l. CHAPTER. XVI A CRY IN THE NIGHT They watched at the river that

Inight. It wu a moonleas night, and

when they reached the v po vantage. chosen by corneule, from

which they uofld see the Basutoiand

police post, it was not yet midnigrlt.

' “lihis is the spot 1 had in mind."

he said in a low voice, as they set- ,t.ied themselves on the high bank of

._ the river; and it certainly seemed ~ideal for their purpose. It was quite mile nearer to the spot ‘

half I whence the signals were said 10 ave come than the point which Japie had watched them. '1he main building of the police post stood out, a black block above the skylne. half a mile away, and the ‘gentle slope from it to the river bank opposite them, lay fully eit- :ed to their view. If any signa..s were made that night they must see tl::m; and if they did. what would follow? A thrill of excitement ran through the two watchers.

But after an hour's suent vigil, unrelieved by smoking, their excite- ment gradually waned, and in low voices they carried on a desultory COI1’~'el'.8l.l0I'i. It was Malcolm's first visit to the river by night, and to him its voice seemed charged with strange eerieness.

"if these friends of yours keep us waiting much longer," Comeille said at length, "they'll find me asleep."

Even as he spoke Malcolm grab- bed him by the arm.

"Look!" he breathed, pointing across the river.

A clear beam of light stabbed the darkness, hung for a moment un- moving, then swlung downwards. Breathless they watched it play up and down. Six times it was flung in their direction; then, whoever car- ried it, turned and walked away. Then saw the now dim gleam shine for a few seconds at its holder's feet, and then disappear.

“It was a signal!" whispered Mal-

eolm.

They watched in tense silence, but nothing broke the peace of the night. The minutes passed slowly. Somewhere down the river an owl hoo.ed_ The river's voice rose and fell, softly and monoionously. They waited for a full hour, but at length even Malcolm had to admit the fut- llity of prolonging the watch, and cramped and chilled with their vigil, they set out for home.

“It mlghtn’t have been N signal Ifler all, you know," Corneille said as they came in sight of the home- stead.

“I don't agree. That's exactly how Janie described it. If we'd seen that light flash just once or twice,_«thei-e d be nothing in ivt—-at least we (1 ilhlnk nothing of it. But it was six flash- es. just as Japle said; and he saw it at l4==i,=.t twice.. and now we've seen it. ’1'here's no saying that it ha-mi happened over and over again.’

“It was really ust like someone walking along an swingin a torch about. Ma1colm——more l e that. than like a signal."

ifhili‘ "istifl mtlilthe 15°” of 3 rial at, oo n0 118 ll " ticiilar. that a cunnins 131183“; would use. After all, you couldn't ex- pect him to sit up there morsing or firing off rockets." m“Wel1, it hasn't taken in much

r."‘1cz."

"No. but at least it's proved that topic wasn't djuet carried away excitement an his imagination. An if we stick to it. we are bound in spot that sig'naller‘s opposite num- ber sooner or later."

“Yes, I llippose we may:_ and it seems the only thing to do.’

“And there's one advantage, Gor- neille Kee ing a look-out at the riv- er won't ve the show away: 110 0119

is to know. from our going there glint we’ro ttgykll to clear up this in-' ‘W’ ernai mys ry.'

But their secret was not to

kept for long. '1‘he SUMMER. CBDC

DISION N0. MI

ulerlclitcrociiet egg: *5 . aeoutlortfor

The Riddle of the

Riderless Horse By JEAN 8. CYRIL. CASALIS

b’ be eving the native myth-

_ sum them face more at the river.

W83

wiuiout ..rel.in1in pm When’

My. as on the prey- ious night, the signals flashed out near the police post. Once again the six flashes pierced the darkness, and once again as the light disappeared the watchers sat alert .eyea and ears strained, wondering whether their watch was to end as fruitlessly as before. Then again, further down the river to their right, an owl

oo .

"That owl."’besan Malcolm, but it was as far as he got. A scream rent the night, the anguished scream of a terror-stricken soul, that brought the watchers to their leet. For an instant they stood as if frozen by

at cry.

