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Ask your neighborI SYNOPSIS A passenger on the Nord-Express. with Ostend as his immediate destination. Dr. David Jebb is bound for America. Ac companying him is five-year-old Cynthia Thatcher, his charming temporary ward. On the train they meet Bill Gaines, for mer classmate of David’s. He tells Gaines of his mission, and tells him of his one terrible vice—an overwhelming de sire for liquor. Jebb feels the urge com ing to him again, and wants to safe guard the child, whose father is dead and whose mother is in America. Dur ing a stop, Gaines leaves the train for a minute. The train starts up without him. Then Jebb is painfully injured in a minor accident. A fellow-passenger re vives him with a drink, which makes his desire for liquor all the stronger. At the next stop David and Cynthia leave the train. David begins drinking. The next thing he is conscious of is a strange sort of chanting. He looks around, dared and ■lck. A door opens, and in walks a strange-looking Negro. CHAPTER III—Continued Leaving his slippers outside the door, the fellow padded over to Jebb and with soft, fat hands adjusted the pillow under his head. “He wants me to die comforta bly,” sighed Jebb helplessly. Then the man shuffled back to the corridor and lugged in a brazier full of glowing charcoal Squatting about it, he began to brew an ebon syrup. The voluminous aroma float ing to Jebb announced it to him as coffee. "Poisoned, no doubt,” thought Jebb. But he was so sick that he did not much care. “Where am I? How did I get here? What country is this? Who are you?” But the answer was a falsetto gibberish in which Jebb, who was something of a linguist, could find no kinship to any language of his ac quaintance. Jebb noticed now mat ne was clothed neither in his street-suit, nor in his pyjamas, but in a garment he could not recognize. His hands, remembering a habit he had ac quired and lost, went convulsively to his waist His money belt was gone, his ten thousand dollars had evaporated—and the belt with it. “Where are my clothes?” he de manded, and again in bad German, “Wo sind mein Kleider?” and in tourist French, “Ou sont mes hab its?” But the black only gibbered. Then the fellow backed out as from a presence with many a long bow. Left alone to meditation, Jebb glanced idly down and noted that his thumb wore a deep scar. His experienced eye showed him what sort of cicatrice it was. He remem bered the accident on the train. But who had lanced his thumb? And when? Where? Why? The wound had already healed. It must have been days ago. And on the little Anger of his left hand was a ring, a curious ring, with a dark and cloudy stone of great size and unknown name, set alongside a diamond, also large and of evident price. He took the ring off and stared at it. On the inner rim was the leg end “C. to J.” “J.” was plainly for Jebb, but who was “C”?—cer tainly not Cynthia. Who, then? It might be a love-token—but whose? There was a sound of colloquy in the hall outside, of angry argument. He recognized the uncanny treble of the slave, and another voice, lower, but a woman's voice. The door opened wide and the slave paused on the sill. His face was as livid as the ashes in the charcoal brazier and his eyes ffashed and roved in their sockets. But he made reluctant way for a Agure that Aoated rather than walked, and Aoated straight from the pages of the “Thousand Night and One Nights.” Her costume was one great black | cloud from which none of her tran spired, not even the half-sheltered ! eyes of the Orient. The slave oozed through the door | and closed it, but as if he would cling to the other side. The Veil bent and billowed in low curtsies and through it came these English words, with long pauses and gropings: “The effendi has sleeped long, Al lah be thanked, and I do hope he sleeped well also.” Instinctively, hoping to make him self better understood, he spoke very loudly and in a foolish dialect: “May me ask where me have pleasure to be?” “The effendi is in Uskub.” “Uskub!” he gasped. “I never heard of Uskub. Where, please, is it?” , "It is in the vilayet of Kossovo. It is not far from Nish.” "Uskub! Nish!” he wailed. “Kos | sovo! Where am I? What is a vila | yet? Why do you call me ‘effendi’? I My name is Jebb. How on earth did j I get here? If I am on earth.” “The