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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1930-05-29, Page 6z,. waxy galloping hack to V1la1k. The; three riders' sped toward the Ineemur- ing•.town, square. As.they. reached it, a pane struck parade began to 'sweep, i past Atheln• Here a donkey 'struggled heroically. to, trot through the sloughs with its fat master and screaming mistress' clinging hysterically to its.baek;,iheire three squealing pigs lurched ahead of a grunting.' negro, .driving them on WW1 a club; there an Indian woman with huge ornaments in her lips; and 1E ears scurried through the.mud sha'ut • T4fi''' .� leg et the five naked end ehiningehil- siren ' who ran before her.' So absorb - .ed were the terrorized'; villagers in their headlong flight that they hardly. saw the three riders 'cour! ing past, and. lklr was' constantly bitting: his horse to a ,violent halt in order that:.ie might not run 'tfi'ene down. ' Elise. swept .her mount round a bed toppled into a street by some frenzied ,� .,rte. --• hau'seholder. ."Where are you Pec}ng?". ..'HYMN - • she flashed 'to' Vitale, ` +! ' � � c` J n a 1 "Prentiss' place," he:'snapp2de"He'11' get it the worst down there •h's so . , THIS ,HAS HAFF tNEp red up the river :anxiouSi tr: low, We've got time.W,.e•can get' to . 1 S' s have' been made on the life:> •+ an Pacing • the. `dock again.'Itzituba' Hill, from there Peet as quick-' Elise tai rberr , owner .o•;. a co • se `` turned ass a confused,: ly, as'to Chacos from here. and be, lust Of Elise a Y a..• Sud+ l�h , tt'plantation ao year onear a orphanedPorto vnephew has • eep murmur of`„ �x•ci'ted voices drifted up as sale" • • • kidnapped, but. Vila::: her :cousin, and from the sl eet, darkened town square Ile heard her draw a sharp.breath., cite the Child: Elisenre eivesha note'pur-' a q aster of a mile' away.' `A clatter !'I .realize that you ,don't like lriin. pporting to be "Prom the manager cf her .of hofs .sounded cup. the 'road. The I don't either. But however bad he Villapa plantation. She, Vilak, and Nun- ; , ,� ig We can't let. hint drown. „.No' one teals.* are. ambushed on:the wady to 'vile nOlse` bed e' louder'. lope. htit escape. Vila: ,persuades Elise 1 Vii "k's e . harrowed.. -'.Wonder else ie the town will 'think^of warning • to agree,, to leave the country, and says: ++ he YC urmured.• He tooit him, tier's SO'hated. After all, he is a he believes GaY•lord Prentiss, an enemy ,}what his is, .'of Elise's bas • been the cause; of all thea hit h • ', "Think I'll ee .have a_fellow 'human being. All grudges 'are. trouble.• Ieanwhi Meanwhile withtflood e rains look.' > Back in a hurry;"• . He' spurred done; in . a case' like ;this. It's .the iireatn Porto Verde !'un le law as well',as'the human•" .-••�-r into .the darkness.• !jungle • CHAPTER XXVI. • A ; ew lnontents later he was speed-rI. She stooped toswoop_safely under " ' : dam at• Avilos :has a low. -hanging branch. You're right. Vie tleode•to the'Lading up, ascertain u ," 'quietly. "A wallrot Of course ;we've •got,.to do it. I was he. said dt if the, floods wee � Iolding up; the boat'bur•. i - ''he her.' it .would arrive on timet' watelc forty `-feet high, is sweeping I Mind, drifting l , into sthe 'family feud state of or w t • But" 'the` drowsy, red-shirted •negro down `-the valley.. But it Won'tY rYa>, I They.swept on,.and began to• leave r .could tell him nothing.lhere'for half an hour or More; •,cityhiriHere be anete cave, 'clerk in,cgato hehvng� the' dock; he; visited the i and .Nanny hurr`ld •mans ookedsatihim.i oixe•ori s de of the road '•and •�Eise on k '' elovenly . tobacco •store', bought some `. 