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Show THE PAYSON CHRONICLE, PAYSON. UTAH THE BLADE OF PICARDY By FRED McLAUGHLIN CHAPTER IX Continued -1- 0- Now ter eyes were shining, for he could uot foresee the consequences of my act. "You will never regret senor? I would not have you . regret . My heart, somehow, tad within me. are My regrets passed. dear lady; 1 never look beNo. died hind me. The amber eyes searched my face, trying vainly to break through the mask of my smile; and, fulling, tilled again with the dancing light of youth, of happiness. I think you spent those weeks at home, senor, In raising a nice luxuriant beard. Exactly. And you reappeared as Pablo? So much like him, In fact, that Manuel and General Juarez, and your uncle, General Escobedo, as well as l.eroux and Louie Besancon took me to he your cousin. Every one except Madrella himself. She thought a moment You must have known of his projected Journey to the camp of General Juarez, flow could you have learned of that? 1 heard him plan It It was I, senorita, and not your cousin, who entered Cuernavaca with bd ever laggard burro. She caught her breuth. You you; senor It could not have been I promised you frankness. And I met you In the library? Her voice was deadly calm the calm that cornea before a storm. Yes, senorita. And and kissed you? Yes, senorita ; and kissed me, and called me 'Poor Pablo and told me that you did not love me; therefore I determined to come back and woo you for myself, but Now she turned away from me, and her shoulders shook with sudden oversobs. Ah, Dios, she whelming Does gasped, Dios; I am ashamed the lieutenant Neville know this? I had to admit that he did. I did not realize how much the thing must have hurt her. I suppose he he laughed. Fie may have, senorita. Oh, the Yet there Is, misery of that hour! dear lady. In such a situation, a fruit ful source of laughter. Cannot we ? You you she gasped. No," beast I Had Pahlo known this surely he would have killed you ns you deserve I She went off Into an uncontrollable hurst of sobbing, and, seeing bow terribly the great puroxysins shook tier frail body, 1 would console her, for I was afraid. I laid my hand upon ' her shoulder. Senorita . Dont touch me I I hope I never look upon your face again. Senorita mla will you not tell me good-by- ; must I go thus? Go go I Ah, leave me leave me before die 1 ments of human muscle. vanquish four of them. Four? I could not Agostlno did not forget the grip of your fingers on his throat; far from It He remembered only too well, for he came hack and paid me with a mighty thump on the head. Even the sleepy cochero took a night off to celebrate." "But Madrella, who wore your suit, said I, told me that the vultures Neville laughed. And so they should have, Francois, had Madrellas plan gone through without a hitch; but I was not so dead as he Imagined. It was all too easy, Francois. Ma drellit, for reasons then unknown to me, chose to weur my sulL Ills motives seem clear to me now. Assum Ing that I was dead or nearly so, he gave Agostlno and his Indian com panion from whom you purchased the horse twenty pesos each and told them to stick their knives Into me a few times ere they left me. After such simple Instructions he rode away In the closed cab. Left to their own devices, the tw Indians, to whom, as you know, tor tore Is a sort of entertaluineut. de elded to bring me back ft"tdh'srIous ness so that the process of sticking might he made the more pleasurable. Nevilles broad shoulders shook with silent laughter. My awakening wu so swift and so unexpected that they have not, I think, recovered from the shock for I cracked their two hard heads together with such violence that they doubtless discovered many constellations hitherto unknown So I left them, very much the worse for wear, lying beside the road and came hack to the city, where his majesty was kind enough to receive me, and wise enough, iny Francois to send the reinforcements you sugAye. gested." Cuernavaca would have fallen oth-erIse." said L Now Cupldo, who knew nothing ot all this, clamored for Information so while I ate and drank, I drew ns a 1 V Is a compliment to the lady? With her cousin grievously wound- cols, " Do not you and Colonel Lopez suffice; need she draw further from the ed ranks of the Empire?" His dark eyes gleamed for an In stunt. If you are jesting, captain, I find It difficult to laugh; If you are serious hut you arent, of course, my friend. Cannot one, walking the stern path of duty, reach out to pluck a rose? Not unless one Is wary of the thorn, nor If the plucking requires divergence from that path of duty. He thought a long moment, and Ne vllle and Cupldo, sensing the definite enmity In the air, waited. I think Lestrange