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Show LEH! FREE PRESS. LEHL UTAH WR10S':C0LL AFTER CHAPTER XI Continued 17 They went cautiously toward the bro- ken ship. No sound came from It The crowd watching held Its breath. The two men were under the shattered wing. . . . Now they were climbing the fuselage. Tony looked cautiously through wliii iw. Inside the plane, alone, on Its floor, In a puddle of blood, lay Von Beltz. Tony yanked the door open. Taylor followed him inside. Von Belt was badly wounded, but till breathing. They lifted him a little, lie opened his eyes. A stern awlle came upon bis Teutonic face. "Good I he mumbled. "I escaped. They hare the power city. They plan to cut you off as soon as it is cold enough to freeze you to terms. I do not know where the power city Is It Is not like the other cities." lie closed his eyes. "Did they kidnap you herer Tony asked. lie thought that Von Beltz nodded an affirmative. From the outside came a yell of warning from many throats. Tony looked. The gate was open. People were pointing. In the north was a fleet of enemy planes winging toward the spot "Hurry" Tony said to Taylor. "Take his feet. Gently and fasti They're going to try to bomb ns before we get Von Beltz's Information back to the others I" The watchers ceased to be mere spectators, and poured out of the city. Eliot James shouted for all but one other, besides himself, to keep under the shield of the city; and he and that ether ran forward as Tony and Jack Taylor emerged from . the -, 1 At II plane mm puiieu our. uie uuip lorui of Von Beltz. The two uninjured men, bearing Von Beltz, began to run across the open apace between the city and the ship; and Eliot with his companion, Waterman, ran toward them. From the north the swarm of pursuing planes approached the planes of the Other People, of the Vanished People of this planet, which had been appropriated by the MIdlanltes. Bullets, or some sort of projectiles, splashed up dirt but none of the four half-wrecke- d 1 11- M was hit The attack from the air ceased ; the planes veered away and dispersed go suddenly that it seemed to Eltot that they must have been signaled. Waterman and he reached Tony and Taylor, and the four bore Von Beltz within the gate, which swiftly was shut behind them. Eliot pressed back the people who Dodson opened crowded too close. his kit, which had never been far from his hand during the perilous months on this planet He began to administer drugs. "Half starved," he Ex"No bones broken. muttered. In terrible fight Fists. haustion. Knife at least some one had one in the fight Waitl" ' The German opened his eyes and sat up. "Oanke schon," he said. ."Not yet I". Dodson warned, pushing his patient back into a reclining position. "Take your time," Tony begged him as he gazed up through the shield over the city Into the sky, for the airplanes which had pursued. "Where are they?" Tony said to James. "What scared them off?" Eliot shook his head; the planes were gone, whatever had turned them back; thought of them could engage neither Eliot nor Tony nor Eve Hendron since they had spared Tony. She clung close to him In tender concern. They were In the Inner edge of the circle, watching the German, who lay now. with eyes shut and a scowl on his face. The spasm of pain appeared to pass ; he opened his eyes, and looking up at Tnnv. he winked. It was the most reassuring thing he could have done. "Good stuff P Tony V whispered to Eve, "Where was he, Tony?" The German seemed to have heard; he spoke to the doctor. "I should not ait up, eh T Pooh! You've been searching for me, eh? And now you want to know why I come in a ship from the north? Well I will tell you. J can eat later. But I will He down. -- You must know at once. "I rounded a corner In tills city, as you know; and to you, I vanished.' To snvspir four men seized me." Von Ul UTOWU 9 viueio 15eil3 DUiU, IU that he be quiet until his wounds were ' oresseu anu uv uau nume inn suup. a cord about the neck, a sack over the head. It gave me no fear that my assailants might have been men from "Bronson Beta," Von Beltz added Bar-' "Tk tuhn!mtA vinlnnlli, . Ml ton uuiim world as we have known our of much I waa down and helpless,' knowing It BieetlGg. la the evening, of the Council of the Central Authority; and be himself accompanied those who bore Von Beltz to Iodsotfa hospital. It was, of course, really a hospital of the Other People which Dodsoa haJ The plan of the place and Us equipment delighted Dodson and at the same time drove him to despair try ing to Imagine the right uses of some of the Implements of the surgery, and the procedures of those Vanished Peo by EDWIN BALMER and PHILIP WYLIE "Conduit for what?" "I could only suppose what My eyes were taped, and during this journey Copyright, ISJ4. by even my ears were muffled; but I am Edwin Balmer una Philip Write. sure from my sensations during the W.VUSrYlc. Journey that I was underground, and carried through a close conduit ple. no more of my attackers than that like a great pipe." long Von Beitz's case was, however, a sim they must be men from earth. "Carried V repeated Tony, as the ple one; and Tony left fully assures! "We spent I do not know bow long others In the groupxcitedly crowded biding high in a building In this city. closer to catch the weak words. "How 1 was did they carry you?" My eyes were taped shut gagged much 'of the time, but I was "In a car. They set me up In some given food, and except on