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TONE | by Beatrice Grimshaw HOVCUCOC00000000000000000 ae 000600 OO 00000 our ship had sunk and that we de- op. It smetied of front ofit. The Marquis and 1 both tntorior, right at the bottom of the our re. “ sired to go to the Government sta- sold bay, damp and had our hands ready upor forests, Judging our direction by com. realised that Gilbert's divers n°. tion on the other side of the range. rain; and you vou se » volver butta, we needn't have pass and by the rise of the ands were dead 5 . Ie the men would guide us there, I tain clouds curling and w: I it nly the that had Up at once Bal itera verti ies ‘ ; MS said, the Government would give through the eplite in the ¢ tireedy bad to much to. So, With our eral tien aertce che county In been common in the fleet, and they © P » them any amount of treasure—salt, —very much of the house project- fortunes, coming in again. They hi along in the depths of the sea. But took the disturbance on the Gertrude Ys , fobacco, knives and tomahawks, ca- ing right out over pothing at all. been heating it up and were bring the light ahead and above looked as t to mean noth \ 4 i Hee cloth. wn the hill, like ants comii ing it in for supper. in the contonen Ron sue beet Gale: . ' R The interpreter spoke to the others. out of the top of a tall ant's nest, We all eat down on the floor them Wpiver® vere, & Dig out to the Mare masted, . They seemed dissatisfied, but they ran the people of the piace, yelling —and the meat was shared out, to- Quis, to encou: bi ‘The Marquis and 1 discussed after. & ave came out of the brush into the clear. with excitemeny at our arrival. They gether with « lot o tatoes, I believe that's the southwestern ward whether the Greek could have . ing and we were able to see them, had not @ stitch of clothes among hot from the ashes. The cannibals face of Kiloki Ran, known or not that Mo's brother ben's ~*~ “Marky,” 1 sald, “we've got to keep the lot; even the women were @AV6 Us 4 liberal share and offered us omit there a ‘ our eyes skinned; these seem to he dressed merely in @ few amall land- ® bamboo full of water to drink out eamens toremink thot he aie cere te Bee ¢ ; ’ Kolroros, and they're among the worst thelle mtrung round tho neck unica of. They tore and qiawed thelr food ft Cul pie eon oe ene @ pearling fleet the minds of men run © cannibals in New Guinea. Probably handful of dogs’ teeth fastened |i! in @ way that was not pleasant to 1, the Govern: t A th bs exclusively on pearis, and nobody, so 4 r they've never seen white men before tassels into the hair. watch—-remembering thone long oVenS phe ay, vaule pe Me wipe. his far as I knew, had said anything ‘ up here; it’s all unexplored country.” “When we shall leave this place,” the hill, Gripping face: It'was at soune bot about diamonds at any time. , ; RB Do you auppose we shall be eat?’ remarked the Marquia, “L wilt, tal “Sacred name of a camel what @ ja thers, ‘aheit Restpe pe 4 The acute little Greek had gome- +) asked the Marquis, with me @ complete costume of one !ecture | will give!” siched the Mar- breenes. H. ee 1 had Ay how sensed the existence of @ small “Not necessarily. Canaivete aren't of these Tomes, to carry im my aie ee mouth full ot awe kl birt dna “woleers, area . whe 4 ‘ : always eating le. fe may Purse all the th so that I Look al r ol wane Taterented; be ned iaibowet the 9.4 able. to make fr ‘and get them to ahow It to tye dalebatal ena Bowed out with the | climbing, and ee el Ll Lege 4 Bea Pi t i guide un.” missee when I go to London and ave t toes, A aad could, and, tring patted: had ‘takes mat ay hes — With a view to this, I collected any hear them eay, ‘Oooh, shoceing! the cords on the instepa, and the a Rg ay he asked. ri 1 little trifies we could spare—a tif That is what they love tc say, nostril of the pix that they bave! R. M.? Don't know yrand with bn sxe sic the DUE shal: Purpose Corny I judged) of following > matchbox, a silk tie, a small penknife Flint.” Bee how they jump, they fiitter, they MBO he, isi but Tt should think it Rio's brother beneath the water , ; —and offered them to the tallest man, = He looked about the ugly erowd fe