The Flying: Courier by Boyd Cable HYNorSl.S. At Crciydun uri ixlrumo, Cjlynii miliiiun, I'llut of the Iiuliun Air Mull liner, iii<-ela Norah Hcuiiiuii. At the lH8t minute Cllyrin la ordcrKi) to ittand-by fur a apeclul job. The I'rlnee of Naimlula la 111 In LonUuii and In haute to return tu India, where hia fathiT hua <Ile(l. tie niuat bo ureaent to claim the throne, which his half-brother, The Vulture, plola to aeUe. At the i'rlnce'N hoUHt! Glynn Kita lil- atructlona to fly a new nmrhlnc to Lon- don from (he factory for the I'riiice'a usu. AgenlH of the Vultur-; In London hear uf thin and track hlin tu the factory. (Jlynn (lleK the niafhlne to London but the (loclurx refuse to uUow the I'llnce to fly to hulla. A« a last resort the I'rUiL'e haa a short tulklnj; (Wni made of hlniMoir rending the I'roclamatlon of In- berlla-nre. tilynn's i>lane 1h found tunij)- ered with, no declsl(jii Ih made for hlni to deliver lh.« tllm hy the reKi'liK' "li' routv. He linda Norah Seaman la one of the piiMcenBcra. du. to her fathers- lllneKH In India. CHAPT:R VI.â€" (Cont'd.) "I »incciely hope you'll have betU;r news of your father," said Glynn. "Vou can K^t cabU-s on the way at the different airjwrts of course." "Thanks," she answered. •'Ye.s, 1 arrar>ged for that, or rather Airways, did it for me. But now, what about you? What are you doinsf here- as a piissentier api)arenlly ?" "Partly that and partly a.s .spare pilot," explained Glynn. "But I am go- inir right throunrh to Karachi as a kind of ."ipec-ial messenger with im- portantâ€" er â€" despatche.s and in.struc- tions." I "A Flying ('ourier," .she laughed. "Sounds quite lon.antic. So that job was not to fly the Prince out to Napa- Itita after all?" "I found I was wanted to test out and report on a new machine," said Glynn evasively. "I was .«ome days on that at the factory down in the West Country, and then I had to fly her to a Club aero<irome where her owner wanted her. It was only last night that I was back in town and able to ring you. I >vas pretty sick, as you may guess, when I heard you weren't there." "Since you're so polite about it," she smile<l at him, "I'll return the tompliment and say I was disappoint- ed not to hear from you again for so Jong and especially that you didn't tell me a thing more about the Napa- kvta business I'm so interested in." "You've .seen what the papers said?" he asked. "That the Prince isn't alkwed by his doctoi-s to fly yet?" "Oh, yes, I've read everything about it," she said. "And all about making the movie of him. You know it is be- ing shown in the ncwsi-eels at the cinema tonigh'. I do wish 1 could have seen it." They were interrupted by Mr. .Max, who hailed a moment by ihem as he strolled down the saloon. "Care to come along to the cocktail bar and have a drink, Captain K.iliman?" he fsked, and witli a slight bow to her: "Mi.ss Seaman perhaps would â€" " "No thank.s," .she said quickly. "I tcnlly don't want anything, Mr. Max." "Don'l think I will either, thanks," »aid (Jlynn i>olitcly, but looking very hard at the man as he spoke and won- dering where he had seen him before. Max murmured something and passed 071 his way to the bar. "D'you know, I've met him some- whereâ€" anfl recently." said Glynn thoughtfully. "But I can't/-yes, I Win. I reineml)er now. It was in the Post Office where I was posting some letters and things this morning. Sup- pose he was Ijing the same." Then he remembei-ed how .Max !iad »poken to the ndian he had been Warne<l against, antl began to wonder U the two were working together Ugai.-isl him. Was it pure coincidence that Max had followe<l him inU) that Post Office, or was he spying on his movements? And ii' he had been si>y- hig, had he seen .something that might jeopardi/x' the safety of the lilms he •ras getting to India, U'cause in the Post Office he had taken certain pie- laulions it would Ix- most dangerous to have known â€" A laughing remark broke l,is dis- lurbing thoughts. "Do you usually go U) sleep with you, eyes open?" Cap- lain EUinian?" • "I l>eg >'oUr pardon. Hullo, we're ^-ginning to slant down for Paris." But althiiu.^h he was now busy tnough explaining points of interest, ke was still worrying "vi-r that prob- lem â€" how much had Max seen of his actions in the Post Office? CHAPTKR VII. When the liner reache<i the ground uiid the passengers debarked to be ushered through the Customs and to the motors waiting to take them into Paris, Glynn drew Norah .Seaman aside. "You know I'm partly on dui,y this trip," he said. "Well, I have to go to the office here and see to some things. Il you've nothing siieeial to do, I wish you'd let the others push off and wait here twenty minutes or so until I get through, and then let me drive you into Paris jnd round any of the sights we've time to see." "It would be ever .so much pleasant- er," she admitteti. "If you're sure it isn't l>othering you." "T'other way round," laughe*! Glynn. "Come along and I'll park you comfortably until I'm ready." Actui.;iy he was making a fictitious reason for waiting there while the p:\ssenger8 went off. He was still w<,rrying over that Post Office episode and he prefen-e<l that he should be fix'e of the need to keep close guard over what he carried, by breaking away from that Indian and Max and po.ssibly any others who were amongst the pa.ssengers. When he was alone, ho opened the de.