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\ A Bo Has Never Been Al- Y, it was not time that he nd Jack l d t S Wild * Is re in the study for their morning recitations, When the two had left owed to See Wild Animals, the turned toward het husband A Li k t yhn,” she satd, thing must uns way to 00 a be Gone ta dimotones Secnly. tens Bedroom window ° ry dency toward anything that m Mr. Moore ax cite the raving. fot life, across the apa Ajax, the African Ape. cite the craving (or the savagy lit, aerone, the SS you. You know fr ur own eas the eard perience how atrong is the call of tne ber alin at Copyright by A, ©. McClure & Co., 1917, wild at times, You know that often Covered, he turr t has necessitated a astern strugg!s bat pe his planned adv HE Marjorie W.'s long-boat was floating down the broad Ugambi with See er erecaae cane eters. (ne exnited ate, ri ebb tide and cur ler crew were lazily enjoying this respite whelms you to plung nee again 4p m going to see Ajax," replied from the arduous labor of rowing up-stream, Three miles below Into the jungle fife that claimed you OT ay eaten cried Mr. Moores them jay the Marjorie W. herself. a COntT mROe, Geller LAR many Duta moment © was infinitely When thoy caine close to the shore they saw an emuciated creature with how fate more astonished, the boy, secant white locks, tangled and matted, The thin, bent body was naked save be Jack trail oF at the 7 er 1 hte $eome for aloin cloth. Tears were rolling down the sunken, pock-marked cheeks. bavage Jungle cither alluring or 3204 feat luted hit oe ‘The man jadbered at them in a stramye tongue. easy to him.” upon bed, shoving his face Inia “Roshun,” hazarded the mate Savvy English?” he called to the man “Just because he wants to 86 gory pille . The scarecrow did, and in that tongue, broken and haltingly, as though oon iy no indica t il gid “Be quiet.” admonished the vietagy ft bad been many years since he had used it he begged them to take hin Wish to marry an ape: and even “or PL choke you.” z with them away from this awful country, Once on bourd the Marjorie W., eign Page Mee yg out 140% Kneeling upon him, Jack tore striae the stranger told his rescuers a pitiful tale of privation, hardships, and tor And ‘Jona Clayton, Lord Greyatoke, {f° m 4 sheet nd bi ut 4 the mane ture, extending over a period of ten years. ut his wife, laughing bands o and stuffed a ga How he happened to have come to Hr ee Ne explored every corner of the vessel he down into her up. Mamie tere a atrip oe oat Africa he did no: tell them, leaving the little knot of men before they japsed into utter indifference all je bent his head the bu K of hia victim's head. Ame them to assume that he had forgotten were seen, and by this time Paul- jbout him. Kven the Russian elicited F i, more serious the MACK Sh iked in a low, OOpe the incidents of his life prior to the viteh had come assured that the oniy casual interest when he brought ly, he continued va ationad tone 7 . frightful ordeals that had wrecked beast meant him no hart The him food. At other times the ape ap- You have never told Jack any- He yall.” him mentally and physically. He did animal evidently was accustomed to . erely to tolerate him. thing concerning ty early life, nor am Wa chief of the W he not even tell them his true name; and association of human being at length the Marjorie WW. Ave. you permitted’ me to; and In exrl™ ed, “and you are yhammed so they knew him only Michael — It occurred to the Russian that the Bngtand, and there the this (think that you have wade a O° the Arab ek, who would Sabrov, nor would his own mother ap sented considerable and cer- $t0rn ‘Cad the scientists, filled with 1 think that you have made murder iy people and steal mm have recognized in the sorry wreck tain money value, and before they Compassion for the pi wiesk-or 6 im of the experiehons of Tare ne tvOrY nd Jexterously trussed ee et ough unprineipled, reached the sailors ho had decided Man” they