| Show HEWLETT’S TEAS ALWAYS GOOD and Miss Leslie had a large round object raised to her Ups Wlnthrop was waving to him “Cocoanuts!” he yelled “Come on!” Three of the palms had been overthrown by the hurricane and when Blake came up he found the ground strewn with nuts H& seized the first he came to but Wlnthrope held out one already opened He snatched It from him and placed the hole to his swollen lips Never had champagne t tasted half so delicious as that milk Before he could drain the last of It through the little opening ' husks torn from Wlnthrope had the the ends of two other nuts and the convenient germinal spots gouged his with penknife open VIJ ' Blake emptied the third before he Even then his voice was spoke "How’d hoarse and strained you strike ’em?" “I couldn’t help it” explained Wlnthrope “Hardly had you disappeared when I noticed the tops of the fallen palms and thought of the nuts Tnere was one in the grass not 20 feet from where we lay” “Lucky for you — and for me too I “We were all guess” said Blake three down for the count But this settles the first round in our favor MoOUrg A (jo) by A (Copyright How do you like the picnic Miss SYNOPSIS Jenny ?” “Miss Leslie If you please" replied The ntory opens with the shipwreck of the girl with hauteur the steamer on which Miss Genevieve Leslie an American heiress Lord “Oh say Miss Jenny!” protested an and Tom Blake Blake genially “We live in the same were passengers American a brusque Englishman The three were tossed upon an uninhabhouse now Why not be ited Island and were the only ones not boarding folksy? You’re free to call me Tom drowned Blake recovered from a drunken stupor Blake shunned on the boat Pass me another nut Wlnthrope because of his roughness became a hero Thanks! By the way what’s your as preserver of the helpless pair The hand of front name? Saw It aboard ship — Englishman was suing for totheswim back Miss Leslie Blake started Cyril—” was left to the ship to recover what wasted Blake returned safely Wlnthrope corrected 'Wlnthrope In a “Cecily his last match on a cigarette for which low tone he was scored by Blake Their first meal “Cecil — Lord Cecil eh?—or Is It only was a dead fish The trio’ started a ten mile hike for higher land Thirst at- the Honorable Cecil?” to Blake waa compelled tacked them “My dear sir I have intimated becarry Miss Leslie on account of weariness fore that for reasons of — er — state—” “Oh yes you’re traveling Incog In Continued CHAPTER IV— Sort of detectAt first his throat was so dry that the secret service he could no more than rinse his mouth ive — ” “Detective!” echoed Wlnthrope In With the first swallow his swollen tongue mocked him with the salt a peculiar tone Blake grinned “Well it is rawther The tide bitter taste of was flowing! He rose sputtering and a nawsty business for your honorable stared ludship But there’s nothing like callchoking and gasping He around There was no question that ing things by their right names” he was on the bank of a river and “Right names — er — I don’t quite would be certain of fresh water with take you I have told you distinctly the ebb tide But could he endure the my name is Cecil Wlnthrope!" how lovely! — agony of his thirst all those hours? ' He thought of his companlonsr — Bet they called you Sissy at “Good God!” he groaned “they’re school English chum of mine told me goners anyway!" ' He stared dully up the river at the thousands of waterfowl which lined Its banks Within close view were herons and black Ibises geese pelicans fla-mlngoes and a dozen other species of birds of which he did not know the names But he sat is though in a stupor and did not move even when one of the driftwood logs on a a few yards opened an enormous mouth and displayed two rows of hooked fangs It was otherwise when the noontime Btlllness was broken by a violent splashing and loud snortlngs He glanced about and saw six or eight monstrous heads drifting towards him with the tide “What in — Whee! a whole herd of “That’s what hippos!” he muttered the hole3 mean" The foremost hippopotamus was headed directly for him He glared at the huge head with sullen resentment For all his stupor he perceived at once that the beast Intended to land and he sat In the middle of its His first Impulse accustomed path was to spring up and yell at the creature Then he remembered hearing that a white hunter had recently been killed by these beasts on one of the South African lakes Instead of leap- Blake Pushed Out from the Among ing up he sank down almost flat and Close Thickets crawled back around the turn In the Once certain that he was hid- your schools are corkers for nickpath