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Show WOMEN SLAVES BRISBANE Acute famine tins driven hundroda of Chinese women In Anhwei prow luce to offer themselves ns slaves the price averaging about ?o. THIS WEEK CgtMl If CHAPTER S XII lu the darkness and twisted Continued Bd Mann Pierce, after a moment's yTtlun. drew back almost reluctant-- b sbe itnod there, smalt and straight the darkness, as they drove away. U was no longer raining, although the road the leaves were drip-au- l the headlights revealed black Ljjnffi of muddy water In the ruts. At led down to Carey's, the turn that geladlne swung that way, carefully, was slippery; and so glnee the clay Ptaeotly he saw the farm buildings, thepule white blur of the house, and the barn with Its high peak black epinit the gloomy sky. lie turned Into the barnyard and by the kitchen door, and gteppMi a The evUched off the engine: fed by the magneto; died as the eegtne died; and darkness embraced them there. In the deep silence and the dark, Bart said hospitably r You folks go Inside and light the lamp HI feed the critters and come light In. Wont take me a minute. Be and the sheriff swung .to the hend-Bfht- 1 BEN AMES WILLIAMS Bca Amci William, WND Kurvic,. ground. Bart started toward the barn, but the sheriff, standing here beside the ear, called : ojicii lha blade, and Saladine board stool saw On benii. 1 lion a pu!!oy whirred, and something foil homily on the ground outside the barn door. The sheriff was quick that way. He became bury there, and lie said over hla shoulder: 'Hnd Hie !" lantern, Jim! Zeke spoke calmly. here under me! -- due some-her- It bangs right Sulndine .was a man not easily Uadnted; but his bands were shaking now. He tried fruitlessly to light the lantern, broke two or three mutches an ' absurd futility before Zeke dropped rroiu his perch and auld: Here! Ut me!" And lie took the lantern and with steady hand had It lighted Instantly. So they turned to where Burt lay. The sheriff had Hurt's wrists In Ills hands, pushing Hurts arms up ami back and down to the ground ulxive Bart's head; then bending the elbows, pressing the folded arms hard home on Bart's chest. He refuted this In a rhythmic persistence. Zeke said at Inst, In tones which had I i peculiar terror of their own: lop you won') do him any good that Til be wanting to look at that bolt of yours. Bart I Certain," Bart, agreed, without stopI'll be right In!" ping. Need a light yourself, wont your the sheriff suggested doubtfully; and Bart said: . There's a lantern In the barn I Be had not paused ; he did not now. The wide barn doors were open, so that there was a gray rectangle of light against the black bulk of the structure, and Barts figure, as be moved toward the barn, was In silhouette gainst this gray. So they were able to see, though InBart what happened. distinctly, reached the barn, walking steadily enough; and then suddenly his hands Jerked toward hla head, and Inatantly he seemed to dive straight upward, out of their sight And at the Same time, with a terrific splintering Impact and a metallic dank of Iron, something fell shatter-loglupon the barn floor. Then alienee; end In thla alienee a rusty, creaking y mind. the nlghl, despite these small sounds, waa so still I They went forward at last like wooden soldiers, stlffkneed, on tiptoe, warily; till aa they came close to the barn, looking up they saw something dark and bulky swinging a little to nd fro above their heads. In the peak nf the roof above them there was projecting beam from which the horse fork waa rigged. It waa from that tieam that thla object waa Blurred and foreshortened. It waa yet unmistakable; and the slier! IT uttered a sRimmerlng exclamation. and he went blundering Inlo the bum, groping here and there, lie atunihli'il over something, and Sulnillne struck a match, and the sheriff demanded Vet : "A knife? (lot a knire? Quick I" As he Bimke, he looked up at Sola dine and above him. Salndlne, very tiffly and warily, turned his head to look that way. The ham wna framed on heavy tint her, aa Imms In Mnlntt