Show I I Auth Author Morning or r g o of The The Te Wings Pillar Pia of the tho of I J in m Read n ea pictures the story at here the and see seeor iK I l Light The Te Terms Ten of Sur Su I H E G GRIP R I P 0 OF F FE E EVIL V I L 1 Wednesday and BroadI Broad Broadw I I render reader By D. D LOUIS LOUI Number TRACY 17 etc I I every day Th T- T UI I I L SYNOPSIS John Burton foreman at it t the Plaint told fa U 1 a 1 cIoS friend nd of iho tho works Ho ito i is a L StU lt lct of r and ald a good Jo speaker During Durin b his hil WOl work he gd a c r l study of t f laboring and when he ha i Is suddenly made waru of or the tho fact to it he ho Is heir to an nfl English and nd the title tte o othe of I the tue n marquis of or ho decides det de de- de- de deI I t t to In n make the tho higher Investigation plano f sn sno o or Of of r il the I con conditions life lite I and to determine mt fo for IC or I not humanity Is Ia In he be grip lp of evil evi Ll- Ll acquaintance with I John forms forma rams an wih wood H m r the son eon lon of a I rich factory factor I wo The owner and an Idealist like er i is Ja disgusted sted with wih the laboring conditions In his fathers father's shops and his father so 0 0 The result reul IsI Is 13 Isa I rl hs affection and tho the paternal I a rupture In n I boy I is Is' Is thrown out of the house He lie Hemar I marries b OttO ono of or his hl fathers father's girl girt I mar l the pair and In due duo time the I JOh trio a 1 factory that Is Ic the most rival I-h I of the old oil firm fr Tt lamer Hamn makes his son eon ln an I offer TJ for the business The factory factor t Is I oH on th tb 1 stipulation WI t that t It shall l be I r t to the present el r regime I e Du Outing 1 the business visit lEarner Hamer brings bring W WI hi J son Ion and the boy while wan wan- I about Uie Ule works ii Is II caught In a I I pit 01 abut The wife wile of Hamer iamer I boys boy's oY predicament ei ora a v h I b to h him buTt and Is drawn n 6 n with the tho body ol or the boy b when In n possession by of tho the business tho II Ut down don and all al the employee the tho books bok of his hi superintendent whom he ho has empi em- em er pi iro to conduct a fishing boat hatred of I 11 v Incurs the maik mn Yn Who 0 an SR chance has hu It It Is the village m bully s lt his plan outlined to do awa away bW JQ 1 an honest a sailor o owr wr who h has In- In L r p him m lt of the graft In n the e super super- I Int IJ W business nel and the tM sailors sailor's I t. t Burton alone aone escapes The girl girt girland I I and br bu tZ father rather perish The Tho bullys bully's son eon lon lonI I La J lj rove love with the tho girl but arrives arive on cM th I too to late to save ve her from the I pl p. p plan q he her destruction n I I ELEVENTH EPISODE I I I Mammon mon and Moloch I la I i. i t CHAPTER I I r Intervention rite In In the Open I I i th Richard hard F. F Markham com com- cornI I I dIp t Troop roop B. B Twenty-first Twenty United I 4 S cavalry emerged merged through the I Jl flau c Of a fl fjeld ld service serice tent feld I a 1 1 o taU U set up alert frame and b with li careful eyes the far- far fara presented b by an open alI val val- I I c jf t th the t Rio Uio Jo Grande Orande Ornde The blue hills his I t were already steeped In I 11 tb w w. but bue th the setting sun was still I enough in the heavens to Hood flood food i light the te waters water of the river and I tie itle alope elop on tho the American side aide I fr frontier to which clung that 1 mixture of picturesque adobe I Il I 1 l ugly modern mode buildings known I awn of or Son San Sa Jose I Ir r that San Jose W was A known know I tl flay a of if March 1916 18 Is per- per I 1 strictly In Accordance with wih L 1 It I might be found on the t maps of Texas Its Us exist eXist I es edOM Wits undoubtedly recognized by a s I of the Inhabitants of ot tho the bord bor- bor d ati and It was Vita beyond all ail al question ques ques- tt tion the te oua of or some somo anxiety to the ander Jn In n chief of or the United i i troops scattered throughout that thai L region Rut nut th the notoriety ol of or 1 began and ended there No Nc e C wide vide world world least let orld least of or all al the tbt 9 C young cavalry officer now nov fl bl lii 1 back on its IU crudities an and I te th the undulating country countr which toward the river river might might have that world wide fame was wa wa ii to o 0 b be thrust upon it Camp Ump lay athwart a rough roa road rad I t from the te town to the river Mexican territory by a dge Certain signs of or t toward Some of ot the troopers their horses and for the nights night's nights feed othU oth- oth Ve U cleaning their arms ans others other 5 ii n drawing clawing rations Field kitchens C Cx x Kd ed ad and pipes were alight Soon Soot iff t. t lm horses horace would be b picketed and tb the mn I gathered In n lively groups eating their telf evening meal mel A trumpeter wa was B bl bI blowing ng the first rt call cl to meSI mess Indeed I. I th the cheerful notes note had brou brought h Did Dick Il from his tent time having S Ile a U. march mach on him while ps with wih r regimental accounts A pint looking troop sergeant maja mat ma ma- jor ja Joe appearance suggested that tha t t etal springs spring and leather had replaced I b bom and flesh feh