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What Has Been, Is Past; What Is To Be, Has Not Yet Arrived; The Present Is Here and Must Be Met
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SYNOPSIS.
THE story of EAward Prendick, wrecked out of Calao, s made publie
after his death by a nephew. His experiences covered eleven montha,
and were so slrange that he was ronsidered mad when he attempted
to vell them. Therefore, he left the written account of his adventures
Prendiek, with two others, escaped In the dingey of the wrecked Lady
Vain, after sesing a fourth man miss thelr boat In jumping and drown.
Por eight days the trio drifted in the open boat without tood or water,
They Adrew lots for one to end his life, and Prendick sees his two compan
fons fall overboard and die in a fight to kill each other
After sinking into a semi-coma, rescue arrives and the man {8 taken
aboard a trader, which s carrying a number of wild heasts as cargo, sailed
by Captain Davies. He tells his story to the man who saved his life. This
man, whosa name |lB Montgomery, says he is a ecientist, and is going to an
fsland where he lives. e offers no explanation, however, for the presence
of the anlmals on board, and vouchsafes nc fnformation concerning his
strange attendant
A terrific fight oocurs on hoard when the drunken captain beats Mont
gomery's attendant and throws him to the savage dogs chained to the mast
Luckfy, they are muzzled Montgomery remonstrates with the captaln,
telling him that he agreed to take the animals on his ship,
Prendick manages to keep the two men apart, but incurs tha captain's
hatred by interfering. That night while on deck Montgomery starts to say
something about himself but changes his mind.
The next morning Prendick goes on deck to find the ship anchored off
an island. The captain tells Prendlcic whom he calls “Mr. Shut-I'p,”” he
will have to go off the ship. Mentgomery, who 18 getting ready to depart
with the animals, tells Prendick he can’t take him.
Prendick {8 shoved into the leaky boat from which he was rescued,
and set adrift by the Captaln. Montgomery and his {slanders take pity and
tow him, seeing the Captain Is obdurate. Prendick is amazed at the queer
look of the creatures who form the fslander's crew
They land on the island. Prendick is glven accommodations, but is
told outright he is unwelcoms.
By H. G. WELLS.
(Copyright, 1906, by Stone & Kimball )
By this time Montgomery hpnd re
covered from the surprise aof My
question. "1 always thought,” he sald,
deliberately, with a certaln accentui
tilon of his flavoring of lisp, “that
there was something the matter with
his ears from the way he covered
them. What were they like?”
1 was persuaded from his manner
that this ignorance was a pretense.
£till, T could hardly tell the man that
1 thought him a lar. “Pointed,” 1
sald, “rather small and furry—dis
tlnctl{ turry. But the whole man ls
one of the strangest beings I ever set
eyes on."”
A sharp, hoarse cry of animal pain
came from the enclosure behind us.
Its depth and volume testifled to the
puma. [ saw Montgomery wince.
“Yes?" he sald.
“Where did you pick up the crea
ture?”
“San Francisco. He's an ugly
brute, I admit. Half-witted, you
krow. Can't remember where he
came from. But I'm used to him, you
know. We both are. How does he
strike you?"
“He's unnatural,” I sald. “There’'s
something about him —don’t think me
fancitul, but it gives me a nasty lit
tle sensation, a tightening of my mus
¢les, when he comes near me. It's a
touch—of the diabolical, In fact.”
Montgomery had stopped eating
while I told him this. “Rum!” he
said. "I can’'t see it.” He resumed his
meal, “I had no idea of it,” he sald,
and masticated. “The crew of the
schooner must have felt it the same.
Made a dead set at the poor devil
You saw the captain?”
Suddenly the puma howled agaln,
this time more painfully. Mont
gomery swore under his breath. I
had half a mind to attack him about
the men on the beach. Then the poor
brute within gave vent to a series of
short, sharp cries
“Your men on the beach' sald i
“what race are they?"
