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Show THE LEIII SUN, LEIII, UTAH (Sld :Z ""4c.T; ?f tlUSTtlAT.ONS Y Ft IRWIN AYtt , CHAPTER XII Continued 21 To the pair within the tent, drank-nly drank-nly singing, drunkenly caressing one another, the tight of Pla lo the open doorway, Pla ilim, erect, rigid as a young aoldler ta ber sporttng khaki, Pla with cold accusing eyes beneath heary patrol helmet, came as a disturbing dis-turbing vision from some other world. They sprang apart, and It would be hard to say whether the roan or the ! girl uttered the foulest words. "Too ihuttem head belong you," bellowed Sergeant Slraol, enraged. "What-name (why) you talk bad along my Slnabada ? Dy-n-by me break you froat along bayonet" That's enough, sergeant," warned Fia. "Walt outside for me." She stepped Into the tent, and fixed a steady accusing gaze on Smlthson, who suddenly sobered, had risen to his feet "It's the missis, by" he muttered, mut-tered, leaning one hand on the disordered dis-ordered supper table and staring under un-der his tattered locks of hair. "Mr. Smlthson," asked Pla, with cold courtesy, "will you kindly tell me why you are not at my husband's claim 7" "Plenty of time," retorted Smlthson, picking up courage, under a secret nudge from Jinny. "Going back to It when I get good and ready." "I believe you are a gold miner. Don't you know that a claim Is forfeited for-feited If left without Just cause, for. thirty days?" "He don't need you to learn him," came Jinny's shrill voice. Pla did not Ignore her. She turned toward Jinny, and sent her a glance. In which pity, kindness and a certain fear the chaste woman's irrepressible fear of the unchastewere un-chastewere strangely mingled. "You are. Mrs. Spicer," she said. "I'm sorry to see you encouraging this man lo neglect of his duty." "Mrs. Spicer as much as Mrs. Anybody," Any-body," said Jinny. "More Mrs. Spicer than you're Mrs. Amory, by all accounts." ac-counts." She laughed coarsely. Pla Ignored that , She was feeling for her feet In this strange medium. She remembered Jinny remembered her well How the girl had altered since those days on the great liner 1 How her beauty had coarsened, how the slim, firm graces of her dancer's figure had slackened Into ugly lines! 8o thin was Jinny, always, that perfect per-fect condition was her only chance of grace. It had gone; the grace was going with It; youth and beauty, too soon were passing away from Gene-Tleve Gene-Tleve Treacher. In the first moment Pla could not account for so great a change. But Jinny, uncomfortable beneath be-neath that pitying gaze, seized her half-filled champagne glass, and emptied emp-tied It at a gulp, hoarsely crying as she took It from her lips. "What's yours! Drink hearty, we'll soon be deadl" And Pla saw that the vice of Jinny's kind, long avoided, had caught her up at last She was Indeed In-deed "drinking hearty" now she was even well on the way to fulfill the latter lat-ter half of her famous war-cry. "Champagne for the lady," proclaimed pro-claimed Smlthson, still not qulta himself, him-self, though considerably sobered. He reached for a bottle. Thanks, no," fell from ria's Hps like an icicle. "You haven't told me yet, Mr. Smlthson, why you come to he here. I might as well tell you that I hold my husband s power of attorney, and am going up to the field to act for him." "I came to be here," answered Smlthson, with painful effort, "becauseI "be-causeI came to be here." He offered this brightly, as a complete explanation. explana-tion. "We're prospecting," contributed Jinny, putting down her glass, and fixing a defiant stare upon Pla. "Me and be. There's other gold beside that on Tatatata, which don't belong to my friend anyhow. As for powers of attorney." she went on, hurriedly pouring out more wine, and keeping her face turned somewhat away "1 reckon this is a free country; I reckon my friend dont have to run when anybody whistles even Mrs. Philip Amory." She loaded each word with contempt If Pla. in her presence, pres-ence, was shaken, somewhat by the fear of the chaste for the unchaste. Jinny, on her part, was consumed by the light woman's burning and perfectly perfect-ly genuine scorn for an innocent girl. "Here, don't you ladles get quarreling quar-reling over me." thickly said Smlthson. Supporting himself by the tent poles, be had moved over towards the door; was looking owlishly, yet with a curious curi-ous Interest at the velvet - star-be-sprlnkled sky. "I came away." he said, "because