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Show BEAVER CITY PRESS By ZANE GREY "Lenime" that glass," suddenly said Jim Lash. ' "I'm eeeln' red, I Ult yon. . . Well, pore a my eyes are they had It right Itojas an' hla outfit have left the trail. Laddy, Pll be dunged If the Grenscr hunch husnt vamoosed. Gone out of sight! Right there not a half mile away, the whole DOCTORS A7A11TE0 TO OPERATE tin. Qu2oa - TcCj How Lya L wander at will. Canteens were filled, CHAPTER XlContinued. "Shore they're behind a crust o FiakjWs YegetaB! ComposaJ a small bug of food was packed, and have 12 gone down Anto a rut," suggested " blankets made Into a bundle. Then Ladd. "They'll show again In a minie Indian led off Into one of the SiTed Her from Open&ca , Taqul faced the steep ascent of the ute. Look sharp, boys, for I'm notcher between the tumbled lava slope. auis of lavaJ At the apex of the Rojas '11 spread his men." doctor The trail he followed led up on the Mnskepon, Mlch!jan.-,,Af- ter 1), where two stream From time to time the rangers met, a light side of the fissure, opposite to looked Inquiringly at Oale. The field big for eight or nine years with different and ascended. Yaqul pnyaicians wildoui t the one he had come down. It was a glass, however, like the naked sight liial.lo lato It, and then began the any relief at all, they Brother. Copyright by Harper as the encumbered and climb, steep and and vexatious catch could not moving the slightest t laborious., saiasiiasi uwv mou-icimen were they made but slow prog would not reach ful of all slow travel, object out there upon the lava. A resa. At leugth the rims widened out long hour of slow, mounting suspense j case and 1 should ae dislutrgratlng surface of a lava my as red all and and looked till be hurt his eyes. Then shallow, others deep, and the red, smoky crater yawned be wore on. nava an operation, i I w as at on re the roughest, the he took his glass out of its case on fire, Yaqul circled dose to abysses neath. Yaqul left the trail and began had heard of Lydi to be "Shore It's the all as the the meanest, crudest, queer lest, goln' which yawned sheer from a level surE. Puikham's Vega-tab- le Sol's saddle. - the overand down . as the Yaqul," said Ladd. clambering rough deceitful kind of ground to f Compound and There appeared to be nothing upon face, and he appeared always to be twisted convolutions of lava which Indeed, the strange mien, the silent ' fugitive , made slow the lava but the innumerable dots of turning upon his course to avoid tbem. often saw it advery. The formed extreme was rim. with the It bess. ' They picked a ; cautious, action, the somber character of the tised In different paThe plateau had now a considerable choya shining in the sua Gale swept difficulty that the party followed him. Indian had not been without effect where soma pers J!ng way to and fro in little steps his the marked Gale to west back. the and dip glass slowly forward The choya was there to hinder pas upon the minds of the men. Then the women had suffered I and there along tlw many twists .... ocean Then into shearer field cf vision' crept slow heave and ripple of the sage. Finally the Indian halted upon weird, desolate, tragic scene added to just as I did and got be trail, tip and down the unavold-- f Una of horses of lava to the south, where high, a narrow bench of bv taking the Ve anA atnwt anm volt long smooth lava, the vague sense f mystery. And now fiat depressions, round and round the and men. Without a word he handed rounded peaks marked the center of decided to see what I table e Compound. and hla followers worked with exceed- the disappearance of Rojas band, the V At noon, so winding back upon would do for ma. and before I bad It to Ladd. ' The ranger used this volcanic region. The uneven nathe glass his to care and down effort d posi long wait In the silence, the boding finished tha fourth bottle I waa much J hnd been their course, they ap-- it muttering to himself i , ture of the slope westward prevented ing tion. to have come only a short dts- certainty of Invisible foes crawling. the better, tha weakness