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Show f Ab MAGNA TIMES. MAGNA. UTAI1 ker to her unsteady feet If yog please, Senorlta," be aald in Eng-Usand Sonya climbed out into the npreached arms of the pilot She looked around at s amall level field, s hangar, another gray ship beyond Its open doors, all plainly visible In the floodlights that studded the field's four corners. Then the two Mexicans took her rma, and they all walked across the lighted space and out Into the moonlit darkness beyond a grove of trees. Here the lights of low. wide adobe house shone dimly; a door stood open; two women 1b dark dresses waited In- IL E2 tat 0 toti v--X' tki, to. E OF THE i.AM U 9 if Jit rt tht ,iU5 j Ti W.N.U. SERVICE jynopsis The dlshon-yZ- u caie d t nadlti drunken n grr!n allow ot Htliej to lT her-.n- d hr repenunt I test U to "Titrl leaded 'JShwSer and his wife. enraged to Rodney i JsWftw Torker b" b,r friendleee Nava-- ; ri the a wedding, ei evade Moon, wife of jjtti j mj . j ii time lone Mesa, t range L many Wffllhi abort all le a with he is Hitt nig1 ueotlaw oclock 9 miles named oldS the t ta.) l rati no toil acetic mtofto bat 1 eh again young man. eitintei his sorrow over she Indicate! for- -, twt later, at a dance, he u right name la 8tarrtl Hath goes by a differ-this region. He depart terc Mexican, with I myiterlously nnocl-- n, the cut of stated Id dry ia I Flnrer Sonya again aa w10 had nulted re- nj, her he bitterly -, (ttlea. Sonya ii unfor- With ton i throurh the Two I cateful. ild hors 1 a Navajo, ,lll"a taD, id Indian!. eheep ranch I vu tad an food l the Navajo landed on kwong the feeling of falling In An tnfluenan Indian keep Ston many daya her In her car for Sony and is Kavajos for each jr their love cornea Stake ..tut Id ArTork. hew With him 1 ia ferric operator, on th Itikan opium smuggler, miberlng an Incident nt a L (or idee Stone meet a ud Sonya 1 tknelf that th reived In th IX JTES f with th forced to man ah nefarious Continued hr past noon when she sm to the hitching rail lateral store and climbed lpi to the porch. At the mitt her hooted feet on (frits, fat and oily and 1 atbe sw Iftly from the : if the back region of the ini hastily putting some-pocket of hts white su he came, and fumbled hand free to greet her. N to shake hands with (rto nlwajs Insisted on p There w aa something J about him, a secretive I tammon understanding, p. Sited her. lie reached out his hand, efeject which hehad so In the sagging pocket K It struck the floor sound of weight and pte hue VINGIC E.ROEeei, BliaaY.tOtAWtCftlKl. to I tty 5y d side. Iwson Sonya stooped lip even hefore the and man J1t U It fell. be said quickly, tt, knew what Ur. Uaraton would give a lot to know, what he had come here to flmL What Bod Blake would help him find If he knew. Rod Blake Rod Blake on Starr Stone's tralL He would bo as unrelenting as El Capltan if once he knew all the shining things, the sweet things,. that Sonya knew, the dark things, the evil things which he knew, too. The whole terrible thing was too much for one girl's loving heart to hold, and Sonya felt as if the bottom were falling from the universe, as If soon she and all her little world would be destroyed. And then, from high np and far away, a sound fell on her ears, the thin small sound of engines In the blue coming rapidly nearer. She topped and looked np anxiously, and presently she saw It a tiny speck that grew and lowered until It was circling over her, seeking a place to land. It was the little gray ship she had seen before, the powerful blunt-nose- d thing which could land and take off with such Incredible swiftness. It was down. Its bonnclng tall stilled. Its engine throttled down but running, and a man waa climbing over the side, coming toward her across the sand. Was it, could It be, Starr Stone! She peered hard for a glint of bronse hair beneath his helmet, but could not see It, nor his eyes behind the disfiguring goggles. And then be was here, close at Darkness head, and his hand was on the bit She saw then that he was dark, s Mexican that another like him was coming from the ship -a- nd then stark drama took the silence and the still shadows. For Sonya Savarln, fighting for her life, came out