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The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1925-06-18

he walked on before, the lantern
swinging at his knees, the shadows
of his dark short bowed legs scissor
ing on the gravel and the noncommlt-
tai dark beyond in every direction
squirming and alive with black mag
COTS of fear.
Suddenly the lantern illumined an
entrance cut in a high adobe wall. The
man, turning around, said in his pet
ting voice, Come" Brena stepped
through into an enclosure without
roof; the stars of the sky shone down
with their little white needles Of light.
The lantern, however, now threw Its
light upon a little two-story wooden
building within the old walls. This
structure was dark below except for
the lanterns light flung from the glass ;
its faint two squares of windows above
were black on either side of a door
way reached by narrow rickety wood
en- stairs built on the exterior Of the
house.
up" commanded the Mexican with
his hand on the rail.
Brena hesltated.
81 take you to heem."
She began to climb, gripping the
hand-polished rail to steady her nerves
by the force of her own arm muscles.
I'm! This my house. I keep for
Mister Glaub. In"
She passed by him as he fattened
himself against the door jamb.
Four closed doors, implanted and
covered with penciled signatures,
dates, arithmetic, and scrawled faces
and verses, almost filled the walls of
the narrow seven feet of square wall.
With a grunt, like a pigs, the Next
can opened one Of these doors and
plucked at Brena's elbow.
Look! What I say? This heem?'
The lanterns circle of light rose and
widened as he held it higher until it
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1925-06-18

Brena closedAher fingers under cover
Of the dark and made the pressure Of
nails in her own palm summon her
will to put her face nearer his and to
speak before he could speak, so that
she might escape from all n Of
being on the defensive.
She said in a firm voice, II came to
find some one"
The other grunted i~ncredulously.
HE came here within a day or two"
The Mexican raised one dark hand
and pulled the long lobe Of II a !;
his expression was crafty. He said,
Maybe so, quien sabe?"
"At the hotel" she suggested.
The man with the lantern raised 1t
again to look at her; he was silent, and
then suddenly he grinned.
"Oh, at hotel, eh2 Hal l know heem.
Certain. AT the hotel. He come by big
automobile"
"Peter DeWolfe?"
The other shook his head he did
not know. He said in a soothing, cod
ding voice, "S'all RI, missy. You
come, ehT' He beckoned with a finger.
Brena nodded and followed him as
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1925-06-18

covered a cot on which a waking
sleeper was pushing himself up on one
arm and reaching under a pillow with
the other hand.
"a lady" the Mexican said, and put
ting the lantern on the bare boards, he
slid out and closed the door.
The man on the cot sprang up,
raised the lantern, and at the end of
a high exclamation he gasped for an
other breath and calculated, "Brena! y
Eyes, Peter. Thank God, Peter, I
came in time"
"Time-time for what? I'm all right,
dear. l cabled you to wait"
"Td started, Peter. I didn't get it,"
'They told you in New York;"
Eyes, Peter, they said you'd had a
call"
81 didn't say so, dear. 1 said I had
business here"
81 don't care-you forget. You are
the third couldn't stand it, Peter.
1t was you-that's different"
You're tired out" He held the Ian
tern higher again.
mo, I'm not, Peter" she said, with
a brisk unconvincing lie. 81 want you
to be glad 1 came"
He dropped the lantern; 1t went out.
He put his arms around her and beat
her head close to his shoulder as he
patted her hair with the open palm Of
his hand. He said. "Glad? Me? Glad?
Brenal I can't say 1t, dear. The cup
runs over at the briml |"
"T've been In mortal fear, Peter"
she whispered and shivered In his
arms. 81 thought l had sent you
away to your end-the thing that took
the others"
NO" said he.
Can you tell. PeterT
81 can't tell-sure. ! can guess. /
guess I'm going to fix everything. n
not, there's something too big-too
CHASTITY"
But if you never came back to me
If anything" She stopped why
Peter. / flung myself down sometimes
/ prayed to be forgiven for ever hay.
ing spoken to you. / begged relief
from the hideous idea that had let
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1925-06-18
CHAPTER XVII

Brena, who had slept long and rest
fully in spite Of the singing dry heat,
had awakened before the sun had gone
down to find Peter was attending to
the last details of equipping the high
powered car that he had bought in Ell
Paso. 1t was below the window in the
old courtyard with the crumbling
adobe wall.
Hello" he had said, looking up.
you Just missed seeing the popula.
tion OF this town. The entire ton wer,
here. They don't know we're going to
strike into the desert instead of going
eastward"
He Lad held I'D hls fingers to count
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1925-06-18
CHAPTER XVIII

