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TI co t.,# "f do know that anyone who tries to be concerned in his "airs, oven with the kindliest intent. aulers. As I think I mentioned to you. some time ago. Elise [at interested In him largely Lecnuse of that old feud which existed lretss an their fathers. Br acme legal technicality it seemed that the land which old Prentias developed- for hil farenda turned out actually to belong to the 'Mnrbenvs and Elise‘a father always insisted that Prentias was no- He pressed another section of the golden dragon. It opened, disclosing a number of tiny pellets. One of these he extracted and thrust into his mouth “I agree with you that Prentiss hasn't nutty tho drawing-room manner. Certainly he appears to be a nun who he lost his soul. Personally I feel rather positive that he's connected in some way with these terrible tragedies, but I’ve little to base it on. having several races speeding through your veins. Increases Your pleasures enormously. To me there's nothing like a little betel with a good smoke.” don't w otr? No having of It and t with This obvio Ii To the queer little South American town of Porto Verde, in west central Brazil, a town fringed by dark, for.. bidding laugh, comes " elderlfy Au- ericen, incoln Nunnally, n amoxu chemist. An nir of mystery seems to hang over the place. In the barber shop. the barber, a strange, dark man with an Oriental cast to hi, eyes. speak! to Nunnally. who then recognizes ttim.as Vilaka West, known to him as. Wink. a fellow American. Vila]: says he has sent for him. The barber business, he explains, serves to conceal his real activ'ties. He and his cousin, Elise Marin-"y. need assistnnce in getting at tho root "t n mystery that has a'reuiiy coat -everal lives and threat. Jungle Breath my waxy How or THIS HAS HAPPENED ISSUE No. "r--'" Rt forget there are two kinds s," Tilak responded. "The un- nes that you can see and hear d W intangible one: which you can see nor hear but only feel. a can where the lam: are r the more important." W by CHAP ut...er...Tottr" and Potts admits It hi1 n there be any doubt . rt whet facts are as do IN THE mu liks yours akeup fool you, buckled. "You tel nnt'to top it he advantage of Belt Lucien Burman TORY th strange 'ter aeeus- mes Nun- oma'mals, and some or I he and say he's been u the They think he's son h a tor and is trying u and I that sort of native t [swear to you on th im, m. ar The chemist's sprightliness had re- turned. "Because nut , few. years . . tr . . younger you're not so . . " . . . superior," ho replied amhbly. He gazed at the old man, who was again fumbling in his pocket. "You're a nuisance. Haven't changed a bit in ten years. . Always having torn pock- ets and letting your matches get down into some obscure lining of your coat.” He drew out two boxes of matches. f'Put these in Four pocket. and don't lose them. Matches are valuable down here. After which lecture I'll tell', you that the affair of this afternoonl has made me decide to go out to. Prentiss' place tonight to do a little investigation. Would you like to come along? It may be just a bit danger-,' one. Seriously. quite dangerous." I “Thd . . er . . blacks and the In- dians seem fearfully afraid of him. Yes . . . fearfully." "Wouldn't you if you were a poor superstitious native who believes that when the sun goes down over a moun- tain that the mountain has eaten it? Some of them have a veneer of Chris- tianity, but it's mighty thin. Just re- member that, counting poor Tony to- day, four men have died since Pren- ties has been here. The other three also in ways almost as mysterious u this. You eouldn't hire one of the Porto Verdeans to go near his place at night for all the coffee on my eoasin's fazenda. bats big " men firing, over the roof. Rank nonicnse. of rouse. for the most part, but I don't blame them much. “It's difftealt to see howling demon when you're standing on the corner of 42nd nnd Broadway in New York City, but it tnkos very little effort when you're swallowed up in the jungle of Porto Verde." He grunted. "Hum . . . I just happened to think. She told me the other day she was going out there yesterday to try again. This new at- tack may be one of the results." He chewed meditatively n moment, then went on: "No one' talks to him now except the keepers of the little shops where he buys his food on