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•Without a sound," said Sonya, and
forward to unlace her boots.
h . nt took them off.
Bwiftl.v 'concha she puff of smoke,
rose like a
j tiH s he was and graceful in the
dark. heart racing to suffocation
With her
Sonvfl rose too.
Tie Mexican girl reached out and
tod her by the sleeve. That hatred
In her would not her touch her
L h softly, step by step, the two
things crossed the silent room,
istened at the partly opened door, slid
trough it. in the long dark passage
to listened again, then went south
lion? the wall toward a door which
ilso stood ajar.
Through this—and the night sky was
. bove them, the tall cottonwoods
outlined against the stars. hike
„ ra i t ),s of the gloom they entered the
gr 0V e, passed through it, came out on
tin open landing field.
Before the little hangar Sonya saw
the starlight the ghostly shape of
i little gray ship. They made toward
It swiftly, and as they reached its
protecting wings a mao stepped out
from the hangar behind * tall man,
naked to the waist, his head bare, his
feet also, a man who was prepared for
“spreading up” on the morrow. Starr
Stone drew them both against the
fir ship's side.
“Sonya!” ne whispered. "Oh, Sonya 1”
Then, ‘ Listen. We have one chance In
I million. This plane Is still warm
from a trip Manuel took this afternoon.
I heard It come in about dark.”
“Yes," said Sonya, “so did 1.”
“It is fueled. They are always so.
Thank God—and Concha—we are
here. I have just disabled the other
one, I think, though not as permanent¬
ly as 1 could wish. We've got to take
that one chance, Sonya. It’s our only
chance, Sonya. It's our only one. Get
In, quick.”
With his hands under her elbows
Sonya went up along the side, dropped
Into the little seat, felt swiftly for the
safety belt.
“Safe?" the man whispered tensely.
"Safe,” she answered pulling the
buckle tight.
Then she saw Starr Stone turn to
Concha and take her in his arms.
“Conchita," he said softly but loud
enough for Sonya to hear the whis¬
pered words, ‘‘1 leave thee. It is fate.
But never will I forget thee, nor this
thing which you have done. Always
while I live will I remember. Adios,
little one.”
And, bending his tall head, he kissed
her on the lips.
'‘Heady." he said, and, pushing the
girl beyond the plane’s wing tip, he
caught the propeller's blade.
I’p and down he swung It—one, two,
three, then a fourth vehement time,
and came lithely up and over Into the
pilot’s seat as the roar of the catching
engine thundered into the night.
The moments that followed were
ages long to Sonya, desperate moments
«f allowing the ship what of its warm¬
ing’time was possible.
Terrible moments, fraught with
Unima, with heart-breaking suspense.
Starr stone, watching the dark
and the poplar grove, gave what
cutiid to safety, and then, as dim
fashed in the house, among the trees,
lie gave her the gun a little—a little
more—more yet.
li'ere came the little surge forward,
the heavier one, the lifting of the tail
they rocked away along the field,
gathering of speed, and then
80 t wave of stillness as they lost
tact with the earth and sailed
«to the starry heavens.
An d Sonya Savarin, looking down
* !!li w 'de drawn eyes, had seen,
83 li iey surged for the start, a long
fed spurt of flame where Concha stood
0 r ' ;e shadows, heard, above the
0 the motor, the faint, sharp crack of
» shot.
(> h, God.'” she cried, a sob In her
throat. "Oh, God! Conchita 1”
Cuachita, who, saving her love yet
1 ' 1 '" 1 I!ot save him apart from his,
had j made the last great sacrifice for
l°'e Itself.
Tiie pouring crowd that flowed along
■ie field, lighted now, could wreak no
Seance on her, for Concha, too, was
C0De among the stars.
chapter XIV
On Lone Mesa’s Top.
j, ,,nya dung
j ..,' to the cockpit’s edge
i, " clutching fingers, her eyes,
■■■•Pd dry of sudden tears, fixed on
•pi, j- uture, If future there was to be.
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* Aching , sorrow for the lovely Mex-
I 4 ' : girl who had
loved Starr Stone
ueep in her heart, never to be
,ate eradicated.
