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AFOUL VILLA ? Capt. Georg (Continued from Tuesday) "Don't!" said Kynaston hurriedly, laying a detaining hand on the old arm that swung from the rifle barrel up in the glinting sunlight "You can't do it in cold blood!" "There ain't a drop of cold blood in any American who's been in Mexico the past two years." The magazine gate clicked a cartridge Into the chamber and the nervous hand swung up the piece, the muzzle covering the fleeing figures. "There ain't a drop of cold blood In any Anglo-Saxon who's seen women an* little children shot down an' fourteen-year-old kids snatched from their homes to take a hand In their klllln' bees. Seventy-flve-yard law Is what they'll git! He's got It now!" The rifle spat its mouthful of lead at the leading runner, who crumpled and rolled over as a shot rabbit rolls. The rearmost man?he of the artillery fame?stumbling over the body, gave Wilkes time to snap a second cartridge Into the chamber. Just as the man rose to his knees the bullet caught him squarely in the back of the head, ami he collapsed a second time?to rise no more. "An' that's a part of the debt paid," growled the old man, his very beard quivering with rage. "The full debt ain't never goin' to be paid off. but anyhow there comes the third installment!" Away down the hill. Kvnaston, looking over the wavering rifle-barrel, saw a figure come hesitatingly up the hill. He seized Wilkes by the shoulder, preventing the old man from firing. "Don't shoot," he said quietly. "Don't Tl 'a V* r\ V\1 i rwl nrloat Porhnna DUVSVl* Ik o IUU IMII-U !' IV.OI. I kl he brings us news." CHAPTER X. The Blind Priest Halts. Very haltingly and slowly he came across the open, his long stick taptapping his way among the loose rocks of the stream crossing; then up the hill slowly, as some wounded animal might crawl. In the Mexican camp silence had again fallen. Save for a few sporadic shots and a shrill yell or two. the place lay quiet in the red-hot glare. Between the house and the alfalfa fields a few lone prairie dogs perched atop their burrows, basking in the sunglare "I wonder what he wants" remarked Kynaston. "There's been negotiations enough between us ann that bunch of hell-cats yonder to end a war. Look at him, Wilkes." "Aye, I'm lookin'. I'm wonderin' if lt'd be a lick or miss to plug him, too. Wouldn't hurt none at that, I reckon." He fingered his rifle suggestively, but desisted when Kynaston shook his bead. "Look! He's found tho bodies." The old padre paused abruptly as his stick struck soft flesh. They saw him kneel and reverently make tho sign of the cross. Then, rising, he hurried haltinclv tnwnrii tiio ImiicQ "Senores?senores!" they hoard him cry. "I'or l'nmor de I)ios?do no more violence! I bring you news." "What news, ciego (blind one) 1 Where Is Senor Upton?" "Mucrto (dead), senor." The padre threw wide his hands. They saw his face working. "It was wicked, senor! It was wicked beyond words. Rut vengeance Is God's. I am old, senores, who was once young, and I tell you with the psalmist, 'Never saw I the godly man forsaken nor the seed of the righteous begging his bread.' Seek not to hurry God's justice. It has leaden feet, but It comes surely." "I only hope It pleases him to send It by my hand," growled Wilkes. "What Is your news, padre? Speak quickly, for my trigger linger Itches, if you did but know it." "Shoot, then, if it pleases thee. As well die by thy bullet as work out my life slowly liko a pack-mule in the tierra callente of the south. Is that a woman's sobbing, senores?" 