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Show r THE TIMES-NEW- NEPHI, UTAH S, the federal ranks. Sentenced to de Ub Thursday at sunset." lie 10 estem Stars LilCf Kit O L J. Romance 3C era CHAPTER XXII The Ride. "Stillwell I" The old cattleman stood route before her, staring at her white face, a4 her eyes of flame. Good Road Around Home "Stillwell! I am Stewart's wife!" Is of Much Importance "My Gawd, Miss Majesty !" he burst CopqriqKI bq Hrpr and TBrothan Since this Is the day of automobiles out. "I knowed somethln' turrlble was and trucks on the farm, the question wrong. Aw, sure It's a pity " "Do you think I'll let him be shot of a good road around the home place ill when I know hira now, when I'm no Is of vital Importance, writes G. R. CHAPTER XIX Continued. when he straightened up be was cry- sent his horse Majesty to you. Never Stewart threatened me. He forced longer blind, when I love him?" she Farmer, In the Farm and Ranch. Tha 17 saw Gene so broken-hearteing. Well, you. He made me speak the service. asked, with passionate swiftness. "I county or state funds cannot build a His white face loomed over hers. "Miss Hammond, she's safe an' al after he sloped for the border Bonlta He made you speak the Spanish yes. will save him. This Is Wednesday (ravel road to every farmhouse. Tha She closed her eyes. He rained kisses most well, an what I feared most ain't an' I were hard put to It to keep alive. And I, Senora, knowing the deeds of morning. I have thlrty-sl- x hours to would be Impracticable. Therefore, upon her face, but no more upon her so, thank God," ho cried. "Sure I'll But we got along, an I think It was these sinful cowboys, fearing worse save his life. Stillwell, send for Link the farmer must laok around for an On mouth. her closed eyes, her hair, never be able to pay you for all you've then she began to care a little for me. than disgrace to one so beautiful and and the car!" economical way to do It himself. her cheeks, her neck he pressed swift done for her. She's told me how she Once I went to El Cajon an run plumb so good as you, I could not do less She went Into her office. Her mind When we think of the many creeks, Hps Hps that lost their Bre and grw was dragged down here, how Gene Into Gene. He was back from the revthan marry you truly. At least you worked with extraordinary rapidity with beds and beds of gravel waiting cold. Then he released her, and, lift- tried to save her, how you spoke up olution an cuttln' up some. But I got should be his wife. So I married you, and clearness. Her plan, born lu one to be utilized Into a good road, we ing and righting her In the saddle, he for Gene an' her, too, bow Monty at away from him after doln all I could truly, In the service of my church." llghtnlngllke flash of thought, necessi- wonder why there are no more good still held her arm to keep her from the last throwed his guns. Poor to drag him out of town. A long time tated the careful wording of telegrams gravel roads around every farm. "My God!" cried Madeline, rising. "Hear me! I Implore you, Senora, to Washington, to New York, to San fulling. We were good friends, Monty after that The work can be done entirely durMonty up to the crags For a moment Madeline sat on her an' I. There's Nels an' Nick an' Gene, an' fo'uml us. Gene had stopped drink-inhear me out ! Do not leave me ! Do Antonio. These were to senators, rep- ing wet and muddy weather If neceshorse with shut eyes. She dreaded he's been soma friend to me; but he'd changed wonderful, was fine not look so so Ah, Senora, let me resentatives, men high In public and sary, and In this way the farmer can the light. Monty Price was he was grand. He an' dandy. It was then he began to speak a word for Senor Stewart. He private life, men who would remember have good roads by putting In work on "Now you can't say you've never never knew, any more than you or pester the life out of me to make me was drunk that night. He did not her and who would serve her to their It at times when he could not be doing ' been kissed," Stewart said. His voice Bill, here, or the boys, what Bonlta marry Bonlta. I was happy, so was know what he was about. In the utmost. Never before had her posiwork In the field. Of course, It could seemed a long way oft. "But that was was to me." she, an' I was some scared of spolltn' morning he came t me, made me tion meant anything to her comparable