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Show PTT rues. fboe grasping ml new force In agent of the diw eloprVyt of .the West, werg Tbe C? coo-r1noet- times at forlorn Is fo i run anl, o,tar Piling upon t ; t 1. til i ..sr in r !v urn- - I f be-- p whuh frnterdel with t' at i! bjjj. the in si n t - 16 Mountain Sheep. , Gale might have thought an If tonshlered from ippsKing situation. home away comfortable nnd gjjfp t from the desert, became, now that he lava as shut In by the and great dry wastes a matter dimly accented as Inevitable. So he Imagined It was accepted by the others, Not even Mercedes uttered a regret No word was spoken of home jf there was thought of loved ones. B a as locked deep In their minds. beBy tacit agreement Ladd again The of the. party. came the leader. first thing he asked was to have the store of food that remained spread Assuredly, It out upon a tarpaulin. slender a enough supply. It was as to read the gravity of Impossible Ladda face, for he still looked like a dead man, but the alow shake of his bead told Cale much. There was a grain of hope, however. In the significance with which he touched the bags of salt and said, Shore It was sense packin' all that salt I" Then he turned to face his comred-ribbe- d s rades. "Thats little grub for six starvin' people corralled In the desert. But the grub end ain't worry In' me. Yaqul can get sheep up the slopes. Water! Thats the beglnnin an middle an' end of our Cfise. "Laddy, I reckon the waterhole here never goes dry." replied Jim. "Ask the Indian." Upon being questioned, TnquI spoke the dreaded ano secoof the In a dry year this waterhole Mexl-can- of failed. j Dick, take a rope an see how much water's In the bole." Cale could not find bottom with a lasso. The wnter wns as thirty-foo- t cool, clear, sweet as If It had been kept In a shaded Iron receptacle. Ladd welcomed this Information "Let's with surprise nnd gladness. see. Last year wns Slebbe this summer shore pretty dry. won't he. Mebbe our wonderful good ltlekll hold. Ask ' Taqul If ne thinks Itll rain." Mercedes questioned the Indian. "lie says no roan can tell surely. But be thinks the rain will come," she replied. Itll rain, you can gamble that now," continued Ladd. "If theres only grass for the bosses! We cant get, out of here without hosses. Dick, take the Indian an scout down the arroyo. Today I seen the hosses were gettln fat. Gettln' fat In this desert! But mebbe theyve about grazed up all .the. crassly. Go an see, "Shore on Dick. An may you come back with more good news!" Gale found that the arroyo widened ai It opened. Near the head, where It was narrow, patches of gray grass grew everywhere. Gale began to Wonder where the horses were.. Finally the trees and brush thinned ont, and a mile-wide'gr- 11 Over to one were the white horses, and here was grass enough for many; the arroyo was indeed an oasis. Ladd and the others were awaiting Gale's report, and they received It with calmness, yet with a Joy no less evident because it wns restrained. Gale, In his keeq observation at the moment, found that be and his com fades turned with glad eyes to the woman of the party. Senor Iacldyt you think you believe we shall" she faltered, and her voice failed. ' Mercedes, no white man can tell whatll come to pass out here," said Ladd, earnestly. Shore I have hopes now I never dreamed ot I wns pretty tear a dead mnn. The Indian snved me. Bcldin had It, right Yaquts our godsend. Now, as to the future, Td like to know mebbe as well as you If were ever to get home, Onlv bein. what I am. I say, Qulen sake? But somethin tells me Yaqul knows. Ask him, Mercedes. Make him tell He's a silent Indian, but make him to reddish sand dunes. Mercedes called to YaquL see-"Ot- - At her Suddenly He Grasped Gale and Point-eAcross a Deep, Wide Gully. d , then a sudden electrifying pressure of Yaquls hand made Gale tremble with t!e g b g red-wall- H t -- m ien st r. I 'Hie e iN g iked ms I i i utd the 1 hi i k vxn' ! Men Yule alone?. N . be did i m H t to be id me The Ympd xxn- tl ie Middeidy u strange, cold Mi- - i : It urns new re; t oer Gale ic i m-- lie ti't a 'esence. Tcinmg, to e pe- ted to the Indian, hot mt il slight shadow, pale almost whip' mo1 thete, n- t tlu.c mr t d stunt it is mod to bright, n. 'I hen le mit a w onnu who resembled a ght he hud - j M-- - set mvil to know long ago. She xvn wh'efieed. golden haired, an I bor l'l - wire swett. and her eyes were tin n.ng black. Nell! He bad forgot ten I er. Over him flooded a toirent of memory. There was tragic woe In tilts sweet face. Nell wns holding out her arms she was crying aloud to him across the sgnd and the cactus and the Liu. She. wns In trouble, and he had been forgetting. -- That night he the lava to T rs -c l'cliliii.'