... . From an American Correspondent Soldier Sam, the little card says, has arrived safely overseas. It's been days, and even weeks, now since last you heard from Soldier Sam, and very, very naturally you've been anxious, and sometimes, despite yourself, you would worry a trifle; but it's an axiom old as the eternal hills that all things come to them that wait, and so, at last, the post man ...

... THE GOLDEN SCORPION, An Oriental Mystery. By SAX ROHMER. PART I.-- THE COWLED MAN. CHAPTER I. THE SHADOW OF A COWL. KEPPEL STUART, M.D., F.R.S., awoke with a start and dis covered himself to be bathed in cold perspiration. The moonlight shone in at his window, but did not touch the bed, therefore his wakening could not be due to this cause. He lay tor some time listening for any unfamiliar ...