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"I found myself standing in deep.
undergrowth, and pressing this gently
aside, I saw a wonderful spectacle.
Away to my left was a great white
marble building, which I judged to be
a temple; and forming a crescent be-
fore it was a miniature town, each
white -walled house surrounded by a
garden. It was Damascus reduced to
fairy dimensions, a spectacle quite
unforgettable.
"The fact which made the whole
thing awesome and unreal was the
presence, along the top of the temple
(which, like that of Hatshepsu at Deis
el-Bahari., seemed to be hewn out of
the living rock but was faced with
white marble) of seven giant flam-
beaux, each surmounted by a darting
tongue of blue flame!
BEGIN HERE TODAY.
Sir Charles Abingdon engages Paul
Harley, criminal investigator, to solve
for him the mystery of constant sur-
veillance of Sir Charles. Sir Charles
asks Paul to dine with him at the
Abingdon home. Sir Charles falls
from his chair in a dying state. His
last words are "Nicol Brinn" and
"Faire Tongue." Paul asks Nicol Brinn
to explain to hint the meaning of "Fire
Tongue." Brinn refuses to divulge his
r secret.
Harley and Phil Abingdon, daugh-
ter of Sir Charles, are -made prisoners
in the home of Ormuz Khan, an Ori-
ental. Nicol Brinn rescues theca. and
goes to tell the story of Fire -Tongue
to the police.
NOW GO ON WITIH THE STORY:
CHAPTER XXXIII.--(Cont'd.)
"A strange greenish light prevailed
here and directly before me I saw a
flight of'stone steps leading upward
through a tunnel in the rock. By the
light of a pocket torch which I had
are '•'^ i myself, I began to ascend
the Slei.:.
"1 had ascended more than five hun-
dred steps, and felt that•a'rest would
char tly be necessary, when I reached
a sort of cave, or interior platform,
from which seven corridors branched
out like the spokes of a wheel.
"To the damp coolness of the lower
stairs an oppressive heat had now
succeeded, and I became aware of a
continuous roaring sound, which I
found myself unable to explain.
"Attached to a belt beneath my na-
tive dress I carried a Colt revolver;
and therefore, leaving my rifle and
bundle in a corner of the cavern, I
selected one of these corridors more
or less at random, and set out to ex-
plore. This corridor proved to slope
very gently upward from the plat-
form, and I could not fail to notice
that at every step the heat grew
greater and greater. It became pos-
sible to discern the walls of the cor-
ridor ahead because of a sort of eerie
bluish light which had now become
visible.
"At a point where the heat and a
sulphurous smell were almost unen-
durable the corridor was blocked by
massive iron bars beyond which the
reflection of some gigantic fire danced
upon the walls of a vast cavern.
"A hundred feet beneath me was
a lake of fire! That is the only way
I can describe it: a seething, bubbling
Take of fire. And above, where the
,roof of the cavern formed a natural
cone, was a square section formed of
eena,sive stone blacks, and quite ob-
viously the mandiwork of man. The
Tsars were too hot to touch, and the
heat was like that of a furnace, but
while I stood, pering first upward and
then downward, a thing happened
which I almost hesitate to describe,
for it sounds like an incident from a
nightmare.
"Heralded by a rumbling sound
which was perceptible above the roar
of the fire below, the centre block in
the rbof slid open.
"As if conjured up by magic, a
monstrous column of blue flame arose,
swept up scorchingly, and licked like
the tongue of a hungry dragon upon
the roof of the cavern. Instantly the
trap was closed again; the tongue of
Eire dropped back into,ahe lake from
which it had arisen in -the draught of
"And right past me where I stood,
rigid with horror, looking through
Chose bars, fell a white -robed figure—
whether pian or woman I could not
determine! Down,' down into the
fiery pit, a hundred feet below!
' "One long -drawn, dying shriek
reached my ears.
"Of my return to the place at which
1 had left. my bundle and rifle I re-
tain absolutely not one recollection. I
was aroused from a sort of stupor of
horror by the sight, of a faint light
moving across the platform ahead of
me, as I was about to emerge from
the tunnel. .,
"It was the light of a lantern, car-
ried by a man who might have been
the double„ of that yellow -robed men-
dicant who had first unconsciously led
me to this accursed' place.
"As the light of the lantern was
- Swallowed up in the passage, I found
my bundle and rifle and set out to fol-
low the man. Four paces brought me
hoot of more steps. I walked
,0"1,.- itenitl
barefooted, rrt.�� y 'pau
sing to Es-
tee There were many iral ;s upen
*the walls, but I had no leisure aw
examine them,
"Contrary to my anticipations,
however, there were no branches in
this zigzag staircase, which communi-
cated directly with the top of the lofty
plateau. When presently I feat the
fresh mountain air upon my face, •I
Wondered why I could perceive no
Iight ahead of me. 'Yet the reason
, Was enough.