not be expected to build any great hard to buck swear by my cross that I would not with what It meant now. Never In all length of roadi In one or two days, unStlllwell's kind and heavy hand fell It. Gene's coming to you, so be game. Here!" She felt something hard and cold upon the cowboy's shoulder. against I I had to give In, an' I asked reveal the disgrace he had put upon her life had money seemed the power less the farmer has considerable hel. and metallic thrust into her hand. He Danny, what's all this queer gab?" Bonlta to marry me. Well, she wouldn't you. If I did he would kill me. Life that It was then. If she had been But by first grading up the road, or a made her fingers close over It, hold it. he asked. "An' you're takin' some lib- at first said she wasn't good enough s nothing to the American vaquero. poor! A shuddering chill froze the part of It, during one wet spell, finishThe feel of the thing revived her. She erty with Miss Hammond, who never for me. But I saw the marriage Idea Senora. I promised to respect his thought at its Inception. She dispelled ing It the next one, and then putShe had ting the gravel from the creek bed on opened her eyes. Stewart had given seen you before. I see you're not was workln' deep, an I Just kept on be-I- command, but I did not tell him you heartbreaking thoughts. as decent as I knew how. So It were his wife. He did not dream I power. She had wealth. She would It her his gun. He stood with bis broad drinkln'. Come, ease up now an' talk each succeeding rain thereafter, unwas my wantln' to marry Bonlta my had truly married you. He went to set Into operation all tha unlimited til the road Is up In first-clabreast against her knee, and she sense. condimeans these gave heir the wires and tion, a lot may be accomplished. looked up to see that old mocking The cowboy's fine, frank face broke beln' glad to marry her that made flght for the freedom of my country as smile on his face. into a smile.' He dashed the tears her gfow soft an' sweet an' pretty Senora, he Is one splendid soldier pulleys and strings underneath the sur Even though the gravel supply "Go ahead! Throw my gun on me! from his eyes. Then he laughed. His as a mountain quail. Gene fetched up and I brooded over the sin of my se face of political and international life, might not be enough to build the recret. If he were killed I need never the open, free, purchasing value of quired length of road, one needs only Be a thoroughbred !" laugh had a pleasant, boyish ring a Padre Marcos, an' he married us." Madeline did not yet grasp his mean- happy ring. Danny paused In his narrative, tell you. But If he lived I knew that money or the deep, underground, mys to wait until the next rain, and when terious. Incalculably powerful lnflu the water has receded, he will find a Bill, old pal, stand bridle down a breathing hard, as If the memory of I must some day. ing. "You can put me down in that minute, will you?" Then he bowed to the Incident described had stirred Senora, I pray you, do not misun ence moved by gold. She could save new gravel bed waiting for him. "I beg your pardon, Miss strong and thrilling feeling In him. derstand my mission. Beyond my con Stewart. quiet place on the hill beside Monty Madeline. To figure the saving a good gravel When she went outside the car was road would be to each farm would be Price." seemln' rudeness. I'm Stlllwell's smile was rapturous. Made- fession to you I have only a duty to for Hammond, Madeline dropped the gun with a Danny Mains. An Bonlta is my wife. line leaned toward Danny with her eyes tell you of the man whose wife you there with Link, helmet In hand, a an Impossibility, for Its good will go are. But I am a priest and I can read cool, bright gleam In his eyes, and with on so long as the farm is operated, shuddering cry of horror. The sense I'm so crazy glad she's safe an' un- shining. "Miss Hammond, an' you. Bill Stillthe soul. The ways of God are In Stillwell, losing his haggard misery, and the road Is kept up, which can be of his words, the memory of Monty, harmed so grateful to you that why, sure it's a wonder I didn't kiss you well, now listen, for this Is strange scrutable. I am only a humble Instru- Beginning to respond to Madeline's done very easily by filling in each I've got to tell you. The afternoon ment. You are a noble woman, and spirit. weak place with more gravel from the