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4rsatttrai4t,r " I???“ h“; " - I by; it nay-s- kale] Stepping remarkably light for a “I af " build, he crept {mud in hclishman. Although he had tried 5 persuade Crane not to enter the pounds, ho himself had resolved to {at into the place, by hook or crook, More the night was much older. Waiting suf6eientlr long to endea- vor to catch any sound coming from .. other 2361; of the gates, he took from his pocket what proved to be a 3teht, pliable, silk ladder. Be flung .. top of this so that it caught onl he of the spikes of the gates. Then, myin‘ May, he mounted to the 1mdretrtuuisdsroverto"titCtiG aide, and descended in the aame way. There we a brief hesitation while: be debated whether he should leave .. ladder on the gate, " replace it hblapoeket. Medeeidedmttuiat alternative. Jf pursued, he would be " to nave in thie way several valu- - ~~---‘e "' 5"" Mr out. sun. " had come there for a cer- hin purpouhand this wt: tstrength.. Cod now by the action of the young .-.rt..h-, Aug, . _ - - - "-09"r .uv-wu "mo given was safikient for him; here was to headquarters of a gang of crooks ‘Io would stop at nothing to train M- -..A_ Still swearing beneath his breath, Whittle waited. It was useless, he de- cided, to attempt to rush throng the gates, which were rapidly closing. There must be men on the other side, although he had not been able to see Ion. He had only caught sight of a lying titrure which he knew must be So young fellow who had said his name was Crane. The latter had got away with a good start, but he had lean able to keep track of his move.., hence by the sound his feet made h the silenee of the night. One thing val min: if Crane was captured, b would probably be killed. Though he had no definite information about .. occupant; ot “The White Home," “a hint which George Melton had', M seconds of stupdact mikes blows descended luck of his head, and he n nothing mo", (but. onto! the window would in- cviubly notice him. Yes, if I). got down on All-foam Before he could sun to crawl for- ward on this second portion of his journey. from somewhere behind, n It"! form rammed itself down with “nine force upon his back. His face wns pressed relentlessly into the hard ground. The pom was intense-so agonizing in tact, that he wss mo- mentarily stunned, and, during those few seconds of stupefaction, three, ___‘;,___ LT _ - Non of a preposterous but exciting thriller which he had read in the train coming up from Truro. There wan this danger, however: he had to cross that intervening space, with the risk that anyone taking a - onto! the window would in- at returning without having achieved - defirtite purpose. " he trot close " to the window, he might either hear some important piece of informa- Aw, or Tterhaps- The thought, mad I. it wu, crossed his mind of attempt- " to break the glturs, leap into the non, pick up the prisoner-if there no a prisoner-in his arms, and rush any with him, much after the fa-‘ on a piece of turf only twelve yards or so may from the room which was his objective. Bis pulse beat quicker as he noticed he " three figures outlined against the window. The curtains had not been drawn. and it was possible to Jook straight into the room. He had come . far that it. was impossible to think Stopping, he started to creep a way through the somewhat thick under- growth. His face was scratched every now and then by thick twigs 'and what has: have been holly leaves; but, me: five minutes or so, this minor purgatory was at an end. He stood in sounds made by his feet. To the right was g broad earriage way, mri- dmstly leading to the garage. But that must not be his route. Anyone from 'ke occupied room might be able to use his "ure; his way mast be through the shrubbery. l Although he stepped as lightly as possible, he knew he was walking on a and path {yogi the slight scrunch- been a deep belt ot shrubbery. The thought did not cross his mind that it would have been tdad of the com- pany of the fellow who had told him " wt: tn American detective-but the chap had had cold feet, and there was an end to it: this was not a job for faint hearts. Recovering himself, Crane started to move towards the light which glim- mred iitfuur_tr_trourh what must have ISSUE No. 3--'32 in - Mar cry Ferguson and no. in to . JlTdltl. He than [on to Handling ttt Kent to now. her father. Ion-while. choice Whittle, an Ameri- un than”. I: trailing a band of forte m. By do” Conttnement The Empress Dom to bond Per.mson'r, will to her own. Phnim while reeonp9iterin. "The In“. Home." comes to blows with an ulmwn assailant, who proves to be Whittle. Crane Molnar-any attempts to Bet Into the home. I SYNOPSIS When Phipr Crane. . young aeroplane ttttip WA". In Qt,'?",',,',',? a 2'l'ftv,; m I " Moon. 0 0 mm“, no 5 khan for the crook Crane. who La a tool " O land ruled by a mysterious "I-nm- " a; CHAPTER Xr.