of her saddle, saw Darkness sailing away In panic of fright, his . empty stirrups flying felt the sand giving under her stubborn feet, saw the ship loom large as her captors brought her, struggling, to It felt her hands held behind her. She was lifted np and put over the side Into the gray leather seat, s strap was buckled tightly around her. The man who had first approached her climbed Into the pilot's seat, the other squeezed in somewhere at her back and aide, the engine roared for a momentthe plane qulvered, surged ahead, surged faster. Its tall came up, and almost Immediately the vast spread of the desert began to drop away beneath. .. With a gasp stifled on her ashen lips Sonya Savarln was away among give the start. for some dim the little IVJ reason thing and CHAPTER X can about Across the Rio Grand. curiously. t, narrow "La Senorlta, " the pilot said to them In Spanish. You will take her to the guest chamber and bear her company." There was a marked significance In the last few words. SI," the older of the women said briefly, I will take good care of her." Sonya, speaking Spanish as web as they, Listened tensely. And tender care, Carlotta," the man said, emlllng meaningly. She Is, as you can see, very beautiful I like thle white skin, sunned though It la, and the curls In the hair. I am glad El Diablo cares only for pure gold blondes." You should wait, at least, the master's decision as to what he likes, . Manuel the woman said. ."But why did Quatro send her!" "Because she caught' him with l can of black molasses the blundering fool to approach anyone with that In sight Well care for the pretty thing, Carlotta, until El Capltan returns Well all know more then." And with s look at Sonya from under hjs level black brows he bowed and left the house. If thee Senorlta weel come weeth me," the woman said in painful English. ' You would eat! Drink! Some wine before you sleep, mebby!" No, thank you," said Sonya. She stood hesitantly, her bands clasped before her. She had no possessions to pick up. She bad lost her hat the first moment in the plane. And she realized suddenly that she waa weary to the bone. Whatever waa to happen to her, she would not help matters any by giving way to fear and worry. I would aleep, aenora," she said. I am very tired." The woman went to a table of dark polished wood and picked up candle burning steadily In a silver candlestick. Sonya followed her guide down a dark passage between thick whitewashed adobe walls and Into s spacious room, Here the woman left her, and soon returned with s pitcher of cold water and a silver cup. She asked again If the senorlta desired anything more, and finally departed. Sonya waa dismayed to bear the unmistakable falling of a bar acrosa the heavy door. Slowly she undressed herself, blew out the candle. But a thought came to her suddenly, and she went softly to the one window In the deep walla. It was closely barred with Iroa and set hard In the old adobe and on a little yard below, the two women were Just seating themselves In low chairs They were soft of manner, gentle seeming, and they carried fans In the hot moonlight She waa to be cared for to the very letter of the Taw laid down world and all It held were little can In which They were headed south bis got tobacco for pfia South toward Mexico I It waa El ttd it was shaped very Mae, having a rounded Capitan Diablo who had her In his Nat bottom. grlpl Yet El Capltan was he must be the similarity ceased, riding slowly south somewhere In plainer was made of solid the dark land below. thickly and beautifully f Very soon her heart leaped to l!? cli!no!e characters, her ,ower throat, for the ship waa falling I edge the small, Spire of a fighting cock 1 rat In has relief. I'M unbelievably heavy for the THE 1 he r iw and felt of the store I'04 took it from her so k rude. He fairly nd f dropped it once lagging pocket, this 11 was safely in. "Khed unctuously, rub-l- t Jf lure tajmonal Sonya," he ue..