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PAGE TF.N JfEDFORD f ATL TRIBUNE, MEDFOItD. OREGON. SUNDAY. FEBRFATIT 10. 1fW. TrAPIDFIM MWOI'SM." The governor hae stolen the emerald croicn ot Our Laity from the church in Duraya, and the Montana Kid, with Mateo KubriM, plane to steal it back or the good Biehop Emitiuno. Mon tana want Ronita, daughter of the keeper of on inn nror the govfe. Hor or, fo help them enter the old buitdina: suddenly $he realises that the man the is lalkina to t not Joe?, a Mexican, but Montana, known and hated through Mexico as "El Keed." Chapter 15 LOVE SCENE "INHERE li plenty of trouble In you. Roslta," iald Montana, "and In the emerald crown. I swore that no one would recognize me with such a dark skin. Besides, It has been a long time since I was In Duraya." "I looked at your mare In the stable. She was too beautiful for any ordinary man to ride. I ran out to call back that poor Benito. But he was already In the room. "I waited to hear noise. There was no noise. My heart stopped. I began to ask myself who yon were. I began to half-remember. And you are El Keed!" She was backing toward the door. "Why do you sneak away?" asked Montana. "Call out! 81ng out my name, and there are twenty men downstairs who'll come fast enough, with your father among 'em. tf he knew, he's good enough Mexican to help cut my throat!" "That Is true. And he must not know." "Why did yon send Benito Garraf" "Why did you try to buy me like a dog?" "Because you need plenty of money. With this much you could be a lady with a duenna In Mexico City." She tossed back her head and caught her breath. "But this Is a game, El Keed, and everyone who plays a game with you Is sure to lose." "Until I lose my head," said Mon tana. "In the fort of Duraya?" "Or here In this Inn. I'm losing It cow, Roslta." "Look at me, El Keed." "I'm looking, Roslta." "I am a pretty girl, am I not?" "I've been remembering you all this time, but remembering was no good." "But look, El Keed. I'm not too tall and not too short I shall never be heavy. I shall never let fat swallow lip my face. I'll fight fat Ilk fire." "You'll always be lovely, Roslta." "I can dance and sing. Also, I can talk almost like a lady. Some day you nay see." "You can talk UUe an angel, Roslta." "To be pretty Is to work very hard and to keep smiling," said the girl. "Of course It Is. But you've stopped smiling, Roslta." "I'll never smile tor you," said she. "Ob, I could look at you and let my heart Jump out at my eyes. But how long would you keep It?" "Forever," said Montana. "Bah I Your forever Is a day or a week or a month. And then you would grow tired because you have to ride. There la always the other Ids of the mountain to see. And what girl could ride fast enough to eep up with you?" She closed her eyes, "El Keed!" "Ay?" said Montana, "Kiss me and tell me to forget verythlng I've said." He leaned over until she could feel the shadow of his face. "No, friend." said he. Ik jONTANA, the next morning, sat 1 at the table In his room and saw a peon carry In a tray loaded with avory roast kid such as Mexico alone can offer. There were tnrtlllAtr trijolea cooked with seven kinds of Peppers, green and yellow and red. And a good red wine, also, to wash verythlng down. When he had aten, Roslta appeared In the door. "Was everything to the pleasure of the seflor?" she asked. He took up bis guitar and rose from the table. He strummed the tight strings softly with the Oat of his fingers, a breathing accompani ment hardly larger than a whisper, and the voice in which he sang could not have escaped even through an open window of the room. The girl leaned her hand against I ES TO MEXICO CITY (Continued from Page Seven) one of our men who da little else bark It up." Agreed. And 1 then saw tha freatent exhibition of driving I hare yet seen. The professional fot Into the car. put It in reverse and backed a mile, with clearances be tween the rock on one side and ft fall on the other somevimes leas than four inche. He didn't even change pare. When he had parked the car he was asked If he would permit me to give him a fee. He aatd. "No, thank you." Mexicans are like that. It was part of the day's work. Sleeping at Chnpulhracsn, a start mas made early the next morning. and by late afternoon thirteen miles had been accomplished. Driving wss not so hard, but the waiting for cleared places In the road was Ions Near dusk landslide was encoun tered. The car was parked by the aide ox tb road. Tot ft tf ot U ROMANCf BY tVAN EVANSr the edge of the door and listened with a bowed head. "You know the old songs," said the girl. "I love the old songs," said the Kid. "You have old ways, alio," said the girl, "and