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2 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D, ¢, JULY 12, 1925 - PART 8. Encircled by Masai Warriors, Ready for Battle, in East Africa Settlers Fly Before Flame and Spear, Seeking Safety in a Compound, Which Offers Little Protection. Far from commonplace were the |were joined by more, until the tent | | the life of uncertainty and suspense. | same way dead silence experiences of Marzuerite Mallett must have been full. They emerged | | daiaa G a3 * % 44 It was dark as pitch rkness, nerves tightened in British East Africa—rare, in- |carrying A.’s hat and the fly-whisk. | B i ahs 1o b 1Y utmost deed. is the woman who has en- | Then they made a dash into mine, | 4 # | “Don’t know at all. Think I will| The strain was beginning to tel countered as many dangers. On | where the shoe and stocking soon at- | | run into the tent and strike 2 mateh | both of us. Days of forced inactivity several occasions, as told in pre- |tracted their attentfon—finally two | “take my gun." sald A. and disap- | nights of sleeplessness pense, un ceding articies, her life was men- |spears received these mementoes. | | peared. presently to return. “Half- (certainty and the knowledge that ail aced by lions, leopards, and other They had a long talk outside the | 3 | past 2. he said we had possessed had suddenly bheen wild anin and was saved by | tents, pointed to the store and hesi- | : v At that moment there was a long- | taken from ais—all were beginning to mer coolness, her quick wit. and | tated while I shuddered within 20| drawn howl in the distance, then make themselves felt her aceuracy in shootin vards of them. my finzer on the trig- | another and another. Cle they I think 1 shall g0 mad if we st In this article, the fourth of a |&er of my gun. Then with a hasty . H came. here much longer: 1 wonder if there reries dealing with her unusual | zlance back at the tents they made 3 “Lions about.” 1 remarked any. chapce “of onl igeting out adventures. she turns from narrat off. Apparently they were satisfied H ¢ Sounds like i1 said A Well, | spoke moadily, I_think 1 wi her perilous experiences with | that we had gone. Not for them the ] that s all that iz neaded to complete auire.”” animals to an incident when honor of escorting us te the man ! ; ; 4 our happiness. Lions. and we must | The verdict of the D. (. was thaf fe and that of her companion | vatta (collection of huts): A shoe. a f not_shoot was not vet safe: there were still smal rred fto as CAU—-were en tocking. a hat and a fiy-whisk were A ’ “That's about the size of it. T sup- [hodies of bellizerent Masai ahout red by sava natives whom | 211 they had to show for their night's = / pose theyv conld ily jump the | A. left, it would not be with his con they had befriended raid | ‘ o’ wires?" Bent AL 5 o'clock T woke A. It was still Rather! Anothier (day. aoties, Migit. iy the BY MARGUERITE MALLETT. | pitchy dark in the store. > ~ - X There were no horses or mules in { MOININg there cameé a &mall proce HE journey back was almost| “Now vou go to sleep. Margaret! E . LU (hongnt traveled ta {Sion of Masai headmen. all hearing the he said Viceroy. left tied in the forest. What NUffY ostrich peace halls on the enc “Get the horses and gombes in al Nad become of him? When the hos|0f their spears once,” was my reply: “it is 4 o'clock” = 2 had returned he was no longer there A. would wait. no-longer. Permi Why did vou not wake me earller?"” - We did not know what ta think sion or na. geemission;. Jigswes gotn i S0 the two Catalonians were put in ihe huckhoard and “Good-hye' said tr Garra ok We kept a sharp lookout all the uneventtul. and 1. at least wa not in such good spirits re 1en we reached na. and put up at a store g = owned hy A. for the night. The boys | Said 3. » - The hyena chorus was swelling I told him the Masai had been in| , R they cameé nearer. There must was far fram e e e o< |our tents; hurrying out, the missing | { have been twenty howls in twenty about to rise, so they said; already |2rticles proved my words. | 3 different keys. Twenty:—there must | " ovanne b v e tag SuC 10 pise ) they il alvenay 1 ikl ; X have been sixty. No' not sixty—a | V2V Uraveling