"Rrena, / want you to stand here by
this old well without walking away
from 1t a moment" said Peter, taking
her by the shoulders and looking
sau ,rely into her dark eyes. I'm
go:r.g TO leave you alone a minute
rs get pleasant. / want you to do il
iaty tae same"
"W,,e". are you going?"
''u.tSiaa the wall again. I've seen
s.ir-.i.ing .Aart that you did not see
3.e3a >hivered.
'T..r'. Nc afraid. dear" he said
"We have had-both of us-the less 4
of futile fear. Once we told eacn
other that fear was a crime-a terri
BILE waste. We are on the verge OF
learning how terrible a waste II can
be-"
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that you gave me. I'd better tell you
that when l first took that check 1t
was because your Endorsement was on
1T. | wasn't sure Brena-of anybody"
81 understand" she said. 81 under
stand. And the scrap of paper vas a
part of the bait?"
Peter raised his hand as if to say
that he wished to go on in his own
way. ut was chance too that led me
to the motive for Kidding the world of
Hennepin. That miserable man had
become q menace. He knew too much.
He knew of a long series of embezzle-
ments from q certain estate in Texas.
A capitalist had bought vast quantities
of something-on speculation-and his
agent after his death deceived the ex-
ecutors as to the extent of his hold
ings. 1 have had a clew from an old
account book sifted to the BOTTOM"
CONTINUED Next Week.
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She put her hands in his; with a
smile she said, You see, Peter, / am Id
the dark, dear. But just the same III
do as you tell me-"
AS he walked away from her. his
head bent forward as if meditating,
she leaned back against the hot, HAT
face of one of the huge stone blocks
of the well curb, following him with
her steady gaze. He disappeared put
side the old wall, and as he vanished,
so vanished all that attached her to
the living world. There was no sound,
no motion within the range of the
senses; the place of death was suh-
From the tablelands above, a lonely
buzzard had come swooping down on
wide black wings, dipping n turn
ing, with one eye cooked down, as II
sometime before he had picked bones
in this Enclosure and had returned TO
the scene of gruesome feasts. Black,
ill-omened, carrion creature that ne
was, Brena felt glad that he had come
"a thing OF life and motion-into this
place of vast dimensions filed by the
~silences and rightly of death. n
watched the magnificent grace ana
power of his fight until Peters voice
broke the silence again, and, mapping
toward the west, the bird began 10
circle up whence he had come.
"Brena," said Peter, who came to her
with an expression drawn as If with
some stress within.
"Yes?"
"Sit down with me here where these
blocks cast a shadow, dear. l will
show you what / have found-a thing
like the writing of a giant finger OF
justice-here in the desert. But hrst
l want to tell you a tale, Brena-true,
revolving and terrible"
"Tell me- she said, sitting with her
elbows ON her knees.
at is of surprising brevity, Brena,"
he asserted. "Its simplicity is the
thing that makes ridiculous the many
things | expected, all the nightmares
of the unknown. l told you, dear, that
| was no Master Mind-no Great
Analyst in capital letters. / was right
| stumbled onto the trail. l used my
head. That's ALL"
He stopped to think.
"And yet the simplicity is hideous?"
he said.
Brena glanced toward all that re-
manned of Jim Hennepin of Virginia
the ~blackened feshless relics of his ex-
istence.
HE deserved it, perhaps" said
Peter pointing. HE tried to cash In
his knowledge"
"You told me last night of the SUI
perstition of buried reasure here" she
said. "You mean that?"
mo, not exactly said Peter. Il
picked up the trail in the house where
Parmalee took you. Two old books:
and maps of this country and of this
place were missing from both. One
Parmalee took when he went away.
The other? Well, / began to wonder
about the other"
"You thought it must have been
used-before."
eyes. 1t had been used and prob
ably destroyed. 1t was used by one
man to toll another to his death"
Brena leaned forward.
81 began to be sure, Brena, when |
found that expert knowledge pro-
nounced that the writing on a check
made out by the n man who led the
other to his death here was written
by the same hand that, with an at
tempt to disguise, had written the
words, This Sign" on the scrap of
paper Jim Hennepin left with you and
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CONTINUED Next Week.

