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JUNGLE
With Chee runs and ihe Quixies
en place yet," said Cable. "We may
be in time to stop It."
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said Troyte.
"Even if we <
"there'll be trouble.
“All the same,” said Tommy. "I
Cheerups kind-
“I don’t see why," said Norheys. “Of
don't think the patriarch ought to have
RAFFY FINDS HIS TONGUE you. Huffy?" Inquired
course I’m only nn outsider and this
ly, “That's n pity I”
talked that way to the princess about
Is your Job, Uncle Ned, Hut I don't
Then, quick na n flush. out
her father."
NE warm sunny day, Cheerupa Huffy's mouth stmt Hie longest, »VIU
see why. It seems to me things ought
"The princess evidently felt that
wns sitting on Hie ground In the meat tongue Ubeerup« hud ever Soon.
to settle down. These mountains fel
way herself," said Janet. "She changed
Jungle and looking Inzlly up into tho It was so twisty mid slender Hint It
lows
tn
what
you-call
the
place
—
"
the subject abruptly. ind—well, she
great trees. He was looking to see looked na If It «mild wrap around
CHAPTER XVIll
“Lystria.” I prompted.
beat about the bush a bit, and It was
If nny fruit were growing handy, anything und tie In “ bowknot.
“The good old Lyatrlans." said Nor-
rather hard to make out exactly what
I'll send Noftfoot or Hrlghteyes up to
I And myself at Inst, to my own heys, “wanted n king and they've got
Cheerupa Just couldn't help laugh
she meant. But I think she was try­
to a one. That dusky queen of yours, Un
timi some." thought he. Then Ing. Ho laughed and laughed
great
satisfaction,
able
to
return
To
ing to explain to the patriarch that
suddenly he »pled n long gold colorad think of having the longest longue In
she had no objection to marrying you. part of the story in which I myself de Ned. wanted a husband and she's
fine, nil covered with brown «pol«, tho world und not u«lng It f«»r any­
Of course, that wasn't a thing she bore a part. I am no longer writing got one, or will very soon if we don't
and two big solemn eyes looking down thing I It was too funny. Then bo
could very well say straight out tn hearsay, but narrating what I actual­ Interfere. He may be n a wrong ‘un
nt him,
Cheerupa woe moat too caught sight uf the and look In Huffy «
Seema rather ns If he Is. but If she's '
plain words, and evidently the patri­ ly saw nnd heard.
nstonlshed to brent he, "Gracious, eyes and renllzed thnt what srema
The acene of Lord Edmund Troyte s sutlsfled I don’t see “hat It matters to
arch didn't quite grasp what she
library In Grosvenor street, when Lord us. The great thing Is not to start In
thut's n now kind of fruit to me!" funny to one person may be no laugh*
was at.’
Norheys
and
hl«
bride
walked
tn,
re
terfering
with
other
people's
business
Ing matter to another.
“How did it end?' said Tommy.
I’m not asking simply out of curios- tdains vividly pictured In my mind. That never does any good."
“I'm
sorry."
slghad
Cheerupa.
Troyte
sat
bolt
upright
on
the
edge
Troyte. who was seriously troubled,
“Something Is wrong aomowhore, and
By. It's really rather an Important
of a deep chair In which he had been murmured something about n war In
matter with me.”
I'd love to Itelp you, but ln>w cnn I
lounging. At his elbow wns a little the Balkans which It might he Impos
"I can't tell you how it ended." said
whan I don't know whnt la wnnlod?”
table with the empty coffee cups and slide to localise. Cable crossed the
“1 «cnn tell you." chirped Jneky
Janet. "That tall count man came in the liqueurs on it. Behind It sat Pro­
room
from
the
writing
table
with
three!
Munk. "I have watched Huffy n lot.
who sat at supper with you last copius Cable, staring at Norheys with
sheets of note p»;»er In his hand
Ho hns the longest neck In the world.
night."
an expression of angry amazement on
"This." he said; holding out one of
There Isn't a rancher anywhere who
"Albert Casimir."
his face. Half way between the door them. "Is a telegram to Casimir. The
can compnrs with him, but when he
That's his name. He came In and and the flreplace stood Norheys and
Is rating leaves In the tops of the
told me that I might come here to see his bride. I had never before seen other two are to the king nnd to the
patriarch. Can you get them sent off
trees,
there are nlwnys a few Just a
you.
