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Uttapter 42
BAGS OF OOLD
17STKADA pat out bis hand flat on
th table, tha palm turned up,
In the attitude at one who la about
to make a great offer.
He aald: "We thould nave met
before. El Keed and Estrada have
things to talk about. And, to be
Quick and short. Rubrli was carry
ing away from a place we know
about, one-halt of a thing which we
both had seen."
As be aald this, be put his other
hand, In an unconscious gesture,
over his heart
"Now, then." said the general,
"what Rubric was taking was re
stored to a man who better knew
bow to use it What 1 want to talk to
you about Is the second half! Yon
can tell me where It Is!"
"Not yet!" exclaimed Juan-SUva.
"Not a word more to him, my son.
I've named my price and I expect
my money."
Be began his cackling, husky
laughter.
"Twenty thousand twenty thou
sand, and every penny ot It back
unless he talks. Twenty thousand Is
1 fortune, Juan-SUva."
"Thirty thousand," Insisted Juan
SUva. "Thirty thousand, and not a
peso less. Thirty Is what 1 need and
what I must have. It rounds out It
eompletes everything It makes me
free man!"
The general glared at him, his
mustaches spreading and closing
tike the whiskers of a walrus.
Still with bis glance of hate fixed
on the old man, Estrada said: "Yon
have the money, Alvarez, and you
have another part, Lascar. Put It on
the table."
Each of them picked up from the
floor very heavy bags. When they
were dropped on the table the heavy
wood was shaken by the Impact
"It Is here It Is true!" said Juan
Ellva. "It need not be counted. I
trust you, gentlemen. I trust you
perfectly. Maria old fool witch
tie up the bags again. Thirty thou
sand pesos! Thirty thousand "
"And every coin of It baok," said
the general, "unless El Keed talks to
na!"
"An, but he'll talk," said Juan
Bllva, "El Keed bas seen my little
ways In tbe valley. He knows that I
could persuade blm to talk!"
"Do you think so?" said Montana,
deliberately. He pointed at the other
three. "You think, Juan-SUva, that
I'll talk to them and tell them what
. I know about the other halt ot the
emerald crown T Juan-Sllva, you
think that I'll talk and let them take
me away, afterwards, to make sure
that what I've told them Is tbe
truth?"
The old man held out his two
handu.
"You," he said, "are children. Per
haps there Is no other person In the
world who understands how to move
the minds of men and their tongues
as I do. But we try the soft way
flrst Shall I talk with him?"
"Alone," said tha Kid. "I could
make an agreement with you but
lone, Juan-Sllva."
'DB CAREFUL of him." broke In
the general. "This sort of a
gringo devil, If he's cornered, would
have the pleasure ot killing you be
fore he was killed himself."
But the old man held up his band
and smiled at them.
"Go Into the other room. Show
them the way, Maria. Give them
drinks. My friend, El Keed, will talk
with me alone. Perhaps we shall
persuade or.e another to something
worth while."
The general, nervous, glancing
over his shoulder, left the room,
shaking bis head as he went Maria
passed It with them rnd closed the
door, her tray of drinks shivering
with a musical tinkling.
"Now?" said Juan-Sllva, waiting.
"If I go with them," said Montana,
"1 go to my denth. I want a price for
that, Juot as you want a price for my
talking."
"What price do you ask?" Inquired
the old man.
"Rubrls and Brother Pascual."
JuanBilva smiled. "El Keed Is a
good friend," said he. "And If they
are set free If they are sent out of
the Valley of the Dead what will
men say of me?"
"You are leaving, yourself,"' an
swered Montana. "You have the
money there that rounds out your
fortune."
"True." said tha old man. "But the
valley remains as the source and
the back log of my fortune. It must
TIMBER BILL EVILS
SEEN BY DOUGLAS
ROBEBURQ. Ore., March 13. CAP)
Plans for a referendum on the tim
ber bill, passed yesterday by the Ore
gon legislature, authorizing the fed
eral government to acquire privately
owned timber land In Oregon and
to withdraw such lands from taxa
tion, are under cnoalderatlon today
by the Douglaa rounty emirt. It is
planned to Immediately contact courts
In other land grant counties, with
the purpose of ctyulattng petitions
to secure a referendum on the mean
tire. 4
Hick tun n ruptur Wed.
