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B O N N E V ILLE ! » " « C H RO N IC LE “ Yes," said Sonya, "a*i did I." If only they nsd met In those early “ It Is fueled. They are alw ays m days of which be »|mke. before that one misstep bait put him In El Id Thank God - and Concha me ln ahlo's {tower, made him ati outlaw, here. | have Just disabled the ..o^ a Border renegade. When the aweel one. I think, though not na B y ness, the kindness In him had been nently as 1 could wish. W V»» ** V in gio K. IKoe paramount. Before sin and wrong to take ttiat one chance. S o i l ) a. |t‘| Wyi’ Xtrvtr«» • 'o p y n u n t D o u b ied n v, l)u ra u A C o.. Inc. had put the leopard s|M»ts upon hint our only one. Get In quick ” With bis bands under her elbow| But the sputa were changed at Sonya went up along (be * 1 .** last when it was too late To ula that look only they two might say. C H A P T E R X I I — Continued drnp|ied Into the little seat, felt face be bail repudiated El Capitan. For a long time It held between the — 12 — swiftly for the mafrty belt. wild blue eyes, the deadly black signed his own death warrant, for “ S o!" he thuuilered. *‘ my people "Safe?'* the inn 11 whispered tenielf. anyone leaving tIts* dark service of talk behind me, do they? They men ones. “ Safe," »he answered pulling *h* Then Starr Stone turned to Sonya. this monstrous bandit put himself tlon that which Is never to be men buckle tight. “ A misstep In my early youth—it “on the spot" as truly as any In tioned? I shall deal with you—and doesn't matter now what it was— Then she »aw Starr Slone turn t* more modern places. you, señora—later. Now bring me put me in the power of El Capitan Concha and take her In his nrma And he had done It delllM-rntely, Quince.'* “ Concha." he said softly but load to prove to her that be was changed At that Sonya felt the world go Diablo. For my freedom's sake I even to the denth. The courage enough for Konya to bmr the whis round for one terrible second. She cast In my lot with him. For my life’s sake 1 could never leave him It It which had shone In his face at (hat pered words. “ I leave thee clutched the chair back tightly. afterward. I have raided, burned, fate. But never will I forget Ui#*, repudiation had been magnificent. F o r ge t ! And from somewhere at the right and pillaged, but I have never nor this thing which you have Da*, He knew, none lietter, the fate of Forget—the vulturiai and the there came the sound of marching feet, the swift step of men obeying killed a man nor harmed a woman wind! Forget the stars, the soft El Diablo's doublo-cruseer». and he Alw ays while I live | will remember. a master. Through the dappled or a child. I have been his brains winds blowing, the creuk of leather, double-croased him high handediy Adloa, little one." shade cast by the poplar trees five in smuggling, bis ablest lieutenant, and Starr Stone's hand on hers laid and with supreme finality. And. {vending hla tall head, to “Oh. Starr!" wept Sonya with her kissed her on the Ups figures moved into her line of vision, as he says. Hut now I'm through. on her pommel! "W ith death as my sure reward “ If you have within you. señora." forehead on her clasped hands, “ oh, four who walked abreast in twos “ Heady,” he said, and, and in their midst a fifth—Starr for what I'm saying, I say here and she said piteously, “ any remnnnt of my mart of all men' My one and the girl beyond the plane’s wing tt* Stone as she had seen him last, in now. before these witnesses, that I a woman's pity for another woman only lo ve!“ he caught the propeller » blade. cowboy boots and dungarees belted am done forever. Done with all lost to all the light of life. leave In the warm dark alienee the L'p and down he awung It o** at his lean hips, a faded denim wrong and all evil. That the leopard m#, to fight It out alone. Leave me heart In her aecrned to melt In an two, three, then a fourth vebeasat changes his spots at last. For the now. shirt. gulsh, the tides of life to run swiftly time, and came llthely up and onr He was haggard and his eyes were love of you In my soul I am made For a long time the other stood out. Into the pilot's test as the r»ar of large in his tanned face, and his over new. They will kill me soon, and watched her, calculating, then For her It was the ebb of finite the catching engine thundered 1st« arms were bound behind him. He and I hope they’ll send you with nodded and turned away. things, the last low hour before the the night. was a prisoner with all a prisoner's me with all my heart—though hell "I have not forgotten —for thirty end. In a dull coma of hopeless There came the little surge foe indignities heaped upon him. but Itself can hold no torture for me years." she said cryptically. “ You ness, her face swollen with weeping, ward, the heavier one, the liftings! his tall form was erect, his blue to compare with the knowledge that shall have your night, querida.” she sank lower and lower against the tall as they rocked away alo*g eyes dark with the spreading pupils. I have brought you to this. That The sound of the bolt falling the great bed, her Ups apart, her the field, the gathering of speed. «*4 He strode toward the table with his will be more punishment than my echoed in the empty [msxnge. black head disheveled. then the soft ware of stillness w gaze on Diablo's face and