by very easy stages R | . hundred! Never shall T forget that|for We were dependent off the two ner S R e N S ; o y ; e donkeys then. No horses, the mules s ; e y | . - night. We could see nothing, only | {OREeYs Thert: Mo i g m home again. What should we . imagine, and the din outside became me kriew where. the*mintmum I expect,” was all [ said when A. 10ld | ind when we Bot there? Bister raxe‘ / A ’ deafening. ~Groans. howls, wails, | CIOthINg. next to. no possessions, ar g : .. |swelled up in my heart against these \ o deater JGroans. howls, walls | companied by long string of “hovs I don't know said A This | Masal, for whom I had done so much * " 1 ".K iy ny"‘ :' !”‘ «"l")“\ B € sk e réached Nairobi Fiow shauri (affair) of wanting the youns |without any thought of recompense : L gl WOLT De SRRDOMMIDIE (o dasciibe ferent from our start, twe and three Bani o (e Caving e Ao yeys N i RO ey mpeine 1 i ertainly it ~;nundl»d| as though | 4 ter vears before! on top of that. seems to have upset|for all the many kindnesses T had . s g s ”’v‘ s Wi b After much delay. much weary wa them shown them. They were a thankless. 2 : M saindred. bt that mumber,|\5; the government'gave us comper i ungrateful crowd. | 7 ; g i x o (ihree hundred. but that Nignber: |mtion. What could compensate us fo Presently, winding round a corner, k D : 4 they taméithe awful notescsainingd s oony of mitd angibody to whick - came a long procession of zombes, ! : : > In' vallima -Now Bigh Siowidte: hswil . \ag bean WM TAIL Nothing conl 4Ik with e hundreds of gombes, probably eight s . f aF ke e Tost-sols e b o had Jog which was thal or nine hundred. followed by sheep. E ; y O iras a wightnare. T90a Rl 01 R Opinion |Of these latter there musi have heen G folabd. ni the. Seneral lash ons which were gone. -8ma 10t be mo- over u thousand. Old men and hoys Z swering with angry snarls the vells ¥ en the brought up the rear of the gombes. ; R AT e i o hape a0 Ru They were quite close. . . ) th ugh, will rhfl«v 1 negatived .A»v" rm t will he quite | 1 called out ‘‘targwenya.” their . queried all in ons. For a moment| A : oes nal apmenl, . ? salutation on meeting. There was no . : A B (incaik s Rave saieoaniid |ini o e s e o i N'al nswer. “Wanataka | reply. Again I called “Targwenya : =3 y Appear wve s . i. a photo. a hunting crop- oh, the R . wer. “Wanataks in T . 4 the homa: there were wails from the thousand and nne things that racurre 1 and all 1 received in response were children, shrieks from the womer and the lady scowls from ome and all. The old the very air seemed thick with vells | Evan nay The fact was thai. we beinz the men even went as far as spitting on - S Shhaile T we: conla onlvlrest T wh to 3 Ao only w people available. they |the sround—a favorite way of empha ' "If the night would only end ol Ao tten seemed to have formed an idea that |sizing a curse. With the last of the . A D S (o ssteal e nich 1 e we could he held as hostakes until |sheep came women and young chil Beentuglly e din meam o A e passessedl Tox they brought zovernment to rea- | dren. They smiled derisively as we srv;«:""lfl i ‘.Arr':‘n’."u\fi-» I Hieeaintance: Lin s iotaucee- S0 from fheir point of view, and had | pagsed: oM HEEthimiaiEo atint dica sl - Bl donibyb vetiined On ibe piih Things look ugly.” I remarked to - ES S Eha it Fan e dvea Wit . ciple that woman's advie isn't A His answer was » command to first f; n treak ‘l’:)v the K. A Mush ym Breaks Concrete worth twopence to anvbody. but the the boys to accelerate the pace of | s S “TR b & r3 y USs R man is a fool who does not take it | the bullocks. St LRSS AR IICHEO0M a: NAoiuckatw T suppose A. asked what | advised At last the dreary journey was at Al bt e e R L L under the circumstances an end. About 4 o'clock we sighted “CLOSER THEY CAME. THE AWFUL NOTES GAINING IN VOLUME: NOW HIGH. NOW LOW. NOW SHRIEKING LIKE LOST SOULS. their quarters. alay W e Well,” T said. "1 think 1 should he |home. When we had crossed the river = ¢ > Were they hyenas or were they|concrete walk on Independence on the safe side and take stock. It |nNews was taken to the house and in|breaking point. The twenty-ive as.