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WEEKLY MESSENGER, THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1929 of tli By Arthur D. Howden W. N. U. Service Copyright 1923 by Brentano'a, Inc.

Copyright 1023, The Rldgeway Co. co The SYNOPSIS In New York, Hugh Chesby tells of a hidden treasure In which his uncle, Lord Chesby, believes. With his chum, Hugh goes to the dock to meet his uncle and learns that his relative left with a stranger representing himself to be Hugh's chum. Hugh Is notified that his uncle Is dying In a hospital, a victim of an assassin. Before his death he talks of the treasure and says he was stabbed by one "Toutou." Hugh and Jack go to England with Chesby's body.

There they are met by a former war buddy, Nikka Zarenko, famous gypsy violinist. In a hidden room, called the "Prior's Vent," In Lord Chesby's home, they find documents telling that the treasure la In the palace of the Bu- coleon at Constantinople. They are aware that others are seeking the treasure and will stop at no means to prevent Hugh and his friends getting possession of It. Jack Hash's cousin, Betty King, her uncle, is In Constantinople, and Hugh, Nikka, Jack, and Watklns set out for the Turkish capital. Nikka persuades his uncle, Wasso Mikall, gypsy chief, to accompany them.

Jack and Nikka don gypsy costumes, and with Mikall and six of his followers reach Constantinople. There they join Hugh, Betty, and the girl's uncle, Vernon King, archeologlcal expert. King has located the house of the treasure, which occupied by Tokalji and a number of his gypsy followers. By a clever ruse, Nikka and Jack gain access to Tokaljl's house as gypsy refugees from justice, and are made welcome. To their surprise they find Tokalji knows the treasure is being sought.

A. beautiful, wild young gypsy girl, Kara, Is evidently much Impressed by Nikka. There Is evidence they are actually In the palace of the Bucoleon. "Step out, Glorgl Bordu and Jakka," called Tokatjt. Nikka sunk bis fingers In my arm In a warning grip, and we stepped forth from the group of Tziganes clustered in front of the flre.

There was at least a cMance that we should not be its value was demonstrated the Instant the firelight splashed over Nikka's aquiline face and tense, febrile body. "Surely, I have seen that lean fellow before," piped Tllmi Bey, pointing at Nikka. Vassilievlcb pushed in front of the newcomers. "Is It my Imagination," he inquired softly, "or does the stocky one bear a resemblance to the Americansky, Nash?" "By Jove, I think you're right!" exclaimed Hilyer, speaking for the first time. "Be ready," hissed Nikka from the corner of his mouth, without shifting his eyes from our enemies.

His right hand was thrust into his waist-sash. "I do not like this business," rasped Toutou, pulling a knife from inside his CHAPTER The game was to see how near you could come without cutting. To avoid hurt the dancers required quick eyes and agile bodies. The blades flashed like meteors in the shifting light, wheeling and slashing and stabbing. In the beginning Kara forced the pace.

Nikka retired before her, rather than risk doing her harm. But slowly he assumed the mastery. His knife was always at her throat, and active as she was, he refused to be shaken off. She fended desperately, panting now. bright-eyed ami Hushed.

But he pressed her. Their blades clashed, he gave his a twist and hers dropped from her hand. Be seized her, forcing her back across his knee, knife upraised to strike, while the fiddles clutched at one's nerves and the cymbals clanged with wicked glee. Crash boomed a knock on the street door. And rup-rap-rapl it was repeated.

Crash I again. The music stopped. Nikka released his partner, and Kara stooped quickly iind snatched up her knife, tossing the hair out of her eyes, heedless of the rags that slipped off her shoulders. Men looked at each other uncertainly. Hands crept waistsashes.

"lien!" said Tokalji. "Who can it be in such a hurry at this hour?" Crash I The door resounded under the battering of a pistol butt. The women and save into the shadows. The men gathered together. Tokalji crossed the entrance.

"Less noise there!" he shouted threateningly. "This is a peaceful house." But his manner changed the moment lie opened the wicket. What he said we could not hear, but we saw him quickly turn the lock and throw back a leaf of the door, salaaming low as he stepped aside. Six men burst in, four of them in European clothes, and Nikkn and I exchanged a glance apprehension as we recognized the broad shoulders of their leader and heard his snarling voice. Toutou LaFitte had arrived.

With him were Hilyer, Serge Vasslllevich and Qllml Bey. "Can I trust nobody to fulfill ray orders?" whined Toutou, striding the fire. "1 tell you to spare no I come to find you singing and dancing around a flre I Is that working? Is that carrying out our treaty? But all are the samel My best people full me." Ills green eyes shone evilly; his hands writhed with suppressed ferocity. Tokalji, having refastened the door, followed him. across the courtyard.

