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MEDFORD MATL TRTBUXE. MEDFrRD, OREGON", TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2R. 19.. PAOE SIX 4 V I "'a RAPID-FIRE ROMANCE BY EVAN EVANS. ,Y SUPSI8: aioiiluna hat taken half of the emerald crown of Our Lad'l to live it to the bishop from trhose rhurch it had bftn elalen by General Entrada. Hut the other half it tcith ktateo RubrlM, and Mateo hat been captured by Eetrada and tortured, and ie about to be tent to the Valley of the Dead. Montana dtrtt not knout the uhereabnute of Jtubriz, but he dote knout that he piuat learn them. Chapter 29 THE BLESSING f ONTANA knew the way Bro- tber Pascual bad told blm to be turned right In at tbe open door of tbe Bishop's room and found tbat good little man at tbe window. Wben the Dlsbop heard Montana's light laugh behind him, he turned a trine. "Husb," be said. "Why are you here?" "I've come to ask you where 1 can And a friend of mine, and to give you a little token you've been missing, "A token?" asked the bishop. As the youth came closer to him, Bishop Kmlllano lifted bis gleaming bald head higher and higher until he was staring up Into the masked face. "1 beg your pardon." said the Kid. "Or course 1 know that there's no harm can come from you." He took off bis mask. "But who are you, my son?" said the bishop. "Perhaps you'll And my naine en graved somewhere on this?" said Montana. And be put tbe trinket In the chamois wrapping into the hands of the blsbop. The lattor, unwrapping the thing slowly, still kept bis grave, gentle eyos Hied on the stranger nntll something that his Angers touched made blm look down quick ly Then be saw that sacred glimmer of gold and grocn and he clasped the treasure In both bands against his breast. "You are El Koedl" be said, "Ah, where is Pascual I He knew that you would come back and bring this. He was sure of 1L He gave me bis oath that there was no evil In you, my ion. "Oh, there's trouble enough In me!" said the Kid. "What sball 1 do tor you?" asked the bishop, making a helploss ges ture. "How sball 1 make you a re ward? You are not of our faith, my son" "No," said the Kid. "Never mind aDoui me rewards. Ulve them to Hubrlz. Ulve them to Mateo. A few Aves will make him feel richer than a King." Then be saw something In tho face of the prleBt and went a bit closer to him. i Here s one thl.-.g tbat 1 could use." ho suld. "Its never happened to me before, and porhapa It might s well happen now, Olve me your blessing, If you will." He kneeled down suddenly. The good bishop was tauon aback tor an Instant, and he peerod down at the Kid as though he suspected, tor a moment, that there might be a bit of sacrilegious mockery In this gesture, but the strong, clean features of the . Kid were no longer smiling. At that. Bishop Emlllano put both hands on tbe bead of Montana, "Our Father In Heaven," he said, "give faith and love to this your son, we pray you." "Is that all?" asked Montana. "If you will wait there a little longer, I'll kneel and prny with you, my dear lad," said the bishop. "No," answered the Kid, rlslnn. "The Boor's hard and my kneos are sort. Whore shall 1 And Pascual?" "Somowhare along ths street, watching the procession, I suppose," said ths bishop. "His heart Is not half a stop away from tbe heart of a child. Porhaps that Is why be Is such a foolish man and such a good one. "Tell me about him," bcRged Mon tana. "There's a fellow I wont to know more about." nUT Just then he beard, out of the LJ singing and the laughing and the shouting and the aimless chat tering of the crowd In the street, the voice of one girl singing above the rest. Tbe sweetness of It ran Into his soul even before his mind under- Itood the meaning of the words. She wns singing: "I.ova la not happlnraa. A horsa under nl A aword jm1ar hand; ' And red wlna fnr the bellv Hut lev Is not happineaa." At that, he only paused lo pull the mask again over his face before he leaned from the window of the bishop's palace and sent his voice ringing down In the second verse ot that old Spanish song: "I-ovs Is not happliwss. Seeing la longing : Winning la doubting: Leaving la sorrow ; Uut love la not happineas." "My son. Is It proper that love songs should come out of the win dow of a clergyman?" said the blsbop. But be was laughing till he remembered another thing: "And the whole town filled with Rurales and soldiers ready to seize you. El Keed! But I'll show you a back stairs to take you out behind tbe house " "With such a now blessing, how could 1 come Into old trouble?" asked