Evening Star Newspaper, August 1, 1926, Page 73

The Misty Pathway . By FLORENCE RIDDELL (Copyright, 1024; by Fiorence Riddell.) SYNOPS Richenda_Peterson wing £6.000 1n A news decides to spend It {0 4 of Africa holds the greates omise Sdventure nd she books passage {or fien' the boat stos At Gi- a’ Koes off alone L0 inspect pwn, and iy accosted by & native. Who Griehtens ber. Angus Brogie. one 0f her fellow u.hn‘nzc\! «cuss ber from the man. Arrived at M the first person Richenda sees s 't Fairways. @ noted orer, ce E haunted her ducea to h'm by Luctlle who has deliberately AUUBID LA M i 1 it soin them & hyn'ing expedition They “start the rney Into the wilderness. Richends grows Diclons, of Lucille lels R ad. acts stransely. but iy, even thous! a he Toves her He is Riche maey ile Sudde da. rid of that woman. You've at onco’ And Wiehenda creature of destiny. consents Angus Brodie Dass & evrprise visit cautions Richenda 0 o vowly Hie asks her to promise Lo come to him (¢ sh ever needs his help. The o.areaee s verformed. and a few hourg later HRichenda overhears Brett and Luctile quureling violentlv T fusinz & bribe and Brett, patorta that his dead % some time Lucille, furious because e has Xepl this from her. threateus to tell ichenda they have been lovers. = Bretl asks what shs take to disappear. Lucille admits she 18 tn dificulties about a ‘forged heck. and agrees to go if Brett will pay up or. her. Stuned and distllusioned, from camp in & motor sar. Temembers her promise to Angus, and directs & native driver to take her to Lambogru. the chauffeur gets After a e n ecling she is_u ichenda flees n a daze she . she manages to keep Yesterday's Sanctuary! HERE had been that little affalr down by the river last month when a fever-ridden European just—escaped with his me 14 of their brothers and s anguishing in penitence at this very moment for that. Yes. the might of the white people behind this fragile woman was very great. Some 20 pairs of eyes suddenly flickered evasively as tw~ score of hands went out io urge “Elizabeth” still farther on her rattling way. White blood had won! Richenda. giggled suddenly as the fact came home to her. All those big, 'PRESENTLY HE WAS brawny savages cowered Into obedi- ence before h eight-and-a half-stone It was reaily funny. a colombi!” they were chanting good-humoredly again. One more rise in the road. She caught her breath a8 they topped it. This awful count, of ups and downs! One more shriek- ing, rattling career of descent, Some- times it seemed that all four wheels skipped bodily in the air. Yells, smells, prods, she went through the whole gamut of it again. Then came a sweeping turn into a yet narrower path, the car within an ace of “turn- ing turtle.” Then a ripping, erunch- ing, tearing grind—Ali Mutagayo had found the brakes at iast, and then a sudden flare of light through an open doorway, a voice: “And what in the name of all that's wonderful-— And Richenda tumbied out ihrough that forest of outstretched palms full into the amazed arms of Angus Brodie. He bore her through the crush that opened left and right before a series of kicks from his heavy-booted foot. Cold, hunger, misery and fright had sent her again into merciful oblivion, and Brodie, his kind brows puckered in marveling consternation, earried her straight through the living room of his tiny two-roomed, single-planked bungalow into the yet smaller apart- ment which formed his bedroom. It was long moments before she came to hereel? agair. He was stand- ing by her mide, chafing her hands, holding smeling maits to her nostrils, agitatedly, after the manner of inex- perie; medes, trying to do half a dozen othes ttangs at once to restore her to her senses. He gave & sgn of Immense relief as her eyes slowly opened. She looked so ashen so fragile, lying there mo- tionless, with the disordered waves of her short black hair tumbling around her quiet face He raised her, curving his arm be- hind her head, held brandy to her quivering lips, spoke low, soothing words. Full consciousness returned to her—the fresh agony of those hours before in the remembrance of what had urged her to this man’s side, and she turned her face suddenly, like a little child, into the crook of his elbow and burst into a passion of tears. He waited silently until the sterm had passed, then asked her quietl “What is \he trouble, Richenda? But so great was her distress and weakness that she could give him no coherent answes. “Angus, Angus, vou told me to come 1o you if ever I wanted help. So I've come now. You must let me stay here for a little while. Oh, please! “Why, of course, you must stay he soothed. “There’s nowhere else you could go at this tir.e of night, and if there were I shouldn’t Jet you 80 _in this state.” It was true, His nearest woman neighbor, some four miles across coun- try, was a person whom Brodie strongly dishked He had no intention of sub; ing Richenda to ber idle, scandaldoving tongue. “Angus, Angus, if they come, you'll bolt the door and keep them out—-" “They? Who?” “That woman and—and—-"" “Do you mean Mrs. Davenant and Fairways?” She nodded wordlessly. “But,” he stammered, ‘‘Richenda, I though you cared for Fairways! I thought you were going to marry him soon.” “I thought so, t00,” she answered the first part of his speech, “but, Angus, I hate him now! I never want to see him again! Angus, he is