Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1918-08-17
money, to their minds-the abduction of Ybarra's daughter Nan.

money, to their minds-the abduction
 of Ybarra's daughter Nan. *
 Meanwhile, Nan and Yaqui Joe had
 gone to Lost Mine with shipment of
 Cinnabar to be sent to Gwyn's New
 York office. Nan left Joe in charge
 of it, with instructions for him to wait
 for the mail, while she hurried back
 across the mountain trail to her fath-
 CT, whom she did not care to leave
 alone.
 She was riding leisurely along the
 narrow trail that led around the side
 of one of the mountains, when, sud-
 denly rounding curve, she met Gywn
 face to face. The path was not wide
 enough for both horses to pass easily,
 and there was a sheer drop of more than five hundred feet into the valley from it. Mans horse, frightened by t',o sudden appearance of Gwyn, rear ed and started to turn in his tracks. . One of his feet slid over the edge of
 the trail and he commenced to fall. : Own, in an instant, was out of his j saddle and beside her. It was useless to try to save the horse Already he l had lost his balance. Gwyn caught [ Nan just as she was about to go over , the edge, and dragged her back to the l trail, while her mount tottered on the :, brink for a brief second and toppled
 into space. V Nan, when she had recovered from
 the shock of her narrow escape, mur- l, Daured her thanks and was wonder, S ia~. how she would reach her home f When Gwyn astounded her by reveal,
 ing his identity. He, also, was agree t ably surprised to discover that she - was the daughter of Don Carlos Ybar' n "a, whom he was on his way to see. Ht j. had lost himself in the mountains, anc l. was trying to find his way out whef S they met on the narrow trail.
 h She looked at him with her great h dark eyes, and Gwyn was overcome b! e her beauty and carefree freshness X. "Father will be mighty glad to SCI $ you," she said. g That night, shortly after dusk, whe1 d the Sierras were clouded with the eve g ming mist, three figures emerge.
 on horseback from the woods and ad al vanced across the little clearing t v- Ybarra's hacienda. Won Bleck and hl to desperadoes had returned. They dis to mounted, Won Bleck leading dashed u a. to the hacienda, bolted through tn ,y unlocked door, and faced the occupant SC with drawn revolvers. Won Bleck ha t. calculated that this would be all tha Id was necessary, but even such ettlcler CT cy experts of the Central Power h. system" as he was some time calcr at late incorrectly. Neither Gwyn nc he Ybarra threw up their hands in SUI of render. Instead they drew their ow wv weapons, and gave furious battle. Vo of Rleck and the outlaws fired. GWy to and Ybarra returned their shots. l in the excitement no one was hit. Ff he several minutes the fight raged-har . to hand at times-and then Don Ga . los fell, a bullet in his head. GWyn r o,1n was snatched from behind, ar R Nan was caught in the ironlike gras O of the chuckling Cut-Deep. A "Get it! Get it!" Won Bleck yelle "Hurry up, and then run"
 N The outlaws rushed together toWa' the kitchen, and suddenly stoppe N They listened. Through the open do ~ came the sodden chatter of hoots up the grass. The marauders knew lmm k diately what it meant. Yaqui Joe' turning from town, had seen the SD X where Nan had fallen and had SC ~ her horse in the gully below. He W rushing to the house for Don Carl' v The position became dangerous. Tax H thus by surprise, they might all ~ killed. Cut-Deep released Nan ana T Y to the cover of the kitchen. Won Bic \ followed, just as Yaqui Joe burst Tn the door and fired. The bullet plerc his hand. but Won Bleck leaped III the kitchen before he could sne .oain. slammed the door, and bolt H For several minutes Gwyn and J v hurled their bodies against the port At last it sagged and fell in, with X two men, battered and bruised, spra } ling upon it. They looked up quick K expecting to meet volley of sho v Nothing happened. The kitchen "
 empty. .. ,o,-,,, ,,or told the reason. But few feet IT. 0 it. the cover torn off, was an
 ' wooden chest. Yaqui Joe rested
 eyes upon it for second: Then' W a little cry, ran to it and began ru A maging through its contents.
 O "They've got it! They've got 0 he fairly shrieked. And then' req
 D ing down one side, his finger pres
 sonoe+hinp. The inner side f