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THE IMSTROP ADVERTISER. BASTROP. TEXAS
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HEART
OF THE
SUNSET
By REX BEACH
Auiftor of " Tht Spolltn." "Th* Iron
Trail. " "Th* Silver Hatdt, " £/c
U>prn t>t bj Harper * Urulben
CHAPTER XVIII—Continued.
—18
Years of experience had tough' him
to he always nlert, even during his mo-
menta of deepest preoccupation, and
so, from force of habit, when h' came
to the pomphouae road he carefully
scanned It. In the dust were fresh
hoof-prlnts leading toward the river.
Now he knew this road to be seldom
used, and therefore he wondered who
could be riding It nt a gallop lu this
Mistering midday heat. A few rods
farther on and his quick eve detected
something else—some tln.v object that
brought him from his saddle. Out of
the rut lie picked a cigarette butt, the
fire of which was cold but the paper of
which was still wet from the smoker's
lips. He examined it carefully; then
he remounted and rode on, pondering
Its significance.
Dave loped out of the thicket and
straight across the clearing to the
Morales house. Leaving Montrosa's
reins hanging, he opened the door and
entered without knocking. Rosa ap-
peared In the opening to another room,
her eyes wide with fright at this ap-
parition. and Dave snw that she was
dressed In her finest, as If for a holiday
or for a Journey.
"Where's your father?" he demanded.
"He's gone to Sangre do Crlsto.
What do you want?"
"When did he go?"
This morning, early, lie—"
"Who's been here since he left?"
Kosa was recovering from her first
surprise, and now her black brows
drew together In anger. "No one has
come. You are the first. And have
you no manners to stride into a re-
spectable house—?"
Dave broke in harshly: "Rosa, you're
lying. Jose Sanchez n. s been here
within an hour. Where Is he?" When
the girl enJjr rrew whiter and raised a
hand to her breast, he stepped toward
her, crying, "Answer me!"
Rosa recoiled, and the breath caught
in her throat like a sob. "I'll tell you
nothing," she said In a thin voice. Then
she began to tremble. "Why do you
want Jose?"
"You know why. He killed Don
Eduardo, and then he rode here. Come!
I know everything."
"Lies! Lies!" Rosa's voice grew
shrill. "Out of this house! I know
you. It was you who betrayed Panfllo,
and his blood is on your hands, as-
sassin !" With the last word she made
as If to retreat, but Dave was too
quick; he seized her, and for an in-
stant they struggled breathlessly.
Dave had reasoned beforehand that
his only chance of discovering any-
thing from this girl lay In utterly ter-
rorizing her and in profiting by her
first panic; therefore he pressed his
advantage. He succeeded better than
he had dared to hope.
"You know who killed Senor Ed," he
cried, fiercely. "The fortune-teller read
your plans, and there Is no use to deny
it."
Rosa screamed again; she writhed;
she tried to sink her teeth Into her cap-
tor's flesh. In her body was the
strength of a full grown man, and Dave
could hardly hold her. Hut suddenly,
as ihe two sou tiled, from the back room
of the house came a sound which
caused Dave to release the girl as ab-
ruptly as he had seized her—It was the
clink and tinkle of Mexican spurs upon
a wooden floor.
been across the Rio flrando-—
' with Itosa nnd all her fine clothes, eh?
| Now you will be liangcd. Well, that is
how fortune goes."
The horse-breaker tossed his head
I ami shrugged with a brave assumption
ef Indifference; he laughed shortly.
"You can prove nothing."
"Yes," continued Dave, "and Itosa
will go to prison, too. Now—supjtofec
I should let you go? Would you help
me? In ten minutes you could be safe."
He Inclined his head toward the
muddy, silent river outside. "Would
you be willing to help me?"
Jose's brows lifted. "What's this
you are saying?" he inquired, eagerly.
"1 would only ask you u few ques-
tions."
"What questions?"
"Where is Senora Austin?"
Jose's fuce became blank. "I don't
know."
"Oh yes, you do. She started for La
Ferla. Rut—did she get there? Or did
Longorio have other plans for her?
You'd better tell me the truth, for
j your general can't help you now." Dave
I did his best to read the Mexican's ex-
pression, but failed. "Senor Ed's death
means nothing to me," he went on,
"but I must know where his wife Is.
and I'm willing to pay, with your lib-
erty." In spite of himself his anxiety
was plain.
Jose exclaimed: "IIo! I under-
stand. He was in your way aud you're
glad to be rid of him. Well, we have
no business fighting with each other."
"Will you tell me— 7"
"I'll tell you nothing, for 1 know
nothing."