stopped ana to nntll extended view, on suddenly teen miles lava the any "They're At the back of this bench, between to and closer ths lent severe pains la my aides left me. I closer, circling up the lava slope. down In an air line," he said, present- fugitives emerjod from a rugged bunches of choya, was a niche, a shal am bow much stronger and do my ova made It final a touch situation that was rough work for them ; It was "Jim, shore they're twice that an' break to come upon a sublime low cave with floor lined apparently unreal. work and work m tna ractory oesuen title work for the horses. Blanco ly, more accordln to the trail." spectacle. am still taking tha Vegetable Compound with mold. Yaqul spread blankets a be mind reckonln' there's "fm bio refused to answer to the power and give itall the pnW'-M- rs. Nells They were upon a high point of the Inside, left the canteen and the sack hind Jim had his look and replied: "I them Greasers," replied Jim, "Or he Yaqul. He balked, he plunged, reckon we're a Mich. Muskegon, au" a night In the western slope of th plateau. It was of food, and with a QuTLLON,17MorruSt, day once gesture at mebbe we ain't done Rojas credit dt and kicked. He had to be pulled to Gale, and perhaps to the " lead." strange Women should beed auch warnlns humble, yet that of a chief, he In . If somethln' would only coma Uneaten over many places. Mer-- s' "Is It Itojas T' burst out Thorne others, to see their guide lead Diablo vited Mercedes to enter. A few more off!" pains and symptoms as bearing-dow- n horse almost threw her, and well-wor- n trail Into a smooth and for they Indicate somsfeinala with set Jaw. weakness, disclosed words and .fewer gestures most That Lash, the coolest, the vas put upon Blanco Sol, The trouble, and ft persistent and faithful It's Rojas and a along the rim of the awful crater. his plan. In this Inaccessible nook "Yes, Thorne. provoklngly nonchalant of men In cm of lydia E. Pinkham'a VegeWU te charger snorted a protest, then, dozen or chasm. down red Into looked that Gale and he Gale, more," replied Mercedes' was to be hidden. The meu llont to Gale's stern call, patiently looked Compouna wui aewoin xau w neip, It resembled an Inferno. The dark were to go around upon the opposite times of peril, should begin to show up. at Mercedes. In was a mora nervous the strain all ered his noble head and pawed the ;' She was transformed. ; She lde were might cliffs trpon the opposite rim, and blbck the trail leading down dicative of subtle pervading tor for a footing that would hold, been a medieval princess em- veiled In blue haze that seemed like to the waterhole. have ' he lava caused Gale toll and reality. bodying all the Spanish power and smoke. Here Yaqul was at home. He Ladd chose the smallest gun In' the "Boys, look sharp suddenly called ry and pain, but he bated the passion of that time, ' breathing ret moved and looked about him as a man and gave It to Mercedes. to "Low party Lash. the down left mebbe ;ns. He came almost to believe hate, unquenchable spirit of coming at last into his own. Gale "'Shore It's best to go the limit on three hundred yards. See, along by I he had heard claimed by desert venge, over out that saw and him wondergaze stop fire. If her beauty had been bein ready." he said, simply. "The them seams of lava behind the cho- elers that the cnoya was aiive ful In her void to the Gait f helpless and appealing chances are you'll never need it But yas. nrst otr I tnougnt it , was a ; leaped at man or beast. Certain Gale divined that somewhere along when she looked back A man ia as old aa his organs ; b If you do" But It's the Yaqul 1 las when Oale passed one. If he white-face- d now, and sheep. flame-eyeIt was this erater-o- f hell the Yaqul would was a to break as his Crawlln Can't lizard! swift can attention and all left yon be as vigorous and healthy at He off there, avoiding transcendent. not put' make his final stand; and one look1 see him hlral" answered Mercedes 70 he was hooked .through his chaps as at 35 if he aids his organs in significant Gale drew a long, deep breath. The Into his