OCTOBER 9, 1941 Roa< SYNOPSIS ? Beautiful Camilla Dean is touring Egypt, and Palestine with a party of Americans. On the voyage she has many admirers, among them a wealthy Syrian known as Joseph Asad. in reality Hassan Isar, leader of fanatical Arabs in Palestine. She meets also the English-bred American, Ronald Barker, known as El Kerak, mysterious leader of the tribes opposed to Hassan. Camilla accepts the attention of Hassan to gain information helpful to Rarlfflr uhn Vme 4l"a she may be in danger if she continues her tour. She accepts Hassan's invitation to go to Damascus, accompanied by some of her American friends. She visits the home of Hassan's father, the sheik Arif-cl-Arif, where she is joined by Hassan who renews his proposal of marriage, but she refuses him. CHAPTER XI Mr. Willing, having tourist business in Damascus, turned the party over to Michael, who drove, seated beside his Syrian chauffeur and guide. The Syrian's name was Zaagi and he spoke English and French, telling tales of the country they were passing through and of the tribes that inhabited them. From time to time they passed caravans of moth-eaten camels and dromedaries on the road to Palmyra. But more interesting were .he tribesmen, in kaffiyeh and kumbaz, riding spirited horses which pranced and pirouetted as the great bus thundered past uiiu uie riuers snor meir ru :es into the air, the bullets whizzing close to the bus while they shouted and laughed in amusement at the tourists. "I'd hate to meet that crowd on a dark night without a machine gun, a few bombs and tome tear gas," Slim said. But the chauffeur only smiled the superior smile of the Syrian, which is more superior than any smile in the world. "Machine guns! Bah, monsieur, would you shoot with machine guns at a lot of children'.' It is their way. They are just having a good time." "Sure! But the next bunch may not think they're having a good enough time. I'd feel more comlortable if we had some rifles and ammunition in case they gang up on us." Zaagi laughed again. He seemed to find a great deal of pleasure in Slim's remarks. j I ^ A CHCVCOUT ADS T n-rnir HATWNA1 DEFENSE I HE Blij | ieau year I IT PA I AND > .r? ? HARRISON < tf i The i to Ba < By GEORGE GIBBS Michael drove carefully and when a herd of camels blocked the way, ; waited patiently until they had passed. A sharp-featured fellow stuck his nose in at Kitty Trimble's win clow and made an ugly face at her | so that she screamed in terror. If I Hassan had been in the party he j would have prevented any such un' pleasantness. She wanted Michael 1 to turn the car and go back to DaImascus, but Janet and Josie laughed at her. j Camilla confessed to herself a slight uneasiness over the indifferent air of the guide. Zaagi. But he had come well recommended from the most respectable garage in A<'i rut. and bore credentials from the French government, j "Besides," Michael added in explanation, "he brought me an excelI lent letter from Hassan Isar." | "Hassan!" Slim's mouth sagged open. ' I guess that makes it unanimous. Say, Camilla," he muttered |"I don't like that Zaagi guy a little bit. If he runs us into any trouble he'll be the first one to go?" Slim was rather proud of his bit 'automatic which he carried in shoulder holster and exhibited childishly. Michael had a gun, too. anc Janet Priestly carried a little .21 Smith and Wesson in her- handbag Zaagi was driving now and Mich ael joined them in one of the reai seats. Michael was more interested in the performance of his great engine of transportation than in any social or diplomatic question. The road they took was unlike the hardsurfaced and graded highways from Jerusalem to Beirut. Caravan travel had ironed out some of the rough spots but it was still merely a trail over the desert, and it took careful driving to avoid the rocks that were hidden under the dust in unexpected places. "1 made this wheel base as short as 1 could." Michael explained, "but it's hard to keep the body off the i ground. We've got to choose our terrain carefully, leaving the road : when necessary, to make the riding ; easy." It seemed to Camilla that they had been off the road ever since Zaagi had been driving, hut she cheerfullu nonorit'>'1 , -j Mvvvfwu xuiwuut'i s? explanation. "Are you sure this guy knows 1 where he's going?" Slim asked, eyeI ing the country dubiously. 