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GEORGIA. ♦♦+++♦ + ♦ + + ♦ DR. JAMES DeLAMAR Office in Langford Bldg. Hours 11 a. m. to 1 p. m. Sunday 9 to 11 •&. m. DOUGLAS. GA. QUR TIME, knowledge and experience in the printing basic ess. For Sale When you are k> need of some thing in this line DON'T FORGET THIS )& fit AFOUL igg&VILIAS JjM&W & George B. *o®** Rodney SYNOPSIS. — B— of Miss Dorothy Upton and friend, Mrs. Fane, breaks down at New Mexico border patrol camp, commanded by Lieutenant Kynaston. The two wom en are on way to mine of Miss Upton's father, located a few miles across the Mexican border. Kynaston leaves women at his camp while he goes with a detail to investigate report of Villa gun runners. Villa troops drive small force of Car ranza across border line and they surren der to Kynaston. Dorothy and Mrs. Fane still at camp when Kynaston returns with prisoners. Blind Mexican priest appears in camp and claims interned Mexicans have in the spoils brought across the line a wonderful emerald bell stolen from a shrine by Zapata and taken from him by Carranza troops. Priest is searching for the emerald in order to return it to the serine. Kynaston finds Jewel and reports to department headquarters. Major Up dyke appears from headquar‘ers to take charge of valuables captured, Priest and emerald bell disappear. Kynaston slips across border with one man to aid Upton family surrounded by Villistas. The water supply runs short. The defen ders kill some of their besiegers. If you were a young man be ginning to fall in love with a pretty yoman, and felt that she reciprocated your sentiments, do you believe you would have the courage to offer yourself for cer tain death if you believed the sacrifice would save the girl from shame? CHAPTER VI. The Death Game. The faces of the advancing revo lutionists were grave. Two men had come out of the mesquit and had laid the body of the dead man upon a sad dle blanket, which they were carrying slowly toward their own lines. “A little while ago, Senor Upton,” said one of the emissaries, a gray bearded old man, “we offered you im munity if you would surrender and thus save bloodshed. You refused. "We now come to tell you that we now demand more. The man who was just murdered was Colonel Pes quiera, and I demand, in the name of General Villa, our commander in chief, that the man who shot him be sur rendered to us. He will be accorded treatment as a prisoner of war and will receive a fair trial by court-mar tial—” ’ Wilkes frankly laughed. "You call his death a murder! What name do you give the attempt to kill us, senor?” “You have brought it on yourselves, senores; you have no business here on the sacred soil of Mexico. But when you deliberately kill a Mexican citizen, you shall have justice meted out to you. “If the man who killed Colonel Pesquiera is given up to us, the rest can go unharmed. If he is not given up—senores, we have sent for re-en forcements. We know that your sup ply of water is low. You cannot hold out longer. It is but a question of time. I warn you that if we have to take the place we will show no quar ter to anyone.” “Knowing the Mexican manner of making war, I am not surprised at that,” commented Mr. Upton. “Go on.” “It is solely a question of one life against all of yours. The one who surrenders will receive a fair and im partial trial —” “With a conviction already settled on. Nothing doing in that line, thank you. Come on, Wilkes, if that’s all they have to say.” Upton strode angrily off up the hill, with W’ilkes following. The two ex changed not a word until they once more entered the shelter of the house. Then Upton broke the silence. "We are in a bad fix and there’s no denying it, Wilkes. What the dickens can we do? Kynaston, come into the back room, where we can talk over a private matter without interference.” When they entered the council cham ber Upton lit a pipe and strode up and down, his brow wrinkled in thought. “Look here, Upton,” Kynaston spoke sharply, “I can’t bring those men of mine over here even if I could get them. It would mean war. There’s no question about that. To bring armed forces across the line will mean war to a certainty. That man was shot by one of us, Upton—l mean by you or me; and I can’t say which to save my life. "Not that it matters. There can be only one outcome from the quandary. You can't surrender, Upton, even if you killed him, because you have your daughter to look after. I will go down there and tell them that my troop has orders to come across after me if I am not back by daylight, and maybe if they are confronted with a bluff like that it may work. What do you