Then with a shout of "Game on, Malcolm,” Corne.lle plunged down the bank and they raced down- stream, ploughing lhrougli soft sand. stumbling over milling plants. skirting noulders, leaping ov.r teh soil-eroded ditches in the bans. Falls marked their progress and were un- headed; for both, as ll by common accord. kept their eyes strained on the dimly-seen bluff of the river bank, from which they judged that ghastly cry had come.

SEEN IN THE TORCHLIGHT

They had pased the opening of the Campsie valley, when Cornellie, who was leading, plunged into the water. Malcolm followed close on lhls heels. The river was nowhere more than four feet deep, and they were quickly across.

- “where now?" Malcolm gasped. _l15 3 they fioundered out on the opposite

1-» D‘

8 . i "Somewhere near here. Let 's__ go - up——we may see better up above.

They scrambled breathlessly up a footpath onthe bank, and emerging above its dee ly-cut banks at the foot oftihe est acclivity. found, sprawling head foremot down the bank, the blanketed body cf a mi- live. His arms were spread out and his hands still clenched, and in his wide-open eyes was fxed a look of unuiterable horror: and ‘ _ that had rung in his frantic cry was doomed to remain unanswered, for

m'.l‘hey set off along the top of the river bank. followlxls the °°i'l".“h that skirted the patchwork of tiny native fields. _, '.‘i.""*"’l'.&'.‘° ‘ii.'.‘§‘ e a .

a's“Det.l'n'l. t?lk so loud. And why lump t l ons "

°'-32° ‘litty obvious." Malcqlm W- sisted, owering his voice. It WM Japie who put. us on the sisllllls. and that seems to have had somethlns to do with his death. And 1flt<’>eW there's this chap—-done in Just 3 1 those s als were made. And an- other t.h rig, Corneillet there is s0im8- thing dashed odd about this rver. when we were chasing d°Wll “*9 hank, after we'd heard that sicken- ing scream. I could have sworn I saw something cro:a the river-—_a saint of black shape—just about the {Pot where we found that poor dev-

"ozou saw it too?” exclaimed cor- neille. stopping abl’llDi«1y- ' was e you llflleillfn ‘Pl’? say you “W H "lust as you say—-a black “#333 thjng——gomet.hlng that moved crossed the river to the other bank. until you mentioned it. I thollshi 1 ed it. It streaked B61055 almost like a s hadow. l5y 83¢ 339' it like that. one feels more ilk‘:

Malcolm said,

thing is tting beyond me, colin. Pigt those two awful deaths -then a native killed without rhyme or reason, alone on the river bank. Natives are always blotting each or out at beer drinkfl.

by some 3 ou __ alone. with not a sound. remem . except that one hellish scream. You who he is-—onen of the camp-

th e£_ that‘ bclygt sam that he oug t sue a ." d that's another odd thing—- thmt boy was killed on this side of the river. But the oddest thing to me is in this busineaa—I wonder whe- ther it‘: struck you?—is the effic- iency with which the whole thing is worked. Just think. comellle. when’: all’; said and done, we were darned (mick in going out to look for Marti- mer: old van stellen. lay all ac- counts. was even quicker over Japie; and to-niflht. I'll lay my b00i-B. we were quicker stil1—four minutes at the most: and all we saw, or thought adow croséng

‘m

the police ’ o

m'.‘.'8‘.;".“’s‘ ....T.‘:’°.’.'.'.'il.u‘.‘.‘:“"‘ okra to the river."

air. a second later Oat-neille st?- pod dead, clutching Malcolm by

the apperl 2

Morning Smile

NOTHING SERIOUS ‘And ‘ow is your dcughierb Jones?"

usband. Mrs. "Oh. ‘e’: not to go into ‘capital for violent. rage treatment."

ONE POINT AHEAD

Two dairies were rivals for trade. One of the companies engaged I. daredevil motorist to drive a car round the town for 100 hours without sleep. The manage- ment decorated the car with large placards reading: , _ "This daredevl drinks our milk.” The rival company came out with placards twice as large, read- ing: You don't have to be a dare- devil to drink our milk." V

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Etiquette Errors Can Make

You Unpopular

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Q

Poliah Your Manner:

Easy to see why Betty and Jack don't get many invitations. A limgla etiquette problem has them - wildered.

