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Show THE HELPER TIMES. HELPER. UTAH trader. But MacKnlght did not stop at that now, for, five minufes later, as Wallen stnrted for the nights tramp across the Island, a Malay He shrieked aloud, rushed to the rail, and In the delirium of his mind crouched low to hide himself from this dead throng that raved like demons for medicine, ran screaming forward to where the ship's boat bumped monotonously In Its rise and fall against the reset's hull. lie hurled himself over the side, cast the boat loose, and snatching at the oars began to pull like a madman away from the ship. Two hundred yards off he stood up and shook both lists and yelled tauntingly they could not reach him now. But why not? Suppose they should swim after him! lie flung himself to the seat again and plied the oars furiously. And then slowly the strokes lessened, and presently an war fell from his grasp, and after that, with a moan, he pitched forward Into the bottom of the boat and all was blackness. only die like a trapped rat, while this e Sain laughed a thousand miles uway! . Him know, him know, hlin know" the words coursed like fire through his hruln. He shouted aloud, and the nails of his Augers In Ids clenched fist hit Into the palm of his hand. lie could not choke the life, as his own went out, from this devil In Singapore that lie had never seen he could only Wnllen. first Synopsis Stacey male of the bark Upolo. In the Java sea, is ttie sola survivor of the crew, all victims of yellow fever. Ting Wah, Chinese sailor, last man to die, tells Wallen he and five oilier Chinamen were sent aboard Sam," notorious by "Drink-Hous- e character of SliiRupore, to kill him. This recalls to Wullen an Incident of ills childhood which seems connected with the confession. Drink-Hous- I ron-ronfe- die. CHAPTER I o The uplifted nrin. ns though too heavy for him, fell to his side, a ghastly whiteness spread over his face, he reeled, clutched at the skylight for support, nnd slipped prone upon the deck. It wus the nausen upon him again. The virulence of the nttack passed after a while, hut for a long time he lay where he hail fnllen. weak nnd exhausted. when be He was stood up again, and hung limply against the skylight Medicine yes, that was whnt It meant thnt stuff there spilled nil about. He put some Into Ills mouth. Ills eyes fastened on Continued. Gunga had shaken Ills head ns In had answered. "I have looked, sahib, and the hand is whole." Sliellhound he hnd stood there n the stairs, a liul of fourteen, and Guiign had lifted the Thing lu Ids anna and gone awny with It; and the great figure of his father, dressed in pajamas, had stood motionless for a long time, then turning had faced the slnlra and caught sight of him mid suddenly liml sent a wild, unnatural laugh ringing through the house. You there, eh, Stacey?" lie had laughed out, as though unmanned. Well, I'll tell you something now. Ncrer go to the East. Remember thnt never go to the East." And llien he hud pulled himself together, and Ills face hud set sternly us Go lie Imd pointed up the si airs. hack to your bod I" he hail commandGo back to your bed Ined sharply. Arid I seml-dellrlo- big-heart- Drink-IIous- Yes," said Wallen aloud to himself. Never go to That'll what he said: the East never go to the Hast' " But he had eotne to the East nnd six Clilnnmen had shipped aboard the Ills father had Upolo to kill him. been quite right In telling him not to go to the East How was It that he had crime there? lie had run away from that grny house after that night, and lie hud never heard of Ids father since. Tlint was In California. lie had gone to Frisco, nnd gone to sou. lie had been at sea ever since in all kinds of ships, and he hud done pretty well. lie had his muster's certificate already. But thnt did not account for his being here In the Java sea, nnd for those six Chinamen, ne hnd been fourth officer of the Tokamaru when they had luuclied at Shanghai a few weeks ago. She was a line ship, llie the biggest passenger liner In the fleet only a fourth officers pay was very small. He hnd inet Captain Mitchell of the Upolo ashore there, and Captain Mitchell had persuaded hlin to ship ns first mate on the Upolo for double the pay be bad been getting. The Uiolo. of course, traded ihrough the Java at was what his nnd Bandn father had meant by the East touching at Shanghai ns a port of call In a liner wasn't the sumo thing. How that sun burned through the awning I It seemed to stab anil drill Into h!s skull with little shafts of exquisite pain. lie could get away from It, of course, by going below Into the cabin, by putting the deck between him and that torturing ball of fire, but in the cabin one couldn't breathe. One couldn't live In the cabin Captain Mitchell was there nnd Captain Mitchell was dead. 