strange, Inscrutable eyes with a fearless and Indomitable flash was a full moment before Jim's It t held by barbed thorns. The pain mood. their functions. Keep a made performing fitting Imagination picture had presaged pursuit, , which of eyes. Thorne was the only one who companions could locate the Indian. almost unendurable. It was like vital doom for the pursuing Rojas. organs healthy with your blood on somber this desert, strife, showed sny shakenierve. His leave- - Flat as a snake, Yaqul wound him other Tt burned; stung, bear SawLATHROP'5 It made returned to him tenfold. He lost seemed to freeze. tuning 01 IUB Wlltt nil BiieilMlg BUU self along with Incredible rapidity. CHAPTER XII Thome's face corded by black veins, him bite the made he and or arm It Then hurried. rangers leg. jess his teeth exposed like those of a 'tongue to kee. from crying out. and carefully stepped In the tracks of the The Crater of Hell. wolf. These rangers, who made1 the sweat roll off him. , It snarling Yaqul. He strode on up the trail a Gale, upon sharp turning rresently had coolly risked death many times, tie Mm sick. ; see that toward a higher point where presdealt it often, were white as corner, was utterly amazed to The world's standard remedy for kidney; loreover. bad as the choya was for and had In and ently his dark figure stood motionless lava out the the sloped spilt no fear or pain could have made them. liver, bladder and uric add troubles and The the rangers a, it was infinitely worse for beast sky. against so an was arroyo. It on the moment, Yaqul raised his widened into sine 1696; corrects disorders; stimulates Then, cac-out a selected this from stab Thorne poisoned depression, deep Jagged and soft and beautiful In all green or doubled vital organs, AH druggists, three sixes. not clenched tight, hand, Sol was the only thing Blanco of which led several ruts deep enough an eagle's claw; the angry, contorted red surrounding like curled but rigid Look for U nma Cold Madat m nw men laid down ;ld nor stand; Many times that day, that Gale could scarcely credit his for cover. Here the shook It In a strange, slow geshe and aon4MwpttmluiUei had he ore he carried Mercedes, rifles and guns, snd, removin;. their ture which was menacing and terrible. sight. Blanco Sol whistled his wel- heavv cartridge belts, settled down dly snorted, and then stood trem-:i- g It was the woman that called to the come to the scent of water. InThen to wait. while Gale picked broken thorns THICK. SWOLLEN CLAItT3 the Gale saw a great hole,' a pit But after depths of these men, And their pasin the muscular legs. crawled Into a little strip Lash Jim welL a dark, cool, shady lava, that make a horM n neeze, Koar, navs shiny rcedes had been put upon Sol Gale sion to kill and to save was surpassed There was evidence of the fact that of shade and bided the time tranquilly. RsdiiniifwClMkHmNa which was wild hate the yet only by de sure no choya touched-him- . , b reduced with was restless and Impatient and Ladd an had seasons water outlet flood at i riie afternoon passed like the morn-- love, the unfathomable emotion of a Into the arroyo. The soli appeared to watchful, every little while rising to Gale marveled at It, in ceaseless winding and twist-lan- d peon slave. lobY tip the slope, and he felt his whole being cold and be a fine sand. In which a reddish while abandoned this where dark to the climbing along then Yaqul's was and ; abund right it tinge predominated folH. Gale saw many waterholes. tense, as he turned once more to stood out from a high point of a with figure still covered grass, long antly leaders. The his low In the tracks of also other Bunches or 8wH stlydry, some containing water, all green. Mesqultes snd palo the rim. . Thorne grew silent and Ko blister, no hair full only after fight predicted by Beldlng was I at band. partly a them catch-basinsullen consumed Ing. slow, seemed by terdes dotted the arroyo and gradu n j4 Ia a m Ir ant sat vASiai be must a What that Rojas fight bunched season. nor Little ugly free neither calm ay was ally closed In thickets that obstructed rage. Gale was He