Show ME GARLAND Wonderful Week by C S Forester CWNU Oopyrlsht Service) Co by uuB the story ' Harold Norman At ridge an orphan lives with his Matilda who reared him At bet death he flnds himself penniless At the close of the war he get work In a bank Taking a meshe sage to Marjorie Clarence flnds her father in the throes of delirium tiemens Harold promises to lake Marjorie Into the country next day They have an exciting day They tqiss the last On train back to London his way to his lodgings Harold sees a shooting aflray during which one of the pai ticipants tosses a leather case to him CHAPTER IV — Continued —13— Harold It was a nightmare flight the true nightmare setisa experienced tlon of trying to run from a blood while pursuer thirsty appurently with legs as limp as handicapped of sausages and seemingly strings with a cannon ball tied to each tinkle That was vhai it felt like but the fact of the matter was that Harold made surprisingly good time across He emerged thankMorley common fully on a road and doubled blludiy to beAll the time he heard the right hind him the footsteps of uncounted pursuers (three in all actually) No more shots were lired either because they were afraid of attracting attention or else because Harold did not make a good murk amid those bulky furze hiislies Harold pounded along half a mile of road hearing all the time the of his pursuers' feet a hundred Not once In all that ageyards away long flight did he see's policeman or a friendly civilian The streets were as deserted as they might be expected to be in a respectable suburb at two In the morning He run and ran Then at last gasping and stumbling he staggered under tlie railway arch into homely Sene Fell emerged auuu£ He spurted tlown the road to His Iateh key came miraculously hand and be had the door open he and he shut it again passed through lie heard before bis pursuers arrived them stop outside and he heard one or two sentences exetinnged in a forthe leaned He against eign tongue door choking for breath and then he heard the footsteps fade away agflin down the street He had escaped— from what and with what he was too utterly exhausted to care He bolted the door with muddled and chained precaution and took his weary way upstairs Harold sat on the side of his bed His clothes still gasping for breath were wet with sweat and his limbs lie sat with fatigue were shaking minutes some for huddled together until at last he could rouse h’mself to As for the leather pull off his shoes case resting on his lap that was beneath all notice at present he experiAfter a while however about curiosity enced a momentary the case and turned It over in his hands It was Just a small flat purse less morocco leather of soft brown than six Inches square and from the broken straps which dangled front It Harold deduced that It was Intended to be worn bandolier fashion over the shoulder Evidently the bearded and whose corpse gentleman spectacled lay out on Morley common had worn whence It It beneath his waistcoat had been torn by those who attacked him lie must have snatched It hack and tried to escape Just before he Harold opened It and drew was shot forth the contents Only a little packet of letters a dozen or so written In a sprawling mrscullne hand in a foreign Harold yawned prodigious language They ly and stuffed them hack again All easily could wait until tomorrow he wanted at the moment was to go to sleep He tugged off his clothes and left them lit an untidy heap on the floor Then he switched off the light and With a last glimmer of fell Into bed he pulled the morocco consciousness case for safety Into bed with him Then he seethed to fall ten million feet Into a cfIft of soft warm down Corpses and letters and p'stol shots: ears and caresses and k'sscs Harold did not give another thought to any of these CHAPTER Early Salt Tax The following excerpt is taken from the “Travels of Marco Polo”: “We shall now speak of the revenue which the grand khun draws from the city l of aud the places within Its Jurisdiction constituting the ninth vision or kingdom of Manji In the tlrgt place upon salt the most productive article he levies a yearly duty of 80 tomans of gold each toman being 80 snggl and each sagglo fully equal to a gold florin and consequntly amount to 0400000 ducats This vast Is occasioned by the vicinity produce to the sea and the of the province number of salt lakes or marshes In which during the heat of summer the water becomes crystalized and from whence a quantity of salt Is taken sufficient for the supply of five of the other divisions of the province" UTAH — reading of entries in Livingstone's Turks Shaken In Their Journal that guided Williams ss he Veneration for Koran has himself said to his discovery Arabic being a sacred lunguage of