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GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.

BALTIMORE, Nd, November 6
(SpeciaD D.-New potatoes. 100 pounds,
2.00a5.00; beans, bushel. 3.00a50O;
beets, 100, 2.00a2 so; brussels sprouts,
quart, 15aa20; cabbage, ton. 3O.0Oa
1000; sweet potatoes, barrel, 15Oa
100, 3.00a5.00 celery, crate, 2.25a
325; cucumbers, crate, 1.5Oa30O:
cauliflower, crate, 225a3.75; kale,
bushel, 30a4o; lettuce, bushel. 1.OOa
1.50; onions, 100 pounds. 2.o0a3.00;
oysterplants, 100, 5.0oa6.00; pump
kins, 100, 5.Ooa10.o0; tomatoes. crate.
250a2.75; spinach, bushel, 1.25a150;
savoy cabbage, bushel. 40a50; turnips,
basket, 20a30.
Apples, barrel. 2.5oa7oo; bushel, 75a
225; cranberries, box, 5.o0as0O;
box, 400a5.50; pears, bushel, 2.25a
$50; basket, 25a50; oranges, box.
700aS.25.
Selling Prices at Noon.
WheatsNo. red Winter. spot. do
mestic, r63; No. 2 red Winter, gai-
licky. 1.59.
Sales-None.
Corn-Cob. new spot, s.65a37O pc.
barrel, as to delivery; domestic, ye,
low, No. 2. old. sS per bushel.
Sales-None.
Oats-No. 2 red, 4sa4S1z; No. 3,
new, 47a47h.
Rye-Nearby, new, S5a95; No.
rye, spot, no quotations.
Hay-Receipts, 46 tons. There is
moderate demand for the better
grades of timothy and choice light
clover mixed hay. But the poorer
qualities of heavy mixed hay and
dark clover hay are slow sale and
neglected even at sharp discounts.
Quotations, per ton, today: No 3
timothy, 24.50a25.00: No. 3. timothy,
% O0a23.00; No. 1 light clover mixed,
2350a24.00; No. light clover mixed,
21.O0a22.00; No. l clover mixed,
23.00a23.50.
Straw-No. / wheat, 11.00a12 90; No.
l oat, 12.00a12.50.
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE,
Quotations furnished by w. B. Hibbs & Col
Nominal Gall;p1 oh>alr.

NEW YORK, November @.-
Foreign exchanges irregular Quota
4s4S; cables, 4S4 1916; 6O-day bills on
banks. 4s0A. France. demand, 3.s7;
cables, 3.971a. Italy, demand, 394;
cables, 3.941s. Demand-Belgium,
a.531a; Germany, 1880; Holland, 4O.1s;
Norway, 2026; Sweden, 26.73; Den
mark, 24S6; Switzerland, 1927; Spain
1870; Greece. 1876; Poland, 1915;
Czechoslovakia, 296; Jugoslavia,
1.771a; Austria. 14A; Rumania, AK :;
Argentina. 41.55; Brazil, 1887; Toxic.
42A: Shanghai. 77B; Montreal. leo.
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RECEIVER FOR ST. PAUL
SEES LARGER EARNINGS

NEW YORK, November R.-
H. E. Byram. co-receiver for the Chi
cago. Milwaukee and ST. Paul, says
conditions in the roads territory in
dicate larger freight traffic the rest
Of the year than a year ago. He ex-
pected net railway operating income
for 1925 would about equal that of
1924. Wheat should begin moving
soon, he said, and, with the corn
crop, should contribute to increased
earnings.
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Two New Records
In Bank Clearings
Made in l24 Cities
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK. November g.
Broadstreet's compilation of bank
clearings for October is new
high record for the month and
year. the total for 124 cities ag-
gregating s46.251, 100000. This Is
16.5 per cent larger than for Oc-
tober, 1924, 1872 per cent more
than September and 10 per cent
above the record month of Janu-
ary this year. The new high for
October swells the aggregate for
the 10 months of 1925 more than
a full months total above that Of
the same period Of 1924.
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SEABOARD'S TRAFFIC UP,

