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. equal asthma thud hit upon that break
in its roof whit' DrabPbly the
natives theanselvee, knew nothing et.
That dreaditul, silent soratetble
over ,the burning *rooks --would
DianaSever forget it?
One of her slippers was lost, the
other les soon put to ,shreds, and
The Love
of Two Men
By Joan Croydon
But a voice murmured her name,
and she eaw blue eyes ,beneath the
matted locks el hair, 'With a sob
She raised her spas andfelt them
fimnly grasped beneath the atnnpits.
Diana hardly felt herself being lift-
ed(
ifted( painfully and with agonising
slowness from the place of lite.r
prison, for her senses were reeling,
her eyes dosed.
But she heard Harty gasping with
the strain, upon his muscles, knew
ltelself placed gently upon the
ground, ae the man hastily laid a
Pile of brushwood and stones tupon
the aperture through which' she had
been drawn.
Then stooping, he 'spoke to her
imperatively.
"Oo ne, Dian, )haste is our only
hope. I dare not stop to let you
revive. If you can't walk ` I must
carry you," ri).
n sh ?cathed. "Pan
I cane -I cat e b
ready, dllarry. Don't let's delay a
moment!
"You realise that the slightest
sound may betray us," he warned.
"A loose stone, a snapped twig, even,
We must take every care, however
great the need for hurry,"
Diana never forgot the first few
agonising minutes of that flight -the
slow, cautious crawl over the rough
ground, !their bodies bent nearly
double, their eyes and ears, strainintg,
for any sign of discovery from the
rebels. below.
The tall cliffs surrounded them,
there was *nay one, narrow path
along which they could go and this
Harry, by some strange good
fortune, knew of.
Ae a natter of fact, some months'
ago, waren he had been out on a
shooting expeditions he had discover-
ed the ease by chance, and by an
VARIETY IN PHOTOGRAPHY
Winter's on the way—and here's one fellow who'll like it. Have you
tried making any animal ,pictures recently? It's one'easy way of adding
variety to your picture making.
LDID it ever occur to you' that you
may be in a rut—photographi-
cally?
ut photographi-
cally? That's an unpleasant thought
I know, but as 'far as many of us
are • concerned it's an all too , real
possibility. The trouble is, we don't
practice varietyin our picture mak-
ing:
Porinstance, what have you been
doing recently—just making pic-
tures of the family? That's what I
thought. Well, why not turn your
hand to a few landscapes and see
stow many successful scenics you
can produce this week. Have you
been making nothing . but small
Prints? Then, if you want a new
thrill from photography, make some
enlargements° --a few really big ones,,
or have your photaflnisher do the
Job if you lack an enlarger.
Variety in photography,, you see,
doesn't have anything to do with
• the bizarre or terrifically unusual.
It comes downto a matter of Work-
Ing, for a little while at 'least, on.
some type of picture malting that
is hew and interesting to you—Or is
type which you haven't tried for
-: home time.
Mostof us,.01 course, dO our, pie-
; lure making hiring toes' leisure
time, but if you want a pleasant
• cliange;,try taking your Camera to
work. Take it right into the Milce;
or factory, Cr 'on the job.'Don't let
it interfere with your work -sot
comae that •would.be putting pleas-
$Lre before butlneas—but in the
soon her feet were leuvtt_i,' blood•
tstaius where they trod• than, budnuc hes alive.
Douce, a ,snake reared its flat,
"There used to be a small stream
sinister head with a horrible hising there, to Wee loft of those tress," he
sound and Harry only just smaschod ld her faintly, "hint it antsy have
tote girt out 01 halmt's way m •time, oct1d her
When they had, traversed a fewtilled
Diana. was already on her wIty
Painful yards which took what seem!,to reconnoitre.
eel to Diana a lifetime to achieve, IMO told herself that whore there
Harry noticed her Measling feet, had been a village there nuts) have
A esteem of pity crossed itis. face.
her
been: water, and, snatching up on
He stopped �taking her in his way an earthen pitcher, lyl•eg with a
antra, giolaedher up and carried her. 'lot of rubbish, she limped Pa+tufulh9
"Ils it ante,' she breathed, casting
a, t 'errs glance lance over Iter shoulder in the direction indicated by Harry
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ward ever sinieie we anet,You sce,YOu
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Offieeral" •
"THE PUREST FORM IN WHICH
;She looked swiftly away i!rom
TODACCO CAN se SMOKED," him, and a blush, Whichowed its
origiiu to some inward shaano, dyed
her .face.
new setting see if you can't make
it pay additional dividends in pic-
ture -making enjoyment.