occasions sort of small' car which ran very rap-Idlwhich I will come to I was not badly I learned later, that It was a treated. work car, built by the Old People for "At first they spoke between them their workmen In the conduit I was selves In tongues I could not undertaken into a power tunnel, I believe, stand, but It was not language of 'an- and transported In a work car through other planet It was speech from our the conduit to the other city. Cerold world Kusslan sometimes, I am tainly when, after a time I can only sure; sometimes, I think, Japanese." estimate as hours, I was brought op "Did you discover how many there to daylight, it was in the city occuwere?" Eliot James asked. pied by Russians and Japanese, and "Here In this city watching us," Von with them, on the same terms, some Belts proceeded after a moment Germans. There are also English there were four, at least 1 am sure there, men and women ; but not on the I heard four different voices speak. same terms as the others." Sometimes it seemed to me that more "Go on I" begged several voices. moved back and forth; but I cannot "They let me see the city and thembe certain that more than four actualselves," said Von Beltz. "It Is a great ly were here." city greater than this, and very beau"Men?" asked Tony. tiful. It offers them everything that "They were all men. I heard no they could have dreamed of and woman speak; It was never a wommore It makes them, as they succeed an's hand that touched me. But they In mastering its secrets, like gods! Or talked a great deal about women as they think so!" x "Like g6ds?" they watched us," Von Beltz said. "You mean, you heard them talking "Yes." said Von Beltz, "that Is our about our women? They talked in great danger. They feel like gods; some language you understood?" they must be like gods; and how can "No; not then. They talked about they be gods, without mortals to make He Was Very Tired, but Excited our women In their own tongues. ,But them obeisance and do them reverence? Too, He Was Glad to Find Eve I did' not need to understand the So they will be the gods; and we will Alone, Waiting for Him. words to know they were talking be the mortals to do their bidding. Alabout women." taken have the ready they English and that the German would completely re"I see," said Tony. set themselves above them, as you have cover. "They did talk to me In English heard. They tried to take us as you Tony went home to the splendid, later two of them did." know. We killed some of them some graceful apartment where he knew He stopped again. of the most ruthless and dangerous; he would find Eve, and which he and "What did they tell you?" but others remain. They know they Hendron's daughter called their home "Tell me?" repeated Von Beltz. need not endanger themselves. They because they occupied It But they wait for us confidently." could never be free from consciousness "Nothing. They asked me." "Asked you what?" "Walt for us? How?" that It was not theirs that minds and "To come to them." "About you about us. They wanted emotions Immensely distant from them had designed this place of repose. Minds far in the future, Tony always felt though he knew that the Other People actually pertained to the epochal past; but though they had lived a million years ago, yet they had passed beyond the people of earth before they came to gaze on the dawn of their day of extinction. So, strangely. Tony knew he was living In an apartment of the past but felt it to be like one of the future. Time had become completely confusing. He was very tired, but excited, too; he was glad to find Eve alone, awaiting him. Ue kissed her, and held her, and for a moment let himself forget all else but the softness of her in his arms, and the warmth of her lips on his. "Lord of my love," she whispered, In her own ecstacy. "Lord of my love," she repeated; and holding him, went 1 wmmM mcmmM mm Tony and Jack Taylor Emerged Piane From the and Pulled Out the Limp Form of Von Beltz. Eliot and His Waterman, Ran Toward Them. d Com-panlo- to know what we knew, how far we had progressed in mastering the secrets of the Old People." "Ah I" said Tony. "They were here those four before we moved into this city. They were sent here as similar squads of them were sent to every other city accessible to them. You see, they moved Into their city which apparently was the old capital of this planet or at least of this continent long before we made any move at all." "Yes," said Tony. "That's clear." "Our delay," breathed Von Belts, "laid on us a great handicap. For they grasped the essentials of the situation almost at once. It lay, of course, In mastery of the mechanics of the ancient civilization. So they seized at once and occupied the key city; and they dispatched a squad to each of the other cities, to explore and bring back to them whatever might be useful" Again he had to rest, then : "Particularly diagrams the working plans of the cities, and the machinery and of the passages which, without the diagrams, you could not suspect." "Underground passages?" ' "Precisely. That is how they took me out of the city. They laughed at us guarding all the gates I When they decided to take me away, two of thera escorted me underground and led me on foot to a door that was opened only after some special ceremony, and which communicated with a conduit" - Bnaer th leadership of Col Hendron, American scientist, over 100 person cape la two Space Ship Just before a eosmie collision