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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. LTAH Evidently Young Man Had But a Peep for the Ring i The young man had Just proposed to the most beautiful girl in the world. She had accepted him, and now he stepped into a jewelers to buy an .engagement ring. He examined various rings, and finally picked up a beautiful diamond. WNU O RUPERT HUGHES , ; By RUPERT HUGHES SERVICE CHAPTER IX Continued face, when the ragged noises were stirred by a noise with a rhythm -1-1Hafiz mustered energy enough to and regularity to it. It meant sol- diers. rise. Its kind of dark and these streets isnt any too safe for a giaour. I walk weet you, said where ;Hafiz, to the landing-plac- e ,you catch the Golden Horn boat all the same as the Coney Island boat, yes? How many tarn I gone there weet my pretty my pretty Nayi-'m.' She is dance there one When I sit weet her some itam those other passengers make the face because Nayima is weet Osmanli. The rubbernecks is stare. Two, three tarns I tweest those rubberneck till they let me alone. Here the Osmanli wants to keel a giaour who dares so much as look at an Osmanli lady. I theenk the world is a jackass. j a. sum-mer- Bine-b- y we goin to come to what you call, the calaboose, yes? There is put the thiefs, the killers, the bad men. Today is put also in the cooler an Osmanli girl very nice family, but she loves a Greek. It is terrible theeng to love a Greek, but maybe she dont, cant help it. She say she goin to marry him. The police arrests the Greek and the girl also too, for it is a great crime, such a marrying. They take the bad girl and the giaour to the jail, and they are goin to bring them to be tried. But the how do you say? the mob does not like it. The mob gets together and says, Keel the giaour. Keel .the shameless girl. Bine-b- y .1 some soldiers come and drive, the mob away. But maybe the mob comes back. Me, I should not weesh to be that girl or that Greek feller. This was doubly shocking news to Jebb for it invaded his own recurrent dreams of Miruma. They were now descending a silent street whose dogs like prowling hyenas only gave the loneliness a , terror. Out of the murmurous silence there rose a sound like waves tumbling on distant shale. It was a tumult-clammystified by distance. Hafiz listened with lifted head, like a rhinoceros sniffing the air for danger. The mob is there again. And he was running with Queeck! a speed his bulk had not implied. Jebb followed, stumbling over- the refuse in the streets. A bonfire, had been lighted in the square before the district The windows were ragged with broken glass. The door hung on a fractured hinge. In the square, nearer the fire, a man and a woman were struggling within a tangle of bloodthirsty fiends who clutched at them, struck at them with clubs, and slashed with knives. Hafiz groaned: The mob is get busy. See, that is the Greek that is the girl. The crowd boiled and sworled like eddies choked with debris. Dragged by, the lure of horror Jebb and Hafiz moved slowly down the hill. They saw the Greek, fighting like another Leonidas against an Asian horde,, sink under a smother of enemies, only to reappear gashed, bleeding, but fighting on. The girls plight was more ugly, for she had none of the mad exultance of the :death struggle of man against man. Hers was the odium of being torn to pieces and of dying in naked shame. Clutching talons tore her hair loose her veil had long since been rent away. Jebb could look no longer. He dashed forward and hurled himself into the maelstrom, yelling, 'cursing, striking right and left with , his fists. Though he was too frantically desperate to know it, alongside went 'Hafiz Mustafa, bellowing like a bull charging a pack of wolves. The men on the outskirts of the throng took the newcomers at first 'to be only zealots like themselves, fighting forward to the always holy office of sticking a knife into an infidel. .But their progress was too furious to be long misunderstood; Hafiz and Jebb had hardly pierced the outer shell of the mob when the cry rose that they were themselves infidels to the rescue of infidels. And now knives were turned their way and bloodthirsty fanatics ringed them round, forgetting for a moment i the young lovers, who, unsupported . by their enemies, fell to the cobbles to be trampled underfoot. The huddle was beginning to mumble threateningly and to brandish fists and knives in Hafiz courageous lock-u- p, Without delay the mob stampeded outwards and was dissipated in the dark alleyways. When the patrol debouched on the square, the tenuous moonlight showed only two men erect, and two figures on the ground, one very still, one writhing. Jebb paid no attention to the officers, but knelt by the side of the girl whose wounds he examined with a certainty that proclaimed him a physician. Hafiz interpreted, and he soon had the patrpl so busy on his errands that it forgot its main purpose. After a while of Jebbs ministrations the bruised lips began to murmur. Jebb bent close and heard, but could not understand. He beckoned Hafiz to kneel by ''him and the wrestler explained: She wants to die in her lovers arms. But the body of the young Greek had been carried away, and she died alone, slowly, with anguish of body, of heart, and of soul. When she was quite dead, Hafiz murmured to Jebb that unless he vanished he would be detailed indef-- . Jebbs heart lurched, but he kept a rigid face. Oh, of course, the little girl pell-melli- of some more coffee. No, thanks, I must get back to the hotel. Ill be mighty glad when you get your electric plant installed. The lighting of this town is something fierce.