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\ r-- ' '' Ihe&ra HENRY FORD GENIUS OF HIS AND AFTER. CHAPTER XIII. The Ford Indebtedness. ENHY FORD has millions (n reserve, owes no man a dollar . 1,nnH1Mn.t. It .1 t 1 ' \iff-i- tho Ford Indobtodnoss wero MfSuch that It could bo met by writ hing, a cheat 11 wouio. navo ucuu .juq m mil tons av. x3ul n uu i m ad of an obligation. There are a a.j i sU IVa nm IT his xocutlvo crap-hea- p wWoh leave the Impression that Henry oro. f''jli more or less unfamiliar \with somo ;J'; of tho finer ways of expressing hU .appreciation of the services rendered ..'him. K- - It Is unfortunate that he has left j, .the Impression that tho dollar is his jVlfavorito standard of measure when SsWio, cornea to estimate the value of .\''human service. I do not mean to ; iay that ho has nover paid In any other way In many Instances ho has ''shown friendly and generous conslder- -, altera beyond tho payment of a wage !'or salary to men In his employ, \ - In other Instances men have been \ .rewarded In a way that has left him fV In their debt. He has paid them given bonuses, bestowed costly Teifts. They startod poor with him nod ended rich. They began In \ '\'humble positions and were ad van cod places of honor and responsibility r r'and paid princely salaries. If they ' \ have gone into the scrap-hea- p lator, why should they complain? What \more could he or any other man do for \ them than he has done? ' But there aro things In human which some men prize abovo '\money. ' \r There are ways of throwing a man on the scrap-hea- p whloh leavo him 'iVvrttti a high regard and a friendly ,' \\feeling for the man who throw him ' 'there. And there aro ways which do not. As a rule, it Is the landing at vtthe end of tho fall that hurts. Dut la ' n.tHp method tho Ford Company to there were painful . and' unnecessary wounds Inflicted by ,the petard with which a man was ' ', f,holsted. 1L wasn't the .end of tho fall, \but the beginning of it that hurt, f statement regarding Mr. Ford has fa,, been put Into print and copyrighted hlo this effect: \He Is as selfish a man as Cod per- - mils to breathe.-- I suppose I should glvo credit to the author of that .\statement In case X wished to repoat .Jit. But I do not care to repeat It. It f ..t does not oxpress the truth as I seo It. irllr. Ford Is not selfish, acoordlng to '.\ijJils Jight If he knows, as a rule, but wy It must be admitted that In that way lio pays generously. 'The pity 1b that ho Is blind to the itiA ' value, of some higher things. This, as ' frl I see it, is the most outstanding and r''at,the &mo time the most regrettable f \V'the defects In a man In whom there 'rtft.io much tq be sdmlred. 7 The Ford Motor Company Is owned . , Hnd controlled by Henry Ford. Ho , , Is at present Its V5 originator of Its policies, brains and the !But the Ford Motor Company as ; V,H.,stands y Is not the product fr .at 'a' single mind far from It. Into . \'lis development has gone tho thought ' j 'of some of the keenest minds in the industrial world. Let It be freely , granted that Mr. Ford gave to tho an Inventive genius, nn Into tho future of the auto-''- \ 'mobile business, a dominating will and . .personality, yet (t must bo romem-\\IS'ber- that there were many things ''\H In the game that he Old not under-f:stan- d in the beginning. :It seems Incredible that he, the iAmodern wizard of finance, ever could j J,1iave hecn so Impracticable, so on things concerning which Kihe- - seems to be fo well Informed as to urge the building of n !frnutt at the factory In which to le-- posit the surplnn earnings of the com-- vijuany. He learned number of things tcqiibbut the game as he went along. j,uy Bna Dy ),(. pmde senHatlonnl touchdown, but thero wero nomo rat , jlJing cool players In the wedge forma 'il Aion that put him over the nonl. tr Wf inilamcs Copzcns was and Is one of Jl5ll,, stars In tho flnan '1:1 himself. .V masterful man. 1 a a mm jajmtle more mast emu than Sir. kjki j:rea 10 nave okoih; nn organizer Vjown to the last detail: a tireless worker who knows how to get work HBEDUt c! others: something of a Rteam tpjler when It comes to Ironing out Brawn cultiea and going through. He a wonderful captain of the trom finally drove through t)iu line \ilenry holding the hall. And en. the thins was done ho took off hat anJ Joined with the bleacheis rf. ....... , tne cnorus, \nenrj\ oui it.