NEW YORK, November s R.-
October traffic on the Seaboard Air
Line was heavy, freight loadings to-
falling 206,927 cars, against 160,76S
in October. last year, an increase Of
2S.7 per cent. Gross revenues for the
first three weeks of the month jumped
27.90 per cent-s4 ,140, ,095-against
S3,001 ,564 a year ago. Passenger rev.
enues gained n per cent.
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EATON AXLE EXPANDS.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, November
R.-Announcement is made by ]. o.
Eaton, chairman of the Eaton Axle
and Spring Co., that preferred stock
of the Eaton Spring Corporation will
be paid to the American Steel Foun-
dries Co. for the American Auto Parts
Co, Detroit, acquired by the Eaton
company.
Evening star., 1925-11-06
Markets at a Glance

NEW YORk-Stocks. strong; L.
= Steel at record high for all time.
Bonds, irregular; foreign issues,
heavy. Foreign exchanges, mixed :
French franc rallies. Cotton, barely
steady; Southern selling Sugar.
steady; commission house buying.
Coffee. higher; trade buying.
5CHICAGO-Wheat easy; more ia
rorable weather. Corn, barely steady;
large country offerings. Cattle.
steady. Hogs. easier; all interests
buying.
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WALL STREET LIST
IS AGAIN HIGHER
Prices Forge Upward in Face
! i. of Very Heavy Selling
During Day.
BY STUART p. WEST.
Special Dispatch TO The Star.

special Dispatch TO Inc star.
NEW YORK. November 6.-The
main movement in the share list to-
day was upward, but there were
enough stocks which reacted. especial
Iy in the railway section, to give the
market an irregular appearance.
The copper and smelling stocks.
few of the rubber and tire shares and
the electric issues We're leaders on the
side of advance. On the other hand.
the weakness in the low-priced rails
was a feature.
Further New High Marks.
/ The usual number of stocks made
new highs. Among these were United
States Rubber and Goodrich in their
groups, American Smelling Ana
eOnda, Magma, kennicott and Utah in
their section, General Motors and Du-
pont, and in the tobaccos, Schultz,
United Cigar Stores and Consolidated
Cigar.
Then there were Brunswick Termi-
nal, which was unusually active. Gin.
bel Bros. Loew. Chicago. Pneumatic
Tool. DevOe Reynolds international
Combustion, Art Metals Atlas Pow
Ger and Brooklyn Edison The last
named had Il rema rkable jump, prob
ably influenced by the favorable divi-
dend action on Brooklyn Union Gas
THURSDAY.
General Electric Does Well.
. General Electric at it's top had al
most recovered the, entire deduction
caused by the divorce of the Electric
Bond and Share properties. The lat
ter stock on the Curb was selling today
around 20, which made the present
General Electric stock sell "a the equiv
alent OF around 400 for the old. The
usual talk of a capital spiit-up accom-
panied the advance. Westinghouse
Electric and Allis Chalmers We're
drawn along.
The motor shares We're quite wild
again, but it was evident, for the most
part they were no longer as much in
Euenced by the course of General Mo
tors. This stock was bid up to new
high. but during the greater part of
the day there was an ample supply of
Hudson on sale around current levels,
and the same was true of Packard.
Studebaker and Hupp. Nash Motors
broke sharply. and Paige Detroit at
one stage was off 4 points from its
recent high.
I The rubber and tire shares were
simply having their turn in a market
which believes in taking one group
at time. Along with the high rec
ords for United States Rubber and
Goodrich, Fisk Rubber was very &C.
tive around it's high figures.
Steel Common Rallies.
United States Steel common rallied
after the market had absorbed a lot of
stock between 1872 and 133. Youngs-
town Sheet and Tube encountered buy
Ing after dropping off nearly points.
. In the railway section there was
heavy selling for a time in some of
the low priced issues like Missouri
kansas-Texas and Wabash, both of
which were down point and a half.
Atlantic Coast Line resumed it's ad-
vance with further discussion of extra
dividend prospects.
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TODAY'S METAL MARKET.