and was Economic! fast traveling only a few drops work. light ihes, that Gale scarcely recognized of a gnawing suspense nor or a wait$139 p sa his men with the view. at He had application. bought reqtdred gaining. near these ha holes; tnesquites, grew "Shore it all beats me," exclaimed ing wrath. But as best he could delivered, JBook S A free. bottle with per promises, gold, extravagant 0 stunted greasewood and prickly hole-uin put the pending action out of mind. offers of the body and blood Ladd. "What a place to he, 310 Tcsgh Si, SprisM tm. 1. F. ir. There was no grass, and the haps with a hid for have here It came over him all of a sudden could We long kind. to an their of hateful aristocrat ya alone flourished In that hard time- - Beldin' was shore right about that he had not grasped the stupen Lastly, there was the wild, desolate I An' I can see Rojas dous nature of this desert setting. of the Indian. darkness overtook the party as they environment, a tortured wilderness somewhere finish up along that awful There was the measureless red alope. a lava and poisoned choya, acked beside a pool of water deep jagged Its lower ridges . finally sinking Into ter an overhanging shelf of lavs, lonely, fierce and repellent world, a white sand dunes toward the bine sea. was .on a made level most Camp and spot red fittingly somberly stage had been a hard day. The horses cold, sparkling light, the white The to horses and the took water, be Yaqul Ctxrr QOeUt nk their fill, and "then stood pa- colored for a supreme straggle DausX them loose In the arroyo. sun, the deep azure of sky, the feeling turned then tween men. LaGrtpp heads. with Hunger drooping rtly He's Raisin His Rifle Slow. ' Lard, Mer- It was a tired and somber group that of boundless expense all around him no looked back more. Yaqul warm 1 thirst were appeased, and a these meant high altitude. South How Slew He lei" the sat down to eat Mercedes wss calm, cheered the weary and footsore cedes looked back no more. But the barren red simply merged ward in burned her dark but her eyes when great came and time the other looked, ltlves, Taqul said, "Sleep." And field of craters Bis advance was all the more remark- SIda Tcrtcred BiLics S! 9 ft Gale saw the creeping line of pur white face. Yaqul watched her. The Into dlstenee. The another night passed. wheels toward the able for the fact that he appeared to dsrk in rose high, looked her with at others unspoken suers with naked eyes. ' When Gale witn pass directly under the dreaded che- A level line above marked the rim pride. Presently Thorne wrapped her dominating peaks. Tpon the following morning, ten from the magnitude of yas. 8ometlmea he, paused to lift his his drew gaze to fall seemed his she In and blankets, of the plateau. Sand began to show es or more up the ; these spsces and heights the crater hesd and look. In the little lava pits. On and upward asleep at once. of rear In was Gale the Yet dwarfed. seemed t slope. him beneath headlc' he's for that high or "Shore of Little plan Yaqufs purpose 'the other horses, so .as to take, tolled the cavalcade, still very slowly could be elicited while he gazed it spread and deep- place," said Ladd. "He's going slow S2St,OiW2$s-U50.TJc2S- . The him. from the reached At last Yaqul Mercedes" sake, the advantage of advancing. Its lines. and some ened multiplied ragged behind now. talked he's and There, stopped however, Thorne, on rangers (broken trail. Taqul was leading rlra. He stood with his hand could not grasp the meaning choyas. He's gettln' np no, he' Diablo ; and both were sllhou in low tones. It was absolutely im No. he .bio, winding around a break. His Blanco was kneelln. . . . Now what the l" here. distance There or size of men to for and his. Rojas possible d was bent as he stepped slowly etted against the sky. That was the reach the waterhole before noon of too much to stun the sight But the 'Laddy. take a peek at the side of t unerenly upon the lava. Gale outlook for a Yaqul. And his great the next had created nataure which in mood lsva ridge,", sharply called Jim. before that And thst long day. Bed t. look