The Little River news., 1920-06-19

like it in all Sunbaked Arizona"
 She stood rigid. Her unfaltering eyes, sloe-black in the pale face, never lifted from him.
 Il want you to tell me what you have done with my father"
 He laughed little and looked at her with eyes that narrowed like those of eat basking in the sun. He had something the look of the larger members of the cat family-the soft long tread, the compact rippling mus cles of a tame panther, and with these the threat that always lies behind it's sleepy wariness.
 You're young lady of one idea. No use arguing with you, reckon"
 Not the least use. I've talked with Mrs. Wylie."
 He raised his eyebrows. Do know the lady?"
 "She will know you. That is more to the point"
 Did she say she knew mel" he purred.
 "She will say it in court-if it ever comes to that"
 Just what will she say, if you please?"
 Kate told him in four sentences with stinging directness that was the out standing note of her, that and a fine self-forgetful courage.
 "Is that all? Comes to this then, that she says 1 heard her scream, ran f,, fnt hnr,c fn Is that d penitentiary offense?
 You helped the villain take his body into the cellar. You plotted with him to hold father a prisoner the~e,'
 Says that, does she-thot she over. heard US p!ottirg?"
 70. Corree she oid s.t cvGrhear what 5ou ssi- You :oOk good care of that. Bit she knew you were con"pir- ing"
 ''Just naturs'iy knew it without overhe arilg," be derided. And of course if l was ;H plot I must have been Johnny -on-the-spot good deal of the time. Hung rcU9d there aplenfy, eSpCCt|
 lie had touched on the weak spot of Mrs. Nylie'S tas, .mony. The man who had saved CUllisOn'S life, after long ts.l: with Blackwell, had gone out of the Jack of Hearts and had not re- turned so far Gs she knew. For her for ar ha.sDo-a Hau scHt her on an err d just before the prisoner W,.s talk Il away and she cid not know who hac tclped niff.
 Kate was silent. 's oW- would this do for an eXplana- tiou.' he suggested lazily. wen say just for the sake of argument that Mrs N'ylie,s story is true that l did save your fathers life. We'll put it that did help carry him downstairs where it was cooler and that l did have u long talk with the fellow Black we'll What would be talking to him abou'. if wasn't reading the riot act to hitn? And after he had said he was sorrf why shouldn't | hit the road out of thpre? There's no love lost between me and Luck CuIliSon. l wasn't under any obligations to wrap him up in cot ton and bring him back this side up with care to his anxious friends. If ne chose later to take Il hike out of town on p.d.q. hurry up business l un.t to blame. And | reckon you'll lind jury will ugree with me"
 Sh. brushed his explanation aside with wOmans superb indifference to logic.
 aYru can talk of course. l don't care | k all lies-lies. lou have Kidnapped father and are holding him somewhere. Don't you dare to hurt him. II you should-Oh. if you should you will wish you had never been born" The tiereeness of her passion beat upon him like sudden summer | hail
 He forgot for the moment that he was man with the tolls of the law closing upon him, forgot that his sue cess and even his liberty were at stake. He saw only a girl with the hunger of | love in her wistful eyes, and knew that 1t lay in his power to bring back the laughter and the light Into them. Suppose I can't fight fair any long, CT. Suppose I've let myself get trapped and it isn't up to me but 10 somebody else Up to your father, sayf
 My fatherg"
 "Ycs How could l turn him loose when the first thing he did would he to swear ouf warrant for my arrest?"
 "But he wouldnt-not If you free him"
 ! He laughed barshly. "I thought you knew him. He's hard as naiis." He laugred again. bitterly. "Nol that it matters. Of course | was Ius putting case. Nothing io If really"
 He was hedging because he thought he had goue tno fnr. but she appeared net to notice fl. Her eyes had. the far aeay look of one who eommuues with | herself
 "If | could only see him and have lalG with him. ! th.rS could get him 70 do as ! 'isk. He nearly always does. tles gaze went sV Ally back to | him "Iet He falk with hIm. There's