|so it cannot be our hoys, but it looks wanted no more. We lapsed into the homa, were hundreds of human Masai, do you think?" I asked of A A few days late 4 will necessitat our staving here a4 few minutes Manfbura was beside | karis were distributed round the boma. | just like Manibura's walk longer than we otherwise should; still | us. with many of the “boys.” A.made but to me it seemed & totally inade. = A. looked. then took my arm and led mittal kind of way nation revealed a mushr 1 think it would he wiser.” So take room for Manibura, who scrambled |quate protection. so great was the dis-|me into the tent. “Stay there: I will BFOWl of a dox. alone breaking the wer Sy oy e Sxisngaliiie Ve I have heard Masai make worse | inches in diame which stock we d into the buckboard tance between each one. A.'s wire|go and see,” he sald intense quiet and ne. maore than v < can | noise than that.” was all he said way up throngh o That night we left Siana. and went Well. what news, Manibura?’ A.|entanglements got on but slowly. for' [ could rot siay. so went out again How still it was and vet there, in ' tell they would come and end Two more nights we spent he ! concrete 2 on to another store also owned by A. demanded want of labor. and each night saw A d watched the boys as they greeted There was no moon, and we had to o It was the same old tale. “Don’t |and me with our guns doing patrol! A. Then 1 saw how grave he lonked very cautionsly stay here. Mem:sahib: yvou and Bwana | duty. feeling all the time it would be and. us thev came nearer, saw how . . . i One thing helped us considerably. &0 Away quickly.” Yes, the animals|as much good as nothing If the Lioni| worried was the expression on the - The Masai were under the impression | Were all well. did attack. A cloud of poisoned ar-|phoys' faces. and lost all hope. At last 11 1 that we were still at St o had | We passed another wreiched night | rows would make short work of us! | they were inside the boma, inside the . . been until this evening, when one or | taKing stock. left last instructions ok Ratil okl it Sherii. " Thes 6t win-ihe two had seen A. in the store. Doubt.|With the “boyvs.’” scrambled together | rINpg Masai. I less the roads tn Sotik were watched, & [eW of our belongings, and. mounted %0 how we managed to scramble ©N OUT horses. set off. through was a mystery A. had said prior to our start Which will be the best point to make for? welcomed us effusively, but their news expect i slow over, as the Jast affair did plied ar o will say-—-mere sentiment. P a woman i= no womar » whom sentiment. in some shape « safe the surface silence, the wail child. the low | he lert, s « at least He shook his head in a non-com. walk was found fo be broken believed, would not, | foor and told their tale i ETWEEN New York and Chi service orders are handed in 1 they simply could not. touch our| I listened like one frozen. They had it ThEAED (e air i e : home, where they had alwavs bheen veiched Nygara safely. Thev had night : : # our special air mail let E emergency landing f made welcome. where they had re.|laken the animals and put them on v a - h emerg ding ters will now gzo = connected hy direct telephane , Now they would doubtless show their | struck up a friendship with the zebra. ;. Sanplay ik es Ig e : . same. ~Yes. it was just the Bwana | 1. Stll full of regret for the bRautt | generomity and save our house and |insisted on following. When they gol o gt et Al 2 shouid i “hecome necestars and the Mem-sahib who were wanted [[U! place we had so lately left. al|ihe animals. The store—yes, perhaps |as far ax N'Dangasera two of the | “ o b it Lo Cos Clitten it was . a pilot or call on —no one else. The Bwana had bet. ©NC® sald. “Let us go back to Sotik."|they might burn that, but not our | boys had said what a pity it was to i £ g s, e signaled by B ri . J considered fantastic: but today we i Sl ter go quickly: the stors. and every T am afraid that is impossible.” A. | house. ot the Door inoffensive ani.