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THE WOOD OF THE

DEAD

¿Continued From Page 10).

This story went like wild-Are through the village, increasing with every repetition, until at 1 ngth every- one was able to give an accurate de- seription of the great veiled figures the woman declared she had seen moving among the trees where her husband stood.

The innocent pine-grothe

became positively haunted, and title Wood of the Dead clung na- turke as if it had been applied to it in the ordinary course of events by the compilers of the Ordinance Survey,

On the evening of his ninetieth birthday the old man went up to his wife and kissed her. Ilik manner was loving, and very gentle, and there was something about him besides, she de- clared afterwards, that made her slightly in awe of him and feel that he was almost more of a spirit than a man.

He kissed her tenderly on both cheeks, but his eyes seemed to look right through her as he spoke.

"Dearest wife," *aid, "I am say. ang good-bye to you, for I am now go- ing into the Wood of the Dend. ard shall not return. Do not follow me.

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to come upon the same journey your self."

The good woman burst into Tears and red to hold him, but he easily -Ispped from her hands, and she was afraid to follow him. Slowly she saw him cross the field in the sunshine

of and then enter the cool shadow the grove, where he disappeared from her sight

inter, rite That a night much woke to find him lying peacefully by her de in bed, with one arm streich. it towards her, dend. Her story wn half believed, half doubted at the time, but in a very few years after-1 wards it evidently came to be accept- ed by all the countryside.

funeral service was held to which the people flocked in great numbers and everyone approved of the sent ment which led the widow to add the

Village. words. "The Father of the

- the

usual texts which appeared After uper the stone over his grave.

This, then, was the story 1 pieced together of the ville ghost as the

THE CHINA MAIL.

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Colonel E. Francis Rigg, retired U S. Army ofleer. of Washington, DC who new chief of the lasa lar police at Puerto Rico. His frut Ing job in to find the would-be as- sassin who placed the bomb, shown lu insert in the garden of Governor Gore's residence at San Juan.

U.S. UNLIKELY TO FORGO WAR DEBT

(Continued from Page 8.)

At a moment when the members of Congress, Senators and Repro- sentatives alike, are returning trom the constituencies, reflecting the overwhelming disappointment of the people nt the failure of the Presi dent's Recovery Administration to rebuild Rome in a day, Mr. Roost vell the politician is hardly likely to propose that Europe be forgiven an outstanding debt which still, in worth over their eyes, would be $19,000,000,000 of hard cash, inter-. est and principal combined. 'Another Popular

Fallacy

Here it is perhaps necessary to expose another popular fallacy, for it contributes to the inability of Congress to grasp the fact that! impossible. further payments are

It is the fallacy that, since Europe was paying something up to the date of the Hoover moratorium an- nounced on June 20, 1931, Europe, to-day in "better shape" than America, should resume payments forthwith.

That fallacy arises from failure to note that in 1931 America caited a ball to lending money to Europe. It was the American bankers who Hoover just represented to Mr.

what kind of a situation they were drifting into by the continued policy. of extensive commercial reconstruc. tion loans to Europe. And it was Le set a hall to that movement that His famous the nigles breeze passed to and fro over Mr. Hoover declared

A re debts moratorium. their countless little needles.

FORe overhead

For it was only with the aid of mote, hushed murmur and died away again almost immediate. ly; for in these trees the wind seems those loans that Europe was paying to be never absolutely at test, and one reparations and debts to Amer the calmest day there is always a sorte.

nije nd whisperi

heir among branches

For a moment

In other words, the American investor who had put up the money

1 hesitated on the was now putting up more money in httle in-keeper's daughter told it 16 edge of this dark wood, and listened order to delude himself into the ine that aftermon in the parlour of intently Delicate perfumes of earth belief that he was being repaid with

and hark tale out to meet me. Im-interest. is inn.

