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It impossible to proceed farther.
Swinging to the right, he discovered
a large cavity and thrust his arm In
up to the shoulder.
A bitter disappointment awaited
him, however, for at the end his
hand encountered only a smooth sur
face of rock.
He tried again as he descended,
thrusting his arms into all the likely
crevices in the vain attempt to find
the 0rifice.
He descended, selected another place
and scrambled up the wall again, only
to achieve the same negative result.
And when he reached the bottom of
the cliff again, and looked up at the
innumerable crevices, he realized that
not only did he not know at which
point to begin the ascent, but he did
not know how high to climb before he
reached the level of the tunnel en-
trance.
He looked up at the huge cliff, with
Its inward incline, and scored with its
myriads of mocking mouths. and now
sort of fury took hold of him. Again
and again he scrambled up and chung
like fly to the cliffs face; scrambled
down, baffied, and then began once
more.
1t was now the middle Of the after
noon, and he was no nearer solution.
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Dddd!ys
D6ENAlN0
Fairy Tale
I'd LIKE TO BE
WwARY GRAliAM BllSyER

Old Witty Witch, and ofd Mr.
Giant, Billie Brownie, Peter Gnome
and many Of the others decided 10
have verse party.
"A verse party" explained WHY
Witch, who was going to have the
party at the entrance to her cave, "fs
IA party which might be worse.
"That is, the verses might be worse.
So don't write your worst verses but
next-to-the-worst."
1t was very nice to be able to write
a next-to-the-worst verse.
That meant they didn't have to
apologize for it too much.
They didn't have to say:
my verse would have been better
had / not been rushed at the last mo-
ment and so couldn't give it the prop
er time"
Nor would they have to say:
II didn't just feel in the poetry
mood today You know some days l
feel in it so much more than others"
They didn't have to make any ex-
cuses at all.
But there was one rule. And that
was that the verses should be about
something they'd like to be If they
weren't themselves.
1t was curious too, to see. when the
verses were being read. that no one
really wanted to be anything else.
There is always some reason why
no one wants to be someone or some
thing else. You'll find 1t that way.
Sometimes you will wish you had
as much money to spend on toys as
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CHAPTER xI-Continued

"He would not touch the hoard Of
gold which he claimed to possess-we
had never believed in it-but he had
made money by his furs. | was to be
well educated / spent three years
at the convent. and then l went to a
missionary training school, to study
medicine, because it had always been
my dream to teach the Indian and
half-breed children in this district.
And then"
She stopped and looked at him
doubtfully. Father McGrath strobe
toward them.
Hes gettin' round vel" he cried.
II can see the softenin in your face,
Mees Pelly"
mo, no, Fatherl" cried Joyce
sharply. Leave us few minutes
more !"
Father McGrath withdrew, mutter-
ing, after doubtful glance at her.
"And then-and them can't re-
member Lee" Joyce continued.
There's blank, terrible blank in
my mind still. The next thing re-
member I was riding north alone, to
save my father, because that devil
Railway had betrayed him. But how
was / to save him? That l don't
know. remember that l was half
crazed with anxiety remember see
ing you at hotel, and those two
dreadful men.
"And--they had some power over
me, and wanted you to help me, and
dared not ask you'll didn't know what
to do Once, in my despair, begged
you to kill Railway, to save my
father. But how could that have saved
him, when he was already betrayedy
She looked at Lee in anguish. ION,
/ don't understand she cried, IF
could remember! 1t was something
terrible, something that could never
go through again,
DO you think" asked Lee, that you
had pledged yourself to marry Rath-
way in order to save your fathers
lifeT'
Il couldn't have. No. never.
Leelr She trembled. Lee stepped to
her
Joyce. darling Joyce, nothing has
changed. You are still mine"
Lee, 1t can't be. My father stands
between us-will always stand
"Joyce. I've been thinking Of something
on the way here tonight. We both
wish to do what is best for your
father. Let us work together. Marry
me!''
Lee. it can't be-not TILL"
Bur she swayed toward him. In a
moment they would have been in each
others arms. 1t was below from
Father McGrath. whom they had for
gotten, that forced them guiltily apart.
He's got round We, and knew
'twould come abootr' he cried. "Get
ye back to your Ge'il's wurrk--"
..Oh. Father cried Joyce. half sob
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of the rooms, and lay like log until
awakened by the sunlight streaming
in.
Jumping up, completely rested ana
restored. he ran down to the river.
plunged into the ice-cold waters,
raced back over the frozen snow, and
dressed.
Joyce was to remain at the mission
until Lee knew definitely whether or
not her father was in the district.
Before leaving the night before. Lee
had drawn the father into talk, and
had learned from him that she would
not be in danger from the Free Trad
ers. The father had been compelled.
he said, much against his will. to come
to an understanding with them. by
which he undertook not to attempt to
interfere with their operations pro-
vided his women and BARNS were left,
alone. The board Of missions was a
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I'VE Need Strength After All Our
Effort.r

