Show THE DESERT GUARDS synopsis john levington a do poet t visionary and impractical ane anil arary martin the daughter of rich ald worldly parents hoar hear the call at 0 lovo love anil and unite unile their lives lived they go to a small michigan city where john finds work in a stove rac factory tury and on sundays writes verses tire tho martins try in vain to go get t tho lh happy wife to leave leava her lius banA mary begins to breathe for two wo john loses ills his job he appeals ap pp als in vain to tile the martinea mary lary goss BOM to the hospital anil and never ret returns ilens thus cornea comes into tin tho story cornelius levington the father leaves town and the city farms out the child after two years ears tho he father returns and takes lakes lil ills little son eon with bilm on oil tile his world wanderings the father becomes tilo tho slave of a mysterious drus drug koresh ho reali with odors odora of wine and cinnamon arid and returns with little con to die on oil hla his eifes grave con Is in again farmed out grows grown up up in the underworld and Is saved for better things fly by andrew march so bo much by way of introduction to the hero of tho the trance strange adventures of yellow slon men sleep thetis these begin when cori con takes taken by force a small leather sack from ch cheo ce ming the chinese conk of nn an acquaint anra anfe a tills this sack back contains a chinese map of cf tile ali gobi desert demert which in IB precious pre cloua beyond price to andrew march arch eighteen teen years before armed men in the nobl had taken marces wito wife itil end infant cl aughter from him now tia lie sends senda con in search of them hem on the voyage con finds clice eting a follow fellow pas enger chee ailing drugs con and steals ills map but con presses on toward aban aling aun con la in shot by s a poisoned dart ani and while ile ho Is in tho consequent stupor lite his map in s stolen etolen on tire river boat to peking io lie ile again coca cheo chen illing anti and realizes they are seeking the same saine destination con keeps faith with andrew march arid starts on ilia his mission westward with a caravan after weeks of difficult travel grayol lie reaches the ilia little settlement of ahan sunn sung arid and roads instructions from andrew march to the effect that cori con lias has len been mude made a federal aront to search oil out cheo chea mine who has brought quantities of ko resh a deadly drugo to san fran else at shan sung eunit con Is in unexpectedly joined by march tho two americans americana press prem forward into the desert debert |