PROSKEK. Wash., March 13- (API
Otle Hfrner of Irrlgon, Ore., and
Tom B. Ourdane of Pendleton. Ore ,
one of the captors of William Hick
man aevoral years ago, were married
here Tuesday by Justice of the
peace.
Cae Mail T;hua wtat Adj.
always be cared for tenderly by m
while I'm here, and by my lieuten
ants after me. But If Rubrli and the
friar are set free then you talk?"
"After that I can say a few more
words to you and perhaps then I
can talk with Estrada. I can tell blm
exactly where to find the thing hi
wants."
"Good," murmured Juan-Sllva.
Maria bad come Into the room.
"Call Emlllo," said Juan-SUva.
She brought a guard Instantly ts
:he farther door.
"Get Rubrlz and the friar," com
manded Juan-SUva "Knock off thelt
chains and their steel collars, and
bring them here."
Tbe guard opened his eyes, backed
through the doorway, and was gone.
After that tor a long moment
Juan-Sllva fingered tbe fat sides of
the bags of gold. In bis bright eyes
there was more life than ever.
After this long pause there was a
tapping at a door, and a guard ap
peared to announce: "They are put
In the next room, sefior. Both of
them are there."
The Kid stood up from the table.
"I've heard that they're In the next
room. Let me see them flrst, to make
sure. Then I'll tell you the rest,
Juan-Sllva "
HE HAD turned his back while he
was still speaking, when he
heard behind him a rushing and a
flopping noise, like the beating of
wings, and a little rattling like the
sound of dice In a box.
He whirled to see Maria with her
hands fastened In the throat of old
Juan-Sllva. He was vainly beating
at her face, tearing at her wrists
with his claws, while as she shook
blm the teeth rattled together In his
gaping mouth.
The Kid ran for the struggling
pair, but before he reached the spot,
Maria had Jumped back and run
from the room, leaving the old man
with his head fallen on bis neck and
a bloody troth on his lips.
He crumpled, small as the body
ot a ohlld, bis head resting across
his arms on the table.
The Kid was certain that this was
death, but as he leaned over tbe
body he beard a last faint whisper:
"And tha damned shepherds freeze
their feet In the frost outside "
The last thought of Juan-Sllva
was, In his grim way, a happy one.
Ha began to slip sldewlse In his
chair, and when the Kid straight
ened the body again, the bead tell
loosely and dead, dim eyes looked
up at Montane, with an abstracted
amusement
And then tbe Kid thought ot two
things the carriage which waited
In the patio with the four steaming
white horses, and that singular ges
ture ot Estrada towards his heart
when he spoke of the lost emeralds
of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
He was Instantly at tbe door in
the corner, and, wrenching It open,
he looked In on Brother Pascual
and Mateo Rubrlz. They leaped up al
the sight of him.
"I knew!" cried the friar. "I told
Mateo that It was your work. I
knew "
"Peace, peace, Pascual I" ex
claimed Rubrlz, and be raised his
hand to command the silence, and
waited for the words ot the Kid.
"Juan-Sllva sits dead In the next
room a woman was tbe finish ot
him," said the Kid. "In the room be
yond that sits Estrada, and Lascat
and Major Alvarez beside him."
"God," murmured Rubrlz. "has
consented to All 'my hands! 1 shall
die happy, today I"
"Follow me." said Montana. "If 1
have halt the wits of a child, I know
that the second half of tho crown ol
emeralds la under the coat of Es
trada, near his heart. We must have.
It before we leave. Do you hear me,
Mateo? Wipe the killing out ot youi
mind. Think, man!"
"Estrada only!" groaned Rubrli
through his set teeth. "Let the
others live, but give me Estrada."
"Koep hlra back, Pascual," said
the Kid "he's turned Into a wild
beast and I'll go forward with this
myself, alone."
