Show t j THE GARLAND' TIMES GARLAND UTAIL A By ArtKur D HowJen Smitlx of ilie ft m X— Continued you don’t scoffed “It they jump us and there are too many of them we’ll retreat But nmjbe we can clean up this Job tonight for good and all If we can It's worth trying Watkins from the on til n tools Nikka Insisted that he best climber of the party uud took charge of the rope Hugh and I carried the crowbars which we wrapped In sailcloth to prevent their clinking against the stones of the wall Then we stepped onto the slimy rocks of the jetty Nikka In the lead It was s perilous dlmb to the shore and we negotiated It slowly helping one another ttnd inking evry to avoid making any noise precaution e "Al found “trorselrpg -- In — the Jumble of bowlders constituting the breakwater at the foot of the sea wall which reared Its umss grown battlements high overhead We turned to the left here and crawled over and the rucks on the beach to a through point under the overhanging wall ol the House of the Married From the beach It looked unellrubable but Nik ka after surveying Its mounting courses removed his shoes and started the ascent an end ol the grapnel rope looped around his waist We who watched him stood with hearts for what ceemed an knocking against the eternity he appeared as tntiiilipslmal as wall a fly In the darkness Our Hrst knowlhe came when that had succeeded edge he Jerked up the grapnel lying on tie beach at our feet lie hoisted It slowly lest It clash against the wall adjusted Its prongs and tossed down' the knotted length of rope Hugh followed him with ease brae the wall when he lng Ills feet against was tired Then went up Then my Watkins came last was now uncle well toward midnight and a haze was settling oyer the city The Curlew was Invisible een to us who knew precisely bur location The silence was The water lapped on the absolute hem h below That was all Naturally and by right Hugh took It wus his expedition command “Do iye go down through ihe trap door lack and Nikka used or do we use the rope to drop directly Into the garden?" lie asked “Best usf the trap door" advised Nikka “Yes’’ I agreed Then the rope will always be handy In case you want ro escape ” 0!" Hugh cheerful endorsed “Ilight “Jack you and Nikka will come ly with me Irofes-oKing and Watty will be rear guard and for emeigeney use bitty when you are professor until you hear from with the was the 7j t 1 sitter! us” 4 We crossed the room toward Sokaki the large Courtyard ou cur Mayserl right the Garden of the Cedars or our " Ieft'TIie trap door ' was sludT bul lin fastened and Hugh lowered himself gently and creaked down to the floor 'We followed him The room was In hut we made certain by tou b that It was empty The door to the hall was off Its binges hut propped In place 'Tve picked up a chair leg” Nikka “You by the broken door whispered fellows us your crowbars If—” He paused significantly back “Cbd “Ki'dit" Hugh we lift this J or aside?" The binge- - rattled bilghtly as we Shifted It The next 'iiuiueyl we peerei through a yawning caxily ears alert us and we stole Not a sound reached forwsrd with thi utmost cine Mid way of the hall were the corkscrew stairs up which Kara had guided Nikka and me Judged we were close to them when a door Jarred beside us There was 8 shout apd we were surrounded by a mob of half seen figures In t fie They were all around ns darkness they got In each other s way and thought we could beat them off A man seized me by the shoulder and Into his face Two drme my I cracked the Others leaped on me skull of one with my crowbar and broke the arm of the second Hugh In front of me was driving his opprv heard Nikka down the and exclaim once then u j light ’e but flushed Hugh had cleared a went down as looked throttled from Nikka was Just rising from hotiiiicl Jhtside a tmiD wholicad was crush! Then the rush ho gun again for my pistol hut did I reached have time to draw lu The ut 'jokers hod a In from all sides surged fleeting glimpse of Hilml Bey Serge heard Vasslllevleh ran up the stair of voice Tou 'omewhere the snarling La Fltte hold them for mel” cried Nik ka “Must warn— King!” a elide an awutig my crowhur In barked toward Mkhu's volie lie had Shaken himself edenr "In that door— opposite — reach win flow I’ he gasped We charged and split a path toward of one of Ihe rooms Aa we Ihe do reached It a pair of Rorlfla like arin