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Then-, Tre) A ?vesed Version of the M Produc&e by d BY LOUIS' geppight.19w CHAPTER XL. The Man in the Shadow. Two hundred feet, if one, Hopi T fel from the lip of the cliff. Then 8l denly the thing that had been HI Ji Slade was checked in its headlo descent by the outstanding trunk ol tri over which it remained, doub up, limp, horrible ... The miniature landslide that b beezi caused by his fall went setig gradually as the slope cam'e less sheer. Only part of it, double handful of pebbles, gained t bottom of the canyon. Its muffled impact on - the grou round his feet roused the man w phatompassed the bandit's death fr< the pose he had unconsciously sumed on the Instant of fIring. Es stepped back, and snatched a case containing binoculars. Not before the glasses were adjust t-i his vision did he find time to absently to the alarmed and t inquiries of his two compi chainman of his own age and a i of some years less, who had be vakcned from their sleep by the portof the rifle. Now the latter placked his slee mo'mentarily -deflecting the glas from the object which they were loving so sedulously as it mo along the heights; a wildly runn horse with a woman bound help] upon its back, both -sharply in houejte against the burningblue. "Alan!" the girl demanded, " Is.i-? Why did you fire? Why w ya* answer me? What is it?" Sudti:lan -replied tsiselfay picking u'p with the glasses the Away h6rse that fled so madly a the perilous and narrow track of hill trail. The' name was echoed from throats as Alan swung sharply thi'ust the glasseE into the hand the girl. "Judith," heaffirmed with a loc poignant solicitude. "She's rope the back of that crazy broncho-1 less!- See for yourself; one false -puppose a stone turns beneatt hoof-she'll be killed!" While the girl focused her gla upon that speck that flew against sky Alan turned to the two hc hobbled near by and seizing a sa threw it over the back of one. At.this the other man turned t< side and dropping a detaining 1 up.opi his arm asked: "What are you going to do?" Alan shook the hand off and'a on with his self-appointed task. "Go after her, Tom, of course, A- replied. "What else? That anim. crazy, I tell you-" "Even so," Tom Barcus argued,' can't climb that hillside on horsebal and If you could, you'd be too lat catch up, 'il less .revent an cident-" * 0 "I kno i. But suppose it do< fall .:... Yon know what's be: these bis-deserts! And the gi helpless; I tell you, bound hand foot.' Think of her being carried way-:-all day, perhaps-face up to brutal sun! .She'll go mad If s< thing.isn't done-" "You've gone mad yourself alrea Mr. Barcus contended darkly. "WI It to you if she does? Suppose yol succeed in rescuing her: what tI As soon~a/she' gets on her pine s5 try to stick a knife into you-iki not. What's she been chasing you all over this land of thei brave home of the free, but to take your life? And now you want'to sacr: M~I~His Parched Lips - Throat yoldgef to her, out of sheer, do' right~ffannahne In the head' I s D0OS%.!U'1 like me to call it chival: I'ThTeR you what I call it-lunacy! "Dtbe an ass!" Alan respons telpeteygathering the reins et'and instinctively lifting a f fc~strrup. "Who warned us y t? in time to prevent our be: Sby that rock? Judith! E w~esep~arated from Marrop1 others-alone up there wi thatI bast eeaked urp behind her __ aw It all-and grab! ~ ~ er to that bronco se she had broken w ~ ~ good and all and started uside?" raving," Barcus commen1 less tone. He looked to1 se--Miss Trine-reason w an-" the glaisses, the girl ca. dconfidently to her love her lips to his. theart!" she told hi you can!" ok of triumph for the be Barcus Alan Law ga'aoe: into his arms. dream for an instant Ri r own sister carried aEg could be d< (W. Head; as Q' Hearts Picture Drana of the Sam Nam 00~i.~a Flm C^. JOSEPH VANCE eks from the Picture Padictie by eJoseQph Vance to avert It-no matter what we may have suffered at Judith's hands?" With an Indignant grunt, but con siderate none the less, Mr. Barcus d- caught .up the glasses and turned his pi back. cig "Go on!" he grumbled, pretending 'a to ignore the hand Alan offered him ed from the saddle. "I've got no patience with you . . . But go!" he insisted, ad of a sudden seizing the hand and n, pressing it fervently. "And God go with you, my friend!" a Then hoofbeats drumming on the he hard-packed earth of the canyon trail struck a hundred echoes from its ad rugged, rocky walls. ho Mr. Barcus showed Rose Trine a >m face almost ludicrous with its an s guished smile