The evening world. Newspaper, May 16, 1914, Page 9

“World Da il y M re Veta QUEST OF A “MAGIC” DIAMOND BIGGER THAN THE KOH-I-NOOR | —- By Beatrice Crimshaw Author DODe CALd v the compara: Port After all, I had not been it up one, like Lady Mac! and are you I bed better keep ag muck in Moresby te woah Davoren We bad 6 at the court of France; I not trying to wash tne domme spot’ daleur’s company &s possible, Bo, food ten days to wait for the next know half the kings of Europe and away, of what?” without giving vent to any suspicions I did not possess even @ shanty in The Marquis turned round #0 sud- I had or guessed at, I allowed the New Guinea, let alone a castle on the denly that he flung the tin basin Marquis to think that I bad got the Loire. These things had not seemed rattling on the floor and the water better of my prejudices against the itter when we were away in the rushed in @ deluge across the room. little widow. 1 even accompanied tim together getting chased by He did not take the slightest notice to tea with her when be went there cannibals or being shipwrecked or of it. He came up to the bed, and to call a day or two after the loss of having snakea set on us by sorcerers even in the twilight I could see that the stone, ——going ragged and hungry some- his face was whito. It did not strike me that “Daisié” times and at all times not ie quite I knew what had happened before was overjoyed to see me, but she ap sure as we could have wished that bg oy steamer to Sydney, and Port Moresby has nearly three hundred inhabitants, ing & good deal the largest secttle- ment in Papua. What were the chancéa of some one of the three hundred finding out in the courge of those ten days that we possessed the second biggest diamond in the world, if the Marquis went on as he was doing now? & Tr ni It wae bis turn to the we were ever going to get safely back tt," he said, beating his pink, both of us, I don't know whether it and nothing would induce him to girs again. But here the. Iitde tin-pot soapy hands up and down in the air, was by accident or design that she coremree it up to me for the night, even though capital the kings and castles and “I can not tell you. Ican not tell you. Made mine cold and weak and left it was much harder for him—being things began to crop up again. And-— My God, what have I done!” out the sugar; if eo, she did a foolish ans they say in sentimental novels— He sat down on the floor (we bad thing, for it set me wondering just the Marquis and I drifted apart, no chair) right in the middie of the Why the little lady disliked me as The days passed very ly be- deluge of water and began to cry. much as she did. In spite of tl fore the steamer’s call. In the after- “1 have betrayed and ruined you, Marquis’s accusation, I am not, noons, whi the southeaster was my friend,” he sald. “I would like to "ever have been, unhappy in women's howling harder than ever and almost die, here where I am; what is the Sclety; nor have I had occasion to laying Mat the iftle eucalyptus trees use that I should live? I say that 1 Observe that they are unhappy in that Lay 2 Pend the many _ cannot tell you what I have done.” Loar sag pane 8 leaf out of my com- on wi ‘ort reeby stands, y used to climb the heights te eon rot eat of that water and ait , But Daisie didn’t want me, didn’t £Y town and wander idly about, Bolding on the bed,” I sald. “You don't need !K® me, was more or less afraid on my hat and thinking what I'd do to toil all I want to know is °fmne with my share of the price of the now it happened and what Mrs, Van. Voy? eeeeiinations “Kaa este eee Ay dalour has to do with it.” Iwas feel- tered sorecdne wit tee teat to civilization. own low on ie the flat the Marquis would be playing {7S Pretty bad about the affair—for roaring coasclealy outside, slam. PFO I saw in @ moment that he had lost w vi is iw ming at the blinds and lifting the may _ = on the daleur OF SqUIT- the diamond—but there te never any jong mate nailed on the floor. Ie ° use, to my mind, in making a fuss. was a wild day; a day to make The Marquis jumped up and tore one restless. aoet Port Moresby fol the Sorcerer's Stone. But on “pon his shirt with the air of a man find the southeast season trying to fie day I don’t mind pe that I who was opening his he sete ee thi Serves; Uy resscn sf the unen lowed him iii detect ine ingpection. Round jproar ie mt “trad town that is all eqall bill int Kenging'a string and on the tring nd I judges thes toe ee ae eae” peg og cag M hide it about his person than THe ayE bE Sgge i a ! 