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Show imiMELD SENTINEL SMITH FIELD, UTAFI --V1 music his m. n ha, the nM of the Rolls, pka-raomu using bis feet. And that was not like Pharaoh. mew here la tin pile of tbe castle few li,;!:t leaped Into life a ilellnlte one at all wag with her. Her mdluton eye of radlame. unshaded and iineoii-ntieiFor a moment it stubbed the was cold. arkm-ss- , a sternly pinprick of For a moment I hesitated, wonder- Then light. It brake Into a series of flashes Is Ahead Unless Some Hi sea without benefit to us anfl ing whether or no to make some disa slicni luminous stutter that no A Oa. curries with It valuable top snfl. Balch one connection anil so disable tbe car. And Hinton. could ever mlMake. Action Is Taken, WfWirfro The nation's only real flood safety, then I decided against this. The outAnd so my eyes were Before look was too Suvs. liefm-according to II. II. Bennett, chief of now 1 Expert in fellows could tell By VIRGINIA VALE me, I knew the hnd wanted a rar, anil wanted It the soil mnsei'viiHon service, lies la quick. I took my knife from Its sheath mid truth. Such disastrous floods ns those of a nation-widprogram of crop adapcha Pliuraob was on the OW Ali.WS there is one turned to the delicate business of runramparts, and recent weeks can be prevented only tation,. rotation, and reforestation 'baruoli was going to Talk." Pharaoh sure wav fur an executive of by vast undertakings to prevent soil calculated to hold American top soil elTrmclj but, rack my ning my quarry down. . . . ad been in the castle the livelong day. a liioiiuii ,rtl.,Tirould, I rm.ld think of no And here for the first time 1 saw Me picture company to find erosion, according to government ex particularly that of hilly and mourn iicwr left with Hewdmp. And tnlnous regions, where It belong i wuld give Barley the that Sabre alone was going to save my now bad out whether his company consid- ports. lie nas going to quench the lights ers him venture from becoming ns abject a fail- of the They attribute these floods to de- nnd to give It tbe utmost degree of castle; mid when be bad put really important or not. nuding the soli of tlio vegetution tuirslty so thnt heavy rains wilt Action was this. I wished to ure ns ever was seen. them nut, be would let bis If In's a accomplices As though I had told blm my lig shot, he's not al- that receives ami holds water in the hnve a fair chance to drnlu off plight, in. low nl to Trastle Bt- - s,,me felt Sabre lower Ids head. Then be That's a hardship soil and holds the top soil In place. tly. lH'Wtlmp deciphered the message, when a man drive would hare suited moved past the Hulls, led me up n word from The water from ruins nml melting commuting by word. TT-aIl.iii.i wmi'i to New York and luirk snow now rushes over the bnre soil bank and presently out It had been arranged, Clothe to t up bland by bridge of SSTthat the laat three miles of the coppice and Into the rolling hut hardship or not, without sinking In nnd carries the to nter by latbt nlgbtb poth-ter- n again, take eotirse trains.' they a fast as ever they park. top soil awuy, to boot. directly liglitb fall." When the liglitb go out. said t'aly last week three of Metro's big Sf.JaS, therefore. I left the car Thus our fertile soil Is steadily The flashed once more lamp and men warned to Thath what he thald." Wroarted the mouth of the get from New York to being wafchcd into the sen, and life went out. to wait u oud In a That's right." suld Bugle. "That's drive, I should have burry, and planned to uml pro'icrty are mure amt more ImBefore I had gathered my wits, the Holly 'ow drawbridge, the we had done. It so often that It periled hy floods. Example of a coundone crossed they thnt villa In down hid (fly; the three were afoot. A cloth dipped In vinegar and meant no more to them than wulklng ouf of France. That was a show, that !? be the end of my effort, To this day I cannot decide what I try that did not perceive the snine rubbed over the kitchen stove before and down the street; they knew all too was. You never see such precautions be seen retreating should hare done. Had I danger now confronting us Is Clilmi. It la blacked will remove all tin them that (lying was no more danger-mi- s denuded of trees and other natural L, Barley would follow andI against a poor thief ; 'ouae like a prison find dashed for