When in doubt about this papers
subscription price and terms, look at
the masthead" top of editorial
page. tt
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1925-06-18

CHAPTER XII.-on the voyage De-
Wolfe analyses Brena's story without
finding any key to it's solution, but he
retains faith In her truthfulness.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1925-06-18

CHAPTER XI.-Brena gives Peter
the paper with he mysterious symbol.
ings Of danger he declares he will go
to America and solve the mystery.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1925-06-18

painting Of Brena, by a famous artist,
Parmalee shows irritation amounting
almost to madness. She is convinced
now hat he fears recognition either of
her or himself, but can learn nothing
from him. He begins to drink heavily.
After a visit to his lawyer, Lanfrew,
Parmalee disappears, leaving no word
Of explanation. That was three years
before Peter and Brena meet.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1925-06-18

CHAPTER XIv-Peter takes steps
to secure a perfect copy of the mutt
lated Books.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1925-06-18

CHAPTER N.--The Parmalees settle
down in New York. His nervousness
and fits of fear increase, but he refuses
to tell Brena the cause oP his uneasi-
ness. One night. in the darkness, he
fires a shot at his reflection in a pic
ture, telling Brena he thought It was a
burglar. She realizes he is the victim
of some secret, overwhelming fear.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1925-06-18

CHAPTER XV.-Obtaining the ner-
feet copy, DeWolfe finds the missing
pages tell of a visit centuries ago to
q deserted city in the New Mexican
the right track. Brena arrives at New
York and to her CONSERVATION finds
Peter gone. A cable from him had
missed her.
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CHAPTER vIII-On their wedding
journey Brena shows her husband a
scrap of paper Hennepin had given her.
On It Is a figure which Parmalee tells
her is the "Kuk-ul-6an," symbol of the
Mayas. He appears perturbed.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1925-06-18
SYNOPSIS

CHAPTER III.-At his London hotsl
Pster gets a message from Brena, ask.
the meeting results in the formation
81 a strong bond of friendship.
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CHAPTER VI.-Brena returns to
Dallas alone. Compton Parmalee, Hem
nepin's employer, middle-aged and
wealthy, visits her, seeking news of
Jim, who has disappeared. Parmalee
tells Brena H~ennepin's intentions to-
ward her were dishonorable, which she
had suspected.
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sompanionship the feeling between Pc
ter and Brena ripens into love. He
asks her to marry him, and she con-
tesses that she Is married and that her
husband has vanished"
The Washington times., 1925-10-27
DISTRICT PROS
FALTER IN
TOURNEY
Local Club SWingers Find
Burning Tree Course Tough
Customer in Play

washington professionals failed to
hold their own on the Burning Tree
course in the Middle Atlantic open
championship. L. was expected
that with the local pros knowing
the course well, some Of them would
romp away with the laurels, but
with the exception OF r. Cliff Nc
Kimmie, of Miller's Golf School.
none OF the pros here could get
their game going.
The course was in perfect shape,
but its length and tricky green's
caused the boys to falter. There are
no par five holes on the whole lay
out, but there are some very rough
tours. One who was missing his
drives or who was unable to gather
the delicate touch necessary for &C
curate pitch shots was just out OF
luck.
Leo Diegel did not shoot phenom-
email golf to lead the field with las.
Neither did Joe Turnesa with his
second place, ISL. And Eddie Town,
Glenn Spencer and Cliff McKimmie
just shot steady golf to tie for
third with 152.
Any number of the nationally
known professionals were many
strokes behind the leaders. George
Vooigt is the leading amateur with
155. He is eleven strokes ahead Of
A. L, Houghton.
The Washington times., 1925-10-27
HARRIS MAY BE
SUCCESSOR
To MATTY
Theatrical Man Would Pur-
chase Stock in Boston
Braves Club

BOSTON. Oct. 27.-Sam H. Har-
ris, the theatrical magnate and
identified with sport enterprise,
wants to buy the Boston National
League Baseball Club.
He has made bid for the stock
owned by the late president of the
club, Christy Mathewson, and in
this way hopes to acquire the
standing that will enable him,
eventually, to purchase the rest of
the club.
Harris, who became famous a
quarter OF a century ago when he
was manager of Terry McGovern,
the cyclone featherweight, has been
eager to buy a baseball club for
some years and in 1911 he, George
Cohan and Harry Frazee were as
ISOLATED in a syndicate which tried
to purchase the Boston club from
the late William Hepburn Russell.
The talk on the street is that
Mathewson owned $4,000 worth of
stock in the Boston club. His son
is not interested in baseball and ii
Harris offer is attractive, the
widow, Mrs. Jane Mathewson, may
accept 1t to settle the estate.
Harris and Judge Fuchs, also a
New Yorker, are old friends and it
is said that they will have q con
ference today to prepare for the
transfer of the MatheWson stock
The Washington times., 1925-10-27
BELIEVE
DARTMOUTH
BETTER
Think HanoVerians Stronger
Than Penn, Great As
0uakers Are

