Show ®s By VINGIE E ROE CHAPTER XI —Continued Hut he followed closely at their heels end Rodney whl!e Uarstoo Serge Blake walked about the scantily atored trout room looked under courser In tjplnj b'ns and behind dvra They entered the storeroom behind with its stack of packing cases barrels the and lta usual Jumble of merchand which litter suh a place containers It And here the red left Parks' face became waxen lAe a trsovn In fag Cut Done of the three teen noticed It Serge was too violent with sorrow to notice much of anythin? and Rodney Blake was cold to his eery rta's for the same reason Ever snre The sound of Iarkness' running feet had brought him Into the patio at home he had been like a man in a trance The bottom had falien out of life for ti'rg hut there was in the emptiness a terrible blackness of gjspcson First of the Indians then of Sonya herself He was following Serge and here and now would foiow them ome hours longer Then he knew what he to do himself what cama!gn of searching he would begin and his always thin Ups drew Into a fine line As the three men explored a rg the dsorder of the place the proand once prietor kept close to them when Mansion raised the Ld of a bln of dry beans the muscle of his right hand rose along the back exactly as tlie body of a cat tenses before It M a rslon dropped the lid and leaps the band relaxed “There La nothing here Serge said In despair They went to fnd the sheriT ar1 aee how many men he had sent out In which direction And back at the ranch ll'a who Lai held her tongue looked in tie face o' Myra Little and poured out in a (!xJ all ahe an knew of Sotya Starr Stone i’yra who Lai come as fast as her two good horse and a bouncing buck board could bring her when ahe heard the new from a Navajo runner who had passed her p’aoe “My Iord !“ she said aghast “You think —that maybe she's gone wtli blm? Bun otrr “What ele?" said Ii'a m'seruMy And IP! Blake ha “She loves him said he'll never gve her up to any one “H’m — yes maybe you're rlgtt Shi told me of this man — what kind ot Blue eyes wild an' ex eyes he had citable — with pupils that spread easily Tee seen their like — once In a preacher who never should have been one an' In an outlaw at luiredo Strange eye they are an' strange men who own 'em aV women can't forget them He'd ever Maybe you're rig! t 11’ take her— an' she'd go— if she love! blm" “She tloa des" said Lila with Ocrrrtctt DeaklaAay WNC Dana A Co law Bwticv abe could hare wished a more end than would likely c me to who fell undt-- El DaMo'i displeasure Ard that she was there she knew full well also why Starr Stone had risked ts life each time he saw her when heoverstayel hsrme S'arr Stine who was who m that Number Fi'leea Keectha — tow sfl the numeral was in the Spanish — who was El Dablo s ah’est Iejterant The man whom he cojid ne ther spare nor now whoi'y s'nce he had though gentle anyone :t hra for a woman And who ds- Neyei Sonya Jerked ter shoul her lps t'at were dry as Twice they sad tad ler "s read htn up" him down apt n S'arr D eb’tv— ep wet afe the bandt only to take St re cf the dared all who laughing whose clever things In the od day brain tad beta IrvabiV t" El who was too ralual'e to k yet If he iLJ who knew too much to net live for him w ' Ard S nya Sat knew too much ais who loved Starr re and tad listened to him In the dusk of r who tad ard many can of first pltked up a a when opium burglrg hand tad It dropped Park — Jjnfo Number Four — the of a store on the bland kot-eralmal He had Murdered retrieved but he bad his Mur ler stantly by send tg El PuMV to destroy the evidence ty taking It away — herself that evidence once agan one could firSh Weil once and she was no one up U:t Starr If oriy she m'gtt quitter lea tal tie CHAPTER XII Tfaa Leopard Changes Spots Dawn came slowly to the t by the room where Sonya window Tha girl was weary from There were dark her sleepless vigil lines in her circles under her eyes young face But her Bps were steady and courher heart the same Today ageous was to be big with portent: that she knew Perhaps Perhaps It meant death she would never again behold the sunrisee the stars wheel In the or heavena Veil one had but one time to die Writers Get Credit for Enriching Language Ten El Diablo Of hated a good woman things on the earth he feared and W hat tated most a good woman powerjhj one mgtt hold aganst him what secrets she might know for his What undong te dd Dot tad told her Sn the soften ug urge of he us’y suspected Evil timseif losb to ail standards of a of loyalty te trusted no one Id do one And tow te tad the whole thing In h's lands thanks to Qjatro: the man who knew hs way arJ worts at c te other llvrg knew them the voian of another wnJ mho mght wreak his ru- n if s: e ch ve i That at structure cf and raid and wi-te had f "T Lmsef Matatian to New c :t J tot pi rg In the ban la of two — nj El Dablo would ci t have it He lo ked