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Show ha knee and raised Ms bead and his locked hands. O Lord 1" ho cried, "for this one dwl In a sinful life-sp- ars me a grain o mercy I" wgft. v a , CHAPTER W.NU of that nameless town dominated by the palace of Tuan Hee See, willing servanU of th master on the hill, had flown at the moment that the battleship had showed her nose over the ho- SERVICE like black ant up and down her gangway, the upstream laden with "Im not !" Maclle banged bla small, heavy boxes, the downstream kand upon the table to emphasize Two million pounds No harm can be done In minted money wa thua transhie words, bj hiding the bawblee. Theres on); ferred from tne dhow at anchor in one place we can hide them and the nearby harbor to the hidden bide ourael. If were to be raided." submarine. "I do not think aha will carry it, On the wharf. Docnot also with a full crew," aald Doc- tor Oestler, excited by many glasses tor Oestler. of champagne, grasped the arm of I,eHe tha to me," said the llacllea aa the Scot came down the Scotsman truculently. "Stick to gangway. Shut your mouth, your aln province, doctor. If I say he replied ihe can carry It the can carry It" roughly. "Dlnna sail wl me If ye Be stood np. ha doubts. Ito a I" he said, Ive cad for orI tell you, Mac," said the doctor ders, because there's no one else hoarsely, she Is overloaded; Ha?" here to gle them. Theres someMacllea broke away from the deI canna tell what it taining hand. thing wrong. Is, but our course la plain. Im for But the Austrian physician was transshipping the gold to the sub- not without supporters. Leu Chow, marine and standing by wl' all of the hands to submerge at the falrst stood by him. "I agree with the hoot o danger. Now, whos wl' doctor," be said In his monotonous me?" tones, that only two tons should A gpneral roar Indicated that all be shipped." sere with him. Go to h II" He brushed Len It's only us of the crew have Chow aside and passed on. An Arab boy came running. A anj thing to be afraid of," he But when the Chief re- launch from the gunboat waa head tains If he does retalrn, he can Ing for the Jetty. . . . There goes the last five thou only thank ua Theres a Breetlsh sand," said the Wasp; and. raising warship . . ." his voice; All aboard!" he cried. Ilis words dramatically were Do ye tali?" MacTles asked by the sound of a distant Oestler. The Austrian gunshot. Macllea looked down at Doctor I looter Oestler, whose face, suddenlthought :Money opens many doors, ha? There was no escape If he rey, had grown very white. "The Ianther," he said, calmly. mained ashore. The Marquis and She'll be putting a boat aahore!" the Pasha plainly had deserted the sinking ship, and the danger must The establishments controlled by have been great, ha? since they Tu'an llee See, wherever they had left two millions of minted money behind them?" might he, had one notable characDoctor Oestler nodded briefly and teristic, there was a secret entrance and exit In the case of the walked np the gangway, followed Cafe M.igrabl, there were two such by Macllea and Chow. They entrances and exits. One opened slipped out to the open Sea. Oevt-ler- , upon a narrow lane at the hack from the forward conning towInto an old house which adjoined er, saw the threatening gray lines the establishment of Hassan. And of H. M. S. Panther lying half a while British and American agents mile outside the reef. Len Chow had wntched the cafe, Eileen waa gave the order to aubmerge. Only taken Into this bouse and offered through the periscope did that doomfor sale I ful shape remain visible. When at about two oclock, Daw-oThey sank lower. Doctor OestIlnlg arrived, the dingy shut- ler ran down cramped iron ladters of the Cafe MagrabI were der. He (tumbled and clutched. dosed. They can never see the periThe party accompanying Haig scope!" he cried. Why do we subhad these shutters down In s trice. merge so deep?" , . . The whole fabric of the underIlalg leading, they dashed Into the dirty cafe. Where there had been water craft shook suddenly and a matting curtain leading to the quivered. short corridor beyond, a stout woodMac I" Oestler screamed, dew en door now showed. They broke perately Chow I Gott I . . . Were It down. This was the sound that, aground I" The Scotsman stopped his mingled with a gurgling shriek, engines. had formed Eileen's last waking Other voices came, dimly at first memories. then raised to shouting pitch. wooden 'ilalg dashed down three Doctor