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i the aztec mystery a thrilling story of the old west by murray lbinster synopsis sonny holuuui tilcuni he ha keen cheated out of llie aztec mine holds up th ine payrolls janet ijiurier who holds lexal title to tl e aztec offers a re ward for hotmails capture janet is kidnapped by tlirelas kaik a and of eulhrouts sonny follows and rescues her but she thinks lie is in league with iaicia and a party to the kfdnappluk tllfortl the aztec manager imports rome mine guards two of whom kill jake lloinaby son friend in the absence of the sheriff sonny single- handed arrests them then tides out f town he is visiting a friends ranch when news comes that cattle rusturs lire at work kotnv suspects tarda and rides in pm suit chapter xiv and so the ihase began it was no orderly deadly trailing cf mis creants it could only really have been envisioned by person standing upon lie vantage point fiom which sonny had surveyed the rich before des cending to uh an observer there would have beet apparent first a long streak of dust ar bekw curving cat of the circle bar ranehhouse and lengthening stea lily with a pinpoint of a lorseman moving madly at its head that stak crept acrws the valley toward little canyon two her streaks crept in other directions ene toward a spot where a microscopic ian had dismounted from an infini tesimal horse and worked leisurely upon a barbed wire frncr and au ditor toward a par of horsemen trot ting somnolently about a herd of grazing cattle with infinite slownest the streaks of dust sped across the plain below tho racing horaeraci reached thir v pne came to the mender of fences and uteri there were two st eaks of dust one going cmi to line riders yet invisible in the distance the new one toward little can yon the other- streak touched the cowboys riding herd another long cloud of dust aroso as the cattle were left to themselves and two men sped toward little cariycn and tin third to arouse yet nice help a dust cloud arose in the ranch- house and shot out a second and a third followed it far and far away at ranchhouses almost at the limit of visibility the little trains of alkali dust aroso in the still air and from the height of the mountains it would have looked as if a mass of tangled invisible fuse had been ignited where of the separate sparks crept smokilv from one spot to another always spit ting new threads which led directly to one spot in the far distance where nomo cataclysm must inevitably be about to occur sonny was bent low in the saddle helping the big black stallion cover ground as only the best of horsemen can help tho earth fairly flew be neath the flying hoofs of gunpowder sonnys face was set and grim i said i was goin to kill garcia gun powder he murmured once through stiff set lips if hes gone an hurl janet oh my gawd faster hoss faster thompson loomed up out of th- clyud of dust that rose behind him sonny came up to and passed him though thompsons horse was rated a locd one in the valley sonny press es on he was in the lead now and going like a madman a single irdi- ea this fine trtefsb jfa mdhrflcrtudl ntlfia mi nhomurniihiimsikrnlt vivttta tjtrcful il slice jt rook willi il mche irniplirifc flftor front fine old oimlnr ciiocm- 3igmiblc art milk iimlf ap- lroitl ly tli kooil commil- teo of the american mrlirnl ahsecintion meriting the liigh iintritioniil rating of jilii plus phis ct another pnekuge from jour grocer tolny muj in canoja kraft issue no 26 32 vidua racing to come up with a dozen or more men who might have harmed jatet lauricr thompson was half a mile behind when sonny swocrcd into little can yon with his gun in his hand he was in a cold rage anil a terrible ante he had seen no trace of the trio of riders which should have in cluded janet nd ho feared tho wot st as he plunged from the val ley into the canyon he seemed t see it at the far end of the canyon the reeky walls narrowed to hardly more than a crack through which a snow- fed stream rushes when tho spring thaws came high precipitous clitrs of crumbling rock overhung thi opening and deep in the shadows of those clifvs there were fout or live of garcias gang flourishing long whips and yell ing madly to get the last of the rust- ed herd through sonny set his teeth and raced ahead he was spurring down the lush grass of the canyon bottom when there was a sharp crack and then another bullets flew ever his head one passed between his arm and his body he half swung in his saddle to see a puff of bluish haze arising from a heap of boulders long since rolled down the canyon sides he snapped one shot two at the mass of roc as he swept on bang bang bullets whined about him gunpowder stumbled and drop ped to his knees hinging sonny over his head sonny struggled to his feet and ther bullets ripped into him he heard a sudden cry anil the tiring stopped he began to hobble desperately after the slowly moving herd no one can ever drive a herd vety fasti for any long distance short of stam peding them but a herd pace with many drivers who use their whips mercilessly is nevertheless faster than a man can walk sonnys attempt was hopeless and he knew it he was al most sobbing in his disappointment and rage when the pounding of hoofs behind him made him snap about in a moments hope these would be garcias men if he could shot one from the saddle and dispose of the rest his eyes almost started from his head when he saw janet as the trail ing last of the three riders who bore down upon him