effendi is on earth—very much on earth, but how he gets here, that is perhaps more a won der to me as to the effendi. Per haps in his time the effendi weel in form me. I am but woman, it is perhaps pardoned if I have a curi : osity.” I The voice mothered him now: "Then I shall not derange the poor, weary eflendi with the imperti nence of to make questions. I tell you what I know. Last night there was great storm here in Uskub. I was much afraided of the storm, but it is beautiful, too. I am watch ing through my window. I can Just see the road over that high wall. Great flash of lightning comes and in the light I see man—it was the ef fendi. He is walk in the road. Whence you corned I don't know. You are there. You look very wild and staggering. You fall down in the meedst of the road. Then dark ness. I was more afraided. for I thinked first of some djinn.” "Some gin?” echoed Jebb. "Yes, djinn, the demon—you know, I watch again and a new light ning shows the eflendi lying still in the road, no demon, but poor seeck man. I clap my hands hard. JafTar, who sleeps before my door—the same who is wait upon you this morning—he comes at my call. I tell him to bring the poor efTendi into house. At last he goes out the gate and brings you in. I see you, you are very seeck and do not speak —only moan. I tell him to place you Suddenly there was a snap, and the pain was gone. in room and make you a bed and take your clothes to be made dry. All thees he does very secret and terribly afraided.” ‘‘But the child I had with me?” “The child?” she echoed blankly. "Yes, the little girl!" “You have a young daughter, then?” And the veil did not entirely strain out a tang of disappointment. “She is not my daughter,” he ex plained; “she is the child of a friend.” “Oh!” “She was in my charge. I was taking her to America. She must have been with me. She—oh, she must have been with me." “You did had no child with you when I see you in the storm. Jaf far, he say nothing of a child. It is only you he ftnded.” “But the Jittle girl, the poor little waif—I must go hunt for her." He rose to his feet, but his nerves flared and burned like live wires. His knees refused their office, and he would have gone crashing back wards had she not risen swiftly, caught him in her arms, and eased him to the cushions. The hidden womarr was soothing his brow with cool palms and was quieting him as If he were a child. “Effendi must be most quiet, or he shall be much ill and perhaps die. I go to send JafTar to seerch the town for the littla girl. If she is in Uskub or near, somebody shall know and JafTar will bring her to you.” He cioseo his eyes under the soothe ot her strangely potent pray er, and she clapped her hands. In stantly the door opened and the black was there. Jebb did not look to see, but he heard a heated parley between mistress and slave. At length there was silence and the woman said: “He is goed. He was afraided to leave me lest the other servants find you, but I did made him go, and to send my woman to bring food and to keep watch. He is goed now to bring you the littla child. He will seerch the city as if it is a cup board.” “Why is he afraid that the other servants might find me?” “It is perhaps kindest to tell the effendi everything. Last night my fear for you overcomed all my other fears, all my releegion, my duty. I thinked only that some poor man goes to perish. I shall give to him shelter for the night in Allah’s name. But JafTar tells me you are too weak to walk, and I cannot even send you to the city to a khan or to the house of a friend. He wish to put you again in the street. I re solve to come to see you for my self. Jaflar oppose me, he try to hold me back. He loves me much. He Is horrified, afraid, and ashamed for me.” “Why?" said Jebb feebly. "I have crossed the mabeyn." “The ma—what?” “The hall between the haremlik and the selamlik.” “The more you tell me, the less I know,” said Jebb. “The effendi has much hungry. 