Viola Temple off the stage, and her
little beyond him nnd those seem to
"I wish you'd waited a little." said appearance surprised me. I expected at once. Lord Edmund?"
"I think so," said Troyte. “I cnn
Before she entered the “movies,1
be the very ones he want« most. Ho
Tommy.
her to be pretty, of course. I did not
"I waited as l<>n*g as I could. I expect her to look gentle, shy and send them round to the Foreign office,
ought to be sutlsfled with tb"«e ho
cun get. but I know he Isn't, by tho
was practically ordered out of the even timid. A girl who has faced aud they'll get them off for me. But dlana. Sb« was Induced to accept em­
I
doubt
If
there'll
be
any
operators
on
ployment as an extra In a studio. Sh«
look In bis eyes. Isn't that so. Raffy?"
room. But I shouldn't have been huge audiences hundreds of times
duty
at
this
hour
in
the
postoffices
was Just e ght«en at th« tlm«. and so
much wiser if I’d stayed. They were
Raffy nodded hl» bead, swltcl rd tils
would not, one might suppose, be abroad. I shall have to write some
well fitted Into a prominent part In a
all three talking nothing but Lystrlan. frightened of three old gentlemen sit­
tnll nnd awnyed hie long nock buck
As soon as the princess realized that ting round a Are. But she was. Nor- telegrams myself. I must communi picture that she was giv«n the lead,
j nnd forth. Il was evident tlmt Jacky
the patriarch wasn’t taking in what heys’ attitude was protective. He cate at once with our ambassador In I and from that time on th« has »hared
had told hla difficulty exactly.
Berlin,
nnd
with
our
ministers
In
•*9o
You've
Lott
Your
Tongu«,
Hav«
she said, she dropped German and held one of her hands, and kept her
honors with other stars.
Cheerupa wns thinking very hard
Prague nnd Buknrest and—”
You, Raffy?"
spoke Lystrian. So did the count. All
Indeed.
Then joyfully he ahouted:
close beside him.
"Seems a pity, doesn't It?" said
I can say is that it sounded as if they
Then, us his eyes traveled slowly "Why, of course, it’k your tongue that
The library In Troyte's house lu Norheys. “After all. Unde Ned. tlmt
were arguhig."
Grosvenor street is a comfortable fellow, whoever he Is, evidently wants
down, down, over about eight fret of cnn do It. If you cun't tnlk with It.
“What’s in a Name? ’
“It always sounds as if people were
and, f think, a beautiful room. There a princess. And what I always say
neck nnd along about ten feet more It ought to be goml for something
arguing when they talk a language
By MILDRED MARSHALL
are a couple of good pictures, but is; Why shouldn't he have her If he
of body and leg, he had the surprise Your tongue 1« long nnd slender, nnd
one doesn't understand. Generally,
you cnn stretch It out for those leaven.
for the most part the wails are cov­ does?”
of
his life.
F k U »bout your
history;
they appear to be quarelllng. Which
It hns prehensile or gruvplng power,
■'••etna. wh«ne« It wm d«rt»«d. «!<-
ered with bookcases.
Troyte has
probably have
“
The
patriarch
will
.
"It
’
s
an
animal
I"
cried
Cheerupa
out
«inc«nc«. your lucky day. lucky
side was Casimir on, the princess' or
too.
like the tntls of the South Ameri­
spent a
great deal
on books him shot out of hand when he gets
loud. "But It must be the tnlle«t one
the patriarch's?"
can monkeys. You cnn pick u single
during his life, rare books, exquisite my telegram," said Cable bitterly.
In
the
world."
“It seemed to me,” said Janet, “that examples of printing and books which
leaf or even a blade of grass with It.
"I hope not," said Norheys. “He
JEANETTE
Then tlie funny bend at tlie top of
they were qll three on different sides.”
