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CHAPTER XVIII

"Brena, want you to stand here by
this old well without walking away
from 1t a moment" said Peter, taking
her by the shoulders and looking
squarely into her dark eyes. SIN
going to leave you alone a minute.
It's not pleasant. want you to do it
just the same"
Where are you going?"
Outside the wall again. I've seen
something there that you did not see"
Brena shivered.
Don't be afraid, DEAR" he said.
I'VE have had-both of us-the lesson
Of futile fear. Once we told each
other that fear was crime-a terri
BILE waste. We are on the verge of
learning how terrible a waste it can
! be-"
She put her hands In his; with a
smile she said, "You see, Peter, am In
the dark, dear. But just the same I'll
do as you tell me-"
AS he walked away from her, his
head bent forward as If meditating
she leaned back against the hot, fiat
face of one of the huge stone blocks
Of the we'll curb, following him with
her steady gaze. He disappeared out
side the old WALL and as he vanished,
so vanished all that attached her to
the living world. There was no sound,
no motion within the range Of the
senses; the place Of death was still.
From the tablelands above, lonely
buzzard had come swoOping down on
wide black wings, dipping and turn
ing, with one eye cooked down. as IL
sometime before he had picked bones
In this Enclosure and had returned to
the scene of gruesome feasts. Black,
ill-omened, carrion creature that he
was, Brena felt glad that he had come
Ia thing of life and motion-into this
place of vast dimensions filed by the
silences and rightly of death. She
watched the magnificent grace and
power Of his flight until Peters voice
broke the silence again. and, tapping
toward the west, the bird began to
circle up whence he had come.
"Brenas" said Peter, who came to her
! with an expression drawn as IL with
some stress within.
"YesY'
"Sit down with me here where these
blocks cast a shadow, dear 1 will
show you what / have found-a thing
like the writing of giant finger of
justice-here in the desert. But first
want to tell you tale, Brena-true,
revolving and terrible"
"Tell me-" she said. sitting with her
elbows on her knees.
at is of surprising brevity, Brena, .
he asserted. Its simplicity is the
thing that makes ridiculous the many
things expected, all the nightmares
Of the unknown. told you, dear, that
was no Master Mind-no Great
Analyst in capital letters. 1 was right.
l stumbled onto the trail. 1 used my
head That's ALL"
He stopped to think.
"And yet the simplicity is hideous ~
he said.
Brena glanced toward all that re-
i NAMED of Tim Hennenin of VIRGINIA.
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a little bottle Of sugar pills that would
not have filed a teaspoon His job
seemed good deal like snap to me.
Of course he often had to go farther,
and sometimes in the middle of the
night, and I've heard that many people
never paid him, but never took those
things into consideration then.
1t has always been interesting to me
that most people are likely to con-
slider the other mans job easier than
their own, and not infrequently to ex-
press the conviction that if they were
holding his job they would do it bet
ter than he is doing it.
listened few weeks ago to CALI
Curci's Incompatible singing. The per-
lection of her art was to me marvel
GUS. Behind me in the auditorium
were two men apparently with some
amateurish knowledge of music and
musical terms. ~
There's nothing remarkable about
her singing" one of the men remarked.
"She just does it naturally
There is no reason why anybody
should not learn to sing that way, if
he would but give himself over to it."
the other assented Before the end
of the evening they were both con-
vinced that they could do as well as
this woman Strange it is how conf
dent we are of our ability to handle
the other mans job.
Most men advise their sons to avoid
the business or the profession which
they themselves have followed If
asked why, their invariable reply is,
There is nothing in it but trouble
and hard work. don't want my son
to go through what I've gone through"
And so the farmer trains his son to
be merchant, and the physician sends
his boy to an engineering school, and
the engineer advises his young hope
full to study law, each with the idea
that he is making it possible for the
boy to get the maximum returns for
the minimum expenditure of time AMI
effort, and in the belief that the othe.'
mans job is far easier than his own.
The real facts are that no job is
easy if it is done well. Every business
or profession has its exactions, it's
annoyances, its disagreeable features,
its difficulties and its failures. If we
think otherwise, it is only because
we are unfamiliar with what consti-
tutes the successful doing Of the JOB.
There are few snaps in the world;
even the teaching profession, if one
is to be successful, demands that one
have energy, little brains at least,
some training, and a willingness to
work at least twelve months in the
year. The same thing is true of almost
any other job.
&C. 1925, western Newspaper Union.l
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Vigorous attempts continue to be
made by the colonial ministry to en-
courage French emigration to the col
onies. But in spite Of colonial exposi-
lions and a deluge of literature and
motion pictures descriptive of life in
those parts of the world where France
has territorial possessions, few French
people have been induced to leave
their beloved homeland. The attach
ment of the French to their soil is, in
deed, well known. They prefer making
a mediocre living in their own country
to prospects Of wealth abroad. And not
only is the average Frenchman Ioath
to leave his country, but seldom does
he abandon his native town or village.
There are peasants whose families
have been on the same farms or in the
same districts for hundreds of years. A
French writer has started investigat.
ing how long certain peasant families
have been in the same place and has
found some interesting examples. Thus
in the village of Jeannet, In Burgundy,
farmer named Saclier has authentic
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THE OTHER MANS JOB
Rv THOMAS ARKLE CLARK