'It Is the senorita, she whoso fathor was killed by the brandy-sodden fiend yonder. What Is it to theo?" "I would speak with her. After all, senores, I am a priest?a blind one, it is true; but I ran still see well enough to point out to tho unfortunate the only true path to peace." Dorothy and Mrs. Fane came forward, the girl Rtill weeping but striving pluckily to repress her feeling. "Thou art welcome, father," she said In the vernacular, "it is a house ol grief thou comest to. but thou art wel come?doubly so for thy calling." The old priest gently raised his hand with all tho authority of two thousand years in his gesture: "Peace bo to ttiif house and to all the inhabitants there of. I will not trespass long, my daugh tor. I go south again with my mlsslot unfulfilled." "What mission Is this, father?" II was Marian who spoke. "My search for my lost Em era]c Bell." the Dadre replied. "It Is writ ?.. _ - <-v- I ? - OF L'S men >v ' M e B. Rodney ten, 'Many shall seek but it shall be bidden from them.' " He paused, a sudden flurry from Dorothy meeting his ear. His hearing, quickened as It is in the blind, was as delicate bb that of the prairie dog. which the Apaches say can hear the bursting of the seed-pods in the bunchgrass in the spring. At his words the girl had released herself from Mrs. Fane's encircling arm and was hurriedly loosening her hair, which fell in sheeted flame ovor her shoulders. Delving with trembling hands in its golden masses, she took from its resting place, secure alike from sight and touch?the Emerald Bell! "Take it?take it!" she said sobbingly. "I wish we had never seen it! It has brought nothing hut evil fortune." She thrust it into the trembling hands of the old man. Wilkes and 1 Kvnaston saw the tears stream down J his cheeks. The blind do not weep ! easily. They stood astonished. "Out of the North it came, and out i of the North it has returned. Thanks 1 he to God for his mercies! His shrine | is no more empty. Evil fortune? SI. j senorita! It lias been so since Montei -duma gave It to Corte:: and was killed. "Since the great conquistador took it and died, a broken-hearted and disgraced man; since Pedrarias took it I and was poisoned?so did it go until it ronrhoH rost incr Tiliirn fmm whleli I tho followers of Zapata stole It. Nor shall the Teniente Kynaston suffer. Pull proofs of ownership shall bo forwarded from the shrine, that his name may be cleared of suspicion." He broke off, patting his recovered ' treasure?even, they thought, talking to it. "Now indeed shall I go south with a light heart. My happiness would be complete if I could but see it, but that is not to be. What is that noise, senores?" he exclaimed. "It sounds like firing." It was firing?a perfect feu de jole Jn the besieger's camp. They saw a flurry. Men were running in and out like ants in a hilt. "They're either plannin' some more devilment," said Wilkes acidly, "or else they're goln' to pull out. I hope it's the last." Kynaston had not told Wilkes or Dorothy of the startling news he had heard while in Obispo's camp. In fact, the excitement of tho morning had almost driven it from his mind, and he now hardly believed it could be possible that Villa would attempt such a wild plan. IJut the sudden commotion , in the camp might have some connection with Villa's attack. Columbus was less than forty miles away, and a courier could have traveled the distance since early morning. If it was really war, he must rejoin his command at once, and the women must be removed from tho clutches of these bandits at all hazards. Without Btopping to explain. lie ran for the yard. "Here, where you goin', Kynaston?" called Wilkes. "I'm going to take a look at that auto to see if it can run." "Well, it can if a man can be found , to run It. What *ve you got in your 1 bead?" '1 can ran it if the engine is in good order," said Mrs. Fane quickly. "Oh, Mr. Kynaston. if you think we can get away in it, let's waste no time! Let's look at It; I can show you what to do. Come!" , They went to the shed, where she showed him how to fill tank and radiator. She stood over him explaining the different stops while he tested the engine. Grimy, dirty with oil and dust, he worked like a Trojan. Suddenly something prompted him to turn. He found Mrs. Fane gazing fixedly at him. "It's all right." she said abruptly. "I know it all. I heard Dorothy and? ! I know?" "What?" ( Ho flushed uneasily under her eyes "I know about the card game, and I am woman enough, believe me, Mr , Kynaston, to know what prompted you It was no mere quixotic impulse that made you riRk your life to save Mr ITpton. I wish you all the luck in the world. Now go in to Do.othy. Sli needs you, not me, at present." , Kynaston found the girl sitting bj the table, her head upon her arras, hei hands nervously tapping