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Show and wander, timeless, aimless, Ml the dark. ... It must have been about the sixth month of my Journeying, when, with money running low, and mind almost sated with trople besutles and won-ders so that I began to tblnk I might soon, without regret, return to civil-isation I came upon a group of Islands that i shall call Omega. There la a town in the Omega groan, a town that, for reasons 1 cannot give here, offers more com-mercial Interests and possibilities than most island places. This Is important, and should be remembered; it has to do wiib what I sm going to tell. The town appealed to me but little. It was the outer port of the archi-pelago that drew me; thin atoll Islands, barren and very bright ; Islets with here and there a coconut palm, and here and there a lost melancholy looking pandanus tree; shoal waters thnt were mauve and sapphire, pearl and celadon-green- . I had bought the cutter by this time, with a small wind fall of a legacy that came my way, and I bad just enough money left to run her for a few more weeks. 1 hadn't cash for anything of a crew, however, save one old silly fellow who was willing to come without wages. He professed to know the group from end to end, and though I was a tittle doubtful of bis knowledge, 1 could not afford to quarrel t.ltb It, or htm. After all, I thought, we shall get some-where, and come away somehow, and that'a all one really wants. . . . If I bad known I It waa on a windy, wicked after-noon, with high clouds flying, that we got blown away from our course, such as It was: obliged to abandon all at-tempt to get to the group of atolls for which I had been aiming. I gave the tiller into the hand of Tavltl, the "crew," slung my two sleeping boards across the seats, and lay down with a rice sack under my head. TavitI was to call me at moonrise, which I Judged to e about ten o'clock. THI STORY 0 pleasure trip la eaetera waters, Philip Amory, KngUeb World war veteran, now s trader on the island ot Papua, New Guinea, plunsea overboard to oave trie ur of muelcal comedy ootreea, known as "am-Mlns.- Amory bacomee Interested la Pia Laurler, member of a wealthy New South Wales family. He talis her of hie knowledge of wonderful sold Bald oa tha is-land, though he does not diacloee tha name of the place, "din-811n-tells him Pia Is engaged to 8lr Klcbard Fanehaw. Amory, however, la confident that the girl Is not Indifferent to him. Hie holiday ended, ba arrives back at Daru. CHAPTER III Continued 5 I could not tell. Often I did not thluk of It. I was reasonably busy as a trader, and my beat, up and down the coast in a cutter, was a long one; the crucial peak of sol-vency had Just been reached, and passed, and 1 was beginning to send money up to Port Moresby bank. Not much, heaven knows but still, it was prosperity, or the dawo of that pleas ant condition; and it promised. In due time, the fulfillment of my dream of exploration. Nothing tn the world to do with Sir Richard Fnnshnw, far above me and my little affairs, as Pis Laurler was above us botb. Where was the connection? 1 would have given much to know. But weeks passed, and I was no nearer recalling the vague, three-part- s forgotten thing that linked Sir Richard Fanshaw to Darn and its s and windy doorways, and my little trading store. And now I have to relate when, and in what manner, enlightenment came. I had gone up to the Residency, on an afternoon when there was some-thing doing more than usual; the R. M. (resident magistrate) was bark from a wild patrol beyond the ut-most rim of- - clvillzution or knowl-edge; an A. R. M. (assistant resident magistrate) and a patrol officer hap-pened to be "In" at the same time, and this was an occurrence so unusual as to warrant, fairly, a dinner party. David Bassett, the R. M., a very good friend of mine, had sent a prisoner to my store with a note "Dear Amorv ! hg Beatrice Grimsliaw tlimstrmtliu bg Irtrlm Mgmn Copyright by Hughe Haeale Co. WHO Serrteo were playing me false. 8o often has that name hummed In my bead, .be-tween aleeplng and waking, that I could not believe I was bearing it actually spoken by some one else. "Sir Richard Fanshaw. K. Q V. O. Celebrated airman In the War. Ex-tremely auccessfii manager of com-panies devoted to the extension of Emplnh Interests. Chief tn this mat-ter. If any one Is chief but myself. I expect him to 'ollow very shortly, via Port Jlo.-esby.