Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 8, 1923, Page 6

PAGE SIX ‘LOU-LOU" A Brilliant and Dramatic Novel of the South Seas. BY H. BEDFORD-JONES, AUTHOR OF DARK DAWN.” or M. INSTALLM WHO Lou-Lou, beautiful wealthy 3 American n maintaining | the throne by her father and which ! Zahri, her half-brother plots to} take away from her. With the as-/ sistance of | Hyvarson, a white, whom Lou-Lou| : 1s a “terrible man,” and! once kissed h gainst her | will, Zahri has her placed in an asylum in ¢ York. Barak, a loyal mute servant of Lou-Lou’s family, rescues her from the asylur The Rev. Luke Quail, a militant y are on the way who } an xil Virginian to have been friendly to} Lou-Lou and who is suspected of know! the whereabouts of the old Sultan's treasure is found dead. He} has been stabbed with a dagger) which had been hidden in the old} Sultan's tomb ‘Trehearne, a commercial agent and friend of Franks, is visited soon | after by Cerise, who induces him to try with | her the operation of a Ouija board. | Within a few hours after the arrival | of Lou-Lou and her part rebearne | dies, unable to give a lucid account of the causes leading up to his death except to make known by signs that he had been poisoned, and able only by a supreme effort to say the words “Franks note.’ He is refe! to | a note entrusted to him by to be given to Lou-Lou in the event | of bis death. Rais Hamed Been Yusuf, owner of | the schooner “(azelle” and conspir- ator with Zahri discusses with Hvar-} son the failure, so far, of their plot. | Hyarson declares he values Lou-Lou more than the treasure of Sibuko. Lou-Lou assumes the government, hes Hyvarson and Hamed and Zahri. Barak is captured by en and taken away on his} zelie. | 3 FE B a boat, - After torturing Barak, Hamed sus-| pends him in a net of metal links beneath the bowsprit of his vessel. Fortesque, wandering about the} Cerise and in-| As he is about} to eat some sherbert which she offers | him, Lou-Lou and some of her guards enter the house. Lou-Lou dismisses | Fortesque and forces Cerise to eat} the sherbert she has prepared for Fortesquc | Capt. Wrexham, hired by Hvar son, lures Lou-Lou, Quail and For tesque on board his vessel and brings | them, captives, to Hvarson's island. | Hvarson demands that Quail marry him and Lou-Lou and kno the minister senseless when) he fuses, carrying Lou-Lou into his house., Fortesque is thrown into the hold of the Gazelle where Barak is still confined. However the muto ef fects their freedom, killing five of the crew. On deck, Fortesque shoots down three more of the crew, binds the two others and Barak, meshing Hamed in his metal net plunges into the sea with him. On shore Brian unable.to force the door of the house, prays with Quail. | scarce wait!’ Brian exclaimed, knowing what words he uttered “Wait! I think that the door will open.” | For a moment the two men stood staring. And as they stared, that door slowly swung open, and in the} opening appeared Lou-Lou, gazing | out at them with wide and frightened eyes So incredible aid this thing appear, | so frightfully and absolutely opposed | to ossibility, that Fort ue was ed. He thought hims le paralyz A Successful Man Among the notable professional men of this country who achieved} Breat success alor ctly legitimate | lines was Dr. Rt. V. Pier his attention to the spec en's diseases, he became « Devoting | alty of wom-| recognized | authority in that line. 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Fortesque found her clinging to him, found her cheek against his found her voice ringing in his ear. He closed his eyes, trembling a little with the violence of the joy and wonder that selzed him. Then the girl drew back, and with a flood of te was clasped In Luke Quail’s rs esque slowly t doorway. stood and gazed upon the one which faced him He half to find a instead ‘he walked forward He room expected to meet Hvarson, weapon thrusting at found only silence. Then as he looked, he realized that no enemy was facing him at all He did not even see Hvarson until he glanced down and saw the body lying almost at his fe His first thought Lou had killed the man. Singularly enough, this brought to him a cold sense of error, of disappointment, as though somehow he had been cheat He had thought that God would ervene him; was that Lou here, s, he turned Hvarson over manner of Then he saw it—a brown thin at moved and lay still aga 2 dul a-snake, with wide pectoral ns and fine white edgin, As thought in answer to his hought, Fortesque heard Luke Quail speaking from the doorway beside him. ‘A coral snake—aipysinus fuscus. According to the natives, very dead ly. Must have come in here last night. Lou-Lou says it struck at Hvarson as they came in the door. Hvarson broke its back, slammed the door, and—died."* Fortesque heard no more. He lowered his head, and closed his eyes to keep the tears of thankfulness from dripping on his cheek. The ne agent for th company was dropped at one of the company's boa even before Rais Sipek got k from cabling the company. This quick work was commendable its incidental consequences were tremendous. As a matter of inherited trading ibuko by inter-island course, the Trehearne’s house Equally as matter agent and a of course, he set to work to clean house. Upon the second day after his ar- rival, the town vomited itself forth in huge excitement—for the Gazelle was slowly coming into the harbor. The first boat to reach her from the shore took off the Sultana and Luke Quail; and half an hour later the two remaining members of her original crew were in frons, schooner was in charge of c the palace guard. Then Fortesque went ashore. Already everyone in that knew something of what had taken place on Hvarson’s island. Lou-Lou d told something, and the two men aboard the schooner had told mote; rumor invented and added to the rest It was Fortesque, therefore, who had slain Rais Hamed and Hyarson He was received in awed silen: crowd Quail and Lou-Lou had gone on ahead to the palace When Fortesque started on the same road, he was halted by a whit from the City Park. man who introduced himself as the new trading agent. “You're Tuan Fortesque? of course.” ‘They shook hands. “Haven't had a chance to see the Sultana; time enough later on. But here's a letter you might give her. I found it in an old pongee suit stuck away in a closet. Must have been one of Trehearne's, from the size. May be nothing important, but it's addressed to her. Much obliged. I'l call later. Fortesque went on to the palace, turning the letter over and over in his hands. It occurred to him that this might be the note from Franks which Luke Quail had failed to find. 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She was alone, and was now wearing no golden robe of state, but a dress of plain white silk. no more tears—nothing but happl- more than the job of being a sultana,| ness.” I'm afraid. In that case—well, we'll] « wait and see! After all, it may be a question of whether I love her more than my own, country.” He was troubled by this reflection, A little later he encountered Luke Quail and handed him the letter, with an explanation of its origin. The old man hastened off with It, and Fortesque devoted himself to the enjoyment of a bath and change of clothes, both sadly needed. Shaven and dressed, he felt much more Ifke himself, and sauntered|ica, as you want me to—* down to the gardens with his pipe} Fortesque seized her hand. drawing, and a feeling of vast satis-|Lou! You'll do that?” faction in his heart. “Would it make you happy?” His body was still bruised and sore,| “Yes—it it would spell your hap- but what mattered the body? The}-piness.” spirit was the thing—and his spirit} ‘And you'd not be worrled to think was at peace with the world. that he was my father?” She jerked And sometimes, in order to be at|her head slightly toward the tomb peace with the world, it is first neces-|beside them. “Or that these were sary to be at peace with God! my people, or that—”* Fortesque was standing beside the! “Dearest girl, what do I care for tomb railing in the crypt of the old'all that?" cried Fortesque impulsive- sultan's mausoleum, and watching|ly. “It's you I need, just you! What the vistas of the garden where pea-|does anything else matter?” cocks strutted, when a light footstep| She withdrew her hand from His, can't help it, if they’re happy tears!” she returned, smiling. Be- neath her smile he divined a singular feeling, a new stress of emotion. 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