the rough sur face. Very gently he took both het hands in his and drew 'hem to him I holding them tightly, till in answer tc j the pressure she raised her head and . looked at him. Still he said no word; only his eyef I met hers. In their gaze there was a I wondrous dawning that brought the , vivid color to her cheeks. Slowly? . very slowly?In answer to his fixed gaze, she rose to her full height, hei i eyes luminous with unshed tears. Un resisting, ho drew her to him. It wa? I not till she felt the tender pressure ol his arm about her shoulders that she I gave way and burst Into tears. Tt Is more than I can stand!" she cried. "I cannot?cannot!?stand It I T1IK LAN('ASTE1-? NKAN 1 You do not know?and 1 can never tell you?" "And I shall never ask you, dear heart. I do not want to know what you do not wish to tell ine. This is no time for me to empty my heart to you. Do you know, darling, those linos that go: s Enough for mo In dreams to sea And touch thy garment's hem. Thy feet have trod so near to God I may not follow them. "All that It Is necessary for me to know I know now. You do, don't you?" To his tightening arms she gave mute answer, and so for a second or two strode leaning against him, her soft cheek pressing his. Wilkes' voice brought them back to earth. "If we're goln*?if that machine 11 work?we've got to leave at dark, an' that's only two hours. Nolan, get your things and make 'em few, 'cause we'll travel light. The Mexicans can stay here in quiet when those greasers yonder leave, and a bunch of them has already Btarted east on a run. Something out o' the ordinary la a-happenia' near here all right." It was not until then that Kynaston explained to Wilkes the news he had heard in the camp the night before. "Well! I'm damned!" was the old man's comment. "But, Kynaston. it means that we got to get these women out of here and get them out quick. Aro you ready?" Mrs. Fatio answered for him from her room, where she was packing a bag for herself and Dorothy. The old man wandered aimlessly about the house till dusk should come. It came in a purple setting, the raw, red hills taking on unearthly colors in ! the dying glow. Range by range tho hills stood up against the sky, melting fast from sapphire into gray. The great evening star winked at them solemnly from the Pass of tho Virgins. Under Mrs. Fane's skillful superintendence Kynaston again tested everything about the motor, stowed the single valise, and lashed the water bag fast to the back seat. Then ho ran the machine around the side of tho house away from tho Mexican camp and helped tho two girls to their places. "Not there. Kynaston!" prompted Wilkes. "Not on the seats, but down | on tho floor till wo get past tho camp. | Tho remainder of them aro breakin' camp now." They were, and tho noiso of it swung up to tho wonderful Mexican ; stars. "We've got to keep to the straight trail till we pass the house yonder. After that you can drive anywhere. There isn't an arroyo for ten miles. They'll shoot when they see us, so don't light your lights? What Js it. : Miss Dorothy?" "Tho priest?tho old priest!" she ! cried. "We cannot leave him; he is I blind!" "He's come from Yucatan blind, I reckin he can go back." But without arpuinp the matter fur! ther the pirl silently turned back to I the house. Half nnprlly. still protesting, Wilkes and Kynaston followed. The shed where the automobile had i been stored was at the rear. As they approached the open door of the shed they saw him, squatting cross-legged on the floor. His blind eyes were turned to the open mesas and to the keen wind that ! whipped in from tho great expanse of the free range. In his hands, toying with it in his lap, ho held tho wonderBell. The green stone, with that curious property that some Jewels possess, gave off the light absorbed during daytime. Now it was winking and twinkling with an evil light as the padre cupped it in his brown palms. "1 know it is here," he said slowly, I "and yet I cannot see it. I shall never see it. yet will tho old shrine be the richer for my wanderings. 