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SYNOPSIS. -9 Automobile of Aiss Dorothy Upton and .flend. Mrs. aie, breaks down at New .Miexico border pat rol catnp, commanded by Lieutetnant Kylnistoll. ThIo two woin s1M are otn way to mine of Miss Uptoni's Esther, located a few muiles across the fatxicaii borider. Kyttastont leaves women .-at his cap1i while lie goes with a detail rt (nvestigate report of \'ilia gun runners. UV1a troops drive sinalil force of Car -e.nza across border line and they surren der to Kyiaston. D~orothy and Mrs. Pane vtDld at eamip when Kytiaston returns with *-grisoners. liliti Me.<cai priest appears .ra carnp anl claims ilnterned Mexiconis l.ve in the spoils broughtt across the line % wonderful emerald hell stolen fron a aftrine by Z/apaita ai takeI from liiin by 'C1rraizai troops. Priest is searching for the eieraldl in order to return it to the Wsrine. Kytnaston fitids jewel and reports ti department headquarters. Major Up dl ke appears from headquarters to take < arge of valuables captured. Priest AM.i emerald bell disappear. Kynaston sishpn a'ross botlor with one man to aid 100ton faily surrounded by Villistas. TMi water supply runs short. The defen drs kill some of their besiegers, among :tttent at Important officer. Mexicans go . They demand sacriflce of man who *.tSed officer. Both Upton and Kynaston ind fired lit him, so they play poker game -tto- decide which shall stirrender and thus .sse lives of others hosieged. Kynaston ntes and prepares to offer himself to traeny. Holy Writ says there Is no greater love than the sacrifice ,of one's life to save another's. But in real life do you believe that a man would deliberately throw his life away In order to save the life of the father of the girl he loves-especially I when the old father stood will. Ing and ready to enter the Val. Icy of the Shadow? You will be much Interested In Lieuten ant Kynaston's problem, de. I scribed 1be this installment. CHAPTER VI-Continued. 'Well, it would not take long. It woP13uld be over in twenty-four hours, 1=less-a horrible thought came to bim-U-those men below, whose prison. Or he would be in two hours, were Uaxages inl the rough; savages with thie blood-lust fairly roused and in. tamed by defeat. Pe had heard tales of torture among the prisoners that ho had soon at No. gnles-horrible tales! The thought of having to go with. Olit even saying farewell to Dorothy unnerved him for a moment, but lie realizod his own limitations, and he knew that in that lact moment he w~ould betray himself. So down lie sat rat the table and wrote two short no!tes; one to his colonel, in which ho explainled the whole affair, and the oth er to the sister that lived in a quiet little Maryland town among the placid b3ack eddies of the eastern shore. Kynaston, his notes written, filled the clip of the automatic and slIpped it into his boot-leg, wvher-e its flat frame would be most likoly to lie undetected. A moment later Upton came into th~e room. Hius face was gray with suppressed feeling and his8 gaunt frame sahowed unmistakable suffering. In the Asw minutes that had passed since *(ynaston had left him the whole trag vedy of the next twenty-four hours had 1)ee~n brought home to him. "[ can't lot you go. boy." he said :torsely. "\Ve had better take our .chance. Bring your men on over across the border." The appeal was almost overwhelm tflg in its inteonsity. "Don't you know that it means your "I know. But it moans war if I doM; and, Upton, as God is my judge, K cannot start a wvar that will involve the country to save my own skin. Tfou see that, don't you?" Upton licked his dry lips. "When- when-do you mean to fieave?" ho asked. "Right now." Kynaston's face was pale. "Are the ladies in the back room ?" "Yes. I'll go with you to the 41oor." The two men strolled listlessly to ward the door of the main roomn, where the defenders stood eying thier.. Frank puzzlement wvas written large irpon their faces as Upton unbarred the door', letting Kynaston out upon 'the smooth four-hundre'd-yard stretch of grass that spread from the (door step to the stream, grass that had been laboriously planted by hand throughl two generations. Below them the land sloped away to the east, a riot of gold and dun, pearl and opal, and that curious red brown that one Bees in the southwest 1nad nowhere else on earth. Looking out before ho shut the door amgata, Upton saw, a mile away, a col exxn of red dust swirl up to the ame hystine sky and heard a series of eong, joyous yells that cut the desert silences like a knife. Yell 'after yell stoke out, then firing, ,And then more yells. "That'll be the arrival of the re sforcemente they spoke of," said Ky ~Aston, ''I'm off. old ihan. Adios! WfOUL VILIAS MEN f$Capf.N Give my love to-your-daughter." Upton frankly choked as