the Immense mineral wealth along have cried out the Zambezi divide Williams the ecclesiastics It Is 73 years since David Living- was Congo an against their holy book the Koran stone completed the first Journey Rhodes andearlyan associate of Cecil appearing In any other tongue But believer ardent In made by a white man across Africa the Turkish government has In spite' the railway scheme and that Journey had taken two But neither he nor Ithbdes was fool- of this allowed the publication of years Now following broadly Liv- ish enough to Foursuppose that a railway three separate translations ingstone's track from Angola to Mo- from the teen thousand copies have been Bold Cape to Cairo was an zambique a very different transconTurks who formerly heard the economic Itself in proposition The Tha tinental Journey is being made sounding Arabic of the Koran withfirst train to cross Africa from ocean backbone from line was meant as a out understanding of Its to ocean leaves Loblto Dow for tend on either which ribs would ex- meaning Imagined anything it charged with Two years bePeira a distance of 2949 miles by fore his death side Rhodes wrote “The tremendous and mystic meanings The Jourthe route of the railway That Impression melts away when Junctions to the and west coasts ney has been rendered possible by which will occureast Koran Is in the the vernacular read In the future will the completion of the western sec- he outlets It Is sometimes enough to place a fqr the traffic obtnlned tion of the route that from Loblto along the route of the line as It Koran and a Testament In the hands Its and the hay ty Benguela railway of a Turkish reader and leave Mm passes through the center of Afcontinuation through the Belgian rica" That was written In 1000 the to draw his own conclusions It Is Congo to the Katanga copper field— In which Williams got his first said that Kemal I’asli a In disgust a field which extends Into the ad- year threw the book across the room Into mineral concession In KatangH ToRhodesia northern of jacent regions day two "Junction" lines sre a corner Yet In the Sudan the priThe change that has come over this complete great and mary textbook in all the government as Rhodes foresaw land In a single generation Is re- they are hiking to the markets of schools Is the Koran and Islam Is drew- the tiie markable As diamonds In the world “the traffic obtained along gaining ground constantly railway from the cape to Kimberley Fa dun — Sunday the route of the and as gold drew the railway on to line" They are(main School Times also opening up the Rand so copper has drawn the lands rich In agricultural and minrailway to the heart of South Ceneral possibilities — London Times Gave Sound Reason for tral Africa Katanga but yesterday a thousand miles from anywhere alMultiplicity of Wives Electric Ejr Aide Blind most unknown tr the white man Is Maurice Hindus the Russian au“Electric are being used eyes now now the most highly developed provthority was tnlklng about his expeince of the Belgian Congo It has to “see" for blind persons in guiding riences in Russia Its them about their homes hy giving a considerable white population "In Russia the unrestricted divorce them a sense of direction as they law Is abused” mines have already exported copper he said "Its abusers The electric eye or don't think so though" and In move about to the value of f 32000000 Klisubethville It has an attractive protoelectric cell la made up like a "I lunched one day In Moscow with ith a small buzzer conwhich at the moment Is In- flashlight a commissar who had already had capital nected to its battery exaccording to 14 wives and he was only e dulging In Its first International Across hibition the border lf Popular Mechanics Magazine Conyears old “lie said It was tr Ids wives that northern Rhodesia there is promise venient electric lights are then placed And about passages and hallways partf an almost equal development he owed his success so naturally or icularly at turns Belgian whether In I’ortuguese the more wive the merrier He said The blind person turns the elecwithout his wives' counsel and supBritish territory the great change a as about havtric eye much person about been mainly by has port he'd still have been a s'ioetnak-er'- s brought British enterprise and with British ing bis sight would direct a apprentice When the device points to a 'Then he wound up with an epicapital source contact is made and the gram This Is as It slould be for the light buzzer “ sounds the ns As buzzer horn leaders of men’ he long The opening up of the whole region orig- is sounding the blind user knows he said 'are women’ ” L to the inated with the British Is on the right path courage and persistence of one man The Blamu la particular Sir Robert Williams No