the castle toleft the give grease that may have accumulated Hum nny other means' of trunsiKir-- i turned Inside out an 'ulf a packet of alarm, before I hnd found it looked as though vegetution hundreds of years ago and on It. warden the and castle tath'n. But at the lust minute soiue- - now the perennial victim of the most candles between two 'undred rooms. the hinto enter the lights would have failed. Had I atas Pha-- Ally Sloper was In that with I'haraoh. body got wind of their plans. The disastrous floods since the time of ims window or other efthe whatever of result tacked, To keep celery crisp thoroughly my was p I can hear him laughin' now ns he resulting argil incut was hot and heavy Noah. tad done. But then there I think It Is rlenr thnt I must myfort, wush It and cut for serving, llare with flooded in but the end they went hy train. opened the garden-doo- r. Millions Spent the drawbridge, THsr broth- self have gone down, but Pharaoh It In a clieese-elotbag and store It One of them didnt really object, ers, he says. Tin nfrnld there's some would still have been rampant. The We have spent hundreds of mil- In a cold place. SLwlog to glance at the mirror bandits Inside. So don't you go for to however. He waa Howard Diet, lions of dollars In hruln, the will and the drive promotattempts to conehlef of publicity and advertising. dosed I noticed the cross them hy allowin' n light. Just as ing this reign of terror Jta Phato floods once they develop, but we trol belong Flannels and blankets will keep ' the hinder we makes the "That's all right with me," he rea flunkey raoh alone. And only the destruction MtAlMtlsn couched-m- i have begun to attack the soft and white and will not shrink If scarcely the me comes marked. flog T'U that to In win bustlin' a occurred thousand dollars with a candle In of Pharaoh could end tills sinister rule. B problem at the source tho preven- washed with a tablespoon of amme. Mt decision to each or his hands. 'All lights out,' says First Pharaoh, and then Ills fellows; at bridge on the wny out" M Acre to watch tion of floods. monia In the water. hardened Into a Pharaoh, and shoots him dead. Talk but Pharaoh first. 0U ttu larwlllance Under a new government subsidy ' There's resolve.. about no Just ricions We well helppd ourstopping them I I say "that lx how I saw It," but that be done to restore the fuj md was In my favor dusk selves." panic. Baste an envelope on the Instils mean these girls who are hi deter- much nmy OH thing Is more thnn the truth, for I saw It of soil and something may cover of your cook hook to hold fertility wna Helena since now mined And In. to But the be not was stuff ens fci there," said Rush. very darkly, and as I stole after my lie done to hnlt the wind erosion of you hare rllpitcd and want t would have fallen blonde at they onee That's what gels me. Panic' all right, quarry towards the bridge, I was myHi tastcnlag, night the soil that produces the great dust recipes snre. So drive. were to he as blonde but we don't know the way to the self the prey of s horrid uncertainty bftatipe we came to the storms of tho Inst few years. But as Jean cHila bad ordered, for though I gold.'! possible. for which I wns not to blame. I had will be done toward of risk eOne lenspoonful of onion Jules Harlow the knew aO that started It, of virtually nothing Pharaoh's fly," said Ragle. "It aint staked and won ; and now I wns taking IHk of the soil with permanent reclothlng was very slight; It only the keys you can make wot can to cnch quart of potatoes gives ndded Pharaoh course, hy this do. turning ns Rut my winnings, ngine gamblers the verdure necessnry to the almorp them a different flavor. brownette," and now tlon of flood waters at the source. mBricu's presence tbat hoisted the open doors. was no gaming-table- ; this was the Inwe have Qarole Bomc Ml SymllMte. WNO BarvlM. and mnde lt essential that There was a little alienee. stant business of life and death. tfd peril omit 51 orris L. Cooke, engineer nnd no endeavor to keep The three were sitting In the meabard, Alice Faye and m itacld Wild to exploit the advantage I of rural electrification, Juan Bennett follow-Ingln- g . dows, Just clear of the woods not be- dearly held, in fear of wasting this by krpmon safe. as been preuchlng for- - years the would have been worse to tween the caatle and her it example. Iph, Starlight, but