Evening Star Newspaper, October 22, 1926, Page 40

40 = Taila (®1926. by Eusene MacLean.) 1921 THE EV. N!} STAR, WASHINGTON, P. C. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESE > Candidates to Visit Carnival. Special Dispatch to The Star HYATTSVILLE. Md.. October 22 Republican candidates in Prince Georges County will be guests tonight of the Firemen's-Odd Fellows' carnival here. The function will close tomor row night. R BY POP MOMAND He Fined ne 38.80 For BEwnG LATE W THE MORNINGS, AMp I DRew ¥1S AGAINST MY SALARY LAST TUt3Day SO 1 OME HIM FoRTY SiX centdt Can YOU SPARE A COUPLE OF NO DANGER PA — You See ne RUBIN DOCKED He ¥ I.ee FOR STAYING HOME YEP I'M GONNA BRING My DAUSHTER N MONDAY TO START A BANK ACCOUNT ' SHES GOT a SWE PROMISED TO SAVE MOST of HER BALARY THIS WEek — T HOPE SHE DOESNT PASS A WAT STORE ON T WAY HoME! AH! I HeAR HER COMING IN NOW — "Now JULIE, YoUD BETTER GIVE ME THAT 335 So WE CAN HOP over TO TH DANK OB THAT Pays sr&':)lrsls OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS. | in which the silence descended like a Scotland's national costume is worn A stranger callinz himeslf Omar the | welght. HER THIRTY Five MONDAY MORNING THO-DAYS: THE: Pafciamneonee to the viiiaze of Jereel in| ““Lally lstened, quivering, her own Rioksiniuece P Beks PA? by King George, his sons. and most soclety people when in the kingdom 29, a thnnan #Qidier named Antonius lying with | face tinged with the glow that eame | ken lez fn . W] the home of Laila an | ho. despised of the towns- fringe of the village. | mones. promises him | e ol A viaiaie ream's he despiced Laiia tatkme with makes an_implied threat. | tha couch where Antonius & the concr of his mantle. | ver lies asleen. and lift ~{(Continued from Yestarday's Star) | CHAPTER XI. | HE soldier moved his head, | within the mantle that en veloped it Laila polsed | motionless, until he settled again into slesp. With quick, exploring fingers she found his money | belt, and it was the work of only an instant ‘o sever it with her knife. Cautirusly she withdrew it, pressing down the soft cushion so he could not | feel the linen rasp against his flesh. | ‘When the bs!t was freed, she knotted the open ends, and thrust the whole into the pouch that she cagried under her robe. She knelt, cofidering a moment, and then drew from his belt the jeweled dagger that he wore and concealed It in her bosom. Rising, she sped from place to place in her room, her bare feet making no sound on the hard-packed floor. With a bundle of clothing, gathered from the chest and from beneath her own pallet, she slipped out of the house, without u backward glance at the sleeping eoldier S turrad toward the rear of the and halted | The Pharisee, whom she had met before, was stalking along the foot of the cliff: he shrank back, until he had gone his w Tnen, moving swiftly, she set out | for the slope of the hills that flanked the cliffs—the same slope up which the e had gone not long before. Villagers were moving around in the distance, but at 500 yards one woman of those days looked much like an- other. Her anxious backward glances showed that no one was paying heed to her flight. Once in the shelter of the lower- most trees, she sat on the ground, and put on a palr of sandals that she had carried upon her arm on leaving the house. Then she shook out the eontents of Antonius’ money belt. Picking yp the three heavy pieces of gold, she examined t! . and tied them separately in a bit torn from the linen belt. The silver coins she dropped loose in the bottom of her pouch. She readjusted the bundle of extra cloth and, rising, started again upon her way. Three hundred paces farther she caught sight of the slave, cutting a low-hanging limb from a tree. Sink ing te her hands and knees behind & bush, she waited ‘until he started away with the branch. Hep further journey was through alternate paiches of woodland and open, barren rock, on a steeply ascend- ing dope. More than orice she stopped to pant one of the | east of 1. 'She had atopprd to leok bhack at the redly ting aun. It showed her the hills of Samarla in ‘Lo far distance. mantled with clouds foretold another rain. | Now, as darkness settled over the | mountains, only the gray glenm of the watercourse showed on the plain be- | hind her, | A spring bubbled from the mountain- side, and here she spread out her mantle, to rest. Where the water eoursed: down, on its way to the val ley, there was a continuous growth of | bushes and small trees. but on each alde of thix green path there enly blank clay sofl and jutting ba boulde; Searching through her effects, she found she had neglected to bring food. | With Oriental fatalism she shrugged her shoulders, and lald down. Above her was an outeropping rock, mikini: below nor range, ummit of the mountain. She wartched its black outline against