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, CHAPTER 1. East Ie East. ‘T began eomewhere in the middle of the world, between London which is the beginning and New York which is the end, where all things are east of the one and west of the other. To be precise, @ forlorn landing on the west bank of the muddy, tur- bulent Irrawaddy, remembered by man only so often as it was necessary for the Gotilla boat to call for paddy, a visiting commissioner anxious to @et.awaypor a family homeward-bound. Somewhere in the northoast was e@omewhere in the southeast lay Prome, and further south, Ran- @00n, sister to Singapore, the halfway house of the derelicts of the world. ‘was after five in the afternoon. The sun was sinking, hazily but , Along the road walked two men, phantom-like. Occasionally they etepped aside to permit some bullock-cart to pass. One of them swore, not with any evidence of temper, nor viciously, but in a kind of mechanical protest, which, from long usage, had become a habit. He swore at the Gust, at the heat, at the wind, at the sun, | i. ‘The other yfarer, with the in- sordid evil-smelling lodgings that herent patience of his blood, said pight, he possessed the parrot and nothing and waited, setting down the ‘our rupees, and sat up the greater art of the night trying to mal Di@avy kit-bag and the canvas vallse bird perform his tricks. The idea “this own). His turban, once white, of pulcige nh longer bothered A swe His trifling though it was, he had found was brown with dust and sweat, an Interest in life. And on the, mor- row came 6 Eurasian, who trust- hile to Legh od Sees fully loaned Warrington every coin Ged with watches cf b y mn and that he could scrape together. ee Woh guarentee Mbyte Tittle , Often in the dreary heart-achy days sanvae § oot * that followed, when weeks passed ie un sedan walkes t haa Cre he saw the face of a White man, ‘The British- government when ho had to combat opium an lent permitted him to proceed shou his’ duties as guide and car- bhang and laziness in the natives un- ri der him, the bird and his funny tricks under the cognomen of James haq saved him from whiskey, or Hooghly, in honor of a father whose surname need not be written here, Hreecot, tts rites celng pigpeds ond and in further honor of the river upon jothing pleased tho lttlo rebel. a 0 which, quite inconveniently one early much as to claw his way up to bi qorning, he had been born. For he master's shoulder, sit there and wateh was Eurasian; half European, half t the progress of the razor, with inter- Andian, having his place twixt heaven mittent “jawing” at his own reflec- ‘and bell, which A ae aoe e q on in the cracked hand-mirror. 3 -houses, on the boa took unmurmuringly his pines = a focular turn of mind the three wer the tireless bullock and the elephant. known as “Parrot & Co.” Warring. Twioe, during fever and plague, he ton’s amiability often misled the va- nea fered oe nee With tie eile, rious scoundrels with whom he was . Warrington Sahib. at times forced t wot fesaness of the Oriental he considered who siniled most of. the tice "and Himself responsible for his master in talked Hindustan! to a parrot. w: all future tim Instead of paying not to be accorded much courtesy; off a debt he had acquired one. until one day arrington had set. ‘Treated as he was, kindly but always tled all distinctions, finally and pric Armly, be would have surrendered his mordially, with the sauare, ot "his / Nife cheerfully at the beck of the fists. After that he went his way w white man, molested, having soundly trounced ‘Warrington bbe an ‘Amertoai ¥ one Of the biggest bullies in the teak ‘wan also one of those men who never inber-yards at Ran, Ye hela ‘misfortune in contempt, whose He made no friends; he had no thinset arp! i‘. aap tar ke! bed ied to exchange; nor did he omer erant. He had patience for the weal oO come the ‘ory resolution for the trong and a fear- men's pasts. But e A anaes lean amiapility t ard all, He was bread 4nd hie rupees, when he had like the St. Bern: log, very - em, with any wh ked, J Cult to arouse, It is rather the way tried to dig into his past, oat Hews with all men who are strong mentally 48 Unresponsive as granite. It take: and. physically, He was tall and @ woman to find out what a man is broad and