The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1916-05-25
The Young Commissioner Was Un
easily Searching His Offices.

q Ions time as they picked among the
treasures from the tide.lands. and pres
emily they fell in with the small. brown
women and all disappeared around the
bend in the Siletz road
The aching fury began 10 rise in her
at thought OF those two alone. leay.
.ng the women. idling back together.
Perhaps they would climb the hills for
a way, and sit ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
here the sadness fell upon her that
said she was unworthy.
Had he not kissed her. and was she
not his woman? His eyes were true.
and they had spoken things that babe
her be calm. Not vet had she learned
the lesson Of his greatness tina, kept
him always 50 quiet and sane. even
In trouble.
There came a step beside her, q soft
step padding on the worn, bare floor.
and Coosnah came from the east
porch. painting with the heat. He
leaned against the jamb OF the door
TO the little south room. scratching
luxuriously. and promptly jumped as
NiiN Nb'i Nv AAN o"AANis 'N"o6Ns nthlN
Fate smiled impishly and sent at that
auspicious moment the first good
breeze OF the warm day sucking up
the valley. II caught the papers or
the floor under the typewriter table,
tiuttered them daringly. and with a
whistle and whoop bore them tum
bling out across the swept boards OF
| tho npglpu -panpN AAnH ~ lnA1n nUaIngN
the rocker OF Mas little chair.
The girl in the doorway turned,
reaching out "A half.un willing hand TO
save her rivals property. Not yet had
Siletz learned a tenth OF Sandry's
code, else she would have folded the
packet and laid It aside.
Instead. with the freedom OF camp
life aud utter innocence. she began
TO read. wonderingly at first, then. as
she saw Sandry's name. with hushed
breath and parted lips. When she had
finished the first part she paused and
stared out acrOs the sloping lift o!
meadow. already sere and brown with
the summer heat. Puzzled. but half
comprehendlng, yet filled with a name.
100 A'olf pAA' A'AA nv Hib'Ao ~ lAak
as she turned the page to Sandry's
letter.
DaiIy's Camp. Toledo. July %. 10
John II. MusscldOrn-
The time Of restitution has begun. 49,
you made the structure OF ms fathers
fortune Dut "A Quilted and empty she'll. ~
you alone have the knowledge ana the
cunning TO al II to It's former substance.
unknown to the outside world. wilton
SHudry IN gone. but his pride remain
and II must uc upburnc. Here X tho re-
mittunCe which ] told you would some
day bc forthcoming. Take" II and obtain
the deed to the McadoW lands Farm which
YOU sold, squandering the money. Put 4,
In nay name as part 81 the Sandry ~,
tate, No matter what you hive 10 face
Ia get tt-grt H. This 10 a threat. Re.
membcr that those proofs. which you aud
your uccuWpliCe thought destroyed. are
safe Ia my possession.
"Frum tim" to time YOU VIII be- chilled
upon to Wuuag" IA" buying back ~ ~.
cry piece ~ property. every horse un fNu
breeding farms, every stock aEd bond
thnt you, under the r-uf-atturuuy
witch an honorable und trusting U.d man
invested IN Nuu when b." could no lDugui
be about. s"ll-tpt your profit.
Through travail and bloody swcut kru,
my thtuer ~ Ignorance OF his ruin Unit
his death,
As I had no mercy on James u. whit,
by for his share with you In the imam.
cusly legitimate deals which made VII,
ton Sandry AN unconscious paupcr, ~
viii | have no mercy on you. You Know
what ! know. and shake IN your shoe,
because of IL. So far 40 good shall az,
pect the deed TO the M~cadOwlnnds Farm
as speedily as II can DO ARRANGED,
WALTER SANDRY.
Trembling with premonitIon OF dis
aster to Sandry, Siletz sat holdinI
the strange documents. A great angeI
began to well In her against the otheI
woman. She opened the buttons o
her blue shirt and dropped tho folded
packet inside It's blouse.
On the Siletz road Sandry and Misl