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A uther of poliiels o re atend kig a Conventio in Chengo a short li hm e ago wht one of the us-hr wa1 to aaino y an brain issui S -a'' oo d th a ltah- bene.it A 'hrtshialrrove Ther e'so wan Rean"it podt bhyhe Goct e bigrlad han "I sahl ten." tiln abtIt ik t i wa i ar r CHAPTER VIII-Continued. -11 The Mexicans believe Upton has the emerald bell. They want it and have promised their prisoner, Lieutenant Kynaston, that if they get the Jewel he will be 'freed. They send a mes senger with the proposition to the American mine house. Mr. Upton did so. The man came forward unhesitatingly and delivered his message. "Ask him who he is," prompted the old man. The soldier came forward, explain Ing haltingly in Spanish that he was the bearer of a note. Mr. Wilkes bent forward excitedly. "Give 'em a dose of their own medi cine!" he said bitingly. "Ev'ry min ute that you can delay their proceedin's is so much gain. Ask him what he come fer, but don't take his note see?" Mr. Upton did not "see," but he did as he was bid. Presently the man with some difficulty explained that he had come as bearer of a note to open nego tiations the nature of which he did not understand. He held out the note. Mr. Upton was about to take it when a word dropped by Dorothy made Wilkes jump as if a line of biting white ants had crawled up his leg. "Wouldn't it be fine," said the girl, "if we could only make a couple of their officers prisoners and then ex change them for Mr. Kynaston!" Wilkes patted her shoulder. "And they tell me that woman ain't fit to vote," he said scathingly. "Don't take his note, Upton! Not on no con sideration. What excuse- Oh, I don't know, Upton. Yes. I do, too. "Tell 'em that you are a caballero of blood and that it stands not with yer honor to receive messages' at the hand of a common soldier. He must have come on an important message. Tell him that you will not receive the note except at the hand of an officer see?" "Yes, I see. And then what?" "Why, then he'll go on down the hill. They'll let him come becauso they've just passed him out through their lines. An' when he goes down I'll follow him with Manuel here, an when we reach the line of cottonwoods we can hide in 'em till daylight. When they send an officer up to see you at daylight we can grab 'em as they come back. under a white flag. but they won't be no such th!~in g 'ca o they'll dlrep their1 white flag as soon as they are out of range comin' back--see?" Taken aback at the refusal to re- 1 celve the note, the soldadlo stumbled off downi the hill, his lantern bobbingi along among the mes9quit-brush like a lightning bug in summer. No sooner hadl his shadow melted away in the diusk than Mr. Wikkes andl Manuel, the Alexican "horse-wrangler," left the house. They followed the soldier stealthIly down the slope to the line of cotton woodIs which stood out, a low lying blot, against the dusk of the val ley. "W'll wait herrs, Manuel," said the old ex-dleputy sheriff tersely. "We'll 'wait here till the next outfit sees fit to ask Upton to pow wow; it ought to be just ab~out daylight Wake me up w"hcn the light first shows." Tho hours of the night passed with leaden feet. The eyes of the watchers were strained wvith looking for tho dawn to break over the eastern ranges. Atter putting his papers in order all night long, Uipton found relief-or at least su-cease from wvorry-by work. ing eve! his machine, tinkering lhere and there till ho had built up a species of iron-clad automobile that would have sickened the soul of the maker. He was called from his work by the insistent voice of Dorothy callIng him to breakfast. 