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Elton Th "THE THIEF OF BAGDAD" BY ACHMED ABDULLAH | Based on Douglas Fairbanks' Fantasy Tana he Amtbisn Nights, by Then the high-priest broke into a loud chant of thanksgiving: "Ho, Devil Ho, Doorga! Ho, Smashana Kali! Thou hast listened to my Mantra! Thou hast. accepted the sacrifice! Blessed be Thy name, O Great Mother!" Quickly h2 bent over the dead. With agile, practiced fingers he opened a "vein and drained a generous quantity He of blood into a sacerdotal bowl. poured it out at the feet of the idol while the worshipers prayed and-chant- ed, and while the Prince picked up the crystal eye which had remained unbro. ken in spite of the fall. ' /He held it high. He looked into its milky whiteness. The greatest rarity in the Avorld, he thought triumhantly, well worth the death of a thousand young Brahmins! The treasure by the strength of which Zobeid would be his! Then, at the thought of her, he spoke her name. He addressed the crystal: "Tell me, O magic crystal, what Zo- beid is doing at this moment!" At once the globe clouded, to become a moment later like a vivid, colored miniature that showed Zobeid on the balcony of her room, staring with starry eyes into the distance--eyes that were full of longing and love and «faith. "By Shiva |" thought the Rajah, who all his life had had an excellent con- Crusher of 1 ceit of himself. "The Hearts is thinking of me! It would have shocked him dread- fully had hes been able to read the| words which Zobeid's lips were form- ing silently: "Ahmed! Ahmed! Soul of my soul! Oh--my Ahmed--how I wish that I| could be with you--to help you--help you in your search!" And indeed right then the Thief of Bagdad was in dire need of help. For he was about to cross the Val- ley of the Monsters, the Valley of Evil Thoughts, where all the envies and jealousies and bad wishes formed in the human brain since God created Adam out of clay mixed with water and Eve from a crooked rib of Adam's body, lié¢ in ambush for the traveler-- unless there bé no rancor in his soul and no envy nor malevolence in his heart. ~ In this valley dangers of all kinds were as thick as hair in the tail of the blue-faced Vindhya monkey. Here were slippery rocks and timber falls and jag- ged precipices; impetuous torrents flashing down their beds of black stone; and no path except a fugitive track through the undergrowth, hardly discernible, wiped by the paisonous breath of the jungle into a dim, smelly mire which bubbled and sucked--seem ed to reach out for those who dared tread its foul solitude. THE 7 ; | Ahmed gripped his sword and steef ted his will. He walked on. { Cable-like, spiky creepers dropped | low from the trees and struck his face; | they opened before him with a dull, | Burgling sound as he brushed them as- ide with fist or sword point; they | { closed behind him as if the jungle had | stepped away for a second to let him { through, leisurely, contemptuously, in- | vincibly, to bar his way, should he at- tempt to return. Darkness came suddenly. It came with black thunder clonds and the fiery, crimson, forked tongues of light- ning. All about him Ahmed coul hear the night cries of wild animals; the trumpeting of gigantic elephants; the grisly laugh of the foul, spojted hyenas; the howling' of tigers; the hiss- ling of cobras; and the whimpering of wild dogs coursing in packs on the tracks of their prey: Fear dropped on him like a sodden blanket. He thought of the Prince of India, the Prince of Persia, the Prince of the Mongols. Thought of them with énvy in his heart and rancor in his soul. They were strong. They were powerful. They were rich. They had thousands and thousands of armed re- tainers and wise men to obey their ev; ery wish, while he was alone in all the world, with nobody to lend him a help ing hand. "Allah!" them!" And, as his lips pronounced the words, all at once the darkness was €left in two by an immense shaft. of quivering, yellow light, and he saw, square in his path, a huge monster fac- ing him. Jt towered above him like a moun- tain. Its shape was that of a dragon covered with green, steely scales, a swishing tail that wound up in a for- est of lances, an enormous, cavernous he exclaimed. "How I envy » mouth that was armed with a treble row 0! dagger-sharp teeth and drip- ping with blood and black venom, and eight legs with claws large enough to rip an elephant to pieces as if it were | a mouse and to tear a banyan tree up| by the roots as if it were a small weed. It saw Ahmed, and made for him with a great, clumsy leap, breathing a column of smoke and fire from its nos- trils. The Thief of Bagdad was about to turn tail and run away. But he recon- sidered. He had no chance of escape. The dragon would overtake him at a single leap; would swallow 'him at a single mouthful. All right--he said to himself--it was quite hopeless; but at least he would die fighting. So he lunged at the brute with the point of his sword; missed; leaped