\ If any one doubted Couztns's ability efore he left the Ford Motor Com y. his career since leaving should up any questions on that point, s a man with Ideas and a will of own. He Is given to forceful ox reoalon .both In word and deed It Is statement safely ventured that If did not originate, he must have irreatly modified many of the policies giiuc .company fjuruig ino nine uc was with 11. sThere are men born with too much J, .'. .initiative And independence to llv ijalitth.clr lives In n subordinate posl lion,.' nowever nonoraoje ana lucrn S it may be. unless thero Is given them practically 100 per t5P.t'rtdotn and a corresponding amount of rnspoiiRlblllty. Neither Mr. 'jrd nor Mr. f'ouzens Is adapted to ne.pmying or a. i.econa nuaie. nwn ,what l know of tho two men I von ture the rucs that they did not 10 BWin la the tarns compaay for the - S 5 AS OP 80ME OF THE MEN WHO HAVE BEEN TO THE FORD SCRAP HEAP FOR same reason that two do not run sldo by sldo on tho samo track not room for both. Mr. C. H. Wills, a man of recog nized ability, a master of shop meth ods and with a thorough and practical of mechan- ics, an almost uncanny Insight into tne atomic structure of Iron and steel and alloys, the developer of tho use of was a sort of full- back on tho team, tho giver and taker of much Wherever the lino was weakest ho gavo it the sup port of lits wolght and rush. Wills was an Invaluablo man to Honry Ford. Put Mr. and Mr. Hawkins In the llno-u- n where you will halfbacks possibly Mr. Kllng ensmtth, In addition to serving In other positions, selecting ana developing men for positions, filling tho gaps In tho of- fice handling costs and watching tho financial affairs of tho company. And John It. Lee, tho soul of the tho champion of the un- der dog, tho friend of tho down and out, tho man to whom no ono over looked In vain for justice and a square deal. And every tlmo any ono handed him a bouquet for hU bigness of heart he tossed It over to ,Hcnry, and when there was no ono around explained to him what It was all about. And Henry kept tho flowers. And tnero were Hrowncll and Hart- - man and Bonner and Knudsen nnd others In tho lino. up. A finer, mora capable and more loyal group of men never backed n chief. They nro not with him on the upper levels of suc- cess, but a number of them were with him when ho was making the climb. Granted that he has shown that he no longer needs them, he must admit that much of tho momentum that makes the going easier Is the stored-u- p energy of tho men who put every ounco jtiC strength In them Into the tug or tho early days. Ho may not need them now, but thero was a time when ho did. He has been very npt pupil. Ho Is quick to recognlzo tho merit of anothor man's Idea and to It. Iiut such was tho dovotlon to him of the men ubout him that they wero glad to have him tako tho cicdlt for all achieve ments, It is true that many men who started with him In the early years of tho developed along with him and shared In his material success. It Is true that ho gavo them to do much greater than they otherwise ever would have had the for doing. And it Is Just e that they enabled him to achieve a suc cess that ho othcrwlso never- - would have achieved. It was team work that did It. In all fairneBS tho credit must be distributed. It was a great team and every member of it do nerves great praise. At tho time the Ford plan went into effect an executive asked Mr. Kord why he did It. The answer was, \Well let me put it this way: Thero Is nothing left In lite, when all is said and done, but good fellowship and good \111 Is there? Nothing more counts. I would like to see folks who work hard get their share. I would rather give our boys a Khaie of the profits than do any thing else.