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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-23
Points TO Auto Achievement

Whereas ten years ago we were a
cso'or nation as regards automobiles, i'm
porting heavily from Europe, the Ameri-
can automobile to-day is competing with
me French, Italian, Spanish and German
Product in Buenos Ayres, Montevideo and
"tntr south American points.
=, When European goods compete with
n'ted States articles in South
erica they are from one-tenth to
oNe-haf cheaper This handicap Is
sometimes overcome by the superior
g'"ly ~ the American article,
- before attempting TO compete
y" An.eg,can manufacturer or exporter
s"'-.a carefully ascertain prices and the
nature OF the competision in South Amer
i'" and Specially whether the proprietors
O directors Of the firms with which he is
mp-ing are financially or otherwise in
-ef's.e. ~ steamship lines from Eu-
rope"
Mr. Chandler then pointed TO various
NemS In the $3.50, 100000 OF goods that
~ l5l@ were bought from Europe by
'rh chile and Ecuador. He pointed 10
.u'n and woollen goods, amounting To
'''' 600, machinery. hardware, car
i''g'S and similar articles. $4,000. 900
COM and coke, 1000, 900, explosives.
ooinamite, t2.500,000; chemical articles,
s''VVV'OOo, shoes, $500, 900.
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substantial in seeming. with another
rope, breast-high, to serve as a hand.
rail
Alan tested the bridge cautiously.
II bore him. He returned, helped Rose
TO cross. and with her once safely
landed on the other side. took his life
in his hands and aided by a Barcus
unaffectedly afflicted with qualms.
somehow or other neither of them
knew precisely how persuaded the
burros to cross
After that though the way grew
more broad and easy and even showed
symptoms OF a decline. they had not
enough strength left to sustain
through another hour
And what they thought good for
tune. opportunely at this pass, brought
them to clearing dotted with the
buildings of an abandoned copper
mine. Net = sou! was Ia evidence
there, but the rude structures offered
shelter for beast as well as man.
Barely had they made Rose as COM
Portable as might be upon the rough
plank flooring of one of the sheds
and tethered the burros out of sight.
when Alan collapsed as if drugged.
while Barcus, who had elected himself
to keep the first watch and purposed
doing it in a sitting position, with
his back against the door-jamb, felt
sleep overcoming him like dense.
dark cloud.
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Copyright, 1914 by Louis Joseph Vance

Il knew IT, Now it beeinsbagainl" -
For Rose had abruptly taken a hand
IN the affair, a gesture of evaporation
prefacing her call Atari"
To her MIR. Law turned instantly.
with such alacrity that none who
watched might doubt wbdch Of the two
women came first in his esteem.
Nor was this wasted II pom the under
standing of Judith. Eyeing her mar
rowly though furtively., Mr. Barcus
saw her handsome face idarken omin-
ously.
And her father was AS quick to
recognize these portents OF $rouble
and to seek to advantage himself of
them.
His head craned out horribly on his
long, wasted neck as he pitched a
sibilant whisper for her ears, and his
face In the moonlight seemed TO glow
with the reflection of that inferno
which smoldered in his evil
But one was silenced. the other
quenched, all in Il twink1ing His
daughter turned on him in "a fash of
imperial rage.
Barcus caught snatches ofIthe WON.
ans TRADE.
BE SILENT" he heard her say. BE
silent, do you hear? Don't ever speak
to me again unless you want me to re-
place that gag. | say, don't speak to
mel | am finished with you
once and for all time; never again
shall you pervert my nature to your
damnabe purposes-neyer again shall
word or wish of yours drive me to
lift my hand against a man who has
never done you the Least harm, though
your persecution of him would have
acquitted him of a charge of man
slaughter In any courf-on grounds of
selt-defense! Understand met"
she ragged I'm through Henceforth
| go my way, and you yours :"
Her voice broke. She clenched her
hands into two tight fists with the
effort at self-control, and lifted a
writhen face TO the moonlight
God help us both" she cried.
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ing but the wall. Twisted the other
way. at the cost of a splinter in his
nose. the effort was repaid by the dis
covery of Rose Urine in a plight like
his own-wrists and ankles bound,
gagged into the bargain-the width Of
the shed between them.
But Of Alan Law, no sign.
The heart Of Mr.. Barcus checked
momentarily; he shut his eyes and
shivered in an uncomfortable seizure
OF dread.