It cnn be made short or long, wide or
have Ane bindings. I do not know may be quite a decent fellow, not a
the long neck began to nod. L'p nnd
“Well,” said Tommy, “I suppose it's
' narrow. Now Isn't that n gift to be
that he, or Indeed any one. ever reads wrong 'un at all. And It Isn't every
down
It
nodded
nnd
nodded.
HOUGH
originating
In
France,
all settled by this time. I wish I knew books of that kind. It is generally
happy about? There's another thing.
one who’d take on thnt princess of
from where most of our saucy little
"Well, I must have said the right Rnffyt Sometime« the trees you feed
how."
easier, and pleasanter, to buy a mod- yours. Tncle Ned. Lots of men don't
feminine names come. Jeanette has thing thnt time.'' murmured Cheerups on nre rough nnd thorny nnd hurt
“From the way they were speaking.” ern edition of nn old author if you
like It."
been formally naturalised and Its "But why doesn't he tnlk, Instead of your tender nose, no Just doso your
said Janet. “I should say the discus­ want to read him at all. But there
"I've told you all plong," I said, birthplace Is generally forgotten, It
nodding In that silly fashion? He nostrils to protect them. You can
sion might go on for hours. They ail Is no doubt that the presence In a "that the princess Calypso la ns white
means "grace of the Lord" and bus probably think« I can't hear so fnr do IL 1 know.”
seemed to have a lot to say.'
room of good books. good from a as you are.”
its earliest origin In the old Hebrew away. What he needs 1« a telephone."
"I wish you'd go back,” said Tommy, bibliophile's point of view, creates nn
Rnffy looked delighted, He closed
"Still, there's always a risk," said Joanna, a name bestowed upon the
"and try what you can do in the way atmosphere which Is very agreeable.
"That's Raffy Giraffe, Mr Cheerupa,” bls nostrils Immediately to see If he
you
A
throwback,
don't
Norheys.
holy woman of the Gospel.
called Jack the Monkey, who was «it could. Then tie ran out ^1« long
of influencing the patriarch."
especially after dinner.
know. 1 What scientific Johnnies cull
When Joan cume Into fashion In ting up In the tall pultn tree eating tongue and nipped off n leaf high up
“I don't see that I’ve any right to
A Persian carpet, one of the best atavism. You never can tell when
the daughter ot' dates,
•He cnn hear whnt you any In the Breadfruit tree,
interfere."
Then ho
I have ever seen, covers the floor of a perfectly coal-black baby might England and named
"Still. I think you ought to try. It’s the library. Some good chairs, Chi- turn up. Horrid things, black bahten Edward II nnd other members of roy- but he cun’t talk. He hasn't nny looked nt Cheerupa with eyes full of
As
a frightfully serious thing for me.
up hl» tiesin,
nese Chippendale, stand with their What I always say Is that If a fellow alty, France formed Jeanette In ac- voice. Raffy, nnd Boomer Kangaroo gratitude, kicked
far as I can make out. I'm either go- backs against the bookcases.
But Is prepared to take the risk, why not cordance with their Inimical habit of who Ilves In Australia, are the only switched his tnll Joyfully nnd ran off
Ing to be hanged or married."
Troyte is too sensible a man to sacrl- let him? No particular business of making a diminutive. Jean had al­ animals In the world who can't make through the Jungle.
“I'm afraid I've no Influence with flee comfort to artistic feeling. Round ours, is It, if the babies turn out to ready been popular there and Jennette a sound. Funny the way men talk
"But remember," called Clieerups
and Jeanne, which seem to have been about dumb nnlmnls. Isn't It? I gurus after him, "thnt the things which are
the patriarch."
the Are he had deep leather-covered be black, or even brown?"
“Oh, yes. you have,” said Tommy, chairs of thoroughly satisfactory late
Troyte was attending to Viola, tak­ used almost interchangeably, tweame nobody In his right senses would cnll out of reach uro often no better than
me that,” chattered Jacky with u thoae Just nt hand. I hope he heard
“as a representative of the League of Victorian design.
ing her coat from her. offering her Instantly In vogue.
Jeanne or Jeanette of Flanders, as chuckle.
