Show I 1 COPY RICy 11 kaaa awash SYNOPSIS calten L ion lon on the isolated ranch on the southern border deb orah meredith nurea ie is in a attendance atell d on mr mrs meaner meager who 4 bus band bond has ha roes n clr ben been kill killed ad vio vie tim of in an ent immediately after the death bob meager mr mrs Me arera apron tw arrives aad and take tak possession ile it insults deborah and b resolves to lave k but there seems me no ff 02 her g cettl nir away clops lop CHAPTER IL geoger gionta over ItTa hs alli tl tellene li her he has ha sent nt toa justice of the peace wh who will rill marry them tomorrow ton ilo Horl fled the th firl cirt secure cures ft A revolver CHAPTER in irl the ju justice ties cornell ve garrity scoundrel a and boorn bosom it friend lend of usa meager acrivos with a party amon among them in fe risco kid notor notorious cartr ou do dee p jadw rg th arl I lock berrell up aim iv 1 bv bw u nn arrs a decoys decays deborah froin from the and her protests the I 1 justice perform performs the marriage core ceremony many irai imi mediately Inedia telle afterward a tt orward she be a cape and rachi reaches her r loom CHAPTER V menor meager the e arl but she he tuna stuns h hirn w with ith the re ra volsci x and rushes to the stables hoping to secure a jl hone horse and coca escaje an anywhere away from meager it so 0 rut at in 1 n the decarl in the i sl 1 I meet the frisco IS L R 1 in inow he inspires her with confidence and she he explain explains the situation Itu atton he not hav having illif been present at the wedding VI ane kid tell tells hr her ml zia name ie to daniel klan that he in I 1 no arlen 1 of and curing two bage goreee the tho RW pair ride into t the he dx amert rt arr alone ith the firl L irl bloms somewhat lome what sive but be he telli toll her of hie his in trance where deborah Deb had been a rurie res and she he put puts fall full faith in him CITA PTER virl explain explains t that hat the r palco ri kid li Is a manu faC lured chara character actor that be he to I 1 really a captain in the at army detailed to burk run down a gaar of TY th tea and murrley murr ler of or arm arms tato to mexico among thero them master or id garrity IX the girl lri I 1 W exhausted kelleen later ter troia train a biding place do deborah rah hear him talking with juan ju a n sanchez a arso r e late clate of f meager arnd fro from m the cc con v vere to s atlon she he believes bel levea kelleen kellet to really ra s 11 Y a 4 member of the cane her ap pr 0 h 4 no one returned the he seeks to so e cape ca bui but te to by 6 concealed man X deborahh captor car to ie is apparently a cave caa feeling he ho has ha her securely Becu rely a prisoner ioner the man relax s hi hie watchfulness and the he seeks eek a way of sop WP 11 loring the tile cave she he finds the body of a 0 dead man who had been shot hot in the itie back from him she he take takes a revolver flud ing a passage which apparently y I 1 leada to the open air the kirl girl Is I 1 alm algoet oat aroi re when her ir jr urd ard return returns and ferem at her she return returns the hot a and ald an after a time succeeds in finding her wy out of the cave CHAPTER 1 kl while greetin n 9 after b her er terrible experience debo deborah rah over hear a conversation b between dob bob meger and kelleen apparently ap parenti A viol ant quarrel the two part art kelten kelt en rading away and meager on foot root apparently parent arenell ly something she fin fenc beag ra a hone horse and escapes she meet mee t kelleen who has had been arching for her and repulses him bu but az he to leave her while they are convening kelleen nelleen discovers diec overe the pres pretence eneo on a plain far blow then af f an outfit which he h real r aarts belong to 0 ii character chara ctr tiamen calbet and Is doubtless doubt les lexa on its wry ilex ox leo with arm arms and ad ammunition r n ii neen ine 1 situation Itu atlon to deborah telling her he has ha pot got word to a party of A american merican cavalry ry who are waiting wat ting at a place known n so a box canyon to capture case beer and ilia hi kanir NN hile they are kelleen landing at the euffe of the mountain Is hot shot from torn bechini falling fAll lne apparently ta certain death ideath sita down the mountain mountainside do meager who had thred the hot shot and sanchez al appear and are that kelleen keli een could not have th bullet a and nd the fall thy thoy tall fail to discover dit cover the presence of deborah on their departure the prin starts on foot in the directly direction 0 n which keltgen had point d out ai an dinic to dox canyon xan A short distance from the spot deborah la 10 met inet by b the h boree which belicen had been rr di ng ah the e animal allow allows her to mount hl him m and d eh she poem uee forward I 1 tactical rac radically 1 Y lielet lislet lis let 1 in the she he ie in stopped ped by b y a oldie who whom m she of athe the ta act et that captain kelleen ie is dead CHAPTER XIV kelleen return returns to consciousness on a ledge not far down the aside which had broken his fall vis As watch had topped stopped the bullet he cli climb bl to the top of the mountain mau n maln and make makes his hi way to the cave the location of which deborah had h a described to him he lie finds it enters A n t e r a and realists re allies it Is in a mine acly what Is in known as alvara Al varas a lot lott mine he la Is fired on from the daran darkness a return returns the fire and V we 1 th h ha his assailant beaurin grap 1103 k I 1 IN fe the other had draw wn n IC IF 1 AL kills his opponent discover discovering inc him to be ibn u a outlaw known a aa th the a