Herald and news., July 26, 1943, Page 6, Image 6

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ALONE
CHAPTER XIX
CO Lincoln was oft toward the
jungle beyond Lake Tchad.
The map was good enough, and,
beneath a moon-bright sky, he
trekked all that night and reached,
early In the morning, a Negro
kraal, It was the usual affair ol
beehive-shaped grass huts, pro
tected by a dense zariba of cactus
and elephant-thorns,
. Other dervishes must have
come through here on their way
to the hytonoot ameex. For the
people asked no Why or Whence
nor Whither; hospitality offered
him food and drink and a place
to rest.
"Yambo! St donyo sobuH
welcome, O Eminence! And eat
your fllll" -
Money lor what they gave o
freely?
What use had they for the
glint and clink of coins? Only
their fields they reckoned valuable
possessions and, also, their small,
sorrel cattle, since a grain will
grow a grain and a beast bring
forth a beast. They had sufficient
of both.
"Eat your fllll And, If you will,
- being a dervish, a man of Allah,
pray to this ame Allah to send
us plenty rain!"
He ate, slept, went on; crossed
Iliuwa ai cutun. ivji.iv moiiucvi uj
a film-like spray of sand which
surged and twirled and twisted
in the fiery wind.
. Here there were no more
kraals. Cultivation ceased. There
was no human life. But twice he
came upon abandoned encamp
ments, and he knew, by sign ol
scattered cartridge-cases and torn
bits of saddlery and a smashed
.,, - . 1 11. n.llnJ k
Creusot neid gun, inat soldiers
' had passed through here, between
Yebba and Lake Tchad. Soldiers
OI. rree x range lie guesseu va
their long,' weary journey to join
.American and British troops in
ithe north.
Perhaps there bed been among
ithem some of his old comrades in
'the Foreign Legion going to war
because it was their trade.
Well he, too, was going to war.
Because it was bis duty.
: A single man's lonely war. A
! single man's lonely killing.
ABRUPTLY the wasteland
stopped. The jungle began,
rwith its creenine carpet of green-
jish-black, matted corruption,
; He trekked on.
- How many days and nights?
' He did not keep count. All he
knew was that he must hurry;
must get to his destination before
the hitemoot ameez gave the or
der. So he slept little. And he was
tired. Terribly tired. Raked by
fever. Aching in every limb,
r He would reach his goal and
fulfill his quest if his body sur
vived' the strain and pain, the
brazen day heat, the sudden, bit
ter MAlri fit iha n i nVi t. mmr .Vm
Equator, and the frequent attacks
of fever and colic due to the pol
luted water.
Was it he reflected ironically
ifor the sake of duty that a man
shook in an ague? Because of
'patriotism that a man's guts
jretched with bloody dysentery?
i He gave an unreal laugh.
J- He preferred the other patrlot
lism; the sort which killed a man,
(cleanly and properly, with bullet
;or sword, on the field of battle.
But to die even for one's coun
i try or for the sake of triumphant
idemocracy by reason of some
'.obscene insect's sting or because
.'of filthy water . . . why it didn't
seem decent. Certainly wasn't
'heroic.
Again he laughed, shrilly;
i "Fool, fool!" he shrieked. "Oh
1 you damnefl, silly fool!"
j Was he losing his mind?
i He must not allow it He must
pull himself together; must con
vince himself that he was Lincoln
C. Elliot, American, New Eng
ender, and a high official in tha
service of the United Nations who)
bad a job to do.
And so, slowly, carefully regu
lating the pauses after each word,
he repeated over and over again,
with a fairly loud voice:
"I am Lincoln C. Elliot, Ameri
can! I am sane I am sane I am
sane!":
rpHE hours and days passed un
noticed. Always the fetid, choking heat
. Always the sour stenches.
Always, feasting on his flesh and
blood, the minute mobs of insects,
little greedy, ferocious, shimmer
ing, repulsive monsters, armed
with horns, with claws, with
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pincers, with virulent poison.
Nor was there relief in tha
hours of sleep. Sleep was brut
ish, heavy, turgid.
So alone, he seemed to himself,
so small and puny . . . and how
the jungle's leaden, amazing still
ness weighed on him!
Stolidly, as stolidly as he could,
he trekked on, until, one after
noon, there was tragedy.
For, coming to a spot where the
narrow trail split into four, he
wondered which one to take. He
reached into his pocket for tha
map and did not And it.
Frantically he searched all his
pockets. It was not there. He
must have lost it somewhere.. .
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1 "lAXlDERMIST?
V COMuekiTinM
"Who's a stuffed shirt?"
is fishing again, sir 1
He retraced Ms' steps; "carefully
scanning the ground. Then ho saw
it He saw it jeering at him,
chewed into hundreds of tiny
pieces by an army of voracious
soldier-ants.
He drew out his compass and
watched the quivering, magnetic
needle. He located south-east
Where lay Lake Tchad and tha
clearing called the Meeting of the
Elephants. But straight ahead
the jungle stood like a rampart ot
steel, mocking, sinister; thinly
pierced by the four narrow paths
and each of the four leading
vaguely in a southeastern direc
tion, and each, after a short dis
tance, feathering out at a differ
ent angle.
Which of the four should ho
take? .
(To Be Continued)' .
Bootleggers know that what's
sauce for the goose is easy pick
ings for the smart duck.
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ARABIAN
HORIZONTAL
1,7 Pictured
Arabian ruler,
14 Earache
16 Annual
17 Diminutive of
Edward
18 Insect
19 Louse egg
20 Doctor of Di
vinity (abbr.)
