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Show UTAH THE WEEKLY REFLEX, KAYSVILLE, nmxmimmmmiimmmimmmiimrmmmfmn to marry ble! and rebuffed, stepped aside 0J tlon alone Webster stride bark Into the practical? rviixtira God love ye, sor, he mum 'hotel. likebled, "knowin what! know. Is It out a make monkey ly Id Jet ye her or yerself? Ye made yer plans wit JINther Geary wltout consultin her. Now go, ye grrand big divll. an find out why she, kicked yer schame And with a solemn to smithereens wink at the duffle hag, and knowing article np and that Juan picked Ior. master. followed after Jils By PETER B. KYNE Author of Cappy Ricks, "The Valley of the Giants, Etc. Copyright by P,t,r B. Kyn. CHAPTER XIII. irTTmniiiiiriTiTTTTTmiiiiiiinniinTiiirmiiiiiriniirtxiiTiniiiiniiiiin CHAPTER XI (Continued. , U- - "Snrroa!" Webster replied smiling' That sroundrel makes a gamble ly. . out of an otherwise sure thing. However, he added, recalling the note received Irons Itlcnrdo Ituey Just before his departure from Buenaventura and rejecting that to be forewarned Is to he foreurtned, "we'll accept the gamble. That rascal can't live forever, anJhemny be eliminated before be causes us any trouble." "What will It cost us to get this mine on a paying basis, Johnny?" "Well, hack home, I'd figure' on spending at least $100,000; but I dar say, taking Into consideration the low cost of labor In Robrante and the raw, natural resources of power and timber right on the ground, we ought to put this deni over for $50,000 at the outside. Praise he, I have cash enough to do the trick without calling In nny help, and such being the case, well not wuste any time but hop to the Job In a hurry and make the fur fly. and packed Out for San Miguel de Padua bright and early next 'morning. During the following ten days Webster managed to keep himself fairly busy around (he camp at the mine; then for a week lie hunted and fished, and flnnlly, when that began to pall on him, his aglle mind returned to business and the consideration of the possibility of a flaw In Billys title to the claim; whereupon he suddenly decided to return to and Investigate that title fully before proceeding to throw dollars right and left. At the head of Jils little cavalcade, therefore, he aode out one morning for the railroad, whereat providence, In Ita Inscrutable wisdom, ordained that en route he should fall In, with no jess a personage than Pon Itlcardo Lulz Ruey, neo Andrew Bowers. was mounted, armed, and alone, and at sight of Webster he shouted with delight and spurred toward him. What the devil the What are you dogovernment cut-uing in these parts? Webster rode up1 ' and shook hands. Oh, Im Robin Hooding It around this part of the country. It Is so secluded, you know, and Sarros hasnt any friends or any telegraph lines or any garrisons up this way. I heard In San Miguel de Padua that you were camped yonder, and I was on rfiy way over to confer with you on matters of state. Met your friend, Geary, at El Buen Aiulgo a couple of weeks ago. Just before he sailed for the United StHtes. He was telling me you had to have a lot of tools for road building, so I cabled In a secret cipher to the Rohrnntean revolutionary Junta In Netv Orleans to ship these tools to you Immediately. They arrived on the last trlfi of the Atlanta and now repose In Iabers warehouse waiting for you to call and remove Bue-nnventu-ra Itl-cur- 1 You,-Ric- k, Right, Jack. Whnts the program?" AVcM, first'off, son. I'm not going to styy in this country and lose myself managing this mine. Thats your Job, bemuse youre young and unimportant lu yoyr profession and have the .ability to get away with the Job. You can afford to spend the nest 15 years here, hut I cannot. I can only afford to come down here every couple of years and relieve you for a vacation. "ThatX the way I figured It, Jack." All right then, 11111, let us start In If by gHIng you your first vacation. you re going to dig lu here and make the fur fly, youve got to be In physical condition and you are thin and gnunted and full of chills and fever. Just before I left lluenaventura I cashed a draft for $5, (XX) on my letter of credit at the Ilanco Nnclonal, and plnced It to the credit of your tb,em. You scoundrel! What have you account there, sent me? "Tomorrow morning you will take A couple of hundred rifles and your horse, one pack mule, and one three machine guns, branded axes, inojio ami ride for Ran Miguel de Padua. where you will take the train for picks, shovels, plows, and so on. 1 lluenaventura. In lluenaventura you also ran In three cases of ammunition, may do whnt you blame please, but labeled grindstones, two more cases If 1 were you, boy, I'd try to get mar- disguised as bolts, and quite several I ried and go back to the U.