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Show ' w ..... ij. Cheeps jjfag i ftwinMYt":fM3r C)Uu1;jJ- - ataxia. curred to ire that I might as well shin up me of the palm trees, and see whether there was really anything In (.his talk of a launch. The pulra 1 had chosen was tall, but a little bent with age, 1 had not much difficulty in wriggling my way up luto the crown. I waited for clear moon light, and made my survey. "flush P I exclaimed. There was undoubtedly a launch. If one may so designate a fine thirty or forty ton boat, schooner ringed, and fitted with an engine; well able to make the run to VuliMtralso, or anywhere else, In competent hands. She was lying some way out at sea, on the leeward side of the Island, beyond the Inner lagoon. I could see a dinghy, like a little black water beetle, creeping landwards from her side. "That," 1 thought, "will be Black I wonder what the two of I hem will make of It when they get together?' And the thought so Intrigued me, thai I fell to Inughlng, and nearly tost my hold. But when I got down safe to ground again, I was more than sobered by the thought that cam almost Imme-diately "If what he said Is true If he hus given a man called Black a thousand pounds, and expenses Crumbs, what expenses they'll bet-- to run him ou.. of this, there must have been dirty work somewhere, and I'm mixed up In It" 1 could not help remembering, somewhat unpleasantly, the remark about "five years on the breakwater." Omega, I must tell you but 1 will THE STORY On pleaaur trip In eastern water, Philip Amory. tcnsltah World war veteran, now a tradar on th Island of Papua, Naw Guinea, plunges overboard to save th lit ot a mualcal comedy actress, known a "tiin-Slln- Amory becomee Interested in Hla Laurler, member of a wealthy New South Walea family. tie telle her of hie knowledge ot a wonderful fold fleld on Ih is-land, though ba doea not disclose th name of th place. "Uln-Sling-tell him Pla la engaged to Sir Richard Kanshaw Amory, however, la confident that th girl la not Indifferent to him. HI holiday ended, ba arrives back at Dam. Ha meat an English-man, Splcer, there on develop, nient bualnes for a syndicate of which Fanahaw Is bead. slipped out at the bark ot the tus-sock, and showed my head. "Yes," I answered, aware that no man could Identify another In thai light, under trees, at fifty yards dls tan re. "What the devil are you playing about, then?" "Don't .'ant to be seen," I answered truthfully. This seemed to satisfy him, more or less. "Is the launch there?" he asked presently. I said It was. "Go ant. get everything ready to start I'll be down In two minutes.' This was awkward. I could not be sure of safety, once I left the shelter of the bushes. Black might be Inches taller or sh irter, pounds heavier or lighter, thnn I. I hesitated, uncertain what to da It seemed that the man In the but could not endure delay. "What are you messing and waiting about f he demanded, with an oath. "If I'm caught, so are you, and It's Ave years on the breakwater." ("So I'm supposed to be committing a crime. I wonder what?" I thought) tell no more than I must belongs to a power, which has a short way with offenders against Its rather Draconic code of laws. I didn't know what you could be sent to the breakwater for, but 1 knew there was one, In sn Omegan port, and I guessed that labor of the Portland Island kind, conducted under a tropical sun, was likely to be the kind of thing a wise man 'Should avoid, at any cost CHAPTER IllContinued There are such things as warnings; and if ever I felt a warning. It was then. I felt (how shall I out It?) that this place was not good to be In. There was a personality about It every oni. ha felt such things, though few care to say so and It was dis-tinctly hostile. Of course, that did not stop me from exploring; I had to find out where we were. Further, I was wet through, without s change; It was a tropic night, but tropic nights, with blgb wind blowing, can be unpleasantly cool, and I shivered a bit as I tramped the rough, blown grasses; I should have been glad it a bouse wherein I might take shelter, and find somebody's clothes to borrow. I rather thought the Island was Inhab-ited. In the moonlight, I had seen traces of footsteps, or what looked like footsteps, In the grass 1 I had seen a pile of coconuts heaped up at the foot of a pnlra. . . . It would have been about twenty minutes after landing, when I was getting well warmed up with exer-cise, that I ran across the houses. They were two or three only, mere hovels thrown together of brushwood and palm. - They seemed to me to be semi-aliv-crouching, as If afraid of my 1 thought tbe matter out at length I could arrive at only one conclusion. Whole knowledge was better than half. Whatever the risks might be of plortng yet further this odd, unpleas ant place, It would be well for me to find out as much as possible, as soon as possible and (but that went with-out saying) get away as soon as pos-sible afterwards. Once more I climbed the palm; swung out among the clashing stems among