wipe out the earth, great toreat of dead tree, and land on Bronon Beta. Vegetation I found, and rile over th camp, making preserved by th abaolut cold of Itapace. An airplane people, who rea'.lie that they are not alone no attempt to communicate with the new planet and that their visitor may be enemies. Exploring, Tony seems like half Drake and Bllot James com upon a city, enclosed under what city, I an edible grain an Iridescent glass bubble. Among their finds. In th on stumble the back camp of more than of bushels. On their flight they " millions 200 person who left th earth when they did. In a ecojid Space Ship piloted by Dave Ransdelt Tony learn that Russian, Japanese and German scientist Communists hav reached Bronson Beta, and probably sent the mysterious plane to spy on Hendron' camp. Th Asiatics gas th Hendron camp, but when they of th Bronson Betana' planes Tony and his men annlreturn ..In an armada . . .. I I Ghtn'. v, umoiun fmm lh, KnaAA k,n iuuea. tien- miaie mem wnnl. rens health falling, b order Tony to remov everybody to one of the Sealed -Cities. Thl Tony ucceed In doing. Von Belts, a leader, disappears. Hendron .flies. Tony' party realise that It receives heat, light, and power only because the Asiatic ration power to them. They find passages two miles underground ynd great atore of food, but th "MIdlanltes" still threaten. !n ..... . ST&R ; DUST X pre-empte- y. THE STORY FROM THE BEGINNING ..... for a "Why?" "We have no help for ourselves and they know It. For the truth is as we feared. For all these great cities of the eastern section of this continent" the German declared solemnly and slow- ly, "there is a single power city or station. It is located deep underground not directly beneath their city, but near It Of course they control it and control therefore, light and power and heat. Any of these we can enjoy only as they ration It to us. "We "move out, as we know, toward the cold orbit of Mars, where heat will mean life In our long dark nights. They wait for that moment for us to admit their godship, and come and bow down before them." Tony stared silently at Von Beltz. The weakened man went on: "In the cavern city where are the engines which draw power from the hot center of this planet a guard of the 'gods' stands watch. It Is the citadel of their authority, the palladium of their power. I have not seen the station; but yesterday I learned Its location. I stole a diagram and traced it before I was discovered. I escaped my guards. I fought my way into a ship this morn Ing." "You have the tracing?" Dodson whispered. The German smiled. "I have It" He shut his eyes and gave. a sigh that was partly a groan. Dodson leaned over him. "We'll carry you to the center of the city now. You've taken a terrible beating." Von' Beltz opened one eye, then, and a grin overspread his battered features. "My dear Dodson." he replied spiritedly, although In a low tone, "If you think I've taken a terrible beating, you ought to see the other fellows. Three of thera I One I left without so many teeth as he had had. The one who had the knife I robbed of his weapon, and I put it between his ribs where. I fear. It will take a mortal effect. The third alas, his own mother would neither recognize nor receive him!" With those words the courageous Von BelU quietly fainted. Tony told Jack Tnylor to post a call . 5 -- Movie Radio 5 Bj VIRGINIA VALE the radio spot JUST atis present on Lan-n- y thrown being Ross' bride; people want to know what she's like and how she looks and all that sort of thing. So here is some information for you. To begin with, as no doubt you know. It was revealed shortly after the announcement of their marriage was made that she's not a bride at all; they were married three years ago. But that fact was kept secret; she was known as his manager, and that was alL Just her being his manager was enough for Hollywood, when Lanuy went out there to make a picture. Hollywood was accustomed to mothers who managed their daughters, but was quite unprepared for what it got from Mrs. Ross. She announced that all communications must be made to him through her. You can Imagine how the director loved that! She was to come to the set early, to prepare things for him. And so on and on. From the movie center came rumblings. Itoss was all right; he might have a career In pictures If It weren't for that manager of his! And presently Hollywood had bad enough of the combination. As for what Mrs. Ross looks like, I can tell only what was told to me. "The other night," said my Informant, "she wore a dress of amber velvet, that awfully heavy velvet, and it had ruffles on it! She wears such strange clothes! And she's plain looking, and older than he is. And awfully jealous, evidently; he hardly dares look at an other woman when he's with her." The radio people are a clannish lot After a rehearsal or a broadcast they like to go out and eat together, and have fun. The Show Boat troupe goes to a delightful oyster bar near the R. C. A. building, where folks can dance If they want to. Rudy Valley goes there, too, and frequently takes his dog along. The oyster bar Is so attractive that It's no wonder radio stars like It, and it's an excellent place to go to see them just being themselves. Myrna Loy has made up her spat tvilh Metro, and here's hoping she'll soon be back at work again. It's too long since she made a picture.. She hasn't told yet just how much more money she's to get each week, but tvhen she took off in a plane for the coast the seemed to be happy, so no doubt it's plenty.