"Since I had passed through that
strange water -gate th the City of Fire,
the day had ended: it was night. And
when, finding no further steps ahead
of tie, I passed along a level, narrow
corridor for some ten paces and, look-
lug upward, saw the stars, I eves
astounded.
"The yellow -robed Man had disap-
+p�i alone,
d
secret city Z
onthat had
come so far to see.
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arty l"ti b7 MeatPie
To make beef's lbeart prune pie
trim 0'. ti;,e fat and arteries from the
heart, leaving no blood clots, and
brown all ager in baeon fat. Plae•e
cv kettle, '•cover with hot water
and simmer two or three hours, ac-
cording to size. Have ready a cup
of prunes soakecran•d;pitted. Cut the
heart crosswise,, put in a deep dish,
add a point of brown gravy made
with the liquor ainc� tte prunes,
cover with a crust and bake about
forty minutes. Serves eight,
Tamale Pie
Make a mush by stirring two cups
„of cornmeal mixed with one and one-
,., half teaspoons ofsalt, into six cups
of boiling water; cook forty-fIve min-
utes. Brown a sliced onioan In a
a. tablespoon of fat; add one pound of
hamburg 'steak and stir until wed color
disappears; add salt, pepper, two
cups of tomatoes and a minced sweet
pepper. Grease a baking dish, put
in a layer of cornmeal shush, add sea-
soned meat and cover with mush.
Bake for lh,alf an hour. Serves six.
Pork -Apple Pie
"1 was afraid to move too far from Have the bones removed from the
the mouth of the tunnel, but neverthe- upon a brief period of my Iife.na once neck end aS a loin of pork weighing. half a teaspoon of salt, and a quarter
less was anxious to obtain a good view more sweet and more bitter than any about two pounds; out the meat into of a teaspoon of pepper; pour over
of the little city at my feet. Gingerly I had known. Nekt to that strange, thin slices, season with salt and pep- the above mixture, cover with a thin
I snowed farther forward, ever cyan- invisible prophet whose arame was Per and fill a pastry lined dish with crust and bake. Serves six or seven.
ing out for a glimpse of the buildings
more immediately below hie, forgetful
of the fact that I walked upon the
brink of a recipice.
"Suddenly my outstretched foot
failed to touch ground. I clutched
wildly at the bushes around me. Their
rootswere not firm in the shallow soil,
and, enveloped like some 'pagan god in
a mass of foliage, I toppled over the
cliff and fell!"
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Into 'slices. Bake without a top crust
and serve cold, garnished with tomato
aspic and minced green peppers.
Serves four.
Maryland Oyster Pie
Grease a baking dish and lay in a
layer of cooked hominy, then a layer
of oysters, alternate until a ,cup and a
half of hominy and t'hTee dozen oys-
ters have been used. Add the liquid
from the oysters to half a cup of
mirk, then two tablespoons, of butter,
Fire -Tongue, Naida held unquestioned alternate layers of the meat and
sway in this secret city. Her-house`ab'oes of tart apples. Sprinkle light"
was separated from the others, and ly with brown sugar, letting the last
she traveled to and from the teinpile layer be meat. Sprinkle lightly with
in a covered litter. To look upon her, i nutmeg; add two-thirds of a cup of
as upon Fire -Tongue himself, was' brown stock and a tablespoon of melt -
death. Women, I learned, were eli.g- ed butter; cover with a top crust with
gale for admission to this order, and ?roles in the center and bake. Serves
these were initiated by Naida.
"As the days, of my strange but
delightful captivity wore on, I learned
more and more of the weird people
who, unseen, surrounded me.,There
were lodges of the Cult of Fre all
aver• the East, all having power to
make initiates and some to page di's-
dples into the higher. grades. Those
who aspired to the highest rank in the
order, hawaever, were compelled to
visit this secret city in the Indian
hills.
"Then at Iast I learned a secretfew minutes, then add half a bay leaf,
which Naida had for long kept back ter of a pound of dicgd cooked ham ; one sliced onion, a . teaspoon 'of salt,
from me. These followers of the new and a dozen ripe olives. Cover with . a dash of paprika° and simmer until
polygamists, and she crust and bake until the Iatter is a
Zoroaster were polygamists, ; the meat is tender. Remove the meat
wets the first or chief wife of the mys- light brown. Serves six Or seven, into a 'baking.disb, thicken the -stock-
CHAPTER
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CHAPTER XXXIII.
STORY 01' THE CITY OF FIRE (CONT'D.)
"My awakening was as strange as
anything which had befallen me. I
lay upon a silken bed in a pavilion
which was furnished with exquisite, if
somewhat barbaric, taste.