- I don't know hat 't was maybe the new Interest, the fresh channel of feeling opened up, by Splcer and his talk; maybe the mention, from an un-expected quitter, of Faushaw'g name but something, at tlvt moment, set off a fuse beneath the long dormant part of my memory, and exploded it into action. I knew, with certainty, where and bow 1 bad seen Sir Rich-ard Fanshaw before my O d, 1 knew I In the glass that bung opposite the table, 1 saw :.iy face turn to some-thing like a piece of white blotting paper, with black blots tor eyes and brows. I didn't, know that i saw it; I remembered that after. At the mo-ment, I was only concerned with get-ting out of the bouse. Splcer, the U. M, Northanger and- - Purchase, might all have been taken out and drowned together tn a bag, for what 1 cared. There was nothing that I cared about, nothing that 1 knew, save that mad Instinct to bolt off the course and get away. We had done dinner, and were Just moving back Into the miscalled mos-quito room. I touched my host on the shoulder. "Sorry," I lied, "but I've got a touch of fever; I'll have to go home." "You do look most awfully sick, Black Sheep. Better get to bed; you might be going down with black-water.- " "Night P I said, and slipped away. Aa I descended the veranda steps, the loud, high voice of Splcer was still holding forth. "Where you have failed," he was telling Northanger and Purchase, who bad mapped out enough new country to deserve a dozen R. I didn't sleep for a while. The cut-ter pitched violently in the cross sea raised by tide and wind, hammering with her bows on the water till you might have thought she would stave herself In. It looked like ugly weuther, I thought and then, of a sudden, I slept I was awakened by the smothering "Come round to dinner if you can. Northanger and Purchase are back. No particular food, but a good deal of yarning. Have you an egg? If so, send or bring It, under careful escort "lours, "D. Bassett" I sent him all the eggs I could mus-ter. In Papua, yon must know, eggs are the test of popularity, the medium by which friendship, servility, hope, esteem, all And expression. You bor-row eggs from prudent people; beg them from anyone who you- - think may be fool enough to give; buy where you can (but that is seldom), present to your sweetheart, your chum, your friend In hospital; bring, with a ser-vile grin, to the man In blgb position, the man who has lent you money, or can get you promotion. Eggs, in Papua, are the true aoctal barom-eter. ... I had eggs, and always gave Bassett some when he asked for them. Bassett was R. M, and could be useful to me; besides which, I liked htm; furthermore, on this occa-sion, I was going to be asked to eat the eggs, or help to do so. Following my eggs, 1 went up to the Residency. Several men, like large Joints of meat enclosed In a rather small meat safe, were sitting within the transparent heaslan walla. I had expected three, but 1 saw four. Who else, besides Northanger and Purchase, I wondered, was "In"t "Hello, here's Black Sheep," some-body said; and my host began intro-ducing. "Northanger, Purchase, you know the Black Sheep. Mr. Splcer, Mr. Amory." The newcomer he was a fattlsh man with extremely hat feet and a sleeked bead of fairish hair; young, good looking In a disgusting aort of way, and dowered with an excess of the manner cometimes miscalled "Ox-ford," fixed me with a cool stare, and demanded of the R. M. "Why do you call him Black Sheep?" Q. S. medals "Where you have ail of you given way" (there was not a man In the room but bad performed feats of surprise, attack, capture among the wild cannibals of the in-terior, enough to furnish plots to a dozen "movies") "I shall succeed; 1 and my chlet We shall plant the flag of the British Etnplab where never flag has waved efore. We are or-ganized; prepared, for anything that may happen. What we expect to And ..." I remember wondering, as I went through the garden, and into the cro-to-n walk, at dog trot, If Splcer and his gang, perchance, bad picked up some rumor of the secret that was my capital and my hope. I remember telling myself that It did not matter If tbey had. Nothing mattered except what I had, Itb shock and horror unspeakable, recalled. . . . Nineteen nineteen the year; myself, newly demobilized, spending my gratuity money in a hurried trip through the South Sea Islands that L In common with thousands of others, bad always wished to know. Some-body who said "You should have seen The Islands years before, before the War ten years before. They're not pwbat they were. Too mRny dashed tourists now. If you can handle boats, get a cutter with a bit of a cabin, and go away back. Where from? Any-where almost Out of reach of steam-er- a and Cook tickets, that's all. . . ." The cutter hired; a native or two