'Elise .and the o ll , y, was 'even the. other checked their horses for a • D Aliientara wl.e had' come on a sine- tobacco and.. matches and ,tneetin,,,.incr'edulousl . foe voioe.'wa . ilar ;niessages rode with him part of " : the way along the road • D'Albentara :said regretful) • that '•.'he had not -yet lad an opportunity to • ''thank Elise for her courtesy as he had 'been haying 'considerable 'trouble with two o: three of his men, and this had occupied all ,his time. He flaked,' he added,,.that he might never have the pleasure of a visit, as the rising wat- ers had been' playing havoc :with .the railroad ,property in other places: to • a • fargreater extent ' than at Porto Verde;, and he rather, thought he might be 'ordered '`back in. • the:, direction • of Avilos that afternoon He had received no information' :about the boat, though he thought that in view of the conditions it would very likely be .delayed, perhaps even a, day' or two. They • shook hands at the crossroads and Vilak•.rode:•on tothe fazenda • .' "Looks, mighty doubtful • about your gettitig away tonight," he remarked a trifle anxiously as he entered Elise's ' •rpni andewatched' her heap Piles~ of biby clothes into a trunk. "Might'*' doubtful:, And after what happened yesterday, you yourself now how vital it is that you get away. I suppose all we cin do is to go down to the wharf a1 ssst:.o'clock where the boat's supposed . : to come in and wait. Then, if it doesn't cense,.. we'll have• to ;build a raid;" er something equals"*. desperate, arrd;ship you down two thousand miles .'on that" • • By noon F1ise had finished -her packing. She spent a fewhours 'in giving explicit directions to the sera- , ant . as to what •was• to be clone in her :brief absence, , then, after a quick -tea, gave the• child to Hannah, who 'was waiting in the god -cart beside a gray, haired negro driver. Then she, mount- ed. ount-ed•. her piebald snare and touched it:l - lightly with her whip. ' . Tyyl�e*;' rode off, Vilak • and the %old '- man }on horseback on .either side of her, the ,carriage Close behind.hey reached :the wharf and ,dismounted. Six o'clock arrived withotit the .hoarse, prolonged whistle that usually marked the arrival of the steamer at the bar • A few•momerits"later he was speeding backs • "The dam at Avilos a mile up the river. Seven o'clock._has burst,"vhe said quietly. _ �_ -�- - _-_ _ - • . Stall no `Whistle, no trail of blaclf as though he•weie relating some placid moment before a miserable cabin of smoke. Seven-tl.,rty. T.1eeequatoria' story in •the corner of a dim lighted, rushes to shout to" the occupants, the night began its swift dent. Eight [levee, Ile had barely• finished speak- news of the disaster, But in each. case o'clock. Total darkness and the boat in when a hoe. eman came speeding an answering ' shout,. or 'kinky. head nowhere is sight: - • I down the road shouting in frenzisei bobbing frantically through a door Elise slushed impatiently through poftugt.ese that death was .upon the told them they had already been not - the mud pi; the 11 n dock; "•`We'll ha'Ve! inhabitants , if they did riot flee. He fled. tc camp here all night, I guess," ohevanishecl. Windows opened violently, :."Odd." he called to Ehse as he bob-, .said. , b lonknow whether anybody. lights appeared, animals grunted, men bed furiously up and down. "No, ones else is, but f getting hungry. Extreme- cursed, bedlam broke out in,the street: been overlooked.. They've been quite 3y hunter* And irritable." ' 1 "You and Nanny go on'to'.Chaeo, sesteniatic in carrying the . news. Rill," V"ilak repeated. "With Tinky" Couldn't have done better if one man i His Word roused Elise from her ,had taken charge' of it. Never knew . daze. She caught the bridle of her ,these.laeltadaisical, natives to have so • horse.. "What are you going to ,do" much method and energy. It's aston- :she asked. 4. ,ish'ing. . '"Go and warn some of the peYle They wheeled past a Porto Verdean lin the outlying ;districts here. hen% bouncing along in a clattering ox cart, , get excited,.Nanny: . 