striking too soon, In fear of losing It ' thnt awaits ns unless we mend They seem to feel thnt rain. hn been In tbe leading car. The net dose to the entrance drive. The lights by holding my hand, I moved 10 paces . a1--.i.M have been drawn rather tighter It will help them to our wnys. of Yorlck were showing a furlong ln rear of the shambling thieves, with Soli Erosion Damage. that was all. My chances seemed get more serious roles away. one hand on 8ahre's collar and the We must attack tho problem of I was crouching directly behind them, other on Geoffrey's knife. quite forgetting thnt tgmtely thin. . . . Ann Harding, who Is naturally so poll erosion contra! as we would an h this Mate of mind I spent the next against the trunk of a tree. Sabre, beSo far as I had gathered, they knew And then at side me, was standing still as a rock. no more than I did what Plinraoh was blonde, hns been doing pretty well armed foe aliout to defeat us, inild tty ninnies, smarting. tot a mile from the entrance, drive, Hcia'i a baking powder, ;olng to do. lie was going to cut off with serious roles for a long, long time. Mr. Cooke. "Let things go on ns they now ure going and In 'M years we to bore to the right and the the light disarm the main switchtriad, tasted and used excluOn the other hand, Marion Talley will hnve k total area of renliy ferThen thpy mpe flowed down and stopped by the board, without a floubt. sively by experts. Me of the wa f. fex opera star and farmer, now work- tile lund not nuicli more thnn three were to use the postern It once we did the same and, aome-IsThe vision brought me up with a ing hard In pictures) has turned limes the size of Nebraska. We nre blonde for her first screen appearance. likely to go the wny of Asia Minor or other, I felt that my chance Jerk. bit cone. llow could they use the postern? If you have seen her, or seen photo- and Tibet unless we senna our dan .IH tee what they want," I saldand The postern was fast. Pharnoli must graphs of her, In the old days, youre geroua sltuntlon nnd art promptly. ripped ont of the car. hnve opened It somehow. Unknown to going to be surprised at her appearTills la no fanciful picture, neenrd ill cine to the door of the conpe the warden, he must hnve obtained tho ance; (he haa lost a lot of weight, and Ing to 51 r. Cooke. A single dust storm Took here, my son." said Geoffrey, It Is a big Improvement. he anya, tins swept nwuy as much ns key. Tidy Helena wants yon to lead. A sudden I IKKVHXi.OOO tuna of fertile top soil apprehension lifted its Heltool think it really matters, and so I Those Major Bowes amateur stupe from the whent belt; tho 5IiHsls!ppl ugly head. In Phnraoh's presence Ine (Iren way. From now on put ena had handed the warden a master units have been so successful Hint Bob river carries 400, 000, not) tons of top ton your foot and don't tnke it up (Believe It Or Not") Illpley Is going anil to the Gulf of 5Icxlco every key. That was the key with which Pharaoh had opened the postern; to have some of his own ; the first will yenr; more thnn lOU.UOOO.lNN) acres Igk till you're over the bridge." Whatever hasten." said Helena though no alarm hnd been raised, be- begin Its tour somewhere in New Eng- alrendy hnve been destroyed ns crop hf blood was boiling. cause nothing wns known. Pharaoh land the Inst of April. It will prob- bearing soil, while another BM.OflU, h that an order?" I said. had killed the warden and had taken ably include these nets: Mttle Jennie, 000 acres hare been seriously ImTon rave it that a thirty-poun- d the master key. midget; Grace Mur- paired for crop heurlng and an addl name," said Gecf-h- j. .But we're going to do the That this was so. I Instantly made phys quintuplets, five ballet dances tlonnl 100,000,000 acres ure seriously use.' np my mind. Talk about panic. . . ." averaging three hundred pounds each; threatened. The total annual damage AD right," I said. 1 dont care." Blindness, havoc and panic would rule a concert pianist who plays and well amounts to $100,000,000. I node my way back to with Ills elbows; John Tlo and his the night. The sheep would hnve no Harley and Wo unwittingly have broken the towd my door. shepherd and Geoffrey and Barley talking bird; and a mnn who mokes balance of nature's forces, says Mr. I fn get to leave you," I said. "They were gone. How Pharaoh would And music with