\ Here la the of the Ideal state In Industry a Just return tor labor done, good and good will. It Is that It Is not more reuhzed. For \whon the shadows lrngtlien, nnd the evenlntf oi'ines, und busy world Is hushed, and the fover of life Is over, and our woik Is done,\ then will our wealth le seor. to be the frinndH wo havo made nnil held, for \thme is nothing left In life, when all Is wild nnd done, but good and good will, If tbtvef Ti1i \ W\\\\\gggWMMWMWW If ITTT1 tMW\l \ '' 1',' ilia avaiayq world, Monday, November at itas. INDUSTRY MAN OF MYSTERY STRENGTH WEAKNESS HIS GREATNESS Aiaysis iv AND SMALLNESS -- MARQUIS, D-- D- TEARS STUDY HMD FORD WELFARE RELEGATED EXECUTIVES. locomotives production, knowlodgo molybdenum, punishment. Kltngcnsmlth Important Important organization, organization, appropriate organization generously opportunities opportunity profit-sharin- g conception fellowship unfnrtunnie frequently jtcllownlilp WjiM'illi'lIM turn An CHAPTER XIV. Industrial Scavengers. TT THEN I entered the employ 'of f tho Ford Motor Company, Mr of great executives mentioned In the preceding chapter. I doubt if there over came together in any or ganization a body of men of greater ability, each In, Jils own line, or of finer Ideals or broader humatr sym- pathies. Certainly no group of men wero ever more devoted to tho best Interests 'of 'their \company or were more loyal to their employer. Loyalty, of course, w.ent for noth- ing. Mr. Ford derides It; seems to doubi whether such a' thing exists be tween employer and employee. Men work for money. I havo always felt It Is a pity that he falls to make use of some. of theso finer things in men does not recognize that thero is something which money cannot' buy. ' In addition to this group of great executives, thore wero hundreds of men In the second and third ranks of the organization who manifested the same enthusiasm In their work and the some loyalty toward their employer. In overy oneI met, with a few exceptions t6 be mentioned later, t found a deep nnd gcnulno Interest In tho wellbelng of Ford employees. How to humanize the Industry to a hUU greater pxtent was the subject upper- most on all occasions where Ford men mot-togeth- In small groups of employees, In conferences of execu- tives, in meetings of foremen, at ban- quets and tnanagrrs' conventions. Hut there aro men in every organ- ization to whom the higher things In llfo make no appeal. Thero wero some men of this kind In tho employ of Henry Ford. They nover under stood the better, finer policies of tho company, and nover ceased to rldl cule, crltlclso and misrepresent tho efforts, put forth to improve tho hu man relations within tlio Industry. To them tho moralo of the organization meant nothing. They also flouted loyalty on the patt of employees as being of no value. Thoy stoutly held that men worked for two reasons their wage and tho fear of losing their Jobs. There were nol many men of this sort In the Ford Company when 1 It. nut the few who were thore seemed to be In a closer and more confidential relation to Mr. Ford than those who stood for tho better things, and this In spite of tho fact that for the tlmo being he seemed heartily in favor of the humane policies then in force. Why he made familiars of men of this class was 'a profound mystery to thoio of us who saw only the other side the nobler and better side of him. In, an article by Mr. v. V. Wilson, which appeared some time ago In the World's Work, entitled \An Intimate Study of Lloyd George,\ there are to bo found these paiagraphft \Asked why he (Mnyd Oeorgo) sometimes ehooHrs nuch curious friends, hn would pioUibly answer that you cannot govorn mankind by Idealists, 'You nord rrttvrngn.in to clean your strec ,' is one of hl most Interesting maxima. Moyd Ucurun has alwayfc bom patUeularly. careful DEPARTMENT to select skilful scavengers. They aro In attendance on him everywhere, loyally doing tho dirty work of na- tional housekeeping. \Ho Is as much amused with t'jem as ho Is with any other menagerie. He loves tho unusual and grotesque. . . . No great man ever suffered fools moro gladly. And the foolB know It. . , . Lloyd Oeorgo\ is tho apotheosis of tho common man. Ho has tho common man's contempt for theory, theT common man's contact with facts.