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? 1927 W NEA Service -.?? W Sm Lucien Burman. i THIH RAH HAPPENED Attempts have been made on ! the life of Clise Marberry, an I 'American girl owning consider- | able property near the little | town of Porto Verde. In west I central Brazil. She haa escaped | Harm due to the shrewdness of i ber cousin and protector. Vllak. i who with his rrtend, Lincoln Nunnally. an elderly Amertcau chemist. Is trying to learn the reason for the strange enmity for Ellse. Living near l'orto Verde is ? one Oaylord Prentise. a wtrang*? and forbidding character, who has evinced a hatred for Ellse. Tlnky. Kline's two-year-old orphaned nephew, is kidnaped. A native reports Prentlas has been seen with the baby. The trail leads into the Jungle. Calamity overtake* the expe dition VUak organizes In pur suit. Native trackers are In jured or desert. Treachery breaks out. Their whUe friends are fever victims and are left with a friendly tribe. Ellse, Vllak and Nunnally finally emerge from the Jungle. Presently they come to <he out l. sklrtu of a strange city, resem ' bllng the old Inca civilization. There they are made prisoners. They discover they are In the power of Carlos D'Albentara, . whom they had known as an ( engineer back In Porto Verde. , The black ruler of the city ! decides to marry Ellso and to ! pdt* Vllak and Nunnally to deatti. They are to be tortured at the feast of Rayml.The feast arrives. Vllak is compelled to | witness the tortures of other victims. He has succeeded lu J butting half way through his . bonds when a friendly Indian slips him a dagger. NOW HE4J1S TIIK BTOItY CHAPTER XLIV The Indian thruat a copper dag- ] ger Into Vilak's hand. "Take," lie > whispered. "White man good Ma- < blml. Keep Mablml from die. \la blml white man's slave. Try see j white man before. Many times? i wait outside window. Hut always soldiers couie. Mabiml have to run away. White man take daKM? r. Good dagger. Sharp. Kill. Kill bad peoples hurt white man. Soidh r come again now. Mabiml go." He crawled off into the rtd-sllhoutted obscurity. With the dagger Vilak quickly completed the cut in hla thoiiK* "Wlsh this chap could have got ten to us a week ago," he grunted.. "Doesn't help us much now. Would have been through in a few minutes anway." His body was now free. Hut he j made no attempt to disenuage the loosened cords around his limbs, only moved his arms slightly to ? place th< dsgger In NunnallyS * eager hands. "Cut yourself loose, but don't stir. Lie Just as you are. , ' We wont be moving for a while, j I've got something of a plan. Not; a marvelous plan or a sure one by i any means. Quite doubtful, rcal l>. I've been racking my brain all day. and can't get It to function. ! Hut since the plan's all we've >:ot j its worth a try. At dawta Datala-j gos will go Into the temple to re- \ reive the first rays of the sun i alone. He'll do it every day of th?-' He toppled and began rolling lifelessly down the steps. festival. This dawn we'll try to bo there with him." I The old man severed the fetters; at his Writt. Furtively he trlN to return the dagger to his friend. Vllak' punhed his hand away. "Keep It," he whispered. "I've not i a better weapon." He b*?gan twist ing one of the two rings on his flnm-r, a seal linn of conventional pattern. The top screwed off. A largo black stone as exposed, half human, half bird, like the gro tesque idol with three minuto claws protruding. The claws gllat-j ened brightly In the fire-light. "It's D'Albentaru'a ring. 1 put the stone In this n* w mounting and used the time-worn thick of hiding It by wearing It In the most conspicuous place I could; on my finger. He looked everywhere for It but there." Fifteen minutes passed; half an hour; an hour. Vllak made no move to go. The child on fhei stone a few yards uway began to! cry lustily. Its lamentations subsided to a whimper, then died away. A troop of yeUow spotted moths floated gracefully over the crackllug fire, then fcrheefi'd oft hh If in sudden j fright % Two black beetles began] crawling over Nunnally's body. With a scarcely perceptible move ment of hiH hand, he brushed them away. "Isn't It a good . . .! er . .. time to escape now?" hoi whispered, his eye? constantly on1 the sentinel gloomily pacing to1 and fro aomc twenty yards away.) "The place Is almost . . . er . . . deserted." 