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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-10-25
DRESSES
COATS

Two wonderful coat spec Fifty serge dresses each
ials for this big sale of splendid all wool
Tweny five handsome Froncb saroa made nm in
coats in all sizes and many -. 80 Ill -
coOrs selected from many " 0 pu,
great line of coats selling up peHed ana embroidered
to 1000 and priced for this models, form fitting
sale as straight line effects, this
S1395 splendid line of pretty dress
es is worth from $3.50 up
FIFTY OF our nobblest new to $250 each just for this
coats every size and color Get Acouainted sale the
coats selling freely up to price ON this lot is
$500, in this sale choice of
this lot at SlZ9o
SIS.So 10 percent discount on all
10 percent off all pushes other dresses for this SALE
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-10-25
GET ACQUAINTED

1t will be very great plea
sure to this store to have every
person in this community visit
us during this sale event and
get acquainted with us and our
liberal business methods.
We have come among you to
stay, to live here, to be part
of your community life, to help
you, to serve you, we hope bet
ter even than anyone else will
serve you.
1t will be our continuous en-
deavor to make better our Ser
vice always, so that you will
have always the greatest of
Satisfaction in making this
store your usual shopping
place, We want you to feel that
there is perfect Safety in trad
ing here. Our guarantee is
your money back if not per-
fectly satisfied. Come in, lets
get acquainted.
REMNANTS
100 remnants to be sold dur
ing this sale at a small Frac-
ton of their value. Silk Dress
goods, outings, percales, mus
Inns, wash goods.
THIS BIG SALE CLOSES
and these quoted prices will
be withdrawn on the day after
THIS IS POSITIVE
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CHAPTER III.

Delhi boasts round half-dozen rail-
way stations, ell of them designed with
regard to war, so that to King there
was nothing unexpected in the fact
that the train had brought him to an
unexpected station. He plunged into
its crowd much as man in the mood
might plunge into q whirlpool. The
station screamed echoed, reverberated,
hummed. AT one minute the whole
building shook to the thunder of a
grinning regiment; an instant later 1t
clattered to the wrought-steel ham,
mer of thousand hoofs, as led troop
horses danced into formation to invade
the waiting trucks. Soldiers of nearly
every Indian military caste stood about
everywhere. Down the back of each
platform Tommy Atkins stood in long
straight lines, talking or munching
great sandwiches or smoking.
Threading his way in and out among
the motley swarm with a great black
cheroot between his teeth and sweat
running into his eyes from his helmet
band, Athelstan King strobe at ease
1T nOIEE-luJSul--dl luSeu-dWake-
and almost awfully happy. He was
not in the least less happy because
perfectly aware that a native was fol-
lowing him at a distance, although he
did wonder how the native had con-
trived to pass within the lines. At the
end of fifteen minutes there was not a
glib staff officer there who could have
deceived him IS TO the numbers and
destination of the force entraining.
"Kerachi - he told himself, chewing
the butt of his cigar and keeping well
ahead of the shadowing native. He
die not have to return salutes, because
he did not look for them. Very few
people noticed him at all. although he
was recognized once or twice by for
mer meSsmates. AT his leisure-in his
own way, that was devious and like
string of miracles-he filtered toward
the telegraph Office. The native who
had followed him all this time drew
closer, but he did not let himself be
troubled by that.
He whispered proof OF his identity
% the telegraph clerk. who was Royal
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CHAPTER w.

| 1t was musty smelling entrance, so
| dark that to see was scarcely possible
after the hot glare outside. Dimly
King made out Rewa Gunga mounting
stairs to the left and followed him.
When he guessed himself two stories
at least above road level, there was a
sudden blaze of reflected light and he
blinked at more mirrors than he could
coCnt. Curtains were reflected in each
mirror, and little glowing lamps, so
cunningly arranged that it was not pos
sible to guess which were real and
which were not. King stood still.
Then suddenly, as if she had done it
thousand times before and surprised
thousand people, a little nut-brown
maid parted the middle pair of cur
tains and said "Salaam!' smiling with
teeth that were as white as porcelain.
King looked scarcely interested and
not at all disturbed.
Rewa Gunga hurried past him,
thrusting the little maid aside, and led
the way. King followed him into a
long room, whose walls were hung
with richer silks than any he remem-
bered TO have seen. In a great wide
window to one side some twenty wom-
en- began at once to make flute music.
Silken punkahs swung from chains,
waiting back and forth cloud of SAN
dalwood smoke that yelled the whole
scene in mysterious, scented mist.
'Be welcomed" laughed Rewa Gun
ga; II am 20 do the honors, since she
is not here. Be seated, sahib."
King chose a divan at the rooms
farthest end, near tall curtains that
led into rooms beyond. He turned his
back toward the reason for his choice.
On a little ivory-inlaid ebony table
about ten feet away lay knife, that
was almost the exact duplicate of the
one inside his shirt. He could sense
huShed expectancy on every side
could feel the eyes Of many women
fixed on him-and began to draw on
his guard IS fighting man draws on
armOr. There and then he deliberately
set himself TO resist mesmerism. which
is The East's chief WEAPON.
Eewa GuD=a. perfectly i. home.
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CHAPTER Il--continued.