all the time nervous and dis. toe unlikely be hae any womenkind robbing him there where no man was who seemed, by his demeanor, to be again, tracted! That comes of living on . rook: pots The Marquis sighed and was silen , - something of @ chief. ‘They are not natural, these the edge of the cook-pot; if you hold silent, CHAPTER IV. mr de nue thine It eves entered his 5 | He ztie| a splendidly made fellow, ple; I do not love thei he coms your finger up at one, and may ‘Hi!" nine nd it fraw. wioniee Cie clcetiee (Continued,) head that a stranger not a diver by 7 r quite naked save for a bark waist mented. “See, then, how they are he should jurnp to break the fluor. ‘There was ehouuy ete and clearer. profession would risk the descent in Cloth, and all hung over with shell every one bended ‘back from the 4 "I hope you won't.” | sald, looking There was evidently a big drop some. Fight at Twelve Fathoms. Yyeive tathoms of dangerous water home tooth ornament®. I looked waist like @ man who has a tetanus own at the velvet-black quit of va- ry hear. And unless my 1” I thi t. merely on the chance of seeing what for any trade beade in hin fit, because of the climbing they Cancy that one cauld ace between the ere much mistaken, there was ite dieraee ought. ho was up to. But then he did not but didn't see any, nor had always do. When we go away from Slats of the flooring. “Don't you get And, as the blade went (now the stake. ¢ party steel knives or toma- here”— too actentific, Marky; I warn you, home I leaped back and sae sol thought. The Marquis had tiffened myself for the his own opinion. iho e the ahaa He had his own opinion about the H diamond, too. That night we vei valves slamming down on the handlé. tured, very cautiously, to take {t out e viesides the He fooked about again, that nervousnean of theirs is a bad ay er rd ee ts two go away ‘from here,” be Sian. Also, thelr fricndlincas ls a bad ggers made of human thigh: amended, coolly, “you «hall ace that Sign, Bhove beck and Anish your ‘seemed plain that they had I will give a lecture to the acientifica fod with your shoulders inst the ings with civilized men; in Paris, a most blooming learned wall, if you take my vice.” 1 f . t, * ” moved over an I spoke and the Mar- au It did not come. and examine it in a quiet corner, He ‘ and this so much the worse lecture, te fallcwed me ee y—o1 a 3 - et “I hope you will, Marky,” T aad, Quia followed me. In the world you might like to men- I tried to draw the ax out and could sae Probe ory waa alinsin tac ; ‘ : Pe at genes pli with the We were sitting on the bamboo bed: | We ate aa men eat who do not. tion. When we came out on the ‘The tridacna, in its dying agony, luctant. % sine. ey sald something to the man place now, smoking # little of our know where their, next meal ie to summit we saw that the whole cl i y Cherished. tobacco nnd wondering Come from: we filled our pockets countryside was broken away Under BAS ‘gripped ite muscles round the — “imint, now that It Is to us, T do not ‘ i who could speak nee te Pa 3 when or if tho Kolroros would give ‘uletly, when we coulé swallow no our feet and that the nearest thing n But the closing-muscle was feel as I have felt about it before,” he L ae ! “ penred that Lal coal oyly a little US something to eat. One of the More. The Kolroros were go busy to as, as we stood up there on the 4: the valves could not shut, Sad. “I hope these misfortunes are %: 2 : Village, We Nut ho would xive children—rather a pretty little chay chattering among themaciven “that verge of a mighty busalt walle woe Dr at least I thought 0, I drew my “Ato you wanted It enough: but I noti that he of toddling age, who had been half they did not notlee what we were the feathery top of a fores far \ wuld b I he spoke and Walking, half crawling on the verge of (loing. They did not molest us, beneath as to be pe knife and took the risk of put- you should be giad now we have it,” I ne 4P an appalling precipice as we came though T could feel there was trouble tance And we saw that the wire + diss agpecgtt april nigdlpgreig:d gine P pia: ee PP eT nen? 1 told the UP to the villaxe made ite way over {nthe air, of this immense rampart, greater