Montana. "BcBldes, Bhe's an swering me she's waiting there In tbe street for me that beautiful, laughing, singing, dancing devil, that traitor, Roslta." He was Hcclng from the room aa ho spoke. Tbe blahpp beard the feet thump hardly three times on tbe stairs, and then be Baw the bound ing figure Issue out Into tbe crowd. The blsbop also saw tho carriage of General Estrada, drawn by four horses, plowing through the crowd, which scattered rapidly back on either hand, because on tbe back ot the near leader ot the team there rode a cruel devil with a black snake, and be knew exactly how to Aog peoplo out ot his way. Lolling back In the carriage was tho genoral himself, leaning one hand on the bill of a great, glided sword and smoking ono of bis big cigars. Passing tbe palace ot tbe bishop, be stood up, enormous In bis carriage, spreading his feet to keep his balance against the Jolting, and slowly, deliberately saluted. -XMIE blsbop, shocked by tbat In- A solcnce, drow back from the window a little and raised bis eyes to that starry heaven which permits so many monsters to stalk the earth In triumph. Then he took out of bis pouch at his girdle a folded paper which he opaned and read by the dim flicker of the' candles easily and swiftly, be cause It was a document which be had scanned moro than onco before. It announced In great letters, at the top, a reward ot ten thousand pesos for the apprehension of a man, dead or nllve! Ten thousnnd pesos In thlB coun try where a thousand would seem a great fortune to many a Btarved, loan, dangerous mountaineer men who shot straight because they could not afford to waste ammuni tion! An Aniprlrnn who spouka Ilka a natlvo Mexican. Ho hna darkened his skin with a atnin. I lo hna black hair, but hla eyea aro hluo. lie Is (all, with wide ehnulder. Ilia wan nro urncotul, hla move ntt'iils aro slow. He sinlloa very often. lie will conio to a pretty- woman ma a wild hnro cornea to wntor. Look for tall, handsome man with blue eyes. Ten thousand pesos reward. Kl Kocddead or alive El Koed. That was the Inst lino of the pos ter, In the largost lettering ot all. The bishop dropped tho paper to tho Aoor and leaned from his win down agaiu, breath loss. Ho should have told the gringo about that pub lished notice. But why should be tell such news to a man who surely knew all about what was happen ing? And now he was down there in the crowd! And If ho, with dim eyea and from a distance could distin guish tho proy In tha throng, why did not those about him know the msn instantly? Bocause the eyes of the bishop bad been opened, and tho eyos of the crowd wore closed by the brazen daring ot the American. The last thing the men ot Uuraya expected was to And 101 Keed among thorn so soon after the foray upon the fort The carriage of the governor stopped. The govornor himself stopped down. Ho approached a girl who wns singing with a guitar. Thnt was the daughter of the one-legged Miguel Santos. Thore stood the govornor, holding out a band to her, gesturing towards his carrlago. Hot anger stood up In the heart ot the bishop, and then ho anw that the girl wns refusing. She wns shaking hor head. Sho wns still singing bor SOUR. The govornor, turning suddenly, strodo buck Into his carriage and Aung himself back Into his former sent, and all the crowd thronged about him and cheered his dr-fes- The bishop wns agnpe. He could not believe tho thing that he had seen. Tho girl ot tho tun had refusod the governor, iCopyrlpht. tssi. Harper 4 Brothert) Tomorrow, Montana laarns ths fata of a friend. APPLEGATE DAM DATA PREPARED FOR PI CHIEF An Important meeting of th 1m provement and Irrigation project com mittee of the Applegate valley was held recently with approximately one hundred attending, Miles Cantrall reporta. Mr. Ple.ce, water master of Joseph ine county, waa RUeet speaker and outlined briefly the possibilities of a series of dams at the head of Wit Hams creek. Citizens ot the Applegate district believe that If a damslte la located at a point about one-half mile below the confluence of the Applegate river and Squaw creek It will be of Inesti mable value to the Applegate valley farm era. Applegate River valley Is In dire need of stored flood water to aug ment the Irrigation of lands now having decreed water rights and to allow irrigation of marginal arid areas otherwise arable. Mr. Cantrall and hla committee presented this project to C. C. Hock ley, state engineer of the public works administration, recently along with other projects submitted by this county. He further states that