den from the beasts he rose to his names What’ll we make It— Sis or feet and fastened back through the Sissy?” “I prefer my patronymic Mr Blake" Jungle He was almost in view of the spot replied Wlnthrope “All right then we’ll make It Pat whbre he had left Wlnthrope and Miss Leslie when he stopped and stood if that’s your choice I say Pat this Juice is the stuff for wetness but it hesitating “I can’t do It” he muttered “I can’t makes a fellow remember his grub tell her — poor girl!” Where’d you leave that fish?” He turned and pushed into the “Really I can’t just Bay but it must thicket Forcing a way through the have been where I wrenched my shrubs of and creepers ankle” tangle thorny s “You cawn’t just say! until several yards from the path he And what began to edge towards the face of the are we going to eat?” out at his he that the are “Here cocoanuts" peer might Jungle companions unseen by them “Bright boy! go to the head of the There was more of the thicket be- class! Just take some more husk off fore him than he had thought and he those empty ones” was still fighting his way through It "Wlnthrope caught up one of the when' he was brought to a stand by a nuts and with the aid of his knife peculiar cry that might have been the stripped it of its husk At a gesture bleat of a young lamb: “Ba — ba!” from Blake he laid it on the bare “What’s that?” he croaked ground and the American burst It He stood listening and In a moment open with a blow of his heel It was he again heard the cry this time more an immature nut and the meat proved to be little thicker than clotted cream distinctly: “Blak!— Blak!” be no mistake It was Blake divided It into three parts handWlnthrope calling for him and call- ing Miss Leslie the cleanest Though his companions began with ing with a clearness of voice that would have been physically impossible more restraint they finished their half an hour since Blake’s sunken shares with equal gusto Wlnthrope no further orders to return to needed He burst eyes lighted with hope One after another the through the last screen of Jungle and his husking 6tared towards the palm under which nuts were cracked and divided among he had left his companions They the three until even Blake could not swallow another mouthful of the were not there Another call from Wlnthrope di- luscious cream The Toward the end Miss Leslie had berected his gaze more seaward At Wlnthrope’s urg two were seated beside a fallen palm come drowsy M Of- -' If you want a diamond you can tot one now at $15000 per carat as they last we are selling lot from half parat stones up to two esrats XX Each stone guarsnteed of finest cut clean and perfect As long a limited SALT LAKE CITY UTAH teed ere the tan foundation of largo Our big Catalogue toil all about the cropi Send for Free Copy beet eeed that grow Good VOGELER SEED CO Salt Lake City TESTED SEEDS year to It costs hundreds of dollars every mmmm TEST OUR SEEDS But when you buy them you can depend Write for our they possess Th Quality Fro Doacrlptive Catalog CO Salt Laka City hh MEN AND WOMEN to Learn Barber Trade in Eight Weeks Tuition with set of tools $65 Tuition with partial set of tools $55 Address — — fcOHLEft BARBER COLLEGE Salt Lake City Utah 13 Commercial Street TRUNKS BATHER GOODS MEREDITH'S 55 S Main Street “Made in Utah SUIT CASES SEND FOR CATALOG TRUNK FACTORY Salt Lake City Utah SEALS STENCILS STAMPS BADGES TRADE CHECKS Etc Full line Rubber Type Outfits and supplies in stock Mall orders receive prompt attention SALT LAKE STAMP CO Salt Lake City sr x RUBBER Smooth Robert Harborough Sherard magazine writer and grandson of the poet Wadsworth on hie recent American visit gave a dinner at the Plaza to a large number of magazine editors Mr Sherard was at his best at this dinner In magazine circles his “mots” are still being quoted with laughter a wine One mot concerned the very rich and nutty fruit port which was served in English fashion with the fruit and nuts at the dinner’s end As for Mr All praised this wine Sherard rolling it upon his tongue then swallowing It with closed eyes he cried ecstatically: “It slips down like an angel In a pair of velvet troupers!" A Pertinent Question A noted clergyman was in his study daughwriting when his ter walked in and asked “What are you writing papa?” “I am writing a sermon daughter” “How do you know what to write papa?” “God tells me what to write daughter”1' After watching her father a few minutes the little girl said: “Papa if God tells you what to write why do you scratch some of it out?” — San Francisco Chronicle Doubtful Statistics Maudie — “Pa will our new mamma go mad after a while?” Father — "What a question! Why did you think of such a thing?” Maudie—“Well I heard her tell the cook that she got badly bitten when she married you" Quilts A little girl was in the habit of tellHer auntie ing awful “stretchers" told her she could never believe her and to warn her related the tale of the boy who called “Wolf wolf!” and how the wolf really did come one day and ate up all the sheep “Ate the sheep?” asked the child “Yes” “All of them?” “Well” said the little one “I don’t believe you and you don’t believe me So there!” — Harper’s Magazine He Was Particular Mrs — Myles — “Who Is that man throwing that kiss to?” Mrs Styles — “It must be you dear He wouldn’t be throwing me a kiss" Mrs Myles— "Why not?” Mrs Styles — “Because It’s my husband” — Yonkers Statesman Looking Way Ahead “Jones Always seems to be looking Into the future” “Yes He bought a house on easy terms and a piano on the Installment plan” ing she now lay down for a nap Blake's coat serving as a pillow She fell asleep while Wlnthrope was yet It for her Blake had arranging turned his back on her and was staring trail moodily at the hippopotamus when Wlnthrope hobbled around and sat down oa the palm trunk beside him “I say Blake” he suggested “I feel deuced fagged myself Why not all take a nap?" " 'And when they awoke they were all dead men ” remarked Blake “By Jove that sounds like a Joke” “Drn’t rag protested the Englishman me now” “Joke!” Blake “Why repeated that's Scripture Pat Scripture! Anyway you'd think It no Joke to wake up and find yourself going down the throat of a hippo” ' “Hippo?” Dozens of them over la the river Shouldn’t wonder If they’ve all landed and’re tracking me down by this time” “But hippopotami are not carnivorous — they’re not at all dangerous unless one wounds them out In the wa- ter” "That may be but I'm not taking chances They’ve got mouths like sperm whales — I saw one take a yawn Another thing that bayou Is chuck full of alligators and a fellow down on the Rand told me they’re like the Central American gavials for keenness to nip a swimmer” “They will not come out oq this dry land” Miss Leslie caught sight of his cc at which still lay in a roll beside the palm trunk “How about your coat Mr Blake?" she asked “Should you not put it on?” “No I’m loaded now Have to esk you to look after It You may need If the It before morning anyway dews here are like those in Central liable to America they are on fever” malarial bring Nothing more was said until they had crossed the open space between the palms and the belt of jungle along the river At other times Win thrope and Miss Leslie might have been interested in the towering screw with palms festooned to the top climbers and in the huge ferns which they could see beneath the mangroves in the swampy ground on their left Now however they were far too con cerned with the question of how they should penetrate the dense tangle oi thorny brush and creepers which rose before them like a green wall Even Blake hesitated as he released Wlnthrope and looked at Miss Leslie’s of costume Her white skirt was stout duck hut the flimsy material oi for her waist was rough usage “Better put the coat on unless yon want to come out on the other side in full evening dress” he said "There’s no use kicking but I wish you’d happened to have on some Bort of a jacket when we got spilled” “Is there no path through the thicket?’’ Inquired Wlnthrope “Only the hippo trail and It don’t go our way We’ve got to run our Here’s a stick for your own line game ankle” took the Wlnthrope branch which Blake broke from the nearest tree and turned to assist Miss Leslie with the coat The garment was of such coarse cloth that as Wlnthrope drew the collar close about her throat Miss Leslie could not forego a little grimace of repugnance The crease between Blake’s eyes deepened and the girl hastened to utter an exsa "Not exclamation planatory Mr It please! Wlnthrope tight scratches my neck” CONTINUED) BE (TO THE BABY HATES LIGHT “Suppose they won’t — there’re no other animals in Africa but sheep eh?” "What can we do? The captain told me that there are both lions and leopards on this coast” “Nice place for them too around these trees” added Blake “Lucky for us they’re mostly — if that Rand fellow didn’t lie He was a Boer so I guess he ought to know” “To be sure It’s a nasty fix we’re Could we not build in for some kind of a barricade?” "With a penknife! Guess we’ll roost in a tree” “But cannot leopards climb? It seems to me that I have heard — ’’ “How about lions?” “They cannot I’m sure of that” “Then we’ll chance the leopards Is Bom Without Protection from Da Just stretch out here and