The Goderich Star, 1926-11-11, Page 6•
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BEAU GESTE
The Greatest Mystery Story Ever Written
Sy PEROVAL. CHRISTOPHER WREN
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After geeing into the moonlit ilia- the otetie, and it wits poielble tbst
tome used Itly eyes ached, expecting our protest* was uasuspeeted.
to ear a greet bowl of the blue.veiled Thi* might, or might not, ha the
mysterieeis Silent Ones suddenly tome bend that had snacked the
swarm otter a range of sand -hills, I Plume If they were AA sane,etheY
Isethouglet me ot getting into cum. might be banging about is the hope
weenleatiest esft3i et. Andre. 4 et SIXbX1h1Vg a ZOOMS, fere*. If
1 had ordered him to follow ay a St. Andre arrived while the fort was
foreed march, leaving a suitable gar.. burning, they would have no chance,
risen at Tekette when 1 dashed off are 14'elltng 141n unswatel*Ti 11.
with• ow ;always rude emoronny. am* after the )1 ems had died dawn,
deteehmeat en twatebe preceding by he might mareb, straight into a trap.
AIM hour or so the "support' ewer.; There would certainly be st Targul
sweey..eeteehateet on melee, with twee stout or two Out in the direction of
ter.• rations, and ammunition. iTokotu, while the main body did busi-
These two detachments aremorel hes* at Zindetnellt
MIAOW. 1 Mat communicate with
than twice as feet as the best 'intone(
St. Andre if poesible. It would be
try, but I reckoned that St. Andrei
would soon be drawing
in %mod men that would undertake the
near,
15 WAS quite passible that he miglit'Job successfully -for both skill and
t** jet* the Arab., while the hater, courage would be required. There
were witching the eeeleeeit they had was the trick to lintl and follow, and
there were the Arabs to face.
SSW XX VOA? it, or their elcirmlsbers
To lose the former wee to die of
establiehed the fact of our primate.
So far, we tied not fired & shot from thirst and stervationt to find the tat-
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• t „4. ter WAS to die of tortures indeeerib.
DIFSPEPSI" g On the whole it might be better to
A ble
made Heir t iihrorabio smeenodsatowetereT4:itilicnee thset. ore
e. of Pos.
After Every ineleeiel sibly more than twice the thence,
WIWI" really, as two men are braver than
Mrs. S. A. Monroe ereteee, oet., ore, because they hearten each other.
eweitee-"For Tote fors unto e bee 1 went round the oasis until I found
-angered from eyspeptrie, mid after the Sergesint.blajor, who was going
*ash 21464i was OVAlt• adoptable. dating from man to men, prohibiting any
es the susgestioa of 4 friend 1 de- firing without orders, any smoking or
oiled to try • the makIng of any noise, This WAS
vita sound and I coinmended him,
and then asked for a coupleett men of
• ; the right stomp tor ray job,
I was not eurprised when he sug.
gested two 01 the men who bad been,
• Into the fort with me, and passed the
word for the two Americans. He re-
• commended them as men who could
• use the stars, good couts, brave, re.
• goureeful, anal very determined.
• They would, at any ,rate, stand a
thence of getting through the Arabs
• , e and glvang St Andre the information
rn*eb
slul 04" Dowd Z #11$ IsaPrasohirts.nh that would turn hinl from their victim
Abe foodtlise is Iszt bog: Itz. , into their seeurge, it we had anr
end up oar by The T. When* Go., , . • . 4 I led ixed enente
1441r atiMg.° dell"' "mit". °; lUeeri'hen tbe big tlow giant and the
Limted, Toniato, Oct, httte emelt m I yippee e
atizre's wonderfut gt
Wonderful what Nature did for
man in making the whole wheat
A wain! It contains every element
•the human bdy need, and in
e right proportion. Equally
'wonderful is -the -process
SHRED
e. • No imehas everbeen able
to improve upon OUT process or
even approach it --for making
e whole wheat grain digestible.
