The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-12-21

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81 -I7sr5lg hands toward Annette.
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Ee--z--az
S-- --= brute. rs feet planted vide
zpz-,. s,-ot us ground
Ez--z--sz spEz1g toward hin, an
gr-y s..zzc the e7=--r=zty whip froa
P5n.ts hand and IazLed t1e brute
t=-c=.y. H- nodded % the four GRIN,
so1-c.z- men and they tore Annette
roughly away and dragged .er 70 tie
temple. Neal alr.et himself al the
four zcclytss. but Ee-usa1ez dragged
tl-- 5zc.
Neal ~as then thrust into = dungeon
s-c It's d5Jr gzs licked
Meantime within the temple thing
we're happening. Annette found her
ss.: il Al apartment gorgeously fur
uisLed with Aztec tapestries. Two
Old Eo-e1-toothIess ug.y-wone en-
With boards. attended Annette, chuck
ling ana uumbling 10 themselves in
g.=e. They produced from TIE re-
cesses d the temple dress, gorgeous,
bizarre. They craped il upon Annette 3
slender form. They hung her head.
neck a15 arms with glittering orna-
me1ts. and then they beckoned TO her
and led her TO window, and pointed,
chuckling, through il.
but Ponto without distinguished easily
the meaning Of the high shrill tones.
The sun god waists waiting tor
his bride
Annettes glance Travelled past the
sun god. She started back in horror.
Into that seething pit beyond the
ecolytes were casting huge quantities
Of fuel-pouring the contents Of huge
Jars Of oil upon the flames. Her glance
Travelled still beyond, and across an
intervening space she saw a dungeon
window and the white face Of Neal
He waved his hand And then strong
hands were placed upon her shoulders
and she was lifted from her feet and
half dragged, half carried out Of the
temple into the center Of the clear
space before the sun god. The cere-
mony had begun.
Neal tore his glance for moment
from this scene and examined his cell.
There vas a window at his back
a heavily barred window. He seized
the bars in desperation and found u
his surprise that they were loose.
With z superhuEan effort, he thrust
the bars outward, leaped through the
aperture and darted swiftly into the
Jungle; then he looked about him for
tree and found the one he wanted.
1t was a high tree, very high. He
climbed il swiftly-climhed it 10 its
topmost branches Cruising slowly
of the sh0re-and the shore was not
very far away-was his cruiser Al
bany.
He braced himself among the
branches with his feet, ripped of
his shirt, tied it by the arms about
broken branch and sigzaled to the
ship.
Within the walls Ponto, still terror
stricken with the sun gods anger,
turned his back for a moment upon
that deity and upon that deitys high
priest. Then suddenly he saw some
thing. In the top Of high tree without
the walls there was white rag fut-
tering to and fro-and something
more. A man.
Ponto gripped Hernacdez's arm and
pointed upward. The face Of Herman
dez froze. He darted toward the
dungeon, saw that it was empty, then
beckoning Ponto and the brute he
darted to the stone wall ard with their
aid cla,abered over IT,
Ponto, with considerably less agil
ity and with the assistance of the brute,
followed his companion ever. and
the brute in turn, his head and shoul-
ders lashed with Ponto's whip WELD
ed over the top of the wall, swung
himself over and followed then.
Annette noticed the confusion-was
the first to see it, Suddenly striking
an attitude she raised her hand and
arm and pointed toward the white flag
futtering from the tree top. The high
priest stopped his droHing and fol-
lowed the direction Of her hand with
his glance. His acclytes stepped and
stared-so Gid everybody else
Annette saw her opportunity. Upon
a standard by her side lay a heavy
copper scepter. She seized 1t. 1.-the
as her body was she had inherited
great strengtt-wonderful agility.
Without 4 moments hesitation she
swung the scepter viciously about her
head, dashihg the high priest and his
acolytes to the ground, knocking the
Aztec warriors tc right and left. Like
a whirlwind she fought her way to.
ward the gate, slammed it behind her
and sped away.