I--fe that could do such ghastly
things to its poor devotees—was call-
log fr c ,ni the starry skies. They were
« e together, viaiiy &iyM
_ , she and this scarecrow
with the wild bronze hair, the
naked torso, the bare feet, and she
•sked no more of destiny.
r brave heart leaped high In her,
^ S'was rea( j y for an y t hi ng p
! encounter She looked up, and
ther *" as lau Rhter ’ her face.
f on white
the ,n - herself to destiny and gloried
hazard.
“ memory of all
1 sane and or-
li n ? s was dim and far away—
lP railCl1 house
fa f that was home, the
,. Serge
and Lila and the child.
n > Itodney Blake! With shock
a
.remembered him.
* was a stranger to her. She
h aot 't
•lea reca hla face with any
a.nt. - sg Thw® was only one face
edr to h«r TV® tLce of this
man so
By VINGIE E. ROE
Copyrtght, Doubleday. Doran & Co.. Ino.
WNU Service
miraculously snatched from death to
life, this man who drove an airship
through the midnight sky toward life
and love and liberty.
Presently, watching tensely, she saw
the great pale ribbon of the Rio
Grande.
The Border 1
The international line!
She held her breath as they passed
above it, and let It out In a great sigh.
El Capitan Diablo — Manuel — the
strange adobe house in the poplar
grove—they all seemed to fade, to be¬
come unreal, like the figures In a fright¬
ful dream.
A little longer, and they would be
safe.
Safe—and home.
Home.
At that thought Sonya Savarin sat
sharply up within the confines of the
buckled belt.
Home!
What would It mean to her and to
Starr Stone?
The stern face of her brother—Rod
Blake who had so grimly promised
that no people, no country, no man
should ever take her from him—and
Marston of New York, the man who
came to find who sent the contraband
from Mazatlan to the coast!
They had not cheated destiny after
all. They were headed straight for
this, and Starr Stone knew it! For
that he would not leave her to save
himself she knew full well.
Confronted with this new knowledge
of disaster Sonya wet her dry Ups, cast
Through This—and the Night Sky
Was Above Them.
desperately about for something
might tell these three grim men, and
found nothing.
But she would not give up, she told
herself again, would never sink. They
had passed through too much to
at last. Something would happen;
some way would open.
And then, leaning her face across
the cockpit’s polished edge, she
came conscious of something;
something with a seventh sense.
actly as a dog senses danger which he
cannot see, so this girl of the wild
land sensed new danger now. It
as if the hackles of her spirit rose.
What could It be?
She looked at the back of Starr
Stone's head, its bronze hair whipping
in the backwash of wind behind the
low windshield, and wished she could
see his face.
If she could have done so she would
have seen it set like a mask, for long
before she felt the presence of this un¬
seen danger he had been conscious
of It.
He knew that not so far behind them,
not so high above, another little gray
ship droned steadily out of the south
that Nemesis Incarnate was on their
trail. He knew that In that ship there
was, in all probability, a machine gun
In the hands of El Diablo himself, who
was an expert In its use. What the
end would be, he did not know. Only
that it would be an end. There was
no doubt of that.
El Capitan would never in this
world let him get away with what ho
had done, with the knowledge he had,
with the stand he had taken to for¬
swear him and all bis works. He
meant to kill him—to kill them both,
if no other way was possible—to shoot
them down, if they would not land.
There was a white line about the
man’s mouth. His blue eyes were
black with spreading pupils. He
thought desperately of the low adobe
house where her people lived. A land¬
ing there, maybe, a fight from the
house itself Perhaps. If he could
. . •
make It before El Capitan sensed his
plan. But that high spot against the
sky was coming nearer.
And where could they land with any
chance of safety?
Well, it was fate—as he had told
poor Concha.
And then Sonya looked up and back
—and saw.
Saw the soft silver thing that fol¬
lowed like a pointing sword.
She did not gasp or cry out, but
watched it with wide eyes and a hand
across her mouth.
Aussr ai’ ‘
PAPE COUNTY TIMES: DECEMBER 6, 1934
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Alter all the monstrous anguish, the
fear, the sorrow, and the hope!