that was intended to seem reassuring. "Let's look shark and follow him as quick as may be," he urged. "Light ed ning will never strike us so long as re we stick to Mr. Law of the charmed in- life-but I don't mind telling you, once mn- out of his company, rm just naturally url afraid of the dark!" en ren CHAPTER XL. The Trail of Flying Hoof-Prints. In the still air of that young day the I chill of night lingered stubbornly red and would until the shadow of the eastern rampart had crept slowly ess down the canyon's western wall, tele sil_ scoped upon itself and vanished, let ting in the sun to make the place a hat pit of torment and of burning. Dn't Refreshed from rest and exhilarated by this grateful coolness, his horse responded willingly to the first light run- touch of Alan's spur. In a twinkling tong the overnight camp dropped from view the 'behind the rounded shoulder of a hill side, mesquite-cloaked. two Then from its first spirited flight and the horse settled down to steady go s of ing, lengthened Its stride, and ran for leagues with the long, apparently ef k of fortless and tireless lope of the plains , to bred broncho, ventre-a-terre. elp- Alan's departure from camp had an step ticipated by a round quarter-hour the its appearance on the upper trail of friends of the slain bandit, to the sses number of four or five, who had both the discovered and recovered his body, rses called his death murder and pledged ddle themselves to its avengement-laying responsibility for the putative crime Shis at the door of the man and woman td. to be seen in the canyon, immediately below the scene of Hopi Jim's fail. Between the moment when discov ent ery of the men on the ridge trail In terrupted their simple and hurried *he breakfast and that which found Rose i is and Barcus mounted on the back of their own horse and making the best '3y()n of their way down the canyon in pur ik- suit of Alan, but little time had to elapsed. ac- And even with its double burden, their horse made better time upon sn't t..broad lower level than those who ond followed the ridge trail By miifhorn 1 Is ing, when they approached -the foot and hills that ran down to the desert, the that pursuit was more than a mile In the this rear and shut off to boot by a mono e. lithic hill, while Alan was many a weary mile in advance. dy He sat upon his horse, just then, at at's stands till upon the summit of a round do ed knoll, the Painted bills lifting up ebehind him, the desert before unfold ie'U ing like a map-but like a map all as blurred. for, Only In the near foreground was and anything definite to be distinguished fool in the aspect of that sunbitten waste fice bleached earth patterned in almost or derly arrangement by sagebrush and gnarled cacti. At the distance of half a mile all blended into one vast plain of glaring gray that stretched over the round of the world to a broken wall of purple hills that reeled drunk enly in the haze-veiled southwest. Was Judith out there, somewhere, lost, defenseless, forlorn, Impotent to ilift a hand to shield her face from the blast of that savage sun? Staring beneath a shading hand, he discerned nothing that moved upon ,the surface of the desert but its Smyriad heat-devils jigging monoto nously their infernal danse macabre. Or-as seemed more probable-was she back there among the Painted hills, lying still and lifeless, crushed Sbeneath the weight of that fallen Shorse? No rest for Alan till he knew... SDescending the knoll he reined his Slagging mount back into the trail, fol low ing its winding course through the foothills and round the base of that d monolithic mountain toward the junc tion with the ridge trail, miles away. . It approached the hour of noon be p.fore he gained the point where the -two trails joined and struck out across the desert. And here he discovered Led what he thought indisputable indica to- tion that the fright of Judith's horse >ot had persisted. eAbandoning Immediately all notion es of returning through the hills by the yridge-trail, he turned and swung away tat the best pace he could spur from n his broncho, delivering himself into the pitiless embrace of that Implaca d ble wilderness of sun and sand. 5At long intervals he would check t the broncho and, reeling In his saddle, to endeavor to sweep the desert with his binoculars. eAnd toward the middle of the after e noon he fancied that something re hwarded one such effort; something thfor an instant swam athwart the field of the glasses: something that seemed sto move like a weary horse with a human figure bound to