NEW YORK, November @.-
Copper dull; electrolytic, spot and
futures, 147s. Tin easy; spot and
nearby, 6312; futures, 6275. Iron
steady; prices unchanged. Lead
steady; spot, 9.75. Zinc steady; East
ST. Louis, spot, $50; futures. $50 to
s.S5. Anthony, spot, 20.sA.
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DAIRY PRODUCTS.
BALTIMORE, Nd, Novem

BALTIMORE, Md, November 6
poultry-Springc chick
ems. h., 2oa27; Leghorns, 2oa24
Minorcas. 20a22; old hens. 2oa27; Leg
horns, 17a18; roosters, 16; ducks, goa
26; geese. 23a2s; young turkeys, asa
40; old turkeys, 35a38; pigeons, pair,
25a30; guinea fowls, each, 70aSo.
Butter-Good to fancy creamery.
h., 48a52; prints, 53a54; ladies', 44a
46; store-packed, Al; dairy prints, Ala
43; process butter, At; rolls, 41a43.
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PIG IRON UP 81 PER TON.

NEW YORK, November P).-
Pig iron has jumped 81 a ton in the
Chicago district, where meters are
reported to have paid as high as $25
a ton for No. foundry and malleable
for immediate delivery. Steel scrap
also has advanced SO cents, to $3.50
a ton.
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WEEKLY COTTON REPORT.

LIVERPOOL, November R).-
Weekly cotton statistics: Total for
warded to mills, II 900 bales, of which
American, $1,000; stock. 557 900;
American, $1,000 imports, $4,000;
American. $4,000; exports, 1900;
American, 1900.
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It requires more than 25 years for
light to travel from the star Vega
to the earth.
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dividend rates as given in the aboys table
are the annual cash payments based on the
ITnIess otherwise noted. extra or special diyi
Sends are not included.
a Paid this year. no regular rate. b or
optional in stock. 'Partly stock tPsrtiy
extra sPayable in preferred stock tPlus
49o in stock payable l 60 quarterly 0Plus
OT in stock payable 1 !. G. quarterly.
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TREASURY CERTIFICATES.

Quotations furnished by Redmond & Co.
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Evening star., 1925-07-12
By MARGUERITE MALLETT.

