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sieur protected you put their heads to-
gether and determined to have their re-
venge. They informed against Armand -
He is taken them"
mot yet" she went on, dropping her
voice a little. ALIAS, he never will be
taken alive, monsieur. 1t is not death
that he fears, but confinement. He lies
hidden. I have not seen him since the
night of the affair. I dare not go to
him. dare not correspond. An indi-
rect word somewhere by the telephone
is all that remains. I am watched, day
and night, as this house is watched, and
as the days go on fear grows within
me-" ..
Listen, madame" I begged, ST am
the Comte de Preuil's friend. Can I
help?"
CHE looked at me in silence for sew
eral moments. I suppose she was
satisfied with what she saw.
Armand is hiding in small hotel at
Monte Carlo-the Hotel de Ia Princi-
palite." she confided. 1T is kept by
one of his old servants whose fidelity
ed suspicion, but that cannot last. He
can be saved in one way"
And that?"
IF he can be got across the frontier
into ITALY," she went on eagerly. "a
well known person there has promised
that If he can reach Genoa he shall be
sent to South America"
I pondered for several moments.
Madame" I announced, 1.-The enter
prise commends itself to me. II fail,
1 fail, but in few days I will disclose
sible, will get de Preuil to Italy. About
yourSelf?"
She shook head sadly.
"Ah, monsieur" she said, ''they look
to me some day to lead them to their
quarry, or else that he will pay me a
visit here. They lie and watch like
foxes. He must go alone, but afterward
who knows what may come after
ward! I love Armand dearly, but he
must start life again."
''At this time tomorrow" told her.
II shall have certain plans maturing.
shall write to the Hotel de la Princi-
palite for a room. Meanwhile, give me
a line to the proprietor that he may
know I am to be trusted"
think that / have had more adven-
lures than fall to the lot of most men.
There have been at least four occasions
upon which I have stood face to face
with death, with the odds fairly level
yet could search my memory in vain
for any 20 minutes of my life in which
I suffered, feared and hoped in such
agony of spirit as during those 20 min
utes outside the custom house on the
hill beyond Mentone. We had driven
from Beau Soleil with scarcely an in
terchanged word, my companions hand
upon the wheel, steady and precise, his
face set in that rigid expression COM
mon to the well disciplined chauffeur.
He brought the car to stop at the
first place of call, where my credentials
were cursorily examined. No undue in
terest was shown in us and we started
off again. On the hill came our first
real period of probation. We had to
wait for nearly 10 minutes to take our
turn, during which time a French gen.
darme strolled up and down past the
car and I, at least. found it hard to
persuade myself that he did not, now
and then, throw curious glance to-
ward myself and my chauffeur. The
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MARAUDER
Set Upon by Three Lonely Made