-HCont'd.) mcended upon the and he remembered ADMIT ONE BY SIDNEY HORLER, lunatic: wanna realized that it hel Hon. Margaret Ruthven. damrh. jhad not actually killed a man, he mmf ter of Lord Batman, governor of have mortally wounded one- After this' Jersey, is ensued to 'ttaw, Peter it would bewar t]; the knife hi I 1hMetr, when of Mr an. Bttr. Glowing up, our that is oom- with“ Peittnhttfter-eudtuiu' Aéruta‘:;:tmha° " in second- lam can. the sound a“ q l He decided to send the opposition a warning. The bullet from his noiseless automatic sped into the night. But the “termini: was heard distinctly; a hideous 9mm shattered the silence. Charles Whittle Mixed that if he PdmrtteteorkmedGniiC'iii'niii' have mortally wounded eae- After this it 1toulduwartothonifa ( _ "Hurry, man," he heard Whittle say. For .the American detective, on guard, had seen a number of tittures rush from the house. Somehow or other, the alarm must have been given to the occupants of that lighted room. He was in a ticklish dilemma. The ladder would not carry the weight of both, and Crane had not yet reached‘ the top. Moreover, it he started mi climb, they would both present admit-l able targets to their enemies. He {was half wig; whisper came hon ’ But Lady Luck, who had been his guiding Mar so far that night; still proved loyal to him. When they reach- ed the gates, casting quick glances to right and left to see if the two men he had put out had been substituted by others, the rope ladder was visible- "Up with you,” he urged. Crane merely waited to steady hir aching head for a moment after the recent exertion. Then, without ques- tioning the order he started to climb. 31. -- - I '- “or. a chance," said the American; "I prepare for emergencies of this kind." Whilst he was talking, he won- dered if the rope ladder would still be where he had left it hanging from two spikes of the gates. H not, their rc- treat would be cut off with a ven- geance. "Good.' Now, then, steady; it's a wonder to me those fellows in that room haven't heard anything already. quietly, I tell you!" By this time they were making their way through the undergrowth to the gates. "Did you climb over'.'" whispered Crane. ‘ "Not a chance," said the American.) "I prepare for emergencies of _tlt_if kind." Whilst In In. 9-IL:-- In __- "Someone gave me some crack on the head with mthing that felt like a sledge-hammer,” he said. "But," thrusting out a foot and gingerly try- ing it, 'Wll be all right. Look.” Al.. though ho swayed 1y1steadily, Crane proved he could walk. Whilst saying the words, the detec- tive hauled the other to his feet. Crane looked around blinking. “If you hadn't rushed off like a young fool, we'd have been together," was the reply; "as it was, I found my way here by luek--and she helped me like the lady she u. Bat there's no time to wa,ste talkintr--we've got to get away, my lad. How are you feel- ing now?" ‘ Philip opened his eyes wonderingiy. It was the American detective bend- ing over him, and not an enemy. "How did you get here?" he asked slowly. Crane being attacked? He moved forwarnd rapidly. in front, srroeeeui'trio'iiiiii of tyettftie. . -'"V -..- - "can ml the point of the jaw before any fur- ther words could escape. The blow was shrewdly aimed and the fellow went down like a log. The detective waited. There must be another near at hand. But no at- tack come. Instead, from somewhere = 1__4A . - 1 wearing or his frame, must have been different to what the second man had expected, because, when he was within a couple of yards, the other started forward. "Here----!" He said no more. Whittle, moving; qutekly forward, hit the man clean on) Stepping on his toes, u agile as any! ballet dancer, Whittle moved forward. He had pulled his hat well down over} his eyes, but either the clothes he was, "weft donrt then." - - ----- ...._ ...