Then, tormented beyond endurance
by the fears he suffered for the safety
Of his friend, he began to wriggle and
squirm like a crippled snake, pain
fully inching his way across the floor
toward RCse-with what design, heav-
en- alone knows! Dimly his men
tai vision comprehended the bare pos
sibility OF his being able, with his fast
numbing fugers, to work loose the
knots at Roses wrists but deep in
his heart be knew this TO be nothing
but forlornest hope.
With infinite pains he had con-
trived to bridge the distance by halls
or possibly not quite so much, when
a dark body put the sunlight of the
open doorway into temporary eclipse.
Another followed it. Boots dumped
heavily on the flooring. The laugh
sounded again, apparently in ironic ap-
probation Of Mr. Barcus efforts Two
pairs Of hands seized him, one be-
meath the shoulders, the other be-
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comfort the girl; bravely though she
strove to keep up her heart time and
again she shook in his arms like mad
thing, when panic dread caught her
by the neck as a terrier catches a rat
To die there in the darkness, like so
many noxious animals trapped in a
Welt
The water mounted rapidly. With
in FIVE minutes II drove them back to
the elbow in the tunnel; within ten IT
Tapped their ankles as they ling red
there, doubling which was the greater
peril, to advance or TO stand fast and
let the flooding tide snuff out the fires
OF life. To return to the neighbor-
hood OF the bulkhead was to court the
death indicated by the fuse and the
key of blasting powder
OF q sudden the thought crossed
Alan's mind that Marrophat had ar
ranged the latter solely TO keep them
away from the bulkhead. Now that he
thought of 1t, he felt certain that the
powder room had been deliberately
disclosed to him by Jimmy.
Probably, then, the key and fuse
were but stage propertles-or pos
sibly
Whether or no. was death in one
form preferable to the other?
He was decidedly Of the opinion
that 1t were better to be extinguished
Opco ay1 for oil 4fD,a u Tho epaCa ~
a second, annihilated by an explosion
than to die thus lingeringly.
On this consideration, he drew Rose
with him back to the bulkhead.
When they had been some fifteen
minutes beside the bulkhead, the wa
ter mounted the head of a slight rise
perhaps ten feet behind them, and
poured down in ever deeper volume
to back up against the barrier.
1t was waist deep however, before
they retreated to She head of that
rise.
Half an hour later It was waist
deep there, on the highest spot in the
tunnel
In fifteen minutes more it haC
reached their chins. And they stood
with head against the roof of the tun
mel
Holding Rose close to him, Alar
kissed her lips, that we're as cold al
death.
Then, fumbling under water, h,
, found the hand of the man at his side
The water Tapped his lips like ;
blind hand
In the tunnel that branched off from
the main shaft, beyond the bulkhead
some thirty minutes before this june
ture, a candle had guttered in its stick
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CHAPTER XVI.
Flood and Fire.

Screaming to make himself heard
above the roar OF the deluge. Barcus
hammered In Alan's ear:
That devil! He's found the reser-
voir-opened the uicegates-turned
1t into that shaft! We're done fort"
Alan had no argument with which to
gainsay him. Silently getting on his
feet, silently he CROPPED for Rose in the
darkness. momentarily becoming more
dense as the fall OF water shut out
the light, and drew her away with him.
up the slight incline that led back to
the bulkhead
The hour that followed lived ever
tn his memory as an hour In hell No
ray OF hope lightened It's impenetrable
blackness lie could say nothing 10
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| left careiessiy thrust into the wall by
Marrophat's lieutenant, and guttering,
| had dropped a flaming wick into lit
tie heap Of bone-dry debris This last
famed, licked hungrily at the timber
ing that upheld the falls Of the tunnel
The timbering caught fire without de-
lay. In a space Of time incredibly
| brief the flames we're spreading right
and left, the tunnel was a vault Of
blistering fury.
AS Alan said his last mute farewell
to Rose and Barcus, the fire spread
out in the bottom of the shaft and in
vaded the powder room.
Alan had guessed Alright at Mario
phat's design the keg of blasting pow
| der was less than an eighth full; its
explosion could not possibly have eff
fected the cavern Alan had at first
feared
But what Marrophat had overlooked
was the proximity to the keg of some
several sticks OF dynamite, masked by
film Of earth that had fallen from
the CTum DllnB Wills.
When the blazing fuse dropped
sparks into the blasting powder this
last exploded right willingly and the
dynamite took its cue without the
least delay.
The resultant defamation was ter
rife. The bulkhead was crushed in
like an eggshell barrier. Part of the
walls fell in, but the tunnels and shaft
remained intact The released flood
streamed out and spread swiftly to the
farthest recesses of the burning tun-
mel Dense clouds of steam filled that
place of terror as the fires were extin-
guished.