“Exoellent fellows, aren't they 2"
#aid he, absent-mindedly, knitting his
brows us the animal yelled out
sharply.
I sald no more. There was another
outery worse than the former. He
looked at me with his dull gray eyes,
and then took some more whisky.
He tried to draw me into a discussion
about alcohol, professing to have
saved my life with it. He seemed
anxious to lay stress on tha fact that
1 owed niv life to him. I answered
him distractedly.
Presently our meal came to an end;
the misshapen monster with pointed
ears cleared the remains away, and
Montgomery l'eft me alone in the
room again All the time he had
been in i state of fll-concealed irrita
tion at the noise of the vivisected
puma. He had spoken of his odd
want of nerve, and left me to the
obvious appliication
1 found myself that the cries were
singularly lrritating, and they grew
in depth and intensity as the after
noon wore on. They were painful at
first, but their constant resurgence
at last altogether upset my balance.
1 flung aside a crib of Horace 1 had
been reading, and began to clench my
fists, to bite my lips, and to pace the
room. Presently I got to stopping my
ears with my fingers
The emotional appeil of those yells
grew upon me ateadily, grew at last
to such an exquisite expression of
suffering that I could stand it in that
confined room no longer. 1 stepped
out of the door into the sdlumberous
heat of th» late afternoon, and walk
ing past the maln entrance locked
again, I noticed—turned the corner
of the wall
The crying sounded even louder out
of doors. It wns as If all the pain in
the world had found a voice. Yet
had 1 known such pain was in the
next room. and had it bheen dumb, 1
believe—l have thought since—l
could have stood it well enoug! It
{= when suffering finds a voice and
sets our nerves quivering that this
pity comes tr yubling us. But in spite
of the brilliant sunlight aind the
green fans of the trees waving in the
soothing seabreeze, the world was a
confusion, hiurred with drifting bHlack
and red phantasms, until 1T was out
of earshot of the house in the
chequered wall
The Thing in the Forest.
STRODE through the undergrowth
I that clothed the ridge behind the
house, scarcely heeding whither 1
went; passed on through the shadow
of a thick cluster of straight
stemmed trees beyond it and 80
presently found myself some way on
the other side of the ridge, and de
scending toward a streamlet that rar
through a narrow valley 1 paused
and listened The distance 1 ha«
come, or the intervening masses of
thicket, deadened any sound tha!
might be coming from the inclosure
‘The alr was still. Then with a rustle
a rabbit emerged, and went scamper
ing up the slope before me. [ hesi
tated, and sat down in the edge of
the shade.
The place was a pleasant one, The
rivulet was hidden by the luxurlant
vegetation of the banks save at one
point, where I caught a triangular
patch of its glittering water. on
the farther side I saw through a
bluish haze a tangle of trees and
creepers, and above these again the
luminous blue of the sky. IHere and
there a splash of white or crimson
marked the blooming of some trail
ing epiphyte. [ let my eyes wander
over this scene for a while, and then
hegan to turn over in my mind again
the strange peculiarities of Mont- |
gomery's man. But it was too hot
to think elaborately, and prosently‘
I fell into a tranquil state midway
between dozing and waking. |
From this I was aroused, after I
know not how long, by a rustling
amidst the greenery on the other side
of the stream. For a moment I could
&e 6 nothing but the waving summits
of the ferns and reeds. Then sud
denly upon the bank of the stream
appearod Something at first 1 could
not A!stinguish what It was. It
bowed its round head to the water,
and began to drink, Then I saw it
was a man, going on all fours like
a beast. He was clothed in bluish
cloth, and was of a copper-colored
hue, with black halr. It seemed that
grotesque ugliness was an invariable
character of these lslanders. 1 could
hear the suck of the water at his lips
as he drank |
I leaned forward to see him better,
and a plece of lava, detached by my
hand, went pattering down the slope. |
He looked up guiltily, and his (‘_\’Q‘fll
met mine. Forthwith he scrambled
to his feet, and stood wiping his
clumey hand across his mouth, re
garding we. His legs were scarcely
half the length of his body Su.‘
staring one another out of counte
nance, we remained for perhaps the
space of a minute. Then stopping
to look back once or twice, he slunk
off among the bushes to the right of
me, and I heard the swish of the
fronds grow faint In the distance and
die away. Long after he had disap
peared 1 remained sitting up, star-
Ing In the direction of his retreat.
