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ouis Trac <i (Copytie WS. hy Falward J. Clode,) BrNorsis ort Capt. Dane, an’! peeks to win { Gerth eae rule tition Heit, dua ruin ate itabat ih “Ate The titrrisi Treen “oiicy tents Wantest tn a Nomatic hes on ‘sirens ii 14” few CEDING CHAPTERS where an ship“ touc Habat oN trea the ruby, uth foullaly, 4 with tt, recat pearance Pon that! Mosanion | spondence wt W mond of Tym goes ms sion “hone wrrany War party cet Wa arden, la from tue Moullah, a Aad giles mo CHAPTER VII. (Continual) A Five Minutes’ Fight. MBE, it exposed them to the combined onslaught of hun- dreds of sinewy negroes, but it saved them from the speedy extermination that Must dave been their lot were their &seailants content to shoot them down at close quarters. In less than a minute after the stockade was passed by the enemy, Warden, Colville, Fatr- holme, Beni Kalli--who used an adze he stumbled across in the doorway of the store—-the Hausa sers seven of the rank and fi meéa all toli—were in a half circle around the foot of the stairs, plying rifle and bayonet on a wall of black humanity. The very strength of the attacking force placed it at @ dis- advantage, Tho men in front were liindered by who surged up in ever-in- yt ereasing Waves from the rear, byery ot fired by the defenders effected losses out of il proportion to the weneral run of wounds inflicted by musketry even in 4 hand-to-hand en- agement. Though the w bore the brunt have escaped bullet or onet thru © Was ti withering blasts of powde Ulinded and wrehed smote their naked limbs with etrange buffets. The eerie yells of t thought the mission had already fallen mingled with the screams of the wounded and the groans of the dying. The place reeked like a slaugh- ter-house, and t gorpses of those who were killed outright, or the maimed and writhing men who had sustained in)u ch rendered them incapa wing out of that packwd space, formed a veritable Yampart around the defenders, At this stage the loss of a skilled leader like 1 Ja made itself felt among his rs. He we have set fir » unprotec r of the building er drawn off a part of his force and renewed the shooting from a fiank, Any such diversion by @ tithe of the warriors engaged would Tender the position immediately un- tenable by three white men and the Hausas, When, at last, the ‘4 warriors who sault mig a ny and unik- hg maneouvre was atten by Dbalf @ doz negroe who ox tricated themse unharm from the pr neath the ove roof of the stairs, the disas fect of their stratesy showed might have been accomplished but for the smaliness of their number. Col- Ville fell, and the Hausa Serceant and two mea, A bullet p Warden's hair, and Fairholme’s coat and s tis breast, and these casualties sulted before the four men attempt- ing the enfilade had fired two rounds r rifle. Pewarden, alive to a danges promised instant collapse, stung © ville avross his shoulder and gave t order that the few who remained #liy should fall back, still fighting steadily, until they had mounted the double wtairs and gained the verands Though the struggle thus far was hort and sharp tiv unhappy people within the wally were only too con- wclous of its deveiopments, To their that te »trained es It see 1 that at any moment the door must be burst open and they swept into clutches of could the merciless savae not tell who Was living or dead Bambuk, though Mohammedan and @ Foulah, was no lofger a fight. ing man, He bad waxed fat and prosperous, and he waited now death with t alism he had dis- played ever since le knew for tin that the men of Oku were bent on looting the ¢ » aler of Warden's G her mind bewildering man- devoid of fear, If 6, she would be out of the struggle, » behalf of or, the slight welfare, never etray in the ner " given her ©! there in the using her pu the man . 1 1, she was condemned to inaction, ‘The intolers Ale ce memory flew. back. throush and space to the sunlit: day time and e wunilt, day when she sat with Wa r ivans tn the } dinghy Nancy, and saw the grim face Oku chief da sbout on waters of the Suiet What \ wome re upheas in wi wh nig though! Kk her, the carved eala bash seemed fo be mised up with hat was_ hardly Warden nee meeting on & summer morni tye them of interest which anickly st ened Into affection and love led them into tie int plot, sent Warden to London, GAGOUTIAR MRM Liclhan: from, and tical ashore nut tu. becom and a desert wand Bhe herself had been equally its sport, Her knowled ‘ men of Oku ne ver and Baumgartner | uinst her If she had nv ‘ urd it obable that rhe vaod on the Be wan more than p would never have nue River And how persistently. tha weird creation of Domenico Garcia's skill had clung to either Warden or her. self. It Was not to be shaken of Even now, when they were on the very threshoid of death, it was lying there in her room, shrouded in a can- vee case. She could almost see its