Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-04-13
Z, ISL REX BEACF

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great danger.
Chapter XVIII-Dave goes to Las
Palmas and arrives just after the muir
der of Ed Austin.
Chapter XIX--He rounds up J0st.
gives him the water cure and gets
from him confession that he killed Ed,
then starts for La Feria to protect
| Alaire, whom he knows Longorio will
capture. He instructs Blaze to give
the whole matter the widest publicity
and to send Ellsworth to Washington
to sing battle hymns.
Chapter XX-At La Feria Alaire
finds that she Is Longorio's prisoner.
| Chapter XXI-Longorio woos Alaire
and brings priest to marry them
that night.
Chapter XXII--Dave wins through
to La Feria and the priest marries
Alaire to him during Longorio'a alb
sence.
CHAPTER XXIII-The priest plays
on Longorio's inordinate vanity unit
he consents to send Alaire and Davs
away to the border.
! CHAPTER XIV-Jean Garcia, tht
peon whom Alaire saved, Is able t
help her and Dave On the road to the
border.
"We've got to hide out during the
day or wen get into trouble. Besides
these women must be getting hungry
Il fear there is something feminine
about me-" confessed the little man
"rm furnished, too"
AT the next rancho they came to they
applied for shelter. but were denied
in fact, the owner cursed them SC
roundly for being Americans that the,
were glad to ride onward. A mile Of
two farther along they met a cart The
driver Of which refused to answer
their greetings. AS they passed out o.
his sight they saw that he had halted
his lean oxen and was staring aftel
them curionsly. Later. when the SUI
wns well up and the world had fully
awakened, they deserted Il mounted
man, evidently a cowboy. ridin!
through the chapnrral. He saw them
too, and came toward tho road. bu
after brief scrutiny he whrled hi
horse and galloped off through the cnc
.. tus, shouting something over his shoul
der.
.'This won't do" OAIallcy declared
, rneaslly. 81 dop't like the actions o
these people. Let re appeal to tn
next person we meet. can't believ
! they all hate U.s."
/, Soon they came to rise In the road
!. and from the crest Of this elevation be
held ahead Of them small village o
i, white houses shining from the shelte
4 Of grove. The ranclleria was pcrhnp
4 two miles away, and gnlloping towar
4 1t was the vaquero who had challenges
Q them. a x
"That's the Rio Negro crosslng,
4 Dave announced. Then spying d llttl
D house squattlny short distance bnc
J. from the road, he said: WED bette
b try yonder Ifthey turn us down wei
|. hive to take to the brush IL
Q O'Mnlley agreed. "Yes, and We bav
. no time TO lose. That horseman Is e
Ing TO rouse the, town. I'm afrai
!. we're--ir for IT."
\ Dave. nodded silently. AsW
! Leaving the beaten path, the refr
\ gees threaded their way through ctlt
a tus and sage to gate, entering whic
they apWoncled the strnw-tlmtche
!. incnl they had Sect "A naked boy bah
watched them draw near, then scuttlc
for shelter. piping an alarm. A ma
q appeared from somewhere. ut sight
= whom the priest rode forward with
4 pleasant greeting. But the fellow w:l
: unfrlendly. His wife. too, emerged frol
the dwelling and Joined her husband
|. wayning Father O'Malley away.
n let me try" Alalre begged. on
I. sp,irred her horse up TO the group. III
= smiled down at the country peopl
/. saying: 1--WE hive Travelled n lon
I, why. and we're tired and hungr
Won't you give 'us something TO ea'
/. Well pay you well for your trouble
! The nun dcmtlrrcd sullcnly and b
{ gan Il refusal; but hls wife. nfter
t wondering acrl.lny. lnlerrllutc1 hi