'Had Captain Mitchell anything to do with those six Chinnmcn? Or anye Sam in thing to do with It was those And where Singapore? six Chinamen hnd Joined at Shanghai like lilmself? If he could remember that lie would know whether Captain Mitchell had had a hand In the cursed game. Hadnt Johnson said something about new hnnds? But then native crews were ' everlastingly shifting about. It was a long way from Singapore to Shanghai. Sam? Who was this Drlnk-llous- e What was It Ting Wah had said? e Sam him know." Him know, him know, him know" the words began to run through his mind In a singsong, crazy fashion nnd then a passionate, merciless anger seised upon him, and the splendid bulk of the mnn heaved up from th( chair, and, tlenchur flat raised, he swnyed upon his feet. They had got him I Not the way they had thought to get him but they Drink-Hous- Mac-Knigh- t, 1 u, Dllnk-nous- six-fo- ot BOYD PARK SOVNDBSlSOC MO MAKERS OF JEWELRY MAM STREET Mil LAKE CITY Business Courses Stenography Dictaphone Civil Service Bookkeeping Typewriting Posting Machine L. D. S. Business College Salt Lako City, Utah Day and Evening AB Typewriters All makes Rented, Repaired, Sold. 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Nevertheless a pygmy hippo was caught as fur back as 1873, and brought from Africa to the zoological gardens In Dublin. It might have convinced the world, only It arrived in a dying condition, nnd perished before It could be exhibited. After that, people took to doubting It again, and considered the one recorded specimen as a freak. But Carl Hagenback, the famous animal man, made up hls mind, at last, that the pygmy hippo could be, and should be, introduced to man. He sent an Intrepid hunter, 8chom-burgafter It, and Schomburgk, after speeding a year and a half In the Jungle, reappeared with three pygmy beasts, two of which were at once brought to the New York zoo and placed on exhibition. New York Herald. Lib-erien- k, OLD THINGS UNDER THf SUN to affect your reader, but to affect him Mouth-talor brain-talwhich precisely as you wish. This Is com- kind do you chiefly use during a busimonly understood In the case of books ness call or conference? I can't see or set orations; even in . . . writ- half as many men as I could see or ns ing on explicit letter, some difficulty I should like to see during the day In admitted by the world. But one because my callers, once they get In thing you can never mnke Philistine to see me, waste my time with Inconnatures understand; one thing, which sequential talk," said a busy execuyet lies on the surface, remains us tive recently. Consequently, my secto their wits flight retary Is under instruction to admit of metaphysics namely, thnt the busi- only such persons as she thinks I must ness of life Is mainly cnrrleu on by see. ' means of this difficult art of literature If you make a business call know and according to a man's proficiency beforehand what yon are going to In that art shall he the freedom nnd present and how. Don't waste time the fullness of hls Intercourse with la nonessentials and trivialities. Fix other men. R. L. Stevenson. the objective of your talk before you o call. It may be a decision; Boat Race. First Harvard-Yal- e it may be a promise merely to consider boat race your proposition ; It may be the fixing The annual Harvard-Yal- e had Its beginning in the desire of a of a specific date when yon can go Into young American railroad to advertise the matter In detail. Whatever your Itself. A traffic manager conceived the objective Is, work toward It as rapIdea that If Lake Winnlpesnukee, on idly as you can; and when you have the line of the then Concord & Mon- reached It pick np your hat and say treal railroad, were selected for a boat Good-bTills Ir one of the sorest race between the two