Oestler," said Macllea, Eileen!" he cried. steps. Mr. Len Chow ye were right In He was on bis knees beside s s Were overloaded. ye said! pathetic white figure, half draped Theres five fathoms between us and His teeth Godi by a dirty coverlet. sunshine, and no human powclenched In furious anger, he drew er can raise ns to It. Wero buried It more closely over her and eagerunder the sea, wl two million Thank God I" he ly bent hia bead. pounds an oar sins!" whispered. . . . Thank God I" d The was doorway Haig gave one last glance at the crowded with faces. Mac-Ile- s ghastly the before' girl's pale face racing up sprang to his feet, dropped to step upon the other aide of the room. The door was barred. The sergeant hurled himself at It, and the first Impact of hla two hundred pounds did the Job. 17 empty-hande- light-floode- d second-in-comma- con-tinne- d n n Iron-frame- Upstairs, sergeant I Take three The palace surpassed anything which Lieutenant Markham had seen or Imagined. The female Inhabitants, huddled In cushioned corners, were staring wide-eyeat d the Intruders. Lieutenant Markham, pressed on through more and more extravagant apartments . . . snd suddenly found muscular arms about his neck and tearful dark eye look- ing np Into hla own I Oh, thank God, I see you.!" cried Celeste; "But tell me quickly Is she safe? Is she safe? the little girl Eileen who was here!" She means Miss Kearney, str," said one of the party. The American lady who disappeared In Port Said." Lieutenant Markham, looking Into the quivering face, suddenly understood. "I am sorry, he said, truly aorry. But I have no newt of her. But, I think" as the womans massive figure seemed to become limp she Is safe." One of the right sort, sir," said the former speaker. She could give us a few tip." "I can give yon no tips, my friend," Celeste replied sorrowfully. All I know Is what happened these walls." She waved eloBut In that room quent hands; there " ahe pointed dramatically to a narrow door paneled in dull in that room there, this gold morning, something happened. . . . I think a good thing." When the locked door wav broken down a horrifled group stood on the threshold of a room entirely paneled In gold lacquer. Lying across a divan covered with black cushions, delicate Ivory body gleaming through the fine texture of a silken robe, lay Orange Blossom her downward hung head ghastly because of the blood which had drenched It. Great G d, sir!" came a hoarse Some wild animal has whisper. been at her look at her throat I" Darling!" Dawson Haig whisOh, my darling! Thank pered. God I" Eileen opened her blue eyes and looked up at him wondering. Then, with a slow smile, she twined her arms about his neck and drew his head down to her breast. Dawson Haig held her tightly. He bad done much and gained mneh. At last, he had Justified his quixotic He had choice of a profession. fashioned a stepping stone, he knew It, which would carry him from the criminal Investigation department of New Scotland Tard to the goal of his ambition. He had been Instrumental In breaking np a formidable organization, a danger to . the dvlllzed world. A Keneh was being combed. Air force pilots were watching all roads to the Bed sea. The camel corps were at Blr Ambar. And the secret base was In the hands of the navy. What Is It, my dearest?" Eileen whispered. He stroked her thick waves of Nothing, darling," coppery hair. he replied. But, save for one glimpse In London, he had never yet come within reach of the Thing which tore human throats . . . and, somewhere deep down In his mind, he seemed to hear the high, batlike laughter of Tuan Hee See. THE END. IN THE NEXT ISSUE Patterns of- - Wolf pen pe The woman who has children' Is the richest woman In the world. No matter what her ether problems may be, if ahe la surrounded with daughters she can work her way through to happiness. By KATHLEEN NORRIS worthless husband la always with us. It very much at the moment with Kate Ranger, who writes me from a farm in the middle west. She doesn't know what to do about Judd. Kate Is thirty-five- ; she has four children. Boys of fourteen and eight, girls of ten and four. They have a place three miles from a mall crosa-soad- a town; tha children come and go to school, movies, dentist and church In a Ford. An Indian woman lives on the place and helps Kate; an old Chinese does farm work for hia board and a few dollars a month, and invested capital, fortunately placed in Katea name In a happier hour, brings her In $200 