Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 136, Decatur, Adams County, 9 June 1926 — Page 3

Judith of Blue Lake Ranch q? — By Jackson Gregory

M CbMlw Bertbasr* Sou yet, 1 know.” she answered wlckly Al lb* spoke »l>e suddenly out tier tong arul *° thttt her mat bony hand fattened like a bit *L ou th* girl's shoulder. “I have > her sgulnl She 18 mlne ' “ ll mlne 01 I will keep her well." Id * !lttle whlle Trevor * H " ».d nut returned. Mad Huth, still I .ripping Judith's shoulder, half led' L half thrust her farther buck In the’ cavern. Judith made no resist-’ j Always, even when terror was tpperniost she held one thought in ndnd: "If 1 can raaka them tlllnk me , uttle fool and a weakling, my ' charne “ay come after a wf ‘lle.” As the two women passed arourd i bend in the sinuous tunnel-llke eave, 1 | faint rays of the lantern they had | i e ft behind them died out, and heavy jirkness shut them in. Judith could Hrely make out the huge form towering over her. But Ruth, whether her eyes were like a cat's and accustomed to this sombre place, or wheth- ’ tr a hand on a rock wall or a foot on the uneven floor under her told her which way to go, moved on without hesitation. Judith estimated roughly that they had come fifty yards fryu the outside ledge in front if the cave when she was pushed, |o«n and felt the rude bed of firboughs under her. ■'So," grunted the woman, for the first time removing her hard band frvm the girl’s shoulder, “I’ve got yon again, my pretty. And this time you, don't play any more little tricks on your old mother." She was gone swiftly, all but silently, through the gloom, her form vaguely outlined against the lantern's glimmer, to bring the food and water which she had set down when she came in. Judith drank and ate. It was only little by little. In fragments which she obtained during the How days which followed, that she cime to understand Trevors' scheme. And the scheme was In keeping with the man; so far as it was possible, Bayne Trevors was still playing safe. Bad Ruth was an odd mhture of crazed suspicion, shrewd cunning, cruelty, tftd madness. Perhaps very long ago—Judith came to believe that it had occurred at the time when she had gone mad, for God knows what reason—Mud Ruth had had a little (laughter. The girl had been lost to her, whether through death when an Infant, or some tragic accident when a young girl, Judith never knew. But Ruth's heart had been bound up In that baby of hers; when madness came, It centered and turned upon, i the return of her child, “Who had run away from her, but who would come back some time." Trevors, having learned of her mad passion, had shaped It to his purpose. But that was not all. Judith had been brought to the cave early Sunday morning. Sunday afternoon there came to the cave a well-dressed man carrying a little black bag in his hand. He talked with Ruth; he took up the lantern and came to look at Judith. | “So I’ll know you again,” he, laughed. Then he went away. In fragments which through long, empty hours her busy mind pieced together, bridging the gaps, she grasped the rest of Trevors' plan. This man was a physician, sent here from some one of the many mining towns in the mountains, probably from a camp twenty or thirty miles away. He, too, was a Trevor! hireling. Should Judith ever accuse Trevors of having brought her here, there wag another story to be told. And this man would tell it: How he had been summoned here to attend a girl who had had a fall, who had ’•ndered delirious through the mountalns until Ruth had found her; whom he had treated here, not daring at first tn move her for fear of permanent; shock to her reason; who could give them no help to establish her identity; «ho had a thousand absurd fears and fancies and accusations to make; who In her babbling had at one time accused Bayne Trevors of having forcibly abducted her; who at another had cried that It was a man named Cur•o®. a man named Lee, who had brought her here. , Judith spent many a long hour exploring her prison, hoping to find a, way out. So far as she knew/the had one person to reckon with, Mad (Butli. True, Trevors had said that! ;he’d have a man on the ledge outsidoj d “.v and night; Judith had never seen such a person, had never heard his juice, and began to believe that it was ? bit of bluff on Trevors' part. But : s he had never again been where «ho iCould look out of the cave’s mouth, since Mad Ruth had her own pallet ,' on the floor at the narrowest pait °f the cave where It was like the neck j°f a monster bottle, and always at, first sound of the girl’s approach, ‘"US on her feet to thrust her Juoji I