outright." "Link, drive Stillwell to El Cajon In creek, as It Is needed. "Bonlta's your wife I" ejaculated Bonlta an I were married, when Gene Senor Stewart Is a man of desert Iron an' the padre had gone, she left me forged anew In the crucible of love. time for him to catch the El Paso Stillwell. So economical Is this kind of road, "Sure. We've been married for for a little, an when she came back Qulen sabe? Senor Stewart swore he train," she said. "Walt there for his that wherever there Is a creek with flowers some comes wore if would kill me if I betrayed him. But return ,and pretty yellow any message months," replied Danny, happily. she is no excuse for the She said some queer he will not lift his hand against me. from him, telephone It at once to me." gravel beds, there Gene Stewart did it. Good old Gene. In her hair. not having a farmer live, progressive Then she gave Stillwell the telegrams I guess maybe I haven't come to pay things about spirits rollln' rocks down For the man bears you a very great gravel road all around his farm. By Then to from to she wanted El said send and she drafts the him. and it has and Cajon canyon. love, You him up for all he's done for me! pure changed among the farmers, a , see, I've been in love with Bonlta for to show me where she always sat an' To love you above the spirit of the cash In El Paso. She Instructed him gravel road can be extended to the stawas to me I before the when rebel then watched for waited an' go flesh ; to know you are his wife, his, junta, two years. An' Gene you know, Bill, county or state highways, or to the what a way Gene has with girls he away. She led me around under the never to be another's except by his tioned at Juarez, to explain the situa- next closest town. However, that Is ; some was was well, he was tryln to get Bonlta crags to a long slope. It sacrifice; to watch you with a secret tion, to bid them expect communicaa question that would bring In other pretty there clear an' open, with a glory of Joy and pride; to stand, while tions from Washington officials re- points, to have me." and this Is an article to apply jt, it exand Stewart's an' the desert evil ; to yawnln' and questing between sweep, advising long he you might, Madeline's quick, varying emotions to the Individual farmer who would ' flowa as were to of offer There red. an' war, in to find his yellow prisoner wait, change service; were swallowed up in a boundless deep happiness like to have a good gravel road for ers on slope, the same kind she with never a dream of telling you, for to buy his release from the rebel augladness. Something dark, deep, heavy. had In that hair. bis own use on and around his farm. thorities. her the hour to come when to leave you und somber was flooded from her It will be the means of his being a crack, a muffled sound was There crack of I the heard "When out and himself must he strange free go get a sense of heart. She had sudden rich able to do hauling la muddy weather, a Into down car the and heard them rocks rattle rollln' roar, Is bursting Is big It shot! that beautiful, Senora, ' gratitude toward this smiling, clean- an roll an' prow faint I was some sublime, It Is terrible. It has brought jerked forward to bound over the edge when It would be Impossible to do It, faced cowboy whose blue eyes flashed ? If a be did not Inand have gravel road, to not the the down Them out of head. But for of slope, long. I my So long leap me to you with my confession. A through tears. this alone will he worth much In dolrocks were rollin all only It was beseech you In ray humble ofllce as cline, to shoot out upon the level valDnnny Mains!" she said, tremulous the weatherin' of the right, In floor and cliffs. moving dust. lars and cents In the course of a year disappear a ley before lover as of mankind, are as "If priest, and you ly glad smilingly. Madeline endured patiently, endured In getting products or machinery un- An there under the crags was a you send Stewart to his death, to be ns your news has made' me if you for long Interminable hours while hold- u i gunnel i) .11. it mi. n i u I", iciUHC disno gold Is here sure pocket. there mysterious really think I merit such a reward It. Then I was worse than locoed. I pensation of God. I pray you, Senora, ing to hope with Indomitable will. me kiss you outright." may 'v' No message came. At sunset she As this is an onnortunitv to have a I