Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1923-05-09

more, exhaling pent air. They waited
some time before moving out of the
tight place.
"a merry little worm, wasn't hep?
whispered Con.
care you chilled?" asked March,
whimsically.
"You are chattering too" retorted
the young man.
II wonder if they left any of those
behind, for our beneft?
81 saw only the one, so I know it
was real" said Lexington. "Gobi po-
lice dog. I'll never forget the glance
he gave me-yellow diamond eyes.
And, do you know"
"What?"
"He had a SMELL" whispered Loving
ton.
March laughed quietly and said he
did not doubt that.
There was a house in Dowagiac,"
continued Lexington, "a very old
house. The walls were full of MURDER
and worse. A poor lady lived there
with a number of miseries, such as
always torn. She didn't do the MUIR
der. It did her. l was small then. I
remember the broken plaster that
came down upon the beds, which were
gray and active, jumpy-dishes under
the stove and under the table-the
cats whose fur was stiff with garbage
and the grasshoppers that hung on the
parlor curtains. Well, in that house.
there drifted this same cold, poisonous
SMELL"
Andrew March was very grave now.
81 do not doubt that, either" he said.
Lexington worked his way further
out of the crevice, to a position better
for breathing, although still in the
shadow. He rolled over upon his
back, and drew up his knees, with a
deep sigh.
"That house would be proud of me
If they knew, and if 1 was able to
bring back a straight story of this
country, the source of the worlds
koresh"
Eyes, that house, and many others.
I am glad you feel as you do"
81 suppose our government would
ask the Chinese government to coop
crate in reaching and controlling Tau
Kuan"
"And the Russian" added March
"They are badly hit"
do you think it is possible" asked
Con-
After a silence, the elder comrade
said slowly: "To be frank, have
had faith and lost it, and regained and
lost it so many times that / cannot
say It is my duty to try, but can't
say any more than that"
Lexington felt the curious depres-
sion again in his friend, an alarming
weight.
The Arabian sailor appeared below
them, grinning.
You hold still?"
Like stone," said Con.
"She do not strike you at ALP"
passed both of u.s." said March.
"You are cherished of Allah" de
clared the sailor. "They have taken
away four of u.s."
sailors were Furnishing the miners for
completely. Perhaps the tale of the
white mems murder did not impress
the searching party.
what will they do to the four?"
Break Leg" said the Arab. Maybe
starve."
Andrew March shuddered, and the
strange one below volunteered: my
men do not like"
Lexington saw that two white
strangers causing great trouble for
&ne miners could not become very
popular. March also understood. He
said simply: "Take me before your
men,
rs there anything you can sayY'
asked Con.
"Only what I told them before" re-
piled March. eve represent nation
that is as eager to punish Tau Kuan
as these workers can be, if we can get
back there to tell the story. can
make that clear, at least"
They may not be in mood to lis
ten."
March smiled sadly. "M0odS, ne
began, but shook his head.
The three men passed into the larger
portion of the cavern, where the red
dish roof was marked with the flare
from the burning gas below. Several
women cried out sharply at sight OF
the white men and fed like timid AMI
mails to their rock-pockets up the
walls. Their skirts were brief and
ugly. Several very young children
darted after their mothers to the safe
ty Of dark familiar haunts-too young
to have been spoiled" 1t was only
period of months before they would be
taken into the city, to be nodded into
slaves in the houses of the soldiers,
the circulation OF their blood retarded,
their very souls distorted. Returning to
the mines a year or more after, they
would be lost and strange and as II
0rT1bopod opopO fhoir own kin Their