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' "SALAM TEA TO THE HILT B r Percivl Christopher Wren CHAPTER II Flying Officer John Vere- Vaughaii suddenly realized that it .vas all over; that h was at re*r. at peace, and unhurt. Tommy-:" he shouted. "Hi, T'.-nmy: Tommy! Are you all right?" 'Vhat an idiotic thing to ask. Hk-.y coold he be ail right when h had beer, so badly hit that he had collapsed twice? >'c rambling out from under si.i- ma>: ; ;:.-.-. he rose to his feet, looped beside the pilot's cock- pit and again called, "Tommy f Ar you badly hurt? Tommy . .** Ther was no reply. Crouching, h crawled under the overturned airplane, fait about until he found th catch of Lucke's safety belt, released it and vainly endeavored to do something to break his friend'* fall, as the sharp click told him that he had unfastened him. Crawlinsr out again backwards from under the machine, h* dragged Lucke after him, turned him over onto his back, unbut- toned his tunic, and ere long realized that h was dead. 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Made by Kellogg's in London, Car.ada. DELICIOUS. ..NUTRITIOUS 2 t.blewwoos shortening t Mp flou, ^ ... ALL-BRAN Keeps You Regular . NATURALLY very near his heart. With a lump in his throat Vere Vaughan realized that Tommy, mortally wounded, had flown the machine, had, with a supreme effort in the very article of death, summoned the strength and skill and courage deliberately and accurately to do the one thing that could be done. As h*died Tommy had saved his friend's life. And now what? Here he was, with a smashed machine over a hundred miles from home and on the wrong 1 side of the moun- tains, in the heart of the enemy's country and might as well b a thousand for all the chance he had of finding his way back without a guide and food. What had he better do first T Set fire to the machine, of course, and then give poor Tommy some sort of decent burial. What could he do about poor Tommy? Is would be impossible to get his body away. No plane could ever land anywhere near here, even if the place could be spotted. Perhaps he could find a suitable cave handy. Pile up a little cairn of stones, anyhow. Well, this wouldn't do. The longer he stood staring, the worse he'd . . . Bantr! A bullet struck a boulder close beside his head. After him already, wore they? The vul- tures and the feast. As he flung himself down, an- other rifle was fired. Another. And another. Wore they <joing to shoot him up. at lon<* range, and then come across, for the loot? Better that than being taken alive. They were nasty people in this part of the world. The ordinary Border out- law? were had enough, but they were sufficiently sophisticated and civilized to consider a captive Biitish officer from the ransom point of vi,- .-. . But it rather a dif- ferent matter with rh>- wild men in th^i par: of ?;.. world, so far fron tile Hosier. They niiirht ?'uv<.- neither the experience nor the facilities for sound financial t.se of prisoners. Ar.d. by Jove, if one fell into the hands of the ^ JiiiR Ila.iji of Sut\ d Kot. one would know all about it! Hullo, that was a close one. Sonvb.i.iy : ad got round to a flank -,vh r-.' !> could enflad- him. '1 "'' ' : " - i- : - . li y and Completely. There WHS u fatter- itiit of homy feet ami. with rush., a mob of tribesmen swarm- ed up from Mow over the curve of the mountain flank, while simultaneously two other crowd* swi-'tly converged on either side upon the boulder behind which, he ' ;ed. Vi'iv-Yauirha;i rose :>> ii s feet as thi irdes of huge and hardy mountaineers, active as cats ,i g as buff ,ioes. with wild yl'.s a:i ; brandished rifles bore dow . -, ami enetilfed I l-'it even as !-,? fought ilespor- a:.i/, driving his fi<ts i'.'.i open- mouthed wiM-eyed h:\iry faces, he realized that the great khyber knives, the sinali r.eedle-T.iointed I 1 a:; lingers, the heavy rifle hurts were not boin.j use.) and that he was to be taken .i'ive. !u"\>rt- a to'v on the head knocked him ^ot-seiess. :<e saw that what had seemed about to happen to him \va< actually happening to the plane. It was being literally torn to pieces, rent asunder, de- stroyed by the wild triumphant ni:i>s,'s that swarmed upon it and covered it like a million ants upon the body of a fallen bird. When he recovered conscious- ness he found that he was lying on the ground, his clothes in rags, his nose bleeding, an eye closed, his head one agonizing ache, but otherwise undamaged, unwound- eil, his arms and legs unhurt. That was som.