Show AO to W W JL aa aj leb e 0 P by JEREMY LANE Copy copyright Tight by the century C company J EITHNA MARCH synopsis john levington a poet islo nary and and mary martin the daughter of rich and nd worldly parents hear the call of 0 love and unite thir their ellve they iro go to a small michigan city where villere john finds work in fit a stoe factory and on en sundays writes verses the martins martina try in vain to got get tho the happy wife alfe to leave her bus husband band mary begins to breathe for two john loses his job ile he appeals in vain to the martins mary goes to the hospital and never returns thus comes into the story cornelius levington the father leaves town and the city farms out lit the child after two years the father returns and takes his little son with him on ills his world wanderings the father becomes the slave of a mysterious drug drue koresh with odors of wine and cinnamon and returns with little con to die on hla his wires grave con Is in again tanned farmed out grows up in the under underworld orld and la Is saved for better things by andrew march so much by way of introduction to the hero of the strange adventures of yellow men alen sleep these begin blien ahen con takes by force a small leather sad sack from chee ming the chinese cook of f an acquaintance this sack contains a chi achl nese map of the gobi desert which la Is precious lyond price to andrew march CHAPTER ill III continued 4 when repairs were finished the unpainted sloop nosed out of the bay and breasted tile the tain cless blue abe captain had whipped lapped three chineis into the he crew and the lad loved them the mate also swedish but inclined to 0 o had bad frightened wo two negroes up from the back rooms of the city to add to the quota A hindu wild eyed find and bony hauled at the sheets fre frd pausing to weep at his own onn ignorance on these later occasions tile silence of it the mate was broken their conk a s salty ally irishman whose life was for some reason forfeit for felt in the gold districts above the bay cursed with a frantic might his goodwill good will to tile newcomer new comer coiner stephen march when tile the boy confessed in himself a line of celtic blood stephen was happy his days were filled with strong drink ballor find dr dreams eanis tile captain had bad read three books iu in english aud and he now re read id them again aloud to his midshipman they mere i ere the alie travels of marco role polo I 1 ft a fathomless treatise on the art of toxins toxin and the 13 the pages of th aliese ebe three golden goiden fragrant and terrible were written afresh in n the eager listener lie ile strove to conceal how they bit his pride tie ile slaved at tile ropes with tile he yellow N ellow men and sometimes laughed with them but they watched him in with narrowed eyes and a IoNi lowerins erina of the chin and even donegan at the stove practised practiced more careful ways in stephens presence in tile evenings there were nere tales of china and tier her deep mad deserts les erts vague yet irresistible these yellow strands were drawing him to mid asia lordliness stirred in ills his breast the loyace iosa e was tin an affair of months kale gale cut but stephen march had mado made his own inner annor arrival but atut lie he wa waa twenty when he re reached ached the inshan in shan mountains beyond the china wall the caravan had left him im at the village khan for they were turning southward to cross tile the elvad g ho bo and proceed upon the hotan ho tan plains pl ilal over it a trail that might once have heard merchants Nhi whispering spering the news denns ol of jesus here march waltel waited having no gold then with ith the urgent mysterious summons still haunting him he was wag forced to turn his bak upon tile the desert and return to peking for money the english girl iri whom he married in hi tile lie square city of 0 peking found in him the quality of they prospered together when lie was twenty seven lie ile went neat again to the gap gal in tile the long wall in the north ile he had bad camels and provisions and a radiant heart the unknown treasure beckoned A dim remembered throne seemed walting waiting out there but the sleeted sheeted storms of winter printer orne mime against him and his caravan diminished until the robbers fell upon them and left their bodies for the wolves when spring should come only one other returned with stephen march his calney chin ly boy who had gone mad with desert fears the english L wife was in mourning and a small child MOS as learning to walk in the garden court of the peking house then the tl three uree of then them went to america where stephen found much gold and tits ills L englishwoman had less difficulty in teaching tile the mother tongue to her eon con andrew she longed tor for her lords and their nays IN RYS many of them long ton since turned to quiet dust in some abbey and the spirit of england must have heard for she was taken into the bosom of that assembly her death sharpened F the old desire in stephen and when andrew was sixteen father and son lino bad journeyed together to the far city of peking pekin and to the great wall and the plains of ilo iio tau andrew march had told levington af pf f that hint so charged with beauty ev auf 0 r bow the cerce heat of summer had withered the beasts how