THE MESSA The Romance of a Hunt for Hidden Treasure Author of RNAAGAAANOURG ately GE “Wings of the Morning.” evil scowl everlastingly threatening mankind, ‘Though a fresh outburst of firing startled her highly strung nerves sho felt somewhat of a@ thrill of super- natural awe at the fancy that the carved image of the bygone King of Benin had forced its way back to the actual locality in which its human prototype had ruled millions of those very men who were now clamoring for the lives of herself and her com- panions. It was @ strange notion, and it| dominated her for a moment to the | exclusion of all else, Could It be pos- sible that there were subtie forces at work of whose existence she Was wholly unaware? Had these un- happy blacks some power at com- mand which was denied to those who lorded it over them? Of late whe had read a good deal concerning the supposed origin of Ob! rites in West African fetish-worship, She had never seen a real ju-ju man until that afternoon, but his appearance and antics were sufficiently striking to create a vivid impression quite apart from the tragic sequel to his tncan- tation. The queer belief that the calubash was in some degree re- sponsible for the bloodshed going on within a few feet of where she stood 80 took hold of her that she found the continued darkness unbearable. ‘Mr, Hume,” she said, forcing her parched lips to utter the words, “don't you think the lamp might be lit now? It cannot make much dif- ference, We are nearing the end.” For reply Hume ck a match and applied it to the wick. The com- fortable and spacious room euddenly assumed its familiar guise, It looked quiet and homelike. The turmoil rag- ing beneath seemed to be absurdty incongruous—a horrible dream rather than a dread reality. Yet the lamp was hardiy well elight ere Warden voice came from the veranda “Open the door, Hume!" he cried, "Colville is wounded Evelyn, owing to her nearness, flung wide the door before the mi sionary could re it, Warden stood but still ap injur ‘s lenp hand was a y His left arm encircle body, and in his ri sun-barrel from whieh the stock had | been broken off, In his Arab cos- tum travel-soiled and blood- stained, he looked the ¢ncarnation of fearsome war, while the seemingly iifel carried added a note of horror to his appall aspect. But when he saw Eve tually smiled, She caught the tender look in bis eyes through the mask of, id dirt and perspiration, rit is all up with us, swoet- ville is dead, but it is only @ matter of seconds for him and the rest of us. Have you a revolver? Give mo that lamp. It may help a little. friend from foe." He spe 80 gent e balanced modulation, that he might have been standing at the door of some peaceful villa ove king the Thames, with no more serious ite port in his words than to light the Way for a guest, But a rush and o furious meles on the stairs showed what manner of guest might be ex- pected, and that ominous question fAnent a revolver was Not lost on EB) lyn, Hume took Colville into his arms, and Warden, without waiting for the lamp, turned ‘to reinforce the five men who now held the enemy at bay. he girl with a Berserk courage orthy of her ancestry, snatched up the lamp and ran with it to the v randa, Attached to a@ pill heads of the stairs was a bracke which a light was placed each night in the rainy season to att t the in- cts that would otherwise invade « house, She put the lamp there, 1 sie one awestricken glance at the furious conflict raging on both nides of the lower landing. A bullet, fired fr loader, sang her f. e almost wished th. truer aim had found heart or because then she would be s1 affrighting alternative suggested by Warden, If she did not die by her own hand, would the men of Oku Kill her? She feared they would not! For an instant the rays of the iamp enabled fense to beat back the first surge of what must surely be the final and successful assault, A Kigantic native, Whom she did no know—but who was swinging an adze in fine style by Warden's side, turned and gazed t was Bent Kall, Warden's negro companion the escupe from Lektawa, and now his most devoted henchman, He had sel dom seen & white woman, and never one in any resembling Evelyn, To his untutored mind, she was a epinit. Now, may Allah be praised!" ho cried joyfully, "we shall dogs of pagans back to their swamp, for mine 5 have lily maids who tend the Prophet's fiock in Paradise.” who thought his gigantic reta » look and found that Evelyn was imm nd him, though on a slight vel, She was standing in a most per position, ‘There was a apace of at jeast three feet between the lower edge of the main roof and the slight scantling that protecied the h stairease fr mendous rain= storms of the t » and any o standing a 2 Way back from House could not fail to sea her, Tle for heartbroken adviee he had just given her, He realized only that the woman he loved was in mortal peril “do