Data “Pools are born and not made” this change Is due then LivingHe— I say it with flowers but I "Yes blame It on the parents! stone was the true pioneer It was Tlicv get the blame for everything TJvIngstone who first kept open the grow them myself She— You do look rather seedy else road to the north and It waa the OUTLET FOR WEALTH OF CENTRAL AFRICA GIANT NEON ROOF SIGN Smch W Hospitality iiicsahitl 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Save You Money and and BUS TIRES Urortoaa Oldtald Trau Cu Criou fir Pair IfflltN Tree C$il Prioa Each 61795 jh $1795 2975 3295 1535 Serve You Better mel Oytters Always Populai Since ancient times oysters have been highly esteemed as a food they were cultivate) by the Romans early as 100 A D s HOTEL v $IZC V At Int'ervals of a minion years or In so some one persisted whacking Harold on the head with a red hot hammer Every time the mutHoned person did this Harold and tered turned over something Finally some one fired off 4 pistol luside his head and Harold awoke with He clutched the sheet a start and raised Ms head gazing stiffly around A jumble of 'dreams end mernhim Ills eyes orles revolved In his brain were ‘gummy and weary and there waa a taste In his mouth as If be had coins all sucking copper been night Ills eyes (raveled nncomprehendingly round the room until In the far comer they met the little pjg eyes of who was sitting up In bed staring at him amusedly “You've had a good night I should think” said Puddlngface said Harold "Urn— humph” and writhed he The action canght something He felt down In the tween his toes It was a leather strap attached bed to a leather case and Instantly he bethe events of yesgan to remember terday Some one had been shot out on the common last night from that some one Harold had taken this case half a dozen other people had chased him all round Morley Park firing a' him That was late at night Before that he Goodness gracious had been out In the country with Mar So Jorle and hehucH disgustingly had she Harold's brain hopped from one unpleasant sublwt to another like a cat on hot bricks What In the world had been going on on the com mon was more than he could posslhlv It could not hnve been understand a dream— here was the case to prove Nor could It hnve been the contrary acted for the films besomething cause thov do not do film photography In the middle of the night nor do the most realistic film actors fire loaded A furrevolvers nl perfect strangers ther examination of the letters might he Illuminating He hunched himself over on his shoulder so aa partly to conceal from Puddlngface wlint he was doing and extracted the letters under cpver of the bedclothes and began to read Two them facts became obvious They were In French and they were love letters Harold summoned up his matriculation French and began to read them He made slow progress for the handwriting was slovenly and there were numerous words Harold dl1 not know From the context hnwev er It slowly became apparent that they were words unlikely to appear In any dictionary In fact the letters were love letters of the grossest and most besotted kind ImHarold peered at the sigaginable natures and They were complicated web of flourishes enmeshed in a Most of the later ones were merely words of endearment — Just as a man sign himself "your ovvnest might ducky" if he were fool enough thought were definitely Harold— but others That name Harsigned with a name old decided after prolonged examination was Raphael Then came the turn of the adThe early letters were writdresses ten on printed paper from some hotel or other in Paris — to Harold one Paris meant hotel the same as any other Paris hotel — but the others were — to "Goodness gracious” said Harold himself for the second time that morning — were addressed from Le Palais Rol du Harold plunged into what he knew of postwar geography and managed to grasp a fleeting memory by the talk Yes was the capital of the Danublan kingdom of Lesser sometimes known as the kingdom And — of the Huns and) ’Avars gracious goodness — the present king of the flung and Avars was That Raphael Raphael Metapodivitch not explained a good deal although It explained of course everything to were risk their willing why people In letlives revolver battles for the ters for they would obviously be worth millions while in blackmail their publication would mean at least a revolution and maybe a war or two "We’ll be late for dinner If we’re not careful" said Puddlngface casually sticking a leg out of the bedclothes “Dinner?" said Harold He looked at his watch but for the second time In three days be had forgotten to wind It "Past twelve said anyway” reaching for his trousers (TO BE CONTINUED I GARLAND TIMES Copyright JMt Ths rirwtoo u :y s' TIrs A Rubber C x - |