Within ten miys;.tes Hyde was asleep,
snoring prodigt51sly. Then King pulled
out the knife again and sudied it for
half 81 hokf The blade was of bronze,
With an edge hammered to the keen
ness of a razor. The hilt was of near
ly pure gold, in the form of woman
dancing. The whole thing was so ex-
quisitely wrought that age had only
softened the lines, without in the least
impairlng them. 1t looked like one of
those Grecian toys with which Roman
women of Nero's day stabbed their
lovers. But that was not why he be-
gan to whistle very softly to himself.
Presently he drew out the generals
package of papers, with the photograph
on the top. He stood up, to hold both
knife and papers close to the light in
the roof.
1t needed no great stretch of imagi-
nation to suggest q likeness between
the woman of the photograph and the
other, of the golden knife-hilt. And
nobody, looking at him then, would
have dared suggest he lacked magma
ton.
If the knife had not been so ancient
they might have been portraits of the
same woman, in the same disguise,
taken at the same time.
"She knew I had been chosen to
work with her. The general sent her
word that I am coming" he muttered
to himself. "There must have been a
spy watching at Peshawur, who wired
to Rawal-Pindi for this man to jump
the train and go on with the job. Why
should she give the man a knife with
her own portrait on it? Is she queen
of a secret society? Well--we shall
see!"
He lay back with his head on the
pillow, and before five minutes more
had gone he was asleep. His mobile
face in repose looked Roman, for the
sun had tanned his skin and his nose
was aquiline. In museums, where
sculptured heads of Roman generals
and emperors stand around the wall
on pedestale, q: would not be difficult
to pick several that bore more than q
faint resemblance to him. He had
breadth and depth of forehead and a
jowl that lent itself to smiles as well
as sternness, and a throat that ex-
pressed manly determination in every
nodded line.
He slept like boy until dawn; and
ne and Hyde had scarcely exchanged
another dozen words when the train
screamed next day into Delhi station.
Then he saluted stiffiy and was gone.
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engineer new to that job that morn
fns, and sealed telegram was handed
to him at once. Because it was war
time, and the censorship had closed
on India like throttling string, it
was not in code. So the Mira Ali, of
the Fort, Bombay, to whom 1t was
addressed, could be expected to read
| between the lines.
| Cattle intended for slaughter, dispatched
Bombay on Fourteen down. Meet train.
| VIII be inspected en- route, but should be
dealt with carefully on arrival. Cattle
inclined to stampede owing to bad scare
received north Of Delhi. Take all pre-
cautions and notify Abdul.
SULLIVAN.
"GoOd!" he chuckled. Lets hope
we get Abdul too. I wonder who he
isl"
Still uninterested in the man who
Swallowed him, he walked back to the
office window and wrote two tele-
grams; one to Bombay, ordering the
arrest of Ali Mira of the Fort, with
his man Abdul might be, and to seize
him as soon as found; the other to the
station in the north, insisting on close
confinement for SULLIVAN.
That being all the urgent business,
he turned leisurely to face his shadow.
and the native met his eyes with the
engaging frankness of an old friend,
coming forward with outstretched
hand. They did not shake hands, but
the man made signal with his fingers
that is known to not more than dozen
men in all the world, and that changed
the situation altogether.
"Walk with me-" said King, and the
man fell into stride beside him.
He was a Rangar-which is to say a
Rajput who, or whose ancestors had
turned Mohammedan. Like many Raj
puts he was not big man, but he
looked fit and wiry; his head scarcely
came above the level of Kings chin,
although his turban distracted atten-
ton from the fact. The turban was of
silk and unusually large.
The whitest of well-kept teeth,
cleaning regularly under little black
waxed mustache betrayed no trace of
betelnut or other nastiness. King was
not SO sure that the eyes were brown,
and he changed his opinion about their
color a dozen times within the hour.
Once he would even have sworn they
were green.
The man was a regular Hangar
dandy, of the type that can be seen
playing polo almost any day at Mount
Abu-that gets into mischief with a
grace due to practice and heredity-
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| Now he chose to notics the knife
on the ebony table as If he had not
seen it before. He got up and reached
for it and brought it back, turning It
over and over in his hand.
"a strange knife" he said.
'Yes-from Khinjan," SAID Rewa
Gunga, and King eyed him as one wolf
eyes another.
"What makes you say it is from
Khinjan?"
'She brought it from Khinjan caves
herself! There is another knife that
matches it, but that is not here. That
bracelet you now wear, sahib, is from
Khinjan caves tool She has the secret
of the cavesi'
81 have heard that the Heart of the
Hills is there" King answered. as
the Heart of the Hills a treasure
houSeY
Rewa Gunga laughed.
"Ask her, sahibl Perhaps she will
tell you! Perhaps she will let you
see! Who knows? She is woman of
resource and unexpectedness-let her
women dance for you a while"
King nodded. Then he got up ana
laid the knife back on the little table.
A minute or so later he noticed that
at sign from Rewa Gunga woman
left the great window place and spir-
tied the knife away.
''May 1 have a sheet Of paper?" he
asked, for he knew that another fight
for his self-command was due.