"Come! I must know."
Jose laughed insolently
Law's fa<-e become black with sad-
den fury. Ills teeth bared themselves,
lie took a step forward, crying;
"By heaven! You will tell me!"
Seizing his prisoner by the throat, he
pinned !ii:n to the wall; then w:'h his
free hand he cocked Longorlo's re-
volver and thrust Its muzzle against
Jose's body. "Tr'l me!" he repeated.
Ills countenance was so distorted, his
expression so maniacal, that Jose felt
his hour had cojpe. The latter, being
In nil ways Mexican, did not stru/rgle;
Instead, he squared hi* shoulders and,
staring fearlessly Into the face above
him, cried:
"Shoot!"
For a moment the two men remained
so; then Dave seemed to . egaln control
of himself and the murder light flick-
ered out of his eyes. He flung his pris-
oner aside and cast tlu- revolver Into
a corner of the room.
Jose picked himself up, cursing his
captor eloquently. "You gringos don't
know how to die," he said. "Death?
Pah! We must die some time. And
supposing I do know something about
the senora, do you think you can force
me to speak? Torture wouldn't open
my lips."
Law did not trust himself to reply;
and the horse-breaker went on with
growing defiance:
"I mil innocent of any crime; there-
fore I am brave. Rut you—the blood
of innocent men means nothing to you
—I'anlllo's n urder proves that—so
complete your work. Make an end of
me."
"Be still!" Dave commanded, thickly.
Rut the fellow's hatred was out of
hounds now, and by the bitterness of
his vituperation he seemed to invite
death. Dave interrupted his vitriolic
curses to ask harshly:
"Will you tell me, or will you force
me to wring the truth out of you?"
Jose answered by spitting at his cap-
tor; then he gritted an unspeakable
epithet from between his teeth.
Dave addressed him w'th an air of
finality. "You killed that man and
your life Is forfeit, so It doesn't make
much difference whether I take It or
whether the state takes It. You are
brave enough to die—most of you Mexi-
cans art;—hut the state can't force you
"Not whisky; water. I'm going to' first time In his life Jose Sanchez felt
give you a drink of water." terror—«i terror too awful to In* eu-
"What capers!" dure*!—aud he made the sign.
"When you've drunk enough you'll ; He was uo longer the insolent defier,
tell me why you killed your employer ' the challenger, but an Imploring
and where (leneral Longorio has taken , wretch, whose last powers of reslst-
liis wife. Yes, and everything else 1
want to know." Seizing the amazed
Mexican, Dave flung him upon Mo-
rales' hard board bench, aud in spite of
the fellow's struggles deftly made him
fast. When he had finished—and it
was no easy Job—Jose lay "spread-
eagled'' upon his back, his wrists and
ankles firmly bound to the corners and
foot posts, his body secured by a tight
loop over his waist. The rope cut
painfully and brought a curse from the
prisoner when lie strained at It. Law
surveyed him with a face of stone.
"I don't want to do this," he de-
clared, "but I know your kind. I give
you one more chance. Will you tell
me?"
Jose drew his lips back In a snarl of
rage and pain, nnd Dave realized that
further words were useless. He felt a
certain pity for his victim and no little
admiration for his courage, but such
j feelings were of small consequence
I as against his agonizing fears for
Alalre's safety. Had lie lu the least
doubted Jose's guilty knowledge of
Longorlo's Intentions, Dave would have
hesitated before employing the bar-
barous measures he had In mind, but —
a nee had hceu complctily shattered.
His frightened eyes were glued to that
devilish vessel In which his manhood
had dissolved, the fear of it made u
woman of him.
Slowly, in sighs and whimpers. In
agonies of reluctance, his story came;
his words were rendered almost Incom-
prehensible by his abysmal fright.
When be had purged himself of his
secret Dave promptly unbound him;
then leaving htm more than half dead,
he went to the telephone which con-
nected the pumping station with Las
I'almas and called up the ranch.
He was surprised w hen Hlaxe Jones
answered. Itlaxe, It seemed, bad Just
arrived, summoned by news of the
tragedy. The countryside had been
alarmed and a search for Ed Ausiin's
slayer was being organized.
"Call it off," Dii *> told him. "I've
got your man." Blaze stuttered his
surprise and Incredulity. "I mean It.
It's Jose Sanchez, and he has con-
fessed. I want you to come here,
quick; and come alone, If you don't
mind. I need your help."