by THOMAS ANKLE CLAIM
ttT SUPPOSE you'll have nothing to
= do now until September" Smith
said to me at commencement time.
absolutely nothing" / replied, for it
is less exhausting to agree with man
like that than it is to try to give him
an idea Of the endless list of things
waiting to be done whenever the days
of apparent leisure shall come. He
would not understand.
Smith is a retired farmer who lives
near me and whose regular work is
accomplished when he has fed the
chickens and moved the lawn. Like
many another man he is possessed of
the imbecile idea that college in
structor during the summer and regu-
lar vacations is as free from mental
and physical work as a spring lamb,
that he has nothing to do but loaf at
hilarious pleasure resorts and take
life easily generally When his class
is dismissed his work is done.
AS boy l had the same impression
myself, especially of bankers. was.
in fact, quite determined to be bank
er, for did he not lead life of ease
and luxury until the bank opened at
nine in the morning, and was he not
free to take his rest and come and go
as he pleased after three in the after
noon? Besides this privilege of his
having little to do, there was the
added attraction of unlimited sums of
money at his disposal knew, for /
had often looked in at the window Of
Chamberlains bank when my father
was transacting some important BUSH
ness with the cashier.
/ had a summer experience a good
ME somewhat to revise my opinions
as to the banking business and caused
me to see that even the banker does
not always lead a life of complete
leisure and luxury. He has often been
known to work both before and after
the doors of the bank open.
Failing to qualify in the banking
business, it always seemed to my
youthful judgment that the next best
outlook was in the profession of medi-
cine. 1 drew this conclusion from
careful observation of Doctor Triplett,
our family physician, who used to
drive out to our house in a two
wheeled sulky-the roads were fright
fully muddy in those days-and who
charged two dollars and a half for
the trip Of four miles and back. 1t
seemed an unconscionable sum to
ask for so pleasant jaunt, when all
he did, SO far as / could see, was to
tell a few jokes, and all he left was
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Is too horrible; he proposed that
strange marriage agreement in order
to go away and take me with him. He
was afraid might remember some
word-give some clew."
"No," replied Peter. 'It was that of
course. But that was not all. The
spark of real man that you saw in him
was there, Brena. Terror put 1t out at
last, but the real tragedy of Parmalee
was that he had that redeeming spark"
He waited for her to look up again !;
she had been staring down at the yell
low-gray lust.
Il suppose you can see, he went on.
II suppose you can see now what was
in his mind. Two pictures. One was
the picture of Jim Hennepin alive
that great muscular athlete who drank
hard, who had the false traditions Of
the South, the love of death oaths the
degenerate temper, the sly smiling
ways of carrying vengeance through.
He saw him escaping from the desert.
Brena-heaven knows how-but es-
Gaping by some desperate effort, some
chance, some miracle some way that
Parmalee's brain could not conceive,
but yet couldn't be put out of range Of
possibility. He saw Hennepin seeking
him. Yes, he saw tia picture
thousand haunting pictures Hennepin
with his malicious, desperate, haunt
ing eyes and his terrible muscles. He
saw him smelling along the trail for
his quarry. He saw him walking
about a quiet picture gallery, and,
suddenly seeing your portrait and
realizing that Parmalee had taken you,
turn red with renewed wrath which
would send him out for knife"
AT last that imaginary Hennepin
became almost reality" said Brena.
He shot at him once-at reflection
in a piece of glass. He kept Paul be-
cause Paul was brute who would
fight. He was afraid Hennepin would
send some assassin to get employment
as servant. He never knew when
Hennepin might come-and kill"
But he saw the other picture too.
He saw the buzzards lowering over
what was left Of Hennspin, he saw a
whitened skeleton grinning up at the
sunlit sky and at the stars. Brena.
That's what he saw. And some day
some one would somehow come there.
Perhaps some one had been there al
ready. Perhaps at the very minute
prospector, dirty and unshaved, or
some accursed archaeological explorer
from a university was in that very
town where they had bought the
horses and was telling of the skeleton
and of finding the skeleton of the
riderless horse with the bit still held
between the white teeth. He might
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Dangers to Gem.