back!" he sh sake, go in and k Will be shot from t A nero leap the stairs and § Keni h uted, “Por God's the door! You compou L round the corner of ck at him with ul Was just © blow, Then the a ind buried itself in the man's t could be withdrawn & spear ¢ ted up viciously, but Wars den's broken rifle diverted the thrust and « Hausa got his bayonet home Nevertheless, a dozen or mora neg Were forcing their wav up on both sides, Pairholme, vallant litte aristocrat, was borne down and fell, utterly exhausted, at Evelyn's feet A Hausa was shot through the head and dropped across Fairholme's body Three men, Warden, Kent Kalli, and house, She meant to die th ‘ human wolves who saw victory within fir grasp, Evelyn refused to re-enter the house, She means to die there hy her lover's side, Why did not merciful April Can You Beat It? ax BE STYLISH. GET Some UP-TO-DATE CLOTHES You Look RIDICULOUS IN THOSE OLO FASHIONED CLOTHES By Maurice Ketten THE NEwe gr MODEL IN~ CORSETS MY HUBBY WANTS Ne UP. To - DATE ‘Un strike hard about a strong tn apirit he was broken in years to aece jority. h foliure by dying. ath 4nd listened to his story, their mi and Barth, and t eenth and teenth centu had 1 stood alone, a reed lupper w | for the blue cotton wrap taken from the desert th: | tribes the me THE LATEST THING (HATS | tride |tn quills, the most portable form of | desert currency. yn he ac-| he said. “I don't think Col-! Under | this low roof we cannot distinguish | , with such well] and, wh ters were quiet at Oku, he formed the daring plan of preserving his In- xnito even from the British ofl. t towns In the more settled He fancied that by main. pose as an Arab firebrand might venture to enter Oku itself, He had spoken nothing but Arable ‘sailor's aston. during so many months that he was ishing announcement as though the now far more glib in the language receipt of a thumping legacy were an every-day affair. death come quickly? if she passed before It would by bet- Providence brought them to our res feldts by natives! Luckily for u came on them unawares, and two of the canoes were headed up-stream, that was going on here stopped them from hearing the en- fines, or L must candidly confess that if they had been ready for us they might have sunk the flotilla before we came within striking distance, As it was, they got in a few rounde that “aked a couple of boats fore and aft, before we got busy with a Gatling. 1 suppose you didn’t catch the racket on account of th “But why in the name of wonder are you here at all?" demanded War- “Yes—more than ten years ago. What of it?” “Well, she has left you everything clals she possessed—a regular pile, som body told mi “On condition that I do net marry Evelyn Dano, 1 «upp den, who treated th “Here is some one who can tell us?" said Warden, looking at the Heu- tenant, While he placed @ chuif in the living room, vouchsufe this gi heart revolt race, for her woman's 1 from the thougnt *r ee him Killed. » of hope that ‘airboline on her wish might be granted, she looked into the moon- and stretched out her uring pitifully, for she well knew that while Warden lived no kindly spear or native sword would free her soul ernal meeting. But the men of Oku were running, running for their lives and throwing away their cheris should not be ab v suid War- manded the sailor, finding his tongue it compound “My name is Warden, Capt. Arthur Warden of the Southern Nigeria Pro- tectorate—and yours?” Are you in earnest?” Won't you follow the amber, “Never more 50. all about it-he will my example? “Oh, I'm Bellairs, of the Valliant.” Mortimer send you?" “Hudson ki be able to tell But Warden h Hudson concerning Rosamond Laing His mind was too * full of the greater wonder that Eve- lyn and he should meet on the Benue, that it had fallen to him to snateh her from the clutches of the men of Ok Was frankly pagan, its people dust up here.” d rifles, leat thay to run fast enough, drifting smoke of the Ship reported that a OF her bequest, called the Sans Souci Janded a lot of rams and ammunition in @ creck in neighboring territories, ‘That made the authorities think a bit. But one of your fellows who accom- panied us told me th came when a Mrs. you, Warden, and she some weeks with blackwater fever, pretty had, #o she sent for the Com missioner to put her affairs in order, Among other things, she warned him t some Portuguese scoundrel was undoubtedly planning a rising at Oku, and indeed all along the line of the afraid that the moment she spoke she would burst Into tears, “Weil-yes. And this is . Ls poor Colville gone?” “Not very far,” said a weak volco inner room, bone is broken and I've lost chips off several sections, but I'll shove wlong with my arm in « sling.” anybody got murmured another weak voice from “T don't care what tt {8-—~ even water, wouldn't sell for a pony.” Hume, who had fallen on his knees heard the strange and looked out