Only

A few simple figures will serve "But you're not the first to say penetrable darkness faced me. you've seen him," the girl conduded; the consciousness that I was obeying

is just what no order, strangely given, and includ- to make the position plain: and your description

privilege,

in the nine years 1922-30 the enabled me to La go forward and we've always heard, and that window, ing a mighty

United States Treasury received They say, was just where he used to find the courage

step in boldly under the trees.

payment on War Debt account of tand think, and think, when he was

Instantly the shadows closed in upon alive, and sometimes, they say, to cry

nearly $2,000,000,000 (two billion me and something" came forward to to hours together."

dollars). "And would you feel afraid if you most me from the centre of the dark-

During the name period her It would be easy enough to fund seen him asked, for the girl nesK.

in Europe nationals invested fact, and led me invisible paths into

$4,300,000,000. ihe strmed strangely moved and interested meet my imagination half-way with The answered timidly, the unknown depths of the grave; but

stumbling, and al-Default or "Mental "Surely, if he spoke to me.

He did at any rate, wit

positive knowledge that peak to you, didn't he, air?" she ask- ways with the

was going straight towards the desir e after a slight pause.

"el abject, I pressed on

on confidently "He said he had come for someone.

the wood, So dark "Come for someone," she repeated. and securely inja t **d say "she went

n

ingly.

Comfort

With the end of those advances

en falter was it that, at first, not a single stars the end of debt repayments, beam pierced the roof of branches and unless America prefers to go on tre moved forward paying herself interest by way of a

balance-sheet averhead; and Ba side by side, the trees shifted silently European

"No, he did not say for whom," I Mid quickly. noticing the sudden shadow on her face and the tremuinus

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So default must be made re- spectable or cancellation made to appear in the light of a profitable, if generous settlement. Figures vitally thus once again become important, not for actuarial but for political reasons. The stage must be dressed for the last curtain.

President "Are you really sure, air?"

And, at length, we came to a com "Oh, quite sure," } answered cheer. fully. * did not ask him." puratively open space, where the tree auch a recommendation how else is

rung curtain to be

And here we girl looked at me steadily for belted upon us for a while, and, look-the

sew the white river of the nearly a whole minute as though there ing un.)

In politics once again. were many things she wished to tell aky beginning to yield to the influence Europe could default.

new light that now seemed spread-are back But the anid nothing.

For Europe, or anyhow Britain, re- the heavens, *wiftly scross and presently picked up her way from

"It is the dawn coming," said theplies: "Why should we brand our- the table pru walked slowly out of the

voice

certainly re- ni my alde thal

seemed almost selves defaulters for the Instead of keeping tu my original cognised, but which

to the next like a whispering from the trees, "and comfort of America?” purpose and pushing on

we are now in the heart of the Wood village over the hills, I ordered a room

of the Dead." to he prepared for me at the inn. and

wandering We seated ourselves on A m085- ablernoon epent about fields and lying under the fruit

sailing of the BUR. WIR marvellous od of 1,030 30th De Munila, Rabaul. Brisbane, Sydney & trees, watching the white cluude covered boulder and waited the com-) of swiftness, it seemed to me, the light the Dead aurveyed from a distance in the os passed in the radiance but in the village 1 visited the stone uf early morning, and when the wind erected to the memory of the "Father awake and began to whisper in the the Village"-who was thus, tree tops, the first rays of the risen esidently, no mythical personage and sun fell between the trunks and rest- Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan saw also the monuments of his fine un-ed in a circle of gold at our feet.

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"Now, come with me," whispered my bullt, the library, the home for the companion in the same deep voice, moment in front of the horses

and the tiny hospital. aged poer,

for time has no existence here, and opening wide his arms. That night, as the clock in the that which I would show you is al I'll eatch church tower was striking half-past theret"

ready 1 stealthily left the inn and We trod eleven, 1

dark orchard and xoft pinely and silently over the voice sounded to me as the happie, crept through the

remember I'm The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and over the hay-field in the direction of was high over our heads, and the from a girl's throat. "Oh, oh that's

the hill whose southern slope Was shadows of the trees colled closely all very well. But clothed with the Wood of the Dead. A about their feet. The wood became Queen of the Hay, and I'must ride!"

"Then I must come and ride bealde genuine interest impelled me to the denser again, but occasionally we pair.