a month. With what la raised on the farm and sold from the farm she is prosperous; her children are all darlings. She herself does church and club work, has two married brothers on neighboring farms where little cousins can come and go; altogether her life would be all in order but for Judd. Judd has always oeen a weakling. He drinks; he rolls dice and plays poker when he can get bold of any He borrows. He makes money. Kate ashamed and his children ashamed. Not always, but often. Usually he drifts idly about the farm, sometimes fishing, sometimes helping with cherries or pig packing but generally quite idle. Kate buys him tobacco; she won't have one drop of liquor on the place. Not with Juddy almost fifteen, and Judd like he it. He isnt ever violent when he gets drinking, she But he's dreadful Just the says. tame, arguing along gently and wanting to interfetp. He'll sometimes be in the car when the children come out of school, and you can imagine it isn't Very plea' ant for them. Its a terrible thing to say, but they don't like their father, and its his fault. We hear him snoring sometimes when they're doing their homework, and they'll look at each other. I dont allow any sauciness. Judd will help with the dishes, sometimes, or sometimes hell be real Irritated and seem to feel sick. He goes off now and then for a couple of days and Im just at my wits ends to know where he is. His friends are the town bums, and twice one of them has tried to borrow money from the children. 'Tv made it matter of prayer, concludes this troubled wife, and it seems that maybe I ought to divorce him. I dont know where hed go or what he'd do, but its all wrong to have him complicating the childrens lives, when he doesn't contribute"one cent to the household, or do anyone one bit of good. He's awfully fond of the baby, and I think she'd miss him, but a child that age gets over anything, and 1 could explain to her some day that her father was just the one thing that kept all our lives from being THE IdeaL Well, Kate, since you ask my advice you're going to get it. Its this. I wouldnt divorce him. I'd forget that I ever thought of divorcing him. I see in that idle, boozing, weak, disreputable father of theirs what Is perhaps the most important element you can put into your childrens lives. An ele- ment that makes for strength instead of weakness in them; for salt instead of too much sirupy sweet In every possible way Id make Cousin their childhood delightfuL parties, charades, theatricals, picnics, long walks, swimming afternoons, candy pulls, house-partieId have a table out in the yard under a tree; I'd have Juddy build a little grill near it and have many You a summer meal have infinite sources of pleasure in the possession of these sons and daughters; make the most of them. BUT keep in the picture this man who demands tenderness, patience, courage, character, assistance, forgiveness from them all This is their great chance to show that they are not selfish. are not living onjy for the chocolate bars and the Mickey Mouses; that when life tests them they can show generosity and endurance. Appreciate once and for all that this poor weak idle fellow has lost what makes life sweet and bearable to all of us; hes lost your respect, his neighbors and his childrens respect, and, worst of all. bis own respect, so pity him. Treat him honorably, and make the children treat him so. No teasing, no reproaches, no regrets for s. A Gripping Story of Kentucky Pioneers 1 In a long, low hangar, which from above (from an airplane, for example) resembled no more than a mound In the desert, the German C boat bought for breaking up purpose by an agent of Tuan Hee See three years before, anJ lost" owon ing to the parting of a, tow-roher way from the Australian yards, laJ under floodlights suspended from the root Two streams of negroes poured, tions for making them; material requirements. To obtain thia pattern send IS cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept., 259 West' Fourteenth St., New York, N. Y. Write plainly pattern number, your name and address. rizon. XII Continued men! Send three more after me I" Haig, ducking his head, raced down Into the short tunnel which led toi the house of the potter. He found himself in an empty lobby, ran up wide staircase, and Into a saloon with shuttered windows. One lamp bumpd above that divan upon which Eileen had been submltted to the Judgment of the chief eunuch of His Serene Highness. He crossed (to a door approached