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Show THE PAYSON IAN, PAYSON, UTAH bundles concealed nhntrhls person, it. in fact, I didn't Believe" until this have looked f6r ou so long.o long ! help he set moment that there was a doubloon at PR0FESS10NALCARDS His voice broke wretchedly, ami he and with Evangebni-all." food. T I was afraid. about preparing ?)h, indeed there wash' I saw It." I waited as long as I had strength Neither Itosa nor the two negroes was a moment of silence dur-lu- g bad had too Is him. It There their told she hunger bad any appetite to wait, DR. GEO, H. MOTT' the lovers were oblivious to which at which long since passed the point you came so late. murOnce again she lapsed Into the leth- they were conscious d it- ami OReilly all but each other, then Rosa Physician and Surgeon. Sometimes How strange! argy of utter weakness, whereupon he was compelled to force them to eat. mured: Savings fell to stroking her hands, calling uion When he had given them all that be youc eyes are blue and sometimes gray. JOver 1ayson Exchange Bank, bei ol was left mean love, that too, wb.it was He Does that offered him. your to he come back dared her to can change?" Ites. Phone 22r-2r- . side himself now ; a terrible feeling of to Jacket. not. Office Phone 23. But his come, what T his and moistened overcame him. Certainly lips The and boy despair Impotence Hearing someone speak, he raised fingers twitched, but be shook his head. about Estelmn and that doubloon?" With an effort the girl brought herOh. Im not so hungry," be declared, his eyes and discovered at his side that In I a friend back to earth. have the self seen Well, It occurred had he which want digof Indifferently. figure .. market place; 1 will go down there to me, In the light of that dream last ging on the slope below. It was The negress was little more and steal a fish from him. night, thnt Esteban may have been DR. A. T. GOUGH, oUeiHv natted Mm on :he shoulder, right. Of course nobody outside of than skin and bones, her eyes were Vetennaraa Registered old story, and .iff a good kid, aud you our family credits the bleared and yellow and sunken, her recPhone 115-- J understand, dont you? These sick yet my father was considered a very face had grown apelike, but he - - - UTAH can we Cueto Ianclio than one food time. more need rich man at him. PAYSON, she and people ognized her she de- buy for them, so we will have to draw believed in the existence of the treas. You are the American, our belts tight." ure. and he was In a position to know." You are Rosas man. clared. after all Of course. Eutlng is a habit, anyTrue! "Yes. Rut what is wrong with her! Perhaps, how, and we men know how to get OReilly frowned meditatively. Look ! She is ill Rosa lifted herself upon her elbow, DR. L. N. ELLSWORTH "She Is often like that. It Is the along without It. I will manuge to find Wouldnt It be DENTIST Ye have nothing to eat, sesomething for you and me, for Im a her eyes sparkling. hunger. Office iu Douglaaa Building nor. I, too, am 111 dying ; aud Asen-sl- o prodigious thief. I can steal the hair wonderful If it were true? Just thluk, Over bertelsena Store Oh. you dont know how they from a mans head when I try." With OReilly, eases of Spanish gold, silver a nod he set off to find his benefa- coins In casks, packages of gems. Oh, have made us suffer. I've heard Isabel talk about it often "We must get Rosa home. Where ctors supper. do you live? enough." CHAPTER XVIII. Dont forget those pearls from the Evangellna turned her death's head DR. J. H. ELLSWORTH Down yonder. But toward the city. Caribbean, ns large as plums, Johnny DENTIST I could never quite swallow The Haunted Garden. what's the use? There Is no food in smiled. OJice over Bank, Payaon, Ut. Rosa Varona did not die. On the that. A pearl the size of a currant our house and Rosa Is afraid of those 6 1 9 to to office 12; Hours, wagons. You know the ones with the contrary, under her lover's cure she would buy our freedom right now. Rea. Phene 103-- j Phoue 23. corpses. She bade me bring her here made so amazingly swift a recovery After a moment he went on. more serito die. that Improvement was visible from ously: I've a notion to look Into that I I The girl was not wholly