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The Trey 0 Hearts Ey LOUIS JOSEPH VANCE rf-n. A H.t."mTi.BiBTU Rk " CrtTtJ wit rWor tlx fid" rWarti. CHAPTER XLII. Open Mutiny. Though she had been schooled to hold ithe very name of Law In loathing un speakable and to think ef Alan as a mortal enemy and as one whose death alone could properly requite the cruel Injury that had been done her father; and though the man himself had laughed to ecorn her first Involuntary confession of that lore for hlra which now consumed her being with Its In satiable fires, she swallowed her chagrin and followed him with the solicitude of one whose love can recog ,. nn wrona In Its object Through all the remainder of that day of terror she was never far from his side. With the meekness of the strong, she made herself his shadow. And she was now the stronger, for she had had more than an hour's rest beside the waterhole. which he had missed on the way of that rocky windbreak. Sooner or later his strength must fall him and he would need her; till then she was content to bide her hour. t hfpli presently in startling fash- Ion; she was not a yard behind him when he vanished abruptly. Hut the next moment Judith herself j was trembling on the (.rumbling brink, of an arroyo of depth and width ln- determinable In the obscurity of the .... iljnl v d-itbtoriu Alan had fallen In his dizzy blindness. She found hlra insensible, lying with an arm bent under him In a pose frightfully suggestive of dislocation. Yet when she turned hira on his back and released the arm. he made no sign to Indicate that the movement had caused him the slightest pain. There was a slight cut upon his brow, a bruise about his left temple. She tore linen from her rosoui. be neath her coarse flannel shirt, and with sparing aid from the canteen, washed the cut clean and bandaged it. Then teeing that the storm held with fury unabated, fha rose, recou noltered ar.d returned to exert all her strer.cth and drag the unconscious n.i. nrrrss the dry bed of that nnciT.t ratcr-cr-irso and uuder the lee of its j fartlur bank. j Ther", tittins, she pillowed n;s head upon her lap, and bendins over him made her tody an additional shel ter to him from the swirling ciouas cf dust. And for hours on end Judith nursed !hiu there, scarce daring to move tave to minister to his needs, bathing I his fevered brow nrd moistening his rarched lips and throat. In the course of tl.e first hour she ' was once startled by the specfal vis Ion through the driving sheets of dust cf a horse that plodded up the arroyo, tearing two riders on Its back. Weary with the weight of Its double birden, it went slowly and passed so j i ar to Judith that she was able to recognize the features of her sister Sand Tom Barcus. Be sure she made never a sign to catch their attention. , Within the next succeeding hour the coppery light lost something of 3 hot brillance, took on a darker i hade, and then one darker still. Twl Jght stole athwart the desert, turning l.s heat to chill, its light to violet. Growing more intense, the cold eventually roused the Bleeping man. And hardly had his eyes unclosed end locked up into the eyes of Judith bending over him than he started up and cut of her embrace, got unstead ily upon his feet and after a moment of pause, watching her rise in turn, .strode away or. rather, staggered with the gesture of exorcism. Uncomplaining, hugging her new born humility to her with the ecstasy of the anchorite his horse hair shirt, Judith followed him patieatlr, at a little distance. ', Not far from where he had rested I.nala JoatD VCC there was a break in the overhanging wall of the arroyo. Through this he scrambled rainfully, reaching the level of the desert only after cruel effort, the unheeded woman at his heels. A brief pause there afforded both time to regain their breath and survey the desert for signs of assistance: It offered none, other than what they might accomplish through their own exertions. For leagues in any quarter it ..roir-hpfl w ithout a break ether than the black cleft of the arroyo. gleaming a bleached and deathly wmte in me moonshine like the face of a frozen world. With tacit consent both turned that way, Alan leading. Judith his pertina cious shadow, with never a word or sign between them to prove that either was aware of the other's company. But this was a state of affairs that could not long endure. Judith had the price to pay for her own trials, suf fering and privation: the strain began to tell sorely upon her. She reeled slightly as she walked, weaving a winding trail across and across the straighter line cf footprints that marked Alan's course through the or dered pattern of the powdered sagebrush. Ami nf a sudden she collapsed. Instinct alone made Alan glance, over-shoulder: for she had made no( sound whatever. He turned ar.d came directly back; to her. knelt beside her. lifted herj haA nillowed It Eently on his arm and piled her lu turn with the dregs i of the canteen. With a sigh, a stifled moan