leaves. Rub himself, en- Cooke, by clearing too much of our n to ride with them. You're to the treasure, I could not think. But countered at a party after the opening forests, turning under too much of to tat now and don't lift that was Pharaoh's affair. My way of Rlngllng's circus, wns trying to our sod, and grazing too much of the your foot S in get to the cnatle gate. You'll at least was clear. The thieves would curb a strong desire to go out with remnlnder in such manner na to do beeping them back as It Is, for the io-- aa bring me to Pharaoh and everything them himself. Wo hare WNli W stray the grass roots. wprt the faster car." was to be gained by my holding my dug ditches and straightFrank Parker, who boba up on so planted tile,cleared ; Terr good, sir." said hand. Barley. creeks and rivers ened and PLATES REPAIRED Sabre and I Ran Behind Them. ; I dawned la the to make radio the door and stood back as magic, by programs, going many And here, though to hasten run-ofConsequently less SUS to look llko now to relet out. his In went JH another picture; his clutch. first, you'll plua pooturo lights of Yorlck Into underI could, I believe, have killed two snow and rain penetrates to the car leapt Hea CHICAOO DISNTAT. PLATE There was waa now less need of call, waa Sweet Surrender. forward, I fell on perhaps all three. But It was Pharaoh to 5Iore It rushes of WUooa storage. Avm Clitcasu, 111. (Drat. 1) Ills to ftee In the road. more of speed, for tho been on the atage, co hea prepared for ground wanted, and Pharaoh wns not there. alienee and I watched him movla career. the for drawbridge a pass the conpe and, I could not follow their reasoning. three rogues ran yaonent later, the Speaking of hie stage career, the conpe draw Into Why should the lights go out? In tbe as hard as they could. Sabre and I towakt behind them, as though we be- other day Fifii D'Oraay cam to a reran ont were the put lights way ordinary hearsal of her radio show with a picI?tobt vaRe triumph I watched ita at midnight perhaps before. But now longed to the crew. 1 saw something white by the of the cast of (Greenwich Village ture diminish. Then the road bent Ahead the case was altered; tbe drawbridge to the left end It Willie Howard flicked out of had to be watched. And then this talk castle wall. The three turned aside to Folliea of 1925." and I did the same. As I glanced at it, then at Parker, and said, avoid It, suborned Pharaoh . Had . . of panic. went by, I saw that It was a sheet. At "Frank, theres a fellow In this picture some servant to do his will? that moment Sabre left me he seemed who looks exactly like you. wrist. CHAPTER X Rush lifted his cuff front his Look like me?" retorted Frank. to stop. Bui I lia l no time to wrangle. lie said. eleven," past Twenty nns oien. The "It la me. I waa a chorus boy. postern-doo- r The Pharaoh's Way. Gawd, wot a day." In and stood waiting. When the llghth go opt," snhl Dew three stumbled wn,k t0 Starlight did I wish you could meet Bette Davis. toi wocld of good. It seemed to II in- drop. Uuleth, of courthe, he thould And I stood waiting without, with a and my head close She's an overwhelming on the young ;er-- , step foot T before." and steady my wits. happen to talk fo so wall ricvnstntlngly she's because the son, ever. tlmn confounded against more felt I oight r,wc,,rpd Tells frank. No mutter what yon nsk her Then came Phnraoh's voice. me, the silence rested my Dewdrop's flnnl aentence did not make answer It. and Intelligently too she'll "Bugle." sense. Out of tlio experience of thouunde of motor-iat- s with no regard for whether the movie "Hre." snld Bugle at once. on to ground on fore I reached the Imek me led Rush hae been developed a simple method of place, Don't talk. Whisper. Here. Take moguls will like what she says or not. J?reful to leave the road and to which I could stand. , tho First oil performance comparing Have . . use . rnlhcr yon forgotten some interviewers Now way through the woods for I'd like to know where those two these goods. Teat. It is juit a matter of noting Quart st them?" brutal tactics, was takln' Hint dog." how many miles you go after a Tbat doesn't work with Bette Davis; "I've got a shoe, breathed Bugle, said Bug'e. V all la that that saved me right." before you have to add a quart. If you "Dogs tells this?" she Just she doesn't get nngry, Wat's But the You