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Gloria Swanson and Douglas Montgomery in a scene from "Music In The Air," which is now showing at the King's Theatre,

DEATH CALL

(Continued From

Page 9).

ALOOF EMPIRE OF ABYSSINIA

(Continued from Pave 8)'

The retainers carry their old- fashioned black powder rifles at every possible angle, and shout wildly as they clear a path through the tangled traffe of the market.

Outside Addis Ababa, and in the provinces, are great country man- sions loop-holed like forts and pro- tected by thick stone walls, In which are massive "gates stu ided with iron. Sentries, patrol the pre- mises night and day. The lord of the manor lives sumptuously ac- cording to his social code, amid home-made furniture bound with leather thongs, and his table-ware may be of beaten silver..

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Ha dispenses hospitality with a lavish hand, and rules his serfs as rigorously as dld any noble in Plan- tagenet times. His nearest neigh- bour is miles away, and the only means of communication is by mule. or runner.

of fore. The sum total of the things he, Hollister's plan-the beautiful

Although suspicious had not known amounted to several theoretical plan, propounded in an-

war lords Igners, the provincial jhundred pounds, some of which was swer to a hypothetical problemi

and their followers, as a 'rule, are pressing. All this happened just left nothing at all to chance. What friendly to Europeans who come to at a time when he himself was feel- circumstances did not provide, Hol them with credentials from the! ing the pinch of a couple of un-lister could arrange for-bat. cir- Emperor. They are a simple, un- lucky speculations, and having cumstances provided a good many sophisticated lot. The rural priests, job to keep his brokers quiet.

things, including his uncle's morn-who exercise such power over the In desperation he went to his un-ing cup of tea.

Ignorant peasants, have qualit |cle. ald Godfrey listened to himi

Lhelv.own.

in perfect silence, and with no sign at about eleven, having been maile

It was brought to him every day ideas concerning the world beyond of sympathy in his cool; grey eyes.

Nightfall's Silence At the end of the recital he pulledias Leven, the typist, over a

gas ring in the outer office. Every- They believe, for example, that a glum face and sat thinking. with thing was very simple. Old Willis, the sun revolves around the earth. his chin resting on the back of his hand. Presently he raised his head, the clerk, was out that morning. It and even that the earth is flat. The sooner you learn to keep when Miss Leven's attention was and dark practices adhered to by was not difficult to find a moment Superstition takes forms of magic, your wife in order the better. This distracted-just long enough to al- certain negro tribes beyond the is the most I'll do for you. I'll give low a few drops of colourless liquid frontier have taken root among the you a ten-pounds monthly rise i

to fall into the old man's cup. Miss border tribesmen. salary, and I'll advance what money

Leven look in the cup of tea. Hol you need-on condition that you start repaying it right away at the lister said casually: rate of twenty pounds a month."

The old man was smiling grimly. There was a poetic justice in this reminds me, Miss Leven. offer that appealed to him.

He

By day Addis Ababa is a hive awarming with activity. The mar-

"I promised I'd call round to see kets and the lanes round about are; Mr. Bramshaw at 11.30. And that filled with 'voluble, gossiping na-j Those tives in loose white garments that,

But papers from Baker and Norton-do serve to emphasise the blackness of their skins. But at nightfall the Gerald Hollister was not moved by you know if they've come in?" the humour of the situation.

Miss Leven said that they had city retires to its huts and hovels not.

in the mysterious wilderness that said furlously:

"Those people are late with every-lies on all sides of the shopping

Hollister. "Better quarter.

The streets are empty save for ring them up and ask them-or, better still, why not run round and armed patrols like dark ghosts in collect the papers yourself?"

the pale moon-light, and there is

11 as though I were "You talk child I'm not asking for charity.]thing," said I'm the one who does the work in this office. If it weren't for me

"I might as well," said Miss silence broken only by the howling, "I can't hear hall you're saying,': said old Godfrey, and added incon-Leven obligingly. "It wouldn't take of hyenas and innumerable pariah sequently, "There's no need to me above half an hour."

It would take her nearer three- rhout." He leaned forward with

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"I can't Ima-quarters of an hour. Hollister was gine what you're complaining about counting on that,

"Well, I can come part of the way I'm ready to help you. It's only right that you should do something with you. I'll just tell my uncle."

He poked his head round the door to help yourself,"

"I ought to have helped myself and saw the old man for the Inst years ago," said Hollister bitterly.jtime, quietly sipping his tea..

A few minutes later he parted and turned and stamped out of thei

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It had been a silly scene. Half the street and turned sharply back. story of Captain Drummond and of Hollister's exasperation was due He doubled upstairs into the de- his faithful band of young follow- to the fact that he knew his uncle serted outer office and, walkingers is being shown at the Majestic to be at least partly right, and cer-falowly, passed into his uncle's room. Theatre in "Bulldog Drummond tainly immovable in his decision. Until now he had been quite as-Strikes Back," featuring Ronald The old man was as solid and as-tonishingly collected, but as he saw Colman in the leading role.

As Captain Drummond, Colman sured-lo-day as he had been at any him he had some difficulty in 'get-

ACHILLES 12 nerve-racking The drug only lives through time in his life-too sure of himself ting his breath. even to be annoyed. All Hollis-took a few minutes to act. The old hours in fog-bound London, ter's grievances rose to the surface. man was lying forward with his which an extremely pretty girl, a He arrived home with a headache head resting on his desk.

telegram, and an Oriental Prince are and quarrelled with his wife, His Hollister, took a grip on himself. largely responsible. Charles Butter- position was. intolerable.

He had things to do. He bent over worth, as Algy, lends his assistance That night he lay awake, and his uncle and then, reassured, he during this period in proper droll

He Butterworth fashion, 27th May found an ugly satisfaction in fol-picked up the eraply teacup.

Lorretta Young, Warner Oland,; lowing his thoughts wherever they went out and rinsed it carefully chose to lead him. For two days emptied into it half the slops from Jack Kirkland, C. Aubrey Smith, he scarcely spoke to his uncle. He Mias Leven's cup and replaced it on all do their best to make this one aulked and brooded. On the third his uncle's desk-an extra-precan-of the finest thrillers of the year.

He returned to day he took steps to procure a sup-tionary measure.

The B., Tilawa, is due here from ply of the drug.

(Continued on Page 11)

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