My drowsy tranquility had gone.
1 was startleq by a noise hehind
me, and turning suddenly saw the
flapping white tail of a rabblt van
ishing up the slope. 1 Jumped to my
feet The apparition of this gro
tesque, half-bestial creature had sud
denly populated the stillness of the
afternoon for me. 1 looked around
me rather nervounsiy, and regretted
that 1 was unarmed. Then 1 thought
that the man 1 had just seen had been
clothed in bluish cloth, had not heen
naked as a savage would have been,
and I tried to persuade myself
that he wWas, after all, prob
ably a peaceful character, that the
dull ferocity of his countenance be
lied him.
A Horrible Sight.
Yet T was greatly disturbed at the
apparition, 1 walked to the left
‘along the slope, turning my head
about, and peering this way and that
among the straight stems of the
trees. Why should a man go on all
fours and drink with his lips? Pres
ently Isheard an animal waliling
again, and, taking it to he a puma,
1 turned about and walked in a
direction diametrically opposite to
the sound. This led me down to the
stream, across which | stepped, and
pushed my way up through the un
dergrowth bevond
I was startled by a great patch of
vivid scarlet on the ground, and, go
ing up to it found it to be a pe
culiar fungus, branched and corru
gated like a foliaceous lichen, but
deliquescing into slime at the touch,
and then in the shadow of some lux
urfous ferns 1 came upon an un
pleasant thing -the dead body of a
rabbit covered with shining files, but
still warm and with the head torn
off
I stopped aghast at the sight of the
scattered blood. Here at least was
cne visitor to the island disposed of!
There were no traces of other vio
lence about ft It looked as though
it had been suddenly snatched up
and Kkilled; and as 1 stared at the
little furry body came the difficulty
f how the thing had been done. The
vagne dread that had been in my
mind since I had seen the inhuman
face f the man at the stream grew
listincter as [ stood there I began
t realize the hardihond f my ex
pedition among these unknown peo
ple 'he thicket about me bhecame
iltered 1t my imaginat Every
shadow e une something more
than a shadow -became an ambush;
every rustie bhecame a threat In
visible things seemed watching me
To Be Continued To-morrow. |
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of water, and the river in which the animals are here seen disporting themselves is the Jumna shortly after it leaves the hills.
® Little Bobbie’s Pa o l
By WILLIAM F. KIRK.
A had a visitor last nite; she
was a lady that rites sum for
the magazeens, Her naim was
vary long, so Ma Jest called her
Clara.
('lara wanted to talk about litertur,
but Pa was reeding the standing of
the clubs & sumthing that a man had
rote about Walter Johnson beeing the
gratest pitcher in the wurld. He
ain’'t any grater than Matty, sed Pa.
He may be as grate, but he ain't any
grater. [s he? sed Pa to Ma's frend.
I am sure that I cud not be constd
ered a competent judge, sed Ma's
frend, as [ doant know a thing about
eether one of the gentlemen. 1 was
reeding sum moar of Kipling last nite,
I think Kipling 18 so strong & con
vineing; doant you?
He was nevver strong enuff to
throw a ball like Walter Johnson, sed
Pa, or Matty, eether, He may be
strong, beekaug [ nevver saw him &
doant know, but those two men iare
yung glants
“You may talk of gin & beer wen
yure safely qua rtered here,” sed
Missus Clara; that {s the naim I have
to call her. That is Kipling all oayer,
she sed, The words are so powerful,
g 0 viree!