unconscious It hour to hour; she rallied like a wilted old well this very afternoon. ban and himself. seemed, for she stirred and murmured flower under a refreshing rain. It was dare say I'm foolish, hut somehow A faintly: Those wagons! I)ontlet OReillys presence as much as the the story doesn't sound so Improbable CHAPTER III Many years Donna Isaother them put me in there with the MISS LULU TIETJEN bel searched for the hidden wealth of the nourishing diet provided by his money as It did. Perhaps It Is worth Invesman slut had married. A few years later dead. They pile the bodies high" A which effected this marvel, although tigating He made up his mind she seeks to marry Rosa to the rich Don Teacher of Piano weak shudder convulsed her. the certulnty that Esteban was alive swiftly. I Im off this very instant. Mario, but Rosa is promised to O'Reilly, and Harmony. the American, and awaits his return from dea in and bent Into strong, her hut added force safe lower, the and from When OReilly put emerged New York, whence he has gone to break at her home Santaquln Studio he'fouml'Vaeket not You are UuhmtZW cried: voice determined found Rosa work to his employer's off hlti engagement termination to live. at hope daughter. Esteban is secretly aiding the to die. I have money for food. springing up In her breast and one day over a fragment of grindstone which going lnsurrectos. Rouse yourself, Itosa, rouse yourself." she caught herself laughing. The mar- he had somewhere unearthed. The boy CHAITER IV Donna Isabel is at the She prayed for you every night," vel of it was unbelievable. OReilly looked up at his friends approach and miercy of Pancho Oueto. her unscruputhe negress volunteered. "Such faith"! .was sitting beside lier bed of leaves held out for Inspection a long, thin file, lous administrator, who knows the deeds ito the plantation are lost with the treas-iurSuch trust! She never doubted that at the time; Impulsively she pressed which he was slowly shaping Into a One night she walks In her sleep knife-bladJ. H. FRANCO!! iend meets her death in the treasure well. you would come and find her. Some- his hands to her lips. Esteban and Rosa are forced to flee when was because VETERINARY SURGEON but In that she cried, he as mine of that? times do Sueh think What belongs you happiness as rebels. Cueto denounces them Oalls Night and Day of her brother. Esteban, you know, Is heaven, she managed to tell him. queried proudly. It may come In osa writes to O'Reilly ome 67-CHAPTER Payson, Utah. dead. Yes, dead, like all the rest. me. With you handy when we are ready to clear out It Sometimes come to frightens him and urges pt their plight Esteban Is not dead, O'Reilly as- by my side this prison Is a paradise of this pesthole." end save her. He Is alive. Rosa, do you and I want for nothing. War, sufferserted. Where did you get It?" CHAPTER VI OReilly soon lands In Cuba, but finds he will have hard work ing, distress I cant Imagine they Oh, I stole It. I steal everything I with communication as to reach Rosa, longer exist. can lay my hands on nowadays. One the lnsurrectos Is difficult and dangerous. Nevertheless, they do, and Matan- can never tell when he may have a jL A. L. CURTIS. M. D. zas Is anything but a paradise," said throat to out, and a file has good steel CHAPTER VII OReilly meets Leslie We must set about quickly to get in it." PHYSICIAN and SURGEON he. Branch, newspaper man, who Isa a victim way to of tuberculosis, and they plan in S. Douglaaa Office out of It. Since you are sueh an accomJoin the lnsurrectos together. Telephones Is Building. But that mean? could think Esoape, you you plished thief, do you . CHAPTER VIII In the meantime Cueto Residence Cor. 9th and F. Sts. Asenslo can tell yon all steal something for me?" OReilly InCobo, a Spanish colonel of plans to leadexecrated for his cruelty, to Volunteers, about that. The Spaniards used to Is- quired. A piece of rope?" the hiding place of gsteban and Rosa. . sue passes for the men to go outside A Woman, Evidently Some Miserable Rope? Jacket was puzzled. Rope CHAPTER IX Cobo and his men capresIs the lines In search of food. It was is only good for hanging Spaniards. she Himself. Like Immediately but ture Rons, Paeltico cued by