their inspired trail across the sand crusts and along the rim of gray Ps pits hall had been dotted with fallen men and camels tho the traders had warned them chern and cursed their purpose but they had pressed on away from the trodden routes to north and south straight into the west always biest westward and to the north until it a party of dusty horsemen had ridden them donn don robbed them hem and turned them back parley was useless andrews father spoke j a language they understood let ct they gave but one reply broken with defeat the white man and his son and two drivers returned to tile village of shan ishan sung their camels ie ees es were black and loose with coining death andrew march when ailien he was thirty left his fattier father in peking and started westward Nesti ord with a summer caravan ills his wife wont went with him a highborn high born irish girl who refused to stay back something ething lu in the great gobi cob had magnetized her as well ivell her lovers quest was tier her own she loved the twisty old villages of the interior loved the fog over the millet fields the peasants who nho went about half dead with age and disease and she was ready to sing nhen lillen tile the sun came through upon the dripping tiles of a farmers cottage but she could not stop in the pleasant lanes lines that wandered up from the marshes like andrew in whom she believed she was yearning for th the e secret of the desert though she could give no reason in the world we are exiled she had said and possibly she thought their exile would end if they could find the heart of Alon mongolia golia through that memorable summer she ile had ridden beside her husband andrew march planned a southern approach front from the clien chen tan breal break in the wall where here the forests are thick in autumn the camels grew fat find and the winter months found them p plodding lod through the rain and snow of tile the sheltered ridges spring came and the wanderers N ander ers turned northward following the clearings through the woods Eit Elt hnas heart beat hl high b but as they journeyed the trees failed in the rocky earth and an unreal summer stiffened the spine of every camel came the sand blazed on all sides sparkling upon worn ivor n ro rocks ck S andr andrew C w lind biad striven to smooth all things tor for his eithna she laughed at his worries she was drawing closer to the heart of beauty and romance they halted in a bleak settlement ar a 0 stream had once passed now but a muddy spring remained midsummer beat into their bodies Elt hnas child was boru born the only new clean thing within a thousand miles perhaps the immensity of sky the staring emptiness of the horizon of affected the rosy newcomer there was no wall wail of sorrow from tier her tin lips only a deep drawn murmur in their hut the tartar woman gaunt and hairy was an unsuspected miracle of tenderness and sagacity in the following spring when the glare of the daytime was accompanied by swelling heat andrew with ital his wife and child set forth again there was no trail the camels were nvere uneasy un andrew was worn ile he longed to go on its as ultima did yet the impulse to turn back was strong within him but she had told him lightly ind and perhaps truly that eliat china to the south and east cast would be quite as inconvenient an and much mile less sanitary than the pathless land before them the child gravely regarded sand rocks and the clear sky and learned to tough laugh happily iNh whenever enever andrew came to take tier lier A doll was made of silks and a jackal bone A shining lizard was also added to the march family for tier her entertainment the beasts grew thin and dry the wind wood a monster serpent of the air swept before them ind and over them reddened the camels eyes cies and darkened their hlll in Elt hnas cheeks checks tile the color deepened and she refused to turn back andrew lost count of the days two of tile the pack animals were killed for food anti and drink and a third went down tor for the lack of the same the baby girl prospered and E eithna fibula whispered tier her songs under the starlight of 0 a grotesque world the riders came from out the west a little to the north they appe appeared a r a dozen or more huge men mounted on short logged legged horses shaggy and half vald they were silver eyed men hueu their movements as incomprehensible as their word they circled about the young father and I 1 OSS as they drew in closer lie he was ready to fire on them and fight it out but hii legs became suddenly rod Fud denly weal weak ind tile the sky reeled earthward and when ile he awakened it was deep night the desert was silent and horrible ills body ached felt thick and clumsy then lie he found the tiny feathered dart still clinging to his shoulder there they had blown it the poisoned hurt under the skin andrew had been unconscious con fur for hours and tile hie child were ere sone gone madly he be hichel tile the camel ond raced in tile the pale fur far larbi of nf tin fill heavens he thou gilt he roell fillou the tracks of nf the hoi bus il I 1 aus ku alili to do to so without difficulty but found to his terror that each rider had bad taken n different direction radiating out from the point of attack ue ile did not know w to follow ile he was alone sanity left him the camels