1 know it is green, and I can feel its long, pearshaped ongue that the sea gave it." He shook it; the pearl tongue gave out one clear note. "Will you not come with us, padre?" Dorothy spoke very gently, as one speaks to a child. "Whither, then?" "To our own land, where there 1c no war, no trouble, no murder, no oppression." "Yes; It Ih to that land I travel when the good God gives surcease from labor. Till then?" A whiplike crack from the darknesc Jarred across the silences of the nighl ?a long, whiplike crack, followed b> a loud, clear note, accompanied by a He Kissed Her Openly. I sharp explosion. The old nan M 'S JUNE 16, 1916. LEGAL NOTICES J notice IT) debtors and creditors All persons having claims against the estate of D. F. Gardner, deceased are hereby notified to file the same, duly verified, with the undersigned, " and those indebted to said estate will/please make payment likewise X j as'. y. hilton. jos./b\caston. DOCTOR J. GARDNER. Administrator with Will Annexed. Estate of p. F. Gardner Deceased. June 2, 191f. J-2-9-16 notice to debtors and creditors All i^rsonsVhaving claims against the estate of \fkB. Dean Gardner, de X 1 V 1 ? n i I n .1 A ^ . fll. ceaseu art* ivrmiy uuiium iu the same. duW v<Mfled, with the undersigned, and tkose indebted to i!d estate will plfafce make payment likewise. / \ JAMBSVM. HILTON. Administrator tfstatA of said Deceased. ' / \ June 2. 1916. \ J-2-9-16 RUB-MY-T1SM i Will cute RJieumatism, Neuralgia, Heac^iches, Cramps, Colic Sprains, Bruises, Cuts. Burns, Old Sores, Tefter, R.ing;Worm, Eczema, etc. Ailtisentic Anodyne, used internally or externally. 25c 1. prone upon his track, amid a hundred twinkling fragments of the Hell. Wilkes dashed out of the shed. "A Mauser!" he snapped. "Some greaser trying for a last shot smashed the Bell and killed the old man! Come on! Let's ge' out of here quick!" "Start the motor!" called Kynaston. "IU he with you in a jiffy." Ho stopped to gather up the fragments of the Hell?the precious frng! ments which would substantiate his story at the coining investigation and which would clear him of the charge . of having stolen the relic. A moment later, as ho ran around to the front of ?the houso again, the machino was ready, purring, panting, and jarring under its engine. "Throw in your clutch!" cried Wilkes. "We're all here and we're all ready." Kynaston leaped to his place, shoved down the pedal, throw his clutch Into the low and pulled It back to second. The machine took the curve below the house, shooting forward like a projectile on the trail that showed steelbrown in the dusk. "It's touch and go," muttered tbe old man. "Nolan, keep the ladles down." His gray beard blew back over hia shoulder; In the wind his eyes narrowed to pin-points. "Throw her wide open, son!" he commanded. Kynaston's foot pressed the gasoline control and the car shot forward faster and faster. Past the first line of scattered fires they went, greeted by yells and an occasional shot. Past the lines where the troops were forming, toward tho house whither Kynaston had been taken, a prisoner; tho house In which Upton had been murdered. "Keep her goln' and throw her as wide open as you can!" said Wilkes. "I can hardly hold her as It Is!" panted Kynaston. "She's pulling like a runaway locomotlvo on a down grade." It was true. They had left tho trail, and were heading northwest across the unfcnced mesa, certain of a flvomlle flat with nothing worse than a prairie-dog mound, a bunch of greasewood, a sage-bush between them and the much-desired line. Behind them they heard the hammer of pursuing hoofbeats; apparently every mounted man loft In camp was after them. A storm of shots swept over and about them, one impinging on the Iron that old Upton had so wisely plfcced above the engine. Wilkes reached , back without looking and forced Dorothy, who was about to rise, again to her knees. >ir?.n av- 1- j i- - li-ji uunu. UDRIUW1RU IU Kindly voice "We can't take a chance now; we're too near the line." Rock and bush and stunted tree ' stood out In silhouette as If drawn In India ink against a silver background. Behind them they heard yells and 1 shouts and shots. ' And then, coming toward them on a ! run, they saw a number of mounted men. For a moment Kynaston believed I I they were caught, but It was for a moL ment