Show A yellow me ale ji ie 0 o I 1 A bremy lane ly e ll 11 U r co 0 YOURE MAKING goedl john Ll alii ii a 11 purt t tory to ry abid a by atin the or 0 rich und worldly parents 1 jimr tr the cill of lue ini and d unite it lies they KH gri to LL a finall ii nall michigan city where john ellid anila k in I 1 a ae A e battory and on sundays writes ver t TU martins aly in ili vain to kd get the happy wirl to iame her hul huland hii and bind mary begins to breaths breathe fur t tuo john loses ills job 11 lie ppe aj in miln i to lo the ill mait maitan tins ln my M y goes ea to tile ani and never returns thus collies into tile sloay cornelius hiis alx lx ington tin till flaher li lp laita ita tm jovn and lid tile city farma out the child after tears to alie all father returns anil takes tits little son soil nith liim hini un oil ills world anderl the lather ln coines ill the taut ot of it il nj l dohk koresh with liloia of wine und and and it tullis ich ulah little con cn to the die on till ills alfea IN g 11 Hi con coil Is agail iK iiii braini aut hannib up in the adrid dr Id and lii 1 si i for by All andrew rc minli S inurn by wiy ay of introduction to tile hie ii lido ot I 1 the trine a endured of vellow mn sl sarp p th e I 1 lio aln when he 1 CL cull 11 tulles by forro fa a i l le leaton ar r sick ack arwil clar llie llila se ouk 1 of nil arice tills sack ck a ill 11 nese ill gnip lp of the gobi d cli I 1 Is pre precious clous beyond price to ili andiew anait melroi seara bear bror burnil 1 I men lie n in gobi GIA hail liken Sri nha wife alfe anil infant daug liter falini him IV now he sends fiends von din in ili f earch ti of th on oil the voyage doyag con cn ill tends d ch clicc e aling a fell fellow pager pas cli chee ming drugs con coil and slean meals ills hla map lint but con arc Ls on bottard sung Q CHAPTER IV continued 6 coarse food winter alland the long hours of caleel imd had darkened cons cheeks cli erks ill ills hands helped with the wood gathering ill at camp time or chopped the ice for tea hii wilter but the men of tile caraan re carded him us a it st ranor if alwy noticed ailin tit nt till nil was winter bound ka kalka I 1 ka partner alone made speech levington kt kept ills feelings to hini elf 1111 ili set mt ills teeth he anas lenn u tta n tartar and ami vms constantly on in tile the verge of a fever snow rose to the en camels niels knees nil and then lit in the third week of travel generally over north chinn the going nas slow and happ was to in he country tint but file lie hall nevi never with thi ir skinny shinny hocks at alii aion through it welter of if sanin ed ci snow the of hie ill caravan throe three lint tle turned southward heavy ich rice and tid stilt salt that grew brew enow prec precious lons nt ench days enil end they carrying on to the province af if origin e it at of wretchedness wretch ednes now no v nt n t sin clien chen ni nn illier nother party ans walting for the only lily reni aliling viall etli con coll to join hela the these thep P tui outfits millis matli blint of tic ho while litie limn continued oer it rond and the hnud was a dlila nt erry P ry nels foot it take saints finally lin illy tho the kulka ile to li know now cowther or not alvill I toll 11 flirl 1 biall icil V con cn gwok ill ills hend halt ili I 1 bui 1 it liuni later the hillka re Y you ou ell 11 no nothing to ill sell i ell nii amnon sered d the while krec ewh d fm fair ib lint it day laile in 1 tile llie NN 1110 li aimed llie ended the annil ich 0 lifted in ill ilist t con C in realized alint to morning ills compan jon iddis file two outfits of kiin gun would go K on oil to ill tind find their chii joiners 3 in those 1 choking lillas ills hut but flint lie ill would illel Ill fl not lot be with jill 11 the anika arned blin it a lust last time ae being now quite little fluent no good it at dan light it became clear that both outfits considered film it 11 fool with ills bl one servant con remained behind binl I 1 nd not tin an arm arin was malsed in farewell fit rewell not a fitce face turned toward the white in when their dust list lift had blown awny in ili tile the west wind and their little line wati reduced by distance to a mere crawling thing along the edge of hills levington turned to find fand his river driver weeping did you want to go along tile servant moaned and hid his face cold weather made it appear that uie tile clouds cloud of heaven avoided this part of the llie world tile sky was always pale levington gambled on tits his finn instructions twenty times tits his fingers stole into ill the hug bag to touch the torn edges of tits his packet and withdrew again andrew march had trusted him lie he had five pack animals arid and two cuddled sadil led there was grain to last until koroku Kori liU which wai as a village in these yellow hills a trading point of iden days somewhere at a distance beyond koroku westward and to the north lay illy shan sung it was to be crisp to hla his tills this Celest celestial ful son 0 of f firor lino never dreamed dren ined that the world continued so far west ile he was awed bt at the rock underfoot mider foot and the sand bilat swooped kinrd noting with Ing ingrown ingroia roii fear how the soil thinned and turned to yellow chalk as the tha hours im pissed ed it iva was the beginning of the aal dv