Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1922-12-15
Comrades in Dead
Valley
BY CHARLES E. BAXTER

20. 1922. Western Newspaper uniouJ

life, but Dead Valley seemed likely
| to be the last of them.
For five days he had set his face
| steadily westward over the burning
/ barren alkuli lands toward the myth
ical mine. in spite Of warnings thar
no man had ever crossed Dead Valley
from end to end. And now Mike saw
his own end approaching
lie had trusted to luck and to his
own logged will power The VIII
burned as unquenchably as ever. bur
the luck was out-dead out. II was
tweuy-four hours since he had tasted
water.
TWenty-four hours under a Dead
Wiley sun. If lie could 60 on twenty
| four hours longer. he could reach
safety. But the blood in his veins had
turned to sirup and cinders, and he
had staggered to the thin shade Of
cactus and fallen there.
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him, painting its tongue hanging from
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