at tie s’ n girl before him hs t c datng "Si" he ad “ e meet again sen- r'a " all kur fri He J Funk knows word beeau-- e he publishes and writes poetry— highly both but occcp atios In wTdx So he may propalify as an erert on siang tevls that Ie U a bit t‘o ex- Wilfred to og:t d er v q ':e ft tut t:re trs Savarn w''J it r seem" sad Sonya t It corcvur ''t'y IV 'll g piter:’' a the grev t’ei-- Krtrnmg You thirk tYe’l well has Ei lot tis cunning?” He tad charged his speech to Spanish and fur a moment Sorya hesitated a to whether or she should show she understood Then she decided that he probably knew she did and accepted the Issue "There comes an end to all thing aenor" she said "Yes to life even" the bandit said looking at her smoothly ‘To life even" said Sonya calmly A lttie whisper of admiration She tLrough the silent crowd hal courage the your white woman N'o one had from beyond the Border ever met the master so word for word and eye for eye The grim shadow of broken haJ h's Jjlgments always d'wn tis victims early TVs girl stood tail and straight her hands on the chair back "You remember senorita" El Diablo sa d “that once I took my lieutenant from your arms on a dance floor That A sufshould have been a warning Yet you did not ficient warning heed It" I heeded said It?" have “Why should "Who were you that Sonya steadly I should fear you to such an extent? In my country men are free — to dance with whom they choose" “You saw that Quince feared me "Y'es And knew there mast be a He Is no man s coward reaon “Then you should have known the reason to be good" “I diil" “And tried to find that reason out I have no doubt?" tCAnd Dug w Vf rl I re the nrdrn Senorita H Store again bxk deep In h!s blue eyes renew that suTa covenant which k made ore start! they 'ha But the senora was here with food on a tray and she was kind and we show to with that tenderness those about to go on long and perilous Journey sl “Eef eet please the Senorita" she said apologetically "there ees one who Eet would apeak weeth you today ees one whose word ees the law the master’ said Sonya nodding her “1 know" “I shall be ready senora hlaik head At what hour?" “I do not know— only that when eet arrive one must he ready” well" said Sonya and the “Very woman went away she drank the coffee IVellberately ate the spiced omelette the little of some hot sweet break round And a little later the senora came for her She walked down the long dark passage cool with the night's freshness and Into the great main room of the casa Here there were many men and who all seemed waiting a few women to look at her which they dd with thoroughness In silence A hard lot they were for the Tuot part dark people burned by a tropic sun their of the the hazard faces refleetlrg lives they led There wore men here who had burned and raided and shot who thought no more of killing a human being than of slauc! terng a women who followed them and sheep Their wore the things they looted eyes wore hot and cold at the same time If one might so describe them with all the vared lusts of flaming lawless folk devoid of mercy or com- bt passion The senora passed before them and out at the door which stood open at the south Sonya following close beHere In hind her with her head cp the stone flagged yard sat her Judge El Capltan Diablo In a huge chair a long table made of crude behind slabs and undressed wood set on secand weathtions of saplings peeled ered Here too was Manuel that dapper slint pilot who had brought her Manuel second across the Border In value In power la ability to that one whom the master had brought home to anwer for his sins The sins of Urgent:? too long sheet business of doing his that master bidding less and less eagerly of that most heinous cr'u e cf all loving a good woman I r “No senor" “Nor tbat I bring Into Mexico and along the Border mcrchandse of great A DLstinclive "1 make bold to comphirent sneered You did not know that you both Quince Is — or was— my ablest man In both countries? That he knows as much of El DaMo as E3 Diablo knows about himself? That he can do anywith — iry business— thing connected from seining the sea at low tide for to floats tied to rtrken contraband did not know ail You fiy'ng a plane? COXTIJCCSa Residence An Abode orenoicned Throughout the West !Kta33l3£J:11 HOTEL TEMPLE SQUARE 200 Tile Baths 200 Roorps Radio Conor ction in every room RATES FROM 150 Not oppotUo ERNEST Tmbtrmsck Kormtm C ROSSITER Mgr 77' CONOCO ' GERfi - kst N motor oik Vi-- OF ROAD TESTS! v - LV and Improved Conoco Germ Pro-- i cessed Motor Oil is the most tcsJcJ oil ever put on the market! And test proved that it gives greater motor every protection and lower oil consumption! First it was tested in more than a hundred cars trucks and tractors for 963000 miles of road tests Then it was tested against five other ns- JV T tionally known oils in the Destruction Test at Indianapolis Speedway