THE VALE
OF ARAGON
‘By
FRED McLAUGHLIN
Author of
“The Blade of Picardy”
v
Conyright by Bobha- Merrill Co.
(WNU Service.)
THE STORY
ghtfall, in the
irleans, In
L.oren Gare
iar Gener
ged by the of three
Spanish cos
pearance
ngures,
tume, Wo ne : a
whose beauty r s him, Re
+ of the
men, Garde
him with
wounds him, After-
opponent is
tl in the
woman
he learns his
Adolfo de Fuentes, colo
Spanish army in Venez . Gar-
de flees from gens d'armes, tak.
ge in a garden, where 1 o
lear a plot to overthrow
sh rule in Venezuela, Dis~
covered, he fights, but is over-
powered, recovering
ness to find himself a prisoner
on the Santa Lucrecia, Spanish
hip bearing contraband
and ammunition for the Vene-
zuelans under Bolivar
CONKCiouUs~
arms
CHAPTER II-—Continued
rn Gore
“We go to La Guaira,” said Fran-
cisco solemnly, “and there, God will-
ing, we join forees with Simon Boll-
var, who will be, some day, the savior
of his country, just as your own
George Washington was.”
“A thing.” said I, “which 1 hope will
pass, for the western world
free of Spain, and be,
That, however,
§ moment than
Orleans, where
Come to
should |
some day, 1 am
will
sure
» less at thi
New
n 3
Interests
5 turn to
tobace.
kegs of
tobacco are powder, that the corn con-
tains bullets, and that
be found in the pork?
ancisco laughed softly. while
machetes may
San
tini swore out of the side of his
mouth,
word
he sl
Ww
he
have no
has been
Diego
in Caracas
our innocer
“If you managed to
tain Al and
1 look and find nothing, he
assured that you are mad: if
ihand he
, for shipment
get such
varez, Senor,
oul
i be
should world
proof against
yy fe w »
made in proper form from
Martinez to ar
If the
and
other merel
int
captain questions
cious as to confine 1 2, pendi
tion n ‘aracas. there
mised crew
do things by halves
Only Spanish ships may
Yen a
our
I marveled at the
thing, and marveling,
admiration. “Simon Bolivar must de
pend upon you greatly, Senor,” I sald
Francisco “He has effered
me that honor, and you may
rest assured that nothing shall swerve
me from my service to him and, through
him, my service to Venezuela. One
life, Senor, or a score of lives, shall
not stand In my way. We brought you
alive to this ship Instead of killing you
as we should have done because I har-
bored a faint hope that a man of your
courage might see his way clear to
aid us, but as you cannot offer service
I shall see to it that you do not inter
tere”
“I think, of the two of us, Francisco,
the charge of madness should not be
ald against me!”
The days went by, slowly enough,
while the Santa Lucrecia skimmed the
quiet waters of the Gulf, and my head
ealed, and the face of Santini became
less like that of a gargoyle,
We touched at Vera Cruz, where a
letter I had written to my father and
mother was posted, a letter telling
them that I had gone to Venezuela
with friends, and would return to New
Orleans at a later date. This, I knew,
would relieve their worry over my
non-arrival from France,
At Coatzacoaleos, in the tranquil
harbor of which we spent a night, the
wily Francisco offered me a chance to
escape, but, having experienced a
change of heart, I refused to take ad-
vantage of it, for 1 had heard a voice
trade with
uela, therefore we put them to
use.”
daring of the
I was filled with
bowed.
signal
in the night—a volce as clear and as
pure as the note of a mockin, oird
It brought back to me remembrance
of all the mad things of that wild
New Orleans night, That volce had
transformed the Santa Lucrecia from
a prison ship Into a paradise,
As the days and nights went by I
listened for her footsteps on the after-
deck; I pictured again and again the
exquisite face in its frame of dark
curls, the soft curve of her cheek, the
sweetly pointed chin, and I lost my-
self In the immeasurable depths of
eyes that could change to purple the
silver glory of moonlight,
One night I heard her voice lifted
in an old French song that I knew and
loved, and one that my mother used
to sing,
Francisco and Santini out, TI
tried the door and found, to my great
surprise, that it was unsecured, for
they had been in the habit of locking
me in, [I slipped out, my heart thud.
ding In my throat, and the
proteeting shadow of the mizzenmast,
crouched, listening, looking.
