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FOR SALE-Fifty large Leghorns at
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B. and Bangs accredited and in
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FOR SALE-Savage target rifle,
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Pres so let pFinasel rychlou, vitanou
dlevu tisicnm trpicich: revmatickymi
a neuralgickymi bolestmi, bolenim
Fad. ztuhlymi a bolavymi svaly, ma.
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cast and We5T
MUNpY

children apiece. You know my man
Gulbaz?"
''Too well. Some day that bad
mash will turn on you"
Rundhia smiled: Long before
that, dear doctor, he shall swallow
one of your prescriptions! Summon
GulbaZ. Give him money. | will
give you three hundred rupees, and
you may keep the change. Tell
Gulbaz he is to hire those three
men to assassinate Norwood tonight.
l don't care how they do it, and /
hope they get caught. They have
been living for months in the temple
hospice. Everyone will believe they
are in the pay of the priests. Do
you understand"
81 understand you. l won't do it.
l have done what / have done, be-
cause you knew of former indiscre-
tions, for which you could have be-
trayed me to the law. And l will
do what l will do, because / need
the money. There it ends. / wish
you wouldn't keep me waiting. I
am becoming nervous. / have
drugged his medicine until he needs
it five times daily. Now he is de-
manding one at bedtime. Why
waltz"
"Are you sure of the poison?"
"Quite sure. It is the same that
I gave you to test on the monkey
that you packed in ice and sent to
Delhi to be autopsied. 1t is a vege-
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CHAPTER XIV

Norwood sat in his tent and
checked Stoddart's survey figures,
found couple of mistakes, correct
ed them, admonished Stoddart and
gave the sergeant instructions for
the following day. Nervously he
walked the distance between the
horse line and his tent.
After the third of his pacings to
and fro, he sat at the table in his
tent and wrote a letter to Lynn
Harding, tore it up, and made sew
eral more attempts. He tore up
the last one. gathered all the scraps
of paper into one heap, carried
them to a cook-fire and burned the
lot.
He returned to his tent, scraped
out pipe, wrote another letter to
Lynn Harding and tore up that one.
It was getting on toward dark. The
Kadur River was a splurge of GRIM
son. He heard the hoof-beats of
O'Leary's horse at about the hour
when he had first seen Lynn Hard
ing in the Maharanee's carriage
Norwood's servant came and igh
ed the lamp in the tent
ITO BE CONTINUEDJ
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ress so impregnable that no other
army can take it, yet each of these
nations has built its first line OF de-
tense with the idea of disproving the
theory. So well are the forts con-
cealed, and so discouraging are the
cunning obstacles placed in an in
vader's path, that the defenders
would nominally be expected to en-
Joy a wholesale slaughter while their
enemies were attempting to find a
strategic point of attack.
Once the fortresses are reached
(they are invisible from few
yards distance) the enemy must
reckon with bombproof, shellproof
opponent. Each part of the Magi-
not defense system, and probably OF
the West Wall as well, is arranged
so that every other part can be COW
cred, even to the tops of turrets
upon which attacking infantrymen
might leap.
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major items in the average family's
budget may also be expected to
climb sooner or later under wars
stimulus, including gasoline, tires,
automobiles, rents, and clothing.
Several million Americans were
unemployed in the depression of
1914, but American business began
to feel the stimulus of Europe's war
orders by December, FIVE months
after hostilities began.
In contrast, the study points out,
many American industries have been
expanding under armament orders,
which must actually be classified as
war orders, for more than a year
past. And with increasing millions
of Europeans Withdrawn from pro-
duction, Americas unemployed mil
lions will have to take UP the slack.
Possible congressional action to lift
present embargoes or to establish
new restrictions will of course great
ly affect the situation.
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living costs had almost doubled.
The last war, like the present one,
found extensive unemployment and
depression in the United States, but
the 1914 business and employment
situation was changed to a boom
within two years by the European
war. The present war may have
the same effect, but it must eventu-
ally have a destructive recon on U.
S. prosperity even though this coun-
try is not drawn in, according to the
study.
Present-day food prices are likely
to make an earlier start upward as
the new European war gets under
way, than was the case in 1914, the
study states. Farm prices then were
at high levels, particularly in the
case of corn and wheat. But in 1899,
farm products as well as retail food
prices are scrapping on five-year
low, considerably out of line with
other commodities. However, other
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CHAPTER XII-Continued

