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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON". WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 27. 1933.
TT'' RAPID-FIRE
8YXOP8IS: Tht Uontam.
and Mateo Kubrit havt enterea )
governor"! apartment at Duro'i
recovered the emerald crown of tiv
Lady which the governor ttole troy,
the church, and Montana, hat rt
turned hut halt ol the crown to tht
bithop. Hut Uateo hat been caught,
tortured, and ie to be tent to the
Valley ol the Dead. Roelta, who be
' frayed Montana and Mateo to the
governor, just hue intuited the gov
ernor on "10 ttreet. Montana it
following Rotitu.
Chapter 39
PASCUAL'S STORY
THE rata of the governor at this
public thwarting had come to a
white heat. The others ol the crowa
could aee the girl refuse the Im
mense honor he offered, to make her
the queen of the festival by placing
her at his side In the carriage, the
humbling of Ignaclo Estrada by
making such sn offer to a girl In
the street but none of them could
have heard the murmur which she
placed between two lines of her
song.
"Blood drinker! Man-eating
swine!"
Ehe had said It for his ear only,
and still smiling.
The madness that entered his
brain kept it whirling like black
smoke.
But through the crowd that came
laughing around the girl, congratu
lating her, wondering over her, the
taller figure of the Kid stepped with
a singular ease. He never seemed to
Jostle man or woman, but, as though
ha knew magic spots where bis feet
should rest, he gilded through the
press snd came to her.
There was something about this
man, dressed like themselves,
masked Ilka themselves, that made
the other youths lose heart, and they
gava back a trifle from around him
as though they wanted to hear him
and see blm better.
For he had begun to sing In a
good, rich, ringing baritone, that
fantastic old Castllllan song,
"Weave Me a Mantle." With the very
first strains, the girl struck up the
accompaniment on her guitar and
gave the song her own voice, so that
they walked on slowly, surrounded
by tbelr owu music as by wall
ot, quiet, leaning their heads a little
to, one another.
So long as the song continued, the
crowd kept Its distance, moving
slowly with the slow pace of the
singers, but as the song ended the
tide of the festival rushed over the
place and the level-streaming heads
began to bob Irregularly up and
down again.
So, in a moment, the girl and Mon
tana were more alone, more private
In tlint crowd, than they would have
been In tho most secret of gardens.
She caught at his arm so that she
walked close to his side, but she
said, with her face upturned to him:
"If you knew me If you knew what
I have done"
"I saw Estrada pull his bat over
his eyes."
"But before long before there
In a thing I have done"
"Look!" said the Kid.
He held a gold piece In his hand.
"This Is the past," said he. "Watch
It!"
And he tossed the coin high over
his head, so that It winked In the
light of the lanterns.
SHE, over her shoulder, saw the
gold flicker, arch up, fall. And
the slim hands of a girl flashed up
and csught It.
Roslta laughed. She had no envy
tor that lucky flnder!
"That's the past and let It go!"
laid Montana.
"Do you know?" she ssked.
"Enough to make It worth the for
getting," said Montana.
"Governors come snd governors
go, but Montana rides forever," said
the girl.
They began to laugh together un
til he cried out: "There's Brother
Pascual grinning his big grin over
the heads of the people! What a man
that la, Roslta! Let's go to him, be
csuse he can tell me about Rubric "
She made the Kid pause.
"You don't know about Rubrls?"
she gasped.
She began to read bis face from
side to side, up and down, ss though
somewhere In It she must find tho
knowledge.
"1 don't know. Whst Is It?"
"God forgive me!" cried the girl.
"I can't tell you. No one dares to
speak of It, but everyone knows
Brother Pascual he can tell you."
"Rubrls?" said Montana. "Has
something happened to him? Ma
teo?" He looked down at the agony In
the eyes of the girl and then he went
E DELAY FOR
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WASHINGTON. Feb. 37. ( API
Hope for ratification of tha child la
bor amendment thr year by all the
required 36 itatei virtually has been
abandoned by aome of IU chief pon
wm. Twenty four at a ten have ratified
the measure.