the two foremost were strangers but white men obvi ously two more of the guards tilford had imported from outside they rode down upon him with sixguns levelled put em up snaled the first go plumb to hell snapped sonny angry beyond reason that his wild ride to serve janet had turned into a trap which she had rpvung those fellers are rustlers yonder goin to let em get away take him cried janet fiercely from the rear spurring forward is fast as she could come the foremost of the gunmen fired coolly but most mens expiessions change a little before they pull a trig ger on another man sonny flung himself aside firiifr in his turn he whirled on the second man and of the two guns his flashed the fraction of a split second sooier get outer those saddler drawled sonny suddenly very cold and deadly maam if you bother me ill shoot ti hoss plumb out from under yuh he dragged a swearing man clutch ing at a bulletnumbed arm out of the saddle and unged down toward tho end of the valley again and he- saw one of the yelling herdsmen ride back from the last of the disappearing cattle rush at- a breakneck pace to ward the base of the overhanging clilt that formed one of the two portals anil dismount sonny yelled wildly and fired hut he was too far away for anything like accurate shooting his shot went wild tho rustler stooped jumped to bis feet and flung himself on his horse and went spur ring away as if the devil were after him yelling like a fiend sonny flashed toward the narrow opening a siz zling spitting fuse was burning where tho rustler had kntilt up to it sonny reined in antl saw it flash up sharply that was where the slow fuse endi and the swift burning in stantaneous fuse began he sunk his spurs deep in his terrified mounts sides and went streaking ahead for tho open behind him sounded an earsplitting detonation a blast of air lifted the rttnnin horso almost from his feet and then the cliff shuddered rocked antl with the noiiw of ten thousand thunders collapsed into tho gorge through which sonny rjde so frantic ally there was a storm in the men n- tains that nighc and the rain poured down in torrents but angry men redo in the hills all night long with tho icy night rnir pouring from them trying to drive frightened horses into unknown openings and passes by tho light of spilling rearing lightning 1 flashes they rode recklessly these lien with the ail ct hunters and each man greeted every other rain wetted figure with a rcdy p until identi fication was complete but they failed in their hunt the storm rumbled itself into silence the rain gave way to icy dampness and the flickering light they had come to count on died into unrelieved black ness and silence little by little the rideis in the hills gave up their task and found their way lack into the outer valley angry disgruntled and worn out so it was that not one of the ranch men hcard at last the imprisoned be- lowings of cattle being driven savage ly just before daybreak their hoarse complaining lasted for a long time before their leaders appeared sudden ly and impinged upen the level valley flcor again their heads elrooping straggling and dispirited they trickl ed out into the thick grass and scat tered tec- exhausted to gc any farther as the last of them appeared sonny holman rode down the narrow defiile thtough which they had come aid estimated their number shucks he said ti redly lost a let ef em but dinned if ill do another dadblan ed thing for thomp son hes a good feller but im going to ltxk after my own business he drove his exhausted horse on ward leaving the cattle where they grazed the clouds over the moun tains te- the east hfd paled and now streaks of deep crimson shot through them the crimson faded to gold antl the whole earth glowed in the pale gray light of dawn to be continued sleeping sickness germs becoming devitalized experiments on human beings who permitted themselves to he inoculated with living germs of the african sleep ing sickness have proved it is an nounced by government authorities in kenya that when these germs are de prived for many generations of human beings to live ill they seem slowly to lose their ability to infect human bodies at all writes dr r e free in daily scicene one of the islands in lake victoria once was so infested with the germs of this disease and with the iedse hies which carry these germs that in 1009 the entire human population of the island was de ported since then the island has been uninhabited although scientific expeditions have visited it at inter vals to collect tsetse ties anil examine them lor germs these germs have been found regularly also in the bodies of wild game if no domestic cat tle or human beings are available re- cently several thousand infected flies from the island containing traces of the sleeping sickness germs must have been more than 20 years without experience in infecting human beings were brought from the island to the government laboratories and some of the beims injected into mon keys although these germs infected the monkeys in the usual manner the medical experts suspected that the germ races had lost part of their viru lence accordingly samples of the germs were injected itno human vol unteers none of whom leveloped the sleeping sickness whether this loss of virulence by the germs marooned for 20 years o i the island would be maintained if human beings returned there for the germs to live in no one knows notes from london happiness to enjoy happiness is a fiieat good but to ho able to confer