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cruel insistence Mercedes' flaming eyes
swept him.
"It is not enough ,Haat they kill my
fattier; Senor Acklin most send you
here to spy and pretend to help me."
"Don't convict me .without giving
me a chance to defend myself," I i1-
dare pleaded. "I ant.a Double A roan;
but I didn't come here to . spy. You
don't know what you've said. Spy?
I'd sure take that word from no man!
Why do you say Aeklin lolled your
father?"
"Who else so much wanted him out
of the way? He had no enemies.
Acklin!" It was an unholy 'word as
she uttered it: "And his greed; they
were all my father feared."
"Even so," Blaze countered, "it's
not a coin man's way to shoot in the
back or from ambush. I was going
to the hacienda when I met you."
There was frank disbelief in the
girl's eyes. Blaze knew there wasno-
thing to do now but to tell her the
truth3
"We had some shooting at the fence
East night Esteban—"
"Esteban? Is he killed, too?"
"No, he's just wounded. The Big
Boss sent me- down to get yon, That's
the business that brought me here. We
took the boy in 'as soon as we found
him. He'll be all right in a week or
so."
"The Double A. covers itself with
the blood of my people," she cried.
CHAPTER XV.
CHAPTER XIII. CHAPTER XIV.
THE MARK ON THE SAND. BITTER WORDS,
Long before the first faint hint of Hurriedly Blaze turned Jose's face
dawn had tinged the sky, the Rancho I downward and pulled the old man's
Buena Vista was awake. Mercedes ! coat over the 1 ead. Quickly then he
was ashen. First her brother and then
her father had ridden away and had
failed to return
tote off his own shirt and vest, and
did them over a dead sage -brush.
On top of it he pla-ed his hat. The
result was a crude scale -crow. Leap -
Unable to stand inaction any longer, I ing into his saddle, he galloped ' off
she left the house and walked• as far before the feathered seavei.gers shtntld
return to discover his deception.
When he gained the rine-rocks,
Blaze crawled on hands and knees to
their edge. For twenty yards, he
studied the decayed rock. He came
to a at spot, three yardsquare. Fine
sand filled the pockets in the decom-
sheep. But she lost no time in de- posed granite. In one of them there
spatching the vaquero for Kent, Old was the unmistakable imprint of a
Mariano was put to service; she sent boot -mark. Blaze threw himself down
him to Ugarde's place, because it was beside it and stretched his length as
nearest. he imagined the assassin had done.
"Don't come back until you find The distance from toe -mark to elbow
them," elle ordered. "At daylight I was a good five inches longer than
will go myself to the Bull's Head." the impressions his own body made.
Loping along in the still uncertain Without disturbing the sand, Blaze
light, Mercedes' mind centred on the searched for other signs that might
Bull's Head and what she would fmd tell him something. In a hollow, about
there. Acklin's shadow darkened all where the waist of the assailant
:her thoughts. But even so she be -1 should have come, he discovered the
came aware of the insistence of the die -clear stamp of a Navajo luck -
coyotes' barking. i charm. The outlines were clear and
Mercedes sent her horse into a gal- distinct.
lop. When she topped a shallow; Kildare's brow wrinkled as he star -
arroyo her heart stopped beating as ed at the cryptic Indian letters. The
she caught sight of her father's pow-, --
erful bay standing riderless, his head;
lowered and sweeping from side to
side.
Ringed about him, red tongues slid-
ing out over their wet fangs, crouched
the coyote pack. Mercedes emptied her
. gun at thein; they slunk away.
She walked her pinto to where the
other horse stood swaying. And then i
there at his feet, she saw the hud-
dled body of her father.
Mercedes got to her knees and felt
her father's cold hand, She promised
herself she would be brave; that she
would not give way. Then with sick-
ening heart she saw the terrible
wound. Tenderly her hands caressed
his snow-white beard and hair; the
cheeks so cold; the fine strong fore-
head, rugged even in death.
Trance -like, she got to her feet and
picked up Jose's rifle. She broke it, ,
to find that it had not been discharged.
She laid it beside him. The big bay!
watched lier carefully. out of their wet fangs, crouched the
There carie then, down Smoky Can-
on, the pitter-patter of a horse. Mer-
cedes caught sight of him as he struck '
lower tip of the swastika was bent
the flat that stretched back into the inward.
rocky defile. With a thrill she recog- "Looks as if a watch -charm made
nized Kildare. that mark," he murmured to himself.