One fill of thu new patented oil carried a car 4729 miles — outdistancing the best of the competing oils by 14102 miles! Drive into a Conoco Red Triangle Station today a::d fill with Ncwr and Improved Conoco Germ Processed Motor Oil — the oil that every test has proved is a better oil! lew and 0t'iOVed “No senor" ’Nor that that merchandise crosses Into the United States by my little gray ships of the sky to be sent to New York on the railroadr "N senor" "You are well schooled senorita" he BB THE OUAUTY SPARK PlUO EIOTIE1L valuer TO Raymond Kaigkt CUCKOOS— 10 p au Emfra Soturdoya Daylight Saving Pa KJEWMOOJSE mesf Hotel hf Jets J for th Look end the PROCESSED fist “And so do you!" flashed Prya “You ‘Varramba I" swore Diablo tell me that?" 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Replace badly worn plugs with ACs new gBEa grew ' t'e Ul’ne-- s In rt o'ar co'id ere' v a n P'T t'ey J v d h rt pfg- mw a£ANECrRycsvs THE SPARKClfltftAl only “ 'o 5’ t GAS Removing spark r T MOTORS clrculat Into aowe up7 and All cleaned rewr co:rg g time on roads In three village baa bee Miskolc Hungary clared by experts to be black marble ' arorym t of people waa a’l in the grave gjt'trcg s'a r g tack at a distance It was E) I hallo's tabt to have his — moral their for irecta utnewd edV t B it Dowlere was there a tail man with br rre tar and wd biue eyes that sh ne The g io ked earnestly El i and Pahio smied “Not Just yet seDorta" te sail In ail time" “presently Manuel rcse and cicit around the talie brought a char and placed It for ter but did not S"nya st d wm It seemed to ter that she was on trial here as indeed she was s a thiugh wth the a and she m:st take It standing Tie IcJustce the insult of It ail was in a fire and ter was ui she mskrg md a'rad “I think s'r" sde ad sharply “list yiU wll answer to my try cinntry for this abdue-ti- n cf nvstif Yuu cannot tide It A - I - from surrounding - Stonewhich has been used for no leaders to ro Puln t:e ere tart I: g Jj s shared by rr krg" "'i? cor vie And all among the Bad lands In the scattered canyons along the sage brush levels a peculiar thing was hap From every crevasse of the peeing lonely land where she had worked for laved and befriended them the Nava-- ' were coming: tall brown men on sorry horses their long hair bound a their heads beneath their hats their turquoise necklaces awlrvging on their breasts In and soft met spoke clipped They voices parted and went appointed ways their dark eyes on the desert floor scanning the open book of the world around a moving network of detection it was Ilosteen Tso who traced her shod horse to the town who knew that he had sat some hours In a dry wash over to tha east before she went to town and who followed her step by step back along the circling way which had taken her to that certain spot where Sonya Savarln had looked last tipou the desert's familiar face from And there the security of her saddle Two Fingers stood with ilosteen Nex hakliug Ivor lost hat The three men looked at each other codded 8Kke a few low word They all saw too three long strange marks In the sand— wheel marks soft and wide with Indentations In them bea sharply defined mark running tween them beginning a hit before fhelr start ending a bit before they did None of the three had ever seen sn airplane closer than the high blue sky above but they spot of one now conAnd they took the somsidering brero with them Jogging back to tlier hogaas Tomorrow they would meet again these three and circle wider asking all others of their tribe they met what telling this they knew of sky ships And only these — which they knew the humble ones whom Rodney Blake of Sonya anything despised — knew Savarln and what had become of her Ican sport page bloomed to Its present flower of lingual llcense slang ws being built In the same manner Abtemua Ward Orpheus C Kerr and It petroleum Y Nasby were doing And be half a century or more ago fore tbein were other generations of atslang founders Some of them tained a bit of fame In their day Most of them are forgotten Long ego the wbe began to recognize thit slang Is good English In the making They poo poohed the strictures of the purists and Much ex slang la now In without frequently the dictionaries the patronizing label of “colltxjulal all slang does not make Happily or accepted Engthe grade of good lish Frtguentiy It Is not apt and fall of its own weight Good slang land we maintain that the definition U valid) should be direct Illuminating a detour to greater clarity along tedious highways of the sometimes Lnguago As such It merits a per-if manent place in the language and it it Is good enough It wll attn-Bia'n Dealer Cleveland MODERN MAKERS OF LIVE SLANG OF THt PRODUCTS OF CONTI N NTAl OH COMFANY OIL COMP ANT FRF5FNTS — EWy ITvw’u’ov Sik including KDYL at 7:JO M S T— Harry Ruhnvan Jack Dcncy sod His Musk sad John R Kennedy CONTINENTAL over N B C |