5 numerous Tetters)—was always referred to as “little;" she was, as a matter of fact, about the ae height of Womenkind. But she had a small head and very small hands and feet and a way of looking little and for- lorn. And she was fond callin, herself a “poor little widow.” T needn't i i] : i i it 3 ry se overlook: the Was @ small silk bag—empty. thing—was affecting Mrs. Vanda- n the wind. | ‘Dame panion, and she was a little pious evel hou tn HS i to her. little own heme CHAPTER VI. ‘and more tha: is ‘and others, there is not m diioulty ‘Not one confoundable thing has leur's nerves. (Continued) new ally cy Se on par iy to die of love, there on my feet.” Port Moresby, but I took care t© 2roie*en And I more and that 1 had to do with it," he@aid. She dropped a Tt seemed to me that “ cup. She snapped x jor “| fous to over och ly Ansa hl Sat ot nee SThasTaee il meruner tron fee ret tae (he tgteeneri ace ert hus cz rig tel wing Seay eee How They Buried Bobby-the- ana she repiied that in that case It his head a Mie one aye, Fone ta Tat on. the loves fords’ coneeaied #06 the in slo POUF® cause when I play tennie that chamots suddenlyaa I confess 1 aid.” Her considering that tt Clock. was a pity Mra. Vandalour didn’t use flated him, mentally and physically, it effectively. he speat with ‘ hen he Sticks and comes to go out of the front color did not pale, but there may ‘2 tbe jeie thas i. her knowledge more liberally; also, that he was a trifle above himself, 1 was feeling a ilttle easier about , Every second evening, when he Soins Shi toms Sunk! te alips and face wia,not, pale, but that. ‘Bhe bird had destroyed. _ him!* yelled the minerp that she at all vente knew Row to At any rate, he voluntesred to give the Marquis, since I had succeeded in handed over the chamole leather GOS 7 00 Come ut. Bol take away moked oretty, mnt ith: ane back to the house, they eaw the whiskey Put on her hair). Which gives you the company an exhibition of solo ¢ ing from him a solemn prom- Case in the privacy of oF one ipo tho chamois and I play tennis all the ing black drapeciee and nee wag 108 Sets cf go. The Sarauis toyand “Dele eee uine® dancing; and the offer being promptly 1 fr t he would Wee Grane cose fait as though Geother barrie be- Se. nae in re sad. nen ft is Httle scarlet whoes, and her daintily by ie w or for any reason, a an; - ime al they shot me a glance as he — The little widow, of course, had set Cueen Hilsatetn tocol ee eh ttte gon the secret of the diamond. At tween our fortune and its realisation ."; by i'iny creased red brown Dair, to have ; an. Dut Mrs. Daisee and me, I 1 my Y gwung hie pick above a her cap at the Marquis from the Scots Ambassador, Melville the eame time I managed to persuado had been painfully passed over; @f- bao4 into my shirt and there le HOthy fone permet Any man's head, and iin 3 I waa not surprised to the Mar- ot beer, and I will swear there Moment of our return, ‘That did not “it is to pleato your Kngilsh senti- Bim into altering his clothing a it~ SCRR he Oe ee cee ene ee ing there! I tear out the bag and ft quis more deveiea than ever. ok tes r or the Marquis ment ahd at the same time to warm tle so that the stone could no! Vandaleur bad her ictone; and I ted" — ‘as for me, I was a wink in it. By this (“Many dear women, they have done the heart of the little Dalsee by noticed unless any one went actually alt n't you know that no silk will ited her—well, not ao far as crown of expensive curls to the the incriminating glass was gone. so, and I love them for it,” he ex- laughter,” he explained to me. “This feeling about after it. More than this {rus! stand in the tropics? It was only @ sole of her little % The murder of a man, I think, Plained to me "I figd it altowether is comic! a trolls iden” * Teould not do, Tcould nave throws her supple, e€l- protection for the stone, You might my ii treving tea tet heme, Hea ‘The tural") Nor didvit trouble me 0 body a9 well teau tik would have been looked upon more Iuch, from any ordinary point of in tints min mitture of Gay Aah cee Past unt fe oseuey the mind of any reas ,,G0metimes, from my eyrie among New Guinea” {said wearily, the leds and her lovers asd l tkecane “4 a4 “ . is . calmly than the murder of a cask view, that she should have «| ning dress hered round the walls oonahte ‘person, When you have been ay hrgronttc acer Serra F aid not ih atrear. ell, when iy ough: Sader the slatting, anes Sage: the out to see the native village, gone foF ‘The most amusing was on the 4 Tet Sanaa stave the on the ogurt—by what the Marquis field, the coast. —beca' nator long the a walk to } where the ni when “Daisie’ persuaded said it was clear she Ret known Botte oun vuaee aa Dalal was ‘given to epraining her ycrand&,#o that the music, despair- vanta employed in the. town old Cuts to dance om the tennia court with STestest, value, for, a gem Se ot of the loss until he told her, It fa through. With one accord the ankle at appropriate times. 