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Show was' 16799 levf't t u was the onty pisce a man or horse could leave tU valley tor tbe pataT "Dick, here's yvur stand. If any raider ride la range take a crack St hlnu , . .. Sow. I want tbe lend of your bo.". in New York City alone from kid- "Blanco-Soi-l" exclaimed Gale, utore m ainaxe that Ladd should ask for tbe Koey trouble last year. Don't allow victim yourself to become leading to the ascent of the escarp- horse than in reluctance to tend him. ment.- When they achieved the gate by neglecting pains and achea. "Will you let me have anar Ladd Guard against trouble by taking way ef the pass the sda was low In repeated, almost curtly. the west Ladd gave the word to "Certahily, Laddy." tie up horses and go forward on foot A smile momentarily chased the The narrow neck of the pass opened dark,' cold gloom that bad set upott and descended Into a valley half a mile the ranger's leaa face. r Copyright b, Harp wide, perhaps twice that In length. Shore I appreciate It Dick. I 4 Brother It had apparently unscalable, slopes of know bow yon care for that boss. I weathered rock leading up to beetling guess tnebbe Charley Ladd has loved The wM'ssUukiardreirjedyfof kidney. to leate Forlorn River. He's well The men soon aver, niaoaer ana unc add troubles. walla. An one so as a boss Sol. not good rounded eleven of up enough to travel. I offered him horse, ' Holland's national remedy since 1696. , said Ladd. I was vnly try In' your nerve, Dick, down, Keep the boys," less fright- "There's All druggists, three sfcea, Guaranteed. gun, blanket, grub. But no go." the waterhoie. an'- h oases sskln' you without teUln' my plan. s far thm name CM4 MmUI m , "That's funny," replied Gale, with ened. have sharp eyes. Shore the Ysqui Sol wont get a scratch, yo. can bob im ttnp ata IsnUaUaai Belding was unconsoTable. He mile. "Let him stav nn Mm this place, I never aeea Its gamble on that I 111 ride him down v cursed and railed, and filially declared flggered work." like for a trap." Into the valley an' poll the Greasers he was going to trail the raiders. doesn't strike mis fiinnv D Mr Both white and black horses showed out Into the open. They've got short-rang"Tom, you Just ain't agoln' Ml tell you what I think. Tt. do against the green, and a thin curling carbines. They can't keep out nothtn of the kind," said to, homeless, heartbroken Indian hsa Laddy, column of blue smoke rose lastly from of range of the .405, an' III be takln Uken a liking to you, Dick.- - You coolly. s , the dust of their lead. They cant gala Belding groaned and bowed his head. amid the meequltea, wved his Ufe. That sort of thing are msually due te straining reckon "I we'd better watt till dark, on Sol an hell run them down when "Laddy, you're right," he replied, counts big with any Indian, even with when constipated. or mebby daylight" .said Jim Lash. ; Can I want beat ttT you presently. to Tve 1 stand It an Apache. With a Taoul mavh got Kojot betas a lubricant "Let me Agger some, Dick, what if. can't leave the women t . . . "But sup No. It's great and my propof deep u significance, Tve heard a keeps the food waste soft erty. But It's sure tough. Tra sore do you make of the outlet to this pose a raider -- cornea out on Blanco and therefore . prevents " Taqut say that with his tribe no debt way down Looks rough to me." hotel . . Dlablor. Doctors prescribe deep, and nothln but Wood 4 With straining. to friend or foe ever went his glass Gale studied the nar unpaid. would ever satisfy me." I reckon that's the one weak place Nnjol because it not only that's what alls thla lellow." rernapa row construction of walls and rough In my plan. But If they do, well Sol soothes the Buffering ef. -tht t0 m D' Jlm" imck, don't laugh." said NelL Tw La'(RaV ened rising floor. ' can outrun Diablo. An' I can always piles but relieves the irritanoUced the TaquL It's "Laddy, It's harder to get out at klU the white devUr tion, brings comfort and pathetic the "What