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MF.DFOTtD MAIL TRIBUNE, fEDFOKD. OREGON. SUNDAY, JANUARY 27. 1935. PAGE TEN 71 TV' RAPID-FIRE ROMANCE BY tVAN EVANS BTNOr18: Brother Pascual er riree at the camp of the bandit Mateo nubrit just 09 that worthy, tcho only steals from the rich, Aiviaa the plunder from hit latest escapade. Vnscual forces two of Mateo's followers to abandon a duel to the death, and then telle Mateo that he has not made hi long, dusty journey for pleasure. ' Mateo drives out his hand, and pre . pare to listen to Pascual. Chapter Three 8TOLEN CROWN THEY faced ona another acrosa the long table. "Tell me about your tumble, Brat," suggested R u b r 1 1 . "Well, van the mountain aheep break their necks now and again. It some thing hit you near the eye, thank your Ood that you are not blinded." "The gun butt hit the bone over my eye; that was all," said the friar. "Gun butt?" said Ruhrlj, sudden ly scowling. Then he pointed. "Gun butt, eh? And what hit tbe other aide of your face?" "The point of a knife," answered Brother Pascual. "But It was noth ing." The bandit began to steal around the table as though he hoped to sur prise newa In the rery mind of his big friend. "And your head? Tbe bandage, there?" he demanded. "That Is not very bad, either. The .bullet glanced; I bare a hard skull " "The butt of a gun a knife a demanded Rubric, bis face swelling and purpling with emotion. "It had taken me a little time to get to my feet because I had been very deep In a prayer. I came shout ing at them. But they struck down the holy bishop. I took a pair of the soldiers an! knocked tbelr heads together.'' "San Juan of Caplstrano! If only I had been there to see and help!" "The two soldiers fell down. I knocked over another, but I tripped on him, and be stabbed at me and put the point of his knife in my cheek. As I was getting up a gun exploded; I felt that blow on my head aa the bullet struck; and an other man hit me over the eye with the butt of a gun. 1 tried to keep my wits, but they flew away Into dark ness like a flock of crows, and I fell on my face." .N ; "Vf AY they rot with a blight! I'll IV 1 put them on tbelr faces 1 If I don't cut off their eyelids and stake them out In the aun, my name la not" "Mateo, be still. Tbe bishop called for me the next day thla morning. He said to me: 'If I complain of the stealing, then all the hawks will gather; the Jewels will be scattered through the land. It Is better to carry word about this to Mateo Ru brlz, because he will not allow this thing to be.' " "Old he say that?" exclaimed Ru brlz, leaping to his feet. "No won der he's a bishop. But what does he want me to do? I shall go to Duraya and cut the throat of the general the flrst time he leavea the fort at night!" "Look at me, Pascual, am right." bullet. Splondor of GodI what tools have forgotten that you are the friend of Mateo Rubrli?" "The governor of Duraya and hie soldiers." "General tgnaclo Estrada? Where did ha dare to beat you?" "In tbe Church of Our Lady of Ouadalupe." "The governor boats yon In the church! Am I going mad? What were you doing?" J "Fighting a little, Mateo, to, keep I the governor and the rest of the I masked men from stealing the emer iald crown of Our Lady." "How was he known, It bis face was masked?" "The holy bishop recognised the lyolce of the principal robber." "Bishop Emlllano?". "Yes." AH," cried Rubrls, "that little man may be as thin as a knife. but he can cut as deep. He knows 'm, does he not?" The friar smiled a little. "But this Estrada what do you tell me about him? No good man ever wore the name of general (except Bonlla Juarez except Bon- Ita Juarez God rest his soul 1 " "God rest his soul!" echoed the frlir, devoutly. "But General Es trada came Into the church. The poor monka ran away. The holy bishop recognized the voice of the general and called out his name; and Estrada desired to leave no wit ness behind him. He struck Bishop Emlllano to the floor." "That poor bald head! Did It, crack like an egg shell?" asked Rubrlz. "But Our Lady bad softened the blow or made It glance. The bishop ll-es, and the governor sits In bis fort with the crown of Our Lady nd the ten emeralds In It." "But rou wera there yourself?" -lllnrjiflriir How much? Hair peso fourteen cent an order. The same meal above the border would have cost fifty cente or more score another for Mexican living costs. Cigarettes twenty centavos a package. A centavo li the one hundredth part of a peso. That makee the package