I tried to bl (round arouid roy neck ' si nt ft! 8ervlc Copyright 1923 by Brcntano’a Copyright 1923 Th Ridgeway iDUttCDdDileOim —1 5— are rtit" she “Well Sighed blunie me If anyOf all the goes wrong thing suppose I” I N sffituremiES TJ Freedom from every pesky mosquito at ooesf Spray Flit Just close doors and windows a lew momenta so Flif will have fuU effect FU1 room with Flit vapor Every mosquito will die Flit ale® kills flies roaches bed bugs and ants Guaranteed In C v CHAPTER “Kals VF over my shoulder with the crowbar but somebody caught my wrist As I fell heard NHeka’s cry: “ltun Professor! Save Betty We’re That was all Toutoo had me on the floor and was choking the life out of me lost consciousness When came to I wus lying on a very dump hard floor Several lights dazzled my aching eyes and a num her of people were talking In French “Ha Nash Is with us again” said “1 was afraid you Hllyer’s voice might have done him In Toutou" “If you take my advice"— recog nlzed Hilml Bey’s falsetto tones — “you will have Toutou operate on all three of them He has ways to make silent men speak Do you remember Battner the Swiss broker Toutou?" Tontou’s answer w i an almost of distinguishable rage — Alive uow te the position was opened my eyes wider and tried ro rise But I was bound hand and foot and ei uld not move could however see where I was Not far away Hugh and Mkka were propped against the “I'll carve them" he purred “They do not look now aa they will when I have finished with them Ha yea knife knows the way to truth Soon they will be asking to dle“ But Hllyer Jumped In front of him The Englishman's thin face wu aflame with ‘einper “I'll stand foi a good deal” he said I You are a “hut won't permit torture fool Toutou You'd only kill them the Here you way you did the old lord we must call bltn oft He'll people spoil the whole show” Sandra backed him up and comsullenly pelled her brother somewhat to Join In the protest But llllml Bey and TokalJI energetically took the op aide posing “They have killed three more of my men” howled the gypsy “Shall they sow death through my tribe and Uve shall ” declared Helene calm- ly and She stepped beside Toutou Her placed her lingers on his wrist eyes sought his He snarled In his catlike fashion and drew away from her But she fearlessly came closer to him of and slowly under the compulsion her fingers be returned the knife to Its sheath “There has been enough pf went on “Mr Nash do you Join with your friends In refusing to give up your secret?” nodded “we will “Very well” she answered leave you to think It over If you are wise you will understand that having — blundered Into this trap as yon must sooner or later— the have blundered best you can hope for Is life In ex1 cannoi change for what we want continue to save you from the cruelty of those who relish brutal measures There Is a limit to my patience too I advise you to make Intelligent use of the next hours You Your friends cancannot be saved not reach you The authorities can not Intervene If they did you would bcurs disappear Yon have more” They took all the one and went out after them lanterns except eking the door XI CHAPTER Somebody Cauqht My Wrist which stone wall of a chamber supIt had pose you could call a dungeon no window The door was open The floor sloped gradually toward the ceu ter where there wa9 a square stone et square grating about two But the most Interesting aspect of was the group In the my surroundings In front stood bis Toutou doorway green eyes sparkling w’th hate and lust Hilml Bey fawned at hD elbow and Hllyer were Serge VasslllevlehTokalJI frowned at us haDd on there Helene de t’espedes and Ir their modish San Ira Yassillevna out of locked alngularl' costumes' of unreality place Th y lent t o ’what wn - nt herwtsea stn jrul a rl f As I looked Helene brutish p'eture stepped forward “Help ilr Nash to sit up Montey” she said to a fitHe raised me not ungtmly ting position “Yuu are In a serloua fix" said make t” "I've tried you boys Helene understand that the Boches were merWe ciful eneires compared clvlllzatb n For os don’t recognize exist We have gone back it doesn’Now we’ve to primal principles got you and you've got to talk” words’’ lamented Hilml “Words “Let Toutou take his knife viciously to them That will do the trick” understood the TokalJI evidently purport of th's for he rasped a quick Toutou