Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1919-09-07 | Page 41 | Jack London's Last Novel Hearts of Three Never before Published

ck London's Never N v eve Before Beffre H EA RT s 's C OF F T TH REE E J I Last Novel 1 Published YI j Y Tale a e 0 of Hi Hidden den Yr I If sh I r T Tre Treasure a u e L Love ove an and a n d I I f Y t fir 1 I Adventure t r t. t I In j I n Jack London I In By QC 1 f of or Moo Mood The Thc lit The VUey ol of r tho the rr The C Call o or o of C t and Other Other ti r Vol o Tho The Iron ron non White Fang and Fang I Novels No Famous lamous t i I l u t cd to 0 the author b Charles of t t ton story I theme Goddard 04 duro 3 Lii TI-IL TI I. I I Wis U. L 7 cr very rapidly iNTS' iNTS happened T ii with Francis Morgan that thatto I to spring morning If It cv ever r a a. an leaped across tI timo o Int Into tho the and d tragedy of iw r red d drama I to IC o primitive c and tho m mediaeval dl al alII l of or sentiment and pason pas pas- pas pas- pason Latin on of or the new world tr Morgan was a as to bot bo t it t man and destiny ny was as cr very cry mediate to upon him to parker he said to t the tho e valet a 54 ho had been his fathers father's ather s before ini 1 1 did Ild you ou ever cr notice any ny nyI Y o ens I of or fat f on P. P H H. M. M 1 In his hist hiso a d tit t days days days' a i no no o sir sire was as t the le answer with all un the due humility I f i- i thc he trained servant but hut acA ac- ac A b by an I involuntary volun nry glance that thal t scanned scanned tho thod d dung mans man's proportions our ur father ther sir never nC lost lol his l annc anness R. R Ills figure was always alwa's alwase e a same broad shoulders deep In Inc Inc ye c ch chest st st. bl boned big bon d but lean alan alays al- al ays an lean leann sir In the thc middle Young ing Francis Morgan herl- herl I cr o of ot mall many millions as well as s wn rl stretched his hs legs leEs after aLer thet the t ironer of a full gc- gc e H 4 le C lion Hon and glanced at a n. h headline I I if f L the morning paper which In- In ormed him of ot a fresh slide in the thc I Cut at Panama J I didn't know kno we wc Morgans ors ors-ans I ids ian t t. f run that way he yawn yawned d rd f tl l bo be tat rat alre already d from this cc- cc Eh Parker i. i Oh yes c he said nastily t p. p I 1 mean no no sir sit You arc are fn tho the Iak of ot conditions condition If 3 lite Contradictions 11 Not Nol on your our II life e. e the thc young youn n n assured him I 1 may not nol bo ho otting clUne- fat tal but I 1 am certainly rowing row Ins soft Yes sir no sir no I mean mean no no 1 r r r. r Just the tho same samo as when 1 bu au U C came home from college e three threes tars ago Parker Im I'm going tI fl fishing hing Yes es sir tY k I 1 ordered some ome rods sent tip up ease Joint them and nd let lct me mo give e a irm the thc once onto over The idea rifts through m my mind that two In the thc woods is what J I need eed It I dont Ill I'll surely surel start tying lying Ing on flesh Clesh and disgrace the holo whole family tree You remember I fJ lr Jr He Henry Henry tho tho r-tho tho old original sir enry the buccaneer old swashBuckler swash- swash Buckler r d Yes sir Ive I've read of or him sir Parl Parker er had paused In the tho door- door 1 ray iray until such time as tho thc ebbing 1 pf t f his young masters master's volubility j would permit him to on the theS S errand I t. t ing to be proud of or the thc old Irate pirate Oh no sir d Parker protested pile lIe lie was was- governor Jo of Jamaica He lie Hed I led d rC It It Was t a mercy he hc didn't die dier r Francis laughed As It I LI as 15 as hes he's the on only onh disgrace In tho the J unify that he founded Parker L-Parker faded out of the room inho in r he ho ensuing silence during which C Panels Mor Morgan an burled himself Inho in inho I ho he Panama column and anti learned I hat at Ac the l canal w was waN ata not expect expected ell to toen en n for traffic for Cor three weeks to y orne eme I ire