ape ve man man manuel gomes go oo thief if and L murderer e XV 1 Stager and sanchez C come O 0 r so ta to the me care cave killeen et the drop on tha th a disarms MO but sane flints and kelleen kalls k aber jig him XVI garrit rolvea rive and kelleen disarms hl him in i and ln 1 I informs the two scoundrels of h his s real identity his prisoners prisoner the three are ere making their way out of the cave when they come came upon the spoil spoils of gome gomex the result of years of raiding A lantern meager teaser meag er Is in carrein car Is in dropped ding a store star of burying bur tre 1 three men continued from last week ty digging his fingers franti frantl cally into the stone unconscious of he did his hi eyes blazing with sudden uncontrollable maddest niad nea dragged himself over the barrier he le bad lost all reason at all I 1 fear with a mad land cry he gathered gath cred up into his arms 01 that he be could gausp golden cruel fix challa goblet a it great link glittering with pearls a jeweled bodice blaz ilir la in it tic 0 light like a lend ue an he hugged them close then staggered on in wild a string of oath oaths breaking from his lips fps something thing tripped him and he fet his arms flung blindly out a crippin ra grasp grap flinging it im blazing hall dozen feet away an instant there was silence a mere nicker flicker of which shot along the floor e as eq q though en IOU a trail ct of powder then stare iare all ani alli I roar a blast of flame name a report an if a thousand cannou cannon had exploded and utter darkness CHAPTER XVI r finding of gomel gomez the tile little squad of cavalry moved up the arf crek k bottom with enuch cau tion the rangy young lieutenant exercising er his first independent corn com mand was determined to neglect no precaution lon deborah be zed for hate ha te but the officer remained I dhimant hi mant and at last in despair utterly 1 wear wearied led her mind la in a chaos she rode en cn listlessly betide him lC elleen must be dead she lie dare not even dream anything else she had heard beard the shot eu uio burt of fl flame me caught sight of his toppling body ing over the edge of the cliff the men who shot him had no doubt they had fired to kill believed they had killed and gone away satisfied bob meager and tho the mexican she shivered pred at the a of them her iler husbands hue hus bandt bandl that murderer her hus husband bandl I 1 he ile could claim her woud would claim da in her if be he lived legally she belonged to him the ceren ceremony jony was sacrilege a it hideous mockery n yet it was as legal legal it left her tier forever in the power of that brute she shuddered at recollection of that aeno in the ranch house the leering drunken face the sharp voice of judge garrity tho the brutal grip with which aich bob meager held her those hateful ord which bound her to such unspeakable shame and then abe th rt struggle ruggle to save ler herself self ME th hours of torture waiting fa his cumins the broken door the clutch of his hands bands the hot drunken bypath on her ber face the blow which ae set heir her ere iree rood good G dl could this ill air be trite I 1 the fresh night air the escape through the black night the meeting with daniel kelleen ile tie bad been a inn in 1 n a reil rl roan man haj hf had oled died for her ed rl noticed the tears welled tied irto bei hei eyes and find fell on the saddle Vm ammel mel she child see nothing but hie hits face realize nothing but that they were ivere riding now to bring back hlo bij body she had al at most known before talat she loved urn itra but in bereavement and despur spur she comprehended that all the brightness aej hope had gone from e she yet lived must continue to live the wife of bob meager it mut lieve been nearly noon when the little ceval cadi debou debouched clied from tho the bed of the stream forced their jaded horses up the bank and came to where the riders could look down doum nto into the half concealed valley be below ow advance scouts awaited them here among the rocks to plat A wt the trail curving downward through a ravine they had discovered no signs of recent pa rn sage no mark marks of hoofs nor were there any signs of human pres ence in the loer 1 valley the studied the scene through lis glasses yet vaguely sus niclous of some trick consulted with the sergeant and finally spoke to deborah debrah this be the place he said but it seems deserted do you recognize anything she eat sat in the saddle a X 1 1 0 A look therel he r cried excitedly new light in her eye ie ss 1 I sh she pointed the directions 1 I 1 can never forget straight ahead down there Is where they were stor lats cre aurand by that big r sou IOU can 9 fee U of smoke eien now this trail must lead direct over there the bid her tier faco face for an instant la in her ber hands ae as though to shut out the he sight Is the cliff over which captain nelleen tell fell and just wt beyond at the upper end of the valley Is the cave care I 1 told you about awo inam whether ou and 1 1 I nm am coles goir your soldiers come or not II 11 1 1 must learn the truth she forced her horse forward and I 1 the others follo followed Aed tor for no the sergeant riding almost beside her in the tile narrow troll trail they found the storehouse back within the shadow of 0 the great rock so concealed by trees ai as to be invisible a few yi ads away ii it was wa deserted unguarded and satisfy I 1 as to this fact bv a hundred signs that tj U a e entire outfit had indeed in iced n turned the way they came the lieutenant nant scattered his force to explore the upper valley cla ons ll 11 duji continued Conti aued ra ab pa pace ge four |