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CAST OF CHARACTERS ROBERT BARRY-—hero, explorer. MELISSA LANE—heroine, Barry's partnen EONEY BEE GIRL—Indian; member of Barry's party. HADES JONES—pioneer; member Barry's party.
Yesterday: Bob begins his exploration of Defiance Castle, drops down over the overhanging clif and is unable to get
the cliff top and let down the rope? It hadn’t taken his employer long to disappear over the edge of the cliff. Holliman had warned him to be careful, but in Bob Barry was the supreme confidence of young physical strength. “ Holliman could see nothing after
pointing up. But he was unable to deduce anything from that. He noticed motion in the rope, and quickly grabbed it. 5 ” = HERE were slight regular jerks for a bit. Then a swaying pull, first right then left. In alarm he looked at the rocky edge where
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the rope disapeared. The fiber was indeed beginning to fray! : Holliman strained to pull it up to a fresh spot, lest it be sawed apart. But Barry was a heavy man, and friction at the rock was too great. “Good Lord!” Holliman | l growled, genuinely alarmed now | A He looked desperately around him. The man felt peculiarly help- HY less. He did quickly decide to let f 1 out a few inches more of rope— 1111 Il there wasn’t very much left—and J ! y so put a fresh place on the sharp i x rock edge. That lessened one danger, he felt. He shouted again and again, but no answer. The alternate. tightening of the rope indicated a swinging or swaying. Holliman’s alarm mounted. Then suddenly the rope slackened. Holliman fell back prone with the sudden give of it. He held it then, limp in his hands, and stared at it. “Uhnnnnh!” he literally groaned in despair, pulling the loose rope up a few feet. Quickly he turned to go back toward their horses.
(To Be Continued)
Bob disappeared. The rim curved precariously for six or eight feet before the edge was reached, and he dared not try to peer over at Bob. He had just let the rope
CHAPTER FIVE TT the three people below Robert Barry looked like a toy doll, a puppet, dangling on the end | of the rope stretching 600 feet or | Out slowly as instructed, then held more above them. | it, snubbed, when it was almost “What in tarnation’s he tryin’ to 8°0¢: sain do?” shrieked Hades Jones. Hades om gooymed to him that he hadnt Was jumping around and chatter-!§ heen told when to pull his boss
ing more excitedly than either of [pack up. He wasn’t sure he could the two girls.
Mary Melissa looked | pull him back anyway. The cliff enthralled, : ledge was of sharp jagged rock. It Oh, I don’t know! It's awful, | would cut into the rope, maybe sever Mr. Jones. Can’t you make him lit stop? Is it necessary to risk his lite | this way?” Bob was going through some sort| pe made sure that his end of the of queer contortions now. He ap-|;one was tied, then went as close peared to have looped the rope to the edge as he dared. around his foot, and to be starting a | «pp. Barry?” he called. motion of “pumping” as a boy would | Ng answer. Holliman yelled it,
do in a swing. Lot still got no reply. Then he, too, ® ‘realized that the wind was whipping UT he gathered momentum [the sound away. Sudden alarm slowly. He seemed first to swing |Struck him. He couldn't see Barry,
the wrong way—parallel to the cliff- nel EE as to
dwelling ledge, rather than toward see Hades Jones running. And the it—and he had to slow down. then two women were moving about and
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for the pendulum motion again. The | arc of his swing grew slowly—in-| and-out, in-and-out—to and from the red rock. The cliff was so jagged and rough that it appalled Mary Melissa to think of what might happen. In her semihysteria she envisioned her business partner slipping, striking the rock and sliding down its steep slope. The great cliff in which Defiance Castle nestled was really a concave surface, overhanging at the top and curving quickly inward to the “mouth” or cave which had been chosen as a homesite by the ancient builders. Below this niche, which was big enough to hold a three-story | IS FRECKLES building, the granite-like wall | : i» J DOING NOW © HEB curved gently outward again, prog- | J nr GOT EM LINED ¢ ressing in drops of 20 to 30 feet, P UP FOR A FIELD broken by vicious-looking points and | GOAL. ON THE knobs. Occasional scrubby, gnarled | 25-YARD plants clung precariously to the wall, | although where they found soil for | sustenance was a mystery. = = 2
UCH cliff formations are not uncommon in the Rocky Mountains. The magic of erosion has etched strange caves and holes in| many sheer walls, sometimes has cut tunnels, sometimes has made unbelievable archways and bridges. Sand-laden wind, driving for many
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“They all thought she was fasci-® nating.” ]
B* I don’t like country houses | eralds at her throat and on her centuries against a wall, will do | Sd. Vaghts oat “millions of IRIE, on |Tv, tee fantastic carving, more so than |dollars when they don’t belong to Are us: introductions all Wo hire Hiisnomenon las {he (country to look at them!” Linda's | whisky and soda. Linda was just s s. The i : i i . Clift that housed Defiance Castle |UCAUtiful mouth was set in a de- | OIG to ask if she could have cof.