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Just the undulating of the horizon, with here. : and there the serrated edges of rock | piercing the distant sky. j When tile speed of the bus was j 'reduced, as now seemed necessary most of the time, the heat was in- \ tense and the tourists were all per- \ spiring freely. "You ain't seen nothing yet," Slim j said as Josia complained. j "How hot is Bagdad?" i "A hundred and fifteen when it's cool?and a hundred and forty when it decides to gel warm?" They were all game except Kitty, who had subsided in her seat, her face mottled and her eyes bulging, gasping feebly from time to time that she wanted to return to Damascus. Michael, exhibiting a map, said ; he hoped to reach Palmyra in the afternoon, but if thev didn't mat-.. better time it might be later. He ex-1 . plained that it didn't matter where I ' they stopped for the night as they were taking their hotel with them,' and there was plenty of water and ! provisions for everybody. 1 "It s quite exciting." Josie said. | "The grandest picnic I ever went 1 on," sighed Janet happily. ' It was increasingly exciting as the I great bus seemed to be having difI ficulties of its own, lurching and tilting unpleasantly like a ship in an angry sea. There was, so far as ! they could see, no sign now of road or trail, and they were passing over ' virgin soil that had not even been j trodden by the hoofs of camels. ; '"Say," said Slim, who had fol| lowed Michael forward to the chauffeur's bench, "this gink doesn't know where he's going. Look what we're coming to?' They had reached the top of a precipitous slope covered with anI gry-looking basalt rocks which ; seemed to end in a chaos of minor \ precipices. "Put your brakes on, : man!" Slim roared. Zaagi obliged grudgingly, giving I Slim a sickly smile that was still superior. "I come a shorter way. monsieur," Zaagi exDlained "Get back to the road,"' Michael commanded, with a sudden reallzaI tion that the bus had somehow got i into a difficult position. "I'm not ' going to smash this bus on her trial j trip." Zaagi moved one shoulder slight-1 i ly, and putting on power, seemed I ! to be finding a way between the I jutting stones that would bring j i them back to safety, when miracuj lously there appeared out of 110 NEW ^ri LING T? UAD IH tyle STYLING ink, *DESIGNED TO UAD IN Jty PERFORMANCE I P of DESIGNED the TO IUD IN "fl ECONOMY olet ven v iful Y DER BUY H r COMPANY Y THURSDAY?BOONE, N. where among the rocks, in front, ji [beside and behind then, groups of mounted Bedouins galloping to the i ear, gesticulating with their rifles i and shouting iucomprehensively. 'What does a!! this mean, Zaagi?" : Michael demanded. "I don't know, monsieur. It is a < .branch of the Anazeh and they come to welcome us to their country." Zaagi opened the door and there i was a short colloquy. When the conSversation was ended Zaagi turned [with simulated despair. "They ask tribute for passing through their ; | lands," lie said. "It is the custom [of the country, they say." A man in a red pelisse who seemed to be the leader of the group now raised a hand commanding attention. He was taller than the others, wore ; a small brown beard and. judged by the standards of his people, was handsome of face and well formed in figure. "He says," Zaagi translated, "that he wishes to examine your luggage and requests that you all step down while he docs so." "I'm darned if we do," Michael replied. There was a moment of silence while the sheik sat gravely with an air of great dignity and patience, smiling at last as if in commiseration of their unreasonable attitude When he