are apt to he; and the Interior of the big sirin' lure was divided Into acctlnn by these timbers. Just lichlnd Salndlne, then was a horse atnll. hoarded In; Hnd the Isinrils were carried upward lo a cross timber, heavy and firm, which wns a Utile nhove the level of the lop of the barn door. When Salndlne looked up over his shoulder now, following the alierilfs eyes, lie saw a man Killing eross legged on this timber. Ills hiimls hanging Idly over hli shins. Ills eyes bright a a fut' eyes strangely. the dnrk, and burning Ills grinning teeth were In white. It wns eke limv, with Mint big lull. Its lirlni curled so Jauntily, pushed far luick on i!s bend. Zoke, nlinrc them, mi lit In n drawling tone: I loir's knife! Help yourself! And siiincihing iliiiiiipi'il on the barn si in I'nuiiil i iu knife He Seemed to Dive Straight Upward, Out of Their And Inatantly For a moment after Bart disappeared In thla fashion so mysterious, the sheriffs bulky figure was motionless beside the car; but Saladine scrambled to the giound. and tripped on the running hoard and fell hard on hands and knees, his fingers digging deep Into the soft and spongy sod. and there was a wet chill of water on hi shins. lie was on his feet. Instantly. From the barn came, diminuendo, that rusty, creaking sound. Ills eyes ached with peering Into the darkness; and he heard the sheriff lick hla dry lips, heard hla quick breath aa he sucked hla lungs full, and heard him gulp and swallow hard. Something rattled In the barn; a cow. Hot moving In the tie-upmbHhly. metal cooling under the hood of the car cracked loudly, here close beside them, startlingly. The - brook down by the bridge waa singing, and Ita low deep murmur filled their ears. Ilnur 'lb- - the dark. Salndlne was curiously pleased that old Marm Pierce hnd been able to prove her case In the end. Rut that was over now, and Zeke was here and must lie dealt with. Saladine turned In to him.' How do you know Bart did It? ho asked. Before Zeke could speak, the sheriff warned him gravely: Yon dont have to say a word, lesa'n yore a mind. Zeke stared at them In an abstracted fashion. Pve got no reason to hold he said. He stood with his hack, shoulders against the door, his hands iH'hlnd him. and his eyes flickered from one nf them to the other as he spoke. How come you didn't try to get away? the sheriff asked. Here after yon'd finished him?" Zeke shook Ids head. With Hnldy dead." he said, I hadnt no place to go. nor nothing to go for ! "I'm going to hare to tnke you along to Jail," the sheriff reminded him; and Zeke said humbly: Why, the way It Is now. Id full as lief be In Jail as anywheres. And after a moment, when they did nnt speak, he added: Likely you know about Huldy and me. It was kind of desperate, and dreadfnl for me. right from the start; like having holt of live wire when yon can't let go." lie stood tall In the dim Inntern light; he went on, as. though speech eased him. to tell all that remained now to be told. It fell to Bnladlne to repeat to Will Ferrln and Marm Pierce and Jenny what Zeke told them now. When half an honr later they returned to the house divided, Will and Jenny came to the door; but the sheriff stayed with Zeke and that other In the car. "Jim, you go tell them what happened! he said. Bo Saladine alighted and came Into kitchen and while they listened without question, he told the the-war- CHAPTER XIII hoarsely e an He wagged his head, "lie had a cold nerve," he aald, almost admiringly. Stood up to her good, didnt lie? You wouldnt ever have thought he waa lying." And he decided: "Hut I guess he ee he waa done. Likely he alined to duck and run, Just now. If he roiild have got to the barn, he could go on through, and cut for It, and we wouldn't have a cjmnce to catch him. even 8ight tale. Yon were right, Marm Pierce," he aid. It was Rart. His belt was bone-dry- ! Will stirred, hut Saladine added quickly, restraining the other man: But Harts dead a'ready. Will. Zeke way. mister, fils neck's broke!" He Or If It ain't, It killed him. added contentedly: ought to he! And he related