-^patch case he carried and which had not left his hand or his side through the journey, found the one film tin safely there, and locked the case again. Slung across his .shoulder hung a leather binocular case, but when he unstrapiwd the lid and shook out the contents, it was not a pair or binoculars that slid out, but an oblong tin of the size holding a bun- dled cigarettes. And when he opened and looked into the tin he saw no cigarettes, but a squeezed-in roll of cinematograph film. Me closed the lx)X, replaced it in the binocular case, and strapped it down again. "All right so far," he murmured with a sigh of relief. "All that stuff about the clevorneas of that Indian as an expert thief â€" and that chance of Max in the Post Office â€" is making me jumpy. But either they haven't spotted where I'm carrying the stuff, or they haven't had a fair chance to get at it. But there's six days and nights to go yet." He wa.s al)le to make the same ex- amination and i-elieved remaik both on the next morning and again on arrival at Brindisi on the .Monday morning, and he l>egan to feel a good deal more of a .sense of rwcurily, and to think he had slipped off with the films by Air Mail without the Prince's enemies knowing anything about it. The secretiii-y and the equerry had both been so urgent and insistent on the certainty that the agents of the Vulture know 1 to be in lx>ndon would do anything in their power to de.stix)y the films and, or, the Courier cairying them, that he had been fully impress- ed. The daniairo done to the Syntax was taken as clear evidence it was known the machine was for the use of the Prince, and it was hoped that it would also be supposed that the courier would fly the films out in the .same machine. Glynn, after a couple of days, without sign of any attempt to rob him, was coming to l)elieve this had happene<l, and that the ruse of .sentiing him by Air Mail hud thrown the enemy off the scent. In the light of later event,s he was to l>elieve that the lack of any attempt on his charge for the first day or two was either due to the plotters wanting time to make sure how and wlieie the film was carried, or ])erhai)s to lull him into a .sen.se of .security. If the latter >vas the intention, it was certainly a wise one, becau.se by the third night, although he never left his attache-case out of his sight or reach, he was certainly less alert and on guard against possible efforts to rob him than he had been on first leaving London. On the Monday, the third day of the journey, they transferred from land to oversea transport, leaving Brindisi in the big flying boat which was to ' carry them over the se« stage from I the tip of Italy to Greece and Athens, ' and then on .lext day to the far end of the Mediterranean and Palestine. It was a brilliant sunlit morning : when the "boat" took off and Norah, like the other passengers, was thrilled by the new and exhilarating sen»ation of the flying lx>at«, first slow glide over the umooth waters, speeding up and up until, with her engines roaring full out, she was tearing over them with a cascade of curving spray and water waves seething out from her sides. The shuddering drum of water, the hisA and spatter of flying spray at the i)ortholes ceased suddenly, the ijlue sea fell away below them, and the huge boat was lifting steadily and smoothly into the air. "Wonderful!" breathed - Norah. "Even more thrilly than flying off the ground, Glynn." "Then let's hoi)e for a spot of sea running next tine, Norah," laughed Glynn. "It's more thrilly still to feel her bouncing from wave to wave, and chucking the spray in cloutls." "But is tihat .safe," Glynn?" she asked. "Safe as houses, Norah," he sai<l promptly. "You'd be astonished at the strength of these boats and the weight of a sea they can climb off, or drop on, or ride out if need be." It will bo notetl that by this time they were well into the "Glynn" and "Norah" stage o friendship, but there is a friendly companions'.iip between airline passengers which ripens even more quickly tha.