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Show THE BULLETIN CARMEN By FRANK H. SPEARMAN SYNOPSIS Don Alfredo, wealthy, Spanish owner of a Southern California rancho. refuse! to heed aeveral warning! of a raid by band of outlaw!. Sierra Indiana. One day after ho haa Anally decided to aeck the protection of the nearby million for his wifa and family, tha Indiana ftrlka. Don Alfredo la killed and his two young daughters are torn from the anna of the family"! faithful maid, Monica, and are l. carried away to tha hllla. Padre missionary friend of the family, arrives at the ruin! of the ranch and learns the story of the raid from Monica. After a trying and difficult trip across the plains and mountains from Texas to California, youthful Henry Bowie, a Tex- as adventurer, with his friends, Ben Pardaloa and Simmie. an Indian scout, alght the party of Indians who have car ried off the two little girls. The three Texans attack tha war party of fifty odd Indiana. The girls are saved. The group makes Its way out of the hills and meets the distraught Monica, the children's maid. The glrla are left with Monica and tha friendly Padre at a mission, and the Texans proceed to Monterey. Hera Bowie completes his Business for Gen. sam Houston of Texas, who has commissioned him to deliver an Important message. Bowie decides to have a look at tha wild untamed California. Bowie disappears but returns eight years later and makes the acquaintance of a friendly Spanish family at the Rancho Guadalupe. He Is attracted by the lovely Carmen, daugh ter of Don Ramon, the rancho a owner. Bowie saves Don Ramon's life In a fierce fight with a hum grizzly bear. Don Francisco, youthful heir to the rancho's acres. Is captured In a battle with Indian raiders. Bowie sets out to help his friends. Pas-qua- CHAPTER VH1 Continued Ramon's face lighted. The details were worked out The two scouts, Pardaloe and Simmle. were offered, and later accepted, work as vaqueros. But with the understanding that when the wanderlust seized them they were free to head for the mountains, where. In fact, they bad spent most of their time In California. After the difficulties had been ironed out Don Ramon ordered horses. Bowie wss Introduced to Pedro and his vaqueros as major-domo. Taking Pedro, Pancho, Par daloe and the Creek with them, Don Ramon and Bowie spent hours riding over the valley and through the hills granted by the king of Spain to his favored retainer, Don Ramon Estrada, grandfather to the present Don Ramon. Dona Maria had been told of the new arrangement She was so pleased that she hastened to Car men to tell her of the coming of Bowie. Carmen looked up with a face almost as black as a thunder cloud. "Whv. Carmen." protested her mother, "don't you like it?" Tike it?" exclaimed the impetu ous girL "An Americano to come to Guadalupe? Could not Father have picked anybody but an Americano to take poor Francisco's place?" But Carmen was at least mistress of her feelings and she kept them to herself. At dinner that night there was present a new member of the Don It was a bootless search with no signs of the Indiana. Daylight wai well advanced by the time the lour had covered the canyon and Pedro had signaled for the honei. Riding back, the quartette found the vaqueros riding in circles over the scene of the fight of the day be fore. They had counted, when Bow ie rejoined them, the bodies of eleven dead Indians, but there wai no sign of Don Francisco. Once more Bowie ordered the party up the can yon to pick up the trail. He him self was riding slowly ahead, alone and under a driving rain, across field of loose rock and shale when his eye was drawn from the trail by an object lying near to a clump of stunted trees. He reined toward it, looked again, hesitated, then sprang from his hone. It might be the naked body of a dead Indian. But a closer look brought a shock; It was n the body of Don Fran cisco. A saddle blanket was stretched on the around. The dead lad was wrapped in it and slung across the back of a horse, and with every precaution against ambush the sober horsemen made their way back to open country and the ranch. At Bowie's insistence Pedro rode ahead to break the news; he himself did not feel equal to it Loud wails greeted the little cavalcade as it approached the rancho. Servants and children made no effort to restrain their grid At the ranch house door Don Ramon, stern faced and bitter, stood with Dona Maria, who was supported by Carmen, the two women in tears. They suppressed their sobs as best they could while Don Francisco was awkwardly but tenderly carried in by the tall Texan and laid on the young Don's own bed and in his darkened rain-sodde- Pleasing Motifs for R ANCHO Frtnk H. Spearmaa Pot and Pan Holders ;. t it m si .waWSW" y1 n ils art first fall needlework, FOR our prailH hit mnm atrjnroDri- - WNU Service CHAPTER IX has sent me. The Indians were led by Yosco. He has carried away At Don Ramon's suggestion Bowie twenty-fiv- e girls and women and Mar-tine- s was msde captain of the company. horses. hundred Padre three begs you will send help today. and it was agreed to obey his orders. 