The gypsy looked uncomfortable, but showed no fear. "What could we have done that we have not done?" he retorted. "Was it our fault that you lost track of the two missing ones? As for the English Jord and his servant, two of my men bave shadowed them day and night," "And lost them today," snarled Tou- tou. "Lost them for a whole day 1 Who knows what has been accomplished In that time?" "You are right there," agreed To- kalji (joolly, "and I have just picked two new men to take their places. One of them is a Frank like yourself; the other Is a Tzigane." "Ha, let see that Frank," exclaimed Toutou.

"I know many of the franks with the Tziganes." There Was a Wooden Bar, Which I Dropped Into Place. vest. "Somebody shall be tortured until be tells the truth." I felt a pressure between Nikka and myself, and Kara's voice whispered: "Run, you fools I To the House of the Married!" Nikka's pistol flashed blue -in the firelight "Shoot, Jack!" he cried. A ruddy flame jetted from bis muzzle, and a man dropped dead. Toutou LaFltte pushed a gypsy in the line of fire before himself, and dived into the encircling shadows as the fellow crumpled up with a broken leg.

To- kalji, Hilyer, Vassillevich and Hllml scattered. 1 swung on my heel and shot twice over the group of gypsies by the fire. I could not bring myself to shoot at them, for there were worn en and children close by. Then a but let whistled past my ear, and Toutou's voice whined: "No shooting! Use your knives 1 Take them alive!" I had a flet.lng glimpse of Kara, run ning at me with her knife raised. "There are only two!" roared To kaljL "Pull them down "Run!" I heard Nikka shout.

We pelted for the house on our left, the House of the Married, as Kara had called It. Despite Toutou's warning, a second bullet spattered on the stones between Nikka and me; but we were poor marks ia the hai'-llght, with people running In every direction, many of them uncertain who were friends or foes. I turned.as I ran, and fired Into the ground In front of Kara, who was the closest of our pursuers; but she refused to be frightened and actually plunged through the doorway on our heels. "I'll tend to her," panted Nikka. "You fasten the door, Jack." There was a wooden bar, which 1 droppesd into place, and the next minute the framework groaned under a weight of bodies.

"One hundred Napoleons a head for them," barked Toutou. "Dead or alive." "Come on, Nikka," 1 urged. "We can't guard every point We must run for it" "But what about this?" demanded Nikka whimsically. He Jerked his pistol muzzle at Kara sitting demurely on the floor, playing with ber knife. "If we show our backs, she'll knife us or open the besides, where shall we go?" "Tie her up," 1 answered Impa tlently, Kara, who, of course, could not un derstand a word of what we were say- Ing, laughed with glee.

"Do you think 1 am your enemy?" she demanded In the Tzigane dialect "I tell you I am your friend. Seel" And she tossed her knife across the room. "1 came with you to help you, Glorgl Bordu." "My name Is Nikka Zaranko," he answered shortly. "What matters your name?" She leaped up and flung her arms around his neck. "It is you I your name.

Nikka eyed me sheepishly across her shoulder. "See you, little one," he remonstrated, "this is no time for talking love. We may be dead in five minutes." "Oh, no," she said, releasing him, nevertheless, "you shall be off and away. and it was ridiculous how she strutted in the manner of Tokalji, set you free I love you. Come," she added as a crash sounded outside.

"They have broken In a window. Follow me." She led us into an adjoining room, where in the thickness of the wall a narrow stairway corkscrewed upward, debouching on the upper floor. She turned to the right, and entered one of the rooms. A ladder leaned against the wall below a trapdfor.in the roof. In a corner stood a bedstead, which she stripped of Its clothes, revealing the cords that served for'springs.

"Cut those with your she said. "When we take to the roofs we will need them to help us down again." Nikka did as she directed, while shut the door, and piled the few articles of furniture against it. Tokalji's men were in full cry downstairs. "There is more than enough rope here," said Nikka, coiling it on his arm. "Some of It 1 am going to use for you.

You cannot go with us, little one. We have no place to take you. And you do not know me. Tomorrow you would cry your eyes out." He cut the rope In two, gave me half, and with the remaining section, approached her. She backed away from him.

"Im not going to hurt you," pleaded Nikka. "But 1 must bind you so they will not suspect that you aided us. Don't you see. Our enemies will be here in a moment," She extended her hands, wrists Joined together. Famous Sculpture a Tribute to Loyalty Because the attack of the citizenry on the Tuileries In Paris on August 10, 1702, has been ably described by historians and authors, little can be added to make the picture complete, a writer In the Detroit News remarks.

