The evening world. Newspaper, May 12, 1914, Page 17

€ The Evening World Daily Magazine, Tuesday, May 12, 1914 UEST OF A “MAGIC” DIAMOND BIGGER THAN THE KOH.I-NOORY By Beatrice Grimshaw}. ====Author of “ WHEN RED GODS CALL,” Be. ——= ; _— O00 2000000 is (Ca, SARE, ty Ge Jobe ©, Wien 09) = “'T think he cannot,” answered the where Mo has got to with the dia- “The Gertrude,” I eald, treading here a few days, and unless he saee I hig digging as I apoke, spading © cstéter of fortane, aocepte carvice to oct Marquis cautiously. “But we can see mond.” sharply on his too, He took the hint onaig A doing a ee ou bd loose @oll in big lumpa, « ” nd ave been opening up his bag. Yo rowing it out of the way. The Mars Gr © cigntly and amasing Presch Mat- him through these cracks. W! "l demand of you, don’t we jolly angelically. know he waa aby of that, anyhow.” quis, again with hie Marquisat FX a at oe chance! What chance!” well know he is here?” asked tho a Gortrude, sho is coming first,” “Point one: It was probably not alr, took up the other pg Oo cant te 0 “dem bag” sound bis cet It Is long ago now, but to this day Marqu “Wasn't it on (he cause of contributed the Greek, watohing, discovered that he had tha ato: Joined tn. told him not to worry, ‘@emmed Meme then te Kohiqow. Mo I am vexed when I think how easily that that we are come from Kata- “There ts a native diver on da Gers Sera ie whee weet fener the atone bie og ye be fitting © peated oe the greasy old villain took us in— Kata right off, as goon as wo aro trude, he owe mo threo pound nine. “uAyain, not knowing. But I reckon man of France if I should jet ; gam, "ieee nie OA aoe 3) ‘ben BOW readily we dropped into his found that he ts taken fright and teen shillin’. I hope he is not dead” he did. There'd be room on hia chest commit this sin for me and not sia on a pearling vessel to get “A Malay?” I asked. below the coralot—that’a the breast- also,” he said. 1 thought that if the Ania yt ile ills ode Prager agrdohdd one va bagel) “AN plato thing that extends over the measure of hia iniquity were to Mores, aware of our visit the day before, away before the magistrate and our- Min aba Wala ale Ho Ly diver'a shoulders and cheat, to keep calculated by the amount of diggt ‘i, ‘ Rumen ageq, ond jumps that he guessed we would come again, aetves should come back to punish dat jo. © promise, nO of water pressure. And if he didn’t he got through, it needn't trouble hi ‘Gen, Toe Gee to tever, Late thst had returned early in order to hurry him?” Wie Th euga f thie ck Gb cae CORTE Oe RTE San Ween pocumiat oat aan valu Ly my jot ve mn he caught a Sos ow carnteres ce ne oo Ont us out, had left the trap door open “We don't know," Keatd, “We only If he t# dead, 1 make da owner pay [ninly veloel the (nin captain maya apade and fell almost on top of ‘tut etthost epesting.—atatns signs to at 19 Order that we might go through it guessed. You remember when the he usually took some charm to keep It pleased him and @id not harm an: and watch him underneath the house —had indeed planned the whole thing from start to finish—never occurred to either of us at the time, though, indeed, we might have guessed that the chief sorcerer of the ohief town of sorcery riddied Kata-Kata was not likely to be quite so simple ae he seemed. At any rete, there we stood in the dark under the house, looking breath- Wo tramped down together through sate.” one—least of all police had burned the town and Killed tn6 juening aun to the wooden Jetty, "Good, Point three: How shall poor black wreck beeen oe the pigs, and all the people bad 14M in, Gertrude camo in firat, and We do this aacrilege, since It te con- ates our spa off into the bush, being well cared Gasryy the Greek was into a dingey (Oy Aly ya, tik 8 amt about fa fan they deserved to be—that WAS ang over her gunwalo bofore ehe had the ghee are dark an” chesugh ect by ee Pe when wo heard from our boys that time to drop anchor. In a minute there'ssan hour or two of moonlight to'my antoniahment, that’ whete Mo wasn't