Evening Star Newspaper, May 22, 1921, Page 72

6 SLor L MR. FOLLANSBEE FARES FORTH T balf-vest tem in the stilly wight Mr. Bradford Follan: ve, keeping vigil in the dark Kitchen of tho M farmhouse, was the return of his His mind was not eas had becn in the Flazg family through reizn of father and son. for half a century, he knew that he had no busi- ness lurking around’the kitchen at that hour, an unholy one in ha time for a hired mun who was sup- four x-toed ¢t tum in the shed chamber. Mr. Follansbee was spurred by a de- termination to test out his latest vention. The cat, Kureka Archimad e necded in the way of collabol tion. Mr. o e ag contrivance on the umne of the lower panes of g ninged at the bottom and was at- tached to a piece of wood that formed X in spec Kitchen winds a sill. beveled so that it would tip inward when pressure was put on i the pressure first releising a catch that held the pane locked. A moment later, when Mr. Folian bee had resumed his vigil on a hard chair, there were putside demonstra tions which indicated that Eureka had suddenly remembered responsibility as an inventor's aid He was coming!- His first yowls were distant and faint. The rapidly increasing volume of sound signaled tha celerity of his approach. Further- more, there was the unmistakable thud of running feet. most emphat- ically non-catlike. A dark figure hurtied to the window ledze outside. The shriek of a shrill “Yee-ouw though he| " no roamin; Fot to_tall What ‘vou hit me nehod: A uhov T spot to s have a inat ! My whote lif+ has been spliied becans: I didn’t go a-roaming when | was bez- zed and implored io do it | 1 never kept compny in all my ‘»xmm wiih one And now 4 Um waking up. to m | what a_fool 1 ont and ave Iy own wa) vas for | thing—and 1 was for folks to mak flighty _becas roaming th . when it bet blurted Mr. Fol- e 4 one ( THE SUNDAY STAR. depends a lot on how ind how some things pawing the reliloduy vou tak a sort of magic. as He unfoided the read aloud a lim- 1 » of paper 1 % the paper allansbee put packet. redicklous and scandalous Yeeuleh to he = off in a de- [eont house.” protested Mrs. Flagg. “\here' gone to, Bed kon I'm in a at busting-out expresses my elderly hired and siammec behind him. sonday had become black and setbacks in inventing things. rvel ad my troubles- * %k ¥ ¥ GHE moved along on the log and =at near him. “You're an inventor: Now 1 shall no longer be troubled by plan- ning out ways of spending my fortune, 1 shall back your grand ideas! “The fortune was given to me by a noble widow lady in Peru when I was there. I saved her life, and then I read poetry to her till she died. Did you hear that man calling my name?" ! “Yes'm!" assented Mr. Follansbee, re- [ membering a twinge of jealousy. “He is one of a band of Peruvians who follow me everywhere, trying to' force me to take that fortune back to| I | | WASHINGTON, D. C, MAY 22 wagon from yYou (o go after 'em “No, from me to be made a target of. sir, You won't get no hitch “Is that all the public spirit ot you've “Ye declared the callous Mr. Ja- quish. striding away toward h e y toward house “Won't you sell me a hitch " pI. = ed the caller, racing along anl E:gc farmer's heels. I'm knowing. to. ) that you"'velgo‘ seven hoss-kind, and you ought to be able to spa ‘em with a hitch.” PAiciCaciol “I can, returned the laconic M Jaquish.” “The liver-colored mare. the side-bar buggy. ‘braca-mounied har- ness—halter rowed in. All fo, hundred dollars. AR “It's a holdup for a mare tha s “This ain't no time o' night to be' running down the reppytation of a female.’ He stamped up the porch steps. * ¥ ok % BUT Mr. Follansbee chased the farmer into the house. He pulled a bank-book from his packet of pa- pers. There was no more spirit of protest left in him. Mr. Jaquish con- sented to accept an order on the bank, and dalled up his hired man to wit- ness the document which Mr. Follans- ee filled in on the book's r bee 0 egular The threc men made a quick job of harnessing, and Mr. Follansbee drove out of the yard, fishing the reins along the slab sides of the liver-col- ored mare. He pulled up at the place where Trucella was hiding. She rose from behind the wall. “How grand! You have the horse! Here are the sacks and your valise. And come and help A Story by Holman Day 1921—PART 4. test a tree-limb hitching out on it. “Mesh Flagg called me a fool. His| wife done the same thing. Fly-by- night critter picked me up for one. So did Cale Jaquish—and he'll blart all over Carmel about it. Next thing | there'll be a Pee-ruvian hopping out i o' some bush and saying it to me. But no, he won't—I'm awake now! Paying four hundred dollars for this ! —but no_matter. It woke me up, anyway. "There ain’t né Pee-ruvians. There ain't no sech thing as magick ing with a charm. And there ain't —you ain't—=" fou don't dare to tell me that I'm not Trucella Frye, do you™" 've never been no hand with a woman.” “Hold vour hosses.” shouted some- body in the darkness ahead. The woman slashed the mare. With | the other hand she turned her flash- light full upon Mr. Follansbee’s face. The same somebody bawled a 1t's Bed r‘ol-l 1 to argy | { i “Don’t shoot! warnin; lansbee®” | The woman shifted suddenly from scolding to blandishments after ”"‘l uaded from run- &. “I didn’t mean vou, Bedford. mare had been d ninz and wa: to be impa ; worrying so! feeling: agreed her knight with! such bland meekness in the place of | his recent fretful anger that she was; moved to snap on her light in order to view his countenance. She found it as guileless as his tone. ! “We must be careful of our tongucs after this, Bedford. No more unkind words, my dear.” She patted his shoulder. “How far is it to a rai roaq station?’ | “As fur ag'in, and then. mebbe. a| little ways further. We're heading for it The mare was walking. {from croup to blind staggers.” he re- ! time. does rash up thels shielding him. He prodded. The mare squealed and reared when he pulled hard on the reins. *“What's the matter>" she demand- ed, showing fright when the animal’ threshed about in the road. “Any hoss that Cale Jaquish deals with has got all the outs and ailings } plied. “I guess this is the staggers.” After a few moments the mare stood still. snorting apprehensively. ““That’s spasm the first.” he informed his companion. “Whilst we're waiting for the next one to come along. what| say if you hop out and ask the folks; in that house the nearest way to the railroad depot?” “Here's th, gratefully. commun _Mr. Follansbee crawled down, took ennebecker” g hand and start- ed off “Bed. ther~'ll have to be questions asked.” the ~onstable cricd after Car- mel's new and amazing sleuth. You won't get no more out of cash.” said the man. You're a credit to wny ut where will we find you™ Mr. Follansbeg stopped. 1t occurred (o him that he’was in a ticklish po tion. Vagueness in this crisis wou! stir suspicion. He could not to those matter-of-fact citizens Wide World” as his ncxt addres: When he heard her rapping he| Reaction had told on him. He was whirled the mare in the road. “We'll { hUngry and tired., He could see thas see what that inch brad can do when old shed chamber where sweet sium fUs & case o straight away on theiber had enfolded him e nigh! back-track and I ain't dragging on[through ail the vears. If he coul the reins walk down into the Kitchen. as usua'. Mr Follansbee pulled up after some [ in the morning' He would be bac's time and 12id the reins on the dash-| 0D something in the way of solid board. "He pulled the sack from un-|footing. at any rate; He held hi der the seat and secured his own ;ol'l br::‘r_gpxri: [l:‘\:;‘nv'n.‘ ST IR ;. : o a et do vou of money, after untying the cord t o bersily tunkeet do ct ta bound the receptacle. He jammed the bills down into his trousers pocket His fumbling hand found packets of other bills in the sack. and he ed a match and made hasty tion. When he arrived near the Carmel town line he began to announce him self. His hail was answered after i and men grouped about he sack. you're looking ndstill, him. He held up t here’s something what for., gents. 1 was past here a little spell ago. going agter it. Being in a consid’able hurry. 1 couldn’t stop for long stories.” Five minutes later Mr. Follansbee was assured by the worried-100’ man who had grabbed the sack that. paymaster of the strawberry he could state that his moncy in in his hands. correct as raisers. was agal dollar. . “But look here. Bed.” urged the ratch- ! nspec- | He had pulled the mare to &} “I reckon ! fo al! the Flag he usiy He trudged on. The early dawn of th=s July {was mottling _the sKies w i reached the Flagg farmhous Mr. Follansbee stood for a time in fron' of the house and listened to the duet which revealed that the Flaggs wero not worrying about a recreant hired man. He tiptoed along to | window. put his face close to I pane and vowled plaintively. {" In the silence he heard the tickinz reto ) day the kitchen the jof the clock and the paticr of th Ihurrying dog on the Kitchen floor {Up came two paws. and the pane clicked and tipped forward “Be ca'm, Hector.” warned Mr. Fo'- lansbee, and the dog greeted him in ilence with tongue lolling amiablyv. Mr. Follansbee stuck in his arm. reached up and released the windo catch. He pulled out his arm, and i H | | the pane. propelled by a spring. snap- me over the wall. Can you make this “what's the story that i e e 4 llonnrr"ed feline venurhntinnh i T11 what can be done. though head constabl called for sanctuiry. The Flage| horze speed like the wind i gt ] L Ll soe W can e v i Yith this?" hack. “Whe: v house-doz rushed from his resting- need of hurry? ind it there's| pq never put no great dependence o B o D eiler business of my Nk o Thn T R okt place beside the wood-box. barking i “Not unless T put her onto rollers|any hess that come from Calef ‘ThAtLS @IS poansbee with a1 was doing.” he declared with cn oy o i h;fl leest sadipusiiwithie scantingzboard ""‘I]!:é‘r:l\mll\‘ r. l{;‘lem:‘—:::‘l"h?o:‘h‘:::";a D ix sathoritativeness that sur-|thusiasm. Then he lifted the sast e window: he s paws ! er each arm. What did you think I G g S ¥4 ana impressed his townsman.|cautiousiy and erawled into th the bevelzd wood. There was a click! t was going o get out of Cale Jaguish | the butt and grunted with the air:prised SA0 SERCI a i i i 1 . quish : o oW that something had to be done, | kitchen. His biz cat jumped down the pane opened inward. Through the! this * night?” ; of having found something which he : - . ' operture came thrusting a furry| N Mg time ot BIEDtT ot any rates | cxpected to find. “Cale Jaquish neveriand I took a-holt and done It°) . }from 2, Chln shread its forepawa figure, with horrent hair and a tail that | Snone hias four legs, at any rale | cwned a whip that wasn't persided|” “There's a reward coming foiyou.tige) DMORRRIC 55" etretened R e R et e g o™ e Crkel [out with one.” he told himself. He stated the strawberry man. jclose to the Goor. and esetehcd. balloon causing it to appear twice! leaped forward ynder the lash, ~ina. turned to the woman. I was just| A ey bow, Burexy Avehmiddes: 1 P TR SR TG dohitiyouspailiup on| thoseireins. telling you that vou could depend of | \ | p POLLANSBEES face, lighted|see that you “have found that winde~ the floor, ran to Mr. Follansbee and| “Look-a-here, sech as this hoss is, 1| What 1 say. x-act] ell. I'm. AR 3 = | Just s much of a perfick success as {lawed ifs frantic way up his leg to| Snns it dant [ Hoin to tel vou the solemn iruth. i<V by (he lanterns. revealed that st msl Ak T 8 O ey his knee. | She administered a v 1 T've never been to Pee-ru. I've never ; ght had occurred to him. ! n | iptie for When the dog came down on all, e o BT P APone | been out of this town. I ain't ever| D s oD Ao an Sainlion Kigrie v 5 fours, the window-pane snapped back e been out o i iread ‘depot. I “Look here. mister: in my rush toished chamber. into place. ; 8 Do attack cowed him, He|never saw a_train of cars in myifollow clues and get back this money | = He pagsed the Bustory dont, few “By gumminy!” ejaculated Mr. Fol-{ allowed the mare to race along. But| whole life. Il have to call up to a;1 had to buy this hitch. You ain't | lutely. “Le's not sp'ile our appetites lansbee. “That's what I call a per-; | e e T e e et o tare | house and ask the way—though vou!needing & good up-and-coming mare {ahead of breskiast, Bureky. She's fick success.” z i | began to boil in him. Once in a|ought to know about it. seeing how | guaranteed, ctiddy. stands Without | always pretty soople when shc's boen He paid no attention to the thud-; ) as a teakettle cover 18 jogsled | vou used to live in these parts” hejhitching. kind and gentle and {let alone to have her say out: and ding feet without; for tnat matter.