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Vo.-tsteps apmided in the conudor,
Ca-'w a Tap at the door.
“Come in,” said the Assistant Gem
mils'oner.
The door was thrown open and
Nicol Brinn entered,
“Gentlemen,” he said, without other
gw ting, “I’m here to make a state
ment. I desire that a shorthand-
* writer attend to take it down."
He dropped weakly into a chair
which Wessex placed for him, The
Assistant Commissioner, doubtless
> stimulated by the manner of his extra
ordinary visitor, who now extracted a
cigar from tho breast pocket of his
ill-fitting jacket and nonchalantly
lighted it, successfully»resumed his
well-known tired manner, and, press
ing a bell:
“One shall attend, Mr. Brinn,” he
said,
■ A knock came at the door and a
sergeant entered. . __ ___o ___ ______ ___
“Send Ferris,” directed the Assist- sented to the King for his assent, on
ant Commissioner. “Quickly.” jypemvi-ncr u-km, mnnmra hoc
Man-Eating Lions
Terrorize Kenya
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Since the time of Edward VI. Par
liament has never relinquished its
control, until 1919, when by the
Church of England Assembly (Pow
ers) Act, 1919, it gave the initiative
in church affairs to the Churcn of
England. By that enactment a
Church Assembly was created, con
sisting of three houses—the House of
Bishops, the House of Clergy and the ■
House of Laity. They are authorized
“to deliberate on all matters concern
ing the Chiirch of England and to
make provision in respect thereof,”
The act creates an ecclesiastical
committee of fifteen peers and fifteen
members of the House of Commons,
and. any measure submitted by the
Legislative Committee of the Church
Assembly is referred to this commit
tee, whose duty it is to make a report
to Parliament, When so reported, a
resolution is offered in each house,
directing that the measure be pre-
_ ____________ w , [receiving which the measure has the
Two minutes later a man came in effect of an act of Parliament. The
carrying a notebook and fountain pen. ’measure cannot be modified by Par-
The Assistant Commissioner motioned , «»ment—-It must be either accepted
BEGIN HERE TODAY.
Paul Harley, criminal investigator,
engaged by Sir Charles Abingdon
to solve for him the mystery of con
stant surveillance by persons unknown
to him. While Harley is dining at the
Abingdon home, Sir Charles falls to
the, floor in a dying condition. Harley
Insists that Abingdon is poisoned. The
fest words uttered by Sir Charles are
Nieol Brinn” and Fire-Tongue.”
Paul asks Nicol Brinn to tell him the
meaning of “Fire-Tongue.” Brinn re
fuses to enlighten Harley.
Paul Harley and Phil Abingdon,
daughter of Sir Charles, are made
pr.zoners in the home of Ormuz Khan,
Oriental. Nicol Brinn rescues Phil
while Paul promises to sign a state
ment written by Ormuz Khan.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY.
CHAPTER XXIX.— (Cont’d.)
Vaguely he detected the speaker
withdrawing. Thereupon, heaving a
fcuul sigh, he removed his coat, looked
»bout him. as if in quest of some place
to hang it, and finally fixing his gaze
upon the studded grating, stood upon
the divan and hung his coat over the
spy-hole! This accomplished, he turn-
The table was slowly sinking
through the gap in the floor beneath.
Treading softly, he moved forward
und seated himself cross-legged upon
It! It continued to descend, and he
found himself in absolute darkness.
Nicol Erinn ran on to the verandah
and paused for a moment to take
breath. The window remained open,
ns Phil Abingdon had left it.
. . -stepped into the room with its
gant Persian appointments. It
empty. But as he crossed
threshold, he paused, arrested by the
sound of a voice.
“A statement will be placed before
you,” said the voice, “and when you
feave signed it, in a few minutes you
will be free.”
Nicol Brinn silently dropped flat at
the back of a divan, as Rama Dass,
coining out of the room which com
municated with the golden screen,
made h:s way toward the distant door.
Having one eye raised above the top
of the cushions, Nicol Brinn watched
him, recognizing the man who had
accompanied the swooning lady. She
Mad been deposited, then, at no great
distance from the house.
