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PAGE TWO. 5- DESER COL (Continued from Ustiwraa) SYNOPSIS PROLOGUE. -Seeking gold In the fles rt, "Cameron," solitary prospector, forms a partnership with an unknown man whom he later learns Is Jonas War ren, father of a gtrl whom Cameron wronged, but later married, back in Illi nois. Cameron's explanations appease. Warren, and the two proceed together. Taking refuge from a sandstorm in a cave Cameron discovers gold, but too late 'both men are dying. Cameron leaves evidence, in the cave, of their discovery of gold, and personal documents. CHAPTEK I.Richard Gale, adven turer. In Casita, Mexican border town, meets George Thome, lieutenant in the Ninth cavalry, old college friend. Thorns tells Gale he is there to save Mercedes Castaneda. Spanish girl, his affianced wife, from Rojas, Mexican bandit. CHAPTER II.Gale "roughhouses" Rojas and his gang, with the help of two American cowboys, and hei Mercedes and Thome escape. A bugle. call from the fort orders Thome to ms regiment. He leaves Mercedes under Gale's pro tection*^ _ CHAPTER nt.The pair, aided by the cowboys' who had assisted Gale in the scape, Charlie Ladd and Jim Lash, ar rive In safety at a ranch known as For lorn River^well across the_border. CHAPTER IV.The fugitives are at Tom Holding's home. Beldlng is immi gration inspector. Living with him are his wife and stepdaughter, Nell Burton. Gale, with Ladd and Lash, take service with Beldlng as rangers. Gale telling Beldlng the cause of his being a wanderer, i a misunderstanding with his father con cerning the son's business abilities. CHAPTER V.Mercedes gets word to Thome of her safety. Dick also writes to his parents, informing them of his whereabouts. Nell's personality, and her kindness, attract Gale. CHAPTER VI.Riding the range. Gale fells in with a party of three Mexican raiders encamped at a water hole. Watching his opportunity to oust them, he sees two Indians ride into the camp. One or them, a Yaqui, is evidently badly wounded, and the Mexicans seek to kill him in a cruel way. Dick drives them off, conveying the wounded Yaqul to Beldlng's ranch. -^EeTrep6rts:~'had twaved rfrightened the jhorses In the corral and a vicious iblaek, crowding the rickety bars, |broke them down. He came plunging out With a splendid vaulting mount, the Mexican with the gun leaped to the bapTof'the horse. He yelled and his gun, and urged the black tforwartl The manner of all three was savagely Jocose. They were hnv |lng sport. The two on the ground be gan to dance and Jabber. The mount ed leader shot again, and then stuck ^ike a leech upon the bare back of the rearing black. It was a vain show of horsemanship. Then this Mexican, by some strange grip, brought the horse down, plunging almost upon the body of the Indian that had fallen last. Gale stood aghast with his rifle ^clutched tight. He could not divine (the intention the raider, but sus Ipected something strikingly brutal. The horse answered to that cruel, ,The Horse Ansv^ftfti to That'Cruel* Guiding Hand, Yet He Swerved and. Bucked. guiding hand, yet he swerved and bucked. He reared aloft pawing tie air, wildly snorting, then he plunged down upon the prostrate Indian. Even in the set the intelligent animal tried to keep^from striking the body with his hoof* But that was not possible. !A yell, hideous in its passion, signaled this feat of horsemanship. The Mexican made no move to tram ple the body of the Papago. He turned the black to ride again over the other Indian. Gale was horrified to see the Yaqul writhe and raise a feeble hand. The action brought re newed and more savage cries from the Mexicans. The horse snorted in terror. Gale could bear no more. He took a quick shot at the rider. He missed the moving figure, but hit the horse. There was a bound, a horrid scream, a, mighty, plunge, then.the horse_went Ittustrotiona by OKOTHRM. downTgTvlng the Mexican a stunning fall. Both beast and man lay still. Gale rushed from his cover to in tercept the other raiders before they could reach the house and their weap ons. Then the frightened horses burst the corral bars, and in a thundering, dust-mantled stream fled up the ar royo. The fallen raider sat up, mumbling to his sants in one breath, cursing in his ocxt. "Go, Greasers! Run!" yelled Gale. Then he yelled It In Spanish. At the point of his rifle he drove the two raiders out of the camp. His next move was to run into the house and fetch out the carbines. With a heavy stone he dismantled each weapon. That done, he set out on a run for his Tiorse. Blanco Sol heard him com ing and whistled a welcome, and when Gale ran up the horse was snorting war. Mounting, Gale rode rapidly back to the scene of the action, and his first thought, when he arrived at the well, was to give Sol a drink and to fill his canteens. Then Gale led his horse up out of the waterhole, and decided before re mounting to have a look at the In dians. The Papago had been shot through the heart, but the Yaqui was still alive. Moreover, he was conscious and staring up at Gale with great, strange, somber eyes, black as