this lady wanted to go and fine gold mines. I let her go fine gol' mines all alone T Nawl She and a, and the whisky and the champagne t wha's that poetry about s Jug of wine ana a case of whisky, and Gin-Sling atagin' alongside of you? She and me and d a the new moon." . .. At that. Jinny, much the soberer f tttftf 7V - w.M.a 5t.R.vice the two, let out, a sudden shriek, flung herself half across the tent and slapped her fingers on Sroithsou's babbling bab-bling mouth. "Hold your tongue, fool,", she cried. To Pla. "He don't mean anything. I mean, he means that the moon makes him worse than be la It's like that with loonies of all sorts. He gets sort of wild. You know." She bad pulled herself together wltb marvelous completeness; was lighting and smoking a cigarette. She did not look at Pla any more. "Don't mind os," she said. "We're rough, but we're honest Rough diamonds, ine and him. You'll excuse us. please. I'll get him back to the field for you; I'm ted up with prospecting. I made love to him, and got him to come away with me, because I wanted him to work for me; you can put that In your pipe and smoke It If ! you like." : She stood "Don't Mind Us," She Said, "We're Rough, but We're Honest" with her bands on her lean hips, staring star-ing at Pia; Pla, straight helmeted, armed, as a young Joan of Arc, with blue, pure eyes burning In a face of mountain snow, paused, still as the night outside, her mind on full stretch over this new problem. What had the moon to do with it? There was small chance of finding out anything, here. In this reeking tent from the half drunk pair who were certainly not prospecting, whatever what-ever their business In the bush might be. Without a word, Pla turned and walked away, followed by the sergeant ser-geant She lingered a little on the way back to the camp. The carriers were noisy; she could hear them shouting and singing. .How tbey were shouting! shout-ing! Dancing, too. When she came out Into the open clearing, she could see. by the light of the fires, dark forms whirling and leaping as If possessed pos-sessed by demons. They made such a noise that, at first she could not distinguish dis-tinguish what they were singing, although al-though some words seemed strangely familiar. Then, over the unapprehended unappre-hended shouts of the Mambare and Yassi-Yassi carriers, came loud and clear the cry of some Port Moresby boys "Sail-O! Sail-0!" Pla knew the custom of saluting the new moon with that cry. She glanced to westward, where the forest sloping down, showed a wide stretch of sky. There. In the west almost gone, hung one clear small strip of silver, like s light peeling dropped from some fairy fruit New moon I . . . What had those people in the tent said, about the moon? Why had Jinny Treacher struck Smlthson, when he spoke of It? Why must she. Pia. know nothing about the moon the moon which measured off months "Oh!" It was s sudden cry. Leaping Leap-ing over a hundred , unnoticed links, her mind had sprung to the end of the chain of thought She knew. Thirty days, of desertion, without WHHWWW'M French Salt Derived Salt Is so common end so inexpensive inexpen-sive that one Is apt to loose sight of its value and necessity. In certain parts of the orient salt is so scarce and so valued It is used as a medium of exchange. France has no salt mines ; and. as far as the smooth table variety Is concerned, she Is entirely dependent upon Imports. You see s fomous brand of English packet salt in all parts of the country. But it's an expensive business busi-ness getting it to every small town, and that is where the Etang de Berre cornea In bandy. It Is on the road to Marseilles you pass It away to your right and It Is the largest of all the Etanga They are great lakes of sea water, fed, often underground, by the sea; and they are dotted along the mmmwwk sS 1 M-&w&m XI due and sufficient causa, made void a claim. Smlthson who couldn't resist drink or girls was here in the forest for-est two days away from Tatatata. with Jinny, and Jinny's (or Splcer's) cases of champagne. There were no calendars In the bush drinkers' memories mem-ories are treacherous. If you wanted to stay sway thirty days, guessing wouldn't da But if you did not guess, if you counted by something that wouldn't drop a day here or there; if you left at new moon, and gave over your reckoning to something that was sure to come back lo exactly twenty-eight twenty-eight days, something that every native na-tive in sight would hall with salutations