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CHA.PTunn'. 11: Michael buries the
.'ounce a tth _the help of their daughter,
Juanita de Cuevas Montez, who is dis-
guisrd as a young boy.
Chapter III
Valdez nodded, his lips tight.
"I've got, to see this Garvin of
whontyou tell me," he said to the
girl- "Where is his outfit? Has he
got a'ranch hereabouts, or is he
more likely to be found in the
nearest town? What's the name
of that town, by the way?"
"He lives in the town of Luna
Roja," she said. "But it is a dan-
gerous place to go, senor—and
more dangerous when it is the
Senor Garvin you seek.
"He has set himself up as a
banker in Luna Roja, where he
has a white -plastered adobe home
that is much like a fortress, and
it is there he has his bank. He
lives there most of the time, and
he is 'well protected, because he
has a host of killers who serve
him, and who live in the block-
houses which form the corners of
the patio of his house. His guards
are on duty ala'vays — day and
night."
"Maybe I can manage to get by
'em somehow„” Valdez said evenly.
* * *
He turn,,d from`ber to give his
attention to the gear he had taken
out of his blanket roll, and which
must now be dispgsed•'of in•:SOsile
other way. Tying the legs of
a pair of riding breeches together,
he stuffed the gear into them,
then removed his leather chaps
and used them to make a sort of
impromptu valise, to be tied with
his recta.
With the chaps removed, tit
stood there in the tight -fitting
concha -trimmed trousers of a
Mexican don, They had an odd
effect with his charro vest. But
it was• not that that made Juanita
stare at him, then at the gear still
at his feet. One of her slender,
browned fingers pointed wordless-
ly to his head, and swiftly he
placed a hand to his hair, In the
excitement the black wig that he
wore had become displaced, and
from beneath it showed strands
of gleaming red -gold hair.
* * *
With a twist of his lips he swept
the wig from his head and tossed
back the waving reddish mane.
Tl.en, as he saw that Juanita's eyes
wavered to the last of the gear
on the ground at his feet, he
picked up the silver -decorated
jacket that lay there, shrugged out
of his charro vest and replaced it
with the dark velvet jacket. From
the ground he also picked up a
bright scarlet sash which he
wound about his slim waist, mak-
ing sure that his wide gun belt and
holsters were in place. His last
move was to tie a matching scarlet
scarf about his neck. And it was
that badge, as much as the red -
gold hair above it, that had given
him his name, a name that had
brought fear to the hearts of mis-
creants, and gratitude from those
he had served. El Caballero Rojo
—the Red Cavalier! •
* * *
Still amazed, Juanita de Cuevas
stood for a moment, utterly unable
to speak, her dark eyes widened.
Then her lips moved in awe as
she said, barely above a whisper:
"El Caballero Rojol" She could
not be mistaken, she knew, for
that red hair, the scarlet sash and
gaudily decorated garments, and
above all, the red kerchief around
his bronzed throat, could belong
to only one man—the avenger of
who„m every Mexican above the
border had heard!
Chance had shown to Juanita
de Cuevas who he actually was,
this friend in need who bad so
suddenly appeared from nowhere.
But it could not be helped now,
He had intended to enter this val-
ley in his role of wandering va-
quero, but what he had seen here
had changed his plans, and it
might be just a9 well that this
adel knew.
"Where can you go now, Jua-
nita?” he asked with concern.
"Have you friends—"
Slowly she turned and faced
him. And what she said left him
speechless fo a moment.
"I will go, senor, with you. You
have proved you are my one, my
only amigo. Where you go I will
go. I will be your follower, your
ser' ant, to look out for your
wants." Courage and firm resolve
were in her soft voice.
"But you can't do that, Juanita!"
Valdez exploded, startled.
Her small head went up again
in that probe!, defiant gesture.
"You are going to see Senor
Garvin," she said firmly. "That is
what you say.•You mean to bring
him to pay for what he has done
to me and my people. I know,
though yo,a have not say that
much; for everybody knows that
El Cabellerc Rojo fights for poor
people who cannot defend them-
selves. But this fight—it is as
much mine as yours. I go with
you."
"But you don't understand,"
Michael Valdez protested, patting
her shoulder gently. "I'd -have
found Garvin even if there had not
been this—this tragedy of yours
here. I told you—I've been look-
ing for him for a long tine—five
,years. This is my fight, Juanita,
not yours,, tho'ogh I promise that
fsa #: 'will !he avet ged.•'="You
Mitt"' ko fo friends of yours—
where you'll be • safe. Let me
know where that will be and when
I get through with Garvin I'll
come back and take youto. a place
where you will be watched out for
and can start life all over again."
* * * •
He vaulted into the saddle and
picked up El Cielo's reins. The
girl looked up at him, her great
dark eyes accusing.
"You do not intend to come
back," she said quietly, "Even if
Garvin or his men do not kill you,
and as you say you `take 'care of
him,' you do not intend to come
back, Senor Caballero."