its back. m. But now the phenomena were dis cernible which, had he been more des eert wise, would have made him pause ed and 'hink before ne ventured farther from those hills, already beyond > reach as they were. to His first appreciated warning came no when the surface of the desert seemed JDAVE BURNS, 'Ar Furnaces o lift and shake like the top o anvas tent in a gale. At the :, ime a mighty gust of wind sw thwart the waste, hot as a furnz )last. In a trice dust enveloped r md horse, a stifling cloud of su: eated particles that stung the fl Ike a myriad needles. And then d less fell, the twilight of hades, a ( >er-colored pall. Nothing remal: risible beyond arm's length. Blinded, half suffocated, unsp( bly dismayed and bewildered, broncho swung round, back to )last, and refused to budge anot ncn. Himself more than half-dazed, till hounded by his nightmare vIE )f Judith, Alan dismounted to esc being torn bodily from the saddle that hellish sand-blast, and sei2 the bridle sought to draw the hc Dn with him. He wasted his strength In that deavor: the animal balked, plar Its hoofs deep in the sand. stiffe its legs and resisted with the si bornness of a rock; then, of a sud< Jerked his head smartly, snapped bridle from his grasp and flung av scudding before the storm. Pursuit was out of the questi Indeed, the bridle was barely I "Rose-Miss Trine from his hand before Alan lost of the broncho. For a moment he stood rootE consternation as in a bog-wit] arm upthrown across his face. Then the thought of Judith curred. - - - Head bended and shoulders rou he began to forge a way into the of the sandstorm. How long he fought on, pittini strength against the elements, ce be reckoned. In the end he stumbled blindly a slight decline and was abr conscious that he had in some found shelter from the full forcec wind. He staggered on another yat two, breathing more freely, and dered into a rough-ribbed wall of -some sporadic outcrop, he 11 stood, whose bulk stood betweer and the storm. He thought to rest for a time, the storm had spent its gre strength; but as he laid his shc gratefully against the rock scrubbed the dust from his sma eyes he saw what he at first eonc to be a hallucination: Judith standing within a yard cf him, strong, free. He stared incredulously, sas! recognize him, open her moni utter a wondering cry that was ii ble, and come quickly nearer. "Alan! You came fornme! Yo lowed me, through all this!" He threw oft' her hand with a laugh-that was like the croakini raven as it issued from his bor throat-and in momentary posse of hysteric madness, reeled away the woman and the shelter of the and delivered himself anew t( mercy of the dust-storm. CHAPTER XLII. Open Mutiny. Though she had-been schooled tc the very name-of Law in loathin speakable and to think of Alan mortal enemy and as one whose< alone could properly requite the injury that had been done her fa and though the man himself laughed to scorn her first involui confession of that love for him v now consumed her being with it satiable fires, she swallowed chagrin and followed him with solicitude of one whose love can ri nize no wrong in Its object. Thr all the remainder of that day of tV she was never far from his side. With the meekness of the sti she made herself his shadow. she was now the stronger, for she had more than an hour's rest b4 the waterhole, which he had mi on the way of that rocky windb: Sooner or later his strength must him and he would need her; till she was content to bide her hour. It befell presently mn startling ion; she was not a yard behind when he vanished abruptly. But the next moment Judith he: was trembling on the crumbling b of an arroyo of depth and widtl determinable in the obscurity of duststormn. Down this, evide> IHandy Ki That save time and lal are quite a feature in o tof Hardware. We hax in the line of Pots, Par Knives, Meat Choppe tlittle articles that we troduced novelties tha Plokem(a natty exmar te Col. I ns, who Se himi. e, wealth~ ty'and at as presl( (&rs A Trust a Alan had fallen in his dizzy bllndnest .me She found him insensible, lying with ept an arm bent under him in a pose tce- frightfully suggestive of dislocation. ,an Yet when she turned him on his back )er- and released the arm, he made no esh sign to indicate that the movezent trk. had caused him the slightest pain. op- There.