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Show I .iiii Li 3 The 1 LEAVER CITY PRESS Bxj 3 IWest era Stars CHAPTER XIX Continued. 17 Hln white face loomed over her. She closed her eyes. He ruined kisses Upon lier face, but no more upon her mouth. Cm her closed eyes, her hair, her cheeks, her neck he pressed swift lips lips tliHt lost their lire and grw cold. Then he releused her, and, lifting and righting her In the saddle, he still held lier arm to keep her from fallinsFor a moment Madeline sat on her She dreaded horse with shut eyes. the light. "Now you can't say you're never been kissed," Stewart said. Ills voice seemed a long way off. "But that was coming to you, so be tame. Here!" She felt something hard and cold " I yesterday. He was a sharpshooter In the federal ranks. Sentenced to death Thursday at aunset" CHAPTER XXII Romance t of r;,J:::;::;:::::;:;::i;I;I:::;:;il:::::;;:;:::::I:;:;i::: - . Zane Qreij H.rpet CopriqM ,. Tht Ride. "Stillwell I" d Broth-- ts iniiiiiiiiiinimiiiimiiMMininmnminiis III iUiuiuuuiMtuuutw when he straightened up he was cry ing. "Miss Hammond, she's safe an al most well, an' what I feared most ain't so. thank God," he cried. "Sure III never he able to pay you for all you've me for her. She's told me how she He forced me. tent his horse Majesty to you. Pever Stewart threatened me speak the service. wade He you. saw Gene to brokenhearted, vie". fter he sloped for the border Bonlta He made you speak the Spanish yes. deeds of an' I were hard put to it to keep alive. But we got along, an' I think It was then she began to care a little for me. Once I went to El Cajon an' run plumb Into Gene. He was back from the rev olution an' cuttln' up some. But I got away from him after doln' all I could to drag him out of town. A long time after that Gene trailed up to the crags an' found us. Gene had stopped drink-In'- , he'd changed wonderful, was fine an' dandy. It was then he began to pester the life out of me to make me marry Bonlta. I was happy, so was she, an' I was some scared of spollln' ft. hard to buck Gene's I had to give In, an' I asked against Bonlta to marry me. Well, she wouldn't at first said she wasn't good enough for me. But I saw the marriage Idea was workln' deep, an' I Just kept n be at decent' as I knew how. So It was my wantin' to marry Bonlta my beln' glad to marry her that made her grow soft an' sweet an' pretty as a mountain quail. Gene fetched up Padre Marcos, an' he married us." Danny paused In his narrative, breathing- hard, as If the memory nf the Incident described had stirred strong and thrilling feeling In him. Stlllwell's smile wns rapturous. Madeline leaned toward Danny w ith her eyes shining. "Miss Hammond, an you. Bill Still well, now listen, for this Is strange I've got to tell you. The afternoon Bonlta an' I were married, when an' the padre had gone, she left me for a little, an' when she came back she wore some pretty yellow flowers In her hair. She said some queer things about spirits rollln rocks down the canyoo. Then she said she wanted to show me where she always sat an' waited an' watched for me when I was away. She led me around under the crags to a long slope. It was some pretty there clear an' open, with a long sweep, an' the desert yawnln' deep an' red. There were yellow flowers on that slope, tht same kind she had In her hair. "When I heard the strange crack of rollln' rocks heard them rattle down an' roll an' grow faint I was some out of my bead. But not for long. Them rocks were rollln' all right, only It was the weatherin' of the cliffs. An' there under the crags waa a cattleman stood mute before her, staring at her white face, at her eyea of flame, I am Stewart's wife!" "Stillwell! "My Gawd, Miss Majesty!" he burst out "I knowed somethln' turrible was wrong. Aw, sure It's a pity" "Do you think 111 let him be shot when I know him now, when Tm no longer blind, when I love hlmT sht asked, with passionatt swiftness. "I will save him. This Is Wednesday hours to morning. I have thirty-siThe old dog-gon- e Mays thirst Soothes Hn&roi For Quality, x of-m- 1 t gold-craz- FKy -- Gr-n- r Aids digestiea. WithCutinid Soap and Take:' 1 If s HaYeiBackrfi.r And I, Senora, knowing the for Link these sinful cowboys, fearing worse save his life. Stillwell, send the car!" and and than disgrace to one so beautiful She went Into her office. Her mind so good as you, I could not do less than marry you truly. At least you worked with extraordinary rapidity In one should be his wife. So I married you, and