the swaying butts of the leaves, and looked for the launch. She was off, a lung way out to sea, 1 saw ber gliding, black In the silver path of the moon. "Good," t thought, and slid down again. A few minutes rapid walking found me once more among the little, sinister houses, with their horned gables and their air of being huddled together for some evil deed. Tbe but thut had been lighted, was dark now. I lit a match, from the small reserve I always kept In a bottle, and looked In. 1o one was there. The place bore signs of hurried desertion a stretcher bed overturned, with bed-clothes flung on the ground; a cabin trunk gaping open, and gutted; piles of gray ash suggesting papers de-stroyed. ' In the middle of the floor lay a loin-cloth and a shirt of coarse cotton, bright yellow, with black spots as big as plates. - I stood In the doorway and looked, till my match burned out I did not strike another. I walked away, and left the deserted but to itself. And once more, mastering as a drug, and heavy as a dream, came over me that definite presage of ill. In the little bollow there were fif-teen other houses, all small and rudely built of bush material. I looked at them for a minute, swallowed in mi apprnuch. It may have been this fancy thnt urged me to take care, walk delicately, as I neored them. Host were unllghted; from one. how-ever, came a faint red gleam through plaited walls, Somebody, within, was waking, while the rest of the Island slept. The wind had risen, was still rising. It made an intolerable clamor. Masked by the nnipe, I walked right up to the house wall' and peered through a chink. I do not know what I expected to see; something astonishing, certainly but wlinlever It may have been, It was less tmazlng than the reality, I saw a white man like myself; a well-bre- looking man, with a beard, brown eyes, and wavy' brown hair. He was dressed In a most extraordi-nary rig loincloth and Jumper, such as the natives use, but of a pattern never worn by any native of the Pa-cific world, yellow, with spots of black as big as dinner plates. Ugly, con-spicuous in the Inst degree nnd so coarse in texture that its folds were stiff as ennvus. "Ought to last a lifetime, that rig," I thought "Bad sort of thing to go shooting or fishing In: anything alive would spot yoti a hundred yards off. Why in Tiphet does he wear it?" The question was no sooner asked than answered. He wasn't going to wenr it any longer than he could help. He hud been busy rucking a He Made a Snatch at a Revolver That Was Lying Beside the Bag. ' The freakish devil that had possession of me prompted me to reply at a venture. "What about the money?" This let loose a surprising flood of profanity. I Judged that Mr. Black, whoever be was, bad been exacting In bis demands. "Money?" (rlery Interval.) "Money? What do you want? Five hundred al-ready, and another five when you land me In Valparaiso," ("Crumbs I Val-paraiso In a launch I" I thought "Who has he been murdering?") "And all the cursed expenses Into the bargain, and you want morel" "No," I shouted across the wind. "No. I'm going off to the launch." The conversation, 1 thought, was growing' too exacting; not much longer should I be able to keep up my end of It and then, there was that revolver, in the hands of what seemed to be a desperate man. A cloud was coming ver the moon. 1 waited till It touched, then made a bolt "Hurry up," I shruted, as I run away, devout-ly hoping that be wuld do nothing of the kind. This," I thought, "Is clearly an Island .'nhahlted by criminals or mad-men. Tet 1 haven't, beard of any con-vict station nearer than New Cale-donia. I give II up." I was almost back on :he sea beach by now; it oc- - throat for something very like fear had me and then, thinking no longer, bat driving myself as one used to do "over the top," In the hour after dawn, I found a coconut stamp for a torch, lit It and carried It, flaring furiously in the diminished wind, to the first of the houses. The door was not shut I held tbe torch above my head and looked In. I looked for quite a long time at what I saw. mak-ing sure that I understood it and that my eyes had not Ir any way mis-led me. Then, dashing out the torch against the ground, I fled for the see-the clean sea. It seemed to me that to be drowned In that clean sea would be a fate a man needn't quarrel with a fate ten thousand times better than the horror I had left behind. (TO BB CONTINUED) small hag, when I looked In; now, snapping the lock, he began pulling off his hideous shirt, and loosening the loincloth. Hung up on a rafter beside. him, I saw a European suit, crumpled and earth-staine- it looked almost as If It bad been buried and dug up again. The crack was narrow; 1 stretched forward to look through, and mnnaged, somehow, to stagger against the tlimsy hut wall. It creaked and bent In as If It had been made of paper The man must have seen It move; with his arm hai; out of his shirt, he made a snatch at revolver that was lying beside the bag, and swung round, eyes glaring (Ike a cat's when It sees prey, to