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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1929-04-25, Page 61$1777,77.7777"''',"7'.''' • . And the hilltop gardens yield this •fragrant tea 41, eSes was proof enough of hie intone' tion. He wanted to take her in his arms and feel bp r warm flesh against his whether she would have it or nat. "You have trapped me!" she ex- claimed. "I do not beleve my brothei.4 is here at all." "He's here all right," Bodine amaze ed her. "Hey, Sherty," he called, "Yep," came the muffled auewer Willi S PEKING E DY friPiRriy 511.4(1 Al ft IMAGO AtH* tlob$Pis iieesiL. • COPYR00041.1413 BY H-E•A• SECLVIC 114( BEGIN HERE TOt)AY "No you're not, querida." Bodine The Basques of Paradise Vailcy blow used the. term of endearmeet with up a dam built by Dick Acklin, Pig boss assured fainhiarlty, "I risked my neck of the Double A ranch. The bomb is inade by Buck Bodine, new owner of the ge te in ' the kid out of danger for you, cid Webster place. Acklin learns of and you ain't goin' to pay me back by Buck's part in the blowing of the dam 1 and takes r lynching party to Bodine's refusin' my hospitality:' ranch. Buck is in love with Mercedes "But I want to go," Merceees enticere- Arrase ' her tu his home through her little mina peated anxiously as Buck tried to in:- vela, beautiful Basque, and. s brother, Basin°. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XXXII.—(Cont'd.) "You ain't thinkin' of leavin' here fore mornin' are you?" Buck de- pended. "Si, Senor, I go at once." Im never too tired to sleep now Restednerves snake all the difference Your doctor will tell you how chewing relieves nervous tension, how the healthful cleansing action of Wrigley's refreshes the mouth and tones you up. Wrigley's does much—costs little. IGLEY steseattee fter every meal C1.16 IMF dice her to take a seat. "Let's get down to cases," Buck ane and caught her round the waist. Mer- swered her. "There's no use beatin' cedes fought to get free, but he was round the bush. I been sweet on you too strong for her. ever since I first clamped eyes on you. "Now you chant You knew it, too, and you gave me • . the low-down every time. But that's all right. I like a,, woman, with some scrap in her. You've got nerve enough to match my own. That's • why I'm strong for you. I :,wore I'd get you some day, and I'm going to make good. I didn't bring your kid brothel. here for nothin'." "Stop—stop, pleese," Mercedes beg- ged. Her nearness to him drove Buck mad with desire. She was even more front the next room. '"Wake that kid up!", The girl heard Basilio's startled cry as Shorty awakened him "You beast!" Mete:aides shrieked. "Let me have him! Let me have him!" "Not till you say yes to me, Senor - "You coward! Na wonder you waat te ;run away. Senor Aeklin will send you to prison for blowing up his clam." "Yeh?" Buck questioned exasper- atingly. "Esteban will go with me, .too, won't he?" In a changed tone be went on: "You followed us into the hills this afternoon; I knees, that long ago. What else you've found out, I don't know, anti I don't care." He disproved this last statement by immediately asking: "Have you seen Acklin?" Mercedes caught a hint of uneasi- ness in his voice. "I have," she answered. "Humph! I suppose you told him all you know?" The big fellow's tones were threatening. Mercedes saw her advaatage. "I tell him nothing!" she cried. "Bet I will if yon do not etre me Basilio and let me ;take him home." Buck reached out his long arms 1 lovely than he lad pointing at her. Her Angers twitched, :and her own gun Larked,' Kildare saw the play:: thegirl at the door, her true raised; Shorty's pistol leaping into action; the frantic child struggling to throw off the iron bend on his arm. 331t more poignant than anything else was the glitter in Shorty's eyes. Blaze knew he was the man's target, not the girl. His gun was in his hand. A tightening' of the lips and his automatic spat forth ts deadly message, He saw Mercedes' gun flaah, Tho report of it ;smothered his own. Only a split second of time, that words fail to express, had Intervened between the two shots. So closs had they. beee that neither the gii nor Bodine in the next; room sealized two guns had spoken. Buck rushed to One the girl stood staring open-mouthed at the man on the bed. or a second, it seemed, Shorty hung poised, in the air. His face was set, an unearthly light in his eyes. And then, with a thud, he crashed to the floor dead. • Kildare had not waited for .a sec- ond look, He drew, away from the window and picked up the empty shell from his gun. H. threw it into the creek. Why he did this was not plain to him at the time. In some way, he knew, Sharty's death might be turned tc. his advantage. But how? How? He tried to whip his mind into helping hint. He felt no regret over killing suppose . "Why, querida," he said fervently, "there ain't a thing I've got, I wouldn't give for you. I got water on this place egain. It's worth some - thin' now. But . ain't a rancher. I'd throw up this thing in a minute for you. There ain't no real money in ranching, nohow. I'll take you where there's some life and excitement. This God -forsaken desert ain't no place for a girl like you." "You mean that you want me to go with you—?" Mercedes could not believe her ears. "Yes, I'll even marry ycu, if you'll come with me," Buck replied. The girl before him shook her head hopelessly. The man must be mael. "Well, what do you say?" he de- manded. "I say no!" Mercedes cried. She put a chair between them as Buck ad- vanced toward her. The look in his AS ALWAYS LED IN 11 - The first nonskid tread ever put on a tire was on n Firestone. From that day to this Firestone has been first in safety. No tire can come close to the rugged long -wearing Gum -Dipped Tires. 