. Iut , ict f - tint I id Is 'n r ti'Ci l.n.iMt- - fee i.nt vs ii 1. ! hi tin I in L Gnle nnd I I l l.ir'v til.tn 1.1 Yaqul months I Inti ttu o'on- a I - ti.irsi s, the k II. d rest ef t t! e the by or Pen stuna of Me I. m for sarx.-grass and mid for wnter. lull conic to oi lorn III er. They were a putt Of the (torse to lousing to Ito'i-- nnd tits band. Ttieir atilvnl cnnijilti-iitemi lilleA. I-- t the mystery nnd strengthened eonHc-t'onof the of both puisuer and pursued. Holding's unhappiness coal I hnrdly ho l.il to mnteilnl loss. !t im peon to-- Ft csj you r't the paint "' Bayer" ,ni kitgc or on tablet you are not get ting Hie gcnnitu Bayer product pr m riticd by phyMfluiis over tuis nnd pi ov ed safe by millions for Gobi Headache twe-nty-t- lie s I i rt.di and wns now nor I lunge ot fortune sn h ns that could not h.nv mode him unh ippv. Soiio-'hnmrt sooil'or and mysterious ninl s.id than ft lends the li vs of Dick Gnle an I tl tied cmne Into tbe live of h's wife an 1 Nell. He dated the time of t til change hack to n certain dav when Mrs. Heldlng recognized In the elder Cliao nn old schoolmate nnd a rejected Milter. It took time for Holding to discover an thins wrong In Ids household, hut gradually he had forced on him the fait of some secret i nu se for gilef other than G.ile'i loss, lie was sure of It w lien Ids wlf slgnfied her deslu to make a visit to tier old home hack In 1eortn. A letter site hnd received contained news tlmt tmty or tuny not have been authentic; but It wns enough, Beldlna thought, to Interest Id wife. An old e-- Tiot!iiul.e l.umtiHgo' Hut at be Nt tiragia ltlicumntlstn laln, laln Accept "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin" mly. Each unbroken put huge contains oroper dlrei lions. Handy bolt's of twelve tablet cost few cents. Drug-ii-- u nl m sell bottle ef k4 and ltW. Yvpet In is tin trade mark of Bayer Uanufo tare ef Minoaeetlenetdestr of add Pulley ll Advertisement. Food for ThoupnL "Who wa tlmt you Jut towed to? That waa Bridegroom ny t Hit d wife, dear. Bride SHE DYED A SWEATER, SKIRT AND CHILD'S COAT WITH DIAMOND DYES Mow-thinkin- g at Length to Realize That the Deacrt Waa a Teacher. the topmost cone, nnd never support on a ragged crust nor touched a rimy a thorn. A volte had culled to him lie saw Nells eye In the stnrs. In the velvet blue of sky. In the hlnrkncss of the engulfing shadows. She wns with him, a fclender shape, a spirit, keeping step with him, nnd memory wns strong, sweet, beating, beautiful. Fnr down In the west, faintly golden with light of the sinking moon, he saw cloud that resembled her face, cloud on the desert horizon! He gazed nnd gazed. Was that a spirit face like the one by his aide? No he did not dream. In the hot, sultry morning Yaqul apjienrcd nt camp, after long hours of absence, nnd he pointed with a long dark artn toward the west. A hank of clouds was rising above the mountain He Cam barrier. RalnT he cried; nnd hi sonorous voice rolled down the arroyo. Those who henrd Mm were a ship wrecked murlners ot sight of a dls tant sail. Dick Gale, silent, grateful to the depths of his soul, stood with arm over Blanco Sol and watched the transforming wesLw here clouds of wondrous size and hue piled over one another, rushing, darkealng, spreading, sweeping upward toward thut white and glowing aun. I felt a drop of rain on my cried facet" Mercedes; anil, whisper Ing the name of a saint, she kise( her husband. Ladd, gaunt, old, bent, looked np at the maelstrom of clouds, and he said, softly, Shore well get In the hosses, an pack light an' hit the trull an make night marches I" T"hen up out of the gulf of the west swept a bellowing wind ond a black pall and terrible flashes of lightning and thunder like the end of the world fury, blackness, chaos, the desert Oh I ranrh-tmtix- and-thls ever-recurrin- M i t thrilled Gale, though be understood scarcely a word 6he said. He did not excitement need translation to know that here Very cautiously he shifted his pospoke the longing of a woman for life, sition. There, not fifty feet distant storm. love. boro, the heritage of a womans upon a high mound of lava, stood the heart. leader of the sheep. As Gale watched, CHAPTER XVII "Sir rolled out the Indians reply, the second ram leaped lightly upon Th Whistls of a Hors. fall of power and depth. the mound, and presently the three et Forlorn River ttbe drew n Tong breath, and others dIJ likewise. He took np th alone. stood her hand sought Thomes. Beldlng The splendid leader stepped