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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH HOUSEHOLD QUESTIONS salt from fish in a fish for a while the wash hurr, milk. sweet in . . To remove HUGHES By RUPERT CHAPTER VHI Jebb insisted. And not Cecilia, but Cynthia. Rosen tossed the circular to Jebb. Oh Lord, Oh 'Lord! Jebb groaned, theyve misspelled the name. He looked further. "And She got the description wrong!. doesnt look a bit like that!, The search has been useless, useless. Suddenly Rosen was startled by a new idea: Yota say the childs real name was not Baxter, but Thatcher? . ; , Yes, Thatcher. he put his .Any relation to hand out to another pigeonhole for a card, to John Thatcher, of Ber- Continued 10 i Jebbs eyes the man was utterly a stranger, but Mr. Rosen no sooner saw Jebb than a smile began to quirk his mouth corners. And his greeting was: , Whats the trouble this time? Oh you refer to the time I was here before. Naturally. Jebb stood in embarrassment. You havent lost your passport again, have you? Im afraid I have. Well, it hasnt been found. If it turned up the police would have forwarded it to us. Say, you must be lin? ", as rich as you say, for you pay Thats' her father. fines just for the fun of it. Where Is that so? have you been all this while, Mr. Yes. How did you get his Mr. , Are you trying to say Pier-pon- name? It was like this. A few weeks ago a Turk who keeps a little khan Pier-pon- t, Thats it, Mr. Vanderbilt in the outskirts of town came in ' eh? with a Gladstone bag here Jebb nodded. Tell me, Mr. RoA Gladstone bag? sen, you remember that little child I Yes, same style as the one you had with me the time you saw me? now that I come to think of carried, Child? No. You had no child The Turk Hafiz Mustafa was his it. with you when I saw you. Ill not went to America as a name he soon forget the first picture I had of wrestler once. He can speak and Word came here that some you. Yankee was in trouble with the cus- read English a little. He came here toms house. Its a common occurrence. Americans are forever bouncing into Turkey without the indispensable passport. The consul sent me down as usual to get our out of hock. I can see you sitting there now. You were very haughty. I thought at the time that perhaps you had been indulging a little in magnificent water. You sat there hugging a Gladstone bag and threatening to report the customs inspector to your particular friend the Sultan. I had a Gladstone bag with me? Yes, and the fellow had found some suspicious looking documents in it. Everything looked suspicious ,in the days of the old Sultan. You said you had come to Turkey to buy something I dont reihember just what. So many Americans come here to buy things. Anyway, you didnt have a passport and the inspector wanted to fine you. You said Millions for defense, but not ,orte cent for tribute. I remember that. I calmed you down and persuaded the customs people to accept a consular guaranty and give you a new passport. And then you went .your way. Now youve lost it again, To . . t? . fellow-countrym- an j eh? , ! Youre sure, I had a Gladstone bag with me? Perfectly. It was full of blueprints and specifications and other dangerous looking papers. Where had I come from? n You. got off an steamer. Lloyd And you cant tell me where I Austro-Hungaria- got on? Look here, my friend, are you stringing me? Asking me questions about you whats this new game anyway? Lord help us, I thought Id heard about all the fool ques- tions a consul could be asked, but this is a new line. Why dont you cable to your friends in America and say, Who am I? Where was I? Where do I go from here? answer I see right away you are American. with a Gladstone bag full of papers. ll He told a long yarn about some American gentleman who had left them with him and never came back. The Turk came here to see about it. He wouldnt leave the bag, but he let us look through it. There were a lot of blueprints and mechanical drawings with the name of John Thatcher on them. And a bundle of clippings and letters. I made a note of the name and promised to keep it in mind. Where can I find the fellow? Ill have him here tomorrow.-- I cant wait to see him. Where ? is he to be found? His name is Hafiz Mustafa and he keeps a little khan out near the Adrianople Gate, close to the Mosque of Mirima. Better go to the foot of the bridge and take one of the Golden Horn steamers they run every fifteen minutes get off at Avian Serai, this side of Eyub, and then go west through the . Greek quarter. While youre up there you ought to see the wonderful cemetery of Eyub and the old landwall. I dont want to see any cemeteries. I want to see that Turkish wrestler with the Gladstone bag. Good cock-and-bu- . prepaid. It seemed inadvisable for Jebb to keep his secret from his angering countryman. Seeing that there was no one else about, Jebb hitched his chair close to Mr. Rosens desk and unbosomed his story. Strange delight of confession! Just giving voice to his old secret was an immense relief. Rosen shook his head with 'the sympathy most Americans feel for the clients of Mr. Barleycorn: Too bad, old man, he said, Im rather fond of the liquid myself, but . afternoon. 