Gunnison news-champion., 1914-12-18

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Meade stHimAn Shows Colonel Gssnss1D
81 The board of strategy and others ho
ssro destroyer a wonasrfui implement -
ssr opsrassd b. rsaian.
Congressman Gotz xho sails seropsanO
- the goserumenL oupos.s him. Meade
asets the cosonals daughter bsrnios. -
shom he ss already a hero.
Gotz pubIlciy announces tho Aesde'o
father ~as . defssstsr. and Meade -
aosnoes him IN turn. ors~sins . so~ss
Meade loves Bernics he soss ssns
home Gotz plans 10 blocs the acospt-
snoe Of the aero destroyer Sezieo sad
JAvsn are acting thrss,sninsiy.
Meade writes Bernice tina; she or hls
country needs him ne viii come Mexican
troops invade the United staiss
Japanese soldiers ssrprise the garrison
Of San Francisco and capture the fors
and the city
They threaten TO destroy me cssy "A tns
American fleet interfsrss Colonel Gotz
starts BY asropians 70 carry the news "
Sacramento.
Gotz kills two japanese aviaiors ssA
sends the ne~s to Washington. Prssidsnt
6iison oalis Cor uee voiuaassnsl
The Atlantic fest q the Unissa oaatss
. destroyed by . mysterious new bomb
used by the japanese
New York city 10 wrschsA ~ ths sans
ssrt Of bombs. and Aviator DarlinG otso
- Nsw Horh city TO rescue esrnics
Apparently she loves him She and Dsr-
uaS sssk the aid of Meade and his D.
sssoysr Meade declares his love
BOuies reciprocstss. and DarlinG y un-
happy. Meade rushss worh On HE sere
destroyer TO check the Japassss advance
-'>ads's new magnetic bombs nrsd from
The sss~ sestroyers create great havoc In
the JapaDsss --rmy
Ths Sapensss ere sOsssa Darling y
killed. and Meade 0tniDsaa's fathers
into the little town OF Hlte In tme
dusk Of an evening came 4 young man
of FIVE and twenty. his face and cloth
ing powdered with the dust Of his
journey. That he was no stranger was
shown by the assurance Of the course
he took and the mods or hand waves
Of the men he passed. without pause
or checking he rode straight to the
corral Of Nephi Larsen. Larsen sat in
the doorway of his house. smoking q
pipe.
Hello, Master Stillmanr' he greet
ed, and sat on.
Meade swung himself from the sad
die Of the horse he was riding. slipped
its bride over his arm and led it and
the pack animal loaded with his cases
and camping outfit toward the corral
at the back Of the house
'1'n be spending the night with you.
Larsen" he Informed the man In the
doorway
Larsen nodded. and gestured with
his pipe TO the animals Stillman led
"Ay will tell mine wife. Ven you hat
put de horses by de corral you will hal
so0per"
Night came down. Meade left the
house of Larsen and walked out to-
ward the edge Of the river. He
clinched his hands with an instructive
motion, thcu dropped them at his sides
and looked of across the stream 20
the east over there was hut in the
mountains. where his father waited.
over there. away. and away beyond
was woman with hair Ike FURNISHED
copper. whose image dwelt in his heart.
The pink of morning saw him ready
to start His mount was a wiry In
dian pony. spotted in brown and cream
irregulurly. Behind ii he led second
dun coiored spe, .uun. burdened with
his. pack He crossed the river in a
fiat botomed boat swung from q
hempen cable. and took up the lonely
trail
The sunset Of the second day was
growing red when he came to the liI
Of the valley The sun god was shoot
ing his arrows far across it in tlaring
ribbons Of color He smiled TO him
self through the CRIME of his journey
which powdered his face and hair
on beyond was dark wall Of or
chard and shade trees, things OF his
fathers planting Among them squat
ted the house OF red stone which that
same father had huilded-his owl
home for twenty years-the only set
ting Of life he had known rs he grew
10 manhood Farther beyond II all :
long. low structure met his eyes-tb'
laboratory building
Little creatures which be knew tn hs
cattle and horses moved slowly across
the green eXpan~e ns he guzed. Th'
cool of the r,irture stru K up to his ey,
and beeEuned him 20 II from the heat
through which be hud ridden.
He ciueked % bis horses and urged
them down the trail from the lip of tn
plateau And 80 Meade StiIlman came
home
The purple of evening was creepin;
into the vaIpT as he rode up O. tbs