The Dermott news., 1919-06-26

 Of six pieces of a ehart flag the only key to the location Of s buried treasure These six pieces wore divided and seal tered years before. SenrfACe has one and schemes 10 Set tho others and tho treas ure He kills rclly's father and gets her flag pick Is joined by other flag holder, and thcy set out aftet Scarfaee. After nany s3EcGtGres with tho outlaws. they hrA Mrcd .;:te a blind trail and an expio- sion hurt"s them under m avalanche ot roes
 Hiek's ear. rolling along the blind raYine, reached Il point almost be heath the boulder when Scarface gave the signal and the huge mass of rock wnS toppled down on to the car. Death seemed certain, but Feel who SuS. pectcd trea.hcry was looking aloft and saw the peril and shouted warn ing. cuahl!u. the occupants of the cnr to throw themselves h one side inst a> thc boulder crashed through the top and iluaring to the very ground
 Badly bruised in the accompanying shower ot smaller stones. inc trrlsure hunters hHddled close to the cliG. aS b.az, Sco,us th" trap had failed. Ioaped fram thr running board of feels car and scrauhlsd up the side nf thr cliff. nded by rope dropped over thr top hy the outlaws. X bullet from Dicks pistol kuoeiled him o' the rope but he fell ou the upper sid" ef the bnul- ter. and together with his evil com pauinnS. quickly made good his escape.
 .Se Diaz was a traitor" remarked Lick a~ the other disappeared with tit failvd gang T only wish I had known ii T lif,l" &hilr ago when could have got my handS on him. He must he someone 'hat Scarfncc has picked up since we got over into Mex ico. fnr he xaS nof with the original gang Anyhow. I guess winged him. and he may he >ure that I won't for get that face of his If We eyer meet again. That makes one nurp score crew. But aS for now. inc next thing fot rs to do tS to >ee how we can s.t out ef this fix fo.' that boulder >re1a> to have hloekod the. way pretty ef- fcefuuliy'
 The boulder. although II had failed In itS mission of death. effectively blaeised the WHY out of the blind ra- vine htl luckily thrrr was dynamite In the ruined e;tr and if waS m caSy matter to blew the boulder out of the way, after which all entered Trel's ear and -&nad the maln trail.
 
 We'll they knew that ihcy would never hc safr as iong as Searfuce ana htS friends We're free to work mischief upon thcm. fher fore f seemed WiScsf to trt and trail them now when fhe tracks of t'Ia others were plain and theN had bat q short start If they could coms upon 'hr others hy >ur- prSe and make them prisoners they c 'uld make thcm powerl,>S n follow them, and thuS would he able to coa- tlnne ihcir journey in >afety \ vote Va> taken an#l all were in favor of au immediate pursuit of the ilccinc 
 Taking the track of the flying would be a~Sa>N us they pu' >u all speed and fnirlg flew over thk surface of the desert. So plain and fresh wa~ the track they followed that they were able io cain thr former shack ot the oulawS within very short time Feeling sure that they now had their f'es nj thcir mercy. they approached the >hafl v8rily There was ne sound ar signs of life within but fully de- termine@ that they would not he caught m anH trap which Scarfacr might hnYe st for them they used the utmost caution. Reaching. the outside door theN listened for mo maaf. aaa then aSsurel that their approach had not been noted l.y the gang they hurst open the door and