it also on others is a greater still dishclout rcjw vanishes a terrace of quaint little georgian houses which is said to have earned the nickname ef dishclout row ficm george 111 owing to the number of commemorative plaques on the walls looking like dishcloths hung out to dry has disappeared from the north side of kensington high street to n ake way for new shops this is ye another example in london of the rapid spread cf business premises into traditionally residential districts city merchants ad high lights of so ciety used to live in majestic mansions in central london today they usually occupy luxury flats during the week antl retreat to small country houses for weekends famous streets like iark lane are changing completely it character may fairs big houe are being pulled down and replaced by blocks of flats and shops with se vere modern architectural lines the census returns of last july showed that while the population of greater london had increased by more than 720000 to 8202818 from 1921 to 1911 jet the number of residents in london county or inner london had decreas ed by nearly 100000 during the same period stately geoigian and ornate victorian mansions in once fashion able streets and squares have fallen out of favor owing to their large rooms numerous stairs antl the ncees sity for considerable domestic staffs to maintain them one is told that the demand for-iux- ury flats has been more than satisfied in the last few years but they con tinue to be built in many cases their rentals are much greater than those ot old fivestoried houses near by but the most remarkable change of all is taking place in londons suburb everbusy builders are weaving their web of little homes round the roads which radiate all directions from the metropolis into surrey middlesex kent essex and hertfordshire speeding up of train services h made it possible for the business man to live in rural surroundings even brighton the south coast resort about sixty miles away from london is be coming a suburb with many of its inhabitants traveling daily to the metropolis and back ducks delight lawyers there is great delight in legal cir cles here at theapearance in readi ness fo- the nesting season of a pair of wild ducks in the peaceful medieval surroundings of lincolns inn which is set in the very heart of london yet sheltered by beautiful mellowed stone buildings from the ceaseless rumbe of traffic benchers senior members of the inns of court had their litte pond in new court cleaned out in hopeful anticipation two years ago a pair of mallards suppenly appeared like a bolt from the blue and set up house in a nest on the edge of the pond they reared a fine family il an atmosphere of white wigs and flow ing robes under the interested and somewhat paternal gaze of eminent kings counsels and learned barris ters last year they returned but had hardly moved into their home when two more ducks and anothei drake arrived on the scene the limit ed accommodation of the fifteenfoot diameter pond soon became evident loud quacks and scufflings disturbed the peace of the whole of lincoln s inn the original couple finaly established their right to the solitary nest and the others departed law yers are hoping that there will be no rivalry this yea- the 40 anniversary of i am tea m for 40 years salad a has givea the finest quality in tea present prices are the lowest in 15 years rivers run under streets waiting for an electric train at slcane square underground station ones eye is caught by what icoks like an ordinary inclosed passenger bridge over the lines actually this bridge carries not pedestrians but a river the westboutne is only one of lon dons lost rivers the area of greater london was onto a marsh drained by a numler of streams running into the thames the tyburn flows bcncah bond slieet ami the green iark and provides buckingham palace with its ornamental water garden the fleet which necessitated the building of holborn viaduct passes under fleet street tho course of the wallbrook runs close to the deep foundations of the vaults of the bank of england counters brook ilses in kensal green and winds in an underground channel to thamesside while peck- ham took its name from a stream cabl ed the peke which still gurgles on beneath tall buildings and crowded sreets for centuries these rivers ail the muddy html surrounding them have called for the utmost ingenuity from the architects and builders of britains capital there have been perictlic subterranean rebellions tes but these have always teen success fully overcome fish porters queer hats londons queerest hats those of the fish porters of billingsgate are made in a little shop in a steep wintl- i g alleyway called lovelane which runs into billingsgate market cham pion porters think nothing of carry ing 100 pounds weight of fish at a time on their heads so their head gear has to be substantial it is made of leather with a flat top studded witi nails and protects reck as well as head it is net- r readymade affair but each porter has to be specially fitted it is carefully sewn with wax thread and its owners initials print- el in nails on the crown although there are about 1000 fish porters in billingstgate the demand for their special hats is not very great they last almost indefinitely but edward spink who makes them had an un expected order recently from a wo man she ditl not intend becoming a porter but wanted the real thing for a fancy dress dance com planted by terrace the world unrfer water