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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH C S'IFjTED DEPARTMENT HOTELS HOTEL PLANDOME, SALT LAKE 4th So. State Rates $1.00 to $2.00 QUIET RESPECTABLE CLEAN When in RENO, NEVADA stop at the HOTEL GOLDEN Renos largest and most popular hotel RADIO AND TELEVISION CHAPTER IX 10 , "'i' Helm Blackadder was already closeted with the ambassador who opened the interview by handing over a resume, written in his own hand, of the situation to date. self. Which are you for him or me? said Adan promptly. You, Now tell me what its all about. After ten minutes talk the min-- , ister picked up a signed slip of paper and read its contents aloud: As minister of war and with the consent of my government I guarantee the payment of an amount not to exceed $50,000 in case the seno-ritJoyce Sewell, daughter and heir of Cutler Sewell, signs a quitclaim to the property known as La Barranca and leaves the republic of Mexico within two weeks of the date hereof. He passed it to Arnaldo and asked with pardonable pride, You notice the simple wording? Whoever brings in the quitclaim together with this order gets the money. Provided the girl has left Mex- There you are, Mr. Blackadder, and I dont mind saying Miss Sewells escapade has managed to put the United States government, as represented by my unfortunate self, in a nasty hole. You asked us for assistance; I now return the compliment by calling upon you to help me out. How? asked Blackadder. Thats the very question I was going to put to you, he said. You have all the facts. What do you suggest? Find me a car and a man who knows the way to La Barranca. Once I get in there Ill guarantee ico. Yes, yes; of course. We dont to bring the girl out. to have the job of expelling care On what grounds do you intend her, but once shes across the bor- to base your action? Shes a minor and authority has been delegated to me by her legal said Blackadder as guardian, though he were reciting a lesson, Youre sure shes under age? interpolated the ambassador anxa : iously. You probably know the laws of the state of New York better than I do. A girl becomes of age at you said Blacktonight but I doubt if wed gain much time and it wont do me any harm to get some sleep. He named his hotel and left the embassy at the exact moment half across the city, was beinto the private study of shown ing the minister of war. exclaimed Adan, my friend! the minister, holding out both " hands. Arnaldo dodged the embrace but grinned, showing a gleam of white How much is it going to teeth. From the cost me? he asked. welcome Ill bet it runs into thousands. Youve guessed it, said the minister, but the wrong way round. Thousands for you. I cant believe it! Spread the map. Sit down and I will. Its a matter of buying' off a young girl at anything up to $50,000. You might talk her into signing for 30, 20, or 10. With your tongue and looks you might get her to do it for nothing. However you manage it the balance is yours, and no questions asked. Adan turned his head in a peWhos culiar gesture of alertness. the girl? Whats her name? Shes a young American, Mees Joize Sewell. Arnaldo threw out his hands and rose. Youre too late too late by ' a lot of hours. do you know about Why? What it? She went to La Barranca a couple of days ago. How long would it take Dorado to cook her goose? Figure it out for yourself. Dorado! gasped the minister, Apparently you stifling a laugh. havent read this mornings papers. He thrust forward the same newspaper clipping he had shown the ambassador. , Cast your eye go that. , s fr J many-branche- Blackadder . Arnaldo read the single paragraph, his expression changing at almost every line. When he reached the end he burst, into a roar, of Pepe, of 'all people! laughter. ' Pepe! You think its funny? said the ' ' minister. so Im going funny Its Funny? to have sore ribs for the rest of my life. He folded the clipping anda put it in his wallet. And Marga-ridFonseca told me the girl had gone to plead with him to throw herself on his mercy! Margarida Fonseca! cried the minister, suddenly going tense and leaning forward. Sure, and what of it? The The minister sank back. he explained, plot gets thicker, and when I say plot I mean plot. But I begin to see the light and by it the finger of Onelia- .