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swore and raged impotent
ly up and down the little room. Ap
parently it was not enough that he
should sacrifice his life itself; his very
reputation, too, was to be torn to
shreds.
Hour after hour passed. He had a
little tobacco, but one cannot enjoy
smoking in the dark. So he sat and
thought and thought till the tiny stars
came out like forget-me-nots in the
wonderful Mexican sky, and the camp
woke to renewed life in the coolness.
Presently he was aroused by
sound of someone fumbling at the
chain that fastened the door on the
outside. The door drew open. In the
shadow he heard a voice.
“Ohe Mio capitan!”
It was the voice of the officer who
had met him.
“Si—si! What is it?”
“If you will come with me it will
perhaps benefit you.”
Kynaston fumbled in his boot-leg
to see if that flat automatic pistol still
lay close to his leg. Fortunately, he
had not been examined for concealed
weapons; the Mexicans had taken for
granted that a man surrendering him
self would not be fool enough to bring
arms into a hostile camp.
Kynaston stepped out. The officer
with two guards crowded their way
with their prisoner through the fast
gathering crowd to the house where
the general lived. By the light of the
two gluttering candles stuck in empty
bottles that illuminated the dirty in
terior Kynaston saw, seated beside the
rebel commander, a figure that he rec
ognized at once —the blind priest of
Trocanto, the guardian of the shrine!
The general was the first to break
the silence.
“I have brought you here, Senor
Gringo, to ask you some questions.
This good man tells me that you are
an Americano officer. Is it true?”
‘‘Ask him, if he is your source of
information,” said Kynaston in a dis
guised voice. He could see the priest
lean forward in an eager attempt to
identify him.
“There has been a story come to
us” —the general was in deadly earn
est —“that we mean to look into. There
was a stone of incalculable value in
the South that we meant to use to buy
arms and ammunition to help our
cause. We got it; then our forces
were attacked by three times their
number of the accursed federalistas,
and so the stone was taken. It was
then that, pursued by our men, the
thieves fled across the line and took
refuge on American soil, carrying with
them the stone that meant so much to
the righteous cause.
“That stone was taken charge of
by the American officer. The next
day the stone and the officer had dis
appeared, and now the good father
tells me that you are the man. I tell
you plainly, Senor Gringo, that, fail
ing to obtain from you,news of the
stone’s whereabouts, the court-martial
shall do its duty in the morning. Am
I clear?”
"Aye! As clear as your own laws
—and doubtless as discerning.”
This time at hearing Kynaston’s
voice the old priest leaned back in«iiis
seat.
“It is the man,” he said quietly.
“It is the officer who took the stone.”
“A bargain—then the stone against
your life! The stone that means two
hundred thousand pesos against your
life! It can profit you nothing to keep
it. for if it is not turned over to us
you shall surely die.”
Kynaston turned hotly toward the
priest.
“Thou hast eaten my bread and
salt,” he said passionately. "Thou
hast slept in my camp. Thou knowest
right well that I did not take the
stone; thou knowest right well that
thou thyself art the thief, and that I
had parties out searching for thee by
mesa and by river. What hast thou
to gain, padre, by lying away my
life?”
The old priest turned gray under
his dark skin.
“My son, this is not fair. Thou
sayest that thou didst not take it.
Who then did?”
“Who? Who but the man who has
sought it, as he says, for so long? The
blind priest of Trocanto, of course.
Who else has so great a desire for it?
I could not have taken it, as my com
mandante —major—can prove, for I
was with him from the moment that
he came into my camp till the bundle
was unwrapped, and the stone was
found missing.”
“Was no one else in your tent then?”
asked the general.
“Thou knowest there was, senor.”
The voice of the blind priest rose to
almost breaking tension. “Thou
knowest there were the two ladies—
where are they, I say?”
“Where are they? Is this camp a
place to ask such a question? Wouldst
thou expect to find women—decent
women--in such a camp of ladrones?” ;
* uu uutfls, GEORGIA, JULY 22 191«
“Then, senor,” said the general,
"there can be but one person who
knows about the stone. Either one of
the ladies must have seen the stone
when it was in your tent, or else —
which is, of course, unbelievable —
one of them has taken it —”
“No—no!”