' erily Starr Stone was paying for
his sins, and she paid with him for
that love which had redeemed him to
manhood’s high estate, which had
made of her a fugitive, an outcast
from her own, but which burned In
her soul with indestructible beauty.
So be It, thought Sonya Savarin, so
be it.
••**••
Down in that dim world below, th®
last act of this drama of the sage land
was preparing for enactment Posse
after posse, scouring the lone levels,
had turned back toward the railroad
and the town. Baffled, wondering,
they sought new reinforcements, made
more extensive preparations to search
the canyons and the Bad Lands coun¬
try. Only Serge Savarin, the two men
with him, rode and would not give up.
Two Fingers, Hosteen Nez, llosteen
T’so hunted patiently in ever widen¬
ing circles that had covered all the
face of the fiat land.
In the quest of these three silent
trailers there was more than a niera
search for a lost white woman. There
was tiie dim and gentle shadow of that
legendary deity the Blue South Wom¬
an who "made her hogan” in the
white girl’s heart.
So the N’avajos rode steadily, would
ride until they found her, either
1 Wlde land ^ and f h ? destlny
’
t>em.
They had done with t
levels. Lone Mesa f<M®
tt-em. Silently save for the
the climbing hoofs, they asefti
tastic figures from a long —
the low moon red behind the
And in the magnificent head¬
stone, looking desperately do
caught the dim outline of
crown. Its shining white
Here was a
were walls §?ai tv
make a stand if
shelter i^^nd
providiPjWie could
leave his plane and
T* Sonya at his back
neath her tilt in a
cline, saw the moonlit'
toward them.
And she too sav^
Lone Mesa.
It jos almost level
so—was level
tance, height, had dropped
were skimming the messTs
touching—bouncing on the uneven rock
—were still.
Behind them that other was at tha
very edge—above them—passing over.
Starr Stone, with his arms about
Sonya, dragging her over the side, cast
one flashing glance ahead.
“Kismet I” he said with white lips.
“They beat us after all 1 They’re
down between us and the pueblo 1”
So they were, the rocking gray ship
still a hundred feet beyond. And El
Diablo, Manuel, deadly shapes of
menace, were climbing out, coming
toward them.
Calmly Sonya stood beside her man
“Come back,” she said touching him
“toward the cliff. It is our only way."
With his arm around her Stari
Stone turned, and, stumbling, hurry¬
ing, they crossed the space between
them and that sheer lip where once,
ages ago, it seemed, they had looked
Into each other’s tragic faces and
found their destiny.
“Darling," the man said softly,
“hold to me—tight—don’t be afraid.”
Sonya Savarin laughed, a little low
sound.
“Afraid?” she said, running. “With
you?”
“Halt!” came the great voice of El
Capitan Diablo. “Halt! Or I fire!”
There was yet a moonlit space for
the running feet. Death might catch
them before they leaped to meet it.
Crack ! Crack ! Crack 1
The sharp barking of an automatic,
not the machine gun.
Bullets whined about them, clipped
into the rock beyond.
And Sonya Savarin looked up for
the last time into the face which had
filled her heart, her soul, to the exclu¬
sion of all else since that wild day in
spring here on this wind-swept height,
when she had first beheld It.
The man looked down, slowed in his
stride.
One moment more—a kiss, maybe,
and this glorious adventure would be
done forever—sealed like a deathless
flame in the casket of eternity.
And then, high on the thin blue air
there came a sound as old as tha
ruined walls behind, a sound to chill
the blood, to shock the very soul.
Clear and high and savage, primitive
as life itself, the war cry of the Nav-
ajos. It pealed above the cracking
gun, stopped the man and the woman
like a hand upon their shoulders.
And out from the dusky shadows of
the crumbling walls three shadows
came like darting flames. In the very
act of whirling to meet them El Capi-
tac and his henchman were caught in
their onslaught, went down beneath
them.
Then, as Starr Stone ran toward
them, as Sonya followed, tall Two Fin¬
gers rose with the dapper pilot held
by the neck in his powerful hands.
Behind him Hosteen Nez. Hosteen T’so,
came struggling up with the great bulk
of El Diablo fighting like a fiend be
tween them.