Rewa Gunga gave an order, and
maid brought scented paper on a sill
yer tray. He drew out his own foun-
tain pen, and since his one object was
to give his brain employment. he wrote
down a list of the names he had men,
orized in the train on the journey from
Peshawur, not thinking of use for
the list until he had finished. Then.
though, real use occurred to him.
While he began to write more thdn
a dozen dancing women swept into the
room from behind the silk hangings In
a concerted movement that was all
1.-the slumberous grace. Woodward
music called to them from the great
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deep window. They began to chant,
still dreamily, and with the chant the
dance began, in and out, round and
round, lazily, ever so lazily, wreathed
In buoyant gossamer that was scarcely
more solid than the sandalwood smoke
they waited into rings.
King watched them and listened to
their chant until he began to recognize
the strain ON the eye muscles that pre-
cedes the mesmeric spell. Then he
wrote and read what he had written
and wrote again.
"What have you written?" asked a
quiet voice at his ear; and he turned
to look straight in the eyes of Rewa
Gunga, who had leaned forward to
read over his shoulder. Just for one
second he lowered on the brink of
quick defeat. Having escaped the
Scylla of the dancing women, Charyb-
dis waited for him In the shape of eyes
that were pools of hot mystery. 1t was
the sound of his own voice that brought
him back to the world again and saved
his will for him unbound.
Read 1t, won't your" he laughed
"If you know, take this pen and mark
the names of whichever of those men
are still in Delhi"
Rewa Gunga took pen and paper and
set mark against some thirty of the
names, for King had a manner tia
disarmed refusal.
King began to watch the dance
again, for 1t did not feel safe to look
too long into the Rangers eyes. 1t was
not wise just then to look too long at
anything or to think too long on any
one subject.
'Ismail is slow about returning"
said the Hangar.
81 wrote at the foot Of the tar" said
King, shat they are to detain him
there until the answer comes"
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| for natives TO hint at possible dissolu
ton of the AnglO-Indian government
Everybody knows that the British will
not govern India forever, but the Brit
ish-who know it best of all, and work
to that end most fervently-are the
only ones encouraged to talk about it.
For few minutes after that Rewa
riage Swayed at breakneck speed
through the swarming streets. King
watching and saying nothing, did not
believe for second the lame expla.
nation Yasmini had left behind. She
must have some good reason for wish
ing to be first up the Khyber, and he
was very sorry indeed she had slipped
away. 1t might be only jealousy, yet
why should she be jealous?
1t was the next remark of the
Rangers that set him entirely on his
guard, and thenceforward whoever
could have read his thoughts would
have been more than human. He had
known of that thought-reading trick
ever since his ayah (native nurse)
taught him to lisp Hindustanee just
as surely he knew that it's impudent
use was intended to sap his belief in
himself.
'I'Il bet you hundred dibs," said
the Hangar, shat she decided to be
there first and get control of the stu
alton! She's slippery, ana quick, and
like all women, she's jealous
The Rangers eyes were on his, but
King was not to be caught again. 1t is
quite easy to think behind a fence, so
to speak, if one gives attention to it.
"She will be busy presently fooling
those Afridis," he continued, waving
his cigarette. "She has fooled them
always, to the limit Of their bally bent.
Yasmini plays her own game, for
amusement and power-a good game
deep game! You have seen already
how India has to ask her aid in the
'Hillsp She loves power, power,
power-not for it's name, for names
are nothing, but to use it."
. "How long have you known herr"
asked King.
The Hangar eyed him sharply.
ga long time. She and played to-
gether when we were children. 1t, is
because she knows me very well that
she chose me to travel North with you,
when you start to find her in the
'Hills'!"
King cleared his throat, and the
Hangar nodded, looking into his eyes
with the engaging confidence of child
who never has been refused anything,
in or out of reason. King made no eff
fort so look pleased.
Just then the coachman took last
corner at a gallop and drew the horses
up on their launches at a door in a
high white wall. Rewa Gunga sprang
out Of the carriage before the horses
were quite at standstill.
"Here we are!" he said, and King
noticed that the street curved here so
that no other door and no window
overlooked this one.
He followed the Hangar, and Re was
no sooner into the shadow of the door
than the coachman dashed the horses
and the carriage swung out Of view.
"This way" said the Hangar over
his shoulder. "Come"
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but that does not manage its estates
too well. as a rule, nor pay its debts
Ia hurry.
'AIy name is Rewa Gunga," he said
in low voice. II have message for
you"
'From whom?"
From herl" said the Hangar, and
without exactly knowing why. or be-
ing pleased with himself, King felt ex-
cited.
They were walking toward the sta
ton exit. King had a trunk check in
his hand, but returned it to his pocket,
not proposing just yet to let the
Hangar overhear instructions regard
ing the trunks destination; he was too
gocd-looking and too oyerbrimming
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CTO BE CCNTINUED.)
Famous Family of Preachers,