Scarce thirty feet she
the starboard after-rail, a
golden-tan mantilla over her hair and
across her slim shoulders. Her face
was raised toward the stars, and the
music that came from her lips was
such as [ had always imagined the
angels might produce,
A slim boy, Polite, near her,
and on her right the massive
figure that I had last seen dressed as
Charles V. One of his arms was
strapped against his side. His rasp
ing voice broke Into the middle of the
melody: “Why do you sing in French,
Carisima ; is not the Spanish language
sufficient?"
“No one language, 'Dolfo,
cient for a night like this. Every lan-
guage has its own love sengs, never
does a translation quite suflice.”
I found myself laughing softly In
the gloom. She would sing a love
song in French to her Spanish lover!
Even Polito was laughing now. *“Adol-
fo," he said In gentle raillery, “console
thyself that she does not sing in Eng-
lish, which might bring to her mind
the moon-madness of that tall Amerl.
¢ano with the fair hair and the clever
wrist.”
were
seeking
away stood
heside
was
stood
Is suffi
uttered his
must
something in
beard that have been
for hor
“Poor 'Dolfo,
an
voice was gently chid
he has had an evil] time,
1 he good to him durin
the
ericano must have
we shoul
hour on deck.
noon, whicl
Now I wanted to d
od to tell her that
my dre
12 her with
Hres came mg
Francis: howe
Adolfo jerked his heavy bods
When she spoke to Francisco
The taller one
awk
waraly
and Santi there was an easy frank.
her manner, as
in the habit of talking with
often,
ness in
had
them
though she
heen
“That mysterious patient of yours,
Doctor ¥ “has filled
me with a curiosity :
forbidden that [ satisfy it?
said,
consum is It
Santini lanughed uneasily, and
hor:
Fran-
“It has been or.
dered, Senorita, that patient he
left In the strictest privacy. His peo.
ple in Caracas will hold us"
Now De
harshly, langhed
that beat
“Caracas” he
reach Caracas?”
Adolfo.” she said, “what do yon
the close
cisco answered
our
Fuentes laughed, laughed
loud, a huge
over the
long and
gulfaw out
cried, “how
confinement
an
of vour wound."
Adolfo yel
noes!” He
paroxysm of unholy glee,
hoped he
but he sury
Yillard,” he
indeed! He
and Boliva
And as for you, Francisco 'erez. there
will be a rope"
led,
went off into
might
forventls
apoplexy ived “Doctor
Villard
soldier
feered. “Doctor
Is Kantini, the
r is going to lose a patriot!
Francisco emitted a shrill whistle,
and figures, running swiftly, emerged
from the gloom. 1 dashed toward the
milling group, caught sight of San.
tini, with a knife upraised, and threw
myself upon him, The evil blade elat-
tered to the deck and the soldier
turned to face me. He rasped a bitter
oath, swinging his fists the while,
which crashed against the side of my
head and filled the heavens with shoot.
ing stars, Before Santini could strike
again the lithe form of Polito inter.
vened, He threw his slim body like a
lance at the soldier's throat and the
two went down, a grotesque figure of
writhing arms and legs,
Now I saw the dark Manuel, a pistol
is his hand and his mouth open in an
expectant grin, Before he could raise
the weapon I closed his mouth with a
driving fist, behind which I had put all
the power of my muscles,
With the sallors pressing
us I turned to find Francisco.
was no enmity In his eyes,
made no move to attack me,
cisco,” I sald In one of those sudden,
unaccountable hushes that every bat.
tle, large or small, will develop, “vou
have committed a grave blunder.”
Trembling hands arm
and whirled me around. The Senorita
Lamartina her
pale face inches
from my eves,
“Your—Your Majesty,” [I faltered
“Aother of G
“the moon-wralth!”