there at all; but they Only iy reappeared, with a face of demon. Just Now—go over to the cemetery eigg | mignt discover in the gra inew he'd gone down to the coast.” jac fury; apat violently ever the inland in & canoe by ourselves, and there was no heavy metal helmet and “But we ourselves—we knew that the counter, curaed the ship and all in creep, doosn't 12" a Het fice’ no warts Wat a pearler vessel had been recruiting her in at least four different tan- Vreap, but I think of my beauti. Sjl8nt now. no matter what, | along that voritable coast; that euf- guages, and jumped into his boat fl ateau in Indre-et-Lotre, all ¢, 4 pelned, saa ty Goibee, Wao WG) “ane” one Croeest Wns oe fices, since the boys have wald that again. Fulned, and my moter debut little There is no need to sa peri Aaiey Ms, And 30 ow ly Mo recruited once @ long time ago “Lost your money?” 1 usked, as money for the candies she will burn ive ace’ tt ‘erat aaything i Htle ao @e tacurti It. saad ' to Thursday Island, and knows the the dingey shot up to the steps, in church at my safety in travelling, . a 3 c by Jove, old chap, I say to Alme diving. George the Greek did not reply, and then, grave had been opened, that the proof of the pudding A “One can't tell he didn’t merely go Otherwise than by stating, In KroRS fweepe clean, as your excellent Kng- feared: that the body had been res off into the bush," Inaid. “I'd rather &P4 in detail, the things he would do lish proverbs make it, and I decide i tain the belmet and with considerable violence, and he bad. A man who goes among a 1° the owner of the (ertrude—should ‘veil, your proverbs are original, Whatever ciao there might be in Jot of peariers with a rough diamond fortune favor him with @ chance. The Marky, but [ don't know that they [avaged tomb of Mo, ex-sorcorgp about him that he doesn't know the OWNer of the Gertrude, mean time, a haven't a queor sort of sense of thelr Done Kata town, diamond there value of isn't likely to keep it long— flr, flushed, bloated man, who own. A pudding this size ought to 5 things clean—if you will You migbt think that the Mara if he keeps his life he's fortunate.” Seemed to have been drinking, and to FNC? et way. And we're not and I would have been knocked o ow. have arrived at the pathetic at ( that by this. We weren't a bit. We "We shall know on to-morrow, Pathetic #tage, breaking any of God or man re when the fleet comes in for Sunday.” !eaned over the counter and called I know of, In taking « diamond from disappointed: but we had been diss “Don’ Im,” [Out to George to “let the poor biighter * corbae that dida’t know what to do sppointed about the sorcerers Don’t go asking after him, 7 with it when he was alive, and before, and the chances of getting It warned. “Best leave it to me. We're Test In ‘Is blooming grave, and don't goean't need it now.” were not much worse now than tl playing for a big stake. My word, go bringin’ bad luck on yourself by = “You have much wisdom, Flint,” had been on our arrival. Samaral, @ Almost at once, I underatood that t I First of all, he took the long bam- boo off bis breast—it hed accom- panied him to the river to-day, seemingly—uncorked the top, and looked cautiously in. We could not aco what was inside. He put his palm over the opening, and with the other hand drew toward him one of the large clay water pote standing on the floor, These water pots narrowed to a mouth about four inches across; some of them hed baked-clay lids on the top. He chose one thet had a moment, he gave ® tere ng, uncovered it, and dropped some- | THE MARQUIS| -*pl oS Marky, it's big one! All the money cursin’ the dead.” sald the, Maraula, Quite, Gravely nie sight of every one cise all tee Gaal Fite ory, leaped right onto my Bed, thing in. DOING THE / for everything we want all the rest “Hoe got no grave!” shouted George, @iat we have to wait and do nothing, and no calling steamer due, it and me and himself Whero hud he produced it from? WAR : of our lives—and we can’t afford to with much bad lauguage. (He