away at the huge mass of meat a the Seaeael yiraal < we ving trends tO Ws and began touching our clothes cannot eay we passed a pleasant than any straight-down drop T had By degrees the mechantcat (uted the Marquis gravely; and I was Marquis. aking friends With childish, curiosity. ‘The older Nixht. We Kept watch in turnm, and ever. acen Ih ate dite we kent bed ner Di Seem Beer with natives a8 @ rule; nine times Ob Deople watched it, but did not go 4 through aheer fatigue, one leap by a river that came dows of ten it's a mistake—bu Well try ear they seemed shy of putting Just where we had eaten our from a ridge above one we had tucker gives us no choice. e ry thelr hands on us, meal, on the floor of the chief- been elimbin carriers there and some yams ond house, The cannibals were sleeping , it was possible to empty the and get cal The Marquis, who was fond of all around ua enerting and sncring The Marquis stood quite stil) on tha ‘and I began tearing the meat CHAPTER V. most unfrequented and most gener- “I'd be delighted, another time,” 1 to take us on. very much Children, careared thé little thing Alt i _ summit, lookin the indescribably in lumps ae big as butchers’ The Secret of the Stone Oven ally undesirable vit was the bit where answored, “Just now, We have to iene Tilak we axbecier “pits tired And tried 1 te make friends with im across the door, | et oA ef Tanknificent view spread out below, ‘and flinging it down on the Countr, the Marquis and I had been marooned think of how we're ever going to get longer (hah Wo Sant le thy ing the diamond out of the case in Was hardly large enough to crawl +5 al (a +-here in Kara Bay, with a suit of back again to the ‘beautifuls’ who A us when it came into A cine Mt through, he guarded it eMetentiy. The whitences of the eae HE Marquis and I eat onthe clothes aplece, two revolver: love us oth, Marky. you and T have Sete tro vas caFtninly bd OF the Bron” Resta iscman rele and Toward @preleck inthe moroingi dt pare as polished marbie, began hot black eand of Kara Bay ‘0zen cartridges, two tin ot to get up and travel right now. . things I had seen, even in rf od, at a call from, his found the time by feeling the hands ‘ bi bi Do you see thove mountains up strangest things D then retreated, at a through. I had thrown away aiid tried to reallzo that we “4,8 Paper bag of biscuits oy eo tho 0 Bttp on the axblade lessened and I erb right side up for once that I al- {t out. most dropped the diamond on the floor. sald a. last, “that lone—that no other eyo "Get your revolver out,” I sala tau of my watch), the presentiment of there?" strange New Guinea. mother, striking at the atone as hh © There was no use making a fuse—T greater. part of the contents when Wo were now in the midst of the went, It dropped and we both went coming trouble got hold of ma ao af Jest on what I sought. Mere eainwrer Sede Quite junderatand how Ded & Ax we vognnt range of enchanting beauty? | oranges, and thore wan no level after tt with hasty exclamation, as completely that Tresolved to make an hate, fuss 0 aaay that cur aaloany . tt waky the tittle brown pare Tt was not easy. There Oo. 'for anything but consideration “I hope you'll go on thinking it &nywhere—not so much as one could the floor was full of holes, I recov- attempt at getting away, cont what Mawes caught up with us again, loose besli greedy Was the calm, blue, burning sea in ‘ beautiful. We've got to croxs it be- use to lay out a tennis ground. ered {It and fastened !t up again in it mleht. ‘The more I thought about ne : wird wd at it and et front of us, there was the ruffle of “xara Hay is a hundred milea or fore we die of starvation or fever. | The villago crowned tne imposalbt- {ty cage with a Dit of atring:™ that liberal supper, the lone 1 ked Say funy ephusale of the moraine to eat eneened te ana eg foam on the coral reef a mile or two more from anywhere along the coast. Our lunch that we brought from the ity of the avone, It was exw:tly il take my turn now, , ore T-cons one tong together. geamed me, as the verge of the ipice, ' : a clump of enormous brown toad- paid, hanging it around my neck, stono ovens on the hill, the more like. 0" Lab eburypd Borcerer’e Btone and put ft out from the beach. ‘There were the ‘The sealine is precipitous there. steamer is going to, last us & good & THM, Lot rae Mbracketed—onn For'we hed heen carrying cay and iy T thought it that. they would ‘oo (MS HOachalantly with thelr toes hal ; a as only a mountain native can sea hawks hovering and veering just ¢ojlow, ax in the western country. 