\ ' Henry Ford Is also particularly careful to select skilful scavengers on occasion when he deems their services necessary. They seem to furnish him with tho unusual ami tho grotesque, at which he docs not frown, if ho does not smile. If tho work of certain clerics In tho shop Is not wanted, why tell them so? timash their desks. That Is quito unusual, dcllclously grotcsquo and very amusing. A man , who ventures to wear a white collar In a shop deserves to havo his life made a burden. Eipenslvo tools of skilled workmen are scattered, over the floors. Foolish? Insulting? Hu- miliating? Not nt all. It takes tho conceit out of tho man who prides mmseit on his work. It prevents him getting Into a- \cozy corner1' und ad- miring himself over much. It Is curious that both Lloyd Geome and Henry Ford should soem to have lost faith in their early Idealism, Jyloya ueorgo having discovered that you cannot govern an cmplro und wenry 'ora discovering that you can- not govern a factory by idealists. Perhaps they aro right, I am simply recording me ract as an Interest ne one. Still, some of us will cling to the tneory that men respond more gener- ously to good treatment than to har8h, that men can bo led to do up to tholr fullest capacity, and thut all are hotter for being led than driven. It becamo cvldont na time wont on thnt either tho men who stood for tho hotter things In tho organization or the scavengers must go. Tho Ideals and policies announced In 1914-101- 5 became increasingly dimcult of en forcement. Rules for tho handling of employees were bent and frequently broken. Then camo the depression of 1020. Curtailment In production was followed by curtailment of construc tion work. Tho wheels stopped. So also tho incoming Htrcum of gold Staggering obligations were ahead. Men wero lot out from neeossity, That In itself merits no criticism. It was not what was done, but the man- ner In vo many instances In which men were discharged. If there is any act In industry that should bo done with the utmost consideration, it Is tho act of, dis charge, especially In tho time of crisis, It Is sufficiently painful and hu miliating to be brought face to fneo with unemployment und all that fol- lows loss of Income and of savings accumulation of debts, eviction and hunger without being kicked like a dog into it. nischurge and reorganization nro not necessarily dirty work. It Is the last sort of work In tho world to bo placed in the hunds of the Indus trial Ecavongers. Unfortunately there are employers who think otherwise. In times like the present, when thero are more men than Jobs, when often men aro driven In production to the point of exhaustion, the scuvenger, whose delight Is-I- io hrutnl methods that prevailed In the days of slavery. Is having his day In ninny an industry, It does not requlro many men of this sort to destroy a company's repu tatlon for Just dealing, cloud Its good name, and convert the good-wi- ll of labor and tho general public Into silent but effectlvo opposition. The law of compensation works In the handling of men In Industry, as in all other things. In the end we reap what we sow. Tha chapter headlnn of thi next Instalment of ur, Marquis a isrls are \Llonta\ and \Shsdowi fully deiarlptlve of thn concluelons renohsd In hi (tudy ' Mr. Fold chamtr litis. i till t&,,,iti'm,i ilhl. Guns.QAhe A OF \Set down my thoughts, not-your- s, if the tale is to be worth the pesaf HE wherefore of my privilege to write a truo, nt of the Princess Y a s -- mini's early youth is a story in Itself too long to tell here; but It came about through no pecu liar wlswom. I fell In a sort of way In love with her, and that led to opportunity. She never made any secret of the ocorn with which she regards those who singe wings at her flame. Men's passions are but weapons forged for her necessity; and as for genuine love affairs, like Cleopatra, aho had but two, and the second ended In disaster to