Betty doesn't know it‘: correct- since out are whining by on Jack’: sida—for her to b out first. Jack doesn't know that n this situation he excuse: himself from assisting

her.

On a quiet street, of coitru. the man should step out of the car firlt. comeroundtotbalurbtoaufottbc

to am. Iunly~—b what embarrassing momenta lie in on if youhd&n't check up

wwhorl the waithr I table, escort. At the in

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V « Dorothy’, Dix's Ldllter _' Box

to Blame Because You Di ' perly Train Them

- Dear-Mi.sDix—1l1ave beena devoted and‘ worked hard to give my children a comfortable

never asked them to cunt:

their own good times that ‘ gotten that their father 11 .1 . globe me, not even on he id

doing. From time to from overwork, then they

back to work the next. My

me a gift or help me in any w to send them expensive in: myself. However; ¢Al;Ild!‘eI‘1 so neglect the father who loves them? ’i

swer:

and comfortable.

tice, recognize that the fault lies it does at the children's. For them. They practice what their

unit as much at dren are what

And if their than tlhe children.

Every child is born a l'ttle savage.

it wants for itself and to 1'.’ ht tooth and hall for w no consideration for the fee ings or rights of others, others stops a baby from howling. give any one else the bi est slice of cake. others do for it makes t grateful.

attitudes tow others.

dren‘s love and tit :1 to th 1 pore t

do not have to tgergehllteio thefnl. n 5 comes mt if they have been lacking in the youngsters. But this never happens.

children ar to t i; m , Johnny mg 5% “area em If from their first

will keep their parents on a

d sta 9 Johnny and Susie De 8

live theye 1.

gather and Fathe de th 1 t glen Johnny sugigwwllels vidllekryroug to give

as it is about the way you rear n. 1: children; minds no seed of duty toward them_ no bouquet of filial love from them.

him 15 Only fl’-Collins what he has sown. be himself to them he had made them help Father is befo]i?:av'lenem‘i‘rflDe1d‘—I Yb? 6 equal shape of the Waco. y ‘I

sized to a young man mfw it

ante and After we did

0 look his money and invested it and house from own money, which I refused married. pm ed 1‘. will put an is Lllofhisinhisownname. He very t cheap movie once a week. on Sundays’ ha calls home as with her-

stays for sup 1' and goes ever be happy with him, or do you think 1 .n

todo. inhisn He

feud out the he was going out

slave whose earnings he intends to grub,

1.. €3..’.‘i.i“’.‘.?..‘°.i.‘ "§’i."“"

. ere ould be 50-50 ti late that whatever they are obi: to mm“ °" shouldn't be guilty or the uns babe his name, away in good investments. fore marriage may each other that

meanness of

.bevei-ysure will makeforahappy wedded life

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YDllll INDIVIDUAL

3! FRANCIS DEAR!

Look in the section your birthday coma in. ‘"189 your outlook 1:, according to the

i‘ For MD July 10!]:

P wuwn 21 to APR.II.- ac lAI'les) —Yesterday’s ntart (if you got A and goodons) should help pull you as

. will Ann. 21 to HAY no (Taurus) you mm

tobeal oeedwmtp

' usr,:1°1‘:_..‘ltu:1z!: ll_(GGn,I‘l:l) . » oonaov«uiu"" aitii¢m:le’i°"s'v'3la 113 am “mm

“lg or a “I bl: 0‘i"et(:l-1%‘ opin: in. i:'.'uf?.'.. uamn taiu. c.":mvl:atman and

igutzmlncilll at finance: Attention. was a to my to tennis:

om and every advantage in.my»power. As long "

Its instinct!‘

Particularly do they believ filial virtues will develop in them magically along tovial rd *11'|a,tl¢|!'l y,

