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RLMER D. BELL E A.
Barrister and Solicitor
8.10AFOETH - TEL. 173
'Attendance in Brussehil Wedneaduy
end 8aturd'a1„
18-36
McCONNEI4L & HAYS
Barristers, 8oliclttars, Eto.
Patrick I)1 McConnell - H. Gleba Bare
SEAFORTH, ONT.
Telephone 174
2698-
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SEAFORTH - - ONTARIO
Branch Office - Hensall
Hensall Seaforth
Phone 113 Phone 173
MEDICAL
SEAFORTH CLINIC
DR. E. A. MOMAS1`ER, M.B.
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Graduate of University of Toronto
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diseases of the ear, eye, nose and
throat, will be at the Clinic, the first
Tuesday. in every month from 3 to 5'
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Physician and Surgeon
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Physician and Surgeon
Successor to Dr. W. C. Sproat
Phone 90-W Seaforth
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'Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
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CHAPTER XI
SYNOPSIS
Beautiful Camilla Deanis tour-
ing Egypt and Palestine w'th a
party 'of Americans, including
Slim McManus, in love with Cain -
and Michael Gay, an engineer
who hopes to establish a lines line
to Bagdad. Among her other ad-
mirers are a wealthy Syrian, Has-
san Isar -alias Joseph Asad-
leader of fanatical Arabs inrIrPal-
estine, and Ronald Barker - El
Kerak-leader of tribes opposed
to Hassan. Camilla encourages
Hassan's attention's to gain in-
formationhelpful to Barker, but
refuses to marry him. Barker
warns her of danger, but she
crosses the Syrian desert with
Michael Gay -accompanied by a
group from the boat, and Zaagi,
Syrian guide. Zaagi drove the
car off the road into nearby hills.
"Get back to the road'," Michael
commanded, with a•sudden realization
that the bus had somehow got into•a,
difficult position. "Pm not going to
smash this bus on her trial trip."
Zaagi moved one shoulder slightly
and, putting on power, seemed to be
finding a way between the jutting
stones that 'would bring them' back to
safety, when miraculously there ap-
peared out of nowhere among the
rocks in front, beside and behind
them, groups of mounted Bedouins
galloping to the car, gesticulating
with their rifles and shouting incom-
prehensively.
"Wh-at does all this mean, Zaagi?"
Michael demanded.
"I don't know, monsieur. It is, a
branclh of the Anazeh and they come'
to welcome us to their country."
l'aa'gi opened the door and these
a short colloquy. When the col,
Ga sation was ended Zaagi turned
with., simulated despair. "They ask
tribute for passing throaugh their
!raids," he said. "It is the custom of
the country, they say."
A Man in a reds pelisse who seem-
ed to .be the leader of the group now
raised a hand commanding aaent.on.
He was taller than the other:. r ore
a small brown beard and, judged by
the standards of his people, Was
handsome of face -and well fo'r'med in
figure.
`He says," Zaagi translated. "that
he wishes to.examine your luggage
and requests that you all step down
while he does 'so."
"I'm darned if we do,' Michael re-
plied.
There was a moment of silence
while 'the sheik. sat gravely with au
air, of great dignity and patience,
smiling at last as if in commisera-
tion of their unreasonable attitude.
When he spoke it was with a stern -
et expression!! "He says'," Zaagi in-
terpreted, "that it will- be much bet-
ter, if you do what he asks.-, He' will
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wound in hiss chest. Michael Gay
still sagged over the wheel, a bullet
in his shoulder, and Janet looked dis-
gustedly at her little empty pistol and
let them hustle her out to the ground.
Doc Williamson, who was unarmed,
obediently followed the directions of
the bandits. Torelli was, giving aro-
matic spirits of ammonia to' Kitty
Trimble, who had fainted.