'While he was eating, a sandwich in one hand, his rifle in the other, a hail from autside the house brought him to his loophole. Three men stood within easy rifle range of the house, a dirty white cloth pro claiming them to be messengers from the rebels. Hastily he laid his rifle against the house, and motioning the Mexicans to lay aside their arms, he signaled them to come forward. Then, with a cau tion to Nolan and Lewis to shoot on thn iirst sign of treachery, he strode forward to meet them. officer, Colonel Mayez, simply handed him a bulky envelope, which Upton thrust into his shirt, and, saluting stifily, faced about and walked quick ly down toward the trees in the hol low. Upton stood watching them ?and the movement among the trees where Wilkes and Manuel lay concealed. A shot from cover-and a very long. range shot it was--warned him that all dealings with him were over until he was ready to give his reply to the note. So. sighing, he turned quickly bak into the house, opening the note as he' did .so, The Clipping troni the ne.i paler to'ok first mattlun- Api,, ;ILLNSA NEN .CCapt yet again he stared at the headlines, as if they were unbelievable. Walking like a man in a trance, he strode across the great main room. He opened the office door and entered-to face Dorothy, seated in a chair, a pile of ore samples in her lap as she held them one by one to her eyes. Galena, copber sulphates, gold and silver-she passed them over with a casual look. A piece of brilliant a-zurite caught her fancy; she leaned forward to pick it up. Upton grasped her roughly by the shoulder. "What are you doing in here?" he demanded curtly. It was the first harsh word she had ever received from her father. "Oh! Let go, father; you are hurt ing me. I saw the door was open and I came in-" "The door is still open. You can go out-go!" Tears came to her eyejs, for the girl loved her father very dearly. She gath ered up the samples that she had taken from the safe and replaced them care fully in the lowest compartment. As she rose to her feet her hand knocked from the shelf in the safe a little paste board box that fell to the floor, and, striking on a corner, rolled out into the room, opening as it did so. Upton sprang forward to pick It up. dropping the open note from his out stretched hand. He seized the box, which he thrust roughly into the bo som of his shirt, and turned to find Dorothy facing him, the newspaper clipping in her hand. "Oh! Oh!" she cried, and again, "Ohl!"0 She gulped. "And they accused him of that! It :'annot-must not-be! I will not have It! An American paper accuses him :>f that! Is there no justice in the world? Is all charity dead? Couldn't they wait to hear his side of it? What Is it, father? What is it?" There had come a burst of firing from outside the house. Upton had staggered back from the table, a stream of telltale blood from his shoul der showing how one at least of the hostile bullets was accounted for. Reeling, he sat down suddenly in a chair, the supine body, the sick look upon his face, the sudden white about the nose and the corners of his mouth showing that he had succumbed to the shock of a high-power bullet fired 'rom long range. Dorothyv sarrang to aid him, laid 1nm doCwn upon the floor with a pile of anpersq unde~r his hend. and tore fran ically at the collar of the brown fin 1ol shirt that seemed to cut off his )reathing. Speechless, he resisted her svery effort to assist him. It was not .ill unconsciousness mercifully came o shut off the pain that she got a view Unconsciousness Mercifully Came. of the wound. It was not as bad as she had feared-simply a shot-hole in the shoulder at a spot where a ban dage could be readily applied. H~astilyshe called to Miranda to get her what little water remained in the bucket. Meanwhile she tore hastily some strips of linen for the bandages. The pasteboard box interfering with her work, she laid it upon the table. The old, brown Mexican woman ran quickly back to the room and seized the roll of linen from the girl's hands. "See. now! It is not so bad. So! Thde is no bone broken, thanks be to 'he rn:nte It i brt a cc.:s tr~ot.-.ole and will heal in a fortnight. The fainting? Saints and angels I it is but the shock of a wound on a man who has no food in his belly." So she gabbled on, oblivious to. all save the man who lay upon the floor. Dorothy picked up thie note and read it carefully, drawing her breath hard. So that was iti His life was to -be bartered for a stone-a green stone h mere emerald I' In that moment she knew that his life was morei to b~er 4han the wealth pt all the Indies-a~nd th~t she had ~tound it out too ii It bel were; am s'it he #ia4 be abnd se dud kkfs de be she would tell him- fed*ikly. ' would ask Marian. She remembered now how Marisa had jested in the cavalry camp wit her over this.very question-and she dropped her head upon her