The voice suddenly rose to a shriek;
the Mexican captain raised his hand
to guard his leader from the blow that
he thought was coming. Kynaston
dropped his hand.
“Someone in your camp must know
the matter. Doubtless if any man en
tered your tent while the ladies were
in your camp they have seen him. A
note to Senor Upton that I will send
by an officer will discover the mat
ter. You can tell him with perfect
truth that if the jewel is not restored
your life will pay the forfeit.”
“Wherever it is found? Do you
mean, general, if for instance I should
be able to prevail upon this blind
priest to restore it that I will be re
leased?”
“Si —si! But mark, I must have
the stone in my hands before safety
is promised to Senor Upton.”
A lieutenant had entered with a
hasty report which he whispered in
the ear of his commander in chief, and
had handed him a paper. A pleased
smile stole across Obispo’s face as he
read it aloud:
It is permitted to announce that tonight
the gallant General Villa will make an
attack on the American army. The gal
lant general will himself lead but a small
force in this first attack, and will then
await re-enforcements.
You will therefore join the main force
at Palomas by tomorrow evening. The
gallant General Villa refuses to disclose
his plans, but says he will be in El Paso
within two weeks.
Kynaston could hardly believe his
ears. Was Villa really to attempt an
invasion of the States? W T hat could
such a move mean but war, the war
he was sacrificing himself to avoid?
The army must be advised, but how?
A murmur of approval from those
in the room had greeted the reading
He Seized the American.
of the message. After a moment
Obispo turned to him again. ’
“If you wish to live, gringo,” he said,
“see to it that my messenger takes a
letter from you to the house of Senor
Upton this night.”
Obispo waved his hand in dismissal
and Kynaston was escorted back to
the little adobe house where paper and
pens were brought him. For a few
moments Kynaston sat, tapping his
teeth with his penholder, thinking
over the situation, revolving in his
mind what he wanted to tell Upton
and how he should tell it. For he had
a message to send Upton that would
never get by his censors if they should
understand it; and his censors, more
over, would be everyone in camp who
could read.
He finally concluded not to attempt
to tell Upton of the intended attack
by but to confine his efforts to
intimating how an escape from the
bouse might be made with the ma
chine. After a few meaningless intro
ductory sentences he wrote:
I am told that the accusation is made
against me that I have taken or con
cealed the priceless Emerald Bell which
we captured when we took the federal
party prisoners.
Of course you know that I know noth
ing of it. I am told further that, If it is
restored, or positive information is given
which will lead to its restoration, I will
be released.
As to the repairs 1o the automobile that
we spoke of. I would take the machine
at once tc the United States, as no re
pairs can be made here. You must take
the machine at once as the delicate
mechanism will ruin if kept here more
than ten —I wish I could write hours. If
you know anything about the Jewel send
word. I am firnjly convinced that the old
priest who has turned up here either has
it or knows where it is.
You can see what they are saying
about me across the border. They ao use
me of having stolen the accursed Bell. I
cannot imagine where it can be unless
the old priest has taken it. Of course
he has, but equally of course he will nev
er acknowledge it.
I fear that if they shoot me I will have
lost more than my life, for this attack
on my honor will leave me in worse case
than death. After It is all over, save my
honor for me if you can. Write my sis
ter at least that that accusation is un
true.
He clipped from the paper the ar
ticle which intimated that he had
stolen the Bell and pinned it with a
bit of splinter to his note, to be given
to the messenger. As the courier
walked off to the great chinaberry tree
under which his horse was tied,
Kynaston thought cheerlessly of what
the result of the mission must be.
The messenger was gone an hour
when a sudden flurry at the post of
the guard set the camp alight with ex
citement. An aid came hastily to the
house, demanding admission.
“Your letter was received, senor,
by Senor Upton, who declined to read
it," said the aid. "He said that he
was a Caballero of blood and refused
to receive messages that were sent
him by the hands of a common sol
dier. He demanded that El General
Obispo send a commissioned officer
to talk with him. Accordingly Major
Gutierrez will go up at daylight to
arrange matters.”
Kynaston spent a sleepless night.
Early in the morning the camp was
awake, the noise and excitement fore
casting a move. An hour later an
officer, furious with anger, entered
with four men. He seized the Ameri
can roughly and tied his hands behind
him with a strip of rawhide.
“Los perros!” the officer gritted.