Camilla was aware of the man in
the red' pelisse urging her, again to-
ward the horse, and as she did not
try to help him two men lifted her
bodily and put her in the saddle. She
was sure that it was useless for her
to struggle, so she submitted, permit-
ting them to lead th'3 horse away
from the group and over the hill to
a flat plain which seemed limitless in
every direction, except toward the
mountains which they. were leaving
behind them.
There was no chance of escape.
Two'men rode with her, one on each
side. She spoke to one of them in
English, then in French, asking where
they were going but she got no reply
-unless his forbidding silence could
be considered one. She tried the 'man
on the other side with the same re-
sult.
It was then that the sheik in the
scarlet pelisse, who had been riding
behind her, rode up and took the
bridle of her horse from the man on
her right who drew rein and took up
the rear. "I regret, mademorsi-lle,"
he said at last, in execrable French,
"that I was obliged to make you come
with me against your will. But you
will not be hurt or treated badly 'If
you do as I command."
"But what of my friends who are
'still alive! . What of the. bus with no
one to drive it?"
• He made a deprecatory gesture.
"It was bad that the bigman should
kill my companions. If e had et
shot them) no harm would have come:
Helas! He will shoot no more-"
"You haven't heard the end of
this," she said angrily as her cour-
age returned. "There must be some
law, even in this God -forsaken coun-
i try-"
"Pardon, mademoiselle," he said,
with polite incomprehension.
' "Where are you taking me " she
asked. "Who is the man who plan-
ned this crirne? i And ivhy . do you
take ire instead of the others?"
The sheik moved one shoulder and
i band as a gesture of incomprehen-
sion. There seemed no hope for her,
less hope even than for the other sur-
vivors of the disaster. •
It was toward the middle of the af-
ternoon that Camilla's captor rose in
his stirrups and pointed to a hill that
rose above the surrounding plain. An
:hey drew near • she saw at its base
the black goatskin tents of a Bedouin
encainpm'eat. Horses, camels, and
dromedaries were tethered to ropes
pegged -along' the ground. "We shall
rest there," the sheik said politely.
She made no comment and rode
forward, trying„ to find new courage
She was sure that it was useless for her to struggle, so she submitted,
permitting them to lead the horse away -
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utes."
The situation crystallized' almost
immediately as Michael took Zaagi
by the collar of his tunic and threw
him from 'behind the wheel, falling
into his seat and turning on the pow-
er. Zaagi put a hand into his shirt
and drew out a. -knife which he swung
with a dangerous motions toward
Michael. But Slim fired quickly and
Zaagi dropped, rolling at the feet of
an Arab who had come bp, the steps.
That was the beginning of the trou-
ble. Michael was trying to get the
car in gear when somebody shot at
him. Slim's -,automobile came , into
line again and, fired several times.
The sounds of firing now came from
all directions, Michael had been hit
in the shoulder and crumpled' over
the wheel, but he fired a final shot
at a man clambering up the steps to-
ward him while Masa clattered and
Janet Priestly's tiny revolver sound-
ed, like the yapping of a fox terrier.
above the roar of the heavy rifles,,.
Camllla, still bewildered by the sud-
den eonfiiot, rushed forward to pack
illi Slim's gun from the floor of the
;bits, when she was Seized violently
and carried bodily outside.
It .Was lively while it lasted, and
fatal at least to poor Slim Who had`# 1 ° *ani`; Wain' trate a
L Yui: ill;
liamson, and to wonder what might
be done to help them, she sank back
in utter exhaustion. Poor Slim!".1-Le
was in her last "waking -thought. Slim
had been the cause of the bloodshed
and had paid heavily for his impulse.
It was quite dark when she awoke.
dark and ;cool. She pulled the silken
robe over her and wondered how long
she had. been asleep; then remember-
ed that it didn't really matter what
time it was. Of course escape was
impossible and even if she had ever
considered it, the distant sounds that
now came to her -the sharp yelps
from a pack of jackals' fighting over
a dead animal somewhere, the howl
of a wolf or the distant wailing laugh
Of hyenas -would soon have driven
the thought of escape from her head
. . . But after a while these sounds
diminished, became a part of the
night itself, and with the moaning of
the; wind, the quivering of the tent
Haps made a desert symphony that
soothed her to sleep again. .