But at Lucorne, Switzerland, there Is a monument that adds a detail, by no means least, to this picture of the overthrow of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. This monument Is known as the Lion Qf Lucerne and Is the figure of a lion cut In the solid rock of a little park at one extremity of the city. The lion Is sorely wounded with a broken spear, but Is guarding with his dying strength a shield emblazoned with the fleur-de-lis of the Bourbons. It Is a monument to the courage and fidelity of the Swiss guard which was massacred by the French citizens In the revolt against their monarch. Mole Fur.

The fur of the mole is best when the animal Is killed In the winter sea son. It Is also called, as "prime" In midsummer, although the animal's fur Is somewhat shorter tJen. During the molting periods In the spring and fall there Is deterioration In the value of the far. Louis gave orders to his guards that they were not to flre on mob. It became so unruly, however, that the Swiss were forced to shoot and the action, believed by the revolutionists to have been prompted by the king, only increased the general feeling against Louis.

Reflected In a mirror-like pool which Is Just below it, the Lion of Lucerne, with the names of the Swiss guard beneath, pays mute tribute to their loyalty even to a foreign king. Weather Prophets The cat always has been regarde( by observant people as a reliable weather prophet. When kitty rushes around with her caudal appendage 'high In the air, they say "pussy has wind In her tail, it's going to blow. Fishermen declare that the cat ant wireless as a weather prophet canno compare with pigs. A pet pig In the codflshlng bark Seawell foretold stormi in the Fai- North with such accuracy they assert, that It saved the lives all on board three times.

Hours In ad vance of a storm, the plfe would run to and fro on deck squealing ant leaping sldewayn. The fishermen made their preparations accordingly, and on 1 each occasion the storm failed, to take I them unawares. "Bind me," she said wearily. "1 you, Nikka Zaranko. If 1 can help In no other way, then, 1 will help cou by staying here." He bound ber gently, hand and foot, without a word, and laid her on the floor by the bed.

I ascended the ladder, and pushed back the trapdoor. Nikka stooped over Kara, and 'l scrambled up on the roof. I believe le kissed her. I heard his feet on the adder rungs, and his voice calling back: "You are a brave girl. We will talk about this some other time, If the stars are kind." "Oh, we shall meet again," she replied, her cords creaking as she dropped flat on the floor.

"1 am aa sure of It as if Mother Kathene had told me when the sight was on her." To me Nikka merely said: "Hurry, Jack I We've lost too much time. Which way?" But I reached down Irst, and hauled up the ladder. The door was shaking under a shower of blows. Next house," I panted, and we set off across the roof. To our left was the Inner courtyard, a well of darkness In which tinkled the Fountain of the Lion.

Tc our right lay Sokakl MasyerL Ahead was a drop of ten feet onto the adjoining roof, the difference In height representing the declining slope of the ground. We made it without any difficulty. The people in this bouse bad been aroused by the shooting, and we could hear their voices and movements. But we shuffled on cautiously, until we came to their courtyard, which ran clear from the street front to the old seawall. "No choice," grunted Nikka.

"Here's a chimney. Knot your rope. It can't be more than twenty-five feet to tha ground." He went down first, and 1 followed him. I was In mid-air when I heard an exclamation beneath me, and a thud. "What the I started to whisper.

"Hsst!" came from Nikka. "Don't say anything." He was standing over an inert figure lying on the ground beside a half- opened "Did "No, only belted him over the head with my pistol." A woman's voice sounded Inside the house, aggressively Inquisitive. "My God!" breathed Nikka. "She'll be out in a minute, and I can't hit her. We've got to try the street." We stole through the courtyard to the street door.

Behind us Toutou's house was seething with activity. Somebody, apparently, had Just gained the roof. The woman inside the house we had invaded became impatient, and a light showed. My fingers fumbled for the latch; it seemed to me I should never find It. The light wavered into the doorway, and a scream rose shrilly.

"Let me try," said "Here It isl" He pulled the door toward us slowly, and peered Into the street. Not a figure showed in the Hrection of To- kalji's house. We sped into the street, letting the door slam behind us. The noise distracted the attention of the woman from her unconscious husband, and she left him to run after us. We had not gone fifty feet when we were seen by gypsies on the roof of To- kaljl's house, and they, with the woman to help them, cried the rest of the pack hot on our traii.

At the corner by a coffee shop 1 looked back and counted six in a tapering string, with more emerging from the courtyard or climbing over the roofs. The only thing for us to do in the circumstances was to twist and turn without heed to direction and lose both pursuers nnd ou selves in the breakneck purlieus of Stamboul. We succeeded In rbaking off the sies finally, but we were hopelessly astray, and it was past midnight when we found the khan of the Georgians and staggered through the gate to thread a precarious path between sleeping men, camels, bullocks, asses and horses. Wasso Mlkal! awakened with the first knock on his door, and admitted us. Smoking cigarette after cigarette as rapidly as he could roll them, he listened to the story of our adventures with avidity, and Immediately dispatched his young men to spy around Tokaljl's bouse, and learn the dispositions the enemy were taking.

