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MT.PFORD MATI, TRIBUNE, MEDFOKI). OREGON. SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 17. 19r.
A RAPID FIR!
SYNOPSIS: Thi Montana Kit
and Uateo Hubrxm have outwitted
Sergeant Andrei and obtained en
trance to the fnrt ot Duraya. They
are about to blow open the gover
nor't tale and recover the emerald
crown ot Our Lady, etolen from the
church by the governor when they
are lurpriaed. The governor makee
lure the crown ie late, then guce
tione Atvdree. He confeeeee he
thought Montana and Ruhrie were
the girl, ttntita. when they tapped
gently at hie gate.
Chapter 21
ROSITA
"npHAT girl." ald the general, "la
the daughter ot Miguel Santos.
She la Roalta Santos, eh? Is she be
hind this deviltry? Has she beej
ent tor?"
"She has been sent for," said Don
Luis, nodding. "Unless she baa run
for her life, she should be here by
this time."
"This sergeant," said the general,
In a gentle voice, "at the risk ot
stifling himself managed at last to
give the alarm. Otherwise, who
knows what might have happened?
For that reason, see that he's paid
a hundred pesos. That's a reward
for a hero.
"Also, he was the tool and traitor
who let danger Into the fort. Be
cause of that, atrip the coat from
him, tie bis hands to bis back, and
flog him out of the fort and through
the town till you're aeen the last
of blm."
A quick smile of appreciation
greeted the depth and the wisdom
of this Judgment. And even Ser
geant Andres only rolled up bis eyes
once to heaven. For he could not
even conceive a beating that would
not be healed and Instantly for
gotten for the sake ot a hundred
silver pesos. So he wss swept out
st the room.
The general then demanded that
the acoundrels who had entered his
rooms and locked the door behind
them should be produced Instantly.
There was no one to produce! The
whole of the two rooms bad been
searched, and nothing had been
found. People bad even looked out
the windows . . .
"Did you think that they were
birds, that you looked out the win
dows?" shouted the general, so
loudly that bia mustache was
thrown Into contusion by bis cry.
"No, you fools! Vou rushed into
the rooms Id a crowd, and the two
thieves slipped out from behind cur
tains and Joined you In your search.
They milled around with you, like
two more bead among so many
cattle. And then they sneaked away
from the fort.
"They are In some inn now, drink
ing and laughing at the soldiers ot
Duraya. The garrison of the fort
becomes a laughlng-Btock. The Presi
dent will hear ot this. All the army
will begin to laugh at
cne' "
He raised his voice a bit for each
of the last three words, until his
bout was a hoarse scream. His
officers gave back a little. He looked
as though be might charge them
with bis lists at'any moment, and be
had been known to do such a thing
before this. '
And then be saw, between two
soldiers at the door, the pretty face
ef Roalta, from the Inn of Miguel
Santos. Some of bis rsge dis
appeared at once. He bad her
brought In. As be watched her walk
forward, he began to forget about
verytblng. Even the emeralds of
Our Lady turned Into bits of green
glass, so far as ha wss concerned.
However, he knew that a good way
Is to sound the loudest trumpet
first.
'"po draw soldiers from their duty,
1 that Is treason!" he thundered
at ber. "Do you know the punish
ment for treason?"
"To be stooa against a wall and
shot down," said the girl. And ahe
apoke with such a quiet, even voice
that Ignaclo Estrada was moved.
"You have a atory to tell," be said
to ber. "Every woman can at least
tell Ilea. Come out with your pack
ot words."
"I know nothing except poor Ser
geant Andres," she said.
"Why do you call him 'poor" Ser
geant Andres?"
"They were beating him with
whips as 1 came In through the
i gale."
"He's your lover, eh?"
"To me he Is nothing."
"But you come to tap at the pos
tern when It's bis turn to be on
guard behind It!" shouted the
general.
"1 never have tapped at It. He
told me how to knock If 1 wanted
hlrn. I never wanted him." I
Boy Scout Notes
Troop No. S By Armlne Lewlr
Troop No. 6 met tt the Washington
chool PVbrunry 13 at 7:30 p. m. The
meeting tu opmJ with colors and
pledging of allegiance. Roll was taken
and a number ot boyt paid feet to
re-register (or another year In Boom
ing. During teat period Oeorge Btg
ler, Bill Taylor and Dean Ford pa
ad tenta, aame of the boya pausing
two or three. The game period waa
omitted. Instead, atorlea were told
and Information given on wild ani
mala and their hablta. The colors
were pouted, followed by the Scout
oath and the troop wai dlnmiMed.
