Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-06-20

-Sonya jerked her shoulders up
wet her lips that were dry as
ashes.
Twice. they said, had the bandit
leader spread him up" only to take
him down again. Starr Stone OF
the laughing courage who tad dared
all things In the old days. whose
clever brain had been invaluable to
FL Captain, who was too valuable
to kill. yet who knew too much to
live If he did not live for him.
And Sonya Savarln. who knew
too much also. who loved Starr
Stone and had listened to him in
the dusk of many moons; who had
stopped and picked MP a fve-tael
can OF frst-grade opium when a
bungling hand had dropped 1t.
Parks-Quatro. Number Four
the bland keeper of a store on the
cross continent railroad. He had
%blundered. but he had retrieved his
blunder instantly by sending FL Di.
ablo's henchmaD to destroy the evil
dence by taking 1t away-herself
that evidence.
Well. once again one could finish
up but once. and she was no ones
gutter. II only she might see Starr
Stone again. look deep In his blue
eyes. renew that souls covenant
which they had made one starlit
dusk.
But the sonora was here with food
on a tray and she was kind and
gentle with that tenderness we show
to those about TO go on long and
perllous journeys
"Eef eet please the Senorita," she
said apologetically. there ees n
who would speak weeth you today.
Eet ees one whose word e the
law. the master"
i Know said Sonya, nodding her
black head. IT shall be ready.
sonora At what hour?"
II do not know-only that when
eet arrives n must be ready"
"Very WE'LL" said Sonya, and the
woman went away.
Deliberately she drank the coffee.
ate the spiced omelette, the little
round bits of some hot sweet bread.
And a little later the sonora came
for her.
She walked down the long dark
passage. cool with the nights fresh.
ness. and into the great main room
of the casa Here there were many
men and a few women. who all
seemed waiting TO look at her. which
they did with thoroughness In ST.
lence. There we're men here who
had burned and raided and shot.
who thought no mor of killing a
human being than Of slaughtering
a sheep; women who followed them
and wore things they looted. Their
eyes were hot and cold at the same
time, II one might so describe them.
flaming with all the varied lusts of
lawless folk, devoid of mercy or
compassion.
The sonora passed before them
and out at the door which stood
open at the south, Sonya following
close behind her with her head M.
Here in the stone tagged yard sat
her Judge.
ri Captain Diablo, in a huge
chair behind a long table made of
crude slabs and ~undressed wood
set on sections Of saplings peeled
and %weathered. Here too was Man.
uel. that dapper slim pilot who had
brought her across the Border.
Manuel, second In power, In value.
In ability. to that one whom the
master had brought home to an.
swer for his sins.
The sins of lingering too long
about that masters business, of do.
Ing his bidding less and less eager.
ly. or that most heinous crime OF
all. loving a good woman.
lei Diahlo hated a good woman
OF all things on the earth he feared
and hated most a good woman
What power this one might hold
against him, What secrets she might
know for his undoing. he did moi
know. What Ounce had told heI
In the ~softening urge of love he
furiously suspected. Evil himself
lost to all standards of loyalty. n
dou~ble-crosser of double-crossers, he
trusted no one. believed In no one.
And now he had the whole thing
In his hands. thanks to Quatro: the
man who knew his ways and works
none other living knew them
the woman of another world who
might wreak his ruin If she chose
That great structure of blood and
raid and contraband which he had
built for himself from Mazatlan to
New York city stood topping In the
hands of these two-and 81 Diablo
would not have it
He looked at the slim girl before