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PROFPESSOR SHALEY, distinguishâ€" ed archeologist. In charge of a small expedition financed by Philip Guthrie, the professor has been seeking in Iran (Persia) some ancient gold cups reâ€" puted to be hidden there. Shaley dies without discovering the treasure. You can start this exciting story right here. Just read the cast of characters and the synopsis given of previous chapters and then go right ahead with the story. MONDAY. JULY 19TH, 1837 PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS PHILIP GUTHRIE, rich, scholarly, unmarried. Is greatly interested in relics of ancient civilization. JULIAN ORMOND, Shaley‘s young assistant, takes charge on Shaley‘s death until Guthrie orders him home and dismisses him. HAFFI, Julian Ormond‘s Persian su pervisor. LYNNE ORMOND, halfâ€"sister ol Julian Ormond, pretty, twentyâ€"five; redâ€"haired. Quietly brought up, and heiress to substantial wealth. MRS. BLAKEMORE, Lynne‘s Aunt SOPHIE, by whom Lynne was brough! up. The Professor was in charge of an expedition which was digging in Perâ€" slia in quest of some ancient gold cups reputed to have been made for Alexâ€" ander the Great. Guthrie is deeply inâ€" terested in the quest, and has financed the expedition. THE STORY 8O FAR Philip Guthrie learns by cable from Julian Ormond of the death of Proâ€" fessor Shaley. Julian Ormond, who sent the cable, is the secondâ€"inâ€"command. His mesâ€" sage, besides announcing the death of his leader, recommends that the quest be abandoned. Guthrie is astonished at the suggesâ€" ticn of giving up the search, because the Professor‘s last letter held out great hopes of success. Accordingly, Guthrie wires to Orâ€" mond calling him home for consultaâ€" tion. On meeting, the two quarrel. Guthrie dismisses Ormond, and decides to go out to Persia and take charge of the expedition himself. Julian Ormond believes he knows where the treasure is. But he needs money. He knows that his halfâ€"sister, Lynne Ormond, has recently come into her share of their father‘s fortune. Julian sees Lynne, proposes that she go cut with him. Lynne, hungry for adâ€" venture, decides to go. Julian stirs her indignation by reciting woeful story of how badly Guthrie has treated him. Hitherto, Lynne, though she knows Guthrie only by photograph and repuâ€" tation, has admired him. Lynne makes an appeal to Guthrie to reinstate Julian. He refuses and they part on the worst of terms. Now read on! CHAPTER VI OFF BY AIR At eleven fortyâ€"five next morning Lynne and her aunt were on their way to Croydon. Her interview with Guthrie had only served to increase Lynne‘s determination. She vowed that if the cups of Alexander were there to be found, she and Julian were going to ONE CENTâ€"Aâ€"MILE BARGAIN EXCURSION Pembroke, Renfrew, Arnprior, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec and Ste. Anne de Beaupre, Que. via North Bay and Canadian Pacific. RBRargain excursion tickets will be valid on trains 2 or 46 and their conâ€" nection Thursday, July 29th. Pacsengers who use our Train 2 will connect at North Bay with C.P. train 2 leaving 8.20 p.m, same date. Passengers who use Train 46 will arrange their own transfer to North Bay C.P. Depot and take C.P. Train 8 leaving at 1.00 a.m. Friday, July 30th. Tickets are valid to return leaving destination point not later than C.P. Train 1 from Windsor St. Station, Montreal, 10.15 p.m. Sunday, August 1st and connection at North Ray with our Train 1 at 12.45 p.m. August 2nd EXCEPT passengers from points north of Porquis must leave not later than C.P. Train 7 from Montreal 7.50 p.m. Sunday, Aug. I"t to connect at North Bay with our Train 47%, Monday, Aug. 2nd. Tickets will not be honoured on Trains 49â€"50. "The Northland." Tickets destined Quebec and Ste. Anne de Beaupre not good on Semiâ€" 3treamlined Trains 350 and 352 to Quebec or 349 and 351 from Quebec but good on all other trains between Montreal and Quebec. Tickets Good in Coaches Only No Baggage Che Children 5 yvears of age and under 12. when accompanied by Guardianâ€"Half Fare. For fares and further particulars apply to local agent. Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway The Nipissing Central Railway Company THURSDAY, JULY 29TH ; N. 0. and N.C.R. Regular Stations from find them, and Guthrie was going to be sorry in the end. Meanwhile, she and Julian began with an advantage. They would get there first. Very likely Guthrie would not hurry, but go to Persia by land and sea. If he intended to fly, then at least she had the satisfacticn of seeing that he was not on the liner when they boarded it at Croydon. All seemed well. As the plane soared out of the fog into the upper sunshine, and the outskirts of London fell slowly away into the haze, Lynne was tense with excitement. Now the adventure had really begun! By the time they were over the Channel she had other things to think of. Aunt Sophie was airâ€"sick. In Paris, however, where they had a wait of three hours, Aunt Sophie recovered sufficiently to stroll out and louk at the shop windows. She even found strength to insist on Lynne‘s buying an evening frock of iridescent seaâ€"green satin. "But, Auntie!" said Lynne. "I shan‘t want an evening gown in the Khoraâ€" san. It‘s a Gdesert, Auntie!" one "What! Haven‘t you brought any eveâ€" ning frock ‘at all with you?" "No," said Lynne. "But I shan‘t need Her trunks contained only what was essential in the way of workmanlike khaki, blankets, waterflask, etc. She had left the world of evening frocks beâ€" hind. "What on earth will you cousin Sylvia‘s in Tehran?" demanded Aunt Sophie. "If you don‘t buy the wear at | ‘"He would said the stal had good we frock I shall get it myself for you. I | ably started never heard of anything so ridiculous." So Lynnse bought the frock. At fiveâ€"fifteen they left Paris for Brindisi, and by Monday morning A thousand miles lay between them and Paris. At six a.m., with early sunshine lighting the water, they boarded the immense flying boat and set off across the Adriatic. In Athens they glimpsed the aged glory of the Parthenon. Even mss smm in mm mempennnn um CIrYX 0 Lynne an( their room | the plane le there wWAs 1 Guthrie had Persia alrea! Lynne sat at the Egyp vety dark a Aunt Sophie was too tired to exclaim, fof the day . to protest, or to admire, and they | was too imp lunched with many yawns. By this time Pale and a young staff officer, flying to India |Sophie who to rejoin his regiunment, had attached | open, himself to them, and took the responâ€" |at 3 a.m., t sibility of the journey upon himself. It was after six when the blank blue carpet of the Mediterranean slid away behind them, and they descended at Alexandria. It was at Cairo, in the eveâ€" ning. still under the care of the staff officer, who seemed determined to make the most of his acquaintance, that Lynne happened to look at Satâ€" urday morning‘s London .newSspapetr, one of the passengers from the plane had left it in the lobby of the hotel. In the rush of leaving London on the Saturday, Lynne had not seen a paper. The first thing on which her gaze fell was the heading: f "Archaeologist to fly to Baghdad." "It was learned at a late hour las! the remark staff officer All the p wan with f; in Gaza; and over a dest came. They afternoon t country, an tain ranges low the sp¢ The sky v overhead. It was S( to, Baghda« twilight,, an a fairy city night," ran the paragraph below, "that lsky Lynne Captain Terry Rodwell, who is attemptâ€" |carpet of _ ing to break the speed record in his flight to India, will have as a passenâ€" eastern fan At the h ger Dr. Phillip Guthrie the noted |gers had t 2 or 46 and their conâ€" No Baggage Checked But she felt anything but calm, and she sincerely wished that Captain Rodâ€" well might never have left Lympne. "I suppose they don‘t always leave to schedule on these recordâ€"breaking flights," she said. s "He would only wait for the weather," said the staff officer. "But as we have had good weather all the way, he probâ€" ably started on time." CITY OF ARABIAN NIGHTS _ Lynne and Aunt Sophie went up to their room to rest at eight o‘clock, as !the plane left in the early hours. But there was no rest for Lynne now. Guthrie had beaten her and was in lPersia already! Lynne sat by the window looking out at the