deep. Under the battered and has been; and Warrington went pith-helmet his face was as dark as about women in a wide circle. the Eurasia but the eves were eons Jamon, old sport, no more blue, bright and small puplled, as up and down this bally old they are with men who live out of Tver. We'll go on to Kangoon to- doors, who are compelled of neces- Might, If we can find a beth aity to note things moving tn the dis- Yes, Sahib; this business ry tances, ‘The nose was large and well piffie,” replied the Eurasian without defined. All framed in a tangle of turning his head. Two things he dear- blond beard and mustache which, If y loved to acquire; a bit of American Anything. added to the general man- Slang and a bit of English sliver. He liness of his appearance, r Cee eine wana mystery, to !t0 shillings, and Warrington could t James, to all who thought they knew MPOt convince him that he was always him, and mort of all to himself, A /° How much money hers: you got, ot, riah, an outcast, a fugitive from yung, the bloodless hand of the law: 8 “Sriree ann ‘ntleman born, once upon a time a Zar stare moa tlome® callers Dred: -a. contradic- Warrington laughed and shook the dust from his beard. “It's ° , & puzzle for which there was not Wor ; e a great tion, Mohition, not aven in the hidden World, Crs hrfoatieny and wondertul forners of the man's heart. His namo py vthor worka wa ee ypees, maysel. wasn't Warrington, and he hadn't “pws pup Ae » busted, rubbed elbows with the dregs of BU- turned “Why hain eee nsed and m ity and still looked you etraight jindred the hit, you have three in the eye because he had como jo ie and rupees in your through inferno without bringing any ant not worth ah anne dntliG Staner bin aan Ns, carried a amalt © Fangoon, Didn't those duffers giv fron cage, patterned something like Hop anything for handling their lug arat trap. It contained a Rajputana parrakeet not much larger than a but possessor of a oul as ‘Rotters! It takes an Englishman to turn a small trick like that, Wel the smoothing influence of chiv- stances, The robin, vgerce as that of Paladin, minus, how- wai: there were extenuating clroum.! alry. , » Man likes to pay three hundred thou- jah, jab, jah! Jah—jah—Jja-a-a-h!" sand for something he could have cried te ee a ee ar. bought for ten thousand. Aud T made mese gong * them come to me, James—to me. Instantly he followed the call with & ji:de them come to this god-forsaken shriek so piercing as to sting be ear hole, just because it pleased my fan- of the man who was carrying hi sah >. When you have the skewer In al- “You little son of a gun, © ways be sure to turn it around. & laughed; “where do you pack AWAY believe I'm heaven-born after all. all that notee?’ eek The Lord hates a qaitter and #0 do [. ‘There Wan a atrange bond between 7 nearly quit myself onco—eit, Rajah the big yellow man an Me old top? But T made them come to green bird. The bird did not suspect pe, That's the mils in the vocoanvt, ft, but the man knew. The pluck, the the curry on the 1 They almost pagnacity and the individuality of hac me, Two rupees! It truly is a the feathered comrade had been an great world. James, I ow threo object lesson to the man, at a time hundred rupees, und 1 am going to When he had beon on the polut of agg seven hundred more. We've been throwing up the fight. fighting this old top for six years to- ‘Jal b, jah! Jah—jah—Jja-a-a-h ether, and you've been a good ser- The bird ‘began its interminable or the tantalising finger of the man, Wii) go, if you say te word.’ eB laughed again as he withdrew «ay, "sahib, I am much sorry. But the digit In time. Delhi calls, and I go. A thousand For six years ho had carried the rupees will make much business for vird with him, through India and jo in the Chandney Chowk Busma and Malacca, and not yet had “ “Just as you say. he won a sign of surrender. There Presently they hecame purple shades rs on his forefingers. 