Show COW J SYNOPSIS CrT APTER L ton on the isolated tto latel meager ranch conr the southern ou thern border deb orah meredith trat trained nett nune nurse 14 1 in it attendance on ure mrs meager whose hue hus band bond bae hall recently been killed vio via tim of an accident Acel dort immediately after aft the th death bob meager urn fleecer n arrive ana slid take takes 11 II 1 ingulf to deborah and he e to leave rave but there that seems em no possibility of hr or 9 0 way away 1000 A p arr R II 11 mbaye leafe cis r to ever over deborh tell nir I 1 her bar he tie bat ha sent nt for a justice of the tag peace who will marry them tomorrow horrified the girl cure a revolver CHAPTER IT the itce justice Cor corbeit neit us u garrity and besoin friend of 1 arrive w with ith party conf th them a m the 1 risco kid R tot ous rt d prado the thal girl lock herlt herself up a 47 borcea W meager decoy decoys deborah from the room and d diplo ur protests pro the justice ps reforms tle Pr ilage ceremony im sat erward she h escapes cap and reaches raati ra oti her nor loom toom V seeks 1 the th firl girl but she h stung tun him with th the revolver r und rushes to the stable tb lea ii hop ienir to secure cure borr horse and escape capr any away from mosir r if ih he must die in the desert in the table bles she lie meta the frisco kid somehow he tromp trot her with confidence and she he explain explains the situation Itu atlon he nit at a t having been at it the i chaiten VI th to 11 hr bar hi him name 1 is daniel kellen xelen kell en tt alt at hi h I 1 no friend of maar mairer maa r and r 1 9 wo MO horses hor the pair 1 ride into th d inert ta 1111 I arter MT alons 1 with the ga girl become becomes somewhat ome what ap app rehe vivo but bt he tell her of hie his service in france where deborah had been a nure nuree and she put puts full faith in him CHAPTER explain explains I 1 that bat the frisco kid Is I 1 a ma manufactured u fac chara character ctr that he be in really 4 captain in the regular or briny my betm T led to run derwa a gang of tb thieve yes and murrley murr ler 0 ra 0 of arm a r into mexico among thera mexer and d garrity mexico CHAPTER IX nhyle the eirl girl is I 1 op ang ech exhausted used kelleen tatar t r from ar a m hidani place piece deboraa decea r lt hec n h him IM talk I 1 ng with juan sanchez aro alsoc clate tat 0 O 0 of t mo and from the con 0 ri 1 he be belleveau bel levea kelleen helleen to be really member nt the caric lift ap P pro re deturi turied ed ahe meek to escape but ie to elied by a con cled mail CHAPTER deborah a captor car ties re her to hat ts Is apparently a cave clys tooling he be las her securely a prisoner prie oner the man araxes e hij hl watchfulness watch fuin ami she he seek beeke a way of escape the cave she he finds the body of a dl di man an who had ak been een hot shot I 1 in i 1 the h 0 bafit prom from him be takee as a revo revolver 1 ir fa ing a n chica a apparently ja to in the open air the garf 11 is ali a t fa free when her cuard return returns and M r e at 0 t her she rhe return returns the act and after a a IL time duct eeds in finding hr her way wil r 04 novt of the cave r CHAPTER C 1 XI while after hr terrible experience deborah a conversation be between tween bob ceafer a and kellen apparently a v violent iolen quarrel the two part alle kelleen en gridine away and meager on foot apparently brently parent ly seeking sorn ethl ng she a g feiber alei gr abord hor and escapes she m betm ke kelleen e en who hae has been 0 arching tor for her and limes him but be he refuse refuses to bienve leave her while they are conver convers iner ing katlleen discovers di acovera the presence ence on a IL plain lain far blow b low them of an outfit which h he rea lAes mut must belong to la not notor orlon character ch facter tiamen n casebeer Cae ebe an and 4 is doul titta on ite its wa war into alez a wl with t h am artris a and rod ammu ammunition nr it on I 1 n explain ne I 1 Itu atlon to deborah her he haa has rot fot word to a party of american an cavalry who are waiting at a a va place ae I 1 krown ae an box canyon to capture cles ber beer and hie his gone while they are tiki king Kel kella teen ate tandl roding ng at ot the edge I 1 ot 01 t the 0 mountain Is 1 bot ct from froin behind to tauter 11 1 9 apparently to certain leath death dom down th the mountainside mountain alde who had fired the hot and sane bannehr ps appear and are satisfied that kell kellen sell could no not have ed th bullet and the fall rhay fall to ver th pree enee tiet ot at deborah on their departure the th stirl barf starts on toot cot in the direction which kelleen had pointed out ae me leading to box canyon CHAPTER CHAP short distance from the spot deborah ir IF met mt by the hors which kelleen helleen had bad been bon the animal allow allows her to 0 mount him and he goes forward or practically asleep in the 1 eaegle I 11 he if to to topped p e by Y a soldier old ler whom ahe she informs of the 4 fact that captain captala kelleen if I 1 dead CHAPTER XIV kelleen return i tx con on a ledge e not far dowil the tinalee which had broken his fall 11 his 1 watch 1 had stopped aped the bult he ife i to the top of the mountain lount aln and makee makes hie to way 0 the cave c a v the location of which jardee deborah orah had h a