| ]hv confined steam, his tongue was | Suggested. | "vegot to have something to ket as for Mesh. tiie shower didn't leare e sound of them soon died away In; nov .. | =But I'm turned around around over town with when I pay 'nothing sensible to be done i e the distance. X e o 1o ®C ing 'to find out| “It’s kind of ditto with me. But|om N buy. How much {way of haying. and iU's the first haif Mr. Flagg arrived in the kitchen something before this is over and | we've got tonzues. Mr. Follansbee hesitated. “Well, !a day 1 ever took off since I've becn with a lighted lamp and without much " | g rmhouse near at | considering that I ain't asking for{here. | was entitled to half u day dorie mith DT A a™ the butt of the whip | no reward. I'll take—well, say—call thac's all T took. But. by Jimminy retort. and he went on, | hand. He & : L em like a thousand years’ clothing. - * k% % \IRS. FLAGG. concealing her disha- 4L bpille in the shadows, was ex- pressing her opinions shrilly. “In spite of all I've been able to say to him, Meshic, he has been up to some kind of tormented tinkering on that winder, and nmow we're getting the results of it.” t does n $40 t an e th ses, as a person might 'along one BONES OF WORLD’S EARLIEST INHABITANTS FOUND IN RIVIERA, SAYS STERLING HEILIG MR. FOLLANSBEE WAS POSING AS A STATUE THAT COULD BE LABELED: “INTERROGATIO! rectly on the Neanderthal /man. Great|because the cranium is as well de- The flush of an inventor's success was in Mr. Follansbee. He flared out lansbee after he had taken another the stabbing lightning shafts were Peru. That man is the captain of meg in width at the entrance.| I teen feet e e aslong. i's | Thirty vears ago it was t différences existed beiween the two, the I ped vertically as lengthwise. ‘latter bems %o much more highly de-| “Th's. the negroid men of Red CIiff e hia usual meekness in a way that |breath. I say again. I don't know |unpleasant. But Mr. Follansbee was|band and he has begun to hreaten me. . z | front having been cut away by quarry- “'”I:Md n’m e':ph"m ;“:‘ h'dmtn :ve';)r,e:t x‘! l;m cc;nllng % wli't: a"is‘hli! = i'a’.‘.‘.‘;‘}!fi‘ T % Cith t’;g Béd‘%r rse you have been to Peru,| A Sensatlonal Discovery Thon: At et (ime the floor of the easc :‘ornxu-d that it seemed d"l‘i‘l‘ul:l to der}:w- i Present a sirange ml_;:lurc ofhhl‘h and that there have been some ketches to o you—but my feelings is to | was g from top to toe W ed . o . vithi e et of the roof, but | it from the carlier. No link was then !low development. The limbs. pelvis other things that I have invented, but |much for me.” sense of freedom. 'Yes'm,”” he gasped. In this crisis he . 2 h Sment,flc Lme. orxgx::n'ly nx;hyxl:lznn(li)logisls now know. known between the man of Ncanderthal|and face, compared with lhvpCro- “His pome was all right. It hits the | was unable to turn a fip-flop back to| 1n the | Thes Toof 'was over seventy feet high.|and the Cro-Magnon type. But since Magnon. show signs of inferiority now that I have got up a perfick suc- “Exactly! Now, our being brought together, as we have been, in a way case,” he told himself. “But 1 draw veracity. Discovered | Accumulated dirt of ages raised the | that date a discovery of the utmost im but the development and brain capa cess I'm going to stand behind it. 5 . vy 5 . A 'sa Sat's nature to roam In the |that couldn’t be resisted, shows that the line at that charm business. Tll|, “Where be ve stopping?: he faltered | Recently e e ueh " They have becn dig- | portance from the standpoint of evolu- ity of the cranium entitle them to night and then come home and yowl y:ur umsvhnag lcome for a ‘re:[I2:"lnt:':x?:::—argll(le{hl:y‘;g‘niig‘l:ey:;:: bfif(‘; r:fi;sfism“:gugh; k,’,‘._'\.f’v::f to divide this h P ging slowl carrfully, since 189 ')l"im"" has been made at Red Ciil. Inlan honorable place in the ranks of . It's ‘s nature to go | change. en was in 2 ks C! - = Vo ving a woman on - 8 -G o, ey have excavated |, S vati i it the ; humanity.” to be let in. a dog 3 Rone mlons the e, T woutdn't no | his hands for the flzst time in his life. Facts About the Pre- Barmagrande” They have cxeofaled|course of excavations eavried, ool wenver| o STl to the winder and stand up and peek paused in order to let that statement | more go down to the nook in Libby's “Right_here—with you. Bedford.” | strange things and have not vet i the Chanoine dc Vilieneuve found three e e o e hears a cat. 1 have com- |8ink in—“where all the great magi- n 3 R = ord. ! _ o i il i - e I s talv o i |ausfand eepithinkersylive Aol ¥0ods: than Iditcy tojshin upionsiof] T eyey rovedl and found Hisiiten- historic Man—The ed rock bottom. - skeletons presenting strongly marked | T"HE race (I repeat) which succeed- o Proposition. and It its the home | hold of this." "He held up something | tom Wghtning flashen™ . . 15! Wanderer, she must nave posestsion, of - | *Te “riting of the cave floor tells alnegroid characteristics. These had cer-| ° ed the negroid men and flourish- T P ret i by my partunt iden | Which he had fished from nis vest|Thecefore he gave the woods,s eoil | NEMoTh SIS Axe podsession (of Cause of a Hitherto | stupendous story of occupation. Whe | (zin points of resemblance with the rac2 jed during the greater part of the e k T to stand Z:;l::;hx elxlc‘:notwal:v:?ce:“fllm:r:k Bt | rection, bowing his head when the| “Oh, it may be here and It may be 2ty 20| e mamocined Cl'“:hcom.e:%"l Q:D;"o"’,f, s 1o B T'ya reindeer period is that of the Cro Do you think I'm going to stan o But { rostion, bow e | heoey |x Toay 2 5 me previous_ocean _caves WeTe, ¢hat of Cro-Magnon. In recent essays. - Lk . that it is n came flooding into his e on’t want to think about it 5 s i o — i May 5 t here and listan to a stump speech at I tell you. just between us. tha o0 | face. The distressed cat laid its ears|NOW." she cooed. “It's no matter! Unexplamed Leap in \fl;"p;icmfiu’;l:fioz‘ l.':lr”;nh?:: :‘r:(;mernots; : fazl‘“.)fw Svve. ““;‘é'“’a.fi: a;;;flmons t::luregn::;n:l‘:: '«[:reu:: l' o ';MI r ! iatrew - Z lure, o six fee this _time of the night, right in the middle of the hazine season. and scant | % time for sleep. as it is?’ Mr. Flage, routed from sound slumber, was dis tinctly infuriated. “You get to bed. “Because I have always humped up my back and took orders ain't no sign I'm always going to do it. I warn ye!” shouted Mr. Follansbee. In that crisis Mr. Flagg was glad| that there was further demonstration a magic charm that works in a queer 'When a change is about to happen and a man has this charm and knows how to use it, he can bring about just the special change and blessing that he is hankering for.” He closed his fingers over the charm and shut his eyes. “I see a nook in the woods. that nook. There's a little brook a-babbling. And There is a big rock in! There is a fallen tree.| flat and shut its eyes. When he abandoned the highway after a time Mr. Follansbee excused this divagation by telling himself that the road was muddy; when he found himself entering a stretch of woods. he informed the cat that it was easy to get lost in a storm and wander around in circles, especially when the rain did not allow one to keep a sharp ookout. He floundered on through dripping We'll wait here through the gloamin, The woman straightened up. ““‘Where you go I shall go, Bedford. she said. "“It's fate. You must draw your money from the bank. and we'll ! 8o far, far away together. But I shall not allow you to spend any of your money, of course.” “But I don’t need to have fid up for me! 1 tell you—" “But I'm telling you! A woman has the right to do the talking in a case' i a woman | i Progress—The Oldest Dwelling in the World. BY STERLING HEILIG. NTONE. Monte Carlo, May 11, 1921. ODAY we drove a 1918 motor ME! { tracked-in soil, ashes and charcoal from ;' 1ame of Grimaldi, which has SInCe 'goven inches, res lighted by people who lived in them. ogether with the bones of animals dragged in to serve as food., and other irefuse. Nobody swept in those da | But think of the ages that must have | {been required to accumulate floor dirt { thirty-five fect deep! 5 | Miey were dwelling places. not burial I places | fi ound in the floor dirt of Barma-Grande. ! been adopted by specialist Much dlack ink. you may ! since been spilled over these men who “walked from Africa“when the walking ion Abbo's wish, “the consensus of Latin { science. * = % ¥ was good.” Here, 1 will simply guote. | The head, of great balieve, has | capacity, has remarkable character- ,istics. They are brothers of the rein- jdeer hunters of southwestern France. {the artists, the cave wall painters ot 'Spain‘ Dauphiny and elsewhere. “We know that the Cro-Magnons Only four human skeletons have been| s ©oa'2uone aplo, There is an old | Were still well represented in France lat' the beginning of the polished without. Racing hoofs came down the hell hang- highway and halted. I see half an old cocoanut shell hang- | moose-wood after the rain had ceased. |like this. You listen to me: Are vou | long @ 1921 seaside road | [9WC 18 HIE Lo en in the nine caves. | Greek fable of a vokel who peeked over | Ehay and halted. Have you seen|iNE on a tree over the brook, and let- | But Mr. Follansbee made no effort to[Willing to et me tell you what to do?” cans 3 The o A BoULCIEn e | e s ¢t |Stone age,” says Dr. Vi e t ved in the shell. “Yer' 2 250 id a call on a man who ! Yet Barma-Grande aione (whose use by {the garden wall of a real lady. Jus! e Y . Verneau. “that ers are car t k the open where the sun was| “Yes'm, Xll do just what and pa | man, according to German science, gocs i eoess of pecking and peeping, his | iy 13, 537> 18 the lizht of humanity's ‘Well, by snub, if you see that shell, hining. ou tell 1 .40 ua be abinedr oL cmmel is 200,000 years old. Only his back 400,000 years) must have been the “Seen who?’ demanded the master , ha into Libby's| He looked H d pulle oy i e : < of e o e e oot | YOU must have been down e looked about him and then gazed | He rose and pulled his hat down over ! left, but there seems to be | ) ! e | ol srew and his mind and heart ex-| They came, originally. ) 1 always » P 5 nes are left, ho of liow many pecple, do vou think, | soul grew au . originally. emerging Woods in the nook where Y8 | nto the eyes of the cat and professed|his cars. as a knight woul fix his | P° He and | succesuively? Counting 200,000 vears @f | panded, so great is the power of beauty. Suddenly. from out of the mists of cnown. down the light and had opened the kitchen door. “Robbers! They have blowed up the safe in the post office over to the set and watch for rabbits when I hanker for a meat pie.” “I never was in those woods. I'm a stranger here. It's my second sight extreme surprise. Eureky Archimidd the devil can “Well, by swanny, this shows how lead your footsteps wround when you ain’t minding your casque before the fray. He picked up | his *“Kennebecker” and then he remem: | bered a friend whom this new associa- tion had temporarily put out of his no argument about his age. his family of three, one & mere young- cter of 199,985 years, arc staying at a Roches Rouges. on ‘use (with the most conservative Frenth | estimates) sand ten new inhabitant passing through all the nine caves per | Year (births. captives, conguerors, etc.), | By the 1ady, of course, the Greeks meant | sclence. ! All nght. Giuseppe Abbe of Venti- How did their wonderful im Sy A i3 Giuseppe Abbe? ‘We must now accept, | provement, imsists says Dr. Center. They've gaffled . four thou- - g d the R that shows me that place. It's re-|eve like you should. Do you see that|{mind. He called “Kitty—}iitee—Kkitte- | r'lzce calles t e u :-In:l d':ll:'rl: xh?l hw::hlo-‘::'efl Syer-|vealed to me that something grand |brook? Do you see that cocoanut- |- © | the ltalian frontier a few steps besjue get & xzwl of ooo‘nflm.‘“o.; dw}!