Egyptian evening, with its velâ€" ’vety dark above, and the pure colours | of the day still lighting the west. She was too impatient to sleep. Pale and intent, escorting an Aunt ;Sophie who could hardly keep her eyes ‘open. Lynne boarded the plane agalin at 3 a.m.. too preoccupied to reply to Ithe remarks of the now discouraged archaeologist. Captain Rodwell leavesl Lympne aerodrome at five oâ€"clock toâ€" morrow morning. Dr. Guthrie will acâ€" company Captain Rodwell as far as| Baghdad, where he will leave the plane| and go on to Tehran to join the expe-' dition taken to Persia by the late Proâ€"| fessor Shaley in search of the lost city of Praemnon. Dr. Guthrie is continu-' ing ‘the work of his late colleague." . | Lynne read no further. "I say! What‘s the matter?" inquired their faithful companion, the staff ofâ€" ficer, noticing Lynne‘s flushed face and eyes agleam with mortification. "Nothing," said Lynne. But the news was a shock. Sso Guthrie was in a hurry to get to Persia, after all!l And what was more,| he would very likely get there: first. "This Captain Terry Rodwell," she said to the staff officer. "Will he be in Baghdad before us?" | "Old Roddy? I know old Roddy," said the staff officer. "He‘s a great pal of mine. When did he leave?" "On Sunday morning." The young man reckoned it out. . l "It‘s Monday now. Heavens, yesâ€"He should have left Baghdad hours ago." "Really?" said Lynne, calmly. "How fast they go!" If he was unable to meet the plane himself at Tehran, he would ask their ccousin Sylvia, wife of Stephen Trent of the Consular service, to do so. Meanwhile Lynne learned _ at the aerodrome that Captain Terry Rodwell had passed through Baghdad on the previcus morning. She asked the staff officer to find out for her if Dr. Phillip Guthrie had been with him. The staff officer cam hangars to tell her: "Guthrie came witl went up to Tehran y pears." They were in the hotel lounge. Lynne was feeling so sleepy she could hardly feel anything but resignation at hearâ€" ing that Guthrie really had got ahead of her. The staAII OIIICE@r ICL. "Do you know Guthrie?" "Slightly," replied Lynne. "Your asking about him made me thinkâ€"â€"â€"* the young man broke off. Lynne‘s business in â€" Persia puzzled him. Tehran was not on the tourist route. "Have you anything to do with this lost city, and the treasure of Alexâ€" ander the Grest that they‘re looking for?" "Well." said Lynne, smiling, "I have and I haven‘t. My brother was a memâ€" ber of Professor Shaley‘s expedition." "By Jove! Was he?" After a moment the staff officer said with a laugh. "I don‘t believe you are going to Persia to see the ccuntry at all!" "Of course I am! How ridiculous!" said Lynne, wondering how she could came with Rodwell o Tehran yesterday, if er asked her THE PORCUPINZE ADVANCE, TTMMINS, ONTARIO ap but the â€"â€"Lynnée til noon Company ‘Tehran. l ranges, a that the: desert pl give the impression that she was on any but a sightâ€"seeing mission. "I believe you know Guthrie more than justâ€"‘slightly‘." said the young man, haif jokingly, but with heightened colour; and after a few more words it appeared that he was suggesting that she was really engaged to Guthrie, and was going to Tehran to be near him. standing and west The grey desert stretched _ away. patched here and there with gleaming tracts of salt. Out there, Lynne thought, as she peered down towards the barren disâ€" tance of the plain, was the hiding place of Alexander‘s cups; out there was the romance she had Greamed about. CHAPTER VII IN A JASMINEâ€"SCENTED HOUSE In the late afterncon they arrived at Tehran, the city of low walls and casâ€" tellated gateways, scattered. wide over the plain and almost hidden in luxurâ€" iant greenery. The houses were low, and rambling, built of mud and decorated with colâ€" oured tiles, shabby and forlorn lookâ€" ing but for their exquisite gardens, where irrigation channels carried the water of the mountain snows to raise trees and flowers in riotous profusion from the desert dust. At the landing ground Julian was noâ€" where to be seen. But Lynne‘s cousin Sylvia was there, with her husband, Stephen Trent, waiting for them