the manner of that The sheriff relaxed tils efforts. It's then harked bark. Zeke waa killing; all I know to do, he admitted help- upset when Huldy took me down to lessly. He bent forward, examining the brook." he explained. Aa anon aa the dead man. I guess yo're right." Will left him, he tried to find her at he said at last, and stood up slowly. the ledge; but she waa gone. She meat -Ton must be this Zeke Dace they tell have tried to follow me." shout" he reflected. He hesitated, struck by the percepThats so," Zeke assented. That's tion that hla ownr coming here today who I be! had precipitated all that ensued. "Zeke The sheriff looked down st Bart didn't see her." he explained. Rut he there on the ground. Ton done this traipsed down brook, and caught up to him. did you? with me. and be thought she was "Guess I did. Zeke assented; and bound to meet me somewhere: so he after moment he explained as though followed me. till I got over here He waa hiding outside when Bart come proud of his grim device: "I Towed he'd come to tend the crit- through the barn, carrying her. Zeke waa too far away to atop ters In the barn here, give him time. So I run a fall through the tackle of Rart; but he knew It waa Hu l.ly by the horse fork, and got enough pur- her dress, and he wns wild; and he chase with It to h'lst the grindstone crawled Into (lie other aide of the Into the upper mow. I didnt know house, to try to hear what hnd hapItd be heavy enough; so I fastened pened to her. some trace chains and such truck onto "It waa him I heard In there?" Jenny It. Then I balanced It up there on the whispered. one Salndlne nodded. "And It wns him edge, so's Itd tip over ensy, with end or the fall fast to It. and a runIn the abed, after that. Marm Pierce. I retched he said, lie looked at .lenity. "Zeke ning noose In tother end. the nonsc end down here and waited ; heard Huldy tell yon (lint Will killed and when Hurt enmo In. all I had to do her." he explained, nod lie set our was drop the noose over Ills head nnd to find Will, ready to do for him ! Hut twitch the grindstone off Ita perch." on the way home, he sec Hart's trucks The sheriff tipped back III hat. ran In the woods, nnd hark tracked Hart his fingers serosa Ills brow. "Well, we'd to where lie picked Huldy up after In the hnjise." he she fell. ought to get decided. Cnn't let him lay out here!" It had mined, hut the ground was Take III And lie said lo Saladine: nil soft before the rain, and Zeke was head." feet. Jim. will yon. I'll carry hi tracker enough to make nut whnt bad Anil lie spoke to Zeke In a mailer Hart didn't come up from happened. tone. You hold the lantern." the brook to where she fell. Therell ns." he directed. "Open the door for have been tracks to show. If he had. kitchSo they parried Hurt Inlo the hut (here wa'n't. Hut his tracks was en. and laid him on the floor. Zeke all plain where he'd come down from rinsed the door, nnd he ret the lantern the ledge and across to where Huldy on top of the cold slove; and the sherwns laying." iff mopped hi brow and turned to face Marm Pierce Interjected sliurply: this man. was tracks coming tip from There "Yon done this. 'you said?" the brook when I went over there, In chuckle to Zeke seemed almost while you and Hurt waa here!" assent. Salndlne considered, admiring the low come?" the sheriff protested. old womun'e thoroughness, yet pera for killing Why. they dont hang satur- ceiving an explsnnllon of this matter, In Mnlne." Zeke explained. In a Hurt must Imve laid a fake me too. nine satisfaction, lint It looked to On hi way he suggested. trull," needed!" Hint was wlint he Rut you see, back here from Will's. You mrnn to say. Solder prompted liefore Hurt hnd a Zeke there got lie was the one killed Mis Ferrln?" I'linnce to do that, right after Hnldy "Certain I" died." He milled: "And If Hart told do you?" Know llinf for n fact, the truth. Ills rod nnd all would have "I Tow I do." said Zeke. without been there then ; but they wa'n't slow wns passion there vehemence: yet Ami lie explained: "Zeke went lip In his I ones. to the