nimbly to one side to evade the monster's claws; lunged-again, missed - again, again leaped to safety. ""Hai |" he gave his guttural war cry. "Hai!" and gradually, as he fought, the envy and rancor in his heart began to pale, and there came to him a cer- tain high, reckless, clanking courage-- nor exactly a courage of despair, Up from the ground he vaulted with both feet, striking with all his strength. The dragon grunted, doubtless sur- prised that this small lump of humanity should dare resist him and give battle, and receded a step. Ahmed laughed. v "Pip!" he shouted at the brute. "Wart! Jew! Christian! Unclean aud ludicrous pimple! Come here and fight!" AN The envy in his heart paling more and more, he went to the attack, fight- ing after the time-honored manner of Arab sworders; bending almost dou- ble; skipping in a lithe, rapid circle; executing various gambados and mea- sured leaps; springing forward like a Tote Note The Royal Bank of Canada Branch in Canada of the Bank of Montreal. $100, $500, $1,000, $10,000 and $100,000. on six weeks prior notice at 102 and interest up to and including December 15, 19 $30,000,000 Date of Issue December 15, 1924. 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Toronto, Dec. 9.--Cattle, choice export steers, $7.50 to $8.25; good export steers, $6.75 to $7; godd to choice short keeps, export feeders, $5.50 to $6.50; baby beeves, 630 to 850 lbs., $7.50 to $11.50; choice handyweight butchers' cattle, $6.75 to $7; good handyweight butchers', $6 to $6.50; medium to fair butch- ers, $5 to $5.50; choice to good 950 to 1,100 1b. feeders, $5.25 to $5.78; fair to good light feeders, $4 to $4.- 50; light northwest stock heifers, $3.25 to $4; choice fat cows, $4.75 to $5.25; good buicher cows, $4 to $4.50; medium cows, $3.50 to $3.- 75; common cows, $3 to $3.25; can- ners and cufters, $1.75 to $2.50; good to choice butcher bulls, $4.28 to $4.50; good to choice export bulls, $4 to $5; bologna bulls, $2.50 to $3.25; choice milchers and springers, each, $75 to $90; med- jum, each, $45 to $60; common, each, $30 to $40; choice spring lambs, $13 to $13.50; medium "to good spring lambs, $11 to $11.50; common spring lambs, $9 to $10; choice yearling shéep, $8 to $9; cull yearling sheep, $4.50 to $5.50; good to choice sheep, $6.50 to $7.50 heavy sheep and bucks, $4 to $5; cull, $3 to $3.50; good to choice calves, $11 to $12; medium calves, $8 to $9; common calves, $6.50 to $7; grass calves, $3.75; hogs, f.0.b, thick, smooth, $8.76; do., fed and watered, $9.25; do., weighed off cars, $9.76. Montreal, Montreal, Dec. 9.--Cattle, butch- er, steers, good, $6.76 to $6.25; medium, $4 to $4.50; common, $3 to $8.75; butcher cows, good, $4.50 to $6; medium, $3 to $4; canners, (3 $1.50 to $1.75; cutters, $2 to $2.25; butcher bulls, common, $2.25 to $2.- 50; good veal, $8 to $10; common, $4 to $5; grass, $3.60 to $4; ewes, $4 to $6.50; lambs, good, $12.50 to $13; common, $11.26 to $12; the standard quotation for hogs was around $9.60 with a few sales at $9.75 or better. Mixed lots of com- mon quality and containing a num- bér of lights brought $9.50. Selects, $10. Sows sold from §7 to $7.26. Buffalo, Buffalo, N.Y., Dec. 9.--Cattle, shipping steers, $9.50 to $11; butch- ers, $7 to $9.50;. yearlings, $10 to $12.50; heifers, $4.50 to $5; fair to choice cows, $2.76 to $5.25; can- ners and cutters, $1.76 to $2.75; bulls, $3 to $5.25; stockers and feeders, $4 to $6; fresh cows and springers, active agd steady, $35 to $120 per head. Calves, choice, $11.50 to $12; fair to good, $8.50 to $11; culls, $6 to $8; heavy, $6 to $7; grassers, $3 to $5. Hogs, heavy, $9.25 to $9.60; mix- ed, $9.25; yorkers, $8.50 to $9.26; light yorkers, $7 to $8; pigs, $6 to $6.50; roughs, $7.75; stags, $4 to $6. Sheep and lambs--Lambs, $9 to $15.50; yearlings, $9 to $12.50; wethers, $9.50 to $10; 'ewes, §9 to $9.50; mixed sheep, $3 to $9. Chicago. Chicago, Dec. 9.--Cattle, top long yearlings, $14.50, highest off year; few youngstérs above $13; best weighty steers, $10.40 for 1,600- pound average; several strings grad- ing choice, but very weighty, $10 to $10.96; bulk fed steer run $8.25 to $10.25; most yearlings, $9 to $12; she-stock, 100 to 25¢c lower; fat kind, mostly 16¢ to 25¢ off; canners, 10c down; vealers, 25¢ to 50c lower; bulk, $8.50 to $9; ckers and fégd ers, scarce; desirable kinds, firm spots, 25¢ higher, , Hogs, extreme top, $9.75; bulk. good and choice, 225 to 330-pound butchers, $9.25 to $9.60; 180 to 210- und butchers, largely $8.35 to $9.10; bulk, 140 to 170-pound aver- ages, $6.50 to $8.10; packing sows, mostly $8.60 to $8.80; strong weight slaughter pigs, largely $5.50 to §6; estimated holdover, 37 y Fat lambs, bulk faf natives and fed 'westerns, $15 to $15.50; top, $15.65; choice clipped, $12.50; fat sheep, ly; handyweight fat ewes, $8 to $8.50; feeding lambs, 15 to 26c higher; bulk, better grades, $14.50 to $15; choice Snypoung avoragos, $15.26. 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