MEDFORD MATL TRTBUXE. MEDFrRD, OREGON", TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2R. 19..
PAOE SIX
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"'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."
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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