herself. This talo Is of tho first ono that succeeded, although fraught with discontent for certain others. Her ancestry Is worth considering, slnco to that alio doubtless owes a good proportion of her beauty and ability. On her father's sldo she Is Raj put, tracing her lineago so far back that It becomes lost at last In fabulous legends of tho moon. Her mother was Russian. On that side, too, she can claim blood royal, not devoid of at least a traco of Scandinavian, bu- - trsyel by glittering golden h&lr 'ztzid eyes that are sometimes tho color of sky seen over Himalayan peaks. How u Russian Princess came to marry a Rajput King Is easier to un- derstand If ono recalls the sinister de- signs of Russian- - statecraft In the days when India nnd \warm sea water\ was tho great objective. In those days thero was a Prlnco In Mos cow whose public contluct so notori ously embittered his young wife, that when ho was found one morning mur- dered in his bed suspicion rested upon her. Sho was found guilty and con- demned to death. Then, a certain proposal was mado to tho Princess Son la Omanoff, and no one wondered that aho accepted. Less than a month after her arrest she was already In Paris, squandering paper rubles In tho fashionable shops. And at tho Russian ISmbassy In Paris Bin mado tho acquaintance of Mahu-raja- h Bubru Singh. Perhaps sho really fell in love \at first sight, as men said. But tho se- cret pollco of Russia were at her el- bow, too, hinting that only ono course could save her from extradition and her sentence. At any rato sho listened to the Rajah's wooing; and the knowledge that he had a wife at home already seems to havo given her no pause. So they were married in the pres- - enco of seven witnesses in the Russian Kmbassy as the rocords testify. After that, whatever Its sua- - plclons, tho British Government had to admit her Into Rajputana. And what politics she might have played, whether tho Russian graycoat armies might have encroached into those historic hills on tho strength of her Intriguing, or whether sho would havo seized the first opportunity to avenge herself by playing Russia false, are mnttera known only to the gods of unaccomplished things. For very shortly after tho birth of their child Ynsmlnl, Singh, her Maharajah, died of an acldent. When the American Blalnes, hus band and wife, camo to Stalpore In Rajputana and acquired the only vacant covctablo houso nobody was very Jealous, becauso the Blalnes proved hospltablo. It was a sweet little nest of a house, owned by a money-lende- r, who leased It to tho Blalnes on an eighty per cent, basts. The front veranda faced due east, raised nbovo tlu garden by an eight- - loot wall, an ideal place for sleep be cause of the unfailing morning breeze. The beds were set there side by side each ovcnlng, and Mr3. Blaine a full ten years younger than her husband formed a habit of rising in the dark iind 'standing In her night-dres- s, with bare feet on the utmost odgo of tho EUROPE'S MYSTERY MAN, LOSES $54,000,000 Fortune of Monte Carlo Owner ! Cat In Two Since ArinUttce. CopyrUht, 1022 (New Tork Eyenln Word). LONDON, Nov. 28. Sir Basil Za- - haroff, International multi-millio- n aire, reputed arbiter of nations and \mystery man oi Europe,\ has lost 154,000,000 since the armis tice, according to the Sunday Express, The paper says he was supposed to be worth S0, 000,000 at the end of the war.-b- ut bis business ventures sines have resulted In the great shrinkage. Sir Basil, the Express sayi, lost flrstiln shipbuilding In the port-w- ar slump, then In the poor seasons at Monte Carlo, which he owns; then in one of W Pri banks and ia the fall-ln- g off of buslneu at his munition factories. Besides that the Qreak d- - feat In Asia Minor led to heavy losses In hli properties there. The Express says, however, that Sir nastl la branching out into new ven tures In pursuit of the vn'hed rallUsas. U I trtea b hjj rrTAUTHOR. by Robert E. STORY TREASURE, ROMANCE gr ZAHAROFF, 250EE top stone step, to watch for the mlr- - acle of morning. She was fabulously pretty llko that, with her hair