Then he Insisted that we should sleep while he kept watch. When we awakened the sun was streaming In through the open door along with all the noises of the kahn and many of Us smells. Our guardian bad coffee ready for us, and bis young men had sent in a report The women and children had left Tokalji's house under escort of several of the shortly after dawn, A vigilant guard was being maintained the entrance, and nobody had come or from the party of women and children observation had been We decided take our European clothing and, adjourn neighboring Turkish bath where we -jould remove evidence of our gypsy life, BB Improved Uniform International SundaySchool Lesson (By REV. P. B.

F1TZWATER, D.D.. DeM Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.) 1829. Western Newspaper Union.) Lesson for April 7 THE MINISTRY OF ISAIAH LESSON 20:1, GOLDEN Bald 1, here am 1, eend me. PRIMARY God's Helper. JUNIOR God's Helper.

INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR a Life Work. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT to the Heavenly Vision. I. Isaiah's Call (Isa. 1.

Isaiah's vision of the Lord (vv. 1-4). (1) He saw the Lord on His throne (v. 1). The supreme need of a servant of God is to have a vision of Him.

(2.) He saw the seraphim above (vv. 2, 3). Their position indicated that they were in readiness to do His bidding. The six wings showed their ability to execute the divine will. One pair veiled the head from the divine glory, one veiled the feet which had been soiled In contact with the world, while the third was held in readiness to depart on the divine errand.

Their continued cry wag, "Holy, holy, holy." (3) He saw manifestations of majesty (v. 4). As the seraphim cried, the very door posts moved and the temple was filled with smoke. Smoke symbolizes the divine presence in anger (Exod. This indicated that the selfishness, idolatry and wickedness of Israel had.provoked God's wrath.

2. Isaiah's conviction of sin (v. 6). AVhen he saw the vision of the Holy God, he was smitten with a sense of sin. The reason men think well of themselves Is that they have never seen God.

Face to face with the Lord, Isaiah saw himself as wholly vile. 3. Isaiah cleansed from sin (vv. 6, 7). Having been convicted of sin and made confession, a burning coal sent from the alter purged away his guilt.

4. Isaiah's call (v. 8). His call from God did not come until after his cleansing. The purged soul is ready for the Lord's service.

5. Isaiah's dedication (v. 8). As soon as he was cleansed he responded to the call for service. He did not inquire as to the, issue, but freely gave himself to that service.

6. Isaiah's commission (vv. 9-13). Because of the unpromising outlook, Isaiah shrank from his responsibility. The Lord assured him that the people's blindness and sin would not endure forever.

They would continue in sin, be taken into captivity, and the land left desolate. Their life, however, wojuld be as the oak which sheds leaves and is for a time apparently lifeless, but still retains its substance. II. Isaiah's Prophecy Concerning Assayria and Egypt (Isa. The increasing power of Assyria alarmed the Jews who were inclined to turn to Egypt and Ethiopia for help.

Isaiah severely rebuked them for turning away from God to Egypt 1. The prophet's action (vv. 1, 2). He removed his outer garments and walked about Jerusalem as a beggar in order to, make a deep impression upon the people. 2.

The significance of the sign (vv. 3-5). For three years he went about in the dress of a beggar. As he had wandered about naked and barefoot, so would Egypt be led away in shame by the Assyrians. 8.

The warning (v. 6). The people are made to say, "Such Is our expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: how shall we III. Isaiah's Message to Hezeklah (Isa. HezPklah had Inclined somewhat toward seeking help from Egypt.

1. Hezeklah's sickness vv. 1). For this disloyalty God sent sickness as a means of. chastisement.

2. Isaiah's first message (v. 1). "Set thine house in order for thou shalt die and not live." This doubtless Is to be understood e.s a prophetic warning rather than a positive prediction. 3.

Hezeklah's prayer (vv. 2, 3). He plead with God for consideration on the basis of his faithfulness. 4. Isaiah's second message (vv.

4-6), God sent Isaiah to tell Uezeklah that his prayer had been heard, his life would be prolonged by fifteen years, and that Jerusalem would be delivered out of hand of the king of Assyria. 5. The sign given (vv. 7, 8). The sign was the going back of the shadow of the sundial ten degrees.

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Onion Long in Favor Native to southern Asia or the borders of the Mediterranean sea, the onion has been esteemed an excellent food from the earliest times, of which there are authentic records. Egyptians cultivated onions at the dawn of their history. Cinnamon of Commerce Cinnamon is the bark of the under branches of a species of laurel which is found chiefly in Ceylon and in the East Indies. The trees, which attain a height of 20 to 30 feet, are barked twice a April and November. To Make Ui God does not comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us H.

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