Swept with the stream as 1t poured
out OF the tunnel, Alan contrived
throughout to retain his hold round
the waist OF Rose. Barcus shot past
him unseen in the darkness. II was
not until Alan had contriyed to catch
an unburned timber and stay himself
and his almost witless burden beneath
the mouth of the shaft that he discov-
cred Barcus alive. II almost unrecog.
nizable In his mask of mold and SCOT,
battling back toward the shafS against
the kneedeep tide.
Halfblinded and stiled as be was by
TIE reek OF steam and powder fumes.
Alan struggled with himself until HIS
wits were passSbly clear
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CHAPTER XIV.
The Bowels Of the Earth.

Awaking befell Mr. Barcus in a
fashion sufficiently sharp and startling
to render him Indifferent to the benef-
cial effects of some eight hours OF
dreamless slumber
He discovered himself lying fat on
his face. with somebody's inconsider-
ate, heavy hand purposely grinding the
said face into the aged and splintery
planks OF the shed flooring At the
same time other hands were busy
binding his own together by the
wrists and flashing the same to the
small of his back by means of a cord
passed around his middle while his
natural If somewhat spasmodic efforts
TO kick were sadly hampered by the
fact that mis- ankles had already been
secured by means of half a dozen half
bitches and a square knot
His hands attended to. his head was
released. Promptly he lifted ii and
essayed to yell; an effort rendered
abortive by the gag that was thrust
between his teeth the instant his
jaws opened.
Then he heard a laugh, a cold,
mirthless chuckle.
Now the blood Of Thomas Barcus
ran cold cor he thought it did: which
amounts to much the same thing.
For II his senses had played fair, the
laugh he had heard was the laugh of
Mr.. Marrophat, hesd-deyil in the sery-
ice OF Seneca Urine
He twisted his head TO one side
and glancing along the floor. saw moth
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Immediately before him dangled the
hosting bucket and rope.
Surrendering the care of Rose to
Barcus. Alan climbed into the bucket
and stared upward, examining the
walls Of the shaft for way to the
top.
There was none other than the most
difficult; gaps too great to be bridged
by climbing showed in the wooden
ladders.
The one feasible route was via the
rope. And there was nobody at the
top to work the windlass-and Alan
hoped there would be nobody to OPP
pose his essay.
He addressed himself to the task
without murmuring-lifted himself up
on the rope, wound it round one leg,
and began that heartbreaking climb.
How he accomplished it he never
knew That it must be accomplished
was his one, all-absorbng thought.
And somehow, by some almost super
human effort, it was eventually accom-
plished.
He arrived at the top OF the shaft
far too exhausted to show surprise
when, falling in half-fainting condi-
ton within two feet Of the brink, he
saw Judith Urine running like mad
across the clearing.
But without her aid he would not
within hours have been able to work
the windlass and lift Rose and Bar
Gus to the surface.
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beg of You both. let dogs delight to
bark and bite"
He got no farther: Judith's ears
were as quick as his own. she. too.
had caught the sound OF bells behind
the base Of the hill And Of a sudden,
without another word, she turned and
flung away into the heavy thlckets of
underground that masked all the can
yon, to either side Of the wagon-trail
In twinkling she had lost herself to
view in their labyrinthine shadows.
The remainder OF that business was
transacted rapidly enough There
were no preparations to be made.
once Alan had ridden up with his
three burros, nothing remained but to
mount and make off without delay
Before morning they were all rid
ing like so many hypnotized subjects,
fatigue bearing so heavily on all their
senses that none spoke or cared to
speak
Broad daylight surprised them In
this state, still stubbornly travelling;
and shortly afterward showed them
one place so perilous that it shocked
them temporarily awake
This was simply a spot where the
trail came abruptly to an end on one
side of a cleft in the hills quite thirty
feet wide and several hundred in
depth, and was continued on the far
Their side. the chasm being spanned by
a bridge of the simplest character
no more than a footway Of boards
bound together with ropes none too
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meath the knees, and he was lugged
laboriously out into the sunlight, car
rled a considerable distance, and de-
posted unceremoniously within a few
feet of the mouth Of the abandoned
mine just at the moment when he had
satisfied himself that the purpose
Of his captors was simply to throw
him into the black we'll
He wasted look of appeal on the
frozen mask OF villainy that was Mar
rophat's (who bore the burden of Bar
Gus head and shoulders) and got
laughed at for all his pains.