of twenty ood mild cigarette come to about rive and one-half cent American. The road Is not very well sign posted and Is not numbered at all r.s are American highways. At Inter vals of a good many miles there are MgnposU giving the distances . to towns, at more frequent Intervals posts giving the number of kilome ters to Mexico City. A kilometer is five-eights of a mile, prom the safe ty standpoint the road Is marked in Mexican with signs of alow, keep to the right In the mountain sections, do not park on the pavement, and giving the Fpeed limits. The full limit Is eighty kilometers or fifty miles per hour. They say It's enforced. How ever, I held the car at fifty-five miles an hour most of the 160 miles to Monterey and was not disturbed. Speed on some curves Is thirty miles an hour and some as low as twenty. All measurements are tn the met ric system gasoline and oil are sold by the litre, elevations are measured In meters and distances In kilome ters. Very nearly accurately, three and three-quarters litres of gasoline make a gallon, so If you want the equiva lent of ten gallons of gasoline you order thirty-seven litres. The charge Is twenty centavos a litre. It la Just about twenty cents a gallon for the ordinary gas. I have not yet encoun tered high test gas In Mexico. The ordinary gas was selling at 18 cents a gallon In Laredo the day I left. Gas and oil are the only Items I have found In Mexico that are more cost ly than tn the United States, and they are only slightly more so. Gaso line stations are not nearly so thick aa they are In the United States. If my count la accurate there are but seven In the 160 miles to Monterey. Monterey la a city of charm and simple beauty with fine public buildings, several Impressive church es, a swimming pool, four first class hotels and many Interesting side trips. ' I procured a room with private bath, a gallery on the street and on the side facing a palm-studded court for four pesos a day 11-12. The same kind of room In a city of the same size In the United States would have been from $2.50 to $400. All other living Is in about that proportion. Dinner at another hotel, the Colonial was a peso and a half 42 cents. It consisted of a fine potato soup, salad, fish, a small tenderloin steak, des sert and coffee. Manhattan cocktail, made with Imported Ingredients, was fourteen cents. Tequllla, the stand ard Mexican strong drink, distilled from the maguey cactus ranged from three to ten cents a drink, depend ing on the brand name and the place where It Is procured. All the people are polite but when one la 160 miles or deeper In Mexico, he will have a real trouble with the language. There are not many of the Mexicans who speak good English, but there Is a considerable colony of Americans throughout northern Mex ico who speak good Spanish. My next Journey will take me to Tamaazunchale. about 634 miles deeper Into Mexico and the next dy I will be In the mountains that are the last barrier, Better drinking at a bar than In the home. 4- All kill themselve appointed time." long before "the WINDOW GLASS We sell window glass and will replace your broken windows reasonably. Trowbridge Cab Inet Works. Use Mail Tribune want ads REPORT ON ACTIVITIES OF WELFARE EXCHANGE GIVEN CHEST LEADERS; Miss Helen Carlton or the welfare exchange turned In a detailed report Friday to the Community Chest of the work of the extension from Sep tember 1 to January 16, The Interest ing figures give some realization of the work accomplished through this relief agency. Prom September to Jsnuary 126 full aire comforters and 15 baby com forters were made. Prom the fundi, received from the Community Chest 820 yards of material were purchased and 135 bundles of cotton and wool batting. During December, 116 women were given work In the shop and in two weeks In January 47 were given work In the two months of December and January, 985 garments were brought in for exchange and 1081 were given out. MUi Carlton. In making her re port, told many Incidents surround ing the requests for clothing. She stated that the welfare exchange was wholly dependent on the Community Chest for the continuation of Its activities, since the number of gar ments, comforters, etc., given out ex ceeds the amount of material and clothing brought In. Materials must be purchased for the lining of quilts and many of the garments. These things are given to families In ex change for sewing done In the work rooms of the welfare exchange. Phone 542. We'll haul away youi refuse. City Sanitary Service. SUBURBAN HEIGHTS By GLUYA3 WILLI AMi StfS Olrf EARLY FOR SftliOrl BECAME H FEEIA 11KE WALKIKG FREP PERLEy" IW HIS CAR PUUS W BESIDE HIM Art? CAUS -foOUMP IH. DPlAltft HE'D REAUV . WVfHER WMK MRS. 6RIS58V FROM HER PORCH CAU5 AFTER HIM -IbWATf SHE'S J05f60 IK6 fO DRHE MlUf . 