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CHAPTER I-Benor don Antonio i
ftuerra, wealthy Spanish ranch own?
he American side of the Mexican bo
Is Informed by his American attc
that a technical error has been foui
his will. 1 he senor algns a new (
tnent without reading it.
CHAPTER It?Teresa, only grand
Of the senor, finds evidence of a str\
In the library and tier grandfather I
Ing. Tho belief is that the Benor has
carried across the border by Mexican
els. Billy Star.way, Teresa's sweeth
tnkPR "nmmilR ! Of* thn itnof?A? ?? ??*
dent the servants and vaqueros to
themselves
CHArTKR III?Stanway. with tvt
men, starts 1n pursuit of tho rebels.
in.it Kcluiirdo ilamon Torre, kinsiiia
Teresa, who has been wounded)
claims, by the escaping rebels.
CHAPTBR IV?Stanway loses tho
els' trail and rettirns to the hacl<
Teresa shows him the copy of the
will which she has found and v
leaves all ?he oroDerty to Torre.
CHAPTER V?An emissary from
rebels arrives with the news that
senor Is well and Is being held for 1
ransom. Torro tries to aasumo auth
as ?>?? ?>elr. but Stanway takes conn
er tne situation.
CHAPTER VI?Pempton, the so
lawyer. Is brought to the haclend
Stanway's order and Is accused of lit
received pay from Torre for alterlnj
senor's will.
CHAPTER VII?Torre, who has
detained tinder guard by Stanway.
mlts that he Is responsible for the se
disappearance. He demands $20,000 t
nounce all claim to the estate and t
turn the senor unharmed. Refusal
mean the senor's death wltliln 24 hot
CHAPTER VTTI?The hacienda Is
tacked In the night on a signal give
Torre from within. He Is foiled li
attempt to escape.
CHAPTER IX?In the confusion T
Is abducted and several of her at ten.
are found wounded. Torre admits
responsible for Teresa's disappear
and raises his demands to $50.0<J0.
way starts In search of Teresa.
CHAPTER X?8tanway Is mys
about a key of the senor s which n<
appears to Know the use of. He bel
It will unlock the door behind whlcl
war i*n? Tnraaa ar? hidden.
Stanwuy passed the llrst carnlh
into u . ilche in the rough wo<*l
Already he felt that he must be h
the level of the floor when he can
the second candle. Here the f
was less steady, a little breath o
playing with It.
He turned a corner, the hnl
opened up suddenly Into a si
rough-walled room some eight or
feet square.
Across the room was a heavy ha
door; in the center of the floor w
couch, and on the couch a man
lying upon his hack, his hands cla
behind his head, a cigarette hetv
his lips.
Stanwny was In the room, n<rfs<
in his stockinged feel, Vldal at
side, (laucho was entering when
man heard, turned quickly, and
them. He sprang to his feet.
But the cry rising to his lips
choked back in ids throat by the 1
hands of the rancher. The stru
ended almost as soon ns it began.
But some sound of the brief so
must have penetrated to the other
of the oak door. Before the res
the vuqueros could crowd into the
tie room the door had been Je:
open, a dark, bearded face showe
the crack.
There was a snarled curse, the
slammed shut, and there was the s<
of other bars lifted across it upon
other side.
"Your axes!" shouted Stan'
leaping to one side to make r<
"Vidal, you take one. tlet it d<
quick !"
lint, oven to the attacl: of tlie p
arms of Vidal and anotlierof the
lx/ys, the great thick door stood de
as the swift seconds tied by. I'
the other -ide came the sound of qi
snapping voices, of scurrying feet
sound of a cry which tingled thr<
Stuuwuy's blood and sent Vidal
redoubled vigor to the onslaught
the door.
At last the door fell. Sfnnway
Vidal, side by side, leaped thrm
There was another hall, wider t
the first, shorter. At the end of
hall another door, studded with m
barred upon the farther side.
Evidently there had been a sec
guard here, evidently In the next r<
were the prisoners
"De la fluerra I" shouted Stnnv
"Teresa!"
There was no answer, no sound
"Smash In the door!" he yel
"Quick! (iaueho, go upstairs. '
hem what has hnppi-ned. Let tl
watch out. Order the first man i
appears to he shot if he makes a m
toward a gun <rr to escape. Ii
4iaucho!"
Before Oaucho hud turned to ot
before Stanway's echoing words si
Into silence, there came from bey<
the door an exclamation o? terA>r
sudden and U<? revftrbernt
Kub-My-Tlsm is a powerful n
septic; it kills the poison cat
from infected cuts, cures old so
letter, etC. ^m
THE
brightly, for n ninni
0 J . wflMMMfejly of grutlttide us ttu
M / / / fHB&H rancher, then very I
J y///townrd celling.