Yes, sed Pa; gin & beer is powerful
& convincing, all rite, but I can't git
oaver that statement that Johnson is
a grater pitcher than Matty. I must
read sum moar of his argument.
& Kipling says, sed Missus (‘lara:
{ The tumult & the shouting dies.”
I'think that is such a deescriptly line,
she sed. It suggests nolse, sumhow,
at leest to the ear of one With any
imagination.
Do You Know That—
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] Over 80,000 newspapers are now ap
pearing at daily or weekly intervals
lin the various guarters of the globe.
| Of these, considerably over one-half
{are printed in the English language,
there Yelug 28,000 in the United
States and over 13,000 in the British
Empire.
The greatest beer drinkers are the
Belgians, who c¢onsume 46 gallons
per head each year, while Englishmeu
drink 26 gallons and Germans 22 gal
lons per head annually. Frenchmen
drink 33 gallons of wine in one year,
and Italians 26 gallons.
The world's production of siik in 1912
is estimated at 58,828,000 pounds, an in
crease of nearly 4,775,000 poundk, as
compared with 1911, which \n its turn
had beaten all records.
Germany has, on an average, 808 or
chand trees to the square mile. Of these,
there are 332 plum, 251 appple, 119 pear
and 104 cherry.
It costs New York flve times as much
as it does London to maintain parks
|und recreation grounds.
’ Sugar exists not only In the cane,
beetroot and maple, bdut in the sap
of 187 other plants and trees.
About 55 per cent of all criminals In
prison are between the ages of 81
and 0.
A floating hottle dropped in the Gulf
iS(r-‘am will cross the Atlantic in about
i 180 Jdays
| Jupiter is 1,387 times bigger than the
fmr(h. vet {t is only 300 times heavier
i The shortest mile in Europe is the
! Russian verst, which is only 1,165 yards
It has been estimated by the um-‘
cials of the various insurance com
panies in the United Kingdom that
the suffragettes were directly respon
It does, wen you cum to think of it,
sed Pa. I nevver notised that at first.
This feller says that Johnson has a
better curve ball than Matty, Maybe
he has, but Matty has his famous
‘fadrawa,v. & that is as good as any
curve ball that evver sailed oaver the
jolflte. 1 wish I cud see that feller &
give him a argument,
You are alwavs giving sumbody a
argument, sed Ma. Why doant you
put up that eternal sporting page &
talk sensibel about Kipling? So Pa
put up the paiper.
I doant know about Klip, sed Pa.
Personally, I think he is a littel over
rated, but as I haven't red all that he
evver rote I doant suppoas I am the
best judge.
Oh, you shud reed his Plain Tales
of the Hills, sed Missus Clara. They
are so strong, so real, so graflic,
1 red sum of them, sed Pa, & T liked
them pritty well. One of them was
called The Fall of the House of Ush
er. I reemember well the time that he
rote it.
1 doant think you do, sed Missus
('lara. That story was ritten by kKd
gar Allen Poe. Kipling wasent a riter
wen that was ritten. But Kipling cud
have ritten it. He is so masterful, 1
think, that is why all women adore
his riteings.
I know one thing he rote that the
women dident adore, sed Pa. He rote!:
| A milvun surplus Maggles
| Are willing to hear the yoke;
A woman is only a woman,
& a good clgar is a smoak.
Then Missus (lara started talking
l:lhu\ll Longfellow
sible for $1.000,000 worth of damage
last year through fires alone.
When an inch of rain falls it means
that 101 tons of water have poured
from the skies upon every acre with
in the area affected by the rain.
The color of a pearl can sometimes be
restored by taking off its outer layer.
The average amount of time which a
man loses yearly by illness is ten days.
Germany holds the record for the first
daily pag\vr It was printed in 1524, The
first in England did not come out until
1622.
The largest sponge ever found came
from the Mediterranean. 1t was over 3
feet across and 10 feet in circumference.