by steps, and pushed It open cautiously. On the threshold of the room lie fell back. A man lay upon the floor In a pool of blood, his throat torn as though by the fangs of a wild animal I Till was how poor Norwich died I . . . The Thing I saw In London Is here somewhere I But the rathole was empty, from moldy, -- decaying roof, to sticking" cellars The only person, other than Eileen, found on the premises was Aswaml Pasha,' his Jugular pierced by curving teeth, hla blood pumping out'from those ghastly wounds. And Haig thought he detected a faint smell of musk. . . LJ The Inhabitant HEE SEE LAUGHS Copyright a sax rohmer to Meet the worthless HVSBAND PROBLEM " n YU A SAX ROHMER how By HARLAN HATCHER The Patterns had lived at Wolf-pe- n for four generation. Loving the land, proud of their heritage, their daily routine a design of tranquil. Independent, simharmony, of a gracious, cultivated practice snd truly ple of life. .But the outside world nt dotes In. Industry, crying for more timber, inarches into the Cumberland bringing ugliness, disease end violent death. But beauty is not altogether lost. For the lovely Cynthia Pattern, at least, there la an Intimate rewarding, an exquisite compensation WATCH FOR THE HRST INSTALLMENT the man he might have been. Have his chair set to th table, hi bed nicely made, his wants considered. Ha la your Say to the children: father, and you owe him all thia, and say to the world as little as the world need hear. Tha effect upon the childrens character will be only a little less startling and beneficial than the effect upon your own. Peace and harmony will reign where irritability and Impatience were before. This maundering old derelict is your red child sponsibility, as a would be, and the moment you accept him bravely la tha moment when ha ceases to be too heavy a burden. The wore he Is, In fact, the more strangely exalted you and his children will feeL Tha more provocation the more glory in overcoming it. Suppose there were another gentle old loafer and drunkard In town whose two lovely girls you met Suppose those girls spoke --of their father with charity and dignity, can you not see how much finer an impression they would make, than if they had glibly explained that mama had kicked daddy out years ago? Suppose that oldest aon of yours has a wife that is something less than perfect some day. Isnt it going to bo the greatest inspiration to him to remember mothers untiring devotion and dignity? And suppose some gallant young drinker presently comes after that oldest daughter? Remembering her father is she likely to bellevo his promises that he will instantly reform for love of her? I dont think half-witte- o-- Ihe woman who has children the richest woman in the world. No matter what her other problems may be, if she ia surrounded- - with sons and daughters she can work her way through to hapiness. Nature has made women that way, no matter how much economic independence, divorce, birth control seem to tree her, they are only fresh chains holding her from what is real; the love, the care, the glory of her children. Kate, whose letter I am answering, is richly blessed in four who are all darlings, and secondarily fortunate in that her income, while modest for a city woman with four children, is ample on a farm, and is in her own hands. She can go straight 'ahead, knowing that the drinking and gambling propensities of her unfortunate mate wont ruin her home, as they have ruined so many homes. The momentary sense of relief she would gain when shameless old Judd was finally ousted would not compensate her for all the wretched complication and humiliations and that inevitably follow such a step. The moment any wife takes it she commits herself to a policy of self Justification; she cant allow any neighbor, nor even his children to hint that there waa any good in Judd. Nc, Judd was impossible. Impossible be was to remain. 