Rev. Lyman Beecher, sometimes re-
ferred to as founder of the Beecher
family" had seven sons who were
preachers. Beginning with the oldest,
they were: William Henry Beecher.
born in 1902; Edward Beecher, born
in 1903; George Beecher. born In 1909:
Henry Ward Beecher, born in 1Sl3:
Charles Beecher. born in 1915; Thorn
rs X. Beecher, born in 1924. and
James C. Beecber, horn In 1928
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-11-02

King tricks the Hangar and
rescues some of Yasmini's cut
threats, whom he takes north
with him as grateful body
guards.
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1917-03-01
Collecting Debts

4 d C or was called to see a
farm hand He couldn't find
a y hing " ory with Lin, and
so Ieporte1.
That IS VIVA | thought, " said
the farmer, go Dach aAd TEL!
him therei, nothing the matter. "
The doc or went back and
jump d tenn mn bed. There
isn't the last thing wrong with
you what are y0u lying there
lor?" said the 90 tor
Il knoo " reoled the hired
man. "..t taat mao hasn't paid
me a ce tf.- tree months. and
| intrn o. .tay r.ht here unit
he dors I,y ue.
"Kou .cr and make room
for me. d me doctor, fol
he hasn't pad ~. ANYTHING for
three years.
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$50 -
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O.. ". Greer. Jr., the twenty
months old infant son of Walter
Green. lscn OF Dan j. Green. of
tlis ciry.) diea Sunday evening
a. S:lj o'clock, at tie residence
OF T. K. Yates where the child
ana is mother We're visiting.
They came here from jackson
vile. Fla, before Christmas for
a visit TO relatives to remain un-
I'll MIR. Green hat removed and
gotten settled at kidgeway, Va,
their new hom". The child was
tskca i'll "a month aSo.
Mrs. Green was a Miss Giilett,
OF hngland, Ga.
The funeral and interment
took place Monday afternoon al
4 o'clock, Revs. Short and Trot
ter Officiating. A beautiful IN
cident to the funeral was IN,
tour young lady pail bearers
they being Misses Monte Bel,
Williams, Myrtle Glass, Miriam
Pierce and Eva Yates.
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1917-03-01
Carl Flanary Dead.