spoke it was with a sterner expression. "He says," Zaagi interrupted, "that it will be much better if you do what he asks. He will perhaps detain you a few minutes." The situation crystallized almost immediately as Michael took Zaagi by the collar of his tunic and threw hitn from behind the wheel, falling into his seal and turning on 'he power. Zaagi put a hand into his shirt and drew out a knife which he swung with a dangerous motion toward Michael. But Slim fired quickly and Zaagi dropped, rolling at the feet of an Arab who had come up the steps. That was the beginning of the trouble. Michael was trying to get the car in gear when somebody shot at him. Slim's automatic caine into line again and fired several times. The sounds of firing now came from all directions. Michael had been hit in the shoulder and crumpled over the wheel, but he fired a final shot at the man clambering up the steps toward him while glass clattered and Janet Priestly's liny revolver sounded like the yapping of a fox terrier above the roar of the heavy rifles. Camilla, still bewildered by the sudden conflict, rushed worward to pick up Slim's gun from the floor of the bus, when she was seized violently LEGAL NOTICES SALE OF LAND FOR CITY TAXES By virtue of the power of sale vest- i ed in me by law as tax collector for I the town of Boone, N. C., I will on Monday, November 3, 1941, between the hours of 10 a. m. and 12 m., at the city hall in said town, sell to the highest bidder for cash to satisfy taxes for the amounts indicated for the year 1940, the lands of the following delinquent taxpayers of the town of Boone, N. C. This September 30, 1941. MRS. RUTH McCONNELL, Tax Collector, Town cf Boone. Mrs. Fred Aldridge S13.10 I. S. Ayers _... 50.38 T. & L. Cafe 18.62 Carrie H. Bingham 25.62 D. L. Blount 9.83 Mrs. J. \V. Erawley 13.10 J. R. Brinkley 11.23 E. O. Britain 1.87 M. F. Byers 2.34 R. G. Carroll 2.81 Miss Jennie Coffey 18.38 Ralph Coffey 10.30 Earl D. Cook 41.08 Mrs. Cora Councill _.. 28.64 J. Ed Cullers 6.71 Carolina Pharmacy 84.24 Mrs. J. N. Davidson 1.87 Tom Davis 70.30 Laura A. Deal 9.83 Mrs. Edna Dellinger 7.37 Bernard Dougherty 14 14 J. Paul Fox 7.49 T7fV.rO r- nr\ UU1U VJCU1?UU ? I Mrs. W. R. Gragg 38.48 Roy Hagaman 43.52 Rex Hagaman 24.63 Grady Hartley 14.61 Highland Furniture Co. 18.72 Mrs. Edna Hodges 23.61 Stuart Hodges 14.40 Hollar's Grocery Store 52.51 Lethia Hoyle 1.40 A. L. Hunt 2.90 Mrs. Gene Holt 6.55 J. L. Huss 1.87 . Mrs. W. R. Johnson 21.69 Carl Kuykendall 3.84 C. W. Kirkpatrick ? 4.92 Cassey Keever ...- 7.37 ; A. W. Lippard 3.68 ' W. R. Lovill and Mrs. J. W. Brawley 35.57 ' Mrs. J. S. Lyons 23.14 1 J. A. & Lucille Luther 23.40 Ralph Mast 30.15 ' Mrs. Frank McGhee 29.48 ' r* "NT uan V-.. INUliUi Z6.li * E. L. Payne ...- 45.68 i S. E. Phillips 9.36 E. S. Quails - 3.28 < J. R. Reese _... 12.55 i Mrs. C. A. Little-Reese 40.94 ( W. E. Rush 11.79 ( W. E. Setzer 7.68 Mrs. Elizabeth Sproles 7.71 Mrs. Helen Stallings 11.23 Ralph and Edna Stansberry... 16.38 ( C. S. Stevenson - 2.43 . H. S. Storie 25.59 ' Will C. Walker 33.70 Ralph Winkler 239.96 , Mrs. J. L. Winkler 81.90 ' and carried bodily outside. It was lively while it lasted, and fatal at least to poor Slim who had fallen prone, bleeding badly from a ' wound in his chest. Michael Gay still sagged over the wheel, a bulifet1 in his shoulder, and Janet V.mked I disgustedly at her li'tie empty pis-:1 tot and let them hustle her out tojr the ground. Doc Williamson, whol' was unarmed, obediently followed i1 the directions of the bandits. Torelii! 1 was giving aromatic spirits of am- i monk', to Kitty Trimble, who had t tainted. 1 ( Camilla was aware ot the mail in j; the red pelisse urging her again to- E ward the horse, and as she did notii try to help hirn two men lifted her j bodily and put her in the saddle. s She was sure that it was useless for ) her to struggle, so she submitted. , permitting them to lead the hoise , away from the group and over the hill to a flat plain which seemed ( limitless in every direction, except j toward the mountains which they , .u__ 11 -? <.