had rescued from _t ine Apes, 2 could goubtions have fla 4G’ treet hie hobbled ‘tata Al.xis Paulvite that bo should be the one to profit furnished Paulvitch wit taken anu the glamour and ro ANG" ne son, rain skipped It had been ten years since the by it \ und bade him and his Ajax inanoe trom Junge lite that MACUEAIY eters ine aco rhe rt the Kussian had escaped the fate of ais When the men looked up and saw (oaspecd wy ‘ " surrounds it In the minds of those Soross tne foul t liberty a friend, the arch-tiend Rokoff; and tha oddly paired couple shuffling “In tendon, P. nt directly TMs appeal to him. He will sit for murrounde It Ih the Hilde GF LAGE open: window, and tberty by ” once but m times, durin, r re - pap by dire: urs together poring over the work i w " way of the spout trom an eaved- hd PR elces Be heat Sasa i wring toward thi they were filed with with his prize is animal rr Hie might then have profited by my " those ten years had Paulvitch cursed amazement and Ad GRR FUN egindes Rib HAI ar MUO: It Gwe pOMaMonE Tage, eOURG Hits wits experience; but now, should the ‘ous ‘ the fats that had given to Nicholas toward the two, The ape showed NO ‘reted with Aja, with ner vesutt. tine de in Gud at night: reading Ci junate-lust ever claim him, he wilt Mf. Moore wr 1 struggted Rokoff death and immunity from suf- «ign of fear. Instead, be grasped That he agreed te’ t sie F Hig Up Jn bed ot Aight reading Cee eee cerning to mutes wee eas tae 8 the t ire that he Peony ous. tt Be. Saeed its h sutior by shoulde LU ANARPER THO GRONTRCLORNICIIAG BARRA TS ai) ead: ce own impulses, and f know how pow. Should aut Pchtnae (60, Ue he the hideous terrors of an existence red long and earnestly into his hin pre igne Crore OL oe me s Herp Fle en These Tak Ge in, the rome auloey nity of lerror, infinitely worse than the that ie invite. Miwpected tt A m, and in the mean tly to prov mother tapped her foo bh igen eens: managed to the bed persistently retused t ry ame Pid tonto a " for the keep of both the ape and his y Upon the bearth-dug. But | Greystoke of k her , inthe in Jack was enjoyidle tH eae th oe ‘ ated bointment written strongly upon And 80 ¢# Ajax to London, end she ventured, head as ve had a hundred other m ig He a rea n A... See ca tian tater ceinea: nt countenance and in his carriage there was forged another link in the , But she got no further. A loud tines When the subject had clatined Sey , " r¢ " hursed him. He gained a little in “thy men were delighted with him. chain of strange circumstances that “Whoop!” from the dircetion of the their attention inthe past torsple ct EES JOM Me ee citaren th Betlanra hun A a rae. cney thered a! vut, maine Paul- were to aff the lives of many Window brought them both to their With a start Paulvitch sat up to see a huge anthropoid ape squatting at » John,” whe insisted; “I shall chawed a box seat, was now leant § a human de vitel iny questions examining ; 1 net or give y conser r fi ;: Het, battere wrecked, his companion, ‘The Russian told People tithe room wan on the second floor piSrelae sive ccrae suevenivecss planting in Jack's mind of any sug- Ores he rail watoniay f bedi fad ener oe Mead Lape them that the ape was his—nothing CHAPTER I. of the house, and opposite the - xeation of the savage life from which Sigg in wonder 8 Oe ee lor several weeks, The monotony of further would he offer, but kept é eR OH, dow to whith their attention had Grimsby saw it last night. He says a tall, gray-cyed “On, fathe h wish to preserve him.” i life aboard her became trying for y saw i ast nish! say all, gray d man, ‘Oh, father, ‘The trainer was not sl to note ie harping continually upon the same R. HAROLD MOORE took been a d wa large tree, @ it can do everything but talk, It can’t L Mr. Moore's room was next to that M the crew. They went often ashore, 1 mae a ranct rh tu une oRe e rt puthful ch tit tho boy's handsome, eager face, and aaa ‘finally Pasivitch asked to ac. theme. “The ape