ABBIE AN' SLATS —By Raeburn Van Buren
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was not exceptional in physiogra- termined pout as she hurled her| .%, "c\o0iq and bediamonded
phy, had never understood how the! builders reached the high lip. And! yet—there the abandoned dwelling | stood, partly crumbled on one corner, but still a monument to the genius and energy of a vanished people. Many a scientist and many a tourist. had stared at it through field glasses, in frank wonder and admiration. $ 4% 0%
N the day when they first saw the cliff, Mary Melissa had commented that it was a fine, theatrical backdrop of a great
drama. The ancients had farmed | coe
the flat valley, where this modern | exploration party had set up camp | The ancients must have known work and danger and love and excitement and happiness and death there centuries ago. The life drama of a kingdom! The white girl thought of this in a flash again, and instantly realized that she was seeing another dramatic moment here. Only —this one was not in retrospect, not for calm historical study. It) was tremendously near and real.
She strained to see Bob Barry. The arc of his swing was incred-
ibly large now. And he was san,
knew his plan. She | smart
“pumping.” Suddenly she realized what he hoped to do. “No! Oh, no!” She breathed it,
almost as a prayer. The distance
seemed much too great. . In that instant, Mary Melissa
knew that it mattered terribly. e ” ” HE knew that it mattered to her, personally, and irrevocably. She didn’t phrase it, even to herself, as love. But she knew. The tightening within her, the actual physical pain in her heart, was keener than it
would have been if she saw a casual |
acquaintance in danger. In the latter circumstance, she would have screamed. She might have run, and shouted advice, anything in her high alarm. But—this feeling was different. Deeper, somehow. In the strain of the moment she touched something divine—and prayed to it, mumbled her petitions without restraint or shame. More given to physical action in such emergencies, old Hades Jones had abruptly disappeared, running. Frankly, he had no idea what he
although the archaeologists | Words at the young man at the other end of the telephone.
“Linda!” Jimmy pleaded, “I promised Jack wed go. He invited both of us and he’ll feel hurt
if you don't come along. Please!
Besides it’s the middle of ‘winter and there won't be any yachts around.” “All right!” Linda groaned, “but the millionairesses will all snub me and their husbands will all try to make love to me and it'll be awful. But I'll be a martyr for your ) What time will you pick me up?” e An hour later they parked the car at one of the chateau doors and followed a butler through a
hallway that would have housed |
the baths at Rome, up a winding
staircase and into a drawing room, :
where taffeta draperies stood stiffly at the windows which reached from the high ceilings to the floor and yellow chrysanthemums were all
| over the place.
“Very pretty,” Linda said, nodding her head in approval.
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AX then through an ivory and gold door came a vision in a black dress and hat with em-
Mind Your Manners
Test your knowledge of correct social usage by answering the following questions, then checking against the authorita«~ tive answers below: 1. May you wait some weeks before returning a first cali? 2. Is it necessary to return a call of condolence? 3. Should you make a call on the house guests of your good friends? 4. Should you whisper with another visitor when calling on a sick person? 5. After you have attended a wedding, are you expected to call on the families of both the
| wrist watch and told them they'd | have to hurry. It seemed that they had just stopped for the Jonses so | that the Joneses could show them | the way to the Walkers, where the luncheon was being held. The ‘luncheon was at 12 and it was now 12:30. Linda took a wry sip of the scotch and soda and then they left. a % » HE party got off on a gay note, Jack, who was an actor, talking about Jack, Mrs. Jones giving a | resume of the party to which they | had been the night before, from which they had come home blind .in the dawning, Jimmy telling the plo: of his newest story, Mr. Jones, who was the color of the lard in which he dabbled on the exchange, and Linda, just listening. As soon as they arrived at the
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band and children and run off to Mallorca with me.” 2 = =» INDA laughed. Boisterously. Jimmy was furious and went into a tirade trying to prove that
Walker’s Linda knew she wasn't go- | ing to like the place. The walls were sort of rough Spanish looking | and the furniture was all red vel-! vet and Mrs. Walker had pop eyes and Mr. Walker kept asking the men guests whether they knew where the barroom was and it was very disconcerting to have him popping into the middle of every story to drag somebody off. After three or four highballs, “just to break the ice,” Mrs. Walker announced that they “must see the bar,” so they all trooped into the basement and played pool and the slot machines and roulette, and Mrs. Walker made them carve their initials in the bar. After dinner they adjourned to the spacious living room. ® x.» HEN a gentleman came in and asked Linda to dance, which she did. When they stopped dancing she got him to tell her the story of his life and by that time almost all of the men had told her the story of their lives, except one attractive looking man whom she
she was a very fascinating woman and eame over and sat on a divan
hadn't met, and they all thought | ea
would accomplish, but he hastened toward the trees at the foot of the great cliff. At least he would be on hand when Bob Barry fell.
bride and groom?