bet." snld Rush, warmly. too oil odd to try frequently, are bJut "I! pr,'en,,y whow, half an obliged which To Pharaoh. said v wipe." the truth, with a pleasant smile. Geofrn.y and Burley and that aint the point. I'd Hke to know First Quart" Test with Quaker State. See if How do you gel along with your side of the drive are the rarer d ,'ln ,0 thut ln,8ter throe-- 'nvot they're up to; they haven't come here." you dont go farther before you have to add from her asked someone Hie rigid To recently. husband?" ipot buck." first quart. And, the oil that that tell-taThere ure reports that youve sepprop the wipe on the drawbridge, Alfsnllnn coming a min "We've left no trull." wild Bugle. between refill! ii giving your belt atandi to the fields up the Into arated." and sling the shiv "Of he arrived. "We never got out of (he ear." motor the safest lubrication. Quaker State to live, want If yon drive. It's she we the of replied. left fight." Oh, a moment "We're out of It now," mild Rush. Oil Refining Company, Oil City. Pa. my heart stood still, make It snappy. They're going to open my fault; sometimes I simply hnve to w ,hnt ,f Helena was I don't want' no more surprises "An' hack." w! me. not m Rafail Price . . . SSt per Quart Ihose gules before you get light, nnd then nothing will slop ? not after Ins' night." Ua hum Iin,s,lf ,0 he nblc to charm k As Bugle went hy me, I saw that uneasily. shifted ,0 Goo,rrpjr ,n, a iVwdmp was a chance which would never ODDS AD FADS . . . John Bofn 1th very awkward." be said, "your here Pharaoh hnd used no torch. iortnT want to be tied diurn lo one com- like - m relum. won't Pharaoh the little wny up lot bln' that car. If Bugle's reiiilnlsceiice wns true, any longer; htfi going to free lance Hint, he won't." would not use he thnt wus Fredric Merck fell the fame way; snld probability It, lo have lump he'll . l,n blm by tho collar Well, I wns tall and thick-se- t. ltd Tie ire making too many couuma one tonight. I tell there. been he'd nung nn nrm around his I wish about Bugles build a suit neck, Rush. much . , ,So the fint one he signed up very there 1 saw nothing; was fitting him ' p!clurfl ktn.7' - I'widhed. Snhre. don't yon I never I bail left at Bluninge free bmre ira. "Mary of Scotland know even gt don't We ( (r no wrap. with me. Bnbre. Ill weren't bemrr?nnd Bugle had been told to ati,trine fiepburn . . . Paramount gorlller. very well ; h"TP ymi- - I : " a goml who took It. Some performin' tkht fe 1 I to give us Beau Ceste" again. whlsHr. 'ad arm going wot i, ddfeiwT' Ani' Jr"n onn help me, If yon nsk me. An' In a flash 1 was running for the .r r(f(jr lfljt f!mfi Cary Cooper in won't like It. won't ,0 ,111 t off." Phnnioh done? In Bugle wake. I. . . A Message lo drawbridge to he wiped like he would r,,r flvo minutes, lie? ' 'Ow with -- V ulfine pirlure . . . Jan, withers The ensile wu u live with murmur. on to them "Bd n ,,ta connr 1 off one of them benches fc -sCm! le Julie" ounds of disorder total I dunno why too. Backwards, ravlings? someone wna out on the ramparts, another raise the losabout Temple got Shirley lure talk An' denil. you I'm not dog knew uie!) men were trampling and other day . . . Practically all the marie (to Ing 1,1,11 1 tarinir1' ,M,t ing thr car." shout lug; I could hear blow, falling eumtanies ere trying lo sign up Charles "It wasn't your fault," snld Bi'K' and tho shiver of nid l. ' '0,n Hint time on, no mnn whos already under contract . . . upon woodwork But Dewdrop hail no comfort to Trn ln,re sagacious, more But I heard mt 0 glnss. see him before Itmg in The Carbreaking h An ."7 "'ore scruiuilmia drenm, for now I knew den of Allah" . . . And in color . . . Mar-iarPirn things ns in 1 Thnt the three were waiting for had opened the postern, H bciM "uw, hie sight whom key Sullaran's broken arm is holding up where bill bef !iin "Il'ic. for he saw the lie on the fiinh permed pretty clear. But 1 whose handkerchief would . . . Myrna hiy will be had firo pictures what And now? In lb. am' checked me by 'wna Pharaoh aadinr Mu.1 drawbridge, whose slipper fall with Werner Baxter in To Mary, earned o'clock? seven since been doing nor fields. . . Tilh Lore"; remrmber them in Dr tail-lM,'n ''"okcl HP tho lie hnd not aeon Rush or Bugle, (TO BE CONTINUED Burr tml ready to leave. No hud be Irurued llielr liens. Slore. 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