//','< /\ Hls vnqueros crl
J / //i/j'/ I ?TcQUw( t*le s,K,lt ?' 11,111 8tl
//, A I i !]nKQ expcctedly In their
\ I M*Ud th?y looked to the t
/n white-faced girl at i
*j W* j closet which De Is
A a*^. A / v/ vvT dpnly thrown open.
Itt |A / \S| "You, senor!" ci
| J I V V':L/i [</. \i m toun,led- "Not hurl
^ / //Til"/ '/ 7 1\V **1, 8?nor?" ^ '?
/*/ / yir ( [\ JLj.t^ white hand, showti
IV // js/a n / 4 1/^s.tI t*le rovo,ver ,n 't.
'/>'jZ seized this. One n
IT By ' IY n U|8r Jh-lfy the rush I got Ter<
/ I ? there. She. too. Is u
/ [/\ hCTMJ / Again his fine old
/ ' Jf 'fin 1 111? py?s were burning t
V^\j V./I \/ f,F < clless rage. He s
k ? | \ t> ihlf'** room, set his hand t
4/ ^ thumb found reudi
Idoor tlew hack, shov
crark of n revolver. "Th,s way. sen./r
Then brief sOonce again for a mo- you" Guuel
ment whleh seemed long, and the blows w|th gonorjtU7
of two axes, ripping and tearing at the ^enor Stanwny 1 i
-- ? oak plonks of the door. have you aceonipanl
rder, . Already his foot
id*'in CHAPTER XII. at,.p stanwuy laid
locu- his arm.
The Senor Again. "Surely you do n<
chna With splinters Hying, shocked upon upon t,HMn thls wny
,ts henvy ,linKes- the *reat onk ,l"?r "Surely." smiled t
been was open. Stanway lipped through; aro my Kupsts ! ul
reb- Vldal, his deep chest panting from his ?o|nR to thpnj ?
1 or- herculean labor, ax still irrint?e?t in <m
r, . . - n?? wont slowly ?
arm enormous hand, mine after him. his 0f stairs. Stanway
follows crowding after them. wondering. At tlio
They A large room this time, some thirty ,|oor. De In (itterra
in of feet square, furnished well; blankets, ,,1(> parrel ,,f his re'
* scattered morsels of bread and meat. There was a sad
showing that here lorres men had mom, voices droppei
snfta I been. A glance showed that the room jn fjq,?rra knocked
vatch was empty of human occupunts; a sec- Well?" It wa
ond glance found one man lying close sharp. Impatient. 111
th? to the wall, limp and inert, a red stain senor To
, t*V? upon his breast. old man, quietly. "
or'ity Stanway ran to him, stooped, stood de in Guerra. I brln
naud straight with a little grunt of satlsfac- heing so tardy to w
nor's tlon- 11 was not any one ot ,,U> 1>t? 1,1 and I come to tnlk
a at Guerra household. Again silence, ng
t in? "Shot accidentally by one of his fel- pers. then Torre cr;
lows," he muttered. "Or else I)e la "What have you t
been Guerra lias got his hands on a rovol- n nullet through th
ad- verl" And you! If you v
"?re* a door at the far side of the room p>t us take the gold
ore- stood open; a candle still burned keep the silver and f
irs. brightly upon a little stand. There pay?"
. had been no time lost In leaving. De la Guerra lnu
n "I hear men running yonder!" VI- then, serhmsly, he i
1 *" dal's big finger i>olnted through the say, my dear
I open door, "t'onte, compadres!" nre talking bravely
)&n*a | They ran with him. crowding to- last nre In no posltb
he ! j t-ether. * "? " " 1
Bnce. ; "
Stan-j Again there was 11 hallway, this one we ,nilv talk. or I !
j far down under the main lloor and so Vldnl chop down f
ttfl^d, wide that three men might pass doors. And I do not
levea I abreast through It. There dime a sharp Torre hesitated
h the j turn, the footsteps were louder, men thouRht treatise he
I were runnlnR toward them. And then. In(>n wlth (ho8p keen
; set. as several men shot Into view: to h()W far ,
wall. I "Stop!" cried Stanway, loudly, his them now
elow hand knocking Vldal's weapon up- Evidently not vei
,e to ward. "It Is Gaucho and his men!" mon,ont CJime his s
lame "Where are they?" cried Gaucho. ex- 8hort ooniinar?,:
f air eltedly. "The master? The senorita? "Nunez open tli
| You did not find them?" kinsman "come 'just
(way "ion did not meet them?' In a sharp ? ,)f ,
mail, cry from the rancher. ,,.nvp ,h(>m to |m>!
