Show Flame of the Border By VINGIE E ROE Doubleday Doran 8 Co Tn SYNOPSIS SeekIng de by throwIng herself from Lone Mesa Ies to esc pa dIshonor at tho hands ot of a drunken desperado Sonya allo allows s herself herselt to be rescued res- res rescued cued by her suddenly repentant at- at attacker attacker The gIrl Is a self sel appoInted physician to the Navajo IndIans living on nn an Arizona sheep ranch with 1111 her brother Serge hIs Ite Idla and their small daughter bs Babs She Is engaged eng to Rodney Blake wealthy Now Yorker but her heart la Is wIth the N ajos and she evades a wedding Sonya pulls Little loon site Ite of Two rIm ringers ers a Navajo through the crisIs ot of an aD Illness Two Fingers Ingers Is deeply grateful Blake returns to V lew he Vi viii III give Sonya six more months and then demand she keep her promise to marry hIm Sonya again meets tho man shore hoce she had repulsed on Lone Mes Mesa lie He tells her he bitterly regrets his action Sonya la is affected but unforgiving She Sho hears rumors ot of a bandit Li 11 CapItan DIablo and nd vaguely connects hIm wIth her attacker On Lone Jesa she he again comes upon the strange young man but she no longer tears fears hIm When he reiterates hIs sorrow over his mIsconduct she Indicates forgiveness forgIve forgIve- forgIveness ness and assures him a man can al al- al always ways change for tor the better CHAPTER Continued IV-Continued 7 Sonya was as as good as her ber word ord On Wednesday or of that week she took the disreputable old car and setout set setout out across the wild and lonely land inthe In Inthe the general direction or of the gos gO gOern ern- ern ment school for hleb Satter as the gatherIng agent She had never been there but she knew where here It was and she had once met the superintendent a polished bard eyed efficiency ncy expert who had gone out ot of his way to attract her at attentIon He was a wIdower and seemed to fancy elf considerably which was more than Sonya dId The large rooms were 8 sweetly coolIn cool coolIn In the early summer heat and she took oft aft her hat bat and leaned back In her chaIr In grateful enjoyment She had not long to wait wait for pres enty the superintendent a Mr r Claude canoe caDle In briskly with extended hand Why MIss Sa Doctor Doctor ann arm Sa I should say though the austere title dont don't seem to belong to a gIrl like you thIs Is a pleasure e I assure you youl I Come rIght Into my office He led her Into his office olice a spacIOus comfortable place Its walls lined With filing cases and pulled up the deepest big chair There here t lie he said That S better Now relax You must beatfred be No said sald Sonya Son a I ill m not and I m min In somewhat of a hurry I ye ve come for forthe forthe the two children of the Indian n Hos Hosteen Hosteen teen Nei over In the big cut beyond be ond Lone Mesa just on the line of the This case Is rather plU- plU ful Mr and I d like e to enlist your attention to It it Mr Ir Satter s sill remember I came upon him taking the children not so many weeks back very near the end of the term and the parents are wIld Theydon They Theydon don t understand either the necessity or the methods employed In the mat mat- matter ter of giving up their children and andI andI I begged oft off the littlest one from Mr Ir Satter The mother had run herself nearly Into collapse hanging on the buckboard s 8 tall tail She Is in a serious senous condition now with the grief over theIr disappearance Doesn teat t eat Looks Loohs awful And Mr Ir Satter had for for- forgotten gotten to ten tell them where to come forthe for forthe the children It Is rather hard when you think of It on parents you know either red or white As It would take tahe the Ho Hosteen teen some days to get here and back with his horses to fetch them Id I'd like me to take the children to them my myself myself self I 1 win will be responsIble to you for them As the girl talked the mans man's sharp eyes re regarded liar her with an alertness of expressIon that change to guarded guardedness ness as she mentioned Satter s lapse ot of memory Now he Jeane leaned toward her ber smiling Why how kind ot of you my dear Miss hiss I he said I ew women omen of this day would take tahe so much trouble for tor Ignorant Indians Ot Of cour course e you ou may take the little lIttIe ones But surely you ou re not startIng back today You 11 stay with us for the night and get getgood a good early start tomorrow it if I have hae my way Oh Ob my no i 1 saId Sonya II I II 11 get geton ge geon t on my way as quickly as possible Will Will It take long to get them rea ready y It IS you really think you must go he saId regretfully Ill have them the m made ready at once It wont won't take tak long long The two were ere presently brought brough t t to her their belongings In a neat bundle They still sUll looked as they had looked Tooke that day In the buckboard like fright t ened Quail on Sonya a smiled at them took their un unresisting unresisting resisting hands Then she