44 @ brown worl Teotvas emazing. With one pressure a 2 ; ind he coul ave crushed P i fast gif of the bird, but over its CHAPTER I uerable spirit he had no A Man Ww ith a Past. is why he loved It, aver Ay in tho past they had met, HE moontess Oriental night, te Stavored the day distinctly and fi I Ml pangicd with large and } He pitterly., Ho hed. been a, ree brilliant stars, brilliant yet oot telind terrible lonejiness had bat- mellow, unlike tho crisp beaten him fat Into the scintillating presentment tn aus from which this, ser he nee northern latitudes, might have served Haste (Wish twa station at Jaipur ag an illustration of an alr-tight bowl, tf witness the arrival of the tourlst flung down relentlessly upon this part {rain from Ahmadabad, He wanted of the world. A pall of suffocating to see white man and white wimto dust rolled above and about the Ire Tne cay Soe oe ecaretully avoided rawaddy flotilla boat which bulteted tt ma. (How he hated thé English, by the strong irregular current, their cold-blooded suspicion Of strained at its cables, now at the who were not island-bor.') The bow, now at the stern, pot dissimilar i in, with Reine ware, ad ite atiicles 8 war- to the last rocking of a deserted Pato, tiger-hunting knives (accom~ swing. ‘This sensation was quite per panied by perennial fairy-tales), ceptible to the girl who leaned over skins and silks. There wore begear® tno pow-rail, her handkorchiof press- holy men, fuldes And yefore the door ed to her nose, and gazed interestedly 4 t-class carriage Was a solemn at the steep bank, up and down which fi own man, in turban and clout, 6X- the sweating coolies swarmed like eh, Miss forming parrots. It wa Gargantuan rats, urn, He fired a cannon, “A rare old lot of dust through a little Chetwood? I wish we could travel opened y by night, but you can't trust this nna plece, carried it to his blooming old Irrawaddy after sun- ter, id in exchange received down, Charts aro so much wasto- . Thereupon he waddled paper, You just have to know the ‘gesentfully back to the iron-cage, old lady. Bars rise in a night, shift 4 ington haggled for two atr: mid-stream. What?" pours. When he returned to “I never cease wondering how those The likeness, so close at hand, sta.t- ela ringing in her ears and a flutter It was almost unbs- He was bigger, broader, his eyes were keener, but there was only one real difference: (his man was rug- ge’, whereas Arthur was elegant. was as if nature had taken two forms from the same mould and had finished His voice was not unpleasant, but there were little sharp points of harshness in it, due quite possibly to the dust. “1 am much Interested in that little T have heard about boor coolles can carry those heavy, she replied to the purser. “Oh, they are used to it,” carelessly. gray stack of paddy-bags seemed, in the eyes of the girl, fairly io her throat. to melt away. “By Jove!" exclaimed the pura “There's Parrot & Co.!" and pointed toward one of the torches. I do not under- “Parrot & Ce? but one of them. “That big blond chap behind the fourth torch. Yes, there. Sometime I'll tell you about him. arrot of yours. She could have shricked aloud, but all she did was to draw iu her breath with a gasp that went so deep it gave her heart a twinge. Usghtened upon the teak rail. denly she knew and was ashamed of It was simply a re- markable likeness, nothing more than it could not possibly be any- Still, a ghost could not oo her as this living man “On, I suppose you've heard what His eyes looked straight into hers s: “Parrot & Cow? him off to-morrow?” “I shall by verv happy t Immediatery after tired to her stateroom, conscious thi her balance needed readjusting. had heard and read reincarnation, yet here, within call of her voice, was Arthur, not the shadow of a sub- stance, but Arthur, shorn of his ele- Kance, his soft lazy voice, his half his charming indo- Why should this man’s path out of all the millions € slingly. ‘Will you show her weakness, inner she re- y eadjusting. Sh® reach Prome riably changing his ru: air chap named Warrington. might just as well be Jones or Smit! We call him Parrot & ¢ aff have another name ‘Talked of Home.” seasons he's been going up and down Ragged at times, perous at others, rags. He's always carrying that Raj- putana parro, You've seen tho kind around the pAlaces and forts: saber blade wings, long tall feathers, green and blue and scarlet, and the ugliest This one ts dreaming eyes, For two or three“ cuddenly she knelt down and threw open a kit bag, delved among the soft fabrics and silks and produced a She had not glanc at it during all these weeks. purpose back of this ap- ‘The