ten ae met no one!" Gaucho nnswered, .
a look ,rf wonder In his eyes. f 1 tw J1" 8,1,1
rred "Then there Is another door. Thev '' ' ?,,M< ,st,??lt1l|
as a have fooled us. Come! They can't ^?>;/'ose helund hi
? . , ,. . ? Good evening, csi
was Ret out of the house. . , ? , , '
.v.* . . ..... . "hi Spaniard cniirti
sped They turned, rushing hack toward ' , ,
<i .1 I... i.i.i niy word with I r?rr>
veon the room they had Just quitted. And . . ,
, , . , he has brought w tl
, nt the instant Stanway plunged back , . .
1 ., *i . w. i ii I and unharmed, rirov
?less through tm- doorway he knew where I .... I, .
wort' ,.f Tonv's. 'I"''',"1 jv* :,"'
the For he heard Torre's voice shouting " ' ? ,. OIT M
sajv loudly Just above his bead where tie ,s "n ' " 11
J had already Judged the drawing room t"m s "uf ?? '
was must he; he knew that through some on mn>
hard other passageway the men they had j "ro ^ * ns,M
urgle thought to trap had made their way ' ' " 11
there, and he remembered that his own *np"r?d Torre im
utile orders had been for one man </nly to ' ' nor anwH> ^
side watch over the hound Torre and a*tro, sharply ti
t of Juarez. ruffian at his side,
. nt- "Nunez! Castro!" Torre was call- uinrksman 1 ever i
rked l'?g, Ids tones ringing out clear, the ,1"' Hn "duiir
d at tones of command, calling for haste, h.""n s how to taki
for swift obedience. "There is one __
door man here only. Kill him! All!"
>und There was the crack of a revolver, l4"_
i|i?. a cr\ the sound of a hotly falling. U6TSaIT
and again Torre's voice a _ ]
way. rang triumphant. "Cut these tlamii"d I 11011 10 II
mm. ropes. ? astro: you otlmrs free Juarez. I
own. Watch the doors. Guard the passage- "Goodnio-ht to C<
way. fly the lord of hell, we'll win | Peel OffWit
,-eit ibis came yet!" | f
,.(>w. "They are too many." panted a <IK tlglu shaes. ir Vfh
Hunt sentlnc voice. We?" weather, tic bum]
Tom "Gownrd and fool!" cried Torre'.-* t ween? th?e" ?a
nick, echoing voice. "Give nie that can.
tlie Now, listen. 1 have found where the
net' "nerrn hanco Is! It's Jtist yonwith
''or 'n tlie ?ld man's bedroom. It's
on fall of cold, eompaneroa. And then?
| watch the floors, amicos! Then cross
an<l h??rder with our pockets full!"
ugh. There answering shouts, the (?
han noise of heavy furniture helnc dragged 1
tite across the floor and plied at tlte doors, tfo] /fflkll
ills, Torre's voice clvinc commands. ^ yVmj
"Rut where tite inasterV" a va- MmM
ond 1?oro widspered anxiously. "They l|f
aim bnve killed hint!"
"And the senorlta?" cried Gaucho.
I'ay. They rttn ahout the room, seeklnc
i a slcn of that other pasxneeway which
j had led these men directly into the ?V# AO Of^With TU
: drawing room. G?is-hfl?
Tell I "vv> h"?' bettor CO hack." command- "lfua with aTsV
tern Stanway crisply, after a short What a blessed i
vho | "''arch which showed nothing. "We m e;paySu can"
ove | can break down the door Into the room every minute. T
i,,,, where they are. Gaucho, Mentor, VI- cor" ,or
-un> . . . ... off complete, like i
dnl, you men stay here so that they without the least i
??v cannot play hide ami-seek w ith us derful. 'Oets-It' Is
! | .. among corn remot
[ink i "sain. today, simply beca
nmt ' "I'ardon. senor. You arc very kind. derfully simple at
.? J I already owe .y,/u much. Rut now I J*1*,
jfl? i shall lake care of these bandits." I back-corn-remover
I It was the old Spaniard, Honor I>on j M'rdbyK Lawrenc
int. Antonio de la Guemt. his old-fash- j So,d LanCMl#r t
.sod ioned fe'.ck coat faultlessly clean of a \ the wor,d,8 bp3t
'res speck of dust, his fine white mustache I j p. Mackey Co
"ur'-d nicely, his eyes glowing verv Company.?Adv.