bad— bad right through! I-—I—-" She was trembling violently now, white-lipped. The culminative strain of the last few hours was rising to 1ts crisis. Something of this suddenly became apparent to Brodie. “Not another word!” he commanded. “You shall tell me all there is to tell in the morning. I:e down quietly ‘while I get rid of that howling mob outside. Then we'll have some hot soup ready for you—I shouldn't be surprised to §nd that you haven't had & meal for . ind we'll tuck you arm and comfy, and tomorrow vou can talk to your heart's content. He smiled at her as he paused fur 4 moment in the doorway. Then she heard his voice among the importunate crowd outside, and presently the noise died fn the receding sound of depert- ing bure feet, one list delighted whoop of thanks and guod-night greetings from Ali Mutagayo and his helper as hey departed to spend the night in servants’ quarters at the back of house. Kwa heiri,” their voices came to “Kwa heiri,” Brodie's deeper tones. Then she heard him moving around the living room, Came the pop of a ® | lighted spirit stove, the swish of pour: ing liquid, the clink of a spoon, and presently he was back at her side with a steaming bowl queening the center of the tray he bore. While she took the meal Brodie was a pair of gay pajamas over the foot of the bed beside a cozy dressing gown, putting a ewer of hot water on the washstand. “More?"” he smiled as he surveyed the foodless tr: “No, thanks,” A faint pink flush was on her cheeks now. Her eyes were heavy with fatigue. ““Then good-night, little girl. Sleep well.” .And without another word he was gone. But sleep did not come easily to Richenda. For an hour she lay with her pink pajamaed arms tossing un- easily above the blankets, a thousand traught mind. And this should have been her wed- ding night in the tiny camp on the solitary hillside, under the laughing stars—alone with the man she loved, Her wedding night! And she was’' here alone in another house, Resting. with no fear now, under the kind protection of a man on whom she had no claim—fled from the one with whom, by the law of the land, she was made one! She heard Brodie stirring softly in the living room as sleep claimed her. And Brodie, teeth dug well into the stem of his worn briar, was | electric arc zing deep into the glow of the reddening BACK AT HER SIDE, logs in the grateless fireplace, thank- ing his God that he had been at hand to serve this woman, who filled his every waking though (Continued tomorrow.) TWO STEEL STRUCTURES TO HAVE WELDED JOINTS Five and One Story Buildings First in World Designed to Substi- tute Fusion for Rivets. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, July 31.—The Welde with his grotesque hood and will supplant the noisy riveting hammer in the erection of two steel buildings for the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. Awarding of contracts for two arc- welded steel buildings at the com- pany’s East Pittsburgh and Sharon plants was announced today by W. 8. Rugg, vice president of the company, before representatives of various steel concerns and technical societles in- vited here to witness test of arc- welded steel joints and colums at the Carnegie Institution of Technology. The experts was told the Sharon building, a five story mill -t structure, will be the first practi application of arc-welding in the build- ing of multiple-storied structures, and will be the first building in the world with all joints and members designed for arc-welding. The East Pittsburgh building, a one-story laboratory, will be erected partly of scrap roof trusses, a plan declared economically unfeas- able heretofore. KRIM, “BROKE,” FRANCE SEEKS A CHEAP EXILE Deposed Riffian War Lord Denies Big Bank Deposits In Italy and England. | By the Associated Press, FEZ, French Morocco, July 31— Abd-el-Krim, the erstwhile Moroccan chieftain, is *“broke,” and the new French government, embarked upon a program of strictest economy, is earnestly seeking a suitable St. Helena in its warm-climate colonies, where the former war lord may be securely guarded and he and his family main- tained with the least cost to the state. Krim has confessed to the French authorities that he has only between 500,000 and 600,000 paper francs left out of the contents of the two iron- bound cases with which he departed from Targuist, most of his Spanish “pieces of eight” having been exacted as ransom by tribesmen during his pllgrimage to Taza. The stories about his formidable bank deposits in Italy and England and other places are described by Krim as pure legend. He has shown account books to prove that he is far from wealthy. The government is hesitating be- tween Reunion Island and the Island of Martinique as a dwelling place for the Riffian leader. It has queried the governors respecting living costs on the islands. —— gl Most Widely Sold Book. From the Outlook Magazine. The Bible in the English language is the most widely sold book in the world. Whether or not it is as widel, read we do not know, but the Ameri- can Bible Society reports the remark- able total of 10,500,000,000 copies sold in 1925, This breaks the record fer all previous years. Increases were shown in_China, Japan and through- out the Far East. Russia alone de- lined to t Bi an o mulmlth ible as > moving quietly about the room, laying. thoughts hurtling through her