to find that the bat- Uo was ended, rose and went to a spreading up the bank from the river, sie saw little squads of dark-cothed Mise Dane, Hausas rushing in pursult of the fy- tien Da among the Ha CHAPTER VIII. The Settlement. HEN Warden found that the expedition consisted of & onoo, when momo deft hint conveyed his thoughts dwelt ever three hundred Hausas, he With her, a tender little smile told was anxious that an advance shoul be made on Oku at once, y in @ bush overlooking: their unifo! which they en- tered Into the last phase of « first- be able to ad been living wondrous fact that sue- hand penetrated the eo- al to death, it aloud to Warden, ly would she imperil both him and hix two companio hundred sailors and over to her that of that mute did not ery s by distract- on from the cut-and- ton the stairs, but, sad slearing on high land his inju the Benue, niles distant from the mission sta- argued that Kall} could guide the bush paths, and that an att curious Ju-ju in a few of the se At Was decided to send a strong col- the Benue matters, We dropped detachments of Hausas at every and had inten¢ below here board distric “T have here two quarts of cham- pagne which I mei eases of serious illness, don't think any of us wil again until bearer comes and 80 If any of you ge. pert at opening th Fatrholme recov “Hand one here," he @ double blue at drawin’ emptyin’ a bottle of bubbly.” wicked plunging of Why should net be punished? not be deni atlomen are ox- un enemy alre foreseen repulse at Ka avery one right from the military point of viow: but Hudson, the political officer ac- companying the column, shirk nsibility of taking # step that iuience of & tribal war, t while they Ww Wed in driving off un mission and in demand punishment ight, when we heard the drums going in the bush Hausa man—Hudson his name ed us to push on this far, 1 job we did.” las Mrs, Laing recovered? asked The sailor hesitated nied to leave some should howl so fanaucally for their red instantly, She could not tell that white con- would hurry officers: and men of the astounded by the spec- riish figure, robed in no fear nding under the bright veranda of mission-house, lyn fearfully, lamp, produced some glass he glanced at @ clock, it be possivlo t thing unsaid. She went under tn a day L have never met her, awfully nice woman, Hudson say am sorry,” sobbed Lvelyn, was too young to die, and she hi had much happiness in her lif “Lot there be no more talk of d implied the He argued th muslin and y minutes?” he asked, the aatlor, rd firing in this direc thon nearly twenty minutes ago! simply becau 'y no mneans expected to tiun for loss of life and 4 they had no proof that Oku sanctioned the raid, refuses our said, “We suall destroy his pose him if he escape circumstance sanction a forward moy the blacks tried to frighten ua into submission,” ald Warden, that I come to think of it, the scrap in the narrow spac But they soon ¥ the foremo enough to alseove wedged int ko up to the facts with his life. ough of the black came rktawa together ly, Seyyid,” grinned the native, 1 should mount in company to-night.” “Can you do mo the exceeding favor of lending mo @ gult of clothes?" said Bellairs was black figures h gangways. more than your estimate, ent unth for many a year, But Warden j 1 “Do you mean to tell mo tha’ five accounted for He stopped and loo and Mrs Hume, What we're lookir "No shooting, bo} haul to take his the adininistra Warden had no ared a Jubt- The latter was striv~ ing to dry her eyes while she sipped some of the wine Was not cast in the hero! had whe ever pretende! to he. “There were more than tive of us," explained Warden sails Colville’s Hausas are ¢ “Some of them can ony be wound. "Let us go and Dig ‘em out And dug out were, {n @ mane 3 own holght, Come down to We ought to hold a council of by the way, T suppose not etir dut of this nd only da impor M’Wanga, was among the himself exe ‘ Loanda, sec ear, and the pasages were war, T think, the ladies will room till your return,” elyn promptly, rut if you keep after som were di A othe mission house was ing his savage “hieven of day and taking care tt Pairholme's weapons to hey were unac He was aware of the ex~ all prepare supper, Captain Warden more than hour I sgall come for him.” attend to the ‘Better not, Miss Dane,” interposed He had seen things {nthe compound whi is prevented on delirium of fever stealir krim-looking Arab done outside, To his profound amazoment he heard the Aruu say: a@uthoritios, But he was not in hts own terrt- tory, for the Benue rua through actly the right phrase, The man 4a lot to b crocodiles had 1 shall Join “Twill tell some » look after then indoors until the ed thelr triiut and rummage there's a good chap.” 1 tha compound to- As they on hurd as nails ¢ » discharge a disagree. you been engaged, too?’ asked Warden ir darling,” he was even more astounded at hearing from