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tions' as to' the number of in- Monica Viney lives with her brother,
seitions wanted will run until order- Capt. Hewitt. .Pennington suspects
ed out and will be 'charged accord- Chat -Hung of being the leader ofthe
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"Chai-Hung 'called here this `after-
noon,"
Hewitt started.
"This afternoon!" he echoed incred-
ulously.
She nodded. •
"He asked if you were in --and said
he` was going away for some time.
Mr, Pennington.' was here, too. He'll
t.
tell you all about i
The Conunissioner passed a weary
hand over his black hair.
"Where is Pennington 'now?"
"I haven't'seen him since tea."
A sudden movement in the wii
garden ,outside attracted her atten
tion.' She stepped close-up to the rai
and peered into the blackness. Stand
ing half in the shadow of a stunte
palm, she saw a tall, gaunt figure
wearing a loose costume of pale btu
material. Monica caught her brother'
sleeve and pulled him forward.
"There's a man out there;, Jack,
she told him softly:
The Commissioner Joked.
"It's Pennington, I suppose," he
growled presently:. "What the devil's
he want to hang about the house like
that for!" •
At that- moment, '.the scarecrow
raised an arm and beckoned.
"How are we for time?"
She consulted her wrist -watch.
"You've twenty minutes before din-
ner. Don't stop out too long."
Hewitt looked at Monica. Thirty
seconds later he had passed down the
steps, making his way toward- the tree.
Mrs. Viney 'went in to dress for
dinner.
The deep -toned Ducun gong, rever-
berating in the stillness of the night,
brought her back to the verandah.'Iier
brother was nowhere to be seen.. She
hurried down the passage to his room,
tapped on the door, then, getting no
response, looked in. The room was
empty and a glance sufficed to tell her
he had not been there•since his return.
The neatly piled clean clothes were
still' where the servant had put. them.
Her mind slightly troubled, she invad-
ed his' office. As she stepped toward
the writing -table, a grim sense of inn -
pending disaster swept over her. She
thrust it from her resolutely, and
pressed onward. Both hands resting
on the wooden surface, she gazed hor-
ror-stricken before •her at a dagger
with a gilt handle' that stuck upright
in the table, its thin steel blade impal-
ing a heap of torn paper fragments.
Dimly, as her powers of reasoning
stole back to.her,•she realized that the
tattered document was the warrant
for the arrest of 'Chai-Hung, and that
the yellow handle of the knife bore your brother has been ,.aken. In effect
seven distinct black dots 6:u the side e have, arrived at a delightful coin -
that was turnedtowardher—four on promise. Wong -See is between Scylla
the upper half and -three below. and 'Charybdis: If he fails to join
Suddenly she became aware that Chai-Hung—the vengeance of . that
gentleman will fall upon hien,swiftly
and surely', whether he seek refuge in
China or any old island in the archi-
mean? Where is Jack? What have pelage. The remaining horn of the
dilemma is—" He stuck his tongue in
you done with him?"
Pennington was frankly puzzled. his cheek. "—death by the most hor-
"Jack? Captain Hewitt? I haven't Able torture inmaginable—at the hands
seen him. Isn't he back yet?" of 'he who sees in the dark,' otherwise
—myself Now comes the compromise.
Monica caught her breath. He is to proceed to Chai-Bung's hiding
Somebody beckoned to him from
the garden," she raced on wildly; "We place, as he had originally intended,
-vent only with Pennington in his blame -
both thought it was you. Jack
out. He han't dressed for makan, and diets rear. In this manner, he stands
there's that on his table, For God's a sporting chance of dodging a hor-
• rible end at the hands of either."
He reached for his hat. '
Monica slipped between hint and the
door.
"You're not going alone?"
"Most certainly."
She stamped her fent impatiently
"You musn't do that!" she cried.
"It's :'positively absurd, Supposing
there are others waiting for Wong -See
in the jungle?"
"I've been in tight earners before,
Mrs. Viney," he reminded her gently,
)iuttldt,e, " .
( fete.ateettlt,18.
"You will lead me to.,Chat-Rungl"
hissed Pennington.
At the very sound of the mine the
Oriental trembled visibly.