a few new ones." "Are you sad, Roslta?" "Is there one more man In the world Ilka El Keed?" "I hope not, poor fellow," said he. "If I met one more like you, I should go mad." "Think of this. Roslta. You are heart-whole and free. You are going to open for me, this evening, a door Into the fort of Duraya. That's a good deed, considering what I shall try to do when I'm Inside. And after wards you'll have the Ave hundred dollars with which you can take five hundred steps among the gran dees In Mexico City. "Five hundred steps? You would hardly have to take Ave before you walked yourself Into a carriage be longing to a governor, at least. That Is why I know I shall have to ride a long trail to see you again, If I live to come out of Duraya. I may have to ride as far as Paris. Would you know me, there?" "That Is what I keep saying and never believing. I've taken the money. I have been bought." "Only for a good deed, Roslta." "Do you mean that you would rids after me If everything goes hap pily?" 'To the end of the world." "But Just now you would not have to ride. You would only need to walk three steps," "And leave the emerald crown In the bands of that General Estrada?" SHE lifted her head, finally, and gave him a long, long look behind which be could read, with a perfect understanding, that many devious thoughts were working through her mind. "Well," she said, suddenly picking up the tray, "I've sent the messen ger to your friend. If he comes up the back stairs, no one worth while will see hi in . This evening, If you knock as I told you on the small door, It will be opened. And then God defend you!" She went out like that, suddenly; and the Kid stared for a long mo ment at the door which had closed behind her. After that, he picked up the guitar and began to sing again, almost soundlessly, the love songs of old Spain, and Mexico, all of them sad. But, afterwards, be stood for a long time In front of a window, look ing out and up at the great, squat walls of the tort of Duraya. Some where a bugle was blowing thin and small, and ho could always see the sentries walking their posts on the walls. It was true that General Estrada was a warrior who knew his business In the world very well. It he had been giver, a province already picked bare as a stone, be had made Up for that by robbing a church. And Inside his tort ona could be sure that all was working In perfect order, aa a military machine ought to be. It was a little later In the day when bare teet shuffled on the back stairs. Then Rubrlt came through the door, barefooted, with a huge sombrero ot tattered straw on his head and the mustaches shaved from his face. Even the scar had been covered by an unfading dye, and his Hps bulged out In, L way that distorted the en tire expression of tils face. The towering bulk of Brother Pascual entered behind the outlaw. And Rubrlt, throwing himself down In a chair, first plucked out of his mouth the rubber wnddlng which helped disguise his face. Then he sighed. "You've sent for us, Montana. Here we are. Thore is the fort. And neither Pascual nor I as yet one step closer to an Idea or a key that will open the place and give us a nay to the emeralds. And here you lie at your soft esse, like a puma after a kill, till the dogs get wind of you and run you to hay. Is that wine In that bottle?" He made Inquiry with his nose and then poured the contenls of the bottle, uninvited, down his throat. After that he made and lighted a clgaret. (Copyright. IJJ. Harper A Brothers) Montina axplilnt hit plan, to morrow. cents a Mexican man was hired to guard It through the night. With ! my Interpreter I walkrd a mile to grading camp, procured a meal, two adequate beds and put tip for the night. Net result, 58 miles In two days. about seven hours driving time and the rest from daylight to dark wait ing for blasts and landslides to be cleared. But from my final night in the mountains, close to six hundred miles below the border, on Into Mexico City was a delight and wonder. A wonder In that It showed what completed sections of tha mounta.n part of the Pan Amerlci highway will he like. A delight the fact that It revealed a new and pleaning culture on the North Amerl- 1 can ccntlnent, superimposed on the oldest of American civilizations, the Artec. The story of the final mileage Into Mexico City will be told In a fifth snd concluding story of the perles and then there Mil be a recapitula tion etory giving an exact finding as to the road with information the American tourist should have If he g-ea deep Into Mexico. Utnr Pies NEW YORK. Feb. 9 l API Freder ick Warde. m. actor and author, who p'.ayed with Edwin Booth and John MrCull.itigh. and who was lor three years