6 aryedvana thine in the mildat of ‘the Setoue on “one ¢ te two tthe nanan tea rouldents af oe gs Sf native boye. And they look, look, look shrowdl ag td not sine sea minere flung themselves upon the ,, But when the Marquis lifted her up cleared epace the Marquis, beneath you have about exhausted the inter: ‘he residents, waich “Gumoly fill tt get dark. And 1 wilt swear, \f was that he bed loot and had gian~ e ate ol e veranda a! a ; Cow. THN OTe tne nerture Mra Dalsie’e littie band: anit slipped piste, ind ,& Scarlet tablecloth about wuite people are more civilised and the air to kick with 0th feet @t tbe your Teng Me Daisle could tell Race Serusity saa it wes a, die down next by sheer force of numbers GOT Serom the Marquis’s Bis, Waist and a fan in his hand; be therefore less interesting than those person who had ipuleed it. The "arait erieg the Margulis, “Datsce mond, but—from what he told me— and sat upon him. One even coun- shoulder, pause for a moment at the of red cuucker Danes dineed in'water, of Samaral; the natives speak Eng- players used to tease the creature ® ie as innocent as the pee te he must have allowed her to guess ry could have picked the stone " of beer, up here on the Kilori gold- lor angle —Just @ trifle—whe: Le Pho were coming back from a ” id ilsh, wear trade clothing and cheat good deal in order to eee it fy into ® When we see the stor what it was, " sailed them to “sit upon bis Lea Sita! tne dexterity, of &. pickpocket, N¢,,084, borrowed a pair of high~ tho saurist over curios, To any on8 rage: it was & young bird and not will not look herself. Snbiccen ing "Bho knew, then, that be had had a and flung his own body across the Tie Marquis did not notice; he was hin foot as amazingly eenany Fecently returned, like the Marquis half grown, but It was very active seat and watch. “he weep for me, diamond of remarkable aise; that he Marquis‘s fat cheek as if he were & pacing into her eyes, which were blue Sea’ io apite of his bulk aad kis mk, and myself, from’ the mysteries, hor- and went into the most amusing fren- that little one, she is moet blooming had lost it in a small, easily-searched kdoking horse. eyes and went prettily with her Ti+ fat ‘face and his twinkling trousers rors and adventures of the unknown gies of stamping, whistling rage. sorry. she will not be a ates. She had not 7 spect picked it up, and si interior nothi: could be more flat Cassowaries, as mast people know, rob { abe had been careful—too ‘careful, 1 Me aia actin ppt treater ee ryan wondering, however. And bd t neléat comustte cf Wnsiana oan ucenerae than the silly little capl- ce ogtrecnely Lali senciny and: Gor Sennot, understand “andi beeen Coed Se Soeeinne ‘cusp! rm) 7 a when the r dances came and I 4 mn, . Cannot understand. It was all rased Swe. eurging pile and I did my Dest to aw Mra Vandaleur walling In with ‘tne lite | MA the more was I uncomfortable frat to dance with the bird and after- Olean” that eeund: thane wenees Dig ebe koow where it waa? I always y imitation of ite atyle. dish off. the Marquis as lightly as he walked over my companion’s evident fas- ward to give an gulfs anywhere, the weeds was ten be cir eight caw if you tet Rimpelt § (conctuded that a ves ime pattohe ire prea’ had the dancer gination by Mra Vandaleur, whom pi do Bot, think I over saw anything Boe? f oe iat ve been a ging'all through my ming wh le the Marcela btn ‘a . “I've often to of im a * ‘ankly took for an adventuress. y not!” cee ne eet end when it's He answered with, the. mangied Pe ae oaee ae a's Ke very cals, Wannabee Betis it the tall, fat Marquis, setting to DAI; "ie seemed so exceedingly distreased talk to the uninteresting elderiy com. over, it's over, After all, he's only proverb I have already quoted, and the end he laughed a high-pitched, savored too much of stage posters to De) ving ite part quite seri- tat