face the spot where I was standing. I did not stand long. Covered by the noise of the wind, I bolted as hard us I could go for a tussock ol hibiscus hush, and dropped Into !f By tbe time the man had got out of the but, I was lying low, safe among the Inter-laced stems, and peering through. If I died for it I was going to know what all this was about ' There were dozens of tussocks near the house; he must have seen the futility of trying to search them. He stood in the doorvay, outlined by tbe smoky flame of his hurricane lamp, and staring wildly about The spotted-leopar-clothes were fastened again; they looked very odd, with tl.t socks and boots he was wearlrg, and the hat he held In one hand. It was a hand-some, well-bre- d band, but the little finger, I jot Iced, bad a defective and iiroken nail. "Black," he called In a cautious Voice that scarcely carried through the wind. 'Black was that your I thought be rather hoped It was Black; was arguing witb himself that It 'ouldn't have been anyone else. A freakish humor seized me. I I THE MOTOR QUIZ J T Bow Many Can You Answer? j 1 Q. Whut are the most com- - I mon causes of skidding? 5 i Ans. Sudden changes' In dl- - I j rectlon; quick and vigorous ap- - f plication of the brakes; sudden X . appllcatloD of power; unequal J 7 tire or brake pressure. J Q. Why should chains be re-- J 5 moved after roads have become J dried? T Ans. Chains wear out rapidly I Z od dry roads and the car Is J subjected to unnecessary vlbra- - tlon. J Q. How have good ronds Im- - 1 proved educational facilities io 2 t the rural areas? 2 Ans. More thnn 42,000 busses 2 T now transport 1,250,000 children t X living In the rural areas, puttlDg 2 their educational facilities on a T X par with that of children living J J In the city, T X Q. How often should spark J 2 plugs and breaker points be ex- - 2 amined and why? X 2 Ans. At least twice a year. 2 T Too wide gapping of spark plug J X and breaker points causes an 2 T engine to miss, preventing J X speedy acceleration. 2 i BETTER GARS IN ) NEEDHADS Greatest Improvement Must Come Through Building j Better Highways. (By E. B. DUFFY.) Competition Is bringing the motor-ing public, which Includes about citizens of the United States, almost unbelievable values. Elgbt-cyl-Ind-cars are coming within reach of those who because of worldly cares must conserve the contents of their billfolds. Automobiles are being made better and better, and of parallel Im-portance, cheaper and cheaper. But there is one thing wrong with the motoring picture. More has been ' done In creating speed and comfort In vehicles than In providing highways over which they may best operate. To say that automobile manufacturers have done all they can In the way of making cars efficient would not be quite true, for mechanical Improve-ments are to continue. But the great betterment that Is to come In motor-ing cannot be accomplished by motor car manufacturers. More well paved highways must be built and by John Public. Automobile Ownership. The saturation point of automobile ownership is as elusive as a bootleg ger's address. In addition to the re-- I placement of some two million worn out cars each year, the total vehicle registration Is being Increased by a million and a half. There are now some 20,000.000 cars on the highways and bywaya and by the end of 1930 the registration will bave mounted to 27,- - 000,000. It Is difficult to visualize the im-portance of such large figures, but they do show that the motoring ap-petite Is far from being appeased. Most cars are owned In population centers but they do not stay there. Hence the highway problem Is not only statewide but nationwide. Few states have really made an at-tempt to serve the motorist but those ' that bave made any commendable headway have done so through the aid of the bond Issue plan which en-ables the state or local community te purchase roads In Installments, as homes and cars are purchased by In-dividuals. Meet Highway Problem. To meet the highway problem most ,4k, successfully it Is necessary to make use or assured future Income. Plans of various states Indicate that greater a use la to be made of the bond Issue plan. In the meantime motorists In those communities evidencing little road building energy will continue to be deprived of true motoring co-mfortat a greater motoring cost than their neighbors. a i mm II ptfifiBftfilMlfil ! i &M v ' r Aa n A.I. Ij'IIfiW Ailing; Jlgifj : CHILDmU , Are you prepared to render Erst aid and quick comfort the ' J.'1 --SjiSIsTZ moment your youngster has an i 1 (Mt&zZzL , upset of any sort? Could you do . H "".T!"' 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When your kidneys feel like lumps of lead ; your back hurts or the urine Is cloudy, full of sediment, or yon are obliged to seek relief two or three times during the night; If yon suffer with sick headache, or dizzy, nervous spells, acid stomach, or If you have rhenmatism when the weather Is bad, begin drinking lots of good water and get from your pharmacist about four ounces of Jad Salts. Take a tahleepoonful In a glass ot water be-fore breakfast for a few days and PISO'SV 'Jyrr. Pleasant. SOOth- - banian nnnmin-- n ir I iog and healing. Excellent for nanaM children contains no liSUiSmt opiates. Successfully KiOifTJ "ed for 6J years. 