worked like seven went freeStewart let before you you give i' ' i j a bashful with With but wonder, ' 'J went outdoor3, suffering a torment of good road with no Investment except of gold I a lot teen burros. Bill, do not sure at cost be dom such dug you Mains availed right hearty will, Danny Night fell. work, every farmer should give It serl- bearln quartz. Bonlta watched the want his love, lest you cast away accumulating suspense. himself of this gracious privilege. not to rise, sot ous consideration, and make arrange--, sun the for She That water. me prayed me, for trails sweet wblcb and brought ennobling something Stillwell snorted. The signs of his to begin its short twelve-hou- r was how she come to get caught by you yourself have created." Journey ments to work on the suggestion. phenomenal smile were manifest, oth- Pat nawe an' his toward what might be a fatal setting Sure! guerrillas. "Now You Can't Say You've Never erwise Madeline would have thought for Stewart. But the dawn did lighten, so set on doln' Gene CHAPTER XXI Been Kitted," Stewart Said. Tlnarl Rpfiair that snort an Indication of furious dis- Pat Hawe was swiftly she thought, remorselessly. Siiffpssfiil he mixed up with Don Carlos. that dirt approval. was had and this broken, Daylight Bonlta will tell you some staggerln' News of Stewart the certainty that she would kill Stew Ideas Tried in Kansas "Bill, straddle a chair," raid Danny. news about that outfit, ! Just now my art If she held the gun an Instant "You've Blinded, like a wild creature, Made Thursday back a heap these last old pavements Is an Imgone Salvaging Sharp ringing at the telephone bell cry few months, frettln" over your bad story Is all gold." line Hammond ran to her room. She longer, tortured the portant factor In the work of the high- Into roused her action. startled her, kicked back and from her. felt as If a stroke of lightning bad Danny Mains got up You'll need way engineer, and various methods boys, Danny an'- Gene. Blue lightning gleamed shattered the shadowy sutistance of She ran to answer the call. Stewart stooped to pick up the support under you while I'm throwln' his chair. have been adopted In the different lohello came "Hello Miss Majesty!" from his eyes as be thrust a hand the dream she had made ol real life. weapon. of Bill." calities. In Kansas, G. W. Boulson, He life. my my yarn. Story talkLink s "This hurried 1 reply. of "You might have saved me a h The wonder of Danny Mtlns' story, the a chair for Madeline, "Miss toward Stillwell. city engineer of Iola, has worked out for In. the Favorable, you. Messages me had whlth she old with a lot of trouble," he said, with anoth- placed there the strange regret give Bill, pal, put her a method of salvaging concrete paveyour pardon again, Hammond, beggin said. I'm to ride out with operator smile. "You're were to of the mocking er flash Stewart, the always realized her Injustice I want you to listen, also. You've the your hand," he said. "You ments by resurfacing with asphalt. In come I'll them. beautiful and sweet and proud, but face an' eyes of a woman who loves ray friend. You had faith In me. ell. astounding secret as reveahed by Padre 1912 the city of Iola laid a all. was Madeline heard the That Majesty to hear of other people's happiness. Danny Mains owes you, an' he owes Marcos these were forgotten In the you're no thoroughbred! cement concrete pavement on East as receiver Stevens of the threw deal, an' Danny sudden consciousness of her own love. bang Hammond, adlos!" Besides, somehow. It's easy for me to Gene Stewart a good two It down. Favorable I Then Stillweli Jackson avenue In the residential sec-- , to want his I knocked saddle of the the Mains liberated that for She pardners thought Stewart leaped pays. talk lookln' at you." tlon. After being subjected to traffic had been successful, ner heart leaps horse, and with the flying mount off the porch, he stood be help ree work my gold mine. You an at the gates of her mind. With quivfor six months the pavement began to Walking In crashed through the mesqultes to dis fore the weary horse and burro. With Gene. Go fetch him ; an' right here ering lips she whispered It. Then she Transshow signs of disintegration. Miss spoke aloud : appear. verse and longitudinal cracks develthe swift violence characteristic of this house, with my wife an "I will say It hear It I I love men of his class' he