do you mean to dor demand. I Ladd's strange hate of the horse helps to remove them. Led Belding, a that end than here," he replied. starting up. A UAL Nalel la a Shore that's hard enough. Let me showed in the ptsslon of-- his last onore i aon t know yet . . . Give lubricant not have a look. , . . Well, boys, It don't words. In his hardening Jaw and grim me a lignt for my pipe. -- An' Dick, go take no a medicine or " . s flggerin' for this Job. , Jim, set lips. icica out your laqul." laxative ae Hi want you at the other end blockln' Galvs hand went swiftly te the cannot gripe. the when we're to start" pass ready ranger's shoulder. CHAPTER VIII a Try It today. II "When 11 that ber Inquired Jim. Laddy. . Dont ; kill-. Diablo- - unless v tSootj as Tfs light enough In the It's to save your life."'''TheVRnninaiaf Blanc nil. Alt right But by O d, tf I get The Yaqui's strange glance roved mornln'. That Greaser outfit will hang till tomorrow. There's no sure water a chance I'll make Blanco Sol run him ver ma COrraL tun ewlnrinv off his tegs I" ' with Its broken fastenings, the tracks ahead for two days, you remember." The He spoke to more and set abont In the road, and then rested rangers stole back, from the upon Beld LUBRICANT-WOthe length of Sol's stirrups. T A LAXATIVE and to returned changing vantage their point ing. A VgasaiSswBBaawi 'Malo," he said, and his Spanish horses, which they untied and left When he bad them adjusted to suit be farther round among, broken sections mounted and rode down the trail and was clear. "Shore, YaquL about elcht bad men. of cliff. For the horses It was a dry, out upon the level He rode leisurely TiyPISOB no a traitor Indian." said Ladd. hungry camp, but the rangers buljt a as tf merely going to wster his horse. AsteatshlSgtr A The rli- -. across Ore blsck rifle and his quia had long their , short though lying think he means mv herder dri rm Aifievi aartrll. however, waa nmlnmia ed Belding. "If he does, that settles strengthening meat. mes el elliste Gale securely tied the other horse Jim Lash rolled In his saddle any doubt It might be decent to have to a mesqulte at hand, and took a his and nesr blanket the malo feet, fire, eplatea. SSeaa4 laqul Papago Sir eoe tow rock over which Yaqul spread wide his hands. went to sleep. Ladd told Gale to do position behind a Then be bent over the tracks In the likewise while he kept the fire op and he could essily see and shoot when road. They led everywhither, but waited until it was late enough for necessary. Ladd rode a ouarter of a gradually he worked out of the thick Jim to undertake circling round the mile out upon the flarbefore anything net to take the trail that the cowboys raiders. When Gale awakened, Jim happened. Then a whistle rent the naa roiiowed down to the river. Beld was up saddling his horse, and Ladd still cold air. A horse had seen or scented Blanco Sol. The whistle was tog and the rangers kept close at his was talking low. With Ladd leading, they moved prolonged, faint, but clear. It made heels. He found a trampled spot where the rslders had left their horses. From away into the gloom. - Advance was the blood thrum In Gale's ears. Sol Seas 2Sc Oialisat 23 sai 50c, Talcaas ?Stx this point a deeply defined narrow exceedingly alow, carefulr sTfeot Final halted. His head shot up with the old, leveled wild, Gale sweep. spirited tbe trail showed pale In the gloom, trail led across the dry river bed. ly and eastern stars twinkled between his glass at the patch of mesqultes. The trail of the raiders took He saw the raiders running to an open froaaiccmtfaa writs Her Color Fled. He 8aw Her Lips southeasterly course over untrodden the lofty ramparts of the pass. Cutter" Liquid or Solid Then pointing, gesticulating. place; BUckJes Aftresela. Abw. mo ; desert Ladd The a halted stood and In silent Part his own Yaqul. spoke nayaHi VAXursboiie Aetna, ment "Luck again!" he whispered. he got only white and dark gleams of in then tongue, Spanish. F'nIniectacswnrkliMtUktBUcklis