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ista, where we you, he cried, and bgan drivers to obliged to ed through little open

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back to the inn and went to bed,

dustered in a soft black where we ast and looked out upon the Evidently, she did not wish to escape for long, certainly not for ever..th shadow unrelieved by a singe light hot world beyond.

In two strides the big, brown, swain had tossed up Ha pitchfork

horaes to the hor The night was moonlean, yet distinctly

alte burden, and the

Leaving great was after the for

crowded

Another second stars uminass sky.

his arme and The silence of deep slumber horses were already straining in the do as they would have caught' the was everywhere; so still, indeed, that shafts after the driver, as he walked every time my foot kicked against slowly in front with one hand upon slender waist and pread the little stone I thought the sound was be their bridles. He was stale dans le man jutter-Andher, you willed, and I have comt, lumbering in the starlight, I crept

waken with sunberried neck and hands. Intent; y old man beside me utter And I come willingly, for I am very,

It was low and very tired.

A year later I happened to be in the heard the

Then, for the first time, I

"it went through me like the sleepers

At anyrate, so the words sounded to me part of the country, and the of allm I climbed the hill slowly, thinking perched aloft upon the trembling the chiefly of the strange story of the throne of lay, the figure of "

called her

wn name, and mingled with them I seemed memory of the strange summer vision had

by her own noble old man who had seized the op- young girl.

to catch the answer in that deep, returned to me, with the added soft rent her

beard. had 1. could

har face do

good

alled, glancing thrilling whisper I heady knew: Andess of distance.. portunity

the moment It came Kellowa

brown has escaped in disorder from For a second she halled,

the same lan. › way, andən

wondering why white sun-bonnet, and her till braw back with frightened eyes. Then, you shall fleep, my child, loep, for 1 went to the old village and had

But the little

the little maid of the inn did not the causes that operate ceaslessly ner hands held a well-worn hay make with a brief cry of despair, the girl long, long time, until it is time for you ten under the same orchard trees At

In that brief second of time behind human life did not always She was laughing and talking with the swerved salde and dyed in windy begin the journey again me I had Select such admirabla Instruments driver, and he, from time to time, cast among the shadows of the trees

man saw the sudden recognised the face and voice of the show her face, and I took occasion tu Once or twice night-bin bashed up at horrent won instant dimiles awörved ankle and cried out to her pas inn-keeper's daughter, but the sent and hole sabbers to her wailare

minuta

dreadful broke from the whereabouts,

Married. no doubt." I laughed, but swift over my head, but the bats had tion-giances that

Constelli long since gone to res

love! Not that lips of the young man and the sky ma the Not that way, my turned into

grew anddenly as dark as night, the with strange feeling that clutched singuler Then, anddenly, with

roadway that.

The cart edge of tha] MEZA 70% the Wood of the Dead"

No, sir,replied the innkeeper and- the whole scens All dates are approximate and subfect to alteration without noties. | no other sign of west, and there was] and it blushes in re

thrill of emotion,

I saw the first uses wood where we were fitting. I walibyShe drew laughing glance over wind rose and began to toss the bran at my heart,

up in a

She tota going to be -- but dead. Parcela mossuring", not more than 5′′en, ft, will be received, at the Com. of the Wood of the Dead:yse-in front and the sbeno with intanse interent, and shoulder at him, and the windi chas about us, and 100 ve of ittor ly, "not married-though abo 'was funt

of me in high black wall.

DBCAMS 00Hhich absorbed in it that' caught her, hair, and drew it out in A

the hay-felds, just a Again the chill, ingers seemed to sun-stroke in. creste tood up like giant spears quite forget the manifold. strange brown clad under the sun. But the there was, no. perceptible movement of acme pectators or lying on the breast of my companion, see my hand, and I was guided by few days after you were here, if 1 re the air on my cheek I heard a faint,!Come down and walk with me," and I was certain I heard the words re- the way 3 had come to the edge of the member rightly, and she was gone rushing sound among their branches.as cried the young fellow, stopping a peatedly uttered with many sight: wood,, and crossing, the hayfeld still from us in' less than a week.”

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