- was .. slight cut upon his 2ed brow,. a bruise about his left temple. She tore linen from her bosom, be ak. neath her coarse flannel shirt, and with the sparing aid from the canteen, washed the the cut clean and bandaged it. her Then. seeing that the storm held with fury unabated, she rose, recon but noitered and returned to exert all her ion strength and drag the unconscious ape man across the dry bed of that ancient by water-course and under the lee of its ing farther bank. rse There, sitting, she pillowed his head upon her lap, and bending over en- him made her body an additional shel ted ter to him from the swirling clouds ed of dust. ub., And for hours on end Judith nursed len, him there, scarce daring to move the save to minister to his needs, bathing ray, his fevered brow and moistening his parched lips and throat. on: In the course of the first hour she orn was once startled by the spectral vis -Reason With the Madman-" ion through the driving sheets of dust sight of a horse that plodded up the arroyo, bearing two riders on its back. d in Weary with the weight of its double I an burden, it went slowly and passed so near to Judith that she was able to re- recognize the features of her sister and Tom Barcus. ided, Be sure she made never a sign to teeth catch their attention. Within the next succeeding hour g his the coppery light lost something of innot its hot briliance, took on a darker shade, and then one darker still. Twi lown light stole athwart the desert, turning uptly its heat to chill, its light to violet. way Growing more intense, the cold if the eventually roused the sleeping man. And hardly had his eyes unclosed *d or and looked up into the eyes of Judith blun- bending-over him than he started up rock and out of her embrace, got unstead nder- ily upon his feet and after a moinent him of pause, watching her rise In turn, strode away-or, rather, staggered until with the gesture of exorcism.. atest Uncomplaining, hugging her new ulder born humility to her with the ecstasy and of the anchorite his horse-hair shirt, arting Judith followed him patiently, at a elved little distance. rine Not far from where he had rested alive, there was a break In the overhanging hrwall of the arroyo. Through this he hrscrambled painfully, reaching the level : to of the desert only after cruel effort, taudi- the unheeded woman at his heels. A brief pause there afforded both fol- time to regain their breath and survey the desert for signs of assistance;. 1I bitter offered none, other than what the3 ;of a might accomplish through their owr - ' exertions. For leagues in any guartei ssion it stretched without a break other that from the black cleft of the arroyo, gleaming rock a bleached and deathly ~white in the the moonshine-like the face of a frozen world. With tacit consent both turned that way, Alan leading, Judith his pertina cious shadow, with never a word or sign between them to prove that either hold was aware of the other's company. g un- But this was a state of affairs that as a could not long endure. Judith had the eath price to pay for her own trials, suf cruel fering and privation: the strain began her; to tell sorely upon her, She reeled had slightly as she walked, weaving a itary winding trail across and across the -hich straighter .line of footprints that s in- marked Alan's course through the or her drdpattern of the powdered sage co And of a sudden she collapsed. ugh Instinct alone made Alan glance rror over-shoulder: for she had made no sound whatever. -ong, He turned and came directly back And to her, knelt beside her, lifted her 'sd head, pillowed it gently on his arm sieand plied her in turn with the dregs ssed of the canteen. -eak. With a sigh, a stifled moan and a fail little shiver, she revived. then He helped her gently to regain her feet, passed an arm round her. 'ash- In this fashion they struggled on in him strange, dumb companionship of mis ery and wonder. rself Thus an hour passed; and for all rink their desperate struggles neither could tin' sce that the light on the mountainside the was a yard the nearer. then Utensils >or and do the work bettsr, ur varied and complete stock e everything for kitchen use s, Kettles, Cutlery, Brus es, etc., and a great n Lre showing are recently .t should be in your horn e of1 eied; * 101 Ickly answered by fainter yeus from distant quarter of the desert, then pistols popping and flashing some o miles away, then by a growing mble of galloping hoofs. The night glasses in the car afforded r flashes of a body7 of several horse n-some six or seven, she judged aking at top speed toward the spot iere Marrophat, Hicks and Jimmy aited beside a beacon which they Ad built and lighted. Half a dozen sentences exchanged Lth the chauffeur advised her that ese were