seemed Truly, hopo deferred makes 4 long about as good a hunting ground together in 020 my man was Ike a conjurer. I had excite suspicion. These pearier folk to think It a very mean circumstance ‘raine.” Tan sak th hese, MOU T tale ed a i time, didn't mean to lose heart if thi not seen anything in his hand a mo- keep their eyes skinned, I can tell that Mo should have no grave.) “He ene aes only ® week, before { looked twice as black. So I told ¢! ment before—but it was undoubt- you; they live by that le dere at bottom of da sea, like one thought the nights were dark enough pi Mae | a set hans edly tho great diamond that he off. 1 pulled its head away then and Koppl Koko, who was squatting on “A atitch In time Is as good ae & lobst to carry, cut out plan. 1a the Diasing ren ooored, 12 prove, law Ee dropped into the jar. Teven heard it threw it on the floor. I had had & the ground close to us, chewing betel- mile. I comprehend your warning «pont you make no mistake,” re- dering native would without doubt dance of the pricsts in “Athalie” tinkle against the hard clay bottom J0ok at it and saw that there was nut most contentedly. “That purl- and leave It to you,” sald the Marquis Tt v! rossing the Straita to the way back to the shore. only one thing to do. url man, he take him snal Joined the captain with drunken grav. have seen us ¢ an it fell. The Marquis, in his ex- Give me thn knife,” I sald. ‘The time ‘long one bamboo, -c with what one might call (for the ity, “He's here in the cabin, wrapped te cemetery ieland, even if no white Mot} Nit always fecleaand Ot mee Citement, pinched my arm so bard Marquis guve it und. as I'am allve, along him chest, want of @ better term) hin most Mar i, “hig drons, an wo took the poor Man, spied We. tevice Hut it was the dance they ought to have dome, -¢ that it was black and blue afterward. be was crying 1s he did. “That accounts for the milk of the quisatorial air. “Ihave all confidenc® tighter up, and he'll be buried irksome to ned «wonder and and didn't. 5 I knew he was simply bolling with _ There was nothing to make a fuss cbcoanut,” I sald. “What a pair of in you." J ; any one, by any Next morning, as might have beew ewired, lookiag at me with the fixed 6.44 about. I had the top joint of the babies to be scared by a stick with '® you. ‘ t Samaral, PToPer, Just as he ix, No one can say knew aa ‘much as expected, we were both ef a man who has had a CO‘KOd-UP speech, and I wondered finger off in two cleun ‘chops. And a snake in it, hopping about! Of | There was a new slies Oe + 1 don't treat my divers decent, dead So know ouraelves, the sort eqgremion cite nana BOW tong he could hold on. there is no finger a man can spare course, the thing heard people and kept by @ Grek named George. It 9) oie Good Joe Gilbert: that's “Weill, the moonless nights came lows a * otk. “I know only tha: Now the sorcerer, after a hurried better than the left-hand third. was trying to get loose.” had divers gear in it, also pearl shell, $ ¥ known as, and that's what Tound, and the evening I had fixed consequence were somewhat de fteelf was laid upon me, I tied it up and put a sort of “Yes, and the snake—the cold snake the dartevArat tt haa touched 10K Found the empty house (he tourniquet on, Then vpremembered that was the touch of death last curios, cards, fen pacar pe then my heart where aly Was a splendid actor), removed the diamond—it was not so strange night—not?” knives, I had heard something for the heat.” his palm from the top of the bam- that I'd forgotten it for a minute “Very nearly,” [ said. “The gen- George himself, in my journeyings epee ele ne eat’, boo, and inverted it over the jar, We OF two, all things, considered—and gyal emash you made saved your life, about the north conste of Australia, ut my right hand into the jar tha’ . ‘| ’ getting a bottle Could seo by his motions that he was Pee Tate Heli much an unpleasant "And the little beautiful, and the “nd I didn’t think Bim morn to ut of one of our swags. pouring something from the one