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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUXE. MEDFORD, OREGON. SUNDAY. MARCH 3. 1935.
A RAPID-FIRE
KVSOPMS: The Montana KM
and Brother Paecual meet Rustic
on the etltje of the Valley of th
bead. Then are there to try to eavt
Mateo Itubrle. tcho irae capture
by the unecrupuloue governor o'
Vvratja while he and Montana tceri
attempting to do the Church a terv
ice. So man leavee the Valley c
the Dead alive, yet Montana on.
Paerual erpeet to enter it. leavini.
Pnaita tn icatch their horeee for
thrm. Thru await the caravan
bringing Mateo.
Chapter 83
REPENTANCE "
"HPHATS the meaning. U It?"
Montana asked Rosita. "All the
way across tht desert j-ou were not
afraid?"
"I marked all your camping-spota.
Where you had dug the trench I
could find the water. I had an easy
way."
"I wonder over you, child," said
the friar.
"Why do you wonder?" asked the
girl. "Has he told you that I sold
him to General Estrada? Has be
I told you that?"
I If there were Indian In the girl,
there was Indian In the friar, also.
He showed It now because be
opened his mouth In astonishment
and put his hand over the gap like
any red man.
"Ten thousand pesos dead or
alive El Keed dead or alive a
tall man who smiles A great deal
with blue eyes and black hair. His
ways are graceful and he smiles a
great deal! 1 sold him, Brother Pas-
cual. I sold him to a dog I sold
him to Estrada!"
The Kid stood up.
"Don't come near me don't for
give me!" nhe gasped.
And she went on In a sort of soft
chant: "I was going to be a great
lady with a carriage and ten ser
vants. I'd have rings and bracelets
and necklaces. And I sold El Keed
to get them. What Is the hell for
traitors. Brother Pascual?"
The tears began to roll down her
(ace. The Kid sat down beside her
and dried the tears with a bandana.
"Look," said the friar. VH for
gives you."
"All men are fools," answered the
girl. She put her head back on the
boulder of the Kid and looked up
at him from under wet lashes. "Dy
ing would do no good," she said to
him. "What's the death of a crea
ture like me? How would It help El
Keed ?"
"There Is no mountain," exclaim
ed the friar, lifting his hands, "that
repentance will not move."
"Ay," said the girl. "Go away
from me, and take El Keed away, so
that I can repent. I'm not repent
ing now."
"Ah, child," said the simple Pas
cual, "you must repent!"
"Ilnve 1 two hearts?" she an
swered. "At one moment can I re
pent and love him, too?"
"Shall I go away?" asked the friar.
"Why should you?" she asked. "Do
you think that I'm ashamed of this?
I was never so much In church!"
This Idea of hers made her begin
to laugh. She sat up away from
Montana and began to shake her
head.
"You two have done your poor
cooking. But I have Jerked venison,
and two canteens of fresh water.
Cool water, because I kept the sack
ing wet around them. Now I shall
cook for you, and you shall see the
difference. Also I have one little
flask of good brandy. You have to
eat and to drink, because tomor
row "
TN' THE dawn of the next morning
they saw the dust cloud coming
up the road, and before morning
was tar advanced they had sight of
the caravan of the damned who
were marching towards the Valley
of tht Dead.
There must have been forty men,
and perhaps ten or a dozen women,
with a long cattle chain running
from one to one, looped around the
necks. The drivers went up and
down the Una. Three of them, with
whips and guns, guarded the con
demned, and In addition there was
a rear guard of half a doien Rurales.
At the same time, there came out
of the lower mouth of the Valley of
the Dead a pair of men naked to the
waist. In short, wide flaring trous
ers, with red sashes about their
hips.
They had on their heads straw
sombreros with great brims broader
than their shoulders. But, even so.
those shoulders were sun-blackened.
Their legs were bare from the knee
to the sandals they wore.
They were not Indians. They
must, therefore, be a pair of the
precious devils Incarnate who super
Intended, for Juan Sllva, the Imme
diate affairs of his hell.
L
BILL DEFEATED
BALEM. Ore. Muvb 3 (AP The
annate of the Oregon legislature to
day revt?rM its drclnlon on the
Gruugft roumy achool district equi li
ra t Ion bill and by diatlnn It re
mained constat ent In It opposition
to any fnrm of county unit aytem of
education.