Inside of ten minutes Jones piloted
his automobile Into the clearing beside
Catarrhal Cough
Mr. W. S. Brown, It. F. D. No. 4,
Box hi!, Rogersvllle, Tennessee,
writes:
"I feel It my duty to recommend
Peruna to all sufferers of catarrh or
eough. In the year 11KH . 1 took a
severe case of the la grippe. 1 then
took a bad cough. 1 hail taken all
kinds of cough remedies but got no
relief. I then decided to try Peruna.
I used five bottles. After taking five
bottles my cough stopped aud my
catarrh was cured. My average
weight was 11D and now I weigh
1-JHVfc. Any one suffering with eu-
tarrh In any form 1 will advise them
to take Peruna."
Just Like a Man.
Men admire clever women, but mar-
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Any one
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Those who object to liquid medi-
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Up-to-Date Wedding Gifts..
"Well, what s#rt of wedding' pres-
ents did you get, girlie- the usual as-
sortment of berry spoons and plcklo
forks?"
"Not on your esteemed life. I got
a sack of potatoes, four dozen fresh
eggs, a peck of onions, and a Liberty
bond."
there was nothing else for It. He pulled (ju> j.|v«>r, and. leaving his motor run-
1 the canteen cork and Jammed the
nlng, leaped from the car.
Dave met him at the door of the
Morales house and briefly told liliu the
story of Jose's capture.
"Say! That's quick work," the
rancher cried, admiringly. "Why, Ed
ain't cold yet! You gave him the 'wa-
mouthpiece firmly to Jose's lips, ('los-
ing the fellow's nostrils with his free
hand, he forced him to drink.
Jose clenched his teeth, he tried to
roll his head, he held his breath until
his face grew purple and his eyes
bulged. He strained like a man upon
the rack. The bench creaked to Ills
muscular contortions; the rope tight-
ened. It was terribly cruel, this crush-
ing of a strong will bent on resistance
to Ihe uttermost; but never was an
executioner more pitiless, never did a
prisoner's agony receive less consid-
eration. The warm water spilled over
Jose's face, it drenched his neck and
chest; his Joints creaked as lie strove
for freedom and tried to twist his head
out of Law's Iron grasp. The seconds
dragged, until finally nature asserted
herself. The Imprisoned breath burst
forth; there sounded n loud gurgling
cry and a choking inhalation. Jose's
body writhed with the convulsions of
drowning as the water and air were
sucked Into his lungs. Law was kneel-
ing over bis victim now, his weight and
strength so applied that Jose had no
liberty of action and could only drink,
coughing and fighting for air. Some-
how be managed to revive himself
briefly and again shut his teeth; but
a moment more and he was again
retched with the furious battle fur air,
more desperate now than before. After
a while Law freed his victim's nostrils
and allowed him a partial breath, then
once more ^rushed the mouthpiece
agt'lnst his lips. By and by, to relieve
his torture, Jose begun to drink In
great noisy gulps, striving to empty
the vessel.
But the stomach's capacity Is lim-
ited. lu time Jose felt himself burst-
ing; the liquid began to regurgitate.
This was not mere pain that he suf-
fered, but the ultimate nightmare hor- 1 and shot him as lie passed!"
ror of death more awful than anything | ]uredj Wby this hombrc
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VAltAf/
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A large number of Turkish women
are unable to read or write their own
dllliciilt language.
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Whenever You Need a Oneral Tonic
Take Grove's
The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless
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His Plaintive Plea.
Philadelphia draws the last number
In exemption stories. A colored citi-
zen declared to bis board chairman:
"Boss, Ah ain't got no wife. All's only
lest 'ngaged. lint kain't Ah go to Jail
fo' that?"
he had ever Imagined. Jose would
Slowly, In Sighs and Whimpers, Cries
of Reluctance, His Story Came.
ter-cure,' eh? Now I reckoned It would
take more than water to make a Mexi-
can talk."
"Jose was hired for the work; he
laid for Ed Austin In the pecan grove
needs
' quick hangln', " in't he? 1 told 'em at
have met a bullet, a knife, a lash, with- |„s i>(!|mns j^at you'd rounded up the
out flinching; flames would not liavi
guilty party, so I reckon they'll be here
served to weaken bis resolve; but this a foW mh,u{e8. We'll Just stretch
s ow " town ng was infinitely worse , tj,|8 horse-wrangler, and save the coun-
Ihan the worst lie had thought pos- , eom„ Law drugged. "Do
sible; he was suffocating by long,, w|l(lt yon llk(, wlth hlm but„_,t
CHAPTER XIX.
The Water-Cure.
Without an Instant's hesitation Dave
flung himself past Itosa and through
the inner door.