ls mine. The ape himself very seriously, end neh of which spread to within @ rides a bicycle, eats with knife and > where, my won?” asked the 0) Mit yee to fh WOok Inte the a# one of Ajax’s biggest bits consisted hat is mine.” i i ew feet of tho sill. fork, counts up to ten, and ever so newcomer. a oon te. 0 0 i 4 vor “any ne, too, as i} life an ! w wh i t “ y 7 1 , " , a . “ ry to one or ore boxes dure mpany them—he, was tir tm When t sallimned: ahoard f nd Upon this branch they both dis- many other wonderful things, and “He wants to go to a music hall to ach evenin ne former was !f an entry ty on more boxes dur, the dlighting sameness of existence r t ee. r 4 ge his) performance, ostensibly ty the dilghting san : diewiee wulvitch was uecom- w © tutoring covered t uvject of their conver- can T go and see it, too? Oh, please, & trained ape,” said the mother, FNS wee eerch of & long-lost relmtive, ae aan pon hip. panied by the ape, who seemed a nobleman, 4 t tall, well-built boy, balanc- mother please let me!” ing warningly at her husband. reul neglect Tig Be Tian ean The ship's company fished, hunted. xjous to follow him. The Captain in aa be ine With ease upon the bending limb — Patting the ck affection. "Who Ajax?” questioned the man had Juat come from SSNs SRD Ney ee ne hia and explored, Poulvitch shuffled up forposed no obstacles to the arrange- was not mak) and uttering loud shouts of glee as he ately, the ther shook her head The boy nodded, with he boy's father the effectiveness of sending tin into and down the beach, or lay in the ree othe great anthropoid A radiata et d tho terrified expressions upon negatively. “No, Jack,” she said; Voll, I don't: know that I blame In woich it had been the box with the handsome boy, wig shude of the great trees that skirted ment, and, so, the ered te Bright to © and, he was now faces of his audience “you know I do not approve of such you, my son," said the father, “I won Tain that he must doubtiess, would be terror-stricken Dy it a peed eo enenue eee oe) ce : he mother and tutor both rushed exhibitions.” wouldn't mind seeing him myself, atest care to prevent proximity to the whagsy, bowertah One aay, as the men were gathered gait acl A sek gb dante ti ha ak the window, but before th 1 don't see why not, mother,” re- They he is very wonderful, and k visiting the music hall where at Lage at a little tance pecting the vincing the eame His sole Interests soem to be feat4 had crossed half the room the boy plied the boy, “AIL the other fellows that for an anthropoid he is unt ly Ajax was being shown. (To Be Continued.) body of a r'that had Pm + @ tes ; of physical prowess the readin ‘ i nimbly to the sill and go, and they go ta the Zoo, too, and large. Let's all go, Jane--wha ovis ee ae te the einen: who haa in each instance that of everythi an get hol he apartment with them. — you'll r vou mayt” And’ ho. tuteibd’ CoWare . . . ° nd, Paulviteh lay s scrutiny of the others. | and Oh, mother,” he cried, “there's a Anybody a pir Ale wite his’ tr He wa s acientiste ard uncivilized wonderful, educated ape being shown a mollyec r Hut the lady only shook her head Yl Ina as 10n esigns awakened by the touct hand up d beast, but they es of ani- at f the music hal c . nN & most positive manner, and, on his shoulder, Pe eee Cea lab - F : ° vith a start, hb sat un to see a ' moi wie t y face Had oat ae The Evening World's Me anette tl or e Evenin o jabberin der y. ¥ suw No menace i quir or in the attitude of the bea ed got slowly to his feet. The at his « Half the man shuffle was ¢ tiously away toward the sa various pa the ship “pe moved with n, ta b seen and examined his arms. ain f the 3 company 1 ee hey had « : > y eact Now’s_ the By : Rey Thomé B. HE man who said “Truth is stranger than fiction” knew what he was talking about I Take, for example, the “making a living” that they have Gregory. + New Yor c Kvening World.) that 80 busy left most people are there anything truth no