very thing she t parent neglect. trained to do trick “But the man! He eyed her, mildly surprised. “Oh, puzzles us all a bit, you know. 1; somewhere back a from the States. in the photograph the man's beard was trimmed Valois; » man who rat next to her at din- ner had grown freely and naturally, Such a beard was out of fash- jon, save’ among country doctors. signified carelessness, indifference or a full life wherein the niceties of the razor had of necessity Keenly she searched the fam- an amazing It was unreal. the beard of shady, probably. about like this otherwise, he's rather a decent sort; no hounder Hke that rotter we left at Mandalay. He never talks about hi IT fancy he's lonesome again. pduce him to me had sore heads, No They don’t tramp iliar likeness. freak of nature! t.ssed the photograph back into the kit bag, bewlldered, uneasy. Meantime Warrington followed the purser into his for my stateroom yet,” he sald. it out at once, goon, I understand?” But I'm tn a difficulty. have nothing in change but two ru- “Why not int “Reg pardon “I'll take all the responsibility, ; you American girls are wonder of the purser was distinctly annoyed, impertinence part, but I never yet saw an Ameri- can woman who would accept advice or act upon It." “Thanks. What would you advise?” with dangerous sweetness. “Not to meet this man. 1 know nothing about him, you had a father or a brother on The purser froze visibly. was trite In his ears, “But I fancy I've rather good se- * went on Warring- He drew from his wallet a folded slip of paper and spread it curity to offe le Vant and a good friend, And I'll take pomersaults, pausing only to reach yoy with me as far as this forturo The purser stared at it, enchanted. Warrington stared down at the pur- sur, equally enchanged. “By Jove!” the former gasped fin- “And so you're the c been holding up the oll syndicate all these months? And you're the chap ome to this bully “Or even a husband!” laughing. “There you are!" resignedly. You women go everywhere, and half the time unprotected.” venture beyond the “That is true,” brightening, insist on meeting this chap?” “IL do not insist who made them landing three days ago “I'm the chap. It was altogether a new purser who “Twenty thousand pounds about, and only two rupees in your Well, well: it takes the East to bowl a man over like this. fled check on needs no further recommendation. the words of your countrymen, go as You can pay’ me in Your boy take deck-pass- ; only, 1 am bored, and he might interest me for an hour.” it may annoy purser grinned “You and the Colonel don't get on, Weil, Fil introduce this chap at din- “| am tally capable of speaking to him Without any introduction what- She laughed again, be very kind of you." ‘There were few passengers aboard, ‘There were three fussy old English maidens under the protection of a far as you like. returning the checks to the with everybody because his liver disagreed with him, Irrawaddy boats the purser 1s usually the master of cere- dining-saloon. in and his officers rarely con- ‘Now, sit down and spi: It must be Jolly interesting, “I'll admit that it has been a tough struggle; but I knew that I hgd the oil, Peen flat broke for months. to borrow my boy's savings for food Well, this is the way it runs.” Warrington told it simply, as if it were a great jok CHAPTER I11. The Weak Head. the purser told Warrington's stranger sitting quietly at her sid The chair had been vac: departure from Mandala: the purser had in regard to her It would look leas conspicuous make the introduction in this man- And she wanted to meet this man who had almost made her cry out In astonishment. "Miss Chetwood, Mr, Warrington.” This was as far as the purser would decided to be story you'll month of Sundays. just turned the trick, as you Amert- Our man has The colonel's hands of the three maidens fluttered, Warrington bowed awkwardly, he was decidedly confused, opened the door, closed it behind him, this side and that. But the days are an to mutter belligerent! all right. No dust when you get in Pre ’ “Why, that te a fortunel” ae “For some of us, yes, You se, whatever he was in the past, it was @omething worth while, I fancy. En- gineering, possibly. Knew his geol- ogy and all that, Boen wondering for months what kept him hanging