South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-11-30
Hril11nphS Of:
MJonquel1e1
BY MELVILLE DNISSON POST
9 1000 NEA Service Inc

IT,. &, reads Ike the widest &c that
anybody ever put forward 20 explain
big yellow Oriental following one
about
ia. lt was no go. You could think
up q l.e 60 equal the actual things
that happened TO Eodman. Take the
way Lo died.
The thing begas in India Rod
man had gone there 20 consult with
,h. Mareaes1 Giovanni concerning
some .no- ocular theory that was in
volvcd .u his formulas. Giovanni
was digging up a buried temple on
the northern border OF the Punjab.
One night. In tho explorers tent,
near the excavations. this inscrut-
able creature walked in on Rodman.
No one knew how ne got into the
sent or where he came from.
Giovanni told about it. The tent
flap simply opened. and the big
Oriental appeared. lie had some
thing under his arm rolled UP In
prayer carpet lie gave no atten-
ton 10 Giovanni. but he salaamed
like a coolle 20 the little American.
Master he said. you were hard
10 find. I have looked over the world
for YOU"
And he squatted down on the dirty
floor b. ROdmans camp stool.
The two men spent the remainder
OF tho night looking at the present
shat the creature brought Rodman
in his prayer-cdrpet They wanted
80 =
and that's how the story came out.
lie was something, searcher seems
our nearest English word 70 tin
the great Shan Monastery on the
southeastern plateau OF the Cobb. He
was looking for Rodman because he
had the light-here was another
word that the two men could find no
term in any modern language 70
translate; little flame was the
literal meaning.
The present was from the trea-
sure-room Of the monastery: the
very carpet around Il, Giovanni said,
was worth twenty thousand lire
There was another thing that came
out in the talk that Giovanni after
ward recalled. Rodman was 10 ac-
cept the present and the man who
brought IL 10 him. The Oriental
would protect him in every way, in
every direction. from things visible
and invisible He made quite
speech about Il. But. there was one
thing from which he could not pro-
tect him.
The Oriental used lot Of his an
cient words 10 explain and he did
not get II very clear. lie seemed to
mean that tho creative forces of the
spirit would not tolerate n division OF
worship with the creative forces Of
the body-the celibate notion in the
monastic idea
Giovanni wrote letter 70 the
understand It.; he thought he him.
self understood it better The mon;
was pledging Rodmau TO a high viT.
tue. in the lapse Of which something
awful was sure 20 happen.
GiObanni write n letter TO the
State Department when he learned
what had happened to ROdman. The
State Department turned 1t over TO
the court at the trial l think It was
one of the things that Influenced the
Judge In his decision. Still, 81 the
time. there seemed no other reason
able decision TO make
The testimony must have ap-
peared Incredible; it must have APP
peared fantastic. No man reading
the record could have come to any
ether conclusion about IT, Yet it
seemed impossiblc-at least il
seemed Impossible for me-to con-
slider this great vital bulk of mat
As a monk of one Of the oldest re-
ligious orders In tho world.
Every common, academic concep-
ton Of such a monk he distinctly
uegatived. He impressed me. in
stead, as possessing the ultimate
qualities Of clever diplomacy-th
subtle ambassador OF some new
Oriental power. shrewd suaye, &C
compIished.
When one read tho yeIIow-backed
court-recOrd, Tie sense Of old. OBJ
scuro. mysterious agencies moving
u sinister menace. ;nvis!bly. around
Rodman could not be escaped from.
You believe g. Against your
reasou. against all modern ex-
perience OF life, you believed t.
There was one man in the world
that everybody wished could have
been present a. the time. That was
Monsieur Jonqueile JonqueIle was
chief sof the Criminal Investigation
Department OF the Service De Ia
Surete IN Paris. lie had been II
charge Of the French secret service
on the frontier q the shan states,
and ut the time he was IN Asia.
Another installnfent of the unusual
mystery story viii appear i'm Ocf