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funeral cars. Calls responded TO uay
or night. Phone rs.
J. T. BROWNS FURNITURE STORE
Funeral director and licensed en-
balmer Most modern funeral par
lor, morgue and funeral cars, Calls
responded to day or night, Corner
Main and Water streets. Telephone So
INSURANCE AND LAND BUSINESS
~~>->~>-~-~->-~~>~~-"~
HARTMAN ABSTRACT co. MAKES
reliable abstracts OF title 10 all
lands in Umatlla county, Buys and
sells all kinds of real estate Does
general brokerage business. Pays
taxes and makes investments for non
residents. Writes fire. life and acci-
dent Insurance. References, any
bank in Pendleton.
JAMES JOHNS, Pres,
c. H MARSH, Sec.
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VETERINARY SURGEONS,
ATTORNEYS

RALEY & RALEY. ATTORNEYS At
law. office in American National
Bank Building.
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AMARILLO DAILY news
Owned and rablishrd by
v =. WILLIAMS

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from twelve % fwehty-four hours in
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CAMPBELL CONFECTIONERY
viii Appreciate Your Trade.
Phone $50. 5ll F. Fourth
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This particular lady--speaking also
for millions of other women-laughed
when someone suggested that she abandon
her GAS RANGE.
Il never knew a person who had
become familiar with GAS RANGE who
wanted to cook with coal, wood or gasoline
and none ever did willingly
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Entered a. fseor1JaB matter a.
the l0H0'Hre a. Amarillo. Teras
under fHe l.f NJ March 3. 1873.
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THE LEADER

The Barber Shop Near the Post
office.
BATHS
Cirst-clsss work and Courteous
Treatment. lli East Fifth ~.
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n"r '. nI lasting gratitude
attended pho many friends %"
' Eir'.. mher0d Hrr 'oUCI UH.
iHrHl HE ana frtue h.H'
rr FnH fFTHfIfUI eNureF
.Ious Of t friendship thar BIOS.
H| .Hlrsrt fnNers uH fHr
HUf fH.f MARKED DIS resting place
F f. PeNHFN
Ht-TM ANn rHNfIN
SOB $3.50 MRS fI = LAUDER
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nailr N1rs aani ~ musi ~ A.
compauisi ~ The CASH.
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80 THANK YOU
SIR Sl.lf SAID
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Copyright, 1914, by Louis Joseph Vance

For Rose had abruptly taken a hand
in the affair, gesture of evaporation
prefacing her call: "Alan!"
To her Mr.. Law turned instantly,
with such alacrity that none who
watched might doubt which of the two
women came first in his esteem
Nor was this wasted upon the under
standing of Judith. Eyeing her mar
rowly though furtively, Mr.. Barcus
saw her handsome face darken omin-
ously.
And her father was as quick to
recognize these portents of trouble
and to seek to advantage himself of
them.
His head craned out horribly on his
lcng. wasted nesa as ne nitcnad
siDllant whisper tor ner ears, and MS
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 a twinkling. His
daughter turned on him in a flash of
,, imperial rage.
Barcxs caught snatches of the wom-
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
| me! l am finished with you
| once and for all time; never again
shall you pervert my nature to your
| damnable purposes-never again shall
| word or wish OF yours drive me to
| lift my hand against man who has
| never done you the least harm, though
! your persecution of him would have
acquitted him of charge of man
| slaughter in any court-on grounds of
| selt-defense! Understand mel"
| 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
writhen face to the moonlight.
God help us both" she cried.
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were as quick as his own; she, too,
had caught the sound of bells behind
the base of the hill. And of sudden,
without another word, she turned and
flung away into the heavy thickets 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 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
bridge of the simplest character
no more than footway of boards
hound tngather with rones none too
substantial III seo.-..--o, with anotner
rope, breast-high, to serve as a hand
rail
Alan tested the bridge cautiously.
1t 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 decline, they had not
enough strength left to sustain
through another hour
And what they thought good for
tune, opportunity at this pass, brought
them to a clearing dMted with the
buildings OF an abandoned copper
mine. Not a soul was in evidence
there, but the rude structures offered
shelter for beast as well as man.
Barely had they made Rose as COM
Portable ss might be upon the rough
plank flooring of one of the sheds
and tethered the buTros 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 sitting position, with
his back against the door-jamb, felt
sleep overcoming him like dense,
dark cloud
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CHAPTER XVI.
Flood and Fire.