‘- 1! miglia-Grimaldi, & hotel man, son of I\"lerlr;‘e:u'.m;'}-lat Ilhe‘ :le‘n;ld men lived & safe by the man that's) )] happen to you if you'll go there[shell? We're right here in that nook Hush your noise! Are you stopping French border city of Men- Barma-Grande must have Shelleres be i 5 fornia iddle pleistocene (he means down here to pay the strawberry|(ich this charm and call for what that I've been tryinf to keep away | !0 bother with an old cal in -‘_mla“uk"lyond the Fren there is! A millien men lived in this cave’ |a hotel man, was seeking loam for ithat they continued so late as that). il o = You want most.” from. Howsomever, seeing that we're | this?”’ she demanded with temper. Cl{one. They meed a rest, as there issuys Giuseppe Abbo. the Iaiian busi-|{aspaiagus beds in his cave of Barma- :;.d that toward the cnd of that perio nogiunder! s that so! Heard some- |~ At that moment sn authoritative here and considering all the hours; . ‘s Bureky Archmiddes that I'vel.very evidence that they walked here {ncks man ‘who owns Darma Graade | ;g He came on prehistorle re- {he Cro-Magmon race appeared, in- o v = 11 from a tin horn came winging | that we've been moving around. weiraised from a kitten, and he's——- Africa “when the walking was ' Yet OnW, P i < . igh = “That's them! We'll ketch em!” A |33un i il A i "“I don't care what he is. rom Afri found ‘n it. Were they mains. He calculated that they might; Our Adams 2nd Eves! down across the field. y €Il take it easy for a while. e what he is. This is n | 0. ogvs Giuseppe Abbo. At the jjecn Op were there ext be made an “attraction” to Red Clift!| We made an afternoon call on E: whip cracked and the horse was off. | - Next Mr. Follansbee's'! It was a New England dinner-horn. He lifted the cat out of the sack and set the animal on a log. The cat time for foolishness. You're ders, remember, and 1 have m thir. “me of the journey the Mecditerranean One boy has his feet reumstanees? Hotel. He fciched scientisis. He talk- Among _the: szys Sir N skeletons, ! Frederic Treves (inhis Riviera book mOERiSx land it meant to Mr. Follansbee a Doy, wooden face did not reveal whethér e deni trified | began %o scruff a six-toed pow ffor you to attend to beside coddling ! 4: ist, nor could mankind have { and head burnt off. Was it a death by > that warning or his own deep resent- | con o deisy. e e o e | ita Teaturen I reckoned “owd hejcat! Come along:” ordered ‘ihe com- oo B eeehiof Water. ba: llorturez 0 ied a lot with men of science. He dug which every one is taiking about), is meni accounted for his taciturnity. | eq min cvess and started. Mr. Nicel- | Wanting to bresh up your looks a lit- ; mander-in-chief. He followed her. crossed such a 7 2 ! ""When digeing in these floor ac-' ooy o for business. That was! that of an old woman, perfectly und He munched his doughnuts and|perry pursued on a trot. |¥le, Bureky. 1 like your spirit in that.| _She led him aiong a path wh [ {ween Mentone and Algicrs there were { cumulations thes go throuzh strataWih them=alt Of FRHEEH LR U indeed fively formed. “mooped” his coffee and took N0 Part | mrhen i cecr failed to secure any | We'Te going to face the world.” | was partly “zrown up to bushes’: | iropical forests and marshes, full ofiof far dierent periods These lavers, h/ry ¥ 0. | Her age would be about seventy nthe. conversation reparding Tthe | el the seer fallo O o ratests,| He took the backet of papers out of{ When they arrived at a tumble-down {jiong antique elephants and rhi-|are i nd by paleoniolozy. Very |ten times as much upon the cave and | Her bones show no evidence of gro alirring event at Carmel Center: nor | ho oo 10 e aper from his vest |his Docket and began to' tip downishack he recosnized it as the old{ /0 | Srach by the matce of ehipped stone | 12 Ul DT Ly bones have gained | Fheumatic changes or other disablig 0 et shaw ANDIL Iet (atereat HelDocka( e i aound the charm | thelr corners thoughtfully. “I can af.|Libby sugar camp. She produced a|nCTerosts Implements found mixed with char- | the musewss o & and arink | troubles. That an old lady could live {rudged off alone to his Job in the|ing, ‘siill marching beside the sum- ford to be independent ‘about grab-|smail flashiight and precededt him | They brought some elephants with |coal of ‘ancient_ hearths and. bones | him. People come o eat and drink| for seveniy vears in a dump cave b ower fleld, where onl i - | bing onto offers. But I' i into the structure. : ! them.” Bones o ntic roasts, mixed | of ancient feasts. sneci 3 period and escape such incon- here only a scythe would | moned hired man. grabbed Follans m willing tol into the structure. @ crumpled | with ashes of hearths, are found initones of animals dragged in for |abcolutely nolhing fag bones. Sl g s e il g handle the grass between the rocks. bee's inging hand and obliged him listen, and I'm ready to talk trade. and when she swept; the coves of Red Cliff, where they food change, also, as we dig down, He neg- Giluseppe just loves ‘bones. sign of her time and of ours. Mr. Flagg w: Le's see what Tll put forward newspaper: ! s R L aending (o the uDDEC (to closs Nis (ngera on the oblect | if capital asks T U forward first | e P abide with her foot she direct- |lived. In fact, there are “elephant |showing changes of old climates. locts the hotel to loaf in his cave and | *'1¢ is not known at what age Eve 1t was a particularly warm forenoon. A hoom I'm lending o you.|'deas. ©d him to pull up' some boards. There | layers’ away’ below this family's; No brutish tertiary man has vet,his musoum with the paleontologists | died; but, if. as well may be, she When the sun was near (he meridin |45¢ that charm tm et qs the nignt. | He came upon the tintype and ab-| was a good-sized canvas sack in a!sepulcher, ‘and exhibit bones repose |been found at Red CIff But they ot Eurpe; and he is the happiest man (lived out her threescore and ten. Mr. Follansbee made Oue of his reguiar | oy S hbn" charm - aboat e At | stracted it trom the papers. He mut. | hollow under the floor. I Bgsido them in glass cases of a little | have alrea§y come across his Erit-lin Italy when they dig up & cave]then these perfect and undisturbed wips to a bubbling spring wWalled 3D |t e ne (AT A u hearr | |tered while he looked at the face of; “Its my fortune’ she whispered. | minseum near the caves, with fiint|sione “scrapers” (not flints, mind |bear's tooth. In fact, he has himself bones might well be imagined as S mosyratonee Daac thesalac 'n!'a;“ the time. Do you hear? the girl ; reckon 1 was to blame | “I expect’you to guard’it with your weapons, utensils and the lady’s neck- vou!). unld(-rhnea‘lh”lhe f!:i\-ermnrl;igsi {become a man of sciénce. 