Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 25, 1923, Page 12

PAGE TWELVE “HILLS OF HAN” BY SAMUEL MERWIN Author of “Th INSTALLM WHO'S WHO Betty Doane, 4 an-fu, Pro- than Brac! w w ate in China, Brac ried, but tells have part- P ie decides it is better not to Mission ri nm identify him . re he sees E of the two is about to leave nd whispers she! arge at the This astor twright, Elm Griggsby Doane, nese or “Look the ekeep- of the Betty Mrs. meeting girl the admis. knew Brachy was Doane returns of the He s at So from a promis: Tain-an-fu withou' Doane then starts to In the morning from the Yamen o a Cran J telling him that the E rs are planning to attack mission, and t Mr ki achey ws to th in the face ath whites re fuse t their ve converts ind girls. Mrs. Boatwright ers ‘om the Mission, and Betty, to r of the r decides to go Brachey's Chinese Po, the latter es: is a muleteer, Betty travel toward Ping three nights on the spending Mrs. men of Boat the ostracised by er wi Ho 5 Yan an com} The of the Great E sed at first but soon 1 siege of the com ner Boatwright is k nd Griggsby Doane, who ad been reparted dead, alive and in room. Doane attacks Brachey and beats him insensible. M. Pourmont, in command at the Ping ¥ Compound, orders him to forego personal matters in view of the common peril and Doane rest4ves to go through the enemy lines and send for ai*. As he leaves, Betty, who knows nothing of his attack and the for cablegram announcing hts Mr. Po Bears Good Tidings Doane went dut through the lines as be had come in through them, crawling, hiding. feeling his way foot by foot. He had allowed two hours for the journey through the lines, but it consul d nearly four, and to- ward one o'clork in the morning, now well to t eastward of the besieging o his stride. the retrospect, ab: © play of children to be crawling about the hill 8 was glad now that he had somehow, painfully, kept his head. Barring the unforseen, the dip gentlemen nd the came to th up at Peking awaiting them ir desks in the news \ ural villages that dot ‘ hina egraph station Dc bis messages, and s ian until they were sent; ard the inn, Fasten he stretche1 out on the kened at keeper brin; t two the close of ing food plates on the at on the edge wondered y There was a knock at the door. In Chinese he called “Enter! The door slowly opened, and a drab came ir alking with a|t He car a packet of Withery cried Doans. t on earth are you “= here ' en hat ard an the I've arrang with you" e a ou won't mind OF irse not, Henry, But wly 1e back to find you you were } rid was w e hills of H t appe was al bility teh Government ng respon: don't looked and heap of enve!opes tiel the packet nlesram addressed to nguished | n, but} was but andther of the Road to Frontenac,” oNT NO an Am-] A rumor| With a sudden wild shout the about the fighting. | his head from Hong | ney ‘The Honey Bee,” Ete. VEN « Doane declared. the strength. You're not We should have to sepa togethe “You haven't an outdoor any- almost cer mi wo shculd “ht” He took the packet Ke, oy {a ter off into the purple v miles farther on ley Zeneath him four coc diating wir sts in t seen, And al moved shots the hil ering aight on, Criggsby Doane lay é hill locking et. But a few Ping Yang. the foot of the es were already at the No out r uniform were to no shots. It in the fighting. along he heard, far his ears had strained nother, then a volley; but he walk The Mongols anc Ch ang on the rdad gave him no mor 1 the usual glance. of curiosity He came at le to a scenic T arch E ts valley ked. Near at near slope, sses of a wel would be As he the for « notch Yang could He stopped hand were the of 801 Looker soldiery 1 pdund of the Ho Shan cor ill as if it dese: nopuffe of smoke small fi, about no that could be heard up I The uncann Two soldiers in blue out of a village house; wer > be bi was me abruptly and then two other firmly holding a man in red and yellow wit embroicered square on the bre his tunic that rked him a ficer of rank soldiers followed, one bearing | e curved sword | Doane stopped to watch } Without ceremony the officer's sts were tied behind his back. He s kicked to A blue sol- | seized hi rked his he: ai 1 with it] man, promptly, with one clean blow severed the neck; then wiped his sword on tihe de an’s clothing and arched away with the others, carry- | ing the head | Doane shivered slightly, compress: | ed his Ups, and, paler, walked on. | At the gate of the compound | out. e called The gate opened, and closed behind 1, Within stood men of the gar-| risan, and women, and hind them| the Chinese. All looked puzzled. | Man tongues greeted him at c | eagerly questioning. | He loked about from one to an-; oth of the thin weary faces with burning e that hung on his slight est gesture and si she i hea, He could answer none of th questions | ty came running acrass from | the residenc | “Oh, Dad!’ she cried "You're back! Her arms were around his neck. “How wonderful! But what happened? What is it?) Everybody's so puzzled. Haye the troops com¢ “I don’t understand it myself, dear Though I walked through it, ently.” | “Do you think this dreadful busi-| ness s over?” | | | | appar- “IT believe it ts, Bett She had to run back togher post Doane thought of the cablegrom he carried, addressed to Brachey, said nothing about it to her. An ocd little cavalcade arrived. The ed door of a sumptuous sedan opened and a young Chinese richly attired, stepped out deliberately, he entered the One of the engineers, an American, addressed him in the Man darin tongue. He replied in a de musical h a pronounced in tonation that gave this mellow lan guage to a casual ear, something the sound of French | The engineer bowed, and together | they moved toward the residence, | where a somewhat mystified M. Pour- | mont awaited them. Jonathan Brachey sat moodily on the parapet | thing might be aver, it might achey found himself almost y disturbed, however, at the of peace. He had su hated this dirty, bloody but compound voice, v sed busi: | outcrop ness. He saw no glory in fighting, me primitive bloodlust; an ping of the beast in man; evidence that in his age-long struggle upward from the animal stage of existence man had yet @ Jong, long way to mb. | But from the thought of losing this | intense preoccupation, of living quiet ly with the emphasis a d on personal problems he f shrinking. What a riddle it was! He soke shortly to a French youth his rifle an@ led the way up the hill to the bullet-spattered f They v quite de y the huddled, noxfous dead mained, | Weary of spirit he returned to the| rifle pits only to find these, | serted | From the upper redoubt a man was waving, beckoning. The French youth was looking up at him, that question still in his eyes. He ncdded gain plac found hii compound: own the hill, waving his rt sudden on the So it was pea Brachey sat enigmati parapet c gsby Doane was doubt there (Brachey knew nothing jor he had not seen y) Wi could he say to him, to the fathe whom Betty ldved? This wouldn't of course Hu rose and went to his tent Once within, he closed the fla and sat on the cot Voices sounded outside hen the flaps parted and he be the spectacled, p mil Po. “Come inside, letting her behind him endid figure in his rich, of He told of his capt clothing. eat Eye he was on t Whipcords, Gabardines, Pencil Casper Sundap Morning Cribune FOR EASTE In All-Wool UITS FOR MEN AND YOUNG MEN \ 2 30 : 3 SOME WITH 2 PAIRS TROUSERS Stripes, Gleneckhard-Plaids, Tartan-Ch ecks, Blue Serges, Mixtures, Conservative, Sport, Norfolk, Form Fitting Double Breasted Our Newly Remodeled Store Makes shopping easy. Everything is so arranged that it is a pleasure to buy here. 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