'You all understand. I suppose, He fears they will be back tonight that we must depend on Sanchez to carry off more of the women." Don Ramon raised his hand. "Ten to take us to the canyon?" explained Padre Martines we will send help." Bowie. "If we fail to find theIs Indi lost cave our work The horseman, touching his fore ans in the into follow we them can't because A cutter of head, whirled away. skeleton com hoofs and a trail of dust marked the mountains with a We are taking the chance of pany. the to the his way across valley X think, a good southern ranches. The group on the finding them. chance. Sanchez, we are ready to him. watched porch when you give word." Don Ramon looked to Bowie. "We start When 'A few moments, senor. mission said. "The must act," he shows in the east we star the big must be protected." said the Indian In a very "What about their soldiers?" de start" voice. low manded Bowie of Pedro, "Hasn't "And when the column moves, not this worthless government enough a word is to be spoken by anyone," to supply regard for the property added Bowie to the company. "Not guards for it?" He did not wait for nor a cough nor a laugh said he answer. an "Pedro," sharp norwhisper a sneeze, mis is no nouaay ly, "fetch Pardaloe and Simmle . some of us may not come Who is this?" he asked. A second ride You are going against a chief unobtrusive vaquero had stood at back. with the reputation of being the Pedro's elbow, listening to every mountain outlaws. Santhe wiliest of word. we need every precauchez says "This is Sanchez, my right-han-d tion. Are you all in moccasins? If is "He Pedro. answered trailer," provide yourselves here. Look frantic. Among the girls Yosco has not, to rifles, carbines, knives and your stolen is his sweetheart, Amelita, ammunition. If there is s fight your "He knows the mountains?" asked there will be no time to correct our Bowie. mistakes. Yosco will do that tor "Born and lived there. He is us." down here only two years." At midnight the ghostlike column "And Yosco has stolen his girl? had penetrated the higher mounmused Pedro. a in the halted Sanchez tains. party "They were to be married soon. Here they dis"You should have some idea of small grassy glade. Don Ramon Three mounted. men, where this Yosco hides." said Bow- and two were detailed to vaqueros, no is "He ie, eying Sanchez closely. the horses above the glade doubt the same wretch that killed guard the trail could be followed only on him. We must get Don Francisco. foot The advance was begun single Where does Yosco hide?" file, and like a writhing black ser"Senor," muttered the stolid Mar pent the column of armed men iposa, "he has three places." wound Its way, at times faintly vis"Which is the closest:" ible in the light of the stars, and at "If he is in the closest he cannot times disappearing into the eclipse h taken. You must wait till he of a mountain shoulder. Not a word goes farther up in the mountains. was spoken the Texan knew the Bowie was impatient "Tell me, tricks of Indians and left nothing to talk faster: where is this closest chance. place?" he asked curtly. The going grew rougher than that "In a canyon of the Santa Maria of the sierra they had crossed. BowRiver, high up in a cave" ie halted at times to give the col- Pedro interrupted. "I know that bit cave, senor. It opens on a can yon wall five hundred feet high. The cave is halfway up, reacneo oy ledse not three feet wide. 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Send orders tot motifs MOPS, WAX, DUSTEBS, CUANEM AND FLY AND MOTH 8MAY AUNT MARTHA Kansas City, Mo. Enclose 13 cents for each pattern desired. Pattern No. Bos 1M-- Man a Knot of Roots man is a bundle of relations, a knot of roots, whose flower and fruitage is the world. Emerson. A Name Address NATIONAL OPEN GOLF CHAMPION SAYS. I TURNED 70 CAMELS EXTRA MILDNESS FOR AND FOUND SEVERAL OTHER SWELL EXTRAS INCLUDING EXTRA .SMOKING. TO- OSLOWER BURNING SURE IS THE TICKET FOR STEADy SMOKING. wide?" Wide, senor." "We will try for the cave, Pedro." "But, senorI" Bowie shook his head. "We will start tonight What say. Sanchez?" The Mariposa did not speak. He With a face almost as black looked at the ground, thinking. Don .as a thunder cloud. Ramon, Dona Maria, Carmen, wait MILDNESS household, and he was received by ed in suspense. as CVTtl the family with the perfect courtesy "Sanchez," asked Bowie casually, COOLNESS of their training and traditions. Bow 