The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-08-07

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w. Va. B. H. Duncan is chairman
and Mrs. Matte Cox. Mouth OF
! Wilson, Va, is secretary. There
will be preaching service conduc-
; ted by Revs. Rexford Campbell
and M. D. Hart. w. A. Campbell
will be in charge of singing SER
vices.
terry of this assignment? Every
agent of the British government
in Palestine is looking for Osman
Khali. They've gone over Pales-
tine and Syria and they can't
find him. He has moved on into
Arabia. Do you follow me?"
She smiled. II think I'm a little
ahead of you. You want me to
find out from Hassan Isar where
/ Osman Khali is hiding"
IF it isn't too much trouble"
he spoke in the easy tones of one
thanking another for the light of
a cigarette.
mo trouble at ALL" she said.
''You just want me to vamp the
cleverest man in Asia so that he'll
tell me what you want to know.
Have you thought how distaste-
full this commission might be to
me if really cared-for you. Or
do you think my caring for you
ought to be all the more reason
why I should do what you want?"
"Oh, I say Camilla ."
But she had fled down the COM
panion ladder and away from
him.
Mrs. Trimble had reached the
age when she had to try very
hard to hold her men by her ra-
Their sumptuous charms when
Younger ladies matched their wits
with hers. From the vantage point
of her seat beside Ronald Barker
at the captains table Kitty Trim
BILE had a chance to study him at
close range and she found him de-
sirable. But Barker, treating her
with positeness he might have
given a maiden aunt, ignored her
advances and suddenly devoted
himself to Josephine Holloway,
who seemed to have displaced her
cousin Camilla in his regard.
Of course, Kitty Trimble could
not understand this. Had she
slipped so far that a man of the
world like Ronald Barker who
knew something of women should
choose a Quakerish little ingenue
like Josie Holloway in preference
to her own robust and palpable
charms? BY the time the ship had
passed the snow-capped Apen-
mines and headed later out of Ma
! pies she was smoldering like We
suvius but giving no sign. To Jo-
sic Holloway she showed a placid
front while she watched Camilla
and Asad, always together now,
carrying on what seemed up and
down the decks, in the smoking
room over cocktails, to which
Asad did not even invite her.
Joseph has the reputation OF
being very susceptible to wo-
men" Kitty Trimble said.
"That's true" laughed Stephan
ov. "He's not content to wait for
his houris in paradise"
"Well, Camilla Dean is no hou-
ri, she's just dynamite, my friend
You'd better tell Joseph to watch
his step"
''Why do you say that?"
ooh, nothing. Just to make con-
versation. There are things that
can't be explained" She paused
II was just thinking of Ronald
Barker. Do you know anything
about him."
"Just that he is an agent of the
British government with a rowing
commission in Egypt and Pales-
tine"
"That shouldn't make Joseph
very fond of him."
"They are both playing g
game"
I'm which Camilla Dean has {
part?"
Having dropped her poison II
his ear, she gave laugh, anc
turned to 60 in to. dress for din
ner.
Stromboi was putting on
show as they approached tn
Straits of Messina, and Camlll;
and Asad stood at the rail watch
ing the cone of rock shoot its fire
| works into the plume of smok'
above. Apparently their relation