21 Dined
23 IS able
24 Elevate
27 Extinct bird
29 Donkey
30 Decorated .
with stars
Answer to
'JsIeIrIerwd a rIesL.
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RAfSMO VERS
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45 Myself
47 Footed vase
49 Winglike part
50 Father
52 Rowing stick
53 Female deer
54 Hawaiian
wreath
55 Possess
33 Bought
(abbr.)
34 Record of the
events of a
tingle year.
35 Help
37 Friendly
39 Bowl
41 Advertise
ments (abbr.)
42'Mountain
57 Come before
58 He favors the
cause
VERTICAL
1 Therefore
2 Indian
44 Peep
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MONOTONY
LAUREL, Mont., (IP) Corp.
Lyle Kodgers, former cowboy
now in the marines, was all ex
cited over his first glimpse of
South Sea Isles and what hop-!
pens?
"There were a lot of cattle,"
he reports, "and everybody
thought a Montana man ought
to handle them."
So he rode herd on island
shorthorns, cut out the dogics
and did his own branding. He
even found a saddle '-ibelled
"made in Billings, Mont."
Children arc a great handicap
to anybody who wants to be un
happy. ITS EAiV TO FORM A HABIT WHEN
THE HABIT PITS YOUR FORM,"i
MISSA.RACEK,
farmer like rain.
RULER
Previous Puzxle
15 Near
21 Like
22 Windstorm
24 His capital is
25 On the move
26 Exists
27 Violent .
insanity ' I
28 He rules
tribes of
31 Beret
32 Cloth measure
38 Perform
37 Intimate
38 Place upon
rails
40 Music note I,
43 Goad
44 Entreaty
3 Boy
4 Symbol for
thallium
3 Precious
stones
45 Damage
S Baseball team 46 Before
7 Males
48 Born
8 Pertaining to
the ear
49 Symbol forh
aluminum '
50 Hawaiian
food
51 Bewilderment
9 Obstruct
10 Symbol for
osmium
.11 Chief
52 Opera (abbr.)
12 Vulgar fellow 56 "Sioux state"
13 Upon (abbr.)
By
Red Rydor By Frsd Harmon
KOLDll- EA.5Y-1 Vrf'XlPEt-E.-E.' HE'S EACK' HEl fWi, MJHCRAZY , 1 fSOURCOUGH WI'5T ' J,
j NAs'HOV.' V v VlSETTi UP FOR TH'TOWKJV OALOOT MUH GONE J 1 1 BCK FROrMH1 J J7
AS RED RYDER
AD UTILE BEAVER
RETURM HOME ,
, nW'ER'CK .
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Freckles and His Frionds
HW. LARD.
Unless tub
scarcwim&
pumb eturns
a&wn.it looks
as if laro
WILL STAy
MAHOONEDON'
TME ISLAND
WITH LAMA AND
Mat. BROTHER,
victor so far,
THE EXPERIENCE
HAS NOTBeeN
fWJwAoLC
WALK ALONO
BEACH ON
NORTH SID6
WOSNINO-f
Wash Tubbt
Boots and Her Buddies
Allep Oop
WITH VOLW HELP I
CAM DEVISE A METAL
TOUGH ENOUGH TO
WITHSTAND THE
PULSION
BLAST.
CECOSNIZIN& THE VALUE OF
OSCAR BOOM'S ROCKET
PROJECTILE, DC. f TIME -
MACHINE) WON MUG CON
SENTED TO AID THE FUGIT
IVE PERFECT HIS INVENTION.
Little Orphan Annie
(15)0 PUNJAB MADE THE
U-BOAT DISAPPEAR I
THffTDIDITI N NOW, NOW,
IMP0SSIBLE1 BUT MY BOY'
I SAW IT t 1 BECALM-
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J, R. William Our Boarding
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to AO COURSE,
WITH VOO.l ELSA! THE
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V Of
THE TRIP MADE BV TWE'
MACHINE , NECESSITATED
A DROP BACKWARD IN
TIME SOME TWENTY CEN
TURIES TO A PERIOD
WHEN SICILV WAS DOM
INATED EVV ROMAN IN-
VAPERS..,APPgOHIMATELV
3I1B.C IMTETMA
WHERE
THEY ARE
TO GET
THE ORE
oow
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TO HELP BOOM
TCfTETHE ORE
FROM MT. ETNA...
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CALM. MY EYE! MfffflE Wt I
I HOW CAN I PUT I ONLY IMAGINED I
J I THAT IN MY I THAT THIRD I
1 1 REPORT? THEYDJ U-BOAT-ITS I
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House
, ' V THERE'S
' I PLANE!
HCH.D
YOU
OUR FRIENDS ARE NOV) IN
SYRACUSE, A CITY THAT RE
SISTED THE ROMANS FOR
THREE YEARS, DUE TO THE IN
GENIOUS WAR MACHINES DE
SIGNED BY ARCHIMEDES, A
NO U-BOAT-NO
CU. HAVE TOl
AND fM GETTING
OUT OF THIS
PLACE BEFORE
PRISONERS-SIMPLE,
EH? WHY NOT
JUST. K3HORE THE
WHOLE THING?
BECOME A
RfflflNQ MANIAC-
With Major Hoopla
By Blotter
By Cfoijfr
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By V. T. Hamlin
By Martin
By Harold Gray
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WORKINQ TOO HARD "A
GOOD REST WILL FIX
HIM UP -PUNJAB'S
TRICKS ARE ENOUGH TO
SHAKE ANYONE -
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AND VOL! SAY THIS THATB RIGHT
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LIFT THAT SHIP k CAM VtXJ DO
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