saluta-tions and loud cries then you might be perfectly sure that you would stay away Just long enough. "Sergeant Elmoll" said Pia, "Go and get me one of Mr. Smithson's car rlers." "Yesslr," replied 8imoL as if she had asked for a handkerchief, "I bring him dead or I bring him live, Slna-bada-SIrr "Alive, of course; and don't let anyone see you getting him," "Right-Sir." The sergeant melted Into the bush. It was some minutes before he returned, re-turned, driving before him an extremely extreme-ly scared and very naked Papuan. "Come on, you black cow." encouraged encour-aged Simol. "You like I handcuff him, Slnabada?" "No, certainly not Don't frighten him. Ask him when they left the field, and be sure you get the right answer." "Me savvy," nodded SlmoL An interchange in-terchange of questions and answer followed. . "Slnabada," said the sergeant saluting, salut-ing, "him say this man, this woman leavem Tatatata thass time the new moon come, bee-fore. Him leavem twel' o'clock, sun he stop-on-top." "Give him some tobacco, and let him go. Sergeant! Tell him not to talk about this." " . . "I tellem all right," proffered the sergeant on returning. "I tellem I takera head belong him, cleanem head all same pish, sookem along pire, stickem him head up along my dubu (clubhouse) suppose him too much talk. ' . , . Sinabadal" "Well, sergeant?" "Whassamasser?" - . Pla looked into the face anxious, kindly, shrewd of the dark Klwai sergeant the "savage dressed In serge," and recognized a man. Simol had sensed, without understanding, the crisis in which she found herself; was offering, blindfolded his help. "It's this, sergeant" she said briefly. "Mr. Smlthson was left to look out after my husband's gold. If he runs away from It for one moon and two days, another man can steal It; then there is no gold for my man, no gold for me. Sergeant, do you know the way to the fiel I mean, "know it well?" "I no sawy him too much, Slnabada. Slna-bada. One carrier he savvy plenty, village belong him stop two day along bush." : -. ' ,.,-;; . . "What I you've got a Tatatata man!" "My word, yes, Slnabada. Bee-fore, him klllem one white man, along Ta tatata road him go to jail along Daru; this man he good man, he savvy plenty." "Get him here," Pla ordered. ; Another wild, naked creature was herded up. "Yes," he said, In answer to the sergeant "Me savvy load (road) too much. . ... . . Tatatata? Tomorrow we walk, we walk strong, nother day we walk, we walk strong, nighttime we sleep, morning time sun he come up big, we come up along Tatatata, sun he go down, we come along gole fiel'." -r-; , "Twenty-eight days today," counted Pia. "Twenty-nine tomorrow. Thirty the day after. " Thirty-one to arrive . . . . Sergeant! Ask him does he know another way a shorter way." . "No sawy," said the carrier promptly. prompt-ly. Pla watched him; he seemed to her mind, a little too prompt "Offer double pay," she ordered. "No savvy," was the result not without a touch of temper.. Pla turned her back, and walked off to her tent Her man, his fortune, were hanging in the balance. The cat streak that hides In all women came to the surface. She became be-came cruel, in defense of her own. "Make him talk," she flung over her shoulder, as she went "My word, me blanky well make him," was the sergeant's reply. He reached for a strip of lawyer cane. It was only a minute or two before the ex-murderer appeared, sulking, shaking, whimpering, driven by Simol. Pla, sitting on her camp bed as on s bench of Justice, questioned him, and the sergeant translated. "Is there another roadf Simol replied. "Him say, yes. Plenty bad road, full up along devil." ITO BB CONTINUED) 4-r4"fr.M- From Lakes Far Inland Mediterranean coast from Marseilles to Spain. You find then again In the Landes, that flat marshy stretch In the neighborhood of Bordeaux. Shallow evaporation pans. leading away from the Etang de Berre. and looking la the distance exactly like vast reset voire, have been built and these art filled from the lake. They are then dammed off, and dry sir and blaxlng sun do the rest Wa Right ! LaaJ The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air it is a rfght proclaimed by the fact of their ex istenct, Henry Georxa AND ITS PEOPLES By Capt. L R. Claud Robinson VHAT IS INDIA? EXCEPT in generalities, the average man knows very little about India. Space there has not been annihilated, as in our western civilization, by telegraphs, tele-graphs, newspapers, books, telephones, movies and wireless. To comprehend