slipped the pack Hammond as witnesses, we'll draw up oped and where these cracks crossed "1 him!" CHAPTER XX from the burro and threw saddle and a pardnershlp. Go find him. Bill.him traffic gradually wore holes In the show him this a to show nature like want In gold, hers, whre strength bridle from the horse. pavement ! An' the Mains only of feeling had long been inhibited as pays The Secret Told. He untied the pack and, taking a how Danny According to Mr. Boulson, the crackLate In the night Madeline fell small, heavy sack from It, he came bitter drop In my cup today Is that I a matter of training, suih a transwas not due to faulty material or ing forming surprise as suddeu conscioussleep. In the morning she was pale back upon the porch. Deliberately he can't ever pay Monty Price." workmanship, but to expansion and Stillwell In love ness of a time watched mental Madeline the but condition huge and languid, passionate required contraction with temperature changes. dumped the contents of the sack at and the little cowboy, both talking for its awakening, time fop Its sway. that promised composure. Stlllwell's feet. Piece after piece of It was decided that the most economiIn arm moarm off By and by that last enlightening It was considerably after her rem rock thumped upon the floor. The wildly, as they walked cal procedure was to overhaul the old somement come, and Madeline Hammond lnr hour thnt Madeline repaired to her pieces were sharp, ragged, evidently to find Stewart. She Imagined concrete pavement and to use It as a office. The door was open, and Just broken from a ledge; the body of thing of what Danny's disappointment faced not only the love la her heBrt, foundation for a pavement of asphaltle s conster man elder she of loved. the the of the but would be. In maji thought a chair, sat them was white In color, with yellow concrete. All loose material was reoutside, tipped back learned he when as and she nation grief, Suddenly, rageq, something Stillwell. veins and bars and streaks. Stillwell moved from the old pavement and all At border. heinew In left for the this dauntless personality "Mawiiln, Miss Majesty," he 'said, as grasped up one rock after another. Stewart had weak spots were cut out. Holes which see a of took arms against IrkJIctment he rose to greet her with hid usual stared and stuttered, put the rocks to this Juncture she looked up to to the entire depth of the penetrated Gene Stewart. Her mind whirled about yet familiar figure approach old pavement, or nearly so, were filled i rts courtesy. Madeline shrunk Inwardly his Hps, dug into them with his shak- strange,Padre saw him Marcos! Mm She life. his and Ing. drunk, s and large with new concrete. fcarlnji Ms old lnmentatlons about ing fingers; then he lay back In his Mention of Padre Marcos, sight of brutal; she saw him abandoned, lost. Stewort. Then she saw a dusty, ragged chair, head against the wall, and as he holes which did not extend to the subMadeline out the occasioned of she had of Then picture soil were filled with asphaltle binder. pony In the yard and a little burro gaped at Thinny the old smile began to him, bad always a little indefinable shock; and now, ns Mm thus slowly grew nnt of a differdrooping under a heavy park. Itoth transform his face. Finally, an asphaltle concrete surface a shrunken ent man weak, sick, t banged by animals bore evidence of long, ardu two Inches thick was laid and the Danny regarded Stillwell with lofty he stepped to the inirch, was she man, and shock, strong, spirgrowing strangely, us travel. condescension. "Now. Bill, what've we stooped, street Immediately opened to traffic. nn like loi.ely startled. altered, tllent, itually "To whom do they belong?" asked got here, say, offhand?" The rejuvenated pavement has given her. to bowed low The padre eagle, secretive, tireless, faithful, soft Madeline. "Oh. excellent service. Dnnny! I'm afraid to "Senora, will you grant me audi as a woman, hnrd as lro. to endure, critters? "Them Danny say. Ixiok, Miss Majesty, Jest look at Why. of great moment. and at the last noble. Mains," replied Stillwell. with a cough the gold. I've lived among prosper ence? It Is a matter Cott of Operation. "Oh. It Is all terrible!" he cried. "I tors an gold mines fer thirty years. which yon might not tare to have any thnt betrayed embarrassment. At the request of the United States meethis am That wife! wife. Ills