The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1915-04-22

at the face OF The c.
Straight ahead, b =
Make for the near
those hills yonder. =.
unless you are anxiov, !.
you go!"
The car began to ma.
the three men In the n.
bow, jumped into the u.
and slammed the don,
They made no etfot !.
cause and secure paa.as.
as the edge of the 49,
they knew too well thae
she thought, as she ases
seat, chuckling with Il.
those three masks a. n
gated.
1t was not until i've 4
when she Strengthened m
Alan comfortable that
what had made then !
abide by her will.
Then she heard Their Y
together in a long, shrillA
quickly answered by fala
a distant quarter Of III
by pistols popping and
two miles away, then Il
rumble Of galloping hooh
The night glasses In ths.
her flashes of a body Of q.
men-some six or seven 1
making at top speed tow
where Marrophat, Hieh
waited beside a beacon
had built and lighted.
Half a dozen sentenea
with the chauffeur adyial
these were horsemen ffm
of Mesa who had charged
with the duty of avengIns
of Hopi Jim Slade.
A sardonic chuckle N
Trine's gag goaded the Kill
len fury.
Exacting his utmost spes
chauffeur, undHr penalty
pleasure, she set herself IL
Alan.
With the aid of such stos
and drink as the car carrie
quickly enough accomplish M
Strangling with an ov
brandy too little diluted 80
Alan sat up, grasped the
in a flash, and gained furtAs
ton as he devoured sands
emptied a canteen.
The mountain pass wa I'll
judged, a mile distant. Til
the hillside, according to
feur, was that of a prosga &
had camped there temporari
was nothing, then, to be Id l1l
that quarter, but solely from
where the horsemen, haVi
!
up Marrophat and his %
had instituted hot pursuit
now strung out in long. y
line, three horses carrying -
MISUNDERSTANDING q HlEknslk
half away-one with ahQte
the nearest, well within
tiers of a mile.
Nobly mounted, this last
like the wind, gaining on
car with every stride; for a8 r.
was trained to such going II.
the car at best could only
lily in dust and sand.
None the less, it had won
within a quarter Of a mile
pass before the horseman
what he esteemed the prey
AMI opened fire. ~.
He fred thrice. His first ID
wide, his second by ill-chAD
through a rear tire Of the
placing upon 1t an addition ~
cap, while his third sought ~
as his hands flew up and D
from the saddle, drilled ID
body by Alans only shot
A long-range pistol due
progress before the car pa
half the remaining distanS
pass.
By the time it entered
which proved to be a narTa
with towering side OF cruz
and shale and broken rock
suit was not hundred yafa
while the firing was welFnl
uous.
Two hundred feet above .
two men were working vita i
haste at some mysterious
though none noticed them.
Only the chauffeur was
woman running down the
an angle, to intercept the 9
hundred yards from the moa
pass.
AS it drew near the spot
paused, waving both hands z
the head of the pursuing ~
into the mouth of the rayine
At the same time the cha -
ticed that the two men on "
we're following the woman
throwing themselves down
with gigantic leaps and oous
And then a great EXPOSES
peaceful hush of ntght-taA
had been protaned by ne
cracks of the revolver flsliA
AS the roar of dynamiW
the entire side OF the nln
Slid ponderously down, CAV
z s ,.-gsA AahriR 10 me