engaged as crew. Weeks, then, of the happiness I had come far to seek. "Through the Looking Glass," I had gone like the child in the Immortal tale and everything now was mag lcally chang d. With delight I learned what life can be when that tyrant Time, Is toppled off bis throne; how In the year that Is a day, and the day that is a year, a man perhaps may lose bis way, drop the clews that lead through the tangled maze called life. dash of salt water over my head, and a blow from the cutter's gunwale, that got me In the ribs as I was being swept overboard. Everything about me was rhlte foam and swallng wa-ter; I felt sand beneath my toes, but could nut grip It because the short, breaking waves had me at their will, and were knocking me about as a child batters a toy. I fought; and got foothold at last The cutter was lying on ber side, smashing hei mast and rigging as she swayed about with the seas. Tavltl was Just crawling out onto a stone, like a rat escaped from the drowning pall, "Where are we?" 1 shouted to him, as 1 crawled out beslda him. There was no use scolding biru for bis care-less handling of the boat now. Low tide would strand the cutter; till then, one could do little or nothing. "I d'know, Arlkl (chief)," mourn-fully answered the old man. Then, with a burst of animation "I think we somewheres." "Well, wherever we are," I said, "the first thing to do is to get the cable of the boat fast to something." And that with considerable difficulty, we did, securing what was left of her to one of the big black stones, so that she might not be carried away by out-going tide. Tavltl, after this, found a little bole you could hardly call It cave among the rocks, and dragged himself Into It covering bis lean, wet body, so far as be could, wltb a mass of seaweed. I left him there, while 1 started to explore the place, and find out if I could, where Tavltl's mad seamanship, backed by my owu carelessness, had landed me. It was not much past full moon time; and nowhere on earth's surface does the moon shine with more effect than on a coral Island. 1 could see everything about me almost as plainly aa In the day. And I did not like what I saw. (TO BB CONTINUED) "Mostly because bis tyes are black, and his hair, and partly jecause he's a decent sort of chap," replied Bas-sett, staring back, at the fattlsh man. Mr. Splcer Immediately dropped me out of notice, took a watch from bis pocket, and yiwued. Bassett rang the bell for dinner. "Who is he?" I asked, In a whisper, of Northanger, as we went Into the dining room, a clean, polished, rather prlsoullke apartment that shouted In every foot of its barren expanse. Its owner's bachelor condition. "Fellow who's come across to make arrangements for some mineral pros-pecting crowd," answered Northanger, a little wearily. rVe filed la. "Why did you ask him?" 1 found time to demand of Ba-ssett And Bassett, looking at me with large sad eyes, answered simply"! never did; he wished himself onto the party," and took bis seat. Through the turtle soup we sre usually sick of turtle soup In Daru through the fish (we are almost al-ways tired of tistt, because we get It plentifully, and free) through the roast of dugdng, and the Inevitable custard pudding and tinned pears, Mr. Splcer talked, with Just so m:my pauses as would allow ot bis eating an excellent dinner. It seemed that he had acquaintances among most of the titled I'amtlles of England; that tbey all valued him highly, and that he bad been chosen to come ahead and "organize" the expedition, by a mass meeting of marquises, dukes and earls. "This." he did not forget to tell us, "is Empiah stuff. Nothing colonial about It Development of the British Empiah, on which the sun never seta "Our chief. Sir KIchHrd Fonshaw " At thai point, my slack attention tightened. "Your what?" I rapped "Who did you suyr For I thought-be- ing bored half ! thai m ears BREVITIES In playing cards for money ; good deal depends on a food ' i . deal. i Men who (et sentenced for J ', arson no longer make light of J thing. Blacksmiths hart a habit of J doing Uilnga la the beat of the moment ' I Hotela don't want guests J whose luggage la limited to the ; J baga in the knees of their J trousers. t, t iomWKxc::cc::o jjj QUICKQUIPS p It's all up with a quitter when ij 8 he Is down. , S Selling lea at a profit of 100 'f 5 per cent is certainly a cold snap. J c - I: g Women are fond of bargains, ; 6 yet a cheap man Is never popu-- f W lar with the fair sex. 8 a man doesnt enjoy getting ;J 5; laughed at by a crowd unless be J k Is foiling paid for It, ft ' " 15 , When one runs away from a ; V thing