arms. A sharp corner of the pasteboard bo; struck her forehead.' She gave it ar impatient push and it dropped to th floor, inaking a sharp, tinkling noiste as it landed. Dorothy glanced dowr casually at it, only to rise and stand as one petrified; her eyes upon the open box and its contents, now come tc view. - For there, in the middle of the of fice floor, released from its wrappings there lay at her feet, staring at hei with green, unwinking eyeb-the Em erald Belli CHAPTER IX. Murder. For a moment the girl stood, gazing with horrified eyes at the jewel at hei feet. At first she could not believe that she was awake; then, leaning forward, she picked it up and placed i upon the'table. The act, simple as It was, roused her thoroughly. With a little shiver, she turned to her father who had regained consclousness and was watching her through half-closed eyes. "Well!" he said. "Well! Say it! I know perfectly well what you are thinking. Give it a name." "How came you to take the Bell, fa ther? I saw it in his tent when wE sought refuge in his camp.' You sau it there, too. Was it then that yor got it?" Her father nodded silently but did not take his eyes from her face. Well she knew where the trouble lay. Well she knew why he had taker the stone, for the trouble had lain wit1 them always, and the shadow of i had blighted the latter years of hei mother's life. Sane upon every other subject, th( wealthy old miner, who had earned e world-wide reputation as a connoissein in matters of art, had got along witi it ,an equally well-earned reputator as a kleptomaniac. For years she had known of thi failing of her father. On her vory deathbed Dorothy's mother had spoker plainly of it, laying it upon the daugh. ter to be careful to prevent any -suc thing from occurriag again. "You saw the stone when we were in his camp," she r.eiterated. "Was it then that you took it?" Again he nodded silently. The girl, her bright head sunk upon her hands, stood silent with the shame of it. "I needed it-I needed it! And they would not sell such a curio. That old priest would as soon have sold his soul as this miserable Bell. It's a good thing, my dear, that I did take it, though, for now I have the means with which to buy Kynaston's freedom. Who is that coming up the hill? Is it Wilkes come back?" It was Wilkes come back, and Manuel along with him. A volley of curses of more than ordinary fluency told that they had companions. Motioning the women back, Upton flung open the door, admitting the two men with their prisoners. "They come all right, but we had to u some caxin'--hey. ho?" laughed WVilkes, p)unching tile old colonel of artille'ry in the ribs wvith the long bar rel of his -revolver. Colonel Mayez fairly spat at him; then, seeing the green Bell upon the table, he started back in surprtise. The next second he was fairly fawning before thle table. "For tis jewel," he cried, "el gen eral will make any concessions-dc anything! It will bring the last large sum of money our forces will require before our arms establish a govern mont of true patriots and we are able to issue loans as a recognized nation.' "Oh, get down to cases!" snorted old Wilkes. "This, then. We hlave the men, bul no arms-no money to get arms Men? Palh! We are gathering meti on all sides, Our forces are daily in, creasing. Only last night we had ? party of seventy volunteers sent in bi Captain Colquez. He sent them it with a request that we send baek the ropes at once so that he could forward a fresh detachlment-" "And you call them volunteers?' asked Dorothy. . - "Si, senorita! They, too, are vol unteers-unwilling volunteers-never theless, volunteers." -- Wilkes grunted. "Nemmind all that chatter," he said "Whlat you want is that Emerald Bell ain't it?" "Si, ali! For that we will let g< our prisoner; we will allow yotu to de part in peace-anything, everythingl I speak~or the general-I-" "Shut up!" interrupted Upton. The old miner turned to Wilkes. "I'm going down to their camp my self," he said shortly. "You hold these hostages for my safe return. I'll dickoi withl this old highbinder personally; give him the Bell if I have to, but, any way, bring Kynaston back with me." He hesitated. "I really owe it to the boy," be con eluded. "What are you shakirig youl "'Bray a