way - bis great gloomy eyes follow Thlnk he means slow march," said "The wind's In your face, Jim. The moving bodies. Evidently that moment it unnbuHublc loally. wrue one was aaddles and of boots, guns ydu." Belding. "Laddy, from the looks of horses won't scent you. Try to get up , . The Cutttr i Laboratory raiders. the for "You've made a friend," continued thst trail the Greasers are that ganri Hm" "Tin having as high as this at the other end. Walt Ltrnrj saw Then Gale a rider gallop Berkater "A a real could be U.lLcMr) CaUmle till daylight before riskln a loose Belding. Yaqul trouble with the horses." KB OU Strfa rWW sikJPi2IVtcaQBi stia sues from the group toward the far swiftly friend on this deyrt. If he gets his be IH rtdln' shore the a Job slope. "Tom, early. boy could see that" lot (bom wk gcaia ibna . ther outlet of the valley. This might strength back hell be of service to replied Lsddy. "Ask Ysqui to tell us That's an." have to been, characteristic owing yon, don't mistake me. He's welcome where the raiders are beadln', an' If Ladd's cool, easy speech was scarce AlXU)TCILYC:rT but tt was more likely a here. But you're responsible for him, there's water." ly significant of the perilous under- cowardice; move sure of to the make raiders of and youH have trouble keeping him It was wonderful to see the Yaqul taking. Lash moved very slowly retreat Undoubtedly Ladd ssw this from massacring all the Greasers In ' point With a stick he traced a line In swsy, leading his horse. Then Ladd galloping horseman. . A tew waiting Forlorn River." touched Dick's and back .turned arm, the and the at then end sand, of that momenta ensued. The galloping horse e e e e e e a another line at right angles. He made up the trail man reached tbe slope, began to climb. The probability of a visit from the crosses and marks and boles, and as . Together they picked a way back With naked Gale saw a puff of usual bolder a and dash than raiders, he drew the rude map he talked In through the winding recesses of cliff. white smoke eyes spring out of the rocks. on the outskirts of a ranch, led BeldYaqul, In Spanish; with a word here The campflre wss smoldering. Ladd Then the raider wheeled bis plunging not was a new corral. build It to ing and there in English. Belding trans- replenished It and lay down to get a horse back to the Minus the Sporting Instinct. ' level, and went rac sightly to the eye, but It wss high and lated as best be could. The raiders few hours' sleep, white Gale kept "How much Is this stock T down the valley. exceedingly strong. The gate was a were beading southeast toward the watch. Tbe after part et the night ing wildly cents a share. In- slzty days "Thirty and bunch of The compact bays massive affair, swinging on huge railroad that ran from Nogales down wore on till the paling of stars, the It to go to f 1.50 a rd guarantee blacks seemed to break apart and hinges and fastening with heavy Into Sonora. It was four days' travel, thickening of gloom Indicated the share." from of the the edge rapidly chains and padlocks. bad trait, godd sure waterhoie one dark hour before dawn. Ladd awoke spread "If you will also give me a written InAt night Belding locked his white day out; then water not sure for two before the faintest gray appeared. mesqultes.' Puffs of white smoke contract to find a purchaser at that and showed dicated the nature firing, horses In this corral. The Papago days. Raiders, not looking for pursuit The rangers ate and drank. When the of the raiders' excitement They were price when the sixty days are up in herdsmen slept In the adobe shed adcould be headed and ambushed black did lighten to" gray they sad. . .. fsr out of ordinary range; but they take a block.". joining. Belding did not Imagine that that night at the first waterhoie, a dled the horses and led them out to Ah, sir. Tve misjudged you. I see toward as Ladd, shooting spurred they snbstsn however the pass and down to the point where rode. The raiders any wooden fence, natural