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BY REX \ OF THE GODS || BEACB SYNOPSIS. Fes Ying, a prosperous o 'When han g 8 they had given him his hour. Shang y had given him work Heedless of listening ears he spoke those that were deaf, and some echo of his voice must have fil £ E A nese she publicly horsewhips him. Lee Ying dles before Sam arrives home. Alanna returns to New York and apolo- gizes to Sam but they both realize fur- ther meetings are impossible. Sam 'ries to forget by throwing himself into the night-life of New York. Alanna is taken 111 and in her delirlum calls repeatedly for Sam. Her father, in desperation, asks Sam's ald, CHAPTER XXVIII.--(Cont'd.) A nurse met the two men as they entered the Wagner suite; she said there had been no change; she and the father left Sam alone. From the di- rection in which they had gone care a voice which the younger man Aid not at first recognize as Alanna's. It was throaty, flat, it droned along monotonously, Sam strained his ears but he could make out no words, all he could hear was an expressionless, unceasing rivulet of sound, the very quality of which affrighted him. The nurse reappeared after a few minutes and beckoned to him; on tip- toe he followed her down a short hall and into a bed chamber, Near the win- dow a doctor and a second nurse were whispering with Albert Wagner: when Sam appeared the doctor moved to the bedside and spoke in a natural voice. "Here he is, Miss Wagner, . . Alan- na! Here is Mr. Lee. Don't worry any more: he has come to see you , -. . Sam Lee! Don't you understand? He's right in the room." The sick girl continued to mutter. Sam's breath lay still in his lungs, he gazed at the flushed face on the pillow, a prey to emotions suitable only for his soul to experience and for ihe gods to see. Anguish and com- passion peered from his eyes. At a motion from the physician he moved forward to the latter's side, but Alan- na did not recognize him: her lips babbled; her expressionless stare was terrifying. As the doctor ran on, re- peating Sam's name over and over, the girl frowned in a troubled manner, her hands moved restlessly. Sam lift- ed one of them in his and it burned him. "Speak to her" the physician direct- ed. "Perhaps the sound of your voice--" "Alanna!" Nothing is more apalling than a vacant mind, the total blank- ness in Alanna's glassy, unfocussed eyes aroused a terrible fear in the speaker, and a desperate yearning to aid her. His voice issued strongly Lut tenderly from his aching throat. "Alanna! Wake up, oh Thousand Pieces of Gold! I'm here and your hand is in mine. Don't worry any more, dear. T heard you calling and I eame to you. Alanna! Sam is here." Her hot fingers closed over his, and pulled weakly at them, her free hand groped in his direction: she uttered a peevish complaint, One of the nurses whispered: "She wants him to hold her. ... Put your arm around her, Mr. Lee." "Try it," the doctor ordered. Sam turned a white, tortured face towards the father who closed his eyes and nodded. "Your pardon," the young man said. Alanna's head rolled, she cried out fretfully and lifted her arms, Sam bent lower and they encircled his neck, he felt her feverish cheek touch his. Promptly he forgot everything else. A wave of tenderness swept over him, gently he seated himself on the edge of the bed and took her to his breast. He murmured to her in a tone softer than any caress and she breathed a sigh of contentment, her lids drooped, closed. The nurse who had spoken before deftly readjusted the pillows and the covers, then whispered: "Hold her as long as you can, and keep talking to her. It's the first time in twenty-four hours that her tongue has stopped. Don't let her be- gin again, It burns out her vitality." It is doubtful if Sam heard the ad- monition. Until an instant before he had been keenly aware. of these strangers in the room and above ali of Albert Wagner's presence. Some hand had throttled him. But in the agony of this heartbreak he forget them all; he and Alanna were alone. Dazedly he asked himself what pun- ishment was this that the gods had put upon him. Were they utterly im- | placable? But thoughts of himself i were less than momentary: this suffer- * ing 'wisp of a'credturs in his arms was ! being tortured too: she had endured _ flaws hotter than his. Pity dissolved { 'him, Poor little scorched wild rose! ; white rose! She had faced the A it withered Bir; Bs * drooped now and perished or the dew. 1 found coolness only in his touch y ars alone could quench her 'th , + Pun t? This vas ganishment: it was a reward! Do hk y spirits who dwell i» perpetual had 3 ati 4 ol vn of hn 4 EW : } | 5 for being who is {; ~The com smiled upon him d the ing mind of the girl, for it paused. She harkened. | Very quietly the doctor and the nurses withdrew: they put their