2"Wo will depart at once,” said the could not aay set—onto the sides of day abo it under our clothes. (iled on the morrow—if we did not a dusel two ago when we had left the little When sou have no pone? the nea Mee ancl UR ikem naldiee of pat. houses were mere semicircular roofs fooked and saw. a Kolroro, whom I tt wan his turn to sleep, but he-wes enakes as the Marquis was speaking. 4 nothing to do with the benumb- coastal steamer for a stroll on shore fe 3 of thatch, placed upon bamaoo floors had not previously noticed, literally not sleaping. 1 put my mouth to bis FTOM what T vould see they musi gute wenieh I stood. The evi} while some small trouble ip the en- Siok Gane e inteeene task SS Couto that were stuck to the mountain by glaring at me aa I put the stone ear and whiepered a little. Then 1 ™ igi the ‘thing thet! bad caused ng room was repaired. forest eleven thousand feet high. It” 1t was the wild pig, I think, that piles tu some incomprehensible fash- away, He waa by a good deal the got out my knife and began cutting and been com- before, thet would assuredly And there—was NOT—the Waiwera. ¥5 succession of rapids and falls. saved our lives—and at the same ion. tallest man in the village, and he had away the flimay hamboo flooring. It Thie arrivi again. tom a Kari 2 Up the peak of this amazing place 4 fine crown of bird-of-paradiae was the time of the waning moon: re could be no dowb* pret tngrr ire pea rt With our own eyes we had sen ptnery,ty sbout the Kara-Hiver: ne time nearly caused thelr logs. ig we were guided by the Kolroros, WhO feathers on hia, head—-amon them [knew that wn should Bete ihene } about thelr intention. ‘The b her get under steam again, start to ‘Behind the Kiloki Range you etrike beach, well up into the Kiloki Range, the plumes of the rare ; ue eerie enough to nee by, once we got out. ‘knife’ at ter ae you could f to oR Ay angetonas marks the path make a little closer in shore before down toward country that is at leaat but aimoat broken down with hard: that is worth i@nost what yo aide, and that It would last til dawn ot very close, but near jamol wi Lad ivilization, . enough to be dangerous—and . every od. ere in & or | taway to ask for it In came up. Hy dawn wi ero and wer peen, was! way in the safe, the putting out her boat to fetch us off, (ivamment tation inere, 1 caleu- thuesed uses the Braterin a eulgy provided with wings could have got It wan evident that ho was a man wig ou ime eee fhaie elses bended cluse teas emit waves, to begin never more strike the ill charted reef bow on jated it to be something like sixty and shot it with our revolvers, We away from the mountain men be vo if of some atanding. | sus pec ted of It w any enough to eut the floor ir stone headed clubs ns ond t bogie ting gra in 2nd go down in the deep water out- miles away fom us in @ direct ae Cut It up and net a leg to roast; the Own Sountey, we dia aie fos ug to neue Village sorcerer, ne te ees without waking the feolrones, siecven ous manner, From the dense wall of : clare I stood w' a fortmight’s journey over savory smell spread far into the i. : natives are heavy sleepers, and these Iii ‘ hand and thought—I do not know #ide like a tin can that fills and vere lucky. . It 4 ; pleasantly clear that we were in re- made of locks of human hair, atrung . fie oe excellently aimed for the eas it be to think as other men [t was so quick that they had not nothing. We wanted about forty triis that perceived it. ut prisoners, h new out 0: eur, ft blo sritted my teeth at the hat and knoc! . Whether I should have gone 4.01 time to sling the boat out. The carriers with food and tents and trade ~~ Whon the leg was done, we stuffed, The Koiroron began to sing as they @ kind of trophy mado of double Solon mada tr the ai a ic me a nocked it off. king or not I can not say. ~ root ted mapa and fleld- 4, ta their homes, chanting teeth, 5 y th arqu’ ‘e drew our revolvers and fred, ra tact the chance. For, just as reef, with its long knife edges, had Tee Pees Comitaenee: and ileal Rad. Liye court ne ceria Car in itae 4 triumphantly, with an In- ““More trouble about the diamond.” 