was considering carefully Just what might be the extent of my knowledge, and just what use I In tended to make of 1L "Would it be deemed apropos tf I ask you who furnished the fist that used your face so grievously? Iahlo Madrella. Impossible Lestrange leaped to his feet Madrella has been at his home, under guard Do not excite yourself. Madrellas guard was a nominal thing, as you I may know." Do you mean? Zut I Only last Tuesday night Iablo Madrella and a laden burro sel out for Cuernuvaea and two Madrel-Inreached that town. Ills face paled and his gleaming lie essayed a puny eyes wavered, smile. Do you mean to tell me, Fran cols, that vou . . . ? Assuredly. It takes a beard some time to grow, even for a Frenchman " I had nothing to lose by being frank for I knew that Lest range's hours were numbered. You doubtless won der how I discovered he was going to see Benito Juarez. In fact, Pahlo asked me. and I told him. Cnptalr l.estrange, that you had given me the information. Was it not clever? l.estrange trembled with suppressed rage. "You let Madrella believe that I had told you?" Why not? It explained away so many unexplainable tilings and It served my purpose so very well In If you can sow the seeds ot deed. discord in the ranks of the enemy Now we stood, eye to eye. with only the table between us. Eithei rage or fear or both Impelled him to sudden action. He had grasped an empty bottle with his right hand, and now, as quick as thought, he raised It and swung at my head. 1 caught Ills Plow upon my left arm while ray right hand reached for his throat, m.v fingers closing over It s how long we con tended. Probably only a few seconds for Lieutenant Neville, who has th an Andalusian hull of strength I I Pablo Madrella and a Laden Burro Set Out for Cuernavaca. Frenchman might vivid pictures of that amazing adventure. In the mid die of m.v account a shadow touched the table and sudden silence fell up 00 us I knew who It was before I raised my eyes, and, getting slowly to my feet, stood ready for any emergency for I did uot know what l.estrange might do. He stalled Into m.v eyes Francois, we have missed you! We shook hands across the narrow table, while Cupldo grinned and Neville. frowning deeply, studied the nr ray of empty dishes. Lest range had not yet seen Madrel la; of that I was certain. I doubted his ability to explain away his own precarious position ns I hud sketched it, for Madrella would never have dreamco of my having been In that spacious window; which left only Lo pez and l.csl range as my possible sources of Information Jealousy I knew, would do the rest But nflet all where was .Madrella and what were his Intentions? Now (.estrange was speaking again: "Except for your face, Francois whbli seems grotesquely marked for smallpox. I see no III effects of that You look as strong dread malady and as capable That Indisposition, my captain was only a blind; I have no rime fm smallpox Ills majesty is In urgent need of every arm and every brain for the cause of revolution grows" You l.estrange sipped his wine. bring us disquieting news. Francois (I wondered just how disquieting tie That accounts then for found It) your absence from the house on Ave uida Flores. You have been missed 1 assure you." I tiave been there Id spirit, my friend. said L aud Neville choked over his wine. Do you think such defection, Fran do not Bobbs-Merrl- Co. ll W. N. U. Service The table wlih Its dishes overturned and we crashed to the .sidewalk, a writhing heap of arms and legs, lie swung the bottle In futile desperation but missed my head at each attempt for I continued to parry with m.v left arm. while the fingers of my right hand sank deeper Into his throat 1 raced across the city at breakneck speed, seeing nothing, hearing noth ing, for the black despulr of failure lay Id my heart. In my service to my country. Id my duty to my em peror, I had fulled. I had beeD untrue, even, to myself and In the game of love a woeful failure. In the patio that leads to the qunr tera of Neville and myself on Avenbla Tusuyan I delivered the tine horse Into the hands of a walling tnozo giving orders for his cure and feed lng, and directions for his return to Cuernuvaea on the morrow. Dotting the suit that Brugtere had borrowed for tby use, I buthed shaved, and got Into more snugly fit ting garments of uiy own. Now hunger. and a mighty thirst, possessed me, for I hud ueithei eaten uor drunk for many hours. Though the Cafe Mlratnoo did not have for me the lure It once had offered. I knew that kindred souls would be there, so turned my listless steps In that direction. At our accustomed table on the sidewalk sat two men hubited In the service of tils majesty, Maximilian As I mounted the curb they made for me with a rush. I and