blowing and her young figure outlined through tho llnon; and eho was sometimes unobserved. Tho garden wall, n hundred feet beyond, was of rock, men high, ns they measure the in that distrustful land; but the Blalnes locked the arched, Iron-studd- ed door through which the former owner had come and gone tinobservod. Now, when a house changes hands In Rajputana there pass with it, as well as the rats and cobraa and the mongoose, those beggars who wero wont to plaguo tho former owner. So when a cracked voice broke tho early stillness out of shadow whore tho garden wall shut off tho nearer view, Thorasa Blaine paid small at- tention to it. \Memsahlb! Protectress of tho poor!\ Sho continued watching the mystery of coming light As tho palo stars died, thin rays of liquid silver touohed the surface of n tako to westward, eoen through a rift between purple hills. , \Colorado!\ she said as wondrous hues appeared. \And Arizona! And Southern California! And something added that I can't Just place!\ \Sins added by tho scow-load- !\ growled her husband from the farther bed. \Come back, Teas, and put some clothes on!\ \I'm plenty warm.\ 'IF MY HUSBAND HAD \Maybe. But there's-som- e skato looking at you from the garden.\ However, the dawn wind was deli- cious, and the nightgown more de- cent than some of tho affairs they la- bel frocks. Besides, tho East is used to more or less nakerness and thinks no evil of It, a3 women learn qulckur than men. \AH right in a minute.\ \I'll bet there's a speculator charg- ing 'cm admission at tho gate,\ grumbled Dick Blaine, coming to stand beside her. \That's a dawn worth seeing.\ He had tho deep voice that tho East attributes to manliness, and the mus cular mold that never came of arm- chair criticism. She looked like a child beside him, though ho was ugilo, athletic, wiry, not enormous. \Snhlb!\ whined tho beggars out of darkness still. \Better feed em, Tcss.\ \Nonsense. Thoso nre three :cgu lar bums who look on us na their pre- serve. Thoy enjoy the morning as much as wo do. Begging's their way of telling people howdy.\ \Somebody pays them to come,\ he effected the conversion of about $180,- - 000,000 worth of Roumanian treas- ury bonds at a considerable profit, and It Is rumored he is negotiating for control of all privately owned oil interests tn Russia. He owns banks, newspapers, ships, has been spoken of In almost all Im- portant oil deal In Europe and Asia. Minor. Is supposed to be the financial power and Is generally regarded as one of the invisible political powers on xne Continent. Cold Compound\ - \ Zrerr drugttlat l8 guawnteef i each package of 'Tape's Cold Com- - pound' to break up any cold and end jrlppe mliery In a few noun or money tlUtned, Btufflnui. Pln. htudeche, I i OF OF grumbled. ''What aro your bums' .names?\ \Blmbu Umra and Plnga. Now BImbu is tho ono with no front teoth, Umra has only ono eye, nnd Plnga winks \Speaking of dogs, strikes mo we ought to keep a good big fierco ono,\ he said. \I'm safo enough. Tcm Tripo usually looks in at least onco a day when you're gone.\ \Tom's a good fellow, but once a day . A hundred things might happen. I'd better speak to Tom Tripe about thoso three bums he'll shift them!\ \Don't Dick! Thoy keep others away. Look, here comes Chamu with the chota hazrl.\ A stout Hindu appeared, a tall meek underling who carried the customary \Httlo break- fast\ of tho country. Chamu drove tho hamal away in front of him, and cuffed him tho mlnuto they were out of sight. \A big dog might servo better after all,\ mused Tcss. \Chamu beats tho servants and takes oven from tho beggars. Only, If wo fired Chamu, I suppose tho would be offended. He made such a great point of. sending us a faithful servant.\ \True Singh is a suspicious rajah. If wo fired Chamu he'd think I'd found the gold and was trying, to hldo It.\ Sho took his arm and they wont Into the house together. Twenty KNOWN HE WOULD HAVE STAYE minutes later- - he rode away on his pony. Their leave-takin- g was n purely American episode, mixed of affection and Just plain foolishness, witnessed by moro won- dering, patient Indian eyes than thoy suspected. Kvery move that either of them made was always watched. \Soma ono comes on horseback, ' Chamu announced. \Who is it? Some one coming for breakfast? You'd better hurry.