Bab crisp; Oavory shred of wheat
full of heatilf"and siren
�thhgs° good for Youngsters
44s these litde loaves of oven
1'd shreds of wheat, toasted
!.;'•• and served widibutter Children
• •
"., like SHREDDED WHEAT
ridge—made this way:
e the Biscuits in a small sauce.
r
• a
ly Wetted. I sake& them if they wage,
like to tiederta.k• this doter. Their
were more than reedy, aad u I ow
phased my pees for treeptite the
Areha Woes. ti'. *roe 1 hand teem
of qui* istelligones. Seth were Abill
to repeat to me, with perfect wattle
whet 1 mated them to say to St. As -
dreg that he might he able to attack
the attackers at dawn, just when they
were attacking net.
The two left the oasis on camels,
from the side opposite to the fort, ead
atter they had disappemod over a,
send -kith yes may Inutile, with
what anxiety I listened for Arial,.
But all was Inset, and the silence ef
the grave prevailed legit morning.
After two or three hour* of this
unbroken, **undiesa stillness, the fire
having died down in the fort, I hit
perfectly eartain there would be no
attack until deem.
All who were not on the duty of
outposts -by -night *hitt, and I strolled
silently round end round the 031iS,
welting for the first hint of sunrise!
end thinking over the incredible
event* of that marvellers day-err.e
Write unique In my fairly wide ex.
Portents of hectic days.
went over it ell again from tbei
moment when 1 first eighted the ac-
eureed tort with its flag filying oven
Its unedited walla end their 'deed de-
fender', to the moment when my eyea
refused to believe that the place was
on fire and 'blazing merenly.
At length, lesning spinet the trunk
of a palm tree and longing for a cig-
arette and some hot coffee to help me'
keep Mike. 1 heed the east and
watched for the paling a the stave.
As 1 did so, my mind grew clearer as
my body grew weaker, and I decided
to decide that ell this wee the work
of a madmen, concealed in the fort,
and now burnt to tietitle
Re had, for some reA300b murdered
the eous-officier with a bayonet( -cer-
• tainly be ninst be mad or he mond
not have shot him); and he bad, for
some reaaere silently killed the trnm-
r star and hidden his bode -all In the
few minutes that elapsed before
followed the trumpeter in. Mari the
murdered mod another bayonet for
this silent Job?) Ile •had for eeme
yeason removed the sous-offieler's,
and, &telly. helistd set fire to the lett
and perished in the flames.
• But where was be while I searched
the piece, ,and why had he not killed
me else when 1 enteredthe „ fort
alone ?
The lunacy theory must account for
ese hopeleeIi unit ic prcedinge.-e
but it hardly accounts for the murder-
ed sous-officier baying in his band a
confession signed, 'Michael Geste," to
the effect that he had stolen a jetvel,
does it, my old one?"
"It does not, MY• son, and that, to
me, is the most interesting and •re.
markable fact •le your Most interest
ing and remarkable story," replied
Lawrence.
r decided. as 1 KW; to leave
it at that---Sust the mad doings of a
madman, garnished by the weird coin-
cident* of . the paper," continued. de
Beaujolais, 'and soon afterwards the
Sky grew grey in the Cast.
Before a rosy streak could 'herald
the deem we aileotly stood to arals,
and when the sun peeped over the hor.
it we beheld St. Andre' e Senegalese
ow Ithhl. • oai
tbe sous-officier, whom he may have
sworn to kill at the first opportupity.
. Some fancied or reel hijusttee,
when he was under this man at Suli.
behAbbes or elsewhere. The sight
of his thlealle the sole survivor, alone,
rejoicing in his hour of victory and
triumph, may have further maddened
a brain already mad with tafertl,
brooding, lust of vengeance, 1 know
not what of desperation:
'Possible,' 1 said, and thee& over
this idea, "But no, hnpossible, my
friend. Why had not the sous-offi.
der rushed to the wall, or up to the
look -out platform when I approach.
ed? I tired my revolver six times to
attract attention and let them know
that relief lied come, and twe ans-
wering rine-shot* were firedt Why
was he not waving his kepi and
shouting for joy? Why did tie not
rush down _to •the gates and throve
them open?'