one usually encounters somethlug worse Just around the 8 corner. i; y 5 REFLECTIONS ;! We don't much mind Tanlty in a ;' brilliant man, but he's got to be that. ;! Frighten a child and then expect It ! to tell the truth If you are anreason-- ;j able. )' Queer that mankind can reconcile Itself to all forms of nature except , mankind. ! If the world and Its triumphs doesn't much appeal to one, ha can bo unselfish. Happy the old man who can bope-- f fully look forward to spring. That's worth looking forward to. There are a thousand kinds of drunkenness, very few of which are at all Interesting to spectators. Public speakers seldom disagree very violently with their hearers; or they wouldn't have any hearers. When you are one of 30,000,000 vot-ers, you don't feel so much like you were helping to "run the country," do youf When a man finds he can be happy quite often entirely In his own society he baa solved one of the great prob-lems of life. He doesn't require "people." A man who always says yes when be wants to say no, and then falls to keep bis promise Is glad when pes. terlng people find out be Is unreliable and let lilra alone. 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No rwtonablo pera; Motor Oil, it hits been difficult for our refineries to keep I kSZTl all our stations adequately supplied, but now stocks are I oil and ite "Ptmtrniv L moving faster and you can depend on quick and efficient J J RTrnsta service at any station displaying the Conoco Red Triangle. r your first crankcaeo suU. 'Although I am only 22 years old, I have four babies to care for. Before my first baby was born my mother urged me to take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound because I was so terribly weak. I had to t lie down four or five times a day. After three bottles I could feel a great improvement. I still take the Vegetable Compound " whenever I need it for it gives j me strength to be a good ? mother to my family." Mrs. f Vem L Dennimjj, ,io Johnson Stieet, Sagimw, Michigan. RANDOM THOUGHTS One way to solve the problem of used cars Is to use them. A good title for a night club rom-ance would be: "Nights and Daze." A husband beat his wife because she reached tor a cigarette. Just wasn't lucky. When a man Is said to bare an In-feriority complex it means that be re-fuses to Inflate bis value. A telephone operator may not get the right number for a cranky man, but she has his number all right. The reason we don't hear so much of the happy marriages is because they don't get the newspaper advertising. Headline In an ad shrieks: "Easy to Make $50 a DayP It's easy for the advertiser If you're aucker enough to believe it Walter Wlnchell says that In some swell Broadway Joints egga cost $2.60 an order. That'a even better than tha old shell game. The parents used to save money. Instead of sending their daughters to the seashore to get tanned they did It for them In the woodshed. . TUCKED IN NUTSHELLS The human mind Is readily Infuri-ated by phrases. Gerald Gould. Two wrongs do not make a right, or nine tailors a movie usher. Frank Sullivan. ft Is amazing how nice people are to you when they know you are go-ing away. Michael Arlen. Variety la more than the space of life; It Is one of the essentlnls of the diet of living. Olto IL Kuhn. AM public officials will bear watch-Inc- . and I speak as an elected public olllclnl myself. Mrs. Ruth Pratt My plea Is to take drams out of the hands of the police reporter and give It hack to the poet Channlng Pol-lock. There Is no month of the year, ex-cept perhaps February, In which It Is so difficult tn be a hero as January. Robert Lynd. One-hal- f the world has no excuse for not knowing what the other halt Is doing nowadays. They are sitting In tnxlcnh waiting for a green light. Will Rogers. TIMELY SAYINGS Men bave made a muddle of things. Lady Ueath. Anybody can lead my band for a little while. John Philip Sousa. The ministry demands a man who can hoe his own garden. Rev. John O. Sllor. Most cynics are those of mature years. Rev. Dr. Joseph It, Stzoo of Washington. A Shining Shower President Saunders Norvell of the Remington Arms company at an ad-vertising men's banquet In New fork ended a eloquent address with a series of epigrams that was Ilka a shower of fireworks: "Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. "The success of the automobile busi-ness la due to the automobile adver-tisements, which sold cars for seven years before the manufacturers knew bow to make them. "Advertise truthfully. Lies don't pay. The Golden Rule Is what brings in the gold." Eaaier to Bear "Here comes Mrs. Gabble. Nora