1 theenk you listen better after you have to eat. I dare not have such poor food as we have bringed by all the slaves, but only my own wom an, if the effendi excuse.” After Jebb had eaten he said: "Tell me why I brought you and your house such danger.” "If my husban’ should find that I have talked with you, he would keel us both.” "Your husband!” And now it was his turn to betray a flaw of re gret. "You are married, then?” "Yes and no.” "Yes and no?” “My husban’ did not raise my veil after the ceremony. I was a gift-wife, and unwelcome.” "A gift-wife!” groaned Jebb. "I have a splitting headache.” “Shall I tell you who I am—from the beginning? Miruma is my name. It means the sun and the moon. I am great, yes? to be both sun and moon. I am borned in Circassia. My poor father is poor and Allah sends him more childs than wealth. But we live in mountains—the Cau casus peaks, and we do not need much. And then my poor father dies himself—Allah grant him bliss! —and my mother has no man, and five childs. “Follows some years of ugly pov erty, and not much to eat. I am grow to have nine years. People tell my mother I am beautiful and shall become more. And I did. I was very beautiful till I became old woman.” "Are you an old woman?” said Jebb with a sigh. “Your voice and your hands do not seem old.” “But they are. I did pass my twenty-fiveth year last Shaban.” Jebb sighed again, a comfortabler sigh. “My mother sees that I shall be beautiful for awhile and she sells me as slave.” “The brute!” “No. She is good mother. She sells me to rich hanim, a lady who is most kind to me. In Turkey a woman slave who is pretty is treat ed wonderful kind. I am buyed by great lady—a rich hanim.” “A rich what, please?” “Hanim—that means a lady, ma dame; same like effendi means monsieur, mister.” “Should I call you hanim, then?” “If you wish to be very respecta ble—or is it respectful?—you should call me hanim effendi, or hanim ef fendim — that means like ‘my lady.' ” “But you tell me effendi means monsieur.” “Yes, and hanim effendi means monsieur madame, or mister mis sus—it is very respectable. But I like better be called joost madame; it sound very educated." "All right, hanim effendi, I will call you ‘madame’ sometimes, though I like hanim effendi, or han im effendim—like you. But you were telling me how you were bought by the rich—hanim?” “Yes, and I am educate like as I am her own daughter child. I am teached the Engleesh, the Francais, the Roosian. the to play, to sing, to paint, to dance. I am become very wise lady.” “Five years I am live with this hanim like her bes’ belove’ child. One day I meeted wife of a Bey; she tells her husban’ that I am beau tiful so much I must be maked as a present to the Padishah heemself. So Raghib Bey he buyed me.” •‘He buyed you?” "Yes," the Veil answered with a certain pride. “They Bey gived me to the Padishah, on the anniversary of the Kilij-Alai, when they did bind the great sword of Othman on him.” "And who is the Padishah?” said Jebb. She gasped at this. “The Padi shah! You do not know who he is? He is the Sultan, the greatest of all kings, the shadow of Allah on earth." "Oh!" from Jebb. "A year I did lived in the harem of the Khalif, and then the Valideh Sultana tells that I am again to be given away as a present, this time to a pasha and to be really a wife. My heart leap up for. of coorse, a woman is nothing if Allah does not make her the priceless gift of a child, a man-child. My new hus ban* is then great man rising in the world like the sun himself. But sometimes the clouds come before the sun reach his zenith. "Hussein Fehmi Pasha Is begin very poor; he was a khanji's boy— you do not know what that is?—a khanji is man who keeps a khan— how you say, a little inn. But he is too brave for to make the beds and cook the coffee, he becomes soldier and is rise. And the Padishah call him to the Yildiz-Klosk and make him decorated and titles him Pasha. Then he make him Vila of the Aidin vilayet. It is then that the Padishah present me to Fehmi Pasha.” "And he married a girl as young as you were then?” gasped Jebb. "Oh, yes, effendl. We have a say ing. ‘Before your daughter is six teen, she should be married or bur ied.’ At feerst Fehmi Pasha did lived at Smyrna and have a splendid white summer palace at Kogar-YalL But Fehmi Pasha has a quarrel with the spy the Padishah send to watch him. The spy ia tell wicked bad lies, and my poor husban’ is exile to Uskub. And here I live.” "But what did you mean by call ing yourself a Yes-and-No wife?” "Already the pasha did have a wife whom he love extremely much. Fehmi Pasha loves his only wife. He wants no other. She did bear him many sons and some daugh ters; why should he have other wives? But when the Padishah pre sent him me, he is afraid to refuse. He thank the Padishah one thousand times; he makes me free woman, and he marries me, but he does not lift my veil.” Suddenly there was the sound as of a little child wailing. Jebb’s heart lurched. Had his lost been found? The door burst open and Jaffar rushed into the room. It was Jaf far who was crying, hysterically, with words which even his mistress could not understand. “He's had an accident,” said Jebb, and rose at once to go to him, but his knees cautioned him to remain. “Bring him here.” It was the voice of authority. “Ask him if he didn’t slip and fall.” The question repeated in Turk ish brought a flood of conflrmrition. “Eees eet awfully seerious?” came from the trembling veil. "No, it’s nothing much. It hurts a trifle,” Jebb admitted with the rel ative standard of pain that surgeons acquire. “Tell the black idiot not to pull away from me. I’ll help him; I’m a surgeon.” Jebb's Angers went out on the dis colored black flesh like ten white carpenters. They pressed here, pulled there, twisted, urged, per suaded, as the victim writhed and blubbered. Suddenly there was a snap, and the pain was gone with such sud denness that it left ecstasy. JafTar almost fainted of joy. Henceforth, whoever might nominally pay Jaf far his wages, really he was Jebb's slave. (TO BE CONTINUED) Tea Monopoly Influenced History of World Tea doesn't sound like an empire shaking commodity. Strongly brewed, it warms the trapper and cheers the sailor; mildly concocted, it adds pleasure to a meal. Yet its commerce has involved the lives and fortunes of millions of people; world politics has been influenced and national destinies swayed by it, says the Boston Transcript. Its story has just been put into two large volumes of a book called “All About Tea,” by William H. Ukers, published by the Tea and Coffee Trade Journal company as a sort of encyclopedia and manual ranging from the earliest history of tea through the latest knowledge of its botany and chemistry. A great deal of industrial and political ro mance is to be encountered in it, nowhere more so than in the chap ter dealing with the introduction of tea into America, the attempt to tax it and the chain of circumstances which followed culminating in the War of Independence. But this is a fairly familiar story in this part of the world. Another dramatic chap ter, not as well known, Is called, “The World’s Greatest Tea Monop oly.” It concerns the operations of the Honorable East India company, better known as John company. Chartered by Queen Elizabeth in the closing days of the year 1600, it grew to a point where it maintained a monopoly of the tea trade with China, led the way for British con trol of India, controlled the supply, importation and therefore the price of tea and brought about the first English propaganda in behalf of a particular beverage. "It was so powerful," says Mr. Ukers, "that it precipitated a dietetic revolution in England, changing the British peo ple from a nation of potential coffee drinkers to a nation of tea drinkers, and all within the space of a few years. It was a formidable rival of States and empires, with power to acquire territory, coin money, com mand fortresses and troops, form alliances, make war or peace, and exercise both civil and criminal jurisdiction.” While it was first of the East India companies to be chartered, it was not the first in the field, nor was it without competitors in the exploita tion of Asia. The Dutch were four years ahead of them, thoqgh not chartered until 1602. Accident Reveals Rich Deposit of Mercury in Idaho Sheepherder, Chasing Sheep, Stumbles Onto Mineral in Mountains. VVEISER, IDAHO.—A chance dis covery of a sheepherder has provid ed Idaho with its first mercury mine and a new $1,000,000 industry, ac cording to state mining officials. A sharp price rise in the quick silver market gave a new impetus to the venture when the European war broke out and now the Almaden mines, developed by L. K. Requa, veteran Santa Barbara mining engi neer, are producing an estimated 400 pounds of pure quicksilver a day. The current market price of the metal is $142 for a flask of 76 pounds. National production last year was only 1,500 flasks. New uses are found for the metal in manufactur ing arms of war, and production will be increased as the price rises. Finds Ore on