- - S. A. for thousand labeled nails in kegs. should If feel for rather my sorry you when And I my honeymoon. finally friend, Sarros, should get suspicious Mt a town that contained some reg and investigate, but I havent any fear ular doctors Id let them paw me over and rebabhltt me and overhaul my that he will. You see, he knows you're bearings and put me In such nice run- here on legitimate business. He has ning order Id be firing on all 12 cyl- Investigated and learned that you are a bona fide mining engineer of coninders at once. siderable reputation and then, you And when I was feeling p once more Id wire old John Stuart know, your friend, Geary, dickered Webster and tell him so, after which with him for the concession. The mlu-Inproperty you are about to develId stand by for a cable from the said sourdough Inviting me to return and op belongs to the people, not to Snr-royet be has bartered it away aud take up my labors." will divert the royalty to Ids own wau face Billys yellow lighted up like a sunrise on the desert I guess pocket Instead of the public treasury. I Huin-in-r- a that plan's kind of poor, he anWliat do you want me those munitions connounced feelingly. to all do Youre with right Jack. I'm In rotten condition and I signed to me? ought to be right before I start Still, "Arrange with Leber to keep them If I should arrange to get married bethere until you get ready to build fore I leave. Id like inlghiy well to your road Into the mine. I want them have a good man and true see me there when my American mercenaries aafely over the hurdles. arrive In Buenaventura. By the way, Thats nice, sou, but I havent time you are going to Import these nier- to be your best man. Arranging the honeymoon lets me out Bill. Im In a hurry to finish here and get back, so the sooner we both start our prospective Jobs the sooner well finish, lime a quiet little marriage,. Bill, without any fuss or feathers or voices breathing oer Eden. What are the odds, provided you get bttched properly? Besides, I'm In mortal dread of towu of Buenaventura. The sew-V- r system is bad; Its rotten with fever; and yod. better get that girl out of it P. D. Q, and the quicker the better. Myself, I prefer to stay up here In these mountains In a temperate climate where there are no mosquitoes. Billy saw that Webster was serious and would resent any Interference In All right, Jack," he ashis plans. sented. Youre the boss. Fine. Now, Bill, you listen to father and be guided accordingly. When yen get to Buenaventura, wire the company of Bingham Engineering Denver, uslag my name, and tell them to add to my order glren them last month and held for shipping directions, 12 dozen picks, 12 dozen shovels, 12 dozen mattocks, say six dozen axes, brush knives, a big road plow, and whatever other things you happen to think of and which would cop? in handy wfcen building our road. Also, when you get to New Orleans buy a motor truck. WeU Mounted, Armsd zed Alone. stanch three-toneed. It 'for getting In supplies from for roe." They are American fan Miguel de Padua. Pay for the cenaries and road builders In the emminers if and and broke truck also, you go Honda the Miulng A Developof cannot reach me by cable, wire Ned-- 4 ploy Is to be the which ment company, club in T Jerome at the Engineers I hope youll name of your enterprise. In out kick bis eye Denver and my I picked it Webster. like name, the honored name. out . myself. I guess thats about all of your makcool scoundrel! Youre You Job, BilL As for me. Ill camp right here. HI have a deal of surveying ing cats paw out of me. That Is because you happen to be to do and I plan to sweat the booze -- so out of that Cafferty person. handy for my purpose. You see chain JuanDon make my manapdi my plan, do you not? Im going to run the tall off him. Then ITThe attack Buenaventura from within and come dawn on buy With preliminary plans, arrang- without. Im going to on wolf a the fold, and so and when and like inl.or on, Sarros ing for the' Job Is scheduled for next Saturrill h:: Ill eo hunting. . -- v.i with this plan; there-f.- - day night a week. "Look here, Rick, my boy, 1 have ,fgmjJ hv to his frfcuul tip-to- p tip-to- g s; tht u Jll I- -j iM-il- - . ty . John Stuart Websters agile brain was the repository of many confllct-I- r g emotions as he, bathed, shaved, and changed from his soiled khaki field clothes to a suit of ducks before presenting himself before Dolores. .Had Billys courage forsaktn him at the last minute, with the result that he had gone bags to the United States without having' settled the question of Dolores future? Had be thers." proposed and been rejected, or had he proposed, been accepted, and had Why?" Its been framed with Sarros to bis plans for an Immediate marriage let you spend your money on that con- vetoed by Dolores? cession and get the mine In running In either event, why had Billy order; then's fake suit, alleging an failed to leave a note for him at the error In the government survey, will Hotel Mateo, or mailed him a letter be filed. It will be claimed thatthe fo the Globo de Oro at San Miguel de concession given your friend, Geary, Padua, advising him of the change In K by virtue of erroneous governhient the plan of action outlined for him by surveys, the property of a citizen of Webster? Robrante." The courts here do as SarIn the simplicity of his ros tells them. You are to be kicked devotion Webster was puzzled to out, busted, and despairing, and your understand how any woman In her nicely equipped little mine will be right mind could fall to fall In love taken over as a government monopoly with Billy Geary. A man he was, from and run for the benefit of the govern- heels to hair, and a man with