colleges, the ways of making a favorable impresevent wornd advertise the railroad and sion. Pace Student be well worth encouraging, says Christian Science Monitor. Meeting the Camouflage Would Savt Ship. Yale oarsmen one day on the train, A submarine can spot a ship five he suggested the race, and ns a result miles away, estimate its course, subYale Issued a challenge to Harvard, merge and later Intercept it Bat this which Harvard accepted. The railroad ship might have a keel painted fifty company paid the expenses of the feet down Its side and the actual keel crews, and Harvard won the prize, a blocked out This would give It the pair of black walnut sculls, more or- appearance of traveling In a course namental than useful, but serving to that was quite off the actual course. set In motion whnt has become a fa- The calculations of the submarine mous Intercollegiate sport. would be quite wrong end the ship would not be .Intercepted at. all. It A reflector concentrates the heat at would be saved by the deception of 1U the top of a new electric cook stove. camouflage. k The democratic idea la of great antiquity, the Christian Herald reminds Its Under the prophets and renders. was a democracy. It was Israel Judges, not until they were fascinated by the bnrbnrlc splendor and unrestrained license of the heathen nations around them thnt they began to be dissatisfied with their own simple ways and to long for a king and a showy court It was the lure of sin nnd worldly vanity. Samuel warned them against courts and kings and told them of what would happen, but his warnings went unheeded. The vision of the age of r peace began as early ns eight centuries B. C, hut It was not until the Christian era thnt the world change In the existing order fully dawned upon the minds of men. The Idea of a league of nntlons Is not new. Such a league wus fore Endowed by Jean Bloch, In hls re- - Crouched Low to Hide Himself. rolled Into a broken package of powHe lurched again dered quinine. over the book. A as he leaned heavily nervous twitch of his hand gouged the Into the page and left a blot III shook his head In a gravely puzzled way. It was queer that the pen wouldn't write as It had written before; It seemed to travel all over the page, and he paused, his hand going to hls eyes again it was stramre that he couldn't think of hls It was also ra- He wns first innte, he knew thnt ; ,8Sued 20(years aK" Einnnue eon by but yes, hls name came back to him t th t ,on He wrote on laboriously. on tnnst based be tlie law of nations the federation of free states. At different times leaders In national and International reform hnve had visions such a league, but always os a pos- 11OT- ha ,the ded hirhMdngalm "itTnVtrue. quite lbmty to States Lotted the for remnlned true. When thnt damnnble sun thnt t1 when the a at It Promulgate ownwas tormenting him through the world seems prepared to 1st n. lng was gone, that would be the end ' of today and he would be dead. Reduced, Pressure Wanted Ills eyes strayed forward along the Bobby was ploying In the yard and deck and widened with a dawning fear. What were those shapes there had cut himself badly with a piece of He began to mumble to himself, and tin. Running In to mother he cried : I suddenly shrieked out aloud. It was Please, mother, turn off the blood, a horror ship. quick P pen-poi- the Year MAKE BUSINESS CALL BRIEF Art of Literature. L'art de blen dire Is but a drawingroom 'accomplishment unless It ll Wall to Remember That Executives, as Democracy In Ancient Jewish Days and pressed Into the service of the truth. a Rule, Have Little Time the League of Nations, The difficulty of literature Is not to to Waste. Are Two. write, but to write what you mean ; not b sens-Mh- Drink-Hous- Known for Service Famous for Quality Easy Prices d t, stantly I Tokn-mar- mon I" And then suddenly a mist dimmed Walleus eyes. He tried to shout hack and could only wave his own hand in return. And then the trees lild the trader from view. Forget MacKnlght I fhe mnn who CHAPTER II. had nursed him back to life as a mother would nurse her child I ForOn the Road to Pobi. get that solitary human outpost of Mon, expostulated the Scotch civilization a mnn with an Iron fist, trader, but you're fair daft! You're a barbed-wir- e tongue and a heart as nut out of the jaws of death, and