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That brillian eret Service wh to know as Andre Duchemin, had incurred the hatred of the Bolsheviki. To protect his life, his superiors ordered him to disappear. He decided to go to southern France. With Stevenson‘s "Travels With a Donkey" as guidebook, he visited by moonlight that weird city of moneoâ€" liths, famous Montpellierâ€"leâ€"Vieux. Entering this sinister desert, his attention was attracted by the skulkâ€" ing actions of a bulky individual in the uniform of the A.E.F. Donkey" as guid moonlight that : liths, famous M Entering this attention was at ing actions of a the uniform of t Goodness Has a Price "CALADA" Now the last of t} since said farewell France. Then, tos, min knew that th Americans had mo been used by thos tances of his, the as a cloak for the 204 If you pay less you get inferior quality. He got in 1 without stoppin; for so doing, ar fore he heard : Duchen earried h plumped atre of v Thig was opei oval pit little l« dred feet in its and something 1 depth, a vast whose darkness glare etched a Agures, seven in 0 won bosc bosom a termned young awuthor of the screams; on three men closeâ€"locked in combat, â€" one _ defending against two with indiffere while in between stood a t} with her back to and pori the chasm, shrinking from of a pistol in the hands of man. This last was the one m-nn-st‘ PDuchemin, who was upon him so sudâ€" denly that it would be difficult to say which was the more surprised when Duchemin‘s stick struck dowr. the pisâ€" tol hand of the other with auch force as must have broken his wrist. The weapon fell, he uttered an oath as he swung round, clutehing the maimed member; and then, seeing his assailâ€" ant for the first time, he swooped down to recover the woapon so swiftâ€" ly that it was in his leit hand and spitting vicious tongues of orange flame before Duchemwin was able to get in a second blow. But there was the abrupt end of that passage. Smitten cruelly between the eyes, the fellow grunted thickly and went over backwards like a bundle of rags, head and shoulders GO oN wWITH THE STORY. *Tligs. thelone YoF BEGIN MERE TOâ€"DAY 1 Mis < an in BATTLING BY MOONLIGHT We wouldn‘t say that Wrigloy‘s has a place at the wedding ceremony, but in times of stress or when you have a trying ordeal to faceâ€"use Vii H \PTER IIT t e uttered an oath as 1 clutehing the maime then, seeing his assai first time, he swoope er the woapon so swif s in his leit hand ar us tongues of oran member of the Seâ€" m England preferred ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO Jjutting out over the DNK CS TT precipice so far that, though his body checked perceptibly as it struck the ground, his own woeight carried him on, he shot out into spaco and vanâ€" ished as though some unseen hand had lifted up from these dark depths and plucked him down to annihilation. The young girl shrieked again, the woman gave a gasp of horror, Ducheâ€" min himself knew a sickish qualm. But he had no time to spare for that: it was going ill with the man contendâ€" ing against two. The adventurer‘s stick might have been bewitched that night, so magiâ€" cal was its work; a single blow on the |itiative with admirable address. Duâ€" \ chemin saw him fly furiously at his | late opponent, trip him and lay him ‘on his back; then Duchemin turned |and gave chase to the fugitive. | This was the masquerader in the \ American uniform; and an amazingâ€" | ly fleet pair of heels he showed, takâ€" ling into account his heaviness of ‘body. Duchemin saw him ewerve from his first course and steer for a vehicle standing at some distanceâ€" evidently the conveyance which had ‘ brought the sightseers to view the | spectacle of Montpellierâ€"leâ€"Viex by | moonlight. but manifestly his assistance was no more needed here. In a breath he who had been so recently outmatched recollected his wits and took the inâ€" Ir i Since it took them some moments | to come to their senses and appreciate that all this was not an evil dream, Duchemin‘s hands were clutching the back of the carriage when the horses lbmke suddenly into an awkward lumbering gallop. l The moment Duchemin found his own feét in the swaying vehicle he leaped on the shoulders of the other and dragged him backwaras from the | box. Waiting in the middle of a broad avenue of misshapen obelisks, a dilâ€" apidated barouche on either side its pole drooped two sorry specimens of crowbait. And their pained amaze-} ment was so unfeigned that Duchâ€" emin laughed aloud when the fat | rogue bounded to the box, snatched upl reins and whip and curled a cruel lash round their bouy flanks. | What followed was not very clear| to him, a melange of imprelsions.! The