-tiiin-jr to he thankful for. W hi!e one can walk, one can es- cape perhaps. But what was the idea? Kan- soni or torture? If they took him to the Singing Hadji of Sufed Kot. as presumably they would, his fute would depend entirely on whether the Hadji would prefer to get a considerable sum in sacks i of silver Indian rupees, or whether he'd prefer to get a little of his own back on the British Govern- ment in the person -of one of its officers, in revenge for his heavy defeat after the siege of Giltrawi Fort. It had been a humiliating end to his wonderful crusade which, starting at Sufed Kot, was to have taken Giltraza and then swept like an avalanche through the. passes, over the Border, down into the Indus valley, to lay waste the i-ouiury of the Infidels from Peshawar to Calcutta. Probably the British had no more venomously vindictive enemy than this Mullah. And apart from him and his persgnal , tlio attitrde of all Pathan* cy of their altitude to rain death upon their enemies beneath. Weil, that might be all to th good and weigh sufficiently with these people to decide them upon a course of action of tht-ir own, independent of their spiritual suzerain, the Ringing Hadji of Sufed Kot. They might, after ail, know enough to do a deal with the British Government on their own account, and that nv.jrht be the reason why they had only knocked him about and not slash- ed him to pieces with those awful Br Knivi-s. which were- really swords. Owing 1 to tiie extreme poverty of their soil and the Hardship of their lives, the Pathans were about the most avaricious and grasping fellows on the face of the earth. If they '.'"juld only keep him themselves and not pass him on to the Hadji, surely he could persuade them that ho was moro valuable nii. ..in dead. Couid he put that into P'X.ti? Prooably they w.. .'.-:!.': 1.,-ti-n. They considered that t'ni; air fisrht:r.jr was :ir. a o n .1 >le ness. Most unfair. Ir was openly said in p eshawar that once ;pon a time the Briti.-h i-u-: boen fine and honorable foes who fousht man to man, rifle to rif'a :ind bayonet to knife. They had liked the Sahibs very :i.uch in t!io-~e days, an 1 had enjoye-1 the various shows, Black Moj'ita:n. Tirah. Malakand. Tochi. Afghan wars; all of them. Ann now the British, who 'con- sidered themselves sportsmen and war the best of all sports, had gone and spoilt war. Hullo, that was plain enough. Someone had shouted. "Briny him to the Malik, I say." And someone else. "N'o. to the Mullah who is as :e:i Ma The Mullah presinnajly n .. - be the Sinsrin; Haoj! of Sufed Kot himself. ar.,i the Mai :. lo.-a: chief of Khan. Hullo, it was .-. .. g up. A n.:i!i. ' "Vialiy -i_i, >ra.v:; Y a:;d a.tive even airoun those hiijja mountaineers. 'ia>i s:.d.!..T,ly pe<( our his Khyhe: k-i , til- ixard of a . ar .vr.> vas thrustinir his furious -a -e into his own as he screamed. "TV..' M.il'a 1 ,' The Mullah! The M iUah!" and s a- ...1 him across tiie neck, the broau blade sinkir.gr down to [he bone. There'd be a free fi-^ii: in a minute ami the captive would ody wo-ild give him a <w'pe witii oi:e of ghastly butcher knives the Mullah lot probably, to s the Malik men. Me ,|, something ai)ou: it. Vere-Vajghan rose to his I his aci: '._: !-.eU(i seeini/u t > 31 upon his shoulders. "Hi:" '>* shouted in the nn.nie-i;ary lull, ai h.' swayed. A'ui as ah hea-ii turned toward him ho Pushtu: "Listen: The Sirkar gives big rewards for the S;i !-.":> M. -.,, fly. Ransom. Take me to tha M.ii <. Rupee*. Rackshoesh for everybody." And led by the iiiati wiio had s.;i:r the Mullah's representative, the Malik's party, gvojping thom- seives about him beifan to hustle him down tiie mo;in:aii:sHie. ^'ii-irering. stumbling and fail- ing. Vere-Vaugha:'. by this "iui* he was shaking -.vitii fatiguj, reach.-, i the plai;-. and a distant \i.".v of a village which from the airplane he had not seen. Hullo, he wa? ^oing to faint. He could go no farther. He was done. That must have been a proper blow he not on the head. He fell rather than sat, and at once discovered that in thinking he could go no further he was mistaken. For down the moun- tainside after them came a smaller but violently vociferating crowd of Mullah's men, evidently nobler souls than these his captors, inas- much as they put Mood before backsheesh, pur.isiy,v.ont of the In- fidel invader before ransom and reward. . Thrusting the others as;de. the big leader who had already killed one man that morning seized Vere-Vaughan by the arm, jerked him to his feet and shouted in Pushtu: "Come on, you fool. They'll slash your inside* oat if they .