ledge, nnd found enough lo let The sheriff considered; and then on him make out that Hurt and Huldy a sudden thought lie knelt down lo had had some kind of a scuffle there; II with rumble at Hurls belt, feeling so lie ktiowed Huldy had lied ulioiil his finger, lie looked up at Saladine. Will, and lie meed over to Hart's nodding. house, meaning to kill him: bill Hurt he said hone! a TIN lielts dry ns on It, won't there; and Zeke come back hoarsely. "The old woman hit he here and mimed Hurt lignin; mid lie one was thing That finally! spent the rest of the day like a dog He out of, and that was lc to cen rat holes, trying to find Hurt lo nail him I" ' of-fn- 1 Wilson for Earlier War?, Prayer Plus Planes New Disease Danger Ethiopian Victory? Trot A. M. Arnett of North Carolina university says it was nut Wilson that DONT SLEEP ON LEFT SIDE, AFFECTS HEART kept this country out of war for a uud to gel at him lu some way so Bart while, but the councouldn't nse hla gun." try that kept WilHe concluded: "And he finally wayson out of war laid hlni'orer at the barn I That's longer than he . '. ull I" would have stayed Jenny clung fast to Will's arm; and out. Marm Pierce exclaimed: "Well, good Professor Arnett riddance !" There was never any sentihe w'.ll prove. says mentality In that stout old woman, In a book, that Willluldy wa'n't worth It; bur I'm right son wanted war In glad to know that Bart got his comeItMfl, and was kept uppance! It was high time." out of It by three But Will said: "Pore Zeke. He men (Tiiinip Clark, won't live long. In Jail!" Congressman Flood I Marm Pierce Pore fiddlesticks and Claude Kllch-lu- , protested. 1 sit'd say you didn't have Democratic floor any call to pity him!" leader of the house. T al"I dunno," Will confessed. ways was kind of sorry for Zeke And How deep alioiibl we have sunk In It wa'nt hi fault He tried to hold our depression If Woodrow Wilson out against her. But Huldy, I guess had carried out his alleged plan and she could outnumber most any man." started the war one year ahead of Suladine felt himself sn outsider time, In 1910? here "The sheriff's In a hurry, ha IIow many millions of Americans remembered. "We're taking Zeke wronld have been killed (they were Til be too so to and Bart town; with front row always honored moving on." And turned toward the How many tens of billions places)? I'll come see you folka again, door. would have been added to the public sometime, he promised. debt and the repudiated defats of KoSo do," Marm Pierce assented, and rops? Will seconded the Invitation. So Saladine bade them all good-bThe archbishop of Cantertiury, head and went out Into the night where the of the official Clinrch of Kngland, has sheriff and Zeke were, waiting In the Invited sit European Christian commucar, and began the long, wearisome nicants to Join in prayer for peace, drive to town. with resolutions outlawing all war. He forgot hla rod and fish basket; While the archbishop takes that de-but It would be tong before he came to rlaim them. Zeke Dace, as Will had slrsble step the British government works rapidly on 8,000 airplanes of foreseen, did not live to face trial, lie In 'on the the fighting kind. Nothing like airthe Jail died In late August, planes to back np eloquent prayer hill above Bast Harbor. sheriff tbld for peace. lie wa'n't sick." the Saladine. stopping at Jim's farm on Unde Sam has on his hands the the Itldge above Fraternity one day. Job of e preventing tlie spread of kind of thin and "He was always Its the and country throughout shaky, but no worse than always. He importation 'from abroad. ' Juat died, that's all!" Doctor Curran, In rhurge of Insects They talked together of Zeke for a Utile; and then Jim asked word of the for the American Museum of Natural History, warns New York It may be other folk In Hostile valley. Invaded by malaria brought Inlo north"I was out there last week," the OCC camp work-- 1 ern New sheriff explained. "To tell 'em about er from Jersey by South. Tlie nnnpheles the it made lins Marm Pierce Zeke. up mosquito, always present, has been with her brother. Wln'a living with the germs. He cannot do her now, and fixing up Ills side nf the spreading unless he first' bites a malaria that lie to out weather house keep the carrier. i wean lie's never going to touch another drop of rum aa long aa he Uvea, Halle Selassies fighting Gen. Dejns-matc- h prob'ly." Iliillu Kehede sends clieerful Saladine asked for Will and Jenny. news to his royal master: They're fine," the sheriff assured We fought and beat the Italians to him. "They're aiming get married, from dawn to dusk ; SOU Italian white here In a week or so!" . 