mockâ€"American fought like a‘ devil unchained. The animals at the| pole ran away in good earnest, that wretched barouche rolled and pitched like a rudderless shell in a crazy sea, the two men floundicred in its well like fAsh in a pail. They fought by no rules, with no science, but bit and kicked and gougâ€" ed and wrenched and struck as occaâ€" sipn offered and e=ch to the best of his ability. Duchemin caught glimpses in 1GiMLl CLL Minarad‘s® Kill Warts with Minard‘s Liniment. His head overhanging the edge of the floor. @xyn International Magaztine Company ; Louis faboph Yance of a face hideously distorted with working features and disfigured with smears of soot through which insane eyeballs rolled and glared in the moonlight. . Then a hand like a vice gripped his windpipe, he was on his back, his head overhanging the edge of the floor, a thumb was feeling for one of his eyes. Yet it could not have been much later when he and his opponent were standing and swaying as one, locked in an embrace of wrestlers. Still, Duchemin knew as many tricks of handâ€"toâ€"hand fighting as the other, perhaps a few more. And then he was, no doubt, in far better condiâ€" tion. At all events the fellow was presently at his merey, in a hold that gave one the privilege of breaking his back at will. A man of mistaken scruples, Duchemin failed to do so, A thrust and a kick, which he enjoyed ipfinitely, sent the brute spinning out to land on his head. The fall should have broken his neck. At the worst it should have stunned him. _ Evidently it dtdn‘t. When Duchemin had scrambled up to the box, captured the reins and brought the nags to a stop, he saw n« signs of his Apache by the roadâ€" side. t Not five figures but four only were waiting beside the cirque when, wheeling the barouche as near the group as the lay of the ground perâ€" mitted, he climbed down. A man lay at length in the coarse grass, his head pillowed in the lap of one woman. Another woman stood aside, tremblâ€" ing and wringing aged hands. The third knelt beside the supine man, but rose quickly as Duchemin drew near, and came to meet him. In this one he recognized her to whose salvation chance had first led him, and now found time to appreciâ€" ate a face of pallid loveliness, intelliâ€" gent and composed, while she adressâ€" ed him quietly and directly, An exâ€" quisite voice. English, he guessed, or possibly American, but much at home in France. .. "Monsieur d‘Aubrac has _ been wounded, a knife thrust. It will be necessary to get him a surgeon as quickly as possible." "If monsieur would be so good." Duchemin knelt beside the man, who welcomed him with open eyes and a wry smile that was almost as faint as his voice. â€""It is nothing, monsieurâ€"a clean cut in the arm, with some loss of blood." y The young girl in whose lap rested the head of Monsieur d‘Aubrac sat back and watched Duchemin with curâ€" ious, grave eyes in which traces of moisture glimmered. "Had the animal at my mercy, 1 thought," d‘Aubrac apologized, "when suddenly he drew that knife, struck me and broke away." "I understand," Duchemin replied. "But don‘t talk. You‘ll want all your strength, my friend." With his pocketâ€"knife he laid open the sodden sleeves of coat and shirt, exposing an upper arm stained dark with blood that welied in ugly jets from a cut both wide and deep. :‘Ar't'ery; se;réred," he announced, and â€" straightened up and looked about, at a loss. "My packâ€"2" _ avout, at a loss, _ My pBERNâ€". The woman who had spoken to him found and fetched it from no great Mstance; and its contents enabled Duchemin to improvise a tourniquet, and when the flow of blood was checkâ€" ed, a bandage. \ _ "Monsieur Duchemin has placed us ‘all deeply in his debt. Louise . . ." ‘The girl in the carriage looked up ‘ and bowed, murmuring "Mademoiselle | de Montalais, monsieur: my grandâ€" |\ daughter. And Eve . . ." She turnâ€" 'ed to the third, to her whose voice of | delightful accent was not in Duchâ€" ‘emin‘s notion wholly French: "Maâ€" \dame de Montalais, my daughter by ‘adoption, widow of my grandson, who | died gloriously for his country at La ' Fereâ€"Champenoise." | (To be continued.) With d‘Aubrac disposed as comfortâ€" ably as might be in the barouche, Duchemin turned to find the other women at his elbow. To the eldest he offered a bow suitâ€" ed to her condition and a hand to help her into the barouche. "Madame . . ." The gentle inclination of the aged head which acknowledged his courâ€" tesy and was as eloquent of her qualâ€" ity as he found the name which she gave him in quavering accents. "Madame de Sevenie, monsieur." "With madame‘s permission: I am Andre Duchemin." 