flnshed a long assent blade and stepped toward us Dispute Watkins to the Rescue a dee mess 1 got you “Well this chaps Into" said Hugh unhappily “It’s not your fault any more than It “We Is onrs" returned Nikka walked squarely Into a trnp and were bagged That’s all Did the Kings sad Watty get away?” Helene and the others “Must have said nothing about them" “1 hope they will not try anything foolish In the way of a rescue” said Nikka- - “If Waggo Mtkall establishes am afraid they touch with them may be tempted to do something" “There Is nothing they can do" an “Our goose Is cooked swered Hugh We’re kaput fjnlshed As Helene SHld If the O- - O of the Forces of his Jammed way In here thev could make a clean sweep of us They might—” He hesitated might drop ns down thdt "—they grating In the door tos os Into the Bosphorus the way Abdul the Dumnod used to dispose of his enemies There are lots of things they could do with ns They will think that even if thev have to scrag us they will still have the Kings and Watty to work on” Nikka aroused himself “There Is no sense In abandoning “Is this any wuh-hope" he remarked than that pill hoi at le Ferrlere?" “Good old Nikka" said Hugh after "1 let's say try for a mu tlonately It must be some hours to daylight yt —not that that matters any In thN dark hole" Over Origin of Frontier Weapon Two slightly different stories appear to have been passed down to posterity the origin of the bowle concerning as a weapon In the knife famous a say days of Texas Independence One ot writer In the Detroit News these tales has It that the weapon was an made by Jesse Cliffe blacksmith emplojee of Itezen Bowie father of known as the the nmn ventor of Some time after the Invention the knife James engaged in an altercation with MaJ Norris Wright which at James In resulted Wright shooting Ihe latter was saved when a silver dollar In tils pocket deflected the bul let Drawing his own pistol James aimed at Wright but the trigger Chic go’ Fint Settler The first settler In the territory now covered by the city of Chicago was not a white man About the time Gene Baptiste Point of the revolution de fsalhle a colored maD from San himself In what Domingo psfutrttshed an Indian trader as now (Tilcngo (le built a log house and later told It to a Frenchman snapped the knife His father then “This saying gave will Jame never snap" The other story of Its origin give He Is to James Bowie entire credit t tie Said to have made a model knife and a Louisiana blurksudrh fi'U loned It for him Major Wrgiit up Iearg In both stories a though In V second he Is suppaiM d to have It was Bowie In the leg ti s ir the second tale cunistance tl that led James shunt to knife on his person thereafter nit'j Fvrtj Year After u t In a Two boyhood (day unties Brooklyn court One was the Judze a the other the prisoner rugged of failure “Touj picture me?” the do you remember “Yea” answered Tom hU bands shaking and his voice quaver He was being arraigned He tltr-for Intoxication eighteenth had teeD ta the work house five time c--r “Yon and He waa fifty five were playmates" the Judge recalled “Tou were going to he a great lawyer and I was going to be a truck- - driver’ We slept fitfully frightfully bar assed by the curtailment of circulation due to the straltness of our bon la and the discomfort of our posltlont which we might not change Of ijourse we bad oo meant ot estimating the passage of time bm we figured It was well Into the fore noon w hen we abandoned further ef forts for sleep Nobody came to us and we began to be aware of the pangs of hunger and thirst For s while we talked and saug and told stories hut our cracked lips and swollen tongues soon felt the strain of vocal effort What the others did then I don’t know but I fell asleep to awaken wltb gasp of agony as lost my balance and fell sideways striking my head on the stone floor “Too bad” came Hugh's voice from the darkness strangely muffled “Hit your head Jack?’ moaned “Yes” houra must be nearly "Twenty-fouup" croaked Nikka fought tor a while to work over on to my back hot my limbs had become so stiff that I could not had to lie on my stomach with my head resting now on one cheek now on the ear to the other In this position floor It seemed to me that 1 beard clink of metal not ontslde the door ot the dungeon but sonewhere underI asked the others tf they neath heaul It but they said