Show lacy lack Sheep sheep's s. s Gold t L THE STORY ns pleasure trip In easterners eastern ers Philip Amory English Id M war veteran now a 8 trader the Island of P Papua pun New lea iea plunges overboard to the life of a musical comedy ees ess known as GIn Gln ry iry becomes Interested In Pia rier member of a a. wealthy South Wales family He Ifer of his bis knowledge of a ad d gold field on the Is- Is though he does not disclose name namo of the pla Gins Gin GIno s' s tells him Pia Pla Is la engaged Ir Er Richard Fanshaw Amory eve ever Is confident that the theIs theIs theIs Is not Indifferent to him His lay Jay ended he arrives bade back aru laru He meets an English English- SpIcer there on t e develop t business for a syndicate te of ot oth h Fanshaw Is head Fan- Fan vs v's name recalls to Amory a forgotten Incident l In which witnessed the escape of Fan- Fan v v from a leper colony lie He his friend Bassett about It I decides to Inform Laurier goes to Thursday Island to the message PTER PTER IV Contin Continued IV-Continued Continued ed J I 9 9 nd id my usual room and dumped it ir ir In It walked round the the veranda with a a wary e eye eye e eat paten eaten n boards peeped Into the ther room r m and had about made up id Li ld that there nobody here l j self and he when I 1 beard hoard n n the upstairs parlor A man woman oman talking Sling for tor a ducat I said to Now what on earth earth- not mean to listen but stand stand- re e In the dusk of the staircase In whether to go on or go back tt If t a sentence or two before it j clear lear to me that up or down move on Off orr that Infernal ship Of you sou you will Jinny You dont don't donte ne e to believe you missed the accident d d It for a lark fark miss it for a larke lark lark- ic re e e If It you OU didn't miss It for missed It for some one else l 3 reply was tuneful Irrelevant fly Ily concerned with the un- un comic love adventures adventures' of of a aV V 1 Alabam II the Ithe he other person the man ething that woke me up e e he asked with a sudden Is s voice Is the beachcomber iho picked you out of the thee J e bottom of ot It for all I know Gin youre you're enough to enough O L I 1 heard Conscious that I ady listened too long iong for de- de hurried down the rubber-car- rubber Irs irs and out Into the desolate desolater r I et behind the hotel I wanted wanted U dio ho would come out I had issei sed already fit t was Sir Richard Fanshaw's IK In and tall that stalked out from the dusky doorway 11 by that other tall thin fig fig- L was Jinny what I had heard I guessed had left the ship n at I port and that H t the same port had hud had or or or purposely abandoned her herand herand herand and stayed behind I nd Fanshaw had r returned turned wards In the same ship had ked at Thursday Island Island Island-I I Ite see why but that c could uld d were staying at the tile Cosi Cos- Cos i Grand Grand Fanshaw clearly ng light love to her she did r his suit and he was In- In If 11 blame me for tor the rebuff she was gone on n me ImIng Im- Im wing King to the gossip he had bad no noard ard on the ship that she sheA shelo A her voyage and her herr herI herand I r and headed back toward lo 41 of at me That was the theas theas as I sized it up was pondering these things person than Sir Richard him- him down the steps of or the hotel ar In his way but he be scarce- scarce d d me with his glance as he heIn heIn heIn In that Instant I realized ed ed I might ha have ha e known beto beto be be- to Plas Pla's fiance I was noth- noth i than a name I had seen the ship but he had not notly not not- ly ly seen seen me Just as well II o l-o t t though I could not have 1 w fright Ight of him busy and pur pur- jabout I knew not what reme re- re reome me that my telegram was still I went up to my room to tot tofit 9 lit fit t but I had scarcely got p tl and paper leaning over my with back to the door when and not disagreeably by y two long cool hn hands ds th that t warning over m I. I L' L my eyes who said saiu Jinny s voice ys y's own unmistakable chuckle girl In the Pacific Jed ed cd pulling down her hands Ing her face till Ull It met mine med no reason why reason now why I 1 It It t kiss this Jinny and I did I had not wanted ther her on the boat bont when the theIla PIa Ila Laurier was wag still sUll gilded flight light of not Impo Impossible ruI fu- fu s. r. r Now What did I marry or not marry whom j there was always the man- man 11 end and wh what It signified to weep us two coke roke a away way from me she was wasl I l iad d laughing I thought I had hady y J her so pretty S what Its iti all about I 10 i by Beatrice Grimshaw illustrations by Irwin flyer Myer Copyright by Hughe Hughee Massie Co Service said Mid Why Thy arent aren't you jou Ou delighting the smart folk tolk of ot Singapore and why Isn't Sir Richard Fanshaw well Fanshaw-well well why Is he be here anyhow I dont don't mean why Is he with you ou that's his luck luck luck- but what the deuce tio do the two of you want In this dead of a place T Tinny Jinny settled herself herselt In Ina ina a chair like a s slim Hm kitten that curls Itself on a pillow Her IIer eyes were half halt closed she looked beneath beneath beneath be be- neath long lashes heavy with paint and across across' the plain of i blue scilla-blue sea and the out tar fairy Isles of ot Tuesday Tuesday Tues Tues- day Y and Wednesday and the purple crags of ot Prince of at Wales and Horn I think so looking she saw none of these things nor yet the sky with galloping clouds nor the near palm tree tops that almost blew across the rail beside us I think that she saw only rough Phil Amory called Black Sheep and th the day for tor her ran filled with shining gold Theres There's time and time for thinking In Ie the lands where black sheep live Sometimes since tHen I have wondered wondered won won- der dered d how bow things s n might l bt have hay gone gone what what my life and U that at ot of another might have have been had hud there been no Pt Pia t a Laurier on the steamer If It there t A L 1 y t taw L. L There Seemed No No Reason Now Why I Should Not Kiss This Jinny and andI I Did With Thoroughness had been Just Jinny Jinny whom I had saved at the near risk of my own life Jinny who gave me me-I me I that know know that which she never gave to anyone else What am I doing she