The London policeman arrests on an
average seven persons per year;, the
Parisian policeman arrests twenty-nine,
Only twelve men in one hundred have
dark eves, as compared with twenty
women in a hundred.
In the County of London there are 556
rajlway bridges crossing over streets.
The letter *'x' appears but once in
English for every six times in French
Mild bheer has 1 to 113 per cent alco
hol; bitter, up to 10 per cent.
A full grown elephane ylelds 120
pounds of ivory. worth §3OO
it takes eleven tons of beets to pro
duce one ton of beet sugar.
Meerschaum was first used for pipes in
1733
A juror must be over I 1 vears of age.
One in seven British landowners is
a woman
‘Sr)ze first balloon ascent took place In
1783.
“ ® Her Temble Experience ®
‘6 AVE you a headache?’ in-
I l quired Bingle, solicitously,
on his arrival home for din
ner. Mrs. Bingle was reclining on a
couch with smelling salts at her nos
trils and a general alr of its being the
approaching end of the world.
“Headache!” groaned Mrs. Bingie,
in disgust. “Complete breakdown—
shattered nervous system-—ruined
constitution. I'm fairly tottering on
the grave's brink!"”
“Why, you were all right at break
fast!" stuttered Bingle, in horror.
Mrs. Bingle sat up suddenly and
her eyes flashed. ‘‘Listen!” she said.
“I had two friends call at the same
time this afternoon-—and each brought
her baby! And the bables were new!”
“What of {t?" inquired Bingle fatu
ously.
Her Etery.
“The baby caps approached from
| opposite diractions,” she related, “and
they almost bumped into one another
at my front gate! I wish you could
have heard them greet one another
and say, 'Oh, is this your baby, dear?
in the politely commiserating tone
that one would use in remarking, ‘Oh,
is this the blight that has wrecked
the family?
“Sadie regarded Helen's boy with
restrained disapproval, while Helen
merely glanced at Sadie's girl, as
though it were an insect of some sort
that had got in the way. ‘I have been
g 0 anxious to see vour bahy,' Helen
remarked as they were disembarking
the infants. ‘lsn’t she little for her
age? Why, shes a month older than
my baby and my baby weighs ten
pounds more! She must be slcklv!”
“*Sadie bristled all over. ‘She Is
entirely healthy,” she said in a deadly,
languorous sort of tone. ‘I am so
glad that she s not one of those
conarse, overgrown children. She shows
good blood in her tiny hands and feet
and that always is an indlcation,
\WWhat a huge head vour baby has,
Helen! Jlsn't there some disease or
something where their heads swell
up? T should be dreadfully worried
IH‘ I were you!’
| ““Why, what darlings!’' I exclalmed
rapturously. ‘How glad T am you
|M‘mu.:ht them! How proud you must
be of him, Helen!' I cooed, gathering
up one in my arms. ‘How miracu
lously he resembles yvou!'
“Helen gave a lifelike imitation of
an ice statue. ‘That's Sadie's child,’
she told me, patiently. ‘How could
vou ever mistake——'
* ‘“They hoth are bheauties,’ T inter
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rupted, hastlly. ‘Of course, T can see
now, Helen, that your girl is the im
age of Jack! She——'
“‘Mine’'s a boy,' continued Helen,
with some temper. ‘Nobody on earth
could think he looked like a girl with
that forehead of his and his intense
masculine air. Why, there’s nothing
wishy-washy or indeterminate about
Richari! Everyone remarks on it.’
“‘Yes, indeed!' said I, hysterically.
‘What a dear little creature, Sadle,
vours is! He has Harry's eyes, hasn't
he?'
“Sadie regarded me reproachfully.
‘How can you? she breathed. ‘She’s
a girl—and the image of her Grand
mother Fox. There is absolutely no
resemblance to Harry whatever, Why,
I mailed you cards myself! What
ever made you think my child was a
boy? ‘lttle blossom, that's what she
was, precious! Not a horrid, blowsy
boy, T should say not!’