saw no lost soul can bear. Oh. Sonya, for And Sonya Savarin, who had And Into this Inst deep nbyss there they lost contact with the earth tad give me for what I've done to you." other in the silent mass. guarded life so well, now stood at dropped a tiny sound. sailed away Into the starry heaved “ Forgive you?” panted the girl, “ Senor,” he said. The outside bolt, mge and heavy, “ Senor,” said El Capitan, and the half sobbing. "Forgive you? I glory And Sonya Savarin. looking dowt allpfied slow ly In Its slot! smile was gone from his face. It in you ! And we’ll go together, never with wide drnwn eye«, had seen. Jo« Instinctively the girl shrank bark fear! I f not one way, then another. was black with fury. as they surged for the start, a long against the bed. “ For five years, Quince, you have It will not be a long good-by, I red spurt of f l a m e where Co nr to Manuel! been with me— my best and ablest promise you.” stood In the shadows, heard, shov* Manuel, her master! “ Soul’s covenant," said Starr Stone. man. You have done my bidding the roar of the motor, the faint She stifled a scream on her open “ Soul’s covenant,” she answered. quickly. You have led my raids. You sharp crack of a shot. mouth, her band across It. But here El Capitan leaped to his have put my— merchandise— safely "Oh, tio d !" she cried, a a«>b In bar And then a voice, whl*[>erlng Into through Its secret ways. I have booted feet, his fist on the table throat. "Oh. Ood! Conrhlta !" the darkness, a breath of a voire as called and you have come, always. again. Conchlta, who. saving her lover yst lovely as music, said “ Señorita!” “ It will not?" he rasped. “ You Always until lately. Lately you have could not save him apart from hUi “ SI," said Sonyn, gasping, “ I am come on laggard feet. You have think It will not? Carramba! El bad made the Inat great sncrlfbe for here." Capitan Diablo has yet the final held back at my orders. You have love Itself. There was the murmur o f a mov disobeyed me. And I have now the word. You to the winds and the The [touring crowd that (1>wsd reason. That reason is a woman. vultures. Quince, and may you re ing form, and Concha knelt care A woman whom you have set be member many things In the—the In frilly before her. Sonyi reached along the Held, lighted now. roaM fore El Capitan Diablo. Whose word terval. out and touched her Incredibly, but wreak no vengeance on her, for has been more to you than my "You," he turned to Sonya and the girl drew sharply from the con Concha, too, waa gone among tbs stars. word. Who, through your Instruction leveled a finger at her, “ I give to tact. doubtless, has come upon the key that one among my men who rises “ Attend," she said, "If you are of my activities. Who has caught to this Quince's empty place. Man- brave— are you a«», señorita?" CHAPTER XIV Quatro with the goods In his own nel, my compliments, the lady. I "I am very brave," said Sonya store. Who holds Diablo and all believe you like a white skinned simply. On Lons Mess's Top. his future in the hollow of her hand. woman with curls in the hair. And "Then listen. You I hate from my C O X Y A clung to the cockpit's edgv Or would so hold him had It not after you— the rest. And that, as with clutching Angers, her eyes soul's bottom—I could strike you been for Quatro’s swift" action in they say across the Border, is that. now with my two hands—but there burned dry of sudden tenra, fixed the matter. Senor—behold the Take them both away." Is— another, whom I love. Oh, Mary on the future. If future there wai w oman!” The four men moved to surround Mother! L o v e !" she said as If to to l>e, The aching sorrow for the He had half risen again, leaning their prisoner, the marching feet j her Inward self, she stopped s mo lovely Mexican girl who had loved with one broad hand on the table. passed swiftly, and Sonya watched ment then went on. Starr Stone sank deep In her hesrt With the other he pointed dramat the tall bronze head go out of the Throuflh This—and ths Night Sky never to he quite eradicated. " I f you can follow me without a ically to Sonya. And like a flash shade into the sun—around a corner. Life— that could do such ghastly Was Above Them. sound there Is -a hope. Can you The world and all It held turned Starr Stone whirled and saw her. things to Its poor devotees—was walk so?" It was the first Inkling he had had dark before her Just as the señora bay, holding her breath, pondering calling from the starry skies. They “ Without s sound." snld Sonya, desperately how she might de that she was not safe in her own reached out a motherly arm. were free, together, she and this and bent forward to unlace her She dimly heard Manuel saying, stroy It, country, and her own pursuits, and scarecrow man with the wild hrnnis boots. Swiftly she took them off. If onty she had her hags! Her the shock of it drained his face to "Careful, señora, careful—she Is hair, the naked torso, the hare fret, The Mexican girl reached out and mine.” little case of Instruments! But she a ghastly pallor. and she asked no more of destiny. had nothing—and ,Starr Stone was took her hy the aleeve. That hatred “ Sonya!’’ his lips formed sound In her would not let her touch her The memory of all sane and or dying now, perhaps, or would to lessly. fleah. Softly, step hy step, the two dered things was dim and far n«'*y morrow. “ Yes,” said the girl defiantly, There was nothing left to do, no young things crossed the silent —the ranch house Hint was horns, “ they took me from my horse two Love’s Sacrifice. nights ago— kidnaped me— by air T IT H E N she opened her eyes foes to face with lifted head, no room, listened nt the partly opened the fares of Serge and Lila and fh* In the child. plane—and brought me here because ▼ v again It was dark In the deep- schemes of hope to make, no one door, and slid through It. long dark passage they liatened I stumbled on the fact that Parks walled room, and she lay on the an whom she might coax to help her. And Rodney lllake! With a shod And so at last Sonya, having ex ngaln, then went south along the she remembered him. is their agent in the smuggling of cient bed. For a while she lay In narcotics across the line. They think a sort of stupid peace, gathering hausted all her resources, scant at wall townrd a door which also stood He was a stranger to her. you told me— that you and I have her faculties, which seemed to have best In this terrible situation, made ajar. could not recall his face with any Through this—and the night aky clearness. There wss only one far* planned to double-cross this wicked been scattered to the four winds. ready to bow In resignation. She knelt by the nnclenf bed, which had was above them, the tall cotton- clear to her. The face of this man bandit here—this beast who says And then suddenly the values of I'm lying!” Like »0 miraculously snatched from death no doubt seen tragedies before, and wooda against the stars. life dropped Info their appointed She waved a hand at El Capitan, places, like the brilliant colors In a folding her hands addressed her wraiths of the gloom they entered to life, this man who drove an air nodded her black head toward him. kaleidoscope, and she knew where soul to Its Maker In sorrow and the grove, passed through It, came ship through the midnight sky to humility. out on the open landing field. “ Ah! A beast, am I? El Capitan she was and what had happened. ward life and love and liberty. How long she knelt so she never Diablo a beast?" Before the little hnngar Sonya saw Presently, watching tensely, *b* El Capitan had spoken, and she afterward could recall. Sometimes in the starlight the ghostly shape “ Yes, senor—and worse,” said saw the great pale ribbon of th* was still a prisoner, the property she prayed, weeping, for that other Sonya Savarin. “ You may kill me— of a little gray ahlp. They made Rio Grande. of a dapper Mexican bandit with soul which had so grievously mis as I do not doubt you will—but I am toward It swiftly, and as they The Border! predatory eyes and laughing, thin spent Its dnys, and these were fer an American, and I do not bend to reached Its protecting wing a man lips, Manuel the aviator. And Starr vent prayers, abased and agonized The International line! you either in body or soul. We are stepped out from th« hangar be Hhe held her breath as they Stone was gone— oh, heliven! (lone before the heavenly throne, hogging both Americans." hind; a tall man, naked to the passed shove It, snd let It out In * to that ghastly fate which lurked for that mprey of the eleventh hour waist, his head hare, his feet also, a “ Oh, Americans! And Americans in the poignant words, "you to the which has been divinely promised; man who was prepared for "spread great algh. do not double-cross?" winds and the vultures." The wild sometimes for Serge and Lila and El Capitan Diablo— Manuel—ths “ No, senor.” Ing up" on the morrow. Starr Stone blue eyes that had darkened and little Hubs, even for Darkness. For strange adobe house In the pnpl*r drew them both against the grav “ Well, we shall see. Quince—at changed under the mandates of life, grove—they ail seemed to fad*. » herself she asked scant favor. It ship's aide. tention. What do you say for your the long hands with their tender become unreal, like the figure* !■ had been always so with her. Serv self?" "Sonya!" he whispered, “ Oh, Son touch, the lips so warm upon her ice to hpr fellow men, comfort for a frightful dream. The tall man standing in the mot ow n! y a !” Then, "Listen. We have one all suffering things, had been her A little longer, and they wofiM tled shade looked long In hla mas chance In a million. This plane Is And presently the señora came passionate aim In life. be safe. ter's face. What years of wrongdo padding softly to the door on still warm from a trip Manuel took Of herself she thought last and ing. of obedience, of fear, were in heavy feet, for she was old and ex this afternoon. I heard it come In least, of Starr Stone most about dark." F L A >1E O F T I I F IS O IS O F II I cellently fed, and entered to her I kindly ministrations. Sonya whirled ami faced her. her , dark eyes burning In the shadows. “ Señora,” she said desperately, “ have pity on me! Can you not help me? A knife, señora—with my next meal—left on the tray? In the name of that holy Woman whom you worship, please, señora !” “ I cannot, child." she answered gently. “ Manuel would kill me. Come, let me wnsh your sweet white body with fresh water. And there Is perfume. anil h woman's clothes to dress you In a scarlet dress, and golden shoes for your feet. To nlgbt you rest—Manuel's orders— but tomorrow yon wear these things for him. You must forget.” CHAPTER XIII Safe- and horn*. Home!