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 sluicegates-
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
In his memory as an hour in hell. No
ray of hope lightened it's impenetrable
blackness. He could say nothing to
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 terrier catches rat.
To die there, in the darkness, like SO
many noxious animals trapped in a
well!
The water mounted rapidly. With.
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Crashing His Teeth
same time other hands were busy
binding his own together by the
wrists and lashing 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 his ankles had already been
secured by means of half dozen half
bitches and a square knot
His hands attended to, his head was
released. Promptly he lifted it 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 if his senses had played fair, the
laugh he had heard was the laugh of
Mr.. Marrophat, head-devil in the serv-
ice of Seneca Urine.
He twisted his head to one side
and glancing along the floor, saw moth
ing but the wall. Twisted the other,
way, at the cost Of 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,
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in five minutes 1t drove them back to
the elbow in the tunnel; within ten it
Tapped their ankles as they fingered
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 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 it, he felt certain that the
powder room had been deliberately
disclosed to him by Jimmy.
Probably, then, the key and fuse
were but stage properties-or pos
sibly
Whether or no. was death in one
form preferable to the other?
He was decidedly of the opinion
that it were better to be extinguished
once and for all time, in the space of
q second, annihilated by an explosion.
than to die thus iingeringlv
On his consideration, ne 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.
It was waist deep, however, before
they retreated to the 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 had
reached their chins. And they stood
with head against the roof of the tun.
mel
Holding Rose close to him, Alan
kissed her lips, that were as cold as
death.
Then, fumbling under water, he
found the hand of the man at his side.
The water Tapped his lips like a
blind hand
In the tunnel that branched off from
the main shaft, beyond the bulkhead,
some thirty minutes before this juno
ture, candle had guttered in it's stick,
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left carelessly thrust into the wall by
Marrophat's lieutenant, and guttering,
had dropped a flaming wick into a 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 were spreading right
and left, the tunnel was 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 key of blasting pow.
der was less than an eighth full; it's
explosion could not possibly nave eff.
fected the cave-in Alan had at first
feared
But what Marrophat had overlooked
was the proximity to the key of some
several sticks of dynamite, masked by
a film Of earth that had fallen from
the crumbling walls.
When the blazing fuse dropped
sparks into the blasting powder this
last exploded right willingly and the
dynamite took it's 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 it 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. 1t was
not until Alan had contrived 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, if almost unrecog.
nizable in his mask of mold and SCOT,
battling back toward the shaft against
the kneedeep tide.
Halfblinded and stified as he was by
the reek of steam and powder fumes,
Alan struggled with himself until his
wits were passably clear.
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
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in Impotent Rage.

"Barcus!"
The latter grunted soulfully by way
of answer: he could do no more.
Eve worked my gag loose" Alan
pursued in 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 chance to work them free
that way, given time =
"Time!" was the mirthless thought
of Barcus. Haven't we got all eter-
nity?"
For all that, he wasted no time
whatever in obey1ng Alan's suggestion
then lay for upward of ten minutes
with his face in the mold of the tunnel
while Alan chewcd and spat and
chewed and spat and chewed again at
the ropes round the wrists Of his
friend.
If it we're in truth no more than ten
minutes it seemed upward of an hour
before the bonds grew slack and Bar
Gus with an effort that cost him much
Of the skin on one wrist worried a
hand free, then loosed the other, re-
moved and spat out his gag, and set
hastily about freeing his friend. That
took but few instants-little more
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VUpyEIXnCs AS12s @
Continued from last weekly
CHAPTER Kiln.
Camp-for-tne-Eicht.