The Englishman caught him by both
shoulders and shook him violently. A
volume of inarticulate grunts :follows-
ed.
ollow=ed. Pennington plucked theicnife from
the woodwork,
"Mrs. ,Viney," he said over his
shoulder, "do ypu mind waiting for
me in the during -room?"
At; the entrance she looked back,
"What are your going to do?" she
demanded fearfully'
'He shrugged his shoulders help-
lessly.
"Please go," he whispered, "I've
gotto use every method I know to
enable me to get on the track of your
brother—befo_r•e it's too late."
Collecting herself with an effort, she
crept from the room, closing the door
after her.
In the grim` half-hour that followed
she lost all sense of tine. She locked
up suddenly to see Pennington before
her. '
"I'm just 'off," he said quietly.
"Then you know—?" •
d:. "He has told me as much as I want-
- ed to know "
1 : She regarded him doubtfully.
- "It all sounds so utterly hopeless,"
d she declared.
Pennington was leaning against the
e
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table, eating bread and cheese altern-
ately. "
"You must remember, 1brs. Viney,
he told her between the mouthfulls,
"that I have made it my business to
study the movements of our Edell -
bandit. It would' lie impossible for me
French Taxes For 4 Months
$31,440,000 Over Estimate
Pair ing the first -tear
four months of this yeat,'I'ranee's
taxation receipts Have excoe'dod-
bildge!• est.' elates by 800,000,000
francs, about $31;4110,000
• Indirect titration 1100 t 1elded 3l
200,000 francs and direct taxation
500,000 000 kl.nlcs.
Practically the only tux which
sl;olv0 a deficit on the estimates is
the turnover tax, which is ;11,000,-
000 francs less than estimated
though 35,000,000 more than was
received during ,the same period
last. year.
gruffness that was new to her
"There's an electric torch in the right=
hand drawer of your brother's desk
We may want it."
Trembling With. excitement, she hbr
tied in search of it, joining hima•few
seconds later at the foot of the ver- ,tiers and other. wild animals peculiar
andah steps. Ahnost at the exact to that country. `A• C. Rogers, cur-
spot where she had seen the man who ator of the museum and a representa
had impersonated Pennington, the tilde of the Smithsonian 'Institution,
cook boy awaited the order to proceed., also will accompany the party.
Soon they had left the beaten track But for the fact that e variety of
and were"threading their way through animals besides the panther are to be
tangled undergrowth, under branches sought-by.the expedition, the hunting
so closely interwoven as to exclude the would be done in the vicinffr of Ray-
stars,' the humming • of countless le- mondville, evh]ch isnotorious for be-
gions of insects in their ears, the ing the habitat of more panthers than
bright light of the electric torch file- arty, other 'part of : the lower Rio
scribing an 'illuminated circle on the Grande border. -: ,
back of
Won;- See.
S.nr•
The -servant was flung like a sack
into the office.
Texan to Lasso
Mexican Lions
For. Scientists
Brothers Gain Reputation
Along Rio for Success in
Taking Beasts Alive
Raymondville, Tei.—Iluntiig Mex-
ican lions, or • panthers, as they are
called by most Mexicana of the chap-
paral region of south Texas, is dan-
gerous sport and more especially so
when the 'daring method of capturing
the animals alive is attempted.
Bob Snow, of 'Raymondville, who is
widely known for his expertness' in
roping these denizens of the wilder-
ness, has been selected as' professional
hunter for the expedition which, the
Denver Mluseuni soon is to 'send into
Mexico for the purpose of obtaining
as many specimens as possible of pin -
The night air blew suddenly chill MiEXICAN ROPERS TO ASSIST
and •a slight shiver ran through Mon- Snow will ;take . with , him two or
three wh o are well trainned
lea.
Her companion: brought his head mthe useofthe lasso. It is danger-
ous business for one person to attempt
almost level with'her.