AS pearls consist of carbonate OF
lime, vinegar and other acids will eat
away the polished surface in short
time. Hot water is fatal to an opal,
destroying its fire and sometimes caus-
ing 1t TO crack. Soap is a deadly
enemy of the turquoise. If turquoise
ring is kept on the hand while wash.
ing, in a short time the blue stones
will turn to a dingy green.-Popular
Mechanics Magazine.
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Valuable Air Coreoes

Precious stones will be part of the
cargo of the airplanes now ready to
fly over the LOO miles of tropical
jungle between Kushasha, the capital
Of the Belgian Congo, and Kutango,
in the interior. No fewer than 25 air.
dromes and landing grounds have
been built In the swamps and jungles
around the Congo, providing contin.
uous chain of alighting grounds. The
principal "cargoes" on the air. route
will consist of diamonds, gold and
ivory, which will be brought from
the interior to the capital in a single
day instead of in week as by pres.
ent transport methods.
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have that bit In his pocket. Some one
recognizes it. Somehow the chain
once started never ends until"
There comes hand upon the
shoulder" said Brena, as If in dream,
and voice saying, We nave looked
a long time for You.'H
"Yes. There wasn't one fear"
Peter said, marking two lines in the
sand with his foHehnger. There were
two fears. They fought each other
and their battle-ground was Parmalee's
soul. 1t was trtmpled into wallow
OF terror, Of questioning, OF doubt.
Do you know, Brena, that somehow
there creeps into me great pity for
him?"
"If he had been able to put his
finger upon some button that would
have blown him to bits he would have
taken that way" she said. But he
! had an exaggerated instinct for self
preservation 1t threw him back from
any approach to suicide"
Peter, getting up. came to her and
put his hand upon her shoulder as
If to give her strength. She had
spoken with voice too evenly meas
ured to deceive him as to the strain
she felt. 1t had been long pull for
her, he thought. The last steps,
though they might lead out into the
sunlight Of freedom, were upon rough
ground--rough even for man. he
was wondering how he could save her
from pain. He wanted to have this
surgery over, and to have 1t over
there was only one way.
"It was inevitable that he would
come herein the end" he said. He
had to see. He had covered his ter
rors by a cowardly process of trying
to make you believe that some mys-
! terry that chung to you was the cause
Of them. He began to fear disclosure.
He feared that he would allow you
| to know in some mad moment. He
was coming to the end Of his rope"
"Yes, the end of his rope"
Peter stopped and looked up at the
| ugly symbol of Kuk-ul-caD carved on
the rocks.
HE procured copy OF Father Car
los map a second time," he said. He
had to have it to find the way. After
four terrible years he revisited the
Pueblo Mescalero two hundred miles
from nowhere 1t called him back. He
had to come"
He stopped again, looking at Brena
whose palms were pressed against her
knees, whose face with its wonderful
profile was still held uplifted looking
into the vast distances Of the desert
her lips closed, her eyes unseeing
like some carved diety who had beer
sitting thus for centuries.
HE bought a high-powered car
Brena," said Peter. "And all alone
he came"
Sand where is he now?" she criec
out at last, in sudden disclosure Of
her pain. do you know? Where Ii
he now?"
She looked searchingly at Peters
sun-bronzed face, where upon the sur
face of youth lines of strength hat
been engraved by war, and lines o.
tenderness perhaps by great new I'm
Outstanding Of love and life.
HE is here again." he answered
"He is here. Do you under
stand?"
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CHAPTER XIX
IT understand" said Brena.


