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absorbed in thought. Finally he called
Going away on a
"liush, papa," the girl said. "You are
not yourself when you talk that way."
"0 the contrary, I am quite myself.
Margy." the father replied “I only
wish I was not. is true and real
-all too terribly true and real.
you will not see your
For a friend. look to
"I've raised Joe from a little boy.
has been like a son to me. Years ago
I was fighting Indians in the
came upon him. It was
one night after it battle. We had touted
the Indians at dreadful cost in lives.
and driven them from their camp. In
their haste to flee. the Indians had de-
serted littlc Joe, the son of the Big
thief, who was learning his first lessons
t-1' battle. V
“I took him, and he became a very
devoted servant, this heir to the chief-
tiom of the Apaches. Years later, he
‘saved the life of your mother in a
stage-coach holdup in Nevada. He
brought her safely a hundred miles
through the mountains.
A it] while after that you came
into the world. Your mother died when
301: were born. In Indian customs this
at-currence is something significant. Joe
rsked permission to be your ‘eternal
guardian.‘ as he called it. 1 compllet.
whereupon he made a vow to is
‘strange Indian trod always to watch
over and protect you.
"That is the reason, little girl, he
sleeps just outside our door. That is
the reason, when you are at a dance,
Joe niwnys stalks somewhere near.
That is the reason you are scarcely ever
out of his sight,"
Marjorie had heard the story of how
mother; she had known
devoted to llQf'Self>ZlfI(I her father; but
before had eard
oath and “eternal guardian-
ship" the Colonel spoke of. This thought
troubled her. She wondered if this
silent Indian possibly knew more of her
a‘
(D
e for protection," her father
"Joe will care for you and
keep you from harm." . '
Marjorie was weeping when she left
f.er father's room. What caused him
to speak as he (lid. she asked herself.
She could not understand it. Ile spoke
as if some great l.r:i:."E(l)' was close at
band. While not using that word, he
spoke as if he were goin to die and
leave his daughter alone.
did not know the seriousness of the situ-
tion. not know of the trench-
ery of Snto and what was the result of
the fact that Guthrie, the colner of
honeyed words and phrases, ha ‘won
ler confidence.
That night Colonel Sigbee was out of
his bed and in his study again. lie was
a changed man e cares of the fort-
night had ht-nt his stalwart frame. The
‘ ' fare were deep-
templated his career. During his forty
"xeiirs in uniform his record had been
THE was our
Change of Food Brought Success and‘
V appiness. p
An ambitious but delicate girl, after
failing to go through school on account
of nervousness and hysteria. found in
Grape-Nuts the only thing that seemed
to build her up and furnish her the peace
cf health.
“From infancy." she says, “I” have not
been strong. Heinz ambitious to learrr
a any cost I finally got to the Iligh
School but soon had to abandon my
studies on account of nervous prostra-
tion and hysteria. .
"lily food did not agree with me, and
I grew thin and despondent. I could not
cnjo the simplest social affair for
suffered constantly from nervousness in
spite of all sorts of medic nes.
"T wretched ltion continued
until I became interested in the letters
of those who had cases like mine and
who were being helped by eating Grape-
uts.
"I had little faith. but procured a pkg.
-and after the first dish I experienced a
peculiar satisfied feeling that I had never
gained from any ordinary food. I slept
and rested better that night and in a
few days began to grow stron er. '
‘ ad a new feeling of peace and rest-
fuiness. In a few weeks. to my great
Jay, the headaches and nervousness left
me and life became bright and opefui.
I resumed my studies and later taught
Postum Cm. Battle
:1. "The Road to Well-
"’1‘here's a Reason."
' Ever read the lhove letter? A new
one appears from time to time.. They
are genuine, Inn. and full of human
mum. v ‘
CHICAGO LEDGER
that of an honorable, upright soldier.
had been entrusted with grave r -
about for a man to cope h
serious crisis that had confronted this
nation in years-one growing out of the
present European war-the Department
had chosen Colonel Sigbee.
l this-the crowning touch of
his career-he had failed. He had been
duped and outwitted by a Jan sp
posing as a servant. The Colonel could
not stand his disgrace. He drew from
his holster his formidable forty-four
caliber revolver and laid it on the desk
beside him. , He picked up a pen and
wrote hurriedly. He folded the paper,
placed it in an envelope, which he ad-
dressed to the Secretary of 'ar.
He started to write again. This secon
Dear Daughter:-
‘<
f
A'blot of ink fell from his pen and
smeared itself upon the paper before
then ‘he heard the door open
The Colonel turned quickly in
Lieutenant stood rigidly
at attention and saluted his superior
officer. Guthrie's eyes
paper before the Colonel.
had been written.
“My dear Colonel, what is the mean-
ing o this?" the young Lieutenant
asked agltatedly. ,
" lace you have seen. I cannot dis-
guise the truth." the Colonel replied in
broken tones. “You
to death. It is sufcide. I am going to
end it all.“
“Colonel, I regretthe part I have been
assigned to playm-"
“Bah! Regrets nothing. After the
worst has been done it is a hne time to
come around with soft words of regret.
IIDOII 1.
He saw what
01101’.
With that the Colonel grasped his re-
volver and pointed at his temple.
