PSGE EIGHT
MEDFORD MAIL .TRIBTJNE, MEDFORD, OREGOX, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY li, 1933.
Valiant Dust
by Percival Christopher Wren tvSrcif
SYNOPSIS: Lieutenant Napo
leon Rlccoll, forced to resign from
the French omy bv the discoveries
ot Lieutenant Lm Sage of the Se
cret Service, haw enlieted tn the
Foreign Legion and risen to the
rank of Uajor. lie hat taken a do
tachment over treeeing mountain!
into the "hottest place on earth,"
the domain of the Sultan of Uekax
Men. There thev build a Poet,
while RloooU. dreaming of tollout
ing in the lootstept of an earlier
Hapoleon, goes back for the re
miitttler of hit eommand.
' ' Chapter I
"THE LITTLE MEWEL8'"
SAID Sailor Harris, "Ola friend o'
mine, the Sultan la,
-Bloke I told yon about. Bob," be
added, turning to Otno, "that day
at the fair."
"I'm not likely to forget It,"
agreed Otbo, "nor your message
about 'Save the Utile JeweU; as I
thought yon said.
'nave the utile Juicf," mur
mured Otbo again, with a short and
bitter laugh.
"Wot was that, 'Arris?" asked
William Bossum. "You bin 'ere be
fore, d'you say? It you bin 'ere be
fore, why couldn't yon say so before?"
"Ho, yua, before and be'lnd. 1
didn't say before that I'd bin 'ere
before becos we come some other
way. But I been to Mekazsen before,
an right," replied Sailor Harris.
"Well, go on, get It up," requested
William Bossum, "and don't be so
bloomln' 'aughty and mysterious.
Anybody d think yon was a mlssln'
lair or somethlnk."
"You'll be a mlssln' Legton-helr
au right. In a moment," resiled
Sailor Harris with unwonted bril
liance. "If you could close your 'ead
for halt a second, I'd tell you. Be
fore I 'ad the misfortune to meet
you In Tonbury, I goes ashore from
off my ship In Marseilles and gets
arunic ho drunk I gets that I joins
the Foreign Legion, or else the For
eign Legion joins ma. ... I dunno.
. . . Any'ow, my Section was garri
son of a fort, and my etoouade was
aoin' a patrol and got mopped up
by some Beddoo blokes. Me an' my
ahum, ole Peer Le grand, la what
may cans tfle sole surrlrora of the
bloomln' shipwreck.
"An these Beddoo biokes takes
us along to Mekazsen an' gives us
to this Kite for a Christmas-box. or
a birthday-present or something.
"Cor lummel Rough 1 'B was an
ole buszard. Ws soon wished we waa
back with the Beddoos. One day he
took my poor chum Peer Legrand,
an' 'ad him chucked off a tower on
" to some sharp 'ooks, 'art-way down
the wall. An' there e 'ung till he
died. 'Ooked through the leg, . , .
Upside-down . . . like a sheep In a
butcher's shop. Kite Harem Abdul
ler Kareem, The dirty dog ... I'd
like to ..."
"Well, how did you come to get
away then?" asked Joe Mummery.
as Sailor Harris paused to think of
exactly what he'd like to do to the
Kald Haroun Abd'allah Earlm of
uexaszen.
"It waa his sister done It Come
town in the middle of the night to
the dungeon plaoe, she did, where I
was ohalned up like a dog. Ses she
aan get me out and guided to a place
called Tangier It I'd give a bloke
there a message from 'er. Then the
nose would give me two 'undred
and fifty francs for meself and see
me on my way. Likewise she done It
too. A dumb bloke, an' an ole 'aa.
an' a black piccaninny. An' ma In
one o' their big cloaka like a great
-orse-Dianxet with a hood to 1L
"Well, the dumb bloke gets me
ont all right and guides ns to Tan
gler. And all the way I keeps re
peating tne message to meself, not
knowing but what me Ufa doponded
on It, yer see. The message from
this girl to the bloke In Tangier,
Seenyor Peteroh Mulleeny."
-res,- murmured Otho. "SeBor
rearo Maltgnt."
"What was the message?" asked
loo Mummery.
" 'Save the tittle Jewels," re
plied Sailor Harris, " 'Glorallor.
Enaland. Don't trust my broth
er any more. Bit wife hat won,
Otve thie man two hundred ant
fifty france and tend htm over
the tea. Peteroh't gatelle BlUn
beth Ellen speaks. Save the lit
tle jewels,'
"Yos, that was the message an'
111 remember It as long as I live.
. . . Elisabeth Ellen was the girl's
name the Kite's sister. Only she
pernounced It like El lea Beth Ell
Aln. Like that ... A lorely piece,
she was, too. cor lummel ... An'
apoke some English with 'or French
and Arabic."
"Her mother waa an Englishwo
manElizabeth Elaine Torson,"
said Otbo, "captured with her bus-
band Captain Torson, a gunner from
Gibraltar. The tribesmen who cap
tured them killed him, and sold her
In the market-place of Mekazzen as
a slave. This Kald's father bought
her and the woman of whom Har
ris la talking waa their daughter.