Neville! cried, Cupldo, Neville I H Is a Joy to see you Their figures wavered suddenly in a sen of tears. Neville, a tine light of happiness Id his eyes, put his arms around me. dragging me toward the table. His deep voice rang through the cafe: Hey, inozo aqul Bring food feu Captain Vigny and wine! We will drink the best you have; move swiftly! We made a deal of noise we three, for when a Frenchman is happy lie lets the wide world know It. It Is good to see you, Francois said Neville, "for 1 feared for you Two Mndrellas In the camp of Benito Juarez would have cost you no less than your life. I failed sudly. friend of mine, and since that hour I have charged tn.vse.f with your death You have come back to us from the grave. aald 1. that "1 told you, Neville, be would fax your wit and the power of your muscles." i know, I know, he agreed; "but there is a limit even to the require Copyright by Th know grasped my shoulder and dragged m Are you mad. Fran from my victim. cols; would you kill him? In very truth I would; let me go Neville!" But I was helpless In the clasp of tils mighty arms. l.estrange got slowly to his feet his face working with fear and pus tmnd upon his slon, a caressing throat, and searing curses on his lips. sieur; think. You will pay for this, mon my arm Is longer than you Now, as 1 considered him, saner I give you thoughts came to me. this night of freedom, Lestrange, said; "make the most of It, for I warn you that, before tomorrow's sun has set, Maximilian shall bear the Story of your treachery!" 1 I think It wise to follow him," said studying the sturdy figure of Lestrange us he shouldered his way through the curious crowd. You are safer tonight with us. good friend. Forget It, Francois, and stay with us; we have not bad an There evening here for a month. was an earnest pleading In his deep voice: I fear for thee. Ah. Mon Dieu had I listened to him! Yet 1 had gone too deeply Into this thing to hesitate now; so, bidding them adieu, I made off In the direction that Lestrange had taken. He walked swiftly, halting ever and anon to look back, for he must have suspected that I would follow him I kept Id the gloom of the buildings, however, stopping when he stopped, and moving cautiously on again as he continued his rapid walk. He turned to the left Into Avenida Tejon. and, when I reached the corner, he had disappeared, but a closed cub drawn by a lean white and bay pony took the turn Into Avenida Orizaba on two wheels, I heard the creseemo of hoof beats and surmised that F.e strange had chosen a faster method of locomotion. I wasted ten precious minutes hunting another cab, and failing, directed my steps toward the home of Senor If a Arrellnnos and ran with all the speed at my command. I wits certain that. If Lestrange In tended to go to his quarters, he would not have taken so devious a route: neither was this the way to his home. If he contemplated flight and his guilty conscience must have prompted that a natural Impulse would he to see the senorita first. I came to the massive Iron fence . that bounded the vast estate of I climbed over hid and quickly in the shade of a friendly elm, undecided yet upon a course of action. I made my way, by eccentric stages from tree to tree, to the dim shad ows of the house itself, where I wait ed, listening. While I stood thus the murmur of voices came to me from a window Just above my head. recognized the grilling with the brok en fastening. The library! They were in the library. Now I caugh' the cadence of her voice, and I trem hied like the veriest schoolboy In his first passion. Ah dear God. I must see her again I Slowly, and with the silence bom of great fear, I climbed to the gracefashioned. Iron grilling and fully worked It open. I stood again In the spneious window alcove, with only th? heavy draperies between me and th two whose voices came to me so clearly. With utmost care I parted the cur tains barely enough to see. The lamp cast the face of La Anita and Le strange In profile, and their figures were hHrdl.v more than outlines. Lest ranges harsh voice spoke: Did not you permit me to assume, senor Ita. Hint you might love me? Not at all Her head was high. senor When an officer of the Empire forces himself upon nte " L Arrel-lanos- I Draw on All Sources for National Music National music . . . has to he discovered and clad In beautiful forms lust as popular mvtlis and legends to light und crystallized Into All Immortal verses by great that Is required Is a good ear a good memory, and a faculty for molding Iragments of past general Ions Into a harmonic whole. A few days ago I read that Biahms, according to Ids as motives own words took for Ids new collection of songs amt arranged them for piano. Liszt In hl rhapsodies did the