Troop No. 8 By Larry 8chte, Jr.:
Troop No. 8 held regular meeting
February 13 at Washington school
Colors were presented and roll called.
V. B. Murshall took, the good turns
dona by the boys during the past
week. Compared with Uft week, a
great Improvement has1 been made
During the week Mr. Heyisml, Scout
master, took a few boys out to pass
testa whl!e some of the others went
swimming in the Applegate. A gnme
ai played, after which, "taps" sound
ROMANCf BVCVAM CVANS t
One of the othceia bit his Up to
the blood to keep from smiling.
"Ah," said the general, "and you
sold your Information to thieves? Is
that It? Thieves aud murderers
and you knew them and you sold
the news to them?"
"What did I sell?" said the girl.
"The sergeant owed money to a soor
man. The poor man could never
meet Sergeant Andres to ask for
the money that was owing. So 1
told blm to .tap on the postern and
how the sergeant would answer blm.
That Is all."
She made a little gesture with
botb bands, raising ber sboulders a
trifle. Sha smiled a bit and shook
her bead so that all guilt might
drop away from ber.
"When did you tell this?" asked
the general, grimly.
"A week ten days ago."
"To what man?"
"I never knew hie name. But be
waa drinking In the inn and com
plaining about Sergeant Andrea
That is all."
"Where Is he now?"
"How can I tell, Excellency? I
only see what comes Into the Inn,
and he baa not come there for many
days."
"Friends,'' said the general, sud
denly, to bis .officers, "Is she speak
ing the truth?"
"She Is too pretty to tell a He,"
answered Don Luis.
The general frowned, and tba
frown pulled the sbag of his black
balr down over his eyes.
Then he waved bis band, saying:
"The rest of you leave me. Remain
outside the door. 1 am going to see
what the truth of this may be."
He added, with a roar, "Stop yout
damned smiling and get out!"
The officers got out In haste, and
left Ignaclo Estrada alone with the
girl.
He pointed to a chair. She thanked
him with a little bow and slipped
Into it. For a time be remained
with his thoughts. Then he arose
and began to pace up and down the
room with his left hand on the hill
of bis sword. He knew how to move
his band a little so as to bring from
tbe scabbard an omlnoua and a
martial sound ot bumming steel.
He began to marshal words like
soldiers; tor he felt that he was
about to attack a prize greater to
blm than any rich city.
""piIE wind bad fallen from a yell
x to a moan and the rain no longer
whipped those aching bodies which
remained rigid on the ledge under
tbe wlndowa of the governor'a room.
"After a lime we'll grow cold and
weak enough to fall," said Rubrlz to
his friend. "And then we'll climb
back Insldo to make a last stand.
But we'll be no good, then. It would
have been bettor If we bad fought It
out In the beginning, when they
broke down the door."
He pointed down. Below them
went the llghta of a patrol. Every
tew minutes those lights had been
passing. The fort ot Duraya was as
tensely prepared aa though a great
army were about to rush to the at
tack, and every man was at his post
"Still wait for a little." said Mon-
tana. His Jawa ached with cold as ha
spoke. Tbe words came shuddering
out of his throat. "We still have
some part of a long chance."
'What chance?" asked Rubric.
One chance brought us up to the
governor's rooms. Another chance
may get ua out of tba tort again.
Hush! That that Is Rosltn!"
There had been a slight lull In the
rain again, and he heard the sweet
voice of the girl, penetrant because
of Its high pitch. He worked quickly
along the ledge until he was under
the window of the bedroom again.
He could look In over the sill,
while Rubrli was posted on the far
ther side, whispering: "Now that
he's alone there with the girl we
could leap In and kill him. Mon
tana. That would be worth more
than slaughtering a dozen ot the
soldiers "
"Hush!" commanded Montana.
The girl hod come Into the bed
room and was looking quietly
around her. Behind her moved the
governor, bis eyes glittering through
tbe black shagglness of the hair that
still pitched from his forehead. Gen
eral Estrada was excited; but the
girl had In her eyes that blank look
which the Kid bad seen In them once
before, as though thought were mas
tering her senses.
She turned around and looked un
at the general with those blank eyes
which were seeing the future, per
haps.
(Copyright. UJJ, Harper 4 Brotheri)
RoslU turns triltor, tomorrow.
ed and meeting adjourned.
