Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-25

padre insists that they be hidden under
the hearthstone until they can be for
warded to the leader Of the revolutions
lists.
While the padre and Eleanore are dis
cussng the affair, Courtesy himself
comes to the mission door. The padre
bids him enter, inviting him to spend
the night. The highwayman accepts,
and without revealing his identity, en-
ters into a discussion Of his own deeds.
finding that EleanOre looks upon him
as law breaker, for whom she has
little sympathy, while the padre de-
fends him.
Electing 10 sleep by the freside, the
captain is left alone. Hardly has the
mission quieted down than he sees.
creeping through the gloom without,
the figure of Granville, who raises the
window, enters and goes to the hearth.
He raises the stone, takes out the gold
and dispatches. and Is about to make
off with them when Courtesy stops him.
There is a fight in the dark, scuffle.
groan, and Granville sinks on his
knees, hand at his throat, a pistol at
his temple. The renegade recognizes
the outlaw.
The second act opens dramatically in
the gray dawn. Throughout the night
these men have been sparring for time,
the highwayman declaring that unless
' tTHllVllle promises nOt TO DelTAy nun
until sunset he will kill him. AS dawn
breaks Eleanore appears at the door
way. Feeling instlnctively that the
highwayfhan Is a rival for the girls
affection, yet unwilling to create n
scene before her, Granville gives his
promise.
| Eleanore. still ignorant of Courtesy's
identity tells him that II she had tho
notorious outlaw in her power she
would turn him over to the Mexicans.
Meanwhile Granville sees a way by
| which he may pay off his score to
| Courtesy and at the same time secure
the person of Eleanore. He orders
Lieutenant Jocoso to arrest the girl on
the charge of having stolen dispatches
under the hearthstone. A search is
made and the papers found. Jocoso
and his Mexlcans are about to arrest
Eleanore when Courtesy makes known
| his Identity claims all responsibility
| for the theft, and i'm a humorous and
dramatic manner effects his escape.
! Act three finds the captain returning
TO the mission regardless of the peril
to himself, for the purpose of seeing
the woman he loves. Eleanore saves
him from Granville and the Mexicans
and Courtesy wrings from Bleanore
what is practically q confession that
she loves him: but the padre comes
between them. He considers the cap
tain unfit for her and turns him out of
paradise"
In the fourth act Courtesy has not
| been heard of for weeks, and the Mex
leans have been ordered to march upon
Los Angeles, and on their way to
swoop upon the mission, giving no
quarter The mission folks are at the
walls, fighting with Spartan heroism.
Jocoso disgusted with the treachery of
the Mexican, tears his epaulettes from
his shoulders, declares himself to be on
the side of the revoIutionists and there
| by wins the love of the widow Viviena.
The California rifemen, under the lead
ership of Courtesy, arrive, but still the
battle goes against the mission. The
captain, severely wounded, finds his way
into the mission, where he unexpectedly
encounters Granville. There the out
law discovers that the renegade is the
murderer of his father and mother. A
hand to hand combat ensues. Courtesy
is about to kill the traitor when Flea
more appeals and calls upon the cap
tain, as proof of his love for her, to
spare the life of Granville. He does
| so. and at the same instant the bugle
of the American troops, who have come
to the relief of the mission, is heard
sounding victory And that victory
is Courtesys also, for the woman he
loves is in his arms