4. | those of the moilier of: men. bush that shelte: 2 . or it in this case, and that's life.” ace. antique elephant (he of the “It's true,” he says. "Why not ad-| _She wore 1wo bracelets red the sgring he found| if Gabriel ever wants to get quick whx ‘Roches Rouges means Red Cliff. It | tusks, not the woolly mammoth, Who i yit jrz e ey e e a sort of grasshopper of whom he had never seen before. a little man The action when he calls for the rubes up this way. he'll have to toot on a tin I hain't never got over it.” After a time he groped for the charm in one of his pbckets and She took it from his hands when he had lifted it; she pushed it down into the crocker sack on his back. standsat a great height, older than the Mediterranean, risen from some pre- came very much later). mixed with bones and ashes of their horrid fes- “What?" I ask. to make him say it. i I “We men of southern Europe have 2 | cots and bracelets of suimen verte- {brae. It is a pily that she could not litde man blinked his sharp eyes and remarked amiably that it was “a gee- | NOrD." grumbled Mr. ckel handled it very gingerly while he ex-| “There must be no divisions In“ ous ocean and scraped smoot Y | tivals. . dash of dark blood in us’ he says.’ have known that they wouid he ad- hefferously hot day.” stopping and allowing Mr. Follansbee | amined it. Then he read over and|purst or in- any other interes i ithepwindajo s imillion Sy .care: Avus) 2ok ere. read them Dr. Verneau!” | mired of men a hundred thousand Mr. Follansbee azreed and reached (080 0% W . g |over the verse that was written onldon't meed from vou any pledge ex ottom are Ahese MmN e mkind | ] HAVE counted ten books. not mere uch then. briefly. the charac- ! years after her death! down into the spring and pulled up 2 B A h s, Detire tnatlic crompled papsr cfhen is my | cept your word, of course. " But ot e e D el e d ] = hese caves | teristics of he strange race of Gri-! Her teeth are perfect, though worn jug_which he uncorked and “horsed™ (yard of the farmhouse before IWal|feelings, modify the thing down some.|you think we'd feel—well. closer-—if Awithe cavesjare viryishaclongiRen o inampnists pvrt e o8, ey alatOwing ACo\tliel discore e sifal s oM nbY EEENIEKDRLES /DR ShD R across his elbow: he drank long and |taunt produges, vehtt o8 L began | what” ~he mused. “Of course. 1|Jou put your money in with mine™ | {HI TR have been auite @ little | ¢ ged I or grottos of Grimaldl |pgy CIF it is now coriain that weminth Cave hear end wooly i ::"."‘!'.L{S.';',“m‘“:«'é"r?m:"i’u then, a8 | 0o otions and_ with that it nger| poudnt alop ke mox ILx sieted He pulledioutis toll of bllle around | OpD In [1s Bay. i wous occupation|as some of them are called on the imust reckor regroids amons our an- noccros. Upon what a worid ner eyes Etran ) A € | fooing on. he had allowed a dinner- | to® talk right to Trucelia if 1t was! usn ‘,“c“;‘,’,‘,e;;z"{;’,'l'f,‘{"l‘,",“’,‘,‘,’;;i"):[ot Red Cliff numbs the Imagination.| proposition of Dr. Verneau, the|cestors For it cannot hfi-:"gfi’;gfii‘“‘:‘Srlv‘:d‘fi}dntfc?f R i ¢ This is mlasses and ginger and wa- [horn to make him £0 cringcingjlikals lico o over EAL" ek into nig| SNE, WS, unfastening the neck of the [ JRE tombalo i eRkin ROl DEYDL s Brenchisapant Thels mEllersians the for o moment that in the mIddle | bitnts looked over.a. Taxur t 5 cer ek Inte B o e s telanacd | : of French paleontology | duaterna b : o5 subtropical country, glaring with Then the man drank an - he roller towel in the back BAck. i 1igreat Rameses, as if he must havel&reat names have migrated from Africa. It was g an d was grate- | dish and the roller tow pocket and meditated some more.|the roll when she scooped it away:iEIeat Bameses. a3 ¢ He WUSL BLUSi ™ b\ ooy, E. Riviere, Chanoine!not until many centuries later thei m‘?.;- c“""-e;“:{;?""';’o;l’:fa*:;i:,";‘;"‘ ful. Being on the go all the time, and meeting all men. I know kindness when 1 see it.” He did not seem to be at all discomposed by Mr. Follansbee's sour demeanor. “This looks to be a Tice farm you own. mister.” “PDon’t you go none too strong on looks. And 1 don’t own this farm.” “Been here for some time?" kitchen and went up into his sanctum in the shed chamber. gritting his teeth. . At twelve-five Mr. Flagg was sitting in front of a huge platter heaped with a2 New England boiled dinner. carving knife and fork uncocked and waiting. gazing through clouds of steam at the kitchen-flushed face of Then he took the thing out and called “Trucella” in louder tone. He was conscious that a voice was calling, faint and far—a man’s voice. 1t seemed as If that voice called “Tru- cella!” over and over. Mr. Follansbee promptly jammed the jcharm down into his trousers pocket and left it there. he cyed the sack disconsolately, his chin hooked around over his shoul- der, while she stuffed in the money and retied the fastening. She seemed to have the eyes of a cat, he noted. She led the way sure- 1y until they emerged from the woods and arrived at a stone wall which She sat down count the piled centuries on the pyra- But, here, Egypt is a thing of yesterday! The men of Red CIliff put Egypt, Assyria and mighty China her- They belong to the rare and exclusive so- ciety of the old stone age—the clipped mids. self in the kindergarten class. stone age. de Villeneuve, Marcellin Boule, Costa {de Beaurcgard, Emile Carthailac. A. Mogret, E. d'Acy. Salamon Reinach and others. As for reports to inter- | national congresses. articles in an- 1 thropological reviews and disputes first attempts at nav neolithie times in a posiiion ! man made hi igation, anc even In {he was far from beirng ‘10 brave the open sca. | “Moreover. we have proofs that our inemroids of Grimaldi must have be- !longed to a of some importance jin western Had but a few Surope. manency. In this old lady’s time the climate is assumed to have becn co!d and damp. The sun passed over the cavern wall as over the face of 2 sundial. i The creeping