'Keep cool; keep' through a veck of racing, 'wild-eyed rrx.l," he, added, ae the - old. men, digs, which had been infected with the trembling with excitement.' tried to.human panicand were•fleding from scramble upon his horse and hopeless-' they knew 'not what; then overthe• ly entangled, his foot in the stirrup. 1 wooden bridge' they had' crossed 'So "A man's like an engine. Meeh better slowly a few hour before V'ilak look- �■ , when he's cool. Half an hour's a long' ed' down et the narrow stream below. •time: - 'Don't he stampeded:;' 1"'That's odd, coo," he •murntired ' when yar hotaflA, i e tithis• Re stooped down and with e quick f "Water looks' lower than it did this' • when you are slot anti. rnotrclt is >+ ' dry ---pep tip with Wrigley's—it rilovement treed the other's toot The l morning: i cdd man clambered onto hili .mount. , • They took the crossroads parail'e}- Elise, too, leaped• into her saddle. "I'rn ing the railroad tracks and galloped going with you," she said to Vilak..bn. : ' g g 'to be continued;) . , ' i "We can't let these poor people on the, t ���,�-�� , outskirts die like beasts. Two of us" To the Census enumerator, the teen of the house is the head of the•fa,miiy, but the Man of the house may'know a lot more atrout it than the een ue enumerator • • • Analysis .of five hundredrecorded conversations Is sefd ,to have abown Ihdt The in'ea"bulary of tele efionJufsierss is •extremele limited. 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Continental Power New Statesman (totaled): We can- not, l - 'not, even if--wewou d , dissociate Mir - selves: from. •European• affairs. We are, whether, we like it 'or not in Europe,. politically and .economically, We • are a• Mediterranean ;Power; war in the 'Mediterranean would' affect us little less vitally than war in the Channel. Indeed, any big Continental .war would In:evitabl'y involve ' us. ,.. The • 'idea that .safety is to .be 'found, in an.A'ngio- .Saxon bloc—a duplicated nationaliSnl to 'promote' internationalism.. --is pee. posterous Friendship with America is ail to -the good,. An exclusive friend' ship'with America Would be a provoca• +tion to Europe and a disaster. . • Anglo-American Friendship. Nation ,and Athenaeum . (London): The Three -Power Pact is, in our judg- ment, a great and highly satisfactory achievement: Many people on both:sides'of the•Atlantfc were saying that `war between us was "unthink- :ab•le,'3• which •Meant, as sonreone.re•. marked at the time, that they were thiinking 4if ft: .—Something: had to .be done.qutckiy or the position,' would have •gone..froln bad to worse. To; -day the` nightmare-, has ended. •Anglo; - American relations have become 'genie inely' cordial; and ;the foundations of a permanent friendship Seem to have been well• and truly laid. Toronto • ed The trap door abider' covers its tun -1 In days of yore, if a:n ended toody g a nel with palt a trap door, . neatly bevelled 1 stage -coach, he was to fit the opening, and hinged- at one two or three days for the. next one. ' ; The door is made of alternate NOW he lets out ;a squawk if he misses side.revolving door. ne see tfbn of a ` s 0 one. silk a e• of st k 1 zs .y Use Minard's tor•Burns: As bener,oleene most 'sociable. of all virtues,' so it is of the largest. 'extent; for there'• is not any., man either so great or so little that he is incapable of conferring and receiving benefits. � - • , Business is , brisk again in` Wall Street,and prices are rising. The • splendid old public can always be re• lied upon to buy stocks iustas soon as they cease to he bargains.'a tnoistetts molter and throat: w,,, .' The increased flow of saliva feeds new strength to the blood, you •can de More —yea 'feel better. ..--e`l`l can cover much. More territory Han= i iC,L�`o(' � ` ( neh can. take T'inky . up to Chaces. C( FR ,;Stye'gproved 'she cantake care.of,him. ■ ' ' minutes." �' � SEW 11dii C<SM��t �, It'g only ,a few m�fs ,..... '-,t_ ms` µ ;. 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