Despite PENIS great record,
those who had seen the Red and
Blue in action in earlier games
and who sat in at the Harvard
Stadium while Jesse Hawley's
Dartmouth eleven was displaying
it's wares in rolling up one Of the
largest scores ever registered
against Harvard, now are talking
Dartmouth as the team Of the
year.
Certain it is that Dartmouth has
the most brilliant attack shown
this season. There is strength,
speed and deception in it's every
move, and with a backfield, none
of whose members weighs Jess
than $50 pounds, and a tackle to
tackle combination Of fast, active
boys, whose average weight Is bet
ter than 100, it has the physical
weapons to make It's plays go and
to stop the other fellows,
The Green line was immense In
other respects than size. The
guards, Diehl and Smith, shift out
of their positions and into off
tackle interference with amazing
speed, and Captain Nate Parker
is a tackle who will merit all.
America consideration this year.
The Crimson is far from weak
eleven. 1t is learning a new sys-
tenn Of football and that system
shows considerable promise. There
is a. fine group of big linemen
wearing Crimson jerseys this year,
and in Joe Crosley it has a flashy
offensive back, and in Dolph Cheek
a good leader.
Harvard showed nice passing,
with Cheek and Sayles as thrower
and receiver, and a double shift
in the backfield which will cause
trouble to slower charging, less
alert elevens than the Dartmouth
team.
The Washington times., 1925-10-27
HARVARD WON I
FACE PURPLE
NEXT YEAR
Holy Cross Will Have to Wait
Till 1927 for Another
Cambridge Game
By EDDIE HURLEY

BOSTON, Oct. 27.-Harvard and
Holy Cross will not clash in 1926.
These old gridiron rivals, which
attract $4,000 spectators to the Har.
ward Stadium each year will not
participate in their annual struggle
next year.
1t was learned today that the
defeat Of Harvard by the Purple
has nothing to do with the drop
ping of the Purple as Holy Cross
was informed early this year that
1t wou d be impossible for Harvard
to make place on the schedule
for the .O'Donnell team next year.
The fact that Harvard is forced
to face Holy Cross and Dartmouth
on consecutive Saturdays is the
real reason that the Purple will not
appear on the 1926 list of games.
The Crimson plans an easier game
On the Saturday preceding the clash
with Dartmouth.
Yet in spite Of the fact that Holy
Cross is aware that Harvard will
not be abe to, accommodate them
next year, there is no real break
between the institutions.
1t is possible that Holy Cross will
return to the Crimson schedule in
1927 and will play in the Stadium
every other year hereafter.
The Washington times., 1925-10-27
VANCE AND NEIS WILL
SELL FLORIDA PROPERTY

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. Oct. q.
-Dazzy Vance, star pitcher Of the
Brooklyn Robins, will retire from
baseball at the termination of his
contract, he has announced. Vance
is selling real estate af Clearwater,
Fla.
Bernie Neis. former outfielder Of
the Brooklyn club, and now with
the Boston Braves, also intends to
quit baseball and engage in the real
estate business with Vance. The
two own several hundred acres
near Tarpon Springs which they in
tend to develop, they say.
Vance will he the second pitcher
lost to the Robins by this route.
Bill Doak refused to sign a contract
last spring, although offered $4,000
annually. He is now selling real
estate at Bradentown, Fla.
The Washington times., 1925-10-27
UNIVERSITY
STIFFENS FOR MARINES

One week of intensive drilling
lies ahead of the Catholic University
gridders. They are looking that
far ahead to the game with the
Marines in the BrookIand bowl
next Saturday.
Plays that were made famous by
the Marines are being taught the
scrubs for use against the first
team. The c. y. boys came
through the game with the Fort
Benning eleven in fine physical
condition and they hope to gain
some choice morsels in the Marine
conflict
The Washington times., 1925-10-27
Football Paying For
HaskeD's Program
of All Sports

CHICAGO, Oct. 27.-Football
is a popular sport at the Has
kell Indian school. It is the sole
support of athletes there. It
pays the salary of the director
of physical education for girl
students among other depart
ments. A new stadium is also
being constructed without the
aid of the Government that will
seat $4,000 persons. None but
Indian contributions will be re-
ceived.
One wealthy Indian who has
made his ortune in lead and
zinc contributed one months in
come. It amounted to $11, 900.
Another wealthy Indian contrib
uted $4,000. BuckneH will be
the home attraction at Law
renee next fall, opening the
stadium.
The Washington times., 1925-10-27
Terry's Ticker Back
Again From Where
It Started