53c ImntiiAmi and 60c sizes. your kidneys may then act fine. This famous salts Is made from the acid of grapes and lemon Juice, com-bined with lithia, and has been used for years to help flush and stimulate clogged kidneys, to neutralize the acids In the system so they no longer are a source of Irritation, thus often relieving bladder disorders. Jad Salts Is Inexpensive, cannot in-jure, makes a delightful effervescent Iltbla-wate- r drink and belongs In every home, because nobody can make a mistake by having a good kidney flushing any time. L;,...,...kva t :. Colds come suddenly. You can often end them just as quickly I Take Bayer Aspirin the moment you've caught one. A single sneeze should be the signal, or the first sign of congestion or headache, or soreness. Exposure to cold and wet isn't half so serious when youVe learned to protect yourself with Bayer Aspirin. , For the speedy relief of colds, headaches, neuralgic or neuritic pain, and even the acute suffering caused by rheumatism, there is nothing so sure and so safe as genuine Aspirin tablets stamped Bayer. They make a marvelous gargle, too. See proven directions in every package. ' Aspirin J the trad marie of Bayer aaaautaetara of Moooecaticaddaitar al SalleTtieadd : 1 jiajeiaajia a Are yon satisfied with what ypnr Np) &r mirror reflects? Does it show a C 1 akin clear, healthy and beautifd? SL""i g Consistent use) of Coticnr as-- S1 sure yon och a stifyin refleo 4 tion. Cnticnra Soap iecleansm' k Jk-- and antiseptic; Cuticura Out- - zoent keeps the akin soft and f jft smooth and tbe scalp healthy; jfi ' , Cotieurn Talcum impart a dainty and refreshing fragrance, J f Sop tSa. Ot.l.iil tSa. tmi Mm. Taleaaa tie. P..llMM ' ' 1 1 tttm Pwag e Chantoel Cparta.. Saa, Meat Mechanism Erected at Berlin Roads Crossings Night scene at railway crossing in Berlin, Germany, with the new sig-naling apparatus functioning perfectly. The mechanism was erected at all the railway crossing to eliminate the I:'" ' L.. ; fi 1 Light Flashes Warn of Danger. danger from the trains which took a toll of several hundred lives last year. Usually a white light flashes but the approaching train establishes a con-tact which changes the light to a red flash. Test Har StraB(-t- h First A young woman In a western state la charged with strangling ber mate. Tbe moral Is; never marry a woman strong enough to strangle yon; there are times when all ot them feel like It Roanoke Times. Soviet Needs Sack Patriotic Soviet citizens Just now prove their patriotism by gathering up ordinary sacks and turning them over to the government The collec-tion of grain baa been hampered to a considerable extent by the lack of sacks. Detroit Police Combat Car Exhaust Nuisance This business of having to breathe oil and n fumes every time au-tomobiles pile up at a busy Intersec-tion Is one that has made Detroit offl dais, at least, tired. An official of the police department, viewing the situation with more dis-gust than alarm, has decided that It Is entirely due to the carelessness of the car owner In not keeping the car-buretor adjusted properly and the en-gine reasonably clean. Cars of today, he declares, are so refined that reason-ably good adjustments will prevent this nulsnnce. As a result police are going to see that offending motorists are disciplined. "if Good Judge of Distance Important for Driver Are you good at guessing distances? Ton aren't the best auto driver unless you are a good Judge of distances. An interesting little experiment that will show you how accurate your eyes are e or how they deceive you when It comes to Judging distances can be per-formed with four nickels or four quar-ters. Place the four coins In a row with their edges Just touching. Now move one coin straight out from the others until you think you have the same space between it and the others as there Is across the original row. To see how far wrong you are meas-ure the two distances. To your sur-prise you will find that you are almost the width of a coin too far away. The Illusion Is produced by the empty and full spaces. The Pathfinder. AUTOMOBILE FACTS The most discontented boy In the neighborhood has left the filling sta-tion and Is now a soda clerk. As be hands you a ginger ale, he asks, "Any oll7" a a , Application of a little grease to the parking cord will prove of great In tlio remnvnl of a hpnrlllirht lens to replace a bulb or clean a re-flector. e e e When It Is necessary to drive with a weak front tire, place It on the right wheel. Should a blowout occur tbe car will then swerve away from on-coming traffic. e e e A sunflsh caught In the Atlantic has a brain only as large as a hazel nut We assume Its position in the submarine traffic was similar to that of the Interstate bus. e e Marked evidence of the noticeable trend toward engines of high com-pression