I could not find it in my heart Danion in the background. done for a couple of quarts of whis- filled himself another glass of ginger cackling, old woman's lau; struck be natural. She was clever enough, pring- % Say wilat I thought of him and his _I think he began to feel sorry, be- j key and a few tumblers.” ale with the roystering alr of @ €8l- tie imaginary Melville coquettishly I could see, to keep free of acandals; carelessness, and of Mra, Vandaleur— fore very long, that he bad asked i “Where's what he's drunk, to make lant in a Christmas umber supple- on the shoulder with his fan, dropped tho dead or missing Vandaleur had whom I could not believe aitogetner me to jompany him aim like th lied the insulted ment. It really seemed to be goln€ the tablecloth and became instantly not divorced her; cards were re- innocent—and of the whole wretched the little lady seemed in storekeoper. ‘ got to pay for all to his head. I had had several whie- 4 dignified nobleman of the ancient ligiously left at her door by the ladice affair altogether. After ail, Marquis ing mood and looked as though she sB@ took and ail done. Marquis! kes myself by this tire, but my head peerage of France. of the capital, who seemed to find 4 or no Marquis, the man was my woul not have been sorry to have Were the thoughts that ran a *& nice sort of marquis he is, I don’t is perhaps of a different quality. rs. Vi leur ran forward im- weird delight in playing at.a strance "4 fieewards, the Marquis im “mate,” and we had heen through a the drawing room and the piano left think!” itn _Tt_waa the southeast seacon at ite puluively ‘us he finished and begged imitation of the strange game called , Aftervards, the Mali nareryn [et together, and a nicer Agbter than to hervelf and her friend. Doubtisss, “He took a bottle to his room with worst; in Port Moresby, that means fo. more, The room applauded, The Society here away in the wilderness Sa. one of the very beet things I had Pacey wenee one fot into @ tight even the Marquis's | seit-possesston him lest night," I said hastily. we that you live in the midst of a roar- Marquis danced again. of New Guinea, ever seen him do. I have heard since rer was 1o surank from piel ing out Leg ppt ) Bim like ing gale, day and night, for montha “rer, Papuan with a drum be (‘Like your Israelites of the then that it bi keith mauoh ap- ANd netther be nor I was worse off sounding bits of hymns and reading Cee eee oe ete nee got, aay Up,vere on the hill, where the dance brought,” he ordered, Bibie,” said the Marquis, who el- proval in his ‘on the Loire, been @ month or two . Ss . room from ase ways 8} the Old Testament as ‘was my day for the Sorcerer's |s0; we had lost nothing—except a fore a couple of more or jess unsym- eBoy wen tee nat a eos eo property of Bimne’ sw Ticked on with en easy 4Feam. It was e splendid dream, ne Dathetlo observers. y ngliah race, exe dear ladies mind. After all it seemed to me I 4oubt, and one that I at least was M Daisie gave me a look or two storekeeper. The diggers got off re. tore He beat his kin drum, ae if brick tm the desert without no had been making too much fuss, ‘The Hever likely to Rave @ ohance of that ware certainly meant to bo taken luctantly and left ti larquis 8 down the long tunnel of t! Upper ¢, ce, with the throb- it for that reason, I ob- Marquis was not a fool, and even if A rey in. But I thought I as hints, but I was astonishingly y + breathing Bard and looking room the wind went yelling lke @ lost bing intoxicating beat of the New serve, that their bricks do not Bold the little widow guocesded in worming could do. qrithout it, on the whole; and stupid that afternoon and could not pore, Soul on its way to hell Guinea drummer. The Marquis togethor the one with other.” out of him the secret of the diamond, {ff sould, who hada’t done the mls understand her. Even when t . Pee ggg make. ie mart The tablecloth Gapped and slatted: snatched a native feather crown off And, indeed, the inhabitants of Port it was only what probably would jy he. og he. quis proposed going out to the little eee aon yee ane be ft. Come the crackers flew about. Mra Delsie, the wall, where It had been hun Moresby love each other scarcely happen sooner or later, so:vewhere. ,,1 i somaya rine | Is effeot, and back garden to look at Mrs. Van- to-day aad you won't e @ancing beyond the doorway with the an ornament, put it on his head better than do those of Bamaral) _ We had been