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DAUGHTER OF THE SUN
nils iiihjinb tiik hteiiV
tiM Kendric. ft evll-may-care but
J!.m tii.ili.' nutilMif a Ivds of Ameri-
with Berne frlenda aeeka an" Atec
" XL1 i.nnl In Mexico. II h Party
a mysterious
11m tir.Alf thA
!?""l.,.. .,f 'th Montezuma.. Utr
I'.v.i.V. 'i'imn" llarlewr and. wait.
?.... Vemmdf 7-eral.la, falla In love
"... iim. but n scorns nor levp. jie
'"' ". "i. w t h Uelty Onrder
I clrl, who In held a
meViu!'.'
r.n with geme menus see
itt ,'"&&. who cam
Jln' .
'love with
AI!iTi h.eiinuartara for ransom.
TOiiikes Kendrlq te the acret treas-
HI ninee. "the rrart of ancient Mexico."
?,",l!.-. iA hflhn hlni with th- e-raat
iiy aemetnln
""- . inrjk iviin tipiir i.iirmin. hh
W ill- rirl. who la held at Zdralda-a
CO-
The
.IT Flea te bribe him
ll.il I etm nnd (told
TMmiii "" " - . in.daneer.
" 'ES. uirl In revelled In a atcel dire
& which In let Kernldi'a aajnpje iwt. a
Lm Kendrlc threatens te Kill Tuera Ida,
firiwhf auch f'r Inte her heart that she
!l. Lelty but with lisle fn her aeul.
Vk. innkf their escape theuch pursued.
.JJv.ids s forces reate eursult, and the
St, continue te mnVe their dllflcult
tiv lhreuii the mountains.
,NI lli;HK IT CONTINt'r.S
rilAVTKIt XIX
itnu One Who Hides antl Watches May
,,0H Watched by One Hidden
A Tale of Adventure
BY QUIEN SABE Who Knows?)
CowWe.!. nSi. bu Charlet Scribntr'i Bena
fl' Kendric Itlnu-clf tlltl
D He rat
net bleep.
hy their tlcntl fire nnil
. i .1... ffrniliinl tlilnllttlff fit tlie
JiVknfcs about him ns the vague light
.iiVrwi in from tlie awakening outside
in 1J He looked 'at Hetty Bleeping,
.til- te leek away with n -frown darken
ffhl, oTeh. She would sleep lienvily
ad Ien-'" she would awake refrcHhed
...l-huiigM. Hp wnH hungry already.
It's epei and shut," he told hlm
Kt. "It's up te ine te forage "
i'n(j jt wan as clear that there wits
fwfljs a risk of being been bb he left
?i?i Ai.iinf' nlnce. That rtek would in-
I....'ft nt the day brightened. Hence,
HliertCRt cut, and reached the cabin bv
the back deer. The Mexican still lay
under his tree Kcndrie looked in ut the
deer. Xe one. there, just u bare, empty
untidy room.
It was bedroom, kltchcnand dining
room. In tlie hitter capacity it nppcaleil
strongly te Kcndrie. He went in, tct
hm rllle down, ami riiiiiiuiiged.
rlicrc was. of course, it big pet of
rcil beans. And there were tertlllnft. a
great heap of them. Kcndrie took half
n dozen of them, nielitcncd them in tlie
half pan of water and poured n high
heap of beans en them. Then he rolled
thc-tgrtlllas up. making a monster cyl-.
Indrienl bean sandwich. A soiled news
paper, with n leek almost of antiquity
te It, hp found en a shelf nnd wrapped
his sandwich, which he thrust into the
besom of Ills shirt. Alt of this hud
required about two minutes and in the
meantime his eyes bad been busy, btill
rummaging.
There was a box nailed te the wail
with a cloth ever It. Jn it lie found
what he expected ; a let of jerked beef,
dry and hard. He filled his pockets,
his . mouth already full. On a tabl
eau a (lour sack; 'he put into It the
bulk of the remaining beef. some coffee
and feugar. n couple of cans of milk.
Then he looked out at the Mcxlnin.
The man still lay In the gorged torpor
of the afternoon siesta.
