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T H E SPR IN G FIELD NEWS
T H U HS DA Y APRII.
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among our ruoka, the trooper»
dtrlke. stinging tty fnca with (ba »pal dry cracked lipa. Sha laid heraelf lowed, curloualy »canning
ter of sandstone and hat laad: at lha down and cloned her eye» and amlled.
Hla atubliled red faca, duet antea»-
“I’m all right." »he aald. “And tired ed. queried ua keenly; ao did hla curt
moment her Colt's ballowad Into mr
I've worked ao hard for only thia.
ears.
voice.
You niuatn t look."
■B : 2 '
"1 got him!“
"Juat In timer*
“Thank God.” I rajolcad.
“And you mual wait for me. some
He brought curious new». Danl.(l
She had annk bark wearily.
where." I entreated. Juat a moment.' had not died from my »hot after all,
"That la the last.”
The Sioux charged, abrleklng. ham but Montoya the gambler had been
"Won't they try again, you think**
I
/fe \’
5
merlng. laahlug. all of one purpose 'lynched by Vigilante».
"The laat »para shot. I mean Wa
ha
I- mv Ufa. h e r b o d y ;!
» » a a a »
hare only two left. W . moat ana« “ >•«- «•= » a • “••
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It was ala week» later when we two
|h o l# »
and quickly kneeling bealda her (I
a a a a a a
J *»• >“ «• »°d llrui and volleetedl. I rode Into Itenton. wondering.
Soaring Itenton City had ranlahed
The Sioux had quieted, and lollng felt her hand guide the rvrolrar bar-
///ustratiotii "
The
Iron tendril» of the Pacifie Rail
ral.
upon the bare ground In the aun
way gllatenlng. »(retching weatward
•PAUL ROBINSON
glare they chatted, laughed, reeled. [ But I did not look. She had for
hut never for an In.tant were we dla- bidden, and I kept my eyes upon Ihvtt j Into the sunset, and Benton had fob
We looked one upon the other, and | missed from their eyea and thoukhta. until they were half way, and In ex lowed the lure. Io Rawllna (aa had
"They will wall. too. They can af ultatlnn I pulled the trigger, my hand ’ been told M l. to Ore«» IHver. to B»y-
hail of the pausing chief.
»allied. We fared a future together,
Chapter X I Continued
ford It." aha murmured. “It 1» cheap- alread lenaed to snatch and cock and an—likely now traveling faat. chars
"No." I shouted. "You go to hell
at least: we were In accord.
Away they tor«, while the file alack
deliver myself
uader their very lug ihe mountain Mope» of Utah. The
He understood. The phrase might
The Sioux retired, mainly to alt er for them than loalng live».“
aaed. to watch Our trail of flight bore have been familiar English to hUu.
“If they knew we had only the two grasp. That waa a aweetneaa
j reatleaa dual had »eltle<l
dismounted Io close circle, for a con
right athwart the wolf'a projected
The hammer clicked. There had
The Queen Hotel, the Illg Tenl. the
fab.
I
saw
him
stiffen
in
his
saddle;
he
cartridges—
?”
route. There waa Just the remote
1 aaloona. gambling den», dance hall»
The Sioux had counclled. We watt
"Where will you ahoot me. Prank?" been no Jar. no report.
chance that the lad would overrun it. called loudly, and raised hts rifle,
The hammer bad only clicked. I the »talloi»
h“<’
Thia bared the secret heart of me
in hla eagerness; and for that inter threatening; with a gasp—a choke-J ed, tense and watchful.
“No! No!" I begged. "Don't apeak tell you. shocking me to the core! A tht».' a skeleton company of hacked
vening moment of grace we stared, Hood-bye" end she ta r’ed by me. run-1 Then without even a premonitory
ning on for the open and for him In shoot a pony bolted for ua. He bore of that It «III he bad enough at the missed cartridge? An empty cham and wesaened posts, a fantastic out
fascinated, hand clasping hand.
a
stark blind rage I levAUed revolver tvo riders. They charged straight beat."
ber? Which? No matter
I should crop of coldly blackened clay chim
“He s found It! He's found It!" she
and pulled trigger. The chief uttered | (B> and suddenly the rear rider drop-
"You will though," »he soothed. "I’d achieve for her. flrat; then myaelf. I ney». a sprinkling of battered ran«.
announced, in a little wail.
