Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1922-09-10


Lucas cnllcn learned Of IL. hut
gave cot that his guest had gune On
4 huniing trip" she pressed on. He
followed and finally found Us. il.s
money. Of course. was an influence:
had nothing: De Chenal owed tive
million francs. Lucas Cullen made
his escape easy. I was under AGE:
legal necessities had been ignored.
lie married DE Chcnal 10 his daugh'
ter, gave him money ard PACKED
him on. II vas easier than before 10
make me an outcast. The nest
spring. my son was born"
Mother Barney cried forbid
ding her. a. he stepped toward her
under the light. From the other
side Of the room. where she had
been. women rallied her name. but
she did not hear them.
This In my SOM sine cried. her
hands claspine Barnoys. MY sor
Loaf 10 me that summer Of his birth
because I vas made an outcast but
now-now restored to me-"
So her son caught her IN his arms.
as her strength collapsed. with the
aid OF some woman. unknown 70 him
but who lovingly called her Agnes"
ana kipued her check. he bore he
mother through the door, a the hack
Of the room and away from the hub
hub behind them 10 where they
could be quiet and alone.
CHATTER XVIII
A WEEK later Ethel was In chi
n caso. rejoinins Barney and
Cousin Agnes and learning
that Lucas Cullen. Senior. had fn,s'
ter,ousiy disappeared. lie had no,
been seen after leaving the seancs'
Ethel and Barney married ss
weeks later. at the old house at 81.
Frorentin.
Benne, asd Julia and their mother
came up Tor the service. after which
Barney and Ethel went west. Agnes
| returned TO Chicago soon after the
Cullens went hack; and old Sarah
Cullen remained at ~. Floren,in
alone with the Indians until July
whom, after weeks Of drought. the
forsst arss, which had rested Tor
mant years. swept through the tin
der dry slashiass ana second growth
81 the peninsula and burned the old
house 10 the ground. 80 sarah re-
treated. psrfcrcs. 20 the home OF her
older son "a pray and Wal,
Throughout the western forests
also drought prevailed that summer.
Here and there the names sudden.
~ burst on two eide. 81 little WI
lasss. all but cutting on escape,
and In one If these placos--se the
ielesraphed news relstsd-'a hues
old man, strange To the settlers NE
dominating IN manner and plainly
ssrsrt In Ways Of nshung fores, nrs,
nlsrrd himself In command and
! rned away the flames from the
iuwn
Ne himself worked tlrclessly IN
HE IRE lines with az ana spade
ana when word rsme ,hs, iva ~
his men were mlsslnk and probably
had fallen and were lying overcome
Nv SNAKE and gases, close IN iron,
Of the names, he went IN and hrnushi
out one man ana returned Cot the
other and never came hack
Days later, when the hre had
burnt out. and men were able NJ
last 10 so through The black. smni.
dsring region, they found he 70
mains beside ihose Of the men fcr
whom he had returned ldsnuaea'
ton was not easy, but ssa The
wires carried 20 chlcaso the lnfoF'
nation that the old man had besn,
beyond doubt Lucas Cullen,
i'cnnsi trough, the message 10
his father ., the office
'he went with hls hoois on" ssh
Luke, xlnkins vet s,es That's
how he'd like 70 10, Ana well, toy
u eouldnt hs batter than that"
l tihsl aaa Barney received ,As
Esxs together,
II ~ knew grandfather wouldn't %
without dolns something che sald
, proudly, "iou zee, be can heilsl
. iace them all nowi"
Il "fss," sald Harvey ana he kass
I, the infant her falhnr and moihsl
! ana hls nan grandfather " the I.saI
~ Mofman, and laylor and hin
I. ehsles aud oulnlaa u the asmlal
!. torch,
y = susss," Ethel saia, "eld ., q
csn pui out bic lofch I can't thlnl
|, that ens me act 81 the enc esl
ehsnss one all ., once hul 81