Christian Churches, you must have.
I, the Afth person present, and by cushions, trying to Induce her to drink
It," murmured Cheerupn thoughtfully.
she was called, was the famous hero­
"So you've lost your tongue, hnve
t© by Lltti«. Brown A Co )
Suppose you were to offer the patri­ far the least important, leaned back champagne. Cable grew Impatient.
arch to make him president of g world in my chair and giggled feebly.
"Perhaps." he said, “you will p ^hone ine ot the Henbunne, while Jeanette
conference of religions, to be held at
“Unless It’s Emily’s curate who's these telegrams through to the For La Pucelle of Orleans ranks with tho
Chicago or some place like that where gone to Lystria,” I repeated, “I don't elgn office, or would you rather I I sent great of France. Jeanne de Valois,
daughter of Louis XI and discarded
a conference of the kind might be know who It can be.”
a messenger with them?”
held. He'd love that. And at the
Procopius Cable turned and glared
Troyte got up and went to the tele wife of Louis XII, was another famous
same time you could tell Casimir that at me with ferocity and contempt. I phone. Norheys talked on, address- woman bearing the name. Th« French
went one step farther und have a
I don't in the least mind whether I'm had been guilty of an Ill-timed at­ Ing no one in particular.
king of Lystria or not. If I’m al­ tempt at a joke In the middle of a
“What I can't see,” he said, "Is why Jeannetton, but It was never Imported
By H. IRVINQ KINQ
lowed to marry Calypso I'd every bit very serious crisis. I stopped gig­ we should butt In. So far ns 1 can from Gaelic soil.
The diamond Is Jeanette's tails-
as soon go home as stay here."
gling abruptly and murmured an apol­ make out. I'm the only one of us with
LA VALLIERE
“That young woman," said Janet, ogy. After that, for a while, nobody a shadow of a grievance, and I don’t manic stone. It is believed to bring
APPLES AND SEEDS
“Is totally unsuited to be a curate’s spoke.
want to trot It out. I can’t well take her wealth and power and love. If she
Troyte was the flrst to recover his an action for breach of promise wears it on her left arm. Wednesday
wife."
ANY are the methods practiced T A VALLIERE, favorite of -Louie
“She is,” said Tommy. "I know self-possession. He rose from his against an Indian queen. I'd look Is her lucky day and 7 her lucky num-
XIV and one of the greatest beau­
today by the superstition of divi­
ber.
that. Perhaps It would be better for chair and walked over to where Nor­ such an ass, wouldn't I, Unde Bill?"
nation by apples, npple seeds and ap­ ties of the French court. Is so often
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Syndicate.)
y.>u to say to Casimir that I’d make beys and his bride were standing.
He turned to me because Troyte
ple parings They are nearly all In the pictured ns nn adventuress and a de­
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“My dear Viola,” he said, “that was at the telephone and Cable hud
quite a good king from his point of
nature of "projects," or love charms. liberate coquette, that few know her
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view—¡^ve him any amount of balls stupid husband of yours lias never in­ turned his back on us.
The moat general of these In this real character.
and dinners, keep up tlie opera, not troduced me to you, so I must intro-
“I know you'll say she's not an Tn
Her name wns Louise Francois do
country la, perhaps, the throwing of a
Won
’t
uncle.
have any income tax; and all that duce myself as your
I.a Vnlllere. She wns born August fl,
dlan," said Norheys, “but Persian«
whole
apple
paring
on
the
floor
after
sort of thing. The late king told me you come over to the Are and sit seem to me Just as bad.”
Her mother brought her to
swinging It three times nround the 1844.
exactly what’s wanted and I’m pre­ down ?”
"She's not Persian, either," I said.
head In the belief that It will fall In Paris when she was sixteen, after sho
and
led
hand
by
the
He took her
pared to dp it. R will be easy enough
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
the shnpo of the Initial of one's future had been fairly well educated and
to talk over Casimir. The real trou­ her to his own chair. He s<-t her In
wife or husband. Then there Is the brought up with the royal prim-, nm
ble is the patriarch. Look here. Miss It and placed a footstool Wt her feet,
Celibate» by Choice
naming of apple seeds and divining as n child. A kinswoman got her the
had
been
a
little
long
The
recognition
Church. If you manage to persuade
I think that it is true there are men
with them In various ways; the eating appointment of maid of honor to Hen­
him. I’ll promise faithfully to use all In coming, but there were excuses to and women who wisely realize thnt
of an apple at midnight before a glass rietta. who wns Louis' slster-tn law.