T HE journey back was almost
uneNentful. and |. at least,
was not in such good spirits
Il as before. Then we reached
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sible danger of their being obscured
either by ground fogs or by low -han ng
ing clouds, for which the region is
noted, as result of converging
storms of the Atlantic seaboard and
the Great Lakes.
When il was learned that these two
weather phenomena never occurred
simultaneously solution for the
problem was found in the alteration
of lights between the mountain tops
and the valleys, so that when the
mountain light was obscured by
clouds the one in the valley would be
visible. and the reverse would he true
when clinging fogs hid the lower
light.
At each of the 81 landing fields be-
tween New York and Cleveland are
caretakers trained to make weather
observations. These report to head
quarters conditions of weather, winds,
clouds. barometer, etc.
Besides the emergency landing
fields. there are five main terminal
fields-Hadley. \. j.: Bellefonte. Pa:
Cleveland, Ohio: Bryan. Ohio. and
haywood at Chicago. These are all
equipped with radio masts. and all
ships of the air mail service are dis
patched in and out by radio. Formal
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been established, and is the starting
point. Lying on a gentle slope near
New Brunswick, y. j.. the boundaries
of it's 100 or more acres are marked
by lights of white, except where there
are Instructions. when red lights are
used. Operating headquarters and
two great hangers, housing from 6
to 10 planes. are located in one cor
ner. Private telephone wires connect
the field with the New York air mail
radio station. and the various landing
fields between New Brunswick and
Chicago. This field is typical of the
il great fields maintained between
New York and San Francisco.
Scattered along the 754 miles to
Chicago are $50 powerful electric
heacons. on towers 80 to so feet high,
to guide the airmen on their way:
While between New York and Cleve-
land alone. the country which in
cludes all the mountainous territory
along the route, are 80 emergency
landing fields to serve as havens of
refuge.
An important feature entering into
the location of the beacon lights and
the emergency landing fields was the
necessity for placing the beacons
where there would be the least pos
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service orders are handed in the
same way.
Each emergency landing field is
connected by direct telephone with
the nearest terminal field. so that
should il become necessary to warn
a pilot or call on him to land he ca
he siGnaled by simple code nj
flares. One brilliant magnesium
flare means bad weather ahead: eY-
ercise caution Two such flares
constitute an imperative order 10 the
pilot to alight and await further in
structions.
As they fly westward over the
lighted airway, pilots carry sufficient
fuel, oil and water 10 take them to
Bellefonte, Pa. where they are re-
serviced. At Cleveland another pilot
with another plane. takes up the on
ward flight. He. in turn. stops At
Bryan. Ohio, for fuel. and then flies
on to Chicago. Eastward the process
is reversed.
Thus the big De Haviland planes
speed on at 95 to 100 miles an hour.
carrying. besides equipment and pilot.
500 pounds of mail or the equivalent
of 10000 letters.
So on through the night. when the
rest Of the world is safely wrapped
in sleep, the air pilot. alone above
the clouds. will he silently winSinc
his way over cities. dark rivers
mountains and forests. through
storms of sleet. amid trea acherous
winds and terrible cold. But as he
climbs down from his seat in the
early dawn, chilled through and with
stiff limbs. he viii have a sense of
duty well done. for he knows that
the banker in Chicago. when he
reaches his office few hours later
will find on his desk the importa nj
letter which was written the evening
before by another member of his firm
in New York
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ng Safety in Compound Which Offers Little Protection.

the life of uncertainty and suspense.
1t was dark as pitch.
II wonder what the time is?"
Don't know at all. Think | will
run into the tent and strike "A ma tch
take my gun" said a. and disap-
peared, presently To return. Half
past 9" he said
drawn howl in the distance. then
another and another. Closer they
came
Lions about" | remarked
Sounds like it said A. Well.
that is all that is needed TO complete
our happiness. Lions. and we must
not shoot"
That's about the size of it. I sup
pose they could easily jump the
wires?"
Rather
There were no horses or mules in
the bona. Ny thought travelled 10
Niceroy left tied in the forest What
had become or him? When the hoy
had returned he was no longer there.
We did not know what to think.
The hyena chorus was swelling.
as they came nearer. There must
have been twenty howls in twenty
different keys. Twenty,-there must
! have been sixty. No. not sixty-a
]
| night We could see nothing, only
| imagine. and the din outside became
| deafening. Groans. howls, walls.
anything more grim or uncanny it
| would be impossible to describe.
Certainly il sounded as though
/ there were thousand hyenas at
| least, 1t might only have been two
/ or three hundred but that number,
without a doubt. there were. Closer
/ they came. the awful notes gaining
/ in volume. Now high. now low, now
| shrieking like lost souls.
| 1t was a nightmare. The dogs
| Joined in the general clamOr. an
swering with angry snarls the wells
without The beasts will never get
through. will they" I mega tived and
! aueried all in one. For a moment
they appeared To have surrounded
the bona: there were walls from the
! children. shrieks from the women
| the very air seemed thick with wells
and snarls. Oh. IL we could only
see, II the night would only end.
Eventually the din grew less and
gradually faded away in the distance
I The bark Of the dogs became a sub
dued growl.
Had il been a dream? With th'
first faint streak Of light the h. A. Il
guard laid down their guns anc
stretched themselves: then. as an or
their quarters.
Were they hyenas or were they
Nasal. do YOU think" | asked Of A.
He shook his head in a non-com
initial kind of way.
Il have heard Nasal make worse
noise thar that" was All he said.
Two more nights we spent in IN
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Unscientihc Characters.