the sky a8 she lay, and It was the last thing she heheld as she fell asleep. An hour passel; two hours: three; tour. Suddenly she started awake. and st throwing her mantle from her face. %linking. she lonied about her. A red glow tingea the blackness of the hillsid Her eyves lifted tongue of flame hanging rock Fire meant the presence of human beings, and at night in Palestine, human beings meant danger. She shrank hack and watched. The tongue of flame leaped higher. A shadowy figure moved to the edge of the rock, a fet black_silhouette against the crimson glow. The woman | shook wlih fear. Another figure | moved between her and the fire—this one ctad only in a loin cloth, and hear- ing 1n one hand a long staff. The point of a howed on the over- Now came a sound of volces chant- | ing. The voices were men's and the ehant was slow, with abrupt paus | song. from above. Figures moved past the blaze with increasing frequency, step- [~ ping to the cadence of the barbaric They moved faster and faster, and the strains of the chant came to her ears with a throbbing beat that in- creased in in‘ensity and speed. The words were in a strange tongue, but she shuddered ana pressed her her ears. he hegan to crawl for- ward. A bush projected from the gouth of the rock where the weird figures danced, but high enough so the scene about the fire might be over- looked from there. A rough way led her hiding place to the clump of bramble. Stopping now and again, to crouch upon the ground as one or another of the man above paused at the brink of the rock, she made her way slowly | to the Lush Lying fat upon litted her head. The dancing had ceased. About the glowing fire was a circle of men prostrated. their heads resting on their folded arms. It looked to her, from where she lay, as if they all were scarlet The flame licked up, and died down; rose and fell again. The circle of men uttered one word in unison. There was the ground, she silence, as the figure reached its full height. and deliber- ately—so deliberately that Laila scarce could trace the movement—raised its arms above its head. The firelight blazed. and Laila could | see for an Instant the outline, of a | man’s smooth-shuven cheek, between the upraixed arms. A long robe fell | from his shoulders to the ground, and | the wide sleeves dropped from his elbows. His forearms were bare, and on the fingers of his hands she could | catch the flash of jewels. | He waved his hands, and another word, spoken as if in one voice, came from the bowing circle. Laila was twitching in a nervous chill. One of the kneeling men rose long enough to cast something on the red coals. A blaze, green and blue at its | base. brilliantly crimson above, rose 28 fé€t in the air. For the first time figure spoke. *Laila gasped. The volce wa: BOHEMIAN HOP FLAVORED the standing the RICHEST STRONGEST BEST HIGHEST IN QUALITY: ASK ANY DEALER As EBONITE Strings SoitWi Ebonite costs a few cents more. It was made for the mo- torist who wants the best. Just say “EBONITE” Re Sure You Get It. 20 Cents a Shot ONE_FILLING WILL "LAST K From the Checkerhoard pump only, and in five-pound eans. At All Good Dealers. — = (1TS SHREDDED OIL ) R ISSIONS cREAR AXLES [BINITE § sAvERSON OIL WORKS T OLUMBIA 28 | circle by the fire. SAVINGS A CCOUNT POR you - You MAY 3PEMD I1T! voice of Omar, who called himself the Persian. The words were strange to her, but she knew the tone. In fright, she looked behind her, and started to wriggle backward, away from the rock and its circle of men. The standing figure whirled and faced her. “Laila,” boomed the voice of Omar. She subsided, limp and helpless, her face pressed against the earth. 5 “Laila,” said the rich, stern voice again. Two men leaped to their feet, and scrambling down the rock, ran to where the woman lay, guided by Omar's cutstretched finger. They took her by the arms, and dragging her to her feet, took her with them to the Not another man moved. Omar dropped his arms, and gazed upon her. She was on her knees, up- held by the hands of the men who had brought her. Her neck was weak with fright, and her head moved uncertainly as she tried to meet his gaze. She now was to his right, so the firelight displayed to her his face and costume. His robe was threaded with gold, that glinted in the rays of the Physicians and Surgeons This Sterilized Bathroom Paper We sterilize Northern Tissue 20 times at 250° of heat. It comes to you as soft and white and clean as surgical gauze. Recommended by ‘There is no added cost to you for We Feature ‘Stylish Stouts w Mo require extra ses are coming 1o the Lib: that we have ssortment - of elothes sive youthful slenderizing lines. A\the Just Rec heap of burning coals. Strange de- signs ornamented it. He wore'a circlet on his head that seemed of silver, though it too showed red by the light of the