light served to record | tire passing of the time. The cave | wife. busy with scraper and Jumps 1 1 “I come onto this farm for old Ira - Th lose by. itabl; 1p of | bordered the highway. * % % % i in scientific weeklies ! bt 2 L o Mrs. Flagg. .o Then. close by. a veritable yelp of| }.gige the barricade, nidden from land corrections ¥ ! specimens come hither accidentally | S0 BEE¥, Vg 1, BECONTd note with Plagg when [ was sixteen. and I've been ‘Trucella!” brought him up from the| he road, and he oh:yed her gesture !anq monthlies, they would fill a long | they would have been absorbed in the | dongiernation that midday was near here more'n fifty years. “Going to leave? Speaking for myself, as a roamer who knows what a gay life Tramping feet came down the stairs from the shed chamber. Mr. Follans- bee appeared at' the kitchen door. log with a leap that sent the cat scut- tling. A moment later a woman came and crouched. “You probably know some place THE people who inhabited these caves to known ancestors. belong our earliest They stand at the 1 ! cal X lof United States Consul Wilson, a There is cven the report t taiogue. ons_and all trace of ing popul: But je= 5 would have disappeared. | them this is not o and the midday meal not ready! — it Over his shoulder was slung a bulg- o e ! e e e e ahid (hiak | ing Crokier suck cand out otiine) neck | (heusting (ate sleht couety the Teaves | aloni thia romd here ¥ e whia- |Foot of the family trec. They repre-|Nice, in 1581, when the first finds| ‘e krow that in obedience to ¢ Feeding a Boath . e e big e ee | di follansbee wa ered. sent the Adam and Eve of human his-| Were made. 4, _iiaw of atavism the ciuracters of a Boatload. D e ke nke ofan Up: | statue (hat coud b Tabiied “interee-| pretty neighborly and an his-| "Xow, they have dug down very|iomote ancesior muy suddenly reap- E amount of food consumed by a “Well, 1 don't know's I want a fly-by- prickling whiskers spoke of an up- “They're obleeging in these parts.” he returned tory. Behind these people stretches|geep in the floor dirt. below the layer 4 and_ rhi- pear in an individual. In view of this s family is impressive, or depress- : oy ¥ '-::ma.b'oluhxa gallivanting 2;’-:’,-' "‘},‘,.'.T"{lhnv.l 'of emotions in more eloquent e g I e e hee ]'d!"’“ void of the unknown. It is in their| of the antique elcphant £ P PHave sought for traces of the Fome that has been mine as long as this | manner than did the repressed expren: | T e fuser Wolnk over yen- |likeness that the first human being|noceros merekil (not HIhorhinue |Grinaldi type and have found them, |ing. when the bills come in, but the one has been.” returned M. Follansbee | 509,21 T wina'he carricd o canvas | 1t was easy to obey that command. | der there and asking Cale Jaquish |steps out of the everlasting darkness o 8 Bown there, 1 say. theyinsmall numbers natirally. fn Francs lamount required to feed & Sacge ¥ PR “Kennebecker.” a valige of the exten- Lr:.:-rl’:ep:;r]‘gg;tfl-yr;.elr-:l;?n bee was | for L"'nt:::e'.n:o::uone o irt out |into the light of the world! find the rudely cb mnm‘; gritstone ;r;:;:mgz;:"“a:nd taly. in the neo|company of people must astound most - sion-case type. b v e % brute_men of the Nean- d . - 4 4)\[¥ name fs—is—Nickelberry." | Mrs. Fiage stared, her mouth oper “Save me from that man jand roam round the world witn." ' i Here we approach a mystery of the o enaL, o or “Nauletto type, and, |as in the present epoch! persons, who have given no particu- T e ek ey | Toet-down. here o your vitiles| The voice called again. but trom a| *Go and hire a tcam, theni Ofjcaves The men of Red CIT wereif'5ou wish. the man of Moustier. “Yes" he concludes, “I have even|lar consideration to that subje e ot e e eid e |betare_they | et Ueold> ‘commanded)| £xeater dlstance; akain it ealiel, for | U, Jon't, cxpect to roam 211\ physically fine, with honorable brain| Al hide and dodge in the black | 184 the good fortune 10 Meet mwail|When they read the figurea. A steam- Flagg—"that is, if you hai | Tust get Into a town where there development. There is an impression,| shadows of the unknown. rl"wat:_k”d c'lfamu"mks Natives of fny|ship company operating an ocean gered a proposition by precipitate- Mr: ‘x e plumb crazy.” “] shan’t never cat another mouth- the man was departing. “I have been searching for is a railroad station. You can surely rather general, that these men of long lago were bruitish creatures, apelike “We know the characteristics of the race which then inhabited these lands,” i Piedmontese mountains. The Italian business man repeats: liner with a carrying capacity of 3.500 passengers and a crew of abcut neas and was trying to claw back to 3 ce'll leave i B % in ful under this roof again,” declared | through all the world,” she said, walk- hire a turnout, and we'll leave it toanq uncouth, little more, in fact, than|says Dr. Verneau. “Small in stat safe ground. “However. I ain't gOing to | po new Mr. Follansbee, deflantly. ing toward him. “But you have been|be sent back.” a gorillan with a touch of human craft.| with low_skull, roceding forehead :::il"why not?” ) 500 has given out th rm: «dvise.” stated Mr. Nickelberry. He e rhat Mennte said Tast night? | wandering to and fro also.” She point-| “I have took it onto myself. and:They show, on the contrary, the char- | enormousiy thick ~superciliary Gidges| “It may do for southern Europe,” 1[50 e = S SnEorim s pulled a spool of silver wire from his[If it was I'll set him where he belongs | ed to the “Kennebecker” besidc the log.| Il go through with it he sald|gcteristic features of the bones of|surmounting great round eyes, these ! begin. tion that 6,000 pounds of beef is eaten each day, about 3.000 pounds of fisi, pocket and began on one end of the wire in this household,” she declared. “] take back everything I might Mr. Follansbee, prompted in that manner, felt that he could not afford to | after a few moments devoted to ru- mination. “Howsomever, it ain't my modern men and women. They have! the same straight back, broad shoul-| men wre prognathous and had rcced:ng chin Judging from the shape of the “Quite so, quite so. It is we of southern Europe, glorious Greece, im- 500 chickens, 4,000 czgs, 450 quarts with small pincers. *“What's your J 14 2" he ired. i{d when I was hectored last | allow Trucella Frye to belleve that he picking and choosins, the way it's v 1 . - - cenleman. He felt like talking. The| -i'm glad of it, though it don't have | piece all of his life. Mr. “Follansbee trudged on with R L L B e B . e e R WS hafs e 4usi of|tons of pPotatoes, besides mighty Ronservation of the stranger. in Mr.