horsemen from the town Mesa who had charged themselves ith the duty of avenging the death Hopi Jim Slade. A sardonic chuckle from within rine's gag goaded th'e girl into a sul n fury. Exacting his utmost speed from the iauffeur, under penalty of her dis leasure, she set herself to revive Ian. With the aid of such stores of food ad drink as the car carried, this was iclgy enough accomplished. Strangling with an overdose of randy too little diluted with water, Ian sat up, grasped the conditions i a flash, and gained further informa, on as he devoured sandwiches and mptied a canteen. The mountain pass was now, he idged, a mile distant. The light on le hillside, according to the chauf ?ur, was that of a prospector who ad camped there temporarily. There as nothing, then, to be feared from iat quarter, but solcy from the rear -where the horsemen, having picked p Marrophat and his companions, ad instituted hot pursuit, and were ow strung out in a long, straggling ne, three horses carrying double the rthermost-perhaps a mile and a alf away-one with a single rider be nearest, well within three-quar rs of a mile. Nobly mounted, this last came on .ke the wind, gaining on the motor ar with every stride; for his horse ras trained to such going, whereas he car at best could only labor heav ty in dust and sand. None the less, it had won to a point rithin a quarter of a mile from the ass before the horseman got within rhat he esteemed the proper range, ni opened fire. He fired thrice. His first shot winged ride, his second by ill-chance ripped brough a rear tire of the car, thus lacing upon it an additional handi ap, while his third sought the zenith s his hands flew up and he dropped rom the saddle, drilled through the ody by Alan's only shot. A long-range pistol duel was in irogress before the car had covered Lalf the remajning..distance to the >ass. By the time it entered this last, vhich proved to be a narrow ravine with towering side of crumbly earth Lnd shale and broken rock, the purr ;uit was not a hundred yards behind, hile the firing was well-nigh contin ious. Two hundred feet above the trail :wo men were working with desperate iaste at some mysterious business :hough none noticed them. Only the chauffeur was aware of a woman running down the hillside at a~n angle, to intercept the car several "Straight Ahead, My Man!" She Said. hundred yards from the mouth of the pass. As it drew near the spot where she paused, waving both hands frantically, the head of the pursuing party swept into the mouth of the ravine. At the same time the chauffeur no ticed that the two men on the hillside were following the woman pellmell, throwing themselves down the slope with gigantic leaps and bounds. And then a great explosion rent the ,eaceful hush of night-that till then ad been profaned by the pattering ~racks of the revolver fusillade. As the roar of dynamite subsided he entire side of the hill shifted and lid ponderously down, choking the avine with debris to the depth of ome thirty or forty feet, burying the eaders of the pursuit beyond hope of escue. Only a instant later the motor car olted to a halt and Alan pulled him elf together to find that Rose and arcus were standing beside the door nd jabbering joyful greetings, mixed rith more or less incoherent explana ions of the manner in which they had ome to seek shelter for the night in lhe prospector's shack and, roused y the noise of firing and recognizing lan in the car by the aid of spy lasses, had with the prospector's 'aid it upon this scheme of shooting a tndslide in between the pu-suit and s devoted quarry. (Continued Next week) nt in The Sentinel D RICKS in.- Men's Wool Shirts at 80c. Men's and Boys' Suits to go at Light Colored Goods. All 50c Jhattanoogo Plows and Points. on want . unty you ickens Sentin&. rulation of oths a hgh asthe co1.US ai hathqan zehnd them other lights appeared, qu two staring yellkw eyes that peered a up over the horizon, seemed to pause by a time in search of the two, then tm leaped out directly toward them. ru Of this they were altogether ignor ant; and when a deep, droning sound ht disturbed the desert silence, like the m purring of some gigantic eat, both as. m cribed it to the drumming of their w laboring pulses. w 'The two lights were not a mile be hind them when, silently, without a sign to warn the girl, Alan released w her, took a step apart and dropped t as if shot. 0 Instantly she was kneeling by his w side. But in the act of bending over o him she drew back and remained for several moments motionless, staring T at those