1 take it in sips. Dont waste time sympathizing j CHAPTER IX with me, Jebb broke in; think of j the child. At last the effendr is on the job! Do you know, I believe weve was Jebbs greeting from a source. another This from of her heard You mean shes ponderous Turk at the door of a You 'have! . . found? shabby khan. The man had all the No, weve just heard that she look of a retired athlete, whohe sinwas lost. We got a circular note ews of steel had degenerated into - from the American consul in Vi- swaddles of fat. on the inJebb He recognized enna. He had had word, from the stant, and he was big enough to be Austrian police. My friend von Hellwald put them rememberable on his own account; on the track. Have they heard any- but Jebb could not recalLan ounce ' of him. i thing? bustled about makMustafa Hafiz to Oh, no. Theyve just begun ' pretend to look. And heres the cir- ing coffee and preparing a narghile for his honored guest. He spoke cular. He took from a pigeonhole a sheet what English he had with a strong flavor of the Bowery, in whose enof paper. inforWanted virons he had picked up his smatit You see, says, tering. mation of Cecilia Baxter. How you like my little khan, eh? It isnt Baxter its Thatcher, i I j - i s , He is not so worse, I theenk, huh? It is beautiful, said Jebb, though he could not imagine a more doleful spot. , It is not soch a dam racket out here as in New York Ceety, eh? For long tam I had a how they say? a e on Washeenton Street. Ye's I get lots of the long green in America and I buy that leetle hash-houfrom an Osmanli who is home-seec- k for Stamboul. Bine-b- y I. get ' the homeseeck too. So at last I sell out for big pile of dough and come home. Eet ees not, such a much business here, but I can rest and theenk. Eet is' a small walk out to the beeg fields where the tombstones is nice to seet on and smoke and dream the nice long dream. And she is out there, my little hanim what I breeng from America. You, brought your wife from America? Jebb inquired politely. Ewet, effendim I mean, sure, Mike, I breeng her. She is dancer in music hall on Bowery. A Turkish dancer? Not on your life. Bo.- - She is. pure American blood; comes from the great ceety of Weesconseen. I see her dance one night. I theenk she is mos beautiful theeng what ever ees she wear the leetle trunks and the seelk tights and the spengles, and she stand up on her toes like she enjoy it. Bine-bshe ees love me, too, and we get married. She says she ees sick of that tarrible life, and so when I buy pretty leetle hash-houshe help me. One day she is make coffee in those beeg. boiler they have in America and the water spills over, and. she is tarrible how do you say? scalded. Her pretty face is tarrible burned. But she is still beautiful to me, and her body is still the body like a seraili from Circassia. But after that she hates to go out in the street. I tell her, You come home to Stamboul where honest wives is wear the yildirma the veil, effendim. The .veil is very kind thing. It keeps all women the same. Eet is more equality than the hat. Her name in Weesconseen was Annie Meetchel, but I geeve her neew name Osmanli name Nayi-meet ees one nice name yes? Jebb thought, 'yes indeed not so pretty as Miruma, but a great improvement on Annie Mitchell. I used to have. my. khan near the Egyptian Bazaar, Hafiz went on, but since my Nayima is out in grave there I like thees better. In evening I sit there and smoke and theenk, nobody is in hurry nobody, say, Get a move on, Hafiz!! ' The Gladstone they tell me you found it? where? The effendim? Gladdastone, What is' that? ' The bag the valise the that thing of mine, you found. ' After another thimbleful of coffee, another mouthful of smoke, Hafiz rose, and, entering the khan, brought forth the Gladstone bag. Jebb recognized it with intense delight. He wanted to caress it. It was the first material link to his unsubstantial past. . . He rummaged the contents with a sharpness of eye that might have offended a subtler Turk than Hafiz. All is there1, I theenk? Hafiz asked, and Jebb nodded as he recognized every document he had collected in John Thatchers cause. But he had cherished a wild hope of finding something more. With some embarrassment he asked: You didnt find ten thousand dol. lars in here, 'did you? The Turk