Eikin—"The Best
Little Town In
North Carolina"
VOL. No. XXI No. 15
MOON OF MYSTERY
CHAPTER 8
Convinced that we could be of
no further aid to the princess Na
* tal until she had completed her nap
(how I envied har!) we withdrew to
the main cabin of the flier. Our
heads were buzzing with questions,
' but if there was a satisfactory an
• swer running around loose any
where, we hadn't been able to hem
it up and capture it.
Bob said he had a theory that
might work. In his estimation, the
moon was once thickly populated
with Na-tai's jfteople, but as the
small planet rapidly cooled, the
people slowly perished until the end
of a few hundred centuries found
the dwindling population force to
burrow beneath the surface for a
place of habitation. He said they
probably had to manufacture their
own air; their food had to be work
ed out underground and all the
other details necessary to support A
people upon an unfriendly world
and a world that had grown un
suited, to human habitation.
Bob did fairly well up to there
with his theories, but Pat had to go
and spoil the day for him by asking
v the why and wherefore of the lan
guage? That stumped him. Then,
to make matters worse, Pat wanted
, to know why a people, living so
comfortable in their hidden city,
would want to go and die for? Or if
not dead, it amounted to the same
* thing unless some accommodating
cusses like ourselves happened
along. Pat said those folks should
be real grateful to us for waking
their princess.
While the Irishman was voicing
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THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
By ALAN BROWNING, Jr.
his thoughts, I gave bii-th t« an idea
myself, surprising as that may seem.
I had read in ancient history or
somewhere, that the ancient Egyp
tians had probably been more high
ly civilized than we; that being the
case, perhaps they had migrated to
the moon, and peopled our hidden
city with their descendants. This
theory seemed so good that I was
fairly stuck up about it until Bob
wanted to know what it proved, or
pointed out, and how did it have
any bearing upon the question?
I withered him with a look and
told him it was a very plausible ex
planation of the fact that we could
understand the moon people's lan
guage. I knew I had him there
and I couldn't help but wink at Pat
in the most approved fashion.
"You idiot," Bob answered quiet
ly, "even if things had been as you
said, and the Egyptians had reached
the moon and settled here, that
wouldn't solve the mystery of the
language. Who ever heard of an
ancient Egyptian speaking Eng
lish?"
I crawled under a bench and
pouted awhile, stf thoroughly was I
crushed and resolved to keep my
thoughts to myself from then on.
People never did seem to appreciate
me.
Bob let in on his theories again.
The way we had it figured, the
moon people must have been faced
with a terrible menace; must have
known their time had come, and
then, instead of waiting until death
overtook them one by one, had
done away with their entire race
by putting them into a state of sus-
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1932
pended animation! He said that
was evidently the condition the
princess was in when we found her
and it was possible the rest of the 1
inhabitants were in the same fix.
But even if they were, he reas
oned, he couldn't see how we were
going to be of any aid to them. We
had used the entire contents of the
vial found in Na-tal's hands, upon !
herself, and without that wonderful
concoction we couldn't vacinate
her cousins, uncles and aunts, and
the rest of the tribe. But even if I
we had had. a quantity of th e serum J
sufficient to care for all, it would
be impossible to cart them one by
one to the space ship and air, and
even if that were possible, the space .
ship wouldn't hold them all.
Next he began to work back to I
the cause of the sleeping portion, j
What dangers had confronted these
people that they had found life'
unbearable and impossible and had
decided to sleep it off? What dan
gers had overcome a people as in
telligent and as highly civilized as
they? And then I had another idea
and out it came in spite of me.
dangers? Why "Old Faithful" and
his brethren!
For a wonder Bob didn't set his
pooh-poohing apparatus going and
was inclined to agre§ with me. I
felt so good that I wouldn't speak
to any of them for an hour.
My mention of the hideous moon
thing turned our thoats into another
channel. How in thunder, we ques
tioned, did they live upon the air
less, burning plains of th e moon'
The intense heat which would havo
dried up an exposed human in a
jiffy, apparently held no terrors for
them, neither did they suffer from
lack of air. Bob said the moon days
were at least two weeks long and
the nights in proportion. As the
days were unbearably hot, so were
the nights terrifically cold. I was
sure ''OW Faithful" must have to
P u t on plenty of red flannel under
wear to be able to sleep comfortably.
Pat sprang into words. Why, said
he, wasn't it possible for the moon
to have a form of life all its own
and ungoverned by the natural laws
of earth? The earth has an atmos
phere, and a wise providence uti
lized that atmosphere as a of
life for the earth's people; the iarth
had water, and water was made the
chief lubricant of the earthly peo
ple. And so on. But the moon had
had no air and no nothing much for
untold centuries. So why wasn't it
logical that the same providence, in
deciding to bring forth a new life
upon the moon, built their engines
differently from the engines of hu
mans as we know them? Why
wasn't it possible that "Old Faith
ful" could navigate, say, on the
sun's rays? Just because we had
never heard of such a thing was no
sign that it was impossible. Why
shouldn't it be logical that "Old
Faithful" and his cousins could eat
sand and even rock and thrive on it?
Cows eat grass on earth and it
agrees with them. Yet let a human
go out to graze and he'll more than
likely wind up with the stomach
ache. Then why shouldn't this new
race on the moon eat sand and eu
joy it even though sand wouldn't
agiee with an earth being?