0 1HE SUdlOr) CAHf MAKE HER HEAR WD 1R0TS BACK To EUPLAIM HE'S WA1VIH6 ft THE EXERCISE SfARl'5 OK AHD SEES THE PLUMERS WArflKVa FOR HIM HA1F A BlfiCK AHEAD HOlDWfc CAR POOR OPEN WRRIES AFfER fHEM fO TEU frSEM HE5 WAUUHfc FOR HIS HEALIrl, DOCTOR'S ORDERS WALKS ON REALIZING SUDDENLY THAf AIL 1H6 S10PP1X6 HAS MADE HIM LATE . WlSHEy A CAR WOULD COME AL0K6. NOWE DOES ( Copyright. MM, by Th. Ball tradttK, Inc.) SI1M6 S 'MATTER POP f ( vi-Ao Afte. -Zoo LOOICIMi Bv C M Payne Second Inspection By Mexican Customs (Continued from Page Seven) after March. The 634 miles of road north of the mountains Is now open to all comers. Meantime. If all of Old Mexico has the charm, the courtesy nnd the in expenslvenrsa of the 150 miles 1 have experienced, It Is impossible to go too strong in recommending it to the folks north of the border as a de lightful plare to spend a motor va cation. It Is sunshiny and warm shirt sleeves In the daytime and a light top coat at night. Pulling away from th Mexican customs office at Nuevo Laredo, I sent a telegram to Monterey. The chhre was hilf a peso, that Is. four teen cents. An equivalent menwge an cq.v.ilrnt cutanea In the United 8,nU""i wru'd have been about forty c.'.t .cere one for the telegraph s. ..1 cf Mrs:co. Once out of town X found the road to be aiphslt paving and plenty wide enough for three cars side by side. Th? rsd h strn'-t inr 42 miles, be 1 ' ' : iJ U U.J i.Mr,i stretch for traight paving la tb world. Thir "That would leave the emerald erowo still safely Inside tbe fort, Ma too." "Hat! That Is true! But, Pascual, the bishop doesn't thluk that I can fly like a bird or dig like a mole to get Into the fort and then stand in visible Inside It till I're found the emeralds and taken them? Does he think that?" The friar sighed. He looked down at tils own grrrt hands and was allont, . "But that Is what he wishes!" muttered Rubrlz. Ho turned pale. "No single man in this world could do the thing!" he cried. "Look at me, Pascual, and tell me that I am right!" t "You have many wen," said Brothor Pascual, softly, ,ts though he wished that his words .-might be come part of the other man's thought "I have men? But for such work numbers are a loss, not an advan tage. Oh, Pascual, two men together may outfo.ee the devil; but ope man alone In the fort of Duraya ' "Is there no other man?" isked Die friar. "There Is one other, but he tould not come." "Could money buy him?" "He Is rich." "For the sake of Our Lady? "He is a gringo dog," crlM Ru brli, pacing the floor, "anrf Our Lady means nothing to him. Be sides, If he were to try to ride south Into Mexico, a whisper of hli com ing would go before him, the stones would yell out under his feet, 'El Keed!' That Is how he Is hatod and wanted by the Rurales, by the sol diers!" (CopyrigM, IfJJ, Rarpttr 4 Broth9r$ Matte ttllt Psieual, tsrnsrrtw, ffier abut "II Ktid." I teen miles below the border Is a cus J toms station where the tourist halts , his cat. has his papers examined, and Is again registered into Mexico. The operation takes sbout three minutes. Off on the straight road between rolling fields that are grass, mesqulte. sage brush, with patches cultivated and chiefly In corn and cane, we come to Valleclllo. a village of about 300 population and stop for lunch It Is a one restaurant town, and the I restaurant is a combination dining i room and grocery and meat store , No plumbing the dust of travel comes off via a pitcher of water and a wash bnsln. What Is there for lunch steaa. eggs and sausage. Deans and fried rice. Steak then. It Is served. It is a thin tender piece of steak about the sire of ones open hand with the fingers extended a substantial meal and prepared with a delicious Mexi can sauce and onions. Not too hot. And the rice and beans come along, too. Something funny about the meat. It tastes different. One learns that the beef from which It came was killed the preceding afternoon The Mexicans handle their fresh meat that way Instead of suing it for a couple of weeks an we do ours The steak tastes more UXe venison Uia steal. By Hal Forrest it -iSiS " J Kil TAILS?IN TCFT -"--. vn McGiiirel ' rzn . -w .... . 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