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gentle
>y re.xte?l upon the | ^
utu uo in*"/ IUIUCU 1
ed out sharply at ^ "V*^ '/VlW^1"
tndlnK there so un- X C it IK/
midst. From him
(lender form of the
the door a little
HHH ^ B
rled Stanway, as- H
^B B
Ouerra lifted one
a
"At your attack I ^
ian I quieted. Iu
?sa Into the closet y
inhurt. And nmv?"
face hardened,his ^
)lnck pools of mertepped
nrross the ' *
o n spot which his J^\
ly, and a narrow j %
ring a stairway. jyWrMay
1 go first? | ftw/f *
10, will you stay i R| |L hHMa ?
Thank you. An<l, . |8 L \l
should bo glud to ?fl %\
was upon the first
a quick hand upon
Ha* Is Rs-itrsi
ft think of coming ? r??*?
?z good looki:
ip the short flight ,
close at Ills heels, *
top was a little
rapped si/ftly with liHHHBBBSSMBBBSaBi
rolver. _____
iien silence in the ( the Senor Stanway moves a hand or i
I to whispers. De takes a step this way will you blow
nRoln. j,ls brains out for me?" j n r0K,
* Torre's voice, Castro's answer was to fling down nn(j r
A h<? Is it? ' j,ls revolver so that It rattled noisily j accor
rro," answered the on flo;,r j Hum(
And I sin Antonio "You have led us Into a trap," he ' or C<1
g iny apologies for retorted sullenly. "I accept the Senor hlgge:
alt upon a guest i ,j,, r:norm's word that I may go j Farla
with you. | fr,,,^ j have hartned no one!" reguli
"In hurried wills. | A hllu>k frown ^tbor^i Torro.s of st)
ling <oit. j j,rows A little smile crej>t Into De snle r
" "I!" j I.. Iluorm's sl,.r?
' >r U 1 %v I "Tlie first sign that you lose. Tor- I of th
rill open the safe, I ? , , , . ' , .. , ,
. re, he said quietly. The tlrst sign this 1
and go; you may
. .... . . ; that I win! recogi
itay. What do you
"Iio you know, my kinsman," re- carrie
ighed softly. And Torre l?t*??lcntly, shrugging his little
inswered i shoulders at the mutiny of Castro. suppo
Senor Torre vou i "",nt * ,nny 'os<> nn" st"' >'ou not *?
; hut that you at ' u'ln? How? Why, to he explicit to nny li
in to dictate. It Is an ol(' mnn> I rnn ?t least have the ex- 1??
me come In that 'incite pleasure of ending my gay lit- doors
shall have to have ,,e existence gaily?and In shooting often
lome more of my >'ou Just between the eyes, senor 1" churc
like to do that." Stanway shuddered, seeing the th* P'
Why? Stanway deadly earnest threat In Torre's low- puts |
was studying hi* "'Wed eyes. But I>e la (iuerra's gaze does
_ " : ji.I . . .
eyes of ills trying j Ul" U"1 "aver udu ne answereu: "
le could count ou I "Kven tlint, Torre, is denied to
| you." He laughed softly. "For, Ro,<
ry fur. For in n above nil things, you are a gambler r'
oft laugh, and his j and will take a gambler's cliolce! You ton'
can kill nm, yes?perhaps! And if nn,'nl1
ie door. L<et my you did? My vaquems would rush In
to the threshold, here and on time for me to see you
try to enter?well, die! You know that. There would he vons 1
Kilter. senor!" no chance in it for you. I offer you a f,,
i'ii. I>e la (iuerra chance?if you let these men go. if h" 'ox'
i? threshold, Stan- J'oU throw down your gun and agree to . s
Ini ! take the chance I offer you! And he- " "
1 . , . . . . . . 1 Pontrn
hulleros," said the '"g a gambler above anything else tn bl|n(ll]
I'ously. "Now for j '?' world?why, you i*lll accept the H) ^
e. All of the men ,,n*> little chance I offer you." t,|t. c|
i him may go free Torre hesitated. Ills hesitation ?
ided that I am as- was plain in his attitude, the head An<|
Ino, and poor Al- , diop,.e.; a little, the moody gathering ras,.s
i'. If any of them the brows. He looked swiftly to
tan who has killed the men about hint, to Juarez first, to nu|
Juarez may go. them nil. Juarez shook his heafl 'er*
! slowly, Ills Hps compressed, his eyes en use*
1 to he gracious, on the floor. Hpruli
itght.v kinsman!" | "There la no longer anything foi ?
pudently. "O-ho, | m,, (0 flK|,t for," he said slowly p??
ou are there, too? "Nothing hut death! I can find that
n a black-browed nnv day upon the other side of the yT.