A. A telephone buzzed and through lo be nerves ner of a I ate to civilization destiny made the thc i l first outreach of or H its ten cJe and II graded E with Francis Morgan Morsan In bt ba library of or the tho mansion lon his faher fa- fa h her f 1 had on Fifth Firth avenue I KIJiu 1 Out fn rny my d dear ar Mrs fr Carrut'S Carruthers ra s s his protest Into tho the transmit transmit- r r. r Whatever It is is It ft Is a mere I cal 11 flurry urr Tampico P Petroleum is I 11 tight 11 ri ht Jt It t la is not i r gambling o It Ja as a legitimate itt ln- I f ent t. t li pl please Its It's ts t's not a flyer present fir r- r present contract for tor tanks tanks Is 18 ise tf e i r Q a. Our railroad and nd pt pr r three pipe lines arc ue costing i B ore orr re than five Iv millions Why h 4 Qc a hundred millions in pro- pro Ing cing Wells right no now and our oura bl m a Iii iti to get ct It down country countr Y t o t the e oil oU steamers I vice Ivice rice to Stick Slick Yea fames bye rood and hold on to Pico Petroleum it If It Il goes n. n After that Minnesota farm farm farm- i s pulled bulled fUll d It It bu bu buy Y a little littleY little littlemore more m going 4 to Its It's r g mone money Y Yes ies es I c- c surely Its It's too good goodU U dart e sell eU f on a flyer now because nant ever Co go down don Of Ot I brie l I 1 linos' linos what Im I'm talking out t Ive PH Just had eight hours hours' fP ep p and haven't ha had a drink I ep l 1 3 Yes et good bye O Pulled the ticker LIcker tape in Into lo i Er e comfort of his chair aJ lan lan- I gay rata ran over O it It t noting with Ith d y grown s-ro s interest th the tha men men- it t convoyed y 34 l iii t. t biker I t returned with several I t 4 och a gem cern and art arL Francis wa was waa tr pr his hla chair ticker flung flunK aside l f forgotten olten with exultant as the thc 55 ct af a boy be bo We ch toys di one art after r another began try- try them s them through h Y air till they rM nude shrill movinG them gently h b ce and ana un- un n- n lofty ceiling cellini as he ho made mader madeI I r believe to cast cist upon tho the floor m into mio o some somo p pool ol of ot tl trout trout mystery The TheA Annoying s Phone A telephone buzzed Irritation was swift on hl his face tace For heavens heaven's sake answer It It Parker he If If it is silly stock gambling female some somo tell her Im I'm dead or drunk or down with typhoid or getting s married or anything calamitous Its Mr tr Bascom till sir He wants you ou Tell Mr Bascom to go SO to said Francis Mr tr Bascom says Its It's abo t abo-t t the market sir and that hed he'd like t to talk with you OU only a moment Parker urged but bet so delicately delicate and be merel merely mere mere- as to seem to and unnecessary unnecessary un un- l ly 1 repeating repealinG an Immaterial necessary message c. All right Francis carefully leaned the thc rod against a table and went to the tho phone Hollo Rollo he said Bald Into the thc tele phone Yes this is lIS I Morgan Shoot What Is It He listened for a minute then interrupted Irritably Sell Sell hell Nothing of the sort Of Ot course Im I'm glad lad to know Even if It goes up p ten points which It wont won't hold on ono onto to 10 o everything It ma may be a legitimate les-iU- les r mate atc rise and It Il mayn't mant ever como down clown Its It's solid soUd Its It's worth far more than Its It's listed I know if it the tho public doesn't A year car from now It'll list last at two hundred that hundred that Is is 5 If ie Mexico can cut the revolution revolution re tion stuff Whenever er it drops you'll have ha buying orders from me wants wants control T c s ch eh I beg your our pardon I mean Its It's merely temporary Now Im I'm going s of off fishing for a a. fortnight If It it goes down flown five thc points bu buy Buy all th that's ts t.'s offered Sa Say when a fellows fellow's got a real bona hona fide Ide property prop prop- crt erty being bulled its it's almost as bad as a. having the tho bears after atler ono one yes