heads to- gether; apprehensively, and yet with growing relief, they looked on. Alanna had strayed a long way and she was very tired. Sam strove to rouse her, to lead her back. It was a task, however, almost beyond his pow- er. Realizing her desperate need for aid he called upon his father and his gods for help. He was not' aware of praying: in reality it was less a prayer that he uttered than a cry for assistance-- & Chinese cry--and certainly it was unlike any prayer these other people had ever heard. He spoke to the girl and through her to that benevolent person who had never failed him in his hours of need: he called to the powers 'beyond. He implored. Kwan Yin-ko, Goddess of Mercy, the one Celestial Itless, to show com- passion to this child as she had shown it that that little girl-goddess long, long ago when China was young. Kwan Yin-ko! China! Girl-goddess! The physician and th: nurses exchang- ed startled glances. They" stared at Sam with a new and fascinated inter- est. Albert Wagner huddled in a chair his elbows on his knees, his face hidden. He knew now, beyond all doubt, what had driven Alanna to this extremity and the most terrible part of it was that Sam Lee knew, too. This China boy! This yellow man! She was lying on his breast. Smiling! At, rest! He was coaxing her back, helping her along the path. It was something these doctors and nurses, not even his own love and tenderness, had been able to do. But--the fellow was an outcast, a leper. He smelled of the pit. Sam had never dreamed that the chance would come to voice his earn- ings: he knew them to be futile but, like the nightingale that pierced its bosom with a thorn when it sang its love song, his ecstasy at this moment was greater than his pain. The younger of the two nurses, the one who had directed Sam to take Alanna in his arms, listened intently. She thought it all very beautiful and affecting. This handsome boy whose eyes were wild with want, this pitiful spoiled girl whose need was so acute, were lovers: unhappy lovers. Here was romance and tragedy: and how he loved her! A considerable time passed, then the doctor spoke cheerfully to Albert Wag- ner, saying: "Well, I think I'll pop off to bed. I'm pretty well done up. too." waiting for him. but he received a wintry smile, "Don't thank me, sir, I did was not done for you." show my appreciation. obligation, for--for a thing like (his. I'll give you every dollar I've got." brought her back. despise. She wanted me! think you can pay me for that?" opened the door and passed out. It was daylight when Alanna awoke was in the room, sick," the girl said faintly. you're all right now." ful dream." to sleep again if you can." there were tears in the nurse's eyes. CHAPTER XXIX, functory something of a disa to her father. ence to the happenings on that nigh She's sleeping and there's nothing more to worry about.« You'd better get some rest, An hour later when Sam left the sick room he found Alanna's father Wagner mumbled certain awkward words of gratitude, What little "All the same, you've got to let me] I can't stand] I'd go crazy owing you You've got me down, with my face in the dirt. "He who gives you a serpent when you ask for a fish nay have nothing but serpents to give." Sam uttered the quotation evenly, but of a sudden his voice changed, it grew exnltant. "She's asleep at last. She has come home. I I, the man you Do you He That young, romantic-minded nurse "Gee! I feel as if I'd been awfully "You have been sick, dear, but "I had a dream: the most wonder- "Yes, a wonderful, abeautiful dream. But we won't talk about it yet. Go Alanna wondered drowsily why Alanna Wagner's strength returned slowly and she could not manage to take interest in anything, her efforts to recuperate were spiritless and per- and in consequence she was 0 ont to her- self and a very real source of worry He had purposely avoided all refer- when her illness had reached its crisis, for he did not like to recall them and he prayed devoutly that they would: never become known to her; therefore - wi 3 the ate ot mind of a pilot on » bombing expedition, fambles captain had to keep one hand on the stick--with the other he could grope blindiy for the bomb, knowing hat if fragments: Under those conditions many a man would have failed to find that bomb through sheer nerves. But Hegrossky did not know what nerves were. With his sightless hand he tapped the floor- space under his seat methodically, inch by inch, ntil he located the bomb. His fingers crept over its sur- face until they touched the quick- match; then he pulled t up and jerked it over the side. A hundred feet be- low him it burst in mid-ir; if "e had found it only three or at most four seconds later, it would have burst in his machine. ON THE WING. Another amazing escape from death was experienced by a pilot named Kornder and his observer Corporal Gieler, They wera shooting up a trench in the Ypres sector when they were attacked by three English single- seaters. A well-aimed burst of ma- chine-gun fire gave Kornder two flesh Wounds and Gieler a bullet through hig in: Worst of all, the elevator and the left lateral control were shot away. As steering was impossible, the D.F.