closer, nnd with slow table his from belt Tie amber gun eyes, lie says yes." she whispered. his round, protruding bands buttled It around Ms waist. He erasers hell save us; he'll taks us which Gale could now plainly see. Inseemed to feel something familiar and all hack he knows!" tent upon that fatal red flag. Like comfortable and Inspiring In the crowded four other The Indian turned away to his automatons the slow A few weight of the big gun against M Mp little his tracks. Into held the and the silence that tasks, faced the door as If to go out, but He halted. little group was finally broken by steps, then the leader and then began a slow athesitated, absorbed Ladd. At this Instant Cales walk np and down the length to plodding directed was the tention Yaqul by Shore I, said so. Now all weve room. of tbe Iresently he halted at frt to do Is use sense. Friends. I'm rifle, and o to the purpose of the with and reluctant hands he the table, and the for reached .495, the commissary department of this climb. He belt and laid It the unbuckled gun chamber Into shell the the as threw be You all outfit, on what I say gees. down. won't eat except when I tell you. the slight metallic click made, the The action did not have an sir o Mebhe It'll not be so hard to keep our sheep Jump, Then be rose quickly knew it. II finality. jalJtf-ldInhealth. - Starved beggars don't get to his feet. when a the law In been slerlT had The noble ram and his band simply kick. But there's the heat cornin', an on a of West the depcmleJ seen never quckners bad Gale. we can ail go loco, you know. To pass stared st They man lay he had seen many not the shoaed man. wrist; a slightest the time! our They thats problem. down fcls gun for good and all. HI Now. if you all only nad a hankerin' Indication of Instinctive fear. Gale own action was not final. Of !at h were to that going step for checkers. Shore fH make a board Imagined they bad done the same thing many times, an mitk a you pH.y. Thome, youre still closer. He did not choose to last tlm It seemed a Vftlft Gen to-true. were If thU ke IncHlesL you've got your girl, an wait to do, a little more Indicative herder a of resoluIdea took lost, It !ot. grim already belrg fhu can be a honeymoon. Now with t talnly lost In the desert, fighting Isrder than pf vacillation. There were reason few tools ta little material se what tion to raise the heavy .40.1. gun held for him Ills shot killed the big leader. The any other thing the Insidious, pene- why Belling nnd bouse yon cn build for your fascination self that remarkwith bounded unfeeling gloomy away 11. Dick, you're lucky, too, Yon others trating, tranquil, we G trie hop.-lcs'-nes- - 'If t.-l- Gale up the l ruMaln'ng four shel's to drop the ram, and by the t.me he had reloaded tbe'jothers wore out of range. The Y'uquis iu thd of hunt!' g was Mire ami deadly usvl raving In energy, but Gale iio'.r would try It again, lie cl to stalk the came. After being hunted a few time- und shot at. the sheep bemme v'.vdingly d.fllcult to He f illM often. Ihestulk npproavh. cuiiod forth u!l tint was In him of enduram-e- , cunning, speed. And like a shudow the fait! ful Yaqul tried ever to keep at his heels. One morning Yaqul vpled a fioxk of sheep far under the curved, broken rim of the main crater. Then began the stalk. Hiding, slipping, creeping, crawling, Gale dosed In ujarn libs quarry until the long ride grev like stone In his grip, and the whipping spiing" ripped the sdeme, and the strunge echo boomed deep In the crater, and rolled around, ns If In ho'low of escajK. mockery at the He waited beside Ids quarry, and breathed deep, nnd swept the long slopes with scantling eyes of habit. When Yuqul came tip they set about the hardest task of all, to pack the best of that heavy sheep down miles of steep, ragged, choy uncovered lava. The torrid summer heat came Inn perceptibly, or It could never huve been borne by white men. It changed the lives of the fugitives, making them partly nmturnal In liahlt. The nights had the balmy coolness of spring, and would hnve been delightful for sleep, but tlmt would huve made the blazing days unendurable. As Ladd had said, one of their greatest problems was the passing of time. The nights were Interminably long, but they had to be passed In work or play or dream anything except sleep. That vvus Ladds most In flexible command. He gave no reason. But not Improbably the ranger thought that the terrific heat of the day spent In slumber lessened a wear and strain, if not a real danger of madness, Accordingly, at first the occupations of this little group were many and various. They worked If