a country even slightly, you muxt visit It To know it still better, you must live In it And to know It best of alt, you must not only live In a country but study its people, their customs and mode of living. I don't suppose 2 per cent of Americans have hud the advantage of seeing India. It is not surprising, therefore, that we have the bablt of speaking as If it were a country coun-try like. France or Italy, Instead of a continent or combination of countries like Europe. We are apt to forget that India bas a population of 32O.0O0.UK), composed of different races, speaking different languages and practicing different religions. re-ligions. We also forget the far-reacb-lng results of caste, a social or class system under which every Hindu ta born Into a group which for life defines de-fines bis occupation, method of living and even marriage limitations. There are 2,400 Hindu castes in India, and It Is difficult to realize that 7U.KK).MiO Hindus out of a total of 82(UXKUXX) are looked upon by the eastes which are above them as "untouchables" or outcasts. Thousands ot years ago when the conquering Aryans descended from the North and became rulers and masters of India, they formed a higher civilization civili-zation than the durk. thick-featured aborigines, and to preserve their own purity of race, decided to exclude the earlier race from their more Intimate social settlements. Thus originated this body of "untouchables. "' , ToucU-ing ToucU-ing them, or even coming Into remote contact with them, involves the high caste Hindus in ceremonial defilement. It is interesting to note thai In a recent re-cent utterance the spokesman of these 70,000,(KX) people declared himself entirely en-tirely opposed to the policy of Mahat-ma Mahat-ma Gandhi, the Instigator of the movement of passive resistance in India. ' Just Imagine, then, a region the size of ail Europe, exclusive only of Russia, Rus-sia, stretching over 28 degrees of latitude lati-tude and 40 degrees of longitude, with a population of 320.(KK),MK), practicing! nine great religions and speaking 130 different dialects belongings to sis dis tinct families of speech. That Is teli from the point of view of the statistician. statis-tician. ; Statistics usually' are dull and commonplace com-monplace things, but at least In the case of India we may sa that they are startling. If their meaning is to be grasped, we must clothe them wltb flesh and blood. This can only be done by hard and extensive traveling in that vast, mysterious and romantic land. THE HIGHWAY TO INDIA FROM the dawn of history India has been the victim of Invasion after invasion. What ot the gateway through which these Invuslons came? A little north of latitude 34. a natural cut in the mountains, runs for a distance dis-tance of 20 miles from Jamrud on the edge of the tran Indus plain to an open spot at Lnndl 'thanaoo the border bor-der of Afghanistan, it is known as the Khyher pass. Until the advent of sea power this historic highway constituted practically practi-cally the only channel through which could enter the ninny influents which have played so large a part In shaping the destinies of India It provided the main inlet through which flowed the tide of Aryan stock which took root In the fertile soil t the Gunge valley and gave to the world the rich gift of Indian thought and civilization. Many centuries later, though still 800 years before the Christian era. a western civilization.- lured-by the story of the richness of the country which lay beyond, for the first time trod its stony path. This was the Invasion of Alexander the Great. A thousand years after Christ came another conqueror. Mahmud of Gnznl, oenlng up another momentous chuprer In the story of the continent. Mahmud was out for plun der and he met and defeated the BaJ-puts BaJ-puts at Peshawar. .'This marked the beginning of the Mohammedan Invasion Inva-sion which was to end in the Mogul dynasty, the splendor of whose wy is perhaps unsurpassed In the annals of the world. Today the Khyher pass plays a less historic part but Is still. h ir was before, the main land thoroughfare be tween India and central and western Asia By an agreement made wltb the Afridis towards the end of the last century, the safety of the pass wa entrusted to the Afridl tribe, which provided a body of men for patrol and escort duties. More recently this corps was placed on a regular tmlg paid. srmed and officered by British officers, and became a regiment known as the Khyber Riflea The