- The time has come you to declare your . him full of holes if his louse of a driver hadnt created a diversion. Dorado! breathed Juanito in an awed whisper. Ar-nald- o, over merely the difference between the road before and after Toluca. He climbed into the front seat and presently was dangling from the overhead struts as Joyce had done. As they rounded a low butte the white blot of La Barranca burst into view, yet neither of them saw it. Instinctively Juanito slowed even before Adan could tap his wrist. Directly before them, possibly a little over halfway to the distant hacienda, a troop of horsemen was in contracting circles swirling around a slowly moving car. Back up, ordered Arnaldo, and hide her. Stick her nose against the hill. Juanito obeyed. A moment later they were climbing the mound which was crowned by a growth of three kinds of cacti, one of them a d samtowering and of the torch ple giant variety. The et start?' Id o, horsemen, having brought the car halt, had gathered in a. group ahead of it. Now a thick-sman stepped out of its tonneau and walked directly toward them. Scarcely had he left the car than its driver raced it backward into a Y turn, reversed his gears and presently was shooting at top speed across the plain with his recent employer in a direct line between him and the bandits. For once a coward saves his masters life, murmured Arnaldo. I dont get it, said Juanito. The man you see down yonder is a gringo named Blackadder. Dorado and his men would have filled At dawn tomorrow, adder. fury rose, restoring his courage and determination to more than their normal level. Leaning far over he to a eighteen for certain purposes and for others. Im willat twenty-on- e ing to risk an assumption. Good enough, said the ambassador with a nod. I cant offer you an embassy car, but Ill have the town searched at once for a good one owned by somebody well acquainted with the roads and the location of the hacienda. When could See, Said Blackadder, Frowning Thoughtfully. 1 ) der well undertake to see she doesnt come back'. What about it, Adan? Doesnt .it look like easy money? On the face of it, said Arnaldo slowly, it does too easy. Wheres the catch? For a man like you and with your resources, said the minister, theres no catch whatever. There cant be. Whats your answer? Will you take it on or not? Adan stood staring at the paper in his hand without seeing it. Ill go, he declared finally. They shook hands and he started out but before he reached the door the telephone rang with such insistency he paused. A moment later the minister was holding up his hand, ordering him to wait. The conversation began with Yes, Excellency, and ended with the same phrase. He relinquished the apparatus and sat back. Well, Adan, you have a rival. The ambassador is sending his own emissary, a compatriot with' the strange name of Blackadder. Good, said Adan. Blackadder it sounds like a snake. Then that - . . lets me out. On the contrary; it doubles the My importance of your mission. thinking of you was a stroke of genius, because the more gringos get mixed in this business the worse it is for us. Besides, I feel the ambassadors choice hasnt a chance of success. By the way, Arnaldo said suddenly, what do I get out of it? I told you! gasped the minister. Isnt fifty thousand enough? , Thats for the girl, said ArnalIf I lick Onelia, save do coolly. your neck, attend to Dorado and keep, a couple of countries out of war its going to cost you fifty thouit agreed? sand more.-II suppose so, said the minister after a long pause. ' Do you want me to put it in writing? ; s Why should you?asked Arnaldo with a thin gleam of shining teeth. Once Ive heard it you and I know your word is as good as your bond once Ive heard , He departed. Arnaldo knew when to rush to a job and when to take it easy. He it.. . Amateurs Servicemen got away around seven in the morning, curled up in the back seat and disposed himself for slumber. Juan-ithis daredevil driver, knew little of speed under 60 miles an hour, consequently Adans nap ended violently a little after eight oclock. For a moment he thought it was an earthquake, then realized it was was scarcely conscious of his drivers treachery, so absorbed was his attention by the gaping muzzles of two double-actio- n forty-five- s and the man who held them. Experience in many tough spots of the world, notably mining camps and the diamond fields of Lencoes, had taught him a gun at the levels of the hip invariably means business. Besides, Dorados d face presented such a vivid incarnation of brutality as to arouse doubt as to whether the might not in the long run turn out to be angels of mercy. Instinctively Helm raised both hands and kept them high. . Without appearing to move a muscle Dorado sent a searing bullet between the spread fingers of one of them. Put em down, he ordered in guttural English, then, murmured