1 "Just (he time not to escape. | We'd be missed In a few minutes |and caught. We'll wait till the courtyard fills with people again land their Interest Is concentrated 'on something else. Then whatev er we do won't be noticed. Thai's Ian axiom." I The moths fluttered back to the I fire; one by one they dropped In* ,to the flame. A few floated grace i fully away. The crowd commenced to drift slowly Into the court once > more and llatalagos reappeared , In the pavilion. There was anoth ;er dance. Then D'Albentara, be side the chief, clapped hi* hands. As they had done the day before, the multitude fell to the ground and lay there groveling, their eyes fixed on the east. Batalagos began waddling toward the tem ple. | "Now's our chance," Vllak whispered. He crawled out of his thongs and slipping noiselessly to the ground, crept to the shadows along the outer edges of the | court away from the fire and the i altar where the prostrate welter of jsavage* was concentrated. i The old man followed. They (reached th? ruined stone gallery bounding the court on all sides without being detected, then be gan skirting along Its broken pil lars toward the temple. The chief slowly climbed the sides where the gallery protected great steps In the center; they climbed quickly, at one of the sides where the gallery protected them from the eyes of the wor Your Baby and Hot Weather Id hoi weather. It In most Important that baby bo kept aa cool and comfortable bh poaalblc. 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Remember, If necessity arisen, thst In our prescrip tion department wc observe the highest Ideala of the pro fession of pharmacy, and your baby's prescription will receive extraordinary can- here. * / Overman & Stevenson Knoda , IUb> M? dk-lnea t IVihr To4letrW 412 East Main Street. Phone 221. ahlpers. Uatalagos entered. They | followed. They were Id ??Ionic un roofed hall. On all sides rose ghostly shapes of gr<*at TUlned ?tone figures. soui* with shadowy broken arms upraised, some with fat squat bodies lacking heads. Atl one end was a broad, elevated stone. Toward this UataUigos made his way. The two others stealthily came after him. He clambered awkwardl> upon the stone and fell to his knees. A streak of crimson appeired atop the red uiountaiu which the tem-1 pie faced. Uatalagos began a mon otonous chat, flin King out his arm* and striking his head against the1 stone. In a few momenta the en-1 tire eastern horizon was flooded i with red. The chief arose and clambered down from the stone. His heavy foot touched the floor; j he began his waddliug return toi court. Vllak was waiting b? hind a scowling Idol. He took a; noiseless step forward; caught the chief's arm. Datalagos turned.1 swiftly recognised his captAr and then saw the old man with drawn dagger approaching from behind J another Idol a few feet away. He' was about to scream for help, but' the quick descent of Vllak s free hand checked hint. "Do not call out. Uatalagos." Vl lak grunted. "Do not call out. Or I will kill. Quick, this way.'' II* slowly released the hand which was over the other's mouth and] turned It so that the captlve'a eyes I rested on the ring glistening on his finger In tho brightening light. BataTagos paled. His great pulpy body began to quiver. "No kill." he whimpered. "WWlC man no kill Uatalagos no call out. Uatalagos do whatever white man say." "Will Uatalagos let the white man and the white girl go?" He held the ring close to the other's shaking breast. The chief nodded quickly. "Will Uatalagos let the white baby go also?" The half-breed hesitated. Vllak brought the ring within half an inch of his quivering flesh. The half-hre<d moaned in terror. "Yes. ILet baby go too." lie whined. "Do anything white man say. Only no kill Uatalagos." "That which Ualalngns speaks is Kood." Vllak drew the ring away a little. "Uatalagos is wise. Uatala gos is very wise. Uut let Uatala gos well remember. II Uatalagos breaks his word, quiek as the fiery llghtening will the white man kill." Hlowl> they moved ? feet ween rows of siillen-vlsaged idols to the central door. They readied U; halted. "This is the nipMD\ I'm afraid -of." Vllak whispered to the old man. "It's here that the plan's 'weak. We can't (*11 what's koIuk [to happen when the people out Hide flixt see us. Certainly we can't 'trust this chap. Kroiu now on we've just not to hop?