The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 2, 1923, Page 11

INESDAY, MAY > use beat on sweet on amped my bush since I first ch eyes on you. You know it, too, and You gave mo the low-down every time, But that’s all right. I like a woman with some scrap tn her You've got nerve enough to mateh my own ong for day, to make good. 1 didnt kid brother here ‘Yor p— stop, please,” Mercede eee begged, Her nv him drove Buck at mad wit lesire She was al more lovely than he had supposed “Why, querida,” he said fervently 0 “there ain't « thing I've got, I : - woukin't give for you. I got water on re this place again worth some- r thin’ now. But I ain't a rancher. I'd throw up this thing in a minute for you. There ain't no rea! money tn ranching, nohow. I'll take you where there's some life and excitement. This God-forsaken desert ain't no place for & girl like -you.” “You mean that you want me to fo with yot—T" Mercedes could not believe her ears, “Yea, Meven marry you, if you'll come with me,” Buck replied. ‘The girl before him shook her head iy. The man must be mad, “Well, what-do you say?” he de- “I say no!” Mercedes cried. She put a chair between them asx Buck advanced toward her. The look in his eyes was proof enough of his in- tention. He wanted to take her in pis arms and feel her warm: flesh inst his, whether she would have it or not “You have trapped me!™ she ex- aimed. “I do not believe my broth. rds here at all.” “He's bere all right.” Bodine as- sured her. “Hey, Shorty,” he called. “Yep.” came the muffled answer from the next room. “Wake that kid up: ‘The girl heard Baailio's startled cry &s Shorty awakened him. “You beast!" Mercedes*’ abricked. “Let me have him! Let me hare him!” “Not till you say yes to me, Senor- Mta” ‘ “You coward! No wonder you want to runaway. Senor Acklin will send You top rison for blowing up his dam.” “Yoh?” Buck questioned exasper- atingly. foo, won't he?’ he went on: In a changed tone “You followed us into the hills this afternoon; I knew that! long ago. What else “you've found Out, I don't know, and I don't care.” He disproved this last statement by immediately asking: “Have you seen Acklin?”" Mercedes caught a hint of uneasi- | Besa in his voice, “I have.” she answered. : * “Humph! 1 suppose you told him ail you know?" The big fellow’s tones Were threatening. Mercedes saw her advantage. “I teil him‘ nothing!” she cried. “But 1 will if you do not give me Basilio and let me take him home.” Buck reached out his long arms and caught her around the waist. “Esteban will go with me, | big hands. A smoky wall lamp re- vealed him in all of his ugliness, But it he saw the girl, he did not stow it ’ | is grip on the child did not relax | "¥: he knew, Bhorty’s death might jelther, Mercedes cried out for him | 0° tufned to his advantage. But how }to let go of her brother: she raised | How? Hoe tried to whip his mind into |her gun to compel bim. But fear | D¢lping him. He felt no regret over such aa she could never inspire in| Killing the man, It wan part of the him held Shorty in its grasp. He had | 4#t he had come to square. Acklin feaught sight of Blaze peering thru Pe Sere, te Brew SAN, , Te I aaailibea winders was almost dawn, How could he twist imiinden anes it would halt the and Hawatian and my father tx only the man fei arp. child in front of ber, Sborty’s rigid- ity turned with incredible swiftness) Blaze caught to most violent action. He dropped | proach on * arm and brought It up with a/ been there on} or two, Kil gun in his hand so quickly that it/dare drew back into the shadows surpassed belief. lurking about the house. |. But Kildare had been more’ rapid Bodine was looking up at Mer- than he. Shorty's gun came up, and up. and up, as Mercedes watohed,! the body. spellbound. It seemed that it was| “You killed him all right.” Blaze | Pointing at her. Her fingers twitched! heard him aay. “He's plumb dead. jand her own gun barked. What you goin’ to do now? Who's {yj iiidare waw the play; the girl at{ goin’to the pen? ‘Thin state's no the door, her gun raised; Shorty's! place for you. Say, I guess you'll b | Pinto! leaping into action; the frantic! glad to "beat it with me You wa child struggling to throw off the iron | I'll get a cotiple of fresh horses and | band on his arm. But more poignant! we'll hit {t for Oregon on the