"What will he' think." chuckled
tcnunc, 'when he
line he must go, tt were Dcst nor. te cnime, wncn no nncis his larder
f.rrv He found In his pocket a stub j raided and this en the table?"
f nc'ncll and nu old envelope. On it lhlt was a twent dollar geld piece,
i. ..mic n biief message, placing it en' enough te pay nianv limes ever the
"'"' . I ..I I. .....I In
.1.- .Minil ' ' I K'l 'Mllllllllfc num.. .' "
ini Biuee'H pistol upon it.
I'm off te till the larder. Stick
tloae until I comp back. If I'm long
tone It w'll be bccaubc I can't help
ft Hut be sure I'll be back all
rljbt and bring something te eat.
He left her, net, without uneasiness,
but eager te hurry away se that, If all
nt well, his return might be has
tened He took the rifle nnd slipped
otutieusly through the bushes, stepping
te make what assurance he could that
he was net being seen, crawling for the
mifet part across the open placet, keep
ing as much .ib pesiblc where boulders
or trees hid li'in. He had ulready made
his tentative plant; he made his wnj
down into the bed of the ravine nnd
.vn,.e uiiMreiini. Swiftly the light In-
,,rfmd awr the still solitudes. The!
tun was up en the highlands, the can can
jens enl were still duile".
lie found it place where he could
itand hidden and see the cliff-broken
ilepe where Hclt was. Here he steed
motionless for a long time, watching.
Fer lie knew that if by chance some one
had teen h'm and hud net followed it
i. .......( Kiit Lntim tin liutl nlfctnil
W03 Ullttll tiini- ewi'iv " -.- i- -.
rather te teck the girl. At last, when
IDC MllllltSO I Ulllllllltll limiivnv.. .... ..v.
law no stirring thing, be expressed liis
relief in n deen sich nnd went en.
llii plan was te work hit wn up the I
ravine until at lust be topped the ridge
and went down en the further side.
Frem hit starling place he had roughly ,
picked out his way, shuping his trail
te conform te these bitt of timber which
would aid in his concealment. Once
ever the ridge he would press en until
several miles lay between him and
Betty. Then, if he saw game of any ,
sort or a straying calf or sheep, lie
would have te take the chance that a
rlfte nhet entailed. If his shot brought
Zeralda's men down en him, he. would
have te fight for U or run for it as cir
cumstances directed.
He was nn hour In cresting (lie first
rfjdgc. Before him lay a wild country,
broken and barren in places where there
were wildernesses of rock and thorny
bush; In ether places scantily timbered
and grown up in tough grusses. A mere
unlikely game country he thought that
he had never seen.
Hut the land hereabouts was net
utterly denid of water and always, at
he went en, he sought these canyons
where from a distance he judged that he
micht come te a spring. Hven se lie
was parched with thirst before he found
the mudhele. And before he drew near
meiigh te drink lie sat many minutes
tcreeried bv some dusty willows, hit
eye, keen either for watering gnme or for
amount of the commanded cd victuals.
iM'iuirif toeu up wiclt and rille. had
another mouthful of frijoJes and beef,
and went out the way he hud come.
And, nil the way up the slope, he
chuckled te himself.
"Enough te last Hetty and me t
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swiftly from bchiua n tfee te a nenrby
boulder. Thus he had caught Kcndrle's
eye. And thus Kendric was reas
sured, confident after the first quick
sinking of Ills heart, that the ether had
net seen him.
The man, tee far away for Kendric
te distinguish tlctnil of cither costume
or features, was hardly mere than n
slinking shadow. Hut almost with the
first glimpse there came the quick sus
picion that it was Hub. KIes. He saw
something white in the man's hand;
a handkerchief since the gesture was one
of wiping a wet forehead. And en that
slender evidence Kcndrle's belief estab-
llshed Itself. Zeralda's vaqticres would
net entry white handkerchiefs; It tucj
carried any sort tit all they would
probably be fed or jellew or blue; or.
if white originally, they would net be
krnt nn snewv n te flush like that one.
And the gesture itself, once the thought
had come te him, wus vaguely sug
gestive of that, slew grace in every
movement thet was KIes'. The man
might be any one, conceivably even Hnr Hnr
lew or Hrticc: but In his heart Kendric
knew It was Hies.
