Show ll 11 B r L R CO Y OLD MEXICO alinan WAR ka aa A NOVELIZED FROM THE PHO SERIAL OF THE SANIE SAME NAME RELEASED BY THE UNIVERSAL FILM manufacturing COMPANY SYNOPSIS horton II orton american heiress and owner ot of a i iario 1 argo irgo Mi maxian exl xian an estate Is tap call buted a ami id hold tur ransom by luan lopez u anotol Alex ican N we twe ul in nis his camp she novt chears a plin plan to attack an american Am cilian town and fariny tamp sho es ci capes with tile tild aid or of pedro tl a 0 ber bercant vant and walla party bedded b by V united copt capt robert of tile lie ll 11 xa rangers stop top pursuit ablio lie rk aldis to wit tile americans but is la too late lalo and tho the Alexi mexicans cans attack they are aio by american soldiers unit that night poncho leon icon threatens the major with exposure of misappropriation of funds funda left in fit his eare carr c arr lie majur major winston forces ones liberty to marry his son I 1 manuel th the major refuses ty who ho liaa has heard little alio argument bet belpon pon on pancho and tho the major steps into the tha room and to save alive alio ho major major s honor she agrees to marry many manuel lanuel prevents pedro arom killing manuel the marriage baltes place alm o major wonston Wl with e leaves to join the troops who have in it alio 0 nuan mean ilan almo rev revolved elved orders to crisc broso old alia line and bring ba bak it dead or alave th parties pa re for the tha Disco discovery vory outrage outface man luel KOCH to Li bertys a room that night and la is watched by therese liberty tells him that she Is his wife in nimo name only As AB lie ho Is it anani therese attempts ottem pta to kill manuel manucl pedro arrives at tho the hacienda in time to hear har thereby telling liberty that although she la a wife alfr in the eyes of the liw law in tho the eyes of ILI bol bho therese Is his wife pedro con confirms tirma this statement manuel manucl joins lopez makes a desperate ellort to escape lopez lope attempts to blow up anderl kin erlean an troops tit nt lacinda but tha plan la Is foiled by liberty an aviator arrives lit at tho ilia ca camp m p or major mam winston alth orders and goes to ald aid hob bob who rolar troop troopers rs la Is rounded ou n ell in I 1 n a hut after aate r ca raping numerous perils in the canyon cannon Lit liberty erty aad pe pc dro alro are arc picked up by b an all airplane clout aho vho starts back with them to lo cain lopez who ho realizes that ir if tile the airplane ne gets hack back to Wins tons column there will ho be no surp ilse attack tile machine gun turned on the party manuel flies fires but alises them whereupon lopez lope i takes lakes charge charee of the run gun himself c f and fires arci disabling the machine the t party lieve lave a miraculous esaly egi es ap alj when the airplane drops to eat eartle t 11 wl where ter t it t Is tricked ed liberty anti anil I 1 bedro d ro are i boado n a d 0 pilson irs ers by lopez lopes but they manare age to escapa 3 redro c ro i aldei des to warn marn major or winston of the pro proposed osell attack while starts off to iland nd the rangers rhe ilia la is overtaken however however hy by two of the bandits edits sent out b by loaz pez to find her an and they bring rin tier her back ac to his camp callip while lie he Is in fit the midst of a drunken aigy liberty la Is placed in a hut and that night j 11 manucl cornea to claim her As As lie KO H m to lo lasp tier her in hs libil arms ile he Is shot and falls fahs lifeless nt at her ter toot feet A woman then enters tilt room and placing the TUH gun at tier own head pulls the trigger anil and falls across his dead body A mexican detach ment eon como a upon the and fani lal 1 lib it orly arty with the revolver in tier her hand and take her to prial in hie lopez und band I 1 attack major Wins tons trooper rs 4 th tin americana meet major wenston listell is wounded t lie ie while tim HIP luia aliment Is on n Us its way to UA elili they come across ui ross the up loui allure ot pedro who lia hii ln thrown from ills its horse while ol kolalis Alis na to winston ing tons a camp lie ile Is iam nl a and at iliev take k ill him alon vath liberty bob whit alio lias has hem been told held at bay hy by a bani band of inbur arectos rectos 8 manages to cheap major why aton beona troops are ara the major por blin himself self bling ti alio a only one lett 1 have pedro and liberty arrive at chihuahua anil and aro are thrown into nils cells pedro mak ft a v I ious effort to esl cs and kiln kills oil one of file L d lie he Is ie a and n I 1 taken to tc the t li e torture forture albert who ho in ili the meantime Is endeavors t to free 11 herself partially succeeds oi 01 to pod find herself imprisoned in a buiten n chamber she gives up hope the aar loses its ills senses and anders out on n t the I 1 le lesert desert lie ho found unconscious rutledge pedro who linn hall been tortured almost to t the lie point of death Is binally thrown down clown a chuto chute and lands in a 11 pout pool in the lie chamber where liberty if imvris knetl abed bhe saves eaves him film from drowning seventeenth EPISODE A trail of blood after liberty hoa e cd 1 I tile tho poor lave they both begun began to look toa for of escape isedro in niini id to drug himself to lili ills feet although