around thie bally old river, Seems be found oil, borrowed the savings of his servant and bought up some land on the line of the new discov- eries, Then he waited for the syndi- cate to buy. “They ignored him. They didn’t gend any one even to Invustigate his claim. Stupid, rather. After a while, he went to them, at Prome, at Ran- goon. Thoy thought they knew bis kind, Ten thousand rupees was all he asked. They laughed. The next time he wanted @ hundred thousand, They laughed again. “Then he lett for the teak forests. He had to ii Te came back in four months, meantime they had secretly investigated. They of- fered him fifty thousand. He laughed. He wanted two hundred thousand, They advised bim to raise cocoanuts, What do you suppose he did then?” “Got some other persons inter- ested.” Right-o! Some Americans in Ran- goon said they'd take !t over for two hundred thousand. Something about the deal got Into the newspapers. The American oll men sent over a repre- sentative. That settled the syndl- cate, What they could have origt- nally purchased for ten thousand they paid three hundred thousand.” “Splendid!” cried Elsa clapping her hands. 1, he wasn't above having his revenge. He made the synidica come up there, They wired asking why he couldn't come on to Rangoon. And very frankly he gave hi They came upon one boat on another. They weren't ant, but they bought his oll-lands. He came aboard last night with a check for twenty thousand pounds , and Soe cere in his pocket. “The®two rupees were all he had in this world at the time they wrote him the check, Arabian night; what?” “Lam glad. I like pluck; I like nee; I like to see the lone man inst odds, Tell me, is he go- ing back to America?” “Ah, there’s the weak part in the chain.” " The purser looked difidently at the deck floor. It would have beon easy enough to discuss the Warring- ton of yesterday, to offer an opinion as past; but the Werrington of this morning was backed by 90,000 good English sovereigns — 100,000 American dollars; ho was a different individual, @ step beyond the casual damnation of the mediocre. “Hé gays he doesn't know what his plane will be. Who knows? Perhaps some one ran away with bis best girl. I've known lota of them to wind up out here on that account.” “To that I agree. When do we ” bout six,” understanding that the Warrington. incident was closed, “It isn’t worth while going ashore, though, Nothing to see at night.” “| have no inclination to leave the boat until we reach Rangoon.” She met Warrington at luncheon, and she greeted him amlably. To her mind there was something pitiful in the way the man had tried to {mprove his condition. Buttons had been re- newed, some with black thread and some with white; and there were little islands of brown yarn, at the elbows, at the bottom of the pockets, along the seams. So long as she lived, no matter whom she might marry, she was convinced that never would the thought of this man fade completely from her memory. Neithe the amazing likeness nor the romantic background had anything to do with this conviction, It was the man’s utter loneliness, “T have been waiting for Parrot & Co. all the morning,” she sald, “I'll show him to you right after luncheon, It wasn't that | had for- She nodded; but he did not com- prehend that ‘this inclination of the head explained that she knew the reason of the absence. She could in fancy sce the strong brown fingers clumsily striving to thread the needle. (Ana matter of fact, her imagination was at fault, James had done tho ter part of the repairing.) jab took the centre of the stage; and even the Colonel forgot his liver long enough to chuckle when the bird turned somersaults through the steel-hoop, Elsa waa delighted. She knelt and offered him ber slim white finger. Rajah eyed It with his head cocked at one side, He tumed insolently and entered his cage, Since he never suw a finger without flying at it in @ rage, It was the politost thing he had ever done, ‘The Colonel returned to his elderly charges and became absorbed In. his aged Times, If the girl wanted to pick up the riff-raff to talk to, that was hor affair, Americans were im- possible, anyhow. “How long have you been in the Orient?" Elsa asked. “Ten years,” he answered gravely. “That la a long time.” “Sometimes It was like