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.f%. .9 t, Jungle Breath - A*. ^J "* '*'^r -** *. --_ a- % ^".'a - ^*" 1 **-- ' j * b **. t -. *y Ben Lucien Biirmair Several mysterious deaths hflvo oc- curroJ at Portu Verde, a litjjfi tfrwn in Brazil, ajid Eljse Mnrjjcfrj^ pwnij; of a plantation, has been Threatened. OwiriK to the vigilance and protection of her cousin, Vilak, no harm has come to her. Vilak believes that (Jaylord I'rentiss is the instigator of all the trouble. Word comes that the dam at Avilos has broken, and Klisc, Vilak, ami Lincoln Xunnall} ride to w;irn Prentiss. They find it is but u ruse to got 1'iTiitiss into the open so he can lie murd Ted by the natives. Vilak tells '.his to Prentiss and the four then defend Prentiss' fazenda. Vilak blows up a dam :n:d the lake is let loose and fli-irfls out the attackers. When the vaters go down Prentiss is missing. CHAPTER XXXII Vilak cont.'ni-cd to light the fires fires until for a quarter of a mile the woods were ablaze. The old man interestedly watched the strange crea- tures that bolu-il onto the road to es- cape the danger suddenly come upon them; the long-legged, crane-like jabiru, the ugly, ungainly pecary, the graceful, agile bush-deer. But he was not long afforded this spectacle, for Vilak had been careful to build back fires and the leaping flames quickly died away. The party returned to Elsi's fazendn. "Hear anything about the boat yet?" Vilak asked his cousin as he strode npto the veranda and met her carry- ing her tiny nephew outside to bask In the cun. "Yes- 1 certainly did. Word came Just after you left. Smashed a paddle- wheel up at Benca, and won't be down for another three days. High water sent her onto fome rocks. Water's falling everywhere there. Looks as if the flood danger's over." "Humph. That's cheerful." He helped her adjust mosquito netting over the child's crib which had been placed on the grass. "Another ques- tion. Who kritAvs most about the geography of the country around here?" She thought a moment. "Scnhor de aurenco or Senhor Cojoscria. I'd Ray Lnurenco would undoubtedly have been tho best for you. ice chap, too Like- him very much. But unfortun- ately he moved away from here about six months ngo and lives about thirty miles down the river now. Cojoseria I don't know FO well. He seems pleas- ant -nough to talk to, though some of his fellow-Brazilians haven't a very high opinion of him. Rut he dots know the country and he is nearby. Just a f( w miles past my place at Vllapa. Do you want to see him?" "Ye?. 1 want to have a little talk." He drew out his watch. "If it wasn't K> late, I'd go out there this afternoon. 1'11-make it fir.'t thing in the morning" His blond brows knitted. "Mighty sorry about that boat. If it doesn't come Friday we can't wait for it any longer. We'll have to get you and Tinky out some other way. Judging by appearances, things have quieted considerably. But appearances arc the one thing I never trust." The remainder of the day pa.~!-cd without incult-nt. In the morning he pet off alone to visit the fnzenda of Senhor ('njo-i-ria. assing Villapa on the way, he stopped for a moment to converse with Wilson, the carrot-faced Mipi-rintcmli-nt of KNie's fnzenda, then rode on. The servant of Cojowriu's white, luxurious home who greeted him said that his master had gone to inspect one of his rubber developments up tnr> liver and would not return for at lea=t week. Yilax rode back the way he had come. He neared the castanho trees which honk- red the driveway of the fnze-nda. To his surprise, he saw Elsie hurry forward from between the trn- to meet him Her lips were gray, drawn. "Tinky's gone again," Mil- sniil (jui< tly. He leaped from his horse and took her hand. He pressed it gently. "Sit adv. Steady," he murmured. She smiled wanly. "No, I'm not going to break d<wn this time the way I die! before. It know that it doesn't accomplish anything Just makes mai- lers harder for vou." I "(Jood girl. Don't worry. find biin. The way wo did before." f^n T^ Y,' "*"* "? r* ' ."""i " ,1 I bhll hold ith AMmi.rS'0'* " ^cepawane v, WRIGLEYS Drowsiness is dangerous. Weary mllei seem shorter and the day In brightened u hen you have Wrigley's with you. Id sugar pep) you up. It* delicious flavor adds to any enjoymeri. A '" cm it lu/rty tniMrunre ISSUE No. 2730 holding Heir Tiand, he took hla [horn's bridle, and began to walk lo- Iwara the Ticmse. '''Tell me''. . . what happened, if it isn't too hard . . . Perhaps you'd better wait a minute or two " "No. I'll tell you now. I've been waiting here to tell you. I'll not per- mit inyM'lf to break down again. " With an effort she drew herself erect. ''It was practically the same this time ns it was before. Tinky was in his bed outside, under the trees. Hannah wa< taking care of l.im, for I had some thir.gs, to do in the house. She got up to get him a drink. You know where we keep the distilled water. On tho back veranda, just around tho corner of the house from where Tinky was lying, not more than thirty or forty feet away at the most. "Hannah got the drink it may have taken a few seconds longer than usual because she had to open a new bottle and hurried back with it toward the trees. She stooped over the bed- And saw that it was empty . . . That's all I know." "You saw no one lurking around the house?" "No one. Just the same way as when the rifles disapeared. No foot- prints of anyone we don't know. Nothing. I looked closely." They reached the cluster of palm trees under