"To treat with men like that —el gen
eral wishes to see you, gringo.
“What is it? Well to ask! That
thief of the world, Senor Upton—
bah! He is a ladrone, a picaron, a
thief! Done? What has he done?
El General Obispo sent this morning
to talk with him about you and the
jewel, which we need as a thirsty man
needs water. His emissaries were el
Commandante Major Gutierrez and el
Coronel Mayez, who is the chief of
our artillery.
“They went up under a white flag,
senor, and had a talk with the Ameri
can. They could come to no terms, so
the two left him and started back.
When they reacher the bottom of the
hill naturally enough they lowered the
white flag—”
"Yes, yes! Where are they now?”
The blind priest of Trocanto, who
had aproached, answered the ques
tion.
“They are prisoners in the hands
of Senor Upton. He sent word back
to el General Obispo that if the sol
diers lay hand on thee he will hang
the two officers as high as Haman.
Doubtless thou canst learn the details
from el general.”
It was difficult to learn anything
from the general, who, angry at being
outwitted, spat like a cat and was
equally intelligible. It was from his
first acquaintance that Kynaston
learned what had happened.
“Yes, senor, the two went up with
a soldado—common soldier—carrying
the flag of truce. You can see it is
a mile away; between us is the belt
of alamos—cottonwoods—low-lying in
the valley.
“Their talk, senor, came to nothing.
We know now that Senor Upton did
but talk to gain time. When they left
they walked down the hill, and when
they reached the valley where the ala
mos grew, tljey dropped their flag of
truce, sat down, and lit cigarettes.
“It was in that moment, senor, that
a gray-headed old pirate stepped from
behind a tree, shoved a great pistol
under the nose of the valiant coronel,
broke the rifle of the soldier, and told
him to go back to —el general will
pardon me—to the stealer of horses
who commanded here, with the mes
sage that the two officers would be
hanged if a hair of your head is
touched —saints and angels, senores,
what is it now?”
For another white flag was waving
from the house and a shot had been
fired to attract their attention.
Kynaston looked up eagerly.
CHAPTER VIII.
The Jewel.
There had been little rest for any
of the inmates of the Upton house dur
ing the night. Though they knew
right well that the Villistas regarded a
night attack with all the dislike of an
Apache, so that little was to be feared
from that source, no one could sleep.
To begin with, old Upton and John
Wilkes sat deep in consultation over
their rifle-butts in a corner and would
not be disturbed. The other men sat
silent except for an occasional mut
tered remark. Mrs. Fane was openly
tearful; Dorothy alone was collected
and reserved, unbending and unswerv
ing in her Clean-cut resolution that
something must be done.
“That's all right, daughter, to say
‘Something must be done.’ The ques
tion is: What? Aye, that’s the ques
tion! Isn’t it, Wilkes?”
Wilkes nodded solemnly over a quid
of plug tobacco that he was just ab
sorbing.
At eleven o’clock the first note came.
When the man came up the slope car
rying a lantern on the end of a stick
Mr. Upton was about to go forward to
talk with him when he was stopped
by the cautious old ex-deputy sheriff.
“No, you don’t, sir. They’ll git you
out there, an’ when the man carryin’
the lantern has got you in the circle of
light somebody back in the shadder ’ll
shoot you down. Then when a com
plaint is made they’ll say it was done
by accident, but that won’t help you
none. You'll be a deader. Tell him
to come up to the doorway so he’ll be
in the light an’ not you.”
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Chile’s Debt to the Incas.
Not until the Incas made their pres
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IrntBUOIONAL
SfiNWSffIOOL
Lesson
(By E. O. SELLERS, Acting Director of
the Sunday School Course of the Moody
Bible Institute. Chicago.)
(Copyright, 1916, Western Newspaper Union.)
LESSON FOR JULY 23
PAUL AT CORINTH,
LESSON TEXT-Acts 18:1-22.
GOLDEN TEXT—Be not afraid, but
speak, and hold not thy peace.—Acts 18:9.