eternity.” “I have heard from the purser of your good luck.” “Oh! He stooped again and locked the door of Rajah's cage, “I dare say a good many people will hear of it.” “It was splendid, I love to read lex like that, but I'd far rather r them told first-hand “Oh, there was nothing splendid about’ the thing. I simply hung on Then a thought struck him, “You are traveling alon “With a companion.” A pecullar question, she thought “It 1s not wise,” he commented, “My father was a soldier,” she ro- plied. “It isn't a question of bravery,” ho replied, @ bit of color charging under his ukin, Elsa ‘was amused. “And, pray, what question is it?” He was like y n afraid of making myself ob- scure, This world iy not like your world, Women over here. Oh, I've lost the art of saying things clearly." He pulled at his beard em- barrassedly, “I rather belleve I understand you. The veneer cracks easily in hot cll- Mules, man's Veneer.” / “And falls off altogether." “Are you warning me against your- “Why not? Twenty thousand pounds do not change a man; they merely @bange the public's opinion of him. res c ; For ali yor a ithe I may be the great- “But you are not.” M2 He reco; that it wae not a query; and @ pleasurable thrill ran over him. “No; there are worse men in this world than L But we are way from the point, of women trav- elling alone in the East. Oh,I know you can protect yournelf to a certain extent, But everywhere, on boats, in the hotels, on the streets, are men who have discarded all the laws of convention, of the social contravt. And they have the keen eye of the kite and the vulture.” To Elsa thia interest in her wel- fare was very diverting. “In other words, they can quickly discover tl young woman who goes about unpro tected? Don't you think that the trend of the conversation has taken rathe remarkable turn, not ae im- personal as it should be?” ‘Shall I go?" 'No, I want you to tell me some stories.” She laughed. “Don't worry about me, Mr. Warrington, I have fone my way alone since | wan aix- teen. I have travelled all over this wicked world with nobody but the woman who was once my nurse, I seldom put myself in the way of an affront, I am curious without being of an investigating turn of mind. Now, tell me something of your ad- ventures. “Well, I've been manager of a cocoa- nut plantation In Penang; I've helped lay tracks in Upper India; had a hand in some bridges; sold patent medi- cines; worked in @ ruby mine; been a haverdasher in the Whiteaway, Lald- Jaw shop in Bombay; cut wood in the teak forests; helped exterminate the plague at Chitor and Udaipur, and never save: a penny. I never hi an adventure in all my life.” “Why, our wanderings were ad- * ghe insisted. “Think of the things you could tell!” “And never will.” 4 smile breaking over his face. He picked up the parrot-cage and atrode away, “Jah, jah!" began the bird. which world their dim manner of his departure. CHAPTER IV. Two Days of Paradise. T first Flea aid not know A whether she was annoyed or amused. The man’s ac- tion was absurd, or would have been in any other man, Of course he would come and apolo- gize to her for his rudeness. That was one of the necessary laws of con- vention. Warrington, after depositing Rajah in the stateroom, sought the bench “en the stern deck. He filled his cutty with purser-loaned tobacco and roundly damned himself as a block- head. He had forgotten all the nice- ties of civilization; he no longer knew how to bebave. What if she had been curious? It was natural she should be. This was a strange world to her, and If her youth rosal-tintéd it with romance, what right had he to dis- illusjon her? The first young woman in all these years who had treated him as an equal, and he had straight- away proceeded to lecture hor upon the evils of travelling alone in the Orient! Double-dyed ass! He had been rude and impudent. $ And yet he had told her the truth, It was not right that a young and attractive should wander # about In the East, unattended save by @ iniddle-@ged companion It would provoke the devil In men who were not wholly bad. Women had the fallible idea that they could read human nature, and never found out their mistake until after they were iatiied, ile huew her kind. If ole wanted to walk through the bazaars in the evening she would