Pony’s Feet. Andy Little, young sheepherder with a flair for mining, chased a lost sheep across the sagebrush-cov ered mountains 20 miles west of Weiser in 1936 and noticed an out cropping of reddish ore at his pony's feet. He came back the next year and staked out 18 claims. Requa visited the area on one of his periodic tours of western mining districts and examined the sheep man’s cinnabar stake. He leased the property for 20 years with an option on further leasing, formed a company, set up a plant and be gan production this summer. The venture is a closed corpora tion and no Btock is sold. Requa believes the mountainside on which the mine is located is a solid mass of mercury in opalite and phyolite forms, left by an old lake bed. Cinnabar is an ore min eral that occurs in both bedded and vein deposits. Plant is up-io-Minuie. The plant is the latest metallur gical science has produced. The ore is roasted in a kiln at 1,500 degrees and the mercury passes off in the form of a vapor to be condensed in 12 tubes, 30 feet high. The mer cury is drawn off at the bottom into buckets and placed in flasks, ready for shipment. The mine is an open pit opera tion. The ore is blasted out of the hillside, tons at a time, and rolled in cars along a narrow-gauge track to a bin, attached to a long con veyor belt. The belt carries the ore to a crusher and thence to a kiln where it is roasted. Enough ore is present to last an indefinite period. Production is go ing ahead now at the rate of approx imately 45 tons a day with a top capacity of 50 tons possible. Be tween five and fifteen pounds of mercury are recovered per ton of ore. Sixteen men are employed in the plant. Other deposits of cinnabar were located in Valley, Blaine, Custer and Cassia counties but they never have been worked commercially. Nimrod Couldn’t Recognize Deer When He Saw Several ASHEVILLE, N. C.—Officials of the annual Pisgah national forest deer hunt, in swapping stories of the 1939 event, gave top prize to this one: An amateur nimrod, on his first day out in the hunt, tramped the woods from dawn to sunset and re turned to camp emptyhanded and discouraged. He decided to insure success for the next day and hired a veteran guide. The two set out early. They had been gone only a short while when the guide tapped the amateur hunt er on the shoulder and whispered: ‘‘Quiet now, here come three deer." The hunter clenched his hands on his gun and looked in the direction of the guide’s pointing finger. Then he exclaimed: “Gosh, are those things deer? I passed up a lot of them yesterday.” Toad Set in Concrete 20 Years Ago Hops Out Alive CROWELL, TEXAS.—Henry Ash ford of the Foard County News is the authority for this story: Work men removing a concrete block from the garden of Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Todd had to break the heavy mass. Out rolled a white toad, ap parently dead. As the sun warmed it up the toad opened its eyes and began to kick. Now it’s alive and well. Ashford located W. H. McGonagle of Hobbs, N. M., who poured the concrete 20 years ago. McGonagle wrote: “The toad was dug up while we were excavating a hole for a clothes line. By the time I got my cement mixed he jumped back into the hole. I threw him out. He jumped back in again as I threw in a shovel of cement, so I gave him the works. I worried about it and I’m glad the toad is alive.” Tavern Keeper’s Horse Is Greedy Beer Drinker COLUMBUS. OHIO. - Caesar, prize brown and white horse owned by Bill Boyer, Columbus tavern op erator, is quite a beer drinker. The horse drinks from a large basin placed at the bar by his own er. His drinking, however, is lim ited to two Blasses at a "sitt.lna.” Smart Sports Frock With Useful Pockets DOCKET frocks are very smart, 1 especially sports and resort types like this (1889-B), which gives pointed importance to the pockets that Paris is newly spon soring as both decorative and use ful. This charming design is realJ iy everything you want in a new dress for sports and daytime. It’s young and casual. It buttons down the front so that it’s easy to put on. The wide, inset belt and the shoulder portions, cut in one with the sleeves, make it flattering to the figure. It has a slight blouse at the waistline, which makes it feel comfortable and look engagingly nonchalant. 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