my hand. "This, I believe, is the coupe
of Monsieur lie Comte de Preuil."
What do you want with Monsieur lie
Comte?" she demanded.
AN opportunity 1 have sought for
long time" I replied, Ito repay, in some
measure. a debt 1 owe him"
Are you, by chance" she inquired
"the Englishman on whose behalf he
interfered in the Rue de GraSse one
night?"
II am he" acknowledged.
She sat for a moment, deep in
thought.
II return now to my apartment" she
announced. If monsieur will accom-
pany me"
In her charmingly furnished sitting
room she motioned me to seat.
Monsieur lie Comte de Preuil," she
began. lis in fear of his life, and it is
you who are the cause
But, madame!" 1 protested.
1T is you who are the cause" she re-
peated 1T is known to the chief OF
the police that he was the head of a
small band of robbers who have made
Nice their headquarters for some years"
at seems incredible" murmured.
"He was their head" she went on,
but they grumbled often at his meth
GUS. NO one possesses a SITlcCer sense
of honor than Armand. He will not
permit violence, except in self-defense
There came night" she continued
when he found three of his men en-
gagged in the attempt to rob single
Englishman."
"Myself!"'I exclaimed
Precisely: He rescued you. They
never forgave him. There came another
night, a little over a month ago. when
Armand attempted, inglehanded.
great coup. Monsieur reads the papers?"
THE French papers, alas, never"
She was amazed.
"All Nice has talked of nothing else.
GaSseros was a strong, burly man who
boosted that he had a few million francs
always in the house and was never
afraid to let any one know it. Armand
was desperate for money. He found his
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''That is my special watchdog. It is
he who has theory that, because of
our devotion to each other, Armand will
return to me, if only for few hours,
before he leaves the country. In you he
beholdS a complication. To see us to-
gether, intimately like this. may weaken
his belief in my fidelity, Monsieur For
ester" she concluded, with sudden
bewildering smile.
ut is sometimes a troublesome quail
ity," ventured.
She leaned a little toward me.
Then, do you think-for safetys sake
that you could look at me, now and
then, as though you admired my frock,
or my eyes?"
More than ever I was conscious of
the Witchery of her brown eyes, the
magic of her subtly lowered voice, in
which seemed to linger the illusion of a
caress. Her fingers touched mine as
though by accident, and I had no need
to feign the role at which she limited.
For safety's sake, madame" prom
ised, not altogether steadily, "the re-
mainder of the evening will see me your
devoted cavalier"
She sighed and laughed almost in the
same instant. She was, indeed, woman
of mercurial moods.
You are generous with your time,
monsieur" she whispered.
There Is that little matter Of fdel-
ity," reminded her, as the caviare was
set before us.
"a quality that has yet to be de-
fined" she rejoined, helping herself to
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much as a bottle of wine, but on the
third day after my return, while wan
dering round the casino, saw him in
the distance, with a packet of mile
notes in his hand, calling "Banco" at
| the high table I crossed the room i'm
petuousiy and touched him on the
shoulder. He turned quickly round.
AT last" I exclaimed breathlessly.
You are not miStaking me for some
one else, sir?" he inquired.
II certainly am not" l rejoined firm
! ". You saved me the other night from
horrible pummeling and the loss of a
good deal of money. if not worse. I was
not in condition just then to insist, or
should never have let you depart with
out your telling me your name"
MY name is at your service, sir" he
replied but of the incident to which
you refer I know nothing"
looked at him steadily, There could
be no possibility of any mistake-the
same clean-cut features, the same dark
blue eyes.
will you tell me-" asked. why you
choose to deny the fact that it was you
who rendered me that great service the
other night?"
Sir" he said, "if have rendered you
any service, then you are in my debt,
and if you are in my debt, I request
that that you abandon that subject My
name is at your service" he continued,
passing me a card. yours, think 1
already know-Maj. Forester. I believe.
I am the Count de Preuil. Let it go at
that"
I wandered restlessly about until an
acquaintance took me by the arm. We
chatted for a few minutes and ended
up at the bar. He pointed to the table
where I had been seated short time
previously.
You know de Preuil well?" he asked.
81 met him for the first time this eve
ming" I answered, bearing in mind my
preserver's injunction.
He is man of peculiar personality"
said my friend. "One can imagine him
the type of modern marauder have
heard habitues of the place warn new
corners against him, but don't know
why"
Nor can I imagine any reason for
such warming I declared.
THE next time I saw my mysterious
benefactor he was seated in my
salon when I returned from the casino
at about o'clock in the morning.
This" he announced rather coldly,
sis not call in which the social emeni-
ties have any place. 1t is, as a matter
of fact, a business visit"
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By E. Phillips OPpenhein1

"Our matter of business being con-
Guided" suggested, as ! saw him move
toward his hat, might I propose that
you accept a whisky and soda?"
He suddenly smiled, and there was
something about the smile that made
me long to pass my arm through his
and beg him to sit down and tell me
anything in the world that could do
for him.
But the smile passed and he was sud-
denly hard as steel.
II will drink with you with pleasure, ="
he conceded. Perhaps it is as we'll that
the night is not yet finished for me-"
He drank a whisky and soda slowly
and sat down the glass. Then he babe
me good night. Save that he refused to
see my outstretched hand, his was the
ordinary farewell of one acquaintance
taking leave of another. I heard him
descend the stairs, and presently heard
the concierge let him out. From my
window watched him walk to the end
of the street and disappear. I watched
him with a curious, inexplicable fore
boding. I had the feeling that he was
on his way to trouble.
X X * X
Tor over a month 1 saw nothing of
de Preuil. 1t is curious fact that
I thought of him always as my preserv-
err, as the man who had sent those three
murderous rogues flying by the very
sound of his voice, who had saved my
cketbook-perhaps my life. There
seemed to me always something not al
together real in that early morning visit
to my rooms when he had attempted
the role of highwayman. I was even
half-inclined to persuade myself that he
had been masquerading, that he had
been amusing himself with some grim
jest at my expense. i certainly bore
him no malice, and when weeks passed
without my seeing anything of him, 1
found myself disturbed
Then, one day, standing outside
small shop in a not too fashionable
quarter, saw the coupe he had driven
the night we met for the first time.
For a solid three-quarters of an hour 1
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These Mine Quotations
Surely Must Be Wrong