4,he lowered | himself me. The Marquis got his man clean Hind taken the diamond out of my ripped her open from end to end. She shotguns and ammunition, to take fess we lost. We were both eronsy le “undertone of something 1 paid, “That brute has a mind to Qipere F had cut through there was temple and dropped him mething Bae peeee begging was overloaded with ore from a new the journey as most people in Papua with the richness of the meat: our thi 8 WO Snceresand! the NOR wet it If he can, A sorcel @ got hold as neatly an one could wish, Mine it back again in frantic 4 take auch trips. But aa we were no’ di if . fac hin- reckon. me Colne Dent Remersi: Ane wane crank likely to wet any of these things on AG Io ware ellbpery our hearts felg barked back the ages very near to “There w. of ‘the supporting piles that were was hit in the riba: he fell o ver the some murmuring among {hrust Into it. and holding on by precipice, ant his ‘cry, as he went nd tug at my signal-cord as them, made our w: T could. Not hurriedly, but little boat at best, and as for wate -gand beach of Kara Bay it ft from us. the men, and they drew off into a ‘ay very cautiously down, grew thin like the whistle of , eortly, and almost gracefully, tight compartments, you Ser Bote ag Poses poten ce mere Fey Siouler toan they bad done for the dit too, Tired as corner cf the house by themacives, gave ae precipice to the place where n train running away in the distance long, deep-blue form came soon have expected electric light, or do without them; or else stop there ‘Another ope, my Flint; make hay was, mal to out 88 talking and looking at us, especially The Psvivgged bona pera 4 more. until we ceased to hear it. through the water, and, with cold storage, or a satinwood grand and die. while the iron is hot,” counselled the toiled up the frightful slope: at me, The Inevitable e ne rain nag plenty of han Thad ui, but we We had not much leisure for lis ped tall, piano—such as they have on the west- ‘That was what I told the Marquis, Marquis, filling his own mouth to “Flint, if you desire a proof that coming down Atene tetecstt Gaeoe ger g crept tening, In any case. The Kolroroa raight for me. ern ocean liners. There were no frills not exaggerating the seriousness Of sreechiessness, He was sitting oppos L yours bad reas he purple mooniieht.. The artery had bolted at the first shot, as na n was over now ‘belleve now that it was goinga@lm- of any kind about the Waiwera. our situation, but not making little was filling 2nd the river far below ua att tives usually do; but they were busy for the remains of the tridacna When she hit she went down and of jt, He liatened patiently and . Pham toh ee the throwing spears from cover cow, aed hy was not troubling about me at made no fuss about it. sighed. 1 really do not think @ny siareq out, the cheeks became pully. uren't guing to be any prey.’ up with atormy aca of white slong ita way, © '#* feared full-fed the Marquis and I had to wee mate fii cowld not have emelt ao a! The Marquis and I saw the whole one, even a man who knew him At first I thought he was choking; 1 snapped, boing @ little crows with cloud, Without, prec! 5 ali Not a sound came from the toad- ®™ munition than we liked, firing tive, cased up in metal and rubber, @@ thing there on the beach two miles | did, could have anticipated What than guesued he was trying to any fuligue, “And anyhow, the leas vou clouds and plunging atepa, to the wild beast bh we, that wi over its preys!" through the open door site me as he spoke, and I saw his fnce grow suddenly swelled; the eyes ad cy oy dN stool Clump of houses above as we PAndom Into the green, before ‘Taw scattered flesh, away. We heard the rattle of ¢ uld reply. 