Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1916-06-02

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our prisoner; we will allow you to de
part In peacs-anything, everything
! speak for the general--I-"
Shut up!" interrupted Upton.
The old miner turned to Wilkes.
I'm going down to their camp my
SELF" he said shortly. you hold these
hostages for my safe return. I'll dicker
with this old highlander personally:
give him the Bell II ! have to, but, any
way. bring Kynsston back with me-"
He hesitatsd.
Il really owe II to the boy" he con.
cluded. What are you shaking your
head at. Wilkes?"
BRAY q fool In Q mortar. yet shall
his folly depart not from him. quoted
MIR. Wilkes. II member hearin' that
at Sunday school. II you 20 down
there an promise him the Bell for
KynAston he'll grab you an shoot you
II you don't come across with the Bell.
III you take 1t with you he'll take
1t. shoOt you, an then shoot Kynss-
ton.
No, sires! tn only thing to do
IL to send this here colonel what has
seen the Bell back to General Obispo
an tell him that you'll swap It for Key
naston"
Dorothy rose. palsfaced, her eyes
sliSht with blue IRE, like two tur-
quoisss fsmsbacked.
Indeed, / shall take no further risk
in this matter. You will 60. father;
you do owe It to him. l shall 60 with
you. and we shall take the Bell"
Wilkes stared ct her, uncertain
whether he had heard Alright.
"You-you-you 60? Not by long
shot; Miss Dorothy? Why. it'd be sheer
murder-no less! Have you both lost
your minds?"
The girls lips were well.nigh 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 i'm
pulse.
But how?" 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. q
/ vsritable picture, 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 win keep these two men
in safety till We return"
Wilkes gave up. muttering his dis
content a. he turned away. shaking
his gray head.
Amt you got no sense, Upton?
Don't you know that what you plan 10
plrnit madness? I've got great mind
to pull Q gun on you an not let you
20 One step"
For answer Dorothy shook her head.
She would not betray her father be-
fore them oil. What she knew must
forever remain hid.
NO" she said again quickly; he
went for us and We owe 1t to him.
Whatever shall be said Of US. NO man
shall say that we Uptons do not pay
our debts have tho Bell where none
can ever find It. Come. father!"
Like q man in . 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, trtm.habitsd; the stur-
dy, .sauare-shouldered figure OF the
miner plodding heavily at her side.
silently they passed down the slope;
still speeches. they crossed the Rriojo
beyond the alamos-ths cottonwoods
where Wilkes and Manuel had made
their capture that morning.
Az they approached the lines Of tie
besissers they were greeted with .
yell from the outpost. Twenty men
surged forward to seize them, but were
swept back by an officer, who sDrang
forward, mRchete In one hand, his
lowswung sombrero In the other.
Back. perros!" they heard him cry.
ut ID Senior Upton himself who desires
speech with 81 general. IL 1t not 30 mi
smigo?"
Upton nodded carelessly.
About the cook-fres one or two
women moved lazily. The whole
camp was asleep in the sunlight as
Upton and Dorothy entered the house.
For 0 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.
terror Dorothy gasped and Upton
swore 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-hgured, bullnecked gen
sral. who was In q furious rage.
And you dare to tell me that you
do not know where 1t 10, when the
padre here says that he 10 sure you
know its whereabouts?"
/ Just then Upton stepped forward.
II have the Bell" he said quietly
III you let Kynsston 80. as you prom
Use. you get 1t: otherwise not"
"Ha.ha!" The general uttered q
nasty laugh. "rll 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 offhand way.
you bloody villain! You worse
than dog-you wretched, yellow cur!
You horse thief, robber. villain. ban