Esteban, and Cobo is Injured In Just a trick. They never came hack G. F. TILSON. M. D. My friend In the fish market has n the fight. OReilly plans to reach the were busy and he his but all of them were killed. Everyone volandra, and perhaps I can rob him thoughts Alvarado, Doctor aid of the PHYSICIAN and SLTtGiwUN by Senor! Do you look a friend of the Cuban cause. knows better than to try now. paid no heed. of a halyard. Laying aside his task, Office at Residence Nevertheless, we can't stay here Jacket arose and made off In the direcCHAPTER X O'Reilly Is about mis-to for something some one reach the lnsurrectos. but his plans arhe answered, abstractYes Phone y, tin Street In answer to the girl's tion of the water front. He was back much longer. are Branch Leslie He and carry. Yes, I am looking for somePayson, Utah edly. rested and sent back to America. Este-baInquiry he explained : "My within an hour, and under his shirt puzzled tells Rosa of the coming of General thing some one. money Is gone all but a few cents. he carried a roll of worn hut serviceWeyler to pacify" the Island. This Is the last of our food and there able ropel Without waiting to explain you have lost? Something CHAPTER XI Esteban raids Cuetos ! The Is no chance of getting more. Jacket his need for this unusual article, quesI lost have Something home and kills him, but Spanish troops badly tion cniue to him faintly, but it was so has some mysterious source of supply OReilly linked arms with the boy and Icome up and Esteban escapes wounded. He does not reach home. With In tune with lits that mood it and he manages to bring In something set out to climb La Cutnbre. When unhappy OReilly did Indeed feel that he was missing, Rosa, Evangellna and .Esteban I aff ected him strangely. He found that every now and then, but there are five at last they stood In the unused quarry making himself ridiculous; nevertheher husband. Asenslo. with whomandRosa go jhas been staying, give up hope of us to feed, and he cant furnish more and Johnnie made known his Intention less, he made the rope fust and swung his eyes were blurring and that an hnto a Spanish concentration camp. his throat. Into than enough for himself. No, we must to explore the old well, Jacket re- himself down out of the sunlight, leavaching lump had risen XTT- -Ib : CHAPTER New York OReilly make a move at once, while we have garded him with undisguised amaze- ing Jacket to stand guurd over him. was the Cuba to This point. breaking plans a filibustering expeditionbv Norlne ment. the strength." and Is offeepd assistance was going Perhaps fifteen minutes later he reapOReillys hearing, too, lEvans. a wealthy girl who insists on find down to source do asked What as the one not some expect had you Rosa that he and for venture along going Imagined peared, panting from his exertions. wrong, financing the ia nurse. Soon the expedition starts fot whispered his name. God! This place whence came the blessed food which there? the latter inquired. He was wet, slimy; his clothes were steamer. Cuba in a small tramp To tell you the truth, I dont really streaked and stained with mud. was bringing the life blood back into dead it was alive terribly not was CHAPTER XIII The filibusters land In alive with memories, voices, a presto laugh shrilly at his her body, and although that food was expect to find anything, the man conJacket began and Esteban of '.Cuba and O'Reilly learns Now that Im here, Im be- not much a little meal, a plantain, an fessed. as nurse ence unseen yet real. He laid hold of appearance. Kosa. Norine begins her duties old home, had fish It or meat of he occasional Rose, In Matanzas, visits her to himself, scrap bush nearest the steady lla! What a big lizard la thlalj ruins. In .which Is never occurred to her that the supply closed his eyes, ouly to hear his name Your beautiful garments are spoiled. CHAPTER XIV In a raid Esteban, might be limited. She met the probAnd the treasure? Where Is It 7 The a Spanish spoken louder. (dangerously ill. is rescued from ! lem bravely, however. ORail-ylad was delighted. He bent double prison by OReilly and the Cubans. Esteban Is Not Dead, OReilly I have been close to death so long with mirth; he slapped hla hare lega Johnnie brushed