The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-10-17

uiar army. who has SoIuntesrsd for
special scouting detail 70 stop this
border work. The character Of the
| Frisco Kid has been made to order,
to permit Of my thus gaining the con-
fdence Of these outlaws The wills
per reached me . week ago that mu-
nitions were being run through here
that Bob Meager's oztdt was doing Il
TINT this was the leak we had
been unable to stop. 4 came up to
Nogales hung around there In the
| lowest quarters of the town. picking
up stray bits Of rumor. Finally
heard about Clarity, learned he was
going out to the Meager ranch. His
henchman split little, leaving me to
believe there was going to be run
made across the line this week.-Mrs.
Casebeer outfit That's why came
out; that's how Clarity picked me up
at Silver Springs, and / rode on with
him to Meager's"
She was deeply interested now, inn
pressed by his earnestness.
II had sent word to our people from
Nogales. There is narrow pass
through the hills on the trail below,
which this outfit must use just before
they cross into Mexico. There is no
other way south leading from here.
Early this evening squad Of cavalry
got there from the north, and are
waiting"
"And If the outfit they are watching
for do not show up tonight, or early
tomorrow, what will the soldiers do7"
Hard to tell. This halt here has
knocked out my plans completely;
my guess at the game has gone wrong.
AS 1t is I have the choice of two
remain here and learn
what these birds are really up to,
or else ride south, bring those troop
ers back, and round up this entire
outfit on general principles. I'd like
most Of all to discover where Mea-
ger is"
Perhaps I can help you. have a
story to tell you yet"
Deborah spoke rapidly, clearly, de-
picting her experiences in the con-
cealed tunnel, her escape up the mar
row passage leading to the desert
level, how she came to BIZ hidden In
the gully, and what had occurred there
after Kelleen had ridden away. The
captain listened eagerly to her recital
If adventure, interrupting the narra-
i've with numerous questions. This
fresh knowledge brought a new ele-
nent into the affair, complicating the
whole matter.
''You say this was a tunnelT he !
lsked finally. "Dug out you mean?" ,
"The light was too poor for me to
ell very much. 1 thought at the time {
t might be an ancient watercourse, (
Tut work had certainly been done on it.
found a pick and shovel on heap .
# loosened rock. Quite a pile of bro I
en stone lay at the farther end, as
hough it might have been blasted ,
rom the wall 1 had to climb over it."
Kelleen drew long breath, lis hand
hitting his knee in sudden conviction.
"By Cd" he said slowly. 81 be- {
eve it must be the Lost Nine Mea-
er may have found it, and is trying
D keep 1t to himself"
"The Lost Mine'?
Eyes; it is a tradition Of this coun-
y, an old Spanish legend, 1 believe.
ut implicitly believed for a hundred
ears. Men by scores have lost their
yes hunting for it from one end of n
lis desert to the other. The story :,
pes that 1t was fabulously rich, dis n
,vered by Spanish explorer, who al
irried samples of ore clear to Mex q,
o City. He came there twice with m
den mules, but refused all definite
formation, and the men he took back
18th him as helpers were never per-
tilted to go beyond the edge Of the III
,sert. He would then 90 in alone, Jt