ono hear." "Is Dnnny Mains here?" she asked, on' I never seen the beat of this." bureau of public roads and the na Wonderlngly Madeline Inclined her ing with him the marriage then his In sudden curiosity. "The Ixist Mine of the Padres!" tional research council, data regarding closed one fall, his love, his rise, his Mlence, his The head. gently padre In "An voice. I old stentorian nodded cried cattleman The Will Say It Hear It gloomily, Love the cost of operation of motor vehiDanny, 1 I never can And others. the and then door anything pride! In It belongs to me!" "Yep, he's hyar. all right. Sloped cles In various sections of the country "Senora. I have come to disclose a to hltn. Could I be anythljg to him? Stillwell made some Incoherent sound from the bill an' he hollered to see of roads are beI am Hammond? his Madeline In I. B(,t own sinfulness she weak secret and her nnd on various typesAmerican became keeping my Suddenly Bonlta. He's locoed, too. about tha as he sat up fascinated, quite beside Autoiuo- the ing I gathered I by Do him! IHs love wife! and It and to Imtilore rour pardon. wife, hands failed of their accustomed little black-eyehussy. Why, he hard himself. Its affiliated clubs. bile association and a That wife of cowboy! might deftness. It took her what seemed a as some long time ago you remember that night Senor Stew am the "PJII. It ly said. 'Howdy, Hill,' before he began l love In undone? undone. Can be the my me before Breakfast to you thousand dress. art dragged years snld I saw "Fact me," to ask wild nn' eager questions. took since yon Danny. Bad Road Conference. at El Cajon?" Ah, do I want anything undone? He meant nothing to her ece;t that It Mm In to see Bonlta. He's been there Is, I know how yon felt, because Gene waiting-rooA conference of automotive experts he meant have Gone! Could Is minutes. to gone. her Madeline. "Yes." replied pass dragging helped now." more'n a kept me posted. I happened to run held by the United States "Senora, since that night you have I will not, dare not think o - that. He across P.onita. an' I wasn't goln' to Finally a low hum, mounting swift- wag recently Itiipld footsteps with an accompnnl army ordnnnce department at Spring come will come tieveNo. back. will he with a a roar and to wife!" Stewart's been Senor ly told when ending sharp she In her ride let the alone, sounded away Bient of clinking spurs N. J., for the purpose of develMadeline became as motionless a back. Oh. what shall I do-- " report, announced the arrival of the Lake, "cross-count rv carrying vehl- hallway Then a nunj man ran out me she was In trouble. We hit tha stone. She seemed to feel nothing, oping with feet had If car. her pace kept P.onita bad use by all branches til'"" M.s porch, lie was a handsome, frnll for the Pelonrlllos. for cles" suitable on ot next And the te th out would she raced bnve heart her morning day. bear. finnk-fiicebov. At sight of Madeline Gepe's bore, an' she was to meet htm onlv to of the army In operating nones not "You are Senor Stewart's wife. I when Madeline went out upon the meet Link. be slummed down his sombrero and, up on the trail. We got to the moun passable by motortrucks. and of (TO BE CONTINUED stern, secret haggard Stillwell, under the fpar have porch, starved for all an' kept e tains himself right, nearly leaping at her, be poseed huskv. handed Incoherent with word, no It I could But longer, death. us. bad Gene keep found lie a till Remove Billboard! and Sign. few days f er bnnds. His swift violence not onl Single Devotion. now. Ah her a message from El C'aJon. She The county court of Kansas City, alnrmed her. but painfully reminded tot In trouble himself an' couldn't Senor Stewart may kill me "Don't they get ou well together?' Senora, It Is very strange to you. Yot. read : Mo, hat ordered the removal of blll- her of something she wished to forget fetch much with him. have don't. twin "I'll tbey 'F.l say They 8tewart by captured Capltan were so frightened that night, yon We made for the crags an' built j boards and signs from the county This rol. or bent hla bend and Senor j rebel soldier la fight at Agua Prieta pews la church." Life. h 'nntli and wrurg tliein. and ( cabin. 1 come down that da Gene knew not what happened. Qij n Zane Qreij d. Gene-traile- 1 ", dog-gon- e n' ss ; if 1 if! 'TTl gold-craz- g six-Inc- h mm sud-face- Pot-hole- wMmmi -- d half-hou- r I I luf |