“South Woman,” said Two Finger®,
“what have these done to you and t®
yonr man?”
He spoke In Navajo, and Sonya aP
swered, panting.
TO BE OOSTISUHD.
Georgia News
Happenings Over the State
Directors of Southeastern Cottons,
Inc., held their fall meeting at Sea
Island last week-end.
A series of educational me-^ngs
will prepare Brooks County farmer*
to ballot on the Bankhead Act thii
month. l\
The Macon Chamber of Coinme
will try to “sell” the city $500, ><Utoil
of housing improvements in a <’ ’F
for better housing conditions.
Peanut hulls have bc^PUmbstl-
tuted for cottonseed hulls as a dairy
feed by It. V. Crine, Cafro planter,'^
dairyman and canning plant oper
ator.
A special election has been called
in Lamar County to be held Decem¬
ber 19 for the purpose of electing
a sheriff to succeed the late Sheriff
Z. T. Elliott.
It is reported that a transient bu¬
reau will he located in Valdosta to
care for the large numbcre*er-
sons coming through Y
need assistance. *
The laying of the cornerstone for
the new Federal Building in Way-
crosf, Monday, December 10, will
J>6 attended by a number of dis,-
guests.
Christmas savings clubs in Rome
and Lindale will distribute $120,000
between now and Christmas. The
total for the Rome clubs is $70,000
and for Lindale $50,000.
The Mayfield Cannery in Hancock
nty, which has been operated
me time by the FERA office,
lining meats of all kinds
consumption.
Butts County farm
,nates that the income
Butts County has
oubied since control
effective.
dcGee, of Milledge-
named State chair-
lierican Legion Com-
eign Relations by
DeLacey Allen,
sfdent of the Bul-
,t Statesboro,
chairman of
orgia Bankers’
in session
Post of
Legion at AVrBler is
planning'to sponsor a drive for a
communi^ Christmas tree this
year, it has been announced by
Commander Brookshire.
The Lions Club of Sparta plans
to ask the State Highway Depart¬
ment to complete the paving from
there to Warren ton, thereby estab¬
lishing a complete paved, direct
route from Macon to Augusta.
Construction of the new sewer
plant for Manchester, a PWA proj¬
ect, which started recently when 40
men were put to work, is progress¬
ing rapidly and it is expected that
it will be completed within 90 days.
The Manchester Kiwanis Club
had as its guests at its regular
weekly meeting last week several
correspondents for the press who
are now at Warm Springs covering
President Roosevelt’s stay at the
"Little White House.”
The Moultrie Plant of Swift &
Company has been awarded a new
contract to daughter FERA cattle the
shipped into if the^outh The from animals
western drouth areas,
will be shipped to Moultrie from
nearby states, all of those pastured
in Georgia having already been
killed and canned.
Judgments have been awarded
in the Federal District Court at
Rome for $13,420.55 on land in Mur¬
ray County against condemnation
proceedings taken in another step
by the Government toward a Na¬
tional Forest Reserve and toward
keeping open navigable streams in
that section.
The Child Welfare Council of
Rabun County held its second meet¬
ing in the FERA office at Clayton
last week. Favorable reports were
given by Miss Evans, the County
Nurse, as to the inoculations for
typhoid and diphtheria throughout
the county. Efforts to start a den¬
tal clinic are now being made.
“a delegation of Cartersville cit¬
izens went to Chatsworth last week
and there joined with visitors from
surrounding counties in a plea for
making Fort Mountain into a Na¬
tional Park. Ivan Allen, an At¬
lanta civic leader, has already do¬
nated much or the needed acreage,
and present plans call for an addi¬
tional 5,000 acres.
Candler County finally owns it¬
self. After struggling under the
burden of heavy debts for many
years, the county is finally out of
the red and is considering holding
a celebration at Metter in honor of
that condition.
The sales for the past three
months exceeded those of the pre¬
vious 12 months, according to re¬
ports from automobile dealers, fill¬
ing station operators, and the mer¬
chants in Lawreneeville and sur¬
rounding territories.
Sense John Blake
©, Ball Syndlcate - AVNU Service.