» » - » » . »
half
around
There
and he
“Fran-
*
caught my
and
less than elght
raised on
was
tiptoe,
4," she whispered,
the
filled
iele with a
A western upper
lurid glow,
presaging a
bore upon me; honds that cui
held my arms and legs
thoughts of Injustice filled
sun
of my tiny cubl
u still, oppressive hent
storm
and
my
me cruelly
black
brain,
I had fought to and hor
and I had prison cell
Was this the Spaniard’s idea of grail
tude: could the heart of
Adolfo de perverted a
sense of right and wrong, in his sian
of life so poor a picture of sportsman
ship? Ah, 1 was to learn many things
about the Spaniards
I wondered what
Manuel; I wondered what they had
done to Francisco and Santini, for 1
remembered that Spanish justice was
swift,
But
gloom of 1
that fervent
wraith!" had
definite note of joy,
I heard the grating of ¢
padlock, the rattle of
The door opened and two armed
came In. They
I stood up,
save him
come to this
rail.
be in
Fuentes so
there
had become of
one of light showed in the
despair. Riding upon
whisper of the “moon
believed, a
ray
my
come, so |
and
sail
bonds
ors 00sed my
ang
and
1 esed
moving arms
numbnes 1
the
tilors eased ot
lor guards were visibl
know the
I said: *
ugh my mother is French”
i to me
ding close she raised hor
toward the glow of
“will
you are?
the tiny pert-
hole, Monsieur,
w ho
Tell her?
thing to hold her here, to
to fill my
nil
soul
you teil me,
I would tell her anything,
giYe me
eyes with her
my with the joy
ne is Loren”
acceniing
last
donethe
what?”
de, the g
r, & youth
hit to New
under the brilliant
With faith in hime
nation to which he
Orleans
his campa
Nathaniel
self and the new
had offered
managed by
OG reete
he has
areful
gather
valley
“If your father is wealthy
in the name of all
gieur—did you thus throw awas
life by serving that
conspirator, Simon
valiant
hard work
investment "to
service,
and «
saving and vast
acreage of Mississippi
then why
Mon
your
and
the saints,
arch-rebel
olivar?”
Now a bit of Francisco's patriotism
touched me, so that 1 refrained, for
the moment, from telling her that 1
had spurned the offer of the revaoln-
tionists, “The rebel of today, Your
Majesty, may be tomorrow's liberator,
Do you not know that, already, they
are calling this Bolivar the Washing.
ton of South America?”
(TO BE CONTINUED)
w— wissen
HRB RNN
The hands of the women of today
~fare they larger than the hands of
their grandmothers? There is no ex.
position of old-style costume, says the
Matin of Paris, which does not reveal,
at least by the diminutive gloves,
the exquisite smallness of our feml
nine predecessors, both living and ex.
tinct. Few women of this generation,
moreover, are able to wear the wed.
ding rings, the other rings or brace
lets of thelr ancestors,
One is able to conclude, certainly,
that these souvenirs of the past were
chosen In accordance with the fashion
and requirement, and not merely curl.
ous legacies left to us ns something
most precious and most rare,
It would be only honesty, rather, to
avow that the activity of modern
women has done away with much of
the delicate slenderness of former
times. The hand which controls the
fiying machine and which wields the
racket and the oar cannot, of course.
remain as small and graceful as the
one which had but to hold a handker-
chief of lace,
Mortality Facts
The years in which the greatest more
tality rates occur are from birth te
one year of age. This period is high-
est until seventy-cight years of age,
when, of course, the rate is very high.
The Smart Sex
We all know women who are smart:
er than most men ~Woman's Home
Companion.
FOUR resolutions
or recommenda-
tions, deviged by the
committee of finance
ministers and adopted
by the
conference in
don, comprised the
total f the
parley, and it was the
seven-power
Lon-
results
opinion of experts that
little If anything d
been done for the
Prime Minis.
ter McDonald relief
the President
y waid
American nnd Brit
briefly sum-
suggestions
both
conception, llere,
marized,
adopted :
First—That the banks
the World Bank for International
pe S100000 060 Gers
are
and
Net
central
extend tl
credit for a further period of
months,
Second-—-That banks be
now in
for the
private
leave thelr credits
hands
Third—That a world bank commit.
of existing short.