dis- | CHESTNUT IS PASSING. Famous Appalachian Tree Is Re- ported Near Extermination. The problem of using up in the next few years the chestnut trees growing on the 83 million acres of South Ap palachlan woods is confronting the United States Forest @ervce and the forestry departments of the various Sta today. Dr. G, F. Gravat and R. P, Marshall, forest pathologists of the United States Department of Agriculture, estimate that 80 per cent of all the chestnut trees in more than half of the South Appalachian vegion will be blighted by 1950. By 1935 It is believed that nine-tenths of the forest area will have passed that stage. Because the 'umber shortage is al- ready being felt in the United States, owners of chestnut trees are urged by the Department to utilize their timber hefore the rotting that follows the blight has caused heavy logses. Tests made by the United States Forest Products laboratory have shown that the blight alone does not impair the strength or durability of the wood. But like & tree ringed with an axe, a blight killed chestnut, when left standing s soon rotted by the wood decaying fungi that gain a foothold in the dead iree. The survey of the blighted area which was begun in 1924 and is still going on, has shown that she fatal in- fection has now reached the southern | the commercial chestnut area. No practical control is known. The ' organism that is killing the American chestnut by the wholesale i8 @ foreign fungus that was brought into this country on contaminated nursery stock from Asfa a few years ago. In its native home the fungus was not as deadly as in America for the trees had acquired a sort of im- munity. Many foreign varieties of chestnut are being imported now with the hope of finding a blight-resisting kind to replace the-ones destroyed. The American chestnut supplies half of the tanning extract used in this country, ip the manufacture of leather, and with ‘the species facing extermination, a new economic prob- lem must be met, it ig stated. Unlucky for Japanese Girls. Fram Capper's Mazazine, ; Japanese girls who are 20 years old this year are so bad-tempered as to unfit them for wives, This Is an an- clent superstition. ‘The unlucky year occurs every 61 years and although faith in this hoodoo is waning there still are parents who will not allow their sons Lo marry girls under thig cloud. This year a great number of the unlucky girls have taken up pro- fessional work in the belief they are doomed tp remain single. Marriage is considered so important in Japan that thousands of Japanese girls, fear- ing a life of loneliness commit sulcide It should take less courage to commit matrimony and let the hoodoo do its worst. Modesty Matter of Custom. From Capper's Magazine. It has been the custom at Moscow for generations for the yeung people to bathe together in the rivers, in a state of nature, and they may be seen disporting themselves any Sunday afternoon in hot weather, writes Paul Edenshard in the Nation. In the ¥o- rum, Hugh Kennedy tells: how 10 years ago an American woman who Wore transparent sleeves in her dress drew a crowd on a London stre which he rescued her with the aid of o policeman and a taxicab. Gauzy sleeves were the fashion in New York. hut London hasn't seen them. Lasg year, 10 years later, Mr. Kennedy found himself |n the same London strest. “Everywhere one looked were girls, not In gown with transparent sleeves, but in gowns with no sleeves at all; in gowns that didn’t come an inch below the knee; in gowns deveid of neeks and only very transparently supplied with backs. Yet 10 years be- fore, one lone girl, clad in a fashion which would now be regarded as al- most Quakerish in its modesty, had created something bordering on a pan- ic in this very place.” To Build Big Dam. A new dam 32 feet higher than the famous one bearing the name of the late President Roosevelt is about to rise in the Colorade River and close a narrow gorge to back up water for the double purpose of irrigation and power generation. It is the Horse Mesa powyer dam 17 miles below Roosevelt, Ariz. The structure will be 312 feet high, Bedrock, 34 feet, bglow the water level, has been cleaned for the dam foundation. A series of holes was bored 50 feet deeper and cement injected under high pressure so as to fill any pos- sible fissures and thus prevent leaks in the future. The dam proper will begin to rise at once. As and Zythos Enrolled. Though the name Aaron Aarons usually is the first name on any alphabetical list in which it appears, the roster of the Australian forces which went overseas during the World War started off with the leader of all ists, says the Detroit News. It was the name of a half-cast islander who had enlisted with the “Diggers” and bore the simple name Aa. The last name on the name list was Zythos. “Hearth Money."” “‘Hearth money,” levied in England between 1653 and 1690, was a tax on domestic fires, and had to be paid te the king. The clergy had their in- nings also, by levying a tax known as that of “smoke farthings.” Many business concerns in Brazil are falling in the worst business de- pression felt there in many years. We Built a $#10,000,000 Body Plant to Make This New Essex Possible i l m"‘llfi lfry or 'lfiu ; ui E—— PR— The New ES With All-Steel, Bolted and Riveted Clear Vision Body 795 F. O. B. 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