the tears from his tells O'Reilly CHAPTER that It means little to me, she conHe turned, he listened, but he believes the treasure Is hidden n the lashes. htk stamped his feet In glee. O Reilly learns and well, with well on the plantation. I have fessed. you, no be to one, one no seen, was grinned O'Reilly there hear that? Esteban is alive and well. the town in which Rosa Is held prisoner worst. and determines to go to her. that Is, except the dusky cripple, who I left him with Gomez In the Orient. you at my side I can face the we have the planks which had and replaced Oh, we wont give up until had straighteued herself and was fac- 1 have come to take you to him? then hid the rope covered orifice, the If I had money to, he assured her. In some nearby bushes. On their way ing him, poised uncertainly. He looked ( Continued from last weelt.1 Esteban alive? Ha ! You are fool- It would he a simple proposition to at her a second time, then the world hack he endured his young friendd us. Evnngelina wagged her head bribe some guard to pas us through - Leaving Jacket to take his time, began to spin dizzily and he groped his ing but as they banter that. We than know better wisely. but I have spent all that Genthe lines, He her. again, toward peered he startled house Ascnsio's neared way climb Inalone, Johnnie completed the I tell you he Is alive, OReilly He gave me. eral Betancourt for everything before his eyes Can manage you Jacket saying, by him to He meditating upon the boys words. "The closer, heard Jacket calling sisted. smoothed back Rosas dark hnlr and to find a pickax or a crowbar? 'spirit to try!" Where had his spirit was swimming. so lie hallooed to the smiled 1'H al that moment, her. Well, at reassuringly The yvoiuan was thin little more ho.v, then when the latter had arrived, Jacket's eyes opened; he stopped In Perhaps it hud gone, he wondered. somehow; so dont worry your What the middle of the dusty road. been crushed hrtieath the weight of than n skeleton and so frail that the he explained briefly, without allowing manage head. Ill find the price. If I pretty to sway her, hut her did you see down there, compadre? time In which, to express his have to waylay old Don Mario and rob misery he had beheld ; surely he had wind appeared Jacket face, uplifted to the Run, was glorified. amazement : Tell me. seen enough. Hourly contact with sickhim. Dont you think I Took like a a such on gigantic OReilly stood rooted, staring at her ness and misfortune found would me Nothing much. Just enough to we of have is ban-lit"Our search The very sight over; me wont to see more. Do you scale was enough to chill anyones until she opened her eyes, then he them. But they wout believe that make terrify that fat rascal. think you can steal some sort of hopes, and although his sensibilities voiced a great cry: breathed is alive. Tell them the truth. are beautiful," Esteban To me you What more he said he Rosa ! had been dulled, his apprehensions tool for ine? him We found "JTes, he Is alive. the girl. Then she lowered her eyes. had been quickened hour by hour. never knew I can rescued I have we a and in try. How you! prison rotting La, la! Now that he looked the matter squareHe took the misshapen figure Into him, Jacket corroborated. He stared IsaAnd remember, aay, do. he to Please how ladylike. forgotten quite behis arms, he rained kisses upon the curiously at the recumbent fifigure on bel was ly In the face, It seemed absurd to before Asenslo or his wife. when she called me a nothing right a Rosa Rosa like lieve that a tender girl pinched, discolored face. But Rosa met O'Reilly Just Inside the tbe bench, then at OReilly. He pti' bold and forward hussy. Now. then, could long have withstood the did not respond; her puny strength his lips and gave vent to a low please turn your face aside, for I wish and at sight of her he uttered door, So. This is to think, and so long as you look at hardships of this hideous place ; strong- had flown and she lay inert in his em- whistle of amazement. an exclamation of surprise, for during er people than she had succumbed, by brace, scarcely breathing. Well, me I cannot I make love to yon bra She his absence she had removed the stain your pretty one, eh? I jfhe