Troop No. 16 By Irwin Doty: Troop
No. 10 met at Howard school Monday
evening, with nearly a hundred per
cent attendance, scoutmaster Harold
L, Larsen discussed with the bovs
several Important items including the
Father and Son banquet to be held
February 2ft; also the National Pcoiit
Jamboree, in Washington. D. C . Aug
ust 31-30. Opportunities which a
Scout has who attends this Jamboree
were mentioned.
Before adjourning Mr, Larsen pre
sented to the Scouts calendars given
by the Mftlford National hank. 'Vhre
calendars at an Issue in rememb
rance of the 35 years In which Scout
ing has existed. Colors were then re
tired and troop dKmived.
Troop No. 18. rle Point nrnlar
meeting held Thusrrtay evenim: Thr
new Scoutmaster, O. W. Miller, wa
In charge. Most of the meeting
spent in discussing the reorganiza
tion of the troop ss to its patrols
etc. Meeting adjourned at 0 p. m
KtNOHTON. Jinlo. Krb. lfl
(Art A rouMrm ",tllon eWni
the Dune sud I)nrlic. of Kent
thf rovsl tifwly-v-.l!t arrived m
Kiim-ion todsy irom IVrt-nu-PrliKf
UsIU.
NEW YGilK
DAY BY DAY
By O. O. Mclntyre
NEW YORK. Feb. 18 It Is 4 o'clock 1
of a droopy afternoon and a column
that should have been finished hours
ago la no further
along than this.
I ttfi i&fra9fri Tiieie intervals
of mental string
halt flash out of
nowhere with the
numbing force of
lightning. Zip
and there's a com
plete blank.
Yet somehow
every columnist
manages to limp
In ahead of the
A deadline. But
' 1 iuria. la laff nf
'UH4WI
tne day la a lor.oiu fragment. He
Is shipwrecked on & tatter of time,
And there's the long night ahead to
atare Into apace wondering If the
seizure la temporary or permanent.
The nightmare that clouds the hor
izon of every writer Is that eternal
horror: Am I written out? In the
grip of such a dolor, he fattens his
self pity with the most pathetic of
fancies. He will pack the portman
teaux and away, leaving perhaps a
wistful little note: "I can't go on!"
But morning paints the invariable
rainbow. And he Is likely tearing
Into his column and battering it out
before noon. Somewhere there in
analogy between such individual de
spair and the mass of a glood trou
bled world. One morning we awaken
and It Is gone.
Many of us are solaced In such
paucity by a story told about Eu-
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WOULDN'T BE ) ?tif I ' ntJpuT WKriZitr, g-VN-- -H SClil A SQUARE SHOOTER. AND J?
THE NEBBS Good Advice
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ujiviKjes. no t iVJr0v! 57 Kk. a biwoallevme for ffsr
I WONOEB IF MACCIE
WILL LET ME CO OUT
TO-NlCHT' I WAWT TO
Goto the ake-hanole-I
MAKE' BALL-
7Z
I- K ! Iriic-r- t K-, Crt' Si in i jSN rn
gene Field. He had come to a full
stop with hie column In the Chicago
days and was floored. Finally In that
cut-glass handwriting he sent this
note to the managing editor: "I give
up. There'll be no column tomor
row." As he waa slipping Into his
coat for Jake's around the corner a
reply came: "Theres' a printer down
stairs whose three children are dan
gerously 111 with scarlet fever. He's
not giving up." Field removed his
coat and knocked out one of the best
columns of his career.
The most exquisite wrtlngs flower
from the depths. Key wood Broun has
not written a more graceful essay
than the one that followed within
few hours the passing of his former
i wife, Ruth Hale. The finest editorial
I recall was William Allen White's
broken-hearted farewell to his beau-
! ttful daughter tragically killed by
j fall from a horse. The greatest works
I of Daudet, Proust, Heinle and Mere
j dlth were ground out In the agony
of pain and misery,
Writers and their, art are remind
ful there are no literary salons anymore.-
The Richard Watson Gliders
back-ln-the-yard chalet was once a
cosey refuge and still later the Oliver
Herfords Sunday afternoons a urea ted
a long remembered charm. Every
body who waa anybody came early
and staid late. It was where Clssle
Loftus first regaled with her now
famous Impromptu mimicries. The
still later Algonquin Round Table Is
no more. Nearest to the salon Is
Louis Bromfleld's room In that hotel.
The glossiest of the sophisticates have
been gathering there. But Bromfleld
la soon returning to France.
Not many writers stand at the
head of the class In punctuation. I
have a dash pox breaking out In a
rash now and then timt scatters one
here, one there and two for Sister Su
sie. In reaching an impossible passe
MAGGIE.- KIM
I GO Out
TO-NiCHT?