same, and Schu used the munn In his "Two Grenadiers Marseillaise The Irishman Balfeuseo Bohemian a Hussite choir In Ids Girl, although ' nobody knows where he got tt from. Thus smmr or later folk-tune- The Junkman He Is Consider, sn. the tankman! a high commissioned officer in the war He eveu merits a against waste. medal with palms, for he Is dally as sisting In the Important work of con serving values and. h.v preventing wuste, makes substantial contribution to iiie world's store of wealth. In re cent years, reclamation of basic nta terlals has boon so extensively (level oped ns to have attained a high peak of economic prominence. Skilled scion tlsts In the employ of our large cor porutlons give their entire time long hours every day to the reduction ot waste, thereby swelling surplus profits which otherwise would he forfeited. The lunkmnn, In his own way, Is serving the same purpose. popular music attracts the attention of and finds Its way Into the works I know of great composers. . that the question whether Inspiration drawn from some stray melody or folk song Is sufficient to lend higher musical works a national character has not yet been solved Neither Is It certain whether national music as such deserves priority. I for myself believe firmly that that music which Is the most characteristic of a nation deserves the greatest recognition Dvorak In a Letter Written From America Notary Public This tenu ts ancient Among the .'.ninaiis a n try was ii. llyon.- who took notes a shorthand writer, hence ur ollichil whos- - duty it ,'us to recoul i i the auth nticltj Ir English and of doentn tits. etc. American law the term now applies to a person of somewhat similar functions. whr tak s aekn iwledgment oL or otherwise certifies or attests varl us writings, usually under his official seal, to Jin - them authentic transactions, certify Atk the Blackimith window of a blacksmith's shop In an Aberdeenshire village a Teeth sign Is exhibited, reading, Carefully Extrnkit." The dentist vis its the village once a week Hnd uses the smithy as a surgery. How picas ant to reflect that If the dentist can not quite cope with one's stubbornest molar, the blacksmith Is there to leud a band In the Yet you have used me, senorita. Because of my great love for you, and my desire to serve you, I have been a traitor to my country. This you know. I cannot help but believe that, la your desire to serve me, you hoped to serve yourself as well. Besides, you told me, senor, that Mexico was now your country. But why do you come thus to me, captain? Has some new thing befallen? "Everything has befallen. Captain VIguy knows all, and tomorrow he goes before the emperor. What can be do; what does he know? Is not Pablo out of his reach, and would Maximilian disregard the word of his chief of staff? You do not know Vigny. The emperor makes do mistake wheD he trusts him, for the man puts his service above his very life. From the lips of my enemy this praise was sweet Indeed. The lamplight glorified the smile on La Anitas face. A beautiful thing, she murmured, to say of any man! Yet Captain Vigny gave to me this day the life of my cousin. He caught her shoulder roughly You have seen Vigny today? She stared Into his eyes until he dropped his arm. Ah senorita, I see nothing ahead but failure and disam desperate, and you grace. "I saw Captain Vigny today, senor, and sent him away forever. He offered my pride so grievous a hurt that forgiveness is Impossible. I shall never see him again. Lestrange came close to her and lifted his arms. His voice trembled. You you have done this thing to me! 1 have been untrue to my country, to my etnperor, to myself; the friends who used to love me now despise me. Because of my love for He you I face a traitors death. caught her In his arms and crushed her frail body against his own, pressing hot kisses upon her hair, her eyes, her lips, while she fought desperately, silently, hopelessly. I clutched the purple hangings, waiting, and thanking the good God that I had followed, for the man was Dr. Caldwell loved people. Hi years of practice convinced hint many were ruining tlteir health by careless selection of laxatives. He determined to write a harmless prescription which would get at the cause of constipation, and correct it Today, the prescription he wrote in 1885 is the worlds most popular laxative! Hd prescribed a mixture of herbs and other pure ingredients now known as Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin, in thousands of cases where bad breath, coated tongue, gas, headaches, biliousness and lack of appetite or energy showed the bowels of men, women and children were sluggish. It proved successful in even the most obstinate cases; old folks liked it for it never gripes ; children liked its pleasant taste. All drugstores today have Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin in bottles. 