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.
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
FRED PERLEs WAS MAROONED
DURING -THE -TmW BECAUSE Tt-)E
PLUMER CHILDREN NEf DOOR, HAD
JUSrf BEEN HEARING FROM THEIR
TAfHER ABOUf -ff)E DI6GIM6 or
"THE PANAMA CANAL-
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TAILSPIN TOivuvix Friendship with Tonimyl
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'(Copyright, 1938, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
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BEN WfiBis'l'jaK'S CAREER Ben's Bombshell!
U5TLN BETTY, THIS m (TOM'S EIGHT, 8S.TTY,
tvsuiRe risked flilf X weoustWa
HIS LIFE TO HELP,? frtR0' S DO IT'
I CAN'T LET JfWZd
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WAIT ; I HAVE A BETTEte
PLAN- we MAY SAYE YOUR
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WITHOUT TRIFUN' WITH YOU I'LL
TELL YOU ONCE AND FOR ALL THAT
CHIRP AIN'T GOIN'TOOET THIO
enow eACK now, you make
TRACKS OR ELSE -
THE NEBBS I Was Just FnplW
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JUST WHAT IVE 3AIP.'
ALL THE PERFORMERS,
WHO SERVED NOTICE
ON YOU.HAVE JOINED
OP WITH 09
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MY BUT YOU
LOOK MICE '.
WHERE A.RE.
you going,
Sister?
capta.im merrin)'
Carp imvited
ME ONJ Hl,
BOAT-
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I DOMT KNOW
HIM, BUT I'LL
BE GL AO TO
DRIVE YOU TO
HIS BOAT-
WILLYOU,
MAGGIE?
THAT LL BE
FlKlE - I'LL
INTRODUCE
YOU TO
IM-
7 i
I HORRORS'.
'a. . r
Bv George MclVlanuj
hi -there. kathebime'
bring the old girl'
on board wid you-
I HELLO. l.
C APT Al N ' j NNN.
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