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Basilio let out a succession of shrieks, as the brute twisted his UM until the tender bones were almost, snapping. "Stop!" Mercedes , cried so loudly. that her vice carried to Kildare, who Iwas still some distance down the road. j"Stop!" she nailed out again. "Maybe you'll listen to reason now," Buck grumbled. He caught her by 'the wrist as he spoke and drew her closer to him. Mercedes beat his lisce with her free hand. But his jaw was impervious ; to- her light blows. With feline fero- city she bared her nails then, and ripped his cheeks until they were smeared with blood. Bodine did not • release her, howevei. "You fightin' wildcat," he mumbled throrgh gritted teeth. "I'll kiss you t if it kills me." i Try as hard as she might, Mercedes rould not hold hint off. His cruel, seetuous mouth drew : 's 'se to her own. To add to her horror, Basilio shrieked again and again. She redoubled her efforts to get free. Bodine pinioned her arms against her hips, She felt something sharp ripping her sleeve. It was Buck's re -sol . er. Automatic- ally her fingers closed upoe it. With a wrench, she pulled it out of the holster. Bodine felt the gun -barrel boring into' his stomach. His face grew N;hite. "Get back!" Mercedes gaeped. "En seguida! Al seom,nto! or you die here!" Buck backed away. He knew she meant what she said. Its rifle etood in the cornee. He retreated toward it. The way to the door between the two rooms was eleas now. Mercedes ran to L and flung it open. Shorty e t on the bed beside Ba- silio, the child's arms still held in his big hands. A. smoky wall lan p re- vealed hien in all of his ugliteses. But if he saw the OA, Ire did not show it. His grip on the child did not relax either. Mercedes cried out for him to let go of her brother; she raised her gun to coinpel him. But fear such as she could never inspire in hint held Shorty in its grasp. He bad caught sight of Blaze peering throrgh the open windoW. Mercedes saw only the man and child in front of her. Sho..e0s rigidity turned with incredible ewiftness to Most violent Ptior, He dropped his arm and brought it up with a gun in his hand so qu' kly that it surpassed beliefs But Kildare had been more rapid than he. Shorty's gun came up, endtip, tip, and up, as Mantles watehed, Spellbound. It seemed, thet it was WHEN a cold or exposure v brings aches and pains that penetrate to your very bones, there is Always quick relief in Aspirin. It will make short work of that headache or any little pain. Just -as effective in the more serious suffering from neuralgia, neuritis, rheumatism or lumbago. No ache or pain is ever too deep-seated for Aspirin tablets to relieve, and they don't affect the heart. All druggists, with proven directions for various uses which many people have found invaluable in the relief of pains and aches of many kinds. Aspirin, is a Trademark Registered in Canada the man. It was part of the debt he had come to square. Aeklin Would be here in a few minutes. It was almost down, How could he twist this thing so that it would halt the Big Boss? Blaze caught sight of a man ap- proaching on horseback. He had been there only a second or two. Kildare drew back into the shadows lurking about the house. Bodine was looking up at Mercedes from where he knelt beside the body. "You killed hint all right," Blaze heard him say, "He's plumb dead. What you goin' toed() now? Who's goin' to the pen? This state's no place for you, Say, I guess you'll be glad to beat it %Cal me. You wait! I'll get a eouple of fresh horses and we'll hit for Oregon on the jump." "Throw up your 1 ands!" Bodine looked around. In the door way stood the Big Boss. CHAPTER XXXIII. GATHERING 017 THE CLANS. Bodine stated speechlessly at Ack- lin. Shorty's suoclen death and Mer- cede's maddening influence .had de- stroyed Buck's boastful pose. He had been prepared earlier in the evening for the advent of Morrow or some lesser light in the Double A constella-' tion. But at no time had heedreamed that Acklin himself would come single- handed to beard him in his own den. The Big Boss walked across the kitchen to the doorway of the room in which Shorty lay. As Buck recov- ered from the daze he was in, he fin- ally managed to.alticulate: "I ain't armed!" "Take your hands down then," Acklin snapped. "Back into the cen- tee of that -loin." Bodine retreated as he was ordered, facing the other man as Fe stepped backward. Pio big cattlemar kept pace with him. A movement near the window to which Mercedes had step- ped with Basilio stopped him in his tracks. His gun was in position as he wheeled, but he dropped it in con- sternation as he recognized the girl and child. Hatred flamed in Acklin's eyes. Finding her here with Bodine was a staggering blow to bis vanity. He had overheard Buck's words urging flight to Oregon. 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