d to 0 o he find it anter 0 id re allea alles it in a mine ably bly ahat to 1 known as alvara Alv arii S loso lo 10 aline mine he in fired on arc anra m the darkness return returns the anre and ll 11 pi with his hi am ara mallant llant St securing euring amp a kills to 11 the ll other 11 had drawn aw kerei kiln his hi opponent discovering him to be an 0 outlaw known aj joa the ape man mari manuel 1 lot thief and murderer from last week with the instant nil all strength lafr L fr delleen tho the knife dropped from hi his fengers and he rested motionless scarcely breathing his eyes etes up into the dark lie ile had won lie ile A n ferl hurt blurt ret yet for the moment moin in e nt could c cot not even aven realize his victorr yet gradually he knew he the knife he lind bad wielded the knife kni felie be had killed the man he wis he had killed him blin he lay there now beside him in tho dark dead the very horror of it started nn an the he blood in hia film velna that de id antt lying there motionless motion los becoming cold ill open eyes staring up at lie tunnel roof and he hn haj kaleil hirn billed him with the knife tt it had bad been a fair a man to man an I 1 one of them tind tild to dk di he lie coald could bro flop better now nov and he lie eat sat up llis ill g and abrIn kinz back emlu contort iti the dead bode lie ile coul I 1 not see it I 1 t bat but he knew it was there delleen truck struck a match which guy e forth at first it did spectral light b between fl her ther into a sudden flame gamp hi ill must it forward oret the batly of the bend dead man and nd stared down at the upturned face fir a moment not a muscle relax J 1 I hie his form that of it shattle as hie his eyes searched the thoe glia ghastly itly features where had he seen tte the man before that hairy face those long misshapen arms dead of course co urse he was as dead but who was bea be I 1 9 somewhere 0 in hie his memory dim indistinct clung a recollection which would not clear then the vision camei cam his lips uttering a startled exclamation dy by 0 d dl I 1 I 1 know now its it a man uel gomeri ite its the ape mant manuel gomez the murderer tre outlaw the dread scourge of nort northern bern mexico that bloodthirsty wretch whose crimes had made him an object of detestation on both sides of the 1 line ane for years manuel gomez the killer of omen and children the destroyer of town towns raider thief bandit and in sur recto the 1 kelleen lind had never seen him before but he be knew there could be no other like that and ewy story he previously had hoard ho ard i of the fellow came trooping bic b ic to Ms mind in vivid memory cruel re morsele mors eleis qs without mercy hunted like a wild beast ret yet ever escaping the tolls he had left a trail tran of blood over all that land well he was dead bowl now I 1 yet how came lie to be there 1 was this hie his hiding place or was uns the man there for lor some new crime t if what and nd bob meager juan sanchez were they also sharers in his villainy chalu they be members of this blends gang cane was it from here he be led his bell hellhounds hounds over the desert and plain afie recurrence of these names instantly brought back to lC kelleen elleen a realization of his own peril gomez was dead killed by his hand unwittingly unknowingly there in the dark in desperate combat combats ha he bad had avenged I 1 a it hV hundred Ildred murders liy toy the thrust of a knife but these other they were still alive they would surely come ith tibb lere 1 could be no donat of that ant all tabt t deberal De boral borall had told flashed acro his mind lind her encounter with me mexican guinan buhy she lind load even described the fellow fellows long ape like arms nr but he never once had thought of flome 1 I iome of hr creeping onward along the tunnel the sulden su iden change in its direction and her stem bling over a dead body in the dark lie ile recalled the story of her escape creeping up that narrow passage through she could barely senze hr h r slender body the firing afier ha from below and her nim aim less hot shot sent in return then the dv dw perote struggle which end eldad on the desert above and what then mea blea ger rob bob bote ainger ai eger ger going straight to that game hole and calling down for man tiel using me we very name well there vas a ro vanuel now on guard there but tit he could not face these other two alow and they would surely be there by dawn at leat least he ve area arose to his feet still dazed and coa fused hardly able to tell directions bet but driven by a wild fr impulse to escape to get safely out of that silent black ams that grave gruve in which he felt smothered and imprisoned nis ills groping fingers discovered a crevice i in n the stone as 83 though the solid rock had been rent border a deep irregular gash wish yawning the length of his ens 9 he even advanced a step i tato to the strange range fissure wondering ii af it ilg exist ence tempted to explore ts is secret when they camel comet he ile heard them aside the alres es and clamber ing to the top of the rock velch u hach helped conceal the entrance they arild this ap patently parent ly without fear with no impend in 4 sense of danger and then dropped to tp tle the floor of the tunnel there n nere ere two of them he could tell that by the tho