1 dls-eus- "Not married yet?" Saladine exclaimed in surprise: - Solder shook Ills head. You'd ought to go out and see 'em, he suggested. "They spoke kindly about you." T left my rod out there," Saladine recalled. "Forgot It, that night, and I never did go to fetch IL Maybe I will!" There waa In him no Immediate Intention to do this. Ills first experience of Hostile Valley had not been of a sort to attract him to that gloomy place again; yet If Bart, and Zeke. and Huldy were gone . . He thought of Jenny and Will and of old Marm Pierce with pleasure; and when the next day proved fine and fair, and the blue hills were beckoning, he yielded to sudden Impulse, climbed Into his old car and set out along tlie remembered way. (TO BE CONTINUED) Busy Little Insect Is Manufacturer of Shellac Few people realise a man's debt to n Industrious little Insect culled laecl-fe- r laces. India first knew It aa a ram paging parasite, deskilling forest. Hut. as the raw manufacturer of ahel lac. the resin used for making gramophone records, stiffening straw hnta. coating wood and metals, and other Insulating piirisises. It Is today treated with marked Knowing Its appetite for succulent young branches, the natives prepare these specially for It. attaching them to trees. The Inc then dines st Its pleasure, covering the bark with resinous secretion.' The female Inc I the most prolific source of supply Then, when Hie hnrvest appears ripe, the branches are cut down and scraped The resin Is melted Into a plastic mass, which on drying Is cut up Into circular reort. cukes or sheets, ready for export. Tit-lilt- s Miignxlne. .The Black and Tea Terrier Outside of their short, glossy coat, the most distinctive thing about the black and tan terrier Is Its markings, the tanned muxxle with the Jet blaek natal bone; the tnn spot on each cheek and over each eye and hair inside the ears the same color; the fore legs tanned to the knees with black iiencll marks on each toe. writes Ruth Mansfield, In the Washington I'ost. The average weight Is around seven iMiund. The dog hna a moderately short body, curving upward at the loins; rilis well sprung, back slightly arched at the loins and falling again at the Joining of the tall to the Mime height ns the shoulders; straight legs; feet more Inclined to he ; moderate length cat than tall. The head la long, fiat, narrow, level and wedpvslmped.. with small, sparkling and dark vyea, oblong In liuie. The coat Is cluse, smooth short and glossy. 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It FiU ii ks the place of Ethiopians persist In tlirir theory that they are the only Clirlstlane Involved. They say the Italians are therefore not Christians, Catholics, which would amuse the Italians, If they had time for amusement Rome calls the General Dejazmsteh dispatch customary Ethiopian lnse--1 curacy." Former Governor Alfred E. Smith, booked for big political talk In Washington, IX C, and Invited by Mrs. Roosevelt to stop at the White House daring his stay In Washington, decline the Invitation, explaining that be will have too big crowd with him. Politicians do not think that the only reason. They expect Governor Smith to cut loose" and sny things bout the administration thnt would not coins gracefully from a White House gnesL Mr. and Mrs. Triplett of Jenkins, Ky., who have Jnt received from heaven their third set of triplets, any: "We re JtiMt tickled to death, tint Imagine our surprise." 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