The Yale Democrat (Yale, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 59, Ed. 1 Monday, January 12, 1920 Page: 2 of 10
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CHAPTER X—C&r.tJr ^ed.
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Let two of ri,«» bring *.x«*. Lw ed eye* at a vtquero aided blin- 1 h<fr*
carry *14* irli Ere* the Edited wai a Uttl* scratch on the redwrxjd of
steo. Gasctko; the hardeat r&e® ca the 'L* wall Just opposite the oo
rancho. 1 tlltk that ’here la going to tlirough which they had entered. a
he fighting this time." fresh white scratch. It was Mendoz,
-The matter T* cried Gaocho. "The a young Mexican, who saw it; It was
I seoor.ta? Too know-" Mendoz who found a mark of n greasy
-I know nothing But I think— thumb upon the same panel, aome four
that they have never t<sr a second left ■ feet from the fl'^of-
the house: Hurry, Gaocho!"
And Gaocho hurried, his own face
as mystified as Torre’s. Stanway went
quickly to the bedroom.
“Somewhere In these treat thick
walls there Is a passageway.” be whls-
“Aqul. esta!" he muttered. "Senor,
look!”
Ktanway’* heart beat wildly when he
saw what Mendoz had found.
“The door of the passageway I” h#
whispered. "Sb! Be still 1 Even
pered to himself. “It runs from this take off your boots, companeros. We
r>«om throughout the house and to the are going to give them no wumlng.
east wing where Teresa’s rooms are. But first, Mendoz, bring Dempton
"Somewhere, down below perhaps, here, quick! I think he Is going to
there is s room, a dungeon. I think . talk now.
that It Is Just under the drawing room; Mendoz hurried, and presently came
| S’ar.way broke off his eyes , i think that that Is where De I* Guerra back, he and the Immense Vldul, walk-
—i— from Pedro's face t/» sweep the room, a ' . tha! rjjany Qf the things which Ing at Dempton’s right and left.
It eeeOMd to Mai that aoddenly ft I sodden light came into them, and the -j,\m Ml(] were meant to be beard by “Dempton.” w hispered Stanway,
bad grown cold there lo lie la doer-1 blood ran Into bis face. J tJje old man that they might taunt and j meeting him, “make no sound. If he j
ra s “My God, he cried, “I see It P mock hlrn; I think that Torre's rnen j cries out”—to Vidal and Mendoz
Me ddrered, tnd. taking up bis “Ton are wlrer than I, senor.” I’e- down there beard the crashing glass,
rand'e. wer.t hu way hark through dro smiled contentedly and closed his the woriJjf which went with 1L I think
lie drawing room, with no word to eyes, looking very pale and weak. that we are going to find De la Guerra
Torre, with no glance even, for be “You will let me have news when
(eared that now he could not Ut bis there Is anything, senor? I could get
ryes go to the handsome, evil face well quickly with good new*.
and keep his hand hack, and a'% last
lo Pedro's bedside,
Pedro, waiting for him Impatiently,
tried to lift himself upon an elbow,
and falling In that turned his bright
black eyes upon the American.
“What did she say, Josefaf* be
asked quickly. "It U the master's
keyr
"Yes, Pedro.” answered Ktanway
dispiritedly. "But what Is the use?
Hhe does not know what door It
opens.”
"But I know I” sold Pedro brightly.
•’You know!” Ktanway laid his
hand on the wounded man's arrn.
•Tell me, Quick I”
“When the master was young he
lived In Hpnln, where the old master,
his father, sent him to go to school.
In tha home there, hullded of stones
like an old castle, senor, was a room
where many times he was locked up
hy his tutor because he was wild and
did not full In love with his hooks.
I have heard him laugh mid tell about
It to the padre from La Panza. When
he came uway ho brought the key to
that prison' room with him. That Is
the key you have, senor I”
Ktanway looked at the man with
swift suspicion. Pedro seemed ex-
cited over the key; a look of greut
shrewdness was In his eyes, and the
key unlocked a door In Hpuln! If he
wus becoming delirious—
“I ntn not In ii fever, senor,” Raid
Pedro quickly, seeing the thought In
the American’s eyes. “But that key
tells mo something. Every night be-
fore going to my lied I go to the mus-
ter’s room to see If he wishes any-
thing, to take any commands for the
next day. I went lust night after It
was late. Just before I went to tIn*
senorlta’s door. It was habit, senor.
I could not have gone to sleep unless
I went there.”
“Well?” sharply.
"I heard a little sound. It was the
scratching of n window shade. I
went, closed the window, and locked
It tightly. And while looking for the
sound I saw the key In Its place. It
was there at eleven o'clock last night,
senor.”