through eo many riske Whe Marauis wiped away his tears, It daleur's plants, I was so stupid that | pia bis Wf d staggering flutty boy, clutched at her woful danced “The Love Dance of the But, though “Daiste” Vandaleur with the Sorcerers Stone that T had fim, Wins 4,006 ailk andkerohief this I couldn't nce they did not want me, foun” he canvas awning realistically ahd ailing on my neat black aria ond, Cmnanied 9° Jetries corer” looking at Mrs, Vandalour ali wae uite renpestable, gonording te searty some, to, ballare, thore, "ae Get aarhe totter bad cr cmrener” ta 1,00 Ub, ‘2, g2, ton, proteting ine a eat . stockings that so piquantly con the ®anons of the card tray, and somethin: % 2 Give me ” te in a mimic drunken frensy of af; Gicted them, I could see she was y he bad used his Papuan though, in any case, there was no {t always seemed to work out right in tached te it that wae written in his interented Pe ie era fection, Hie kept it UP til we twvand Keeping an eye on me. For some Fea- experiences well. ‘The dance was New risk of the Marquis's historic coronet the end. ee kiea, Galea at n¢ o ee, eer csesif erect and pecame son or other Mrs, Daide 4id not K© Guinea, yet something more. It ad descending upon her well dreased heal," Negt day I was guttering from a ,,'Hts Mrs. Daisie given yous hand. "I never knew you were an ama- «then drer aiied and’ Marquisatorial me—much. ; sorcery’ init, mystery, magio and ain- I thought her none the lees J80: touch ‘of Yaver, aa most New cuines Krcnlef yet ked, vane {2U%, of the garden,” observed the more eat ig ae nt any man "Look, Marky,” I said (the howling ister, wicked charm. You felt the gerous; perhaps rather the more. residenta do at times, and I did not ‘but ar pete ai ie erere, she Marquis somewhat ruefully. You b aaeaeeec eid sare feet and pink pa- of the southeaster lsolated us from the sorcerer joved the lady and meant to "That dear iittle one, she desires fo out at all. But stayed in my room hymn ‘book! T yelled, choking Sot ‘ae (nterosted in culture? Don't |’ neq brought @ checkbook aa our corner as much as ; but you were not quite and tool juinine wal un “ 4 5 untain with Be a a oree ee gait: Coat eaten’ a room. EY OUFe Yeoata ior cen te roent ber ca the me. I find thet very touching, though snd, tock quinine tll the passed ore With laughter. ‘What in the name of friend, if you would rather love to Been ee. Smee o er oe - peo’ But pros selves), “I want you to think for & fire and pick her pretty bones by and I cannot accord her her desi! towards evening, and I was lying on Vandal inappropriate should Mrs. stay in the house." the steed that {s moment what it means if people get © @ © ‘The lookers-on applauded said sentimentally, ‘Flint, “It doesn’t put me out worth two- ‘You might tell me how amount of mone: bim wu ” ered slope outside the ball, where a num- if it were the excl ee ae bere of natives been looking on, fi Uke the hurricane deck of an Atlan- the Ii = @ #0 much as the selection \,, and care of roses in the tropics. Ce “4 ; my bed, feeling weak but better, when 4 ned.” Laid as I handed the ton you how mucb pity I ha rv devoti " 1 assured him. papee. on to the fact that we have a diamond violently and Mrs. Daisie, whether tell y: the Marquis came in, uls “y, w,” she said. saved Thave act at once and we are Worth the whole isiand of New Qul- truthtully or not, declored herselt all thowe beautiful, women who so de- ‘"istad a pleasant day?’ I asked, {ult fgproving! went out through the sun and ov hhew” s faint when he had done, and had to He did not answer, but went over course, be supported toe chair.’ |. Foo a ere ier wees ras 16 the washatand and began washing that such @ consummation could ar- isneard Ber murmur youcallit?—yank mein, Hut the reat Bis hands with bis back to me. T rive, but st makes tho little one hup- fancy I succosded the pest, bf jeard her mu Umy heart is bleeding for those!"