When Blaze saw who it was ahead "That ought to prove something some
of him, his knees bored into his horse's day, maybe. Wonder where the empty
sides, and My Man raced to where shell is."
Mercedes stood. The grins figure on It lay in the roo�s of a dwarfed
the ground, the overwrought girl, and sage -brush, two yards away, where
the empty -saddled bay told their own the ejector had thrown it.
story. The message he brought her * * * 1' *
would have to wait now. Little Basilic, sat beside Mercedes
He got down beside Jose and ex a5 she drew up her team.
amined the torn chest. Dry-eyed, Mercedes watched as Of
could.
Louella C. Poole
They searched the barn, they search-
. ed the shed,
And all about the old farmstead,
Ringed about, red tongues sliding For Dobbin -last seen in his stall;
Then off they hurried, one and all,
To hunt him, with a right good will,
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The length and breadth of Chestnut
Hill,
And disappointed, in dismay
Went home again at close of day,
Concluding they would advertise
The truant Dobbin, and a prize
Would offer for his safe return—
Or e'en his whereabouts 1^ learn!
anker
73the best arlor (left to air
Blr,ze held the little fellow on his That summer day so bright and fair),
power bullet did this," he told her. knee and petted hint. Basilic, had been
After he got to his feet he scanned friendly with My Man once before, so
the ragged rim -rocks nervously; gird Kildare put him on the horse's back
sought for an excuse to get the .;girl now. My Man arched his neck and
away. "You'd better ride to the lig- whinnied as he regarded the boy. The
cicada and get a rig; that ' 'f u
think you're a'..le to make it
"If you will wait, I'll go at once,"
Mercedes answered.
Impulsively she placed her hand on busy at their task, Basilic, had coir -
his head. In low tones she murmur -
tinned his friendship with the horse.
ed: "There is a Basque historia • . They were ready to go now, and both
what you call ... a .. a • ' Mercedes and Blaze turned inquiring
saying: 'La verdad. es The
quien eves at the boy. He was busily flay
tela dice to estima.' The truth is bit-
ter; he who speaks like that to thee
esteems thee very much," Mercedes
paused. The man's eyes held her own.
"We will speak the truth to each
other, I guess, Senor."
ha is, 1" ;o child was reassured immediately.
Then, with Mercedes' help, all that
was left of Old Ironsides was placed
in the wagon. While they had bean
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ing with the canteen that hung from
the saddle. Mercedes' face grew
wistful as she regraded the little fel-
low. On the heels of this, gratitude
for the man's thoughtfulness showed,
too.
"I want a drink from your water-
bag, Senor Blaze, please," the child
begged.
Mercedes looked at Kildare, and as
tic nodded ready consent, he reached
to the horn of the saddle to lift the
canteen to the boy's Tips. Uncon-
sciously, she turned it over in her
hands, There, stenciled on the wet
canvas cverinlr she saw the capital
"A. A" with which Acklin stamped
this property.
Mercedes caught up the canteen,,
and tiger -like hurled it to the ground.
Swinging en her heels, she faced
Blaze: "Y,ou----a• Double A man?" She
waited for no answer-. Her lips curl-
ed in contempt: "A Double A spy!"
Blaze felt his face go white, With Min>;rhd'e Llnlinenti for t f1ppe and Flu.
Still as a statue, looming white
In the gray twilight's dusky light,
There stood Dobbin, tall and grim!
Oh, how they all then fell on hint!
They actually kissed the beast!
And none reproached him in the least,
So glad were they to see the scamp
That sent them on that fruitless
tramp!
Oh, such rejoicing, such delight
The quaint old farmhouse kneW that
night,
To think that at their journeys' end
Theyd' found again their dear old
frienfl,
Who 'on a visit to explore,
Had walked inside the. open door!
Giants Then
Iwish You had married me long ago,
I was not so young, I was not so fair,
But a. wild rose clung in my tangled
hair
There were giants then in the hazel
wood,
The dark Was a clanger, but dreams
were good. • ...
MY hand Was too little to weal' a ring,
But my lips, that never had learned
to sins'.
Could whisper and laugh the whole
night .through
And. my feet oould trance in the morn
ing dew.
I wish you had married me long ago.
—Louise Dutton in the Harp.
And Never Will
Houston Post Dispatch: A bite on
the chin by her .pet poodle caused a
woman's death in New Jersey. We
have never heard of such an accident
happening to a woman from holding a
bably in her lap.
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