Creeping* forward to the doorway
by which Tama Dass had gone out,
Nicol Rrinn emerged upon fl landing
from which stairs both ascended and
descended. Fa'nt sound's-of footsteps
below guided bin, and although from
all outward seeming he appeared to
saunter casually down, his left hand
was clutching the butt of a Colt auto
matic.
He presently found himself in a
maze of basements—kitchens of thej They drew abreast; the road was
.establishment, no doubt. The sound [deserted.
of footsteps no longer guided him. He
walked along, and in a smaller de
serted pantry discovered the base of
a lift shaft in which some sort of
•mall elevator worked. He was star
ing at this reflectively, when, for the
second time in his adventurous career
c silken cord was slipped tightly about
bis throat.
He was tripped and thrown. He
fought furiously, but the fatal knee
pressure came upon his spine so
shrewdly as to deprive him of the
strength to raise his hands.
“My finish!” were the words that
Sashed through his mind, as sounds
Hke the waves of a great orean beat
^spojj his ears and darkness began to
descend.
Then, miraculously, the pressure
erased; the sound of great waters
subsided; arid choking, coughing, he
fought his way back to life, groping
Hke a blind man and striving t<> ro-
j&aln his feet. “Mr, Brinn!” said a
’’vaguely familiar voice. “Mr. Brinn!”
The realities reasserted themselves,
Before him, pale, wide-eyed, and
breathing heavily, stood Paul Harley;
and prone upon the floor of the pantry
lay Rama Dass, still clutching one
end of the silken rope in his hand!
“Mr. Harley!” gasped Brinn. He
clutched at his bruised throat. “I have
to thank you for my life.”
He paused, looking down at the
prone figure es Harley, dropping
upon his knees, turned the man ever.
“I struck him behind the ear,” he
muttered, “and gave him every dunce,
Geod heavens!”
11c had s/ipped his hand inside
Rama Lass’1 vest, and now he leaked
up, his face very grim,
“Good eneugh!” said BHnii, coolly.
New and Terrible Breed, in
Packs of Twenty or Thirty,
Raid Native Villages
London.-—A new and terrible breed
pf man-eating lion, which makes or
ganized raids on native villages in
packs of twenty or thirty and trans
mits its appetite for human flesh to ,
its cubs, has appeared in the Britisjx
African Colpny of Kenya, according to
official reports which have just reach
ed London.
Night after night, according to
these reports, packs of a dozen or two
dozen lions lionesses raid tjie native
kraals, crash their way through -the
fllnjBy roofs or walls and bear away
screaming victims to devour at their
leisure.
Women
the rivers
cattle are
dreds of heads of cattle eaten.
Five hundred lipns, it is estimated,
have gained supreme control over hun
dreds of square miles of territory. All
this is not only a reversal of condi
tions prevailing up to a few years ago,
but is a contradiction of the accepted
ideas about the relations between
lions and human beings.
Young end Lusty.
The man-eating tigers hitherto en
countered have been with a few er
uptions, old or crippled beasts, too
, slow to hunt their usual prey, and
who have learned to eat human flesh
primarily because it is easier to pro
cure.
The new man-eating lion is a very
different, kind of animal, young and
verile, who hunts human beings be-
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as his normal" prey.
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him to a chair, and:
“Pray proceed, Mr. Brinn,” he said.N **
*MUk isnutea. uml. iqa*
“He asked for it; he’s got it. Take
this.” He thrust the Colt automatic
into-Harley’s hand as the latter stood
up again.
“What do we do now?” asked Har
ley.
“Search the house,” was the reply.
“Everything colored you see, shoot,
unless I say no.”
Into two rooms on the first floor
they burst, to find them stripped and
bare. On the threshold of the third
Brinn stopped dead, and his gaunt
face grew ashen. Then he tottered
across the room, arms outstretched. ___ __________ __
“Naida,” he whispered. “My love, that my travels led me to India, is of
my love!”
Paul Harley withdrew quietly. He
had begun to walk along the corridor
when the sound of a motor brought
him up sharply. A limousine was be-
• ing driven away from the side en-
, trance! Not alone had he heard that
i sound. His face, deathly, and the
> laek-dustre eyes dully on fire, Nicol
t Brinn burst out of the room and, not
„ heeding the presence of Harley, Iiurl-
. cd himself down the stairs. He was
. a man demented, an avenging angel.