4 talk, the bi drenched in roaring rain; within, Ibs ucceaded Od Dut nobody. walls to. try conclu- gngines “as they. broke. loose and Merling. my very good friend,” he teen sonething and'f turned round lot from one's tone, gloomy, damp-amelling house of rot- crept down, the precipice. We were a They aid ‘aeent obs aotven Gata) ony with a shark in ite own ele- plunged when she up-ended. We gaid, twisting both ends of his MUS- IIke a shot, But T must aay, when wo got Into ten thatch, white akulla gleaming Put of carsho: hefore long, and able |, They did seem to be driven off a nt. I went up through the water heard the piteous cry, thin and faint (alt. "SMone “that which I chiefly "‘Nenind us, looking, an savages in the village itself, onto the slope that through the dusk from the pla e next great wall of rock, keeping always in !"@ Slong the edge of the pi ice, fast an the captain of the Dawn with distunco, that rose to an Unpity- Pogret ‘in the affair is that it shall the bush always do, just as if they the place of its Plaza, the direction of the renee to try and find a way down, for t could drag me, alarmed, en Wy hey ing heaven, as the decks went under a be so many weeks that we shall nad grown there instead of arriving, e Roy: or Unter den Linden, rafters: LA vill eee iment station, pa Parse Aes Tan Hite & vital nemeone: hat way long at ene pein tents eee Ae reas ere Tas Dotblng gee no white woman: And look. on were ton or a dozen usly-looking } Deen 50 fen that we ware ib 8 then Bele Oretp oe Anh aut upon . By the lay of ‘There was none. mm: ry ore, Jordd , we al - tighter place than ! has ought. ce nd wi v ( ad Durning sky, and the circling and {he Nordocwsener ya have been alt= Heritushe The aera iter tt Leuw something that I hed mot quite the hillside, just a few yards away, the land, I guoswed we had forty miles | We tramped nf jcllenbed - 4 —-walting. or more to go, and that might mean looked for half t Nothing touched me, however. The hovering bronze sea-hawks, busy with 1), "On the feet of many beautiful 3 showed up in the tangled expected to see. the long atone ovena—-wa St more to go, and fenhed for Gait ths a\ eared above my ir fishin ain. it was not @ pleasant vroupect, i count of precipices, «0 nin ‘est; we xte a Hof the Kcome aight, indeed; the "ly {t rear? naked the Marquis, his ladies, ‘and they. should have sald gieen beside them. They were an Dug out in the side of (fhe bill ang. | hos Ie wae Bee Still, If we could find anything to eat little of our food as we clambered » Wine Unpleasant crew: ” their foreheads lined with neatly Att “ ed us greatly, because of loped enormously, making them certain long, col nas awn PALER OF OSDGH Oo octew ine buge Bouy, He ayes staring, ie ne horrors. we axe sneguniered tS Scaroely huma: ; Hele fat was kay Billes oe, OP Oe Te een mun OF : y ‘av e oll, t to lose that. . ined in greasy curls that fell far mi f } Dawn, rial Y | ‘away at tho glasses on my helmet, coq. “Flint, what shall a man say O°! wat this sacred pig of @ diQ- back and increased. the beast-like be nearly six feot in le Now It did not geem See aie phene tend of @kuie sion ties ei ees te It, or swim it, OF wet m not of the fainting kind, but T when he sees a thing like that? ‘This Moog hug made us enough adventure angle of the fuce. Their black and there is only one kind of game that Kolroroa ud spreading on snow, came up and down alongside it. It was, in truth, will admit I had to sit down w' is @ dovil of a country, where one irony. + aw white eyes looked steadily at un out needs @ stone over six feet long to on that night. m tack just Caught Us nooner than I Iiked. We an efficient matekeeper tonah withey were doing it, and waa not very may seo twenty men encounter death SSN ¥'4, uppose it wan the Sor- of their brown faces, and the look bake it in—man. “I don't think they'll ati Ack JUL were cup of alent OF the VinneS: by Pe woee On pe! e country reabout for ® mor out there at ones eyes and sit and cerr's Stone sunk the Waiwera’ I was that of ravage men, near, yet ‘That is why I was not too well yet,” I told tho Marquis, “But I'd [rere ous of wlght of the village, hav- of the Stone Ovens. nt or two afte look as calm My Flint, if I ooig ten thousand aeons of evolution dir- pleased to find that wo had got into be as glad if they ha outies tlon, climbing up the