Michael Valdez smiled down at
her, but he 'did not answer. He
Waved his hand' and touched 'El
Cielo lightly with the spurs, send-
ing the mount down the trail. He
could not answer her, because she
had spoken the truth.
No, El Caballero Rojo did not
intend to come back for Juanita
de Cuevas.
*-' *
El Paisano Valley, as Michael
Valdez had already discovered,
was in one of New ,Mexico's rich-
est ranges, though so remote that
it was as yet lttle known.
At its greatest width it was
about twenty miles wide, and
there were few of the badland
terrains that often break up the
virgin wealth of cattle -raising and
farming lands, On the other side
of the first foothills, though, Val-
dez had already learned from an
old Indian, there was a spot known
as Juniper Brakes which was as
far removed from what this valley
was as it was possible to conceive.,
But El Caballero Rojo had been
glad to know of its existence,
since there might come a time—
as so often there did—when he.
would be glad of its wild sanc-
tuary.
Juniper Brakes, he had been
told, was no snore than a jumble
of hills too steep to climb on
horseback, their sides and tops
covered with thick growths of
stunted conifers. At the foot of
the hills were alternating marshy
spots and dry arroyos.
With the picture of what that
land must be, Michael Valdez
looked with fresh appreciation on
the valley as be rode on and on,
with the waving greenery on ei-
ther side like an inland sea, The
valley that Juanita de Cuevas had
said had once belonged to her
people, and which Raymond Gar-
vin itad wrested for his own by
brute force.
(To Be Continued)
Denise Finder of Whirlos roller skating team, holds "Teddy,"
her pet dog, entered in- one of the championship events at •
the Canadian National Ehibition. "We'll have fun even if we
don't win," says Denise.
4 ,,
ANN€ iIPST
1L .. =m
Don't "Wait for Him"
Unless Engaged
"I'M in my middle teens, and the boy
* I love is going away. We. won't
* see each" other for two years.
* Shall I be true and wait for him,
* or am I too young for waiting?"
* So writes an. earliest youngster
* who is anxiousito be fair, yct•wise
* enough to question.
* There is . a deplorably romantic
tinge to this phrase, "waiting. for
him." It started
during the war,
when to wait
for a fighting
soldier was, the
thing to do. It
should have no
such connotation
in the cii•ct l-
>ntancess;;'tlti.
girl's letter incit-,
cater.
* For what happens to a girl in'
* her middle -teens when she waits
* for a boy? She refuses to go out
* with all the others she knows. She
* is automatically uninvited to many
,,* parties, dances, and other affairs
* she enjoys. She lives in ate emo-
* tional atmosphere of martyrdom
* which feeds upon his letters and
* her own, and reduces her 'to a
* state of mind as unreal aaa it is
* unhealthy.
! LIVE LIFE
IF THE GIRL is 25 or otder, it
would be a different tune I'd sin.
For a girl in middle -terns, hysteric-
ally in love to wait for a boy aright
be fatal.
Instead, she should refuse to be
engaged to him until he cones bonne.
She should see other nice boys she
knows, enjoy all the social activities
of her group, and balance her good
times with all the education she ran
gel. Such g schedule' wilt keep her
interesting, develop her innate tal-
ents, round out her personality. and
make her a mune desirable wife to
the young man she rrror•rles — who
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Cup of Tea Worth
$50.00 To Brewer
t' :n 'inn make a good cup of
Ic" ? 1',I» Aitken says milady
may be the best cook in the block,
yet her cup of tea a failure. On
the other hand, the homemaker
who cooks everything poorly
sometimes surprises you with the
kind of tea that just hits the spot.
To the woman who can brew
the best cup of tea will go $50 in
cash in the tea contest sponsored
by the Cariadian National Exhibi-
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Day, Sept. 2, CNE announces.
Other awards of $35 and $25 will
he presented.
Each woman contestant will
make a cup of tea in the contest
room located in the home econ-
omics section, mezzanine floor,
Automotive Building, The eonlest
will be judged by four profes-
slonal test ,tasters and the tea will
be supplied by leading tea firms.
Each contestant is required to
fill in a CNE entry form available
by writing to the Women's Sec-
tion, 'Canadian National Exisibi-
tholt, Exhibition Park, Toronto.
Every woman entering the contest
on Sept. t will receive a pound of
tea to take back home,
ISSUE 38- 1947
may not be this young roan at alt.
Two years' separation at their
ages may change their intentions.
"People say I'm only a school girl
thinking Pm in love, but I know this
is the real thing!" she writes. iVeil,
we always think it's the real thing,
no matter how many times we fall in
love The course 1 suggest is one
way for her to find out the quality
and the permanence of her present
affections.
* * *
To "LUCK: It is not easy for one
Who does not know you to diagnose
your bad luck with young men. Most
girls who are popular are immacu-
late in appearance, neatly dressed,
do not use too march make-up. They .
attract boys by being good listeners,
and don't monopolize .the conversa-
tion (boys love to talk about them-
selves)..