| let All that flour and sugar fall into | fome Gere I i : are: One brilli T b thie store S Sl S ve Y e You know all approaches (o o T T e look upon the establishment of this s e e oot g Masai had been there only a few |SOUK are now watched. T think It| "t tyrned 1o A “Tell the ‘hoyve' to Bt T ShOBEBG I6 . was - sieatly | DEW. A mnalliservice an merely: ap. £ ercise caution N0 il Baras hours before and asked the price of | Wil e best to go straight in (o Garra | zo and get the animals” I said. “It|burned,” said A OUBEE NP AL BEEeIoRITIG 0 constitute an imperative order 10 ihe everything. The boys had told him, | ~AIOK. may not be too late. 1 don't want any No. not then. The Masai had warned | *Pooe fnd Hme L kY ot to alight and await further in when the Masai had replied, with a 0 there we were on our Way.|thing else, really and truly. You|the boys in the store that it would be | odm 'he DIERL o€ Julw 1ok a9 e o3 2 ructions laugh, “Tomorrow. if we do not get |Should we ever reach it? | know what the Masai are when their | burned, and told them not to touch :;f‘"’,,,'f"f:"",‘f’,“ ('\’fif:,":hl,":”',:;] : CAs they fiy westward over ihe the Bwana and Mem-sahib. we will ik blood lust Is uppermost: they will |anything. and had gone away and left | b of B KoY O wo great = G lighted airway. pilots carry sufficient come and take everything "HE moment we had finished break- | wreak their vengeance on anything.|everything behind. Then. when the ser'ic® e e e L f v A fuel, oil and water o take them “I thought the store would be quite fast we were off again. one “boy” | Fetch the animals and tell Manibura | boys tried to drag the bags out, the | oot commercial clties Every e oul . Bellefonte, Pa.. where the: i A At Tt o oy 3" I being sent on ahead to give warning|and the rest to come in and leave | Masai had come down the sides of the | siinns leaves cach of these. cities \ . Serviced. AC Clevetand anothe It is you and the Memsahib |of danger by suddenly throwing up |everything. B Hhs gice SO thpsn 1t Sl thin, [ ShTme Tekiie G oF e Cetee p S | with another plane they want,” was their reply his arme should he catch sight of| A. looked at me without speaking |They also cut the traces of the WARON | and nirives in the other at dawn. W Sy [terd fisht. He So it amounted to this the store Masai in the distance. for a moment. Then he said quietly. and lashed the gombes until they ran | * ga a8 L0 Lo0 Qo A ountry ; \ 3] | Bryan. Ohio. for would remain untouched if we volun At last we reached Garra Narok I don't think you have considered|gway. Then they took the ean which | (.o .Il‘(ir‘mm‘ M‘"m:'vm“‘\ T by 8 |on to Chic ase I tarily gave ourselves up. Maj. D. came out to meet us. He and | everything. Margaret! How can I tell |heiq the oll and turned it over the|jeot CECUIARS onnected with the ; 14 mevataet e Sombe (o) walked a bit lame, |n number of K. A. R.s (King's Afri.|the bovs to g0 to Nvgara when we are |noxes in which were mem-sahib's anl-| Ajantic" toam by an averland mail g - : Py e e ro A decided we must remain over. |can R'Men) weLs st ?:f 2 |»“|udol\\r"r;1:]"r! — the Masai may not be there | nals and hurned them all. The deer | " (i “q5na" b " (he primitive stage e o0 ik night to enable him to take stock |the rising. =—Would We &5 ‘U0 | D and the zebra they spearsd to death:|co.ep | ot de e 3 1 SS—r carrving. besides equipmer and give them a rest “homa” (meaning the inclosure) In| ~Ask them.' I said—‘ask them It |ffien'thev opened the cage in \hich ach and took 2§ dave. el - ‘ : B0 s o i the e officta’ i wer 0| apear: u e 4 p 3 So on through the T 11 o'clock he had finished. 1| g A D G mound, ehcircled by | their cages, all could be brought: the | "o au i e A" ome were | D/aving the elements and. hoatile In 2 o oo o shroush 4 really must lie down.” he said. three strands of barbed wire. A large | d0gs. of course. could walk.’ xilled! ‘other tan sway % dia working in relays, fraversing g » 3 {in sleep, the ai p ¢ i ©1 feel dead-heal.” There were sev. tent was placed at our disposal. We!| Still A. seemed undecided. 