smiled. The Yankees always joked. His politely amiable smile was more convincing than any other disclaimer could have been. Oh, yes, he chuckled, I find ten thousan dollars in a peegs , "' the rinsing water from milk bottles to water house plants. This water will make them healthy. hash-hous- se y, se a, , -- was still wearing the great sword of Othman. But it was after the people from Salonica had come down and made him call back the Constitution. - He took it off the ice see? When feerst the Young Turks is come to town some of the ladies think everytheeng going to be turned upsidown. They throw off the yildirma and go out to the streets, even to the theater. Some of them ride in carriage with their husbands. Some of them wear beeg hats from Paris. ' This make the releegious people mad like what if in New York all the ladies is wear bathing suits ' t on Broodway, yes? Me and some pals is stopping a carriage and telling a lady she better go home and put on her veil or shes goin to be very sorry. She is educated Osmanli lady; she makes poetry and writes a magazine, but she read too many French novels, she goes out in the high-heshoes, the tight clothes over the immoral corsets and her face is naked. She is scream when we tear off her big feathers. First theeng I know, somebody grabs me. I turn round; it is you, and you say: 'You beeg brute, Im going to break every bone in your body if you say one nother word to that poor child! The huge wrestler looked at the slender physician, then at his own boa constrictor arms, and laughed. There was no insult in his superior' ity. Jebb smiled, too, at the magnificence of this Vanderbilt-Pierpont-isand asked: Why didnt you beat the life out . el y, thees narghile! So you go and I stay. ? e, f Do not wrap silver in bleached linen. The sulphur which has been used in bleaching will tarnish it. 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Jebb sat in deep reverie, deeply dejected." Then he shook off the old sorrow, and prepared to go. He wondered what reward Hafiz would He decided to think appropriate. throw himself on Hafiz mercy: I cant thank , you enough, for finding this and keeping it for me. And now, how how much do I owe you? Look here, boss, Hafiz groaned, have I act like a piker, a panhandler, have I? I thought you and me was friends. I. was doin this as one American to a pal. Jebb took his big limp hand and tried to wring it. Excuse me," he said, Im ashamed of myself. .Let her go at that, said Hafiz; . - Has cold made it hurt even to talk? Throat rough and scratchy? Get a box of Ludeni. Youll find Ludent special ingredients, with cooling menthol, a great aid in helping soothe that sandpaper throatl LUDENS 5 Menthol Cough Drops ; r Seeing Myself . , I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself. 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When you git back to New York," if youll stop in at some Osmanli res.. eye. taurant down on Washeenton Street Would you mind telling me or somewhere and tell them . you where you found this? know me, and I was lookin well, Sure, Ill tell you, but not unteel and. sent my best regards theyll the boss has pometheeng . to eat. blow you to the best there is in the Oh, thank you. 'Ill go back to joint, and Ill call it square. the Bristol Hotel for, my dinner. I promise, said Jebb. And now The Breestol not on your teen-typ- Ive really got to go. Bo. It is so late you never HO tit, CONTINUED) get there. You must take a how did they say? a snack with me. South African Carvings He would hear of nothing else, Rock carvings at Klerksdorp, and Jebb was forced to resign him- Southwest Transvaal, made by a forself to the delay, hoping that per- gotten people 100,000 years ago, are haps some clew might yet transpirf to be made a national monument. to aid his further search. The engravings are the finest in Afterwards Hafiz began his story: South Africa, said Professor Van The day I feerst laid my eyes on Riet Lowe, chief archeologist of the to you the old Padishah Abdul Ha- Union, who superintended the fencmid whom Allah preserve! if ,it ing in of the kopje of red rock where please Allah and I hope it does not the carvings are. - .. s - of me? Hafiz smiled: I see right away you are American, and the Americans is so nice to me my Nayima is American, and the words you use they listen good to me. So I take your wrists and I hold you very gentle and talk to you nice and say in Eengleesh, Please, mister, kill me, but spare my life. You say, If you let that lady go, I let you live a little while. I turn round and the lady is already vamoose. The other mens is want to have your blood, but I tell them you are a friend of a friend of mine, and they go away. 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