"Cold?" he demanded softly. to handle a panther by means of ae
She smiled up at hint. rope, Snow said. On his trips into the
"Not really. Actually, I'm'supreme wilds he usually is accompanied try,
ly content" his brother, Sherif Luther D. Snow,
They relapsed into. silence again, of Willacy County, who, is likewise
and Pennington, conscious of a smol- widely known.for his success in trail-
dering, inconsumable fire within, ing and capturing alive the ferocious
glanced covertly at the trhn figure of beasts,
the attractive widow who kept pace Occasionally the Snow brothers
with him, and was glad that he had serve as guides for sportsmen, who
let her come. He quickened his step, visit this region in search of excite-
duntil Monica found herself compelled .went, Only recently they aceompan-
to run to keep up with him. •red R. Bona Ridgeway and John Cof-
' (To be continued.) ' fee into the heart of the panther coun-
before has such care been i cased in preparing
public.teas for the Newer
-1)0f -10f ere has such blend
off high quality teas beeen"made, as in "SALADA»e
This flavow'p'this lii!>ofaihng deleciousness is bring -
rig pleasure to millions.
�ev�NeverIS �' ,
lion when she bit the ground because
of the dense brush, but we knew,:froin
the earnest yells of the Snow brothers,
just what had happened. The noose
had slipped off. and the lion was free.
HQUNDS RECAPTURE LION
to know, all his hiding -places, but I
have discovered a good few of then,.
sufficiept, •I feel convinced, to assist
me in sifting fact from fiction. Wong-
See—the intelligent youth I collared
in the act of malting a hurried exit-
is a poor sort of creature when
brought face to face with the serious
problems' of this life. Si dintef dire
threats and much patience, I gathered
he was on the point of proceeding to
Chai-Hting's lair, tots place• where
Pennington—serene, nninaculate—wns
at h'er elbow,
She swung round on hint fiercely.
"Mr. Pennington, what does all this
try. They took with them a pack of
eight hounds and a fox terrier. It
"Hot lot Water"
"The brase little fox terrier did its
best t, catch that bounding lion,•but
it was soon outdistanced: The tied
hounds understood instinctively that
they Were needed, and all tried t:• go
at once. Their voices, were wo.•,king,
too. It: was an exciting moment. We
could not untie those dogs without
help, for fear of their getting. away
all yoked up. When, freed, however,
thedogs scattered in every direction.
and in twenty minutes had the lion
up another tree.
"The knot in the rope was adjusted
and both ropes were thrown around
the lion's neck. When she •jumnped out
she was held • at a safe distance until
thrown on her back, the natural po-
sition'they take for fighting dogs.
When she ceased the struggle,- Bob
tied her ` hind- ' feet together with
strands from a piece of rope. It was
more difficult to tie her front fest;
she came near catching hint two or
three times in her powerful' jaws. He
threw his tough -duck hunting jacket
over her headsThe frightened and
enraged beast bit this full ,of holes.
With this blind on her, he finally got
her front feet tied.
Mexicans
FEMALE -TWICE TREED
was an exciting experience from start
Man
finish and as results of the chase
Makes the Man they brought back to Raymondville
Warm Water Turns Female
Frogs to Males
"Wo had almost reached the edge of
the thicket when the dogs hit another
hot trail and treed, some distance back
in the thicket. The two trailmakers
two live panthers. The first panther rushed to the scene as fast as pos-
was brought to bay in a tree after a sible, to find a still larger female lion
long chase. at bay in a mesquite tree. She jump-
' NARROW ESCAPE RELATED ed out as soon as we came up, but was
soon treed again. • Luther yelled for
the ropes; having decided to make a
full day of it by capturing the second
lion-
'. "The four of us tried to drive this
second lion nearer to the edge of the
;thicket. She measured about seven
!and a half feet frotf tip to tip, and
we were tired of packing lions and
cutting trails by this time, anyway.
There was sono.danger in this as she
Lady frog tadpoles unto into males "When we came to the spot the ani-
when they are 'kept in riot water too mal, was standing on a limb about
long, according to experiments made twenty feet from the ground," Ridge -
by Emil Witshei of the University of way said in describing the incident.