Today I read in a newspaper
the average senior In a New York
lege hopes to he
Hope a salary
five years
la> leaves that
[titution foi^^place In the world.
Now In these days $4,425 a year
Considerable money for a
of twenty-five years to earn.
But one thing is sure. The hoy
believes that he will make that
money, and has tlie energy and
brains to hack up his belief will
likely to have Ids
rue than the boy who just
slide along.
*******
You cap® get everything you
by merely wanting it.
But wanting it badly enough to
for it and make sacrifices for it,
keep it const ly in mind will be a
help.
this .The burst neivs^ piece Ism in which I
tv goes on to
“The ay enior of tlds
is U and six months
t in politics,
m kes and drinks.
edecessors, who
ndWIly td^financiaJ success, the
ent senior hope® for intellectual
cess.”
That may not be so easy. But
shouldn't lie hope for financial
c a?
sphere is no reason why every
lege graduate should not emulate
who have gained wealth in
And whether he gets it or not
game will have been worth while.
^s long as these boys hold to a
nite purpose, they are not likely to
off the road which leads
their goal.
The president of a New
college told me once that his
task was finding out what young
really wanted to do, as well ns
they were fitted to do.
I think, however, that If they
to anything they will find that out
themselves. Perhaps there Sooner .must be
lot of experimenting, hut
later those who possess ability
S< Ti° n H 7 ht
The desire to make money will ,,,
render them mercenary or
Who doesn't want money?
And wpo, if h“ has any wjj, r ^*^
ambition, will m
than he is likely to work for fame
glory?
The idea that education is
merely to elevate the mind to
things is well enough. But you will
appreciate higher things a grehl deal
your clothes are shoddy and your
is empty. ’W
1 am the«pp*wliat str^Bfor these seniors, after, and
hope they are
they don’t turn* grasping and lose
perspective on life.
“Don’t ask many questions.”
I low often do yon hear a
father who thinks
The Question is btls Y make
Mark observation.
Fortunately
the child, however, something
of him makes him curious about
thing he sees, and,he continues to
as many questions as before.
It might be said that education
sists of questions and answers.
The scientist is always asking
tions, of men or of natural
nomena.
Isaac Newton’s questioning under
apple tree solved the problem of
things fail down instead of up.
Today millions of dynamos and
tors and otiier electric apparatus
doing much of tiie world's work.
Benjamin Franklin was one of
first to ask questions about the
of electricity.
Birds and beasts take most
for granted. %
They have curiosity, hut it is
fied as soon as they discover if
thing they see x>r smell is what
think it is.
If it is baff/ingly different they
not botiier their wits any
about it.
I think the question mark ought
be made the symbol of progress.
Beyond what they should eat
what they should drink and
withal tli-ey should be clothed,
American indUns didn’t bother
brains.
And hud not the country been
over by man and woman of
birth, they would still be living
tepee® and feeding on the flesh of
animals and Indian corn.
T\e beginnings oj the newspaper
yrvr head were made when
t Igan to wonder why the letters of
nlphsltel could not be made on
•ye, thus making it possible to
thoughts and ideas dtnvn without
oainful process of writing them on
Think about what you see. Find
about It. Ask questions about it.
There are still more things la
en and on earth than are dreamed
in all our philosophy.
But as long as we remain
more and more of them will
brought to light.
Balloons today pierce the
to ask questions of what is
and for long was regarded as
able.
Telescopes are answering
about stars and planets.
There will always, perhaps, he
tions that we cannot answer, and
never be able to answer.
Let Our Motto Be
GOOD HEALTH
BY DR. LLOYD ARNOLD
Professor of B«cterioloxy tnd Illinois Prever —
Medicine, University of -*X.J
College College of of Medicine. M
RICKETS ft
Many persons have
rickets is a disease u ‘ ' *4%
cldldre,
e r 1 g 1
only H
not true. R
is no respect* 1 , ^
wealth. You hu IT* v
but to walk in var
ous sections notic**^'" of'
city to a)— Detfemb^
tire ji I
iar^ t‘ by the hi
he
and *fiitractsV tip
chests''fj «,ne of
toppe 1 .
among the older persons in the well-tc t w
do sections as there are in the pour“_. ti/oi3ng
sections. Jitirely of feder,
1 his is because when these pr . RRO JhI
were children, doctors did not know so I^nplo,
much about rickets as we do today.