answered lightly Missed me boat In Soura- Soura baya rice table at the Oranje Fanshaw was there gorgin himself too he was booked for oil aU business of or some kind kind and and he lent me my fare back to Sydney There was a boat next nest da day and I thought Id I'd get away way from him by taking it but spare me days that wasn't his Idea he saw his man and did his business and got away In twenty-four twenty hours along with me And when I got off orr here he got oft off so that's that He go got ol off otT I said because hes he's going across to Papua he has one of his exploring trips on She nodded I know he told melles me Hes He's heard something about It that he he- he didn't like this morning he got fair snake headed when his letters came along In some little boat I 1 wouldn't have haye bad had a 8 chance of at this yarn yarn with you only that he went off for the telegraph telegraph telegraph tele tele- graph office as soon as hed he'd read the letters I answered her nothing at all all all- silenced by a new and unpleasant thought I had brought over a government government government gov gov- mall mail bag In the cutter as one usually did when crossing to T I I. I What was In It Who from Daru Darn had been writing to Sir Richard Fanshaw Fanshaw Fan Fan- shaw Spicer's cool Indifference to my departure departure de de- de was easily comprehensible If It Ithe he had obtained through that very circumstance the chance of at warning Sir Richard against m myself and my ugly knowledge It was no news to him I dared say he seemed to be Sir Richards Richard's creature through and through D Over these thoughts I sat at glooming and worrying till tm Tinny Jinny noticed the sudden drop in fn temperature and began began began be be- gan to tease tense Then I roused myself She must be in Fanshaw's confidence more or less I thought It wouldn't do to set that keen mind of hers to work I kissed her again with no noone noone noone one but goats to look on and then Jumped up and declared my intention of ot going out on business What I meant to do was to sail bail my boat overto overto over to Cape York and send my message now now more than ever necessary necessary necessary-by by byland land line Une The address of ot Pia father was easily found I knew where I could co get a directory and year car book of Prominent Aust Aus Aus- t First however I wont went to the post postoffice postoffice postoffice office on the of off chance of ot mail mall I 1 had to wait a a. a little littie somebody Inside was busy telephoning a message to Cape York after the strange local fashion words fashion words spelt out letter by letter letter letter let let- ter with a Christian name for tor each to avoid blunders Mechanically as asI asI as asI I leaned on the he counter I began taking taking tak tak- In ing up the message w which seemed public fot tot all an the world to 1 hear bear bear- earP ear ear- 4 P for Peter L for Laura E for tor Emily A for Alice S for Samuel E for EI Emily D for Dora T for Thomas 0 O for Oliver H for Harry A for tor Alice V for Victoria E for Emily Somebody was pleased to have something Waiting I listened I was was' re really lly not conscious of eavesdropping ea what was chiefly In my mind at the time was the bare possibility of a letter letter let let- ter from Pia v Pleased to have you Join the message message message mes mes- sage slowly ran Prospector failed us See letter March And then a 8 word that waked me up like a n shock from a live wire Re wire Re If It I had any abY any scruples about listening listen ing and really one doesn't or oughtn't to listen I had none now Tat the word so clearly Papuan to any anyone one who knew the country the odd distinctive word not really forgotten for forgotten gotten was the keyword to the th-a secret that I had for almost a year year been cherishing the secret that I had thought mine only Where In the name of at everything that was improbable had Fanshaw got h hold ld of at that word and th the fact it connoted Could a man keep nothing noth nothing ing to fo himself even though he locked his lips Ups and reined In his very thoughts I IThe The clerk came forward and told me there were no letters I hadn't expected any so It was unreasonable for me to feel feel feel-as as I did did exceedingly exceedingly y disappointed I 1 I took myself and my disappointment disappoIntment- out into the yellow sun and flying winds I came to the conclusion that my telegram had better go In any case and that after that the sooner I set sail sall for Daru again the sooner I got my gear together and started off oft on my trip to the interior the better I hadn't money enough for tor all aIt that was wanted well wanted well I would get Maidstone to grubstake me much though It went against my pride I hadn't a amate amate amate mate to go with me Well I would ta take e the risks of ot going alone with my boys Anything sooner than let Fanshaw Fanshaw Fanshaw Fan Fan- shaw get ahead of at me with whist what I fancied to be the biggest find ever made in Papua Now that I raked raked my mind through and through now that I squeezed thelast the last drop out of or every recollection that could b help lp me I was able to make a rough guess at the possible source of ot Fanshaw's Information And like Uke most mysteries it turned out to be simple enough when explained The fiancee of the dead miner Grace had been not a girl but a widow Her name as I had heard It was Brownrigg Brown- Brown rigg Straining my memory I 1 seemed to recall something about her maiden name and If It I did not mistake that name was the fairly common but In Inthis Inthis inthis this case most significant one of Fanshaw The miner perhaps had talked to Mrs Brownrigg more than one l had nd supposed Mrs Brownrigg perhaps had bad talked to her relative If It indeed he was b her r relative Sir Richard Fanshaw the great man of a very mediocre family I didn't see that I Iwas Iwas Iwas was ever eyer likely to know the exact sir cir circumstances and perhaps they did not nol matter One thing did matter and th that t was that a man who signed his telegrams F who was almost certainly certainly Fanshaw himself was In inviting In some prospector to Join an nn exploring party using in the message the name of ot the point where Graces Grace's trip years ago had ended TO BE CONTINUED |