Io-va, we are told in Science Service's "Luther Snow climbed up a prong of
Daily Science News Bulletin( 'Wash- the tree something like ten feet above
ington), We read: the ground, and with part of the fifty -
"Reporting his researches before a foot rope, which he had fixed with a
meeting of tlse'Ainerican Association ]cop and knot so that it would not
of. Anatomists at Ann Arbor, Michigan, choke the lion -When tightened about
Mr. Witschi stated that he grew two the animal's neck, he began his efforts
sets of tadpoles from the egg stage to rope it.
until the differentiation into sexes be- "He was in an awkward position
.gab, to be evident. In one set, in and missed his first throw. The lion
which the temperature or the water Was not need to such procedure and
had been increased approximately as
turned its fury from the dogs toward
in nature, the sex ratio was about nor-
mal -100 females and -96 males. In
the other set the temperature of the
water was suddenly jumped t' nedi'Py
90 degrees Fahrenheit when the tad-
poles were five weeks ,old. The sex
glands of the 'females Inthis set
gradually assumed a masculine char-
acter, and the frogs emerged as
males."
sake tell vie what it all means.
Pennington guided her to a chair,
then bent over the dagger. A second
later, he had rushed from the room
toward the kitchen -quarters.
She heard the voluble tones of the
cook -bey, ,a yell of pain, the dragging
of a heavy body along the floor and
the servant was flung like a sack into
the office, still clinging to a flimsy
box with a metal handle the only
luggage he had "brought with him
when he arrived.
Pennington slammed Ake door and "ar-d I've managed to squirm out of
'em somehow, If I attempt to' start
out with a crowd of native soldiers,
the information will be tapped out on
some native telegraph -system almost
before the men have left the barracks;
1 Hewitt will be spirited away and the
chances of rescue will become a ^thou-
sand tines more remote,".
"One more couldn't possibly do any•
harm," protested Moniea.
"I'm not taking any chances," said
Pennington, '
"Take me!" said the girl, flushed to
the roots of her hair,
"You?"
"'Why not? I shall be at my wits'
end if you heave me here alone," Her
voice brokeG. "If _dr1'ai-Hung is plot-
ting 'agains't one of us, why shouldn't
he send for me while you Are away,
looking for Jac]c?" -
Pennington glanced hurriedly et his
watch, and Monica n•calized that her
argument had gone home. She seized
his aoketimpulsively with:bbth hands:'
Pennington's one weakness lay in
his utter inexperience of the opposite
sex.
"Coino on, then," he said, with a
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leant against it.:
"Get up, you swine!" he said stern-
ly. "Get up and find your tongue or,
by heaven! I'll flay you alive!'
The boy scrambled to his 'feet and
stood sullenly it,the'centre ef,the bare
room.
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ISSUE No. 21-'28
SMART SPORTS ATTIRE
Smart, becoming and practical. A
wide band gives the desired snugness
through the hips and a slight blousing
to bodice. The French V -front adds
length to figure. Design 834 combines
printed and plain georgette crepe.
Printed silk 'crepe, two surface of
crepe Satin, wool crepe, angora jersey
and canton faille crepe, are smart sug-
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yelling and usually there was not room 18, 20 years, 30, 38, 40, 42 and 44
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trails and small open spots. One time requires 2% yards of 40 -inch material
'she came pretty close to the ax bearer with '% yards of 36 -inch contrasting.
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this new attack. We on the ground —
that caused just,_a slight chill:
held our breath in suspense in a tense HUNTER FLEES INTO BRAMBLE
moment when the cat growled and "The last time we jumped the lion
croeched as if to spring on Luther. out of a tree she came bounding
Luther said: 'Look out, boys! If she straight toward Coffee's Tittle open
urnps I'll fall out backward.' We were space, the dogs hot on her heels. Ire
much relieved when the lion seemed • did not hesitate for a moment, but
to abandon the idea. On the nexttwith a mighty yell plunged head first
three throws the lion caught the rope his full six feet into a mass of thorn
its mouth and held it a while and bushes. The lion missed hint about
then' released it. Finally the rope
wont around its neck and was tight-
ened.