to occupant. I pulled out—not the dia- Plece cut out of her belt—yes, now the society of Samaral, ul as what upon arrived. It was Haturday, when pressed. Tam." Ho took a bottle out of bis Treckoned that the xreater part of — If George the Greek had known Pocket and inverted tt on his nose, Hamaral would be drunk and not in the diamond he would have, got a con lon to notics ny one’s move- away im lo by fraud or _E waited until George had gone off. Tents very closely. I had not adopt- long before our afrival in Samaral ej cursing, and thon got aboard the 1Ug- eda disguise, which the Marquis wan Mo's unlucky death. He would have ger. ‘The captain, on hearing that I very anxious for me to do. I ex- got it, if he had had to out the Was collectiag curios for the Marquis, Diained to him that one might am soreerer to pleces, alive. rf i i the other; it seemed to come slowly, mond, but a bit of common stone One sees all,” said the Marquis, mus- the latter was. well hope to diacuine the keeper of But if George the Greek did not a s done, he put the clay cover on the , Th® sorcerer had us again. No jg \interesting, What adventures!” before the boats came In. Is ea clatiaee “fee mS COMBESS Cm Che sotty Bk doubt he had palmed the jewel, some- * «t'"f of the odds and ends we had already away. And the elephant itself, I that he did not), why should be dig : . Jar, shook the empty bamboo, y OF o| Hhen'"eet ke no stock in adventures,” I I bought some of his rubbishing . added, couldn't be made to look like the body up? "SL was not asleep: you will re br ok pty and how or other, when setting his trap. said. “I'd rather keep out of them. curlon for a commencemont, taking Seer lay in a corner of tho little fore- Civihing but an elephant. In the hot, sleepy hours of the aft- ¥ clasped your hand. And threw it down. T was feelinig a bit sick, what with But 'T reckon, somehow, ¢ROre's TOTS eee oe eae had a castle. I scarcely expected to find © ‘me conclusion was obvious, We ernoon. we went down to Geor : thing was death, I know, be- After this he produced a small lise of blond! and the small amount ahead before we get that stone.” a1" 1? tourist In tow, as What I was looking for there, and I did not diaguise, little ahanty, feeling more , di ried cause in th tne where it ia all trade looking glass, olled his hair, {ion tetore I tok. the finger of, T ? dpb iaocipiioe ne hy Roammgel did not, After purchasing one or two 4, 1v)in to apades and & pick in the now than either of us would have I knew well George the Greek wasn't bottom of a good, double-outrigged c Petra is nothing cold at Put feathers tn It, painted his face, was sure now that we had not a CHAPTER III. likely to suppose I wanted the ature Dt# of carving at @ price that Put canoe, we wet out quietly from the “Athen happened that which put touched me took his bag of charms off the wall, chance of getting the stone—as Tr t the transac. ‘86 captain In @ good tempor, I asked beach in the atariit dusk, not too starch into both of us, as quickly slung a tall bow on his shoulder, and things were. Mo was thoroughly ‘he Empty Diving Dress, ‘08 myself. And I made tho tr him if that was all the Papuan bad early and not too late. There was ‘ Ba “AL 1 ” 1, “uns quia terribly. IW ing there isthe pleas. te too- (Of course, T banded it over, “All (hat I know of," he sald, une aula terripiy. 1 think he would Rave ant gloom, by the fresh, t the Marquis afterward.) und wat cducum tearee ea fivrien salt-amelling straits, the BY this time the ittle beast was tun’ Hie neck lm Wa mtornaeh fr y gum, my friend, they Sigh! somewhere; let's go and eee,” ea the Marquis. i as if the thermometer had dropped wap awake, and there was nothing for it tlon seem natural by demanding a not the leaat diMculty about it, which i Rate! Have Whistled to his dog. It was plain put to retreat—for the present. bhp? fn Bamaral Island oc ontage on the sale and getting “** fact Lam nure disappointed the Mar- pint, eres We heard 4 row bes eemne whiskey,” I sald, pouring it out, that