Pat, by the time he had voiced this
lengthy Idea, was so exhausted that
I feared he was going to be a mental
wreck, but within a few minutes he
was himself again and looking vast
ly proud and stuck up because Bob
had agreed there was a lot in what
he had said. Bob had to agree be
cause he couldn't prove Pat wrong
and because we had actually seen
"Old Faithful" prancing about the
moon's surface in the flesh. "Old
Faithful" had to live on something,
so why not sand? There was cer
tainly plenty lying about.
So interested were we in our
theories that for the time we had
forgotten all about our sleeping
princess and no doubt would have
gone on arguing and talking for a
considerable length of time If we
hadn't been interrupted by the
sound of footsteps In the corridor.
Turning as one man we d&fhed
for the cabin and then stopped as if
thunderstruck! For standing In the
doorway of the cabin as calm as if
she hadn't been practically dead for
goodness know* how long, stood Na
tal!
She was a sight to behold. The
long flowing gown, with its crinkle
of jewels, clung to the slender form
so as to reveal the perfect figure
which was her body. Her hair,
which was cut much in the fashion
of the earthly hob, was tousled about
her neck and face, and was beauti
ful beyond the imagination, especial
ly as It set off a face bo strikingiy
calm and yet so possessed of an un
earthly beauty that It fairly took
m i
Bob was the first to get his breath
back, but all he could do was stam
mer and not very good stammering
at that, and I he would be
standing there lik e a fool and stam
mering yet If the little princess
hadn't spoken:
"You have come to our rescue,"
sha said simply, and her voice
sounded as the sweetest of music
to our ears; "you have come to res
cue my people. From space; from
across the void have you made your
way, and the voice of our prophet
has not spoken in vain." She then
walked to one of the windows
through which could be seen the
familiar face of the world hanging
there in the inky sky, its continents
and its polar snow caps plainly visi
ble. "from that world you have
come," continued Na-tal as calmly as
if she knew more about us than we
ourselves, "and I, Na-tal, princess of
the moon, welcome you in the name
of my father, the king;"
The minute she said king I knew
that her people were not so civilized
after all, else they would have had
all their kings chased out of office
or else beheaded long ago. But I
thought it wise to make no mention
of the fact until we were better ac
quainted, at least.
By that time Bob had captured his
voice. He replied to the princess
and told her she was right; that we
had come from the planet earth and
if there was any rescuing to b e done
we would do it, although he was
frank enough to add that we didn't
have rescuing on the mind when we
left home, but were just out on a
pleasure jaunt to see the country
and one thing and another.
By the time he had concluded this
speech, the boy was as red as a
beet and was blushing like a school
boy, but*l figured he wasn't used to
talking with princesses, especially a
princess who was born befor e he
was even thought of; before anyone
on earth was thought of, for that
matter, and was just naturally em
barrassed. I learned better later.
It was Pat's and my time to add
something then, but all we did was
stand and stare at Natal in the most
impolite manner imaginable, and
she, seeing our distress, came to our
rescue by stating that she was
hungry. No wonder. The poor kid
! hadn't had anything to eat In no
i telling how long!
Pat, who pi> '■ ' • ■ ' ' " 1 * g, )Hq
simple reason? GREATEST HOSIERY VALUES ON EARTH pa— *
eater and did
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mediately rud ... . 1 n
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densed food! | D $1.95 quality—
didn't look a . ..,
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vitamins frcß I I lis Jf
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we did usjm
had the stomach-ache or headache, j
or something, and not as a matter
of regular^iet.
The simple meal over, Na-tal sta
ted she was much refreshed and as
every miniate counted, would like to
tell her story so that we might get
busy with the rescue of her people.
I couldn't swallow that statement
about every minute counting when
she and her cousins hadn't done any
thing worthwhile but sleep, for the
past countless centuries, but I guess
she knew what she was talking
about.
If we expected to have all our i
mysteries solved then and there by j
the little lady, \fre were mistaken, j
She wanted to know if we could ;
again visit the city and if we could
take her back as easily as we had
brought her to the ship? .We told 1
her that we could, barring none of
1 "Old Faithful's" bunch were mean
enough to try and horn in on our
party. At the mention of "Old
Faithful" I saw her cheeks go pale,
j for she seemed to know just who
and what we meant. Then her color
j returned and she told us in a re
-1 signed sort of way that "Old Faith
j ful" and his brethren were the
j chief cause of her people's trouble
I and she guessed we'd have to take
a chance. She was a brave little
thing. #
(CONTINUED NEXT WEEK)
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Are Offering Hundreds of Bargains
At Really Great Savings; Will
Lut 10 Days
A selling event of major propor
tions begins today at the Sydnor-
Spainhour Department store and will
continue for 10 days, as is announced
in the pink section of this issue of
The Tribune containing their four
page ad.J
In putiing on this major sale,
offering a great num
ber of fine bargaitys at prices said to
be the lowest in their history. J. E.
Spainhour. father of E. S. Spainhour,
manager of the local store, state?,
that in his experience as buyer at
the northern markets for the past
40 years, he has never before seen
goods priced as low as are featured
tn this sale.
Progressive and modern in every
way, Spainhour's is building for the
future, Mr. Spalnhour said. Far
from being discouraged by present
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ing all in its power to give its cus
tomers the maximum for their mon
to/ an ij Wot
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unusual Smartness in "Star Brand"
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Worry destroys the brain
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Mesdames John Akins and E. F.
McNeer spent Tuesday in Winston-
Salem.