hundreds. Even now the hospitals Dazed, doubting, astounded, it waS I dont think much of her. But then, zeiilv. See! Now, then, that is much from her face and discarded that disfitwere full, the sick lay untended In some time before Johnnie could con- you are not so handsome yourself, are better. I shall hold your hand, so. figurement which Evangellna had Ihelr hovels. No one, so far as OReilly vince himself of the reality of this mo- you? It you may look at me ted to her back prior to their departI kiss When knew, had undertaken to estimate how ment, and even then words did nof ure from the Pan de Matanzas, She Evangelina seemed to he stupid, a again, for a moment." Drawing herfust they were dying or the number of come to him, for his mind was in tur- trifle touched, perhaps, from suffering, self closer to OReilly, Rosa began Btond before him now, straight and dead which had already ridden out of moil. Joy, thanksgiving, compassion slim and graceful the Rosa of his for she laid a skinny claw upon ORei- thoughtfully: Before you came I more Matanzas in those rumbling wagons, a thousand emotions mingled in a sort dreams, only very thin, very fragile. than once was on the point of appealllys shoulder ami warned him earnestbut there were many. It hat chance of delirium, too wild for coherent ly: Look out for OoliO. You have ing to some of my former friends, but Im Going to Have a Look for the Her poor tatters only enhanced her was there that Rosa had not been thought or speech. Hidden Treasure." heard about him, eh? Well, he is the they are all Spaniards and we are no prettiness, so he thought among the latter? Fear finally brought him to his cause of all our misery. He hunted us longer slmpatico. you understand? "Rosa, dear! Do you think this Is I'm to feel nevertheless, silly; ginning As he breasted the summit of La senses, for he became aware that Rosa from place to place, and it. was for loin Rosa paused for his answer. hidden the look for quite safe? he ventured, doubtfully. Of going to have a : Im in the same fix. Cuiubre, O'Reilly beheld at some dis- had collapsed and that his endearments I put that hump on her hack. that Perfectly Evangelina, who was bending over Varonas. of the a treasure tance a bent figure of want. It was left her unthrilled. Quickly he bore me, she Is straight straight all the people I used to know there husband, straightened herself and her From Jackets Hidden treasure! negro woman, grubbing In the earth her to the bench and laid her upon it. and pretty enough for any American. Dnt one but would denounce me If I came forward with a smile upon her he feared with a sharpened stick. After a sus- After a time she smiled up Into his Her skin is like milk, too, and her made myself known. Now that Ive expression it was plain that black face. Even mad. after friend was mildly . picious scrutiny of him she resumed eyes and her words were scarcely more hair she used to put flowers in It for been fighting with the lnsurrectos, I his "She Is beautiful, eh? Too beautiful about him told had something her digging. than a murmur: did I tell you? you, and then we would play games. darent even go to the American consul- OReilly old Don Estebans missing riches, he to look at? What God heard my prayers and sent you But you never came. You will make for help If there Is an American conconfusion at Nothing but a heap of stones and In was Rosa delightful scouted the story. lie peeped inquisihome. Varona not? of the will remained her for looks, you me. sul." allowances to plaster evident surprise and admtively Into the dark opening of the OReillys "Then Im not so altogether The grounds, once beautiful even when Poor Rosa! You two poor erea- Rosa nodded, then continued, hesiRosa ! You are 111, you are weak iration. he shook his hend. T am dying. tores !" OReilly choked ; he hid his tatingly: I had a vivid dream lust well, then neglected as in Donna Isabel s time, Her eyelids fluttered. What an Idea! Was llils old changed? she asked. Who a was see It to were now a sceue of total desolation. A ORail-ye- . waited sweetheart's portent. his I only breast, you." face upon night. Perhaps Why, you lmveut changed at all. man crazy, to throw his money away? few orange trees, to be sure, remained