Lewer than ever Kendric crouched
In the shelter of the rock; steady nnd
unwinking and watchful did lila eyes
cling te the distant figure. He. made
out after a long period of motionless
ness nnether gesture; the man's bands
were up te his face; he was shading
his eyes or studying the mountainside
with field glasses. The latter preb-ably.
The afternoon drugged en and for n
long time neither muu moved. At last
Hies. If KIes it was. withdrew a little,
slipped behind a tiee. passed te another
nnd disappeared. Kendric did net see
him again though he kept nlcrt-every
instant. At last came the time when
the sun Bllppcd down behind the ridge
and the dusk thickened nnd the stars
came out. Kendric rose, stiff nnd
weary, and began his slew, tedious way
down into the canyon. Ills long en
forced stillness during which he hnd net
dared doze a second had served te bring
a full realization of bodily fatlgue and
need of sleep. Ne rest last night ; today
many hard miles and little nourishment ;
i new every nerve yearned for n sate
I leturn te camp for a sight of Hetty, for
the opportunity te threw hlinbelf down
mi n bed of boughs and rest.
Theuuli it was dark when he stnrtcd
te climb the steep toward camp he re- i
i laxed nothing of ills guarded precau- j
i liens. I'rged by impatience as lie was, .
eager le knew if nil was Well with,
Hetty, his uneasiness for her growing!
with every step toward her, he crawled
slowly and silently through bushes and
among boulders, he stepped frequently
mid listened, be forced himself te n
roundabout way rather than take the
direct. All this in snlte of his keen
jiculizatien that for Hetty the time must
l)( dragging even ns u uraggce ier mm.
Hetty hungry, frightened and lonely
wa, above all. uncertain.
Hut at last he came te the opening
in the rocks. He squeezed through, his
heart suddenly heavy within liini ns tlie
stillness of the place smote him like a
positive assuruncc that Betty was gene.
He went en, his teeth tot hard. It
ltnM ..a.a imnn h hlffli limtven
would be a rendering of accounts I Ancr
then, even heferc the first glimmer of
her little fire reached him. he hcerd her
glad cry. She came running te meet
hi m. her two bands out. srenlng for
his. Andhe dropped rllle nnd prorl prerl prorl
sien bag and In the half dark his hands
found hers nnd grlpped hard In mighty
HTI.-..V flnrll" nnlil Hcttv.
And Jim Kcndrle's words were like
. .. r .t A.ln . Il'r1nil- llnil.
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'Thank (led.
CIIAI'TEU XX
In Which a Heck Moves, a Discovery
Is Made and Mere Than On
Avenue Is Opened
In the light of Betty's lire Jim has
tily peuretf forth the contents of hif
bag. and never did n child's eyes nt
Christmas time shine like Hetty's. She
had hungered until she was weak and
trembling nnd new such articles as Jim
cllsnlaved wcie amply sufficient te "licit
rhm her that little cry of delight. Tor Ter
tlllas and .beans, meat and coffee nnd
sugar and milk It was a banquet fit
for n king nnd n queen 1.
"The only tiling," cautioned Ken
dric, "Is te go slew. It's a course din
ner. Mies Bcttr. And first comes a hi
of milk."
Tip rinnert nneh n can with his pocket
therejknlfe, poured out half of the thick con
tents into tlie siik waier-eng ami ui
i.ua.i i.n r.mniniini. with writer. There
after he watched Betty while she forced
t If -L 1.l t.!.I.U.. .n ..- en.1 firing '
lierMMI, Ilk HIS UlUUlllfc, IU v.ll. mm u...-
sparlnjly. And he noted that during
his nbsence she bed been busy working
en her wardrobe. Using both the red
garment nnd the cloak, employing in
her task the obsidian knife nnd strips of
green fiber, she hud matle for herself a
garment which it would have been hard
te classify "find yet which was aston
ishingly becoming. As much as any
thing Kendric had ever seen it resem
bled a stylish and therefore nutlnndlrh
tiding habit. She were Zernida's bIieck
and stockings.
"I washed them with sand and water
first." said Hety around a corner of her
sandwich. "And I let them air nil
day."
"Ne visitors?" said Kcndrie. "Ne
sign of any ehe en our tral.l?"