say?” “Say?’’ growled Upton. “I say that when you are once in their hands you won’t have any more chance ’n a snowball in Tophet. No, my boy, you stay here.” “I think I can escape from them even if I do surrender. No, Upton, it must be done as I say; I will accept their terms and go down there.” “You’ll do no such fool thing,” growled Upton again. “You don’t sup pose that I’m goin’ to profit that way, do you? No, sir! I’ll tell you what we’ll do, Kynaston. We’ll play for it — a game of whisky poker for three chips. Whoever gets three chips first gives himself up in the morning. What do you say?” “Fair enough," said Kynaston. “Slightly higher stakes than I’m used to playing for, though,” he observed grimly as his host took a pack of cards from the table drawer. “When you consider the amount of a lieutenant’s pay, you’ll realize the size of the stakes. Go on; deal, and ‘may God defend the right!”’ Kynaston picked up his five cards, carefully sorted the ace-high aggrega tion to the left of his hand, considered the “widow.” He threw down the hand and picked up the five cards from the center of the table. Upton stood pat. The show-down showed three aces in Kynaston’s hand as against kings and sevens. Upton took a chip. The cards passed to Kynaston. Both men became intent upon the game. In the second hand, with Kynaston dealing, Upton passed, and Kynaston turned up the widow. He noticed that “Go on. Deal!” Upton sighed contentedly as he select ed a jack from it. When the knock from both men indicated that neither had any further hope of bettering his hand the upflung cards showed a pair of aces in Kynaston’s hand against four jacks in Upton’s. The next two hands broke even. Thus the end of the fourth deal found each man with two chips to his credit. Tne sweat was fairly streaming down their faces. Both bore unmistakable token of mental strain in the tense lines about the corners of their mouths. Once Upton made a misdeal. He swore softly. Just then the door opened. The two women entered. “Oh, daddy!” It was Dorothy and her tone was unmistakably relieved. “I was beginning to be really alarmed about ourselves, but affairs cannot real ly be serious if you and Mr. Kynaston can sit calmly down to a game of cards.” She perched herself on the arm of her father’s chair. "What are you playing for, dad dy?” “Just to pass the time, daughter. Run on out, you and Marion. We have been talking over some matters you wouldn’t understand.” The girl passed her hands loving ly over the old miner’s sparse hair. The light in her eyes told Kynaston what the loss of her father would mean to Dorothy. Then suddenly it came to him that he was playing the fourth hand, and that on the upshot of this one hand it depended whether or not that light should dawn again in Dorothy Upton’s eyes. He bit his lips till the blood came and ran down, a salty trickle, into his mouth. Upton looked at Kynaston grimly as he flung the fifth card into the widow and settled himself to play his hand. " ‘Patience and shuffle the cards,’ as the Spaniards say. Wait a bit, Kynaston.” He laid down his hand for a mo ment and shakingly lit a cigarette. “Who’ve you got at home, Kynas ton?” “Sister. Why? What’s that got to do with it?” “How old are you, son?” “Twenty-five. Still, why?” “An’ I’m sixty-five. Did you aim at that man, Kynaston? As God is your judge, answer me!” And straight as a shot came Kynas ton’s answer. “I aimed as deliberate ly at him as I ever aimed at anything in my life. Did you?” “I did. An’ without lyin’ more than ordinarily I do, I can say that if I did miss it’s the first time for a long time. Did you see the body?” “No. They covered it up with the blanket too quick for me to see. Why?” “I wonder if It’s possible that we both plugged him.” “That’s got nothing to do with it,” said Kynaston roughly. “They only claim one of us. Play your hand, Up ton! What ails you?” "Nothin’, only I’d like to bet that if you killed him he’s got two bullet holes in him. I must say I don’t like the idea of havin’ a clean miss set down against me —taktn’ up the widow, are you?” For Kynaston, the play passing to him, quietly laid down his hand and picked the five cards from the center of the table. “Wouldn't have me stand on two small pairs with the stakes we're play in’ for, would you?” There was little mirth in the Jest. Just so do men jest who, standing on the Peaks of Peril, look down into the Valley of the Shadow. Just so have Anglo-Saxon men jested from timo im memorial, playing with death as boys do with marbles, holding it indeed to be a little thing where honor is to be gained. The older man speculated. Then he threw down a