do so. If & man followed her she would ignore the fact. If he caught up with her @nd spoke she would continue on us if she had not heard. If a man touched her she would rely upon the fire of her eyes. She would never call out for help. Some women were just that silly. Warrington knocked his pipe empty and returned abruptly to Elsa, He found her asleep in her chatr, ne devil which had brought bim to her side was thrust back, Why, fad was nothing more than @ beautiful child! A great yearning to brother her came into his heart, He did pot disturb her, but waited until five, that grave and sober hour when kings and clerks stop work for no logical reason whatever—tea, She openod her eyes and saw bim watch- ing her, He rose quickly, May I get you some tea?” “Thank you And so the gulf was bridged, When he returned hin set the cup and plate of cukes on the arm of her chair, “1 was very rude @ little wh WIL you accept my apologies “On conditivn that you Will ni take your playthings and go hor Ho laughed engagingly. “You've ago. sald: » knows what man- ner of man Lam? Have ye done anything that would consciep- tiously turbid you to speak to wyoung J reed woman?’ No, | haven't been that kind of a man,” simply, “L could look into my mother's eyes without any sense of shatne, if that Is what you mean,’ “That is all 1 care to know, Your mother ts living?” “Yes. Hut I haven't seen her in ten rs." His mother! His brows met frown, His proud, beautiful mother! here has been a deal of chatter about shifty, untrustworthy eyes,” he un said, “The greatest Hara | have ever known could look St, Peter straight and se} y in the eye. It's a mat ter of steady nerves, nothing more, Homebody says that so and so ts @ fact, and we go on believing It for years, until some one who 1s not person but an Individual explodes it." “Do you go home from Rangoon, now that you have made your for- tune?” “No. Iam going to Singapore. 1 shall make my plans there,” Singapore, Elsa stirred un ly. It would be like having a ghost by her # She wanted to tell him what bad really drawn her interest, ORLD By Harold McGrath. MAN ON TH Legg to her that the moment Little by little she rushed ashore to find » Hig social re- was way went for anything. It was etirrin and tingling with life again. tt the money advanced b: Pome shirts and coll no wai re- ly in time to dress for Paradise for two whole days! pro to make the most of it, ie mind was as clear of evil simply want. joungin, club.) Ail thie it could be. ‘I’ sometimes works out a mane And it marked the end of rington's recidivation. When he reached his lodging-heuse landiady, as a forest spring. H ed to play;'to give rein to the lighter emotions eo long pent up in bis two chikiren, set- ‘arrington a men- extraordinary resembiance Peal to Bisa, with she could only imagine, she vertured to he sought the Burmese Warrington spread out @ Ovi note and laid ten sovere! re,” he said genially, Paid up to date,” apbier touching the note, Bit for your patience and Bigg. the emile leaving Scat ad ‘soneetr. fie “You go ‘way? her pretty moon-| yee ‘m in search of happiness. Thats the Valley of Diamonds, find ‘that, Martha, you may fold your in peages: nt'ft inay be soon! I hate the Juat begtin to love it.” CHAPTER V. Back to Life. SHE two days between Prome and Rapgoon were distinct- ly memorable for the subtie “You like? with a indicated eee, an jalf an’ He shook his het by picked up the mo in her hand, “Goo'-by!" softly, ‘Oh, I'm not going wat) The smile returned to her her body bent in a kind of Bee 7) was #o big and his bear eee eat om ee Shwe 6 understood. The white to the white and t! Brown: vee ie he brown te the arrington went up to hie room, He was welcomed by A screech from hen aos ie 8 @ dignified salaam ‘om James, who was trim — of the oll-lamp, oe ames applied a mate! and the general poverty, of the room was instantly made manifest old sober-to; are up and part lil ‘| am always the Sabib's good “Right as rain!" Warrington emp- tied his pockets upon the tabi and gold and paper, man and woman. graces of mind and manner which had once been the mai find expression. became soft and mellow; bis © became full of emphasis; grew less and | more leonine. At last they reached Rangoon. “Will you come and dine with me to-night?” ebe asked, as