* ‘was feoling almost too to 5 by. Me also. As for the hymns, she his arm. “How many —i% ‘took out his embroidered allk 80 1 lay silent for a while, watching ain ‘stop here and don't get well nea in our possession. too quick. in case any one comes momen 7 Peace a Bay and back,” I satd. ‘I'm off to get our ki we haven't muc! senna, packs ready and the carriers under In & small ince like tia one, is sa way. The sooner we get out of a tl Ae yal a eae aeaee aioe n oh fgg tle fa Sl bag Syd women's hearts have the eastern sky line, through wee yet a few wise ce hit ‘cannibals of detectives to guard the stone—if you charmed aw you know Randkerchief and looked lovingly at [it @iret Sir) ones eta wi ? i "se, the coronet, I knew he was mind . to quiet down my, nerves. ro pees hee ih dee ANG cow the the, vower, you have? X think YOU to" call me the history, of the lady {he reflected glow Of the sunset in wy call st trroligious and bed man. , news gets out—it'l run over the world ““W for 1 make my spelling gently; PhC,Pad worked bt OF rade a. atart iyptus trees streaming before te taste, Are you going to ask her to ! CHARTER VU. anor ie wordt" d the Mar- fair ‘and softly is a'ways to bo ‘That was where I made my mintal peeaee nky-d CA nay tees help ua to look for the diamond to- ga: Concerning a Cassowary. uia, thoughtfully. "You have reason, blest!’ he answered, through the He wont right off to Mrs, Vandaleur'e blew up strong and stronge maser! » Sorting myself and the companion. Woman and not ao young as "| a that Wer ti me and you. Yelling of the wind. Mrs, Daisle put and told ber. A Ben t,20 nothing you don't wish.” ‘They had got out the hymn book she and with No provpecteccnone tl’ Tee To wise chil Mia ove’ta be temous. ‘It isthe UP Ber hand ansiously among her “They invited him to join the tennle It ocurred to me that the Marquis sald the Marquis with sudden meek- pre’ iad, et out the hymn book whe and y Ath Re, vrospeste—-nenes 66 knows ‘tis folly to be Flint, I love to fae that hae curls to see, I think, if nothing was club after this. I never had time or was a very long time in weshing his ness. “I can not forget that 1} have white leather thing, the size of @ any woman in the world—and yet"——- wine," sald the Maravis, SOY ade dha itis ower of the Preaking away trom lis moorings, snd inclination myaelt fo lear how to hands, ‘he ream waa getting darkeri ruined you © rnc match ‘box—and were looking uD iter eyes were very, very bite: aml ing assured of! is, faint throw lie at a man who do ’ le re you “ sito Ne Se ne oP lo, Dat ate Vue lover’ It ts true, More in the corner to which the Mar- want them, and work, hard to get plates and aliaking gasgen down ber going Gown to dinner, or aren't your Tomerning oF otner I It thelr ends they were vary soft to see — eupper - . wind to the back of the house, a me what he had lost. loomy party of four, all try. CA8eo 7 ce tne corner on tae more or loss to be cheerful, I fu) They alwa 0 for Bueane nd when. a them to me: I hear her ‘sing Ot her black deuperies ithe storm, told me I brought the bird over te them when I ceme up the road past vet found time to glance at m seat while he was sea: tor r little bird-nest of a house.” Gbugnt unpleasantios ana tne te stone and | saw the (ee Seem pulling his mustache, But £ {fynereinch py, neh—ae you Oh, I didn’t take any chances, in @ corner of the spotled—you spolle: beet— ameleasly de you ever think what it ts te be @ Bui quis had conducted her. Her head ‘when I don't want them , 1, Wes near dinner time. Tell them to send me up a bit; Tm “erg, cion® tomether, the tears that were gathering in Atul. é “Would you like to see the casso- She looked at tl items of a somewhat a rn keep the stone till * . 4 a A § 7m, —— r ‘the other pee partner, Mr#. the Niuudor comes int’ Lasked, drop- “AbI you have hurt my little face! tof room we were aharing our | “Hay, Mark!" I called out trom {RY to-morrow, Marky: he wan of thoee @ray, dusty And Yee ger \/ on0 gnesy “y fascinating ttle ping the vexed subject. When a-man Is {t your heart that feels so hard quarters at the hotel. , “have y ing We bad. 1 got up a bit before day- women of no particular age, whom, meant by that, Nor do I very Vaendaleur, ‘a very fase Be forty-odd begina to tell you about and sharp?” abe asked, Tho Mar- Hight and had a dozen natives helping somehow or other, one alwayr does ‘widow in» demure black drese and who admire his beauty quis, instead of answering, lifted ber Iie mroet. scarlet of acarlet ailk stock- oh Yad ‘better get off that line of onto her feet again as lightly as it ings, had just been carried off by the rails as quick as you can. she had been a baby and swung her ung Govern- “On my conscience and my honor back into tho dancing room, where fufry and indignant yo! vey 88.8 peer of the ancient regiment of now the music was beginning aguiv. ‘rent officer to whom she rightly France { will—not,” said the Mar- ‘What happened to to search the tennis ground before overlook. gare. Fer there fe 