| W. began to go round in circles, and the English pilots waited for a favor- able opportunity to finish it off. But Gieler's presence of mind saved the situation. He could hardly use his wounded leg, but with a desperate ef- fort he hoisted himself out of his seat and crawled on to the left lower wing, where he contrived to hold on to an interplane strut. The resistance that his observer's body offered to the wind enabled Korn- der to steer a straight course, and he managed to land safely behind his own lines. THE PILOTLESS AEROPLANE Captain Oswald Boelcke, one of Ger- many's most famous "aces," had what must have been a unique experience for any pilot. In one of his many air duels he and an Engiish airman were circling round and round, each trying to get his gun trained on a vital spot in his enemy's tail. Boelcke managed to use kis weapon first, and as he came out of the circle, he saw to his sur- prise, that the Martinsyde was still flying, although he felt certain that his bullets could not h ve failed to take effect. But his amazement was even greater when he say the enemy make no attempt to flee or renew the en- counter, Without any motive the Mar- tinsyde continued to fly in circles, as if chasing the tail of an invisible oppon- ent. Boelcke guessed the only possible solution of the mystery; his burst, put in at a range where it was impossible to miss, must have killed the pilot, who then fell in such a way as to hold the controls in the position in which he had set them the moment before his death. Boelcke found that he had guessed rightly, for he got a glimpse of ihe dead pilot's body leaning against the controls. When his "Staffel" turned homewards he could see the English | tioning that one of the nurses had let her tongue wag, so he discharged her and determined to have a heart-to- heart talk with his daughter as soon as it was safe to do so. (To be continued.) machine still pursuing its aimless course. BALLOON BURSTING. ; After surviving dozens of figh's with English and French airmen Boelcke met his death in a collision with one of his own men. Equally unfortunate was Lieutenant Eschwege who was known as "the Eagle of the Zgean Sea." No observation balloon on the Balkan front was safe when he was about; they were his weakness {--and his undoing. Having bagged a number of victims he was congratulat- ing himself on having been allowed to approach his latest almost unchal- lenged.. From a few yards' distance he sent forth his stream of incendiary bullets, He saw a flame shoot out of the envelope, and as he curved away he looked back to feast his eyes on the scene of destruction, But at that moment a terrific din smote his ears, while his Halberstadt, enveloped in smoke, began to toss hither and thither, . . . A pillar of flame broke out from the balloon, and the members of the Bulgarian observation post who witnessed its end cheered wildly. They . naturally did not see the flames lick up the dummy observer, the man of straw in the cast-off cap and coat, who had been placed there to lure Eschwege to his doom. They only saw the Halberstadt emerge from the smoke-cloud in a right-hand turn. But they did not see Echwege's ma- chine crash out of control. The bal loon had been filled with explosives sufficient to wreck any attacking aeroplane within a radius of a hun- dred yards. The charge was fired from below by -electricity. "VIVE ANGLETERRE." In the early days of the war, when aeroplanes of any sort were uncom- mon, a German machine was forced down on the outskirts of a small French town. A crowd of inquisitive spectators soon surrounded it, put luckily for the airmen their flying coats and helmets covered their uni- forms. "Vive I'Angleterre!" piped a voice from the crowd. "Vive L'Angleterre" refrained the chorus. A happy gsin spreads over the faces of the pilot and his passenger as they grasped the situation. "Does any person here speak English?" inquired the paasen- ger in a thick German accent, but-- luckily for him, perhaps--no one did. So with a few words of broken French and many expressive gestures he ex- plained that after a fierce encounter with three Boche aercplanes "les avi- ateurs anglaises" had been forced to land on account of a bullet in the ben- zine tank, A more intelligent mem- ber of the crowd went off to the near- est garage to find help for the strand- ed allies. . . Soon, "Vigilen'" tells us, a coupie of mechanics arrived, and with them a gendarme, who prove. most useful