“I will end it all. A sol ier can face
death, but not dishonorxj the veteran
repcate ,
The agile Guthrie was on him in a
minute. grappling for the revolver. But
desperatiomgave the Colonel‘ stronllrth.
here was a muflled roar as the revolver
exploded in the closed room. ‘
With the mask of death on his face.
the Colonel fell heavily to the floor. the
blood streaming from the wound in his
chest. The smoking-weapon was in
Guthrie’s hands, and so close had been
the Contact of the two in the struggle
the Lieuteuanfs hands and clothes were
smeared with blood. Guthrie knc-it by
the prostrate form. He felt the Colonel's
eart. .
33‘
G cl, 'he‘s dead!" he exclaimed.
a moments be lost."
5
o pulled the Colonel's
private papers out on the floor. Exam-
ining them hurriedly he thrust certain
ones in his pocket. His eyes fell upon
the suicide notes.
“For my purposes it is not best that
the Colonel be thought 0 have ended
his own life," Guthrie said to himself.
He grasped up the letter addressed
the Secretary of War and the un-
finished note to Marjorie. -
There were loud knocks upon the
door. locked.
under
rifle.
there. v .
“You've killed my father! You've as-
sassinated and robbed him!" the girl
cried. taking in the scene at a glance.
VVlth
Marjorie and Joe Tecumseh’ were
eyes. Te-
ere was but one avenue of escape.
Guthrietook it. There was a crash of
breaking .glass as the Lieutenant
plunged-through the window and into
the darkness.
I ' CIIAPTE1’: xvi,
mnxixrrznz
IIE Indian went through the window
uthrie
seen. Marjorie ran from the house to
spread the alarm. - ‘
" I, why did she ever trust him?"
The lhouglii stabbed her, "KV'hy had
she not shot him dead from the ambush
the night she had ridden upon thc camp
of Guthrie and Wright in the wands!"
instantly the post was up and in
arms.
“The Colonel has been murder<-ii!" The
cry brought out the men in a minute,
each determined to avenge the death of
their leader. ‘
Marjorie-was on her horse, dashing
madly about the post. She under]. a,
corner of t o parndo ground’ it on a
man stepped out from the shadow of 3.
res and seized her bridle.
Before the girl could make a move or
resistance or t-(itcry,
swept up silently. The girl was tossed
into the tonne-nu of the car. and the
man leaped in after her.
There appeared to be four of the kid-
.. , y
I
ave hounded me,
napers. The face of each was hidden
behind ‘a black mask. They worked
quickly and quietly. None of them spoke.
The car shot out of the post like a black
ghost in the night. -
The feat was one of desper e reck-
lessness. A ty of soldier not
hundred yards away
Instantly the cavalry was in pursuit.
firing at the fleeing car. Bullets whizzed
about the speeding auto, but none struck
it. ‘The driver opened the-throttle to
the last notch. The cavalry horses were
no match in speed for the racer. Soon
e ‘car I outdistanced the horsemen.
Marjorie was at the mercy of her cap-
tors. ’ - '
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CHAPTER XVII. ‘
' THE BLACK noun. - '
ON 'AND on and on. throughout the .
long night, the wild automobile
continued on s way. e sound of
the whirring Wheels of.the car was all
t .' e . stillness. Marjorie‘s
captors did not once speak to her and
seldom to one another, except for a curt
the four,
next to Marjorie. and who apparently
was the leader of the band. - ’ 4
voices, so far as the girl was
6- able,to detect, all were strange. The
faces of the men she could not see for
the masks. The automobile passed few
vehicles on its way and no villages or
towns- It was evident that.it avoided
s thout head-
darkness,
leap from
such chance presented
She was wedged in between two men in
the rear seat; t
tended to
u
er. But had Marjorie for an instant
realized her predicament never
ould h ve atte to an escape-at
For shewvas in the hands of the
Black Four! . > ‘
The night wore away, but still the
mad car lunged on. ray appeared in
the east. Marjorie strove to keep awake,
but with every‘ in e
harder. Presently,
fatigue any longer,,she fell asleep in
her sea ‘ .. ,
The leader of the Black‘Four noted
the gasoline tank which
empty as a. result of the long Journey.
The big top on the car was raised and
the curtains pulled down on each side.
Daylight was the natural enemy of the
and they took elaborate
Again the car was on its way. pro-
ceeding slower, so as not to arouse sus-
irions. Marjorie awakened. surprised
to find herself in a closed car. one of
81'
which, .w
opened. A convertible table was set up
in the car, and before Marjorie was
spread an appetizlng meal. There were
sandwiches. fruit, and coffee, kept warm
thing and conserve her strength.
were in open country now. and on
the silent men who sat beside the girl
opened a blind a little>to admit fresh
ai ' -
2'.
As she ate. Marjorie noted the.land-
scape. She knew‘ she be many
3 awa from Rosencrans.‘ Marjorie
had. just completed her meal, and one or
the men had folded up the table and
ting, it away under the seat
when the car gave such a. wild leap
forward that masked man was
thrown sprawling into the lap of the
irl. ‘ -
"A thousand pardons, miss," be im-
plored. , '1?" .
But with a foreilnger raised to his
lips and a reproving glance, the leader
'l;(he Chief
was ta in
chances that. through the sound .5 hut:
voice. the identity of one of his men
should become known.
he car was going at :1 mad page now
and over a particularly rock)’ road. It
lurclied and in such a manner
that disaster seemed imminent, Mar.
jorio pondered at this sudden increase
of speed. But the sharp command
the -
the
‘"130 (OD. answered r. , hey were
pursued And evidently their pursue:-5
were Eaini .
"F 3"“? ‘"3191?’ the leader kept
shouting to. the marl at the wheel-.
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