bound meager and sanchez but where then wax deborah meredith 1 CHAPTER XV the light geis out kalleen waited in nn an agony cf of an p ense jos thought nith ith the missing pirl girl lather than on his own peril or the nearness of 0 those thoe men groping blindly toward him in that they were startled start leil at not beina feted by gomez was i subscribers arc are asked to watch the label bet oc vc their paper and ara to remit promptly when their carree it if your label reads ID it mean that your subscription la 13 paid up to september 1 2 1023 and that you be sending la in another 3 2 to pay for the next year we DOIT now ask for money in advance as is doe by nearly all newspapers if conr our label shows bow a date that Is past pledge 11 end ad in it the finio amount daa due without farther further notice vw jy y emencia from abe e brat sma grun caier ance reaching hie his eara taril where the hl h 4 ie Is the fallow 1 I told yu au meager eager exclaimed excia integ angrily I 1 called him from up above and got DO tie answer now by ad G di be lent even dou here ab hes bes here all fuere there was no chance for or his gating gelting away with out our kanovi toe it we had our ou anen about here all the time 1170 conr or men I 1 I 1 meager laughed acorn ully fully thase greas grevera gre aera rs they v would only be pixy plaything things for manuel n hl 4 man aiani I 1 you and yo gang even kepp keep your eyes on lie ile ure sure told me one d 4 n straight etory story he ile seemed to know about nil all was going on id heard a lot about him knew he be woo wa a mend friend 0 of your yours and hia him nil all right and spilled all you o 0 d ii a mei bores anyhow wel vell aint her ta jj do confirmed on following page OFT MY continued continue cl alm page pap two I 1 abt be he what aint nothing now I 1 did ran ma with him a bit down below the line but of course amt w in cited into this and ab being with wi tb garrity was alls pst aa mu R acu C OIL u at luf I 1 tb t b it U that way at arst nt vow OW I 1 sorter ruann it maybe tia sll all a put up job I 1 in t exactly mid OP up my mind what tn tho SW guy 1 ars fojut to just jut suspected something was going on 0 ani and decided 1 V butt in I 1 W ton but after bo he got out herti here snooping anund amund there nothing in do but put him put gut 01 0 the way pec daily lilly after be he tola stole my horse I 1 tin oln t 0 so o sure ho atole stole your horse what do anu u mean aset F t what I 1 tola you before toure 10 bullheaded nobody can tell you kolleen waited in an agony of sus pence pense coining I 1 nevar did think that ellow yen you shot was alone alore lie W was talking to t somebody when ne a crept up 1 I beard heard him hw talking to himself you never saw lobody but him no I 1 he was up on that rock against the sky bu there might ave been somebody ele out ont ol 01 0 night right oa on the ground you was ir such a da d A fl hurry to get to casebeer you t d do anything else i course coursed I 1 knew the kid was dime ind and after that tumble he took bother no more we had bad to set pet case I 1 beers gang gaug out of here before day lav 1 I dont knoy knon why tou you told me much why you let the go on what ald didlot ou want to galead the mules here for and then eind them back r 1 I get any chance to tell you it was after you left last night that I 1 tot the dope dove why hy I 1 had to ride fide out here myself raye elf by gd G d on ruy wedding night lie ile laughed jut ut loud d sty say sanchez Banc bez theres therea some real girl A let me tell you thinks ebes knocked be ine out rapped me with a gun when iwas I 1 was drunk and got away D d it if 10 the dida t the little vixen ive got I 1 to so go back and how show her what kind of 0 11 heman he man I 1 am when I 1 in sober she got mad at you rather that I 1 thought she was the soft sort but a wildcat got me ne the first swipe but shell never ind me ine so dead easy the next text time to ral teach her who v ho x boia boss when I 1 get JK this job out of 0 the way what was it YOU oa asked FW why you stopped casebeer cass Casp bearr beer what garrity came to tell me lied d got on to something theres cl j it leac lea somewhere we get the itt stuff through to nighta a bunch of cavalry are up in dox canyon 11 11 what brought em there the judge dian didn t know he got it 01 from on somebody tome body at the post the 0 9 it started south mouth but alata where W they vi nere ere bound 0 i tou you dont purpose they know to i sure not hot only suspect that stua stuff Is I 1 being run through again along this til all we got to do Is lie ile low Avi melle bile i 0 no o one has seen gome he ile baan t put his head out of this thin bole hole you seen him yourself aun an come on he must be back in there ere asleep somewhere Bome where now likely keep ceel one hand baud on the wall all i strike a match r no not here wait till we turn the bend end then it will not show outside wt be long now till daylight comes comet Xe kelleen lleen silently pressed into the rift of w the rock the dead man at his feet could mark tb the e passage of the two dearly early by the scraping of feet as they ww groped their way alent alon the stone floor he the opposite wall they woja wo J any contact with mines body ind 1 thero was nothing geould he do but 1 and let them ra pass |