And say—how have you been
spending your lunch hour recently?
Many amateur photographers who
have to work these week ends, due
to the tush of defense work, keep
in trim by doing their snapshoot-
?ng during the noon hour. It's great
fun, they report. The subjects they
fled range from pattern. pictures of
automobiles in parking lots to can-
did snapshots of men and women
on the streets or at work in stops:
or stores.
There's nothing which will
sharpen your picture sense more
than trying something new. It's a
constant stimulus because you can't
ju
st rely on the old familiar angles
and methods. You can read about
Picture making until your eyes
won't' focus, but if you really want
to have fun with your camera,
you've got to try' things for your,
self,
Have you ever explored the pos-
sibilities of documentary 'photogra'
phy? Have you ever tried to make
a picture which might hang in a
National Salon? Have you done any
industrial, scientific, or natural his-
tory picture making recently? I1
you haven't, why not try - picture
makingalong one of tkose lines
today/Introduce variety.: le your
photography, and you'll disdover '
that .theles Inn ahead.'
36i John tin Gunder
A Wek;anie sound dY trickling
tatinik we're fairly all flight_
now," he returned. "One •can't water rewarded her.
Yes, there was a little stream,
crawl slice a Fait of cosset
for ever. !slwggish hut most ng, end she scoop-
Besdd•es, I've gat a couat8e bf loaded
revolters with me. Can you use one? ed what she could into her pitcher
If they find out which way we've and returned.
come-Whichis not likely, me I took First they each drank—he with
care to cover up that thole in the secret m'bsgivings• as to tete Purity or
roof—we can give a good account of their drink—and then Diana tore off
outaelve•s." a piece of her already mutilated
"What hiap•Pened at Bundrelaore?" frock and, soaking it in water
Diana asked slowly. Ibathed and tenderly bound, up his
"A good many .i'otter horrible brow.
things," he said shortly. "But ghat- It was marvelous whet a tremend-
aner5 -is unhurt, and none . of the cue, lot of good that Siallple draught
women, save yourself, was molested. did' them.
molested.
The sentries were all murdered; and They turned and looked fully at
several of the loyal natives—they each other for the first time, and a
set the magazine on Ire, but luckily tremulous smile touched Diana's lips
the colonel had ordered the amanuni- as she, reflected what a queer pair
tion to be, stored elsewhere only a they mast look,
coipie of days before, or else the She, in' her torn and draggled
wthole place would, have gone uP•" aliening -frock, with bare .and bleed -
Diana shivered. Ing feet, her hair anyhow, her skirt
roughened and burnt; he,
she mu , elle]
"What a terrible
"Oh,
county Artsterr wrapped in a dirty, white native
lt, Harry X shall
never forget seeing yo•m lying there,
lifeless as I thought—r-"
"I ways only stunned," he said
briefly, and gave no sign of the
tumult of hie nerves, at this con-
fesedon of her terror oe, his account.
"You can't parry me .for anudh
longer," Diana protested, as shefelt
him slackening. "Can we not rest,
Harry? A1'1 seems, quiet behind us."
"A little further," he shattered, "If
we can manage it, I know of a place
—a ruined• village, shunned by all
say' Abe nsoaaceyga 71ha9 would not
• look for us there, No native will go
go near it."
garment ,a bandage round his head, '
the daelc stain of soave dla upon his
fair, English comvplexion.
"Harry." she whispered, "words
are nothing in some verses!. This is
one of Ghent. I can Ind none iu
wlricle to thank you for coshing after
me."
"Words have, I think, never b.eeat
necessary between you and anne,
Diana," he tseitd simply. "They are
certainly not needed now. I. think
you understand that. I think that
you must understand a great deal
"Then let me wall:," she .said.