Then he was left to himself once
more, but only for a few moments;
the interval ended when the two ap-
peared again, this time bringing Rose
in similar fashion.
Not until she had been put down be-
side him did he discover that Alan
was likewise a captive-trussed TO a
tree at some distance.
The remaining arrangements Of
their captors were swiftly and deity
consummated, though their design re-
manned obscure to Mr.. Barcus until
he, after Rose. was dumped like bale
into a huge bucket, and therein by
means OF rope and windlass lowered
to the bottom Of the shaft--a descent.
he estimated shrewdly, of something
like a hundred feet.
A hideous screeching followed, the
,F "A colnau m a
chinery. Twisting his neck, Barcus
saw the dim opening of the shaft
slowly closing, as If a curtain were
being drawn down over Il. Jimmy
was closing the bulkhead door, leav-
ing them definitely prisoners, beyond
human aid, there in that everlasting
black hole. 49,.
With final squeal and thump the
bulkhead settled into place A con
fusion of remote sounds thereafter In
dicated that Jimmy with, perhaps.
MaTophat's assistancel was making
the bulkhead fast beyond question
wedging and blocking it with timbers.
These ceased-and the silence was
broken by Alans voice
"Barcust"
The latter grunted soulfully by way
of answer he could do no more.
I've worked my gag loose" Alan
pursued in a hurried whisper. but my
hands are tied behind my back. Are
yours? Grunt once for yes"
Dutifully Bracus grunted a solitary
grunt
Then roll over on your face and
give me a chance TO work them free
that way, given time e"
Time was the mirthless thought
OF Rarcus. Haven't we got all eter-
nity2"
For all that. he wasted no time
whatever in obeying Alans suggestion
then lay for upward of ten minutes
with his face in the mold OF the tunnel
while Alan chewcd and spat and
eheWed and spat and chewed again az
the ropes round the wrists OF his
friend
II Il were in truth no more than ten
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CHAPTER Xiv.
As In a Glass, Darby


Thoughtfully Mr. Barcus returned
his attention TO the lovers.
If the evidence OF his senses did not
mislead him, he was witnessing their
first difference of opinion. II was not
an argument acute enough to deserve
the name of quarrel; but undoubtedly
the two were at odds upon some ques-
tion-Rose insistent. Alan reluctant
The last gave way in the end.
shrugged. returned to the car.
I'm going back up the trail" he
announced. and hesitated oddly
Feeling the need of some little ex-
erclse no doubt" Barcus suggested
Rose thinks it's dangerous TO stop
here" Alan began to explain. ignoring
the interruption.
Miss Rose is right-eh. Miss Ju-
ditht" Barcus interpolated.
Judith nodded darkly
so I'm going to see II can't buy
burros from the prospector back there.
Rose says he has some-doesn't know
how many"
Three will be enough" Judith inter
posed. y mean. don't get one tor me
I'm stopping here
But" Alan started to protest
She gave him pause with a weary
gesture.
Please! It's no good arguing. MIR
Law: I've made up my mind; l can be
most helpful here. by my fathers
side" she asserted, and nodded at
Urine with a significant smile that
maddened him. He needs me-and
no harm can come to me; I'm pretty
well able to take care of myself"
At this the innocent bystander
breathed an unheard but fervent little
prayer of Thanksgiving whose spirit
he doubted not was shared by Alan.
For it stuck in the memory of Bar
Gus that their friend the prospector
Whose shack had sheltered Rose and
Barcus after their transit OF the desert
and prior to the man made avalanche.
which had afforded this temporary i'm
| munity from PURSUIT. had mentioned
in the hearing OF Rose the fact that
his string OF burros was limited to
three,
This, then, must have been the nub
OF the lovers quarrel; Roses insist
/ ance that Judith be left behind. Alan $
/ reluctance to consent to this lest he
! convict himself OF the charge of rank
ingratitude, remembering the great
service his erstwhile antagonist had
4 done him
If only Judith might not find cause
to change her mind
He set himself sedulously to divert
Judith with the magic Of his converse.
tional powers-an offering Indifferent
ly received. He was still blithely
gossiping when Judith flung away to
her sisters side
The ensuing quarrel seemed but the
more portentous in view OF the re.
straint imposed upon themselves by
both parties thereto.
He believed. however that a crisis
impended when the tinkle OF mule
bells sounded down the canyon road
and at this he threw discretion TO the
winds and ran toward the two with
hands upheld in mock horror and a
manner Of humorous protest.