whose shade the child had rested. The old man, who had been on the veranda, cams forward to meet them. Vilak looked at the empty cot, then on the ground about- In it were three sets of footprints, one narrow and delicate, which he at once recog- nized aa the impression made by Elsie's pointed shoes, another flat and heedless, the mark made by the slip- pers of Hannah. The third was the print of a man's working shoe, broad, squarish. Vilak looked at this closely. Schwartz has been here, hasn't he?" Elsie nodded. "Yes. He came when I was taking care of the baby to find out whether I had decided on some changes we had been considering in the warehouse." "Humph." He stooped, searched among the leaves drifting on the ground, then picked up something and put it carefully in his pocket. A mo- ment later he was quickly folowing a strip of trees which led to the road as he had done after the child's first dis- appearance. He reached the highway and after considerable examination found the print of a horse's hoof which led to the trees and then away Mounting with Elsie and the old man on their horses beside him, he began Mowing the trail. For four hours he rode, his eyes ever on the ground, through dense woods, along the edge of seething swamp?, past long cliffs of brilliant volcanic rock, over a stretch of green upland where the grass on either side was high as a man's head. At last, as the setting of tho sun was about to put a swift end to their hunting, they reached a narrow swamp which quickly ended and gave way on all sides to matted jungle. Here the trail of the horse's hoofs ended. But new prints, the confused foot- prints of three of four men, sumo apparently with naked feet, showed at the beginning of a narrow path that had been freshly cut in the tangle of vegetation. Vilak dismounted, "('hap gut down here. Friends here waiting for him. Ix"t his horse go, and they all went off into that." He peered into the tangled iniirki- ness where the new path led. He (hewed his lip. "No chance of fnllon- ing them any mure to-day He night in fifteen minutes. I hate to stop, but you know how absolutely futile it is to try to search tho jungle at night. Worse than futile. We'd only obliterate the trail. Probably haven't gone far. <!ft sonic- beaten and come out first thing in the morning. Hetter for us in that wilderness if we have some natives who know the country. They can pick up a trail where, train- ed as 1 am, even I'd lose it. And they ran spread the radius of our searvh f tin' trail comes to an end. The haps ahead know where they're go- ing, nnd we- don't." Hi' turned to Klic and pressed h.'r tiand again. "oOn't you worry about this delay- It'll be all right. Just a little time and we'll find him." The lines in her delicate face hail deepened. "I know you will," she said. The sun sunk behind the hori/.iin as they turned their horses homeward. Hack at the faxonda, Elsie selected twenty of the best laborers in her emplny, and ordered them to be ready at dawn. Streaks of sunlight w.'i-c licgining to show faintly over the dis- tant mountains when the party set out. Vilak, Elsie and the old man rods 1 ahead. Behind them tramped twenty picturi :;<|iioly assorted negroes, half- breeds and Indians, some clad in n cheap red cotton shirt nnd Irmi^c:-*- some in nothing but the trousers, low in a single robe-like garment made "f dirty burlap. Here a gigantic black chattered with a chocolate-skinned pigmy who hardly reached bis shoulder; there j ponderous mulatto argued with n with- ered old Indian whose gaunt ribs showed clearly t, trough his tawny skjn. All carried machitcM for cutting th? 1'iii'h, a few carried short spears in [MM of an encounted with the jaguar:; [which were known to infect the neigh- borhood. They reached the newly cut pnth by the swnmp which Vilak had marked 'y.'iil 51 li?\ Ul . a . ""'' trtc - They I entered the dark', jflOODty fasifless. i'paulos, the f'if'anlic black, who was one of the ranch sub-foremen, with til** chocolate colored pigmy weril ahead (<> swing their machetes at any twisted lianns, or call out the direction if the path seeim-il to fail. Hut there was little work for them to do. Those who had passed the day before had taken no pains to conceal their course; | there was always a broken branch or i crushed leaf under foot to point the Beware of Silver Polish-Poisonous way. They traveled swiftly until noon; the trail showed no signs of ending. Vilak looked at his compass. "Due west," he said. "Almost a straight line." (To bo Continued) What New York Is Wearing BY ANNABELLE WORTHINGTON Illustrated Dremoiinkiitr/ Ltsson Fur- nished With Every Pattern A yellow dimity printed in white daisy pattern is just precious for wee tots of 2, -1 and (i years. The buttoned yoked bodice is typical- ly French- It presents a spic and span appear- ance with the front skirt pressed in kilted plaits with box-plait at the centre. The skirt nt back shows slight gathering. To make Style No. 2516 takes but 1% yards of 32-inch material in the 4-ycar size. Think of it! It's very pretty in nile green and white polka-dotted linen with the yoke of plain white linen. T)mit the sleeves and finish nrmholes, neckline and the edge of tho yoke with plain green bias piping. Orchid and white gingham check with yoke of plain orchid gingham is cute. Pique, printed batiste, dotted swiss, and tub silks appropriate. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. Write your name and address plain- ly, giving number and size of such pattern.! as you want. Enclose 20c in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each number, and address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto. GOING HOME A rush to enter bus oi 1 tram, A xcrum to reach the train; Umbrellas dripping down your neck Their rivulets of rain; A Jolting, Bhaky, noisy ride, Packed like a tinned sardine Two people standing on your feet And two morn In between! A station, and n grlndliiK stop; A blessed breath of air; A villa Kato, n shaded lamp. Soft slippers, nnd a chair; The evening pnpe.r, supper, too, At someone's kliully call; A little peace, one. evening IOHR! At home! And worth It all! Aniweri A.M.P. Idaho Ranchman Uses Plane to Herd Sheep Scott Amli'Mon, of I'.uport, Idaho, IB perhaps thn first man In the West to use nn airplane In hording his vast (locks of sbpc'p. Anderson owns throo planes which ho uses to visit his different shopp camps, many miles apnrt, to which 1m takes supplies for his shoop herders. Tho lung Jonrncya across mountains' anil plains to thn various sliepp camps which rci|iilio tliiys for wagons and i even trucks can IIP mado by airplane In a few hours. Tin- sheep have bo- come used to tho alrpUuies and do | not hflcomo scared or stampede when they land near them. Tho I'rlnco of Walt's has sot a flno I'xainplo to tho world's big-game hunters by doing a large part of bis ! bunting in Africa with a camera. Wo hope some day he'll do all of It that 1 way, declares "Our numb Animals" 1 Humane Society magazine. Cleaning Powder Found to Contain 20'< SoJium Cyanid Silver Polish Is not Intended to be eaten, but unlesn knives, forks and spoons are carefully washed after polishing, we may swallow some of It. When the polish contains an active poison, trouble results. A number of cases of acute cyanid poisoning, apparently due to consum- ing silver polish, are reported from tho mitrd States In The Lancet (Lon- don). We read: "In June. 1928, about thirty persons became acutely 111 after dinner at a hotel In Utlca. No evidence of food deterioration could be discovered, but on examination the powder used for cleaning silverware was found to contain over 20 per cent, of sodium cyanid. It was ascertained that similar cases had occurred at many ho'.els where this compounf and others containing cyanid were used as a routine. Usually the utensils were dipped about once a week In a solution containing the poison, and the result was that Ineffective rins- ing might easily lead to poisoning of the next guest who used them. Oddly enough, none of the servants employ- ed In cleaning silver seem to have developed symptoms. These were acute gastroenteritis with vomiting, purging, and, later, signs of shock. In one of the cases recorded, diarrhea I was violent and persistent. The shock was so severe that IB more than one j case the Illness was critical, with pallor, sweating, dyspnoea, and thready pulse; in several cases also there was albumlnurla. The managers of the hotels usually received the ex- planation with gratitude, and stop- ped the use of the dangerous prepara- tions. Certain hotels which had re- ceived complaints of food poisoning from their guests have been able to record the disappearance of such com- plaints since these polishes have been abandoned. Legislation to prevent this danger has been attempted In the State of New York, where the sanitary code has been amended to forbid the use of any cyanid prepara- tion or other poison for cleaning nickel, copper, or silverware, or other! articles used In the preparation of food. The Department of Health of Newark. New Jersey, has placed a similar ban on the use of poisonous compounds for cleaning silverware, and warnings have been given through the American medical press." * St. Bernard of Alps Ousted by Progress Shaggy Life Saver Has Rivals! in Thermos Bottle and Telephone Tourists returning from the land of the friendly St. Bernard dog report that his life-saving days are number- ed. Science with Its thermos bottle, they say. is triumphing over the shag- gy hero who, for generations, has vali- antly carried his little keg nf stlmu- latlnR liquid to despairing wayfarers storm-hound In the Alps. Recently three travelers, lost during a Swiss snowstorm, were rescued by a monk from the St. Bernard monastery and were revived with hot coffee poured from a thermos bottle carried in the rescuer's knapsack. Vegetable cap- sules and concentrated meats com- pleted the resuscitation of these three adventuring alpinists. Despite selenitic achievements threatening his romantic career, how- ever, the St. Bernard Is still cherished by dog lovers for his benign and gcn- tlo manner and hi* dependability In time of crisis. Dog authorities assert that a St. Bernard cannot be stam- peded. Aud St. Bernard puppies con- tinue to frisk clumsily nnd to yap No other Orange Pekoe can equal this in flavour ORANGE PEKOE BLEND f TKA 'Fresh f roin the gardens 9 boisterously around the hospice at St. Bernard Pass, where patient monks continue to train the dogs to search out travellers lost in Alpine snow- drifts. Origin of the Strain The original St. Bernard of the Alps, It is said, was probably the Swiss sheepdog bred with a mastiff in order to obtain greater strength. For centuries the monks specialized in the breeding of these dogs and eventually got a strain which was one of the finest, If not the finest. In the world. But tragedy came to the mon- astery kennels. 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