“You fire sure, Pedro? You are
very certain that Mils key was In the
master’s room at eleven o’clock?"
"Very certain, senor."
“Then— But It Is Impossible, Pe-
dro! You say that you locked the
windows? All of them?”
“All, senor."
"Anil the door as you enmo out?"
"I locked, senor. The key was un-
der my bed. I gave It to you Just
now. And there Is only one key upon
the rancho—only one In the world
which will unlock It I"
"But then It Is Impossible I”
Ktanway, restless, upon his feet,
strode hack and forth, frowning. If
the key had been there last night, If
door nnd windows hail been locked,
Jf they Imd been locked when ho went
to the room- then how could one of
the men who nttacked I’eilro have
bail It In bis band at three o’clock
In the morning?
j "You mean," lie said slowly, coin-
gig hack to the bedside, “that the at-
tack upon you and Celestlno was
ntniilo by men who are among the
doiihc servants or the De la Guerra
VaqueroH?"
“No, senor.” There was no hesi-
tation the voice wus confident. "The
men wore handkerchiefs about tholr
faces, but 1 know that they were not
of our men. They were strangers to
me."
"But,” cried Ktanway, "bow could
such a thing be? How could they
have gotten Into the master's room?
Then how could they have gotten to
tlu* Hcnorlta's room without some one
of our men seeing them? And why
Should they have brought the key?"
"The key Is heavy, good to strike a
giird blow," replied I’edro. “If a
tunn had lost his knife anil needed a
weapon ho might lake It, No, senor.
"Hut how—"
and Tere-a there.”
He studied the walls.
There was nothing to hint at a secret
Ktanway promised, took Pedro’s
band quickly, turned and hurried out
of the room. Ills step was quick, his
eyes very bright.
"I understand now Torre’s signal
on the window," he muttered as he
went “And—by heaven, how blind
I was I I know what he meant when
he said he wa* taunting a man whom
he did not like! It’s the boldest game
a man ever played!”
“If he makes a sound choke the life
out of him. Do you understand,
Dempton?"
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Stanley's Subterfuge.
Possessing an ample purse of hei
He more*} out the bed, found the 1 own, also a Puritan conscience, Stan-
ley’s mother discourages the accept-
ance by him of gratuities from adult
friends. How he evuded the spirit If
not the letter of the law is told by
William H. Dimock.
CHAPTER XI.
"You Have Overplayed Your Hand.”
“I um ufrald thut I have been Indis-
creet, Senor Ktanway.’’ Torre, with
his old smile charged now with some-
thing of mockery and much of triumph,
held out a little piece of white paper
to Htamway, who, key In hand, had
Just come from Pedro on his way to
the master’s room. “But I think that
I can plead an altogeiher unusual po-
sition as my excuse. You will pardon
me, senor?”
Ktanway took the paper, guessing
what It wus, und read it swiftly:
Ml Querldo Benor Billy:
To save papa grande, to save me
from all that Is horrible, there la no
way but to do what Torre asks. In
grandfather's room, behind the great
mahogany bed. there Is a painting on
the wall.
There Is a spot In the woodwork,
three feet from the floor, ten from the
northwest corner, where you must
preen with your finger. It will disclose
the banco. Give him the money—for
the sake of
Tour Teresa.
"You will pardon my having read
It?” again smilingly from Torre.
“Where did you get this thing?”
cried Stanway.
Torre pointed to the window, whose
panes he had broken Just before three
o'clock. “
“There. On the floor. Some one
threw it In on the floor while you were
running so giddily across the border.
You see this Is very well planned,
senor. Is It not? Even my lieuten-
ants—”
“if I do not do as she usks?” cut In
Ktanway, Ills low-lidded eyes sharp up-
on Torre's.
Torre shrugged.
“Who knows? Perhaps they will
lake the trouble to find a priest to give
tho scnorltu In holy matrimony to—”
In sudden rage Ktanway, Ids nerves
Jangling, Ids rage reddening Ills face,
leaped at the man, und us he leaped
struck, struck hard—Ids hard, clenched
lint smashing Into tho evil smile, cut-
ting the lips so that the blood ran
from them, sending Torre reeling
backward across the room.
“Shut up I” he cried hoarsely. “You
mention the senorlta once more and—”
Ills teeth closed with n little omi-
nous click. Torre, wiping the blood
from Ids lips, glared at him with u
boundless, almost speechless, rage.
“Coward 1” he sneered. “Since I am
n prisoner, with u half dozen men
ready to spring upon uie, you uttuck
me—”
“Guuchol” called Stanwny.
“HI, senor I” Guucho’a brown face
brightening, Ids eyes looking happier
than they had looked for two days.