WELL gents!" the driver observed
cheerfully, Withdrawing head and
hands from long and intimate COM
munion with the stubborn genius be-
meath the hood Il reckon you-all
mays well make up yore minds to
christen this hyeh salubrious spot
Camp-for-the-Night. You won't be
goin' no farthah-not just t present.
Pulling this old wagon through them
desert sands back yon6eh 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 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 it calm" the affable chauffeur
advised. "F'rettin' won't get you-all
nothin'. If it was me, I'd call it a
day, make a fire, get them cushions
out of the cyah, and get some rest
You can't do nothin' till l get back,
anyway, and that won't be much be-
fore sunup."
Where are you going?" Barcus de-
manded.
''Walkin, friend; just walkin'-"
What for?"
ITO fetch help-leastways, onless
yo've got some kick comm and nd
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-
put nightmare" Barcus observed PEN
Bively.
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 ard civilIy explaining
to Miss Judith Urine the purpose Of
the chaufeur's expedition
~ Discovery of this circumstance
worked deep wrinkle batween the
brows as well as into the humor Of
Mr.. Barcus.
Here, he promised himself, was a
situation to titiuate- the Comic Muse
Itself He pointed cut in turn the sew
eral component parts: the motor car
derelict in the hollow Of those awful
and silent hills-for all the world like
mouse petrifed 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 to 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..
Trine's mutinous Judith-talking to
her in the friendliest fashion mag
Unable, precisely as if she had not
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CHAPTER Xiv.
As in a Glass, Darkiy.


Thoughtfully Mr.. Barcus returned
lis attention to the lovers.
If the evidence Of his senses did not
mislead him. he was witnessing their
first difference of opinion. 1t was not
an argument acute enough to deserve
The name of Guarrel;-b4t undoubtedly
the two We're 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-
ercise, no doubt" Rarcus suggested.
Rose thinks it's dangerous to stop
here" Alan began to explain, ignoring
the interruption.
Miss Rose is right-eh, Miss Ju-
dith?" Barcus interpolated.
Judith nodded darkly.
80 I'm going to see if | 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. Il mean, don't get one for me.
I'm stopping here"
But" Alan started to protest.
She gave him pause with a weary
gesture.
Please! It's 10 good arguing, Mr..
Law: I've made up my mind; can be
most helpful here by my fathers
SIDE" she asserted, and nodded at
Urine with 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's
reluctance to consent to this lest he
convict himself Of the charge of rank
ingratitude, remembering the great
service his erstwhile antagonist had
! 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 conversa-
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
lmpended 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. II
beg of you both, let dogs delight to
bark and bite"
He got no farther: Judith's ears
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gagged into the bargain the width OF
the shed between them.
But of Alan Law. no sign.

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
blythe 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 Rose-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 fingers, to work loose the
knots at Roses wrists; but deep in
his heart he knew this to be nothing
but forlornest hope
With infinite pains he had con-
trived to bridge the distance by half,
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-
Meath the knees, and he was lugged
laboriously out into the sunlight, car
ried a considerable distance, and de-
posted unceremoniously within 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 well.
He wasted a 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
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 captive-trussed to a
tree at some distance.
The remaining arrangements of
their captors were swiftly and deity
consummated, though their design re-
NAMED obscure to Mr.. Barcus until
he, after Rose, was dumped like bale
| into 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
protests of rusty and greaseless ma
chinery. Twisting his neck, Barcus
saw the dim opening of the shaft
slowly closing, as if curtain were
being drawn down over it. Jimmy
| was closing the bulkhead door, leav-
ing them definitely prisoners, beyond
human aid, there in that everlasting
black hole.
With final squeal and thump the
bulkhead settled into place. A con-
] fusion of remote sounds thereafter in
| d;cated that Jimmy with, perhaps
! .MaFrophatss assistance was making
the bulkhead fast beyond question
wedging and blocking it with timbers.
These ceased-and the silence was
5brcken by Alan's voice
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CHAPTER Wv.
The Bowels of the Earth.

Awaking befell Mr.. Barcus in q
fashion sufficiently sharp and startling
to render him Indifferent to the benafi-
cial effects Of some eight hours of
dreamless Stun ber
He discovered himself lying fat on
his face, with somebody's inconsfder.
ate, heavy hand purposely grinding the
said face into the aged and splintery
planks of the shed flooring At the
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Esteem.
fallen little short of comprising his
death, not once, but half 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,
Mr.. Laws fiancee and Judith's sister,
eating her heart out with jealousy Of
this new-sprung intimacy between her
sister and her lover!
bad business, my friend!" Barcus
mentally apostrophized the unwilling
Alan Law.
!. He interrupted himself to nod know
Agly and with profound conviction:
n knew it. Now it begins again!"