he watched the younger man swing off down the hill. Steadily Kynaston tramped down across the dead olive-green of the parched alfalfa patch, skirted the dead brown of the sugar cane, paused to wave his hand to the old miner, and then-disappeared from view among the cottonwoods. Upton, sighing, turned back to the house. He tramped through the great room amid a great silence. Men turned from their loopholes, scanned his face, and furtively fell to rubbing spotless rifle-bolts with their shirt sleeves. They saw in his face such grief as is abo- -e mere words, and, after the manner of the southwest, re spe oted it. Dorothy and Mrs. Fane he found in the back room. They knew, or sus pected. Mrs. Fane was sitting in a chair at the head of the table, her face in her hands, frankly weeping, with her arms spread upon the table, her beautiful figure racked with sobs. Dorothy, a mixture of fire and ice, stood by the window, which was closed and barred, confronting Mr. Wilkes, who fairly cringed before the concen trated fury in her eyes. "I say it was a shame-a shame!" she cried. "What if he did kill him? Did they not try to kill him first, and have they not stolen first from us, and for two days now tried to kill us all? Did he not peril his life to get us wa ter? Did he not cross the line and risk his life and, more than his life, his reputation as a soldier to help us? "What, must lie think of us? To have us accept such a sacriflee from him! Oh, father, I cannot stand it! Marion, say something!" But Marion was long past saying anything that could be of even the smallest comfort. It was Mr. Upton who said slowly: "We did the best we could, daugh ter. We are but human, after all. 'Neither Kynaston nor I were sure "Have You Come From the House Yonder, Senor?" which of us shot the man. Anyway, they promised us immunity if the man who killed their leader should give himself up to trial by court-martial-" "Which means death," interjected Dorothy scornfully. "And as we could not tell which of us-he or I-it was who did the kill ing, we played a hand of poker to decide. That was what we wore doing when you came in." "Gambled away a life!" ejaculated the horrified girl. "And you mean that this"-she pidkcd up the cards lying on the table -"this was the price of his life?" The tears were running down her checks like rain. "And you had- What did yon have, father?" "Three jacks-and-" The old miner never fhished his sentence. Hie started back from the table as if a coiled rattlesnake lay within a foot of his face; for his daughter had dropp~ed the hand that had saved his life and had turned up the hand that Kynaston had thrown so scornfully ini the middle of the table, disclosing to his horrified eyes-four nines! CHAPTER VlI. A Contest of Wits. Dusk was slowly drawing down as Kynaston left the house. Below him in the camp of the attackers excite ment was rife. Serious as was his predicament, ho could not help specu lating on the cause of it. Anything, even the moest trivial thing, might turn the scale in his favor, and he did not moan to miss the slightest chance. He knew right well that, given tho chance, Upton would get his party out and across the border to the place where the cavalry had camped, He also knew right well that' t46 oik =Inoe woud leave no stone titurnec to help him. If he could gahi thirty six hours at most and then manage t( escape, he might still win out. He was by no means hopeless though well-nigh desperate, as he drem down from the higher ground to the camp, well sheltered in the valley. He saw that more men were coming in presumably the talked-of re-enforce Monts. They saw him as he came down the hill and. entered the flat on which the camp lay. The horsemen, in a madly yelling crowd swept forward toward him, lariats circling, horses frantically caracoling about him, their riders striving to see who should be the first to get a rope about the neck of the accursed gringo. Mercifully he forestalled their at tempts by backing up against a tall mesquit bush so that the loops of their lariats could not settle about his neck. Beeing his intention they voiced their disapproval in a renewed outburst of yells. Further designs upon him were pre vented by the opportune arrival of an oflicer, who dispersed the crowd by the simple process of beating them about the heads with a stick. "Have you come from the house yonder, senor?" "Yes. And I claim proper treat ment from you, sir. You can hardly claim to treat people In your power de cently when your troops are as out of hand as that." "I will take you to El General Obis po, senor," said the officer courteous ly. "For your own sake, I warn you, do not anger him. His temper is a trifle uncertain, owing to his having to undergo severe privations for the past week." A sentry slept in the doorway. From