The Dermott news., 1916-07-27

Dorothy rose. pale-faeed, her eyes alight with blue ire. like two tur quoises tlame-backed.
 Indeed, 1 5hall take no further risk in this matteg. You will go, father; you do owe it to him. 1 shall go with you, and we aaall take the Bell"
 Wilkes stsfed at her. uncertain whether he had heard alright.
 'You-you---you go2 Not by a long shot. Miss Dorothy? Why, it'd be sheer murder no less, Have you both lost your minds? ?"
 The girls lips were well-ngh color less. but Wilkes, who knew men, knew when he saw the tense lines in her face that she had passed the dividing line between common sense and im- pulse.
 But howl" he asked How can you take the Bell"
 80 that no one can detect it? Have no fear-wait.'
 She disappeared with the Bell into her own room. A moment later she returned. her face flushed with excite ment, her eyes luminous, standing. a veritable picture. in the golden square of sunlight that lay upon the floor.
 "Come!" she said iuperiously to her father. Come, We have no time to lose. You will keep these two men in safety till we return"
 Wilkes gave up, muttering his dis content as he turned away, shaking his gray head.
 "Ain't you got no sense. Upton9 Don't you know that what you plan is plumb madness? I've got great mind to pull gun on you an not let you go one step.
 For answer Dorothy shook her head. She would not betray her father te- fore them all. What she knew must forever remain hid
 No" she said again quickly. he went for us and we owe it to him. Whatever shall be said of us. no man shall say that we Uptons do not pay our debts. I have the Bell where none can ever find 1t. Come. father"
 Like a man in dream, pton fol. lowed her out the door The rest of the party morosely eyed the two as they walked down the hill the girl golden-haired. trim-habited the stur dy, square-shOuldered figure of the miner plodding heavily at her side Silently they passed down the slope, still speeches. they crossed the ariojo hn ,Itv. .Ig where Wilkes and Manuel had made their capture that morning
 As they approached the lines of the besegers they were greeted with yell from the outpost Twenty men surged forward to seize them, but were swept back by an officer. who sprang forward, macbete in one hand his ,,5w-swung sombrero in the other.
 Back. perros they heard him cry, 'It is Senor Upton himself who desirss speech with el general. Is it not so mi amigo?"
 Upton nodded carelessly.
 About the cook fires one or two women moved lazily. The whole camp was asleep in the sunlight as Upton and Dorothy entered the house.
 For second the two stood at gaze. the glare of the sun still binding them. But when their eyes had become accustomed to the cool. darkened in- terior Dorothy gasped and Upton 5wore softly, There before them. his arms tied at the elbows behind his back. stood Kynaston under charge of guard of four men. Behind table sat the blind priest. smiling quietly. and the squat-figured. bullnecked gen. eral. who was in furious rage.
 And you dare to tell me that you do not know where it is, when the padre here says that he Is sure you know It's whereabouts"
 Just then Upton stepped forward.
 'T have the Bell" he said quietly ''If you let Kynastou go, as you prom iso. you get it; otherwise not
 'Ha-ha!" The general uttered nasty laugh. "Ill hold you till get 1t, anyway" He waved his hand care lessly in the direction of the young American
 'Take him out and shoot him." he ordered in an offhRnd way.
 "You bloody villain! You worse than dog-you wretched, yellow cur! You horse thief, robber. villain. ban dit. murderer! You conscienceless. perjured blackmailer! You dirty. double-crossing cheat! Snide! Crook! Crater! Tin-horn."
 Upton was blazing. raving mad angry Despite the blood he had lost from the gunshot wound, his face was Hery red. The veins stood out, knot ted. on his head: his hands were gro ping furiously about his empty hol- ster.
 'Is your word nothing7" he raved. Here you promised to free Kynaston n gave you the Emerald Bell: come down to arrange the details; you seizs