clearness. Her plan, born flash of thought necessichurch." service-o- f lightninfillke my in the truly, tated the careful wording of telegrams "My God !" cried Madeline, rising. "Hear mei I Implore you, Senora, to Washington, to New York, to San These-we- re to senators, rephear me out! Do not leave me! Do Antonio. Ah. Senora, let me resentatives, men high In public and not look so so men who would remember speak a word for Senor Stewart. He private life, He did not her and who would serve her to their was drunk that night. In the utmost Never before had her posi know what he was about le came to me. made me tion meant anything to ber comparable swear by my cros9 that I would not with what It meant now. Never In all was dragged down here, how tiene tried to save her, how you spoke up for (Jene nn' her, too, how Monty at the last th rowed his guns. Poor Monty! We were good friends, Monty an' I. There's Nels an' Nick an' Gene, he's been some friend to me; but was grand. He Monty Price was-h- e never knew, any more than you or Bill, here, or the boys, what Bonlta was to me." Still welt's kind and heavy hand fell reveal the disgrace he had put upon her life had money seemed the power upon the cowboy's shoulder. If she had been you. If I did he would kill me. Life that It was then. and metallic thrust Into her hand. He "Danny, what's all this queer gab?' A shuddering chill froze the poor! American to the Is vaquero, hold over made her fingers, close It he asked. "An' you're takin' some lib nothing It I promised to respect his thought at Its Inception. She dispelled Senora. The feel of the thing revived her. She erty with Miss Hammond, who never She had thoughts. but I did not tell him you heartbreaking command, opened her eyes. Stewart had gtven seen you before, I see you're not were his wife. He did not dream I power. She had wealth. She would ber his gun. He stood with his broad drinkfn'. Cyme, ease up now an' talk had truly married you. He went to set Into operation all tht unlimited breast against her knee, and slie sense, . means these gave her the wires and country The cowboy's fine, frank face broke looked up to see that old mocking fight for the freedom and strings underneath the sursoldier one Is pulleys he Into a smile. He dashed the tears Senora, splendid smile on his face. International life, and I brooded" over the sin of my se- face of political "Go ahead! Throw my pin on me! from his eyes. Then he laughed. His value of never the I open, need free, killed were he purchasing cret. If f" Be a thoroughbred laugh had a pleasant, boyfeh ring a telt you. But If he lived I knew that money or the deep, underground, mysMadeline did not yet grasp his mean- happy ring. terious, Incalculably powerful InfluI must some day. Bill, old pal, stand bridle down a ing. "You can put me down In that minute, will you?" Then he bowed to "Senora, I pray yojLdo,not misun- ence moved by gold. She could save derstand my mission. Beyond my con- Stewart. quiet place on the bill beside Monty Madeline. "I beg your pardon. Miss When she went outside the car was fession to you I have only a duty to Price." Hammond, for seemln' rudeness. I'm tell you of the man whose wife you there with Link, helmet In hand, a Madeline dropped the gun with a Danny Mains. An' Bonlta Is my wife. are. But I am a priest and I can read cool, bright gleam In his eyes, and with shuddering cry of horror. The sense I'm so crazy glad she's safe an' unthe soul. The ways of God are In Stillwell, losing his haggard misery, of bis words, the memory of Monty, harmedso grateful to you that why, scrutable. 1 nif only a humble Instru- Deglnnlng to respond to Madeline's sure It's a wonder I didn't kiss yon ment. You are a noble woman, and spirit. outright." "Link, drive Stillwell to El Cajon In Senor Stewart Is s man of desert iron "Bonlta's your wife!" ejaculated Stillwell. forged anew In the crucible of love. time for him to catch the El Paso "Sure. We've been married for Qulen sabe? Senor Stewart swore he train," she said. "Walt there for his would kill me if I betrayed him. But return .and if any message comes months," replied Danny, happily. he will not lift his hand against me. from hlra, telephone It at once to me." "Gene Stewart did It Good old Gene. Then she gave Stillwell the telegrams For the man bears you a very great I guess maybe I haven't come to pay and pure love, and It has changed him. to send from El Cajon and drafts to him op for all he's done for me I You To love you above the spirit of the cash