time to live int 1 in the whole realm of fiction that is “stranger” than that? The poor fellow in the chain-gang or the penitentiary, fore to work under the caretaker's lash, fed on the cheapest food, and given @ bunk instead of a bed to sleep on at night, excites our profoundest com miseration and sympathy; and yet we voluntarily put ourselves into the same miserable fix We slave and slave and deny ourselves, and keep along year after year at a poor dying rate, with the silent understanding that by and by after ten or twenty or thirty years have passed, we will begin to live, | In the mean time we die or d gets us in the wind, and we never | live at all. | But now's the time to live. Now is the accepied time. Now ts the day of salvation, ‘The love of wife and children and dear friends, the songs of the birds, the blessedness of the sunshine, the sweetness and beauty of the flowers the charm of the fields and glory of firmament, wil no mc pronounced thirty years from now than they are to-da Thirty years from now—if you are alive at that time—you will find no more or greater means of happiness than you have right now But you say, “How can I be happy now? [ have no money. J must make some money~ten thousand dollars, or better yet, a hundred thou- sand.” Ye | You want the mone | To get the Ume | Vo get the things | That money can't bu | Live to-day ¥ he money, Living is not a matter of dollars and cents. Some of the deadest folks on top of the earth are to be found among who have so much money they don't know what to do with it; and some of the livest people among us have very little money We live ins no de; on what we ARE, not on what we HAVE You may t nough of one thing and another to fill a dozen freight traing and still be dead as Pharaoh's mummy | Living is being —being open-eyed to the duly of the world, open hearted to the enthusiasm and sympathies of the great humanity, open pouled (o the intimations o i of truth that ; Reanie ia impart (o us its Joy-giving wisdoin And the time to live, 1 repeat, is now Wax the one who said Instead of going to heaven at last \ Im going all along." But the truth of the busine just this: We don't have ta “go” to heaven at all, If we are what we ought to be—right-hearted and right x {heaven comes to us. Heaven is not # locality but a state of mind, 4 matter of INNERNESS, and wherever the right sort of innerness is there is heaven, \ Right living is heaven, to-day ahd every day. and it is every man's privilege to live right sete Ren eet Monday; HOME PAGE January 27, 1 | Home OUR FEE iS FI DAY, EACH — TO SIT HERE ae ~— > | AM Too HOT | } Vill HAVE TS | TARE MY CoAT / DOLLARS A ) WITH Food — 5 $ 8 AN So HOT (CL HAVE TO i, HY OVER COAT eee | Cop yeiat Mo by The HOUGH times in these busy OFF en wo! ey nterest and th | theless have found so many home t never rema 1 fact that | woman's ele are her most important co! outside t sideration. By Mildred Lodewick A Waistcoat Effect Featured Here. Dressmakers Publishing Co. (The New York Eveaing Worl | Granting this, it is inter- ting to note the way the | problem is approached by | the various types of femin- Jing temperaments, Some | huy new clothes whe they foel the need merely through th shabbiness of | th they have; others buy whether they need them or not Just to ereate admira tion or possibly jealousy in LAM ME UTING | Ne {AM wome o' woman's heart; | CAN WE OPEN A SUPFOCATING ! ) perhaps clever or con- WINDOW 2 5 ns vincing man will expend OFF ) , for a frock just because It — 1 plea A certain “him; other women will buy for thelr own soul's. sake-—to thing different or, if they are really temperamental or at all philoi al, they argue t a new frock will ‘afford them mental stimulua er ed or addened ' & aubjec : at ha uld lke to : | bring to notice the extreme i |simplicity of the pretty { wn to-day, which 4 within the rea aa f almost any one who | THE VERY DAY might desire it. 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