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P5GE FOURTEEN I - at. k A,0-rl BOMAMCI BY CVH tVANS EXPERIMENT MAY SM'BURNS FROM HEAD T0 R0AN0KE VET HOSPITAL i r i tiP8lS: Mateo Rubrie, .torn pamun in adventure of the Uontanu Kid, hat been captured by General Tntradn, governor of Duraya, iChiU attempting to rettore to the church the emerald crown of Our Lady Estrada it trnding ilatco to the Valley of the Dead, from ichlrli there Us no eerape. Montana and Paecuat are tolluwtng, not darinit to hope they can help. Thru reach the rim of the horrible valley. Chapter 31 STRANGE CAPTIVI 'A LREADY, it tha top of the pla- teau where the traveler! were pausing, the bud was hotter than Ten Montana had ever felt It before. It scalded his shoulders through the (hick of his shirt; It gathered like a .weight between the crown of the bat and his bead. He could feel the air he breathed, hot and thick, until It was deep In bis lungs. And the sweat ran out en bia body and dried away Instant ly to salt! He could see tbe beads of water start to run down the face of Brother Pascual and disappear. What would It be like, then, In the Taller at tha bottom of the slope! The valley began In a jumble of high rocks and ran out again through a deeply carved badlands. "Why would God put such a place on earth7" he could not help ex claiming, and the poor friar merely looked up, with both hands held In question to Heaven. As for escape, he could under stand why even the most desperate men would not be able to escape Ifrom the valley. The reason was Itbat the mounted Indians guarded the verges of the pit of hell, and In- Ide the pit there were other trained bloodhounds, and finally, tbe oris enera were kept chained day and night. "Once Inside, we'll never come out gain, said Montana. "Never again," said the friar. "And there Is nothing to draw you for ward, but for a man like me, who has renounced the world " "Renounced my foot!" said the Kid. "Where's the fellow who gets mora fon out of tha world or loves the people of It more than you do?" "Well," muttered Brother Pascual, i have to go forward" And the Kid responded, sighing, "So must I!" But he had a terrible sinking of Hie neart that told him only shame wae driving him now, and that If the friar had not been In his com' pany, he would have turned back and taken the lean red mare back across the horrible steppes towards the world of the living. They went down towards the lower entrance to the valley until from a high place they could see the road that wandered away Into the world. Up that road, the rumor said, the caravans of the damned wero brought until they came to the lower toot of the Valley of the Dead. And here guards came out from tha valley, the trusted agents of Juan-SUva, to pay down the hoad money and take charge of the enalned criminals, and march them back Into the valley. Of course they could not wait by the Are. They faded Into the dark ness at the right and tha mar stalked with them, bending her knees, fanning out her nostrils as she suuffed at the air out of which she had read her message. For all the keenness of tbe eye ol Montana, It was the friar who saw the outline first. He touched tht shoulder of his friend. "There!" be whispered, and raised the great beam of his arm. And then Montana was able to see one dim, one single silhouette. "It's only a single scout!" mur mured Montana. "Hold the horse here, and I'll see It I can get him; he can tell us where the others may be " He turned himself Into a big cat and slunk forward over the ground, moving In a swift semicircle, draw ing up on that single rider. He was so cIobo now that even If he were seen, he would be able to shoot straight. Now he was close enough to make the distance with one step and leap, and take the man captive, living. Beware of quick knife-work, how ever, when he was in close. This figure In the thick black of the night seemed small, almost fragile, but an ounce of Indian Is often worth a pound of other flesh when It comes to hand-to-hand fighting. s3 SIGHT OF 'TWERE Brother Pascual made his evening prayer whlla big Mon tana looked through a powerful glass and saw three horaemon rid ing around the Up of the Valley of tha Dead, and well behind them an other trio, and behind these another let of three. The sun gleamed on their flesh. They were half-naked In dians. The sun burned In bits of name on their lance-heads. He could lee the little rounds of their shields "What's he done!" asked Mon aana. "Brought In tha Indians and kept them wild!" Ay," said Pascual. "Even to tha bowa and the arrows. Men who try to run away die stuck as full of ar rows as a porcupine Is full of quills." "I see." muttered Montana. Tor his mind was struggling for ward, striving to envisage the na ture of thla man who ruled the Val ley of the Dead. At least the creature was a king, ven though he was a king of the damned. i Tha night fell suddenly. They! made a Are no bigger than the cup of oounied hands would hold and over It they propared their meal. They were In the midst of this when the msr ran suddenly In towards them snd shouldered acalnst her master. She slood with her head thrown up high, pointing like a hunting-dog at some danger that stalked them through the night. "They're coming!" said Montana. "Tha damned Indians, It mutt he." "Ay," said tha friar, calmly, "It must be they." QUARTERING from the rear, he came In on that silhouette- then a step and a leap brought him right on tbe back of the little mus tang with the crushing strength of his arms cast around the body of a woman. The mustang reared, ready to pitch, and Montana slid off with a twisting, gasping, lighting figure In his grasp, and the big friar coming up at the run to help. "Be still!" said Montana, through his teeth. "I'll do yon no harm If " "Montana!" said the voice of Roslta. His arms fell away from her. Ha was so stunned that the darkness moved before his eyes and tha little dim sura In the renlth whirled around above his head. He could hear tbe friar exclaiming over her. He went In with the two of them towards the camp, but still he would not let his