Ladies. ladies'" he pleaded. 81
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A Malignant Case, Contracted in
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Cured by
ALKANO
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think it a great remedy for malaria
fevers. l worked nearly seven years
in the river swamps in a very bad
malaria district and my system was
so filled with malaria ! was not able
to do a hard days work, but 7 think
/ am entirely well of the malady and
am benefited in many other ways,
Yours very truly, V. &. WARDEN.
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LContlnued From Iast sundayl
CHAPTER XIII.


{ an p-tor-the-Nigh
We'll. gents!' the driver observed
cheerfully, Withdrawing head anc
hands from long and intimate com
munion with the stubborn genius be
meath the hood q reckon you-al
mays well make up yore minds tc
christen this hyeh salubrious spot
COMPREHENSIVE You won't be
goin no fartheh-not just I present
Pulling this old wagon through them
desert sands back yondeh has just
naturally broke the heart of that EN-
gine!"
What, precisely, Is the trouble?'
Alan Law inquired. rousing from anx
ious preoccupation.
Plumb bust all to hell, the chauf'
feur explained tersely.
Nothing could be fairer, more ex'
act and comprehensive than that,
Tom Barcus commented.
Law nodded a head too weary to
respond to the others humor His
worried eyes reviewed the scene OF
the breakdown.
What's TO be done?' Mr.. Law won
dered aloud
Take il calm" the affable chauffeur
advised "Frettin won't get you-all
nothin If it was me, I'd call 1t a
day. make a fire, get them cushions
out of the cyah. and get some rest
You cant do nothin' till | get back
anyway, and that won't be much be-
fore sunup.'
Where are you going?" Barcus de-
manded.
"Walkin', friend; just waikiki"
What for?'
ITO fetch help--leastways onless
yo've got some kick comm and I'D
ruther stop hyeh permanent
He turned off and busted himself
with preparations against his journey
It's simply things like this make
me believe this isn't. after all, moth,
ing more nor less than a long-drawn-
out nightmare Barcus observed pen.
sively
But Mr.. Law was no more attend
ing: he had turned away and was just
then standing by the running board OF
the motor car and civilly explaining
TO Miss Judith Urine the purpose OF
the chauffeur's expedition.
Discovery of this circumstance
worked deep wrinkle between the
brows as well as into the humor OF
Mr. Bareus.
Here, he promised himself, was a
situation to titillate the Comic Muse
itself. He pointed out in turn the sew
eral component parts: the motor car
derelict in the hollow of those awful
and silent hills-fof all the world like
mouse petritied with fright at finding
itself in the midst of a herd Of ele-
plants in the car. that aged monoma.
MAC, Mr.. Seneca Urine, author of all
their woes and misadventures, gnash-
ing his teeth in impotent rage 10 find
himself in close juxtaposition to and
helpless TO injure the man for whose
life he lusted with an insatiate pas.
sion; the latter standing outside the
car. in polite conversation with Mr.
Trines mutinous Judith-talking to
her in the friendliest fashion imag
Unable, precisely as If she had not
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fallen little short of comprising his
death, not once, but half a dozen
times; Judith herself poised on the
running-board and smiling down at
her victim with a warmth patiently
even more than the warmth OF friend
ship; and at some little distance Rose,
MIR. Laws fiancee and Judiths sister,
eating her heart out with jealousy Of
this new-sprung intimacy between her
sister and her loverl
Bad business, my friend" Barcus
mentally apostrophized the unwilling
Alan Law.
He interrupted himself TO nod know
ingly and with profound conviction:
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-07-30
new REAL ESTATE firm
Investors Security Company Open
Office In Sank Centre And
Will Push Business.

The Investors Security Company
with main offices in Minneapolis, Des
Moines, Iowa, and Omaha, Nebr.,
announces the opening II a main
office in the Palmer House Garage
Block in Sank Centre. This company
has been operating at different points
throughout. the corn belt of Iowa, Nor
thern Illinois and Southern Nebraska
for the past ten years and comes to
US with the assurance that they are
well organized to market farm lands
in this locality. The company is in
corporated for 100000 and three of
the members of the firm, Mr.. ]. C.
Smith, ]. P. Schircliff and J. ]. Geiger,
have been in the city the past ten
days getting the new office opened
and arranging plans for the fall cam
paign. This firm sold over 5000 acres
in Southern Minnesota and Northern
Iowa last year and we have evidence
of their ability to produce results.
They have already purchased in the
Of 1000 acres in the
vicinity Of Sank Centre and Westport
and we understand they are still in
the market for some more good i'm
proved farms at the right price.