In his anatomy noted I it t officers officer's attitude He Ie strode neat near 41 news of the patrol yet sir air h tt h. h 3 halting at the salute I JG Smithson said sid Markham L Tow J ought to be showing up soon I. I urn Un a I cigarette A certain silent constraint endured endure I r fo fort for minute to te while the two blew blev r t of smoke Into the thin air me me 6 thought dwelt In both minds r ler ther cared cred to give Ie utterance t to That bt placid brooding landscape I At any Instant r red red- d- d Wr war ar might spring from some som S lair air Te They bad had to be prepared I daily daDy Dy hourly i- i prepared hourly prepared In the S JT inadequate way possible t to I depleted I troop of or a regiment regimen t I eu with guarding miles of or r o I th bailer mies fi All t the e others athe are ae In in said sid tho the I 01 c a at last Jt of- of I lie U. was s not ask asking In a question bu but I ii queston mOly met stating a 0 casual cRual item Iem of the t I I d dV dys ra doing din Captain Markham needed nedd ii no Tic Information n as to any anything thin that within the tI bounds of or hi his ci s small command Te sir said sid Smithson sweeping a LI I wr wide amphitheatre of or hills his river rh-r and anc I v valley In one comprehensive e glance I I have ye changed the p guard ard at the tI t an and your orders as to the senara sen sen- I 7 tr a ara being carried cred out ut Each post ito t fr Ech 00 e flanks Is pos advanced ad quarter of c a Li i nn and pickets are stationed at the thi e mo tt i points mints n fent I C this thi soldier ri wa tal Jg g for the sake ke of of saying r I which would oud conceal OI i a t I gnawing bt I I- I minder nde what has ha become of that tha ti I ican push Ush murmured Markham Markhan murure I. I I again an at the Jumbled mass o of j Wa IJ The Te generals general's jumble information rt fi rd quite definite quie This new rebel bl I. I I J Pancho In Is known know to have hay C t from Chihuahua I no u use e for those thoe Mexican ri air ar fem em em as a sch such I ft the sergeant major but ut I t TI mil mt they tey are firt frt rate movers ire re here her r today and fifty fity mover miles mile mies S I I p l away iy tomorrow If I they could fight a as a ht f a I well wel as a they can cn change can location locton they'd they I be a tough proposition I And then as the l sergeant major thought of or the bureaucrats seret in Wash Wash- Ind n and the crying CJ needs nees of Ut the ci army armp an that were neglected he con con- I I Wish ih I bd had bad a bunch of them Wash Wah- Wah I ington In the recruit ingOl squad F Id I'd ci r like to 0 se free Ht a on guard gard on Id a at dark night when every ever rock rk looks lilt like e eft a ft a crawling Mexican and each ech rustle rusti rte tel In tn the sage makes make him believe beleve that tat a at sharp knife is about to be bE buried boric d bure in hl his gizzard The officer smiled L Ab Ah well en h he said d. d If It came came- camf cameto to a areal iii A I real showdown neither you nor I i would hange our JO Job for Cor the tallest I I stool t 1 In tit the war aw department rJ lere and t try a as he I nOW comes oes the pa patrol ro ml S might mhD Dick Markham a c could d not t con con- conI o I coat the new note of lct In hiS voice olce The two men chatted about regimental rest rest- mental mental matters until a corporal and Ind maters Sree three topers troopers waked walked their tired tred horses u up the the slope from the tho bridge e. e The Thes dismounted at a little distance dis- dis s small au party paty 0 lance tance and the corporal came on alone He lie le saluted and stood at attento attention We W made the full tul round sir air he heId said Id and were delayed an hour or more ore by Investigating the story of a 0 I peon who said sid that a n strong body of ot rebels came north yesterday afternoon They broke camp however about 4 o'clock and disappeared through the tte canyon Croya Markham The Carro repeated In a I puzzled tone and his eyes eyEs and amI the sergeant sergent majors major's majors forthwith sought the same sro gap gup In the serrated Jou mountain ln ridge That heads duo due sou west said the Theres yes sir sir corporal no flO doubt doubt about about it it It he added We followed fol tot towed lowed their track a 0 Jt ways At that he grinned and the ghost of ofa ofa a smie flitted over the face of ot each of his hearers bearers There are times on the frontier when neither officer nor trooper troop troop- er rr Is Js too communicative As viewed from the te standpoints of Washington and Mexico City the Rio Ro Grande Grando offers offers of offers of- of fers an impassable barrier but men I charged with wih safeguarding the lives and nd property of American citizens who I may ma be exposed any day to outrage and murder at the hands of robber half half- halfa castes hold more elastic opinions as to scouting areas You are quite sure Jones Inquired Markham Markha gravely after a a slight pause Quite sur sure sir Then that's all al right Sergeant major see that this patrol is relieved f from rom duty for the next twenty-four twenty h hours ours If I practicable The second mess meS call l rang out out and the camp assumed an even busier as as- as a- a p Markhams Markham's practiced eye took I in n every ever