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In the morning the Bedouin girl,
whose name Camilla never learned,
came into the tent with Camilla's
dressing case, a larger basin of wa-
ter, towels and soap, and placed them.
on a table. And when she had bath-
ed and taken coffee, Camilla found a
cigarette, and smoked. As she did so
her mind clearing rapidly1 the thought
of Hassan came to her again. Has-
san and not Ronnie. Hassan more
ominous than ever after what had
'happened. Who else but Hassan
would have selected her from among
her companions and brought her here
into this far-off place? She remem-
bered with clearer comprehension the
slow smile of her Captor when: the
name of Hassan Isar had been men:
tioned. Hassan had planned this ab-
duction just as he had planned the
conspiracy against Ronnie. She was
sure of it now and she was frighten-
ed. Her insincerity and disloyalty to
i•Iassan now came to haunt her.
Whatever Hassan's sins against
Ronnie, he had committed none
against Camilla. From the begin-
ning he would have done everything
she asked. She had betrayed him
again and- - again, and now her
transgressions were finding her out.
If' Hassan- had made tetra . prisoner
she had little to hope for, and she
was willing to admit that whatever
happened to her would be nothing
less than she deserved. Ronnie had
said that Hassan was politically pow-
erful in this country; otherwise, she
now realized This men would not have
dared to `hoid• up Michael's bus and
hill Slim.
Just after sunset there was a
sound of a rifle shot in the distance,
ad answering, shot near -by, and an
immediate commotion: outside. The
Bedouin girl rushed from the kitchen
and the brigand who -had captured
Camilla yesterday passed before the
flap of the tent in the sunlight and
leaped on his horse. She wanted to
iun outside, but the Bedouin girl in-
terposed, pointing to a camp chair
that she had brought forward to the
table. She gave a 'series of grunts
which Camilla interpreted to mean
that she was not permitted to leave
the tent.
And yet ins spite of her knowledge
that she had brought all this upon
herself she could not feel that Hassan
would dare molest her on his own
terms. Wasn't the reason why he
preferred her because she could. de-
ceive him as she had always done? his
Wasn't this abduction merely .
own way of making their caravan in-
to the desert an accomplished' fact in
spite of her opposition?
for the new adventure, whatever it
was.,- Palm trees grew near the h. i i
and extended out into the desert be
yond. At the flap of the largest tent
she w,asi invited to' dismount, but to
her chagrin she had to be lifted to
the ground.
Then with the assistance of a girl
who had now appeared she sank up-
on a divan in the tent and, with dif-
ficulty, relaxed her aching limbs. The
girl brought water to drink an i a
bowl to bathe the dust from her face,`
then stood by as impassive as the
riders who had brought. her here.
Apparently Camilla was to be treat-
ed With politeness, for after a while
the Bedouin girl brought a dish of
lentil soup, a red pottage of the sante
.recipe, probably, for which Esau soul
his. birthright. This did much to re-
store her mind and body. As she
sipped), the soup she asked' questions,
but the glrl gave 'signs of incompre-
hension, her slow bovine gaze com-
pleting the conviction of ignorance
and stupidity. '*hen, as' if to atone
fol'; her mebtial deficiencies, she care -
fatly arranged the pillows on the div-
anchildish enteleine su -
an and by p g
gH'e' edi that CntriIlla slidel'd go to
siLi *.. •
And, rid* While she tried to think
of bah Seale, 3'anet slid Mrs,. Wit.
•His entrance at the flap of the tent
was not in the least alarming.
"Of course you know that . if it
hadn't been for your friend Slim,
nothing would have happened yester-
day."
His voice was deep but mild and
she gained courage. "Nothing, -of
course," she said, "but the holdup of
an American bus and the abduction
of an American girl travelling in it."
"Granted. I intended to bring you
here no matter what happened."