bare rock att ‘Marky, I'm of Then, when they had got the helwk am mad, then you are it also, be- 8." sowe know, but I think it's con- tant, Across the gulf, what thought th Hone are Oy eae eRe ar ee they ouvir asked the side of m watertall, was dangerous “pew tb, Ail slong.” we! i you ve no emotion no more ” i ? e wondere we by 7 oie treat airvthe glorious alr of than’me:! founded likely,” euld the Marquis, could travel pecting $ 1 Marquis eagerly. exposed should uny of the Kolroros mouse. They lot ux go Just thie tar d . t, however, I thought on the way, and If the Kolroros did about, seeking endlessly, and drani flashed before my eyes, and hands flat on the sand, supporting his holes that, £ eur ne menNaE, RORAYAE T Tee eR TS ia cantata a(t Were teens Fttae eens mando by 8 Papuan tribes, and le to get throu the waterfall. Ti fall! Tt nd to the string — We got up on our feet at once, and ever get out again. I trusted a good elf—I waw that the We're neither of us mad, or bad, Pulling up hia hand to coy Suse T spoke to the men in balt-a dogen deal to our revolvers; rcarma will can't tell you that, but T can Qe winin tight. T stopped where I knowing we could wet no further, ling on the deck be- either,” I suid, 1 be Sorry prought us adventure, yes, adven- different Ianguages—all the New go far among men who have never guess they're telling each other all Win On 8 | Matter hy ech ae Tey Ag to what | think of t — hig head on a level enough when we've had time to Prousiy Me tond, and brings Guinea tongues I knew anythi seen them—but the mountain tribes Shout it. 1'd be willing to make u bet ad “said what 1 thought, withent 1d not help are good fighters, for Papuane, and {t's known to them, It must be one re Oa Bi billows of tree laying any | nteaint on mayeele, The into my face that I could no! gone, and Jensen and the rest; but " : 1, when the munication, T was lucky enough to I did not anticipate that it would of the celebrated sorcerer’s chai a. ; Marquis listened for oment, and out Into laughter. we're shipwrecked oursel nd ina comes te Ue a ae heart sick, Mit one at last, When I got down to be oasy to get away, If we bad occa- that go knocking about all over An are, Was armall eatletaction tn that. then jumped up--he been to God, you nro well!” maid pit of a fix, Marky, and tl going Tolling ato the Mambare tongue, one of th country, passed from one to the irmy might have been hidden in on a atone—and gave a kind of howl ith mine, and gazing ao anxlously realize that poor old Tommy Gregg Is Heres ee a Punt, my friend, there ~-hoping to fin i “4 Jon to try It, Dowt you think it? HOB ‘ 3 the bush, following us up. Still—con- ul ee anise atier rains Tere Selgasioa to take all our thinking for some NY reckon this mnie sunk the time to facen etowed sians of Intelliggnce; | Ther Wed us inte. the largest Rates ofp ac qty tal ewe ttre sidering the spend the Koiroros could par vers tan, below 1 saw the hee ‘ +. ne.’ mn think It, if [ do,” J raid, “We ma plank. v i As TAnd the; tr eop up in this mountain country ‘of one of * troro onght’ when we pallet: Por ee Where are wert aaked the Mar- yet through this, and we mayn't, anne tk. wo Ware arent £8 piace, with sheara kod. sialdy ‘Yea, it und us.’ miele Whan they chose-it cattiniy Siena oF one oF dhe Rol x ris, Cares dy We Was fear Bringing You he auis, looking round t was not @ Marky,” 's i v yi thas iD It grew darker wes Narboo sleep: Si if they were not pursuing us. The an ant going home witb e wraip of © $e are ot the Gertrude had come Pretty pt of scenery. Kara Bay is “ig it go bad as that?" ans eer cnelt’ listening to the unvarying Marguia was jubilant, vorn, we divers OF the The fete ee nee ee renee 50.82 Sust no bad,” I said = Fe eee eo aehine theese oy They are rot spiritual, these peo: "We were a good way from the ee as cangatn die in if he felt like it, butt 6 Mot rhe Marquis looked out at the sea, . S roar of the rain and watching the ex pio," he declared, scrambling like & watertall at thet moment, oat tee Read" cried the Marquis and the want'to live in, Ase matter-at fart, Dine Hue and calm above our tne | Are You Going Away for the Summer {| ;i'1 yaving think. thelr mentality