- ,..... Bat, as it happened, the words were received with nothing more alarming than 1?etemprtorr Whittle', life had made him a quick thinker, and this faculty was consid- erably strengthened in an emergency. He did not require much mental lehuming to decide now that he had been mistaken in the darkness for a companion of the speaker. The lat- ter, of course, must be one of the men placed in the grounds to act as guards to the house. "All ritrht---1'm coming." He had to take the risk of his voice being some- thing akin to that of the supposed second guard. If the first man evinc- ed my sign of suspicion, he Would have to deal with him with his gun. I ' A .. . _ - voice "Come on, im, fooi; iii; in fronb-. I heard him." the darkness, his right hand holding tightly a noiseless nutomatie. There were six bullets in that gun, and if he found it necessuy. he was prepared to, use them " He had gone perhaps twenty yards, and was fumbling to get clear ot some kind of shrubbery int which he had stepped, when he heard a voice, tense and dramatic, behind him. I _He whispered back in way up when an urged: from below. any more time, a strained Half dazed she released herself, to find that she was on one of the most desolate stretches of desert on the Gulf. Even when help tttune-in the shape of some none too friendly na- tives-the difficulty was to get "Blue- bird" on to its wheels again. But at last, although the wind was blowing hard, they succeeded: . Oh, the joy.' It seemed too good to As I landed I felt the wheels of the under-carriage sink, and the nose ot the machine dive downwards. At the same time I was shot violently for- ward against the windscreen. Amid a deafening sound of splintering wood and a smell of escaping petrol, I found myself hanging by my straps, the tail of the machine bolt upright in the air, and the engine buried out of sight in the soft sand. I had landed on quicksand! Finally she got "P-toutline the tops of trees with the wheels of the under-carriage. Just out of the wood! A LANDING ON QUICKSAND. Another time, ttying towards Jask, on the Persian Gulf, she found her oil pressure getting dangerously lawn So she decided to come down on the sand near the water and fill up With some fresh oil she was carrying in the fuselage: l V - - ~---.r r-er‘W" I knew if the throttle were opened more fully there might be a better chance of getting the engine to start. i but 1 dared not do this without some- thing to hold the wheels of the ma- chine from moving forward. . . I] felt desperate; precious moments Were being lost. The sun had already iiiii) below the trees. I returned and gave the propeller another desperate swing. The engine burst into life, and I leapt into the cockpit and manipulated the throttle. For two or three seconds there was a spluttering and back- firing, and thertthe smooth, even firing to which my ears were so used. I sat on the edge of the wing to take breath. How oppressively hot it wast Perspiration was pouring down my face. I felt I hadn't the strength to keep swinging that heavy propeller.1 . .__A_, g. .. .. ... a hundred and fifty in which to the, and there were high trees all round. She swung the propeller, but there was no sign of life in the engine. Hurriedly she changed the sparking) plugs and cleaned the magneto points.l Still nothing happened: have been the worst. The torrential rain, she tells us in "The Bluebird', Flight," had saturated the engine of her little machine; she was literally miles from anywhere, and night we: coming on. At its greatest length the clearing was not more than a hundred and eighty yards; "Bluebird" needed] Of all the nerve-wracking moments that the Hon. Mrs. Victor Bruce ex- perienced daring her lone iiieht round the world, that time when she made a forced landing in a Jungle clearing on the borders of Siam must "What was thaGereamt" halted the younger man. By the time he had mined his fettccrane was by his side. "Never mind-we must get nway. They'll be searching for ua." _ ( To be cqntinued.) self into space It meant the risk of a broken leg, or, at the lent, a sprun- ed ankle; but he had to take that chance. F . heavy thud on the other side of the gates. - With utoniehing ebility for a man of his