“Do not interfere. Do not let your
men take hand, no matter what Imp-
pens.” Then he swung about upon
Torre. "Do you want to llulsh It
now?” he said curtly.
But Torre was once more himself,
smiling, at euse, only u fierce hatred
In Ids eyes.
“Gracilis, senor I” ho returned. “I
shall merely make you pay for that
blow In my own way. And now I ask
another ten thousand dollars as ran-
som for the old mail and the girl. Ten
thousand dollars for a blow, senor I
Do you euro to strike again?’’
Ktanway shrugged.
“You have overplayed your hand,
Torre,” ho said quietly. "This note
from tho senorlta makes mo suro of
what I wus beginning to suspect
Gauche, come with me."
With no further word, leuvlng
Torre’s mystified face looking after
him, he went out, Uiiucho at his heels.
“Gaucho,” he suld, speaking swiftly
spot which Teresa’s note told of, set
his thumb to It, and saw a panel drop
down, shelfwl**, showing a great Iron
safe set In the walL The safe was
locked, the key missing. But he knew
that he had found De la Guerra’s bank.
He closed the panel swiftly as Gaucho
and his men came to the door.
“Que e», senor?” Gaucho asked
quickly. And the black eyes of the
dark-faced men thronging behind him
—eager, erpectant—told as well as
words that Gaucho had whispered to
his men that the Americano had a plan,
that hope lay behind It
"Come In, Gaucho. Shut the door,
now many men?”
They entered as he spoke. He count-
ed as the last man closed the door be-
hind him.
‘Ten, senor. Five more are com-
ing.”
“And"—sternly—“you can vouch for
them, for all of them? You can trust
every man to the uttermost, Gaucho?”
‘To the uttermost senor,” as stern-
ly. ’To the death In the service of
the master and"—his voice breaking
a little—“the senorlta."
“And the other five?”
“The same.”
“Good! This Is my plan. Come
close, all of you.”
He addressed them In Spanish,
speaking swiftly, his voice lowered so
that the men must crane their necks
nnd leun forward to hear. He told
them of his hope that those they
sought had never been taken out of
the hacienda.
“Now,” he ended, “there Is no doubt
n pnssageway running from here to the
senorlta’s rooms. If we find this end
of It nnd attack they may escape at
the other end. So we must be ready.
“Gaucho, send two men Into the
senorlta’s rooms. Let them be ready,
nrmed and watchful. Send two more
to the stairway. Let Torre and Juarez
be bound and watched over by one
man only, a mun whom you can trust
and who will blow their brains out be-
fore he lets them escape.”
“Let every other man In the house
be armed and ready. Then—’’
‘Then, senor?” eagerly.
“Then”—with quiet determination—
“we shall find where the passage Is if
we have to teur down the walls. Hurry,
Guueho!”
Gaucho run upon his errand, calling
by name the men he wished to go with
him. Ktanway, bidding those with him
to be very silent, not knowing wliat
means the men tie sought might have
of overhearing what huppened In the
“Sure, I knew the kid’s ma doesn’t
like folks to slip money to him, but I
also know—thanks to a good memory
—the sweet sense of peace and pros-
perity a nickel yields to a boy,” he
says.
“I almost stepped on the youngster
while steering for a 10 a. m. break-
fast and shot him to the little place
on the corner for the latest peace
congress headlines. When he returned
with the paper I noticed his little
hand looked awfully empty; also It
had not been withdrawn. So I slipped
a coin Into It.
“Stanley’s motner later reminded
him he had been admonished never,
never to ask for money for any little
service rendered.
“ ‘But I didn’t, mother,’ answered
that valiant little George Washington.
‘I Just held out my hand.’ ”—Brockton
Enterprise.
IDENTIFICATION.
Little brother’s chum appeared un-
ceremoniously la the parlor where big
sister was entertaining her Sunday
afternoon beau. “Is Bobby home? he
wished to know. No, Bobby was not at
home, and then, oh, unfortunate Im-
pulse, big sister, desiring to show her
visitor her sweet graciousness, even in
the bosom of her own family, solici-
tously Inquired:
“Who shall I tell him called?”
Bobby’s churn twisted his cap,
doubtless unaccustomed to such rare
courtesy, and, desiring to identify him-
self to his chum while remaining In-
cognito to these queer adults, at
length replied:
“If you'll just tell him that the
guinea pig's got the little ones, then
he’ll know who It was that called."
Catching Up.
"Where have you been for the last
three days?"
“Sick.”
"You were all right when you left
the office.”
“This Is the sick spell I didn’t have
when you were short-handed last
month.”—Judge.
To Temper China.
Many a lover of floe china la hdnrt-
broken to discover her choice dinner
or tea set lined with halr-llke cracks.