ta fat Mave ig Tall eras stil unbroken, and ould ptuin, idgethe: no one ever bas, Soo era rite oil’ handhers tho plumes we y ts far back In not seo any place where the man i the scale of evalution; they ure blessed could have got de Stil if for & naked hare idots, They lock the stable door when Be had tdently get, , ae It bening to grow dark, tHe Mik Is split, Lean figure bow 1 It ne to krow dark thoy are saying injuries to one an- y the captain declared, “that = The bay Is like a black lip shell, in up sailed and off with curve and in cole they was well on board powdered cinder chief embroidered with a eoronet at ‘The sand Is lke the corner, spread it between his two 0 look at, and a8 hands and deliberately begap to shed When you go out of town for the summer you may find it ts difficult and costly to provide yourself with the right sort of reading ad; there was no vestige hot aa the Innocent-looking iron door tacrg faved at | matter than usust, hut 140 not think Re sras other about our Invasion, now We are ‘Phe qun's falllag’us now, Marky. of , to feel, ind comes & i 7n jong past being astonished al % A ink he wae eafo away.’ (siete ow wo'll find that belt of poisonous painty-green low f . mt do, tT 4 ity for 7 at all afraid. 1 think he reckoned on . , : 4, “but to-morrow we'll fin hush; behind that ‘again, forest, so ehyinlok, shar ha mene de: Why send to the city for novels at $1.25 or $1.50 each or buy | finer nyt by-and-by, end liked — I did not nay anything, for ther "k or die.” them at a fancy price in some country store? the idea, son that T wan not very su we wei dark and tangled that it looks black my ‘statement of our diMculties had T think you reason; if we t ’ Aa for sesil, th safo away There 0 t i doubtedly oven at mid ia ‘gine wale place has nothing to do with his emotion, He You can supply yourself with the best, most delightful summer Pe AS Lota A aay oer thing T did not understand about th Rick the uneiar: Paring te t-thee Geadly, Angola: sort of look, cried quite amply and vanfectedly reading for six cents a week. it would be idiotic, because you ensy letting go. All the same, there road wilderness, or a minute or a, we ibis he Bi ‘ v all the nerve e, to get o a only one Ing to dogo on ae Oe cea peat and Fale and Hecuy, aNd stopped, wiped his aves and face with By subscribing to The Evening World for the summer months | (\!! ji nerve you have, to wet out i pA es Bot he didn'c want to get hie head Into and normal in ita growth, Ure! the handkerchint and weld: you will secure a complete novel each week. Not some old book af toinking what ‘todo to worry over Toward ‘nidday, ag we were cram q id norma growth, “I have wept then who died. Tam [2 “ rhat may happen if you don't do it, Ing painfully up a perpendicular for- po for we tw iio murdering rows and the knew where we were well enough finished, Tead on’ Adding as an | country dealer has not been able to sell, bit the finest up-to-date fiction | "3a! may happen if you don't do it. Init painfully tp @ perpen run iors waar or we Sw? Ove Aa Government jumping on a harm! and did not like the knowledge, The after thought: “Tt Is a magnificent | by the foremost living authors, and by, and 1 something that dry,over the side of a 8,900-foot cliff, The sun was going down. man that only-wanted to do well Waiwera, on her voyage to join & embroidery on that handkerchif. Tt Avery. one. North German Lioyd boat at Wil- was modo for me by a little beautiful Yewan to his panic haste that T hemshafen, ran along a lonely and wan T 72°, ¢. Shall J tell you of qwed, my freodom to carry out my unfrequented coast, and the loneliest. her? ¥ Bear this in mind, not only for youself but for any of your friends who expect to spend the summer in the country. caused great excitement, Tho men I fancied the light ahead was growing “Your watch first to-night, Dabs Jumped about clapped their han very clear. I sald, "And my turn for the and made nolaes exactly like tha noi All morning we had been working mond.” be a dog makes when tt een tts food in along as one gai y does in the (To Be Continued.) THE PRINCE AND BETTY | By P. G. WODEHOUSE “NEXT WEEK’S COMPLETE NOVEL == IN THE EVENING WORLD ==