in the night! I hunted through the
paper in vain at first to see what was
hitting it now, and presently, sure
enough, I found it. There was an
announcement that the ex-Amir OF
Afghanistan, Habbibulah Khan, was
raising an army to attack the other
ex-Amir, and that it was likely that
King Fizzle of Arabia might be drawn
in, IN which case Great Britain would
make a demonstration in the Persian
Gulf.
OF course, my mine couldn't stand
for a rumor like that. Down she went.
Little did I think when went in for
this business that I'd be dependent on
what they do in AfghaniStan. But let
Habbibulah Khan look out.
Why won't that mine go up?
Just one little CLEAN of light broke
for couple of days. News came that
over two million Chinese were dying of
famine and that if it got worse it would
mean an open door for imports and
enormous profits in metal. Up went
my mine slap bang, three-Quarters OF
a cent. Oh, yes, I know all about the
sympathetic side of it-theSe Chinese
dying of hunger That's all right. But
when you get into this business OF
speculation you've no time for that.
You're thinking of bigger things. And
anyway they say the Chinese don't
mind dying. And there are lots Of
them.
But the luck didn't hold: the fam
inc seemed to die down. and they say
now that unless a plague breaks out
in the wake of it. the situation is all
over. I don't know how you start
plague.
Meanwhile, down went my mine
Then right after that the Prime
Minister of England made speech to
the effect that England was all right
and didn't need to depend on any
body.
Down went my mine.
Then the Prince of Norway married
the Princess of Sweden.
Down went my mine.
Then a bank broke and failed for
$5.000,000 in Denver, Colo.
Down went my mine.
Then the ice went out of the 500
Ste Marie and opened navigation to
Lake Superior.
Down went my mine.
In short. lately I hardly dare look
at the front page of the newspaper.
I know that there will be at least half
a dozen things that will give my share
a crack.
And now. latest and worst of all. Is
what the Federal Reserve Banks and
the Government of the United States
ard the government of England are
going to do next about speculative
credit MY mine won't stand having
any lid put down on it. Let them do
it if they want to. but if they do it
know that my deferred share in Series
j is just worthless. And with me there
will be ruined all the other million fell
lows in the same series.
If they lift UP their rate of interest
any higher. if call money in New York
and the bank rate in London go up
any further than they have already,
I'm ruined. And what makes me most
mad about it is that don't know why.
I don't want their money; I'm not
borrowing any money. I only want my
mine to go up.
What on earth has all this talk of
closing down on rediScountS and re-
loans to do with my mine?
I'm not rediScounting anything; I'm
not asking for anything.
I Just want that mine to go up.
that's all. Can't they leave 1t alone?
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way to the house of Gasseros. There
was a terrible struggle. The details
filled columns of the papers for days
Armand secured the money, but Gas
seros fought like maniac. He got one
arm loose and shot Armand through the
shoulder. He was the first, mind you,
to use firearms. There were sounds in
the house. 1t was evident that the re-
port of the revolver had aroused the
domeStics. Armand knew that to es-
cape he must resort to his own weapon.
He fired, meaning to wound his captor
in the leg. Gasseros sprang at him and
received the bullet in the heart"
"Horrible!" I murmured.
Gwen then she proceeded, Armand
got away. The police offered reward,
and those three men from whom mon
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NN kinder went out of my way
while I was up in the City
of Culture week before last
and I decided to improve myself liter
arily. So says I got to do some real
highbrow reading. 1 never was much
on this Book reading, for 1t takes EN-
so long to describe the color of the
eyes of all the Characters. Then like
my sunsets from eyesight and not from
adjectives. Congress aas got more nc
ton in it in day taAn Writers can
think of in year.
But being up N Bos.qn why your
mind naturally turns % Higher
things" The week I was there they
had just barred the American Trag-
the Commute was then reading Pill
grims Progress, to see if there Wasent
some underlying meaning in it.
So I said well up here what Eook
can get that wont be breaking ny
City ordinance, and at the same tie
will improve my mind, and I started
looking through the adds and I saw a
| Girl sitting straddle of an old Gin
case with her toes wrapped around the
lower spokes of a steering wheel and
her hands assisting her toes to guide
the ship. Her hair was blowing in the
breeze, and she had on one of those
hats you wear with slicker. But
there was no strap under her chin, so
don't know what held it till the pho
tographer could get the Picture.
The add all said it was a true story
of Girl that went to Sea- when she
was eleven months old, and was finally
Shanghied ashore at the age of seven
teen. The adds has some samples of
the cussing in it, and wanted to see
how Sea cussing compared with New
York stage cussing during the past sea-
son, which really reached its heighth
in high grade profanity. guess there
was more good straight sway cuSsing
this year than ever before. But most
of it had been confined to scenes on
land.
Well go literary and say never mind
all this Fiction, want some facts, End
all the things / had read about this
book said here is the real Mccoy. Here
is a Gal that was Born in the Crows
Nest Weaned on a Porpoise, Cut her
teeth on an Anchor, and could spit in
a Sharks eye. Her protection was
| Whale hide, but her Heart was Gold
She could swim the Charnell with a
bunch of Cats on her back. and never
] dampen KittN. The Northern Lights
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paced that little strip of pavement. At
last had my reward. The shop door
opened and a woman crossed the pave
ment swiftly and stepped into the coupe.
I hurried up, and laid my hand upon
the window ledge. She was already
seated at the wheel when she turned
and looked at me with a little start of
surprise, in which was mingled some
fear She was quite young, apparently
about 80 years of age, and she gave the
impression, even in that first hurried
glimpse, of certain elegance, charm
quite independent of the good looks she
undoubtedly possessed.
what is it monsieur desires?" she
asked. little haughtily.
"a word with madame" I begged,
standing still at the window, my hat in
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Farm Clubs Grow.