the leading mnn at the old Bvth" theater In New Yoik died lnt ntght He had been ill for some time - -. -Use H4 ruoaiit taut ad. EXPEDITI IN FOG BLANKET a. 8. JACOB PtrppCRT. Onrmit to Dunedin, N. Z , Fb. . fVta Mackay Radio.) iiV) Rear-Admiral Rlchara E. Byrd and hl second Antartlc ?x ppditlon ateamed through the month of Discovery lnt m 3:55 a- m. o day. taking Jevc of the Antartlc con tinent. Both the Rupert and the Bear ul Oakland passed through the inlet during a dense fog. The mtat swiftly enveloped the barrier cliffs as the continent was left behind. The two ships traveled along to gether. The Bear was under steam, with her square sails set to profit from a light westerly wind. Twenty penguins were captured yesterday on the Inlet and were house with 17 others from Little 'America, In & '.re frigerated room with & salt water pool. The voyage from the Bay of Whalf to the Inlet was without Incident, th Bear setting the pa?e. Prom time to time the ships were obliged to change course to avoid the streams of let at the foot of the high barrier front. SEATTLE. Feb. 9. (AP) A gain in production of about fifteen mil lion board feet fnr the week cndlnn February 2 over the previous week was reported by MB down and oper ating lumber mills In Oregon and Washington to the West Coast Lum bermen's association today. S 'MATTER POP " " " Bv C M W- no Fl 3?oVa Know 3 1 23 MAW TDo 1 AT-fUn?" S A?7 1 Jj p-ftlo SSV L vCE?frl CZjW,& J " (Copyright. 1936, by Th Bell ByndiaM, Inc.) aJ TAILSPIN TOMMY Betty Decides to Stay by Hal Forrest f MR.. CURTIS. VOU'Re. TAKING ON A -fitffift VEPi LOP SAUi'EM I flUIS PROMISES TO f THO&e. lOOftOS 0 0fl tTX NOT SKECTEt?. S I Vou JUST TKV l&rt lL N CPEAT BI3K--THE REVOLUTIONISTS JiSiie FROM TH' AIR" , B6 A SERIOUS "fb NOT SOUND AS VOU-OR MYSELF ViW AND SEND Me KM fiA E SWARMING OVER THE 5 ( TT'lf in"' TTTjarhf rOQllI" FROM i I'M THINK INS ABOUT-Ji SACK, MISTS.R. 3 fit; BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER On to Snevily'g Ford! 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Results and data obtained on this flight. Post said, will be used to guide Transcontinental and Western Air. Inc., In plans to establish regular stratosphere mail service. SALEM. Ore. (Up) Oregon has produced more record breaking Jer sey cattle than any other elate, Ivan H. Lough ary, field representative of American Jersey Cattle club, told members of the Oregon Jersey Cattle club in convention here recentiy. Loughary pointed to such cham pions as Oold?n's Chief Lady Mae. world champion In milk and butter fat production for 305 days, and owned by L. S. Hulburt, Independence. . FIERMQNTE NO. I GALAS MEETS FORMER IE, I NAPLES. Feb. fl. fAP Mrs. Made , line Force Astor Dick Flerraonte be j came semi-hysterical today when she : learned that her husband, the former boxer, had met Mrs. Flermonte No I In Genoa. I She repeated over and over that i she could say nothing, that she knew 1 nothing about the matter, and that ; she did not know, what her pi ma I would be. Yesterday she had said confidently that she would meet En 70 on the French Riviera after they both lsft Italy. ROME. Reb. 0. API Tosea Fler monte, first wife of En so. declared herself hopeful today that her former -husband would leave his American millionaire; spouse and return to her. "I am still his wife under It a 11 in ' law," she sajd after returning he; ! from Genoa, where she saw the for- mer pugilist. "When I met him In 1 Genoa, he was very happy to see me and our child. "There were tear In his eyes. We went to a cafe and spent some hours together. Yes, X still love him dearly. ; I think he loves me. He may come back to me. but not Immediately." An alarming decrease In the catch of fish along the North Carol! nn ' coast has caused fisherman In :hc j Manteo section to organize In quest j of government aid to tide them ovr . the lean winter. ! THE FAMILY ALBUM PEACE AND QUHT PEACE AND QUIET REI6NS OVER HOUSEHOLD, WrfM Wlf5EWlN6 UPSTAIRS, WlLFREP S1iWlN6, AND MILDRED WRrffo6 LETfl-Rj WIFE 51AWS 10 MAKE if O.EAR SHE piDNrf CALL. 8W l& DROWNED oW 8Y1 MILDRED 6H0WIN6 PO Hr' WANf HER HEARS 50ME0NE CALL AMD SH0015 WHAT IS Iff AFTER A MOMEHf Wlfg OPENS HER POOR AHP CALIS WHAT DOES HE EPLANAfl0HS BE6IK All 6IER A6MM WHEN WIL FRED 0PEK& POOR fb CALL HOI CAN HE STUDY vurfH all This shootihg 60H& ON Whole family begins EUPLWrtlNe AfoMCE, 6E1' fiK6 KOWHERE AND RAWER IRRITATED WHH EACH OfHEft- (Copyright. 193, by Th Ball gyjdiiaU, Inc.) By GLUYAS WILLIAMS KPIAIKS HE DOESN'T" WArtf ANYrllW& HE JUSf SHOUTED WHAT IS If WHEN SHE CALLEP d0rih6 brief loll it is discovered That The ORlfelHAL CALL CAME FR&M VARD NE)CT POOR, AND PEACE AND QiJiET SETTLE ON HOUSEHOLD AfcAlN