Upon motion of pen tor W. F
Burke that the bill, which had paw
ed t he pna 1 1 . be reconsidered t he
bill waa ki;ied by a 17 to IS rote,
thus ending the battlra for aome form
ol county unit system for public
schools In the state.
The Orane hill was similar to the
county unit plan advanced by the
sdmliilstrntlon. which hart passed the
houe and then met feat In the
ROMANCE BY EVAN EVANS .
They sat oels and
jmoked, not i' 'at cigars
aa they watch'. a van ap
proach.
And as the poor wrct.hes saw the
t-ntrance to their hell on earth and
the two attendant .demons who
squatted beside It, such a voice
came up out of them as made the air
shudder.
One of the women fell. Her fall
drew the loop of the chain strangu
lation tight about her throat and al
so nearly choked the men who had
been marching before her and be
hind. Two of the whlp-wielders were In
stantly on the spot. They did not
waste their time and their strength
lifting her to her feet. Instead, they
stood back, wielded their long
lashes. The blood came out of her
body. Montana could see It.
He buckled his chin down against
bis breast and squinted bis eyes
shut.
The poor friar, at the same spec
tacle, covered his face with his
hands and fell on his knees.
Only the girl, with her face un
moved as stone, remained standing
behind the fringe of great boulders
that shielded them from view and
yet gave them loopholes through
which to view the procession snd
the entrance to the valley.
Oncn Rosita turned her head -and
looked cirYJously at Montana, a long,
long glance. Whatever emotion sin
may have felt, that long side glance
was the only evidence she gave of
trouble In her mind or her nerves.
The woman who had fallen got up
from the beating and began to.
scream with her head fallen back on
her shoulders; and that was the
way she walked on, screeching at
the sky, her head bobbing up and
down with every atop.
THE friar was praying. Montana
beat the knuckles of bis list hard
and fast against his forehead. Only
the girl looked on with calm, wide
eyes.
The Kid saw her, at last. And a
sort of horror superior to that whjch
had overcome him now straightened
blm up. He went to the girl and
said. "Rosita, Is there anything un
der the sky that you really give a
damn about?"
She drifted her eyes over his face.
She took out a good, clean white
handkerchief and wiped away the
sweat that was coursing over his
skin. "About you," she said, "I used
to care about being a gront, rich
lady one day. Now I only care about
you. All of you. Are yon loathing
me, Montana?"
"We won't talk," said the Kid.
"You want me to do more than
you and Pascual when I see a wo
man bentcn," said the girl. "You
want me to shudder and fall In a
faint. But look!" She tapped her
Angers against the rock before them,
a huge, sun cracked boulder. -
"I am harder than that," said Ro
slta, and smiled at him. For the
first time she had spoken words
that he could believe utterly. And
yet, Instead of wishing her away, be
felt only a guilty sense of Joy. Hard
stone and bard steel great things
can be built with them.
When the caravan of the con
demned had reached the mouth ol
the valley, the mounted guard from
the rear came forward and an officer
of the Rurales delivered to one of
the two men from the valley a long
paper, which the other then read
over, checking off a list of names,
apparently.
After that he walked around the
line. A fat man he prodded In the
ribs, and laughed. When he came to
the woman who had fallen, he
shrugged his shoulders snd made a
gesture of tossing something over
bis shoulder.
Having completed his Inspection.
he took from his belt a wallet out of
which he slowly counted shining
pieces of money. When he had fin
ished, the Rural recounted the cash
and burst out In protest.
The man of the valley argued
with fewer words but heavier ones,
It seemed. And presently the debate
ended. The Rurales and the three
whip-guards turned their horses
and went down the road at a trot,
soon lost behind the dust of their
own raising.
The two men of the valley ex
amined the string of prisoners
again. And when one of them came
to the same unlucky woman who had
fallen In the grip of the chain, he
struck her suddenly behind the
knees and sent her down with a
short, strangled screech.
The Kid drew a gun. but the girl
beside him caught his hsnd.
(Copyright. t9Si, Harper 6 Brathete)
Tomorrow,
bloody fight.