"I was lying there, in a curious and
apathetic state; when the curtains
"One long -drawn, dying
reached nay ears.
shriek
draped in the doorway were pulled
more widely aside and a woman came
"Gentlemen, I will not endeavor to
describe her, except to say that she
was so darkly lovely that I doubted
the -evidence of my senses; tall amend
lithe, with the grace of some beautiful
jnrgle creature.
"When she saw that I was awake,
she paused and lowered her head in
confusion: She wore a gossamer robe
of sheeny golden sulk, and, standing
there with the -light of the dawn be-
hind her, she made a picture that I
think would hive driven a painter
crazy. -
`'This is not tho time nor the place
for personal reminescences. I am here
for another purpose. One of those
accidents which are really due to the
hand of fate had precipitated me into
the garden of the house of Naida, and
she in her great compassion had tend-
ed
ended ine and sheltered me, keeping my
presence secret from those who would
have dealt with me in summary fa-
shion, and, indeed, who .were actually
on the look -out for my arrival.
"Yes, so Naida informed me. To
my great surprise she spoke almost
perfect English, and that sort of
understanding sprang up between us
immediately which, in the case of- a
man „and a beautiful woman thrown
together as we were, can only termi-
nate in one way.
"She was some sort of priestess of
the temple which- 1 had seen from
the top of the cliff. What else she was
1very shortly learned, •
dzioydaIICA With one of the
many strange customs of the City of
Fire, her personal servants, or rather
slaves, were blind mutes!
"Naida, for such was her name,
told me that the Brahmin, Vadi, who
had acted as my guide, was one of
the followers of the Prophet of Fire,,
to whom had been' given the duty of
intercepting me.
"In this way, gentlemen, I entered
•
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•six to. eight.
California Rabbit Pie
Brown a cutup' rabbit In two table-
spoons of bacon fat and two table- Decorate with strips of cheese cut
spoons of minced onion. Put the rab- thin and narrow. Sprinkle with salt
mit In a baking dish; add three cups and pepper and bake in a mot oven
of stock to the frying pari' mixture and until brown.
heat it well, then put over the rab-
bit, together with a bit of mace, a bay
leaf and a dozen of small onions.
Cook until the rabbit is tender. Then
add two cups of diced potatoes (cook-
ed ten minutes then drained), a quer-
Potato Patty Pies
A recipe that makes the same old
things taste better and look pretty.
Fill individual casserole dishes one-
third full of • cold roast beef cutinto
small pieces; add some minced onion
and a sprinkle of salt. Slice over'
this. cooked carrots cut very thin. Add
meat gravy (a tablespoon is usually
enough for the average ramekin), and
round off the top with ,mashed pototo.
Steak Pie With Almonds
A popular pie in Canada -calls for
-a pound and a half of round e•teak,
cut into cubes; cover this with a
quart of boiling water and cook for a
terious, personage known as Fire -
Tongue. I gathered that others had
superseded her, and her lord and
master rarely visited this marble
house set amid its extensive gardens.
"Her dignities remained, however,
and no one had aspired to dethrone
her as high priestess of the temple.
She evidently knew all the seica0a, of
the organization, and I gathered °that
she was indispensable to the group
who controlled it.
"Respecting Fire -Tongue himself,
his origin, his appearande, she was re-
solutely silent, a second Acte, faithful
to the last. That the endo of this cult
were not only religious but political,
she did not deny, but upon this point
she ,was very reticent."
(To be continued.)
The Outsider
I have looked on at life so long, so
long!
The lesser loves and hates have
• passed me by
As I were not The shudder and the
sigh,
The whispering and the laughter,
ever throng
About me, and avoid. They call me
strong. -
Who never pause the weakness to
descry
Which else I had not bidden; the9
defy
The thing I am not, passionless, and
wrong
My' half -formed ideals till they shrink
and fade
I have been standing by the outer
gate
Until the very sweetness of a
song
Has terrors for me, and I am afraid
To enter. I have found this truth
too late;
I have looked on at life too long,
too long.
Ethel Davies.
Appeal 'Dog's Case
Mount Sterling, Iiy.—Sentenced to
deat)n for "sheep killing," Kaiser Bill,
police dog, enjoyed a new lease of
life recently as a result of an appeal
of his case to Circuit Court.
• Ile was to have died come time
ago, but last minute moves, prevent-
ed the execution each time. Mrs,-
Minnie Gay, hie owner, eafd recently
iehe possessed new evidence which
Ole will turn over to Kaiser Bill'Is law-
yer in the appeal. hearing
Veal Pie De Luxe with flour and buter blender add half
a e'up of chopped almon s, half a
dozen chopped ripe olives, one green
chili pepper and half a cup of toma-
toes. Put this over the meat, add a
top crust and bake until the crust is
a.'nice brown.