jump.” | than anything cise was the glitter in| “Throw up yotir hands!” ; Shorty‘s eyes. Blaze knew he was the) Bodine looked around. In the door- | man's target, not the girl. His gun| way stood the Big Boss, . | Was in his hand. A tightening of the} | lips and his automatic spat forth its! | deadly message. i He saw Mercedes’ gun flash. The report of it amothered his own. Only | & split-second of time, that words fail to express, had intervened between the two shots. So close had they been that neither the girl nor Bodino in | the next room realized two guns had | spoken. }lation. But at. no time had he Buck rushed to where the girl) dreamed that Acklin himself would stood staring openmouthed at the| come single-handed to beard him in man on the bed. For a second, it} his own den. seemed, Shorty bung polsed in the| The Big Boss walked across tho air, His face was set. an unearthly | kitchen to the doorway of the room ght in his eyes. And then, with a|in which Shorty lay. As Buck ro- thud. he crashed to the floor dead. | covered from the daze he was in, he Kildare had not waited for a sec-| finally managed to articulate: ond look. “He drew away from the; “TI ain't armed!” window and picked up the empty} ‘Take your hands down then,” shell from his gun. He threw it into| Acklin snapped. “Back into the cen- the creek. Why he did this was not/ter of that room.” plain to him at the time. In some} Bodine retreated as he was or- cedes from where he knelt beside CHAPTE XXUT Gathering of the Clans Bodine stared mpeechlesaly at Ack- lin. Shorty’s sudden death and Mer- codes’ maddening influence had de- | stroyed Buck's boastful pose. He had been prepared earlier in the evening for the advent of Morrow or some leaser light in the Double A constel- THE OF 6 Another battle in Bing- Bang Land! No one was killed, however, for Ro matter how seriously a tin sol- dier or wooden soldier is wounded, he never dies. Naney had to help with nursing and Nick had to help the Tinker Man with doctoring, and they were | beth so busy they hardly had time to eat. Private Buttons was one of the Wounded ones. He had also fain tn the rain for to hours after the baitie, so he Hot only had to have a now right hand and a new loft foot, wit a Whole new suit of clothes also, Hight beside him in the hospital Was General Gold Braid, who, also, Had been wounded, The poor man Had tovst his arms again, aw the Yan melted the glue where he had teen mended and oft they » (ame. New arms meant new sleeves, 4nd, as the new red in hix sleeves Wis Veighter than the old red in Hin coat (washed off with the rain “n’ all) he had to have « whole new Uniform, ADVENTURES Olive Roberts Barton THE GENERAL’S STAR Naney had to help with nursing and Nick had to help the Tinker Man with doctoring. < dered, facing the other man as he jstepped backward. Tho ble cattle- }man kept pace with him. A move- | ment near the window to which Mer. leedes had stepped with Basilio | stopped him in his tra¢ks. His gun | was in position as he wheeled, but he {dropped it in consternation as he | recognized the girl and child. Hatred flamed in Acklin's eyes. | Finding her here with Bodine was a | staggering blow to his vanity. He had overheard Buck's words urging | flight to Oregon. They were going | together! TWINS General Gold Braid had nothing | to say to Private Buttons, but} stared straight ahead in a haughty manner, Private Buttons, being a well: trained soldier, did’ not turn his eyes, but stared straight head, like wise. Not a word did they speak. At last they were al! dry and ready to go back to their places in the army. General Gold Braid Nancy and Nick and Man and said goodbye, Private Buttons followed, keeping ten steps behind the general. At last they both came to the place where the army was. Then a most amazing thing hap pened! The army paluted Private Buttons and never even looked at] General Gold Braid, | Becauso—Nick bad made a mine| |take and painted the senerat's sil thanked the Tinker lver star on Private Button's | shoulder! General Gold Braid hadn't #0 much a9 @ sergennt'y stripes, | (To Be Continued) Copyright 1023, by. Seuttic t the P, - PACIFIC fateenational EXPOSITION: TBoodvvcups were served, ANA MA Star) | rey: Reade Continue to late Tales of Inter-Racial By Marriage—Disaste r Inevitable Result ma ‘ noha ing Fahey