Jose Sanchez met him with a shout;
the shock of their collision overbore
the lighter man, and the two went
down together, arms and legs inter-
twined. The horse-breaker fired hfs
revolver blindly—u deafening explo-
sion Inside those four walls—but he
was powerless against his antagonist's
strength and ferocity. It required but
a moment for Law to master him, to
wrench the weapon from his grasp, and
then, with the uld of Jose's silk neck-
acarf. to bind his wrists tightly.
From the front of the little house
came the crash of n door violently
slammed as Itosa profited by the diver-
sion to save herself.
When finally Jose stood, panting and
snarling, his buck to the wall, Dave re-
garded him with a sinister contraction
of the lips that wa ilmost a grin,
"Well," he sakl, drawing a deep
breath, "I see you didn't go to the eust
pasture this morning."
"What do you want of me?" Jose
managed to gasp.
There was a somewhat prolonged
silence, during which Dave continued
to stare at Ills prisoner with that same
disquieting expression. "Why did you
kill Don Eduardo?" he asked.
"I? Bah! Who suys I killed him?"
Jose glared defiance. "Why are you
me? Come! Take me to
you think thut will do any (
good."
"It's lucky I rode to Las I'almas this
morning. lu anotho* hour you would
JVAircW
ValcnWI?
"Shoot."
Jose glared
iXok'Ing at
Jnfl.< If yot
to speak, and I cnn." Jose sneered.
"Oh yea, I can! I intend to know all
that you know, and it will be better
for you to tell me voluntarily. I must
learn where Senora Austin Is. and I
must learn quickly, If I have to kill you
by Inches to get tin? truth."
"So! Torture, eh? Good. I can be-
lieve It of you. Well, a slow fire will
not make me apeak.-
"No. A fire would be too easy, Jose."
"Eh?"
Without answer Dave strode out of
the room, lie was hack before his
prisoner could do more than wrench
at his bonds, and with him lie brought
Ills lariat and his canteen.
"What are you going to do?" Jose In-
quired. backing away until he was once
more at bay.
"I'm going to give you n drink."
"Whisky? You think you can make
me drunk?" The horse-breaker laughed
loudly but uneasily.
black, agonizing minutes. Every nerve
and muscle of ills body, every cell in
Ills bursting lungs, fought against the
outrage in a purely physical frenzy
over which his will power had no con-
trol. Nor would Insensibility come to
l;!s relief—Lnw watched liliu too care-
fully for that. He could not even voice
his sufferings by shrieks; lie could only
writhe and retch and gurgle while the
ropes bit Into his flesh und his captor
knelt upon him like u monstrous stone
weight.
Hut Jose had made a better fight
than he knew. The canteen ran dry ut
last, and Law was forced to release his
hold.
"Will you speak?" he demanded.
Thinking that hi- had come safely
through the ordeal, Jose shook his
head; he rolled his bulging, bloodshot
eyes and vomited, then managed to call
God to witness his innocence.
Dave went Into the next room and
refilled the canteen. When he re-
appeared with the dripping vessel in
his hand, Jose tried to scream. But
his throat was torn and strained; the
sound of his own voice frightened him.
Once more tin- torment began. The
tortured man wus weaker now, and In
consequence he resisted more feebly;
but not until he was less than half con-
scious did Law spare him to recover.
Jose lay sick, frightened, Inert. Dave
watched him without pity. The fel-
low's wrists were blin k and swollen,
his lips were bleeding; he was
stretched like a dumb animal upon the
vlvlscctlonlst's table, and no surgeon
with lance and scul| . l could have
shown less cmoth i than did his in-
necessary. He'll confess In regulation
form, I'm sure. I had to work fast to
learn what became of Mrs. Austin."
"Mlz Austin? What s happened to
her?"
Dave's voice changed; there was a
sudden quickening of his words.
"They've got her, Blaze. They v.alted
until they had her sufe before they
killed Ed."
"'They?' Who are you talkin'
about?"
"I mean Longorio ami his outf He's
got her over yonder." Dave flung out
a trembling band toward the river.
Seeing that his hearer failed to com-
prehend, he explained, swiftly; "lie's
crazy about her—got one of those
Mexican infatuations—and you know
what that means. He couldn't steal
her from Las I'almas—she wouldn't
have anything to do with him—so he
used that old cattle deal as an excuse
to get her across tin- border. Then lie
put Ed out of the way. She went of
her own accord, and she didn't tell
Austin, because they were having
trouble. She's gone to La. Ferla, lllaze."
"La Ferla! Then she's In for It."