smIled at I thank you sir she said Mid gently and I shall not forget your kindness In letting me take them I 1 hope you ou II ask Mr Satter atter to tell te the fathers rs next time sill HI you please Ir Mr returned the smile with witha Ith Itha a look that promised to ask a k the gOY gov- government for a million dollar loan It if she thought It necessary And presently Sonya Sona was as driving down across the ble levels with joy to In her heart and the hushed lIttle Na Navajos aJos hud huddled led to In against her Ith Instinctive trust She was thInking what fun she would have watching Cactus blonera F 10 era haggard face hen hen she tool took them to In Into toto to the hl bidden hogan Kogan In the on CHAPTER V De Deep p ThIngs Begin to Glimmer That little matter proved almost mote mOle than she could stand er e for the Indian mother watching the east easl continually since her pre lous visit having t her advice literally collapsed at sight of her children and Sonya had a brisk half hour In bringIng bring bringIng Ing her round n Iu When she was w able to them In her shaking sh arms the sight ns enough to ring u a heart less soft than Doctor Sony S s But all s ell ell that ends end well and the girl finally rode awns ua leading her extra eltra horse with a smile on her lips and the deep lIght In her eyes e es that Rod nod male Blake called fanatIcIsm In Maybe be It sigs 15 but It made her fool foolIshly hippy to see this poor family united tn ng And Nez had looked otter 0 er lots his woman oman s head hend at her exactly as Two T 0 had and called her nine Blue South Woman In the Sun It was all he said but It Wll pregnant with Ith deep things and Sonya knew kne kneIt It so soSo soSo So she opened her lips and sang And then she came to the mouth and her breath sharply for a man sat there on a golden horse lIe looked Like a young god Stith Ith the sunlight on his hair and his Ius eyes as blue ns as the and the grave look Jook on his handsome race face Forgive he he said quickly for being In your trill again Why she saId as quickly It It Is tree free country Yes I know But I promised to stay away That was from Lone Mesa The Intent as as ever everywhere here I meant it It was too goin going to r rl l r r ry y ie 11 Aa r l lt t M 3 Three Times the Transference of Something From the Plane to toUn Un tin d Oros Oro's Saddle Took Place keep heep my word ord but I 1 seem to come comeback comeback back regardless Sonya sat and looked ed at him stead steadily ily her sweet face grave too lIe bore her scrutIny quietly though a muscle twitched In hIs cheek and there was wasa a seeming of strain In his face lye I ve thought a lot Jot about you ou the girl said presently why hy I don t just know I t by all alJ the rules or of ormy my lifes s game but I hive Tell me- me If you care to- to where to-where here have you been since I saw you last Where do you Ue live He move moved In his saddle put his hb hat back on hIs head laid his hands on his pommel Miss Sat S1 aria he said sal I can n t tell you ou A lot or of places for th tb first question no queston huc for tit th last one I told you ou before I wasn't lit to talk to I am n a drifter It if you ou like just goin through th country Oh no you re not said Sonya the you came In the store you yo u ud were familiar with Ith the place and h ht l d been there before Don t you ou think I know a few v things SS hat do you know kno knobe t he be asked Quickly Nothing concrete only I I know now a stranger when I see one by his ser ery y actions Well we won t talk of that th she added gently where here are you ou go Ing goIng now SS hy That Is-I Is viva was s Ju just t radio around for exercise sort of o oUn f Un d Oro here he needs nee s a lot of ex ea lIe He sUllied and patted the shining neck at his saddle bow Un d Oro GoJ Oro en One said So Soya bon bonya n ya What a lovely name And what a wonderful horse lIe a 8 the mo most t beau beautiful thIng I ever saw done un to In horsehIde You love him him don t you The mans man's face lighted as with In Inner innet net ner tire fire some Sell some ell he saId For a they sit iii silence at a loss for something to talk about and then told him about Cactus It B low 10 er and how bow Mr Ir Satter atter had taken her children n D-n t 1 he said flushIng but me-but some people just aim t hot hn hotman man Id I'd Ilk like l to see that agent on- on He stopped and Sonya onya felt her ber heart contract for she knew he had bad almost s lid td a a cross SS hat oat was this man What was In the Inthe soul of him 1 v hat strange con What and con what and cruel ties cruelties What connection did he have with those awful retributions across toe tlc Border ot of the thc Servant nt had hinted W hat did the old man know him The rhe henchman ot of Beelzebub he hid called him for no other In all thIs country answered to the of the Blue muc e eyed ed One colored lair Som Sonia felt cold as It if a wind of portent had bud blown blo n across her ber spIrit And AncI swift s on Its