“There he is!” cried Harley—“head-
, ing for the Dover Road!”
Nicol Brinn, at the wheel of the
CHAPTER XXX.
NICOL BRINN’S- STORY OF THE CITY
OF FIRE.
“The statement which I have to
make, gentlemen, will almost certain
ly appear incredible to you. However,
when it has been transcribed I'will
sign it.
“Although my father was no travel
er, I think I was born with the wan
derlust. I started to explore the world
in my Harvard vacations, and when
college days were over I set about the
business whole-heartedly. Where I
• went and what I did, up to the time
or rejected.
The “Prayer Boole measure, 1927,”
authorizes the use in public worship
of the prayer book annexed and the
issue of supplementary forms of ser
vice. The book annexed is called “The
Composite Book” and contains the
Book of Common Prayer as adopted
in 1662, “with permissive additions
and deviations.” It sets forth.altern
ative forms of service. The “measure” •
consists of .eleven sections, dealing
It has been the glory of the Church
of England that it Is an inclusive
church, broad enough to harbor dif-
‘‘Dp-noRfted ferent types of belief and practice-
He
ele-
was
the
no Interest to you or to anybody else,
because in India I found heaven and
hell—a discovery eough to satisfy the
most adventurous man alive. ’
“At this present time, gentlemen,
I am not going to load you with geo
graphical details. The exact spot at
which my life ended, in a sense which
racer—e same in which Harley hadj ^Up there dn the northwest provinces
™ aJ“e J}13 fateful journey and which; ^ey fold me jr was crazy when I out-
had _ afterward been concealed in the . - . . ....
garage at Hillside—scarcely nodded.
Nearer they drew to the quarry,
and nearer. Once—twice—a"nd again,
“I struck h inis,behind the ear,” he
muttered.
[lined, one night in a mess, of which
I was a guest at the time, my scheme
I for heading northeast toward a tri
butary of the Ganges which would
bring me to .the neighborhood of Khat-
mandu, right under tho shadow of
Everest.
“Bordering an independent state,
this territory is not at all well known,
but I had secured as a guide a man
named Vadi—or that was the name
he gave me—whom I knew to be a
high caste Brahmin of good family.
He had been with me for. some time,
and I thought I could trust him.
Therefore, once clear of British terri
tory, I took him into my confidence
respecting the real object of my jour-
and girls drawing water at
and boys guarding herds of
being carried off and lniu-
i Anglo-Catholics, Evangelicals and
Modernists. The problem which the
bishops now face is to find modifica
tion of the Prayer Book proposals
which, while permitting Reservation
under ai able rubric will at the same
time make such provision against ex
treme practices as will satisfy the in
sistence that the Church of England
shall not abandon its Protestant tra
dition.
But, as Lord Denbigh said in the
recent debate in the House of Lords,
speaking as a Roman Catholic who
declined to vote on the subject: ®
“I cannot imagine a more incompet
ent body to which to refer =such a
question than the present modern
Parliament, composed as it is of pro
fessed agnostics and men of various
religions, many of whom never go to
a place of wqrship from one year’s
end to another, except, perhaps, to see
their friends married or buried or to
be married or buried themselves.”
abolishing the
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In the debate in the House of Lords
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The balance of emphasis may here
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While opposition was expected in
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counted for? It is undoubtedly .due
to a recrudescence of the latent Pro-
testantisifi4 of the English people—the
arousing of the no-Popery spirit
which in the past hds expressed itself
in violent forms. The chief objection
in Parliament was to what Arch
bishop Davidson calls “the anxious
question” of Reservation.
The present rubric merely provides
that if a sick person is unable to come*
to the church, and yet is desirous to
receive the Communion in his house,
the curate may celebrate it there in
a form prescribed. The alternative
order authorizes the priest to set
apart or “reserve” so much of the
consecrated bread and wine as shall
serve sick persons desirous of com-,
municating, and it provides expressly
that the elements shall be reserved
only for the Communion of the sick
“and shall be used for no other pur
pose whatever.” This prohibition I suppose you still believe
a Santa Claus.
I did—until you came
(To be continued.)
