The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-10-21

Mario forced himself out from under tho
canvas Blood was streaming down his
face His temples were blue from crashing
blows. Without looking at the women, he
rushed. painting. toward the rock where lag
his coat.
Harry lifted the tent canvas and came
out. Mario was facing him again. bnt this
time there was a cleaning revolver In hi,
hand. t
Singoalla uttered a cry. Pauline sped TO
Harry as II to shield him.
But Singoalla was before him.
Kill him; save yourself; l did not mean
to do IT." she cried
In an instant Mario was fitting the bull
let's into the gun
Pauline was cllnging to Harry. She was
begging him to fee.
But il was too late to fee, She had
stopped his rush and Mario was smiling.
Harry turned to the wrecked tent Tho
medicine bottles were strewn all about it
He seized two OF them IS
Get the bottes," he shouted to Pauline.
He hurled the two he had with the force
OF cannon shots at Mario Mario lodged
Surprised, he stopped filling the pistol.
Harry picked up more of the bottles.
Pauline was beside him again, her arms
filled with bottles Heavy with the beauty
poison, they whizzed and broke and
splashed upon the rock wall behind the
chief
He lifted the revolver and tried to take
aim bat conld not The shot blazed into
space. A bottle struck his head and ne fell
heavily beside the rock. Singoala TELL be-
side him. sheltering him with her body
Harry caught Pauline into his arms. out
she forced him back
Il can rum she said Gomez
They sped through the deserted camp into
the wood path and down the path to where
the automobile was hidden
As they drove away they did not see tho
Princess Singoella following them.
Singoalla stopped and wandered back
through the meadow that verged the camp.
She was more desperate now than she had
been when Pauline was Marios prisoner.
There was bruise on her forehead where
Mario struck her. His curses were ringing
In her ears. The only outlet for her ele.
mental sorrow was in new vengeance The
vengeance had turned toward Harry Marvin
and the "yellow-haired lady whom she had
saved.
Bushes trimmed the meadows. AS Sim
goalla glided beside the bushes her ea-
caught low whirr.
She stopped and leane over the hadge.
like barrier and looked down
The whirr continued. She crept through
the bushes. Softly she broke a stem OF the
heavy briar. Deity she fashioned a fork
In the end Of It.
A moment later the fork descended
sharply over the head OF a coiled rattle
snake With the snake In her hand, Sin
goalla went back to the deserted camp.
She searched the grounds for a basket
and found one at last she put the anake
In II and held It fast with the forked stick.
Then she went back to the meadow.
The daisies were In fulsome bloom They
grew SO high and close together that It
required only few snatohes of her small
brown hand to gather enough to Oil the
basket
u don't know exactly, sir. who brough.
them. 1t was a pretty little woman--per
haps gypsy. She said they were for the
yellow haired lady, whom che loved"
Bem!s the elderly butler at the Marvin
house, was used to uncommon gifts as ha
was used to uncommon occurrences. AZ he
brought back basket OF daisies TO paulips
In the library Harry had questioned hihi
doubtIully, but his answer ~ss reassarins
why, II is the little gypsy GIL who
helped me find you" said Harry. 'Bemis.
see II she has gone. She ozsht to BIO ~
warded"
"She has gone sir" said Bems.
Neither he nor Pauline rof Harry knew
that the beautiful. menac.os face OF SIN.
goalla was peering through tie window al
them just at that moment
Even after tho grave peril from which
Pauline had escaped only a few hours ago,
none Of them realized that death might lis
among the blossoms
They are beauu.ul and so was shc,"
said Pauline.
She pressed her Taco down among tns
dowers.
ITO be continued nsxs weakly -