his rare visits to town. He honored my estab- lishment once. Lately his trips have been becoming fewer and fewer until "Elise didn't want the land, and as I told you, rightly think! family feuds are preposterous in this lup- posedly enlightened century, to she went on to his house to extend the olive bunch, and do nnything for him that she could. He haw her coming, banged all the shutters and doom so that the house was sealed, and though she knocked repeatedly for twenty minutel, nude no sign of being inside. The next day she was walking along the road and he almost rode her town with his horse. She was certain that this wasn't an accident but a deliber- ate attempt." V thing bat a poncho: 'and tried every means to get him out. - - A - mew what caused him to resign by waquest from the museum a couple of was ago. we might have a dew. And hen again, mt mightn't." w they'vo practi any ceased. If we him to resign by xseum a couple of a suit "Observe, my dear Nanny, that I also sorry 1 raincoat. We won't need them until After we leave my cousin's. Then they will be vitally necessary. Perhaps perilously neces- sary. No. I'm not going to tell you why. It's no use asklng. Come on now. Don't pother around any more. Or I'll make you smoke another ot A few moments later they had de. scended to the valley and separated. Yilak to return to his barber shop. Nunnaliy to examine with academic interest the sandy deposits at the edge of a tiny lake which sparkled a short distance from the river. Hie Inspection completed, the chemist sauntered' to the town, marveled again at the View ot the hill.eiopes carpeted with the green of the Jungle and the white mountains rising far " Vilak puffed piacidly at his eigaret. "After l’ve gone sgsin on s fruitless mission to try to induce my cousin to leave and, more important, Introduce you to Let. When it's dark I'll change my clothes 3 bit snd~meet you. I si- ways go out there as 1 Mr. Davis, her attorney, I person I've invented for convenience and who has s secluded house up the road on some of Elise's property, where I can make the change without creating suspicion. Wouldn't be just the thing for barber Riggs to be seen at the house of the grand senhorita. Nor to be too intimate with you, for that matter, so be a bit care- ful when you meet me at the hotel in public. Though it probably wouldn't make a particle of differet.ee to most of the natives, because they think all Americans are mad, anyway. itter a few hours spent thug, he began unpacking his luggage, and happening to place a clean i!hift up- FALLEN LIVES Recently a man, prospecting in the mining regions ot Arizona, found a remarkable natural bridge. It spans a deep canon, tortydive feet in width. The bridge is made by a great petri. fied tree that lies across the gorge. BeientiM men say that, many age: since. this tree was prostrated by some territte storm, and tell across the canon. Br the enacts of the water and time, it has {used through many amen of minor: ization, and is now 3 wonderful tree of solid agate. And there it lies. making on auto bridge over which men may pass from side to side. ATM: tree seemed to be a failure wheh. that day in its prime. it was broken " by the storm and hurled to the ground. But, instead of being I failure, to what nobler use could it have been put than thus to become a bridge ot agate, to stnnd tor axes. and on which countless human feet may walk across the chasm? This fallen tree is " illus- tration of countless hum lives which have fallen, and seemed to tall, but which in time have proved to be bridges over which others can walk to honor. success and triumph. -Rtrr. J. R, Miller, D.D. The chemist gave a parting fillip of bl: handkerchief to the dust on the washstand, then looked out of the win- dow. "'Whr must I wear a raincoatt The stats are shining very . . . er . . . brightly. It's too hot to wear a raincoat." “Aft: All. I've faced enough . or . . . perils in n laboratory'not to ten a man merely because he has a . . at . . singular forehead. Moreover . . er . . insurance atatistics give me ten more years to live, and I detest Ita- tistics. I should greatly enjoy prov- ing them wrong. At what hour do up fool started Or I'll make y my cigarettes.') in the distance, entered his room, and busied himself with some docu- ments and books he took from his bag. . ws..".. “Elise wanted to