- for luck." Th>' clllcf waddled through the doorway. A shout of joy Went up froui the worshiper*, changing to a murmur of astonishment and dis may as the two white men emerged from the temple and took placed beside hilll. Vllak pressed the rInk close to him OllCe Ilioje. "Speak to them, liatalagos." ho muttered. ?'Tell them the sun-god has xpoken to Hatala^os and told him that the white men are .good. Tell them ,many thincs like this. Ilatalauos. | .Viid say no things of evil auainst I them, for I shall hear. And the JliKhtuint. shall strike." nie gran mnani n? ?pwrtn w willingly. plaintively, like a child forced to apologize to some Indig nant relative whose tidbit it had | filched at dinner. His captor I watched him closely, the ring at ,hlu shoulder. | Suddenly Vilak saw Nunnally wheel round with the daKger In .his hand and take a position of de-1 jfense. He wheeled also; *aw rac :lnn across the steps from the'gal 11?? ry opposite him the stunted In dian of the enormous nose. 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Halfway hi* arm came rigid. 111m face took on once more a pronounced Mongolian cast; once more his eyes became the sharp slanted eyes of ionic dreaming Pekiueae philosopher. Hut it wan only (or an Inst .-tat. Quickly his countenance became normal. He smiled. "I'm an idiot," he murmured "Just as I was about the utits uliti about the lakes above I'reutlss' house. Cudgeling my brain to In vent iomc mechanical means of es-' cape when all the time there's been a natural force Just crying to be used. Most certainly I'm losing my imagination." His hand continued on Its way to his pocket. Quickly he drew out two boxen of safety matches, ex-1 ? mined them, thrift them back "CThre me any matches you hare," ' he Mid to Nufinally. "Lmik hi the lining of your clothe*, too." The4bId man Kearched diligent* ly. In a moment he pulled out one HtuudK''d ho*, then unoth* r Theae he extended to Vllak. "What . . . what are you going to do?" Vilak put thvse matches with th?* oth<TK. 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Every Boys' Suit will ko in this Salo at a discount of 20 per cent,?an excellent time to buy for the Hoy. ^ ALL MEN'S STRAW HATS \\ OFF THE REGULAR PRICE. / * Men's Furnishings Department. One lot White Broadcloth Shirts. Value $2.00. Sale $1.50 Our regular line of Shirts are reduced? $2.00 Line, Salo Price $1.65 $3.50 Line, Sale Price $2.85 $2.50 Line, Sale Price $2.00 $4.00 Line, Sale Price $3.25 $3.00 Line; Salo Price $2.35 $4.50 Liiie, Sale Price $3.75 Men's Hosiery 75c Interwoven, 2 pair $1.25 50c Fancy Socks 39c Van lleusen Collars, three for $1.00 McCABE & GRICE Sho/ipin/f Center Since lU'fO BUDGET ESTIMATE submitted to the Board of County Commissioners of Pasquotank County, N. C. t?y C. C. Pritchard, County Accountant, at their meeting held July 5, 1927, pursuant to "The County Fiscal Control Act," Public Laws, 1927: ANNUAL COUNTY BUDGET KSTIMATK For the Fiscal Year 1927-1928, (jilinty, (if Pasquotank, North Carolina. General County Fund Estimated to tie Expended Year Ending June 30, 1928 $33,619.72 County Itoud lioiid??Sinking Fund Estimated to be Expended Year Ending June 30, 1928. $87,110.00 General Kond Fund Estimated to be Expended Year Ending June 30, 1928 $28,750.00 SCI H MM. IIUDCKT of Pas<|Uotank County, for the School Year 1927-1928: HI* Monihi T?'rni Kvlrndnt Trnn Schwil fluduet Need*! lin.iu?-? .Nm-tin nc.u itnn-itnm tim-iwiK (a) Current Expense Fund $136,268.95 $29,585.26 (h) Capital Outlay Ftllld $ 16,605.00 $ 850.00 (c) Debt Service Fund $*12,907.00 $ Total Needs $165,780.95 $30,435.26 BOAHI) OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ol' Pasquotank County, N. C.
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