'Wounded and lying down,' sug.
welted St. Andre.
'Ito was not wounded, my friend,'
said I. 'Ile was killed. 'That bayou-
.
, no g else, hadone Is
busitiees."
'Asleep,suggested the Lieutenant:
-"absolutely worn out. Sleeping like
the dead -and thus his enemy, the
trumpeter, linnethim, and drove the
bayonet through his tweet an he slept,
Ile was going to blow the sieeperte
Means out, when he remembered remernbered tbat
the shot "would be heard and would
have to be explained. Therefore be
used the bayonet, drove it through
the man, and then, and not till then,
he realized that the bayonet would be-
tray him, -It would leap to the eye
blatantly, that murder had been tom-
mitted-and not by one of the garri.
eon. So he fled.' •
'And the evolver, with one chem.
bet Area?' I asked.
'Oh --fired during the battle, • at
some daring Arab who rode round
the fort reconnoitring, and came and-.
denier into view,' •
•'Pod the Palter' in the ieft hand?'
'And who fired the two wekoraing
shots 2'
do not know.' .
"And how did he* trumheter vaniele
*croak the dettert-as eonspicuous As
a negriii-Iteittt on a pillow -before
, .
T1771 TP' A rr,alarnushog beautifully towards us
There wisn't so much as the emelt
of an Arab for miles, No, St.
Andre had nor seen 0 living thing--
• not even the two scouts. I had sent
out to meet them. Nor did nnyone
• else ever see those two brave fellows.
• I have often wondered what their
fate waseeArabs or thirst.
I soon leant that one of St. An.
dre's mule-scouthad ridden back to
him, early in the night, to say that
he had heard rtile.sitote in the direc-
• tion nI Zinderneuf. St. Andre hed
increased his pace, alternating the
• quick march and the pas gymnasti-
que until he knew he must be near his
• well. All being then perfectly silent
he decided to beware of an ambush.,
to, halt for the rest of the night, and
to feel hie yaw forward, in attack
formation, at dewn.
Ite had done well, and my one re-
gret was that tthe Mobs who luid
caused the destruetion of Zinderneuf
were not between me and him as lie
closed upon the oasis.
While tho weary troops rested, 1
told Ste-Andioalt-thetehatieheppet
and asked for a theory -reserving
e pine about the madman. • Ile is
men with a brain, We St. Andre, am-
bitious and a real soldier. Altnough
he has private means, he serves
• Prance where duty. is bardeet, and
life least attractive-. A little dark
pocket -Hercules of energy and force.
• 'tShat about this, illajort" said he
when I. foul firdshed my account, and,
, belting fed, we were sitting, leaning
• our weary hacks against s. fallen
• palm trunk, with toilet and cigarettes
et hand.
. 'Suppose your trumpeter killed the
touseofficier himself and deserted
Serve with milk or creamth
. %ton mut, snid Ittet never oc.
ere and then?
.4
aisx add salt and enough water
to cover the bottom of thepan;
stir and boil until it thickens.
. curved to me. Bvt*Why •ehould he.
and why use his beyouet and leave it
For Warmth, and Strength
"Well -as to why be *Medd,' re-
in the tedyr
..._..—•----eoe-----• -ere- -teeteeeeee=e=e-------------1-711 plied St. Andre, "it might have been
meow*. This may have bee. the
first time he had ever been alone with
WO
!VC*
The NIP Ilboastar is it Ms Om sever. Yea pat
the rata ar OM la the vars. The rooster does
the met. Week meet* to peraosisekft roam with
very Yak shrhibege. tiro awl* detbase evoty yess.