the interior came the smell of a meal that had evidently just been served. Following his guide, Kynaston en tered. El General Obispo, a squat little man, whose high cheek bones and full lips betokened his Indian an cestry, looked up from the supper which he was eating by the simple process of stuffing as much carne seco In his mouth as that organ would hold, and then cutting off the balance with a none too clean knife. El general growled out a question. The officer explained who Kynaston was. In answer the general rose hast ily from the table, spat the meat from his mouth, and began such a furious tirade of scurrilous epithets as to be come nearly epileptic. Kynaston stood silent. "Take him away! i Place him in the cuartel till a consejo de guerra (court-martial) can decide what the fate shall be of any accursed gringo who dares kill one of our gallani soldiers! Herel" He tossed a paper to the officer. "Let him Bee, capitan, that even it his own accursed country, where the pigs walk on their hind legs and tall and act as if they were indeed men they are beginning to see that th revolutionary forces of our land arc not to be withstood-the court-martial will meet tomorrow afternoon." "He is in a better humor than I thought." said the officer to Kynaston, "El viejo diablo (the old devil) gave you the paper, senor, not because he wished you to read it, but because he himself cannot road, and wished tc impose upon you-here is the cuartel. Can I send you some blankets? I fear the house wvill not be so comfortable as I might wish-H-ola, there, horn bres! A guard for the Americano!' And befor-e he even realized that he wvas indeed a prisoner, Kynaston found himself shoved' inside the dirty interior, the door closed and a guard set outside. Kynaston, seeIng that he might ai well take thiergs coolly, seated himsell on a blanket that a peon threw in th< door, took the paper from his pockel and disposed himself to read. The very first thing that caught his eye nai a six-column display head: ARMY OFFICER DISAPPEARS SO DOES PRICELESS GE[N There followed a garbled account o the arrival of the Emerald Bell in Ky naston's camp. A still more garble< account of how it came into norther1 Mexico. The account of the gallan tight made by the prisoners he had left in his camp told plainly enougl the source of the story. The article stated that, acting on in formation received from, a Mexical prisoner who had been outrageousl: abused by the anny officer who ha< captured him, the Tarryvillo Argui had dispatched a special correspond ent to the camp of the United Statei troops. There he found Major Updyke, whi with visible reluctance had substan tiatod the story about the jewel. Kynaston lays his hand on the little automatic pistol in his bootleg. He feels certain the end has come, but fears that he will be tortured by the savages for hours or days before death is meted cut to him, In his place, would yoy shoot the gen eral and othera at the farcical court-martial and try to get' away, or would you stay and face torture, hoping the sacri flee would mean the safety of the besieged Americanis? (TO hrE CONTINUEDJ.) Daily Thought. Never speak ill of a person unleae you are sure of your fact: and, evez if you could swear to it, asic-yourself: Why do I make it kaowaf-~vator, By GREI It is h k ' A h Ag A Eold t d we r It was mo It was. loved - 'Tis ,a corn The glowing n 'Tis a song 1 Like the fl Forever vi It gives The An _ _ _ _ _ It spe__ _ h The world o SAVED BELL FROM BRITISH PatrioticPhiladelphians Carried It to Allen town, Where It Was Buried INCIDENT of Revolutionary times finds a more vivid and dramatic contrast in this day than the first trip of the Lib erty Bell from Philadelphia, ' writes John A. Sheatz, ex-state treasurer of Pennsylvania, in the Philadelphia Press. That trip was to Allentown a year and two months after it became the Liberty Bell, at the time when Howe's army, victorious over the Con tinental forces at the battle of the Brandywine, was advancing for the capture of the city. When the bell left for ' the San Francisco exposition last year it de, parted with the God-speed of the whole undivided city. It was escort ed to the train by the First city troop and by the great assemblage gathered for the Fourth of July exer cises on Independence square. It passed through streets thronged with venerating people. On the train it was under the escort of a large body delegated by the constituted munici pal authorities. Its passage across the continent was a triump~hal prog ress. A hundred cities along the route poured out their citizens to do it reverence as it passed 'and it was received at the ether rim of the con tinent in reverential awe by a count less multitude. Contrast With First Trip. That is how the Bell travels today. It was very different In September, 1777. On that first trip to Allentown it went, not in daylight, but in the dead ot'night. Not with the music of bands and escorted in honor by mul titudds, but in silence and under the guard of only one man. It went not in a special train but in a creaking old farm wagon loaded with manure, the better to conceal it. For at that time there were many Tories in Philadelphia. These includ ed families then counted among the foremost citizens. When the city was evacuated by the Continentals, these Tories came out of the obscurity lin which they had been prudently lying Iand began preparing a welcome for Howe and his army. The following twinter was a time of rare festivity for the British officers. 