divert ert unhallowed sim sha mo they ci vaine 1110 to it 11 thin fast river and foll followed med it its hanks to find a solid ford lit ill unwittingly unwitting they reached rea cheil the end rf of tile stream 1 l for it pitched downward into the barth swallowed up dr try with metallic gurgling the rock uns mas coll cold everywhere cui i n here around con stool stood tit at lie base of these rushing steril nt eril watching them plunge into the tilt pit sit it tits ills feet and till a sudden emotion flitted flirted over our blin it was fear abrupt lightly touching ili strove to think of sine sane ind and ordinary things laughed it avay while tits ills driver crept back to the lie boasts lint but lie was afraid in were two fresh dro diomeda ineda ries which levington purchased along with provision for ninn nian and beast and it a carbine lor for better luck ile he was impatient to tenth reach 1 ilhan sung lie was not nol sure how long lie he could hold out for the lie condition tion of tits his body kept him from frolli gal paining lillig strength stir ngHi it wits a light lit ho told himself corn com pared to tn alip tit p possibility that chee ming had written into slum shan sung ahead ot of him bini nua mid pissed on it lie felt a grave jace aci nci ps ity for in ili interview with that Cli Clil inise nee if only for n moment there would could need lie ile a quicker hand than liis ills own nn it if chop ming era were to go on mahout him A lind land that nitle ned into emptiness iliin anil and gray with vacant sky I 1 permitted tho the settlement named shan ung sung to exist cst upon its ils dry bosom in it past age an independent state it MIS it now it lord les and un hundred of human liui tinn beings being whose in n anted pr ogency moved solemnly lit in play lilay with tile vang days days das wor bere lint hot find nights cold and the air it a sucking invisible thing that blotted the moisture mol front froin ones bones levington was vas stiff ills camels straggled lit in from froin their own particular dir direction c tion since ince flipi line e waa ns no street or path by which to antor the state many uses lind had long ago crumbled down into lintn so imich gray erny rubbish but there wits was a score of buts made ba bItable I 1 16 0 0 4 he read this final instruction again and again liy by muel patches urill fro froin ill alie waterhole water hole liole which litch wag it 11 spring of sul III ooze in ili the venter renter of the village villa dust hall had wiped out enery color sand lew flew lit in the air lint but the wind whid wits was steady and silent the even bonien alio ho ciner emerged ged front from dwellings to look upon I 1 levigton ingwoll Ing toll were wastel af if alook hot boda v a biank blank of f fie a ce it was distressing to remember that once ellout eighteen years ears ago andrew mardi march had traveled into tills borderland border land with ills his Eith estlina Eit lina ria and th eliat R t in soot some P sit I 1 unholy it quarters off to the southwest her child lind leen been born these thee youngsters ild did not soni nall III they stared tit at him without u biering 1 a I sound and flung filing mud con felt no triumph in ills his arrival no traveler had passed tills lilt way pr sixteen moons pout the afternoon in learning this fag enil or of information the th last biad fill gone tile other way enst eastward Nard probably lily alipe sling ling on tits his anny to america but h by no possible combination of sound and sign could con make sure of tills eagerly Ila gerly now he opened the glen given blin in the march house lie he never knew how hillid gnudi pure plim liber lie had gained by tits his difficult honesty in ill this matter the document was you have passed all the places in ill which tile the truth might have hardened you an as the prime uncertainties are just ahead you will burn tills this as soon ns its you have rend read you share a federal commission with tile rue tin and our country countr adms dm s not lot lightly choose lier her agents chee hoe ming brought large p f tit ff f the daiil ani koresh to san francisco find and sold it ft lie he Is t to be traced and your our findings finding reported so that our chief can an make arrangement to cluck check this ills evil lit at its source he can do vry ry little little until you have something definite I 1 0 o report it its start lne point i ic slid and that means the starting point of 0 chi chie chee e aling upon your sour success v ill III rest the honor of ridding the world worl I 1 of 0 a deep gray curse I 1 wish you ou idd cod speed A M I 1 levington knew that his hand handi h ands i were 0 c trembling lie ile rend this fitial final ansti uc almi tl n again and again until every phrase was unforgettable able much of his friend came to him from the page the arld w rid wide significance of tits ills errand enand in tills this trench treacherous erous land con was humble before the trust of great america lie ile burned to do well the matter ni itter of koresh the deep gray gla curse aas ii not nt at all clear to him ile he lind an uncomfortable suspicion that in ile kildew km w the stuff afternoon was frightful with dust and sun glare night came coll cold vet I 1 not in the nature of a n relief con drunk drank a bowl of brownish g goat on t s I 1 milk