News reached he'e Friday
morning OF the death Of CAL
Flanary, who died suddenly he
evening before o' Portayevillr,
Mo. where he had bee> q cotton
buyer for several years. We are
not able to learn the pa'ticulars
of his = st,s,h 3. the e.soge
only contained the sad news and
and said thai the body would be
held for burial until his sons, Oral
ind Ror who live with their
grandpa ent., Mr.. and Mrs. l..
}, Daugh rey of near Hebron,
could get there Oral ia attend
ing High Sch ,ol here and he Nd
his brother l"f; on the afternoon
train Friday.
Mr.. Flanary was well known
in the country and the news of
his death came as a great shock
to his numerous friends. He
was married twice his first wife
being Miss Maggie Daughtrey
who died about twelve years ago.
He. married bis second wife in
the town where he was living at
at the time of his death.
Besides his wife and two sons
h. is survived by one sister Mrs.
| }. }. Nav of this city.
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1917-03-01
'"GO TO SUNDAE;:::::::sss + - =
SCHOOL
Sunday, May 7th. Everybody Must
Be Prepared to Attend
Sunday School

On last Tuesday evening
meeting of all the Sunday School
officers, teachers and other S. s.
workers of the town was held at
the First Baptist church, to make
plans for a campaign to interest
the people of Critten6en county
in the annual "Go-to-Sunday.
School-Day" which has been set
this year for Sunday, May 7th.
Committees were appointed ant
plans made for thorough can
vass, so that every person in the
county will be given an urgent
invitation to visit some Sunday
School that day. and every Sun
day School in the county will be
benefited.
1t is hoped to make the at
tennance this year a record
breaker fol our county, and keep
our name along Sunday Schoo.
lines where it has always been
aclose 10 the top.
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1917-03-01
Card Of Thanks.

We desire through the columns
Of the Record.press TO thank our
many friends and neighbors for
the great kindness shown US in
the sick ess and death of our be-
loved husband and father. May
God shower his blessings in
abundance up on you all. This
great kindness shall ever remain
fresh in our memory.
Mrs. William Ann Fritts and
children.
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1917-03-01
Narrowly Escaped Death.

Sidney Marshall, the two year
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. S. M.
Jenkins, was run over by the
bus and two horses attached to
it, Sunday afternoon at Senator
Deboe's corner, but miraculous
ly escaped any injury. He was
accompanied by his parents and
his father had just carried him
across the street presumably out
Of danger, when the youngster
made a dash for Judge Blues
gate across College street just
as the team turned the corner
out of Depot street in a swift
trot. The knee of the off horse
struck the child and knocked
him down and two Of his hoofs
struck on each side OF HIM, ard
the wheels of the heavy bus with
four people in and on it, passed
within two inches of his little
body but did not touch him.
The near accident was wit
messed by crowds returning from
the two trains which had met
here. The parents were almost
paraIiized and the mother COL
lapsed and took her bed on reach
ing home. where careful ex-
aminatsOn revealed the fact that
her baby did lot get a
scratch, his good old grand
mother avowing, that the good
Lord had saved his life, and al
agreed she was right.
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1917-03-01
CHARITY.

We know so little Of the hearts
That everywhere around us beat;
So little OF the inner lives
Oi those whom dav by day We
preet,
Oh, it behooves US, one and all,
Gently to deal with those We
meet.
Gently to deal, and gently Judge
With the diyinest charity
That thinks no evil, but woul,
T. seek
1.-THE COED in every soul to see;
{ Measuring not by what it is,
)But by that which it strives to b
A Selected. {
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1917-03-01
John D. Parr Of Fredonia is Dead

The news reached the city
Wednesday afternoon Feb. 2lst
JUS as we were ready to print,
of the death OF John d. Pa,r an
old ana highly respected citizen
of the Fredonia section. He had
been i'll for some time with kid
ney and bladder trouble and the
end was not unexpected. Mr..
Parr was born May 2lta 1881
near where he died in Caldwell,
Co. lie was married jan. 2lst
1858 u Mss MrthiE II ,lyarl
Ia sis-. # lI't ormertoEnSman
JHHihyard. She died a few year,
ago, There We're eight childrer
born To them. four Of WON sur
yiye, j. A. Par of Fr,donia, J
| II. Parr OF Blue Spring, Mo Mrs
Mary Blackburn of Pney Cree
and Mrs. Lou Dunn OF Prince
ton. He had been a chrlslia
for over fifty years having pre-
iessad m Aug. 1889 at od Beth
lehem Under Rev. George MC
.Clanes preaching and united wit
the Cumberland Presbyteria
church at Fredonia and retaine
his membership uotil the EN-
His funeral was preached Thur
day by Rev. w. /, Oakley
the family residence and inte
ment at old Livingston Gem
terry.