TIE All Club movement, which has
grown with leaps and bounds since
its inception few years ago, took an
other great step forward during 1928.
according to the tabulation of county
agents reports, made az the Depart
ment of Agriculture. An increase Of
$4,000 members over 1927 is indicated
in the total figure of 666.000. The esti-
mated total of those who will complete
their work during the coming year is
also about $4,000 over last years figure.
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JOAN GOES TO SEA.

was nothing but lightning Bug. The
Equator was an extension of the Dixie
Highway. A storm at sea was music to
her ears, and Typhoon was Buggy
tide. A ShipWreck Wasent even q
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punctured tire. She combed her hair
with q live Sharks tooth and wore
couple of Octapuses for Carriers.
She was just female She Serpent
that had vaulted up on deck and was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-12
BY STEPHEN LEACoCK.

w WHAT'S the matter with my
n mine? 1t won't go up.
NM There it sticks, like log:
there it has stuck for three
weeks for nearly a month
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THEN THE TWO CLOSED IN ON
ME. THERE WERE ONE OR
TWO SHORT BLOWS. / REAL
lied THAT, AS HAD TO OC-
CUPY MYSELF CHIEFLY WITH
THE MAN WHOSE HAND WAS
GRIPPING THAT CRUEL-LOOK-
ING KNIFE, l COULD HOLD OUT
ONLY FOR A FEW SECONDS
AGAINST THE ATTACK OF MY
OTHER ADVERSARY.
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BY WILL ROGERS.

w YELL all know Is just What I
n read in the papers, and I
wv kinder went out of my way
while I was up in the City
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-04-19
PERMISSION TO
 SEND AIR MAI.
 SOUTH REFUSED
Plane Juneau Will Take One Sack Unoficially
 on Monday