"Then come with me-" Peter said
holding out his hands. 81 will show
you all that remains-the record-the
story written on the sand and dust.
He led her again toward the
charred bones; he found no resistance
in her.
Look there, Brena. Do you see the
footprints? Here are yours and mine.
But look again on the sand There are
others, too. A thin veil of dust is over
them. They move here and there
they criss-cross and move away. They
are the footprints Of Compton Parma
lee. He has come to stand gazing
down at the white skeleton-white as
oyster Shells"
"Blackened," she said.
''Wait!" Peter said. "There are the
spots where he stood looking down.
He had his answer; no living Jim Hen
nepin Of Virginia would ever fill him
with lead. And as he stood, Brena,
perhaps gazing down for a long, long
time-because his footsteps are lost
in that stew of impressions was
filed with all the concentrated terror
that / suppose only a murderer can
know. He went into crazy wild
panic Of fear. These bones were his
the grinnfng skull. They must be
hidden"
'How do you know all this?"
Because he has moved toward this
curb. He sprang up. Do you see
the marks? He found the mouth
choked with massive blocks. Nothing
could be hidden there! His track
moved back"
go on" said Brena.
(To BE CoNTINUED.)
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signet ring with an H deeply en-
graved upon it.
"Thatp exclaimed Brena with hor-
ror. cit was his Jim Hennepins
This is-him?"
Eyes"
Brena moved toward the pile OF
bones half consumed by fire; then she
stopped and looked away.
"He was killed." she said. "He was
shot or stabbed"
mo-" replied Peter grimly. "It was
worse than that-more CHASTITY. He
was killed. But it was not by human
hand"
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Brazilian English

'"The American scotsman is typically
Of an energy which is to admire in the
warmth of the tropics OF a youth
fitness generally he breathes lively
and walks springly, searching his Gus
toner loyalty for the firm his Yet
under the breast of the American sells,
man beats the heart warmness, there
fore let us give greeting smiles with
two hands open to him, crying wei
come to Brazil, Mister. From
English for the Mass" a booker
published at Para
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at Is There-Here In the Sand-a
Record" He Said. A Ghastly
Record"
the blackened feshless relics of his ex-
istence.
HE deserved it, perhaps" said
Peter pointing. "He tried to cash in
his knowledge"
''You told me last night of the SUI
perstition of buried treasure here" she
said "You mean that?"
mo- not exactly" said Peter. "T
picked up the trail in the house where
Parmalee took you. Two old books !;
and maps of this country and of this
place were missing from both. One
Parmalee took when he went away.
The other? Well, / began to wonder
about the other"
"You thought it must have been
used-before."
eyes. 1t had been used and prob
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EuIL Measure