CS Sure suro Yes Good bye And while Francis returned de delightedly delightedly de- de to his fishing rods cods Destiny Destiny Des Des- tiny Uny In Thomas Hegan's downtown downtown downtown down down- town private office was working overtime o Having arran arranged etl with his various arlous brokers to hU buy and through his divers channels of se secret secret secret se- se cret publicity having ha let lct slip the cryptic tip that something was wrong rong with Tampico petroleum's concessions from the thc Mexican government government gov gov- Thomas Regan an studied a report from hl his own oil expert emissary emissary em em- who had spent two months on the spot spying out what Tampico Tam Tam- pico petroleum really had In sight and antI prospect A New Nev Arrival A clerk brought t In a card with 1 tho the Information that the tho visitor was Importunate and torel foreign n Regan Regan Regan Re Re- gan listened glanced s at the thc card hi and said sald Tell this Mister Senor Alvarez l Torres of d de Colon that thal I cant can't see him Five e minutes lat later r the clerk was ae back this time with a mes message alO penciled on the thc card Regan grinned grinned grin grin- ned as he read It Dear Mr tr ne Megan Regan an Honored Sir Sir-l Sir 1 have e the thc honor to Inform you ou that I 1 have a Upon tip Up tipon tipon on the thc location of the thc treasure Sir henry Morgan tor oln burled buried j in n old pirate days ALVAREZ LV AREZ TORRES Regan shook his head heat and the thc clerk wa was nearly out of or the room When his employer suddenly re recalled recalled ro- ro called him hits Show Sho him In In in-at at once I In the thc Interval of being alone Regan chuckled to himself 3 as he rolled tho the new nc Idea o over or r in his mind Two d 1 cubs he ho muttered through h the smoke of oC the cigar cle-ar he was lighting hUng Thinks he hc can n play pIa the thc lion part old R. R II H. M. M played A trimming Is what hn hr needs and old Graybeard Thomas R. R will see sec that bo ho gets it I Senor Alvarez Al Torres Torres' English was as correct as his modish spring suit and though the tho bleached yellow of ot his skin ad advertised ad- ad i his Latin American J ori ort origin gin s-In and though his big black blackeyes blackeyes 1 eyes were eloquent of the mixed lusters of Spanish and anel Indian long compounded nevertheless hn JH was wasas wasas wasas as thoroughly New as Thomas Regan could have wished of ot By y great effort an ant and years research I 1 have ha finally won on the tho the clue to thc the buccaneer gold old of ot Sir Henry Morgan Morban he Of OC course courle Its It's on the Mosquito coast Ill I'll tell you OU how ho that Its It's not a 1 thousand miles from tho Lagoon and that Bocas lei lel Toro within re reason ma may be described a n as a the thc nearest town I 1 was was was' born there ther there educated educated d In Paris however and and nd I 1 know tho the neighborhood like a book Look A small schooner the out outlay I Is cheap mO most t very cheap chear cheap but but u th H returns return the thc reward the the treasure Yes Senor Torres f. a admitted admitted ad ad- mUted I am tm embarrassed embar embar- ras how how d-how how shall hall I say say for for Im Immediate Im- Im m- m mediate t funds You u need the mone money tic the stock s' s f f ff isy Jt r f I IH Ir H r I ts i i t h 41 ar r f r Q V t f 7 dl dlO O Kr Atis A 4 if I 74 1 p 4 4 S. S 5 k a I tYs S 'S 1 f fA I 1 r. r 5 4 5 A io as I do c the beautiful unknown d drawing ra Francis f toward to r the jungle operator assured him brutally and he bowed ved pained acquiescence Much tuch m moro more rc he admitted unde under ut the rapid fire interrogation n was true truc ho he hal haJ b but bit t. t r recently t loft Jort Bocas del Toro but hut he hoped never never nev neV- er cr again ain to go back bacle And 1111 yet ct he lie would so go back I if possibly some ar- ar I Regan r Writes rites a Che Check k knut c nut But n Regan Jan shut him off orr with the thc a abrupt wa