| Show dt t By H. H HH Van Loan I A R Romance 0 of f Old ex CO Copyright 1936 1919 J e Shown at Theatre on s Novelized From the Photoplay Serial of the Same ame Name Sundays j f Released by hv the fh Universal Film Manufacturing y i SYNOPSIS Li Liberty erl Horton American heiress and I owner or of r a large Mexican estate Is captured and held for ransom b bv br Juan Lopez a noted Mexican While In his camp she sho overhears o aplan aplan a aplan plan to attack an American town and md army camp She escapes with the aid of ot Pedro a s l faithful servant ervant and while a rescuing party part headed hc b by Major Winston United Sta Stases Stales es arm army Captain Rutledge of or the Texas R Rangers stop atop pursuit she bhe rides to warn the AmerIcans Americans Amer Amer- but Is le too late and the Mexicans attack Thc They are arc r repulsed pulsed b by American Ameri Ameri- American can soldiers that night Pancho Leon Major V. V Winston with exposure cx- cx o of misappropriation of oC funds left in his care unless ss he he Major Winston winston Win ston forces Liberty to marr marry his hit son fon Manuel The major majorr refuses Liberty who has heard the argument between i Pancho and th the major steps In Into o the room and to save the tho majors major honor she Rho a agrees to marry Manuel Rutledge prevents Pedro from Crom killing Manuel i The rue marriage takes take place Major Winston with Rutledge leaves to join V the troops who have In the meantime received orders to cross the line and bring back dead or alive the parties responsible for tor the Discovery outrage Manuel goes to Liberty's room lOOm that night and watched 1 ill b by Libert Liberty Liberty Lib Lib- ert erty tells him that she Is his wire wife In name l only As ho he is leaving lea Thereto Theresa attempts to kill Manuel Pedro arrives at the hacienda In time to hear benr telling Liberty that although she is 15 Manuels Manuel's wife wite In the eyes of oC the law In the tho eyes Cos of God she ehe Therese Is IB his hla wife Pedro confirms this thin statement Manuel joins Jolna Lopez Liberty makes a desperate effort to escape Lope attempts to blow up American troops troop at but the plan Is foiled tolled by Liberty An aviator arrives at the tha camp carny of ot Major Winston with orders to stop the Invasion pending negotiations Rutledge goes Coes to rescue Liberty Libert who with Pedro escapes e Into to tho the detert desert Major Winston dl disobeys obes obe's orders and ROCS gees to aid Bob who with four tour troop troop- 15 Is surrounded ed In a n hut After es escaping es- es I caping numerous perils in the can canyon on Liberty and Pedro are picked up by an nn aeroplane scout who tarts starts back with them to Winston Winston's camp Lopez who realizes that if Ir the aeroplane gets back to Winston's Winstone column thero there will wm be no surprise attack orders tho the machine gun un turned on the party Manuel fires but misses them whereupon Lopez Lozi Lo- Lo poz pez zi takes Shar charge of or the tho gun un himself and fires tires disabling the machine The party have hac a miraculous escape when t the aeroplane drops back to earth where it is la wrecked Liberty DJ d acid Pedro are tn e prisoners by Lopez but hc they manage naB to overcome the sentries and Pedro rides to warn Ma Major or Winston or of the tw planned attack while Liberty Is tarts lf off oct to find tho the rangers She however by two two of the tho bandits and amI sent out b by y L LOI Lopez cZ to find nd ho her hor they bring her back to his camp camp I i while he Is In the midst of or a n drunken orgy Liberty Is placed In a hut but and that hat night Manuel comes to claim her As he goes to clasp her in his arms ho lie hoIs hos lieIs Is s shot hol and falls Calls lifeless at her feet A woman then enters the room and placing the gun sun at her own head pulls the he trigger and fall falls across his dead body A Mexican detachment come upon the scene and find Liberty with the he smoking revolver in her hand and take ako her hor to Chihuahua prison In the tho meantime Lopez and his band attack Major Jor Winston's troopers and the theA A Americans meet meat with disastrous defeat Major Winston Is wounded during the tho lighting While th the tho Mexican detachment detachment detachment detach detach- ment Is on It its Va way to Chihuahua prison with Liberty they come com acrO across 5 tho the un unconscious unconscious un un- conscious figure of or Pedro who has hashe been he een n thrown from his horse while white on his way to camp Ho Ito Is made and they ther take him along with Libert Liberty Bob Kob who has been held hold nt at ba bay by a band of ot manCS manages manages man man- ages CS to escape Major Winston's troops arc are annihilated tilt the major himself bc- bc hl the the only one loft alive Pedro and andi Liberty arrive at Chihuahua and are thrown Into cells Pedro mal makes a effort to escape and l kills hills one of oC tho the guar guards s HP Ito j Is overpowered and taken to tJ the torture chamber chamLer LI Liberty Liberty who ho In the meantime is endear endea endeavoring oring to free tree herself lt partially partial succeeds only onh to find herself Imprisoned in a subterranean subterranean sub sub- n chamber er SIXTEENTH EPISODE Court Soon after Major 1 Winston Vinston was placed in the