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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1929-04-11, Page 2flhlSPlUk S . HARE' stSCLAIi'. DDRAGO *NV JCoePo+ owlfr Corril16NT, iqz oY e+i .A. SstevlCI, Illi. r BEGIN HERE TODAY 'up the child and dashed for Webster The 13asques of Paradise valley. at the Greek, The explosion came as he instigation of Buck •Bodine, new owner of the old Webster place, blow up a dani built by Dick Aoklln, big boss of the Double A ranch, Mercedes Arrasoada tides to save the dam by jumping aboard a, float bearing dynamite to the dam, The Boat catches fire and Mercedes is rescu�.i by Kildare, one of Acklin's men. Esteban Arrascada is severely wounded in the skirmish Which ensues. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY entered the ranch house. Shorty, lantern in hand, followed him inside. "Guess we had company this after- noon," he growled. "A lady at that!" Taking Shorty's lantern, the big fellow followed the trail Esteban and Romero and he had taken that after- noon. A few minutes' search con- vinced him that his supposition was correct; Mercedes had followed them into the hills! Her only objeet could have been to ,.top then. Well, she had been too late, or .had missed her brother altogether. It was the ,aor:. of a minute for hin, to pen a note to her.. To prove his point with the e girl, he made the child scrawl an attempt at his name across the bottom of the note. This accomplished, ha sit Shorty to de- liver it.. • Gloomy and tha othes. lounged about the room. Basilio, in the next crying. ' "Somebody shut that kid up," Buck bellowed. Speculation as to Ackliri's discom- fiture had worn itself out. Gloomy yawned. One of the others got up. "Guess I'll turn in. The show's over." Buck had clone his share of the talking in the time that had elapsed CHAPTER XXIX.—(Cont'd,) His head fell forward. The little circle of amen grew quiet. Blaze put his ear to the boy's heart. "He's not dead," he breathed hope- fully, "Somebody get my horse. I'm going to get him to a docto.. God knows, he may have a chance." Acklin said nothing as his men helped Kildare. "Where've you got Bodine?" he de- manded when Blaze had left. "Got him?" Cash questioned. "I air 't got him r.,,. -here:." • "What?" "No. I ain't seen Bodine. I was just runnin' a windy on the kid. I picked up the fresh trail of 'three horses this evening. They had cone in from Webster Creek. I've been chasin' back and forth tryin' to pick 'em up in the daik, or I'd 'a' been here sooner." "What made you think Bodine was among them?" "Shucks! You don't think there's anyone else down there with the nerve since Shorty left, but his nimble brain o' brains to do this thing. it took Iliad been busy 'with natters alien to Fn old hand to make a mine that .the conversation. His men were sur - room, began oxlek-bottom. found a way through the choked that the effort was incoherent, With I'e was in the lead when.rhey came out and was the .first to catch sight Of the flood -swept home. Both wings of the house were gone. Not a sign remained of barns or corrals. Melody knew Mercedes had come up beoide him, but he could not take his eyes away from the ruins,, The cowboy nerved himself'. to face the girl beside him. She was staring fixedly at all that was left of the once beautiful hacienda. It had been the only home Mercedes had ever known. Every childhood memory centred within its walls. Under ether circum- stances its destruction would have crushed her; but she had been through too inuch this night already. Her nerves and emotions had lost • the power to react to further torture. She was dazed by what She beheld. She wanted to -dash into the ruins and search with feverish haste for Basilio, but aatrar.o-like lethargy en- veloped her. It frightened Melody more than tears. 'His voice quavered unceftainly as he spoke to her. "I'll take a look inside, if you'll wait out here." "No, I'll go with yet." "You better not do that," the cow- boy begged. 'Things'll be torn up pretty bad in there." • "But B-3-Basilio." • 'She hesitated over the word. • "I tell foa; we won't find him, Sen- orita. He air't here." It was his old assertion. Mercedes bad moved ahead of him. If el.e were determined to search the ruins, it would be .useless for him to try to hold her back. It -would be better to stay at her side and '.ruck her up if she did find anything. It took him some time to clear a passage into that part of the house which had escaped total. 