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He had, both had, made a VOW

And the thing they hoped to hide then that when he came home for weä undoubtedly a great mine. good they would live in the country,

Not the slightest doubt of, that,] away from the harsh glitter of the top galleries tunnelled in the cities.

mountain side, and the frat work- And that was the first thought ings that had once been hidden by ing of the submerged Japanese that came to him after the extra-the water were now above the aur- steamer Paris Maru, which sank ordinary thrill of triumph that rose face. No doubt about the matter in the bay after striking Roman in him on finding those lost mines. at all: he had found some lost mines, Rock.

Yes, he had found them. On this perhaps the lost mines.

He won-

It is understood that

a well-last survey journey-Indeed, on his He walked back to his outfit. It) known South African salvage xway back to the coast to take ship was curious how sober and unthrill pert has offered to raise the ship for home and the big department ed he was. He had found, at last, for £17,000, or destroy it with ex- that wafted there, he had found the wonder to which he had given plosives to the satisfaction of the them.

the best years of his life, but he authorities for £10.000, but these:

The discovery was sheer accident thought of Joan Instead. of course. It arose from a sudden dered how Joan would take this- Con-offers were not considered satia-

"awareness" that there was a patch how it would affect her. The ship remains on an evon'

He gave orders to his peons not and in the Cordillera Oriental that,. de- keel with the funnel, masta chart house showing above water. She, lies in eight fathome. -Reuter.

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the spite all his travels along and across to strike camp, and with tools and the range, be had not visited. He torches went back to the dam alone.)

His peons took his new orders calm- how superbly she could share in that SUPERSTITION OF A had altered his scheduled route 4 point or two ta talic in this patch. ly. They were used to him and his passion.

FILM STAR How would this fad of immense There was nothing worth seeing unaccountable grubbings about in

Instinc- strange places. In a couple of wealth affect that plan? until something in the formation of hours he had been into the topmost tively he rose and turned his back Must Have Pet Dog To a climbing ravine caught his eye.alleries and satisfied himself.

on the hidden workings, walked He stood and stared, and had no

Yes, this was the place. The top along the mountain stream that fed doubt ayout it that at one time considerable stream must have flow galleries were not worked out ever, the pool, Instinctively he felt that and they were rich in gold, and they this wealth would shatter this

Bobby Howes, now starring in ed down this ravine, must have

mind logical trend of the place told of deep his heart.

L P., has only one superstition. How could it do anything but He owns a little stuffed dog, call- B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for period when the accumulation of flowed so for hundreds of years. were but samples. The whole geo-glowing plan upon which he had set "Over the Garden Wall", for B.

large fortunes will no longer be "What diverted that?" his

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below the water-fevel necessary and when men will reap

Also they that? Great wealth meant all the ed "One-eyed Feter," and he will No tricks and trappings of opulence never do a stage or screen show their rewards in other spheres-in big one, anyhow." .

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building; there was no doubt about ure, and with that great dam they from the pool; it was an old gulley Bobby would not have gone on.--- that. It was not of the finely had sunk their mine workings under that probably had been carved by Reuter. For the moment the individual- ials are not very vocal, but they buildings. The stone blocks were wrought structure of, say, the Cuzo

the storm water of ancient rainy- are still strong. The pro-Roose

Canter sat, looking down at the season floods. The mass of landfall get caught up, and you are carried not lake, trying to think it all out. Be in the torrent bed was not great; along so swiftly that you have no The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and velt bankers and big industrial-of smaller proportions, and

ists form only a tiny minority, and morticed together with the usual low him there was no doubt colossal single charge would probably time to think London via Panama Canal.

Canter remembered her saying A cartridge or two affclear it the "antis" are merely waiting for perfection. But no cement had been wealth.

used, and the formation was pre-dynamite, such as he had brought Canter stood frowning at it. that, and it was a true saying. It their opportunity.

