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CHAPTER IX:. El Cabellero Rojo makes
plans to obtain another horse for Juanita.
Re tells her that there is something she
can do to help him which be will explain to
her later.
CHAPTER X
He studied hex eager face a mo-
ment in the light of the candle
flame.
"Do you know where the Mis-
sion of Corpus Christi is?" he ask-
ed her abruptly.
"Si, senor," she said eagerly. "It
is at the foot of the range near the
Sangre de Cristo Mountains."
"You think you could find it
without any trouble—alone?"
"Si, senor," Juanita repeated,
puzzled now. "But what—"
Valdez nodded. "Tomorrow,
when I go get your horse from
your home, I want you to ride
there with a package and a mes-
sage from me. It is most import-
ant. But we will rest first."
He gestured her to the pine -
bough cot, picked up a blanket
from the stump, took El Cielo's
reins in the other hand and stalked
outside the cave. He heard her
call out a remonstrance„ but paid
no attention. He had too many
times slept with his saddle for a
pillow to mind sleeping in the
open.
Juanita lay wide awake, think-
ing. She tried to see through the
darkness • to where he lay sleeping,
but when she could not her
thoughts turned in another three
tion. Every event of the last hours
passed through her mind in swift
review. There were so many
things about RI Caballero Rojo
that she still could not understand.
And now this! Why should he
be interested in the Mission of
Corpus Christi—in any mission?
Ile, whom some men called out-
law? Could it be possible—but
surely no, nos—that he wanted to
find out about it because he was
planning to raid it for its plate
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and ornaments? Did he by any
chance covet the treasure said to
exist since the days of the Spanish
conquistadores? What was the
message she was to carry? How
would it help him?
Guessing gave her no answers,
however, though that last question
in her mind was comforting. She
could help him—and she scolded
herself bitterly for those other va-
grant thoughts. She was being dis-
loyal to this man, her one and only
amigo. He could do no wrong;
he would not. Whatever it was he
wanted her to do it would be only
to help other people.
It was with that final thought
that Juanita at last slept.
When she awoke El Caballero
Rojo was making a meal over a
little fire he had built in the center
of the cave. But he did not
look like the Red Cavalier now, for
he had discarded his gaudy rai-
ment and wore the charro garb
and the black wig in which she
had seen him first.
He straightened up from the
fire and glanced over toward the
pine -bough cot„ and grinned when
he saw her dark eyes wide open,
looking at him with surprise.
"You see I'm all ready to ride
back to the valley and get that
horse of yours, just as soon as we
have a bite of breakfast. You
think anybody's likely to recog-
nize me like this?"
-'TTo,–war' -jilinita said softly.
Then swiftly she arose.
"Let me do that, senor!" she
exclaimed. "It is women's work.
Since I have drive you from your
bed it is well that I do some little
thing for you."
She took the coffee pot from his
hands and set to work. busily.
Watching her, Valdez thought he
had never seen anyone so deft and
so graceful, even in the tattered
sheepherder's clothing she still
wore. As the firelight gleamed
in the ebon of her hair that hung
free, and crimsoned the creamy
flesh of her arms and throat, he
found himself unconsciously won-
dering what she would look like
in the lovely garments of a girl,
garments such as she was born to
wear.
* * z
As quickly he shoved that
thought from him. What was he
thinking of? El Caballero Rojo
had no business with such
thoughts.
Juanita had the breakfast all
prepared speedily, and they sat
down cross-legged on the cave
floor to eat it. While they ate she
talked gravely about her father and
mother and of the life on their
little rancho.
Valdez did not give her confi-
dence for confidence by telling
her of his own home and youthful
days, but listening to her brought
it all before his mind's eye poign-
antly. His lover Irish mother,
with her hair of spun red gold.
His father, who might have been
one of the conquistadores brought
down to this modern day. The
hacienda where the doors had
always stood open, where the hand
of hospitality was always held out.
No man was ever turned away
from those doors where heartiness
and true welcome were the rule.
* * *
Cattlemen, prospectors, lawmen,
rurales, even outlaws—they came
in droves. And meals and a bed
were free for the asking at any
hour of the day or night. And it
had been from some of the men
who had come through those hos-
pitable portals that young Michael
Valdez had learned how to shoot,
bow to use his rope, the craft of
the woodsman, and a thousand
different things that had stood hill
in good stead when he had himself
become a wanderer. Men whose
gnus were their only shield against
a troublous world had taught him
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Man Tells Why
He Lost His Girl
"DEAR ANNE HIRST: Believe
* me, this won't happen to me again
* if I should find another girl! The
* day my girl gave mc the air, she
told me why.
Months h a v e
gone by, and I
still think about
all my mistakes.
She claimed that
after going with
her for a year,
I'd changed. I
had.
"She was very
much in - love
with me. 1 didn't
* appreciate it. I took it for granted.
* My thoughtlessness caused it all.
* "I never told her how pretty she
* looked. I never offered those little
* courtesies, like opening a door for
* her.] never made definite dates ex-
* cept for weekends. 1 merely
* barged in, expecting her to greet
* me with open arms. '1 bragged
* about the sharp girths at the office
* and how 1 fooled around with.
* them. ..
TOLD W TE•LI '
7d1 ES
* "I told her white lies about
* things I did, places I went .