pros-Sarros and his satellites. ment, We had to cook op a dirty deal like that fo save your life. Of course, now that I have warned you In time, you are safe. We schemed a proposition, however, thnt worked both ways. It enabled us to save, you and to save us, by permitting the shipment, free of suspicion, of arms for the rebels that are to attack the dty from within. Naturally I had to cache their arms within the city and that was a hard problem until you happened along. Thank you, fairy godfather." My thanks are due you, Ricardo. Im for you, first, last, and all the time, and against this Snrros outfit. By the way, how do you pqrpose moving your machine guns? Well have to carry them, I guess. "Well, Ill have a small auto-trucdelivered In Buenaventura by that time. You might arrange to armor It with sheet steel ; and with a cou pie of ihachlne guns mounted In It and n crew of resolute Americans behind the machine guns, you could ca per from one end of the city to the other arul cleur a path for your Inno desire to mtx In the politics of this country. You have some desire, however, to mix In Its wealth, Ricardo reminded him. "Well?" Im the only man that can help you. By the way, do not order your machinery shipped until after I am seated firmly on the throne of my fa- single-hearte- d to-wl- t, k fantry." "Thank you, my friend. I'll borrow the motor truck and arrange to nrtnor it. Thats a bully Idea. Are you bound for Buenaventura now? Webster nodded. "Then, Ricardo suggested, "Ill meet you In my room at El Buen Amigo next Wednesday night at 11 and explain the details of my plans to you If you care to hear them. I think theyre my self, but somehow I think Id feel more certain of them If you approve them. Ill be there, Rick, and the day you run that outlaw Sarros off the grass youll know why I am for you." "Good-by- , old man. You will never know how grateful you ha;e made me." Ruey shook hands with Webster and rode off through. the timber, leaving John Stuart Webster to pursue the even tenor of his way, until at length he arrived once more in Buenaventura and sought accommodations at the Hotel Mateo. And there, as he entered the lobby and gazed through n glas door across the patio and Into the veranda, he saw that which disturbed him greatly. In a big wicker rocker Dolores Ruey sat, rocking gently and busily stitching on a piece of fancy work! Billy Geary gone back to the United States, and Dolores was still In Buenaventura Amnzlng Why. what the devil did Billy mean by letting her have her own way like that? Of course, they hadnt been married, or she would not now Re out there on the veranda, and. of course, they hadnt quarreled, because that was an Impossibility, and, of course, Billy had departed alone for the U. S. A., else he would have returned to their camp In the hilts back of San Miguel de Padua. "Well, I know what Im going to Im not going do, Webster decided. to be led Into temptation while Billys not on the Job so Ill not put up at the Hotel Mateo after all. Ill Just sneak around to El Buen Ami go and fix It with that old Mother Jenks not to tip off jny presence In own to, Dolores Ruey until I can get the ay of the land and see what the devil hgs happened to all my plans." He retreated out the front door and called a carriage, into which he was about to stepbag and baggage, when 1 Hm Juan Cafetero came rushing up In great excitement. Sure, where aro ye goiu now, sor. 1st there no roun far ye In the Hotel Mateo?" Tkets beds have jiggers in them, Weband I jut remembered, that ster thbed. Hop In, John, and we ll drive around to Mr. Gearys lodgings . in El Buen Amiga But I come trough the patio Just alr-tlg- 1 ht 1 well-lai- now,-Do- Juan n explained.-a- n who should I meet but the young leddy. You Infernal scoundrel! Did you tell her I was In town? Rure I did. sor. An why not? None of your Infernal busihe!; Youve spoiled everything. Youre a muddle-heademonkey and I've a groat notion to lot you get drunk again. Take the baggage back into d the bob I. Io Juan Cgfetero, greatly hum ' "Well, and Why Didnt You?" there! Well, and why didnt you? She smiled at his blunt Insistence on forcing the issue. "For a number of excellent reasons. Caliph. In the first place, he wanted me to marry him Immediately and I wasnt ready to leave Robrante. while Billy was. Indeed, It was highly necessary that be should leave Immediately, for the sake of his health, and I had Billys Interest at heart sufficiently to Insist upon it. You seem to forget that when a girl marries she must make some preparation for the event, and If rbe has any close relatives, such as a brother, for Instance, she likes to have that relative present at the ceremony. You will recall. Caliph, that t have a brother and that you have promised to introduce me to him very I hover thought of that. Miss Ruey," the repentant Webster answered. "In fact. wasn't thinking of anybody's interest in this mat1 ter but Bills." Not even proachfully. of mine. Caliph? least you were when Bill met yon and fell In love with you and I know that boy so well I was convinced; aft er meeting youLthat his future happiness andyonrs would best be conserved If you married him. I realize this Is a most unusual converse tlon "Quite to be