hack, the first time (n would have decided this convulsed world seized hold upon 1 guess mebbe somethln' alnt coraln time the fugitives eral days. He thought, of course, him. f off. See I .There's Rojas as his outfit on a plan of defense. Rolas In certain pursuit: but it As the sun cllmbln'. Don't make out no.hosses. The hours passed. Is that Rojas stuck stuns me "What med absurd to look for him. . . Dick, nse your glsss an tell to our trail," said Thorne, his lined climbed the clear sky, steely lights van Taqul led on. and Gale often glanced dark ished, the blue hazes deepened, and us what's doln. , JT1 watch Yaqul an of face and haggard expressive from his tusk to watch the Indian, ffauOl Orvrea mmm Dtrrt. rar 9 "He has followed us Into slowly the glistening surfaces of lsva tell you what bis move meana." . passion. lbs. I umpl, lie. lxtnbrr!- - It I be., kre. sentl.v he saw him stop, turn, and was concerned Ladd Ore. redder. SeJem. Orchard. turned Mid. Klngweod this fearful desert Hell lose men, Clearly and distinctly, almost ss If St nacfc. Ladd did likewise, and was discover that missing to Yaqul had a touched Gale have He's could life. his he them, only horses, perheps . n Jim and Thorne. Gale found the Paris 8trewn With Shells, Rojas and his followers In sight They " bandit, and he stands to win no gold. from his outlook upon the high point Thereafter be ire Irreslrtibla crev of the came shells, bombs and simiout TJnexptoded Lash Jim shady non womathe lava were a All for poor little helpless rough tolling op to the number of ?n rested Blanco Sol, ani" looked souvenirs war on lar car buckle his to stood and up ' foot. just a woman! I cant understand It ice, He had his" fleld-.sa- ,' k the while. have been picked up In Taris 6,600 narrow, His glance belt gray trldge a woman,", replied "ShoreJust "They're almost np now," Gale was but did not choose to use It slowly roved from the height of lsva saying. "There 1 They halt, on top. streets since the beginning of this Ladd, solemnly nodding his head. "Rojita' will "follow," Wd'Mereedev The authorities believe that the T seer Rojas. - lie looks wild.- - By l year. Then there was a long silence, dur down along the elope, paused in doubt Oale regarded her In am ate. The o the wners of these dangerous articles ara on to and then resnrvey swept fellows, an Indian ! It's a Tapago. ing which the men gazed into the fire. ne of her voice had been Indefinable, them to get rid of them. of the vast eastern whole "dumping", plateau. dip I . fares . . The In Those were cold, hard, grim Beldlng's old herder there were fear then he failed to said. ha are "1 reckon my eyes pore," dlan points this wsy then down. upon which the llght flickered. tect It. She was gailng back down A woman's Idea or a happy demise "Mebbe It's this d n red glare. Any He's showing Rojas the lay of the ssid YaquL "Sleep," tfoout 4 colored sIok, and something Is to be crushed to death In a shop up . trail." Thorne rolled In his blanket close way, what's them creepln spots r, perhaps the steady, falcon gase ,. there?" one beside Mercedes. Then one by "Boys, Yaqufs in range of that ping crowyit t ' her magnificent eyes, reminded him Mountain bunch," said Jim, them. seen I "Shora the to feet stretched out, w "He's the rangers swiftly. f Tnqul. An old bachelor says that marriage fire. , Gale found that he could not sheep," replied Ladd. raisin' his Title slow Lord, bow slow Many lliijea during the ensuing hour I sobers a man who Is Intoxi Dick. flulcklr were but "Guess . . He's Laddy. His . covered they someone. again, he wesry, Isl eyes sleep. ie Indian faced about and always with flash love. the up glass would not stay shut; bis body ached reckon you'd better Which one I cant say. But J think cated s followers did likewise. It was high He . still. could pl-he not the . for slope." bell rest Tt Rojas." Mm, with the sun beating hot and Gale adjusted the field glass and beSome men acquire The Yaqul sat like tan Image carved reputation for Yaqul can shoot. Hell pick The lavs radiating heat when Yaqul out of lavs. The others lay prone and gan to