raised in song; a | wild, roflicking, not overly proper bunk-house song. Blaze and Chet had evidently been taking ft in Acklin stopped in the doorway, {m- Mies Grey will recetve callers in her office Monday, Wednesday and Friday, from 1 to 2 p. m. and’ on Tuesday and Thursday from 11 a. m. to 12 m. each ne do not como at peding Mercedes’ entrance, “Tell him | as It serlously inter to stop that noise,” he demanded of | Chet present, Melody!” =) = | Chet called. “Cut the song.” over the banister above them, and| Melody stuck his flaming head! called; “‘s'all right! Just nade his| | ‘he meeting between the wounded | the sensitive singer could stand, Not| knowing what lay back of the girl's reticence when sho failed to answer | why thelr father had not come with | her, he turned and went dowpstatrs, | (Continued Tomorrow) | “Hey! Ladies | Curtains atretchod without pin holes, 400 pair. Best equipped blanket and curtain cleanin plant in the West. Strictly han work. 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I knew of her marriage and hoped that it might) at deal—that she would not be at-| He travels a great deal and so I hit upon the plan of hav- up and call upon her, again and the old love was re- rapa was cruel to her and finally 8 practically free, bitterly regretted her mistake and that she has never cared| She has led a very tno| @Hd I believe that what she says is true. My husband did He came home immediately and|?!*°* ®t I was very angry and I am afraid 1) 4r00p below fr ery vile name I could think of. the best kind of a rep down to him. PTLE ST: § Pleating Is to Be \ Knowing His Heart Faithless Woman—W hat | She moved to an- married me, for he was very | ed him if he ys answered “Yes.” Her pic- Miss Grey, my plan She says that she scluded life on many spring At first) tra length freedom—but, Miss Grey, 1} rhe Jorney, for young girls’ school and tation—has &| street wear. her friendship highly. 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