- - Youll make a fortune if youll rig up a crescent-shape-d bulb. Thats the favorite design for their illuminations. Well, so long, see you again, Mr. Pierpont. So long old man. He must learn at once just where . Trieste was, and what was the quickest way of getting there. Hoping that some word from Miruma waited him in Vienna, Jebb telegraphed the Union Bank to forward his mail to the American consulate in Trieste. Leaving Constantinople the train retraced for many miles the same rails he had taken from Salonica, It was strangely comforting just to be in motion. Whatever awaited Jebb at his destination, at least he had a destination, and the swift flight of the express was exhilarant. He breakfasted his way out of Bulgaria into Servia, and prepared to stretch his legs at the next stop. It proved to be Nish! The word came with a shock, sending him back to his first wakening in Turkey and the first sound of this barbaric word on an ear that found Uskub equally harsh. And now somehow through the mellow enchantment of memory, the word Uskub always fell with music on his senses. Late afternoon brought Belgrade the scene. Here a new passenger got aboard and bulged into the compartment with the smoking crass aggressiveness of the worst type of traveler. He made himself nasally audible. He behaved like a on crowd. Whew! . he this? - replied the assistant, The young mans eyes popped. He whistled loudly and long then pointed to a second ring. And this one? he asked. This one, sir, said the assistis two ant, eyeing the price-ta- Bulged into the smoking n. compartment. initely as a witness in the trials that would result from the riot. Waiting the proper instant, he dragged Jebb up a steep street, down another, and so on and on till they reached the steamer landing. But the last boat had gone. With some trouble Hafiz found a kaik, and in this Jebb sped down the Golden Horn among the slumberous ships. He thought of Miruma and felt that she was as far from his reach as the crescent still regent in the sky. And then he realized that he had lost the Gladstone bag onqe more. water-h- ansom CHAPTER X By the time Jebb reached his hotel it was so late and he so exhausted that neither remorse nor anxiety could beat off sleep. He woke late the next morning luxuriously refreshed till he realized that he had backslidden to where he started. What little he had found he had lost again. He was very glum over his coffee and eggs when there was an eclipse of the light and the huge orb of Hafiz Mustafa rose before him and with a gelatinous laugh set the Gladstone bag on the table. Jebb threw his arms around the monster as far as they went, and cried: How in heaven did you find it? How in how on earth did you find me? Hafiz indulged in a little 1 Im a wise guy, all right, all right, huh? As the boat pulls out I see you have not the Gladdastone. I go back and I say to myself, If he loses it in the square, somebody has swipe it.. If he loses it on the hill where he feerst started to run, it may be there. I go round and round and finally it is there waiting in a dark street in the middle of the street. I remember you say you stop here, so here I come so early as I can make it. ' g, wasnt with me at that time. Have whistles! an After the service he sauntered in the park of the Petits Champs and sat at a table to watch the crowds past. He ordered coffee as a payment for his seat. Suddenly he felt a hand on his shoulder. It was so unexpected that he jumped as he turned. He glanced up into a grin entirely surrounded by red hair. He heard a voice which seemed also to grin. It said: Hello! hows electricity? Here was the answer to a riddle that had vexed him, and he was tempted to demand at once: Who are you? and what have I to do with electricity? But he had found it more profitable to listen than to disclose. All he said was: Sit down, old man, and have something to drink. Id give a finger for a cocktail, but I suppose Ill have to take coffee. Jebb was fermenting with questions but the stranger seemed content towatch the crowd and wait for the Kahveji to fill his cup. Finally Jebb ventured: How do you like Constantinople - . iDEBARTMENilj OPPORTUNITY Opportunities! Big mail 3c Women Sell1 novelties. Gift, details 10c. Elar Special-- ! ties, 2634 N. 26th, Milwaukee, Wise Strange Facts ! Birds Waste Heat Utilizing A Powerful Fuel Globe-Circlin- g ! Ornithologists and seamen have good reasons to believe that most! albatrosses fly around the world several times during the course of their lives. Incidentally, these! great birds, which can be buffeted! for' days by ocean gales, become! very seasick when standing on the deck of a moving ship. In a new South Dakota flour mill, the heat generated by friction in; the grinding machine is so great that the heated air it creates, drawn off by a fan and washed, is sufficient to heat the entire building, 'except in very cold weather. In most outboard motorboat races, the fuel used is a mixture of alcohol, benzol and castor oil because it is more powerful than any high-tegasoline. Colliers. six-sto- ry st CONSTIPATED? he began, but these fora are eigners pack of damned scountown. Not quite as lively as drels fools. and Its tip, tip, tip all Dont Let Gas, Nerve Prescago in some ways, livelier in long, everywhere you turn sure Keep You Miserable ers. I suppose you will stir things day a palm up. Youre an Amertheres a bit. When constipated two things may happen. up FIRST: Accumulated wastes swell up the too, eh? Jebb nodded. My Perhaps, said Jebb, still baf- ican, bowels and