have you stay at the fazenda, but I won't permit it. for a day or two at least. It's probably cruel to you, but I’ll see more ot you closer at hand. Charming girl Elise. But too determined to be comfortable. I think.you'll like her. I should say we ought to get there about eight, stay an hour or two and Mart from there tor our visit to Prentiss. I'll gall tor you about seven-thirty. We'll ride out ot course." in the room was similarly coated. Hor- rlfied, he took out his pocket hand- kerchief and gingerly get about clean. ing the room. So absorbed was he in the task that he failed to hear a light knock outside and only look- cr up when the door opened kind a tall, striking appearing stranger clad in a riding suit steel at his side. He star’ml. "t . . . er ' . . beg pardon," he stammered. "You were looking “Come Just as you are. Woman pick up stotm boots, heavy gloves. and a pistol for you at my cousin's What sort ot a raincoat have you.'" “One ot those . . ' er . . . oilcloth ones, like the heavy army ones." "That'li be just the thing. Bring it with you." on ' table, found that it instantly took up a gray smudge ot dust trom the table top. Investigating, he dis. covered that every piece ot furniture lib Minard'l Ward. tttr Grippo. "Woe to you when all men shank well of you."---" Baldwin. me Yes W, J' the stranger replied blunt. Stop being cleanly and Nordic It on your hat. A good sclentist ourselt ought to know better t let a suit and a trifle or make- I you. It's time for as to get (To be continued) "You take too many mties with me. Too t What shall I ' . . er start'." nany "Still, In face ot possibilities from their trlende the enemy, engineers hare been spurred to design super- vaults that will stave " safe break- ers, it not 1Metlniteir, at least as long as possible. How successful they have been was demonstrated In New York not long ago, when wrecker: were actually called upon to demolish 'So expert must be the men behind these instruments that only halt a dozen men in the world are capa.ble ot breaking into a vault with them. Fortunately those men are not crim- inals. They are experts whose names "or well known. Moreover there are practical objections to the use ot such tools illegally. The oxygen pipe is dangerous to use without cumber- some ahielde. And it generateo MI. low- ot black smoke when it meets cut iron, leadlng to probable detec- tion. I --a material manufactured at Niagara! Falls under ., fusing temperature of 8000 degrees Fahrenheit, and mooti against tremendous heat. inside thin came a seven-inch buttreseing wali‘ containing steel H-columne. hour metallic ribs, cronwiee round but. _ filling of rich concrete, end e binding} ot steel platen halt an inch thick both. ed to the H-benme. The door. were smooth-face, conical plug door: imper- vious to explosives. . Then came a six-inch thickness ot material especially developed as . protection ugainst the cutter-burner. It consisted ot large Iron slabs. the outside face tool-proof and it. inside tmed with 1 core of magnesium oxide a newly built vault because a bank moved. The outer shell ot the vault was a tour toot thick wall ot con- crete or fireprooiing and protection against earthquake shock. “The 'oxygen lance' hasrlmen known tor some time. It cnnsists ot a long small iron pipe through which oxygen gas is forced. The business end of the pipe is heated red-hot by a cut- ter-burner. The hot iron ignites in th oxygen stream and ttarea so fierce. ly that it will burn its war straight through anything. Blast furnace men use the oxygen lance to cut away ‘trozen' steel from the tapholes ot the furnace. “Burglar-proof" vaults Mee. per. force undergone great and devolution. ary changes in the past titty years. From the days ot the eighties, when a bank's idea ot the last word in securlly was a tour toot thick door studded with cannon balls and bolted home into their Vault’s framework . . . which door was incidentally pried oat completely by (halves to the tune ot nearly three million dollars . . . . "To-day science meets the threat ot the 'cutter-burner' with composite walls that embody materials resistant to heat, drills, and explosives. Yet even such walla cannot meet the new threat trt the ‘fluxlng rod' and the ‘oxy; gen lance' The first is simply a stick of soft Meet which the expert operator holds against the metal to be burned. Then he