In El Paso. She Instructed him see, I've been In love with Bonlta for two years. An' Gene yon know, Bill, flesh; to know you are his wife, his, to go before the rebel Junta, then stanever to be another t except Dy his tioned at Juarez, to explain the situawhat a way Gene has with girls he wat well, he was tryln' to get Bonlta sacrifice; to watch you with a secret tion, to bid them expect communicato have me," glory of Joy and pride; to stand, while tions from Washington officials rehe might between you and evil; to questing and advising Stewart's exMadeline's quick, varying emotions find hla happiness in service; to wait change as a prisoner of war, to offer were swallowed np in a boundless with never a dream of telling you, for to buy bis release from tht rebel augladness. Something dark, deep, heavy, the hour to come when to leave you thorities. and somber was flooded from her There was a crack, a muffled sound sense She sudden fret a rich of ht must go out and get himself had heart shot I Senora, that la beautiful. It is bursting Into a roar, and the big car gratitude toward this smiling, clean-face- d sublime, It Is terrible. It has brought Jerked forward to bound over tht tdgt cowboy whose blut eyes flabhed mt to you with my confession. So I of tht slope, to leap down the long Inthrough team beseech you In my humble office as cline, to shoot out upon the level valI" "Danny Mains she said, tremulous yon art as glad ly and smilingly. priest ss a lover of mankind, before ley floor and disappear In moving dust Madeline endured patiently, endured me as your newt baa made If yon you send Stewart to his death, to be gold pocket for Is dissure long Interminable hours whilt holdno here there think such I merit a reward mysterious really "Then-was worst than locoed. I pensation of God. I pray you, Senora, ing to hope with Indomitable will yon may klse tnt mrtrlght" I worked like seven before you let Stewart give you free - No message- came. At sunset she With bashful wonder, but with went teen burros. I dug a lot of Bill, l, dom at such cost be sure you do not went outdoors, suffering a torment of Danny Mains availed right hearty-wilquarts, Bonlta watched the want his love, lest you cast sway accumulating suspense. himself of this gracious privilege. Night fell. Stillwell snorted. The signs of his trails for ma, brought me water. That something sweet and ennobling which She prayed for the sun not to rise, not was how sht eomt to get caught by you yourself have created." to begin Its short twelve-hou- r Journey phenomenal atnllt were manifest, othSural toward what mijht be a fatal setting New Yen Cant Say YtuNt Never erwise Msdellnt would have thought Pat Hawt an his guerrillas. for Sttwart But the dawn did lighten. Been Kissed Stewart Said. CHAPTER XXI that snort n Indication of furious dis- Pat Hawt was to set on doln' Gent dirt that he mixed up with Don Carloa. awlftly sht thought remorselessly. approval Bonlta will tell you soma ttaggerin' tlit certainty that she would kill StewDaylight had broken, and this was Newt ef Stewart Bill, straddle a chair," raid Danny. news abont art If she held the gun an Instant "You've that outfit Just now my Blinded, like a wild creature, Made Thursday I back a heap these last gont is all gold." cry few months, frettln' over longer, tortured the Sharp ringing at the telephone bell line Hammond ran to her room. She your bad story from her. Danny Mains got np and kicked back felt as If a stroke of lightning had startled her, roused her into action. an' Gene. Youll need Danny boys, Stewart stooped to pick np the his chair. Blut lightning gleamed shattered tht shadowy substance of She ran to answer the call. support under yon while Tin throwtn' -weapon. from hla eyea as ht thrust a hand tht dream she had made of real lift. neiio neno miss Majesty came of Bill." Ufa, Ht my yarn. my 6tory "You might hare saved me a h 1 of toward Stillwell. the hurried reply. "This 's Link talk- of wonder Tht for Mains' Madeline. a "Miss chair Danny story, a lot of trouble," he said, with anoth placed "Bill, old pal, put her there give me the strange regret with which she had In'. Messages for you. Favorable, tht Hammond, your beggln' pardon again, er flash of the mocking smile. "You're I want you to listen, also. You've the your hand.", he said. "You were slways realized her Injustice to Stewart, the operator aald. I'm to ridt out with beautiful and sweet and proud, but face an' eyes of a woman who loves my friend. T4u had faith In me. Well, astounding