it wea pil hid and III find anti slowly groped ed ills his way viny around the wull walls staggering gering to H lie went ent ills fair mistress dis heartened and jid eveary stood gazing into tin the sag nant pool tit nt the ugly ui l looking reptiles occasionally pushed their above the eurlace eur face und and to vl clouspy cloudily threaten liar ter with alth their evil eyes it was no place for the most villain greater lit in 31 mexico exico she mused and even it dog clog could I lot ot live in ili tills this ill smelling pm elling hole very long death would COMP come US na it relief to any prisoner surrounded by wilh seemed almost impossible the Ilias massive Sive stones which made up tit the walls had lit d rested hero here for more than half it century ind and the clay that held them together as is obstinate as steel they could almost withstand the attack or of nn an irmy not to mention the weak uti ati attempts tempts of two such helpless tit als as pedro and hen bene elf at that moment slip wits was awakened froni from tier her reverie by pedro who crept softly over totter to lier side alio was frightened as aa lie touched tier glicr arm senorita lio ili whispered come look pedro think lie he und flud way to escape and nd I 1 e led tier her over to the lie wall which run ran t a length or of the room what Is it pedro stio site inquired tier her hopes rising n little olvo pedro your and senorita neld aid alia slave its as lie lia reached for tier her hand in the dark liberty put out tier her linn arin find pedro taking her hand placed faced it on a large stone htone which was projecting from tile will va 11 see senorita ho he said softly it Is in very near out of its place if pedro coil can loosen it maybe inns bo wo can escape it is 13 too licary pedro suggested as rhu ehu passed her hands A over anil and around the massive stone 11 1 think pedro ean un move 1 ho he rt r piled confidently perhaps Ver haps both of us could move it from its pit pin t p willed hided liberty no no ita said tile the nian pedro can move alone lie ile must move inove it if it will only lead pit us outside continued linued the girl nervously we vo cun can only hope it will sald po pe dro Us ns lie stooped and it in tile darkness placed ills his shoulder underneath the object Li bertys heart thumped with antica p lt loti tion slie site felt certain tills this wull will was tile the only thing which separated herself 11 and till isedro from freddow frechou pedroe ic dro will inove it lie sum said tir nn lio lie luli ored hard to efto tit thu stone from its place As lit lio strained every muscle in his treat great lack black body liberty stood brood beside lint hlin and waited for some assurance f roin him t flat its ills efforts If torta were being belli warded sit shu could not see liliu it was too dark but site she board blin mutter and groan a as lie ho rut every ounce of if ills his strength into tile work sho she move she move lenori tit lio lie gasped as lie he withdrew ills sho uller and locked ills aruis aritis about the huge boeller bowlder bow lder ller you must rest dedro liberty who realized tile taiti terrible strain on oil the ohp poor alme aldro IL dro never rest until sono ritia free fcc returned the faithful old mexican it seemed to liberty its though sho she stood there for hours while pedro tugged ut tit tile the stone to force it from its place then its as she was about to give up tip hope pedro jumped back against her its he look out senorita altu here it comes I 1 As pedro felt the weight ot of tilt the stone mone agal rist lits ills ludy hody lio lie let it RO go und and quickly st it I 1 aside taking with him it was well vell ho bo did for the next M the stone dislodged and slipping off file edge of the wull fell with all its mighty weight that shook ili he ground groU their feet Pall sing only for it second to get hn his breath hrent li pedro aided liberty Ll lorty through the aperture unit oud then sprang utter titter lier her li bertys liport afat rapidly anticipation of es cripe for slie site felt tain when oboy were once through the lie vall mull the rest would mould be easy fur for one who mho possessed lucli courage im HH alro llo wever us its soon its s the two to prisoners liml had crawled through the opening slie she realized liow how badly li illy she w ns is finla taken they had duped for thoy they found in it u steel lined ber abich pas p as us as linart us its it 11 f fortissa fort r ire iosa ss und more terrible than the 0 onu lie they hall kiil just left ifft she bho was vas right tilt stone had been loosened by the gunardi merely us its it plant pl and while alle pedro had been working orkin ork ln to reindove it some ome s or 0 them lind I 1 td becq peering peer liiK ti rough tin an aperture Hinr tuio lit in tile steel gloating cruelly us as they looked ou on they liae trichel til clied w isedro ledr lc dr said liberty as stio site gazed buzed about the great trel steel walle wu wo no beaten yet iet senorita said tile the slave hut but liberty wits HB not so curtain certain the were composed of UK hig steel plute clutes 4 riveted together with great henvy bolts nothing but a could save them now for there wits not eytel u window the nearest alne thing to one was us it cinalt panel near hiir the tot top of the wall was