in keeping the crowd back while the hole in the tank was soldered. Petrol was poured in, and off went the airmen overwhelmed with good wishes! Almost all the German flying men, we are told, hadtheir pet superstitions, "Haly und Beinbru:h!" (May yon break your neck and your legs) they wished each other before taking off. German pilots never wish one an- other anything good. If anyone un- inted with their superstitions had | 102, Still Drives Car said "Gluk auf!" (Good luck!) toone of ther. as he was being helped into his cockpit, the pilot would probably have jumped out again. He might even have risked a court-martial ra- ther than go up that 'ay, for he would have been ce.tain that he was going to his death, But if you expressed the wish that he might break his neck and his legs, he could fl confident of coming safely home, with perhaps a brace of victories.to report. They never went up, too, without wearing their special mascots. "Many of them, like their opposite numbers in the Entente squadrons, wore the sop of a silk stocking under their flying helmets--a fitting lady's favor for a knight of the air." i Obedience "Virtue is easy when in the line of 0 L § I resting on our inclinations. When Eliot began to Fourth. Commandment, they naively | 8. «Vesuvius, Of course, Naples is what one would coll very impressive--it 18 so like the Italian. who haunt London art studios. It has.a tanned face, long hair, wrinkles; it by no means lacks in picturesque dirt, and its costume is weather stained; altogether it might be a king fallen on evil days, or a beg- gar gifted with good looks. And it has other attractions. The bunches of green trailing plants, hanging like fes- tive decorations from the balconi the narrowest and dirtiest of streets, refresh the eye, the little hives of hand industry -- carpenters, blacksmiths, tailors and such like crafts innumer- able--crushed into dark flithy little dens in the st , and the vegetabl gardens which the wanderer strolls into in his attempts to find his way up to the top of the steep slope on which the town is built, are at any rate in- teresting to see. Then, there i8 the whole scene of close ing hills. clasping a bay in their arms, with the ridge of the crater of Vesuviue in the middle and- its ever streaming and never vanishing cloud banier low .above it; the long sweep of yellowish-white houses up the hills and round the bay; the darker commanding masses of castle and wall by the sea; the jaunty rakish sails of the boats--truly one of the finest scenes of the kind in the whole world. romp SE of into ruts; between the ruts'the feet of the slaves have rubber down and 'polished the pavemenf. At frequent street corners are large square marble troughs which received water spout ing from the mouths of carved heads. ' On both sides of the marble slabs by the spout there are smooth grooves worn by the hands of those who sup- ported themselves whilst they bent to drink, or held up jars to catch the water. -- J. Ramsay MacDonald, in "Wanderings and Excursions." -- en \ EDUCATION 1 have no sympathy whatever with those who would grudge our workmen snd our common people the very high- est acquisitions which their taste, or their time, or their inclinations would lead them to realize; for, next to the salvation of their souls, I certainly say that the object of my fondest aspirations is the moral and intellect- ual, and, as a sure consequence of this, the ical ad t of the working classes--the one'object which, of all others in the wide range of pol- itical speculation, is the one which should be the dearest to the heart of every philanthropist and every pa- triot.--Dr. Chalmers. | Rubber Goods lot , London, Er ; | Weighing twenty toms, the main door of a . | even the. "dunces" were roused to a Behind the forbidding walls, ther Specialties Mailed Anywhere. dusty streets, the hives swarming with | gus prices. Write for Pree Catalogue. human beings, are the villas, glimpses PROTECTIVE SPECIALTY {teach the Indians to observe the|- sald there would be np trouble about] " Sabbath, for they did| not havé much to do on any day. of which you get as you whizz past their gateways, and behind them is Ve- suvius--smoking, pufing, smouldering, ts top purple b of the hidd . COMPANY Dept. A, 137 Wellington St. W., Toron'o fires, its lower parts tender green be- cause of the courage and love of na- ture. Where at last the weary rows of houses, walls and streets end, we come to the mounds of Pompeii. far from the burning mountain, but there it is under the vast heaps of black ash: and. small white stones which crept up over it and preserves and commerce. one most intimately. of a mother and child" preserved in clay now in the Reading Museum, for instance, make the whole collection of Roman antiquities there live, by giv- ing them a human touch. So in