another little girl you know, and yet
you wouldn't like to change places
with her as you wouldn't want her
daddy and her mother as you would
your own. Maybe, too, her daddy
wouldn't let her own pet dog!
oh, you'll always find that you've
grown so used to being you that you
don't really want to wholly change
places with any one.
But of course at the next-to-the-
worst verse party they thought Of
absurd things they might be! That
was quite natural. Here are their
verses.
This was Witty Witch's verse:
I'd like to be a Rhino,
And live upon the Nile,
But I'd rather not be guilty
OF such wretched taste and style.
This was Billie Brownies:
I'd like to be circus clown,
So folks would laugh at me.
But 1t wouldn't be SO pleasant
If my jokes they couldn't SEQ.
This was old Mr.. Giants:
I'd like to be an elephant
With a trunk TO swing and sway.
But 1t wouldn't. be so handy
When / went out to play.
This was Peter Gnome's:
I'd like to be tortoise
And live for years and years,
But home within shell
Would cause me to shed tears.
This was Fife Elf's:
I'd like to be a bow-wow
And have little tail.
But wagging 1t so constantly
Would make me tired and pale.
There were more verses and then
there was great banquet of delicious
goodies served by Witty Witch. for
she said:
I'VE need strength after all our
effort !"
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He had accomplished nothing. He was
becoming bewildered. 1t was necessary
to proceed in systematic way.
He now proceeded to mark off what
he considered the possible boundaries
within which the tunnel lay, by stamp
ing down two birch saplings. And
again and yet again he essayed his
task, always to recoil. beaten.
He was only half way from sapling
to sapling, and it was beginning to
grow dark. His hands were bleeding,
his nails split to the quick. But 1t
was the eerie nature of his efforts in
the loneliness of the darkening gorge
that was the most nerve-racking part
of ALL He was like some mythical hero
of the classic world, tortured by IMAM
innate things-like Sisyphus, con-
demned to roll his stone up the hills
of Tartarus forever, only to have it
bound down again before 1t reached
the summit
| He had been toiling by moonlight
for an infinity of time. He had COW
cred all the space between the sap
lings He extended his radius and
now, in his desperation, he attacked
the cliff as If it were a human enemy,
beating on it with his fists in senseless
| fury.
Dawn, clear and gray. and bitter
cold crept into the gorge and found
him still at his labors. The sun rose.
Long rays of light streamed down into
| the chasm, in which Lee struggled like
madman, dust-white, dishevelled,
haggard, half-delirious from want Of
sleep and exhaustion.
He stopped, tried to collect himself.
But to cease meant to yield to des-
pair. Only by incessant labor could
he keep up the pretense that be was
about to find the tunnel. He felt at
the end of his resources. One con-
clusion was being borne in upon him /:
he had worked his way far beyond the
| saplings on either side; he must have
passed the tunnel during the night.
| One little orifice unexplored in the
obscurity, and all his work had gone
| for nothing.
lie would nave TO go back TO the De-
ginning and start over again.
But no human being could 60
| through the test again.
There occurred to him an alternative,
but so fantastic that he only played
with it as mailman plays with a
straw. The tunnel might be no longer
there 1t might have disappeared
through rock slide.
That seemed incredible-Lee put the
thought from him; its very occurrence
made him realize that his mind was
beginning to wander
And. tapping up some water from
the stream, and sprinkling himself
with it. he began again-at the farther
sapling.
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SYNOPSIS.-Lee Anderson, Roy
all Canadian Mounted Police SER
geant, is sent to Stony Range to
arrest a man named Pelly for
murder. He Is also instructed to
look after Jim Railway, reputed
head of the Free Traders" Illicit
liquor runners. At Little Falls
he finds Pelly is credited with
having found a gold mine, and
is missing. At the hotel appears
a girl, obviously out of place in
the rough surroundings. A half
breed. Pierre, and companion.
Shorty" annoy the girl. An
derson interferes in her behalf.
The girl sets out for Siston Lake,
which is also Anderson's objec-
tive. He overtakes her and the
two men with whom he had trou-
bic the night before. She Is sus-
picious of him and the two men
are hostile. Pierre and Shorty
ride on, Anderson and the girl
following. In the hills the road
is blown up before and behind
the two. Anderson, with his
horse, is hurled down the noun
tain side, senseless. Recovering
<eAAASA0OtN
the girl has disappeared, but he
concludes she is alive and prob
ably in the power of Pierre and
( Shorty. On foot he makes his
way to Siston Lake. There he
finds his companion of the day
before. and Railway, with girl.
Estelle, former sweetheart of
Andersons, who had abused his
confidence and almost wrecked
his life. Railway strikes Estelle,
and after a fight Anderson. with
Estelle's help. escapes with the
girl. Anderson's companions
mind is clouded and she is suf-
fering with a dislocated knee.
Anderson sets the knee and
makes the girl as comfortable as
possible. He has broken rib.
The two plan to make their way
to Moravian mission, of which
Father McGrath has charge.
Their acquaintance ripens into
love. The girl remembers that
her name is Joyce Pelly She is
daughter of the man Anderson
has been sent to arrest. Torn
between her love for her father
and her regard for Anderson, the
girl practically drives him from
her. In the forest Anderson
stumbles upon the entrance to a
gorge and is convinced he has
located Pelly's mine. In the tun-
mel he is attacked by an unseen
adversary, whom he takes to be
Pelly. A knife thrust is turned
aside by the girls hair in his
blouse. Escaping, he returns to
the cabin. to find Joyce gone. He
follows her trail to the mission
of Father McGrath. The priest
repulses him, but Joyce feels her
love return and welcomes him.
Her memory has been in a meas
ure restored.
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Wanted One Loud