expected of an unusual man. Caliph. And I do not ttynk yon It was were one, bit presumptuous. I am and of you, wonderfully dear and I that Billy profoundly grateful -unselfish a friend, true, such have whose first thought Is for our happiness. Of coarse, you realize how bad I felt to .think I couldnt accede to Billys plan. Billys each a dear. It quite broke my heart to disappoint him, but a little temporary unhappiness will not ruin Billy, will It? It makes me feel blue to talk about It, Caliph. "Not at all, not at all. Miss Ruey. Bill Is one of the Impulsive, whirlwind kind, up In the clouds today e 'slough of despond and tomorrow. Hell survive the shock. However, Bm glad to know everything will come out all right. Seeing you here gave me a momentary chJU; thought a cog had slipped somewhere, se I helped myself to Cupid's license and asked. A man cannot learn very much from a woman unless he asks questions, can he? I mean on the subject of love. Rhe smiled a little, wistful, knowing smile. No, Caliph, she answered se"somehow the Master of riouslythat on the subject ordained Things of love man must do all the talking. "Yes, 'but on the other hand, woman has the last word as usual. However, the only thing in your case and Billy's that worries me Is the thought that since Bill left his magnet behind he will be drawn back here before he is In the kind of shape, physically, that I want him to be In before he relieves me on the Job so I can go away. Do not worry on that point. Caliph. I am your ally there; between ns both I think we can manage him. Fine business I And with those few kind words well dismiss William until you care to talk about him again, although If youre ns deep In love as Bill youll not stay off the subject very long. Hope you havent been Into mischief. I havent been Idle. Ive made several dresses forMother Jenks and done a lot of fancy work and begun the study of my mother tongue. If my brother should become president of this country. It would 111 become his sister not to be able to speak Spanish. By the way, Billy told me you were oing to remain up In the hills quite a while yet What brought you back to town so soon? Expected Id have some freight arriving shortly. How long will you remain In Bue- re- , the fact that he was subject to temptation, since the object of his temptation was now Considering no longer definitely promised to Jiis friend, Billy, Webster suddenly decided to remain until the political atmosphere should be cleared, although prior to his conversation with Dolores he had cherished a definite plan to go back to the hills within 48 hours. I'm going back, he replied soberly, after I have kept my promise and Introduced you to your brother In the government palace. If I cannot Introduce him to you there, the title to our mining concession will be clouded, In which event It will not be necessary for Billy or myself to fuss with It further. He related to her the information gleaned from her brother two days previously. Its no use for an Individual to fight a government despot In courts controlled by the latter," concluded. "Your brother must win and depose the Sarros; then with the title to the property certified by the government as without a flaw, I may dare to spend $50,000 developing It And If my brother doesnt win?" I may never have an opportunity to present you to him. We mustnt be squeamish about this matter, Miss Ruey. If Ricardo doesnt turn the trick, he may go the way of his father. unless he can manage to get out of the country. She was silent, digesting this grim alternative. As I faederstand It, then. Caliph, Ricardo hopes to win his revolution when he strikes the first blow." (TO BE CONTINUED.' done anything n,er for vmi thttn It for Bid so ne scuid !e in uv si Dye Old Garments And Draperies -- Each package of contains easy directions f(,r any garment or draperv Poor dye streaks, spots ruins material by ,m giving look Buy "Diamond Mw '? Tell druggist whether your n,;iPrT wool or silk, or if it is . 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She knew what her reply would lead to; nevertheless, with that dissimulation which can only' be practiced In' perfection by a clever and beautiful woman, she answered with equal boldness: "Indeed! Pray why? Well, for a pretty good reason, I think. A few weeks ago, after examining Bills concession very thoroughly. I told him he was a potential millionaire. Now, while I disclaim any appearance of braggadocio, when John Stuart Webster, E. M makes any mine owner a re;ort like that, he Is apt to be taken very seriously. And having made Bill a potential millionaire and arranged to give him three or four months vacation back home, I had a notion hed present to you a very valid reason why you should accompany him. "You are very frank. Caliph. That's because Itu curious, ne had a certain dream, and told me about it, and I did my little best to make It come true." I think I understand. Caliph. It would be very difficult, 1 think, for anybody to tneet Billy without being attracted toward him. He's one of the dearest, most lovable boys in the world and he did do me the signal honor of asking me to marry him. So shortly. "By Judas, Her job ara the world at lx r- - V. h. u.. Salt Lake City, No. |