trap In a valley. bullets, striking bow thst you are not' the type of man tlally built could keep determined The men returned to the ranch. they had parted with' Lash. - Here low, were skipping' along tha hard, wboH play the game." Birmingham down. it raiders from breaking They The rangers ate and drank while Wak- they awaited daylight' bare floor of the valley. Then Ladd would have to take time, however, and hurried preparations for travel. to Taney grew clear or gray raised tha long rifle. There was ne ing make considerable noise; and Belding Blanco Sol and the cowboys horses shsdow except under leaning walla on DYED HER BABY'S COAT, but three high, spanging re relied on these facts. Belding did not were fed, wstered, and saddled. Ladd the eastern side. Then a straight col- smoke, A gap opened In the out rang ports would A SKIRT AND CURTAINS belleie a band of night raiders refused to ride one of ' Beldlng's umn of smoke rose from among the dark, line of advancing horsemen : hold out against a hot rifle fire. Ladd whites. He was quick and cold. . then riderless steed sheered off to WITH "DIAMOND DYES" did not share Beldlng's sanguine rifle an' lots "Get me a long-rang- e the right ' Blanco Sol seemed to turn hopes. of shells.- Rustle, now," be said. "I as on a pivot fend charged back Each Dackate of "Diamond Dree" eosv ' One - January, morning Dick Gale want a gun that'll oufshoot the dinky lower end ef the valley. tains direction so aimcU anv woman eaa toward the was awakened by a shrill, mensctng little carbines an' muskets used by He circled over te Gale's right and dye or tint ber old, worn, faded things a.vea u eoe naa never eyea mi ore, cry. He leaped up bewildered and the rebels. Trot one out an' bo quick." stretched ' out Into ' his run. There ' boomheard pnt a new, rich color into shabby He Beldlng's frightened. "Tve got a "3KS,' a were now Ave raiders In pursuit and skirts, areases, waists, coats, stocking. and rapid ing voice answering shouts, heavy rifle that'll shoot a mile. I use they came sweeping down, yelling and sweaters, severing, draperies, nohangings. not had these But on otter flagstones. steps Buy lAsmond Uyee-It for mountain sheep. But Laddy, shooting, evidently sure of their everrtning. kind then oertect borne dvemc is nar awakened him. Heavy breaths, almost It'll break that brooch's back." Ladd reserved bis fire. He anteed.-- . Just tail your druggiai whether qusrry. break so easy. ; . . sobs,, seemed at his. very door. In "His back-won- 't kept' turning from back to front la tbe material you wish to dye is wool or the cold and gray dawn Dick saw Dick, tske plenty of shells for your .... silk, or whetW it ie linen, cotton, or his saddle. ..imrthine- white. Gun In hand, he mixed goods. Diamond Dyes never streak, don't An' your to he Intended forget to Remington. Manifestly try fads or run. Advertisement - ' bounded across the room. Just .out field glass.- -' lead tbe raiders round la front of spot, SoL Blanco stood door side his Gale's position, snd," presently, Gale In less than an hour after the time The Meddlers. . It was not unusual for Sol to come saw he wgagolng to succeed. The the three raid the rangers, of heavily dur-in- r door Meddlesome In Dick's at head people sre not neces- poking his armed and superbly mounted on fresh rslders, 'riding like - vaqueros, swept miillcloua sarily davlieht But now In the esrly horses, rode out on- the trail As Gale they may even be tn on a curve, cutting off what disbut the harm' they do dswn. when he hsd been locked tance they could. Blanco Sol pound- a look back from the far bank to turned l. It meant raiders no less. ed by, his rapid, rhythmic boofhents Is none the less real. Knowing bow of Forlorn river, he saw Nell waving to run other people's business Is not to the. snorting Dick caUed softly a white scarf. He stood high In his plainly to be heard. He was running always so much a gift as an afflicham., and. hurriedly getting Into stirrups and waved his