they' had something to do, or could Invent a pretext They told nnd retold stories until all were wearisome. They sang Mercedes taught Spanish songs. They played every game they knew They Invented others that were so trivial children would scarcely have been Interested, and these- they pi a,veil seriously. In a word, with Intelll genre nnd passion, with nil that wns civilized nnd hunnn, they fought the loneliness, the savage solitude of their environment. Gnle believed himself the keenest of the party, the one who thought most, and he watched the effect of the For desert upon his companions. hours, It seemed, Ladd would bend over his checkerboard and never make a move. It mattered not now whether or not he had a partner. Jim Lash, the calmest, coolest, most nonwesterner Gale chalant, had ever met, had by slow degrees lost that cheerful character which would have been of such Infinite good to his companions, and always he sat brooding, silently brooding. Jim hnd no ties, few memories, and the desert was claiming him. Thome and Mercedes however, were living, wonderful proof that spirit, mind, and "heart were free free to soar In scorn of the colossal barren ness and silence and space of that terrible hedging prison of lava. They were young; they loved; they were together; and the oasis wns almost a paradise. Thome and Mercedes bad forgotten the outside world. If they had been existing on the burned-ou- t desolate moon they could hardly have been In a harsher, grimmer, lonelier spot than this arroya. Although the Yaqul wa as his shadow, Gale reached a point when he secerned to wander alone at twilight, In the night at (dawn. At night habit of climbing up he had formed the lava slope as far as the smooth trail extended, and there on a promon tory he paced to and fro, and watched for hours the stars, and sat stone-stil- l looking down at the vast void with Its moving, changing shadows. He came at length to realize that the desert was a teacher. lie did not realize all that be had learned, bnt he was different man. And when he decided upon that, he was not thinking of the slow, sure call to the primal Instincts of man; he was thinking that the desert, as much as he had experienced and no more, would absolutely overturn the whole scale of a mans Tal oes, break old habits, form new ones, remake him. More of desert expert ence. Gale believed, would he too much for Intellect. The desert did not breei! dvlllzed man. Thus the nights passed, endlessly long; with Gale fighting for his old order of thought, fighting the fasclna tlon of that Infinite sky, and the gloomy Insulatlag whirl of the wide shadows, fighting, for belief, hope. best-humore- d tell." Tff'i s le rilmhlenes ever-infringin- aide hU Say Bayer and Insis held oii e Gongs U. li.g I is power to Mutid up tf.nii r e.i-.'i met i I , s weight of h e s ml h ni e i spio At the Moment he was al ne m the in The rl 9 t was far sp, nt 'ol- of-- Ill t hi-- , A plain stretched down bidding there wraa always a suggestion of hurry, which otherwise was never manifest In his actions. She put band on his bared muscular arm and began to speak In Spanish. Iler voice lie Mt be was Ilarjer llke to .Bunt, an up there jouU find the finest bighorn huntin' !u the West. Take Yaqul and the .40.Y. We neel the meat, but while you're gettln' It hue your sport. Rustle no.v, n. Get some enthusiasm. For shore you need It for yourself an us . Gale climbed the lava slope, awny round to the right of the arroyo, along an old trail that Yaqul said the Iapngos had made lefore his own people hunted there. From the crests Yaquls searching jfaleon gaze roved near and fnr for signs of sheep. Suddenly he grasped Gale and pointed across a deep, wide gully. With the aid of his glass Gale saw five sheep. They were looking In his direction. Remembering what he had heard about the wonderful eyesight of these mountain animals, Gnle could only conclude that they had ' seen the hunters. Then Yaquls movements attracted and Interested him. The Indian h3d brought with him a red scarf nnd a mesqulte branch, lie tied the scarf cn the stick, and propped this up In a crack of the lava. The scurf waved In the wind. That done, the Indian bade Gnle watch. Once again he leveled the glass at the sheep. All five now were motionless. standing like statues. heads pointed across the gully. They were more than a mile distant. When Gale looked without his glass they merged Into the roughness of the lavn. lie Did the was Intensely Interested. sheep see the red scarf? It seemed Incredible, but nothing else could account for that statuesque alertness. The sheep held this rigid position