only. A shout from a dozen lusty troopers told him it was American cavalrymen In Mexico?across the line at last. The pursuing Mexicans turned and fleu Into the darkening night. But the car continued on. though at a lessening paco, und in a few minutes they shot past a great stone monument, whitewashed, four square, that marked the limits of anarchy and murder. "It's like American cavalry the world over?on hand In the nick o* time!" said Kynaston. ' They ran up the hill and over It and halted on ifc.e farther slope below the crest. It was then that Kynaston, getting down from the car, helped Dorothy first of all from the tonneau, and, catching her In his arms, kissed her openly before them all. "An* that," said Wilkes, to whose arm Mrs. Fane was clinging, "Is what ( call the proper endln'. Of course, It ain't really the endln'!" "Take the ladles back to my camp," Interjected Kynaston, "and then make all the necessary arrangements for a ?uick wadding." , And Dorothy did not contradict him. 1 THE END. ANNUAL REPORT OF COUNTY TREASURER v (Continued from Page 3) No. of Voucher To Whom Paid . Amount 36. J P Parker, repairs 7.00 57. Orle Lee Black, salary 40.00 58. Cornelia Dye, salary 67.50 59. Louise Dye. salary 65.00 60. Lolise Dye, salary 66.00 oi. May Bates, salary 40.00 62. C L Gathings, salary 30.00 63. Annie Wilson, salary 60.00 64. Kstelle Bailey, salary 40.00 65. Inez Robinson, salary 50.00 66. Mrs M J Green, salary 50.00 67. Corrlnue Jones, salary 50.00 68. Jno H Steele, repairs 2.00 69. J H Long, salary 45.00 71. 14 L LyleB, apparatus 42.89 72. C S Robertson, furniture, etc 28.22 73. Helen Garland, salary 40.00 4. Koxana Beckham, salary 20.00 75. \V K Sutton, salary 75.00 * Belle Shuler, salary 45.00 77. V A Lingle, library 5.06 3. Cornelia Dye, salary 67.50 Alma Huffman, salary 65.00 30. Sarah Mills, salary 27.00 I. S L Hudson, repairs 18.00 82. Bmniie Reed, salary 47.00 33. Gilbert Gardner, salary 50.00 j t. Athalie Nisbet, salary 35.00 . Adelaide Thompson, salary 45.00 Valena Pettus, salary.. . 50.00 87. Alline Nelson, salary 40.00 Lucia Mcllwain, salary 40.00 89. Klla Jordan, salary 50.00 f>. Kssie Lee I^ake, salary 37.50 1. Mary Potts, salary 35.00 92. W L Peaster, incidentals 3.20 93. R L Bryan Co, library 15.00 I. R L Bryan Co, library 11 o<s V A Lingle, travelingexpenses 4 0.00 '>0. Lancaster Pub Co, printing 5.00 97. T M Belk, surveying 2.50 3. ?Effle Culp, salary 40.50 Annette Stover, salary 37.50 ?0 B H Stevenson, salary 30.00 U. (Oonevieve Beckham, salary, etc 62.95 \ Bertha West, salary 45.00^ H3. Bertha West, salary ' 45!oof 104. Mattle Archla, salary 13.00 105. Lillian Blakeney, salary 50.00 106. Nannie Hood, salary... 25.00 107. B B Plyler, fuel 3.75 108. Emmie Reed, salary 20.00 109. Magnolia Ellis, salary 25.00 110. Estelle Bailey, salary 8.00 111. Margaret Gettys, salary 40.00 112. Delia Steel, salary 63.74 113. Genevieve Beckham, salary.. 60.25 114. Carrie Beckham, salary 25.00 115. Fannie Pardue, salary 50.00 116. Lillian Magill, salary 30.00 117. Mrs B F Carson, salary 40.00 118. R F Carson, salary 65.00 19. W R Carson, salary 75.00 120. Sallie Hendrlx, salary 30.00 121. Eula Williams, salary 40.00 '2 2. Eunice Flynn, saary 40.00 123. Alma Vanlandlngham, salary 60.00 124. Marguerite Gooeh. ?nl#rv ' "? _ , K.OU lift. Lula MeWhorter, salary 170.00 126. Rank of Heath Springs 315.00 1 27. Ernest Caskey, salary 60.00 ' .'8. H C Hleks, secy 30.00 '20. Laura Therrell, salary 55.00 '0. Laura Therrell, salary 55.00 131. Springs B & M Co, apparatus 6.50 12. Southern Desk Co, apparatus 11.70 i3 3. Delia Steele, salary 50.00 '24. Ruth Perry, Balary 30.00 ' 2 5. Inez Withers, salary 25.00 i "tB. B II Clyburn, salary 60.00 1137. Ethel Gardner, salary 40.00 13 8. Mrs E N Carnes, sftlary 40.00 j 139. Geo R CarneB, salary 60.00 140. J A Gathlngs, salary 22.50 141. Henry Brewer, salary 35.00 142. Nell Hough, salary 40.00 143. A L Humphries, salary 300.00 14 4. Magnolia Ellis, salary 25.00 14 5. J H MoMurray, salary 25.00 146. I C McDonald, salary 80.00 147. I C McDonald, salary 30.00 148. Merchants F Co, apparatus 7.55 14 9. Paul Moore, clerk C, record deed 1.25 150. 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