1 grew The housa> he asked. Rurned deserts and mountains. shortened the ) ¥ > _ i e Al fhoye eral sacks of rice resting against the | should probably have to remain there | impatient. “Do ask them.” I urged . g ol (Nim. They |time by one-haif and took the precious s 3 B s, NIl e Saten i wall, and on these he lay Tust two |some davs. Thare were four white| A. called the hovs, and explained | pad came awav. <o did not see it pouches through in 13 davs 1 e [ W0y Lovey Coities idtic Miyens hours only—then wake me. won't men. including A.. and about twentv-| What I wanted done. Did they think And so the narrative went on. Much With the eompletion of the Union R ; RAETHA L JOF ekt -LAIA trkiihatbar ¥ou? And vou had hetter have vour five “askaris’: the rest had gone with [there was any danger so far as they o¢'ir I did not hear. or, hearing, did | Pacific Railroad. in 1869, the time y ¢ AV B winds and terrible cold. Rut as he ®un ready. vou may need it. There | Maji D | were concernad? e anderstand. What a death: My | Was Still further reduced. Faster and : g climbs down from his seat in the is-a small crack against the door| The first night was one of anxiety 'None at all,” was their prompt re-| oo animals. all gone: Every one of | faster the mail trains went. until the 7 early wn, chilled through and wit through which vou can see what is|2nd torment unspeakable. With us ply. How delighted 1 felt! them so docile, they had never experi- | time was shortened to §7 hours, with / 2 £ ppd (St limbs. he will have a ser of going on outside. If von see any. | Wasa boy whose mother was a Masai| ‘““Then you will go?" I said y and to meet such|An average of 90 to 120 hours from 2 5 . duty well done. for he ws that By & Siaidbunior. any obithose ek | W N'dio, mem-sahib—n dio." came the |5 death was unbelievable, ocean to ocean # 9 the banker in Chicago. when he gars come about, wake me at once. ery morning this “boy” would go | quick response. Ah! the relfef I felt! =~ yju ra 1aid a hand on my knee But the advance of man in over 2 . 2 reaches his office a few hours later I promised. took my gun, sat down |outside the homa to get new The | The next night the boyx came in .what could I do. mem.sahib? 1 was | €OMIng the so-called material obs > : ; = E % GRS an His Aick the Eoiortast on a pile of blankets, found the crack | $econd morning he came back with |from Siana, and. in the morning. those | . axe vako' (alone) Poor bov, one | cles of mountain and plain was v g letter which was written the which commanded a good view of our | the report that the Masai were going | from = N'Dangasera. Three of our|against a host imagined until the advent of the air BB | before by another member of tents and prepared to keep my watch. | 10 attack the boma that night | stores were burned, they reported, and | rhay got up and want out, and A.| Plane. Since then marvelous strides s in Néw York Twelve o'clock—by the light of a| Yes," said A. “The Morani or the :v;‘nn,\hhelt;nxm; to the Indlans. Had|gave them food. 1 sat still. frying 1o have been made In July, 1924, after < pi : match I glanced at my watch, then | Ld0ni2” ey heard anvthing of Nygara? No,|heq N o a1 tramedy. My ani.| years of ploneering experiment. the ONE OF THE GREAT FL % 2 ) = alwas dark again. At haifpast 1| The Lioni.” wae the reply. nothing. That morning the boys | ool e drea i gone: ANl the | Post Office Department inauguraied T o L DITEION Unscientific Character: I struck another. Were two hours How many?" asked A | helped A. put up the barbed wire: by |[itfle (reasures one collects, that could | @ through transcontinental day-and JEl “R. 1 B > FIEL and a half ever so long hefore? A About eight hundred.” said the | night four more strands had been | be replaced: but 1 scarcely gave |MEAt air mail service from coast to HE numerous queer characters : X boy." oo | never replaces bl ad once more the cont been established, and is the starting | sible danger of their being obscured 1 cricket kept up a continual chirping added. The Lioni had not kept their|them a second thought at the time. coast. And once more the continent A , ; g g b ek The Lioni are the very young men.