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the face of Ormuz Khan peered out
of the window at the rear of the
limousine.
Finally they
a menace that official
• Panto Stage Hand (to mana
“Shall I lower the curtain, r"
One of tho living statues ha?.
cups.”
| sion. ne such hunter, J. A. Hunte
was sitting^ on killed eighty lions in three months.
............. Man-eating lions have proved
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ISSUE Nd. 3—’28
have become
steps
were^
Price of the book 10c the'3t was noted sometimes Jhat they
gave up their lives in organized hunts
almost without a struggle.
This condition changed when- the
ordinance. The lions grew bolder
And they passed slightly
ahead.
Inch by inch, Nicol Brinn edged the
torpedo body nearer the wheels of the
racing limousine. The Oriental chauf
feur drew in ever closer to the ditch
bordering the roadside. He shouted
hoarsely and was about to apply the
brakes when the two cars touched!
A rending crash came—a hoarse
scream, and the big limousine toppled
over into the ditch. ,
Harley felt himself hurled through
space.• ♦ *
“Shall I follow on to Lower Clay-
bury, sir?” asked Inspector Wessex,
oxcitedly.
Phil Abingdon’s message had come
through nearly an hour before, and a
party had been dispatched in accord
ance with Brinn’s instructions. Wes
sex had returned to New Scotland
Yard too late to take charge, and now,
before tho Assistant Commissioner
had time to reply, a phone buzzed.
“Yes?” said the Assistant Commis
sioner, taking up one of the several
instruments; “What!”
Even this great man, so justly cele
brated for his placid demeanor, was
unable to conceal him amazement.
“Yes,” he added. “Let him come
up.” He replaced the receiver and
What About the Reel?
Manchester Guardian (Lib.):
would seem that right from the very
earliest days there has been room for
two schools of poinion about dancing
as an exercise for military men. On
the one hand there is the tradition of
the “war dance,” which Is certainly
not regarded among those tribes
which’ indulge in it as an effeminate
and unmilitary pastime; on the other
there is the attitude of Michal, Saul’s
daughter, who “looked 'through a win
dow and saw Kipg David leaping and
dancing before the Lord; and she
despised «him in her heart.” Fascist
Italy would seem to belong to the
same school as ’Saul’s daughter, for
Italian officers have been forbidden
to indulge In the Charleston, Black
Bottom and other “exotic dances” lest
they should1 bring the King’s (or fihle
Duce’s) uniform into contempt. But
Reuter now tells us that when M.
Painleve was asked whether he In
tended to issue a similar instruction
for the guidance of French officers he
sought advice from a general, who
promptly replied’ that he firmly be
lieved in the Charleston as a polite
distraction for all commissioned
ranks, and supported his belief by
himself demonstrating the suspect i steps for the benefit of M. Paihleve. J
Actor: “I am In a quandary. ’ A
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two theatre managers, and I do^’t
know how to act.” Candid Frle
“Well, don’t worry. They’ll soon '
that out!”
is
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the elements^ a practice which, it is
said, has been steadily increasing in
the English church. In the debate in
the House of Commons, Sir W. Joyn-
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of worship.” In March last the arch
bishops and bishops agreed on strin
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they declared they would put forth in
case the Prayei’ Book measure became
law. But, as Lord Hanworth, Master
of the Rolls, said in the debate in the
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Joan, aged seven, is not without1 f0Qt spears a.. J LmL”
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One afternoon, sh
sr, making him I Man-eating lions
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“.Toriah!” -
tably in Uganda and Tanganyika, bat
for different reasons. In Uganda a
dire outbreak of rinderpest killed off
thousands of head of game and forced
the government and the natives to’
destroy almost all of it to prevent the
spread of the diseases to cattle.
Deprived of their natural prey, 'the
Uganda lions turned to man eating.
One lion alone killed eighty-four hu
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In Tanganyika, man-eaters thrived
because of the widespread native, su
perstition that they were witch doc
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doctors known as Antunsimba claim- '
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lions at will, and so terrified did the
natives become that they made
practically no resistance to the dep
redations of real lions.
It is recorded that one man-eater
attacked a crowd of 2,000 natives and
that another charged a gang of fifty
natives in broad daylight.
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