flame. In the center of it was the emerald that he had worn each time before. The snake bracelet was on his wrist, and to her affrighted eves it seemed alive and moving. He looked at her a long time motionless. Then he raised his right arm and pointed. The men drew her backward to a rock that stood beyomd circle of kneeling men. They seated her against it, and switt] bound her feet and wrists together. Omar watched, impassive, his jew eled crown and glistening robe bril- liant against its background of night. The men took a scarf, and prepared to bind her eyes, Then Omar spoke again. “Laila,” said he. “no woman ever before has witnessed these rites, nor any part of them. No woman shall witness them again.” His hand moved, and the men bound the scarf about her head, shutting off the scene. The men hoomed forth the signal word they had uttered before Omar’'s voice responded, and with gathering speed, went into a chant. 5: New ipment v;' Fall ived Don’t deny yourself the pleasure of w Laila's head dropped forward. Thsre was an interval of silence; then a crash. & She was asleep. ‘When Laila opened her eyes, it was to the morning light, gray behind low clouds on Gilboa. The scarf was not around her eyes. sShe moved her hands, but they still were bound. Her glance fell upon her feet. They, too, were tied, as the men had left them the night before. Cautiously she turned her head, and then cried out in terror. “Omar!"” (Continued in Tomorrow's Star.) Charges “Love Nest.” Justice Bailey has granted an inter- locutory decree of absolute divorce to Mrs. Agnes C. Tholl from Arthur Tholl, a plumbing contractor. They ere married September 1900, and have four children. The wife charged that her hushand maintained a “lova nest” at Virginia Highlands. She way represented by Attorney William J. Crane. Platinum has been found on the Gold Coast of Africa. OUTFIT NUMBER 1 FIVE DOLLARS DOWN BUYS FIVE DOLLARS DOWN BUYS A Fur Trimmed Coat .\ .$35.98 A Fall Hat ... . 798 A Silk Chemise .. FIVE DOLLARS DOWN BUYS A Fine 5ilh Dress. .....$29.98 A Smart Foll Ht. ..... 998 A Silk Chemise . . 598 WIFE OF POLICEMAN ,TO BE GIVEN PENSION Commissioner Dougherty's Appeal Brings Aid—Former Officer in Asylum. A personal appeal to -Maj. Gen. Frank T. Hines, director of the Veterans' Bureau, by Commissioner Proctor L. Dougherty for a pension for Mrs. Norma A. McDuffie, wife of Paul_A. McDuffle, former member of the Metropolitan Police Department, has brought favorable. results. The Commissioners were notified yesterday by Gen. Hines that Mrs. McDufRe will be granted $21.04 a month for the period hetween April 2 to July 16, and $70 a month from tha date until the bureau is officially ad vised of the recent hirth of a fourth child to Mrs. McDuffie, when the annuity will be increased to $85 a month. The bureau, Gen. Hines sald, Smashing every previous sales record in our history, the Great Five Dollar Outfit Of- fer continues, adding hundreds of new customers to our ever growing list. Our open- ing Five Dollar Outfit announcement saw the greatest response to any one adver- tised event that Washington has ever known. We were hardly prepared for such a turnout. However, for this Saturday we have added plenty of help and everyone who eomes iinto our store will receive careful, painstaking atténtion. Test the Powerof a$5 Bill at the Liberal Store Today ring a complete new outfit. No matter how limited your circumstances, you can now dress in the smartest fashion by making only. a $5 deposit as first payment and ‘the balance in small sums eash payday, divided- over a long period of time. Choose Your Fall and Winter Outfit From Thousands of New Styles OUTFIT NUMBER 4 also will send $20 menthly to St Elizabeth's Hospital, where the former policeman is now an inmate, for his personal needs. Mr. Dougherty took a personal in- terest in the McDuffle case soon after he was appointed Commissioner, be- cause of the financial condition of Mrs. McDuffle, who was left with four children to support when her husband was committed to St. Eliza- beth's Hospital after he'had shot his wife. Because of the nature of the case; the Commissioner was unable to provide Mrs. McDuffle with a pension rom the police retirement funds, so he appealed directly to Gen. Hines. McDuffle served in the World War |and was shell shocked. ASued for $20,000. | _The Union Storage and Transfer | Co. was sued vesterday for $20.000 | damages in the District Supreme | Court by Fdward W. Lynch for al | leged personal infuries. While riding {2 motor cycle September 23, 19 | Fourteenth and V' stree 3 truck of the company collided with him inflicting permanent injury. He is represented by Attorney J. Willlam ‘Tomlinson. orth of the Tweed. Your dog would die for you. Keep him and other pets free from fleas. 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