|word—the Masai boy could not sav iy thoughts were all of the poor Was made to shrink. this time from | {00 Lying on a zentle slope near |either by ground fogzs or by low-hang whe.populate the puges of Charles who fight only with bows and arrows, | why. Perhaps they were walting for | rumb crciqures. that had trusted me |87 hours to 32. What a change from | New Brunswick, N. J. the boundaries |ing clouds, for which the region is |Dickens' hooks are correctly depicted breathing. so soundly did he sleep. | Which are verv nearly alwavs pol-|others to join them. D e s the ‘way {he | the dava of the stagecoach, when 28 | of ite 100 or more acres are marked |noted. ‘ax’a ‘result of converging |from the viewpoint of the lavman How were they zetting on at home? | %0ned- The Morani, as we knew. were| That day we received news that the !yiacui showed their gratitude! At that | days were necessary! e e i e e e sl HReel UNL e IBInke he L avere they getting on at home? |4 way ' somewhere sating meat And | ielograph wires had heen cut: there |mament. In the bitternens of my heart,| On the first anniversary of et B i [the Great Lakes to see, hut not when viewed earied out thelr thren(s 1t ey |drinking blood untll they worked|was no communication now with|T vished them every evil that could | wonderful service. which has no coun. |\ CREEUUS eadquarters and| when i. was learned that these two | specialist in mental diseases, savs | i g th themselves into a frenzy of excite-| Najrobi. KEvery night, as we went our | Vil that could | ferpart in the world for distance and [IWo great hangars., housing from 6 |weather phenomena never occurred | Medical Journal and Record. This T Do MY | ment. and then they would take some | rounds, gun in hand, we said “Good 5:'25’;."1‘“ Ll e diffieuity. another great forward step (10 10 planes. are located in one cor- | gimultaneously & solution for the |the opinion of Dr. Charles W. | would do his best for them. 1 knew. |handiing. So the Lioni had: been de-|bye" to ench other, for there was no 4 *ox ok o was taken by the Post Office Depart- | PNer. Private telephone wires connect|prohlem was found in the alteration | professor of psychia i bl puted to attack the boma { knowing it the morning would see us ment in aerial mail_transportation. |the feld with the New York air mail of lights between the mountain tops |sity of Pennsylvania Medical Sche Bt “”’,‘“\““'\.\"\ ura ARAINSt A | Al the natives and the Goanese | qajive THE next day Maj D. returned.| xow Jetiars leaving New Yo at & (radio station. and the various In 5 |and the valleys, so that when the |who has applied to these fiction A PH"."'; ”‘;"" \;r ”"" ‘jw" ""T"“"[F in ('.a;rn Snm\ were m}:rl\ Before going on sentry duty I al There had heen a fight: the big | 5'clock'in the evening will be delivered :[:"r'l.« "fi"\wf‘*’ovu fi\:l‘ Hrnnf?\n-l« %nd| mountain © light was obscured by | acters the methods which he us e Bt slean untn ) p felt!|that they ‘had better come into the |ways put a bottle of veronal insids|#un had done execution amang them. | in Chicago the next morning by the | THMCEER, TS ACE 1o tyfileal: 6t ‘tHe | cluin the onW.1h the valley wolld b6 | fagnosing: mental disorders when ihle. »oma that n!zfn, and at | "fnvkd“' the bodice of my dress—that. and a|much to their consternation. The | first regular carrier delivery, or p\n“v\vv “\ML p«: \!\\n,vfl-mn‘\d between | vigjhle, and the reverse would be true called into a criminal court as ar Diic tants Had Been put up exacty | Lrre Joined Dy simpciora croud ANty iottle o portiwing liniWhichits I & Rom retlinhad wItHOHRNY trophies | earlier if sent with a special delivery | New York and San Francisco. Fiien: cHnkine oea’ i the Slowes | steoiat B vatet tha lsiirs and Tow. hlo Be e “““ eyes "t"‘ ed‘""’"“,-“’ur‘h ““:'_“_ take it. The Masai should not take —shields, spears and the much-deco-| stamp. _Scattered along the miles to | light Dickens was an artist.” savs Di faint moonlight, came three fgures | rapresenting tHe shopkeeping element, | ™® *!IVe: cated breastplates and headdresses.