he was going hunting—probably “Wait till I come back with an R. td “. ‘escaped; that's what I courting also, the two occupations M. and a score of armed native con- “Tes, 1 am cscaped stabulary, you heathen beast,” 1 said thoughtfully, “That is good whiskey; deal in the Papuan forests, 1 aE ee eee hin face and wear a kK, and wriggle on @oh’ comprehend,” said the Marquis often mixing and overlapping @ good m the hotel to the i “Ita wolng to be the fathor of @ nd have halt a di re . that warms the muscles of the heart, We waited. We waited till Mo and “we , ede ug Marquis and I pursued our quest of quite pleasant and friendly, and dine (Oy ae eee ew iittle faster, and Malays chase hits eiettavaltere a a hensennm Fiint"—-with a sudden revival—"you his dog and his bow and his bag “Saee the carriers tonether for the Breat stone that wo had seen in Posed t0 ae “What was that?" I asked. We grounded on a white 4 cannot but must allow this {s the had disuppeared down the village “very devil interesting!” street, pale and unsubstantial in the } ‘Couldn't tell ; some of their had heard were rising into a with all ihe people away. if Kata-Kata, and that had already there was a man in New Guinea 7 Naht, and made our way up to the nd 5 cist the carriers together fF the charm bag of Mo, the Sorcerer of It came upon me right then that if beach that shone faintly in the star- ,or the shouts and stamps that p 5 me! of yells, punctuated by crashes, we stay on there'll be a row to-night nearly cost us our lives. likely to give us trouble about that *rcerer’s charms. Most like, a bone Fs! ney along a dark overgrown by shrill screams from one N re were rather sleepy in the morn- glaring overhead sun. We walted as sure as Fate, and the Government " any beenth of the OF © aueer Dis Of consi. Bis brother voice, It was not 8 womaa'’s . . a I like this Samaral,” observed tho stone (should any th of the ; 1 do not think olther of us tho ) rt exactly like the ordi pb, ing, I remember—the effect of the another ten minutes after. Silence: don't lke unofficial people to do It# si tauis, treading along the tinkling secret creep out), there be stood— Would tle it on for him; most time inore than we could help of the Rent is Ie wae eeae eae having worn off. Ihad an klea tho village slept beneath the fiery Killing for it. We'll come back, and 8, he went down he'd have something rible task we had come to do. , : ve them what-for with the chill off, gravel of the path with the lightness George the Greek. ‘ I, for qualtty in it that 1 seemed to recog Of two as to what course we had best enchantment of noon; the birds were Beet don't do that or Nature had oddly linked to his enor- We didn't get our talk after all, + a AMAA a he'd be praying to (on ay cane yee big . foulow for the capturing of the stone; voiceless in the forest; the giant — For the Marquis was hanging round mous bulls, "Se sinull that you fo Before the Greek had done locking N!# devils before he started, to kee How many carats waa it? <T Won And Themen tonrune the Marguad but nothing could be done before mid- leaves hung still, my neck—a pretty solid weight—and MOUs Dull “he small ian nour: Up, the natives raised a ory of “Sall- SWAY the sharks. Seoms to mo he n an to run, the ; i dered. We were all familiar with coming after as quickly as he cgay. Bo I and the Marquis kept “Now!” [ said, and we crept back had already kissed me loudly on both to beautiful that it resembles a dream O!” and we ran out to see If by got the wrong sort of prayer under the photographs of the great Cul- which was quicker than you ‘Watch for each cther to sleep, and we through the trap-door. My" brave retainer!" he suid, with of heaven. ‘This place Is Eden, my chance it was the fleet. ‘The hour “AY: bis devils kept away the sharke On eas then. t think, if you hed never seen hive tm got ina good three hours aplece be- For a moment we stood silent in the tears in his voice (I reckoned he ¢riend.” was too early. I scarcely expected right, but they didn’t take no