THE numerous queer characters
who populate the pages of Charles
Dickens books are correctly depicted
from the viewpoint Of the layman.
who sees what he thinks he ought
TO see, but not when viewed hy
specialist in mental diseases, saws the
Medical Journal and Record. This is
the opinion of DR. Charles w Burr
professor of psychiatry in the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania Medical School.
who has applied to these fiction char
acters the methods which he uses in
diagnosing mental disorders when
called into a criminal court as an
alienist.
Dickens was an artist" says DR..
Burr. 'and not specialist In mental
medicine Just as the dying of a great
actor on the stage is altogether unlike
death as the physician sees it, so life
seen with an artists eve is unlike life
seen by the professor trained in the
learning of the schools. Death as IL
really happens. acted on the stage.
would be fat stale and uninterestinc.
Dickens describes a fairyland-not sell
dom a fairyland into which devils have
intruded. This is the secret of his
wide appeal spreading through space
and lasting through time.
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same way-dead silence. complete
darkness nerves tightened 10 their
utmost.
The strain was beginning To tell on
both of us. Days of forced inactivity.
nights Of sleeplessness. suspense. nm
certainty and the knowledge that all
we had possessed had suddenly been
taken from %us-all were beginning 10
make themselves felt.
II think | shall 60 mad If We sta Y
here much longer: ] wonder if there Is
any chance of our getting OUT
spoke moodily. II think | will in
auire r
The verdict Of the n. G.. was that it
was not vet safe: there were still small
bodies of belligerent Nasal about. If
A. left. il would not he with his CON
sent
Another day. another night, in tho
morning there came 2 small process
sion of Nasal headmen. All bearing the
fluffy ostrich peace halls on the end
Of their spears.
A. would wait no longer. Permis
sion or no permission. he was going
So the two Cstalonians were put in
the buckhoar rd and Good bye said to
Cara Narok
We kept sharp lookout all the
way, travelling by very easy stages.
for we were dependent on the two
donkeys then. No horses. the mules
no one knew where. the minimum of
clothing, next 10. no possessions, ac-
companied by long string of boys:
at last we reached Nairobi. How diff
ferent from our start, two and three
quarter years before,
After much delay much weary wait
ing. the government gave us compen-
sation- What could compensate MS for
the agony Of mind and body 70 which
we had been martyrs? Nothing could
give me back the animals | had LOST:
nothing replace the trea sured posses
Sions which We're gone. Small things.
YOU Will Say-mere sentiment. Per
haps SO, But woman Is no woman
to whom sentiment. in some sha pc or
form. does not appeal.
ring. 2 pendant. A hook. brace
let. photo. hunting crop--oh, tho
thousa nd and one things that REQUIRED
10 me. fun Of memories one and all.
Even now. strange though il may
seem. ] go 10 a drawe or cupboard
to get something which | remember 70
have possessed for years and wears:
il Is not there.
Copyright. Ia"5.l
Evening star., 1925-07-12