improvised grave by his brave bra and Io loyal al comrades he lapsed into unconsciousness for he was weak and ill HI from the loss of blood Yh When n he lie recovered some hours later all was dark and about him He slowly raised himself up and und gazed out of h his s shelter There spread outon out outon on the sand of Diablo pass were the time bodies of his faithful fighters The major was not a weak man nian on the contrary contral he w was as considered one of ot the time bravest men that ever e shouldered shouldered dered a rifle and und it was his love lo of fighting that had mad won him his lets Ii I-Ii HiS Ilig rec record rd in the thc e civil war nr where he ho under Sheridan had won him distinction and the thc appointment of sergeant major He lie came from a family of fighters and ever since he was old enough to understand the meaning of the word he loved to fight h 1 When the en Spanish American war broke out he was one of the first to togo togo too go o back into service ice although he lie was actually retired at the time Fighting was his very cry life and though m he lie had lad d 1 been wounded many times time and hi s poor old body od was fairly chipped with r bullet marks yet he hc considered it the greatest honor any man could have and ind the greatest tribute he lie could pay payns his n's countr country and his flag flog He had often said that a o man had but nit two things to live for one was his bis wife and anel the other to fight for his country Colonel Horton agreed with the thc major in thi this thib for there was no nomore nomore nomore more courageous soldier than Liberty's father The two veterans had been boys together and had grown up in each ench others other's friendship They rhey had en- en together her suffered military hardships hard hard- hardships ships together and on more than one occasion came very ery near dying to to- to gether In the thc days that preceded precede the civil iI war they had hunted Indians inthe in inthe inthe the middle west vest During the thc troublesome troublesome troublesome trouble trouble- some days das in New Mexico when n a white man was in danger of or being heing seized and murdered by Indians if he lie traversed crl the thc ol old Santa Fe highway alone the major and Colonel Horton had led the columns of troops which went in search of the terrible Apaches and to them was given cn a great deal of the credit for routing these roving ro bands During the thc years that had passed he lie had seen and tak taken n part in some of the most important fi fighting in his country's s history He lie had hod known the tremendous ou joy which comes with victory victory vic vic- tory and the depression which h ch accompanies accompanies accompanies defeat There had been battles from which he and anti his company had emerged without the time loss of a single man On the other hand there had been times when he led Icel only a few discouraged and anel disheartened men from the field remnants of his com com- pany panr But never during all his years cars as 6 a soldier until now non had ho suffered suffered suf suf- such an rum overwhelming o defeat For of the oo men that had made up lip his hh little company company- not a sil single g one of them hind had hadi survived sur the onslaught of these Mexicans but himself Never No had he lie been called upon to send in such a report as ns tho time one he would have o to hive give to Washington ton On n the time fight at Diablo Pass As he lie stared at the bo bodies ies of his troopers his mind seemed to become dazed He Ho won wondered whether it was nIl till a reality h. h or the result of or his wound p Perhaps Perl rl a he lie was still till tl mi non non- unconscious r on- on and was wab looking on this ibis ter ter- o scene in in n his dreams Weak and haggard from long nights and days clays of exposure in the open accompanied by lack of food his bis courage gone bone his heart heavy he lIe presented present cd a picture of deep misery And as he ga gazed l d at ut atthe atthe the blood of the tho youths great grunt tears came to his bis eyes eye and und ho he permitted ed them to roll down lown his burned cheeks checks At Ai that instant he hc would ha have havo br given bren en his life to have ha been able ablo to save ave them It seemed a travesty of or war that he should be allowed l to live Ii and they to die They were young Joung men many of them j men who were needed by their mothers their wives their sisters sisters sisters sis sis- and their sweethearts The world needed them to assist in carrying currying curry carry ing on its affairs but when a n man reaches his age there is little luft left I Ifor for him hint to do In the years vents that had bad I gone he believed belie it the thu the duty of every o everyman everyman man whether young or old to be ready to surrender his life at an instants instant's notice for his country But now as I his bis eyes rested rented on the scene before him he le wondered whether he was right One drop of the blood bloo that had hind flowed in the veins of these American youths was worth more than a hundred hundred hun hun- dred illiterate and dc degenerate Mexicans lexi 1 Mexicans cans like Lopez and his band banel that had taken their lives These fhe c men had given their lives to toa a baud of o-I bandits and