way nay of I the he master man dealing vit i lesser fellow creature creat creat- ure ures lIe He wrote a n. check ck In tho the name of Alvarez Torres Tor s and when that gentleman glanced g at it Il ho read the thc figures of or a thousand Jol- Jol lars tars Now heres here's the thc Re- Re w idea said sald gan tan I put no belief bellet whatsoever in your story But I 1 have a young friend nip friend my heart art Is bond hond up in tho the boy bor but he Is too much about town the white while lights and the white while lighted ladles and tho the rest rest rest- you rest you ou Again As-aln Alvarez J Torres bowed You need the the monc money Regan Hegan continued Strive to Interest him That th thousand usan Is for tor your our effort Succeed In Interesting him so that ho lie 1 departs parts after tr old Morgans Morgan's gold s and two thousand more Is your our So thoroughly tho succeed In Jn Interesting interesting Interest interest- t- t ing him that he remains months two thousand more six more six six- months month five five fhe thousand u Oh Ohr Oh lie be- lIe hove me I know his father Vo We were comrades partners I 1 would sacrifice any sum to to win vin his hit son Mon Monto sonto on onto to wholesome path What hal do you rou say a The Thc thousand antl Is yours ours to begin with Well With trembling fingers Senor Al Alvarez Alvarez Al- Al varez arez Torres folded and unfolded d the thc checkI check I I 1 I accept ate stammered and faltered In his ea eagerness In 88 I t r Ho How Howshall shall Hhall I say ay I am ahl yours ours to comman com com- man mand Fh o Fl 0 minutes later as he hc arose to go fully tully instructed In the parthe part parthe parthe he was to play pla and with his stor story of Morgans Morgan's treasure revised ro to convincingness con by br the tack brass br business acumen of tho the stock gambler gambler gambler gam- gam bler he blurted ou out almost facetiously yet ret even more p pathetically th And the th funniest thing ab about ul It Mr Ir Regan Hes-an Is that It IL is 18 true truo I r hl have hal had access to records Inaccessible inaccessible In In- accessible to the thc public which is neither hero liero nor there for the tho men of my own on family they family they records records have have had similar a access and have hn wasted their lives before me in tho futile l search earch I The ear early navigators all played such tricks on the thc charts charts- the they drew My 1 Spanish raco tho Hawaiian Islands b by five degrees of or longitude Another Caller Criller All o of which was In turn tur i. i Gre Greece Q tc le to Thomas who ho smiled his I acceptance e of listening and ani with the same sam smile convoyed con his bUs busy I businessman's tolerant unbelief Scarcely el t was as as Senor T Torres gone gono when Francis Morgan Horgan wa was shown In Just thou thought hl 1 Ill I'll 1 drop around for tor a bit of or counsel he said greetings over o And nd to whom but Lul you should 1 I apply who KO so closely played the game e-ame with m my father fath r You a and tl ho wont w r partners I un understood understood understood un- un on Porno come of ot tho the biggest t deals denIs He lie always l aH toW told inc me- me meto to trust your ur Judgment And nd well hero herc Iam I am nm and 1 want to go BO ri j ln r I hats What's up with Tampico petro petro- lS I. leum I h l t i ia Regan Reran c countered n ere th tl fl Jn a on of of the tho V r ryr f mOn e t h was fot t ing Tampico Petroleum Frances nodded dropped into a chair a arid and d' d lighted a am cigarette I while Regan Hes-an consulted m the the ticker Are Arc you short the tile older man queried OH Oti Ive I've gat a a tidy bit to opet oper- operate f t ate te with was the thc air airy reply cp y of r youth You mean mean Sure just that If she dr drops drope p Ill I'll bu buy Its It's finding rhoney money I A A Leading Question Just about how far would you buy was the next searching next searching In Interrogation In- In masked b by an expression expression expression