'are you afraid?" ' into -Aa was bit Indian The taunt stung the l-Tfl ie, in spite of himself, FLAVOR Perhaps that was why words. "For himself, Sanchez rears Amwont was stolen his his has than Yosco more talked he nothing. He was likewise conscious of choos- elita. Sometime," Sanchez spoke GET THE "EXTRAS" WITH ing his words carefully in tha new slowly on, "sometime Sanchez will at ears SLOWER-BURNIN- G kill him." tongue because of listening the lower end of the table. "You speak like a man, Sanchez. But help us now to get back the Within a short time the rancho horses and the mission women. Can room. routine had already become so es- you take us to the cave?" ar nil iMilual tablished that the presence of Bowie i Don Ramon summoned Dr. Doane Aeain the Mariposa paused. "I "We are two hundred feet from Monterey, and under his skill- seemd a part of the considerable can take you to me cave, amor. .EXTRA from the cave." Mari But the only chance would be to surful hands the features of Don Fran domain. Pedro, a amoKCS cisco, as he lay in the candlelight posa Indian, took to Bowie from prise them. If they discover you umn a chance to close up; and an PER comn. one of told checked him his in Simmle rough the next night the start first every man you take along will occasional cautious "Hlstl" PACK! were less terrible, more nearly nat- fairly stiff brush in company with be killed. Do you want to take that the movement whfla Sanches felt THE CIGARETTE out the rocks for further ascent He ural and, in some measure, more the Texan and how he bad taken chance?" which a trail was consoling to those who gathered stock of his bearing when baptized along following "Whv not? And we must start OF COSTLIER TOBACCOS around him to recite the prayers of bv a cloud of arrows. In the esti Sanchez nodded assent each man was cautioned in the low tonight" of the face to the the dead. Indeed the whole night mation of an Indian one characterisest hug whisper before We must get to the cave heard their voices raised to heaven tic ranks above all others steadi daybreak." The Indian nodded precipice they were mounting Hour one. Pedro in intercession for a dear ness under fire. Every day where a misstep would have piungea again. "We shall need you lor a man hundreds of feet into the by hour croups of the household. and his fellow Indian vaquero, Pant Led by the Nose Obligation Is Slavery I below. from master and mistress to the cho, rode the valley and foothills guide." is thraldom, and nose the canyon him leads The devil Obligation by be could A small cloud of dust lowliest of the servants, relieved one of Guadalupe with Bowie, who gradAt Ions last the struggling ranch thraldom is hateful. Who the dice too often throws. "Those horizon. northern on the seen had they not been men of another in vigil beside the rude bier. ually applied to its better manage are rancheros," said Bowie. "They eros, who, would have sunk under tha Next day, lying before the mission ment the experience and practice of will be here soon." spirit, exhaustion of their long and dangeraltar while Padre Martines and his a Texas cattlemaa twos The rancheros rode up in ous climb, were led in the darkOne morning word came to the Franciscan assistant intoned the and threes. Felipe and Jose Marti ness to a rock raided had Indians the victhat rancho chimney In the sheer In SALT LAKE CITY Mass cf Requiem, the youthful nez from Pinole: Antonio Bernal tim seemed in his repose almost to the mission. Two hundred horses from Santa Teresa, Francisco Soto face of the precipice. Within the and fifteen women and walls of this they could stand In a speak words of consolation to those were missing from El Molino; Pedro Arguello group. who still mourned him with unceas- rirls taken. The storeroom was from San Miguel; Sebastian Pache"We are two hundred feet from ing sobs. Bowie had never seen robbed and emptied. VicentL Alviso from what do you think co and Ignacio "Senor Bowie, The the funeral. cave," whispered Bowie to those Catholic such a just The sun was hot Francisco Soto, nearest him. The splashing of a the Ramon asked Don raid?" of this revermarked the solemn ritual, who was pugnacious but fat, sug- small waterfall in the canyon made ence, the uplifted hands of the sup Texan at breakfast is another of gested moving to the shade of the it possible to speak in whispers; this thinks "Pedro tnose Joined the altar. at by pliant rail-mo- ved Yosco's Jobs. Pedro knows these portico Bowie vetoed the sugges- the news was cautiously relayed to uplifted at times at the altar us ktep away from the the whole company. him beyond any spectacle he mountain Indians pretty welL But tion. "Let servants' time ears," he suggested. certain: one every there's "Take a last look at your carthing had ever witnessed. are not all to be bines and rifles. Have your knives Choice oftheDiscriminatingTrareUr Indians "These successful raid a make they Dr. Doane spent the night at Indians we don't surprise Yosco, If trusted. need The next trail the for rushed. bolder if we're They are handy Bowie with Guadalupe and sat late he will surprise us: that Indian must splits here. Sanches wants six voland Don Ramon. Again the mas- a lesson." 