long-term
conversion
loans to loans,
Fourth—That conference “note
action of Ger-
lists In creating a re
ey
the
satisfaction” the
ndustri
yO O00 on
After the con
or Bruening a
tius 1
concerning
ing a
the wi
Europ with cor
. ISG Uences
and political, ns well as purely
social
which no mun estimate
can
%
“Time is against us. Every y adds
Ty
ii
risks of a collapse = h wi
RANCE took
ternational
paign for putting
logg pact and in the
tions covenant, A
advantage of the in
confabs to start a
teeth in the Kel
League of Na-
memorandur
cnn.
replyin
the league's request for infor:
strength, contained the
cial view that isnrmament cannot be
accon
of the leagu
are ungeria
by a 3
gave no precise
but
armaments have
the
“under present
and the world"
still the slogan of
insists guarantees if
ments are 8 be modified,
he memorandum fOnally contends
that insecurity for one state means
insecurity for all, and the idea of
neutrality Is incompatible with the
notion of solidarity of states,
WHILE statesmen
in London were
trying to reach con.
clusions that might
result in the complete
abandonment of the
projected Austro-Ger-
man customs union
by the German gov
ernment, the World
court in The Hague
opened a hearing on
the proposal that has
been so dear to the
hearts of the officials
in Berlin,
Before the court took up the case
President Adatel of Japan installed
Judges de Bustamente of Cuba and
Wang of China, who were not presest
at the last session,
After this ‘preliminary, the full
court, including Frank B. Kellogg of
the United States, began the hearing,
with the governments of Germany,
Austria, France, Italy and Czecho-8lo-
vakia as parties to the cuse. They
were represented by an army of
agdnts, counsels, advocates, and as
The Austrian agent, Prof.
document
France's armaments,
thase
lowest possi
conditions in Europe
National security is
France. and
her arma-
she
on
Eric Kauffmann, was accompanied by
an American, A, 8. Feller, of the New
York bar,
Ditpatches from
that Austria Is not nearly so eager for
the i
the present
many. Indeed, the
ment may the
is now
Vienna indieste
customs she was before
Ger
Austrian govern.
plan entirely. It
trying to
! n financial
Franz Rottenberg,
director gen-
been
crisis hit
drop
engrossed in extri-
Austria from
difficulties, Dir,
is ow
who, until recently
the Bank of Austria, has
called on for help and
director of the Austria
reau, It will be his task to
a national and
which, it 1s hoped,
tion ut of the
eral of
ns been made
bu
arrange
gysiem
credit
credit
na-
hole,
is my the
insur nt government
China, t it will
against the Natior
NNOUNCEMENT
begin
list government on
August 1, when Gen, Chang Fat-Kawl
will lead an army into Kiangsi prov.
which is Nationalist
territory.
This
nouncement
ince, nominally
decision followed
that en, Shih
an anti-Nationalist,
ties in northern
Shih's operations
low river caused the
martial law In Peiping and
the Invocation a
by Natl
the an-
Yu-Sa
begun hostiii-
ina,
north of the Yel
General
dec ation of
Tientsin
. rs cd
and
News censor
3
ghir
sap
J Ealsrom ED
Texas, In an an
Fall, fo
entered
rmer secreta
thie N¢
ikl
Ross
Texa
free
t
pi
Gov. Murray
}
ae
separates
time at
the
east
two sis i
the result was that
crossed the river on
the one at Denison,
f bridges
an-
les free
excepting
Texas, and the
r
were doing no business, At
owners of toll
the south
end of the Denison free bridge Texas
stationed oy order of
after
down =a
were
Governor Sterling to
had
been
rangers
slop ira
Oklahoma officers
barrier that had
lation, Governor Murray
torn
erect
f1
tear
thn
up
The Denison toll
the Oklah« forcing
make SO-mile detour to
free bridge
Okiabhoma hi
they
ing up a section of road near Achille,
OCkla., leading to K. ©O G
bridge at Carpenter's
miles of Denison.
a toll runway fi
Involved in the controversy are a
federal junction and a contract with
toll bridge owners. J. J. Loy, Texas
state senator, prominent in highway
affaire, informed Governor Sterling
that he considered the Texas execu
tive had overstepped his authority in
sending rangers to block the Denison
free bridge. "The bridge was closed
by a federal injunction and keeping
it closed was a matter for federal of.
ficers,” Loy said.
ghway employees said
had received orders to be 1 tear
railroad
east
bridge has r vehicle
AD weather condi:
tions marred the
1031 national balloon
elimination race
which started at Ak-
ron, Ohio, and the
contest was decidedly
unsatisfactory. First
face was won by the
United States navy
bag which was pi
loted by Lieuts. T. G.