"And, how are you going to answer
for ft?"
"I don't intend to answer at all.
I'm not supposed to know anything
about the holdup or about you."
"My government will have a word
to say when it knows the truth?'
"Who will tell?"
"Dr. Williamson, Torelli, Janet,
Josie-"
"And how
had anything
"I will tell
go.,,
He laughed jovially., Apparently
he had determined to get as much
pleasure out of the sittiat'on as pos-
sible: "Come, Camilla,' he said
"Let's wait and quarrel after dinner
I hope the meal will be a good one.'
He clapped iris hands three times an
a tall Nubian appeared' Wearing th
linen clasp of a eine'. He bowedi
Hassan spoke and then the Bedouin
girl returned, getting' thei,tablel with 1
t,
fine liYi`An c"t'gtli• and' lrroper salver a
,porcelain furnitaihing's'.
will tihey` 'learn that I
to do with it?"
them after you let me
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1)he horse 18 staging a comeback,
Far from being put on• the skids in.
an era of machines, this noble friend
of man is once again ,proving his use-
fulness in countless ways.
Take this summer, for .instance, lit
June, 1941, the horse markets of the
American and Canadian West were
feverishly busy, handling herds in
more than sizeable numbers at a time
when (as the Western ranchers put
it) the market,"is usually plumb rn,
the emba'min' stage!" Horse buying
normally begins in August, but gov-
ermental pleas to conserve gasoline,
the big demands of agriculture and the
booming lumber business (to mention
three reason alone) have pepped 'up
the pace.
The bulk of these animals were
farm types for farm use. Canadian
horses were being shipped in ming
numbers across the line into the U.S.
A., out to British Columbia and to
Eastern Canada, as far as New Bruns-
wick. In the June boons large ship-
ments of horses left Calgary, Alberta,
for far distant points at the rate of
seven a week -which would be a fair-
ly heavy movement even in the "busy
season."
In the United States the heavy de-
mand for farm and lumber •horses has
been supplemented by an order for
27,500 extra equine recruits for Uncle
Sam's fighting Army; these'joined up
June 30th, thereby' vastly increasing
the already quite large animal force.
All over the West bone -busting
cowboys are "toppin' em off,". sitting
red-hot leather hourly, daily, in, stren-
uous efforts. to "ease into" army ser-
vice the wild free' equines of the
range. Far from being ousted by ma-
chines, the horse as an aid to combat
troops, reconnaissance scouts; occu-
pational and consolidation armies, has
staged the greatest comeback in his-
tory.
U.S. and Canadian bronc-busters
and cowi,oys are busy as never before
catering for the beam which has giv-
en a kick in the face to all those
gloomy "motor replacing the horse"
prognosticators. As. civil 'and mili-
tary markets clamor for more hors-
es, bands of hard -riding tamers of the
wild ones sift through the foothills of
the Rockies, hunt the mesas of Ari-
zona, comb the prickly pear thickets
of the Mexican border. in quest of
brooks.
Quite apart from North America,
the horse boom is on all over the
world. One reason is the shortage of
gra: cline due to military needs. In im-
poverished- Splain where only eight
hundred railway locomotives are run-
ning as compared with 2,574 before the
Civil War, where only, one-quarter of
the pre-war automobiles are in ser-
vice (and few if any new ones have
been built), ,where gasoline is obtain-
able only 'by privileged Government
officials at $1.60 a gallon, the horse
and mule have come into their own;
any man in Spain who owns even a
donkey is rich.
In occupied Paris, and other French
cities, towns, villages taken over by
the Nazis, horse drawn cabs and ev-
en horse drawn motor cars are much
in evidence, owing tri the gasoline
shortage. The clatter of hoofs has
replaced the purr of motors to a large
extent in the Netherlands, Scandin-
avia, Poland, Finland, 'Belgium and
the Balkans.