care action. ‘ ’ . pared with thnt, George's shanty, when we reached fore noon. Then we set forth. lonely house, the acene of Satan alone Meant Preserver, but it was all one). “Tus, ait the steamer passengers anything but some astray cutter up Sbout divers’ paraiyais, and that’s large 1 it, ‘was Invisible except for the Foote We gained the sorcerer’s house know what deviltries, Tho hideous ywr'st san ute that you have saved? say,” I anawered, “If you'd aeen from Port Moresby or the ast. aa eos Mos: He wee Seed aed the world. fay. three hundred In ‘Tho reat had disappeared under a ser® Sqithout being seen and slipped into the dancing masks grinned at us from” "l told you what to do Just pow,” I somo of the ludies of Samarat punch- — But it waa the fleet—two hours be- 00S Nyt Tus Nl We Sil MES How much would It be worth? How black’ white and yellow, were shoving “@qel interior, gasping like creatures the wi the mfulls showed their Sad. “Get the carricrs under way, ing one another's heads with um- fore its time. We saw the thin masts UP, 8nd be must have lost his alr, a8 many tons of thousands? And who end fighting in front of #, all appare that find water after drought. teeth, "Tho sorcerer's bamboo lay on T want to drink some brellas in front of Bunn’s Hotel, or pricking like black noedies against he's all Jammed into the helmet and would buy such a contly gem? ently ‘moved by one d¢sire—to gee Jewhat a day!” choked the Marquis, {h0 {cer embly, open, defying us to MTP Ty and it did me good. I was watched half the people of the town the aky, a long way off, as we stood Corselet, and we can't get it off. mene ae tee (ory carey Ma inside. From within the store th a whisper—we feared, somehow, to feat’ stood ihe wate at SUF SFY anio to’ walk almost ax well as usual going off in boate on Sunday after- among the trails of pink beach con- "TRADKS” 1 sald, picking UP mY pmalier atones, since purcha the owner's frantic yells, mi taik aloud. “You may have thankful- splayed mouth covered only by the ! half an hour [ slung my arm UP yoon and all rowing away from each yolvulus, looking Into the Straits. purchases. I'l go and take these to so fow. ‘Thera were the millionaires lth language that really wae ees that you are as lean asa herring, lid of baked clay, ina long sheaf of grass, and We Set oie. you maybe reckon the Eden Woe saw the hulls rise up above the the Marqu of America—and the rajahe of India. iauing. even for a Greek. And the ’ ff fram the village as hard as we crashing and smashing and t. If you had my weight’— —g, Yara prize really In our gragp Could, keeping a lookout for am- part was wearing @ little thin. seuline, and the shapes of the little I found him waiting near the And It would take the very blexest of went on and on, getting louder. He at down on the floor to cool off hand and took it back—stopped, le bushes all the way. But the noonday you've never lived on coral islands; vessels appear, and the: Greek's, looking at the things dis- Helping each other as two stro! when we got ft. 4 ‘ , hh lay on all the forest and the ” “Dey' half-masted said the Played in the window. Among them 1 didn‘ men can, the Marquis and I '--and it promptly gave way beneath tened. * © © hush . A fy ign of £ have. ey're au didn't say if we mot it. T was hi throw the him, I hauled him out with some | There certainly ras a sound some; Hagky and there was not @ SiBM OF wt shut my eyes for what 1 do not Greek. was @ diving dress complete; a great determined that we should get It somehow tRronen tee Cee 4 fe place. y ere hour or two like, and look at the reat in@ strange “Half-masted!" repeated the Mar- Copper and gun-motal helmet joined We had no lanterns with us; the of divers. a albecinghade ti Ra tas esis, 28,2 Saud BO GAY Oxeerly what It away T halted fora rest; the Dito Wis novelty ike this: 1am not the new quis, who had just turned up, the to & wide breast plate or “corselet Maght of the stare wae enough for a nats the’ row, Bob?" f yelled + looking at it. “Seems to be meant for