1 The British were expected by the By the rude bridge that spans the flood, Their flag to April's airs unfurled. Here once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard 'round the world. The farmers of Lexington carried the cornet or standard of the Three County Troop. This banner was de vised in the counties of Essex, Suffolk and Middlesex, Massachusetts, in 165i9. The office of coior bearer of this troop was a sort of inheritance in the Page family. The standard was carried in King Philip's war In 1010. When the Minute Mon were organized Nathaniel Page III of Bedford took the old flag for use at driii. At the midnight alarm Captain Page snatched up the .stand ard and carried it with him to Con cord, where it "waved above the smoke of that battle." The flag is now preserved under ilass in a fireproof safe of the publi Bell lack; eLiber - by age. ythe sage, - - =dead. w very well. - ty Belli _______ives. - es; tell Belli city authorities, upon taking posses. sion, to confiscate the church bells as spoils of war for the purpose of mold ing them into cannon. That was rec ognized as one of their rights as cap. tors. It was to prevent this seizure that the executive council ordered the removal ,of the state house bell and the bells of Christ church and of -nine other churches to Allentown by way of Bethlehem. I don't know why Allentown was selected unless it be that it was far enough away to keep, the bells safe from the British. Had Small Escort. John Jacob Mickley, a soldier of the Continental army, was one of those detailed for the removal of the bells. To him the state house bell was in trusted. John Jacob Mickley was the son of Johann Jacob Mueckli (the Ger man version of the name), and ar rived in Philadelphia on the sailing vessel "Hope" in the early pdrt of 1733. On August 27, 1733, he took the oath of allegiance to his adopted country. He was a farmer at White hall, Lehigh county, when the War of the Revolution broke out. At Bethlehem Mickley's wagon broke down and the state house bell was transferred to the wagon of Ja cob Lester, upon which it was hauled the remaining four miles. In the rec ords of the Moravian church at Beth lehem is the following entry, under date of September 23, 1777: "Th bells from Philadelphia brought in wagons, the wagon of the state house bell broke down here, so it had to be unloaded, the other bells went on." Buried Under Church Floor. The state house bell and the chimes of Christ church were buried beneath the floor of Zion Reformed church, Allentown. This church was built in 1762 of logs, rebuilt in stone In 1770, and again rebuilt later. The Rev. Abra ham Blummer was pastor of the church at the time and assisted in the work of burying the bells. A tab let commemorating the event has been placed upon the church front and also a stained glass window with like pur pose in the church. After the evacuation of Philadelphia by the British, the bells were brought back and put in their respective places in the latter part of the year 1778. Country Honored Lafayette. It is said that "republics are un grateful." That was not the case con cerning -Lafayette. Congress voted him the sum of $200,000 and a town ship of land; and, with the progres sive development of the United States, the grateful American people named after him many cities, towns and coun ties, and erected monuments and sta tues to his memory enough for any measure of ambiticn, library at Bedford, Mass., and can be seen by arrangement with the libra rian, according to Peleg D). Harrison, ini whose volume, "The Stars and Stripes and Other American Flags," the history of the banner is related. The ground is maroon or crimson coloredi iatin dlamas~k emblazoned with an outstretched arm, in the hand of which is an uplifted sword. This rep resentation is tho color of silver, as are three circular figures that are probably intended to represent can non balls. Upon a gold colored scroll are the words "Vince aut Moriture" (Conquer or Die). The flag is about two feet by one foot six inches. 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