- - Very costly. Now, you today t him curiously Sonya iw4'1 Purchases, and he Setting them from i, L An,i turning Idly the ,nf two dark Meiican hats which r um She hat seen IJJwkmth Starr Stone, rht her purchases . SrLr - vC& she gath- Pnt wlftly ThenTstark Drama Took the and rode And and tha Still Bhadowa. Silence l0n8 l0 tlvV ,tllat Sh he had by the ses; It seemed, going sharp., ly down. And then she saw aome hpartPakS Was ,n lights spread a the flat darkness it. a landing field. er short time the In wOUld fa ktn tr"1 and tha of passed falling feeling I . ship came level again, touched, Parks and bonneed, ' lifted beautifully, and W,t?ban'1 ent, east came to rest on the earth. The man Bord- e- behind her reached around ber, unhere- buckled her safety atrip, put hla heart she hands under ber armpits, and lifted 5 pJer get-awa- y rler 1 Pouring the first bucket of concrete for the $,'! 000,000 Norris dam on the Clinch In Tennessee: 2 Four native Hawaiian dancers who danced the new "President Roosevelt Hula" for Mr. Roosevelt when he was In Honolulu. 8 National Guard trucks from Fort Ripley armed with machine guus arriving In Minneapolis for strike riot duty. 1 Dutch School Children on a Good Will Tour "They Hive Brought Him Back! Oh, Madrei" Into his eyes, to commune once more with the soul of him which, under all Its wrong and sin and spiritual loss, was yet the soul of her predestined mate, gentle end steadfast snd Irrevocably her own. And she felt that 11 would be so, that he was coming, would soon be here, though for what dire destiny only heaven Itself knew. So the long hot hours wore away, and twilight came, and with It again the senora with more food. But Sonya could not eat this time. Darkness fell again, and once again the late round moon came np, and one of the little gray chips warmed up and took oft into the starlit skies. Presently there were the soft steps of women on the flagstones Just below, the little noise of creaking chairs. The low Intonations of their voices came softly to Sonya by her window. They spoke In Spanish, as did all the people here, without regard for Hie white. woman who. eeeipedU M alien. Apparently they had not by Manuel thought that she might understand. 1 am on Thy lap, 0 Lord," the It la warm, Conchlta," the senora girl aald lnaudibly. Thy will be said, fanning; the heat la heavy done. Then ahe laid her tired body this year." SI senora heavy as my heart." on the bed and went to sleep. Muehacha," said th older womLate morning waked her, or pera womans heart U made for an, was It sound bar the tha of haps so." being slid from its slot outside the aching. It has been always But does one never find relief, door. She opened her eyes to see the senora with little wooden tray senora! Does one not forget!" "SI with the yeara. Calm thyon which were coffee steaming in a tiny pot. luscious fruit, eggs la self, Conchlta. There will be otha cup, and bread made of some dark ers." "No," said Conchlta, there will flour. wae The woman smiled at her with never be another. And once I In his srms, a crinkling of all her brown face, good for him held lived on his kisses. Now he doee and Sonya smiled back. his eyes that stare Good morning, senora," she said not see me with roe one side He ahead. pushes In English. I thank you for these me sway. still but puts gently, things. the senora. He has said "Hm," the Good morning, senorlta," child. Best look at a woman answered. I ope you sleep seen another, new man to forget One does not veree fine." build a new fire from dead ashes. Yes, I did," said Sonya, getting Say thy prayers, Concha, and ask out of the bed in her plain the Virgin Mary to send you a new which she had been one with blue eyes, to make man, forced to nse as nightwear, and I you forget." would. eat. "No," said the olher, weeping, She washed her hands and face another with blue eyes." never bowl the where in the ancient by her window stirred unSonya senora had poured the water from the pitcher, dried on the towel she easily. felt abashed to listen, yet She gave her from her arm. Then ahe there was nothing she could do, near table down the sat by dressed, since she would not let them know tha window, and fell she understood. And then, out of to with a will She waa young the silence, out of the vast diapason and very hungry, and the excellent of seemingly Inaudible sounds that food put heart in her for what the made that alienee, something struck day might bring. on her