instructions to two of his followers. They dismounted, frisked Blackadder for arms, seized him by feet and wrists, swung him into the saddle of one of their horses and trussed his ankles beneath its barrel so tightly he winced at the pain. He started to protest in Spanish but caught his tongue in time. Both men mounted the remaining riderless horse and the cavalcade was off. Dorado rode at its head at a g hand gallop and the rest followed, closely bunched around the prisoner. The barranca was narrowing steadily. Three abandoned drifts gaped in the walls of the chasm, two on the southern, one on the northern side, and along the stream for a distance of a hundred yards men could be seen busily sloshing wooden bateas for placer gold. With a muttered order Dorado dismounted and passed into the recesses of the largest of the cave-lik- e openings. In a moment every rider had unsaddled and the freed horses were driven helter-skeltupstream into d a corral. ; The nearest man to Blackadder drew his sheath knife and slashed the taut thong connecting his ankles. Either by accident or on purpose the knife severed the girth and gashed the ponys hide as well. The horse leaped in air, hurling rider and saddle to the ground. There was a roar of laughter. Finding himself unable to rise Blackadder started to crawl on hands and knees to the brook, intending to bathe his lacerated and legs in the cooling water. At each slosh of the icy water his pear-shape- rs mile-eatin- er cliff-locke- half-paralyz- ed I Experimenters $35,000.00 Stock Television, Test Equipment, Radio Parts ft Supplies, Overnight Deliveries, Write for free catalogue. extracted passport and wallet from Felt Radio Co. InterMtn Dist. his breast pocket and managed to Salt Lake City 245 So. State thrust them under a flat stone. 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MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS I think perhaps you lie, said FACTORY BUILDING AND REPAIRING -- Dorado softly. When 1 know you lie I send a finger to the American ambassador one finger each week. How much money you got? I did lie, said Blackadder, and Im sorry. Im an American, but all my money everything I had in the world was in my dispatch case in that car. No money, eh? Perhaps pretty soon somebody want to buy you for Better write letter 25,000 pesos. while you have enough fingers. You write letter any time you like; I read it. You say send money to General Dorado, Mexico City. I see, said Blackadder, frowning thoughtfully. Something was stirring in his brain a seed, an acorn that developed in a flash to the size of a n oak. Roughly it could be framed in a single question. Why not substitute La Barranca for the ransom of 25,000 pesos and thus kill four birds with one stone? 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At nightfall, wafted along within a blue cloud of blasphemy, he was carried in on an improvised litter and laid on his cot; the bullet that had pierced his thigh had killed his horse. CHAPTER X i Arnaldo had stayed crouched beside the trunk of the cactus much longer than ordinary caution required, thinking and thinking hard. A full hour elapsed before he led the way back to the car and ordered Juanito to proceed. Juanito never missed a chance to make speed and as the trail frequently forked this way and that, dodging the mudholes of the recent rainy season, he was forced to come to some quick decisions. Such a choice now presented itself. The fork to the left was undoubtedly the main road but the wheel marks to the right seemed fresher. He chose the former, yielding instinctively to the pull of memory, for he had driven this way once before. Recollection told him there would be a short bridge, relic of more prosperous times. But there was no bridge; it had been carried away in the last floods. He jammed down both feet, reached for the emergency brake and brought the car to a halt on the very lip of an arroyo fully 12 feet deep and twice as wide. Numskull! growled Arnaldo. Jump, imbecil! Slowly the car was nosing down and but for the emergency brake would have glided forward and then rushed. Arnaldo on one side and Juanito on the other scrambled up the bank just in time to cross a steadily widening fissure. The push of their feet was the last straw; a great block of earth gave way with a dull rumble. The car made a nose dive, bounced and fell on its back, its four wheels in air. (TO BE CONTINUED i CHICKS RELIABLE BABY CHICKS, DUCKS ft TURKEYS From 12 Western hatcheries Salt Lake City BAILEY ft SONS CO. 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