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We are doing some thing that makes us proud of ourselves and gives us inner sgatisfaction. But when we first look at Mount Everest it is a very different proposiâ€" tion. _ To get to the top of that we never dream. * Jt is right up in the skiesâ€"far beyond human reach. So it seems to us." And hundreds of mil lions of Indians have through the ages looked up~at the great Himalayan peaks axyl not dared to think of climb ing even the minor giants, much }ese the monarch of them all. . . . How then is it that fslanders from the North Sea shoule have thought of such a thing? Far back we owe the Inâ€" spiration to the Swiss and Italiane The Alpine peaks are only about half the hbeight of the Himalayan glants. But even they had been looked on with dread and borror till at the end of 4h« eighteenth century the Swiss Do Sans«â€" sure and the Italian Placidus a Speeâ€" cha tackled their highest summite. . . And once the highest mountain in the Alps had been conquered, the lesser peaks also fell. And soon we English were following in De Saussure‘s steps. Through all last century we were on gaged in conquering the Alps. And when they were well subdued, . we turned to higher game. . . . Ambiâ€" tion grew with success,. The Alps, th« Caucasus and the Andes had been con quered. And men were alreaqdy turn ing their thoughts to the great Hima flaYa. . . . The main attack on the great peaks has, however, been made by men from Europe trained in . the techniqne of mountain craft which has gradually de veloped in Alpine climbing. . They came from nearly every European country, as well as from America,. . . And so we come back to the point from which we started. This deter mination to climb Mount Evorest has grown out of the ordinary Impuize men have to climb the hill in their nelghborhood. In the case of Moun! Everest a mightier effort is required, but the impulse to make it is of the same origin. | There is a greater amount of gprous ing of disease through schools than elsewhere. _ Communicable | diseases will spread through child contact. In our opinion, however, it is mere than dangerous to close a schoolâ€"room where a child suffering from a com municable disease has been found, !mmiwe the premises and readmi |tho children without medical or nurse inspection. l Fumigating makes parents falsely believe that all germs have been killed | and their children are safe, To perm‘i Ichfldren after being exposed to comâ€" municable disease to go back to school without inspection is to tur» an ont break into an epidemic. These diseases involve children not rooms. _ Practically every «omâ€" ‘munk-uhlo disease starts from anfe« ‘tion in the nose and throat. A close Iwn(ch. therefore, on the nose . and ‘throat of the child will do more than |lny other measure to get the ontbreak ‘ under control. H It is much safer to have your child in #chool, with daily inspection, during lan epidemic, than to let him play on | the street with uninspected children who may be carriers of disease. All ‘cblldren with suspicious throuts are | sent home from school, therefore those laflowed to remain are all "safe" playâ€" mates. Man . . . has that within him which will not let him rest unt‘} he has planted his foot on the topmeost summit of the highest embodiment of the lower. He will not be daunted by bulk. ‘The mountain may be high. Iint he will show that his spirit is highe And he will not We content until be has it in subjection under his feet. This is the secret in the hearn o the idea of climbing Mount Everest And in proving his powers | man would find that joy which their exer cise ever gives.â€"From "The Epic o Mount Everest," by Sir Francis Youny husband. Every child wants a pet and a sand pile. _ And they are his inaltenable right. They should be his; his very own to romp with and in as he pleases. Most of all though he should have a home which he knows his daddy own#. It helps his selfâ€"reliance. The chiid should have bis own playâ€" ground just as he has his own toys. It means more to him than the careiess, unthinking parent imagines. An independent spirit does not fourâ€" ish and grow strong under restraint. And more than ever, toâ€"day, does the boy need spirit. A Give the youngster his chance. Get him a home. Let him know thet it is his Pep up his indeperdense. Guard his spirit as you do his healta. Bring him up to look the world in the eye, frankly and fearlesfiy. Soonâ€" er or later he is going t# have to take a poke at it Home Gives Child Selfâ€" Reliance and Poise. Schools and Discase. C m as BTEERING GI VTTAL POI th N ¢} to ¢} bad BAl GA g6v w an th no pi al« dbst for: Oi Intere The Honesty of Ar 1 () > the Whi th h wh is had © ree yeal h A I