ilk I 1 I 1 and cracked like a clila between ills his teeth a native biscuit ile he brushed the ashes from his lips and found hanl himself elf stat stating staling ing ot at nothing while the menning of his til mission llon grew larger within him So sonn thing tin had come at last to steady hini him the llie underworld lind ind always trusted him soi something not granted to many hut but now he was honored by bv the government authora t ty believed hel leed in hini him tested him alad ant si nt him to unravel a poisonous onous well web ile he recalled certain things lie had ball till t 11 andrew march almost amounting to tn confessions now abat 11 it lie he knew ills friend to tie ie a federal officer he wondered w d what mareli mut must have hae tl of if those it made ninda cin n smile I ile he le was a moio inore keenly aw nar in now or of the wayt w is in the elder mm mail ind hall studied blin li f fire re trying in in him in the present task lip he planned to valt lit it a week it if need ae 1 in ill IN hope that clive ming would lie III speculated tint that the chinese ball I 1 nl probably returned to to rv niilo lit his troublesome trunks so tic ic counting for delay dela in reaching shan sum it if tile the week passed and brought brou glit no nii tr moler levington meant to enter tile lie gold without a gnp lining glen given orders that fit his servant should have hae the lay dav to himself lie he turned over oer and napped again for th the remainder of the day there were plean pleasnt nt matter to think over until lie II discovered illson ered that ills his boy m hall had gone inking the two fresh beasts doubt less with till the aid of the villagers the old oil devil deill had fled hack back en eastward stward away aw a front tile the devils dells of the unknown lie fact that the village ll lafe was against hlin him did ill not depress levington as it anut formerly for merl have hae done now isow lie he lind ind to sustain him the assurance of ills his own country that lie he had been holen that wen men of power trusted hirn him the second day da lie he found foun 1 I himself quite generally ignored in the stony 11 9 lhost of a city although the old woman und and tier her two sons son continued to accept ills it sliver silver for food and a roof late in the afternoon of the third lily when nhen ills his patience was lining a came camel outfit appeared to eastward es it could not lie he his prod prodigal ignI driver diler con went forth to show hini himself elf ile he was done with subterfuge and tile the village hage offered red no concealment had he be to tilde there theio were halt half it dozen doen nien men in the approaching or on a closer look two men and in their servants se rants oil bobbing nearer ill cm camels clice chee ming wils lending heading the outfit he sat und under r a napping flapping sini ills his dry dr fae face wa was unchain tit nl though ills his soul bernine a cimis against the western youth auth ahn ball 1 nl persisted ili glinted ill tin of enes ees and the llie half smile nille t alie 1 ae of ills nuis inns ITIL cut eular ar an 1 nt 1 t but nit ni st t of nil lie ho longi 1 to lill lit the r and pent linclon or of cons iliin yet pt so fir far it us tile coull bunten ill when in he regarded its ills enemy alem belo I 1 el w ailin choo chi e aiming iming aln inight ini lit line have awen in i n in ili UK the net act of serving sen in coffee altee it at recil cecil hedgers Wed igei gers s elbow intend ansti id of ft I illig 1 sl iiii ben bent beast t in ahse outlands of mongolia mon 11 i put but thi ma gustei ster of the otan i outfit was wag a white man mail beneath eneith li it a sloping slop liin chinese Clil nese straw stian lint hat the face ins arity gin tind and strong an and touched with milne ss coni con answered the greeting of andrew march CHAPTER V on the right foot it was impossible to guess what rh 1111 thought if he lint been holding any suspicion against the white man who had ridden with hlin ailin from the yang 1 I gate it ws w is now flow I 1 insured n q ure d by Alti marcais liand clap with levington ive ie been waiting for our friend ming h hut ut I 1 hardly expect expected ted to s see v v you ou said con so I 1 should judge replied march sm smiling fling nut but chy why waiting he was on the ship coming over oer said iad con ile he put me under with ft a blow needle wid got my im map I 1 beat I 1 eat him this far by two das just to line have it a talk with him about it ah ives es said march or I 1 figured I 1 might ride on with lalni added levington that wits was rill all right hut but you vou will not need tile alie mop map and we can allow blin to go his way alone I 1 did not expect to pick you up so soon ther e was a shadow over levington end and the oder ilder man felt it quickly ile he ha hastened sten to add nothing wrong boy only I 1 could not tell you that I 1 should be just a few days das behind you ou nil all the way it t wits planned it would be just plain murder to to end one man inan alone out into that hut but we wanted you to think you u were wei going alone le youre nil all ellit I 1 w anted you to lend lead out to draw nil all the attention loa oil oh I 1 guess youve learned by now that your travels are not so private tita 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