sombrero. easily. a with out tion. went he v clothes and boots, hid the girl's slight Gale tried to still the Jump of heart In Then the mesquite was 8ot hand. quivering each In grim-faced snd pulse, sod turned his eye sgaln gun flgure, and Gale wheeled Important te Mother verreronscle. Like a dog be followed to follow the rangers. on the nearest pursuer. This raider Examine carefully every bottle Of Hearing nround the house. nil wss crossing In, bis carbine held They rode in single file with Ladd CASTORIA, that famous old remedy shouts tn the direction of the corrsls, In the lead, ne took a bee-lin- e muzzle up In bis right band, and he for infants ana children, and se that It course fieu hent swift steps thst wsy. was coming swiftly. It was a long Bears the for the white escarpment pointed out He caught op with Jim Lash, who by the Ysqui ; and nothing save deep shot upwsrd of five hundred yards. Signature of wee-nl- ao leading a white horse. Gale tad not time to adjust the sights washes and impassable ' patches of The reached the corral to find rartna or rocks made him swerve of tbe Remington, but he knew the In Use for Over SO Years. . mada like roaring gun and, holding coarsely upon the Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria Belding shaking, . ,, , from It m.n The gate was open, tne corrai swiftly moving blot, be began to shoot At noon the rangers got out of the Joe the 11oddr says some fellow Tbe rifle wss sutomatlc; Gale needed wss empty. "Tom, where, the Papa- thick cactus, Tne "enerx boot inciinetvi-MQi-i- , Here's Your Stand. If Any e ... a I A Ladd. lift said the to grab a stool whet, there's a always he pull trigger. 8wlftly wnen unie goi gor ' rone. rterceptlhiy upwsro. Raider Rides In Range Take a only to be moved. .. , Laddy gone 1" worked piano the It Suddenly of leading of view the unobstructed slope an Crack at Him" us, ebt I ee here's ouble-crosaed horse leaped convulsively, not up nor the escarpment he located tha raiders mat the It seldom occurs to the gatepost a crowbar lyln by In travel another hours wss what aside, but straight ahead, and then and horses. mesqultes. Manifestly this d tne man la probman from It lorgo. that tbe to he fetched the crashed his ground, Indian throwing the rangers could see with naked eyes Ladd had been awaiting. He took the ' his salnry. a md to cry out the bolts like and then rider earning ably slid catapult black of streak from Its sheath moving faint and tried long .4(0 long, wasn't there reckon I ne snd half Tom. fell rolled, got back. up, steeples. e dots. the lever. Then be lifted a cartridge TLefrcHm Trtaxy Eya ,., Hm lost fordn' thst gate. belt from the pommel of his saddle. and kicked j but his rider never moved. for thst beadln' yellow of They're some detsils clear Eres feel Dull made VhenYout Daylight a shell and these tracks pass," said Ladd, pointing to a break Every ring held and Mm M Jkdntaa h . the raid. The cowboys found were Inches the shells four He of end long. (Ulomt'nat 1 lr- -d Fclin escarpment from the In the eastern " ) love Nsll' went en Dice. aai M.k ibm CUac, of eight raiders coming up belt buckled well of round the him. out sight get "When they been parkltna. HitmlaM, SoU aae I want you te 1st ' 'snd f simply, river bed where tbelr horses had waterbole "Come Ohlnkln' that on, Dick," I irnaa .ml, j by AJ DWa. n..tia. Tm me ask her te be my wife.'" t.ft Evidently the rspa Ladd led the way down the slope Ysoul spoke of Uya la the paax" the few per His his trust m The rangers- traveled swiftly ever unto be reached I position thot comMore sonal belongtafi were gone. C level oaten manded the rising of tha trail from (TO aa CONTINUKO. flelda. the remaining- nliee horses were found loose to the DEED By ZANE GREY DIABLO STOLEN 1 J Author of OPSlS -- eetaa" gold In the JJT Vemeron.' solitary Proe--y a partnership with fScnown man whom he later . ta jonas IVerren, father of wronged, ,h whom Cameron back U Illinois. The Riders of the 0... two proceed rotuge from a Slwrm