The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1915-04-15

cHAIp TER xxXVII.
-FlrepIay.

fIFeplay,
ConteRted with the promise of q
thousand dollars advance on his CON
tract. providing he returned with
horses within a stipulated time, Mr..
Iopi James Slhde drifted quietly away
into the desert night.
Well content, persuaded that the
morrows sun would never set upon a
world tenanted by one Alan Law. that
monomaniac, Seneca Urine, forgot his
recent Ill temper and set himself diplo-
matically to adjust the differences be-
tween his daughter, Judith, and his
first lieutenant. Marrophat
It was no Iacile task Marrophat
could not be trusted to work with
single mind because Of his infatuation
for Judith; Judith could no more be
trusted faithfully to serve out her vow
to bring Alan Law to her fathers feet,
alive or dead. because--O cruel irony
of Fate!--she herself had fallen in
love with that same man whose death
she had pledged herself to compass.
Only when. al now, half mad with
jealousy, determined to see Alan dead
rather than yield him to the woman
he loved. her sister, might Judith be
counted upon TO serve her father in
his lust for vengeance as he would be
seryeG-and even so not without Mar
rophat at her elbow to egg her on
through her resentment OF his surveil-
lance, Neither could be trusted, in
deed, to work alone to the desired con-
summatton for Urine had secret rea-
son to fear lest Marrophat might,
given opportunity, connive at Alan's
escape in order that he might marry
Rose and so throw Judith back into
his, Marrophat's, arms.
Poor deluded fooll
Such was the private comment OF
MarrophRt's master.
For all that, Il was the man and not
his daughter. whom Urine designated
to lead the expedition. cunningly
counting on Judith's chagrin to work
upon her passions and excite her to
one last. mad. blind attempt that
shOulu prove SUCCESSFUL,
Smiling his secret smile, Trine an
nounced his decision at the last mo-
ment. while Hopi Jim waited with his
horses and an assistant--one Texas
for whose utter innocence OF seruples
MIR, slade unhesitatingly vouched.
Sullenly submissive, at least in out
ward seeming. Judith bowed to this de
cislon. marched out of the car. anC
suffered Marrophat to help her mount
her horse.
Now. deliberately, as the little eaval
cade rode through the moonlit deser
night, the girl Unanswered her hors,
to the side OF Hopi Jim, and theI
dropped back, permitting Marropha
to lead the way with Texas.
As deliberately she set herself /,
work upon the bandits susceptible,
TO her charms.
Within an hour she had him read,
to do anything to win her smile.
In that FIRST rush OF golden day a
thwart the land, the party came quietl,
into the town 0f Mesa, riding slowly il
order that the noise of their approach
might not warn the tugitives. VIII,
/ hopt asserted confidently would still
be sound asleep in the accommods
lions offered BY the towns one hotel.
Il was TO be termed a town only II
courtesy, this Mesa a stragglinI
street OF shackS, ramshackle relics O
what had once been a promising CON
muulty, the halfway station between
the railroad and the mining camp
seereted In the Businesses OF the Paint
cd htlls--camTN now abandoned. thei
very names almost faded out OF tn
memory Of mankind
Midway in this string OF edisrss n.
Motel stood-a rough, Imprinted, wood
en- eaihee, mainly verauda and bar
room as to its lower foor.
jealousy Judith watched ,hs ,,,r
COWS OF the second door; and sh
alone OF the four detected the face tina
showed Tor one brief instant well bacl
IN the shadows beyond one Of the bed
l '"No S'Ado"s--a face that Slimmere,