> v. 75, to which reference is hereby nade, and default having been made n the payment of the indebtedness ;ecured by said deed of trust, wherejy the power of sale therein conained has become operative, and >aid undersigned trustee will on Thursday. October 23, 1941, at 12:00 i'clcck noon, sell al public auction, !or cash, at the courthouse door in Boone, County of Watauga, and State of North Carolina, the following lands and premises: A certain tract of land lying and being in Watauga County aforesaid, and norc particularly described as follows: The same being situate, lying and jeing in the town of Blowing Rock. State of North Carolina, bounded aid described as follows: Beginning at a stake on the east iide of a street in Blowing Rock and unning south 89 degrees east 100 legrees east passing Robbins' N.E. :orner; then with this line north 85 legrees cast passing Robbihs' N.E. :orner. running in ail iRS feet to a done: then north 14 west 143 11-50 'eet to a stone on the south side of i street; then with the street south 11 west 242 feet to a stake at the unction of the two streets: then .vith the street 4% degrees east 105 eet to the beginning, being the land iescribed in a deed from Eliza S. 3oogher to Ethel Boogher and Elise 3oogher, dated August 31st, 1933, md recorded in the Registry for tVatauga County, N. C., in Book 41, aage 624. This sale is made pursuant to aised bid for the above property iled with the Clerk of the Superior 3ourt of Watauga County, followng sale on Aug. 12, 1941, and orler of re-sale entered by said clerk. This October 1, 1941. GUY M. SALES, l0-9-2p. Trustee. NOTICE North Carolina, Watauga County. Under and by virtue of the power >f sale contained in a certain deed of :rust, dated May 19, 1927. executed ay A. C. Reece and wife. Lola Recce, o W. E. McNeill, trustee, and rerorded in the office of the register )f deeds for Watauga county, in Book 9 at naee 351. ipmrino iotcs payable to the Bank of Glade Springs, and default having been made in the payment as provided therein, will offer for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the courthouse door in Boone, Watauga county, North Carolina, on the 26th day of October, 1941, at 12 o'clock noon, the following described real estate, to wit: First Tract: Beginning on a sugar bee, George Hayes' old corner, west 77% east 75 poles to a poplar; north 70 east 5-1 poles to a stake; north 4 cast 42 poles to a stake; west 80 poles to a stake; then north 34 west 42 poles to a cucumber; then north 3 west 30 poles to a stake: south 85' j west 11% poles to a stake; then south 59 west 5 poles to a stake; south 72 west 9 poles to a stake; west 3%. poles to a stake; south 87% west 12 poles to a stake; north 87 west 4 poles to a stake; north 83% west 3% poles to a stake, Wilson heirs' corner; then south 5% west 38 poles to a stake; east 3 poles to a stake; south 5'% west 16 poles to a stake: south 86% east 38 poles to a sugar tree; thence east 14 poles to a stake; then south 47 poles to the beginning, containing 70 acres, more or less. Second Tract: Beginning on a rock and runs north 33 west 16 poles to a birch; then north 32 east 68 poles to a dogwood at two rocks on a ridge; thence south 40 east 8 poles to a chestnut on top of the ridge; thence south SO east 10 poles to a .mail chestnut; thence south 42 east 26 poles to a chestnut; thence south 36 east 6 poles to a stake on top of the ridge; then south 42 east 30 ooles to a chestnut on top of said ridge; then south 10 west 4614 poles, to a white oak, Solomon Isaacs' coraer; west 10 poles to a stake, theSlick's corner; north 45 west 59 poles to a white oak on a flat ridge; south 30 west 32 poles to the beginning, containing 32 acres, more or less. This 26th day of September, 1941,' w. e. McNeill, _ Trustee in o a~ j Paul A. Coffey Agent Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Co. Office in Parkway Co. Bldg. BOONE, N. C.