BY CYNTHIA GREY GHD INES OY NE ® Seevice. im Pega etter has recalled man trange and sad tale BPGIN HERE TODAY M tae i egard rracial marriage in the minds of numerou > " ’ " Waa too strong for eaders, In every instance they should serve as a warniny d Webster pla y, oF TN mad 4 Se 9 ag te pcm ‘ ee eee Dear Miss Grey: I have read Peggy’s letter and it bring " you who to my mind a story told me by a very old lady many year * Ago. eyed Buck's All of this happened in the state of New York and show K I we manna clearly the evil results of mixed marriage nder bone w aheabee This old lady used to tell of a colored minister who came . Buck de. | shapplug to the city and a young white girl of good family became . Btop!” Mercedes cried so loudiy| infatuated with him = : that her voice carried to Kildare, who They were married and children were born to them, some x t rida. Bodit wee etilh som down the/ white and some colored. One of the white girls married a Be oie tt on seve 4 = aravee atest aka FEL sailor without telling him the truth. While he was away at peck « kid out of dan now," Buck grumbled sea a child was born. When he returned and looked at the for you, and ain't # to pay| He caught her by the wrist as he| child, he noticed it was dark and looked unnatural. He went age An Pntney wed = Borgia bherns to him.’ away again and when he returned the child was distinctly + Bae an Buck tried to in:| hand. But hia Jaw was ialuer me mulatto, He asked for an explanation and she was obliged he to her light blows, With feline fe-| tO tell him the truth. He left her saying he could not be ts 6 Huck | Pocity she bared her nails then, and| responsible for rearing a family of mixed color, She took ere ane until they were' the child to her mother and told her to take care of it as smeared with blood dino did not tlease Der, hom ewt Bedine did Bot! she was the one to blame. You fightin’ wildcat,” he mum.| Years later this child, now grown to a young man, at- bled thru gritted teeth, “I'll kiss you| tended college in another city. He fell in love with a white ma wait has : girl, who returned his love, and they were engaged to marry. ry as bard as she t er a I~. goat mpgredicy be : Beg apes He had not told her about his parents and his mixed blood, cruel, sens mouth drew close to, DUt someone from his home town told it, and when he called mouth drew close to B , ber own. To add to her horror, Ba-| to see the girl, she asked him and he confessed. es sertakes again and again, She She refused to marry him, of course, so he went to his inne pind sed SE aires cael No! room and committed suicide hips. » felt ething sharp r Now all of this happened almost a century ago, but it , leeve. It was Buck's proves that human nature is the same yesterday, today and volver, Automatically her fing forever, \ ,/ Closed upon it. With a wrench, " n T \ neg e a amed No Mins ¢ from man ft pulled It out of the holster, Bodin RiNTEAA thact=dts rill | the cocamtateroriaten: it easah spent fot t gun-barrel boring into his He 5 that because of this dark blood in etemach. His face grow white | prejudiced against any |my veins I should not marry a whit ‘Get back!” Mercedes gasped. “En are all ( ch irl ida! Al momento! Of you die Rb ag thy ” ive bare & uci to, tha wee dere h we may t rest of the wh Buck backed away, He know whe | digister to ourse t t that meant w id. His rifle stood | sotins ’ 1 thi in the corner, Hoe retreated toward) ae 1 will to dark 1 it. ‘Phe way to the door between th wiki) dition rails 2 a bring t nto the wor “i two rooms was clear now. Mercedes say a few words in repli’ te th m a breed am I ran to it and flung it open. chet: ’ ; n ed from mar Shorty sat on the bed beside Ba- 4 1 : Tam a quarter-breed Hawalia mad yve and she |. w allio, the child's arms atill held in his Bastian My mother is part nou I guess not alae alive and have my right senses, I treat her as good as any white boy could and I love her as truly as she loves me. | say about that? What have the people to I'd Uke to bear a writing this because fair ex- change is no robbery. A white man marries an Hawalian woman, why can’t we marry a white girl? It is not that I am = pr gains’ her race—1 love m: las my r But I ark men, enforced that white men may not marry dark women, BE. 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