brain understand, for something Inside him kept saying that It could not be. No woman who had seen tha Valley of the Dead could willingly come closer than tha first glance Into the depths of It And yot thla was she, this was he? voice. Now she was sitting crosslegged by the fire, and the friar was giving her food, and she waa eating, and lifting her eyes to the pain-struck face of Brother Pascunl. She looked thinner and older I little: her eyes were larger than they had been. She was quiet. All the bubble and the flash had gone from hor. She looked like some prod net of the desert brown and slen, der as a deer, with a sense of light ness, as though she could be awaj from thla place In a flash. Pascual was atlll pouring forth bis gentle words, tolling her of the dan ger here, and that she must start back at once towards a Christian land. "Here," he said, "you are already on the Up of the Valley of the Dead!" "Why do you talk to me, Brother?" she askod him. suddenly. "I am here on the Up of the cup and you two will soon be Inside it!" Then said Montana angrily, "What could you do, Roslta?" "I could be hero," she snswered. "But being here what can you do to help?" "I con keep the horses whon you're Inside hell." suld the girl. "They'd wander and starve. They'd be useless before you got out. and whether you bring Ruhrii or only yourselves, or only one of you, you'll have to have horseflesh to carry yon awoy from the Indians of Juan-Sllvn." There was so mnch sense In this that Montana could only staro. Brother Pascual could do no more than staro, also, and nt this the girl sat up and smiled at him. Suddenly Montana was aware that he never had seen her before so long unsmil ing. She sang to them In a voice not much nigger than a whisper. It was an Indian song. There was Indian In the girl. too. (Copyright, fj.(, Sarprr i Itrothere) Monday, ihe dernnea rrlvt. CRrtvin sf ths PAUL REVERE ILL' WILL RING NO MORE IN ea,Evra,AND (vd -Ben." a if- appointed Paul Revere, has bn lo catd finally by police. About AO snd "oovlously a menu! eaar." according to Detective Chief !,t. James Bill, of unurban Cleveland Height, "Bell" la "under observa tion" by officers. For months, Bell, who signed no other name, had deluged financial Institutions, Indtvldusls and Cham bers of Commerce with letters darkly warning of some Impending bank robbery and surreptitious plot by politicians. The one who mav suffer moat from Bell's capture la P-vtmseter-Oenenl James A. Parley. Bell waa no tight wad with hie stamps. WIK'ON, !. C-(UT)A motorist wlioee car bore Tennessee license Pistes solrt w. H. Johnson, flllinir Hon operator here, s punclibonrd on wlileii. it was euplatnert, a few number. 11 10 to 1. rrssrdlcss of the wager Involved. Boon another Tennessee far rotled In. Its occupants punched the board betting I0. They drove away tt too of Johnson's money. curious. Johnson punched the board. Then he punched aBatn. and ngsln. All of the punches, he found paid 10 to 1. "Smoke" Costs Woman's Mfe CLEVELAND. (UP) A "smoke" In bed cost the life of Mrs. Elizabeth 1st at a ctvlr musical Bert, ad-year-old stenographer. She fell ssUep aa she puffed a cigarette, $g ja burned, tu CeaUl Olrrs Mollll Concert at q; FORT WOHTH, Texas Hp, Hc i only 03 years old snd he can play a violin with the beat of them. Charles Untermoehlen recently was misst an emic hailoi hta playing as superb. He Is a name of Germany and has been playing sluts hs was five yvarj old- PHILADELPHIA (VP) Enpert ments are being conducfc-d here which may mean the saving of eye- ' sight of thousands of Infants each . year. 1 The disease Opthalmla neonato rum commonly called "babies' sore leyes." Is contracted on an average . by two out of every 100 Infants, land unless promptly checked, fre quently results In blindness. I Dr. Louis Lehrfeld. of Philadelphia General Hospital, who Is conducting experiments expressed the theory of checking the disease by protection against Infection at the source the mother. He snld the theory will revo lutionize existing methods. STONEliASfCURES FLOOD IN FOR VICTIMS; MUNCrE, Ind (UP) Letters from all over the nation flood the sick room here of Charles and William wagncr. victim of a disease which alowly causing petrification of their muscles. Some of the letters express sym pathy. Others extend self-appointed advice on how to cure the disease. which doctors have called Incurable. A message from Texjs tells how "a pretty girl was saved from turn ing to stone" by a diet. An Illinois woman who was "similarly afflicted 30 years sfio" says she waa cured by herbs. FOOT LEFT UNTREATED STEUBENVILLE, O (DP) A seven-yesr-old boy, burned seriously from head to foot when his clothing had caught fire from an open grate, was discovered In need of medical atten tion five days later by police. Officers entered the home of the ooys parents seeking information about a neighbor. While there, they noucca ine surierlng of the child. Casmlr Velaska. The parents told po lice they were destitute and could not artord medical treatment. The mother said her boy had been burn ed from his neck to his feet. The boy was taken to a hospital. In criti cal condition. Red Cross Plans Contention WASHINGTON.-! UP)The Amer ican Red Cross snnual convention Mil be held here April 8-11. the na tional headquartera announced. TAKES PATIENTS SOON ROANOKE. Va. (UP) Tha Veter ana hospital near here, dedicated last I November by President Roosevelt. ! will begin receiving patients suffer- j Ing from neuropsychiatry aliments ! April 1. The hospital will serve Virginia, west Virginia, North Carolina. South Carolina, Tennessee, and the District of Columbia. Col. E. W. Jordon, regional man ager of the Veterans bureau, an nounced that he has received 10.000 applications for membership on the hospital working staff, which will consist of 200 persons. SUBURBAN HEIGHTS Take lono liut .No Liquor NEW PHILADELPHIA. O. (UP) Two masked holdup men forced O. J. Miller, state liquor store manager, to open the establishment's safe and es caped with-11000, but took no liquor. 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