Tho girl win) have the most dates•
are usually good at sports—tennis,
swimming, dancing, etc. and so they
are welcomed by everybody in their
Growth. They arc loyal to other girls,
don't- gossip. And they don't show
how eager they are for dates.
Repd this again, and analyse it.
* * *
• HOIVEVEI , to cheer you up. I'll
* remrixl you that every now and
* then, for a' few months at a time,
* event; a hitherto popular girl finds
* herself lonely. Her boy friends
* marry other girls, they men a out
* of town, or. they drift to other
* groups. This period is trying, but
* it's nothing more than that. The
* girl meets new young men, and the
* dates start all over. .
* Don't despair. hist be sure your.
* family knows the boys you "go
* .with, invite several couples at a
* time to your house, and be an
* attentive hostess. ' The word gets
* around.
* * *
* DON'T rush into an engage-
* silent when you're a voting teen-
* MTV. It pays to wait, as Ante
* Hirst will explain — if you write
* her at 'Box A. room 421, 7;
* Adelaide St. WWcst, Toronto.
YOUT Handwriting
and You Alex BSy Arnott
Generosity is shown by the gen-
eral spacing of the writing, Ex-
amine a page of your writing. I -low
nitich margin hav: you on the
left hand side of the page? Is the
writing crowded to the edge of
the paper tr have you left a gen-
erous margin? Look at the top of
the -page. Have you crowded the
letters to the top, leaving a. wide
space at the bottom of the page?
When there is little margin on
the left hand side or at the top
of the page, the writer is endow-
ed with a good wholesome thrifty
and practical nature, if confirmed
by other indications in the script.
If there is a very generous spac-
ing between the lines and also
between the letters, you may be
sure the writer will place economy
as a secondary consideration to
comfort and well-being.
There are many types 'Of gen-
erosity and each has its own sign,
The majority of signs show the
writers to be generous with them-
selves but not so generous at
helping those in need.
Anyone wishing a more complete
analysis please send self-addressed
stomped tnvelope to Ito* 1, room
421, 73'Adelaide St, !best, 7nronto.
!'herr is sad charge for this service.
Sunday School Lesson
Wise 'Words About Work
Proverbs 6:fi-11; 18:9; 2.1:30-32-,
Ecclesiastes 5:12.
GOLDEN 7EX7.'-- ll''hntsorrer
thy hand find to do, do it with thy
might—Ecclesiastes 910.
If the world ever needed a lesson
concerning the basis and necessity of
work, it is getting it today. We have
it forceful demonstraton of what
happens when men turn from pro-
ducing the things that satisfy human
need to producing ways of destruc-
tion.
The vigorous words, written many
hundreds of years ago to describe
what happens when men stop work-
ing and become sluggards, describe
exactly what has happened in many
countries.
To the non -worker the wise man
of Proverbs predicted that "want as
an armed man" would come, and
that is precisely the situation in lands
stricken by war.
* * tx
Even in countries like ours, not to
. seriously stricken by war, we have
• had ample demonstration of what
happens when meal stop working,
- Without .attempting to assess the
matter of rights and causes, one can
point to what happens when trains
stop rimming, when fishermen stop
fishing, when steel mills stop pro-
ducing when coal miners stop dig-
gings and when building is tied up
with strikes and jurisdictional con-
flicts. Such strikes and lockouts no
longer affect only the things that
people can do without, but they in-
vade the very basis of living anti
safety, imperilling the sick, and ham-
stringing the healthy.
* * K:
The productive powers of man
arc so great that if all who are able
to work were doing their fair share,
and were doing it faithfully and
regularly, the resulting resources for .
the satisfaction of human needs and
for the aggrandizement of life
would be so great that short hours
of labor, with much time for leisure,
pleasure and home-building, would
be available for all.
So, the wise words concerning
work are still words of wisdom. And
the words of Jesus, above all, are to
he remembered, "My 'Father work-
eth hitherto; and I work."
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of the line. Slit the material be-
tweell the stitching and work.
Buttonholes are thus smooth,
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Great Britain has signed an ag-
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from displaced persons camps' its
the United ,States occupation zone
of Germany as immigrant workers
in England.
The women, 18 to 50 years old,
will be employed in textile indus-
tries, hospitals, laundries, and as
domestic or agricultural workers,
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See it
at the
• Every •step a(hong the boulevards and in the
buildings at "the Ex" this year turns up
something new . . . new ideas in homes
and clothing . , new ideas in meal -making
and in industry • . new jet aircraft and •
radar �denionstrations. Yet there's the old
flavor and charm and wholesome fun too
. , . the fiddlers and.the randy apples,
. , . the lovable pets and the lovely flowers
the all-time high in fireworks every
night. It's an education . . a holiday
a preview of what's coming next in
this fast -proving world. See it at the C.N.D.
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