Show THE LIGHT THAT FAILED I II HD KIPLING Author of Mine Om hn leople The Plain Tale trout from th the HIM Soldiers Soldier Three L Ct te nop U of ol Preceding Dick a 3 young u. u when a u. boy Is left under the tho care caro of Mrs Mra a. a widow l Mutate a a. litho lit lit- ho miss Is also left with Mrs Jennett b by her iier ler guardian attorneys Mrs IS Jennett Jou- Jou nott nett Is 19 cruel to them both Tim Tho youth and tho tim young girl grow Krow attached to each othor other and when guard guard- lane Inns order her away to bo be educated thero there Is a n sorrowful scene between tho the two young youn during which they thy plight t oh troth Spoilt my nn aim said suld ho shaking his head There arent aren't an any moro more cartridges wo vo shall havo have to run homo But Dut toy they did not run They walked ver very slowly arm In arm And It was wasa wasl a l matter malter of or Indifference to them thom whether er or the neglected with will two pin pin-firo cartridges s In his Insl o bl blow blew blowup up or trotted trott d beside them for tor they had come Into a a. golden heritage and were disposing of ot It with all l the tho wisdom wis- wis dom of or all their year And 1 shall bo ho- ho Dick valiantly Then no ho Q chocked himself cIr I 1 dont don't know wont I shall be I 1 dont don't seem to be able to pass any an exams but I can make a awful ul caricatures tures tires of or tho the masters Hot Hoi ho Bo Do an nn artist then said suld olal le Touro always laughing at my trying to draw Hn und and It will ivill do you good Ill never laugh h at ut anything anythIng- you ou do he answered Ill bo be an nn artist and Ill I'll do o things Artists always nh want mone money dont dent they I Ive got a n hundred and twenty pounds a n year of my m own O My guardians guardians guar guar- tell teU me Im I'm to have I It wn wh n I como come of ot age That will be i to begin bellin with YAh Ahi Ah Im I'm rich said 1 Tro T got three hundred a year ear all nU my own when Im I'm twenty That's why Mrs 1 Jennett la is kinder to me mo than she sho Is Isto Isto to tu you ou I wish though that I had bad somebody t that at belonged to mo Just mo-Just Just Justa a father or a n mother moth r You Vou belong to mo said Dick forever forever for tor ever o and C ever r. r Yes we tO belong bElong tore forever Its It's v vry try ry nice Sho She squeezed d his arm firm The kindly darkness hid thorn thom both and emboldened because he lie could only anly just Sec bee tho the profile of or MaiMie's cheek with tho lie long lashes lashe veiling tho tim gray e eyes cys s Dick at the front door delivered self solf of ot the tho words ho he had been boggling over o for tor tho last laRt two hours And I love I-love love you Maisie ho said In a whisper that seemed to him to ring across the world world arId tho world that hat hatho ho would tomorrow or the next day doy set out to conquer There was a n scone not for t tho tio o sake of ot discipline to lo be reported when Mrs Irs Jennott would have fallen upon him first for tor disgraceful and secondly for fol nearly killing himself with a forbidden weapon I was playing with it an and It went vent off by Itself said eald ald Dick when the tho pow pow- pocked der-pocked cheek check could no longer longor be bo hidden but if Ir you ou think youre you're going to tu lick mc me youre you're wrong You aro are never going to touch me mo again ag Sit down and give ghe me rae my tea You cant can't cheat us out of or that anyhow Mrs gasped and became livid lI Maisie 1 said nothing but encouraged Dick with her eyes and ho behaved cd abominably all that evening Mrs ln 3 Jennett cnn e tt prophesied es led an Immediate late Judgment of or Providence and antl a descent Into later but Dick walked In Paradise Paradiso and would not hear Only when ho lie was going to bed bcd Mrs Jennett Jennett Jen Jen- nett recovered and asserted herself Ho lie had bidden 1 night good with dropped down-dropped eyes and from froni rom a n dist dist- ancel ance l If It you 1 arent aren't a gentleman you OU might tr try to behave like ono one said Mrs rB Jennett s spitefully YoUve You boon beon quarreling with It again This meant that tho the usual goodnight goodnight good good- night kiss had been beon omitted whito to tho the lips thrust her cheek forward forward for tor- w ward rd with a 0 lino fino air of or Indifference and was duly pecked b by Dick who tramped out of the room red as t tire fire rf That night ho he dreamed a n wild dream Ho had iad won all aU tho the world and brou brought ht it to Maisio In a a. cartridge box but she sha turned It over o with Uh her foot toot and Instead of af saying paying Thank Thant you ou cried cried- Where here la is the tho grass collar you promIsed promised prom prom- hed for Oh how selfish you ou aro aro II Then W wo we brought tho the lances Jances down thi-n thi tho bugles bUGies blow blew When wo we went to Kan two an an two Ridin ridin two an an two Ta- Ta Tara Ta-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra Ta ra ra- ra rara ra- ra rara ra rara ra rara ra All the way to nidin two an nn an two Room Barrack Ballad Im not angry with tho ho British pub pub- lie lic But I wish wo we hn ha had l 1 a few tew thousand thou thou- sand said of or them scattered among these rocks They wouldn't be In such a hurry to get at their morning papers then Cant Can't you ou Imagine the regulation regula regula- tion householder Lover householder Lover of ot Justice Constant Reader Paterfamilias and all that thal lot lot frizzling frizzling on hot gravel grael With a a. blue veil over his head hen and his clothes In strips Has on any man here a needle Ive I've got bol a piece of ot su ga r Ill lend you ou a packing f for r six square inches of ot It then Both my knees are arc worn through Why hy not six square acres while youre you're about It But nut lend me the lie needle and Ill I'll see atm what I can clin do with the tho lie selvage I 1 dont don't think theres there's