and a little shiver, she revived. He helped her gently to regain her feet, passed an arm round her. In this fashion they struggled on Is strange, dumb companionship of nils cry and wonder. Thus an hour paused: and tor ai their desperate strupeles neither could j see that the lipht in the mountainside j was a yard the rearer. lit hind them other lights appeared, j two staring y-Hpw eyes that pecrtU up ever the horizon, seemed to pause a time in search of the two. then leaped out directly toward them. Of this they were altogether icnor- av.t; and v-h n a deep, droning sound i disturbed the desert silence, like the purring of some gigantic cat, both as-1 cribed It to the drumming or Uietr laboring pulses. The two lights were not a mile be hind them when, silently, without a sign to warn the girl, Alan released her, took a step apart and dropped as if shot. Tnstantlv she was kneeling by his side. But in the act of bending over him she drew back and remained for Beveral moments motionless, staring at those twin glaring eyes, sweeping down upon them with til the speed attainable by a six-cylinder touring car negotiating a trackless desert. When Judith did move It was not to comfort Alan. On the contrary, her first act was to draw from her pocket a heavy, blunt-nosed revolver, break It nt the breech and blow Its barrel clear of dust. Her hand went next to the holster on Alan's hip. From this she extracted his Celt's A', treat ing it as she had the other. Then she crouched low above the man she loved, as if thinking perhaps to escape notice from the occupants of the motorcar. If that were her thought, it was bred cf an idle hope. Alan had chosen to fall in the middle of a wide space so arid that not Ten favbrush had ven tured to take root there. When tho glare of the headlights fell upon then it was inevitable that discovery should follow. The motor car stopped within twenty feet. Three mm Jumped out and ran toward the pair, leaving two in the car the chauffeur and one who occupied a corner of the rear seat: an aged man w lth the face of a damned soul, doomed for a little time to live upon this earth In the certain knowl edge of his damnation. As this happened. Judith Trine leaped to her feet and stood over the body of Alan, a revolver poised in cither hand. -Halt!" she ordered imperatively. -Hands up!" The thrte who had alighted obeyed without a moment" hesitation; her father's creatures, they knew the daughters temper far too well to dream cf epposias her will. Ia the six hands that were sil houetted against the headlights' radi ance, three revolvers glimmered; but at her command all three dropped harmlessly to the earth. Thon nharolv. "Stand back two paces!" she sequired. They humored her unanimously. Darting forward, she picked up and pocketed the three w eapons, then with one of her own singled out the men she named. "Now, Marrophat and you. Hicks pick Mr. Law up and carry him into the car. And treat him gently, mind! If one of you lifts a finger to harm him that one shall answer to me." Still none ventured to dispute her. The two men designated, without a sign of disinclination, stepped forward. One lifted Alan Law by the shoulders; the other took the legs. Between them they bore him with every care toward the motor car. But now a second will manifested itself. The man in the rear seat lifted up a weirdly sonorous voice: "Stop!" he cried. "Stop this non sense! Prop that man! Judith, I command you " Bp silent!" the girl cut In sharply. "I command here if it's necessary to tell you." There was a rause of astonishment. Then the old man broke out in exas peration that threatened to wax into furv: "Judith! W hat co you mean ny this? Has It indeed come to this that hter defies me to my fare?" "Arnarentlv!" she shot back, with a shcrt laugh. "Judge for yourself! "lim-p vnn foreotten your vow to trip?' ' No. But I take It back and cancel it- that Is mv privilege. I believe Silence!" she stormed as he strove to gainsay her. "Silence do you rr it will be the worse for von'" As well command the sea to still tt vnirp- her father raged like a mad man that he was. for the time beinR divested of his habitual mask of frigid heart lessness And seeing that there was no other way cf quieting him, the girl turned to the third man. "Now Jimmy!" the said crisply. "Into that car and be quick about it :nifl il.iz hiin!" if von it-) " her fither foamed, "I'll hr.ve vnur life " . fmiriah of her wenncna gained Instnnt obedience. She stepped up on the running board nml shot a tiulrk. searching gl.'.nce at the face of the chauffeur. 