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DOUGLAS, GA. r- W QUR TIME, p I knowledge r or 8 and experience n i sin the printing ScUO I business. When you are m need of some thing in this line DON’T FORGET THI! JMS AFOUL rai^MEN JM&d jjria Smt k WSSr Rpdney CHAPTER Vll—Continued. — lo— 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 ence felt in Chile was the llama intro duced and made known, not only for its wool, but for its qualities as a beast of burden. 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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