Montana tigi
concerned only districts outside the
first class, and that It would not
have forced counties to vote upon
the plan but would have made it op
tlonai. STURGEON START
PORTLAND. Ore. March 3 (API
An unusually heavy run of stur
geon. huK honv-plated sa fish. Is
on In the Columbia river and its trib
utaries. Already thev hae gathered in RTeat :
numbers in the Willamette rier as i
far upstream as Or.-pon City, and In
the Columbia
Rantiln up to 700 snd POO pounds ;
In eight, the sturgeon follow tlie
melt runs, gobbling as thev swim to
MEDFORD HOTEL HEAD
IK OUT 2
!ff SUCCESSFUL WORK:
Today mask the completion of the
wend year of P. O Drnson'a active
management of the Hotel Med fori,
and. In celebration of this occasion.
February nan been the most success
ful business month for the hotel for
several years.. In commenting upon
his two years In charge of the Mod
ford Hotel, Mr. Demon voiced hi ap
preciation for the splendid, coopera
tion and patronage accorded by the
people of Medford and southern Ore
gon. Many Important Improvements
have been made in the Hotel Medford
since Dr. Denson assumed the helm
of that hostelry. Extensive remodel
ing and redecorating has been execut
ed, and, at the present time, contrac
tor are at work In the Installation of
sixteen new showers In Hotel Medford
rooms. The present remodeling pro
gram, tylng-ln with the national
modernization activities, call for 20
new showers to be completed within
the next three weeks. Other exten
sive Improvement will be made,
bringing the Hotel Medford up to a
strictly modern basis. The Hotel
Medford remodeling program has in
cluded the establishment of attrac
tive bridge and party rooms available
to members of local women's clubs.
Mr. Den&on la receiving congratula
tions from h!s patrons and friends
throughout this city, upon the com
pletion of two yearn of active partici
pation In Medford business circles.
SMATTF.R POP
TAILfcHN TOMMY Nature
HAVE
Loyal
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Start Sales Tax
In Colorado For
Relief Purposes
DENVER. March 3 (AP) Colo
rado merchant expected to collect
today en estimated 10,000. the
first day's receipts from a. new two
per cent sales tax to raise millions
of dollar for relief.
Meantime, the Colorado Liberal
league launched an Initiative
movement to limit the tax to sales
of 25 and up. The petitions will
require 31.531 s-gnatures if the
measure la to be placed on che
ballot.
E
BEND, Ore., March 3 (API Mrs.
Merle D. sage, who confessed she
fired a shotgun through a window
of her Redmond home at her husband
list Sunday night, was sentenced to
a term In the state penitentiary not
to exceed three years, when she ap
peared before Circuit Judge T. E. J.
Duffy here today.
In passing sentence. Judge Duffy
pointed out no motive for the shoot
ing had been established. Mrs Sage
was charged with assault with a dan
gerous weapon.
Sage was In court, his head swathed
In bandages, when sentence wa pro
nounced and with tears streaming
down his face walked over to his
sobbing wife and embraced her.
Mrs. Sage will be taken to Salem
tomorrow.
Defeats El President's Plans! .
THREE THOUSAND
TRooas at el f&uz,
COMMAND OF GENtPAU
60ME2--I StW.1. NOUJ
SANTOS
RELIEF DEADLOCK
HOLDS IN SENATE
WASHINGTON. March 3. (AP) j
Senate administration leaders today
turned down flatly a proposed "con
cession" offered by Senator McCarran
i D., Nev.i, on his prevailing wage
amendment to the 4,880,000,000 re
lief bill.
McCarran proposed an addition to
his proposal which would authorise
the president to regulate the hours
of 3.500.000 relief workers so payment
of the prevailing wage would not In
volve ar.y Increased cost above the
4.000,000,000 the administration plans
to spend on emergency public works. .
Senator Robinson, the Democratic '
leader, with whom McCarran dis
cussed the change, said that negotia
tions for a, settlement of the rellel
deadlock would continue over the
week-end.
Fire Chief Roy Elliott announced
that next Monday the fire depart
ment will give an entertainment for
volunteer firemen and the "regulars,"
to be held at the fire hall. J
The entertainment, which will in- :
elude a feed, dance and general get
together, will follow the regular vol
unteer meeting. Volunteers, regulars
and their lady guests are invited.
Use Mall Tribune want ads.
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