6 girt ova ® gun was well up. We hunted for °“"what cassowary?” I asked, PO atts we ceh gil hour and I came to the con- urs, It's funny thing. It ‘The Marquis elt better that clusion that if the diamond had ever gances and fix) nd does lots of than be had doue for some been on the tennis court it certainly quoer tricks of own. We have it past, I had @ job to do befere we was not there now. I came back and ghut up in the fowl hous i : lept; I did it—any man a m Is. “I have the heart of a child, Bluebeard, little vicke ‘When out of town for the summer you may find It Is] reported the result of my labors to the “whet for?” I asked, yawning. The te! 3 y map ged the eupper-dances. od as the little Dai-ace tells me, but ® they dropped Into the waltz. aitficult cost! provide yourself the right sort of reading | Marauts. companion certainly did bore me, Steen tiie anes a te The Marquis, who had denon child Tam not, To-morrow you will 1 do not know that I have the best 6 y to with J He was sitting in our room and “Because Mrs, Vandaleur nays it's Und without intermission from the guard our property; the day after, I, temper in the world, Some of my | matter. dtrike-up of the band (one plano out and so on to the end. To the end, friends say 1 have the wo . looked -very gorgeous in @ marvelous sick, She bought it the other day; , Why send to the city for novels at $1.25 or $1.50 each or Buy} pink silk kimono embroidered with the people who owned {t wanted but there was of tine; one violin, much affected by my friend, you rouse it; but that ts an ex: them fane: count een and gold dragons; but his hair quite a lot for it.” ol ‘ebirt te and given to emitting rat- | He drank another bottle of ginger tion. Anyhow, I could not at a fancy price In some on! fadv not Deen brushed’ up into its “"The ‘companion. was opening the » The Marquis saw tt a fp ae giate om the eighteenth sl¢ in two gulps and waved his empty the baliroom ‘and see our fortune You can supply yourself with the best, most delightful summer | sual force bristies: his mustache was door of the fowl-house as she spoke. “it°besan tm dying and tiood end \ 1. Alike -equeaks) until s tumbler in the air swinging over a gulf of disaster on | reading for six cents a week. oe limp as walrus’ and his general Mrs. Vandaleur, hearing the crack of jt enda in dying and blood,” ne ald * {tem in the programme, was now reat- “And even if t! the frail thread of the Marquis's scribing to The Evening World for the months aspect sugrented a pink cockatoo that the lock, turned around, and if I did “Flint, In one week hall md? . I who had given then, my frien ead amorous folly any longer. I went out By su ing to ening summer not mistake, her look was very black, syndicate of capitalists, and they ing. and refreshing. wp dancing many years ago and who of the ‘wood, love your English to, emoke and to great, my turn to | YU il secure a complete novel each week. Not some old book a him. ithe It cleared at once, and a sunny amile buy our stone for very many <j ay was een pi overspread her face. and junds and, gum wasn't likely to begin again at a Port saws, I suppose you mean,” I wear the Sorcerer's Stone, and I was | country dealer has not been able to sell, but the finest up-to-date fiction | ti) "You take my word for it, Irn, “So you are looking at my new friend, T ahall think werare Moresby “shivoo,” was watohing—if said. ready enough aim it. We had | by the foremost living authors. be in Port Moresby, and you leave pet,” she sald. “Poor thing, I tifmk well rid of thia #0 rel Mara ig altogether the same. Now I will that up again in a piece of chamols Teas already gots, unseey about show this little beautiful some especies leather, safely attached to strong | who expect to spend the summer in the wim, though we only returned to of dancing that will make her ready cord. No one wears waistcoats in "NEXT WEEK'S COMPLETE NOVEL ETTY &@ jose 2 IN: THE EVENING WORLD == i THE PRINCE AND BETTY i Ta You Gat It for éc r Ss. rk; but it Is very amusing ure trophy of the wilderness!" It was in my mind, and I could not when it is well.” “Tm t it out, that if | wanted to know “Oh, this if my partner of the was, where the Sorcerer's Stone had gone said the Marquis, as the great the truth must be told—watching the “I ‘knew It had to do with Soeisi ft cased it in a Fees of silk and sewn Bear this in mind, not only for yourself but for any of your friends | ™e to find out where, country.