thieves thie j w nn rable r- r able cutthroats whiz believed l the world should support them without their having to work for it and who sou sought ht to accomplish this b by inciting a rebellion in the tho hopes that they would final finally obtain control of the thc govern govern- o ment Then tho the entire country of Mexico woul 1 be he in their hands to treat trent as they saw fit If the time Mexicans 1 were content to sit undisturbed an and permit Lopez and find his 1115 bandits to rob and kill that was wa-s something something something some some- thing which did not concern the United States But when he crossed tho the bor her herder border der cler and trespassed trespass d on United States States I territory killed American Ameri on cit citizens find and robbed and burned their homes in addition addition ad ad- addition to assaulting Am American rican women omen it was time for fOI the government go at Washington ton to int intervene And if they did not then there thero was something wrong with that government sonic some I 1 where Believing Delie he lie was leas acting for the thc best bC the major had taken Jaken his troops across the border horder Later he lie head had received instructions instructions in- in from Washington to delay tho time invasion pending negotiations He had disobeyed the orders because ho believed the debt that Pedro made the night of the tho Discovery outrage should be paid in in full and the major wanted to assist in collecting that debt These men whose bodies were now scattered before him him some of them torn and shattered and many disfigure disfigured disfigured ure beyond recognition had bad believed it their duty to demand demond payment from 1 Lopez and his band hand and when he lie had asked his company how lion many of them stood ready to follow him every one of his men had stepped up Hp True they were young yount risen men many of them and they doubtless had wives mothers sisters and und sweethearts at homo home waiting for their thuir return Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps Per Per- haps the world did have e mays need aced for them in the time handling of its affairs but their country had needed C them thorn too and true truo Americans all of them they thoy had unflinchingly gone forward to n. n avenge enge the wrongs wrong that had been done to American men nieu women and children on the tho border Instead they had given i cn their lives li But out there in Diablo Pass in the stillness of the ni night ht surrounded by the dead the major made a solemn vow ow that the time loath death of every ery one of his hir troopers would be avenged a Lopez would pay for this days day's work with his miserable life und anti unless the time inevitable hand of fate fatu prevented Jle him the major wOl would d collect collect col col- lect the debt and see sec to it that he was paid in full These thoughts and the disheartening dishearten dishearten- in ing spectacle before him mini together with his hib wounds and long period of fasting seemed to unbalance the time mind of the brave man Hu Ho managed to pull himself himself himself him him- self out of pf t the he pit dug for him hint by his men and ana sta staggered cred to one of the time bodies bod bod- ies lIe He stooped and taking the time canteen canteen can can- can can- teen from the poor fellow quenched hi his hip thirst It refreshed him But it did not ease cas leis his pt puzzled d and tired I brain bruin His wound pained him and he lie was conscious of a n. peculiar feeling in his head Strange objects seemed to appear before his gaze They came quickly and nOlI departed as suddenly I i t visions seemed to haunt him as ho he stood too thero there helpless n and d J alone It must be a sickness Perhaps it was the fever fc He had seen thousands thousands thousands thou thou- sands of soldiers soldier afflicted with this dread dreadful ul disease h lie he had seen hundreds hundreds hun hun- t i- i die dic with it Just then he would have havo welcomed anything g that would ha have e relieved him from his pain For some time he hc stood there wondering wondering wondering won won- dering in which direction to go lie He knew the canyon for had he not led ed his troops to this very spot But his memory slowly failed him and amid though he nicked his hiR poor fevered fc brain ho lie was a at t a loss to know which way to turn Finally dazed and imd delirious ho lie wandered aimlessly into the time desert e The Time poor slave e Pedro who had been dragged ged to the torture chamber by the Mexicans l had been tortured almost almo t to i tho time point of death One of the guards pressed a button which released one lor of the tho huge hinge blocks in the time wall They picked up tip his bod body and threw it through the aperture Jt It struck a I large opening and then slid down own between between be be- tween the walls into a pool in an underground underground underground un un- c chamber hamber It was the room where Libert Liberty was wins being held prisoner prison Oller Oll- Oll er an and just as Pedro Pedro's 5 body struck the time water she sale was a about out to scoop stoop up some of the water to quench her terrible terrible terrible ter ter- thirst As the dark dork o object struck the time water water wa wa- water ter she drew back in terror |