The fevered population who h»d rid
In mM-career the boy had checked a terrible cry. his rifle waa tossed j lwj to the ground, bounded brteflv rather have It from you. I thing !t beard her gasp. Then I sensed an
den
high upon the tide of rapid llfa
high,
he
bowed,
swayed
downward
j
aBd
dived
headlong
Into
little
hollow
should
be
through
the
temple.
That'»
other sound and with sight sharpened
his pony ao shortly that the four hoofs
< L | sure
Rut you wont wait to look. I saw Rising I screeched and waved, t remained only aa ghosts haunting a
ploughted the sand. He wheeled on a his comrade grabbed him. and they of the sand.
He lay half concealed; the pony j will you? You'll »pare yourself th a t? / M bllBrrw Bo doubt, aa any aulmatwl potter'» flald.
pivot and rode hack for a few yards, were racing back closely side by aide
It's all. all wiped out. like he la."
Thia made me groan, craven, and sea recrow.
»canning the ground, letting the wolf and she was running back to me and I had wheeled to a ahrlU Jubilant
she said "Bui I wished Io aee."
the warriors were shrieking and, chorus; hts remaining rider lashed wipe my hands across my forehead
I
had
been
a
trumpted
note
and
a
go-
"All. all 1» wiped out. dear heart,“
calvary guidon and a rank of bobbing
The youth flung up a glad hand and brandishing their weapon» and bul him In retreat, leaving the flrat dig to brush away the frenay.
aald I “All of that. Bui here ere
lets
spattered
the
rocks—all
this
Thlrat
and,
heat
tortured
unceas
ging
lus'lly
with
band
aud
knife
figures
had
come
galloping,
galloping
the band galloped to him.
you and I."
That was the system ad approach ingly,
over an Imperceptible »well
“Yea. he has found It." she said. while yet my hand shook to the re
Bhe broke with sudden passion of
coil of the revolver and the smoke by rushes
Through ater ahlne we centered
"We mustn't permit It."
"We're saved, the soldiers are
“Now they will come."
here." I yelled ao the Sioux fled, side by aide eastward down the old.
“Ill do my best, with revolver." 1 was still wafting from the poised she breatehd. "We must rout him out. hoarse appeal.
"Why do we wait. Why not now*' screaming
musxle.
empty freighting road, for the railway
Can you reach him?"
promised.
"We ought to watt." I stammered,
The
tawny
figure,
prone
upon
the
station at Fori Sleele.
What
had
I
done?
But
done
It
She tottered up. clinging to me.
"Yes." she murmured. “But after
I
She arrived breathless, distraught, tawny sand, was Just visible, loan and miserable and pltlng
We were alttlng close together
that— *•
THff CND
"Yea." »he whispered, submissive. when a lieutenant scrambled to us
I had ao reply. This contingency— instantly to drag me down beside her, snakish. slightly oscillating as it
“I
suppose
we
ought.
One
always
worked.
And
I
took
careful
aim.
and
we two facing Indiana—was outside from where 1 stood stupidly defiant.
the I does But I am ao tired. I think."
my calculations.
"Keep out of sight." she panted. fired, and saw the spurt from
i »he said, "that, I will let my hair
ballet.
“Shall we make a break for it?" I And—"Oh. why did you do it? Why
“A little lower—" she pleaded. And down I shall go with my hair down
proposed
did you? I think you killed him—
1 have a right to at last."
"It would be madness on these poor they'll never forgive. They’ll call It I fired again.
Whereupon »he fell Io loo»enlng
mules." She murmured to herself. treachery! You're lost, lost!"