A farmer had come up to town for a
few days. Before he started he had
promised to bring his daughter pres
emit, so he went into jewelers. shop
and said to the assistant: Il want a
pair of earrings. cheap, but pretty"
Eyes, sir" said the jeweler; ''you
want something loud suppose"
"well, don't mind if one of them is
n little loud" replied the farmer. MY
r,irl Is slightly deaf in one ear"
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Blu DlCTOR ROUSSEAU


bling and half laughing, "this isn't one
of Railways gang. I've tried to tell
you"
AYE, and We told me that We
wouldna see him, and moo ye'd have
bussed him If i hadna stopped We!
Weel, l ken the pertinacity Of the
de'ils agents"
Listen to me, nowp' said Lee, tax
ing Father McGrath by the arm. And,
ignoring the good priests impulsive
interruptions, he told him their story.
Before he was half way through,
Father McGrath was listening in pro-
found, perplexed establishment.
"Father, want Joyce to marry me, y
cried Lee. "Once she is mine, we can
face the future together, whatever it
may bring forward. There is no real
antagonism-"
Father McGrath shook his head in
perplexity. 81 Gamma understand it,"
he said 81 ken but little of what's
been happening here. I'm a new man
in the deestrict. 1t isna as If I'd
known Mr.. Pelly himself, you see. /
Gamma imagine what Mees Pelly in
tended to do when she was coming up
to see her father Was it your In
tention to warm him, do you theenk ?"
he asked the girl. "Or was it some
thing more?"
Joyce could not answer him, and
Lee saw how 1t distressed her to try
to remember. 1t was from that crux
of the problem that the mind had
withdrawn itself, refusing to re-
member.
Eye were going to the Free
Traders?" Father McGrath persisted.
"Oh, l don't know--I don't know p
cried Joyce in agony.
Father McGrath cleared his throat
and delivered his deliberated opinion.
"It's my opeenion," he said, that
until we deescover Mr.. Pelly, or learn
that he's dead or ava fra the dees-
trict, it wadna be advisable for We and
Mees Pelly to marry unless her mem
DRY comes back to her. Mebbe I'm
too conservative, but while agone
she hated ye-"
Father, l never hated him !" cried
| Joyce Indignantly.
"And I'm mo- in favor of these
queek changes" said Father McGrath.
Joyce sided with him. Lee, dear
est, until one of those two things hap
pens, we must just wait" she said
But If you find my father-and Tn
convinced now that 1t would be fol
the best-well, then, I'm marry you
If you want me, Lee"
And this time there was no Father
McGrath to interfere with them, fol
the good priest was patting the head
of an Indian baby at the door Of one OF
the huts.
And, late though the hour was Lee
declining the fathers offer of hospi
tality for the night, set off for the leg
house again. He wanted to be alone
with his singing heart in the silence.
He reached his destination some
time in the small hours, and, careless
of possible attack by the mysterious
wanderer, flung himself down in one
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On a Detour