preBS on nerves in the digestive names Ludlam, Charles Ludlam. fled. tract. This nerve pressure often causes heada How aches, are said Jebb. dull, lazy feeling, loss of appetite, old you? town, Constantinople, Funny and dizziness. SECOND: Partly digested . Goin and as far? as food to decay forming GAS, bringing starts big Philadelphia nearly on sour stomach, add indigestion, and heartand not an older than all I change at Budapest, was all burn, bloating you up until you sometimes electric light or trolley car in the Jebb answered. Silence seemed to gasp for breath. Then you cant cat. You can t sleep. Your stomach is sour. You fed whole village. be intolerable to Mr. Ludlam. tired out, grouchy, and miserable. BALIt is funny. ANCED Aalerika containing three laxatives Whered you get on? and five carminatives gives you DOUBLE . Youll change all that, eh? I supACTION. It relieves that awful GAS almost Constantinople. pose youve found the new Sultan a at once, and usually clears the bowels in lees Awful hole! Cant stand the than two hours. No waiting for overnight relief. little more open to reason than the Turks. Servians are bad enough. Sold at oil drug stores old, not so afraid of his people. Have Been Those woods there. hunting to the at hard it found, get you are full of bear and wild boar. Had bosses? Death Reveals some great times with em. Theyre Not very. The world never knows its great and to eat. sport great good bully I suppose theres the same hand You eat them? Jebb exclaimed men till it buries them. out for graft here as everywhere rather than asked, and wanted to else. You cannibal! add: had I havent Well, any special You bet. But sport is only a disaid Jebb, trouble in that line, version with me. Im interested in growing weary of fencing. They raise an You really think youll pull it the prune market. Aprune here. Are you fond of off? prunes?" I hope so. I prescribe them sometimes, I dont suppose Id dare ask ORES PR E A DAO NAR POSTS whether you represent the General said Jebb. Oh, youre a doctor, eh? Jebb Electric or the Independents. was angry at letting slip even that That would be telling. As We Wish I judged from your talk on the information. Great food, great medicine, he What ardently we wish, we soon steamer that you were acting pretty said: Ive got a sample or two believe. much on your own. soot-casYes, was all Jebb dared to say, in my And nothing would do but that his mind taking a new whirl at the Jebb should test his wares. word steamer. Talk about your undeveloped Salt Lakes NEWEST HOTEL I judged from your talk, Mr. American resources, doctor, LudPierpont, that you had enough capital in your jeans to dazzle the city lam rattled on like an encyclopedia that must disgorge its load. The fathers here. Jebbs heart sickened. So this was true field for Americans is over here. Im making a specialty of this more of Pierponts brag. I suppose when you go back country. The silk, industry, for inthey make silk rugs by hand youll go by land.- Those Austrian stance; Im importing machinery, Lloyd steamers pitch and toss atro- here. a factory. Been working building and Franz the is Josef the ciously, worst of them all. Ive got used mighty hard. Now Im going home to it, but you seemed terribly un- for a spell combine business with pleasure. Going to stop off at Muhappy. Jebb laughed, as much as to con- nich and see my sister Jennie. Going to surprise her. Havent seen her fess. And the man went on: for months and months. Shell be on when at Trieste Yes, you got I said to my wife, Ill bet that fel- tickled to death to see me." (TO BE CONTINUED) ; low has a sad voyage. You looked, y sort of greenery-yellerand off your Just a Bit Heavy feed. Max Silverstein entertained eight I wasnt in the best of health. New York home, fried Youre all right now, though, I guests in his for them. The guests judge. Thats the effect of a few pancakes of Maxs culthe thought products weeks in Constantinople. Shes, a Hotel inary art a little tough, and Max, great old town in spring, eh? who ate 'nine of the pancakes, conTEMPLE SQUARE - She certainly is.. By the way, ceded werent as good as usual. did you notice how the little girl Duringthey Opposite Mormon Temple the night Max and his guests HIGHLY RECOMMENDED was? internal ' developed qualms, sent for Rates $150 to $3.00 What little girl? a physician. After examining his Irt a mark of distinction to stop The one I had with me at patients; the canny doctor looked atthis beautiful hostelry Trieste. around the kitchen, discovered Max ERNEST C. BQ8SITEB. Mgr. You didnt have anybody with had mistakenly used plaster of paris j you. I noticed specially, because instead of pancake flour. Ive always liked the old Chioth- get-ou- t, - . they were just pulling the gangplank in when you jumped for it. . Oh, or , Austro-Hungari- by now? ' police-statio- The only return he would accept for his trouble was a cup of coffee. There was nothing to keep Jebb in Constantinople now, except the necessity of finding where to' go next. Then he took a closed araba to the offices of the Lloyd to inquire when the next boat went. The next boat she is just went-in- g now, said a fezzed clerk, pointing to the steamer already, gliding ' from her mooring. There would not be another until the following Saturday. Jebb was tempted to leap overboard and swim after it.' He was restrained by. a realization that he could not swim. The next morning, Sunday, he was so desperate that he went to church the Episcopal chapel of the British embassy not far from his hotel. Whats the price inquired. That, is $250. -l - e. - JU '!?5iCrrki aaasf . I |