In agony he gathered her beautiful. EvanRosa responded; her fingers caressed knows? It was about that stepmother j No, no ! He he had more than he knew except to grow more standing, and although they were cool once more Into his arms. of mine. You remember how she met what to do with, and he wished to gellna Is right ; you nre too beautiful him and she sighed contentedly. ami green to look at, they carried no Her bloodless fingers He drew her Oh, yes ! OReillys aseent of the hill had been her death? I wrote you save it from the Spaniards, O'Reilly to look at. But wait! been down fruit and the odor of their blooms wrs touched his face again, then his thin, slow, but bis descent was Infinitely Yes, and Esteban also told me. Ive a vide and whispered. In his a trial and a mockery to the hungry worn rags. You, too, have suffered. slower, for Rosa was so feeble that tremor Some It was he who recovered her body explained lamely. In well. the we' Humph ! Nobody ever had more causeJ visitor. The evidences of Cuetos van- How came you to he so poor and hunhis In eyes. some slie could help herseif but little and from the well. One day, while glint than he wauled. The hoy's dis- voice, In hiding,, away up yonder In the money dalism affected OReilly deeply; they gry. ORall-ye- ? he larked tlm strength to carry her the girl to seize him eagerly, fiercely. was This such at credulity plain. : more gust old coin pulnful I may be wrong, he said hurriedly Yiimuri, he showed me an brought him memories "Im not poor. I'm rich. See!" He looks just like any other, ouly and It yet in than he hail anticipated. Although the Jingled the coins in his pocket. Thats I know, O'Reilly said quickly. He well better look out that you there may be nothing ; unrecognizable, money; money for you. sweetheart. It told me the whole story. He thinks deeper youd place was well-nigI saw something. neck like that foolbreak your dont nevertheless It cried aloud of Rosa, will buy you food and medicine. It will that doubloon Is a clue to your fathers Donna Whatsish old woman, that (To be continued.) and the unhappy lover could barely make you strong agftim Itosa, dear, I fortune,, but I can't put much faHh in control the emotions it awakened. It was Indeed a morbid impulse which had broffght him thither, Imt uqw that he was here he could not leave, consciously his feet turned toward the ancient quarry Which hail formed the sunken garden his and Itosas tryst: lng place. O'Reilly desired above h11 tilings to be alone at this moment, and so be was annoyed to discover that another person was before him a woman, evidently some miserable paeltico like himself. She, too, appeared to be looking foi; roots, and he almost stumbled over her as he brushed through the guava bushes fringing the depression. His sudden appearance alarmed the creature and she struggled, panic- BY REX BEACH Author of stricken, out of his path. Her rage Th Iron Trail." The SpoUera" could not conceal the fact that she was "Heart ol the Sunset. etc. deformed, that her back was crooked, so be muttered a reassuring word to her. Tills place was more as be bad left Ccpyrigbl by Harper sod Brstben It there was the stone bench where SYNOPSIS. to Itosa ; yonder he had said good-bwas well the CHAPTER I Don Esteban Varona, a Cohan planter, possesses a gieat treasure Senor! Johnnie beard ldniself adboard. This wealth has been hidden In dressed by the hunchbacked woman. at well on ttie estate by Sebastian, a slave, and only he and his master know the se- Iler voice was thin, tremulous, eager. cret eaehe. Don Estebans wife dies at the birth of twins, Esteban and Rosa. Lion Esteban mafries the avaric ious Donna Isabel, who knows there is hidden treasure and tries to wring the secret from Sebastian. When the slave refuses she tries to hurt him by having Kvangellna. his daughter, whom he loves dearly and who la the special servant of the twins, sold CHAPTER II Through Donna Isabel's scheming Don Esteban risks Evangellna at carls and loses. Crazed by '.he loss of his daughter, Sebastian kills Don Este- 1 . Rainbows -- End ..A NOVEL.. Evan-gelina- f I y e. 1 up-stair- B N-n- n ller-Num- ! e XV-Este- ban good-natured- !; absent-mindedl- ? j Va-ron- j j a! j i I h w-r- e - |