- r. W y
l. caSo through the air. in one
night. our special air mail let
- ters will now go. This ac
complishment makes Kipling's :
ina cinative story, with the Night
Mail" a practical reality.
When that story was written it was
considered fantastic: hut today we
look upon the establishment of this
new air mail service as merely an
other step in mans overcoming of
space and time.
On the night of July ] the Post
Office Department began the opera
ton of a regular overnight air mail
service between Americas two great
est commercial cities. Every night
Saturdays and Sundays excepted, an
sirplane leaves each of these cities
with the DAYS collection of air mail
and arrives in the other at dawn.
Seventy-fve years ago the country
was electrified by the news that Cal
ifornia had been connected with the
Atlantic coast by an overland mail
IT was done by the primitive stage
coach a nd took 2S days.
The stagecoach soon gave way to
the pony express, whose daring riders,
Drawing the elements and hostile In
dians. working in relays, traversing
deserts and mountains. shortened the
time by one.half and took the precious
pouches through in IA days.
With the completion of the Union
Pacific Railroad. in 1869 the time
was still further reduced. Faster and
faster the mail trains went. until the
time was shortened to 81 hours. with
An average of 90 to 120 hours from
ocean to ocean.
But the advance of man in over
he a
cles of mountain and plain was un-
imagined until the advent of the air
plane Since then marvellous strides
have been made. In July. 1924. after
years of pioneering experiment. the
Post Office Department inauSurated
a through tranScontinental day-and-
night air mail service from coast to
coast. And once more the continent
was made to shrink. this time from
81 hours to 80. What a change from
the days of the stagecoach when IS
DAYS were necessary,
On the first anniversary of this
wonderful service. which has no coun.
terpart In the world for distance and
difficulty another great forward step
was taken by the Post Office Depart
ment in aerial mail transportation.
Now letters leaving New York at s
o'clock in the evening will be delivered
in Chicago the next morning by the
first regular carrier delivery. or even
earlier if sent with a special delivery
stamp.
1t is with pride that Americans
contemplate such an accomplishment.
To make this possible, the hazard
Gus tree-crowned Alleghenies have
been studded with brilliant and power
full beacons. to guide the air couriers
of the night and warn them of dan
gerous peaks and crests as they wing
their way through the darkness; and
emergency Ia nding fields have literally
been carved out of the mountain
sides to afford them refuge in time
of mecha nical trouble.
Near New York, Hadley Field has
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breaking point. The twenty-five as
karis were distributed round the bona.
but to me it seemed totally made
quate protection, so great was the dis
tance between each one. As wire
entanglements got on but slowly. for
want of labor. and each night saw A.
and me with our guns doing patrol
duty. feeling all the time il would be
as much good as nothing If the Lioni
did attack. A cloud OF poisoned ar
rows would make short work of us.
THE Nasal. I believed. would not
they simply could not. touch our
home, where they had always been
made welcome. where they had re-
ceived so many unrequited kindnesses.
Now they would doubtless show their
generosity and save our house and
the animals. The store-yes. perhaps
they might burn that, but not our
house, not the poor inoffensive ami
mails.
l turned to A. Tell the boys to
go and get the animals" I said 1T
may not be too late. | don't want any.
! thing else. really and truly. You
know what the Nasal are when their
| blood lust Is uppermost: they will
wreak their vengeance on anything
Fetch the animals and tell Manibura
and the rest to come in and lea We
everything"
A. looked at me without speakine
for moment. Then he said quietly
Il don't think you have considered
everything, Margaret. How can tell
the boys TO go TO Nygara when We are
not sure the Nasal may not be there
already"
Ask them" | said-"ask them /!
they are willing to go. There is the
wagon. If the animals were put into
their cages. all could be brought: the
dogs. of course, could walk
! Still A. seemed undecided. I grew
impatient. DO ask them" urged
| A. called the boys, and explained
what / wanted done. Did they think
we're concerned?
None al all was their prompt re
| ply. How delighted ! felt
| Then you will go?" | said
| IN 'dio. mem-sa hib-n do" came the
quick response. All. the relief | felt
! The next night the boys came ir
from Siana, and. in the morning. those
| from NDa ngasera. Three of our
stores were burned, they reported, ant
many belonging to the Indians. Had
| they heard anything of Nygara? No
nothing. That morning the boys
helped A. put up the barbed wire; by
! night four more rands had beer
added. The Lioni had not kept THEN
word-the Nasal boy could not say
why. Perhaps they were waiting for
others to join them.
! That day we received news that the
telegraph wires had been cut; there
was no communication now with
! Nairobi Every night, as we went ouI
rounds. gun in hand. we said Good
| bye" to each other, for there was M
! knowing II the morning would see US
alive.
Before going on sentry duty ! al
ways put bottle of veronal inside
! the bodice of my dress-that. and g
| tiny bottle OF port wine in which tc
! take 1t. The Nasal should not take
me alive.
ON the seventh day the boys We haC
sent with the wagon returned.
! saw them in the distance. and called
TO A. of course it is my imagina
/ ton" I said. for there is no wagon