whimper ib imper ed cd olid and started back the way they had come andrew roused from ills his delirium in the hut where his baby helen haft had been horn born and the familiar bearded female was watching him fever had held him in this hut tor for I 1 nany many days from caravansaries caravan saries to the south he gathered up camels and men and horses and provisions and started northward again in search of his own most of the men refused to ride with him film beyond the trees int into a the forbidden land bright eyed alarm prevented although a few consented to accompany the while man mail softly moaning meaning wind nind covered their tracks as they went they moved in large irregular circles always northward searching until they deserted andrew for a madman stephen march came to find his son on and ended these desperate wanderings ne he pieced out the story andrew could not toll tell and gently guided him back to peking A ransom was raised great enough to impoverish the house of march now to carry the ransom to the riders rider came the british expedition and its failure Is still on the tongues of certain old timers out of thirty stalwart sweating sun helmeted men four staggered back to shan sung with a tale of skin wounds that brought bitter death and whole mirages of hell their mou things were not taken down officially tile the stories were tinctured with lunacy so decided tile wise listeners at the legation eithna eathna march was anas never found in eighteen aenis eais some of tile the bitterness had faded out of this for and andrew ren march ills his ways were as recondite is as those thore of 0 LIs rather fattier tits his tie desires sires far flung in shadowy worlds to him eithna was lest but not forever uis his 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 jee if it aint con levington sorrow was never a blank ile he realized how completely an easterner lie he was how bow oriental in character vos Os unit that it gae him a chinese patience about the time that con levin levington agton was finding the deep places of america and dipping lu ID rather freely for a young person andrew marahs attention bad centered upon chee ming newly arrived in dory street tills this chinese shared liis ills business with no DO man intentionally march had been so light a shallow shadow upon him that the attack in the house was a real surprise levington had biad worked delicately ind and march permitted bini himself self to hope as lie had not dared hope tor for eighteen years ears lie had seen a pecullar peculiar promise la in till the way levington had made that Stara stampede tiede down the street in cincinnati con was close cloe to the elements element R had imagination V vigor 19 0 r a and nd a tough laugh in him film ere cre centered now all the hopes of an unhappy nun man on oil the night train con secured a Sc section tion and as ti precaution slept iu in t c upper berth lie inel inserted led himself self between bet weri the still stiff brown pu aullman I 1 blankets and stared for a moment up into the close curve of tile car root roof lie he thought of the small rn map p against his ribs tissue thirl thin in it its tiny leather sack resembling embling rc a mongol charm lint but in this till ca case utilitarian rather th ahin tin religious r so marked as to guide him and of tile the two unusual nun whose whole rueS messenger lie he was and had filled alie fit pouch in his bell with lion heavy v y coins 1 n and paper bill tile lie ili ica f I 1 ulf lull of hie e rushing 1 11 train hip 1110 flicking iino orly of tile leals lep ls tile hie fresh freh all air ihna slit sli t in through ilie b vt annl falleur rie au organ ism newly tuned to health and lev ington tell fell asleep he took his next mornings mo edings wall wali along the swaying aisles from abandoned caution and ami to coach ue lie felt again a sense ot of well being tho th breakfast coffee had bad been good the ue he liked t ti train tra in was long nud fast stretch lis his legs ills spirit rose while awaiting awalt lug his turn in the bar bers chair he saw a familiar figure swing into tile smoking compartment con felt the jerls jerk at al his nerves the man was short and stocky with a very large cigar dis figuring hla his mouth in a browncheck brown check that youth tc his his appearance despite the gray bris ties es that were cropped above hs his ears beneath the rim of a brown derby jee jec if it aint con coil levington said the flashy person throwing out a stubby but newly manicured right hanl hand how are you stub ii never finer son its great to set see you where you been keepin your self they tell lell me you are battin th allf strait and narrow how about it I 1 who told you that returned lev ington with a tough laugh dont we all know it exclaimed stubby taggart aint saw you al the club since christmas was down cincinnati way said con aware of another backward rut rub on his nerves im no good in cold weather Neat ber 11 but you sure do eat up them nights in spring aint I 1 saw you do iti it connie 1 when the weather Is wooly wool and soft and the winter alloin goes off your taster faster and you y on feel a drought comin on last you till snow fles again stubby cackled with aith head thrown back until the derby was in danger the other men in the compartment found it difficult to be as |