Lynn stared: do you think /
could persuade Rundhia to try to
prove Captain Norwood's inno-
cence?"
But Lynn dear, if Captain Nor
wood has been guilty of taking a
bride"
Lynn interrupted: 81 don't believe
Captain Norwood is guilty"
But what do you know about
him?"
"Maharanee dear, what do you
know about me? How do you know
I'm not a criminal?"
Lynn"
'Maharanee dear, even if Captain
Norwood could be guilty of an un-
gentlemanly, mean thing like taking
bride, it was who betrayed him
and l want him to know it. If he
isn't guilty"
The door opened suddenly. Run
dhia entered, followed by an attend
ant in the Maharaiah's livery.
Yes" said the Maharanee, 'that
man can be trusted. Lynn dear, l
will give him both your letters. He
will find Captain Norwood, even if
he has to hunt all over Kadur."
She gave the man emphatic orders
in his own language, told him to go
at once, watched him along the cor
rider and led Lynn through the brass
gate to the women's quarters.
Rundhia waited, standing. When
he heard the messengers football
returning along the corridor, he
opened the door, admitted him,
closed the door, held out his hand,
received both letters, glanced at
them and returned to the messen-
ger the one that was addressed to
Mrs. Harding.
Deliver that one. After that,
keep out of sight for an hour. Then
return and say that you have de-
ivered the other letter to Captain
Norwood. Co."
Rundhia opened the letter that
was addressed to Norwood. He
smiled. There was no heading:
Your unkindness about what you
saw this morning does not make me
wish to hurt you in return. There
is something wish to tell you. 1t
is important. I hate myself for
something that said unintentional-
ly, under great strain. I can ex-
plain it. Won't you see me?
Lynn"
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Battle Of Lines Brings First Test
Of Cerman-French Defense Strategy
World Debates Question of
Hour: Can Either Wall
Be Conquered?
By ROBERT THEIRS

tReleased by western Newspaper UnlonJ
DARIS.-" Underground bat
L tleships" along the entire
German-French frontier are
getting their first test under
fire these days as military ex-
perts await the answer to 1899
greatest wartime question: Are
the West Wall and the Maginot
line really impregnable?
When Frances early adj
vance brought her armies
flush against the great Ger
man wall, formerly called
the Siegfried or Lines line,
the invaders faced truly stupen-
dous offensive job. Newer than the
Maginot line, Germany's fortifica-
tons are nevertheless hopeless
maze of underground fortresses,
meats, barbed wire entanglements
and tank-infantry traps equal to any,
thing the cunning French ever de-
viSed.
The West Wall is not simply a
wall; ahead of it for several miles
are auxiliary Notifications, and be-
hind it are slanting, knoblike tank
barriers interspersed with concealed
pits in which tanks may be trapped.
The whole system ranges from Is
to so miles in depth, swarming with
anti-aircraft emplacements to drive
off enemy bombers.
Reich BUSHES Construction.
No French officials know whether
the West Wall has been completed.
Last year, during the crisis preced-
ing Munich, Adolf Hitler revealed
100000 men were working on it,
night and day. A few days after
the current war began Nazi Labor
Leader Robert Ley is said to have
wired Field Marshal Hermann Goer-
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ing, promising to rush the project
to completion.
BY contrast, Frances Maginot line
has been completed several years.
1t was from the French that Ger
many got the inspiration for the
West Wall, which was not started
until 1884. The Maginot line was
conceived in 1925 while Andre Magi-
not was minister of war. Originally
planned to cover only the frontier
area between Belgium and the
Rhine, it has since been expanded
to protect the entire frontier from
the Atlantic to Switzerland.
Both lines are really a series of
forts, each with their own electric
kitchen, Mushrooms, water res
ervoirs, electric generators and stor-
age rooms.
Seek to Disprove Theory.
1t is an axiom among military
men that no army can build fort
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European War Brings Repetition of u S. 1914 Business Boom;
But Postwar Recoi Will Also Repeat Economists Believe
kIINNEAPOLIS.-The World

Nj MINNEAPOLIS. The World
1V1 war did not actually boost
living costs in the United States
until two years after it began,
although then, as now, whole
sale commodity prices staged
an excited rally at the out
break of hostilities. The pres
ent European war, however,
may have quicker effect on
U. S. prices, according to an
analysis just completed by
Northwestern National Life In
surance company.
In the last war American
living costs did not really be-
gin to soar until the United
States went into the conflict in the
spring of 1917. Thereafter they
zoomed dizzily for three years, I'M
til the average American family's
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CHAPTER XIII