road as onw metalled and graded, end you may travel it In comfort by automobile and view the great fort of Landl Koiat the ultimate outpost of Great Britain. In the direction of Afghanistan. Ifi. 111. VMtHi Ncwtptpw tintoa.1 HISTORY'S MYSTERIES ID tvi sj&Sts Taat Still Funis fcrtfcofiU Mars k4 Abrsri p- The Lost Ambassador - - . m a. I WHHN, in the early part or me last century. It became neces sary to transmir, certain pupe great diplomatic Importance from the Court of St James' to that or me Emperor Francis of Austria-docu ments which urged Austria to declare war against wapoieon me mu chosen for this delicate mission was a young diplomat named Benjamin Bathurst, son of Lord Bishop Bathurst of Norwich. - Young Bathurst had been In the service of the foreign office for several years and had always showed himself to be as dependable as he was fearless fear-less and his Journey to. Vienna was made practically without Jncldent While he was still at the Austrian capital there occurred the famous hat-tie hat-tie of Wagrara, followed by an armistice armis-tice and peace' highly favorable to the Napoleonic forces. Bathurst, however, was Informed In no mild terms that he had incurred the displeasure of the French emperor by reason of his exploit ex-ploit In reaching the Austrian court in time to swing the tide which brought that nation into the conflict and, when he started on his return trip to London, Lon-don, he purposely took an Indirect route leading through Trieste and Malta In order to escape the vengeance of Bonaparte. In' addition, he traveled trav-eled under the Incognito of "Herr Koch, a traveling merchant, and his attendants as well as himself were heavily armed. Nothing occurred until Bathurst arrived ar-rived at Perlburg, on the road to Ham burg, where the, party stopped at noon. Ills secretary and his valet reported re-ported later that the young diplomat had been absolutely fearless during .the Journey and did not appear to be In the least troubled by the dangers through which he had passed unscathed. un-scathed. As Bathurst sat at dinner In the Inn of the White Swan, however, the maid who was serving him saw him glance up suddenly and, as she later phrased it, "Turn white as a ghost and shake as-if he had been stricken with the palsy." Wheeling around, she caught a fleeting glimpse of a man's back, moving rapidly away from the window but that was all Immediate search of the premises was made, without result No suspicious characters : had been seen and no strangers had been reported, save the usual noon-day arrivals at the inn. After finishing his dinner,. Bathurst informed his secretary that he .would alter his plans and remain at the Inn overnight, pressing on toward Hamburg Ham-burg In the morning. Then he went to thef commandant of the armyjpost nearby and, stating that he had reason rea-son to believe that his life was in danger, requested an - armed guard around the Inn at night. Soldiers were accordingly detailed as an additional addi-tional protection and a cordon of them was thrown about the inn at sunset. About two hours later Bathurst stepped outside the door of the Inn but not outside the circles of armed guards to make certain that his horses were ready to continue . their Journey on the following day. According Accord-ing to the accounts of those present at the time, the Englishman could not have gone more than five steps without with-out being visible to some of the soldiery. sol-diery. But despite all the precautions, precau-tions, he disappeared as completely as If the earth had opened and swallowed swal-lowed him I Some fifteen minutes later, alarmed by his master's failure to return, Bathurst's valet started In search of him, only to find that the young diplomat dip-lomat had never even reached the stables behind the inn, nor did the most thorough search of the surrounding surround-ing country bring any clue to light until, nearly a month later, two peasants peas-ants In search of firewood came across a pair of trousers such as Iiathnrst( had worn, concealed In the forest Bome two miles distant The trousers were stained with blood and, In one of the pockets, was a half-written letter let-ter to Mrs. Bathurst, informing her that a certain Count d'Entraigues, a French spy, had been seen nearby and that E.'--.art himself feared that he might nt-M return to England alive. Was d'fcntxalgues the man whom Bathurst had seen through the window win-dow of the Inn? 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