In Australia, Malaya, the, Far East,
the same thing is happening. In war-
time Britain the demand for horses
grows steadily, due to the fact that
the Near, East, -War has drained the
Motherland of her equines. At the
outbreak of . war Britain had twenty'
two cavalry regiments, but. seventeen
had been mechanized; the bulk 'of
these mounted fighters were rushed
to Palestine and the Army of the Nile.
Proof of the shortsightednessand un-
preparedness of the' English military
heads is seen in the fact that in 1938,.
vfith war-cluods bulking blackly and
the storm about to burst, aidly news-
papers carried splash advertisements
of "Brandnew army saddles for "30
shillings each" (about seven dollars)
and hundreds of new unused military
saddles were sold at this fantastic low
price to eager riding schools by a
Government dazzled • by cogwheels
and machinery. Germiany, meanwhile
was building up an enormous equine
army: ---and it has since paid her.
itself righting over+ a.
'where swamps; aunllesa. .n:gu? t
trails, rough broken-cou ty lin-
der tanks and motel, tdriVen ,C04,0, •
U.S.
cavalry regiment an carry 132•
machine guns anal over 1,OtlO 8'i:desoa
vital equipment ji eed, The 1940',
Array total of 14'regular regiments of;
calvalry (two meehanized), Pias
'mounted National Guard) regiment%,
totalling some 60,000 M'oun'ts and 55,-
000 riders, is being considerably in• -
creased,
When Germany hurled her enorm-
ous army at Poland in September,
1939, some 200,0010 horses moved with
the troops. Every German infantry
regiment has at least 500 horses. Ger-
many and Russia between them split
the Polish "horse loot," getting over
two million mounts each to add to
their forces. It was the German cav-
alry which supported and exploited
the initial gains of the Panzer ,divi-
sions, in the swift moving Polish cam-
paign.
In the Russo -German war, Russia
has thrown into the scale her mighty
army of horsemen, greatest in the
world, with over' 60 cavalry regiments
operating on hundreds of thousands
of trained remounts -these in addition
to her 22 mechanized cavalry regi-
ments. On a terrain such as that of
the swamp Eastern Front, cavalry
plays an enormously- important part,
as the war dispatches have dhown.
Horses helped -largely towards Hit-
ler's success in invading the Low
Countries and France. His 210 divi-
sions which attacked France all had
huge and effective horse help. And
his present Army of Occupation in
-France is largely horse equipped.
since it has added the vast French
equine reserves to its own (France
before conquest had 4,000 horses to
every' infantry division, or one horse
to each four soldiers).
The average German infantry divi-
siontoday calls for over C,S0+) hors-
es to aid its progress. German cav-
airy follows the combat troops, con-
solidates their gains, retains captur-
ed country and acts as scouts for the
nfantry coming up behind. Hitler
has been wisely mindful of Luden-
dorff's dictum that without the aid of
cavalry there is no reaping of the
ruite of victory.
The British Army of the Nile and
be Palestine Army are today using
many additional horses , captured in
Japan is using .many more horses
than in peace time, and maintains at
east '25 regiments of cavalry, using
net chiefly for reconnaissance and
nti or transport. The British Army
in India wisely has not diminished its
21 regiments of cavalry, despite me-
chanization of certain army units now
in progress there.
In Sweden the horse markets boom,
for civilian and military needs, and
the clip -clop of hoofs rings loud in
Stockholm today.
There are horse movements across
the seas, even despite the blockades.
English trainers of blooded racing
stock are eager to ship their best
strains to •the safety of Western Hem-
isphere stables. And U.S. breeders
and 'trainers are just as eager to have
them, seeing'a chance to improve ex-
isting strains) with the finest thorough-
breds in the world.
It is, ,astonis•hingly enough, in the
midst of the greatest' mechanized war-
fare in history -that this huge horse
boom is.takitig place. Throughout the
world the preserit demand for cav-
alry chargers and heavy artillery* draft
horses. Is enormous and unparalleled.