"The dog-ioaIdei'a could not see the
Usunl]y,'it's Cho - omen who don't
know where tltoy are who think they
have arrived,
four ;feet Coffee was a -,sorry sight
when he emerged from his thorn bed,
"By this time Luther Snow was
near the beast's head with a rope, and
Bob, with another rope, was working
to get to her rear, They scolded and
beat the dogs away,. and as the lion
turned.• to get up Luther. roped her
around'the neck the first throw." i
BRITAIN'S -HIGH COMMISSIONER TO CANADA
Sir William H. Clark, K.0.9.1.,' C.M,G„ ,who has been appointed Great:
Britain's first High Csommissiouer to Canada, commentoed his career in the
public,serviee as a clerk in the boanyl of trade department of the government
in 1899. He vvas secretary to the special mission: to Shanghai to negotiate a
commercial treaty With China in 101; was a private secretary at the board of
trade to M. Hon. D. Loyd George in 1906, and to Rt, Iron. Winston Churchill
in 1906; secretary to Lloyd George as Chancellor of the BJxohegtter frbnit 1908
2111.1910; member for commerce and, industry of the Council of the Viceroy of
India from 1910 to 1910;-coreptrolleegeneral of the con'nlerotal intelligence
department of thg- board of trade from 1916 1111 1917, and comptrolleoegeteral
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Touring
Whenever you put your car away
for the night in a strange garage,
look at the floor under it. The chances
are you'll find puddles of oil and. water
there. If you didn't discover them
until the next morning,you might
think your engine had been leaking
its vital contents.
It's not a bad idea, either, to•make
a note of your mileage when putting
the car to bed away from home. Any
one who happens to see you taking
down the figures may be discouraged
from borrowing it for a joy, ride dur-
ing the night. If the car is taken out;
you'll know it when you check up in
the morning,
Don't let garage inen push your ear
around by applying their energy to
the headlights. Lamps are easily loos-
ened in this way, or bent out of ad-
justment.
It's better, to leave your car parked
with the front wheels pointed out
than in toward the curb. Parked care
are sometimes bemped by passing ve-
hicles. If the wheels are pointed in,
the car may run up on the sidewalk
and injure some one. If the wheels
are pointed out, the car will roll away
from the curb and into the passing
vehicle.
When running at high speed it's a
good thing to remove the foot froin.
the accelerator from time to time. The
theottic{ eia thus closed and oil firs
sucked up past the piatons. This helps
to prevent scoring the cylinders.
Into the car and out to the country
club for a round of g'.lf' is, at popular
proceeding these dam but watch out
for golf shoes with extrawide soles.
The accelerator pedal is rather clbse
to etre braise pedal on irony cars, and
a wide sole will often press it when
a' driver is 1100132r• s• for the 1 tike.
2'
The closer we get toy them the less
steep seem life's hills,
Rheims to Celebrate
City Will Observe Completion
of Reconstruction on
June 9
• On June 9, 1918, General Gouraud,
in command of the Rheims sector, de-
finitely turned back the German
offensive against it, and on June 9,
1928, the city will celebrate the com-
pletion of its reconstruction by an
international exhibition of the "Meil-
leures Marques." The inauguration
ceremony will be attended by the Min-
ister of Commerce and the Ambassa-
dors and Ministers of the principal
foreign powers. Later, at a day not
yet set, the President of the republic
will dedicate - the reconstructed. Hotel
de Ville, or city hall, and the library,
the latter the gift of the late Andrew
Carnegie. '
Of the 8,625 dwellings and shore
completely destroyed and over 5,000
damaged, more than 10,000 have been
rebuilt, The factories and workshops
have eotnpletely resumed work, and
the exhibition is expected to reveal the
remarkable revival of the industries
which wens ruined from 1914 to 1918.
Aside from the religious fetes of
thankfulness and .rejoicing, tributes
will be paid to the soldiers killed in
Champagne on an "Alsace and Lor-
raine Day," with which the Bishops
of Strasbourg and Metz will he asso-
ciated. Hector Berlioz's "Te Deum"
will be sung by a choir of 300 voices,
conducted by Gustave Charbentier,
and the same composer's "Requiem"
will be given in the reconstructed
cathedral on the same day.
•
YUNLYUM
Angry Customer (tossing a package
on the counter): "Makes washing 0
pleasure, 'loos it? Does the washing
while you wait, does it? It's the little
flakes of, Soap that---"
Groceri "Madam, ono moment,.
please. "This is not soap."
Angry Customer: "Not, soap? Not
soap,"
"No, 'Your daughter . asked for a
half-pound•of grated cheese acid a hale -
Pound of soap flakes. This is the
Cheese," .
"My stats! And last night I -rade a
pudding."
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