secret ss revealed by Padre them. Til come That was all. Madeline heard tht you're no thoroughbred! Majeaty to hear of other people's happiness. Danny Mains owes you, an' he owes Marcot these were forgotten In the Hammond, Billot I" Besides, somehow, it's easy for me to Gene Stewart a good deal, an' Danny sudden consciousness of her own love. bang of the receiver as Stevens threw Stewart leaped for the saddle of his talk look In' at you.' Mains pays. I want two pardners to She liberated the Then Stillwell thought that knocked It down. Favorable! horse, snd with the flying mount off the porch, he atood be help me work my gold mine. You an' at the gates of her mind. With quiv had been successful. Her heart leap Walking crashed through the meaqultea to dlt-- fore the weary horse and burro. With Gene. Go fetch him; an right here In ering lips she whispered It Then she apiar. the swift violence characteristic of this house, with my wife an' Miss spoke aloud: "I will say It hear It I I love men of his class he slipped the pack Hammond as witnesses, we'll draw up CHAPTER XX partnership. Go find hlra. BUI. 1 him I" from the burro and threw saddle and want to show him this gold, show hlra In a nature like hers, where strength bridle from the horse. how Danny Mains pays! An' the only of The Secret Told. He untied the pack and, taking feeling bad long been Inhibited as In my cup today Is that I Late In the night Madeline fell small, matter of training, such a trans sack from it be came hitter drop heavy isleep. In the morning she was pale back upon the porch. Deliberately he can't ever pay Montr Price,' forming surprise aa sudden conscious Madeline watched the huge Stillwell ness of passionate love and languid, hut In mental condition dumped the contenta of the sack at required time that prtimlsed composure. Stlllwell's feet Piece after piece of and tht little cowboy, both talking for its swakenlng, time for Ita swiv It was considerably after her regu rock thumped upon the floor. The wildly, aa they watked off arm in arm By snd by that lsst enlightening mo lcr hour that Madeline repaired to her pieces were shsrp, ragged, evidently to And Stewart. She Imagined some- ment come, end Madeline Hammond office. The door was open, snd Just broken from a ledge; the body of thing of what Danny's disappointment faced not only the love In her heart. outside, tipped back In a chair, sat them was white In color, with yellow would be, of the elder man's conster but the thought of the man she loved. ftlllwell. veins snd bars and streaks. Stillwell nation and grief, when he learned Suddenly, aa she raged, something "Mawnin . miss aia.iesty," ne said, ss grasped up one rock sfter another Stewart had left for the border. At in her this dauntless new nerannaittw he rose to greet her with his usual stared and stuttered, put the rocks to this Juncture she looked up to see i too srms against indictment of his Hps, dug Into them with his sbak strange, yet familiar figure approach Gene Stewart Her mind whirled about courtesy. Madeline shrank Inwardly him snd his life. She saw hlra drunk feitrlni his old lamentations about ing fingers; then he lay back In his ing. Padre Marcos! Mention of Padre Marcos, sight of brutal; ahe saw hlra grew art. Then he saw a dusty, ragged chair, head against the wall, and as he abandoned, lost had always occasioned Madeline Then out of the Pnr In the yard and a little burro gaped at Danny the old smile began to him, picture ahe had of a little Indefinable shock; and now, as him thus slowly drooping under a heavy pack. Both transform his face. grew one of s differ animals hnre evidence of long, ardu Danny regarded 8tlllwell with lofty he stepped to the porch, a shrunken, ent msn weak. sick, changed by man, she was snocz, growing strong, oua r ravel. condescension. "Now, BUI, whst've we stooped, and spir I .... 