\ Tho call at breakfast-tim- e Is ono of the pleasantest Informalities of life In India. It might oven bo tho Tess ran to make one of thoso swift changes of costumo with which some women havo tho gift of gracing every opportunity. Tho In- dividual in no way resembled a Brit- ish Ho was a Rajput of Rajputs, thln-wriste- thln-anklc- d, Icon, handsome in a hlghbrod, North- ern wny, und possessed of that air of devoid of arrogance which people seem ablo to learn only by being born to It. His flno features wero sot off by n, turban of rose-pin- k Bilk. Thero was not a vcstlgo of hair MRS. BALTIMORE, Md., Nov. 27. Mrs. Helen Stafford Thome, wife of Oak-lclg- h Thorne, tho banker. Is a patient at the Marburg Building of the Johns Hopkins Hospital where she Is under the care of Dr. Louts Hammin. known widely throughout Now York and New England. Her condition to-d- was said to be Improved. a Cold In a or noie ami head relieved with first dpe. These ife, pleaiant tablets coit only a few eenU and \Mtoni now take them Initod of ilcWInr Gods \THE EYE ZEITOONf\ Illustrated INDIA, automatically.\ superin- tending commissions, Maharajabd Gungadhura comradeship, Com- missioner! Commissioner. astonish- ingly OAKLEIGH THORNE REPORTED IMPROVING Break FewHourt ,.Wifj.KiniJf'. fererlinnei, Inflymed confuted qulnlne.-A- drt Johnston nd MYSTERY on his face. Ages arc hard to guess In that land. Tess wna back on tho veranda In tlmo tofrccclvo him. Tho Rajput, ns ho camo up tho steps, appraised her inch by Inch from tho whlto shoes upward until as lie reached tho top their eyes met. Tcss: could not remember ever hav- ing seen such eyes. Thoy woro baf- fling by their' quality of brilliance, un- like the usual slumbrous Eastern orbs that puzzle chiefly by refusal to express emotion. Tho Rajput bowed and said nothing, so Tcss offcrod hint a chair, which Chamu drew up more fussily than over. \iluve you had breakfast?\ die asked, taking tho conscious risk. Strangers of alien raco aro not in- variably good guests, however good looking, .especially when one's bus-ban- d In' somewhere out of call. Sho looked and felt nearly as young as this man, and hnd already experi- enced overtures from moro than one young prlnco who eupposcd ho was doing her nn honor. Used to closely guarded women's quarters, tho Kust wastes little tlmo In wooing when tho barriers are passed or down. But sho felt irresisti- bly curious, and after all thero was Chamu. \Thanks I took breakfast before dawn.\ Tho Rajput accoptcd tho proffered chair without acknowledging the but- ler's existence Tcss passed htm the big silver cigarette box. \Then let mo offer you a drink.\ D TO RECEIVE YOU.\ He declined both drink and clgar-- ct and there was a minute's silence during which sho began to grow un- comfortable. \I w,aa riding after breakfast up there on the hill where you seo that overhangingTOck, when I caught sight of you hero on the veranda. You, too, wero watching the dawn beautiful! 1 lovo tho dawn. Bo I thought I would coino and got to know you. Pcopln who love the same thing you know, aro not exactly strangers.\ Almost, if not quito .for the first time Tcss grow very' grateful for Chamu, who was still hovering ( hand. \If my husband .had known, h would have stayed to recctvo you.\ \Oh no! I took good care for that. 1 contlnuod my rldo until after J knew he had gone for tho day.\ Tess saw light suddenly. \Are aro those threo beggars you spies?\ she asked. The Rajput1 nodded. Another instalment leads the reader deeper into a faa cinatinn and mystifying story. Cooyrlsht 1032, by tho Bell Syndicate, Inc. Justsay to your druggist The simplest way to end a corn is Blue-ja- y. A touch stops the pain instantly. Then the corn loosens and comes out. Made in a colorless clear liquid (one drop docs itl) and in thin plasters. The action is the same. Pain Stops Instantly Cuticura Soap Without Mug ft 0