1. Paul's Companions, (vv. 1-6.)
Paul’s coming to this city after his
experiences in Athens is significant
when we read I Cor. 2:1, 2. He
found a home as usual at first among
his Jewish countrymen. Aquila and
Priscilla were not only fellow Chris
tians but fellow craftsmen (v. 3). Paul
supported himself, as Jesus did for
30 years, as a carpenter. This gave
opportunity to reach the people natu
rally as one of them. At the same
time he set them the example of do
ing good (I Cor. 10:31; I Cor. 9:6-12;
II Tliess. 2-9). Paul did not think it
a lack of faith to do manual labor or
secular work for liis own support be
cause God had called him to preach.
In the midst of his labors (v. 5) Silas
and Timothy came to him from
Philippi and Berea. The Philippinns
had sent him aid and brought news of
the abundant harvest of faith and
love In that church. Paul was weak
and sick and dejected in spirit (II Cor.
2:3), probably bodily sickness. He
was also in want (II Cor. 11:9). As
he meditated on the word, it had so
got hold on him that he could not
keep still. It overpowered him with
the thought that Jesus was the Christ
and that he must tell it out, but the
Jews were not willing to receive
his testimony. “They opposed them
selves and blasphemed," (v. 6). The
good news these helpers brought en
couraged him in his conflict (v. 6).
11. Paul's Compulsion, (vv. 7-11).
The opposition of the Jews did not
prove his testimony to be untrue or
that it had been unwisely presented,
but rather it revealed the Iniquity of
the hearts of the men who were the
religious leaders. To their faces Paul
could exclaim, “I am clean,” (v. 6). It
is a great thing for nny man to be
able to say this, and it is the priv
ilege of every believer (Acts 20:26).
Then we can say with Paul: “I shrank
not from declaring unto you the whole
counsel of God.” (It. V.) If we do not
declare unto men the way of life, then
their blood is upon us (Ezekiel 33:4, 8,
!)), but are we indeed clean, of the
blood of all in our own homes, in
our churches, in our Sunday school
classes, in our communities and in the
lands beyond the sea? This compul
sion disconnected Pgul from the false
religionists of his day. “From hence
forth I will go unto the Gentiles.” The
advantage of the house of Justus was
(a) that the owner was a proselyte,
not a born Jew. (b) The place was
close to the synagogue so that his
preaching would be a standing invita
tion to the Jews, and (c) Justus was
evidently a Roman citizen, and Paul
would gain access through him to
the more educated people of the city.
Moreover he would have greater ad
vantage of the Romans than of the
Jews for protection of the Christian
converts. We do not infer that he
left his lodgings in the home of Aquila
and Priscilla nor ceased his work of
tent making.
Paul’s testimony after Athens was
based only on the cross (I Cor. 2:1, 2)
and it was that which turned “impure,
sinful souls into pure brides whom he
conducted to Christ,” (See I Cor. 6:9-
il). This vision kept Paul in the city
where he founded one of his strongest
classes (vv. 11, 18).
111. Paul’s Contest, (vv. 12-17).
Galiio, the brother of Seneca, listened
to the charges, but threw the accusa
tions out of court (vv. 14. 15). Sir
William Ramsey calls this decision the
“charter of Christian freedom.” Free
dom of religious speech was granted
over the entire Roman empire so far
as Roman authorities were concerned,
and the door was open for Paul to
make his way throughout the civilized
world. Thus we have further evidence
that all of Corinth was no match for
Christ. The Lord had people there
who must be called by the spoken
word, and Paul was the one to speak
the word. The Lord only allows us
to be hurt when both we and the
work can be helped thereby. He
never really allows us to be hurt
(Rom. 8:13; Isaiah 54:17). Christian
workers in this land are confronting
the same Corinthian evils in every
great city; intemperance, crime, graft,
dishonesty, white slavery, oppression
of the poor and other works of the
flesh.
It is the business of every preacher
and Christian to pray and teach and
work and live to save men from these
evils and to convert them to right
eousness.
There are also Corinthian evils in
the heart, and in order to overcome
them we must put on the whole ar
mor of God, and be filled with the
Spirit of Christ.
Summary: At Corinth Paul worked
at his trade, converted his fellow work
men, preached to Jews and Gentiles,
founded a strong church, wrote let
ters to the Thessalonians, had two
helpers, Silas and Timothy, accepted
aid from the Phllippians, received a
vision in the night from God, was de
livered by the Roman governor, stayed
nearly two years and used the city
as a strategic center.
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Solomonlikc Judgment.
Two brothers Inherited a farm and
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