Jack and were making our first
trip across the Atlantic to meet our
mother in London. The weather had
been beautiful and calm for the first
two days. but on the third mora ng.
the ship rolled and pitched heavily.
Jack awoke me from an uneasy
sIumber.
Daddy, what is the matter with the
boat today7 Are we on detour?" he
lsked.
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COUNT TEN BEFORE

Trying to stihe yawn with mai
nifying glass.
Letting your parrot stay around
while father is shaving.
Applauding violin solo. hE might
have been just tuning up.
Running your red car through bull
pasture.
Promising your wife to bring in
string of fish for supper.
Trying to bluff man in a poker
game who holds four aces.
Putting your high silk hat down on
chair when visiting your near-sighteo
mother-in-law.-Ch Chicago American.
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A Matter Of Choice

Mamma" said four-year-old Edna
one day, why are you going to give
my kitty to the milkman?"
Because the kitty scratched baby
sister and we can't keep her any
longer"
sBut, mamma" said Edna, as a
grown wrinkled her little brow, why
can't we give baby sister to the milk
man and keep the kitty2 T
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DEMAND "BAYER" ASPIRIN
Take Tablets Without Fear II You
See the Safety "Bayer Cross"

Warningi Unless you see the name
"Bayer' on package or on tablets you
are not getting the genuine Bayer
Aspirin proved safe by millions and
prescribed by physicians for % years.
Say "Bayer" when you buy Aspirin.
limitations may prove dangerous.-Adv.
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Why Waste Effort?

She-John, / should think you'd do
something worth while.
He-Oh, what's the use of setting
the world on fire. One couldn't live in
1t then anyway Beanpot.
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Altogether Too Strong

Brownies, sir. Speaking Of
strong men, once saw fellow hold
up an auto with five men in it.
Green-Say, he must have been In
circus.
Brown-No, he's in the pen. The
judge gave him ten years for It,
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The Only Home Body

"An old man in house is good
sign wrote Ben Franklin. Nowadays
it is about the only sign of habitation
that is usually visible.-Houston Post
Dispatch.
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In the last one thousand nine hum
dred and almost twenty-five years
there was only one known case of a
spendthrift getting rich, and no ons
can remember who he was.
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The man who makes littleN and
saves part of it, will be richer than
the man who makes lot and saves
none of it.
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If your eyes are sore. get Roman Eye,
Balsam. Apply it at night and you are
healed by morning. 372 Pearl St., N. 7. Adv.
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Evidently the question Of
Joyce's father is not to separate
the lovers. Any guess as to
what new danger threatens?
sTo BE CONTINUED


1t is equally hard to decide whether
Mars is inhabited or outlawed Phila-
delphia Ledger.
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SAITH THE SAGE

There are six essentials to success,
they are-work, save. work, save, work
and save.
Telling the doorkeepeT at the poor
house what a good spendeI you were,
does not mean anything.
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Trying to bluff man In poker
game who holds four aces.
Evening star., 1925-02-18

Six Texas girls, making a hike
from San Antonio to Boston, have
reached Cleveland after wearing out
66 pairs of shoes.
Evening star., 1925-02-18
TODAY'S ADJUSTMENTS.