Hetty asMiicd him that she hnd been
unmolested, that the terrible stillness
of 'the mountain had been unbroken.
And she sought te tell him hew long the
day had been.
"I knew," he said. "It was long
enough for me, nnd I was out In tne
open and stirring. It must have been
a slice of torment for you here nlenc
all day, net even knowing If I'd ever
get back or have any feed when l
came."
"I knew you'd come," said Betty.
"But it was lonesome nnd shivery.
He told her of his duy nnd finally or
the man he bad seen across the canon.
Further, of his. suspicion that it was
Ruiz Hies. Hetty shuddered.
"He is a terrible creature, she
said. "I'd rather It was any one else.
De veu think he has nn idea we re
lie stretched out by the fire, helped
himself Ien bit of the dried beef and
told her his thoughts.
"I knew iust about hew KIes would
reason things out. And, oddly enough,
If .trllrna mil flint tllOllch llC 1)021111 W'itll
a false premise he hns come pretty close J
te reaching tlie ngni cencius en. mu
sec, he knows thnt I citnic down here
with Bnrlew looking for treasure. He
knew Captain Kscebar was abend of him
en the snme trail, and when he could
get nethlii? further out of Hscebnr he
killed him. Hut he did knew In a
general way where we expected te line
tlie stuff. Se. when veu and I skip
out nnd don't head straight back te the
gulf, lie's pretty sure I'm still making
n vtnb et getting the treasure.
"And It hns.hnppcned that you and
I, blundering along In the dark, liavi
hit en this spot, which Is net far from
the place where the treasure i sup
posed te be. Se IUes hides in the brush
with a pair of glasses nnd keeps lila
eye peeled for us. I think that s the
whole explanation of his being out
yonder And I think that's all he
knows." '
"It's enough." Betty shook her head
dubiously.
"Of course," he admitted, "this Is
just u guesn en my part. He may knew
mere thnn I think. During the day,"
he added, "and just new while I lny
out wilder waiting for dark, I've had
n let of time te think things out. First.
It slrlkcs mr as best te hide out here
one mere day and then, tomorrow night,
te make a break for the outside, l'er l'er
senally, I don't knew thnt I'd be fit for
much tonight; it's a geed stiff hike te
wliere wc left the Half Moen and I
won't be nble te keep nwakc much
longer. Then by tomorrow night, even
if Zerulda Is ns keen as ermte t JT
back, I doubt If her men's cnthutrlwgl .
for vllignnce will have lasted ijt tW
first hent, There'll be a better clmf
for us te slip through.'
Here, again, the responsibility HJ
Betty's way of thinking was his M
she accepted his plnn without cbnll-nw.
"Anether thing I've- been thinking
of," he went en, "is that queer, smooth
hole in thnt boulder! where we've our
water stored. What have you mads of
it?"
"A reservoir," she answered lightly,
her spirits rinen swiftly with his com
lng and a taste of foed."'Whnt else?"
"llloe ts naru sec in uis ueitei turn
there's nnelcnt treasure nenrby. Se is
Barlew. Se, evidently, was Escobar. If?
se, what mere likely place than where,
wc arc? That hole didn't mnkc Itself
after that regular fashion. I don't ca
just what It has te de with tlie rasa,
I'll admit. But somebody made It u long
time age nnd didn't de it Just for the
fun of the job. I've n notion that It
hns its bearing en the thing, iornt iernt iornt
hew." "It isn't big enough te held much
treasure." said Bettv. "Maybe they
didn't finish it?"
Te be continued tomorrow
would be
Ajmida's hirelings who
latching the waterheles.
Hut, when at last he came en
All day long, save for the hci-der,
he had net seen a single soul
week." he estimated "And a place
get mere if need be. That liembre will
pray the iet of his life te be raided
agnin niiil never a ihet fired!"
lie ate' as he went, enough te keep
life and strength in him, but net nil
that Ills hunger raved. Fer he thought
of Betty hungering and waiting in that
hideous lonciiueas et uncertainty, ami
had no heart for a Military meui. Hut
in fane.v, ever and ever, he feasted
with lur, and beann and jerked beef and
coffee boiled in a nulls-can made a j
, banquet.
lie hastened all thnt he could te re
turn te her. though he knew that speid
I lng along the trail could hardly bring
i him te her a -ecend earlier. Fer lie
i would. Jn the end. be constrained te
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I net Lygrwinj UM5" w
nayj
found nothing but a jumble of tracks.