near, It was—— What tn the namo ae a eo te and by now broom that never rejoices,” replied dance being done, “But that signi- leaden-soled boots; rubber-cloth body. fo ieeee Re haait,” ge op tar eho toroeeh te og Be 4 diver sam. a hurried getaway in case of trouble, Of, iM tN ae oe this! outed tat there was no danger the Marquis, twiating the proverb In flay death! a : Did you seo that dress?” I asked, who have lived long in New Guinea, his hand and wag smashing the wine “Not @ bad idea, I wonder how he tne Marquis suddenly und aimprue prtell me What wat etl thded the a superior tone, “We are come here "That's right,” I said, “Some one as we walked on. “Mo's inside of I guessed where the diver must dow frame of the store, the window on @ counfounded dangerous and frag- in the fleet's dead. That's why they one just like it, jammed tn tight. I have been buried: there were not panes having long since gone. Inside came to leave it open. dently. (L judge that he bad heard rty, and have their didn't eee him, but I have seen that M2ny Aultable spots left. We stum- I could see the Greek literally tearing “4 ‘OPP! m1 og at my side - We looked about us, The bamboo it too, and it and other things Marquis, dropping on a log at my ine Ore Wkhe his. hat. ile mission, therefore we need all are coming hom: tf if und fanni bled along among the overgrown, ~ hed staat had given us auch an unpleasant "Ot On his nerves," as woine und fanning hiinselt wien but I the refreahness we can xet for our flagn half-masted, Look, you can sort of thing before. ‘The face ts all neglectad mornds, dentitute of name teen any ome yg EM on the day before was NOWNETS goon Yor Hrakce my braver” cite WONG nat dIatUED YoU mown minds” see now—every boat's got It. flattened out against the glasses of or stone to mark them out one from thought only people in books aid 6o— ofp be seen, Otherwise the house was mado a dart at the Jar and snatched jy ira tay I know other districts Well, admire the acenery all you “What wae the Hame of the boat the helmet"— another, and found what | was look- and trying to got away from Big Cast, “the same, Still—whether it was the off the lid. Kata-kata nat know ather ied uke, E aald, “though 1 don't see that came recrutting?” asked the ‘Enough, enough!” cried the Mar. IOK fons new, bare grave. f think ho haa we: } Setfest of the alarm in’ the night or ere ree (now whet if ba amitiate have happened at al. The wane how it 1s going to help you to find out Marquis. quis. T struck a match and looked to make like the serpent in the tates Tua y, ‘ u t have been foreseen. “ . ” op ies ¥ o: oly the discouragement that al- you ever see a brown flash of lght- thing milan heard silly yarns about It isn't enough,” I said. . I've got ue name I can't remember. oe i A ‘treads close on the heels of ex- ning get up from the ground and tp) yf the country, but I didn’t to explain, for a reason, Well, being dropped the match and stamped All the di who could get inte Y . eited hope—I did not feel that we strike? believe them, they seemed 80 exage lke that, there's no getting them out °",!¢ the store were inside, and they were t out of were wearer our goal. Rather, I felt! know, and I had seen just such geratcd—and they quite w. of the dress without cutting them to quis,” [ said, “we're done" very busy indeed, wrecking it with Are You Going Away for the Summer? re thing before. So I didn’t have to my " ow, for T was hardly A and volee sounded strange in my tomahawks, The counter was gone fusther away. 1a, MOP and think, | * cclime Marquis cee BOT Tien I did hear they pieces, 40 i's the custom of the div> ownearn ant spoke,’ | US the ahelves, were firewood, the, euriog t must look,” said the Marquis, got my punch fair in the chest; it hut ['ve remembered them to-day." F ng trade to bury them as they are. ney are before us” cried the . there <4 ' Daterganty id not shure my dis doubled him up and sent him halt Jat were they, then?” sae When you go out of town for He sumer you may find st I$] Mo will bo