search the lava, beginning close Rojas," added Gale,, grimly . laziness, while others get the credit alted for ret. ,The horses bunched r,, v quiet. Would another night see sny at hand and working away from hlra. "Rojas yesyes!" cried Thorne, In for being diplomats. nd drooped their head. The rangers . of them lie that wsy, quiet forevefT Presently the glass became stationary, .', passion of suspense. ere about to slip the packs and re- ' dozen small a animals, Gale sat up after a while and again . "I see halt "Not on your lifer Ladd's voice hen Ynqul restrained ove saddles Nature has Its sprees and pays for ' watched the fire. Nell's sweet face brown In color. They look like sheep, cut In with scorn, "Gentlemen, you them a good deal as human nature Ham tt Ml floated like a wraith In the pale Hat I couldn't distinguish -mountain can gamble Yaqul'U kill the Papago. does. ' ' . ' He fixed a rhnnwle, gleaming gase smoke glowed - and flushed and sheep from antelope." That traitor Indian knows these sheep n the, slow descent ; but did not seem Other faces In the embers. "Short they're bighorn," said Laddy. haunts. He's tellln Rojss " look sfar. That Was the Outlook for a Yaqul. smiled Ms, there-that of his sister's shene "I reckon If youll pull around to the " A sharp ride shot rang out hi tottered' he strange Suddenly the tender off shook Gale mother. an' search under that long wall east . sun la white Involun-rythe "Laddy's right,", called Gale. The horse, daxzllngly ry the one Gnlp considered of lava there you'll see what I see," Tapago's hit his arm falls. There, or else significant of some tribal light with head wildly and proudly memories. This desolate wilderness silence snd Its added Jim. ,, he tumbles. rait or feeling! .Jsqnt pointed down erect mane and tail flying in th with Its forbidding on of hell the morrow dart The glass cllmlied and circled, wa (TO BS OOKT1NCICD.1 promise he lava slope, pointing with finger wind, made a magnificent picture. The oneunnerve fixed then to not the wss an steady Instant vered this place at on and and tolled upward, nd arm and neck and head his others ArUsian Wall Ssvsn Centuries Old. of love and horaeT There was a brewthlets rock. hole being seemed to have been anl- - last Gale led Blanco Sol over the rlra. self with thoughts The oldest artesian well In Europe to Gale get silence. dawn Toward down niannged ' looked the all Then red klope. sted and then frown. Is found at Ltllers, France. From Its tw i - I 611 Dell-an- s broke horses "Fourteen parked But shadows were gathering there some sleep. Then the morning "Shore he sees somethtnV . said v 11 n t flowed v"; has water mouth uninterrupted with the sun hidden back of the uplift Home mounted others without riders, and no movlnj line could be seen. '.sdd. "But my eyes are no good 730 more than for years. ly said horses Gale, slowly. The trooped and lame,' Sure Relief "1 reckon I alnt sure of mine." reYaqul mounted and wheeled Diablo of the plateau. The no the arroyo and snorted for wster, Yaqul appeared far up the trail, lied Jim. "I'm bothered by a dim away. The'netiers followed. 1100 Balls Paid $1 for Hat saw the nnvln streak down there." Ysqul led tl m Into a inue of craters. After a hurried breakfast the pscks coming swiftly. Presently he A fashionable woman of 1S0O Would arms bis wave to The In halted lava. and the In holes hidden were ranters seemed to earth hive The Thorne gased eagerly down as he top of the y more thaa SI for a ftne straw 7H PACKACK rvUvYWi'US. been blown out In holes from a few asddVs were left where they were, and point Then he vanished as If the not ' food bede Mercedes, who sat '. bat and baieath bit' allowed to' had lavs borsc. opened some In and to grate the "rods width large craters, facing the slop. Gale looked Author of ta " The Riders of the Purple Sage Wildfire, Etc - 'j aa . whlte-and-blac- if awe-inspiri- . -- MAN BEST AGE r mo-nieot-s, red-ribbe- d rrr S p . W 1 mm hell-hole- ." fn Zfloun 3 in . Mothers Rest After Cuticura slow-ascendi- , w lM;il!&t!!Mia; !.. . ' . - - . ' y ' " Sure Relief for ii:d;gestio;i Em Zltm mo-Innl- . |