'esctruction. would rip out that wall. I knew Bo- , dine was behind the whole thing." . "Who do you think was the third man?" Cash 'hook his head. "T ain't even got a guess." Acklin contorted his mouth nerv- busly. "No matter," ho said after an in- terval. "We'll make Bodine tell be- fore we get through. "We'll all ride to the ranch. first. I'm going to turn out every man we've got, Cash. We'll throw a circle over this country that no one'll crawl thr.,ugh. If we pick up Bodine, he'll be among the dear departed by morning." Morrow's eyes bulged. "You mean you're goin' to stretch him?" he gasped. "That's exactly Acklin growled. what I mean," prised, therefore, when he said: "Boys, I don't think you'd better roost here tonight." "We might scare the lady, eh?" Gloomy questioned. - "Don't you worry 'bout the lady," Buck said easily. "She.: don't enter into it at all." As a matter of truth, Mercedes' coming was in part respon- sible for Bodine's desire to get his men away. "We'll have visitors before morn- ing," he went on; "and they won't be ladies. Even if those two boys keep their mouths shut, Acklin may get the hunch that we were mixed up in this thing. Pll bet his men are scourin' the hills right now. If they come here, Morrow night trip sone of you boys. If I'm alone, there won't be any- body to do the answerin' but me. Drift into the hills in back of old Liotard's place. Shorty'% be along, If I build a fire tomorrow morning, come in. It'll be all right. You better saddle e1pBuck fanned the coaic in the kitchen stove into a tiny blaze when they had gone. Next he filled the coffee-pot. When he had set it on the fire, he propped up his chair riot! fell to dreaming. Shorty had not yet reached the Rancho. Buck had sent him with a team and a light wagon, with instruc- tions to take the short cut east of the cemetery in Paradise. But he had been turned back and had follow- ed the main road to Winnamecca al- most to the Little Washoe before he dared to strike eastward to the ha- cienda. Mercedes and Melody hac net with sirziilar conitioi.s After several un- successful attempts to get across the valley, the poet had found it necessary to retrace their way and get into the hills, where they had found the old wood road that carne down through Smnoly Canon. The girl was exhausted. Melody wondered how she clung to her horse. He tried to cheer her up, but it was a hod eless task. For at least the twen- tieth time, he told the girl that some one must have taken Basilio to safe- ty. He had no knowledge that war- rarted his certainty. His words sound- ed empty even to himself the last time he uttered them. So, in silence, they covered the last half -utile. After four er fiv unsuccessful attempts, l.^. elody the little srngth • t r t that remained in her, she managed to get to the bed that stood in 0.;e con' re of the room. 'lndressing was be; *ad her. She tried, to unlace her boots, but her eyes closed. (To be'.eontinuet) CHAPTER XXX. A14,ONu THE RUINS. Bodine had relieved Romero of the responsibility of getting Merc'cies and Basilio out of the path of the flood. Finding Mercedes gone, Buck picked You food doesnt doyouazaygood fyou're tired the endof a day's work, relieve nervous tension before eating. Wrigley's will refresh and tone you up —so that you're ready to enjoy your food. Then, after meals, Wrigley's helps digestion, cleanses the teeth,removes all races of eating or smoking— sweetens the breath. handy packs fir 5f1., s tze erancr�c Cheese for Variety Some new unusual cheese recipes are: Cheese on Soups Press any of the moist, rich, yellow package cheese through a potato -ricer or a coarse wire sieve. It comes out. in wee cylinders. ^" A tablespoonful scattered. on th top of a, bowl of hot cream or vegetable soup adds greatly to its appearance and taste. These cheese -cylinder decorations will keep indefinitely 'nd can also be used on top of baked dishes. 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"I knew c et.:ebody had got thorn out," he stated. "Maybe they got lost when they try to run," Mercedes murmured mourn- fully. "No1 The flood came too quick for that. If they hadn't been warned they'd be right. t ere. We'll find thein at some of the neighbors to the west. If you say so, v.e'll go row." "1 best stay here, Senor. I'm tired so tired. You will go quicker by yourself." "But I can't leave you here all alone in this lace. You'd be scared to death. It looks haunted." She smiledat hint tend>riy. "There is nothing here to frighten me, my friend.. Mercedes knows every rock and stogie in this house. If spir- its come here, they must be the spirits of those who loved me;. niy mother— or my father .. My good father 1" "He was that, all right," Melody. snapped out. "I:Ie was a hundred per cent." The cow -boy gazed at the door. "I'll be blubberin' like a kid if.I don't get out of here in a :furry," he nittrniured to himself. Aloud he said: "I'll °wait here till you get upstairs. 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