the the troops come frbm? What special decree of mixing matters absurdly Megest surprise [ever heard of. Just Jon that Mrs, J aing fancy being blazed at with Nomen. en hoped that, in @ome mysterious way, mattera might the gin aye you the W Was once engaged to?” _———{$—— ————————————— terested in be adjusted without further sluugh- tor, Tho proper course to adopt was to i promptly. Failing that, he trusted to the strange work= Ings of th native ind to bring eful mete nent. Though body. Jle had done in five months that which a few men had taken yplish, while the ma. those who essayed the task 1 fatied, and paid the penalty of When tho officers of the expedition doin the mission that went back to the doys of Mungo Park, and pperton, and Lande a f the famous band of expl who had traversed the wilds of the West African bine terland during the close of the elght- early years of the nines Nothing to equal Warde journey 1 done of recent years, It dof almost unex- ampled fortitude and endurance, He would never have reached the ers of the Niger were it not the Prophet of El Hamra when that |unamiable person was left bound and gagged at Lektawa, So deeply had the Blue Man's repute penetrated into among Mohommedan his robe was an an armed escort, arch through tho more powerful t In a hasty s | Prophet's apartment, Warden found his own revolver, two Remington re- peating rifles with n supply of car- and a stock gold dust The biue rag supplied moral, the arms and gold material ald, but the tremendous Journey still remained an undertaking fraught with every pos- sible danger Not until the small party reached ‘Timbuktu could: they regard themselves as possessing even a moderate chance of ultimate suc- cess. In that city Rent Kalli left his daughter with relati No constd- eration would part him from the Seyyld, Here was a master worth serving, one who never thought only of him- self, but who Was ready at any mo- ment to risk life and limb In ald of those who were faithful to his inter- entn, Moreover, he showed rare sport, @ born adven- and Bent Kalll wi turer. So the patr came down the Niger, Warden learned that mat- regio: taining bls } than many genuine Arabs who could not boast his exp. deame his sc nema, of The slightest hint that he had Ino word to say to crossed the Sahara would quickly and it was hig 1 ite way to Oku uard — throug! that the Mahdi of the Atlas 1 sent him to carry the flery torch of Islam to the otest strongholds of the faith, cannibals when oceasion ‘served, but between them and far-off Moroce lay the strong link of hatred of the white man's rule, elyn listened in silence while har lover discoursed. Her eyes shone and her lps were parted. More than him that she understood, Colville, Who insisted on fotning them when the surg for a ricoe had torn a ji shoulder as well as broken his lar-bon vo had dre ting bull ie Warden what had become of tt t ty among my belongings at 4. he sald, “At Le r" Ipper of the Water “Tt fa her “Herel? said Evelyn quietly, Half a dozen volers erled tn con. rden, You gave it to me at Cowes?” she cert, but slie was looking at W ell, whi we sure= 1 for tt ohimed reluctant at ingness to pro t to ficlont of the men us the past few hours to disturb her dreams n the chorus of persuasion, ought the canvas bag ‘lease open tt, bowel ull afraid of it.’ He . he extraor- mast alone ted, and she uttered @ ery of dis- {9 ruined!" moist heat has ved the lacquer! Tan the one, Oh, Arthur, ° wway this time, ng is her exc had used ex- fu decomposed Mis ed away, his m wi of a triumphant dem 1 faded from nis thick dips In truth, t isk on t ued was A mere travesty of ite former self, Warden was quite as bewildered aa F you are one of the countless readers who were thrilled by “North of Fifty-Three’ and “The Lair IH of the Sun Dogs” and other Sinclair novels pub- |g lished in this paper you NEXT WEEK'S COMPLETE NOVEL 1: IN THE EVENING WORLD : : der the Great Bear = An Adventure Story of the F rozen North rience of diverse ” vent he ms tribes and varying dialects, He ‘I haven't heard of anything of a 4 it beat to let pone know. of et 1 wound tn his had heard from Lawgos fomething of the gourd. He asked st, [hope “ Witeb dy shaken by G8 UR= Woy a decent sort of a fellow’— n they uid) bring sho sald to her lover, "I dare not, Though 1 con- fess to an uncanny confidence in Its bash with @ ing to startle cls was #he exclatned, “The will be tremendously in- he or amazing ever known, It knocks any of my ad- ventures into a cocked hat. Just think of it—this thing lived, I tell you, It was @ superb creature of genius, It must have been found two hundred o when some Portuguese or Renin, It was broweht to England only to be lost in @ sailing ship that foundered on the st side of the Isle of Wight. After passing @ couple of centuries under the sea, It bobbed up serenely one day last August, disturbed from its rest- ing place