What would you do if— Just as you drive toward the house of friends, intending to
with her or ‘on chairs around it.
All the women except Mrs. Jones were sitting over in one corner of the room, and all the men and Linda were sitting in front of the fire-
. just waited.
ONEY BEE GIRL, being of a | less demonstrative race anyway, had uttered no words. She
Her mother and her grandmothers for many generations back had felt no qualms at death. Nevertheless, those same women had known what love-for-a-man was. Robert Barry had been kinder to Honey Bee Girl than any other white man, or any other red man for that matter, had ever been. Not the thought of death, as such, put the thought of danger to this particular man, caused some strange, unexplained reaction within her. She watched and waited, breathing hard.
But what of Scott Holliman— he who had accompanied Bob to
drop in for a call, you see them coming out of the door— A. Drive by without intimating your intention of stopping? B. Stop your car long enough to tell them of your good intentions? C. Let them go back into the house with you, but stay only a short time?
Answers 1. No. 2. No. 3. Yes. 4. Neo! 5. It is courteous although not obligatory.
Best “What Would You Do” solution— (A).
place. After a few shoulder glances from the ladies Linda decided to break up the circle of admirers befor she broke up the party, so she asked Mr. Jones, who didn’t know how, to dance. And then, fortunately, Jimmy came in saying it was late and they'd have to be getting back to town. Mr. Jones insisted on everybody having one more drink. Linda, sitting alone with Jimmy on a love seat and noticing his far-away expression, asked, “What's on your mind?” “I think I'm in love,” Jimmy says. “You mean with me?” Being engaged to Jimmy, Linda thought it a perfect natural question. “With Mrs. Jones,” Jimmy says. “She has a hundred thousand of her own and wants,to leave her hus-
Mrs. Jones was serious. “She probably does it six nights a week,” Linda said, “and you're so simple you fall for it. I can just see her leaving Mr. Jones and his millions for an unknown, practically starving author.” Jimmy didn’t mind the starving but he seemed to resent the "unknown.” “Any woman can be a siren if she wants to stoop to it,” Linda informed him. “Oh, yeah?” Jimmy asked. “I'll show you,” Linda answered, making a bee-line for the attractive young man she hadn’t met.
In another hour, Jimmy trying to convince Linda that it was time to be going home, discovered that he was going to have an extra passenger on the ride back to town. “Jack will sit in front with you and Mr. Terrill will sit with me,” she said, introducing the young man she had in tow. n » ” IMMY and Jack sat silently in the front seat as they drove along, while Linda and Mr. Terrill
kept up an animated chatter in the
x. “You're all coming up and I'm going to fix scrambled eggs,” Linda said when they arrived at her apartment. Jack and Mr. Terrill said, “good!” but Jimmy insisted on bidding them a morose goodnight. “Nice to have met you,” Linda called gaily to his vanishing back. The three of them devoured cggs and bacon and toast and coffee and Hen Jack discovered that it was “I'll have to be going, too,” Mr. Terrill said with a wistful sigh. But be I lingered a moment longer than “You're such an awfully attractive girl,” he said to Linda,. holding her hand, “you almost make me
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phone interrupted his soliloquy. “And I love you, too, darling,” he heard Linda say into that instru-
ay Shout Valuing to hear further . Terrill tipped his hat graciously and exited through the door,
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By Dr. Morris Fishbein American Medical Journal Editor
IMPLY because the skin is on | the outside of the body and all | of us are inclined to be sensitive
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about our appearance, we worry much more about changes in the color or pigmentation of the skin than we do about more serious conditions in the body as a whole. Among the most frequent changes in the pigmentation of the body are freckles, liver spots, colorless spots or vitiligo, and artificial colors pro- | duced by powder marks, silver deposits or similar foreign substances. | About freckles also there are great numbers of notions and beliefs. It is believed that freckles will disappear by rubbing them with dew that is on clover, by bathing the face with buttermilk, by rubbing them with grass, with grapevine sap and lemon juice, with melon rind or water from an oak stump. None of these cures is really a cure for freckles. A freckle is a pigmented spot on the skin, usually more likely to be present in the spring and summer than in the winter. Freckles represent a reaction of the skin to the sun and will not appear if the skin is protected from the sun.
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INTMENTS have been discovO ered which may be rubbed on the skin to keep away the ultraviolet rays of the sun. In such cases the freckles will not appear. It is possible to remove treckles by using substances on the skin that will peel off the superficial layers. All of these substances are dangerous because they contain poisons and may produce such serious irritation of the skin that the irritation will be much worse than the freckles. : Liver spots, scientifically called chloasma, frequently appear in women without any definite cause. These also represent a deposit of color pigments from the blood in the skin. They seem to be most often associated with disturbances of glands involved in childbirth. Sometimes they disappear spontaneously, It is not safe for anyone to ate tempt to peel away these liver spots by self-treatment, because of the dangerous character of the substances that are used.
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