^ret vou." And with an effort of will which was a triumph of mind over matter. Vere-Vaughan pulled him- self together, rose to his feet and again staggered on. (Continued Next Week) TABLE TALKS SADIE 8 CHAMBERS In these days, with taik of meat rationing and the desire of everyone to reduce, budgets, it is difficult to plan a vunety of meat uishes. Remember some of these dishes, easier on the budget, are also very rick in nourishment. Nothing can be more appetizing than fragrant beefsteak-kidney pie or a plate of liver and onions. .-...r suggestion is beef liver with a sav-. u .--ing. Cal - ma;- be more ten- der but not any .nort nourishing than iieef or pork ':: .-r. Liver is a veritable ''builder upper," trt- Tr.er.do'J^:;.' rich, in .i'on and ot'i.-r minerals so important in the up- keep . lealth; vitamins too 1:1 aij jr. iar.ce ami the protein >-> important for . and repair. Ever :ry rolling it around a strip of bacon ^ric! browning '.:: bacon or butter fat along w r.:inc.'--: n.or." ,'ie wai- . cover ami let sim^or until ter.de:. Thicker, the . with parsiey. This i particular';.' good with baked ov n-.asb.ed pota- toes and scailipe.. toir.a:-.- - Round ou: the meal -vith bakea apple. Remember ir. . . .:'.e high tempt- . . :! result '.r. toagh fiavorles.s .t.si'.. Beef Liver Southern Style *ef liver ta espoons fl . ".-.a.-po.i!! ?a.: irx pepper large onio sliced - pepper tables) ' - - '* cup . s cup . green and co 5 M Cut 1 into s . t:ien ir--> I'.'c.u4- > : > :. sor.c-; sail .t . > ;.e''. Brown O!::o:: A . . . . ,_-r ,u: i ^rt"?:i pepp< . Aaii i - -11 . ."-igh wj-.. to cover - .1:1.1 simnv-r about -10 . cooking for i": K.idney Stew - - " ' - T. '.'' ' :. --d i i o; '. '. fat - :a.i--.'>noo > 1 . '..: wu-.er i: jtock i n i . .niiient oajc- 1 t-'a>pi" .i-'ed aiustara S|> : '. .:.ir..>ys a::.; ;-ii:ove veil--. Saute .'i: ...'- -. 'a: for Add k:i:r.?ys and uook until ! : "-"e iv. i-.-i'---?. Kn.ov fro.' pan. Aid flour a:id stir . Aiiii !:{.-.: and aeasor- l.ljjs :r. i stli' 'j ::,:! thick .1 . smoot!'.. Pour i,'ra-. y over - neys. .Serve 0:1 toast. Also may be served with mashed pota: - - or noodle bonier LJTer Sojftie c ..'s ,,rt>ij:;^i a :iii cups hot mi -XCS Si'|.ai-:,; - i Salt and poppi-r siunv; c'li'Ii.-iod Oni. Pour wliite sauce ,\'er egj? \ & . .la' t 1 t'ec : .'u'.rii un; lenio'i colored. Cool <l;ghtly. A i.i meat and seasori; ^<. Fold ii! Stn"::y beate:. eg< wiiites. I'"..; into .1 greaso.; casserole. Place in a pan o: ho: water :uid bake in a nio.ierate oven 3"0'K for 4'l m in tiles unt : I set. >H < j.iinr... r, .:..,,,., ;,^,,,, n: . letter* from Ul .-rr.lrj rratlen. .shr am tii|ili's fur brr volunia, Had i. !>%, r.-<lj .., ,i:.-,, to rout -pet peec." l(...,.,,.,i, f,, r recipe* ,, r pr.-lnl in ,-,,, ur , ln ,, r 4 rr . AJ*re 7onr letter* to 11 > a< Jlr It Chnilihrr*. Tt! Wpt Vdrlalde Si Tor.inni." Send ulnmiird el(-n,l- drr>>r<l en>plu|>e reply. If . ..,, rrluk GARDEN NOTES By Gordon L. Smith 'Novel Air Attacks' Blast Mareth Line ! Prime Minister \Vinjton Chur- chill was believed l>y observers to have been referring to 4.000- jMJiind block-buster bombs and nevv tank - bustinjr Hurricano planes when he mentioned "novel forms of intense air attacks" i;ed by the Allies in Tunisia. I'he effect of two-ton bombs toward" frying officers \\as pe-ul- j when dropped on Mare'h Line po- sitions has been described in Bril'sh dispatches as "terrific." 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Til vu. alter reac" _ . front line to take t ; v firs! utiport unity to <;irren.!er. ; i'i:-!i{ -oi:ii. ; ve.ionej Tun- isia 1 - ,i".i 'Aa^ soon ca[>- Britain Releases Many Postmen I'Ui'.-. to curt.t.i :r,ai. licliverie* i" 1>. : : air. arn: . certain v- .if te'it'jrr.r - .. ..ther st-r- isands of post- in." and '..HI!. ' the armed si'i-viv a':ii war factories wors ami. in in-i'.' , ;.. ;!.,. Hnusa of Cimi:i:.-::s i.y l'.is:iv i-:c.- Gen- '.ui-ry I'royksi: Priiveriea in I.ond>:. he said, will he reduced from /mr. to thre a day. a-i,i i.". the ;.;-o\ -.TICOS from threu i-.t two. rclea *:!; ",H()0 full- .inie women worker- ami _'.000 full-tinio men employees. Greet ins; telc-rrams. which h* said In. i riser fron i.'ii)",000 an- nually -'..fore the -Mi! to S.500,- 000, will le a'o ><-,..i. ISSUE No. 1843