Dave nodded bis agreement; for the
first time Blaze noted how white and
set was his friend's face.
"Longorio must have foreseen what
was coming," Dave went on. "That
country's aflame; Americans aren't
safe over there. If war Is declared, a
good many of them will never be hear.!
from, lie knows that, lie's got her
safe. She can't get out."
Blaze was very grave when next he
spoke. "Dave, this is had—bad. I
can't understand what made her go.
There Is at present no woman offi-
cer of a New York city blink, and only
one in New Jersey, hut If tin- war
lasts long enough It nay well be, as
it Is In Canada now, that tin* banks
will virtually be run by women. Al-
ready, It is estimated, L'O.ihmi women
have been taketi on In the Wall street
district since the lolled States en-
tered the will' last April, says the New
York Evening I'ost.
Women are slower, but more care-
ful, said an official of the Mechanics
and Metals bank, so, although twice
as many women as men are needed
to do the same amount of work, the
bank loses no money on extra salaries,
because the women save hundreds of
dollars which had to be paid to the
clearing house for the men's mistakes.
Each mistake costs !<l nnd the records
show that sometimes men's mistakes
cost $'J"i or £."><• a week.
The average downtown hank has
lost 'jo j er cent of its men and taketi
on 40 per cent women. The Mechan-
ics and Metals bank now has ito
women and they are being taken on
by tens or twenties each week. So
far these (10 women are taking the
places of only ,'td men. which shows
the difference in rapidity, but the offi-
cial of the bank pointed out that It j
would be a serious problem when the j
men come home for their Jobs.
"Our hope is," he said, "that the
business will In h|g enough then to
accommodate them all."
Most Admired Statue.
What Is the most admired statue In 1
Washington? The memorial to Mrs.
Adams by Mr. Salnt-Oiiuderis. thinks
M/, Moore, lie sa.vs that "In spite of
the remoteness of location and the dlf- \
Acuity of finding It in llock Creole ceme-
tery, no other work of art In Washing-
ton Is really seen by so many people.
I'ndoiihtcdly the element of mystery In
both figure and setting h:is to do with
Its fame; but 1 prefer to think that In
this memorial the sculptor has ex-
pressed fii-iiik his own words to me) >
'the soiil face to face with the great
est of nil iii\ '-(erics' the problem, If a
man die shall he live again?"
Such a piece of sculpture, touching
every mind and heart, outwears in its
appeal >dl the colossal figures and
speaking likenesses. It would triumph
In any referendum and need never fear ;
a verdict of recall. -New York Sun.
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"Weil, I'm lust trjing to find where
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Keep Mansfield's Magic Arnica Lini-
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The 85 Man.
"What do ymi usually tnake thlsi
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did that once about three years ago."
ipilsitor. Having no intention of de
feating his own ends, I)itve allowed his ' Why, she must have been out of her
victim ample time in which to regain i bend. Hut we've got to do something.
his ability to suffer,
Alalre Austin had been right when
she said that Have might be ruthless;
and yet the man was by no means In-
capable of compassion. At the present
moment, however, lie considered him-
self simply as the Instrument by w hich
Alalre was to be saved. His own feel-
ings had nothing to do with the mat-
ter; neither bad the sufferings of this
Mexican. Therefore he steeled himself
to pri ' 'tig the agony until the murder-
er's stubborn spirit, was worn down,
once again he put his qu stlon and,
again receiving defiance, Jammed the
canteen between Jose's teeth.
Hut human nature la weak. Kor the
We've got to burn the wires to Wash-
ington—yes, and to Mexico City. We
must get the government to send sol-
diers after her. What have we got 'em
for, anyhow?"
"Washington won't do anything.
What can be- done when there are thou-
sands of American women in the same
danger? What steps can the govern-
ment take with diplomatic relations
suspended? Those greasers are filling
their Jails with our people rotind^ig
'em up for the day of the big break.
No, Longorio saw it all coining-- lie's
no fool, lie's got her; she's In there-—
trapped."
(TO UK CONTINUED.!
Admit Women Students.
The Harvard university medical
school this year opens Its doors to
■ "Men students.
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Hold hy ilruKK'.HtH f..r over forty yiain
1'rlce Tfic TeMtlmonlnls free.
K. J. Cheney ft Co, Toledo, Ohio.
Learn Every Day,
Life Is educational, lie Is Indeed u
dullard who doesn't learn something
every day and become wiser In his
methods of doing.
Time and tide wait for no man.
Neither does any real man wait for
time or tide.
Commissioner Williams of New
York wants to punish householders
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