“Then they retreated to chairs, each
clasping her child, leaving me in the
center like an umpire. Not having
distinguished myself so far, I was
somewhat nervous. ‘What comforts
they must be to you,’ I murmured. ‘1
think vou are so sensible not to hand
them over to nurses!’
“'Oh, T have a nurse!' Helen sald.
‘lt's her day out, though. Jack
wouldn’t think of lefting me tire my
self out waiting on the baby every
minute. He has too much regard for
me. 1 think it makes a woman 80
narrow and behind the times-—she
can’t keep up at all. Of course, if she
can't afford a nurse—-'
“‘I think,’ interrupted Sadie, ‘that
a 2 woman who will hand over her child
to hirelings is not worthy to bear the
sacred name of mother! To shift re
sponsibility that way is unspeakable!
Thank heaven, my child will always
know a mother's care!’
Worse and Worse.
“‘How sweet!’ murmured Helen. ‘lt
is a shame von get so little results
after all your devotion, dear! Isn’t
her baby awfully peaked looking? I
<hould be so worried, But, then, I am
used to Richard’'s bounding health
and rosy face. He is an absolutely
perfect child, they tell me!’
“Ry this time I was fairly gasping
for breath,” said Mrs. Bingle, “and
goodness knows what would have de
veloped next, when both babies began
velling, and thelr mammas had to
take them homae.
“You have, indeed, had an awful
experience,” agreed Bingle. “Gee!”
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CHAPTER IV.
The Boss Dunn Gang.
ORRIS left the office some time
N later in the morning, and lLou
{ss, who had seen him place a
sum of money in the drawer of his
desk, was beginning to feel an awfu!
desire for the touch of it in her fin
gers. She fought it as long as she
could, but finally, when she could
stand it no longer, she rose and went
to the drawer, jerked it open, and
seized the tempting package that lay
within. Only for a moment she held
it, however, and then her better self
triumphed. What had she thought of
doing? She had been about to gteal
from her lover—how horrible! And
then she heard Norris outside, and
rastily thrust the money back as he
came into the room. The stain had
already begun to show.
Norris left the office agaln a few
minutes later, and he asked Louise
to accompany him. He wanted to
make a call on the mother of the
poor boy who had just been convict
ed, in spite of the fact that Norris
nad fought as hard as he could to
save him. The two young people made‘
their way into the cheerless plaCe.\
but found the mother and her Ilttle}
Gaughter bearing up bravely. ‘
Another Unfortunate. |
“Oh, ves,” said the womin, as Nor- |
ris questioned her, “we trust you, Mr.
Norris, and we know that you did al:
vou could for Dick., There is a poor
woman across the hall, though, who!
needs help more than we do.” |
Norris went across the hall quick
ly, and knocked on the door of the
miserable room. It was opened by a
gray-haired woman, who looked at
him inquiringly. Somehow he felt as
it ghe had not always been in such
straitened circumstances. Reassured
by his manner, the woman unbent
gradually and told him of her life
’He promieed to go to the orphan asy
'Jum to see about her child, and then
‘he called Louise in to comfert her.
Little did the girl know that she was
a blessing in disguise that day™io
‘her own mother. Norris kept his
‘word, and the mother superior wrote
to Mrs. Stevens immediately, telllng
‘her that Louise had been adopted
by a respectable family, thus easing
the mother’'s mind to some extent.
And all the while Boss Dunn and
;hls candidate for Governor, Judge
Harding, were scheming to get Wil
fred Norris into thelr clutches. They
\knew he was far too dangerous as
an enemy, so they lay in walt for
him at the country club one after
roon, and, having engaged him in
conversation, offered him a bribe if
he would promise to stop his attack
on the National party.
Norris looked at the men a mo
ment.
“You can’t be in earnest?” he ques
tioned, finally.
Dunn leaned forward. “Of course,
I'm in earnest,” he growled under his
breath. ‘“Just name your price, Mr.
