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Show i A TELEGRAM SERIAL : ' . -gtaaaea .tateslekk- ansaaaaajaasn mmM fjajeasi Mafsfsaaassam awaasnj BBnajaa BWaVnattBl ePeEaRC'l rLt HJTT T b, Christopher A v J X Tj m I i I 1 i I wren Baas W ames seat Manassas mm mm mm aaaaaai mmm Author of "Beau Caste" SYNOPSIS Firing Officer John Vert-Vaushen, of the Brttlsb sir force In India. It raptured by native when hit plant cranhf sfter bomblns tht etron-hol4 etron-hol4 of tht Slnjlne Hud 11 of Suied Kot, a troublemaker. The head of the villas to which Vausbsn IS taken, tht Malik, wants to return him to hit baee for ransom. The Mulish, Mul-ish, eplrltusl leader, thinks he should be put to death. Knocks Khan Aba-Bel. Aba-Bel. broushl to aim by Wall Dad. his teller, offers ta get him safely bark to Olttrt.a fort If Vere-Vsiishsa proml.ee that Rhode Khan win be reinstated la the srmr, front which he hsd deserted. Huaeela All Shah Powlndsh. plsnnlns with Vere-Vsushsa Vere-Vsushsa for hie eeespe. snnounees that he u Majoe Hsaelrltg la the secret se-cret eervloe, dlacuiaed ae s native. He writes s nott in Russian far Vere-Veushsn Vere-Veushsn to givs lbs oommsndtr of OUtrss fort. CHAPTER SEVEN Husssln All Shah Powindah pro-ductd pro-ductd a little penny notebook with shiny black cover, such as is sold In border village bssaars, and a stump of Indelible pencil. "I'll give you a verbal message, of courss, but I particularly want thla little document to get to Colonel Colo-nel Garstan. Tha signatures and password will prove and confirm what he may doubt, that the met- laat name of thla preliminary list, he read: Duke of Brunswick. Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Plcton. Lisutsnant General Sir H. Pon-sonby. Pon-sonby. Colons! du Plst, K. G. L. Colonel Ompheta, K. O. L. Colonel Morrlce, 9th regiment And down through lieutenant colonels, majors and captains to the end of the list and then alowly, yet with quickening breath, read: Captain Grove, First guards. Lieutenant C. Manners, Royal artillery. ar-tillery. Lieutenant Lister, ssth regiment. Enaign Lord Hay, aide de camp to General Maltland. Enaign Brown, First guards. Ensign Richard Wandover, First gusrds. Ensign Richard Wsndovsr, First guards. And h hlmsslf waa a Richard Wandover. And would soms dsy be not Ensign but Second Lisutensnt Richsrd Wsndovsr, and would go to tha Indian army to follow in the footsteps of thst Waterloo hero's son and grandson who hsd fought in svery British campaign in India. 1 "Good Lord! What about? Don't be sloppy." "It isn't sloppy to writ lttttrs." "Depends on what you write. I don't want another proposal of marriage. Suppose soma of ths fellows got hold of It" Bybil kicked the chair en which shs sst astrids. "Don't be silly. Is it likely I abould write that?" "Well, you aald It anyhow." And Sybil squirmed aa th boy laughed loudly, and aha remembered remem-bered the occasion upon which shs, uplifted by the music, dancing, laughter and excitement of her tenth birthday party, which bad fallen on Christmas eve, had decoyed de-coyed him out into the empty stone-flagged stone-flagged hsll and, beneath th huge bunch of mistletoe which hung from on of tha beams, hsd flung her arms about his nsck and kissed him, a noisy, clumsy end hearty kies "Coo! ths surprised end shocked Richsrd had obaervsd as ha rubbed his lips. 