Hot tea or chocolate poured Into
dainty cups cracks them Instantly.
A Chinese merchant gave this bit of
Information when a tare tea set was
purchased from him: "Before using
delicate China place It In a pan of
cold water. Let It come gradually to
a boll nnd allow the china to remain
In the water till cold.” This tempers
the china nnd It Is capable of with-
standing the sudden expansion caused
by the heat. There Is no need of re-
peating the treatment for a long time.
A Consideration.
“Why don’t you want Jibbs? I
think he Is a promising man for your
Idea."
"Maybe so, but this Is a paying prop-
osition.”
That’s Different.
Victim—Sir, your dog bit me.
Owner—You must pardon him, sir;
this dog was formerly a police dog,
nnd has been trained to attack every
suspicious looking character.
External Substitute.
Here Is a famous Chinese humorous
story. A traveler stopped at a house
and asked for a cup of tea. Huvtng
none on hand, the host sent his son
out to procure some. Meanwhile the
hostess put a pot of water on the Are
to boll. The son did not return, and
It became necessary to add some more
water to the pot. This was done sev-
eral times. The son still remained ab-
sent, nnd finally the wife said to her
husband: “Inasmuch as the tea does
not seem to be forthcoming, perhaps
you hud better offer your guest a
buth."
Snn Francisco hotels now employ
Chinese bellhops.
COULD READILY BELIEVE IT
Stage Driver Quite Willing to Accept
"Keeper's” Explanation ae He
Understood It.
The New Englander uses the word
“natural” to describe one who was
unfurnished at birth with the usuni
and Indispensable quantity of brains,
l'rof. Burt G. Wilder, the distinguish-
ed zoologist, tells an amusing story
that turns on a countryman's mistak-
ing the unfamiliar word "naturalist”
for the familiar word "natural."
A few years after hts arrival In
America, Agassiz was one of a small
party of Harvard professors who
traversed the White Mountain region
la a carriage driven by the country-
man. Three of them were vivacious,
restless, and on tho lookout for speci-
mens. They would cull n hult, leap
from the vehicle before It stopped,
dash over the fields, und return with
prizes In their boxes, In their hands
and pockets, and even pinned upon
their lints. Tho fourth, Prof. Felton,
the brother-in-law of Agassiz, sst
quietly In Ills corner of the carriage
reading a favorite Oreek uuthor.
When the bewildered driver could
stand It no longer be elicited from
Felton Information that led him to
view the behavior of the others with
compnsslonnte toleration. At the close
of the day he thus conveyed his In-
terpretation to the Innkeeper:
“I drove the queerest lot you ever
saw. They chattered like monkeya
They wouldn’t keep still. They Jump-
ed the fences, tore about the fields,
and came hack with their hnts cover
ed with bugs. I asked tlielr keeper
what ailed them; he said they was
naturals, nnd, Judgin’ from the way
they ncted, I should say they was.”—
Youths’ Companion.
Aboriginal Superstition.
Tho Australian blacks weave ths
bushy tails of tlielr "dingo” dogs Into
their beards to make them longer. In-
dlnns of the Puget Hound region make
blankets of dogs’ hair. Natives of
Borneo believe that black dogs are the
chosen familiars of sorcerers, nnd he
who laughs when a dog crosses the
path will be turned to stone.
Plumbago Mines In Ceylon.
Ceylon's most Important tnlnernl
product, plumbago, Is known all over
the world for Its luster, lubricating,
polishing and binding qualities. In ap-
pearance It la a strong black crystal-
line. There are now about 1,000 plun»
bago mines In Ceylon.
HE WAS COMPLIMENTARY.
"If I give you one kiss will you
be satisfied ?”
"No, 1 expect the sample to assay
better than that.”
That Grim Superiority.
And there’s a man who oft will Btrlke
Our minds with cruel dread
Because we do not chance to like
Borne book that he has read.
The Way of It.
"What occupation does Blobs pur-
sue?”
“Quite a number but I don’t think
he’s caught up with any one yet.”
The Reason.
She—Why do people have to keep
so quiet when they go fishing?
He—Becnuse to catch ’em one must
fish with bated breath.
COMPLIMENTARY OR OTHER-
WISE.
"Ho’s a perfect bear."
“Do you refer to his arms or his
temper.”
But He Got It.
Her hatpin was protruding,
And It caught him In a Joint:
Hhe said stie meant It for a Joke,
llut ho didn't see the point.
Tsklng the Joy Out of Life.
"There’s a new baby at Oreen’4
htltlHO.”
"That so,” spoke up n little man la
the corner. "I hadn’t heard ubout
I'm tlielr landlord and I’ll go right
nnd order them lo movo. They can
hnve children and ztny In tuy flat."
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