I would-
theres' nothing quite like the good
old dash. It bridges much Ignorance.
A writer perhaps heeds punctuation
so little because he can always blame
the proof reader. It Is his Job. And
he's welcome to It, with love, kisses
snd a couple of semi -colons.
That Is the why of A. C. Blumen
thai's block-long beige-toned car. He
was on a London curb awaiting a taxt
when he saw the enormous limousine
purr by. He told hla taxi to follow
and It did to a pretentious house
skirting Hyde Park. Blumenthal top
ped out and saw the limousine oc
cupant was a strikingly beautiful
lady. He craved her pardon and In
quired: "Is It presumptlous to ask
where one may purchase a car like
yoxirs?" She broke Into a merry laugh
"It Is not," she said, "my husband
Is the head salesman. Come Inside
and meet him." Blumenthal did, ani
over a cup of tea the deal was closed.
Likely the runner-up for the Zieg
feld paslon for telephoning Is Rex
Cole. He has phones In every room
of his house Including the baths. 11
he has trouble getting anyone on the
phone he has a special one Installed
for his exclusive use. When his
friends go to the hosplatl. he doesn't i
send flowers but has a bedside un
listed phone Installed for direct out
side contacts. All of which makes a
rather pat paragraph on which to
ring off.
(Copyright. 1935. McNaught
Syndicate)
War On Rats Opens.
PORTLAND, Feb. 18. (AP) The
city dumping grounds, trenched and ,
pock-marked like a miniature sector
of a shell-blasted battleground will
soon be the locale of a death-dealing
gas attack. Hordes of rats which i
have built the trenches and scratch- ,
ed out the holes, will be the vie- '.
tlms of the deadly gas.
Bythe wav- u vr E n '
YOU'VE NEVER TAKEN
MY ?)iSTER OUT OMCE
SimCE "omE w aS beem
VlSlTlMG LS- VELL
I IM))T UPON VOU
TAKIMG HER OUT
TO-NIGHT
SUBURBAN HEIGHTS THE PARTY NEXT DOOR
(Copyright, 1935. by The Bali Syndicate, Inc.) uSitufe
1 I I Z'lh
mm am tfif
60ES 1b SLEEP, -WANKfOL
THM "far. NEIGHBORHOOD K
SO OUlXf AND PEACEFUL
renewed commotion as 1he
6rimbles return because
they' cant 6eT Their car oW
UMLE5S 01HER cars are moved
SUDDEN SHRIEKS FROM EvERV
OrJE.ESPEClALlY FRED PERLEY,
AS MILT 6RISSBY STARTS BACK-
iN6 his car. into -Tree
there he is.
kathetrime-
AMD HE IS
COiMG TO
TAKE VOU
OUT- ,
Pf fjfea p(m
I a k q ' A" p
pjw laps obs
THAT'9 FiME--!
DIDN'T HAVE
AN ESCORT FER
TO-NiGht-
.fwELL.-
VOU
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K
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MR
IS AROUSED BV .SUDDEN BABBLE
OF VOICES OW FRONT PORCH
NFXf Door, remembers per-
ARE .HAVING A PAJtfY-
AFTER MUCH 6TARTIN6 OF EW
6INES AND CALUN6 BACK AND
FORTH, CARS ARE MOVED ANP
QlIET DESCENDS A6WN
CARS BE6IN -TO FAPE INTo TS-
1AKCE - ALi EXCEPT THE WIMPLES',
MRS- WIMPLE HAVIK& MISLAID
A 6L0Vf.
WHERE DO
WANT To GO '.
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1 imii
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
frit 6RIMBLB,AR0L06IZN6
FOR HAIIN6 10 IEAVT EARlV
600lSVS APE CALIXP AND All
15 aUIEI" A6AJN
SNOOZES, BEIN6 ROUSED AIMOSf
AT ONCE BV FINAL BREAKIN6 UP
OF PARTY', EdER'r'&ODY SHOUfiKS
WOR-BYfff 10 EUERVBDPY ELSfc
WIMPLES LEftVE AT LAST. FRED
TERLEV OM HIS PORCH EltQBIMS
THANK 600DNESS, "THAT'S 0VR,
AND ALL IS OJJIE.1 A6AIN
Bv 0 M Payne
By Hal Forrest
Rv Snl Het
By George ttlcmanuf
TO THE AVE -HANDLE
MAKERS' BALL
ME ARM,
LADY- LET'S
NOT BE
LATE -
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