:< h ariv there was no way «, u t oFthitr 'JhiV t t' 1 ""’ ~“,t “ ,t 1 ,Hhkh she had cotuf. lou,llt an exidanatlon of her ilmprlsuruneut, and Bft *r long grj,' | she came very near the tr J h ' T P r “ Z?* h “ WIU wlth through Hampton’s faith !n hllu Ul|(| admiration for him. And. in her ah aence, Hampton was the head of Blus Luke ranch. Sunday night, hearing Mad Ruth [moving cautiously, JuJlth rulJed •elf on her elbow, listening. She was confident that the woman was moving wl'i n „ the a “*Wth; she hoped dig that Mud Ruth waa tricked Into her snd was going out. Her shoes in her hands, her stockinged feet falling lightly, Judith' moved toward the mud woman's couch, > Ruth was going out; was In fact even now slipping out of the narrow' throat of the cave and to the ledge. But Judith could nut see her. For a new, unexpected obstacle wus In her way. Her outthrust hand* touched not rock walls but heavy wooden panels; she knew then that the narrow neck of the cave wus fitted with a I heavy door and that it had been drawn shut, fastened from without | In a sudden access of fury nnd despair she beat at it with her two hands, I crying out bitterly. It wag so dark, so Inky black, and as still, save for her own outcry, as a tomb sealed and forgotten. Such darkness, smothering hope, suddenly was filled with vague terrors; for one | worn-out and nervous as Judith was, i the darkness seemed to harbor a I thousand ugly things which watched her and mocked at her despair and reached out vile hands toward her. She called loudly, and for answer hud the crazed laugh of Mad Ruth which floated in to her from without, but ■ which seemed to drop down from the I void above. | ‘■Judith, Judith," the girl whispered ; after the first outburst, when she found that she was shaking pitifully. "You've got to do better than this; I’m ashamed of you." She went back to her couch, where she sat down seeking to hold her Jangling nerves In check. But, despite | her intention, slie sat shaking, listening. listening—praying for even the footfall of her Jailer. When Ruth was with her she attempted In a hundred ways to gauge the womans warped brain, to seek I some way to get the better of her, te gain her trust and so to slip away. But she found that here was the usual cunning born of madness, and that Ruth’s one idea was to keep the girl who had escaped her once but who . must never escape again. There were ' times when suspicion awakened In Ruth's mind, and she broke into violent rage, so that her big body shook and her eyes in the lantern-light were cruel and murderous, when Judith shrank back, and tried to change the woman’s thoughts. For more than once had Mad Ruth cried out: “I’ll kill you! Kill you with my own bunds to keep you here. To keep you mine, mine, mine!" The woman carried no weapon, but after her two hands had once gripped the girl's shoulders, shaking her, Judith knew that Ruth needed no weapon. Hers was a strength greater than Trevors’, greater than two mens. If Mad Ruth saw fit to kill Judith with her two hands, she Idd do It. (TO BE CONTINUED) o — Wren Merchants To Attend Revival Meting In Body The husines meh of Wren, Ohio, will close their stores Thursday night and attend the revival meeting at the ! Liberal United Brethren church in a ! body to hear Evangelist Carl Vernon j Roop preach on the .subject, "The 1 World's Greatest Detective." A delegation will be present form the Plea-1 'sant Mills M. E. Sunday school and | 'the Liberal U. B. Sunday school of Wren Thursday night, also. On FriI day night, the Radical U. B. Sunday school of Wren will attend in a body. Rev. Roop will preach on, "The wages of Sin." Friday night. t ' On Saturday night. Rev. Roop wi I preach on. "Profit and Loss.” Three 1 good sermons ate in store for Sunday. In the forenoon, he will preach on. "The Baptism of Fire," anil in th ® afternoon on “A Momentous Quest. A union chorus choir, under the direction of the Rev. C. E. Sharrow. and a junior choir will aid in the song service. The services will open each evening at 7:30 o clock. —o Get the Habit—-Trade At Home, It Pgs Explains How Enlarged Veins Can Be Reduced | reduce sw ?! 1 ] len original ’L y °nf Moone’s Emerald Oil (full bottle of M°o” e . c|aa dr ug store Btrenth) at any « t (lire cted yon and applP 'J dt 1 improvement will quickly none ■ ... veins which w ll c [’"' in r pduced to normal. I and bunches al , oj] haa bdought Moone's t-orried people all much comfort to o{ the won . over the country, pent years and derful .Appointed’ with its I anyone, who is money refunded.! YAGfiR 4 FALK, aeO* t .of it-

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