The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-07-02

francis Morgan. descendant OF Sir
eidss to pass up activities OF city NE Tor
while ahd plans . hahingI trip TO
Thomas RegEn. stock Operator.' comes
announces ne has tip on the location oe
treasure buried by Morgan IL the old
pirate days. Regain has an idea
Young Morgan sails for South Amer
iea In pursuit Of the treasure. Upon
landing he encounters q strange young
woman who appears to mistake him fof
some one else. He - nred upon ~ three
natives and seeka safety aboard his vss-
sci, the Angenque.
Francis learns &c and He@rys the mys.
tsrious Islander. are both descendants OF
Francis discovers his resemblance to
Henry was responsible for bis peculiar
greeting upon first laading on south
Torres again. francis is saved from
death on gElIows and Henry Il arrested
IN his place. Leoncia finds her fancy
has Btrayed from Henry to FranctA
The two plot TO save Hsnry.
Francis. Geonica and Henry elude
their enemies and 90 aboard Francis
vessel The Angslique IA pursued down
the coast. Francis and his party decide
20 90 ashore to elude their pursuers-
They come upon treasure.
No. the two oil men had seen no.
body. But the haciendado who led
saw the footprints OF the mare and
spuTred his horse to follow. his
crowd at his heels.
The peon waited. his
cigarette quite 10 me sahJsh, and
cogitated. When all wSS.5clear. he
Ventured forth Harmed Ehe mechan-
ism controlling the wetEEide- open,
watched the oil fountainlng upward
under the subtegranean pressure
and flowing down the mountain in
a veritable river, Also, he Iist-
ened to ana noted the sohbing,
gasping and bubbling Of the escap-
ing gas This he did not coAmpre--
bend, and all that saved him for his
further adventures was the fact
that he had used his last match to
light his cigarette. In vain he
searched his rags. his ears, and his
hair. He was out OF matches.
So. chuckling at the river OF oil
he saw was only running to waste.
and remembering the canyon trail
below, he plunged down the noun
tainside and upon Francis, who re-
celped him With Sextended autof
matte Down3went,t the 'peon on hiS
fFayed and. frazZled knees in terrier
and duplication to the man he had
twice betrayed that day, Francis
studied him, at first without recosS
milton, because OF the bruised and
laeefated face and held on wnfcn
the blood had dried-I like \ mask
Amigo. amigo" chartered the
But at that moment, from below
on the ravine .tfail. Francis heard
the. .clatteF of a stone disloged by
some mans foot. The next moment
he Identified what was left OF the
peon as the pitible creature to
whom he had given half the con-
tents OF his whisky flask.
We'll, amigo" Francis said in his
native language. lit looks as IL
they are after YOU
No Way Of Escape.
'They will kill me! They will
beat me to DEATH. They are very
angry" the wretch quavered. You
are my only friend, my father and
mother. save me" e..
Can you shoOt?" Francis de-
manded-
IT was a hunter in the Cordfl-
ieras before was sold into slavery,
Francis passed him the auto
matte, motioned him to take shelter.
and told him not to fire until sure
of a hit And to himself he unused;
THE golfers are out on the links
right now at Tarrytown- And Mrs.
BelIingham is on the clubhouse
veranda, wondering how she is go
ing to pay the 1900 points she's
behind and praying for a change Of
luck, and-here am + Lord
Lord backed up by a river Of oil"
His musing ceased as abruptly as
appeared the Jefe, Torres, and the
gendarmes down the trail. As
abruptly he fired his rife, and az
abruptly they fell back out OF sight
He could not tell whether the man
had merely fallen in precipitate re-
treat. The pursuers did not care to
make a rush Of ii, contenting them
selves with bushwhacking. Fran
els and the peon did-the-same. shell
tering behind rocks and bushes and
frequently changing their positions
At the end OF an hour the last
cartridge in Francis rifle was all
that remained. The peon, under his
warnings and threats, still retained
two cartridges IN the automatic.
But the hour had been. an hour
saved for Leoncia and her people,
and Francis was contentedly aware
that any any moment he could turn
and escape by wading across the
river of. oil
So all was we'll. and would have
been well. had not, from above,
come an eruption or another body
Of men, who, from behind trees,
fired as they descended. This was
the haciendado and his fellow
haciendados, in chase OF the fugi-
tive peon-although Francis did
not know II. His conclusion was
that il was another posse that was
after him. The shots they fred at
him were strongly cOnfirmative.
The peon cTawled to his side,
showed him that two shots remained
in the autOmativ he was returning
to him, and impressively begged
from him his box Of matches. Next,
the peon motioned him to cross the
bottom of the canyon and climb the
other side. With half a-guess of the
creatures intention, Francis COM
piled, from his new position Of van
tage emptying his last rifle car
fridge at the advancing posse and
sending it back into shelter down
the ravine.
The next moment the river of oil
flared into flame from where the
peon had touched a match to it. In
the following moment. clear up the
the well itself sent a
fountain of ignited CASA hundred