Nem with* New meet Mese awe hatt'aill Ma tisk
lsusr is rapplosa. isekles yea ast sharser
awe, he* mow damp spas tests
„ dohs riga „
MIMI _I 11111 III NI •••••• 1 1m.
eyes et my Compaey ?"
le de set Wawa: "
Vow s 1." 1 ad&
AM thea St. Andre set att sedden-
ty.
'Mesa Cosessamittate said he, Ike
trempoter d14 neli eeeape, Ot Cos.;
this hid kinesit rear he who re.
Se mardered the seamoileter *A
moved Om two bodies wit** he againl
hand laiteimet aeon* in the fort, ne
may have had some idea of removing
the bayonet and turning the stab in-
to a lectriet-wound. He then meant to
retorts to the -Company with some tale
of cock and bull. Sot rentemberinc
that you bed already seen the body,
and might bare noticed the beyonete
he determined to set fire to the fort,
to burn all 'vitiates, told rejuin, in
the confusion caused by the fire.
Ile rouki swear that he bad been
knocked on the head from behind,
and only recovered CODWOUThes$ int
time to estate* from the flames kind.
ledby whoever it was who clubbed
him. This is all feasible -and If im.
probable it ie no more improbable,
then the actual feet* of the case, le
'Quite so, mon laeutenant,' I
agreed. 'And why did he'not rejoin
in the confusion, with his tele of cock
and Malt'
'Well, here's a theory. Suppose
the souse:raider did shoot at him with
the revolver and wounded 'lkm eo
severely that by the time be had cern-.
pletve his little job of ar*w he wee
too weak to walk. lie fainted from
Ion. of blood and perialied miserably
In the tisanes that he himself bad
kindled. Truly. tesplendid example of
poetic judicee
'IilagnIlleente X agreed. 'The Greek
Irony, in effect. Hoist by his own
petard'. Victim of the reaching Feet.,
and so forth. The onlY nave in the /
beautiful theory is that we should
bkve heard the shot -just AF, io
should have heard a. *rifle -shot had -
the trumpeter used, his vine for the
murder. In that brooding helm sil-
ence a revolver ered an that open
roof would bave sounded like a sev-
enty.fivee
'True.' agreed St,' Andre, alztie
crestfallen. "The man was toed
then. did everything, that was
done, and then tommitted suicide, or
was: burnt alive.'
'Ah, my Mend, said 1, "you have,
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aziatit•igga ftocai Itarckati
hal 4444444 44,414 YeAtacai,
pita. did not do all this. Ile did not
murder the seuteofficier, for that, un.i
fortunate had been dead for hours.'
end the trumpeter had not been in
the piece ten minutes!'
a
'Let's try again! And he tried again
-very ingeniously too. But he could
Put forward no theory that he him.
self did not at once ridicule.
We were both, of course, weary to
death and more in need of twenty-
tour hours' Bleep than .twenty-four
conundrum* -but I do not know that
/ have done much better since.
And awl retie back to Tokotu, with
my recora go of fever, my head open-
opine to the madmen theory, eh? So
bad• I. It is the only Om But now
I will telt you sornethingi The tram -
Man Sleeps Like Log,
Eats Anything
"After taking Adlerika I car..
at anything and sleep likt.1 a log.'
had gas on mystomach and
ouldn't keep food down nor
leep." (signed) R. C. Miller.
fipoonftil Adlerika removes
•3AS andoftefz brings. surprising
eliet to the 'stomach. Skip;
hat full b14ated °f-
en brings out waste -matter you
Lever thought was in your sys-
cm. Excellent for chronic con-
tipation. Campbell's Drug Store
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ed with a tearing *Tench and cloud
with shattering bang, at every
stride of my camel, to the etune of
'Who killed the Commandset. end
why, why, why?' tilt 1 fetuld 1 wee
saying it aloud.
am saying it still, George.".
(To be Continued
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