South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-10-09
BEGIN HERE TO-DAY.
The

To was
QUINTANA and his band Of inter
national thieves who first stole
that priceless gem. the Flaming
Jewel. from, the
COUNTESS OF ESTHONIA. For
love OF the now beggared coun-
tess.
JAMES DARRAGH sought the gem
and traced 10 10 the disreputable
"hotel' in the AdirOudacks owned
by
MIKE CLINCH. Under the name of
HAL SMITH. Darrash works at the
Clinch hotel where ne meets
Clinch's step-dauEhter, the beau
tiful
EVE STRAYER. the one great in
\ huence for good I'm the career of
CIinch Then Quintara and his
gang appeared in the vicinity
and both Clinch and Darragh
knew they would stop at nothing
10 regain the loot nlched from
the royal casket.
Go ON With the story.
EPISODE THREE.
ON star Peak.
CHAPTER /.
Mike Clnch regarded the jewels
taken from Jose Quintana as legi-
innate loot acquired in war.
He was prepared to kin anybody
who attempted TO take the gems
from him.
At the very possibility his rulins
passion blazed-his mania TO make
of Eve Strayer a grand lady.
But now. what he had feared for
years had happened. Quintaua had
found -Cuintaua. after all
these years. had discovered the iden.
tity and dwelling place of the OBJ
scure American soldier who had
robbed him i'm the Mushroom of
Paris cafe. And Quintana was now
in America. here i'm this very Wild
erness. tracking the man who had
dcspoi.ed him
CNuch. 10 his shirt-sleeves, carry
ms a rifle. came out on the log YER
anda and sat down 20 think st over.
FIe began 20 realize that he was
likely 90 have trouble with a man as
cold-bblooded and as dosgcd as him
self
Nor did he doubt that those with
h CuIutara were desperate men.
con whom could he COUNT ON no.
body unless he paid their hire. None
amorg the Iawless men who haunted
his backwoods "hoteI' az star Pond
would lift a nnger 10 help him. Al
most any among them would have
robbed h!ns-mu-dered him. prob
ab.v-.f &c were known that jewels
were hidden En- .hC house.
He could not trust Jake k.oon-
Icverett was as treachcrous as only
a born coward can be, sid Honey
Harvey Chase. Bloomers. Byron
rTastiugs-he knew them all toe
veil 20 trust tEem-a sulien. UNI
ecrupuulous pac6, partly cowardly
always ferce-as are any creatures
tnat live furJivcly, feed only by thel'
wits and stink through lie 1us'
outside the frontiers OF law.
And vet. one OF this gang had
stood BY him-Hal Smith-the man
he himself had been nbcu. 90 sloy
Clinch got up from the bench
where he had been sitting and walk
ed down 20 the pond where Hal
Smith sat cleaning trout.
HAL" ne said. Il been dEuring
soma oufntana done dare call 80
the E0nStHNlees 4 NAtt
Oufntana and I've got 20 settle this
on our own"
smith slit open a ten-inch trout
stripped Il. flung the entrails GU
into the pond. soused the hsh u
water. and threw It into a milk pan
Whose Jewels were they IN che
beri1rinrs" he inquired carelessly.
How do I know
"rf YOU ever found out
n II don't want 20. I got them ID
y .re war anyway. And it don't maxi
TO difference how got EN-; Eve
going 20 be q lady II I go 20 ih
chair for t.. 50 that's that
smith SIT another trout Quilted
flung away the Yiscera but laid hac'
che roe
shame 20 take them in October.
he remarked. but people must ear.
"Same's me-" nodded Clinch. "
d0n't want 90 kin no one. but Nv
she's gotta be a lady and ride IN he
own automobile with the proudest.
Does Eve know about the Jew
e.s2"
Cunch's pale eyes. which had bee
rowing over the wooded shores o
s.ar Pond reverted 10 Smith.
nd cent ny throat before I'd tei
rcr." he said softly.