twin glaring eyes, sweeping l( down upon them with all the speed attainable by a six-cylinder touring car c negotiating a trackless desert. p When Judith did move it was not to A comfort Alan. On the contrary, her first act was to draw from her pocket a a heavy, blunt-nosed revolver, break it q at the breech and blow its barrel clear of dust. Her hand went next b to the holster on Alan's hip. From ja this she extracted his Colt's .45, treat- i ing it as she had the other. Then she t crouched low above the man she loved, e as if thinking perhaps to escape notice from the occupants of the motorcar. ja If that were her thought, it was bred t of an idle hope. Alan had chosen to f fall in the middle of a wide space so b arid that not even sagebrush had ven- v tured to take root there. When the t glare of the headlights fell upon them - It was inevitable that discovery should u follow. The motor car stopped within b twenty feet. Three men jumped -out and ran toward the pair, leaving two , In the car-the chauffeur and one who f occupied a corner of the rear seat: i an aged man with the face of a damned t soul, doomed for a little time to live t upon this earth in the certain knowl edge of his damnation. 1 As this happened, Judith Trine c leaped to her feet and stood over the I body of Alan, a revolver poised in t either hand. i "Halt!" she ordered Imperatively. "Hands up!" 1 The three who had alighted obeyed I without a moment's hesitation; her i father's creatures, they knew the a daughter's temper far too well to dream of opposing her will. In the six hands that were sil- t houetted against the headlights' radi- I ance, three revolvers glimmered; but at her command all three dropped harmlessly to the earth. - Then, sharply, "Stand back two 1 paces!" she required. They humored her unanimously. Darting forward, she picked up and I pocketed the three weapons, then with one of her own singled out the men she named. "Now, Marrophat-and you, Hicks pick Mr. Law up and carry him into the car. And treat him gently, mind! If one of you lifts a finger to harm him, that one shall answer to me." Still none ventured to dispute her. The two nien designated, without a sign of disinclination, stepped forward. One lifted Alan Law by the shoulders; the other took the legs. Between them tey bore him with every care toward the motor car. But now a second will manifested itself. The man in the rear seat lifted up a weirdly sonorous voice: "Stop!" he cried. "Stop this non sense! Drop that man! .Judith, I command you--" "Be silent!" the girl cut In sharply. "I command here-If It's necessary to tell you." There was a pause of astonishment. Then ~the--old man broke out In exas peration that' wax into fury: "Judith! What do you m this? Has it indeed come to this that my own daughter defies me to my face?"' "Apparently!" she shot back, with, a short laugh. "Judge for yourself!". "Have you' forgotten your vow to. me?" "No. But I take It back and cancel it: that is my privilege, .I believe. . . . Silence!" she stormed as he strove to gainsay her. "Silence-do you' hear?-or It will be the wo;-ee for you!'' As well command the sea to still - Its voice: her father raged like a mad - man that he was, for the time being divested of his habitual mask of frigid heartlessness. And seeing that there was no other way of quieting him, the girl turned to the third man. "Now Jimmy!" she said crisply. "Into tha't car-and be quick about it -and gag him!" "If you do," her father foanied, "I'll have your life-" A flourish of her weapons gained instant obedience. She stepped up on the running board and shot a quick, searching glance at the face of the chauffeur. "Straight ahead, my man!" she said. "Make for the nearest pass through those hills yonder, and don't delay unless you are anxious for trouble. Off! 1 you go!" The car began to move. She swept'i the three men in the desert a inocking,, bow, fumped Into the body of the car ] and slammed the door. They made no effort to plead their cause and secure passage even as far j as the edge of the desert; doubtless they knew too well the futility of that, j she thought, as she settled back in a a seat, chuckling with the memory of 1~ those three masks of dismay unmiti- t gated. .c It was not until five minutes later, t when she straightened up from making I Alan comfortable that she realized what had made them so content to abide by her will. Then she heard their voices lifted l1 together in a long, shrill howl that was il ryAnAdvertisem J. W. 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