bulk, Whittle chmbered up the fragile ladder, reached the top, and then, without hesitation, hurled ham-1 World Flight I had not been asleep more than three hours when suddenly I was awakened by my bed shaking violent- ly. At first I thought "Bo this is Japan," and turned over and tried to go to sleep again. But the shocks be- came more violent; and I simply had to sit up and take notice. Then the whole room began to move. A hor..; rible thought struck me. An earth.. ( quake and a bad one! . . . I tried to lturn on the light, but it mm1dn't I work. Sparks were coming out of the {electric radiator. The whole hotel was in darkness. Every second the building shook more violently. There was a crash just beside me; two china vases had fallen from the mantel- pieee; it was almost impossible to keep my feet. Needless to say, she had arrived just in time for one of the worst earthquakes of the year! T It was a wonderful i1ittu--atineuen thousand mile: in a tiny machine with an open cockp t, through twenty-three countries, and across three continents '-and 'ftdttt has written a Mt MW! book about it. t is Mb, straightforward and fun of lia"iirc',ii; as use um a m In After crossing the Yellow Sea-five hundred miles of lonely water and eight hours of tsuspense-she safely reached Japan. But her troubles were by no means over. She we: told at her hotel not to worry if she felt the building shake, as them had been over two hundred small earthquakes that year: ’r That settled it. In a week or two Ir. she was painting the name "Bluebird" e on its nose, and was ready to be off. h But no wonder a visitor, who asked a a mechanic what "Bluebird's" registra- ltion letters--G-A.B.io.s.-stooii for,; ’l received the reply "A B---- Daft} , Stunt”! And no wonder that when she e rang up her husband on reaching! - Munich to tell him "Prn here," he :‘e-: ( plied: "Where? In Kent?" ’ l ENGLAND IN SIAM. I 1 One of the interesting features of , the Bight was the fact that she never] ' knew what fresh experience she might t have on landing at some out-of-the.. way aerodrome. Sometimes she had; F pleasant surprises-at Lakhon. in,' ; Siam, for instance, where the Siamese t Governor, came to escort her to his? house: 1 On arriving I was very interested; to see how English everything was. The interior of the house was a per- feet example of an old Elizabethan dwelling. The Governor was particu- larly proud of he garden, and I was highly amused to see that even the banana trees were surrounded with q white paling to create the atmosphere I of an English park. The entrance to his drive was also typically English, with a five-barred gate, and at the side an old-fashioned English stile. Round the porch was a great arch of foliage with masses of orchids. The found tea waiting for her-not the usual Siamese tea, but served in English fashion with‘plenty of cream I and sugar! "Of course . . . easily!” was the reply. "Could one -iiy round- -the world in this?" I asked. That settled it. It was just like buying a motor-car. "Chromium plat- ing five pounds extra!” I had always imagined that aeroplanes were extra- ordinary things, and yet this machine seemed so very ordinary. I was about to leak the shop when he added: ". . . and chromium plut- ing_ia only _ilsre pounds extra." b snuad labor, ropes, and other mater- l ial for lifting. I was delighted, and I was naturally smiling; the Baluchis , were so pleased that they Joined hands , and began to dance round the aero- l plane. They insisted that I should ' joint their "ring o' roses," but I soon stopped, for the heat was terrifie, and I felt that I should quickly become exhausted unless I gut under shelter. THE BUYING or' "BLUEBIRD." Such were some of the incidents that enlivened Mrs. Bruce's flight, Truly it was one of the most amazing adventures of modern times. Here was a woman, who, a little more than a fortnight before starting, had been up in the air only once, gaily setting out to fly round the world via India, Ja- 'pan, and America. The buying of "Bluebird" is a story in itself. Having an hour or so to spare before lunch, Mrs. Bruce was strolling towards l Bond Street. In a shop window she ', saw a little blue-and-silver aeroplane: l Somthing inttueneed me to step in- I side and ask the price of the machine. , "Five hundred and fifty pounds," I replied the salesman. ll _V. -- - uauuu "nu.