Give us, they say, three months Spanish, or, anyhow, no later than with him in his tool-kit. would How easy to hide that tremendous would be terrible to be drawn into of prosperity, and the whole the early days of the conquest,

smash the dam and reves it all. find as though it never had been that sort of life, to Roosevelt policy of Government The early days of the conquest! He told himself this steadily. It was a marvellous and, a roman. His expert eye wandered over the | landfall in the stream, found a 'spot, interference with business will be The mere ides of that made him He told himself that his patient and tie, a thrilling and..

catch his breath. He noted at once painful search of fifteen years had Climbing out on to the landfall and, getting down upon his knees. swept away,

My own impression is that there signs of haste in the building workben gloriously crowned. There he suddenly stiffened, and his breath he began to excavate, will be some return towards in-badly aligned stones, places where was no doubt in his mind as to the sucked in with a little hiss of pain. The peons round the camp-fre dividualism, but that the pendu- the filling of rubble was ooging out, wealth that would be his. He knew He had abruptly remembered Joan lifted their heads as the boom of S'hal Moj Kobe & Osaka.

Kobe & Yokohama. lum will never swing back to indications everywhere that means the generous methods of the AE in town, and how upsetting she had the charge rolled through the hills,

where it was. Meanwhile. Presi.but one thing to an eye as expert. The company would take all the been in that environment. That but they did not stir.

Canter, stepping from cover, Oaks, dent Roosevelt continues to hold as his. It was obvious. That dam trouble of financing and working the confounded brother-in-law, with his S'het Mofi, Kobs, Osaka & Yokohama the balance between the two con had been run up in a very great mines from his shoulders and give absurd riches, had apofled her for studied results. Yes, it was a good Shanghai, Robe & Yokohama.

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hima "most adequate share. With Canter, apolled that part of his "shot," but he had known it would Bicting groups with great, Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.

ba. He had blocked off the channel Amoy,

Mojl, Kobs & Oška. The foreign visitor naturally is Instinct at once gave him the no more labour, than arose out of holiday.

How he remembered the uneasy that divided the flow and eased the inclined to ask what will happen answer, and he scrambled to the top reporting to Donlevy and fixing up Shanghal Kobe & Tokohama. S'hal Mell, Kobe, Ouka, & Tokohama if Roosevelt fails, One great of the dam with thrilling nerves. terms he would become a rich man. details. There had been so much main stream at one single stroke. It had all been] The whole of the torrent now was And yet he thought of this only dashing about. Amoy, Shei, Moji, Kobe & Osas. Jewish thinker told me that, as The dam bald a big pool that filled

Over feverish, harsh, exciting, unsatisfy going into the pool L Shanghal, Kobe & Yokohama. there is no short road to recovery, the narrow valley, and he could see, with a sort of disturbance.

allure was inevitable and that if good way off; how the river had all his thoughts ross the insistent ing. He had hated it, knew it to be The water line was already level would be followed by some form been headed down towards the Paci-note; "How would it affect Joan? all wrong, and yet he had been drawn with the door of the galleries when he got back to the pool. He waited of Fascism accompanied by a fe slopes instead. of inland. "In the What did it mean to Joan and him-inte ftom

Joan had confessed in the coun- until it had submerged all the work- wave of anti-Semitism worse than old days, and probably still in the self Any that Europe has experienced, rainy season, this dam had been He was realising how deeply he try later that the hated it too, and ings, then he returned to the camp. All I can say is that at present filled to the brim. The water-marks was awayed by the plan they had yet she had been attracted. She When they passed the dam the there is no sign aither of Fascism showed that; now the laval was at made for themselves. They were had been carried along by the very next morning his peană gazed with- 2 but excitement on the big and empty and Semitism. To me the least ten feet below the line for to live in a quiet, beautiful, and pace of the thing.

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ost promising sign of; the slina which the dam was bullt. The de calm house in the country; Its note Joan had said as much herself, pool. They saw nothing but that

the fact that not pre finite fact was that the grash pool was to be repose, serenity. That "I'm afraid of it,” she had said pool. rican in a hundred allows; and shrunk down the side of the was the perfect setting for Joan. amid the restfulness of the country. They continued their unexcibed

thought

to bast valley, and had uncovered that which And he would have hilwork work "I don't want you over to be rich, way towards the coast, and Canter

the bolders of the dam had hoped that stripped, and held

Iust-Bobble, not hugely rich like those after fifteen years of search, thought

own people. It's too dangerous. You no more of the Lost Mines. to hidas