"No!" exclnlmed Rubrlz. "I shall
be as a child In your hands. Do as
you wish. Give commands and I
obey them!"
They entered again that big room,
"I am opening the door yonder,"
said Montana. "1 shntl ask Estrada
to come In, alone. Stand one of you
on each side of the door. Mind, tha
others must hear nothing, neither
Alvarez nor Jack Lascar. But as Es
trada comes through, make him
speechless."
tCopyrtoht, tH, Harper 3 Brother)
Tomorrow. Montsna bealni hla
Baring Mm
URGED FOR FRANCE
PARIS, March 13, -(AP) Francois
Pletrl, naval mlnldtrr, presented to J
the chamber of deputies today
bill calling for the building of
gtant 38,000-ton bnttlenlilp and two
destroyers, in answer to the building
program of luty.
The program is neoewary, the
naval minister previously said, in
order to maintain French sea power
and prentice over Italy.
The hattlwhip la expected to cost
$47,000,000.
Pirn 111 AmliiiUnre.
ALBANY. March 13 t An Mrs.
Burga iVfrBre of Eugene died in an
ambulance en route to AlMpy Tues
day from injuries suffered tn an
automobile accident near Jfl(rr!on
Two other women In the cur were
Injured and Clint Hampton ot Jel-
fersnn, driver or the other autumo-
blle, auflered chest Injuries.
JfEDFORD MAIL
GAINED ILLEGALLY
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C, March 18.
(AP) Mrs. Anno Cannon Reynolds
Smith In an affidavit filed in For
syth superior court today swore she
did not sign her name to a deposi
tion used tn obtaining her divorce
from Smith Reynolds in Reno, Nev.,
on November 23, 1931.
The aHIdavlt was. made a part of
the record In the hearing before
Superior Court Judge Clayton Moore
on the distribution of Reynolds' $30,
000,000 trust estate.
It was offered In rebuttal to one
filed yesterday by Albert D. Ayers.
her Reno attorney, In which he said
he took care to see that his client
was In full possession of her mental
faculties when she made the deposi
tion and discussed with her before
hand, the answers Bhe was to make.
Mrs. Smith's claim for the entire
fortune for her small daughter, Anne
Cannon Reynolds, second, la based
on the contention that her divorce
was Illegal. She Is seeking to exclude
Llbby Holman, Broadway actress and
Reynolds' second wife, and Chris
topher Smith Reynolds, child by the
second marriage, from sharing In
the fortune.
Th Reynolds family's propoal
would give baby Anne 37Vi per cent
of the trust estate. Christopher 25
per cent, less $750,000 and the re
mainder to a charitable trust In
memory of Smith Reynolds.
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CALLENDER, Ono., March 18.
(AP) Annette Dionne, who, with
her four sisters was nine months
and twelve days old at 4:30 a. m.,
produced her first tooth today.
The tooth came through her
lower gum overnight and was dis
covered when the nurses at the
quintuplet' private hospital made
their first Inspection of the morn
ing. Annette, who ranks third In
weight of the five girls. Is the first
to have a tooth.
Tide Blocks Road.
PORTLAND, March 13 (AP) A
combinatlo nof high tide and heavy
rains blocked the Oregon coast high
way at the GKUchls river Just north
of Tillamook lata yesterday. The
road was to be reopened early this
morning, the highway department
said.
OREGON, TTEDNESDAT,
CRITICAL WHEAT
PORTLAND, March 13 (AP) A
picture of critical wneat surplus con
ditions throughout the Pacific north
west was painted by a score or more
farmer and dealer witnesses before
the AAA hearing board which opened
sessions today on proposed amend
ments to the present marketing
agreement held by the North Pacific
Emergency Export association.
Veiled charges of either bad faith
or poor Judgment on the part of the
United States department of agri
culture In halting the functioning
of the export association some six
months ago were frequently heard,
while frank criticism was expressed
at allowing heavy Imports of Cana
dian and other foreign Imports of
wheat, corn and oats when northwest
granerles were bulging without mar
kets. .
MARCH 13, 1933.
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