"I don't think It will be poaalble
to get ratifications In 13 more state
this winter,'' Miss Katherlna P. Ln
root, head of the children's bureau
of the labor department aald today.
Wyoming, Id ho, Utah and Indi
ana ratified the amendment this win
ter. Rejections were voted by Kanaaa.
MMehuetU. Nevada. New Mexico.
I" :r.ir-.-e nnd Texan.
baa MU Tribuu waul ad.
ROMANCE BY EVAN EVANS V ""
pldly, cutting through the crowd
y strength and adroitness, drawing
he girl through the easy safety of
'.lis wake.
When be came up to the friar he
said two words st the shoulder of
the gisnt, whose eyes were so filled
with the noise and laughter of the
crowd that they overflowed with a
sort of blind brightness. Every hon
est happiness that csme to his fel
low men wss as two happinesses to
that good fellow.
But at the voice of Montana be
turned suddenly and threw up his
hand as though to defend himself
from an attack. Afterwards he,
crushed the wrist of the Kid with a
terrible grasp. I
"El Keed!" he whispered. '
"Be quiet people are staring,;
brother," cautioned the girl.
"Rubrls tell me about Mateo!"
urged Montana. '
Behind the town, In that little
sandy hollow where Montana had
left the red mare, the three stood
while Brother Pascual told to Mon
tana a tale that curdled bis blood.
Not everything was known. Men
only knew how the great Rubrlz had
fallen to numbers and chance; how
he had lain In the hands of the gov
ernor for a single day; and how he
had been brought out of the fort dur
ing the middle of the next night a
changed, perhaps a ruined, man.
He had been placed In a carriage.
Few had seen. But there had been a
glimpse of a limply sagging form,
arms and legs over which there was
no control, the head hanging weak
ly over to the side.
Like a body newly dead, except
that the eyes were living.
THAT was how the girl repeated
words she had heard. And then
the closed carriage had sped away
on the southern trail.
"Where?" groaned Montana.
"Where could they have taken hlra?
What have they done with htm, Pas
cual?" "They have taken him where I am
going to follow," said the friar,
quietly, "but where It would be
foolish for you to go, my friend.
Foolish for me, also, but since Ru
bric Is dying tor the sake of the
churcb, I must go to Join him."
"Dying?" echoed Montana.
"Don't you see?" put In the girl.
There's only one place that a devil
like Estrada would aend him. To the
Valley of the Dead."
The name came over Montana like
a horrible nightmare out of an al
most forgotten sleep. He had heard
of It before. All men in Mexico had
heard of It, but It waa a thing not to
be whispered, not to be thought.
"We go together!" said Montana.
But he hardly heard his own voice
or believed that he had spoken.
"Pascual!" moaned the girl. "J
told you what he would nay! I told
you that he would go. And I shall
go also, then!"
'Hush!" sulci the friar. "You an
a child. And what could you do?"
They went south through the
mountains, over the green plains,
Into a stricken land whore running
water was no longer found. Instead,
there were standing pools or "tanks"
of water that was foul with scum,
filled with twisting. Jerking forms ol
Insect lite. 1
They had to dig shallow trenches
a yard from the margin of these
stink-holes and let the water seep In,
purified a little by the filter through .
which It had run. But even when It
had been strained In this slow and
careful manner, that water would
grow unbearably foul In half a day's
ride under the southern sun.
It was the sun that possessed the
world, and no one who had Jour
neyed through that country could
love the great bright disk again, not
even If he found himself again in
the cold north where It Is a friend.
Here It filled the entire sky with
intolerable light and It blazed up
again from the pale soil and the hot
rocks. Even the cactut was burned
brown at the edges and all tha
thorns were black, tempered Iron.