card. This gave him the right on the next play to throw down one card and pick up two. “Shall we turn up the cards?” The sweat had started again on Kynaston's face, but he summoned a laugh—it was the poorest imitation that was ever heard —and flung down his hand face up. It was one ace, one king, one seven and —two fours! “If you’ve got anything at all in your hand as it is, you have me beaten. I can’t better my hand fiom what I threw down. In the name of Heaven, Upton, show down!” Upton, with a quick look at his young opponent, laid his hand quietly upon the table. Three Jacks peered out from behind a seven spot. “I was aiming to speculate again on the next round if you hadn’t dropped out an' then try for the four jacks. Want a drink?” Kynaston nodded, smiling wanly at his host. “It's all right, old man,” he said presently. “It’s as it should be. You see you’ve got Dorothy to look after —and —l’d have liked that job myself if the cards had fallen the other way—” Upton whistled. “Good Heavens, boy! Does she know?” Kynaston shook his head softly. “No. It came too late for me to tell her. She must never know, Up ton. Not a word of this. I’l go down at dusk. You must get the ladies in the back room on some pretext. They would raise the deuce and all if they knew —and then I’ll walk on down. “I shall not take a rifle with me, but I will take that little thirty-eight automatic of yours. It may come in handy in the time of need, and I can hide that where a heavy gun would be detected. And now, if you don’t mind, qld fellow, I’ll trouble you for a sheet or two of paper. “If I am reported as killed over here the American papers would jump to the conclusion that I had deserted. Then I’ll have a couple of notes that I’d like you to deliver when—when—■ when I've gone down there.” “Kynaston! I don’t like to ask you this —but, man and boy, I’ve known the army for fifty years, and I know that an officer doesn’t get a chance to put by any money. Were your peo ple army people?” “Yes. Why?” “Is your sister dependent upon you in any way?” “None of your business, Mr. Upton,” said the youngster. “No one need be concerned in this matter but you and me. We played the game. I lost, and I mean to pay.” There was no mistaking the tears in the old 'man's eyes as he looked steadily at his opponent. “I know,” he said slowly, fiddling with the pack, though his hands shook. “I know. I won't insult you by offering to trade places with you. You have answered my question, boy. If it is any small comfort to you, you can rest assured that your sister shall be provided for. Where’re you goin?” “To my room a moment. I’ll see you when I come back.” To Kynaston as he passed out of the great main room the world seemed awhirl. The game was fair enough, but he had not counted on his nervous system failing him. It is one thing to contemplate death as a possibility; it is one thing even to contemplate it as a certainty at the end of a specified time, but to gamble life away as if it were a dollar was something that the cavalryman was not prepared for. He would pay—of course he would pay, ju3t as he knew in his heart of hearts that old Upton would have paid had he lost. But to save his soul Ky naston could not help reflecting that, had the end been different, he might have had his chance at winning Doro thy. Do you think the Mexicans will be likely to give Kynaston a fair trial and humane death —or is it probable they will torture him iike the bloodthristy sav ages they are? CTO BE CONTINUED.) RAISE TURKEYS WITH PROFIT Many a Poor Little Poult Never Comes to Be Beautiful Bird Be cause of Wrong Start. Turkey hens raise much better poults than chicken hens, for the rea son that they never wean them, but hover them at night and watch over them days until they are nearly grown. Many a poor little poult never comes to be a “beautiful Thanksgiv ing bird” because he has not the right start in life. He does not require much, and that is just the point where we fall him. We want him to grow, and we stuff him until he gets indiges tion, an enlarged liver and numerous other ills, and some fine morning we find him with his little toes pointed toward the North star. In the wild state little turkeys spend the first few weeks of their lives in the woods and live on insects and seeds. They have to exercise to get food and consume only a small quantity at a time. We cannot follow nature exactly, but we can use good sense if we will. A raw egg is nature’s food for a young bird. More than that, it is easily digested, and, like insects, it is a meat food, therefore a good substitute. 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