And it is to be hoped that no child J
within tiie reach of modern medical
knowledge will ever have to endure th 1^86“t
physical hundicnp caused by this di lo ds int k
ease. _ .
The of only prevention and the suppl® only^i t ‘
cure rickets is an adequate “
of vitamin D. Sunshine is a urea® j.r.tLe
source of this important vitamin.
It Is for this reason that sun suits
ideal clothing for small children
never the temperatu
why it Is good ev
for a child to havi 1
porch- -the chii‘1^1 m
warm,
direct
light,
but.-e,
ex pen, Impractical.
The other great source of V 1
D Is in a very limited list of —
The oil from fish liver leads “,h
liver oil ’Athe one with which we fi n 'T‘
most fat fjfliar; next comes egg
and there e i Jsoine Vitamin D In 1
fat, and ju f a trace of
inilk. Jmal’
a These ih !P<'’«!• 1 1 contain contain
a very ry liF jortanf nealth promoting and
gener. rai V ,ti-infective vitamin. §
Since we are not able to control the
t dumber pi;_____ of sunshiny days, our best
hope nf of doing away with rickets is to
see that Jhe child gets the amount of
hat he should have in thej
£s; . This is what medics
fr.vl'"' now.
m’aJrffffed note her*
first Itself ii
Europe in the Sixteenth century whe!
people were more and more attractef
to living in cities, with their dark
houses and dark, narrow streets, and
when people generally were living more
of an Indoor life, and babies we^Jce,
I more In this and connection more In the it liouse^c ly,’^
m
esting also to note an ol
that land. Is Dr. still Langdon used in Porter, EnglanT^jB
ciullst, tells of visiting the^c-M
tricts of England and 1^ ’■ -M
finding a concoction therr
grandmother In the family^
every She fills autumn for jar the with gratl^HH
a
eggs and then covers it
wine. When the calf
is dissolved, she stirs V
l^prously, strains out the 1
H^^'oncoctlon A^'gg, arid then Hiachlidren feeds a spoo
throiRlpt to once or
twice a day the winter.
Modern science approves this remedy.
There is calcium In the egg shell, vita¬
mins in the egg yolk, and the acid of
the wine acts as a preservative.
Since milk Is so generally a good food*
health authorities in this country are
now experimenting with four methods
of increasing vitamin D in milk to thS
point where milk so treated will have
a sufficient amount of this vitamin t
prevent rickets. The first, Is to tre|
yeast with ultra-violet light, wjilch
creases eral hundred the amount times. of Vitamfjjyj This
yeast is fed to dairy cat tjg
In turn secrete In the
vitamin D for it to he
Visitors to the 1934
ress saw a demonstration
min D milk in a dairy herd at the
south end of the grounds.
A second method Is to expose the
dairy cows themselves to ultra-violet
light so that they build up their ow
vitamin D, and give milk with a higher
persentage of this important vitmain,
A third method is to treat Jfjg
ltse|f w , th ultra . TloIet
fourth method is to add to
concentrated form a tastele.’
oil, so that the child gets liver bot^jg
and the valuable cod
same time.
It is difficult to say as yet whicli
these methods will prove the best, and
It will be interesting to watch their de¬
velopment. All of them, necessarily
but unfortunately, add to the cost ofi^
the milk.
But unless you can get this vitamin
D milk, give your children a teaspoon¬
ful of cod livsr oil and see that they
are out every sunlight day. Older chil¬
dren may have the yolk of an egg.
Children with rickets not only have
softening of the bones but they are
more liable to pneumonia and other
diseases.
These measures should he for the
dark months, beginning with October
or November and through April.
Itickets occur most frequently dur¬
ing the second half of the first year of
life and the first half of the second
year. Dark-skinned people, as negroes
and Italians, are more prone to it than
light skinned people; their pigment
acts as an armor against sunlight
Western N»wsyai>er Union.