The only other growth lay on the
ground like gray smoke.
There was no life for the eye and
there was no sound for the ear. All
waa furnace by day, and, In the
night, a black pit with the stars
burning thin and far away through
the dusty air. They had the feeling
that they were not on a surface, but
Inside something.
After a day or two, not even Mon
tana was capable of much speech
and the songs with which ha had
cheered the first part of ths Journey
ended.
(Copyright, J9J, Harper d Brothert.
Montana learna tha hnrrlbla atory
of tha Vailey of Death, tomorrow.
LEAVES
FOR ROAD IE!
Paul B. Rynnlng, county engineer, j
left today for Portland to attend a ;
meeting Thursday of the state high
way commission. Rynnlng. represent
ing the Pacific highway association,
wilt make the trip In place of A. 8.
V. Carpenter, who Is In Pasadena.
Allocation of funds for highway
projects In south?; n Oregon will be
mane at the meeting, and Rynnlng
will combine with other representa
tives of the Pacific highway associa
tion In behalf of the Sirkiycu route
project. The pacific highway associa
tion Is competed of rrpifsont stives
from this city. Ashland, Or ant a Pass,
Roseburg and Eugene.
Home pott 'tit t rmt.) ro ;j
ana children st special Prior
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LOSE BATTLE FOR
SHARE OF ESTATE
SALEM. Feb. 27. (AP) Validity
1 of the will of Anton Knutson, de
! ceased Portland resident. In whlrh
the entire estat valued at 35.000
was bequeathed to his niece. Thelma
Knut&on, was upheld by the Oregon
supreme court yesterday In an opln
Ion handed down by Justice George
possman.
The opinion held that contestants
of the will, other relatives of Knut
son. were not entitled to any of the
estate and the court held no evidence
was given that Knutson lacked suf
ficient mental capacity to make such
a will and that undue Influence was
used by the niece. The opinion held
further that the niece, a school teach
er, took care of Knutson without any
offers from others relatives.
Mrs. Lyllls F. Price was unsuccess
ful In her suit for a divorce against
Oscar B. Price, prominent business
man of Salem. The supreme court
In an opinion by Chief Justice Camp
bell, affirmed the decree of Judge L.
Q. LewelUng.
The brief opinion concluded with
the following paragraph: "We have
diligently read through the 467 type
written pages of oral testimony giv
en on the trial and have carefully
examined the 28 exhibits Introduced
in evidence. We have also attentively
considered the masterful briefs of
counsel' as well as their able oral
argument in this court. But yet we
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the learned circuit court committed
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the dissolution of the marriage con
tract with prejudice." '
WOULD WED 1 BAZ1L
NEW YORK. Feb. 27. fAP Mrs
Wilma E. Gould admitted under
cross examination today In her $500.
000 damage suit against relatives of
her husband, that she had known
Sir Bazll Zaharoff mystery man of
Monte Carlo "intimately" but In
dignantly denied she planned to di
vorce Edward B. Gould so that she
might marry him.
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In Seneca Falls, N. Y., conspired to
get evidence on which Gould might
base a divorce action.
Harry Gerguson Prince "Mike'
Romanoff to Broadway and Park
Ave. alike Is named In her suit as
being hired to take her to his apart
ment in New York.
Mrs. Gould, In answer to questions,
said that she had dined with the
multi-millionaire munitions manu
facturer at Monte Carlo several times
In the presence of his daughter.
"Were you ever with Sir Bazll
t alone?" she was asked.
Henry A- Uterhart. attorney for
Mrs. Gould, objected, saying:
"Why he's 85 years old!"
The court room went Into an up
roar. PARIS, Feb. 36. APj Violent
Btorma continued today to batter
France's Atlantic seaboard. At least
six ships were reported In distress
off the west coast, many fishermen
were lost and damage estimates
mounted ashore.
Phone 542. We'll haul away your
refuse. City Sanitary Service.
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