NATIONAL-"St. JOAN" Bernard
Shaw'S play, at s pm. Matinee at 2
Pm.
BELASCO-"The Lounge Lizard
comedy, at $40 pm. Matinee at 2:20
pm.
POLTS-"When Summer Comes"
musical play. at $50 pm.
kEITH'S-Violet Heming-A L.
Mathews, vaudeville, at 2:15 and
8:15 pm.
EARLE-"Venetian Masqueraders,"
vaudeville, continuous from l to
IL pm.
STRAND-Loew's Vaudeville Circus,
vaudeville, continuous, 2:30 to IL pm
GAYETY-"Hollyw Foliies," bur-
lesque, at 2:15 and Sis pm
MUTUAI.-Lew Kelly's show, bur-
lesque, at 2:30 and 500
COLUMBIA-"The Golden Bed" at
1888 am, 12:55, sos, $40, 7:1O and
9:20 pm.
RIALTO-"Secretso of the Night" at
1l:3O am, 1:30, $3.50, $50, 1880 and
$3.50 pm.
METROPOLITAN" Wilder
ness at 1895 am, 1876, $3.50, 5:35,
1880 and 9:35 pm.
PALACE-"Cheaper to Marry"
TIVOLI-"Husbands and Lovers"
at 2. $50, $40. 1920 and $40 pm.
AMBASSADOR-"D -"Daugh ters of
Pleasure" at 6:15, 7:30 and 500 pm.
CENTRAL-"Nomad of the North"
at II am, 1910, 2:25, 4:O5, $50, 1885
and 9:20 pm.
Evening star., 1925-02-18
Changing Methods

When first | bought myself a bus,
long years ago when cars were new,
! kicked up an indecent fuss be-
cause my credit wouldn't do. you
pay the cash." the agent said, "and
then you take the car away; your
credits good when buying bread,
your stand offs good for coal or
hay: but we can't sell brand-new
boat on time, as you can surely see !;
you well might ditch it in the moat.
or wind it round a red elm tree"
borrowed money from my spouse
alas, | owe that money now Il
placed mortgage on the house. an
other mortgage on the COW; by
hook and crook | raised the sum.
and then | paid the money down; |
bought the car and made her hum
10 miles an hour, all over town. In
those brave days man had the price
or else he couldn't buy van; his
plea and promise cut no ice, he
couldn't melt the auto man. Now
things are easy for the gent who is
from opulence afar; he doesn't need
TO have a cent when he goes shop
ping for a car. He may be asked
dollar down, and 20 cents week for
years; il he refuses this no frown
upon the dealers brow appears.
Since you are short the dollar bill,
it cuts no grass the agents say;
the car is yours, already, still. SO
drive the blamed old thing away"
Once cars were for the idle rich,
but now VIC see long black streak
of busy. chooing boats for which the
owners pay 10 cents week.
(Copyright) WALT MASON.
Evening star., 1925-02-18
BR|GHTWOOD Will
PRESS ROAD WORK
Citizens to Center Efforts To-
ward Getting Concord Ave-
nue. Extended and improved.

Not satisfied to sit by and await
the pleasures of Congress on major
street improvements, the Brightwood
Citizens Association, meeting III
Holy Comforter parish hall, last
night. voted to take Concord avenue
from the list of thorouehfares sug-
gested for extension and concentrate
on having this highway extended.
widened and improved from Georgia
avenue to Blair road
This action was taken, on motion
by Col. Is. w. Perry, who stated that
the progress of the community was
being held up because this avenue
was contained in the same bill with
Colorado avenue. Nicholson, Thir
teenth and Fourteenth streets. the
latter proposed for extension through
the Walter Reed Hospital grounds,
and the one. it was said, which is
holding up all the others. William
Nick. Clayton said Concord avenue
should and would be one of Bright
woods main thoroughfarcs. but in
its present condition is nothing
more than a cowpath." 1t was de-
cided also to continue efforts to have
the other streets named extended.
The proposal of the Commissioners
10 ask for an appropriation of $685.,
600 for the purchase of snow removal
equipment and necessary labor there
to was voted down, but resolution
was adopted faNoring the placing of
an emergency fund at the disposal of
the mmisSionerS to he used as need
ed but not for the purchase of ap-
paratus to remove snow. 1t was said
that the infequency of severe storms
here would make the expense unwar-
ranted.
District officials will be asked to
order the Washington Railway and
EeleCtric Co, to concrete the road
way between its tracks from Military
road to Fern street, and in the event
that ii is not accomplished within a
reasonable time, the Commissioners, il
was held, should proceed with the
work and place a lien against the line
to cover the expense. Covering of
Cinders on Underwood street from
Seventh to Eighth streets will also
be urged. Removal of loose gravel
and dirt from the cutters of the
Brightwood section will be requested
This is the result of the recent snow
storms, it was pointed out, and no
effort has been made to remedy the
situation.
Col. Perry, Mrs. Dubois and Mrs.
Reginald Stevenson were elected to
membership. Motion pictures demon
Strating the operation of the modern
telephone exchange were given. Pres
ldent Charles w. Ray presided.