She cried out Joyfully. The snake
her hair and braiding It with hurried
"Yea. they're Sioux! I must talk with
had
flopped
from
Its
hollo*,
plunged
"But he sha'n't have you." 1 de
Ungers.
them.’’
the kind of hooks and flies we sell. Fishermen we equip
clared. "Let thorn kill me if they can. at full length aside; had started to
Then after a time 1 said:
"But they're coming," I rasped Till then you're mine. Mine! Don't crawl, writhing A recruit took his
usually report good luck but It Isn't so much luck as It I h
"We'll not be much longer, dear."
“They re getting in range. We've got you understand? 1 want you."
place In the hollow; and the courier
having the kind of tackle to laud them.
"I hope not." said she, panting, her
the gun. and twenty cartridges. Maybe
snatched the snake from the gTound
A burst of savage hoot» renewed
lipa
stiff,
her
eyes
bright
and
fevertsn.
If I kill the chief—"
The fellow In the ground burrowed
Ere I could stop he My Lady had interrupted. T'hey're coming!” S he, ’ cleverly. I fired twice—e-p could not "They'll rush ua at gun-down; maybe
knelt
up,
to
peer;
I
peered.
The
RODS. REELS. LINES. LEADERS. BASKETS, and
sprung upright to mount upon a rock
that I had even Inconvenienced before."
th e
Indians
had
deployed,
leaving
"I
believe."
said
I.
blurring
the
and. all in view, to hold open hand,
him.
other Ashing equipment. We carry a complete stock of
chief lying upon the ground, their
words, for my tongue waa getting un
above here head.
Suddenly,
as
I
craned,
the
fellow
The sunshine glinted upon her hair; fierce countnancea glarlhg at our fired again; he had discovered a manageable. "they're making read»'
the best.
a fugitive little breexe bound her asylum»
niche in our rampart, for the ball now."
A
glory
glowed
In
her
haggard
face
gown closer about her slim figure.
She exclaimed and struggled and
tanned my cheek with wings of a
They had seen her instantly. The and shone from her brimming eyes. vicious wasp. On the inslant i re sat up. and we both gated. Out there
T H E FAMOUS HALFORD IM PORTED FLIES.
“We
will
light,
we
will
fight!"
she
chief rode forward, at a walk, his hand
the Sioux. In that world of their own,
plied.
snapping
quick
answer.
chanted. "Oh. my man! Had you kiss
likewise lifted.
“1 don't think you hit him." ahe bad aronaed to energy. I fancied that
have
"Keep down'! Keep down, please.” ed me last night we would
said.
“Let me try. I'll hold on the they had pallet» of the Inaction.
have
so
little
ahe directed to me. while she stood known this longer. We
They delayed an Instant, guatlcul-
spot—h
ell come up in the same place,
time." She turned from my lipa.
lipa, “Not
motionless. “Let me try."
flrat; head and shoulders. You'll have to atlng.
Fight
now.
They're
coming,
The chief neared until we might
“It will be soon." ahe whispered,
tempt him.”
see his every lineament—a splendid and at the end. then kiss me. please,
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Springfield
And I edged farther, and farther, touching my arm “When they arc
and
we
ll
go
together.”
man. his eyes devouring her so covet
hair-way.
don't
fall.
I
trust
you.
Will
aa
if
seeking
for
a
mark,
but
with
all
Furious yells vibrated aiming our
ously that I felt the gloating thoughts
rocks. Tho Sioux all were In mo my flesh a prickle and my breath faat you klaa me? That la only the once. * AMS
behind them.
I klaaed her; dry cracked lipa met
Abruptly It came — the snakes
He called Inquiringly: a greeting tion. except the postrate • chief.
Stratcht
on
ward
they
charged,
at
and a demand in one. it sounded. She
replied And what they two said, in headlong gallop, (o ride oTer us It
word an I sign. I could not know. Then was enough to cow. but ahe spoke
he cantered back to hla teen, while steadily.
"You must fire." she said. "Hurry!
Edna stepped lightly down; answered
Fire once, maybe twice, to split
my queering look.
“It's all right. I’m going, and so are them."