NEW YORK, Oct. 27.-Sam
Harris, theatrical producer and
manager Of the great Terry Nc
Govern in the days Of Terry's
glory, has bought back q gift
of years ago. It seems that
Harris gave a swell gold watch
to Terry when the champion be-
came of age. 1t bore the in
scription: ITO Terry McGovern
from Sam H. Harris, March 8,
1901. When You Were Twenty
one" The watch, by q series
of unknown adventures, fell into
the hands of Brooklynite, who
treasured it. being an admirer
of McGovern's. Lately, how
ever, he fell on evil days and
offered to sell the tinepiece to
Harris. McGovern's one-time
mentor was tickled at the chance
and now has the watch again
after twenty-four years.
The Washington times., 1925-10-27
FORMER SANDLOT STAR
GETS A DETROIT TRIAL

Tommy Mccarthy, the young
catcher drafted by Detroit FROM
waterbury of the Eastern Leapna
has made a mighty rapid tumn IN
baseball. He was catching semi.
pro ball in 1924 and the late season
was his first in the professional
game. He is regarded as a pretty
finished workman and Cobb viii
no doubt keep close tab On him
The Washington times., 1925-10-27
AL00K1NCTn0YER
Y WITH LOUIS A. BOUCHER
THIS rs NOT A MANS WORLD.

and not long either that boys were taught
and muscular activity Today all changed It was once and
Today all changed The sporting world has become
customed attending athletic events from basketball
competing
eighteen girl within
swimming
for of stock and admit that the fair
the his heels ridiculous
women deeds according to their brothers standards but also
The Washington times., 1925-10-27
TWO PLAYERS ARE LOST
TO BROWN FOR SEASON

PROVIDENCE, r. T., Oct. 27.-
Paul Hodge, of Fitchburg, Mass.
center on the Brown team, who
was injured in the first quarter of
the Yale game, win be out for the
rest of the season. At the Rhode
Island Hospital, where he was
taken, 1t was found he had rup-
tured the muscles of his right.
knee,
Thomas Magee, who played tackle
in place of Hodge, who was sub
stituting at center, also is consid-
cred lost fer the season because of
spinal injuries. The extent of his
injury viii be learned today, when
an X-ray will be taken.
The Washington times., 1925-10-27
They Must Show un

The New York Commission has
no time for boxers who claim to be
sick when they want to dodge a
tough opponent. Several such
fighters have been suspended for
thirty days. Later or the punish.
rnent will be six months.
The Washington times., 1925-10-27
Southerns Work Tonight

The Southern Props will work
out tonight on the Washington Bar
racks field, at $50 o'clock. Coach
George Byers has requested all the
players, to be on hand at that time.
A lengthy schedule, and one that
will tax the capacity of the South.
erns, has been worked out, and the
squad will have to be in good physi-
cal condition
The Washington times., 1925-10-27
Gougers Increasing

The list of fighters who make a
specially OF trying to gouge out
the eyes Of their opponents Is grow
ing longer all the time. The best
known gougers are Young Stribling,
Carl Tremaine and Jack Zivic, Of
Pittsburgh.
The Washington times., 1925-10-27
Has a Perfect Day

George Cutshaw, ancient veteran,
filling in for Cliff Brady at second
base for Seattle. had a perfect
record at bat in the first game of
october IL, getting four hits in as
many tries, two Of them for two
bases
The Washington times., 1925-10-27

Officers of the Y. NJ. C. A. Sun
day school basketball league have
announced that the league would
start operations November 18th.
Many teams have entered the
league, and they are working almost
daily to get into condition.
The Washington times., 1925-10-27
CrandaII Still There

Old Doc CrandaIl, who has been
pitching ball for a quarter of q
century and is rated as one of the
topnoch twirlers of the Pacific
Coast circuit, allowed Vernon but
five hits on October 10 and pitched
Los Angeles to a to triumph.
The Washington times., 1925-10-27
CEDRIC BURST WALLOPS
BALL FOR SAINT OUTFIT

Cedric burst, back for another
trial with the Browns, has a good
record at st. Paul to back him. He
made 226 hits for 353 bases. COM
piling a hitting mark of .346. He
had fifty-seven doubles, twenty-six
triples and six home runs.
The Washington times., 1925-10-27
Huffman in New York

Eddie Huffman, considered the
best heavyweight in the United
States navy since Tom Sharkey's
time, is now in New York. He has
been matched by Lew Raymond to
box AID Stone or some other light.
heavyweight at the Pioneer Club,
that city, on November 10.