'Strair lit ahead, my man!" she. said. "Make for the nearest pass through those hills yonder, and don't delay imlnQa vou nrp anxious for trouble. Off you eo The car began to move. She swept the three men lu the desert a mocking bow, Jumped into the body of the car and slammed the door. like the wind, gaining on th? motor car with every stride; for his horse was trained to such going, whereas the car at best could only labor hear ily In dust and sand. None the less, it had wen to a point within a quarter of a mila from the pass before the horseman g3t within what he esteemed the proper range, an opened fire. He fired thrice. His first shot winged wide, bis second by ill-chance ripped through a rear tire of the car, thus placing upon it an additional handi cap, while his third sought the zenith as bis hands flew up and he dropped from the saddle, drilled through the body by Alan's only shot A long-rang? pistol duel was In progress before the car had covered half the remaining distance to the nasi riv the time It entered th! last. which proved to be a narrow ravine with towering side of crumbly earth and shale and broken rock, the pur suit was not a hundred yards behind, w hile the firing was well nigh contin uous. Two hundred feet above the trail two men were working with desperate haste at some mysterious business though tone noticed them. Only the chauffeur was aware of a woman running down the hillside at an angle, to intercept the car several I HAVE YOU SEEN THE I B. & P. POLICY? 1 1 ritilllif ONE DOLLAR buys $50 per month, with $500 for Accidental Death, AA Classification. 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She Said. hundred yards from the mouth of the As It drew near the rpot where she nnusrd. wavinc both hands frantically, the head of the pursuing party swept into the mouth of the ravine. At the same time the chauffeur no ticed that the two men oa the hillside were following the woman pellmell. throwing tneinscivea aon uiu huf ... with g'cantic uaps and bounds. The FACTS and FIGURES show that we are still And tnen a great, explosion rem ue ,. , . ni c,TO rva PQCnn nhserver Can See Uiai we peaceful hush of night-that till then uuuuuiuaim .v v v - " V - " w had b.e profaned by the pattering are much stronger as we go into each new year, we are cracks of the revolver fusillade. ,,0f brazrine. be it understood, but merely calling auen- As the roar of dynamite subsided . , nrcnof :vp prmcitors to OUr Strong POSltlOn in the entire side of the hill shifted and y,., c slid ponderously down, choking tne ne DaniUIlK iieiu. :rSof X".lS .h. SAFETY is the prime consideration to depositing hard earned dollars, or any other good TIILl U A M U I IK' I IIMIIirM flTTPrK I M1.X WlllllUC" . I , mnlnr rfirl . rriTTri U A NI u I I H I I IM I I I IM flTTPFS I.I11S 1I1UUUC and slammed tne door. ..... money. mrj Unmi yi ---- - T!,v ma.ia nn Pffnrt to nlead their jolted to a halt and Alan pulled hlra- i." J 11 tV,o rimo This IS A (lUARANl I not cau e and secure passage even as far self together to find that Rose and Jiuit uh? ?'' ' tjt " Alonff fo this is as the ccIro of the desert; doubtless Barcus were standing beside the door tO be Overlooked DV My QeDOSllOr. A10I18 JL0 ft.8 tn' :... .j r.t ,,. t.hh.rir invfui ereetines. mixed v fM,rA RP.PVTP.P,. nnd everv reasonable ACCOM- iney Knew iuu w i j- i w uc tuuim - ; , . , nvnnnTnxrnr she thought, as sho settled back In a with more or less incoherent "Pla" VIQDATION. People knOW thlS by EXPERlbMLb lions oi me manner in uh... - " 1 (nr. vArnf itinn In RhnrtL Wenfl come to seek shelter for the night in ana 10 Uieiu we uuucw iui v , - - the prospector's shack and, roused Lour wav 0 the bank in sympathy with your neeaa by the noise of firing nnd recognizing ' , t Rt:sfv everv reasonable demand. By this cuiu - , , 1 . reckoning you become a customer aim a menu r-'ffW t.t. T v,,,-A?yv3 a4 i3t: " fri i m W '"wK M W r-r "is-.-! 7 ISM.' U i .ot.t rhnruiirsr with the memory of those three masks of dismay unmltl rated It was not until five minutes later, when she straightened up from making Alan comfortable that she renllzed what had made them so content to nhiito hv her will Thop she heard th. ir voices lifted tOK thir in a long, shrill howl that was quickly onswered by fainter yells from a distant quarter of the dwrt, then by pistols popping and flashing some two miles away, then by a growing rumble of eallonlnc hoofa. The niiht classes In the car ofTordcd her flashes of a body of sevcn.1 horse mensome six or seven, she Judged making nt top speed toward the spot where Marrophat. Hicks and Jimmy waited beside a beacon which they had built and liehted Half a dozen sentences exchanged with the chauffeur advised her that these were horsemen from the town of Mesa who had charged themselves with the duty of avenging the deatn of Hopl Jim.Slade A sardonic chuckle from within Trlne's gag goaded the girl into a sul len furv Tiactln his utmost sneed from the chauffeur, under penalty of her dls- cleasure. she set herself to revive Alan. With the aid of such stores of food and drink - r:- ' .rrled. this was auickly euotiku accomplished Stranr in with an overdose oi brandy too little diluted with water Alan In the ear bv the aid of spy- classes, had with the prospector's aid hit u nr. ii this scheme of shooting a landslide in between the pi' iuit ana its devoted nuarry. (Continued in next issue.) 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