nurse that zllng Brightness I don't want to bo ankle of yours lugging you all year I'm going to Another thing which we must learn hunt a likely tree” to appreciate and respect In the baby CHAPTER V Is his attitude toward light This is Light is widely different from ours of Man The one of the most stimulating and attractive things In the world to us and the brighter the better fitness the giltter of the gin palace apd the blaze of But t a poor blinkConey Island ing tot of a baby it is as dazzling and iFTERNOON was far His vanced and Wlnthrope was irritating as It is grateful to us new world in beginning to feel anxious chief objection to the If he could put when at last Blake pushed out from which he finds himself As he ap- it In words would be: “It’s so beastly among the close thickets He is bom a caveman in proached he swung an unshapely club light” the of green wood pausing every few more senses than one While he occupies should get which rooms and balance paces to test its weight plenty of sunBhlne this should never on & bush or knob of dirt to shine directly into his "By Jove!” called Wlnthrope “that’s be allowed He has not half bad! You look as If you could eyes or full upon his face neither pigment in his tender skin nor bowl over an ox" Blake showed that he was flattered hair on the top of his pink little head to protect him against the light rays “Oh I don’t know” he responded to “the thing’s blamed unhandy Just the and it' Is little short of “cruelty same I guess we’ll be ready fur callers animals” to lay an unfortunate babyon his back In a trough-likperambulator or baby buggy so deep and well ‘How’s that?” “Show you later Pat me b’y Now padded that he cannot even squirm trot out some nuts We’ll feed before to load him down with clothing and wraps or even actually strap him we move camp” down so that he can lift “Miss Leslie is still sleeping” “Time then to roust her out Hey nor foot and then to wheel him about Miss Jenny turn out! Time to chew” for hours with his little face turned Miss Leslie sat up and gazed around up to the full glare of the light and even the direct rays of the sun Hene in bewilderment “It’s all right Miss Genevieve" re- is where the foundation of many a assured Wlnthrope “Blake has found case of headache of Irritable nerves a safe place for the night and he of fretfulness — with its accompanying wishes us to eat before we leave here” indigestion and sleeplessness— Is laid “Save lugging the grub” added — Dr Woods Hutchinson in Success Magazine Blake "Get busy Pat” As Wlnthrope caught up a nut the Crocodiles Along ths Nile girl began to arrange her disordered At the sound of the shot the whole hair and dress with the deft and grace- of this bank of the river over the exful movements of a woman thoroughly of at least a quarter of a mile tent trained in the art of into hideous life and my comThere was admiration in Blake’s deep sprang and I saw hundreds of crocopanions eyes as he watched her dainty preen- diles of all sorts and sizes rushing ing She was not a beautiful girl — at madly into the Nile whose waters present she could hardly be termed along the line of the shore were pretty yet even in her draggled mud- lashed Into white foam exactly as a dy dress she retained all the subtle heavy wave had broken1 charms of culture which appeal so It could be no exaggeration to say strongly to a man Blake was sub- that at least a thousand of these s dued His feelings even carried him had been disturbed at a single so far as an attempt at formal polite- shot — Strand Magazine ness when they had finished their meal Indisputable “Now Miss Leslie” he began “it’s com Two tourists on a personally little more than half an hour to sun- ducted tour were overheard talking down so if you please If you’re ready together in the window of a Florence we’d best be starting” Arno the hotel overlooking “Is it far?” “This does not look to me like VenBut we’ve got to ice” said the first “I do not see “Not so very Are you single gondola” chase through the Jungle sure you’re quite ready?” “No” admitted her companion "but But how about it must be Venice You know we were “Quite thank you Mr Wlnthrope’s ankle?” to be In Venice on Wednesday”— I “He’ll ride as far as the trees Harper’s Monthly can’t squeeze through with him Ahead of the Game though" “I shall walk all the way” put In attended a successful Byker — I Wlnthrope performance last night “No you won’t Climb aboard” rePyker — So? plied Blake and catching up his club Hyker — Yes I lent the conjurer a he stooped for Wlnthrope to mount his counterfeit dollar and he gave me As he rose with his burden back a good one back ” |