* though she always found out, 1
* com,plained about workinb too
* hard and being too tired, but I was
* never too tired when I was with
* the boys! I didn't want to be kid-
* ded about being in love, so I didn't
* show the world how fortunate I
* knew I was to have such a wonder-
* ful girl.
* "I neglected to show her my
* love and tenderness ... 1 could go
* on and on, but it was my neglect
* of the little things which mean so
* much to a woman that caused our
* breaking up.
* "Women are funny. They coin-
* pile all these little things and
* visualize married life with such a
* man.
* "Remember, wise guys, if you
* are in love with a wonderful girl
* like I was, don't do as I did. 1 hope
uncanny speed with weapons while
,lie was still in his teens, and though
he had always had a natural way
with horres, he had learned how
to handle the most dangerous out-
law from other men to whom
horseflesh w• s life.
But now that seemed ages ago—
in another life. For on that day
when the young Michael Valdez
had opened the door of his home
on his tragedy, he had on the in-
stant left behind his devil-may-
care life as a young vaquero and
become a man—a man who had
a rendezvous with destiny.
So deep was Michael Valdez in
his own musings that for a mo-
snent he had forgotten Juanita,
bad forgotten that he was not
alone, as was his custom. He came
to himself with a start when he
heard her insistent voice, as if she
might have asked a question sev-
eral times and had no answer.
"When I have done for you this
thing you wish me to do, senor,"
she was saying a little plaintively,
"then you will tell me what more
I can do for you? We will ride
together, no?"
Glimpsing her eager face, he
hadn't the heart to tell her the
truth—then,
"There will be much riding for
both of us, of course, Juanita," he
said gently, and then he gave a
start and jumped to his feet,
"Madre de Dios!" he exclaimed,
"The sun is long up, and I must
ride for your horse, I told yon it
was important 'that you start f
the mission today."
('.I'b be Centime' d'
* you'll benefit by what I've just
* written,
BOB S."
If I had launched out on one of
my frequent prescriptions on how to
lose a girl friend, I couldn't have
done better than you did.
You had to be the big shot, (fiche
gout Taking all, giving nothing—
reminding the girl, by sins of omis-
sion, how lucky she was that you
came to see her at all, and bestow-
ed upon her the great gift of your
love! You depended on your charm
(ant I expect you have plenty) to
carry you through. You never real-
ized that to hold a nice girl you had
to deserve her.
Girls don't realize that their sweet-
hearts are usually the product of
the training former girls have given
them. It isn't hard for a smart girl
to judge pretty accurately what kind
of girls her boy friend has known.
This girl you have lost has set your
standards of behavior, now, toward
all the others you will ever know. If
you profit by it, I predict that when
you fall in love again you'll sweep
the girl off her feet.
All your life you will be gratefu
to this girl who told you why you
.Blest out., . She sent you :away, and
she probably broke her heart doing
it
* *
70 "144.11': tk'hen this column
was started over 20 years ago, my
office door was always open to any-
one who wished to see me. Those
happy days vanished though, on ac-
count of the increasing number of
letters each year. Now it is not
possible to give eersonal interviews,
and it is not often that I can find
the time to answer problems by
mai i.
I regret this far more than my
readers can. Write me about what
is troubling you, and I'll do niy best
t� help.
*. * '5
Our mistakes can often help others
to, avoid them. Tell Anne Hirst your
story and let her pass it on.Write to
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Street West, Toronto.
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Sunday School Lesson
Creative Power of Faith
Hebrews 11:1-10, 39-40; 12:1-2
GOLDEN TEXT–.Now faith is the
substance of things hop for, the
evidence of things not seen.
—Hebrews 11:1.
There could be no' better defini-
tion of faith than that given by the
author of the Book of Hebrews. It
is "the substance of things hoped
for, the evidence of things not
seen."
As such it is the essence and
foundation of all religion. But it
is more than that. It underlies, and
is the motive power of, all cre-
ative activity, if not of all life.
The poet, the artist, sees his ac-
complished work first of all in
vision, but without faith the idea,
the vision, would never be ac-
complished. So, also, in life. If we
had no faith in a tomorrow, there
would be little meaning in life to-
day.
* * *
It is here that religious faith
finds its true significance and
meaning. It is the anchorage for
souls, when everything seems to be
going wrong.
The Hebrews author expounds
the meaning of this sort of faith
by its great examples, and these
in their very nature are impres-
sive and instructive. They have
to do with matters that were dif-
ficult and doubtful—journeying in-
to a new, far-off, and unknown
land,, trusting promises that were
.as 'yet far from fulfillment, facing
suffering, persecution, and death—
a11 that men, in one way or an-
other, have faced, and will face
even in an atomic age. And his
story is of those who, through
faith, were builders and con-
querors.
* * *
It is, or ought to be, an inspiring
story for today. What the world
needs above all else is the faith to
overcome disaster, and the faith to
go on in spite of peril and dif-
ficulty.
This is the place of religion,
and the world's need of it. The
ancient writer said that without
faith it is impossible to please God.
And it is God's provision for man's
life that without faith he cannot
work out his own salvation.
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"Auntie, were you ever proposed
to?"
"Once, dear, a gentleman asked me
to marry him over the telephone, but
he had the wrong number."
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