'When young Judd say Member the Christmas when we were all sick and daddy carried us she downstairs to see the tree? has to answer in quick Jealousy: 1 made daddy do that, dear. Daddy would never have thought of it! She may bate herself for having to take this position, but it wont do to have them making a hero of their father. Kate has only experienced somewhat sharply what many women endure in milder formic the disillusionment of discovering that a human being ia not a god. She thought life with Judd would be different It turns out to be just taking care of a man who Is a failure. But her children are a living delight that will live on in theilr children. Tiny and serious in the nursery over bottles and socks; eager around a Christmas tree; sprawl- on mountain tops ing brown-leggeor sandy beaches while the chocolate pot boils, growing up and bring- ing her their love affairs, how glorious they are! father their in their Keep lives, Kate. You will be th loser, and not he, if you send him away. Accept the shadow with the sunlight, and you'll find that a sorrow well borne has a way of deeper.ing the Is pin-pric- d Joy. ... For ourselves as well as our children its a good thing to follow the advice of Brownings old prophet, and welcome each rebuff that turns earths smoothnesg rough. The children who have conquered a hard and shameful and difficult situation at home are going out into the vorld some day ready to meet other dragons. 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In pattern r'i1! (609 you will find a transfer pattern for the four animals; instruo- wOt-a- v baj eoe-tbtr- d. 1 -- Rn-f- QQfleQOOOQD Temptation RESIST temptation once not a sufficient proof of honesty. If a servant, indeed, were to resist the continued temptation of silver lying in a window when he ia sure hla master does not know how much there is of it, he would give strong proof of honesty. But this is a proof to which you have no right to put a man. Thera is a degree of temptation which will overcome any virtue. Now, in so far as you approach temptation to a man, you do him an injury; and, if ha is overcome, you share hia guilt Dr. Johnson. TO SALESMEN REINDEER VENISON JERSEY la retie begs. Salesman wanted for bear and conL trade. BFRT PHILLIPS CO., Tie S. R. UTR AYE PORTLAND, ORE. Your To run Your Stores Our community includes the farm homes surrounding the town. The town stores are there for the accommodation and to eerve the people of our farm homes. The merchants who advertise ipedale" are merchants who are sure they can meet afl Competition in both quality and prices. MEAT PERFECT AFTER 8 YEARS IN OPEN ROOM ar likewise flaky. How can yon tell whether or not tbs meat Is thoroughly smoked? But If you want to ing, Someone should tell Mr. Ripley this story that comes from John S. Hill, storekeeper In South Carolina. "I have now hanging on the back door of my store, he writes, a strip of meat smoked with FIGARO Condensed Smoke EIGHT TEARS ago. This piece of meet Is ribbed belly, about 18 inches long and 0 Inches wide. It Is firm, sweet and sound as a dollar neither rancid nor spoiled In any manner, and has kept perfectly these eight years. FIGARO la the finest thing I have ever seen for smoking meat I have been using It ever since it was first put on the be SURE an your meat win keep perfectly right through the summer market" month wash It thoroughly after (Signed) John 8. Hin. it comes out of the cure and brush over Mr. Hill has to FIGARO, Condensed Smok buy the meat he every square Inch. FIGARO peneIt keeps meat from drying cures, so he can- trate not sfford to lose out It positively PREVENTS skipany of it Tet the per green mold, or rancldnes average farm Flavor? Youll say the meat la the does lose 50 lbs. finest you ever ate. And the cost Is d cent per pound I every year, be- less than cause the meat HAS SMOKED OVER TWO is not thoroughBILLION POUNDS OF MEAT Durly smoked. More than 80 years ago, 8. Euing cold weather, gene Colgln, Texas fanner boy, dismeat Is a simple matter. covered bow to condense smoke to keeping But when aummer cornea, or a warm liquid form. With addition of a few spell during the winter, look out Ingredients to Improve the flavor, Rancidness develop Ton suddenly etc. It Is called FIGARO Condensed find the meat alive with "skipper" Smok Since then, FIGARO has or worm Green mold appears on been used to smoke more than two It Or It dries out and harden billion pounds of meat i Tour dealer size Thorough smoking Is the only has It or can get It; in known way to prevent an these (enough for 500 lb), $1.50: or th trouble But how? Everyone knows 16-six (enough for 250 lbs.), how uncertain the old smokehouse 1.00. But DON'T TAKE CHANCES i method i Other smoking Use FIOARO on every pound this method or substitutes for smok year. Adr. Belleve-It-or-No- t" one-thir- 32-o- o d THE FIGARO F1GAE0 Condensed COa DALLAS, TEX. Manufacturer of Smoke Products Smoke Smoke-Baite- cne Sauce-Saus- age Seasoning the RflEWIHIOlUSE ii A Distinctive m Residence Mr J. H. 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