The Bengal doctor entered Run
dhia's suite at the palace with the
air of a crook who is afraid of a
master-crook. He assumed an air
of self-importance that he didn't
feel; of confidence that didn't exist.
He didn't wait for Rundhia to tell
him to be seated, and he began to
speak in Bengal.
Rundhia interrupted him: "You
may discontinue dosing Mrs. Hard
ing. Miss Lynn Harding has &C.
copied an invitation to remain here
at the palace, so the sooner the
aunt clears out of Kadur the better.
Let her get we'll"
''She has refused medicine. l had
to put it on her breakfast food.
And now she won't eat. She will
recover quickly enough! There is
nothing much the matter with her.
am relieved. do not like to do
such things to western people"
Gould you get at Captain Nor
wood?"
No"
81 think you'd better Last night
at supper, Norwood watched your
clumsy by-play when you gave that
pellet to Mrs. Harding. The way
you switched the pellets wasn't clev-
er. Norwood suspects you"
Captain Norwood is himself un-
der suspicion" the Bengal an
Swered. 'He stands accused, does
he not, of having accepted bride?
You told me to say so to Mrs. Hard
ing. And l did,"
"Yes. ! was coming to that"
Rundhia interrupted. 81 thought the
news might influence her to keep
Norwood away. Now, look here:
officers caught taking brides, espe-
cially if they're popular and well
connected, very often commit sui
eide. Norwood's suicide would be
appropriate, convenient and, in the
circumstances, not suspicious. How
do we go about it?''
eve don't!" the Bengali an
swered, without a seconds hesita-
ton.
Rundhia stared at him scornfully:
WELL" he remarked at last, sit
might be dangerous to do. You and
! must be careful"
The Bengal folded his hands
across his stomach: Very careful. ;"
Things mustn't be traced back to
u.s." said Rundhia. There is moth
ing, so far, that can be traced back
to me- But / have the goods on
you; and by God, if you don't do
what I tell you, you're in trouble"
CALLS eyes, but he said nothing. He
crossed his knees and waited.
Norwood has got to be killed."
said Rundhia. HE is in love with
Miss Lynn Harding He hates me.
He is suspicious by nature. He is
on the defensive And he is the
type of person whose idea of self
defense is to attack with every scrap
of energy he has. That kind of per-
son is much too dangerous. You
and / can't afford to let him live.
If we can blame his death on the
priests, that could be made to hold
water. The priests bribed him. By
this time, they probably know that
the news of the bride is out. It
would be natural for them to murder
Norwood, to stop his mouth.
well, why not let them! Why not
leave it to them?" the Bengal re-
torted.
Because they won't do it, you
fool! Did you ever know a priest to
do thing at the right time to suit
someone else? It will have to be
done for them. Now here's the idea:
they keep hospice where mendi-
cants may live as long as they
please, for no payment. There are
three men in that hospice, who
would kill their mothers and any,
one else for an ounce of opium. For
two ounces, they would murder ten
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Island of ApocaIynse

Tourists on Mediterranean cruises
have the chance not only to see Pal
estine but to visit Patmos, the little
island where Saint John received
the visions recorded in the Book of
Revelation.
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Milk ON the Hoof

In Sicily there is no milk prob.
lem for visitors daily see milk de-
iivered "on the hoof" Goats are
driven to ones door and their milk
is drawn from them before the GUS
toner.
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stomach, if they look, some traces
of marijuapa, which it can be proved
that he himself bought, and which
/ added to his tonic at his own writ
ten request. I advise you to act
quickly"
Rundhia nodded: "If you will at
tend to the killing of Norwood,
will let you do the other job tonight.
But want Norwood out of the way"
There was a chill at Lynn's heart.
AS she walked beside the Mahara-
nee into the room, that was called
the boudoir but retained the sump-
tuous, old-fashioned splendors of
royal bibi-kana, she felt more self
critical than ever before in her life.
Not even Aunty Harding's cruelest
accusations had made her feel as
guilty, and as impotent to undo
wrong.
Lynn darling, why are you ST.
lent? I can almost always count on
you for chatter when feel despond-
ent."
"Maharanee, did you ever betray
anyone?"
"Let us sit here by the window"
said the Maharanee. TELL me how
it feels Perhaps l can help you to
feel differently. You have helped
me in so many ways. There is a
law of compensation. Perhaps
comes now my opportunity to do for
you what you have done for me-"
81 hate myself" Lynn answered.
"You can't change that. l don't
want it changed. If 1 didn't hate
myself for what I've done,
shouldn't be fit to live. The dread
full part is, that I can't undo what
did. Oh, my Cod" she put her
head between her hands 81 didn't
mean to do it. If could cut out my
tonguel But 7 said it. / can't un-
say it,
Lynn darling, did you promise
Captain Norwood not to speak about
those diamonds?"
mo. He didn't ask me to prom
Use. He took it for granted that
wouldn't mention what any idiot
could guess he hadn't wanted me to
see. Captain Norwood saw me kiss
ing Rundhia. l know he did,"
did he say SOP"
"Of course he didn't. And of
course he won't mention it, ever, to
anyone else. The man is a gentle
man. ! don't want him to despise
me, yet it wouldn't bother me if
Rundhia did,
Perhaps you don't yet under
stand Rundhia."
''Oh, yes 1 do. Rundhia is a beau
tiful savage"
Darling, did you ask him not to
tell?"
81 made it quite clear was sorry
l had told him."
'Well, you must remember that
you told him something that con-
Germs the State of Kadur. You un-
covered to him the existence of a
bride that might have changed the
destiny of Kadur by legalizing the
priests possession of the diamond
mine. haven't told you much about
the diamond mine. It is supposed to
be secret. Do you call it a betray-
al that have mentioned it to your"
Don't worry. I won't tell" Lynn
answered. ST never want to hear
diamonds mentioned again. How
long will it take that messenger to
reach Captain NORWOOD"
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'Lanplighter'
Sees Hope Only
In Inner Light