Authorization to send a sack of air mail south on the plane Juneau was refused by the Post Office De- partment in Washington, D C., in wire received at the Post Office here from Second Assistant Post master General Glover. The wire is in answer to one sent by the local Chamber of Commerce two days ago asking for permission to send one sack of mail to Seattle with the plane.
 The message said that as it is contrary to the general policy and no exceptions can be made, author ization was respectfully denied, and to so notify the local Chamber of Commerce.
 Mail Taken Unofficially
 However, arrangements have been made to send a sack of unofficial mail south on the plane when it goes next Monday. Anyone desir- ing to send letter on the plane can leave it at the desk at the Gastineau Hotel before Monday morning and it will mailed at Seat tie the same day, it was said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-04-19
CHARGE MADE AGAINST
 AN AUTHORIZES
Arrest Made in California indictment Return
 ed in Texas

SAN JOSE, Cal, April 19.-EIiz : abeth Murray, listed in Who's Who as an author and lecturer. is in the City Jail here for Postal In spector's charges lodged against her by the Federal Grand Jury of Fort Worth, Texas, charging use es mails to defraud.
 She was registered at Iaslion- able hotel as Mrs. E. J. Tarkington
 The indictment charged her with writing to woman in Amarillo, Texas, offering her membership in three clubs at reduced prices.
 Postal authorities said she wrote the woman on a letterhead listing prominent persons as members of organizations, none Of whom, or investigation, had ever heard of the woman's organizing activities.
 Mrs. Harrington was indignant at the charges filed. It was said she is member of prominent Des Moines, Iowa, family and her father, now deceased, was aid to have been an Iowa State Senator.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-04-19
RE2 ARA7I0NS BREAKDOWN IS STAYED OFF BY DEATH
DISTRICT ATTORNEYS
 WARNED ABOUT CASES
 UNDER THE JONES ACT

WASHINGTON, April 19.-Pros- cautions fer violation of the Ma tional Prohibition law under the Jones Act permitting five years prison term and $10,o0o fine, will be made only on strong cases in- volving commercialisin which war rants sentence Of more than one year in prison.
 This is the announcement made by Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Assistant Attorney General in charge of Prohibition Enforcement.
 She said she has instructed all United States District Attorneys regarding this and told them they should use wise discretion as to the character of cases and not prose- cute under the Jones Act, those cases of minor character.
 Where offenses are of major character the United States Dis trict Attorney have been told they should be prosecuted as possession charges on ordinary information and under grand jury indictment as required under the Jones law which provides maximum penalties for illegal manufacture, sale, trans portatlon, importation and expor- tation of intoxicants.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-04-19
Young Couple, Bottle of Moonl,ine, and an Auto,
 Most Dangerous Quartet

as regular standard of recreation Ia party, auto ride, dancing and q bottle of gin or moonshine, and about 50 to 50 percent of the girls about IT years of age, accept this code.
 In pre-Volstead days, Tobin says, the bottle never aspired to dictate the social habits of our young people. It does today. Families and homes originate from early association for the young people of both sexes. The home or family tied with a bottle of bootleg has a foundation in the quicksand. The bottle is the byproduct of Prohi- bition. Either the bottle as one of the trio has got to go or it's an cestor, Prohibition, must go."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-04-19
GOVERNORS YACHT RACE CUP WILL GO
 SOUTH WITH PLANE

The large silver cup, donated by Gov George A. Parks as one of the prizes for the Capital-to Capt. tai Yacht. Race, will be taken south on the Gorst plane Alaskan when it goes within the next few days. The cup will be displayed at all the yacht clubs on Puget Sound for the purpose of stimulating in terest in the race taking place this June.
 When E. M. Greenwood, Traffic Manager of the Gorst Air Trans port, Incorporated, heard that the cup was to be sent south for dis play purposes, he offered to take it down in the plane and Gov. Parks accepted the offer this morning.
 The cup is now on display in the window of Valentines welry Store.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-04-19
YOUNG MAN
 BANK RObBER
Secured $2,000 for Food and to Continue Violin
 Lessons, Arrested

LEWISTON, Idaho, April 19.- Because he wanted money for food and to continue violin lessons, a 21-year-old youth must answer to the court for committing the only bank robbery in Lewistons history.
 The youth who said he hailed from Utah, arrived yesterday and walked up to a window in the Lewiston National Bank, and hand ed in note demanding money, saying the teller was covered and one false move and he would be talking to his ancestors.
 The youth was arrested 45 min utes later while on his way to Walla Walla, Wash, and returned to Idaho County Jail. He gave the name of Paul Edwards. Two thousand dollars secured from the bank, was recovered.