-i amongst those in a liner at sea, and Glynn, it must be remembered, had started the journey with every intention of making the most of the chance to enjoy the f riend- shi of Norah Seaman. For the first half of the day's flight they were over the empty blue sea, and for the second half flew with the .shores and waters of Grecian islands and channels below them, and Glynn busy with his maps showing Norah where they were and the different places they could sec. Like the over- land liners, the cabins of the flying boat were so insulated from sound and the engines so placed that there was no need to talk louder than in an oitlinary first class expt^.ss train car- riage, and with seats side by .side and heads as close as Glynn aiul Norah had theirs for a good pai^, of the time, their talk could be (and was) <iuite (|uiet and confidential. They had favoring breezes that day, so made good time and brought Athens into sight well ahead of schedule time in the evening. The pilot brought the liner in at a gooil height before circl- ing and gliding down, so that the pas- sengers had full opportunity to get a bird's eye view of some of the world famous w<mdors of the classical city (To be continued.) imliAUA Delightful Quality TEA 710 Fresh from the Gardens Pithy Anecdotes Of the Famous In the third year of the relgu of Queen Elizabeth, when she was 2S, her silk womaa. Mistress Montague, pre- sented this redoubtable daughter of Henry VIII. with a pair of black silk knit stockings for a New Year's gift â€" relates Iloben Cortes Holliday (in "Unmentionables: From Fig Leaves to Scauties.") After a few days' wear- ing, these articles pleased her so well that she sent for Mistress Montague and asked her where he got them and if she could help her to get any more. Liked Silk The enthralling conversation which ensued is thus set down in Stow's "Chronicle" â€" also in Mr. Holliday's unique history of feminine things "sac- red and profane": "Mistress Montague answered, say- ing, 'I made them very carefully of purpose only for your Majesty, and seeing these please you so wejl, I will presently get more In hand.' " 'Do,' said the Queen, 'for indeed I like silk stockings so well, because they are pleasant, fine and delicate, that henceforth I will wear no more cloth stockings'." MAGIC LESS THAN 1^ WORrU for x bi|t thre«- layercake! That's all it coats when you use Muftlc Baklnt Powder. And you get a flue quality that never variesâ€" absolute purity and dependability. No wonder Canada's most prominent cookery ei- perf s say It doesn't pay to takechances with doubt- ful Imking powder. R»ke with Magic and be sure! MADE "OONTAIN.S NO AI.IIM." ThU utitrmrnt on ttery IN tin I* your CuaranlM that Mash Rakliul Powder U ^ C/MMttA (r** fron alam or say harmful ingreJtcat. y^ Baking^ Move On If you do not like your home town, or 'he speed at w^hich it grows; If yoi. do not like Its scenery, or Its climate, or its shows; If you do not like the people that your home town fascinates, There are cars and trains now leaving tor other towns and stales. ir you cannot boost your home town, where men rise and fall each day; It you cannot use the bright sunshine to make glad somebody's way. If you caunot join in boosting, then you must have knocking traits, Anil they're selling tickets daily for other towns and states. {. Even The Horse Laughed Farmers throughout the United States, being urged ou every hand to reduce their production in order to re- lieve the surplus situation and thus to raise the price level, are passing through a period of perplexities, as this letter to the New York Herald- Tribune from a "New England Farm- er," who may or may not be genuine, clearly proves: "To The New York llorald-Trihune: "This morning I went out to the hen- house and called a meeting. After all were present with the aid of a hand- ful of corn, I said: 'Look here, you fellows (I always call 'em fellows, sounds more 'go to it' like than ladles), I've got word this morning from Washington â€" no, not Geurge Washington â€" Washington, D.C., that you fellows have got to 'lay off' this twoegga-weeU stuff. Only one a week from now on or ill get fined for ovor- produclion, and maybe sent to jail. At least that's vhat I hear about those fellows down south raising cot- ton. They got to quit, so I suppose you and I'll have to quit too. ".Now remember what I've told you. 1 can't stay here talking f i you any longer I've a lot to do. I've got to hustle down to the pond and tell it not to freeze so I won't overproduce ico; I got a lot of apple trees to out down, th >re'll be too mu.:h cider. I'm going to set Are to those hay stacks down In the lower field, I got loo much hay. These cows have got to ease up on that milk stuff, I must tell them, and I got lo spenk to the geese and j ducks a- ' nirkeys. i don'i want lo be ! (Iiieil in go I ' jail." ' "A Ne . iOnglaiiil ; i mei . • Wellesye, Mass., Feb. 3, 1H."4. •i'.S.â€" When 1 left the barn 1 Ih mshl : I heard my liorsc mak< a noise, it { sounded kinder like a laugli. I won- der? 