had better tell her I'm out" "Won't the atlll, small voice of con- - . science reproach you?" nT "Tea, but I'd rather listen to the still, small voice than to berg." Stray Stories. Maaa Herring in Daagar The government of the Isle of Man fears that the famous Mam herring la doomed to oblivion. The recent de-cision of a large curing station to more from the Island to the Shetland Islands apparently is the last blow. The Mans herring Industry has been declining since early In the Nineteenth century, when at least 3,000 of the Islanders were engaged in the la dustry. The present number Is very small , Now Use for Paper Bag A new use was recently discovered for a common article when a large American automobile was brought back from a tour of the continent In a large paper bag. The car was lifted out of the liner's garage, completely enveloped by the bag and protected from all dust Mind Reading "Do you always say what you think?" "Not exactly," answered Senator Sorghum. "I strive to find out what my constituents think, and then say that" Washington Star. One Point of View No Investment pays larger divi-dends than unselfish deeds of kind-ness. The Only Original "What are the seven wonders of the worldr "My wife's first husband wns one and It doesnt matter about the others, Tbey sink Into Insignificance." Florida Times-Onio- ' Nature has no mercy because yon forget More Intimately a man is known the ftlover his halo develops. Our Nemt Problem It is estimated that the lack of ef-ficient and economical distribution costs the country not less than seven or eight billion dollars a year. The American Magazine. The more the fire Is covered up the more it burns. Ovid. eyTTgiffTfififtewyyfWfg',ygttf fffewTreywvweee Beautiful Things Seen Amid Coral Formations Ing by smothering or strangling its vic-tims. Frequently starfish are found wrapped about shellflsh, which tbey appear to suck out of their shells aft er having smothered the occupant or paralyzed It wltb some acid secretion Occasionally the oyster retaliates by closing on one of the starfish' rays, but the attacker disengages the limb and goes away to grow another. Stene corals grow like plants. Some look like plants without leaves Some bave the atems and branches of trees and shrub life In an earthly garden: some resemble different forms of veg elation such aa cacti, lichens, and mosses Some corals adopt fantnstU forma such aa fans, pipe organs, ewers, and curious shapes. AH ar beautiful. If the observer remains quiet, the under-wate- r Inhabitants appear from crevices in the cornl. from under the anemones and seaweeds. Curlouslj marked and brightly colored Dsh will dash here and there, brilliant starfish will move slowly over the snowy sand or cling to rock surfaces. Some art bright blue, some variegated, some or ange-buc-d and thickly set wltb tuber cles. Though among the lowliest forms of life, the starfish la one of the prettl est of sea dwellers. But It Is a tbus among aea things and makea Ita II v Honeety Absolute, unswerving honesty car-ries the greatest power In the universe to bring results tn business or out. and tn all things. The dishonest mind may gain money through deceit and trickery, but trickery and deceit ul-timately bring dlseese and death to the body. There Is a material honesty which prompts us to do what Is right by our fellows; there is a higher and spiritual honesty which concerns our dealing with ourselves, and this reaches much further than that which refuses to steal and pays Its bill? regularly. It Implies an earnest dc sire to know the right way to ice MUford. Gloves' Early Hiatory The monks under Charlemagne (742-814- ) were granted the unrestricted right to hunt in return for making gloves, girdles and book covers from the skins of the deer they killed.-Th- e wearing of gloves was almost uni-versal among the Germans and Scandi-navians In the Eighth and Ninth cen-turies. Pontifical gloves made their first appearance In France and reached Rome toward the end of the Tenth century, about which time silk gloves became the vogue among kings, nobles and church dignitaries. These gloves often were elaborately embroidered and Jeweled. The Boee's Daily Doien The boss used to soy to me sonn times, "Never get mad at the sheei It doesn't do any good. I never usei to get mad when I herded." But a other times I bave heard blm tell bov he would sometimes throw bis cap oi the ground and dance up and dowi on It and yell. Since be never gm mad. It Is evident that this was som form of physical culture, or perhap-bl- s way ot doing his daily dozen.-Fr- om "Sheep," by Archer B. GIlBllau |