with "What on earth are you doing out here?" she said. "IL only had note from Julian this morning to say that he couldn‘t meet the Baghdad plane, and would I do it! I‘m thrilled to see youâ€"but why are you here?" "Lynne insisted on coming out here for a holiday," Aunt Sophie said. "That wretch Julian put her up to it. We‘ve travelled and travelled and travelled! We‘ve had the most shocking time! I thought that aeroplane would never stop! I‘m so stiff I can hardly walk!" "It‘s difficult to believe that when we came here we were weeks away from home!" Sylvia told them. "Now, with these air services, everything is different. I wouldn‘t be a bit surprised to see Tehran made into a weekâ€"end reâ€" sort for Londoners before long. Of course there‘s lots to see hereâ€"it‘s very interesting, though I simply loathe :t!" In this way Lynne was relieved of the need for any explanations on her own account; and all she had to say a car. Sylvia welcomed them enthusâ€" iastically, and insisted that they should not go to an hotel, but stay with herâ€" self and Trent. WAaASs the desert to see a OI UNC Ii11€ UuL thereâ€"so I hope that you‘ll look after Aunt Sophie while I‘m away." Sylvia said at once that her home was Aunt Sophie‘s for as long as she remained in Tehran, and Lynne had no more to worry about. And then when they arrived they found Sylvia‘s house so strange, S0 forâ€" eign, and forlornly charming. It was a house in the true Persian style, with low walls ornamented with trees built round a deep water tank in the centre. The warm sunlight streamed through the close leaves of the surrounding garden; blooming oleanders starred the gloom with pink and white, and heavyâ€" scented jasmine trailed from the walls to the still surface of the tank. "I‘m sure," said Sylvia, "that it‘s most frightfully unhealthyâ€"but it wWas all we could get to live in. Yes: it looks romantic. and of course this is the Isveliest time of year." At the house there was a letter from Julian saying that he would come to Tehran on the following day and take Lynne down t0o Kelâ€"elâ€"abir. Aunt Sophie went straight to bed, and Lynne lay down for two hours, and got up in time to dress for dinner at eight, feeling fairly fresh. But she was in the midst of putting on the frock which Aunt Sophie had persuaded her to buy in Paris when Sylvia came into the room and dropped a bombshell. "Oh!" she said. "So exciting! Steâ€" phen has just sent a note to say that he‘s found Dr. Guthrie in the town and he‘s bringing him along to dinner‘!" Lynne dropped her hair brush, and her cousin, seeing the dismay in her face, said: "What‘s the matter? Do you know himâ€"I suppose you do. through Julâ€" ian?" "I do know him slightly," Lynne said. "But the trouble isâ€"the only time I met him we had an awful row!" "Oh, dear!" said Sylvia in dismay. "But not a very bad rowâ€"aren‘t you on speaking terms?" "Worse than that," said Lynne. "And he and Julian have fallen out! I don‘t suppose he knows that we‘re cousinsâ€" orâ€"orâ€"probably he wouldn‘t be comâ€" ing." Sylvia looked, as she felt, somewhat put cut, but at the same time amused : "Oh, my dear! How frightful!l When I come to think of it I don‘t think he knows that I‘m related to Julian. As a matter of fact last time he came out to join Professor Shaley we saw quite a lot of him while he was in Tehran. We liked him tremendously! But, of course, if you‘veâ€"â€". Perhaps I‘d better try And Julian is going to take get a message to Stephen to tell him hey pla Th and C id goodâ€"bye and her au for the . 1 ‘s machine They first | ind it was came ~ was coming to it at last first flew oven was not for ie to the with distant half circle in bye. aunt had Persian ) take me down into little of the life out take over for s great o wait unâ€" Transpor. > them to _ mountain some time at central mountains the north not to bring Guthrie!" "It‘s much too late!" said Lynne. "Besides, I wouldn‘t have you do that for the world. It‘s just a private quarâ€" rel, As a matter of fact, he didn‘t treat Julian at all well, and I went to tm about it. But it‘s perfectly simple. 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