buried this afternoon over Marauls, golng down on hie knees by Went, some lndistinguisheble frag. ; Pr across the house. My right hand «People— natives, | mean--sald tha ; ide yourself. wi ri adin Poechia ek grave. "A match!" , white! a # qopragement. “You will look one side Doing” chus occupied 1 hadn't time the Kata. Kata worcerces know how to difficult and costly to provide you the right sort of reading | at the cometery teland. And—and— » good,” I wuld, atriking one, sgemed to aronse the special Rate rt , of the house, I will look the other, to attend to my left and it got in tame snukes and make them matter. Anything he may have had on his howover, for a moment, “You nea Of the invaders, | fob, too, Mlle t t ‘and before Mo will come back"—— the way. It was on the firat Joint dgxs, and that the brutes would bite Why send to the city for novels at $1.25 or $1.50 each or buy} person when he died will be buried how the ground'a trampled—and the a Te ve mod inte’ the Meee af ‘He did not finish the sentence, for of the third finger that the snake phy one their masters told them to. Ti. ab 4 fancy price in some country store? with him. And, Marky, the captain rave hae rtainly been dug up, and ing immediately he began hackdi \ * - to the Sot me. He held on like a bulldog. The scorcerera would get a bit of a ts ¢ rm n very roughly afterward, away at the metal on the floor, nt ‘yn the long ladder leading to the “Now, 1 must have knocked the Wind man's clothing, taken next his skin You can supply yourself with the best, most delightful summer J 'o!4 mo he usually went down with We'll open it, of course, bu earay tthe metal oe ae an {oor (Mo's house was the bighest in pretty wall out of the Marquis in where it had the scent of his body. | reading for six cents a week. somo sort of a charm round his n “They wold make & Krave of a ike e divers corselet. + Fatbee 4, the village) came, at that moment, a throwing him out of the way as I and worry and tease the snake with a ' fe he hs | Ant the diamond'a not among h native roughty! They would trample “| wanted to know what it was all he ‘ creaking ste) did, but you never saw a man re- jt so that it would know the smell By subscribing to The Evening World for the summer mont aonb that ba tabs akin” about It! about nnd Ga no one netmaal aaa * Mewiy ud ny cover quicker, He was up on his and hate it, And then they sald the | you will secure a complete novel each week. Not some old book a prot a ot on the top of it, Mark. When posed’ to stop long enough to tell me, ‘With one consent we dived through fret bofore one would have time to scorcerer would let loose his snake at J = 1 prt th to-date fictl First 1t ta to discover,” ho sald, you're burying @ man, black or white, F “out out” by main ip Gertepedoor and pulled It flat after (sir it, Me had got avgreat steal hight in, tha hous of the man he | country dealer has not Ceen able to seli, ort the finest up-to-date fiction | wneener any ono has found out you don't stamp over hia head. No, man knew ond bauled him halt re tai Thon we halted under the house, sleasing knife gown from fhe wall wanted to kill, and the brute would by the foremost living authors, A about the atone, What do you YOu take my word for Mt ‘we've lost across the street. He swore at a, fm ‘and looking eagerly. evidently mf a of coastal bite him, and the sorcerer would g¢' Bear this in mind, not only for yourse! but for any your friends } think?" this riok. ut even {f we have, and tried to fight, but I held o trading) in two seconds or there- it take it h ain befo he MA t we've not lost the me. Remember, be A wy! 7 De doesn't sec us"—I whia- ahoute and had slashed tho snake was'seen’) | SH re | who expect to spend the summer in the country. ‘0 knowing a ran, Eo, nen sone ie am Tantd, “but I think we're on an island, and there fan't what t ‘ow is about,” not, on the whole, Mo had only been a boat for another fortnight.” To Re eaettieekS THE PRINCE AND BETTY By P. G. 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