- Speaking of Metro, there's thunder the air. Irving Thalberg is said to have dashed to New York not merely on: for pleasure, but to form a new combine because he didn't like the way To whom In vassalage. Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit. he'd been treated on the old home lot. They say It may be announced by "Oh," said Tony. "I memorized It as a child, Tony, the time you read this that he'll join never guessing at Its meaning till now. with three other moguls and make How could Shakespeare have found pictures for the new company. looks very, very nice. The set-uwords, dear, for so many feelings? . . . This place was planned for love, For the other three men are Winnie Sheehan, who ran Fox until TwenTony." tieth Century stepped In; Sol Wurt-zel- , "Yes." who has no peer In turning out "They loved here. Tony ; some couple very young a million years ago. . . . good, cheap program pictures and has done It for years for Fox, and Hunt Where are they?" "Where we, some time, shall probStromberg, who has been supervising ably be; but why think of that? 'From and making pictures for Metro. Funny, but every so often there is fairest creatures' finish that for me, one of these shake-up- s in the movie Eve, can you?" business, and first thing you know you "The first sonnet, you mean?" "I don't know the number; but I have a lot of new companies on hand. knew it once at Groton. I had to Darryl Zanuck started the present learn it to get Into Harvard for the landslide when he left Warner BrothWait: ers and formed Twentieth Century. college board examinations. Meanwhile Mary Plckford has joined I've got more of it: to pro"From fairest creatures we dealr In- -' with Lasky and is at last going duce pictures. ' crease, That thereby beauty rose shall never die." Couple of new contracts were signed "Where are Harvard, and Groton, recently In Hollywood by Warner now, Tony?" Brothers. Kay Francis has one for "With Nineveh and Tyre; but you're three years with an increase of $1,000 here-an- d beauty's rose shall never a week, and Pat O'Brien cashes in on die, . . . And by G d, no one will his popularity by receiving $750 a take you from me or freeze you In the week more than he's been getting, and cold, If I don't let you go." signing up for three years more. "You've the diagram that Von Beltz That's what your liking them has done for them. brought?" asked Eve. "I've seen it studied It" Tony reWhatever you do; don't miss the plied. "He did well; but not enough. We know now where Is the great cen- new Astalre-Ginge- r Rogers picture, tral power station ; but we don't know "Top Hat" Astalre has turned into a even how they get In and out of this swell comedian, and audiences are beginning to laugh the moment he apcity." pears. He has plenty of amusing sit"We can't say they still do?" We can't say that they don't Un- uations in the new picture, and dances doubtedly Von Beltz was right ; he as often almost as you want him was taken out by way of some conduit to. He's been built up. quite a bit; We'll have to find that first, and stop dances a good deal alone as well as It up br guard It; and then there may with Ginger, who's improved, but Isn't be a dozen underground doors lending so pretty in "Top Hat" as she ought . anywhere, for purposes we've not pro to be, thanks to a bad hair-dogressed enough to guess. We've got ODDS AND ENDS . . . Norma Shearet to catch up on the old records of this place though It's plain that some of and Helen Hayes lunched together the them have been removed by the men other day at one o New York's smart who captured Von Beltz. Yet we've an restaurants; just two talented girls, who awfu! lot to learn that we can ieara" probably ducussed their children instead TO BB CONTINUED. oj their careers . , . You'll hardly recognize Merle Oberon when you see her Enemies of Grasshopper in "The Dark Angel" . . , Just as MarAmong the most active of the Insect garet Lindsay arrived in Honolulu to vaenemies of grasshoppers are several cation with Janet- Gaynor the studio sumd files and some little moned her to begin work on her next small Two policemen carried Mae wasps. Maggots of the flies, either de- picture posited directly on the grasshopper or Murray through the crowds at the openhatching from eggs laid on It, fierce ing of "Page Miss Glory," whereupon the hopper's body and feed on Its con- somebody remarked, "She's brought one tents. The wasps Sting their victim lawsuit too many and she's being arInto a state of coma and theu drag it rested!'' Mae is one of those who seem off to their underground nests to feed to sue at the drop of a hat, O Western Newspaper Union. their young. BEFORE THE COLD Rush I doubt that any area or ever showed up the graft mi ehi5 Ing of civilized life and ?,vern more clearly than did the Kw of the old days. Prior to the mer of 1S08, when the ni-- !, Wa full tilt, these towns got a!n J? out murder, thievery or i.r.ift; out ja:L courthouse, 'Jlr j,,, 5 rules in general, except the Cold Rule, and justice was not on!y but fair. Nobody had locks on anything uaa the influx of "civilization"' in volatj I remember one Instance of a $Z being barred from the insi 'e n absence of the owner, with comply written instructions outsiJe on ho? to get In. Newcomers comments on this, but the old sourdough plained that' It made sene. 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