enough to protect my lilY ro royal al bod body from frum the tho cold blast as It It iL What are you doing with that lint everlasting e sketch sketchbook sketchbook sketchbook book of ot yours Dick Stud Study of ot our Special Correspondent repairing his wardrobe said ald Dick gravely gravel as at tho the other man kicked off oft offa u. u 1111 pair It of ot worn sorely riding breeches and began to fit tit a square aquaro of ot coarse canvas over o tho most mOISt obvious luus upon open space Ho tie grunted disconsolately as the vastness of ot the void developed It Itse It- It se self elf I f. f Sugar iu ar bags ars Indeed III you fot pilot pHot- man thorn thoro lend me all ull the sails 0 of that wh whale t. al e- e boat A c head fez ned o head bobbed bobbe up In III tho the stern sheets divided Itself into exact halves with ono one flashing grin and bobbed Jobbed down again Tho Tue man of ot the tattered breeches clad only In a Kor- Kor toJI lol Jacket and a aray gray ray flannel shirt went on with his clumsy sewing while Dick chuckled over the s sketch ketch Some bomo omo twenty whale boats boats were vere nuzzling nuzzling nuz flux a sand bank which va wa was dotted with English soldiery soldier of or half lint a n. dozen doon corps bathing or washing their clothes A heap of or rollers boat boxes flour flour- and anti sugar bags and arm small showed where one of ot the tho whale-boats whale had been ileen compelled to unload hastily and a regImental regimental regi regI- mental carpenter was swearing aloud as sis ho tried on Oil a wholly Insufficient nl- nl of ot white whito lead lend to plaster up Ul the parched sun d gaping Gl scams of ot the boat herself S S I. I First the bloom bloomin In rudder snaps said he ho to the world In general l then tho the mast maet goes oe an then lien s' s elp mo me when sho she cant can't do else she opens out like a l cock eyed Chi Chi- n t ne'-t HA lotus Exactly tho the case easo with In my breeches whoever r you ou arc said ild the tailor without without without with with- out looking up Dick I 1 wonder wondel when I shall see sec a a. decent shop again ln There was no answer save nave the In Incessant incessant In- In angry angry murmur of oC the Ito Nile Ilc as ap asIt asIt It raced round a walled basalt bend hand and foamed across a CI rl rock ridge ge half halfa It a mile up stream It was as though the tho I I brown weight of ot tho river would drle drie e I Ithe Ithe the white men back bade to their own country coun cowl I try Tho Tim Indescribable scent of Nile mud in the air told that the tho stream was i falling and that tho the next few tow miles I would be no light thing for tor tho the whaleboats whaleboats whale whale- I boats bonts in to overpass Tho The desert ran down almost to tho the banks where whore I among gray ra red and black hillocks a I camel corps was enc No o man dared even e for tal a n da day lose loso touch of or the slow moving boats beats there hero had been no fighting for tur weeks past and anti throughout through through- out all that tIme tho Nile had never neier I spared sparel them Rapid had followed rapid rock rode rock and Island group Island group roup till tim the rank and file hud had long since sinco lost all nil count o of ci direction nn and er very nearly of ot time Ume The They w were N I moving somewhere the they did not nOl know i Wil h why to do something the they did not hut I know Before DeCore them m lay Iho tho lie Nile lIe Rut und at the thc other Ithier end of or It was ono Gordon GonIon fighting for the lie dear life ute In Ina Ina ina a town called Khartoum There were I columns of oC British troops In tho tIm desert I deserts deserts- there I 01 or In iii ono of Ot tho the man many were wore columns on the river there were yet ot more inure columns waiting to embark I on t the ht river there thore frost fresh drafts waiting ailing at al and there were lies and rumors running over o tho the face tace of the hopeless ss land hand from frum I to the Sixth Cataract and mon men sup sup- generally g that there must be loe bomo kOrnO ono In authority to direct the tho J general scheme of ot tho man many move 1 I ments duty ut of oC If that particular i t column wal to koon keon the thc whale boats afloat In the tho water to avoid old trampling trampling- on oil the villagers villagers' crops when tho the gangs tracked the tho boats with lines thrown n from rom rein midstream tream to get at al as much sleep and antI foot food oo as was isas I possible and anti above all to press on without delay in tl tin the teeth of ot the Nile Ilc With the soldiers sweated and tolled tho tilo correspondents of or the tho vp ne and they were almost as aN Ignorant as their But It Ii was ahoI all things thing's necessary that lint En England ut at breakfast should bo be amused and thrilled and Interested whether Gordon Jor on lived ell I i j jor or died or 01 half hall tho the British army arnno went to pieces In iii the sands The fhe S Soudun I campaign was a n picturesque one and ani lent Itself to vivid wort word painting Now ow and again a a. Special managed to get slain slain whIch which w iv was s not altogether ether a Q disadvantage dis I that employed advantage antoJO to the paper him n and moro often octen the to hand nature of or tho the fighting allowed of or miraculous miraculous mi ml- escapes which were worth h home at IS Hi pence the wor word Thero were many mOon correspondents with ninny many corps and columns columns front from tho tIm veterans who had followed on tho the heels h els of ot tho the cavalry cn that occupied Cairo In 52 2 what mb Arab ArabI I called himself king who had seen seenI tho the first miserable work worl round Sua- Sua I when the sentries were cut cul up nightly and the scrub swarmed with lo to youngsters oun Jerked Into Inlo the tle I business ut itt tho the end ond of ot a telegraph rap 1 wire iro lo tu take the place o of their betters loetters killed 01 or Invalided III Cool Tomorrow T |