Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-07-18
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What would 1t mean to her and
to Starr Stone7
The stern face Of her brother
Rod Blake who had so grimly prom
Used that no people. no country, no
man should ever take her from him
and Marston of New York, the
man who anne to find who sent the
contraband from Mazatlan to the
coasti
They had not cheated destiny aft
er all. They were headed straight
for this, and Starr Stone knew It'll
For that he would not leave her
to save himself she knew full we'll.
Confronted with this new knowl-
edge of disaster Sonya wet her dry
lips, cast desperately about for
something she might tell these three
grim men. and found nothing.
And then, leaning her face across
the cockpit's polished edge. she be-
came conscious of something; felt
something of a seventh sense. Elk.
actly as a dog senses danger which
he cannot see. SO this girl Of the
wild land sensed new danger now.
1t was as II the hackles of her spirit
rose.
What could 1t be1
She looked at the back of Starr
Stones head. Its bronze hair whip
ping In the backwash of wind be-
hind the low windshield. and wished
she could see his face.
If she could have done SO she
would have seer 1t set like a mask,
for long before she felt the pres
ence Of this unseen danger he had
been conscious of IL
He knew that not far behind
them, not so high above, another lit
tie ship droned steadily out of the
south-that Nemesis ~incarnate was
on their trail. He knew that In that
ship there was. in all probability, a
machine gun In the hands Of I'll Di.
ablo himself. who was an expert In
its use. What the end would be.
he did not know. Only that IL would
be an end. There was no doubt of
that.
Ell Captain would never In this
world let him get away with what
be had done. with the knowledge
he had. with the stand be had taken
to forswear him and all his works.
He meant to kill him-to kill them
both, If no other way was possible
to shoot them down, If they would
not land.
i And where could they land Will
any chance Of safety? '
Well, 1t was fate-as be had tolC
poor Conchita.
And then Sonya looked up anC
back-and saw.
Saw the soft silver thing that fol
lowed like a pointed sword.
s After ALL
: After all the monstrous anguish
t the fear. the sorrow. and the hope
Verify Starr Stone was payinI
for his sins, and she paid with bin
for that love which had redeemeI
Z him to manhood's high estate. whlcI
had made of her a fugitive, an out
cast from her own. but whic
burned in her soul with indestruC
{ tible beauty.
l. So be it, thought Sonya SavariI
l. so be it.
Down In that dim world below
the last act of this drama Of tn
n sage land was preparing for enac
is ment. Posse after posse, scouri1
the lone levels. had turned back t
~ ward the railroad and the tow
ce Baffled, wondering. they sought ne
+, achievements. made more exte
to sive preparations to search the ca
yons and the Bad Lands countr
m Only Serge Savarin, the two mt
with him, rode and would not gi'
up. Two Fingers, Hosteen Nez. Ho
teen T'so hunted patiently In ev,
We widening circles that had covers
81 all the face of the fiat land.
n In the quest of these three sile
on trailers there was more than a me
CHI search for a lost white woma
10 There was the dim and gent
ey shadow Of that legendary deity t
Blue South Woman who made b
Of hogan In the white girls heart.
er, So the Navajos rode steadil
in would ride until they found h'
mt either living or dead, If she was ar
where In the wild land, and desti
came to meet them.
DTS They had done with the sagebru
SIX levels. Lone Mesa doomed befo
ed them Silently save for the click
no the climbing hoofs, they ascend,
nd fantastic figures from a long de
past, the low moon red behind the
And In the magnificent heave
he Starr Stone, looking desperate
in down ahead. caught the dim Quill
Of Lone Mesa's crown, Its shini
D. white stone level.
Here was a landing place. Hs
,,rt. were walls against which a m
might make a stand If he w
armed. find shelter behind which
he were not, providing he could
the time to leave his plane and 81