|no effect in changing my mind, Mr.; *Yes'm,” he croaked. “I've been a-| his hands in his trousers pockets,|gjight and technical. This skeleton of| race, ] , 3 ki i .| o ] s . called Neanderthal or Spy, from the!dark blood. uantities of other kinds of food. Follansbee’s new mood of general re- | Flagg. But seeing that this is the | roaming. trying to clarify his thoughta The , Red Cliff man might have been that|pames of localities where the most in-| “Why should we repudiate a gift of “Fm. the usual voyage between bellion. was proving a more effective goad than persuasion that would have stirred more suspicion. Mr. Nickelbe: deftly bent and twisted the wire witi the little pincers; then he snipped with cutters close to the spool and handed over to Mr. Follansbee the latter's name first time I have ever left a place, 1 like to leave with best feelings all round.” “But_there's a shower coming up,” cried Mrs. Flagg. rising and begin- ning to bang down windows. P “Have T changed s0 mucl *Yes'm, speaking the truth, I've got to say that you have. But for the bet- ter—yes'm, for the better—prob'ly,” he hastened to assure her. 'But | knew you the moment I saw vou. Do you know why I am here?" pockels were empty except for the magic charm which the grasshopper man had forced on him. Farmer Jacquish, it appeared. had been on a trip to his barn with a lantern. He was coming out with the lantern when Mr. Follansbee ar- of a modern athlete, but with a mus- cular development that a modern might énvy; while this shapely woman| from the depths of a cave might have graced, in life, the paddock of Long- champs racecourse. There are some peculiarities of the shinbone, but they teresting remains have been found.” And yet, trench buried in among the) hearths and scrapes of these brutes, we find the splendid men and women of our race, as finelv made as we. They i have ornaments, and they are arti: Soon they will be painting pictures o progress, however unexpected, and 80 long ago? Alas. poor sons of Ham!' You begih your servitude to the white race before Ham's day, in the obscure unknown!” “Before Adam and Eve.” I murmur. hey gave us their gift, and we let iAmerica and Europe, the ship, in ad- | dition to tis food supplies mentioned, carries three toms of carrots, thres tons of turnips, 2,500 heads of cai- bage, weighing about five tons; §00) pounds of bacon and 2,500 pounds ot wrought in wire. i~ “I came because something called me. | rived in the vard. Mr. Jaquish also , c Su're welcome to that, mister. You!ysR. FOLLANSBEE sct down the|l could not help coming. When [ wascarried a shotgun. would not have been noticed through ' cave walls in France and Spain. They |them deteriorate in return.” mourns|ham. Besides all this meat the ship <indly gave me a ik ont of vour jug' M -ennebecker I don't want to |in India—but it's too great and grand a! “These is troublous times in (hissays The skuil is different in Treves| are the Iives and Adams of the thinking | Abbe, Bid not make them rise |will take on at the poPt of depar- Tt above that and all. i've sort of took | G | Subject to discuss now. He zasped | town right now. Bed, and you can't!tha face is flat, the nose is broad, the; race—the great Cro-Mugnon people. = iolong =with ourselves = Wet they, ture about 200 carcasscs of lamb and “hine to you. The reason for that is, | leave no chance to have it said be-| when she mentioned India. “We will! blame me for wanting to shoot first:juws prominent. They may not have| So, here we come to the strange part|brought herorabic development in|mutton fer the six or se day trip. 1 on. beca your nature is so|hind my back that T wa'n’t fair and | talk only about ourselves now, Bedford.” | and then get names and other datty ibeen beautiful faces, but we are notlof jL—the very sivanie puvi. | tieir hand. inestimable. We profited, {1t takes about 100 crates of lettuc: .l diffcrent from mine; I'm a roamer | gian'e open up all reasons in so fur's| She wi to the log, pushed the|later. What ve doing round this time !even sure of this. | “Go ahead!" says Abbo, the Italian!we, descendants of the (ro-Magnons and ons ton of onions for the vovaie, .12 You ain't 5 A e e i relessly 1o oue side as if it did o’ night Been sworn in as special * & % ¥ { husiness man. I of fouihiern south Iiurope. Listen te tie last|and applesé grapefruit and oranges *r. Follansbee exnibitid a suddu\il could umbled In I hig i Cont long to the party sat down. ! constible i ‘rope, not your proud Americans. We!word of scicuc n ‘the mcn whojare taken on board by hundreds of NI nality. He rose ami,pocket and brought out a small; has taken around ‘he, “That's just it—just the checker.” hc'O'l'}‘”‘Jl: nien. z2nd more mysterious, i oil them what Dr. | i | boxes. With a “uil passenger list, and VIGuE Over - Scketherryand SESD- 4 et of folded paperg ‘Of course _Bedford 2" | hastened to say. ' were in thesa ¢ from Dr. Ver-!most of the trans-Ailantic passenge: tinat s Ler s Pt e thin | ¥Well they must be running blamed | G he nine eaves rote the firs ships are carrvimg such' lists today, © What ot all of afeol 3 SLE s oy g Jou short "of © material,” blurted the o ! 2 i of my Dr. Verneau, ‘-, rticular at-|about 2,700 jars of jam and 2,080 jars widden.” he toid the aitentive Mr. Nick- |on the other hand, somebody might| He folded his arms and looked as im- (disparaging Mr. Jaquish. Grande. In 1352 it sl measured flity - [ thropologists supposed that iae fiue race [tentio uc aud ex-of marmalzde will be eaten during say-it wa'n',” he'proceeded, in half portant as he could. “Of course, there’ “And I -want to- hire a .hoss and'thres-feetifrom front-to.back and.thir-iof the Cro-Magnons had followed di-lcellent cranial capacity of these-men, [ the trige = - - e . , Siwzrg “Things are-swelling -up-in