applies the oxy- acetylene flame to the tip at the Bur lug rod, which oxidizis so rapidly that the temperature can he raised to un~ acetylene flame to the lug rod, which oxidlzis, the temperature can l believable heights. "A competent wrecking compeny using the meet modern tools found lb self ell‘but bellied by this vault. The beet progreu that the wrecker-e can” make through the wells, even will the advantage ot being eble to week them trom the inside. was halt an in! a any. It took thirteen any! one-belt week: to demolieh the entire unit. Although ,5 sate breaker might hove entered it in less time, it is doubt. tul it he would have cared to tackle the Job. .' . to the up-to-date strong-box such as described at the commencement of this article is a tar cry. The progress of the opposed sciences ot ante-mak- ing and safe-breaking has been an in. teresting one through the phase ot the "stepped" docr, the introduction of nitrtrglyeerimt and the "soup man," the cone door machined so closely that that artist could not get his "soup" into the cracks, and finally .'. . last stage but one . . . the oxy- acetylene torch, which, will bite through a sixdeh steel plate in a tew minutes. _“‘le9 me I million dollars “in: which to bulld I vault,’ he said. 'mnj there would still be halt a. dozen men in the world who could open and rob it'.' t ' "Nor are these men Houdinis. or Jimmy Valentines who open tumbler looks with sandpapered angers. They are experts in the use ot two at the most terrible sate-breaking weapons kttowti---the ‘fluxlng rod' and the 'oxygen lanee.' Against these latest potential tools ot safe breakers, no absolute defense is known. The Matted world is waiting to see it any tutper-critttiria1 will dare to use them. Nothing is 'itntrossiblts' in the never-ending battle bttween sate malt. ers and safe breakers," says Henry Morton Robinson in Popular Science. "I put that question to a zlfstinguish- ed vault engineer, who has built some ot the ptrongest vaults in existence. His answer amazed me. In New York u ‘slxty-storoy up scraper i: rising, and at It: heart ll n mammoth vault, an armored tor. treu at steel and concrete. Behind the doors ot that vault mar lie 81.- 000.000.000. livery human and me- chanical device will be employed to guard that treasure. Will It be safe? Which Wins- . Crook or Bank? Crib-cracking Versus Sal making is a Struggle Not Yet at an End iiiiii, the desig of such tonnid. GRACES Virtue and genuine graces In thear selves speak what no words can ut. ter.--Shakesottare. able vaults the advantage lies tem. porarily with the protectors ot money rather than with the thieves. 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Ornith .0. mu hue been on the trail ot x. u elusive bird for half 3 century. but only recently, trom certain 1c: mu me- In It: mlmtlon. it was Many “lined that " nested It some punt tn the enter. portlon o northmsmn Cumin probably the northern n ""'.u tor of Quebec or on Bnmn Islam In 1.23 Mr. Boner tvok up an. collection ot adult specimens ml and downy young as mm the "ientitie study of this . bird (a photo ot which was r upon its breeding range tl turned to the long trek home dog-Ilene, schooner end rtea More Information on Sum new Intonation was ali I. in! Milled ot Dr. Sonora work In “Mu the mystery “I um "ttttts of ttse Blue some Mn tate now untoldl._ "For “out " days we searched the region on tool: for nests win-out enocees." sold Mr. Saver. "The out- look was decidedly discouraging. " late June approached. for much of the success or the venture depended upon the actual discovery ot nests and ens. Blue gee-e were newly everywhere. but it is a net expanse ot territory In which to locate the nest. ot . species which is colonial in habit, and without the tendency ap. parently to nest with individual tree. dom over the country. Finally, hot ever. on June M, a small colony ot breeding geese wee discovered on the tundra near For Basin. with 10 nest Eight ot these were nest: ot the blue goose and two ot the lesser snow goose. Sets were incomplete. w't'tt only one or two "gB--otte nest alum contained three." Later many more nests “are at:- HOW TO MAKE LIFE HAPPY ful Quest of Don Omithologist Dr Dewey Soper Of the Blue Goose WISDOM OF LIFE of Dominion the atte him: tt tht not the HI. in: W. to. mt 1r. Sc n. " " " eh " .Y on " te, do TI f: " I H " MUTT Sunda H0053