It la in keeping with the program of the Jackson County Chamber of Com merce to provide more water for Jackson county land. The project, which haa been developed by citizens of the Applegate River valley, has been perfected during a period' of months and Miles Cantrall, William Cart and others have worked dili gently to the end that complete In formation and data has been placed before the PWA. NO llIN ROME. Feb 26 (AP) No possi bility of an Italo-Ethloplan agree ment Is In sight, a government spokesman said today, ns four more Italian transports prepared to sail for east Africa. The troop ships, three docked at Naples and one at Messina, were be ing loaded with several thousand more soldiers and hundreds of tons of war materials. "There's no Indication of the em peror's part," the spokesman said, "that he Is ready to give in on his determination to take no blame for Ethiopian aggression on the Somali land frontier and to pay no Indem nity for the Italian troops killed in attacks at Ualual and Afdub." -, SEATTLE. Wash., Feb. 26. AP Alvln Hem rich, 65, praesldent of the Apex Brewing company, died at a hospital here today from complica tions which developed after he slip ped on Icy pavement and broke his ankle several weeks ago. OREGON CITY. Feb. 26. (AP William J. Henderson, 72, of Canemah waa killed lat night when he was struck by a Southern Pacific freight train as he was walking along the tracks. Home portraits or family and children at Special I Sh angle Studio Phone 1308. group Prices By GLUYAS WILLIAMS PUZZLES SAVANTS WASHINGTON (W, - Discovery of the skull of a Titan athere In Death Valley has proved that sci entists may be wrong. Noted scientists hud predicted that no fossils ever would be found in the valley. Tne Tltanothere, a gigantic rhinoceros-like animal ap parently belonged to the eocene or ollgocene period. Members of the Death Valley National Monument made the dis covery. Shortly afterward, a group of scientists from the California Institute of Technology unearthed another skull of the same type ol mammal. It marked the first time that the skull of a Tltanothere had been found west of the Rockies. In addition, but once previously had any fossil of this family of mam mals been discovered In the region. Attention Woodmen of World All members of Camp No. 90 now make payments to Leland J. Knox, clerk, Room 303, Medford National Bank Bldg. Man agers Camp No. 90, Woodmen of World. WINDOW GLASS We sell window glass and wilt replace your broken windows reasonably. Trowbridge Cab inet Works. DIFFICULT DECISIONS I I i Phone 542. We'll haul away your j refuse. City Sanitary Service. When It comes to radios, remember, "Prultt's can do It." Phone 22. Z-2( W0NDER1K6, WHEH SuPPER-cVUl'b BEGltf lb SiMJtfD 0VER BACKYARD FENCES, WHE-frtER IT'S BE-fltR 16 BE ON fiME AWT; MlMfe A HAf, WlffeU AMD PAIR Of ROBBERS, OR 10 FlHD VOUR BELOr-iSlHSS AHD BE LATE (Copyright, 1835, by The Ball Syndicate, lac.) 6U5YAS SMATTER POP- Bv C M Payne MERRIAM IS PARK ROOSEVELT EYES ADiNISIRATORi RELIEF REACH WASHINGTON. Feb. 79. (AP) The national park service today replaced the existing five districts supervising state park emergency work camps with eight regional administrations. Appointment of administrators was announced at the opening bcmUu of a four-day conference of state park authorities with Secretary Ultra. Conrad L. Wlrth, assistant national nttrk director, said the change waa to better co-ordinate the Increasing I amount of state park Improvements carried on by the CCC. The rclnnni administrator for the ornmiwii croup and' th Pacific co.tft M la-rence C- Men mm. was-Mim; h'rtiiv hum mNtuiv ti'r r Ban FranrUro. for Washington, Idaho, suit of th irof bv -."lute barters to California and Nevada. cause geueral public se niuuenl. HYDE PAITK. N. Y. Feb. 26 ( AP I President Koonevelt auhcd Inter est frtly but silrntly today the reac tion of the country to the senate's vote mtitinM his work relief program. With the stAttO.ooo work bill back In the senate appropriations commit tee. It appcurs UKrly that Mr. Koi'yie ve It will mi if n est Ha reconsideration by the senate once the measme ot public reaction has hern recorded However, he carefully retrained from any comment today on this or other 1 any conunrm iwiny vn una vi iui.fi 1 1 1 public issues. J I Members of the presidential statl CSEUJ j have reflected some concern at the effect on con Kress of rneai;rs frnti 1 " ,i o.w, znrih , A-oH F .e m : ? TT- , " - Dm P TAIbfcijrlN Tcnnr; t.nj jj.-iq mows! 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