ears. It brought only the aenora again liffhtly Horses hoofs, far off and..low, to take the things away, and the on hard sand, kiriklng now Lours dragged on leaden feet She padding and against a stone, the later again sat by the window looking out rattle of chain and spur, the sound! across the yard at the of riding men. tall trees of the grove through The women below listened In sudwhich she had come the night be- den stillness, then got to their feet fore. w Iftly. This group of 24 school children from Holland arrived In New York the other day for a good will tour of the United States. NEW RULER OF ELKS King of the lron Horses stone-flagge- iron-barre- ,1Pr from around fwf- - svhe knew With s senVu41 t,,PJ were the p,nce2tpfrksr fr'fthtened, cross-contine- d . Scenes and Persons in the Current News Michael F. Shannon, Los Angeles attorney, who waa elected grand exalted ruler of the Elks at Kansas City, Mo and who called upon the half million members of the organization to become shock troops" In campaign against radicalism. DILLINGERS NEMESIS Here la Engine 6402 of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St Taul and Taclfle railroad which recently broke all existing steam locomotive records for five-ca- r speed sustained over a distance of 10 miles or more, naullng a an 00.6 mile It to run from Chicago Milwaukee, averaged train on the hour for the 68.9 miles between Mayfair, 111., and Lake, Wls. At one time It attained a speed of 103 miles an hour. This was a demonstration trip and la not to be maintained aa a regular schedule. under-garment- palms together, taacco, Miss y Bayfor say, them all. And El Diablo took few chances With those who knew too much. He crucified them. There was no mercy In that wild dark face of hla. A woman who knew too much waa Just n source of danger to himself, nothing more. Parks the bland owner of a simple store nt n lost little station on the railroad. Parks who could so easily send mall flat cans of contraband to New York city In crates of Innocent western produce; lettuce, say, from the Imperial valley, or even bales of hldea. She knew Bow hj she had alwaya dlsllked him, hy she had felt a repugnance to his speech, the oily handshake. And It was Parks Who had sent the little gray ahlp, hidden no doubt on aome flat among the weathered mesas south of town, to take her and bring her here. And shat n It had been! She, Sonya Savarln, was gone completely, e helpless prisoner here In an alien country, In the very heart of El Dlablos stronghold, her fate resting In the hands of the crnelest killer In nil the turbulent land. It only Fate permitted her to see Starr Stone again, to look five-tae- high-celle- d PAGE TORES Scene of Tragic Bus Accident d stone-flagge- d aaj. AndJbftJlarJlrQWKUtself Madr-4e- ok quick P1 the yeunger Try aa she would, her moiling brain one said swiftly, there In the stawould not relax. Thoughts raced bles lantern light Quince 1 They through It,- - one on the heela of have brought him back I Oh, madrei" the other. Sonya leaped tocher feet, her Wbat had happened to Starr hands clutching tha old Iron bars, Stone! Where was he! What her face pressed close to them. would El Capltan -- do with him! There bad been something In ConWith ter! So It waa opium which cha's voice when she cried Quince! Parka had dropped at her feet In Oh, madrei" which explained her tha heavy brass container and she, tears. (TO Btt OOMTUOTttfiJ having seen It, waa a menace to ' " Melvin PurvlachlefjafjheJghl eago office of the division of investigation of the Department of Justice, led the squad of federal men who - All that remained of a passenger bus carrying fifty persona after It trapped and killed John Dllllnger, left the road and plunged down a forty-foot embankment at Ossining, the notorious murderer and bandit N. Y.- - Sixteen of the passengers lost their lives when the gasoline tank exploded, enveloping them In a sheath of flame. Panama Land Bridge He land bridge of the Isthmus of Coldest Month In ArctSe Driest ef Freeh Fruit Panama first linked tha Americas la the coldesT'month la of February la the driest accordavocado The' about 20,000,000 years ago, Arctic. the fresh fruits. ing to & geological estimate. "" ' |