shoved aside liy by the gaure us as they stood grinning nt at tile lie two lu prisoners who mho wore were now at mavy one of these guard pulled a cord rang a bell directly over our two tuo ilex learis who ho were stationed in ili front of a furnace wits MIS located under th tho esteel stoe hiniker hi niber w hearing kie to bell these two began to sent eonia of tilt aliu which was us piled high ulious thein tl iLin into the fire liberty who half nu nov given up ill tn in despair was ns stunt ling against the wall looking helplessly nt at the ilia old kluve who refused to RO give up tip hopt hop and wui vii closely sl tile platts platis nud and rivets which compo composed sid their prison suddenly liberty drew buck back front from vie the wall in ili terror my god they ara going to burn its alovel slie she cried as site elia turned to a no no senorita I 1 cried pedro they would not do that nut but the girl took lint by tho the arm and led him over ovar to tile tho wall where she ehe had been standing olid anti placed ills his hund hand against the steel it was quite manu ile ho held bold it there then for a moment mid and halted tt it heated ills bitress mi tress i was unlit right they the inte intended nim to destroy theiu in fit this mis fur micol ance 1 bor or liuo time clivy chiy both stoil od tit in silence ns its they tin tilt death holcli awaited tin tile in iii liberty turned nuil tilt nil agonizing appeal to pedro and lie he realizing ren lUlng lahti wlas nothing ho tio ilo looked down don into tier lur lanuti li fill countenance with mith till nil the misery in his givart lili depie teil tit in his dougli face iri ire knew sw now that they had been tricked unit it lie glared with the great est linfred diat ji it ever filled a finans in ins soul tit nt tilt A lebell fino face of UP tile liin call who w looked down oil nil them thein front thu the little opening niall ath evil ill ii lili ills at that inocent the guard moved lo 10 a virid lass which holcli wits in ili a small room directly across from the steel number chamber unit and began turning tt it instantly tile walls mills of tilt alio chamber bogan began moving nio lil lit in As afi the lie two noticed tills till liberty became lic canu stricken with terror anti falling un till her ancis began to pray vi alls moved rapidly together tind it seen teI its though liou cli liberty nud and pedro would bo be cru alicd to picas thoi that mt hi the walls alls were so cloro that pedro coula ameo its his fret feet tig afriat t onu one wall all tilt his buck back th the other which of course pitted ill his against tile the wall lit the wilid and enss the slave sine know knew this was v 11 8 ills his only chance or living liberty all and 1111 himself self anti oci even then lie he was ns not certain how biow long lie ho could keep keel this position iaun av e I 1 i US as lie ho wondered lie heard ono one of alm ill instruct ln one of the mexican s to assist the like mail tit nt the windlass bu hut t pedro tit did not fear mid lind lip lie biped himself against the vails forming ti a human wedge between the li plates 0 ot steel which threatened tit nt tiny moment to smash ilia into powder ponder and us its laiq in till did this liberty stood trembling tor foe slie she r alliod tier her life was hanging by al i single thread tin end and if dedio weakest 1 one it mount meant certain death fot for both of then hut but ppdro benken cn and byl b straining every even muscle I 1 he I 1 held ell th tha walls alls apart the men nt at tile Ind liisi brought till nil their strength to henr bear bua attio wei unable to turn the naheel hecl unil further f they tilled called for help and nd thi men nicci nt at tin the fur furnace nave hearing run to their assistance then the food jfe M W t a F N I 1 r MK 1 I 1 tp r 3 FU death beath would come as a relief to any prisoner surrounded by these tese walls placed ull till their strength against tile wheel but it would could not move they paused for un an instant us as they stared lit at each ac li other won wondering doring what eliat could be ba tile he matter titter in although they malsed rul bcd their hands only fur for it second the windlass began tu to reverse tile the men tried to stop it but they ret get a grip on oil lt it so rapidly did it split spin the walls vails ba gan fean to move buch ancl into place very rap rapi idly and pedro wua was freed from ills position sit foll which bad almost him Li bertys henrt began to leap with lih joy und yet she bhe wondered whether tho ilia mexicans mt alcons were playing another trick on them perhaps Iorli niia they neild bring the aliu walls ulla together sudden when hon wey they discovered the ilia prisoners e not arc pared anti thus kill thein instantly it if such was their plan it would at least klist be more merciful thin the slow derith death which stared them in thu the face but it a moment before sudden death would be indeed wei coine then something which surprised both liberty and pedro one of the ht milli in moving buck bitch was carried beyond its place by the momentum momen timi und anti left nit an open space larko large enough for un an individual to pass through ae ac dro saw t it and so sn did liberty it was a miracle without uttering a avord the 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