Judge Brown-Well, Ephraim, what
are you preaching to your flock these
days? I hear you are making mighty
stir.
Ephraim-Well, sur, yassar l is.
gives it to 'um this way: Fustly. |
tells 'um what I'm gwine to tell 'um.
den l tells 'um what / said wuz
gwine to tell 'um den l tells UNI what
l done tOle um.--Our Dumb Animals.
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No Doubt About II

Johnny came home proudly showing
a dollar that he said he had found on
the street. fare you sure it was lost ?"
his father asked. Eyes, l know It
was" Johnny replied. II saw the man
looking for it,
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Hard to Get French to Leave Homeland

records showing that the first Saclier
began to till the soil of the farm in
1872 and it has been in his family ever
since.
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Cutting Il Short

The Girls Father o, hunt Well,
l think I'll smoke a cigar and then
go to bed.
Her Suitor-Herel Have ciga-
rette
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Elephants of Africa do tremendous
damage to native farms.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-10-13
Jury Service a
Sacred Duty

Federal Judge Bondy's court
in New York was at a standstill.
Several persons had demand
ed a jury trial and there wasn't
a talesman in sight. Excuses of
various kinds had enabled many
called to escape jury service.
So the judge took three depu-
ty marshals and went out to
round up jury from the streets.
1t wasn't so long ago that
revolutions were fought to estab-
fish the cardinal principle that
every man is entitled to a trial
by jury. In fact, the ruthless
activities of the car secret po-
lice and the failure of many poor
Russian peasants to obtain jury
trials was one of the underlying
causes of the Russian revolution.
And yet in this country we
seem to think so little of this
right that it is difficult to obtain
juries.
Jury service is a citizens most
sacred highland privilege. 1t
is a duty which should not be
carelessly shirked. but often is.
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Criticize Less;
Commend More

One of the finest paragraphs
in President Coolidges speech
to the Omaha convention was
this one:
One of the most natural re-
actions during the war was intol-
erance. There should be an
intellectual rehabilitation as
well as a military demobiliza-
ton
Replacing intolerance with
tolerance in this country is large
ly an individual matter.
You can't do it by law. You
can't do it by concerted move
ments. for even an organization
of tolerants formed to combat
intolerance is apt to become in
tolerant with the intolerants.
The only solution is for each
citizen to be more tolerant with
his neighbor.
JUDGE less; respect the opin-
ions of others more.
Criticize less; commend here.
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of debt, but scarcely to be sub
stantial payment on it.
Since there was no prospect of
getting any more, at this time, that
is satisfactory enough. But it leaves
still open for some future govern
ment of both countries, to attack
the real question.
About all that has been accom-
plished is to make it clear that if
We offer to remit half of the French
debt, which, in effect, we did, we
think we have conceded something,
while if we demand payment of any
of it, the French think we have eX-
torted something.
1t is all part of the education
of the peoples of the two countries
On the facts we are no nearer So
luton than before.
The difference in the action of
the Interparliamentary Union in
excluding Mary MacSweeney and of
of the American government in ex-
Guiding Saklatvala illustrates the
right and the wrong way to do such
| things.
, Miss insolvency, who had elect.
ed herself to represent the imagin-
airy government of the non-existent
Republic of Ireland, was excluded
by the assembly itself, which neces'
i sarily was the judge of the creden-
tials of its own members.
The action was taken after con-
sultation with the government OF
Ireland, on its assurance that she
did not represent it and had never
been chosen member.
Mr.. Saklatvala, who was duly
accredited member, was excluded
from an international body which
happened to be meeting on Ameri'
can soil on the ground that he
was not a welcome resident OF
America.
He was not coming in that ca.
pacity. He was coming to the in
ternational meeting, to represent q
nation in whose parliament he sits
without protest from his own coun'
try.
He should have been admitted or
the principle of diplomatic i'm mum
| ity. Otherwise the Interparlia'
mentary Union can never meet
freely anywhere, if it's member
ship is to be subject to the cen
sorship of the host nation.
q Suppose it were to meet in Con
stantinople, and Turkey were to eX
clude any American member who
was a Christian!