when the Emperor's yacht struck the sunken wreck, “L firmly believe it was made with. in a few miles of this very place, yet it survived through the ages until the we when the Oku power ts broken for ever, and now it is de- ktroyed, Did you ever hear anything ke it? Surely thia i# a thing net dreamed of in our philosophy?” , but Evelyn among those preg- ent could share hiv opinion, Tt was impossible for any one who had not keen the calabash on the deck of the Nancy to picture the malign fascina- tlon of that graven face, Rut Warden was convinced of his theory. pl lady he bade Bent Kalli take the gourd and throw ft on the smouldering embers of the mission huts, And so ended the pll- krimage of the grim contrivance fash= foned by Domenico Garcia to earry his story to the world that had for- gotten him, It perished in the ashes of the old Kad on the site where @ new enterprise would soon mark the practical inception of Hume's day dream, Nor was the hour far distant when all in that room remeuibe den'’s emphatic words, came messengers from the King of Oku. His majesty deplored the ex- pincid: na cesses caused by the evil counsels of certain sors of ju-ju. These men, diffeult to control, were aided and abetted by a notorious half-caste, one Miguel Figuero to wit, who had helped ‘the Oku rebels by tmporting arms from foreign territory and gen- ally disturbing the peace of the kingdom, have now dealt with Figuero and the others,” sald M'Wanga through bis envoys, “They will trouble the land no further,” He meant that he had natled them to trees as a guarantee of good faith, when, in the small hours of the morn. ing, he grew fully assured that his uns were us 3, his river flotia captured, and his army broken up. Unfortunately for the success of his sudden conversion to British notions of law and order, that Which was only 4 minor disturbance in a native state assumed the gravest political signifi- cance when a number of troops of a foreign power crossed the border at various points with the avowed ob- Ject of restoring peace to a province In which the armed might of Britain Was set at nought, The strongest party of these un- looked-for allies marched on Oku, Its commandant, Count von Rippenbach, ned to be intensely surprised when he found the city in the grip of a British column, and ite king @ pria- oner awaiting trial by court-martial Me was not only surprised, but in- tensely chagrined, and was so unwill- Ins to return to his Own territory that there were “alaruina and excursions” in various centres of diplomacy be- fore he swallowed hig wrath, invited the British officers to a ‘farewell dinn and marched back to the Cameroons. M'Wanga was found guilty of mur der and high treason, and was duly hanged in front of his own residence, Vana, the third of the negro visitora to Cowes, was banished to St, Vin- cent, and the clearance among the witch doctors which Lord Fairholme #0 ably initiated was carried @ good deal further, Among the effects of the arch= plotter Figuero were found doou- ments of such highly inflammable nat that they were promptly in- terned In the deepest dungeons of the Keoord Ollice, But some of his be- longings had a more direct interest than state papers for the two people With Whose fortunes he was 60 curt- ously bound up. Warden came Goross another copy of the very page of the newspaper he bought at Cowes Wherein was described the accident to the imperial yacht, In the sane packet were an extract from Eve- lyn's stolen letter, in Rosamond ng's handwriting, several com- ers written to him by the self after leaving Lochmerig, and his own lor er delivered to her in Las Palmas by Peter Evang, It amused him afterwards to in. close the os conviction and the serap of tatioved skin with the full report he was asked to send to the Colonial Office, and there is rea. bon to bel th » Under Seere- tary for Foreign Affairs borrowed the said report for perusal and took it with him to wile » tedious hours of a week seaside ordered by his doctor, Warden and Evelyn were married at Old Calabar, with Colville as best man and the I Fair in loco parentis ime a confects he wore a rul e muslin, brooch, roughly contrived by a native jeweler, that would have evoke the envy of many a royal dame, The tinest wedding present to the happy pair was the bequest of Rosamond Laing'’s estate, Poor woman! s had fenced in her gift with no res ctions, Indeed, in her will she hinted at remorse for bhe expressed t that Arthur Warden wo happy wath the woman of 9 choice. No one least of all those acquainte ed with West Africa-will be sure prised to learn that Warden resigned his eo. when the affalra of His first care wae insure that the Garcia shows forgotten in) the ‘ ul services for the dead, while every year, in August, & special magp 4 sung in the Cathedral of the Patri« arch for “repose of the soul” @g the ill-fated artist. (THE END), _. adh “ites =