'Tm going to marry you, Dickis." Sybil had whispered, raising herself on her toes, plscing hsr hsnds upon his shoulders and repeating th of-ftnss. of-ftnss. Sybil now starsd at hsr hero consideringly con-sideringly as ha folded uo his nrs- clous newspaper. Dickie wss beast end shs hstsd him. "Yes, I know I did shs admit-tsd. admit-tsd. "I said I waa going to marry you and I am going to marry you. So thare!" "And suppose I say no?" "That won't make the slightest difference. I shaU be marrying you, not you marrying me." "Fair warning, anyhow," jeered th boy. "Shall we hav tea flrat?" Continued Wednesday. Copyright, 1938, for Tha Telegram. sun me ooy, jooxing up irom his treasured scrap of p a p a r and a tar lag unseeing through the window of his attic playroom, would think of Lieutenant Richard Wandover of Napier's Horse, winning win-ning decoration and awift promotion promo-tion at the aiege of Delhi; of that earlier Lieutenant Richard Wen-dover, Wen-dover, winning fame and decoration at Sobraon and Chillianwallah under un-der Sir Hugh Cough and again at Lucknow; and of Enaign Richard Wandover dying with half hie men in the unbreakable square at Waterloo. Water-loo. And he would awsar that he would be worthy of these ancestors. Another Proposal There was a knock at tha door of hla attic sanctum. That would be hla friend daughter, young Sybil Ffoulkea. A good kid. A pity she wasn't a boy aa aha ought to have been, for aha could catch a ball almost aa wall ss ha could, throw a stons prstty straight which prtclout few girls could do, use a catapult and an air rifle In a mott usttul manntr, and run: Ukt blasts. Ysa, corns to think of It hs'd miss tht kid. Still, she'd be there when he came back for tha hols and would be that much oldtr and mort lentlblt. "Com In," h said. "Hullo, Dickie. You aald I could come over and say good -by tonight" "Well, I'm not stopping you, am I?" "No, but may I come to tha station sta-tion in the morning? I'm going cubbing, cub-bing, and I thought" 'Think something tlse. I don't want n park of kids hanging about It'll be bad enough with Mother and the rest of them." "Well, you might look out of the window after tha train goea under tha bridge. I can ride Blase up to tbe fence near tha golf ctubhous and ses you go by." . -All right If I think of It : May I write to you?" sage mat 1 anau give you actually doea come from me, Major Bar-tholomeu Bar-tholomeu Haielrigg, military In-ttlllgtnc In-ttlllgtnc branch of the aecrot asrvics. This Is ths msssage: "All thess men are known to GB-Ht GB-Ht personally. Hs guaranteea them all txctpt the one mentioned In the note brought by Flying Officer John Vere-Vaughan. "Give it to him Immediately as you snter. Otherwise he'll be very hot and bothered because ha knows for a fact that I am sojourning with my friend the hadjl of Turangxal. which as you perceive, I am not doing." And as, cool and nonchalant, he talked aa quickly and easily aa though he were sitting In his chslr In his club or bungalow, the men calling himself Husssln AU Shah Powindah wrote. "There you are," he said, a few mlnutea later, tearing out some pagea end folding them together. "Put that Inside ths lining of your sun helmet or under your turban If you wear one, and give It to Colonel Carstan, or hs will doubt thst you mst ms week-ending with the malik of Kurnal In tha country of the Singing Hadjl of Sufed Kot" An Interlude A generation earlier Richard Wendover, on the last night of ths long holiday between leaving the Old Ride, hla prep school, and going up to Wellington, waa methodically tidying away hla treasuraa. Finally, ha took from Its safs resting piece In a big blotter which he kept In his one locked drawer, a double sheet of newspspsr, Ihs contents con-tents of which hs knsw almost by heart Since he must Isava It behind be-hind him, he would read It once again. The paper waa No. MA of the Times. London, Thursday, Juns 23. 1815. Pries 64. Tha first page conslstsd of amaa-Ing amaa-Ing and amusing sdvartlaements: tha second. Wellington's dispatch from tha field of Waterloo; the third, tha official bulletin, headed: "Downing Street June 21, 181 &." And thia dispatch, one and for th hundredth time, he read. And having hav-ing rtad It he turned as usual to that thrilling and even yet, to him, harrowing list headed "British Killed end Wounded." i And one again, and for tha hun-, hun-, drtdth tlm and as always, preventing prevent-ing his aye from falling upon tht |