So she Is the half-sister of the pres
ent Kald. Also half-English. . . . Poor
soul. . . ."
'How d'you know, Bob?" asked
Joe Mummery aa Otho tell silent
"Because the 'black pickaninny
who went with Harris and the dumb
map and the old bag waa ber son.
disguised. He was 'the little Jewels'
(as Harris thought she said) his
name la Jules and It waa to escort,
and to save, the little Jules that
she sent Harris to Tangier. . . . And
the little Jules MallgnL being safe
ly handed over to bis father, Pedro
Mallgnl, by the dumb guide, waa
sent to England In charge of a Dr.
Maykings and his wife, friends of
"Chuoked off a tower"
Sefior Pedro Mallgnl whom they
were visiting In Tangier. Dr. May
kings, as you know, Joe, was my
father's friend and doctor. . . . And
the little Jnlos' married his daugh
ter Margaret Mayklngs who. aa you
also know, was my er friend."
Otho Bellome fell silent
"Rum world," solllonulzed Sailor
Harris. "Rum go. Fair ole panter
mlme. . . , Fancy the Dlccaninnv
boln' that glrl'a kid!"
Yes," continued Otho. "It waa
Jules Mallgnl. And I hare known
him for nearly as long aa I can re
member. ... I met hla cousin too
ohap named Ratsul son of the
Kald Haroun Abd'allah Karlm. He
was educated In Paris and Madrid.
and he used to come to see Jules
Mallgnl at Oxford, when he visited
England. The Sefior Pedro Mallml
was the Kald's agent financial and
comical in general, and tun-run.
nlng In particular. I believe. I .
poet Jules looked after the English
ena ot it for Pedro and Ralsu!
looked after Jules. . . .
I used to hear a good deal about
Mekazsen, but I never thought I'd
see the beastly country."
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A eurloui itrangtr arrlvts at the
poat, tomorrow.
Dallas Business
Zone Has Blaze
DALLAS, Feb. 14. (AP) A crew ot
SO men fought a business district
fin here 1st Saturday night and
kept It from spreading out of the
half blook of wooden buildings whete
It started.
A laundry, jewelry store, trading
poet, barber ahop and blacksmith
ah op were leveled to a mass of beat
warped appliances snd charred re
mains. The lota waa estimated above
10,000.
Corbett Fighting
A Losing Battle
NEW YORK, Feb. 14. (AP) James
J. Corbet, seriously 1U with a heart
ailment, pawed a restless night but
today appeared to rally slightly from
the fatigue which waa spparent early
In the day.
Corbett, former heavyweight box-
In champion, baa been In a serious
condition for 1 days and although
hla condition has not changed ap
preciably, he appears to be losing
strength.
H-IS4
LAST REHEARSAL
FOR ITS GIRL'
This evening the lut rehearsal
of "Jim's Girl," comedy-drama to be
presented by an aJl-atar local cast,
under auspices ot the Medford Amer
ican Legion, wlU be held, Robert Lor
raine, director, announced this after
noon, and tickets for the show are
now on sale at Strang's drug store.
Tickets may also be obtained
through three well-known particip
ant in the show, Adra. Edwards, Nelie
Green and Etliel Chord. Announce
ment of the play was made today by
O. 7. Tengwald at the Klwanlsjunch
eon, with a promise to all that It will
be well worth seeing; and that the
funds derived will be devoted to char
ity to provide hot lunches to school
children from needy families.
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Children's frocks made. Gladys
Katwlck Shelby. 15 GarglU Court.
10 BE CREATED
VATICAN CITT, Feb. 14. (AP)
The Osservator Romano announced
this evening that six hew cardinals
would be created at a consistory
March 18, among them Pletro ?unu
sonl-Blondl, apostolic delegate to the
United States and Mexico.
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archbishop of Quebeo, will also be
elevated to the cardinalate, the news
paper says.
The others are Archbishop Innltzer
of Vienna, Archbishop Foesatl of Tu
rin, Archbishop Delia Costa of Flor
ence, and Archbishop Dold, papal
nuncio to Rumania.
The number of cardinals thus
would be raised from S3 to 58 out of
a possible 70. '
DOG TEAM RESCUED
FROM FLOATING ICE
FAIRBANKS,' Alaska, Feb. 14 (AP)
During heavy northern seas, 10 mllJs
offshore, the mall carrying dog' team
and sled of mall, marooned In Morton
Sound tor five days, waa rescued from
an Ice floe by a power boat and taken
to ShaltolUc, a message from Nulato
said today. ,
ARMY APPROPRIATION
HAS SENATE APPROVAL'
WASHINGTON. Feb. 14. JPf Th -i
a370.0OO.0OO army appropriation bill
was passed by the senate today and
sent back to the house for action on
amendments.
: Pender and body repairing. Prices
right. Brill 8heet Metal Works.
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