Show The Eagles Eagle's Wing Copyright 1924 by Little Lillie Brown Co I Bv By B. B M. M BOWER S Continued from yesterday esterday Lifty alit 1111 I. I out c Cul 1 t s that chat this will ever be lie known yn even evenin in Lii II this district V We V keep to our our- lne oid man has nas ende it ever evel since i 1 can lan nat mat he want ant his ors to come round around place it if you inquire amongst the tae the miners an and prospectors you will hear heal that we weare uio are a a outfit and ana best let alone It is believed as I told you OU I mat coat were we're just a ot out a little gout golu to I support us Dads Dad s a hat hat-craz hail crazy 1 squaw man and and Young J ss is mighty unpopular Dusi- Dusi i net ness s must oe vu taken c care ue iIO ot or I II I attend to myself or VI Nevada sometimes does it for tor me She he never talks with people except i its its ts necessary Whenever soc goes oes I to or to o-as o v vegas my my mother goes with her I mention the not nt I matter In m any case but 1 J. must ask you not notto to tell her Mother is IS' IS al almost almost al- al j al most uncanny at reading races faces u see at once once that we had toI told the girl She worships worship Nevada It I would break breal her heart i If she saw j 1 I that Nevada knew her secret She's ot of m Jess but that's partly because of or what it mean to the girl She thinks Nevada would despise her tor for the sin sm of ot her youth That's the way she put put- it It and there theres s tois an Indian You cant can't pry an idea out of their minds minds' once it its It s planted Poor foor old mother broods over these things She feels as If Nevada Is her one hope of heaven almost To keep 1 4 that girl pure pure- and sWeet s ie s her re re- re ligion I 1 promised her by everything everything everything every every- I thing that she called sacre sacred that Nevada Neada should never know ut at least not so long as her grandmother er lives Jives So that's why he finished finished finished fin fin- gently Im pleased at the turn its it's aken I 1 dont don't mind an anything anything any any- thing they may hatch up about me if it will protect poor lOOr old old- mother Hawley Rawley felt t humbled lie He re remembered remembered remembered re- re how old Anita had spat her contempt of the gold sold that could not buy he her hel- the things she had loved loved and and lost In that gross shapeless body who could say how fine a soul might be hidden f fIts Its all aH right he said after a I minute Ill have hae to warn Johnny Buffalo and then Ill I'll adopt you for fory rny y dad if you like I can see how howit it simplifies matters here But Im I'm I I afraid Nevada never will forgive forgive- I j Ohi shell she'll be proud of her ber new cousin once she recovers from the shock of not being told first thing Peter assured him gratefully Im afraid Ive I've spoiled that girl CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Johnny Buffalo Uprising Johnny Buffalo was on the war war- path Figuratively speaking he was was was' the tomahawk over the tribe of Cramer The gods he worshiped worshiped wor wor- had been blasphemed the altar upon which he laid the gifts of his soul had bad been defiled In other words Johnny Buffalo had lain in his bed and listened while Young loung Jess and hi his father jibed at Johnny Buffalos Buffalo's two idols in whose veins flowed the blood Hood othis of ot his beloved sergeant The blood of the Kings might not be made a mocker mockery while Johnn Johnny Buffalo could lift one arm irm to fight tight When hen Rawley returned to him he was discovered out of ot his bed braced against o a. table and trying unsuccessfully unsuccessfully to 10 load the old King ICing rifle I which he had first used to kill lill Mo- Mo haves on that day fifty years ago when King of ot the Mounted re received received re- re j I the shot that changed his his- whole life The old Indian vas fas shaking with weakness but his eyes blazed with I the war spirit of his tribe They are dogs o of he exclaimed when Rawley Hawley entered j the room They would drag the virtue of good men in the mud They shall retract They sha shall know the truth Or I shall kill With three long steps was beside him his bis hand on the rifle I barrel touching the trembling i sinew sinewy hand of Johnny Buffalo But I the old man would not yield the II gun Ills His eyes ees neither softened nor I lowered lowered- themselves before the steadfast blue eyes that were the heritage of the Kings icings I You better get back to to b bed d' d Rawley warned him half laughing If Peter comes comes' and finds you ou up r I therell there'll be the tho devil clevi and all to pay I 1 guess we won massacre anybody any any- body Johnny at Johnny at least not to to- to I night I r heard the halfbreed make a amock amock mock of Peter and of you ou I heard him sa say that Peter Is your father j I When he said that he laughed His i laugh was evil Now he shall shaH kneel I I upon hi his and beg the torI ron for I of Peter and of you He lie HeI I shall say that he spoke a a. aIe lie fromI from his black heart that would like to I see others vile because he be is vile vlIet If he does not say that he lied Hed 1 I shall kill him And that halfbreed cousin Anita shall ShaH own her sin and her son It II is not good that Peter Pete I should be thought the the son of that old oId vulture when we know linoW that he j I is tIe tHe son of my sergeant He lie is IsI j I not your father He is your unI un un- cle cleo I will tell teU them so so and we I will see then if they laugh l If unshakable dignity cast cart rave then Johnny Buffalo was raving j i R Rawley tried again to take the j I rifle gently from the Indians Indian's grasp but the brown fingers seemed to I have grown fast to the barrel Rawley Rawley Raw Raw- ley hated to do it but his bis word badI had bad been given to Peter and this unforeseen Unforeseen unforeseen un un- I foreseen uprising must be quelled he therefore took Johnny Johny Buffalo firmly by the shot shoulder The Theold Theold Theold I old man wilted in his grasp Rawley Rawley Raw- Raw ley Icy leaned the rifle against the table and h helped Johnny Buffalo I back to his bed Subdued but knowing no ito sur sun i I II I I render Johnny Buffalo lay glatT glai up lip at Hawley even while his If U r I were twisted with pain With singularly motherly motion Ra adjusted the pillows and h the sheet 5 1 I a nice way to act s act sta out gunning for my adopted the minute I 1 get one one he scold with mock severity Cant l leS l' lyou you ou a a. minute but you jump the e and go on the warp t tAnd And here I 1 thought you were c cl ft Continued n tomorrow j |