"You must be quite played out,
Harry. Yoe can't have had a
moment's rest. since it all began.
"Do you, drink I could ever have
rested, or eaten, or drunk again,
until I had found you?" he said.
She said nothing. But, in the
midst of all the peril and discomfort,
a sweet and wonderful sensation
tedole over bar, lapping firer In waves
of blies.
Atter all, they were together. He
had risked everything ler her, and ,
even death could' not wipe tfhat out.
Harry was breathing hard when
at last they tetaw the ribs of ruined
native huts of which he had spoken.
Absolute silence and desolation
seamed to encompass the tspot.
If the monkeys, had taken Posses-
sion
ossesBion of it, as they sometimes will of
those native villages, not a sound
now •betrayed. their 'presence. An
.enrrlie, unteentfortable quiet brooded
over all.
They made their wan into the
least disa•nptible of the •rotting huts
and wank, •eachausted, on to the and
floor.
Harry was breathing in 1heav3'
gasps, and his eyes looked dim and
queer beneath the tangled 'neat of
Mair which 811111 hung beneath his
dIthy turban.
With a weary gesture he flung ulf
hist arm and •swept the turban oft
displaying his alsveat-soalted fair
head, acrosin the forehead of which
was a deep, bleeding wound.
Diana uttered a little 01'9.
"Harry, you're hurt. They wounded]
You," she •cried. "You said you were
only stunned. Oh, what oar I do?
'Where can• I get you. some water."
"it'e all right, really,'' :he told her,
"I couldn't stay to have it seen, to.
d was on your track almost at once.
I only stopped on Ube way at a;dak
bungalow to pet this disguise which
d'vebeen using frequently of late,
I shall be all right in a minute."
"BM, tell rime if there is any water
I cans fetch yon?" . she demanded,
filled with.engnith at his plight.
hat was+ to save her that he found
bintsel1 like this- .suffering, and Iasi
wound negleeted--and all her life
She would remembber it !
Wounded as lie was, be must have
eeb,,otY set once on her track; and
tholtglh.Abe .had yet t* hear the full
stem" of his, adventere, she knew
enough to realise that but for them
Mao :tight newer have ebeaPed DOW'
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('You must often have wondered
why I did it," ghe muluuured, "But
I thought once that I toyed him.
yeasts ago, when I was net much,
moa'o titan a child, Thea I came out
Iterss-and everything was different!"
There was .e little silence, If
.stria had hoped, in some secret Place
in her inmost heart, that Siarl'Y
would ispeia+k of his love to her, she
was disappointed.
She said dm11y -
"This would Kaye been My wed-
ding night."
"Don't think about that now," he
told her. "We still have a great deal
to go through before we see Bundre-
hore again."
"You don't think those dreadful "Poor child. Butt ran forgetting
natives will Ind us here, Harry?" What about a smoke? I've got some
she cred. cigarettes somewhereSs.
He fumbled In the folds of his dis-
"No. By now, I should think, the reputable garmeaets, and gvoduced . a '1
rescue panty has. certainly found packet.
•thea h unassb they bunked oft when
thy found that you had disappeared.
But we have no means) of comsnuni•
eating with our friends an.'d nothing
but our own legs to walk upon, and
a long, exhausting journey to make,
unless we fall in with some friendJY
natives,. But this, place is lonely—
tallest from anywhere,
"Why is it so shunned?" Dianna
The Bray Chick does the trick.
let me show you the proof. Place.
your order here, No writing. No
bother. Call or phone,
GILBERT NE'I"HERY,
R. R. 5, -- BRUSSELS•
asked. t
"These periople have strange' super'- .
etttione. They believe a curse
bangs over the tspot because of
some offenoe caused to one of 'Ghat?
gods. We could be 'undiscovered
here for months; but we shoal*
starve, X'an afraid, pretty quickly.
As it is you must be hungry."
"No, not very, They gave me
toed. 1 could endoy a cup of 'tea,"
Diana said.
They seized upon them with avid-
ity
vidity and soon the blue spirals of
smoke were rising agreeably in the
quiet air, and they were reolining
restfully upon the waren earth, find-
ing a strange happiness just to be
together beneath the metals
darkening tropical sky.
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