Parents edtablillh in th

taught to respect Mother and them. to admire them, to feel that they have a dutl- Consider Mothers and Fathers happiness and pleasure, as ion

to ilahnn

This poor father whose children neglact him and

m°l'|9y to fllrnilh i . he decided that we had not my

N

as he has had

Th _ __...___ ._. ere is no II'lI:bIJ‘ld in the world more undesirable than

to work and help her husband get 3

Not Pro-

9y ving. ‘may never come ya, and although they have cars tlieynever take me out for a little riresh air when they know that 1 am in a run-down condition one to the upleasa t and hard work I am time laid up in bed in for a few minutes and tell me torestadayaisdl wilibeableto o iildren are financ much better on than I am.| but they never send manage xts lrcm the little earniitgs I save up by sun.- ey show no appreciation/for these. I-Efgzw can

Iam

ay. Yet 1 still

be P

are to grab

If Your Children Seem to ll: rget Youiimd Neglect You in -Late Life, ~Y4 ulAre Partly

It certainly seems to us a crime against Natilve when children get to be so selfish and so wrapped up thetr in their wn afia forget the mother who bore them and the father who slaved through long, hard years to feed and clothe and educate them. and keep them solt L

But when we see such examples of filial-ingratii/la

lrs that they

do we must, in jus- arents' door as , parents make parents have taught.'.t.hem, Their morals and manners are the kind that their parents hB.Ve"lIIBtl.ll€d into them. Parents have brou ht them up to be «selfish egctlsts who think of no one but themselves, t is the parents who are to blame more

what

t it desires. It has

No compassion for

3111' End thlat

I

cradle how c

D5 M0 81'

Bill; if be t l.h ‘: ack to them when they are a lilllle 0ledne1I'wb.1Il;g dgfyrtllgrl? ignygomer and Susie.

od over thelia w en they, are

l

W ti) 0011

keep on

“onndy f.akeshl:le

No generosity makes a little child W h N0t°B]:)|“I'e::laBl£l1(:Itl ‘for what e ave ~. ug tom our lrfigancy up the finer qualities of conduct just as wetlisve to be taugtii w to eat pro erly. our emotions have to be cultivated 3, we“ ,3 our

And only too often parents ignore this fact. Th y‘ think thgt chi].

they

at the

CV81‘!

"2?" nsclous knowle ge ether. to defer to

toward them. to

they and talk

"54 W11 50W. 50 shall you reap" is never so true abanut nnyihingflelse childre arents implant in their car can expect to gather

I have no time for a slave of

ad of ‘making lit 10. ‘he would not

now be left lonely and desolate .by.his se.lfis_h sons and ldlaughters.

gested that

uting. an e enough working

“W41 Ye Md saved-enough to furnish it. and in the loo tim to re t git the house. I gave my consent to is. Two YB8iI'8'1POlletl3 ai-ouiill.

he wants to get

Inf/ed me to afilrnish the entire keeps

toa

around ‘fimy house ma . I have also

Do -you think 1 will

d. drop hi in I PULIJIJID LAURA.

Answe . . mug him like hot pots. . ' , with a ueband wh: even Mf?re1y%u¥gmi'¥d)uhi;° y%%

start in

He ould apprec-

lsht ' 1- mon

and lint! nu-cl

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1. the 1 Yo

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null ting V; . '

was ‘“.’:i.‘l.'.“°:lr.'i’."l‘§ *=‘”:=*‘..~:.-."‘=“"'—‘..».l. i-h_Gl'0l-III-1.", flec on. flu to be

more

efficiently, and

-The kind amount of effort gain

expended fly will determine

your achievement. Indication 001633! 24

mat to outaelal. irritating de- (aoorplo) - whatba especially in obtaining vper- hard at work or ta-at

sonalduairlo. Guido action oon- curtail ndit -

an-uotlvaiy. no attentive to 6lAG‘n- of an rbulu

v_e is as much her ;ia;filiei:,1:r:§l1::

tryingi

°l’ “I make her support the family. willie he so. ta his earnings

Anyway. a couple who 1 lint they haven't the lore and fai II in

DOROTHY DIX.

53"-'>'-.vI.fl.H—l.ll."Y",l many“- ilonosciwt ,

be-

In

balance day pleasant born before

t gnawing All of you: mergt some in yam- wo . .

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anti’

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in I strainer. until the a rich amber color. in coo1.’t.hen add the Juice 01 0 oranges. and llemons. Ind 1 -i-in apricot nectar. Just before serv- mg ml 2 pints dry sinner lo and