Norris! I can pay.”
The veins lin Norris' forehead
swelled suddenly as he looked Dunn
in the eye. Then he said, evenly,
steadily:
“Let's put a stop to this, please,
Dunn. You can't bribe me. I'm sur
prised you asked.” For a moment
Grandmothers are loved
by grandchildren because they
feed the kiddies well.
A truth worth thought.
Provide
FP-TOP
for your children. It feeds
them well, and is a stepping
stone to love.
Provide TIP-TOP for all the farmdly
“Rayre worlL"
there was silence. Then Dunn rose
with a curse. ‘TI get you for thia,
Norris,” he sneered as he and Harde
ing made their departure. But Nore
ris only laughed as he watched them
leave.
“We'll have to use other measures,
and keep him hidden for a time*
sald Dunn, evilly, “We'll watch our
chance; it's sure to come soon.” But
little A4id they suppose that it would
come as soon as it did.
That night Norris had some work
to do at the office. He laft the house
with his younger brother, who was
always getting into troubls of some
kind, and the two were seen by Dunn,
who had had the house watched, In
an incredibly short epace of time
Dunn was down in the underworid
with his gang, planning a scheme for
getting Norria there
The Scheme.
“Call in Carrie,” said one of the
men; ‘“she's got to do what I tell her
to do. We'll manage it.” A moment
later the woman called Carrie en
tered the room, and was motioned to
the telephone and told to call a cer
tain number.
“Say to Mr. Wilfred Norris” sald
the man at he relbow, “that his
brother is down here on Second ave
nue in trouble, and he had better get
here as soon as possible. That'll
tetch him,” went on the man, exult
antly. “That brother of his is a
wild one, always getting into trou
ble.”
The man was right. Norris, Te
celving the message at the other end,
started off immediately for the Har
vest Moon, in spite of the fact that
Louise begged him not to go. But
little did he know that the girl, after
a hasty decision, followed him hur
riedly and reached the place a few
‘minutes after he did.
' Inside, Norris, having passed
through a dance hall, was directed to
'an inner room. As he entered’ the
‘door, two men sprang on him, and &
moment Jater he was lying across a
little table, chloroformed.
‘ Outside, Louise hesitated a mo
‘ment, and as she walited an officer
came up to her,
~ “This is a tough place, misgs,” he
' sald, looking at her in surprise. “Boss
Dunn’s gang hangs out here.”
“Oh, you must help me!” sald Lou
\ise, ignoring his warning. “They
lhava got Mr. Norris in there, and I
am sure they don't mean any good.
lLlsten, I have a plan! We'll pretend
we're drunk, and they won't suspect
: anything.”
, The officer agreed, and a moment
later the two were staggering across
,the dance hall. BEven across the room
Louise could detect a scuffling nolse
ixom the floor at the farther end.
They made their way cautiously
toward it, and a second later the offi
|c'er had Llown his whistle and the
| place was ralded. Norris was car
ried out from the inner room, uncon
scious, but not dangerously hurt, res
cued by the clever wit of_a woman.
To-morrow—Heredity,
Kindly Meant, But—
-1 am 8o sorry, Mr. Portly,"" apolo
gized the hostess to her unexpectef but
influential guest at dinner, ‘“but I have
' no cheese in the house.”
M Pray 4o not mention it - Mra,
Phipps!"’ smiled the genial old boy. ‘'L
' am_sure-—-""
His little compliment was interrupted
by the appearanze of the small gon of
his hostess at his side, bearing a plece
of cheese upon a plate.
“Well, now, that is vary kind of you
little man,” he said, as the child stoc«i
there, dell‘iighledly watching him swal
low the tidbit. ‘‘You knew more than
mother that time. Where did you find
| the cheese?"’
The youngster intently watched the
illst morsel disappear before he an
' swered.
‘T found it in the rat trapi' he proud
| ly asserted.