'â- -Wiiirhfslcr Pre.s* •> (Irei'litlfM, i;iii; iiavin^ f\ul«jiily tried valiuiiil> lo arouse his master by snuffling Into his ear an.l < iting it. Ileniy Lister's dog wa.i found beside him on the ground after a falii! attack o' iviicope Clergyman Inventor It was during Queen Bess' reign that the Reverend William Lee of Notting- ham â€" a clergyman with a "sock" â€" in- vented a machine that would do knit- ting â€" the stocking frame, which has been called "the most perfect of prim- ary Inventions." "No less illustrious a fancier of fine stockings than Queen Elizabeth, It is said, was induced to go to Lee's hum- ble quarters to see it," says Holliday. But the stocking knitters became gen- erally alarmed with the result the par- son-inventor did not get his patent. "A handicraft postponed the advent of the Machine Age!" adds Mr. Holli- day. Refuses Patent In i-efuslug the patent, Elizabeth wrote: , "Had Mr. Lee made a machine that would have made silk stockings, I should, I think, have been somewhat justified in granting him a patent for that monopoly, which would have af- fected only a small number of my sub- jects, but to enjoy the exclusive pri- vilege of making stockings for the whole of my subjects, Is too important to be granted to any Individual." Lee's first machine w^as not capable of knitting more than eight loops to an inch width â€" too coarse for silk, ex- plains Mr. Holliday. An Irish Tale Major A. W. Long, in "Irish Sports of Yesterday," relates this anecdote of a quaintly Hibernian flavor: Patsy and the driver went into the hotel dining room. Then I heard Patsy's explanation of the unpardon- able : bsence of whiskey and poteen, followed by: "But did ye ever taste Benedictine? 'Tls made by the holy monks." Then, through the open door I saw the driver swill off a liqueur glass of the best Benedictine, and, after con- templating the empty glast for some lime, he said to Pat: â- "rhat's gran' stuff God bless the holy monks whatever, but to hell with the man that blew the glass for short- nes of breath." Take Heart Young and ambitious writers who feel discouraged because publishers refuse to put their work between covers, may take heart (says Mr. Fin- ger) when told that the first publisher who read ,Iane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" would liave nothing to do with it; and the the publisher who bought "N'orthangj'r Abbey" for the equivalent of fitly dollars, pigeonholed it, and so it remained until many "MINING CHATTER" An Interesting, illuminating semi-weekly review of the mines and the mining mar- kets. We would be pleased to mail this to you regularly upon request. Write for our special com- prehensive review of ASHLEY GOLD MINES J. T. Eastwood & Co. Members Toronto Stock Ex:hange 11 Jordan St. King Edw. Hotel EL. 9208 TORON WA. 4611 ro ISSUE No. 10â€" "34 years later, for the same sum, by the Austeu family. He Did Well One of the greatest tributes ever paid to Jean de Reske, the "Prince of tenors," came at the end of a proces- sion of his colleagues to his dressing room at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, to offer their con- gratulations upon his successful re- appearance after a year's absence through illness. Enter the electrician, who, thrusting a "horny hand of toil" into that of de Reske's, exclaimed: "Jean, you done flnef" All In the Game Jean de Reske started out as a bari- tone, but made no great progress. Dis- heartened, he retired from the oper- atic stage only to reappear later as a tenor. .\nd what a tenor! The story goesâ€" it is told in "Jean de Reske and the Great Days of Opera," by Clara Leiser â€" that the oremiere of Massen- et's "Herodiade" had been postponed for a year because no suitable leading tenor could be found. One day Mas- senet happened to hear Jean singing In the back of a Paris music shop. The long sought tenor was found at last. Stage Fright But on the opening night de Reske faltered and refused to sing. Remon- strailons having failed, his brother Edouard (later to become famous him- self as a basso) and the manager locked him in a dressing room, thrust him into his costume, and at the right moment pushed him bodily on the stage â€" with what result the world now knows. Jean again became panicky on the second night and threatened suicide! Grog The origin of that comforting word "grog" dates back to 1740 when Ad- miral Vernon ordered that the sailors rum â€" at that time usually called ar- rack â€" should be watered, says Eric Partridge (in "Slang To-Day and Yes- terday"). Displeased, the sailors named the insulting beverage "grog," because the Admiral was already known as "Old Grog" from his habit of wearing a grogram (that is, a coarse fabric) garment, either cloak, or foul-weather coat, or breeches. Sounds rather groggy! M'ore Origins The expressive term "claptrap," high-sounding nonsense, is nothing but an ancient theatrical term, and sigui- fled a "trap" to catch a "clap" by way of applause. "Coster" is a slangy abbreviation of "costermonger," originally "costard- monger," a seller of apples â€" "monger" Is a merchant, "costard" a large apple. 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