| 1t ix with pride that Americans |Chicago are 130 powerful electric| At each of the 32 landing fields be. | Burr, “and not a specialist in mental that froze me Instantly. Morani | Then came the natives. Men, women rEr e |There was me longer any need for us| contemplate such an accomplishment. | heacons. on towers 30 to 50 feet high, | tween New York and Cleveland are medicine. Just as the A without a doubt hey stood nut |and children, they simply poured in N the seventh day the hoys we had | !0, acCt as sentries. A E To make this possible. the hazard- | to guide the airmen on their way: caretakers trained to make weather acior on the stage is 1 traight and clean-limbed in the shaft | If g e i ¥ > s .'he next day our boy returned withous treecrowned Alleghenies have | while between New York and Cleve. | observations. These report to head. | death ns the physician see straight and clean-limb sha If ever a creche was needed, it was sent with the wagon returned. Il,. naws that the Lioni would attack | heen studded with brilliant and power- | land alone. the country which in-{quarters conditions of weather, winds, seen with an artist's eve is of light A there, for the wail of the infants was | saw them in the distance, and called | iyt night. Everything was settled. | ful heacons, to guide the air couriers |cludes all the mountainous territory | clouds. barometer, etc iS5 B i profeakis (cainadiini e S bty then | positively nerve-racking, when one's ito A. Qf course it is my Imagina-irpey were now 1.000 strong. {of the night and warn them of dan- | along the route, are 32 emergency | Besides the emergency landing |learning of the schools. DeAth as Mmpther: and another they [nerves were already strung almost toltion.” T said, “for there is no wagon,| 4 had finished the wire ntAngle- | gerous peaks and cresis as they wing landing fields to serve as havens of |flelds, there are five main términal |really happens. acted on the stage ments. Nothing much bigger than a | their way through the darkness: and |refuge. fields—Hadley, N. .. Bellefonte, Pa.:|would be flat, stale and uninterestir Lkitten could get through., emergency landing fields have literally | An important feature entering into [Cleveland, Ohio: Bryan, Ohio. and | Dickensdescribesa fairyland—not se When night came, silefice was im-| been carved out of the mountain | the location of the beacon lights and |Mavwood at Chicago. These are all dom a fairsiand into which devile have | posed on every one ere must be no | sides to afford them refuge In time |the emergency landing fields was the equipped with radio masts, and all |intruded. This is the secret of his | talking at all | of mechanical trouble | necessity for placing the heacons |ships of the air mail service are dis-| wide app D e U [ One of the K. A ria s :;nd ex-| Near New York, Hadley Field has |where there would be the least pos.|patched in and out by radio. Formal and lasting through time. amined our guns. A. asked for an-| other one, It was brought to him.| | “When mine gets too hot to hold you| |can load this one for me,” said A.| No. it’s no use vour having another; vour shoulder will never stand it. You | Will do more gond loading mine.” So! |1t was agreed. | The natives simply poured in. All| seemed to have heard that the Masai | meant to attack. Whatever had kept | |them from doing the previous| nights we did not know, but we were | | more than grateful that they had walted. They would get a warm ré !ception if they came. We had nearly 100 K. A. R.s, all of whom had seen ervice in German East Africa, to say | nothing of nine Furopeans, some of | them crack shots. | silently ammunition was served out. | |The K. A. R.s had taken their meais at |the posts they had occupied all day, and excellent meals they were. A.and T sat at the door of our tent, our guns resting on our knees. | “How I wish they would come-and | get this awful uncertainty over," { whispered A. “Have'vou _hte . vero- | | na1?” ! | “Yes! Don't worry,” I replied. i “I am awfully sorry T allowed vom | {10 come: it has heen no life for a { white woman. T blame myself more | “INTO THE FAINT MOONLIGHT ;vlmn 1 can tell you." A. went q 9 5 “Don’t say another word CAME THREE FIGURES THAT |plied. “I have never known what | FROZE ME INSTANTLY." life was until I came out here. It | | has hsén perfect every minute. until { & fortnight ago. ; “Well, sha hands, Margarei! X el i You have been a real good pal.” ; 4 That from A., | knew. was the Convrizht by Underwood & Underwood. highest praise’ 1 could have. 3! THE FIRST NIGHT PLANE OF THE MAIL SERVICE LEAVING HADLEY FIELD, NEW, BRUNSWICK, N. J,, FOR THE FLIGET TO CHICAGO. With the morning we came to N'Dangasera. There the tale was the close to my ear. Reyond that no sound. 1 could not” even hear A.'s (his | are_obstructions, when red lizhts are