for a day or two i could not un derstand why during certain dives the fish were so much tamer than at other times the clue came to mo wheu a rather heavy swell war tunning and 1 found that if 1 gave fo the movement ol the water all the inhabitants from tobies to- groupers from shrimps to sharks accepted me as something new but harmless which tiio waves hail washed in but if resisted tho aquatic wind and maintained plaeo and posture 1 became an object of suspicion this was th first of many radical differences width i was to find between tho world of method to end erosion dry land and that of the utidor- i water 011 laud to move u to aiouso tho erosion problem one ot lhel ainong ll0 wnd t hero most serious facing the farms of tho m u by rc0a 6ti united states has been practically solved in ono section of missouri where tho federal warnings have been taken seriously in this area says tho washington star steep hillsides which lor years bad been washed by heavy rains have been planted in corn by the socalled terracing meth- i walked or halfwalked hair- floated toward the lifts the tocks were almost bare in ibis bay liko those between tides and tho multi tudes ot lesser aquatic creatures wero concealed beneath them the water was quiet and between surges was often perfectly clear so that u oil tho lesults havo more than botno sco p cliffs rising prince attends farmers show after an exhaustive tour of their show the prince of wales ad dressed 7c00 members ot the national farmers union at yeovil on the future success of brillsh farming wo see tho mayor piesent- ing hih witb six pairs of gloves life- giving pigment taken from leaves one of the worlds most mysterious substances chlorophyll the lifegiv ing green pigment in the leavos of plants is now available to science and industry dr frank m schertb of the united states department of agriculture has found a way to ex tract it at low cost from blue grass spinach antl other plants antl litis isolated tho laigest single hatch of tho pure compound with plenty or chlorophyll available for study experts hope lo explain a long standing ritldie sunlight tails alike on man animals and plants hut only he plants have llio power of harnessing its energy to manufncluro food tho chlorophyll their green leaves in some way still unknown takes carbon dioxide gas from llio air and transforms its carbon into sugars and slarcbes yielding oxygen in ic- turn through ho pores of the leaves new studios of chlorophyll may re veal llio settrot of this process says popular science monthly commercial applications also are foioscon for dr sohetlzs discovery chlorophyll already is used in soap manufacture and oilier industries medicinal pills ate made from ii hitheito cm many antl switzerland have furnished nrnall quantities ex traded at almost prohlbitivo cost with a cheap supply available dr scheitz loresecs new uses one deriv ative of chlorophyll hi says offers great promise as a beneficial coloring matter for ico cteain chlorophyll has been analyzed and found a combination of carbon hydro gen oxygon nitrogen and the metal lic element magntslum it loses lis green tint anil becomes blueblack upon extraction out the contentions of he experts who havo maintained that this method is tho only one which will save the fer tile lop soil whit h in unprotected regions has been washed away either by sheet etcsion or by gullying to illustrate accurate measure ments on adjacent fields subject to tho same rainfall as tho terraced fields disclosed the soil washetl away- last year at the rate of 110 tons an acre on the terraced fields the loss showed an averago or 23 tons an acre with ono particular development with just eightyfive pounds over a ton loss there aro two methods of terrac ing one which provides a gentle slope from one flat down toward the terraco leading to the flat on tho next lower level antl one in which the various flats aie matlo as level as possible in the case of the level areas the less was held to tho mini mum anything new at your boarding house not a thing either in grub or gossip high in tho air abovo that narrow straigh line which marked tho divi sion between tho two kingdoms i- went as far as my hose tether would permit and reached a boulder on which tho day bcfoie at low tide i had sat comfortably in tho clear cool air of tho upper world turning back i saw i bad become a pied piper of sorts leading a host of fish which followed in my train the sun was out now in full strength iand unknown to me could hold my eyes from the marvel of distance my range of vision was perhaps fifty feet in every direction but for all 1 could tell it might have been fifty feet or fifty miles tho suns rays filtered down as though through the most marvellous cathedral ever imagined intangible oblique rays which the eye coud perceive but ho lip describe with distance these be came more and more luminous more wondrously brilliant until rocks died away in a veritable purple glory no sunset no mist on distant mountains that 1 have seen could compare with this one had to sit quietly and ah- sorb these beauties before one could icmcmber lo be an ichthvologlst william ucehe in tho arctunis ad- ventuie victory though wrong may win its victory is b tier tbeutlcs of gcod at fist no pass age find each surge breaks shattered on the sullen reef yet still the infinito ocean tomes behind priseilla loonard you will be glad youtried it if you must wean baby to a bottle and ou 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