1 HOTEL Newhouse SALT LAKL CITY, UTAH One of Salt Lake Citys finest hotels, iv here quests find every warm hospitalcomfort with ity. Garage in connection. Cafe end cafeteria. mad. Now. his rasping voice came on I cannot have you, neither If again: shall Madrella, nor nor that emperor-loving double of His He put his fingers around bet throat ; his face In the lamplight was the face of a fiend. She uttered a gurgling little cry a piteous cry for help. Now the time for action had ar- rived. I pushed the draperies aside and would have leaped iDto the room, but, even as I watted, poised, the great door that led to the hall opened and a captain 'In his majesty's service stood In the doorway. held The newcomer bowed, and to the heavy hangings for support for the face and figure and suit were those of Vigny. I might have been looking Into a mirror, or at the ghost of myself. relinquished his hold Lestrange and turned toward the door; and La Anita, sobbing softly, put her band-upothe table for support Francois! whisper Lestranges bore a tremulous burden of fear. Now, hack again In my hiding place 1 could not restrain a smile, for the clever rascal had taken a leaf from my own hook and Madrella had be 1 pome De Vigny Captain Vigny, cried La Anita: and my ears, attuned to the many modulations of her voice, detected a I note of happiness. Madrella moved to the mantel, over which still hung the crossed small-- , swords, and jerked them from the wall. He cast one toward Lestrange and swung the other In a whlnitie circle around his head. Pick It up! harsh, grating, and Ills voice might just as well have been m.v owe as his. A very neat game Indeed. I thought, and I was vastly Interested no. monsaid Lestrange; No, sieur. Shall I stick you then poor blat-tinsheep that you are shall I kil vou us a dog should be killed? La Anita took hold of I lie No Francois.' she ann. said softlj. If you love me no! He cast his voice In a high falsetto of mimicry: "If I love you hah! Lie thrust her from him with a sweep ot his left arm. Hot wrath burned me, yet I waited s g pseudo-captain'- Why, I do not know, for I s was never afraid of Madrella I think that, because I was spying upon her I dared not face the senorita' scorn Besides. Captain Lestrange deserved the death that awaited him. for he had been guilty of the blackest treachery. waited LeNow, while Madrella sword and balanced the lifted strange lie bowed to Anita It In his hand. -Senorita. I crave your forgiveness for having been so hold as to love you. and so Impious v; n lav my hands upon you. am sorry, she murmured. He turned to Madrella and poised Ids body for the accustomed attitude of guard. "1 have been a traitor, monsieur as you well know and mj I shall pend It a life Is forfeit. ? may. earnestly a Rooms, EACH WITH BATH iOO $2.00 to $4.00 Corn Flakes Employed for Movie Snowstorm There is still hope for the salvation of the great American corn raiser. Corn has gone into the movies in a business-likway. Heretofore the slapstick comedies may have uA-- a few roastlng-ears- , with sound effects, but now corn is going into Hollywood in a determined manner and mingling with the great and near great In its e most commonplace form hominy. The film experts, says Farm and Fireside, have discovered that there, Is nothing quite so good as corn flakes for faking a real, old fashioned blizzard. The corn flakes are specially made from hotnlny and are thin, white and airy. A bushel of corn flakes and an electric fan will make a snowstorm anywhere, even in California. White Rhino Becoming Rare The white rhinoceros, the third largest of living animals, is rapidly decreasing in numbers. They haup a small area on the Nile In Uganff'a, where there are wide expanses of papyrus swamps and intense heat. These huge mammals, noted for their shyness and their remarkably keen sense of smell, are not really white, hut a pale, dust brown. The herd is thought to numher only about 45 animals and is under government n. Recovered Hi Horse Anthony Wasko of Towanda, Ia., knows his horse and his horse knows him. It hnd been missing for a week. of an Anthony discovered a cave-labandoned coal mine shaft where the horse hnd been grazing. He culled down the shaft. The horse answered him and Anthony went for block and tackle. The horse vvas pulled out unharmed. Start at Homo I'm taking reducing exercises. Robert, said Mrs.' YVinklcy. I wish you could induce the house-hol- d expenses to join you," responded her harassed Montreal Star. A dead secret dyed hair. If 1 (TO 15E CONTINUED, . ChildmCnjforlt tW COWTtfW(,DWRRHEA,FEVERISHNESS w. N U-- . Salt Lake City, No. 29. |