had called him 1.-THE Conscience of
Europe" He is a pallid old man
now, with thinning hair and sad,
deep-set eyes, but still "above the
battle" and still trying to arouse the
conscience of mankind.
He dispatched to the New York
international congress of the Amer
lean Musicological society a mes
sage of good will. It is quoted here
in accord with this department S
wartime alertness to such men and
messages. He says:
'In the field of art, there is
not-there should not be-any
rivalry among nations. The
only combat worthy of us is that
which is waged in every coun-
try and at every hour, between
culture and ignorance, between
light and chaos. Let us save all
the light that can be saved.
There is none more refuIgent
than music. 1t is the sun of the
inner universe"
It was this sun that illumined
"Jean Christophe, one of the great
est books of all times, published here
just before the World war, profound
y moving to multitudes of Ameri-
cans as an avocation of the creative
and aspiring spirit of man. Many
times in recent years, Roman Roll
and has written that the world had
little hope of escaping another and
possibly last devastating war. But,
described as "an old man, broken
and despairing," on his return to
France last year, he has contin-
ned his plea for peace, decrying
hatred, pleading for understand
ing.
His has been lone voice,
never identified with "move-
ments," or political groupings,
right or left. He opposed Henri
Barbusse and his Clarte group,
and the various united fronts"
as he did the leaders of violent
reaction on the right.
He was educated in music at the
Ecole Normale, became a devotee
of Wagner and then of Tolstoi and
Shakespeare. He is the evangel of
the humane spirit in a day when it
is hard pressed.
consolidated eatures-WNU Service,
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IN has indicated that, in his opin-
ion, a world war against Adolf Hit
Ter would be justifiable and possibly
necessary. The
Undersfudy of British, with
Gondhi Collins their impera-
TJp..:.u tive job of keep
ioDdrd or't'sH ing their great
Indian empire in hand, probably
aren't worrying about Gandhi. More
important is the attitude and activ-
ity of his vigorous and popular un-
derstudy, the 44-year-old Pandit
Jawahharial Nehru. The latter has
been boldly resistant to British rule,
spent six years in Jail, and has ac-
quired popularity and leadership as
Gandhi reaches his seventy-second
year.
Meager news reports from In
dia indicate that Nehru has
been calming down in his agi-
tation against British imperial
ism, and that, a few weeks ago,
he was vehemently den0uncing
fascism and the new German
aggression. London is. re-
assured, but watchful, as Asia
may become a balance of power
i'm the clash of world dominiOns
and Nehru has been an active
propaganda of pan-Asiatic doc
trine, summoning browns and
blacks to resist what he believes
to be the aggression of the
whites.
Born of a noble caste, Nehru was
educated at Harrow and Cambridge,
taking honors in the classics. His
father, the Pandit Motilal Nehru,
was lawyer and the richest man
in Allahabad. He gave away his
mansion and moved into a shabby
little house when he became a con.
vert to Indian nationalism.
His SON, reared in splendor,
had no such ideas when he came
home from England. He was a
strong supporter of the British
regime until the Amritsar mas
sacre of 1919. Then he burned
his so British suits, donned ma
tive dress, and became an agi-
tatOr for the Nationalist cause.
However, he was no devotee of
loin-cloth asceticism. He was
all for fighting and it was as the
most belIigerent of all the In
dian leaders that he came to
the presidency of the all-Indian
congress in 1885.
Nehru was at times sharply op.
posed to the non-resisting Gandhi,
but apparently their differences
have been resolved. He is hand
some and engaging, a vigorous as
sailant of the ancient caste system
of India.
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posed war. Sew
eral years be
fore he finished
Jean Chris
tophe, T" TolStoi
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WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

NEW YORK.-Mahatma Ghandi
IN has indicated that, in his opin-
ion, a world war against Adolf Hit
Ter would be justifable and possibly
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IT WAS not until a year ago that
L Roman ROLAND returned to
France, after more than 20 years
exile in Switzerland. He had OPP
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necessary. The
British, with
their impera-
tive job of keep
ing their great
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1t is an axiom among military
men that no army can build fort