The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1916-08-10

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the Mexican camp. At this point Dor.
otny takes a hand In the negotiations.
Dorothy rose. pale.faccd, her eyes
alignt with blue fire, Ike two tur.
Quc,ses flame. backed
Indeed. ! shall take no further risk
In this matter. You will go, father;
YOU do owe II TO him. | shall go with
you, and we shall take the Bell"
Wilkes stared at her, uncertain
whether he had heard Alright.
"You-you-you go? Not by a lo.ss
shot, Miss Dorothy? Why. it'd be sheer
murdor-no less! Have you both lost
your minds?"
The girls lips we're well.nigh color.
less; but wilkes, who knew men, knew
when he saw tho tense lines in her
face that she hal passed the dividing
line between common sense and i'm.
pulse.
But howf" 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.
mcnt. her eyes luminous. standing, n
veritable pictt.e, in the golden square
OF sunlight that lay upon the floor.
"Come!" she said imperiously to
her father. Come We have no time
TO lose. You will keep these two inen
in safety till we return"
Wilkes gave up, mutterlng his dis.
content as he turned away. shaking
his gray head.
Amt you got no sense. Upton?
Don't you know that what you plan is
plumb madness? I've got a great mind
10 pull n CUR on you IN not let you
go n step"
For answer Dorothy shook her head.
She would not betray her father be-
fore them all. What she knew must
forever remain hid.
NO." she said again quickly; he
went for US and we W 1t TO him.
Whatever shall be said OF Ms. no man
shall say that we Uptons do not pay
our debts. have the Bell where Tor
can ever find II. Come. father!"
Like a man In a dream. Upton 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
beyond the alamos-the cottonwoods
where Wilkes and Manuel had made
their capture that morning.
As they approached the lines OF the
besiegers they were greeted with q
yell from tho outpost. Twenty men
sureed forward 10 seize them, but were
SWEPT back by an officer, who sprang
forward, machete in one hand, his
lows Fung sombrcro in the other.
Back. perros." they heard him cry.
1T Is senior Upton himself who desires
speech with ell general. Is 1t not so mi
Gmigo2"
Upton nodded carelessly.
About the cook.fres one or W.
women moved lazily. The whole
camp Mas asleep in the sunlight as
Upton AID Dorothy entered the house.
For a Iecond the two stood at gaze,
the CLARA Of the sun still binding
them, But when their eyes had become
accustomed to tho cool, darkened in.
terror Dorothy gasped and Upton
swore sof-ly. There before them, his
arms tied at the elbows behind his
back. stood Eynaston under charge OF
a guard OF four men Behind a table
sat tho BLIND priest, smiling quietly.
and the squai.Agured. b~ullnecked gen.
eral, who was in a furious rage.
And you dare to tell me that you
do not know where Il IS, when the
padre here gays that he is sure you
know its whereabouts?"
Just then Upton stepped forward.
II have the Bell" no said quietly,
III you let Kynaston go, as you prom.
Use, you get Il; otherwise not"
"Ia.hal" The general uttered a
nasty laugh. IN hold you till | get
It. anyway" lie waved his hand care.
lessly in the direction OF the young
American.
Take him out and shoot him." he
ordered in an onhand way.
You bloody villain! You worse
than dog-you wretehed, yellow cur!
You horse thief. robber, villain, ban
dit. murderer! You conscienceless,
periured blackmailer! You dirty.
embarrassing 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
nery red. The veins stood out. knot
ted. on his head; his hands were gro
ping i~uriously about his empty hol-
ster.
rs your werd nothingf" he raved.
Here yoa pfomised to free Kynaston
n ] gave you the Emerald Bell; ! come
A. wn TO arrange the details; you seize