- ont damage, for usually when a ma- chine has landed on its nose it is a tricky business to right it, requiring skilled labor, ropes, and other mater.. be true to have (at it tek again with- THE EARTHQUAKE. ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO . Quali has s,,,,,,.,,,,,,,,,,.,,',.,,.. tysmbstitute El tor. Bat he does tell some good stories. At a recent banquet, according to Editor and Publisher, Mr. Schwab told of a farmer who aproached him. Charles M. 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" " the bondage that some- 'ttt attune- to Bank, to be blessed by the highest dine an. of the Church. a. In. still to to. 1 city undo (I! in his honor, and Atandmd. at "8m. ot people lin. tu the Show and 1010::st tteclaitrt- ine N. " he mm. tttlt to be ,mieoGftirthi, King, to be In.” by Oh. ht-|..._. " Mel "I? near to Womb]! the The young elephant's Journey to the neerest large railway centre is a suc- ceulon ot boisterous welcomes and of gifts of choice foods. When he reach- en the railway he ttttds It special {rein eweitin: him, with spare engine and hreekdown ottttit attached. His ma- Jeety'e progress must he mule as smooth as poulhle. He (revels in not; end high comfort. attended by high member: ot court end church, and by meny oliclels. I One member ot the Royal family will eceompeny him. to my. Ctt1ertq. ml. the northern capital, and will there head him over to A more im- portant member with u more lmpoelng retinue of priests with oiliciue. When the hat a". journey. from Pitsenu- lobe to Bangkok. is entered upon. one very near to the reigning BMtatareh-- Once it is decided that the youngster is the real thing. the country is ago: with excitement. He has to be taken to Bangkok, there to be royally housed in special quarters within the Royal quince. The journey is in the nature ot a triumphai procession. An occa» sion tor merrylnalring is to the Siam- ese to be seized with both hands. and on it they spend lavishly. No other no- tlon an excel the Siamese in the art of making holiday or in discovering excuses for making holiday. y in him may reside the spirit of some dent-ted great one ot the Royal tawny, in him my even be the spirit ot the Lord Buddha himself. It is not for " to inquire how these experts make a. decision so momentous. The way of experts in Siam are like the we" (I experts eitrewhere-ther are beyond the understanding ot ordinary people. Whatever his mummy. however, they wk him out for extreme tavoru from youth. Directly A baby elephant is found with lame mutiny, in tho ‘nonh or northmt of Siam. news ot ‘tho dimmer! in lent to Bangkok, the capital. Experts so u once to ex- amine the youngster. and it their re- port is humble. still greater-most mhhly "trat-era are despatch~ ed to lake ttttal decision " to wheth- er he is worthy ot retteration and a. to the degree ot veneration. t What the Siamese regard as sacred , and do [may honor, are what are i known a "curious" elephants. Per. I up: "freak" elephants would be a bet, 1ter tun-ham: of the Slomese phrase. though It “were ot went ot respect to " Bluest, the elephent. But the un- ) new in him he probably nothing winner to do with " color. Ho my. tor nuance. hue two extra toe. on NI tom feet; he may have certain mullet mkinn on " body - 'atetia. of red hair nomewhere per- m. But whit-o'. The nearest " PM approach. to white is a kind at idirtr my. no BIA-cu do not. and cannot. chl- that than In ‘tho and ot the ma elephant.“ Mean-e in Ceylon, to tin west. and Cambodia. to the cut. "mum: tor coral: elephants lg u ”urea: " tn Stun. Yet another, and very maiden: reason for avoldtne Attests I clam In that the "white" elo- ‘phut in not white at all. The myth of the white slewing wns apparently, Jet shroud " some early Western In. veller wo collected lntormulon rather 'rerftutetorily. " you ask the Home ”non run he he" of tthat ho will ”hath 1.- str that Europe": eatrital is invested in (I. lines there. Beyond that ho how- little or nothing. Her. And then. however. one may Emil having read of Sin: as "the had of the white elephant." which B (may venentod there, and he will be little disposed to Accept the statement that Bio.- 10 nothing at tho kind. The'l'mthAbout Br P. B. Prior. 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