Cut about two pounds of veal into
pieces and season with salt, pepper
and a dash of nutmeg. Have ready
about twenty plumped and pitted
prunes, put them in a baking dish,
add to them the veal and a gravy
made by blending two tablespoons of
butter, one cup of het water, a few
drops of onionjuice, a teaspoon, each
of minced parsley and currant (or
other tart) 'jelly, ands threes tabl!e-
apoons of finely chopped raw ham,
Cover with a rich pastry and bake.
Old=Fashioned Chicken Pie
Dice a cup of cold chicken and, four
pork chops which haveb een cooked
with a slice or two of onion. Put the
two meats into a deep, greased baking
dish; add a pint of cooked string
beans and four small potatoes, sliced
and parboiled about ten minutes.
Have ready a sauce made by adding a
tablespoon of flour to the fat in the
pan in which the chops were cooked
and a cup of chicken broth. Season
with salt, pepper, paprika and a
teaspoon of kitchen bouquet. Cover
with a crust and bake. Serves five or
six.
Beefsteak Pie
Cut two pounds of round steak into
small cubes and place in an unlined
baking dish. Make a gravy with a
cup and a half of hot water, half a
cup of tomatoes, two tablespoons, of
butter and one of flour, half a bay
leaf, half a eupful of chopped almonds,
one sliced onion, one green chili pep-
per, six chopped ripe olives; a tea -
soon of salt and a dash of paprika.
Cover with a top crust and bake.
Serves six to eight.
Southern Lamb Pie
Take a.aquart of cooked lamb, out
in email pieces, add two cups of boil-
ed potatoes, diced, and a cup and a
half of chopped veeen meats; 'season
with salt, pepper 'and minced parsley.
Put into a baking dish, add three cups.
of cream sauce, plac'e a puff paste on
top and bake until a nice brown.
Roast -Beef 'Pie•
Line a deep baking dish with pas-
try, place in the bottom• a few cold,
sliced sweet potatoes and a cup of
lima beans, then the beef. Cover with
a sauce made by blending a table-
spoon each of butter and .flour, add-.
ing a cup of stock,,a cup of tomatoes,
an onion, a stalk of celery and a bay
leaf; stir until smooth, season with
Balt and pepper, Cover the top with
a few toasted bread •crumbs before
Almost 'every move except "in- putting on the top crust. Serves six.
sanity" has been ase to prolong the
dog's life.
Even ruts and chuck -holes;,, have
their uses. A stolen truckload of alco-
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wheel bogged down into a hole.
Minard's Liniment relieves pain.
Ham Pie
To two cups of finely mind ham
add two beaten eggs, half a cup of
white saute, half a teaspoon of Balt, a
fourth of a teaspoon ot mustard' and
a dash of red pepper. Place in a
pastry -lined deep;dish and intersperse
through it a third of a Cup of chopped
almonds and a hard boiled egg, 'Cut
Gets Green
Green ` Beryl
Field Museum Acquires
Transparent Jewel of
4,770 Carats
A ,.piece of transparent beryl,
weighing 4,770 carats, one of the
largest specimens of this precious
stone ever obtained, was placed on
exhibition recently in H. N. Higin-
betbam Hall of the Field Museum of
Natural History at Chicago.
The stone, which is of the aquama-
rine variety of beryl, was brought
from Madagascar by Dr. Ralph Lin-
ton, assistancecurator of Oceanic and
Malayan Ethnology, who returned to
Chicago after more than two years
in that country as leader of the Cap-
tain Marshall Field Madagascar Ex-.
pedition. .
To Beryl were attributed many
magical powers by people in the
Middle Ages, according to Dr. liver
C. Farrington, Curator of Geology. It
vias believed to give its wearer in
singht, second sight and foresight, to
inducesle,ep and compose the heart
and• mind. It was called the "sweet
tempered stone." It was especially
used in the seventeenth century for
divination, by suspending and swing-
ing a beryl ring in a bowl filled with
water. The edges of the bawl were
marked with letters, and questions
were answered by the 'beryl's stop-
ping before certain letters. It was
also supposed to possess special pow-
er over evil spirits, and it was said
that by holding a beryl in• one's mouth
one "could . summor a devil from
hell" and receive answers to ,ques-
tions.
The new specimen at the museum
was found in the bed of a river'by a
prospector, from whom Dr. Linton
'obtained it; It has a rich green
color., If cut for jewelry it would
make 250 average settings for rings
and pins, after allowing for a loss ot
about one-half in cutting.
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Interesting experiments are being
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and they have, already produced ex-
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tralia and New Zealand.
Minard's Liniment for asthma.
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"Make any New Year reaotu-
tionsV'
"No -what's the use? 1'd only
break 'eon again;"
CLOSE FRIENDS SURE
"Why do you think those girls
bre close friende7"
"They'requarreling alt the tithe.*
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