Id tender as a woman's I No; he would no say you're all the way out at that. not forget MacKnlght I Bide a bit, therell be nnlther In a lie forced a smile to his lips. One month or In two, anyhow." made strange friendships In these far Wallen, standing In the center of parts of the world, and made them store- under the little galvanized-- ! The strange circumstances. house. his eyes on the native who had chances were a thousand to one that entered a moment before, shook his he and MacKnlght would never meet head. again but, for all that, It was a I've got to get away, MncKnlght," thnt would Inst Theres no use friendship miles across the island behe said earnestly. Twenty talking about it What kind of a ship fore daybreak I does he say It Is? Wallen fell to wondering what sort MncKnlght flung out a question In of a ship and, more pertinent still, the native tongue. what sort of a skipper was on the ship He says It Is n big smoke-bonHe had rehad put Into I'oh!. translated the trader, which will be that of an advanca offer fused MacKnlglits by way of saying Its some measly of money, and he hadnt a penny but steam coaster that's so small Its no was satisfied thnt he would not be he able to occommodate Its own cockrefused passage In any case. He could roaches, dye mind! Mon, pay no attention to It Wlmts anlther month work his way. A white roan who knew his business or so and you'll be strong then, and was worth his weight in gold on a ship I ah, mon, but I hate to have ye go parts. It was true Wallen, gaunt nnd thin from his any time in these too fit yet; but he was wasnt he any Illness, shook his bend decisively fit enough a dull fit for that, enough words had ngUin, though the others flush his came Into face, and his eyes brought a quick responsive smile to hardened fit to get to Singaenough his lips. Six weeks ago a proa from the vil- pore somehow! He had not forgotten thnt ghastly lage here had picked him up at sea In the reek of the pest ship, nfteraoon to as It this and brought him, were, mane door. He owed his nor the Chinaman who had died In his e Sam arms whispering of life to MncKnlght. I He had thought I of Singapore Forget anno use, MncKnlght, he Its of nothing else nil these weeks, raved swered. Ive got to go." it In his delirium, so MacKnlght Itll be that black devil In Singa- of had told him. screwthe trader, pore! ejaculated was one thing dominant In There face wizened his and ing up pulling e now Sam ol life his viciously at his beard. "Youll no piny had mnn who tried ao the Singapore, not fit nre Wallciif"Its the fool, you to stab to his take life, to go. Listen to me, mon: It's a mat- mysteriously without him at warning, treacherously, ter o' twenty miles across the Island, as ye know well, and no conveyance, out of the dnrk. It was Singapore! Singapore I ye mind. And Its no regular trader now. To get of mind out never his Is none due she'll that's called, for hnve put In for water or the like, and there, to force the truth, the motive the reason, the story behind all this will be snlling again at daybreak. from the human spider thnt lurked In cun mnke It by daybreak, 'I his and then his fists clenched web, Wnllen stated quietly. nnd then settle with the man fiercely For a moment MncKnlght stared at himself his then from hands Wallen, dropped And that was why he must get to Wallen's shoulders. Fobl before this before Well, go, and be damned to you. steamer sailed. daybreak, then I he said gruffly, deep down In his throat to hide his emotion and. turning, stepped abruptly outside. Twenty miles across the There were not many preparations to make very few. island before daybreak! Wallen's worldly possessions were ills only through the generosity of the (TO BE CONTINUED.! liml got hlin. - And he could not fight there was no one to light he could "DIED TODAY, 8. WALLEN." guide, well lonilvd with supplies, started with him, while MacKnlght cursed with earnest profanity as they wrung each other's hand. At the edge of the clearing Wallen looked back. On the great bearded figure that leaned against the door frame of the solitary trading station Wallen's eyes lingered. The man waved his hand and shouted : Sion, yell no forget MacKnlght o Arrul Ye'll no forget MacKnlght, A Complete Jewelry Store I nt I HeK I 1 1 J as-a-h- k lgh yes-or-n- y. ? |