fool in a mortar, yet shall his folly depart not from him,' "quote( Mr. Wilkes. "I 'member hearin' thai at Sunday school. If you go dowi there an' promise him the Bell foi Kynaston he'll grab youa an' shoot yo11 if you don't come across with the Bell. "If you take it with you he'll take it, shoot you, an' then shoot Kynas ton. "No, sireel Th' only thing to dc is to send this here colonel what- hai seen the Bell back to Geieral- Obisp'c an' tell him that ypuhf swap.it for Key naston." FARMER' UNION" PICKS COLUMBIA iNNUAL CQNV9NTIqN OF STATE ORGANIZATION TO BE HELD IN COLUMBIA, DATE WEDNESDAY, JULY 26 Executive Committee Meets at Orange. burg and Prepares Program's Alex. ander of N. C..May be Speaker. Columbia.-Columbia was selected is the place for thd annual meeting >A the State Farmers' Union, which is to be held Wednesday, July 26. This was determined in Orangeburg when tho executive committee of the union met. The first session of the meeting liao been called for the afternoon at I o'clock when the president's address will be heard, committees oppointed, lelegates enrolled and organization of the convention effected. At the night's session an address will probably be heard by H. Q. Alex. ander, president of the North Carolina union, who has been invited to attend the meeting. Officers for the ensuing year .will be elected that night. Those who attend the meeting of the executive cmmittee in Orange burg were: J. Frank Williams, vice president of the union; J. Whitner Reid, secretary, and M. W. Gramling and J. W. Shealy. H. T. Morrison was leurined at home because of illness and business engagements prevented B. Harris from attending. Requires Tobacco Reports. Columbia.-Copies of State laws relative to the sale of tobacco and blank forms for reports are being mailed out to all -warehousemen of the state department of agriculture as the season for the marketing of this crop has opened. The law provides that reports shall be filed in theh office of E. J. Watson, commissioner of ag riculture, by the 5th of the month succeeding the opening of the season, Failure to comply with this law is punishable by a fine of $500. An ac curate statement is to be given of thaj number of pounds sold and the prices rieceived. The acreage is reduced somewhat below that of last year. Lightning Kills Couple. McCormick.-During a heavy rain and electric storm lightning struck and instantly killed Mote Banks and his wife, who lived about five miles from here, in the country. Lightning struck the chimney destroying it as it went and doing considerable other damage to the h'ouse. The mother, holding a baby in her arms, was in. stantly killed the child being unhurt. Other children in the house at the time were not hurt. Six children sur vive. Rural Carriers Select Reck Hill. Columbia.-After selecting Rock H-ill as the next meeting place, and electing the same officers for another year, the South Carolina Rural Letter Carriers' association closed its 13th annual convention in Columbia. The trip to Charleston was abandoned. The officers reelected were: Jasper E. Johnson, Gray Court, president; B Bryant, Spartanburg, vice president; and D. C2 Hayden, Orangeburg, sec retary-sreasurer. Child Killed By Auto. Greenv'ille.-Darting across the street in front of an automobile driven by Otis Holland, little Bertha May Stone, 6 years old, was killed on Jonee street in Brandon. The front spring of the car struck the child on the head, crushing the skull, and she died in a few minutes. The car, in charge of Mr. Holland, was occupied by a party off for a holiday trip. The ma. Shine was a public transfer. Young Woman Drowns. Charlestoi.-Miss Clarisse Damon "14 years of age, a daughter of Capt and Mrs. C. W. Damon of this city. was drowned off Station 27, Sullivan's Island, and two girls wvith her on a reef, which a rising tidle had cut ofi from the beach, were 'rescued uncon. icious and ~ater resusitated. Insurance Fund Decreases. Columbia.-Roports of collections o1 license fees and taxes made by the in. surfance commissioaier to the staite treasurer show that for the six months! ending June 30 the .innurance com. misoiqpier had collected and turned in to the state treasury the sum o1 $107,354.08. 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