to a cave. Cameron dle- - Cameron leaves faying. whltea,--tr"inoni-- evt-- if ls-to the cave, of their doen-"7 of gold, and personal Richard Gale, adventurer-rasU- - a. border town. Tborne, lieutenant in Mexican . U he'P of two American tore" and be. Mercedes and Swcapt A bugle call from Tartar. Thorn, to hi. under H, leaves Mercedes The pair, aided protection. "m cowboys. Charlie Ladd and i Lash arrive In safety at a known as Forlorn. River, u,, Beldlng's home. Inspector, living a" hl 'lf and With i him Nell Burton. Gal. 4 end Lash. take service with is rangers.of Galetelllng his beirtg a ling the cause derer. a misunderstanding with i father concerning the son's Merceden geU Sness a&ilWes. to Thome of her safety, ink also writes to hie parents, whereabouts his of them ning ,t Tom step--rt,ur : m v.-itti- personality, and her kindGale. Riding tha party , Gale falls In with tree Mexl an raiders encamped Watohlng hi water hole. jrtunltjr to oust them, he sees i Indians ride Into the camp. 1 of them, a Yaqul. I evidently w wounded, and the Mexicans I to kill him In a cruel way. I drives them off, conveying v to Beldlng's ( wounded Yaqul -i k 3e - Continued. renceu ukiu vi veiveij green furnished 8 rich background drove of about twenty-whit- e Blanco Diablo was the only (be field that wag not free to lod craze where be listed. A 'and a bolter held him to one I where he was severely let by the other horses. He did not Blanco Diablo was ,1s isolation. he was running, 'or unless jipy I a rival. Of the two he would 81 If anything white could s devil, this horse surely 3e bad nothing beautiful about jet be drew the gaze and held )e look of him suggested dls- anger, revolt, virion sness. be was not prating or prauelng, 1 his long, lean bead level, polnt-- f nose rod showing his teeth. ft favorite was almost all the to him, and he swore Diablo itand mortj heat and thirst and (than any other horse he owned, ftua run down and kill any i , " attract HAPTER VII. fight" fie t the Southwest, admitted ' some cowboys of ri claims for Diablo, but they byal and nnshakable allegiance as for Dick, he had ,it himself to keep out of argu- for he sometimes Imagined he treasonable about the horse. I be could not understand hlm- knew he loved Sol as a man friend, a brother. Free of nco Boi. f saddle and the clumsy leg I Blanco Sol was somehow all !ni to the eves of tha ranirere. taltng whiteness of the desert Jone from his rjoat; be bad the A spirit of the deserp. In his nead, its strength and power In Jantlc frame. ling swears t Dick wag never beat Sol sarins' ' Mleves It." replied Nell --Dad tr about that horse." I often wondered how fielding pe to give Blanco Sol to me," - Kk he wanted M to get rid of He aurely has F strange mi-pi u once. Pirnais to me. I guess, A -- . r sol : o love pas- - I nnrlrtBri1 I owned a Thn Wri borsoj). I think than I used to. But i hlmr asked Nell ; and nn, blue flash of eyes swept Well, rather." I"fl. Sol has been finer, a ofe since you owned him. He Llck. Sol always hated nd nover had much use for looked " up nt her. Pretty hsrd to leave Sol i go ii way." t nerfivtly stflL . , "ay 7" shp m.VvA ' . . T n..M. ihe fulntest tremor In her 8ometlmi when f toda- y-l .' in in iuaI, ? Spend nil m 1 W.a " i i a. k t bin tnlnk rR gk But un . noi. likely iif. "wer to this. Dick 'mr 0Te? nerif tB(1 to itruggle - 1hr,f-h"- on. fl.ul T- T- . . gravel, Qh'rysteponthe ,". complalntosj, voice Irer-an- d hlln fe,MM NeU trode Into ,Be,"n mR(1, driven or hired or coated i V V I He CILY courtppe in J ( oWl - - . w 'I . . Age-Heral- - long-barrel- ( V - ft r. - '- -.!,: v . - -- - . slip GtZfi&J& . -D- low-prlre- .t ... snd-wblt- X)ior w Gutlcura Soap Complexions the-corra- ?! 1 ' , Is Ia - The fugitive border. ed Piles Md Bol rthouer." ' It George eoUefe !kTbUi cavalry, i Thome telle Bale ha Is eave Mercedes Caataneda, !ia girl his affianced wife, f RelMr Mexican bandit Qale i LATiinop Satfe, "uuure, etc. ried. T ,nd Purple high-price- ..... t.h V,- - 1 |