Evening journal., 1923-02-07
SYNOPSIS

SYNOPSIS
JOHN HARMON. wealthy ranch own
er his blind wife. BELLE. and theii
beautiful daughteF. VAL. live happil,
together in lannon's wonderful rancl
nome. Paradise. Redstar is the kini
OF the Red Brood Of horses owned b,
me master OF the ranch. In game o
HUNNEWELL'S store. VELANTRIE
from the Border wins LOLA SANCHEZ
who N,. offers herself as stake for BRIDE
MAJ; man OF mystery. Nelantrie sends
Val attends the Fourth of July cele.
bration al santa Leandra. Escorted
by the Paradise cowboys in the after
Red Brood wins honors. At the dance
IN the evening Val dances the first dance
With TOM BRISTON. the foreman OF
Paradise. who loves Val sincerely.
These strangers came in unosten-
tatiously and stood in a bunch. some
what close together. There were nine
OF them, all clad in good garments.
the best that money could buy in a
wider market than the rangeland
owned Their soft fine boots we're
stitched in colors their hats were
very wide and ornamented with
much silver after the fashion Of their
kind across the line.
They stood quietly and watched
the dancers, and in their midst stood
one who was OF a different mold.
Tall. slim. fine OF feature and form,
smiling. his reckless face a-sparkle
with the JOY Of youth in music and
motion this man was not so guard
edly alert. and he carried his hat in
his hand. Thick black hair waved
back from a handsome brow. white
with the bleach OF the sweatband,
sign manual Of him who rides much
in the open.
His blue eyes under their black
bright bold glance.
As the couples drifted out again
Lolo Sanchez. a living flower in her
black and scarlet, came down the
room in the arms Of big blond boy
her small face upt6rned, her CO.
quette's heart playing the old game
in her dusky eyes.
And then-the boy swung her past
the door and she looked up full into
the smiling face of the stranger.
"Velontrie!" she breathed to her
self.
WHAT" asked the boy but she
did not hear.
From that moment she forgot him
utterly.
When the dance ended Lolo
stopped. as II by accident-some-
thing about the tiny slipper that en-
cased her light foOt-bent and |
Strengthened it-close by the door
As she rose, quick as A willow wand
released. she looked into Velantrie's
eyes and> her own were eloquent
MASTER" she murmured in Span
ish. 80 low that none but he caught
the soft word.
Who's tn chap by tn door," the
blond boy asked suspiciously, but
Lolo looked up innocently.
Which one?" she asked, and the
suspicion died.
The newcomers did not. dance.
They had come because Velantrie
gave the word. because he chose to
look upon Santa Beandra at her
merrymaking, and that was all.
Velantrie did not dance either
There was none whom he knew upon
the floor save and except the small
Enrl who called him master. and he
only smiled with amusement as he
watched her. /,
But Lolo Sanchez's quick little {
brain was working and she meant 10
change that very soon. Therefore /
she sent the least Of her followers. /
meek brown Mexican unnoticeable
in the crowd. TO whisper something =
in the fddler's ear. 6
And then the music stopped, the 7
crowds drifted to the benches and {
the fiddler was tuning his fiddle to
another key.
He tucked the hddle in his neck S
and began abruptly TO play-andSno Z
one called this number.
wild. swift. beautiful music II a
was. Spanish 10 the core.
II lifted and swung and at regular
Intervals there caihe a thrum Of the
bass that sounded like the stroke of
4 foot upon the floor. And then.
softly, swiftly, like a leaf before