no and could tell from their pitying tones that they I was becoming delirious thought Yet again heard It and almost afterward a wholly differ Immediately ent sound the footsteps approaching The two noises persisted door gether until the dungeon door was thrown open with a clatter I forgot all about the first noise tn the sight ot Toutou LaFltte standing by himself In the doorway hla ahlt sleeves rolled up and a grin of horrible anticipation distorting hla beautiful facie In the doorway he stood motionless for a moment surveying the three of us Then he advanced leaving the door open against the wall and unhooked the stable lantern which hung this close from his belt He placed over to and prowled to the grating where I Iny and I mean Just say “prowled" that He walked like a big forest cut or rather like a gorilla Investigating a likely meal awaiting the kill When he stood by me I felt up and down my spine the shiver of apprehension of sheer horror that I had known be When he turned fore Id his proximity me on my back and bis powerful with their smooth fingers and hands halls explored my muscles polished could have screamed with terror twitched at his touch with an InvolanHe tary exclamation of repugnance snarled and his fingers pressed on a nerve of the upper arm with a force that made me faint But almost at once he flung me from him and walked across to Hugh who met him unflinchingly "I take It Monsieur Toutou" said hours are Hugh “that the rip'' Toutou stood over him with that peposture of culiarly animal mediated attack arms flexed forward “Not quite" he answered In tha throaty guttural voice that I alwaya Identified him wltb “But we are tired of waiting’ He swooped and snatched Hugh Into his arms Just as a gorilla might ferociously- - Hughs face squeezing showed above his shoulder white and i thought Pended with perspiration the fiend Intended to crush Hugh r 84 ribs hut he ceased as suddenly he had begun aod tossed his victim down on the floor again “You shall come last" he growled "First you shall see your friends suf 'er" Hugh was too weak from the ban and ijling he had Just experienced (he sin k of his fall to see whnt bap I did Toutou leaped pened un with one tigerish spring Nikka lifting him to his feet and propping him against the wall Thpn he prod ded Nikka from bend to foot testing all the time and Joints out muscles He did noi In hla throat growling hurt him simply felt of him as thougn o determine the parts of his body which would he Juiciest Nlkka's face showed revulsion but no fear “Do ym eat men Toutou?’' he gibed Toutou flashed his knife and to see the n thinking j torture begin But wtic-opened them again the knife wu slushing tinFor rope that bound Nikka'a limbs I credited tin? Incredible a second Were' we to be set free? But no Too crouched tou sheaft d the knife and before NHka once rore animal like menaci g ue rallied “1 am x "I break men Nine tv txne Joint by Have you ever felt youi hunt Joint breaking your sinews cracking Guun rr t” He pounced and Nikka soredtneJ acreamed In bd ucess of aginy as t‘u beast’a fingers aank Into fcls shiy du torturing the nerves tearing t siL the hum ews and muscles dragging from Its socket (TO BZ CONTLNtiDJ WZllllliLfl — Replanting Forest Is gradually coming Reforestation Into Its own and during the last three years 1055658 seres have been added to the state and community preserves The state of Washington led In the Increase tolth I’ennsylvanla Three states which had not second had state forests prior to 1925— Delaware Georgia and South Carolina-b- are fallen in line forests The total of now la In excess of 12000000 acres— Washington-Sta- r Radium Price May Drop Prices of radium are expected to of the new drop with the development radium mines In Portugal Until now most of the world' supply has been obtained from mines at Knntaga in the Belgian Kongo which are owned and operated by a Belgian company The present quotation Is abont $X)0O0 a gram or approximately 11700000 an ounce By Prosy an appointSecretary— You have ment with the photographer at two Executive — I'm too busy to go You'll have to attend to It— Ladles’ Home Journal man who Is neither a good talker nor a good listener has a sorry time of It A Business Training Pays we placed more than W good positions you when competent will you be ready? 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