detail Things were going s smoothly so he turned and looked up the te main street of or San Jose In front of the hotel a pretentious b building horribly at variance with the Mexican aspect of the majority of the t towns town's buildings had gathered some of t th he lending leading leding citizens In half hal an hour he was due to dine with the bank manger manager manager man man- a ager ger and a couple of ranchers His Ills f friends awaited him already He Ho knew quite well wen that they had noted the return re return re- re t turn urn of th the patrol and would read the s signs igns at f f an a undisturbed evening In prospect prospect With lh a sigh for he hated hatt the dull routine of office work he dived under tho the flap of or the tent and plunged into figures once more Suddenly as though Medusas Medusa's teeth had been sown In that arid soil sol the I earth seemed to vomit forth a horde of ot galloping yelling death deth dealing Mexican Mex Mex- i ican can outlaws The They came not from the tho river an impossible direction in the circumstances but from a deep gully guly on the Texas side of the stream through which a trail ti led Ed to a strip of I barren country countr on tho the northwest I Shouting like madmen and ad in an a un- un frenzy freny Inspired partly paty by rye I whisky and partly party by hatred of the I the murderous band swept I down on town and camp I Each Ech alike alke was surely doomed San I I Jose Jos numbered only inhabitants all aU i told and of these score men I were armed or physically capable of ol I self defense while the soldiers as has I been seen seEn were taken at a disadvantage tage and might easily Easly be cut to pieces I before they could offer organized re re- re I I I There here could be no shadow of doubt I that If the assailants J had obeyed the first law aw of military operations and crushed the opposing force before betre givIng ing ins vent to their predatory instincts the story of the raid on San Jose might ha have hare ve been told only by the troopers on or L duty at the bridge always provided an ar unlikely thing in i itself elf that they mounted forthwith and rode off oU at top speed But by one of those miracles which often come to the aid of tion ton in its Is age long on struggle against barbarism the Mexican bandits bandis were attracted Irresistibly by the tho sight of ol the defenseless town with wih Its rich loot of a bank hotel some stores and private private vate vata r residences I They were thieves thieves one orre or and all al This I attack on an American community wore the thin disguise of patriotic mo rno tire tive but Its Is true tre purpose was revealed I by the action acton of every marauder both I leaders and rank and fe file In not losing a second before beginning the congenIal ial tat task of plunder True their chief none other than Sebastian L Sebastan Pancho Fancho in person contrived to urge on or I some of his followers In a swift dash dah L on the camp No doubt out of the tall tail I of his he marked tal eye ee for condign pun pun- those rebels who thought more mor S of loot than of immediate victory Even so so Pancho's Innate savagery r showed Itself Itsel as he rode past a small I store storo from which an elderly man was wat escorting a screaming woman carrying a baby In her arms Raising a revolver re the Mexican fired I point blank and the old man mart fell writhing In agony The woman stumbled fel bled over his body shrieking in mortal 1 morl terror teror yet striving to shield the child the accident undoubtedly saved her bet life Ufe because one of the band galloping gallopin close behind PanCho fired tired at her ber with t a rifle and missed wih Markham astounded by the tornado of yells and musketry grabbed a 0 revolver re revolver re- re volver and ad rushed bareheaded Into th the S open He lie took in the le situation at a t. t glance and his soldiers soldier's soldiers heart her quailed 0 i momentarily In the natural belief belef that I. I the watch and ward wa his troops maintained main main- tamed over o the district had failed most t I lamentably But he be was as made of ot r sterner stuff No matter matter what th the prime cause cuse of the disaster r. r his duty r now was was to try tr to rectify It It He lie le noted at once that the te enemy ha had given him a f most precious seconds of respite respie Not more than men mci were racing down on the camp whereas where where- as five fhe times that number were avail avaH- able and could have swept the small smal 1 body boy of Americans Into eternity before smal a they tey could even eve reach their piled arms arm C pled ars and ammunition belts Already the thi S startled state troopers trooper were assuming some sum C semblance of order and S voice reached them in high clear cler notes Number 4 s section wp prevent the C horses horle from being benJ stampeded ded Tb The a remainder will wi form for on their section I leaders leade Aim low Stop this seton first frt I rush He lie le was wa obeyed to the letter leter fo for r these tese hardy by Americas American Americ boys bos were wee alread already r veterans In frontier warfare and knew kew h instinctively how ho hoto to act for the best even in the trying conditions of ot a surprise sur sur- prise attack atack While Markham was ws running b |