they left the Physically, bis voice clumsy, more and of ne ke ood friendate “No, Miss Innocence.” “That's ailly. know here.” . * “But,” gravely he replied, “there are many here who know me,” There ten't a soul I worth a tinker’s Hola bre ‘Mixty-neven.” “Seventy or “Frankly, U ought not to be seen Genre a ose tele ueRe and sovereigns never Eas Calmly, then, J n the required sum. vy, Sahib,” he cot tig 3 Ho your hands "You go back home?" 6 “Yeo, Something like home Tam going to Paris, where good go when they die. drink vintage wines, eat trui pretty girls im. Mexia’ one heen y girls im'a, n prison for ten yeara, I Warrington flung Jungies, dese: heat and thirsty winds! “Where's the harm?” “For myself, none. On the boat it ,. 4id not matter eo much, It was a situation which neither of us could forenee nor prevent. I have told you t that people here look askance at me hecayse they know nothing about me, ave that I came from the States. And they are wise. cad if I accepted your invitation to dinner.’ “Phefi, 1 am not to see you again?” The eile would have lured him across three continents, row, | promise to call and have tea with you, much against my better I should be don't want to come"— “Don't want to come!” Something in hia eyes caused Elsa “Good-by until “Tho thib has the unimaginative “That's the word; burning up. fever,” observed Eurasian. to-morrow.” She gave him her hand for @ mo- inent, stepped into the carriage, which already held Martha and the luggage, and then drove off to the Strand He atood with his helmet in his A fine warm rain was fallin, but he was not conscious of It. Mr. Hooghly hat ‘already off toward the town, the kit-bag and the valixe slung across bi the parrot-cage bobbing at his side. He knew where to 0; lodging for men tn the heart of the business section, known in jest by the derelicts as Th Warrington, go to the boat and give the purser these alx gove- Here are three more. Go te the Strand and get a battle of cham. agne, and bring some ice, Buy @ box of the best cigars, and hurry back, Then put this junk in the trunk, And curse the emell James raised hin hand From the adjoining room @ound of a quarrel. “Rupees one hundred and I want it now, “But I told you Up until the first of the month.” oun had e business to jen, if you knew you couldn't settle.’ “Who asked me to t couldn't. square if prolonged, us, put on his A helmet and_ proceeded irmay ‘To-day waa Wei hursday week he would sail for Singapore end close the fore banking ‘hours were over, financhiVaffairs were put in order and he walked forth with two letters of banknotes and gold to carry him around the world, if. he so planned, @ pawnshop and laid down a dozen mutilated tickets, receiving in return handsome watch, buttons, sore stick-pins, some pearls, autitul old ruby ring, @ ¢ of the young Maharajah of Udaipur, nelent Chinaman smiled. was @ rare occasion. his dark and dingy sho. got the money.” “You miserable little welcher! . ie hes a@ hundred and “You'll never get your dirt; fingers inside of that.” . “Ob, I shan't, eh?” Warrington heard a ‘was presently followed choking soh. He did not know whe occupied the adjoining room. been away for weeks, and th been no permanent boarders He rushed fearlessly inte ‘her room. Pinned to the wall young man with a weak pale The other man presented ing more than the back of hi road muscular shoulders, one welght and height was sui rouse Warrington’s sense of fair Besides, he was in a rough 7 the collar ie jen't worth while to kill a man for @ handful of rupees, He used his strength, his victim swung in @ balf circle and crashed to the floor, & snarl and an oath, to his feet Warrington. chapter, Be- Next he visited emerald cufft- “Much, money, Can do now?" roplled Warrington, elip- usures Into a pocket, the Chinaman, Ho rolled a wandarin’s ring carelessly “Here, that'll do, the heavier man Let 60, yo yd heavy; velly old, velly. good. ling.” "The man and “What does it say!” rington, pointing to the characters, luck and plospelty; good signs.” It was an Unusually beautiful ring, unusual in that tb Warrington of asked War- gambler aprui 1 no setting o 1 three sov~ stopped short. od Lord!” be murmured; and ted until he touched the foo! board of the bed. 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