So I rose farther on my knees and
you." she said, with a faint smile, odd
ly subtle—a tremulous smile in a white fired once—and again
It was a miracle. All swooped to
»ace.
"Where? We are free, you mean? right and to left as If the bullets had
cleaved them apart in the center,
What's the bargain?"
"I go to them. You go where ou pelting in bullet and nearly spent
choose—to the stage road, of course. arrow.
Exide Batteriet
Doublt Drive in
She forced me down.
I have his promise. No. no." she said
checking my indignant cry. "Really I “Low. low, * she warned. "You have
don’t mind. The Indians are abont the fifteen shots left, for them; then,
only persons left to me You can go ohe for me and one for you. You
home, and I shall not be unhappy understand?"
Mease believe that! The wife of a
**I understand." I replied. "And If
great chief is quite a personage—he f m disabled — ?"
won't inquire into my past. But if we
Bhe answered quietly,
try to stay here you will certainly be j “It w’” be the same. One for you.
killed, and I shall suffer, and we shall one for m e!”
A double circle had been formed,
gain nothing. You must take -my
money. Please do. Then good-bye. I to move In two directions, scudding
Goodyear Tire« B U IL T W IT H SUPB R TW IST, are
told him I would come out. under hie ring reversed within scudding ring,
the bowmen outermost. Around and
promise '*
making record» of unusually long mileage. They have
round and 'round they galloped, yell
won splendid reputation for greater freedom from
ing, gibing, taunting, shooting so
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CHAPTER XII.
malignantly that the air was in a
stonebrulse.
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constant hum and swish. The lead
She and the rocks reeled toget whined and »marked, the shafts
We render our patrons many services— such as regu
her. That as my eyes, giddy with the streaked and clattered—
lar tire Inspections, prompt repair of minor Injuries,
"You must stop some of thrno-
rush of blood, surging-and hot.
cleaning and graphltlng of rims— that PR EVEN T
fiends
from
sneaking
closer,”
she
•Never, never, never’,” I waa
counseled. "See? They're trying us
should,g
trouble and help you to get ALL of the Inbuilt Good
“You sha'n't go, I sha’n’t go. But o u t”
year
service.
I had been desperately saving the
wherever we go we’ll go together.
W ell stand them off. Then if they ammunition, to eke out this hour of
mine with her. Every note from the
oen take us. let ’em."
"Listen," she chided, her hand revolver summoned the end a little
grasping my sleeve. “They would nearer. But we had our game to plav;
take me anyway--flon't you see? and after all. the end was certain. 8.»
After they had killed you, I would be when the next painted ruffian boro
the worse for both of us. No. Mr. down, I guessed shrewdly, arose and
Why buy Unknown brands, or
Beeson, I have closed a good bargain let him have It.
send away for tires, when
She
cried
out,
clapping
her
hads.
for both of us. He Is impatient. The
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money—you will need the money, and [ ] "Good! Good?"
with our service, costs so little?
The
pony
wos
sprawling
and
kick
I »hall not. Please turn your back
They Carry The W arranty.
ing; the -rider had hurled free, and
and I’ll get at my belt.”
The chief was advancing accompan- went Jumping and dodging like a
—I
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road-holding A LL-W EA TH ER
I could not deliver her tender body
Now they al- charge recklessly
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$13.75
tread, strong carcass, thick
over to that painted swaggerer—any | from four aides; and I had to stand
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sidewalls,
large
air
volume—
more than I could have delivered It and lire, right, left, before, behind,
over to Daniel himself.
i emptying the gun once more ere they
Big oversize Cords at similar
At last I knew, I knew! History , scattered and fled. Upon My Lady »
..S avin g prices.
had written me a fool, but It should shoulder a challenging orlflamme of
scarlet.
not write me a dastard.
"You’re hurt!” I blurted, aghast.
We erere together, and together we
We have Goodyear tubes at YOUR price.
"Not much.
A scratch.
How
should always be, come weal or woe,
many left. Nine.” She had been
Ufa or death
I leaped before her, answered the counting. "Seven for them '
a r 2 7 *
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fe\’ i
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