Pom- peli, . Streams ran down the narrow channel-like streets, and at the cross- ings great - stepping- stones were placed. They are hollowed and smoothed by the feet of the passers- by. Slaves were the beasts of burden, and, where they dragged their carts It seems | to us the evidences of its Prosperity It is the simple things that touch ' The footprints' past these stones, the pavement is cut, "The hard times and scarcity of money makes it more important than ever to economize. One way I save on clothes is by remewing the color of faded cr out-of-style dresses, coats, stockings, and un- derwear. For dyeing, or tinting, I always use Diamond Dyes. They are the most economical ones by far because they never fail to pro- duce results that make you proud, Why, thinzs look better than new when, redyed with Diamond Dyes. They never spot, streak, or run, They go on smoothly and evenly, when in the hands of even a ten- year-old child. Another thing, Dia- mond Dyes never take the life out of cloth or lecrve it limp as some dyes do, They deserve to be called 'the world's finest dyes't" 8.B.G., Quebec. When you CAN'T UIT "THESE HARD TIMES" | | cante bombs." safe deposit in Londen ich can give is fitted with a lock wh poisoned bite, have one curious little. trait--the mother carries her young, to the number of a3 many as fifty at a time, on her back. Although the Bible has been printed - up to date in $72 languages, it is estl mated that it will not be available in every one of the 2,500 tongues of the world for another 200 years. Receipts from passefiger fares on the Atlantic liners trading between Europe and North America are esti- mated to have dropped $50,000,000, or nearly $5,000,000 a month, during last year. ' Bristol (England) can boast of two really ancient inns, the license of one having been in cxistence in 1241, while the other is described on a city plan dating from between 1260 and 1350 as! "apparently a very ancient hostelry." Investigation of one thousand child- ren in Glasgow seems to prave that there is a distinct connection between height and intelligence, which was more noticeable among boys than girls. "Talkies" have been tried in fifteen schools in Middlesex (England), be- fore 8,600. children; normal children were stimulated in their work, and greater desire to learn, Prince William of Priissia, the eldest son of the German ex-Crown Prince, is a lawyer. Among other German ex- royalties are now * bank clerk, farm. * ers, a shipping clerk, a motor sales- man, and an artist, The names of all the Members of Parliament, 33,000 in all, during the six centuries between 1258 and 1832 are contained in a wonderful compila: tion of + ParHamentary information shortly to be issued as a Blue Book, Passengers who miss their trains at the St. Lazare Station, Paris, will shortly be able to enjoy a thirty-mine ute film show while waiting. The cine ma, which will hold 250 people, will give a continuous performance from 9 a.m, till midnight. A whale which landed on the beach at Llandedrogg, Carnarvonshire, was 11 feet long and weighed 1,000 pounds: Funds are being raised to restore one of Oxfordshire's most famous land- marks the ancient windmill at North- leigh, near Witney. A safe containing £800 worth of stamps, money orders and postal oy- ders was stolen from the sub-pest ok fice in Aigburth Rd, Grassendale, Liverpool. Volcanic Action The recent triple volcanic eruption in Guatemala was in many ways typi cal. There were the usual warning signals: strong earth shocks, outpour- ings of smoke and steam, and loud ex- plosions audible for scores of miles around. Then followed the usual erup- tions: volcanic ashes and dust, which fell in some places to a depth of one meter, ruining the crops, and a shower of small stones on near-by cities. As often happens, there was no flow of lava, The eruption was typical also in its unexpectedness, For years none of the three volcanoes had been active. Then all three erupted at once, Vel canologists have found that even long inactivity does not necessarily mean a volcano i8 extinct. Volcanoes are cansed by the pres: sure of steam and other gases against the earth's surface. Various theories have been offered to explain how these gases accumulate, One 18 that water, penetrating to the hot interior of the earth, 1s boiled to steam, and that the pent-up steam collects until the pres- sure becomes so great that the earth's surface cracks. However they originate, steam and other hot gases always accompany volcani¢ eruptions; they form the "smoke," which sometimes mounts 'miles in the sky and blots out the sun over huge areas. As the gases cool, they condense to lguids, which mix with the dust and ashes to form torrents of mud. Hot lnva flows from the craters in slowly rivers or is thrown into the in twisted lumps known as "vol IR i A we mar