Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08

danger, turned away by Kane whom these pitt
full people accepted as their own golden god,
who must protect them, who must avenge them
as well. You see how the story runs. Interest
ing, the case Of Kane who deep inside feels
that he may be an avatar-wel, who knows2
It helps the adventure, helps it in consistency
with beliefs even more ancient than own.
There is endless hardship here There are
many moments of distinct danger. All of the
partaking sort as far as the reader is concerned.
The reader goes along. Safe final emergence
from many overhanging dangers, with per-
fectly good love story resulting from the more
strenuous business Of scientific investigation and
plain adventuring, rounds THE House of Dark
ness" to q stunning matter which will more
than satisfy those who have been crying for
another book as good as 1.-THE Red Gods Call"
APACHE. BY Will Lexington Comfort author
of "Routledge Rides Alone" etc. New York:
E. p. Dutton &c Co.
MY third house guest.
A few years ago a young American wrote
q novel with more than little Of the cast Of
knighthood about IT, A strange thing for him
to do just then, for any one to do. Heroes,
just then, were merely industrial giants High
endeavor was in the main directed toward dol
lars. Poets and dreamers kept underground
so to speak Nevertheless, he wrote his novel,
unforgettable. Then the author, VIII Lexington
Comfort, died. He did not die. Certainly not.
Well, something happened to him. However,
that is no matter-not to us. For here he Is
again with q novel whose spirit is exactly that,
except ripper, of the man who created "FSout-
ledge"
The story of an Indian an Apache, one Of the
tribe in the Southwest where Mexicans and
American adventures of every brand gradually
gathered Miners cattlemen. prospectors,
gamblers, settlers soldiers, with the Indians
among them, provide viii Comfort with the OPP
portunity to tell the story of Mangus Colorado,
Apache This the scene which the author has
re-created with so much of the color and action
Of its historic content that, reading one may
accept it as the living image of adventure In
its many forms and at the time which it repre-
sents So much for it as an authentic chapter
Of American history. So much for 1t, besides, IS
"wild-weSt" story of the earlier day when
truth outran fiction immeasurably. Therefore,
from these two points of view here are two
equally dependable, two equally absorbing ac-
counts. Yet neither of these reaches the heart
Of this truly great romance. The prime con-
Germ of Mr.. Comfort here is the heart and soul
Of a man. It would be. And so he goes along
with Mangus Colorado (Teed Sleeve), great
Indian. Nothing essential to the nature Of this
red man, nothing pertaining to the life round
about which nourished and developed him, is
omitted from the Apache" On the other hand
nothing immaterial to the purpose is enter
tanned however appealing as spectacle, this
may be- The outcome of this kind Of work, of
this kind Of inspiration, is something in the ma
ture Of q Saga, austere, clean-cut, ice
shining recital that by virtue of the great figure
whom it exalts has drawn to itself the nlumi-
mating facts of truth, pure truth itself. I know
-Sagas are out of place among hot peoples and
hot regions Never mind. This story in purity