design provides one of the most Important developments of the year in the automobile Industry. May Have Needed It "Bad a new request today," aald tbe bank cashier. "Not an unreason-able one at that" "What happened r "A girl stenog came In and asked me to fortify a check." Louisville Courier-Journa- l. Apparently "Does your fiance love you for your-self alone?" "Well, he doesn't want to bave any-thing to do with my family." ... Automobile Prophet Was Wrong on Congestion WInthrop Scarrltt writing In Har-per's Weekly In 1907, made a forecast for the future of the automobile In-dustry, which, In many particulars, proved his ability as a prophet He predicted that the automobile would stimulate tremendously a good roads movement; that It would give city dwellers a new Sunday afternoon di-version, and that It would tend to break down class distinction by sup-plying cars for both rich and poor. Tet, on one point Mr. Scarrltt guessed wrong. "The horseless car-riage," he predicted, "will solve the problem of congestion of trafllc In our city streets." Visitor's Request Left City Manager Guessing "Take this man where be wants to go." he said. When the car had gone the dty manager confided to bystanders that ns a mutter of fact he couldn't bave told the man bow to get to the Ingle side address, either, and that he'd look It up right awny. Norfolk The city manager stepped out of the City hall and stnrted towards his otlica A man carrying two beafy grips addressed hltn. . "Pardon me," be said, "how much do you know nhotit this tdwn?" "Why. I am fairly familiar with ft," the city manager replied. "Why do you ask?" "Well, I've asked three policemen how to get out to an address in Ingle-slde- , and they told me to. take e bns on this street." the stranger said. He was perspiring, somewhat, and It was evident that be was not a little peeved. "1 got on a but and the driver told me be didn't go thut way at all. I want to know Just where I stand, anyway "All right etr," the city manager replied; "yoii come with me," And the city manager took one grip and started down the street He stopped at the heulth department called an Inspector and told him to get a car. NEW IDEA IN AUTOMOBILE CONSTRUCTION A new idea In automobile construction a novel three-wheele- d car which weighs but 200 pounds and can travel at a speed of about 60 miles an hour. - It la built similar to a motor cycle and has the engine behind the driver. --Folk" As used In Old English, folk Is a collective noun aieanlDg "people," hav-ing a plural of th suae form mean-ing "peoples." li. later English, the plural form folks was Introduced. In present usage, the two plurals bave become diffe'en'lated In sense, so that folk means "peoples," jr. as a "people," and folks, especially with an adject! vp (widely used In spite of the drawing room fastidiousness of some writers), means "persons," and th two are uo longer to be employed Indiscriminately. We say, "the conies are a feeble folk (not lolks)"; "the old folkj (not folk) a home"; "Folk-lor- e (that Is, the lore of the people) Is an Interesting study." Literary Digest Speed in Reading Prof. Walter B. Pitkin of Columbia university stated that there are great differences In the speed of reading In different classes of society. Toung uewspaper men catch with one glance of the eye 4.7. words, while experienced editors take in as many as 12 words, which Is more than tbe ordinary news-paper line. On the other hand, engi-neers, who deal with things rathei tnan with words, have an average eye-gras-p of only 33 words. Tbe engi neers are credited, however, with re-taining the meaning In a passage of 100 words better than the men of any other group. Dirt Stopa Engine It frequently happens thnt an auto-mobile will stop suddenly and ail at-tempts to "make It go" will prove In-effective. Battery and all other parts of the Ignition, the magneto and spark plugs, seem to be In good condition and yet the car will not "spark." In this case the fault probably lies In the - contact brushes of the magneto. A 11 'ksmall particle of dirt, getting nnder the contact brush, will effectively atop the car In that no contact Is permit-ted. ..lemoval of dirt la the remedy. An engine that baa to labor in climbing a very steep hill In high gear Is often harmed more than Its owner's pride Is satisfied. Both the motor and the generator commutators can be cleaned by hold-ing a piece of sandpaper against them while In motion. e e a It Is rather too bad that the man who wrecked his automobile to escape two bandits apparently didn't succeed In wrecking either of the bandits. Immortal Hymn Rev. Henry F. Lyte (1793-1847- an English curate. In broken health, bad been ordered to take a trip to a more southern climate. After bis final com-munion service he dragged himself to his room, and before leaving gave to a relative a copy of the words rAblde with me. fast falls the eventide," which he had written, recording bis own feel-ings during the twilight of that Sab-bath day. Soon afterward, while on this Journey, he died at Nice, France. |