Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-07-18
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And Sonya too saw and recognized
Lone Mesa.
II was almost level with them
was so-the ship was levellng Off
distance. height, had dropped away
they we're ~sklmmlng the mesa's
Observation-Disclosures on the
uneven rock-were still.
Behind them that other was at the
very edge-above them passing
over.
Starr Stone, with his arms about
Sonya. dragging her over the side.
cast one flashing glance ahead.
"Kismet |" he said with white lips.
They beat US after ALL They're
down between Us and the pueblo !"
So they were. the rocking gray
ship still a hundred feet beyond.
And Ell Diablo. Manuel. deadly
shapes of menace, were climbing
out, coming toward them.
Calmly Sonya stood beside her
man.
"Come back" she said, touching
him. toward the cliff. II is our only
way"
With his arm around her Starr
Stone turned. and, stumbling, hur-
rying, they crossed the space be
tween them and that sheer lip
where once. ages ago. it seemed.
they had looked into each others
tragic faces and found their des-
tiny.
Darling" the man said softly,
"hold to me - tight - don't be
afraid"
Sonya Savarin laughed. a little
low sound.
"Afraid?" she said. running. with
your"
"Haltl" came the great voice OF
Ell Dlablo. "Haltl Or ! frel"
There was yet a moonlit space
for the running feet. Death might
catch them before they leaped to
meet 1t.
Crack Crack Cracki
The sharp barking of an automat.
ic, not the machine gun.
Bullets whined about them, clipped
into the rock beyond.
And Sonya Savarin looked up for
the last time into the face which
had filed her heart, her soul, to
the exclusion Of all else since that
wild day In the spring here on this
w~ind-swept height when she had
first beheld II. -~,-s--
The man looked down, slowed In
his stride.
One moment more-a kiss, may.
be, and this glorious adventure
would be done forever-sealed like
a deathless fame In the casket OF
eternity.
And then, high on the thin blue
air there came a sound as old a:
the ruined walls behind, a sound tC
chill the blood. to shock the very
soul Clear and high and savage
primitive as life itself. the war cry
Of the Navajos. 1t pealed abov,
the cracking gun, stopped the mar
and the woman like a hand upor
their shoulders.
And out from the dusky shadow,
Of the crumbling walls three shad
ows came like darting flames. II
the very act of whirling to NEE
them FL Captain and his henchmal
were caught In their onslaught
: went down beneath them
Then, as starr Stone ran towar
them, as Sonya followed, tall Tw
Fingers rose with the dapper pile
held by the neck In his powerfr
! hands. Behind him Hosteen Me-
Hosteen Tso. came struggling u
with the great bulk Of El Dlabl
!, fighting like a fend between then
= "South Woman" said Two FIJI
. gers, what have these two don
to you and to your man?"
He spoke In Navajo. and Sony
answered. painting.
"They would kill US both-b
!, cause we know too much about the,
q they are breakers of the law
!, outlaws across the Border. Me the
. stole three nights agony man the
% would hang in the sun to die Il
slow death-and me they wou
give to this one-and to their Il
y lowers after"
Two Fingers looked at her wi
y quiet eyes.
" at is good" he said. "that '
come"
!, "Oh-goodl" she cried.