Evening journal., 1923-02-13
SYNOPSIS

SYNOPSIS
JOHN HANNON. wealthy ranch own
er, his blind wife. BELLE and theil
beautiful daughter, VAL, live happily
sogethe5 in Haanons S wonderfui ssl ,Ts ran 81 81
the Red Brood OF horses. disappear
from Paradise.
FATHER HILI.AIRE. IN charge o.
the Mission, introduces Val to his friend
NEI4ANTRlE from the Border and ar
interesting friendship grows between the
Two young people.
Meanwhile Redstar. hidden away in
the Blind Trail Hills calls in vain foi
BOYCE CLENDENNING, suitor OF
Val and favored by her parents. calls al
3'sradise and vows 10 run 20 earth the
rustlers who may have stolen kedstar.
John Bannon Is away on a myster !,
Gus journey and Val declares she VIII
accompany Clendenning.
A horse-a great red horse, mon
ster tall, marvelously slim. The
gentle eyes were sick with longing,
while the delicate nostrils that quiv-
cred with each breath we're pinched
8. bit. for the lSingly heart beneath
the broad bay breast was fretting it,
self away.
And as the twilight fell Redstar
the beautiful, Redstar the swift, the
,ender-eyed. the loving, threw up his
head and sent piercing cry ringing
down the canons.
He stood like a rock and listened,
his nostriis still, the breath held in
his sides, while the echoes took It up
and made a million voices OF it,
When the last faint note had died
away he called again, and again he
listened, his eager eyes straining
into the distance down the narrow
defle. Until the last red veil had
changed to blue and then to black
On the darkening face Of the wall,
he sent his cry ringing in the dusk
held his breath and listened. pointed
his ears and spread his thin nostrlls
for sound or scent Of answer.
CHAPTER XIII
Deep Waters
At Paradise the riders came I'M
and sat down at the long tables in
she dining-room. They were brown
as Indians with the summers work
but they we're neat TO a man. their /
faces shining with much good soap
and water, their hair smooth with /
the ministrations of the combs hang
ing TO their chains beside the look 4
ing glasses in the back veranda. II
was evening and the day was done, /
and they were full of Jest and laugh 1
ter. amiable with the pleasure OF
work accomplished, a pleasant place
10 lounge in.
OF all the merry crew Perly alone
rvas rnisslns. beside Jose and Rosy
nut with the herd on the upper
range.
Periy had been to Santa Leandra
and even now they could hear him
nnsaddiing in the far corral, for any
one could hear Perry from any rea-
eonabls distance.
THAT boy" said Val smiling from
the tables head where she sat IN
John lannon's absence, could
p wake the dead. !"
Right you are, Val" said Dirk.
pTye seen him wake a town that
was ready for burial Ain't YOU
rom? ?"
"We1l. he ain't to say dead one
himself" answered the foreman
but I like his style. Perly's worth
dozen fellers I could blow smoke
m" and he caught the brown hst
hat rose on either side in good
latured threat, for there was an
camaraderie between the
orenan OF Paradise and his riders.
And at that moment Perly himself
,ame breezing in, his face unwashed,
nis hair sweated on his forehead
lhe broad leather fiags OF his worn
.haps waving He stopped In the
doorway and looked at them excited
II.
Boys. ne said. what you think?
Tn men from tn Flying Y went
back 70 tn pass-an' they found
them guns still stickin' out--two
weeks after the raidl They went
in-an' them there guns was blind
propped up on rocks, and reachin'
out along one was tn arm OF an old
coat stuffed with grassl That there
drive was a one or two-man trick.
an It was tn Black Rustler that
done H."
srhe hell you say"
sure do. An, 1in't tn Flyin Y
boy wild. Eighty head o steers
ready fer driwn'-and a two-man
.rick-an them comm back from the
pass Ike a lot of minnies scared out
by lay like that"
But they didn't know, Perly,"
ssid Briston. How'd they know