"you are the best border, senor. I think?that you are I
ww, and, besides, j alone!" I
able soldier who j "Cowards! Cowards all!" Jeered
a command._ If Torre. Then he turned again to Do
la (Iuerra. "What chunce do you of- *
, fer me, senor?"
9% I|?"We shnll speak of that when the
?m WOPS? others are gone, when you accept it." I
returned De la Ouerra sterol v "T
ne nance; simply give you my word that I shall | |
give you what the Americans here call I
jrn Pains?Corns "n Vven l>reak.' You haveu't that
,h "Geta-It" i now "
1 "Your word, aenor." A
u can laugh at .... , ? . H
imp, corn-pulling , My word, gravely. "
py ci>rns, calluses J "Bueno," cried Torre gsyly. That R
ur fqet, corns be- ? ,, , . . ,, u
rd aed soft corns. ,B n" thnt 1 Adlos, my little .
cowards," he smiled at Juarez and the , Ll
rt st. "Congratulations upon the! y?
game, my kinsman," bowing to I>e la j IV
'ftTTW^W Ouerni. And he tossed his revolver *
to the table.
CHAPTER '
I Game ||
| "Now, Senor Torre, you shall have p
I a gambler's choice!" Cm
I The tall candles burned steadily In
1 I j the massive candlesticks, the little
yellow plutnes shining reflected In the
polished woodwork of the walls. Senor
'*' 1(1 Guerra sat In his favorite arm- j j
^ chair at the great mahogany table, I
?C** Now- his white, aristocratic hand tapping I I
ouch >h. Mm or ?!w "* *M"l'n|n? top. Ht.n-! I
drops of 'Geta-It.' way, standing at hla side, watched ,
elief It gives to curiously both He la Guerra and the *
won't limp any ... i
enjoy the dance smiling Torre. t
hen to se? how "I ain waiting, senor," returned ' *r?
s will come right - i
i banana peel and Torre gravely. SH
pain. Is just won- "I have assured myself," went on
Ars h'f the1 world ,H Guerra '? <^e same even tone, B
in He it la so won- "Hint I'edro and Celestlno and the
Vets'-Vr*1"8 work"' aquero who was shot here In this flj
laranteed. money- room will live. 1 have let all of your
a haPnTdrugr HN?8e! mpn p*opPtlnK Captain Juarez. B
e & Co.,Chicago. III! Senor Stnnwuy," turning a little In his
md recommended cKha,r' "w,,n y2" 2? 1? I
com remedy by captain that I should be pleased
Standard Drug to *ee him?". I H,
(Continued in Next Issue.) J flS
FRIDAY,
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r The Over-size Non-!
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NG, GOOD VALUE TI
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Mexican uniid stealers. + + 4. + +
tiro's "child stealers" engaged In . onmriTC1
ulur business of stealing children * KUf H?rv
linking them beg coins for them, i*
ding to n writer In the National [ j
me Review. The headquarters;
ntrnl place of business for the i
st thieves are located In Clonic* ojnce Houra:
s street, Gundnlnjnrn. Here u
ir market Is held for the disposal 8:30 to
rden children, either by outright 2:00 to
>r rent. And by
Ter passlTig through tlie hands Office ]
Is gnng the Innocent victim of
inrbnrle system Is generally un- Resit
nlzable, and maimed or blinded Is Office over
d or hauled around with its poor
hand outstretched for coins to
rt Its fiendish master." according
> writer. "Such children are seen
inur of the day or night In Mej- x
Ity. hovering around the theater
. sitting around the streets ami 1 he lit
among the beggars that line the
h doors. The plensure seeker. you bi
isser-by or the communlcnnt who
lennles In the outstretched hands cisk fo
not realize how well he Is cotlng
with the fiendish Industry."
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Arthur Mncdonald of Washinglonornry
president of the inter- "1
ml congress of crlndnnl nnthro- K 1
tells In th<- Medical Record W I
of the oddities noticed In ner- H I
soldiers. For Instance; %4J
"who bayonets another In the
may develop a hysterical tic In
vn face; one bayoneting enemies
abdomen may have abdominal
ictures In himself. Hysterical
less may follow from seeing horsights;
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