Ponies hnd waterid here and had
trampled the spring into its present rc
lemblanec te a mudhele. He found a
place te drink, nnd drank thirstily,
finding no fault with the alkali water or
the sediment in it. He washed his
bands and face in it. wet his hair and
went en.
There came three mere spurs of
mountain te cress, nil unlikely for
tame, each one hotter and drjer thnn
the ethers. Twice lie had seen a cojete;
be had seen two or three gaunt, hungry
looking jackrnbbits. They bad been tee
'jrnvvay le draw a shot, gray glimmers
through patches of sage. He had seen
Tcr a hoof of wnndcring cattle. And
be realized that during the heat of tlie
jly there was small hope of his sight -nT
any browsing animal. He would
probably have te wait until tlie cool of
reiing nnd then, if lie made his kill,
mum te Hetty In the dark. And.
neuuh he keenly kept bis bearings, lie
knew that if he mi-took a landmark
emcvvliere and get into n wrong can can
Jen, he'd hove his weik cut out for him
finding her ut night. Well, that was
July n pieec of the whole pattern nnd
" kept his mind en the immediate
Present.
He estimated that lie was ten miles
horn inmp. Ahead of him stretched
"Hi another ridge, u little higher than
"ji1 ethers but u shade lets barren:
Dfrc were scattered pines and oaks and
'I'M grassy plnces. Frem the top of
.i'l lllse lmlf lin ''our Inter, he
ft A1".' n nazi' et' woke rising from
Belittle valley just bejeud. And when
JJ cume te a place whence he could
"," "," ""obstructed view he siiw n
"tiering Heck of sheep, a tiny stream
"l water and n rickety beard shack. It
" from thi, shelter that the smoke
iu " iV,"as kigli neon and down there
w nilddn.v meal was cooking.
ise i ii " K r"0,p'l right under hi
- ...i uiij ne una eeen Hungry; new
was ravenous. Se trnni? wns the
wait for tlie joining of night before lie
climbed ngain te their camp. lie real
ized soberly that l'.ettj must net again
'"'I fall into .nraida s hands: that the rc-
i suit, inevitably, would be her death.
Were Xeraida mad or sane, she was
filled with a tienzy of bleed lust. There
was danger enough without his Increas
ing it for the sake of coming tin hour
sooner with feed. In .one day Hetty
.i.tiill nn, ulnpt'n tuiil T.li., k.lin tiii.f
ni'lllil It.... r. n ...... ii.-v ....' ",u,v. g
But there was satisfaction in drawing I g
steadily closer te her. He traveled as i p
cautiously as he had come, he stepped g
in many places of concealment whence
he could overlook miles of country, lie
followed net tlie shortest paths but the
snfest. And the sun wns stiil high
when he came te the last litlge and
looked down the canyon and across and
saw the cliffs of home. In bis tbengntn
It was home.
All day long, save for the herder, he
had seen net n single soul New b
saw some one, u man at u distance and
upon the side of the canyon opposite the
spot he and Hetty hnd cIiem'ii, , Ken
dric hnd been for ten minutes lylns
under n tree en tin- lidge, lila body con
cealed bv an outcropping ledge of rock
ever which lie hnd been looking. The
man, like himself, was playing a wail
ing game I
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"PuIkc upon him that he stinted down
ne Slope ,lirc(.t iinp t() the heUHPi
mijVpen ninK'"K eP(u n deer and do de
minding t0 be fed. But he caught him- l
len i'Vi"11.1 Fnl ,le,v in tl,e f'Indc. hld
. Dchlnd some bushes, and pondered
L UBtl0n.- 'rhe "beep straggled
tlieS re; he might wait for one of
thmii! ,vll,,(lt'r ff Inte the hushes and I
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tt, "ew bjtinged "own te the spring'
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ltf .- U,! a BhwsP herder. There's
Iflllis. 2if f?lr chance that his siesta
"t ' all afternoon."
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