M. Settle and Wilfred
Bushnell, Second
place ‘went to the
Goodyear-Zeppelin Goodyear VIL, pi
loted by Frank Trotter, and third hon.
ors to the WW, J. RR of Detroit, guided
by Ed J. Hill and Arthur Schlosser,
The navy balloon landed at Marilla,
N. XY, after covering a distance of
215 miles, The Goodyear came to
earth about two hours Inter at Stee
ensville, Ont, 100 miles from her
starting point, while the W. J. R came
down at Wesleyville, Ma. near Erie,
after covering only 115 miles
Lieut. Bush.
nell
The army balloon No. 1, plioted by
Capt. Karl 8. Axtater and Lieut. H,
8. Couch, had to cover only about
80 miles to take fourth place in the
contest. This bag came down at Cus-
tards, Pa., after runing into a storm.
The same storm forced down L. P.
Furculow and John Rieker, the Akron
balloon pilots, who landed four miles
north of Ravenna to take fifth place
after traveling only about 20 miles,
A second army balloon, plloted by
Lieuts, Edgar Fogesonger and John
A. Tarro, was last, with a flight of
only 85 minutes. It covered only 12
miles before coming down. As a re-
sult of the contest, the navy and
Goodyear balloons will represent the
United States along with W. T. Van
Orman of Akron in the international
Gordon race,
NICARAG
- “buste
ing the nation Bg
al i
ble that United States
went to the
sennett
marine
from Man:
A arty of rebels arme
rescue
d
entered t
of the Invader
were killed,
About the
Pedro
chieftain, sac
der n
ked
of Santa Doming
department, ace
Police killed one
A national guard
ambushed on both sides of
river at Kisalaya by 40 insu is,
the government has been informed.
Three of
and
town
ording
the were killed
guardsman
insurgents
one wis wWol
UR eight new 10,000-ton cruisers,
it has been found, roll
iy In rough water that ti
ness of their gunfire is impaired.
Therefore they are to be altered. Al-
ready anti-rolll
bilge keels
16 fective
sacola
these
of West
largest
the country.
Accordir B
spiracy was started in
porations
. ¥ is md
chase of | isirial
1927,
were formed for
alcohol
be resold to other
version into beverage chi
said the ring operated
Erie, Pa, Ps
and Florid
\A/ EAT continues to be
'¥ topic for a considerable
the country's pom
3
ia
Fredonia,
nd
vither an
a day passes withou
on the policy of farm boa:
defense of
The price having
a bushel or even lower in the Sou
west, the are their
grain in ways heretofore unknown, In
the Texas panhandle it is accepted as
admissions to theaters, and by
tists and newspapers in lieu of cash,
Many of the southwestern farmers are
feeding wheat to poultry, cattie and
hogs and using it for fuel, A judge
in Dodge City, Kan, offers to marry
couples for ten bushels of the grain,
and in several cities motor companies
take it In exchange for used cars at
the rate of 50 cents a bushel
ils of doing |
dropped to X
3
:
growers using
den-
YNDICALISTS are causing a lot of
trouble in Spain, and it is a ques
whether the new republic will be abla
to survive. Riotous demonstrations in
Seville resulted in the death of nearly
a score of persons, and martial law
was proclaimed there.
It was predicted that when the as
sembly was formally constituted the
cabinet would resign immediately,
that Alcala Zamora would be elected
president and that be would summon
either Manuel Azana, present war
minister, or Alejandro Derroux, for
eign minister, to the premiership,
The proclamation declaring martial
law in Seville set forth that troops
would fire on the slightest warning
and that, therefore, residents had
best keep off the sireeis and out of
baiconles. Resistance to the military
will result in immediate court-mare
tial. The troops were ovdersd 10 use
heavy artillery to destroy houses from
which sniping has been going on,
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