400 ROOMS 400 BATHS be a smart hombre." He slowly. unteers to follow him up another spoke with the talked ter of the rancho The conference moved, as a com hundred feet He will post them "What shall we doT" asked Don Texan about taking over the manfo to the shade of a spread high above the cave where they can him. promise, interrupting Ramon, domain. agement of the great "I know of but one thing," con ing oak. Two nours went to im fire down at the raiders or roll boul Our $200,000.00 remodeling end nfumiahing program ham "Now more than ever I need you, is to go after pressing on the group the details of ders on their heads who wants tn "that tinued Bowie; mode available the finest hotel accommodations in the Don Ramon quiSenor Bowie," said them. Anyway, that's what we used the plan of attack. "Ana i aon t go? But" be sdded truthfully, "you West AT OUR SAME POPULAR PRICES. was right my etly. "My nephew to do down on the Staked Plain want anyone to ride into this without should know that if we're licked arm; without him, I am helpless. when they got too troublesome. warning him of the danger," said there's no possible salvation for CAFETERIA defenseAnd without him, well-nig- h six." There's another angle in this for me. Bowie as the meeting broke up. "It DANCE DINE less. He has handled the vaqueros. Don Ramon. This Yosco led the is a dash Into enemy country. If these BUFFET DINING ROOM man of the twenty-lgEvery IsosfffW matanzas, the arranged Ike managed raid that resulted in the death of our attack fails some of us will not volunteered, fhree rancheros and MIS, J. H. WATIM, PresMMt the sale of the hides and tallow. Don Francisco murder I call it, for come back, and if anyone wishes to three vaqueros were chosen. Like MIRROR ROOM from Moacgers These marauding Indians no hard men chosen for death, the six with the boy was killed after he was drop out now there will be encourSUTTON ROSS HOLMAN WATfaSeee'W. be will bolder, J. on now EYEIY SATURDAY EVENING they wounded. He was my friend. I'd feelings. We meet at eight o'clock their guide crept and crawled to the aged by this partial victory . . . travel from here to hell-fir- e to punish at the mission." difficult post Even Bowie, with last Don Ricardo." he said, addressing That night the Spanish blood was keen ears, awaiting with the main his murderer." Dr. Doane, "will you not also lend still were manner and His Every don who had been sum- body the return of Sanches, could up. speech your voice to persuade our Texan deliberate, almost cold, but his tone moned was on hand at the evening hear nothing of the volunteers after friend to become, as you have, a they bad gone fifty feet carried conviction of deadly intent rendezvous. Calif or niano?" had been hand"Now," whispered Sanches on his numbers cut short Pedro, was Their he Acain over. "Give me tonight to think it rancheros to run return, by "you have kept quiet Keep had supplemented somely hurriedly hand, in Don Ramon." said Bowie at last hat Try not to start a single "Vaauero from the from the south in all twenty-eigh- t u quieter. doorway. In any "Tomorrow I will decide. buys something more than space and circulation in rode from the mission that chip of rock under your feet for it exclaimed. men he misiionl" event, I thank you. Good night" candown the of out the the all rattle will way the stronghold for followed the columns of this newspaper. buys space and The Don with Bowie, night After breakfast next morning walL They are in the cave-t- hat Santa uanyon. in Maria Indians law yon Maria and Dona consideration Carmen, of our favorable the circulation plus Bowie and Don Ramon sat down in closely by much I know now. Get on your The mes- - It was only a handful of men for to the hastened portico. feel still office. "If its you the rancho readers for this newspaper and advertising patrons. was bareheaded and bis an invasion, but they were twenty-eigh- nt hands snd knees this time for tha you !"ant to go ahead, Don Ramon," min we've givin-athink of them," I climb. got each last capable men, and restive. flecked said Bowie, 'I'm inclined to come horse foam ABOUT account of himself. (TOBECONWSVED) He sooke last "Padre Martinez la stay here with you." rVTra. rVrrt 5 an GMei full-blood- 0 YOU on your dustclotht THE HOTEL Rates: $2.00 $4.00 ht MERCHANTS' Your Advertising Dollar It LET US TELL YOU MORE IT |