for perhaps fifteen minutes. Then the leading mm started to approach. The others followed. He took a few steps, then halted. Alwayc h held his head up, nose pointed. "By George, theyre coming!" exclaimed Gnle. They see that flag. They're hunting us. Theyre curious. If this doesnt bent me!" Evidently the Indian understood, for he grunted. Gale found difficulty In curbing his The approach of the Impatience. sheep wns slow. The big ram led on with regular persistence, and In hnlf an hours time he was In the bottom of the great gulf, and soon he was facing up the slope. Gale knew then that the alluring scarf had fascinated him. The animals disappeared behind another ridge. Gale kept watching, sure they would come out farther on. A tense period of waiting passed, 1 os y. The Riders of the Purple Sage, Wildfire,4 Etc. Copy...ht tlrotl.cr. by for i,t 1 was coming between him an Author of t 1 (r By ZANE GREY CHAPTER XVI vor were R sceii-ipli-- e prospector hnd returned to leorin, nnd he had told relative of meeting Robert Burton nt the Sonnvtn oasis fifteen yenra before, nnd thnt Burton hud gone Into tbe desert never to return. To Bolding this wns no sue prise, for he had heard that before his There npiwnred to hav nmrrlnge. been no doubts as to the deuth of hi wife's first husband. The .slngulat thing was thnt both Nells father and grandfather had been lost souiewhers In the Sonora desert. Beldlng did not oppone his wifes desire to visit her old home, lit thought It would he a wholesome t rij for her, nnd did all In hi power to persuade Nell to accompany her. But Nell would not go. It was after Mrs. Beldlng' depnr ture thnt Beldlng dlscovcied In Nell H condition of mind that amnzed nnd distressed him. Klie had suddenly become strangely wretched. Khe would tell him nothing. But. after a while, vvhrn he had thought It rut, he dated this deplorable change In Nell bn'U to a day on witch he hnd met Nell with Itndford Chaw. Tl.U Indefatigable wooer hnd rmt In the least ntmn doned Ills suit, A slow surprise gathered upon Tom Beldlng when he u thnt Nell, apparently, wns accept ng At least, young Cbn a's attentions. she no hnigv'r hid from him. Beldlng could not account for this, because h wnr sure Nell cordially despised th fellow. Anti toward the ond lie db vlnod. If he did not actually know, that thee Chnses possessed some strange power over Nell, nnd were using It. That stirred hnte In Beldlng a hnte he hnd felt St the first nnd had mnnfully striven agnlnst, whit h now gave him over to dark brooding thoughts. Midsummer pnssed, and th storms came Infe. But when the arrived they mnde up for tardiness. Beldlng did not remember so terrible a storm of wind and rain ns that whkb broke the summer's drought. Tbe Chaseu had extended a main Irrigation ditch down to Bidding's farm, skipped the width of Ms grouml, then had gone on down through Altar valley. They had exerted every Influence to obtain right to connect these ditches by digging through hi lumL but Bold. ng had rernnlned obdurate. He refuwd to have any dealings with them. It was therefore with some curiosity and suspicion thnt lie saw a gang of Mexlnitis once more at work ujKin these ditriiea. At daylight next morning a tr mendous blast almost threw Bel ling out of M bed. It era k edt hen Mb walls of Ms houvq and broke window and rent pans and crockery to the floor with a crash. Beldlng Idea wa that the atore of dynamit? kept by the Chare for Masting Bad Mown up. Hurriedly getting Into hi clothe, he went to Nell room to reassure her; and, telling her to have a thought for their guet. he went out to aee what had happened. A great yellow cloud. Ike moke, hung over the river. Thl app-rato be ot Hi upper, end of BHdimi' plot, and rhie to the river. When he reached Ms fence the smoke and dust o thick he could scarcely were breathe, emt for a little while he wa unable to tee what had happ nod. Presently he made out a bugehole In the and Just about where the Irrigation ditch Jind stopped near hi line. For tom renn. or other, not clar to Belling, the Mexican had set' off n that extraordinarily hevy blast point. fjtrH ptrksg of "Dismond Dye" con-sm- s ny worn direction wo impl he or tint ber worn, slmbby tlreetes, ca .ktrti, wsixt, cost, stocking, (wester, ov e rings, drspertee, ksngtngs. everything, ten if she hse never dyed befor. Buy no other llmmond Dyes kind-4h- a beesus lerctt home rdyeing is sure not to Dye gusrsnteed poL Tell your druggist ia hetlu-- r tbe mstcrisl you wieh to dy wool or silk, or whether it I linen, eottoa ir timed goodse Advertisement. fde. It res k, or run. 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