The V.S. army has been steadily
el'easin'g its orrcilat's' for reridonirts ev-
er *nee ,'hostiliti s ,began 1n 1989, a,
w 'lza'#0; Sitr`clr It lits #:.elle 0a '
atre;;i,i
Qi
Ethiopia; and, Libya,
were formerly ,used. 10, th
Lancers -and Genoa :Drag...
work in conjunction with, ligh
America today: sits pretty in'+mega.
to the horse situations' With thepois;
sible exception of Russia, the,
States is the world's greatest horse
Market, and she has the horse • ire
serves of Canada to the north of het.:::
There are roughly .twelve inilliQ}> .
horses and close on five Million maids
in the United States at present. proof
of the rapidly increasingg interest i'.
and value of the horse is seen at San .
Antonio where the largest Army gar-
rison in the country, Fort Sam Hous-.
ton, 'has a large riding club With civ-
ilian .as well as military members.
Randolph Field, biggest. American air
corps training school for pilots,. has.
its equestrian club too, where even •
the officers' children have their own
riding organization. .
Another fact indicating American
interest in the horse is Sheriff Eugene
Biscailuz's famous Mounted Possis of
Los Angeles civilians, whose saddle -
gear and equipment is worth five hun-
dred thousands dollars. This force of
volunteer horsemen is pledged to help
out in any national or public emer-
gency. When an airplane crashe1 at.
Newhall, California, the posse rushed
to the scene and rode from the motor'
roads far into inaccessible hills to
reach the wreckage and bring out
dead and injured to medical aid. Buck
Jones and Lew Stone are members of
this force, as was the late Tom Mix. -
It has done great service at times of
forest fire, earthquake, flood and s in
big demand at, all state fairs and
horde shows.
Assuredly the machine age has not
yet eliminated the horse. Instead:,
the ,past few years have brought Old
Dobbin renewed popularity. With
fewer cars and less gasoline avail-
able for 'pleasure in the futfire, he
may once again„ come into his own.
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EVERY CAR SHOULD HAVE ONE
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Every -Canadian motorist who sets out to cut down.his consumption •
of gasoline and oil by half is being asked to place a 50-50 pledge
sticker oa his' motor car. Authorities pope that within a very short
time the car which does not carry this sticker will be t'ie exdeption.
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OUTDOOR SILHOUETTES
For decorative shots, try silhouettes -either indoors or out. They're '
simple to take. Fast action subjects, of course, call for a fast shutter,
but others can be snapped with any camera.
must be careful. Don't allow direct
rays of the sun to enter your lens.
You can avoid this by having a tree
or some other object between the
camera and the sun. Sometimes.
you can conceal the sun squarely
behind your subject, and that is an
excellent arrangement tor good ell-
houette effects. ,q
To show the subject against the
sky, you just select a low camera
position -down close to the ground.
This, in effect, raises the subject
higher. Such a camera position watt
used to take the -picture above.,Qf
course, an action picture like this
calls for a fast shutter --say 1/400
second, with the lens set at f%'$.
However, there are hundreds of
outdoor subjects that roan be ale-
tared °`fn silhouette" eters with OW
most inexpensive cameras Wa er
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, olrn Girls
THIS past winter, no doubt, you
made silhouette shots indoors,
with a bed -sheet •stretched over a
doorway and your photo lights be-
hind it. But don't forget that you
cad also make silhouettes outdoors'
-and these are...at,Rractive too.
The trick is simply to have the
sun or brightest sky beyond your
subject, instead of in front, and
show your subject against a bright
sky background. Then you under-
expose. For example, if the normal
exposure would be 1/25 second at
f/11 lens opening, you would use
1/25 second at f/22 to get the sil-
houette effect.
With a box camera, you would
take a snapshot as usual, but first
you " would set the fens .for the
smallest possible opening. Most
regular box cameras have a little
lover or elide which enables you tri
.do this, The proper film is the:
"chrome" type, !because it is a bit,
slower than "pan" ,film in late at
tering n andothat` is • just what .yoii•
Wen`ttin this titrate.
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