heels a sadness come me the odd countable feeling or of loss and sorrow sorro which had assailed her that night at Sh She shook herself mentally and actually and was an angry ry at herself her elt and when this man spoke she listened forgetting m n a violent man maD MIss he heId said Id and nn my mv life won on t beer lb Ih but light a thIng like JIle that males makes my m boll holl There aln t no manner ot of use uce hurting something that cant can't tight hick and a woman oman nn an a well chIld theY re set aside some some- someway way ny like a 1 kitten or a dog that no one ants iso 1 1 kind of n a man would do them n a not harm an aD he amin a min You think that said Sony flight In your heart 4 by of course he s ld surprised Don t you Yes oh y es a u om in feels like that but men are different I just wondered red have you ou been bock to Lone Mesa Mesa he asked presently No s ld Son Sonya n t tI I haven h t 1 Ive I've been pretty busy and sewing se Hite H you ou T At night Watched th moon come up across th desert and It ins wonderful A min cant can't describe de- de descrIbe scrIbe It like new lIfe combo to a deed world I now know said Sonya Ise I e seen It from there m self Alone My G-d G Miss you shouldn't be goin around this country by yourself like Why not I m perfectly safe Every Everyone one knows me and there Isn t a Nov ajo drunk or others who'd say saya a word ord to me Not th no ma am he be said painfully but they aint aU all there are you know How we well she knew But she was sorry the Inference had been drawn n As for Cor being will drunk you he lIeve me when I say I haven Ven t touched n a glass or a bottle since since-since that on day th cliff Every time Ive I've trIed your face has come before me plain as the plaIn white hite fury of It the G d I I choke an QuIt try In Im glad she said s t I tell you It sins as ne newer neer er too late to look up t I Sure you did but that dont don't mean an anything thing In this case Im I'm just telling you that your face stopped my liquor It 11 stop a lot Jot of things for tor you the girl said sal In n rush and was w as astonished at herself do What you ou mean he said slowly oh l-oh I don t know I I said Sonya trembling only I know y got to I stop stop-stop that Border stuff That I you ye ve got to the change leopard spots lou he said s his lips which had suddenly lost theIr color yoU s ant me to-do to that 1 Yes Yes saId Sonya thickly yes es Then by G-d G t I he saId through his teeth I ii- ii What he meant to say was not ap apparent apparent parent for at that moment they both heard shat hat they had been too tensely strung to hear the before roar or of a motor In the sky shy A small gray ship p slipped down directly over their heads and dropped to a landing on the desert out beyond The man tool took one look and reaching out an arm he pushed d Sonya and Darkness buck back Into the th e can canyons on s mouth Un d Oro shielding them both The touch ot of his st bre brews against her shoulder the scent of hIm tob tobacco and sweat s the nearness ot of his bronze cheek sent n a wave or of weakness 0 os er the girl Get Get back bach I 1 he rasped for th lose lo of hea en I Go In deep please nn an don t come out tIll It s gone bone 1 then hen he had his heels to Und Un Und d Oros Oro s shinin flanks s un and sas as out like a flash across the sand a moment Son Sonya a sat whEre he had left her slinking as U with Ith a chin chill bes bc and a little sc re scored SS hn hat t w as 8 this What had en the blood from his face And tt hy by did he go sit stI light to the plane Ir if he was as fri Here was the answer er to some or of her QuestIons that site she knew If only she could go out there her herself herself self I 1 Sure he coul could not e esen en see from rom where here Darkness stood so prompt and so efficient had been hIs action nut But she must see Sonya s lips set as they did s hen sure he f faced a crisis for her skill shill and she dismounted and dropping Darkness rein seat ent forward tor carefully the few tew steps that separated her from the sheer edge edgo or of the can tons ons on's mouth Taking oJ off her hat she carefully leaned along the rock until her line of vl vision lon reached the open and the pl plane lne And what hat she saw be- be her more titan than she had been before Blue nIue ed c One was off orr orrUn Un d Oro and one man maa was on the ground beside him another was bent down dO In the after cockpit his one rose as she looked and gave some some- something thIng to the oth other r wito ho In turn handed It to the rider And he Stith Ith car cate c and swiftness put It In his hiJ saddlebags s three times the tran transference of from the plane to Un d Oro s saddle took place I 1 hen the stranger climbed back In the for forward cockpit the plane which hid ne near ar stopped its engine roared a moment slid pl i n nr the sand a little way picked up Its fat tal and loping took ort off And Un d Oro was wag lop Ing away vay headed for the tows town TO Big na |