11 , , . - , mem, strangely, startled. "To whom do they belongT asked got here, say, offhand?" iikc an loneiy uunuj mrmi, low The bowed to her. Madeline. padre "Oh. Lord. Dsnnyl I'm sfrald to eagle, secretive, tireless,, faithful, soft "Senora. will you grant nie audi- ss a woman, hard as Iron to "Them critters? Why. Danny say. Look, Miss Majesty. Jest look st endure. ence? la a matter of great moment ana at tne last noble. It Mains." replied Stillwell, with a cough the gold. I ve lived among prospecwhich not to have tare you might any embarrassment. that betrayed tors an' gold mines fer thirty years. "Oh, It Is sll terrible T she cried. "I one hear." "I Danny Maine heref she asked, sn I never seen the beat of this.' sm his wife. His wife! That meet In sudden curWIty. Wonderlngly Madeline Inclined her Ing with him the marriage then "The Lost Mine of the Padres f bis The old cattleman nodded gloomily, cried Dsnny, In stentorian voice. "An1 head. The padre gently closed ont fall, his love, his rise, his silence, his door and then i others. tht In !" It Will Say It Hear It I "Yep. he's hysr. all right. Sloped belongs to rot pnaei And i can never be snvthlne- Uvt "Senora, I hsvt come to disclose Stillwell mad some Incoherent sound from the bills an' be hollered to see to him. Could I be anything to hlra? Him!" secret sinfulness In twa my as about be sst op fascinated, quite beside that Bonlta. He's locoed, too, keeping L Madeline Hammond? But I am his It and to Implore your pardon. Do wue. ana I love Suddenly she became weak and ber tittle black-eyehoaay. Why, he hard- himself. him! His wlfel nanos railed of their accustomed Bill, It waa some long time ago you remember that night Senor Stew- am the wife of a cowboy ! That mlt-h-t ly aald. 'Howdy, Bill,' before he began to ask wild an' eager questions. I took since you ssw me," said Danny. "Fact art dragged ma before you In tht be undone. Can my love be undone? deftness. It took her wbat seemed a at 13 OaJenT him la to see Bonlta. He's been there Is, I know how yon felt because Oene wat ting-rooan, oo i want anything undone? He thousand yeart to dress. Breakfast "Yes." replied Madeline. mrini noining to ber except that It now, snore's a half-hou- r la (tone. Gone! Could he have meant kept roe posted. I bsppened to run . Ml tier to pass dragging minutes. "Senora, since that night you hsvt fi win Rapid footsteps with an accompany across Bonlta, an' I wasn't gotn' to not mink aire of that. He neipeo ni. a low hum. mounting swift. Finally anent of vllnklng spurs sounded In the let her ride away alone, when she told been Senor Stewart's wife!" come win back. No, he never will come Madeline became aa motionless as oaca. un. what shall I ly to a roar and ending with a sharp tall way. Then a young man ran out me the wss In trouble. We hit the dor report, announced tht arrival of tht handsome, trail for tht Pelonclllos. Bonlta had stoat. Sht seemed to feel nothing. pMt (he porch. - tie was car. ir her feet had kept frsna-facewas hlra meet to an' Gent's sht horse, And on the morning ot ehe only"tr hv. At tight of Madeline pact with next day her heart she "You are Senor Stewsrt'a wife. I w..-would hart raced out tt be slammed town Ms sombrero and. nj on the trail. Wt got to the mnun went out upon the nitimni meet Link leaping at her. he possessed himself o: talna alt rfghtjn. nearly starved for nave aept tne secret under fesr of w..,.w,i, mtiara (tern, T0 BK OONTINTIID her handa.. Hia swift violence not only a few days till Gene found us. He bad death. But I could keep It no longsr, with husky. Incoherent alarmed her. hot painfully reminded got In trouble himself an' couldn't, Senor Stewart may kill mt ntw. Ah pw a message rrora EI word, banded Cajon. She Single Devotion, she wished to forget? fetch much with hint. Senora, It Is very strange to you. Tov. read: W of sotneil "Don't they aet on well torrrhrt This ewbof bent We made for the crags an built la head and I yttrtaa frightened that night yoi "EI CanitaB R . . . "ID ssy they don't They hsvt twit ti what happened. 4 wrung them, tad twbln. 1 come dowa that day Gtot anew Seno, nM Tat Am .dlsr, pews ta church - I y. - gold-bearl- n' g r Seat Ct, OaMd tj MtjJ g EB HURT? 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Ionat lt In at one window: clerk. p!fc whisper, study the check, teiephtst upstairs, make notes on I) mv doubtfully. "Augenbllckr thejfcaSl tell you which means wuC wink. You wait Others crowd abott IMnallw VOU. t0& Bill f HoiIao your bat and coat and sit dowi1 n at a picture book on the reia-Itht lobby. If you gln btlKS mavh won catch t clerks whispering together, tootffll you auspiciously. Finally. vnnr naUM tW" i and at another window a pus . la pushed out. .M t account M" number, and this number your check. Some firms their official bank account mo' "J aa--t- heir Ietterbeads.-Satur- daj Pott - at -- at no.n man may ne l brilliant the but U useful, bare to work so hard. or" A A dreamy. Imaginative though that of a genius, . utort SU iJ a rap for "opportunities. war is mc that can afflict humanity; rella-lon- . Martin one 01 - - K .1 I sad-face- d if. 1 mm raw d -- ?if. d lg snj S fi Prl. "ma I i 'J, I |