volcan ic slag. "Gringo goodno kill," he said, In husky whisper. His speech was not affirmative so much as questioning. "Yaqui, you're done for," said Gale, and his words were positive. He was simply speaking aloud his mind. "Yaquino hurt much," replied the Indian, and then he spoke a strange wordrepeated it again and again. i An instinct of Gale's, or perhaps some suggestion In the husky, thick whisper or dark face, told Gale to reach for his canteen. He lifted the Indian and gave him a drink, and if ever In all his life he^ saw gratitude in human eyes he saw it then. Then he examined the Injured Yaqui. The Indian had three woundsa bullet hole in his shoulder, a crushed arm, and a badly lacerated leg. The ranger thought rapidly. This Yaqui would live unless left there to die or be murdered by the Mexicans when they found courage to sneak back to the well. It never occurred to Gale to abandon the poor fellow. All the same, he knew he multiplied his perils a hundredfold by burdening himself with a crippled Indian. Swift ly he set to work, and with rifle ever under his hand, and shifting glance spared from his task, he bound up the Yaqul's wounds. At the same time he kept keen watchv The Indians' burros and the horses of the raiders were all out of sight. Time was too valuable for Gale to use any in what might be vain search. Therefore, he lifted the Yaqul upon Sol's broad shoulders and climbed into the saddle. At a word Sol dropped his head and started east ward up the trail, walking swiftly, without resentment for his double bur den. Gale, bearing in mind the ever-pres ent possibility of encountering more raiders and of being pursued, saved the strength of the horse. Once out of sight of Papago well, Gale dis mounted and walked beside the horse, steadying with one firm hand the help less, dangling Yaqui. Gale kept pace with his horse. He bore the twinge of pain that darted through his injured hip at every stride. In the heat of midday he halted in the shade of a rock, and, lifting the Yaqul down, gave him a drink. Then, after a long, sweeping survey of the sur rounding desert, he removed Sol's sad dle and let him roll, and took for him self a welcome rest and a bite to eat. The Yaqui was tenacious of life. He was still holding his own. For the first time Gale reaUy looked^.a* the1 Indian to study him. He "had. a \arge head nobly cast,: anc a-faee thai fte* sembled a shrunken mask. It seemed chiseled In the dark-eyed, volcanic lava of his Sonora wilderness/ The Indian's eyes were always black and mystic, but this Yaqui's encompassed all the tragic desolation of the desert. They were fixed on Gale, moved only when he moved. Gale resumed his homeward Jour ney. He held grimly by the side of the tireless, implacable horse, hold ing the Yaqul on the saddle, taking the brunt of the merciless thorns. In the end it became heartrending toll. His heavy chaps dragged him down but he dared not go on without them, for, thick and stiff as they were, the terrible, steel-bayoneted spikes of the choyas pierced through to sting his legs. To the last mile Gale held to Blanco SolVgalt and kept evejiwatchful gaze aEcacT on the trail. Then, with the lbw, flat houses of Forlorn Blver shin ing red in the sunset, Gale flagged and rapidly weakened. The Yaqul slipped out of the saddle and dropped limp in the sand. Qale could not mount his horse. He clutched Sol's long tail and twisted his hand in it and stag gered dn. BlanSJifcl whistled a piercing blast. He scented cool' water a^nd sweet al falfa 'tnyr"' Twinkling--ifglftj^anead eantj rest. The melancholy desert illght rapidly succeeded 3h* sfinset. It acqjintuated the forldrri loneliness on the gray, Finding Jiv,er of sand, and itp grayec shore* 'A firyht^'^slafl^^ opod down from'tine HacKvaha' ld^muj? mountains. (Continued in xsext lsaue^f TURTLE RIVElfc Mrs. Jens (Nelsoni and daughter Mattie wer afternoon callers at the Peterson home Friday. Mr- and Mrs- Ed Glessing tran sacted business in Bemidji Friday. Further Protection For Pedestrians Or For LosV of"^*$&/- Life T^Hu|idr^*iid- Fifty. Dol lars, provide the W^^^u^ijeffected, as stated hereiii-.isla^tfe^he^sole iause of the death p^hi|^fitotcd aind such in jury occurs: By'Being, struck or knocked down or run over while walking or stand jng on a public highway by a vehicle propelled by steam, cable, electricity) naptha, gasoline, horse, compressed air, or liquid power, excluding injuries sus tained while working in the public high way or on a railroad right of way in vio lation of any statute or any regulation of the railroad company. THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER Lester Peterson called at the Wm. Grey home Sunday. Miss Jessamine ong left for Hen ning, Minn., ast week, where she is dressmaking. Mr. and Mrs. Henry King and daughter Mrs. Joe Montgomery call ed at the eterson home. Mr. and, Mrs. Lester Peterson and CJwist Bmfke, transacted business in Bemidji 'Friday." .ITMI1 1^7 '1 1. I, Got duplicate keys made labile you waif! 'A complete tocli of blank keys here always. 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