With
perfect
clearneaa
to
my influence as king to unite the Lys­ be made for the delay. Nothing could having reached the approach of middle
light of day,
while one holds a lamp and repeats an There wns some scandal about these
trlan church to any Christina body In have been more courteous than Troy- age. If is better to remain unmarried
And then I alt In patience,
appropriate rhyme with the expecta­ two, <in<l, ns a blind, Louis XIV was
te
’
s
manner
when
be
got
over
the
lently,
the world you choose to name. Even
rather than marry from any but the
tion of seeing one’s true love peep told to pay marked attentions to some
to
wait
for
light
of
day
shock
of
her
sudden
appearance
and
And
If we have to wait till the ■ resent pa­
most serious reasons.
over one's shoulder; and the •'bobbing other woman since a princess must
come to me;
triarch dies and I have tl o appoint­ made up his mind to accept the Inev­
never yet through all the
Marriages made In middle age may
for apples'* on Allhallowcen. Doubt­ never have a bit of gossip whispered
ment of a new one, we’ll pull the itable. The girl looked up at him with
be extremely happy. But there are
less the render can recall ninny more. about her. La Vnlllere then wns n
timid
gratitude
and
blushed
in
the
thing off in the end.”
men,
who
hove
ns
there
are
women,
The npple superstition In all Its pure-minded, religious girl, willing to
That must have been a strong most charming manner.
through experience, through adversity
forms hns Its root so fnr back In my­ servo her mistress by Involving her
“
Good
old
Uncle
Ned.
”
said
Nor
­
temptation to Janet. I dare say she
through the need of self dependence
thology that Its primal origin Is lost own good name. Louis, nt first forced
would have given way to it and gone heys, "I knew you'd take It like a attained so great a degree of individu
but mystic qualities have always been to pay her attention, soon developed a
to the patriarch with a i 'oposal that man. Whnt I always said to Viola was allty that they feel that In marriage,
attributed to this fruit since the days real love for her, and she, too, fell
he should be president of some sort this: Uncle Ned may be a member with Its enormous need of adaptability,
of Tammuz. Perhaps Its origin was very much In love with him. All
of world conference. Whether be of parliament and a cabinet minister they would become lost.
In the fact thnt the apple tree Is the through the time of her connection
and
all
that,
but
he's
still
a
gentle
­
would have accepted the position or
We ought not to dismiss such people
tree upon which the mistletoe Is most with him, she refused lo tell whnt sho
not no one will ever know. Before man."
ns necessarily selAsh and self centered
often found and the mistletoe wns al­ knew about the Princess Henrietta
Cable, his hands thrust deep Into Probably they know that their capacity
Janet had made any reply to Tommy,
ways regarded In antiquity ns a di­ ami her love affairs.
Count Albert Casimir entered the his trousers pockets, stood scowling. for friendship, their ability to be ot
rect
emanation of the gods—which Is
Ln Vnlllere hud tunny enemies nnd
“What’s happened In Lystria?” he real service to many widely differing
room.
one of them Montespnn finally took
“another story."
He Immediately ordered the two said.
types of human nature, their wider
Our modern use of the tipple In love Louis away from her. A little Inter,
“It geems to me,” said Norheys. “that leisure, makes It possible for them to
soldiers who stood on guard to go
divination comes directly from the she wns allowed to enter the Carmel­
some
other
blighter
has
chipped
In.
”
away. He spoke to them in a manner
express themselves more generously as
myth of Hercules who recovered from ite convent, where sho spent the rest
Cable strode over to Troyte’s writ­ unmarried people.—Exchange.
that was actually savage, Just as If
the He>perides the golden apples of her life, nnd we cnn Imagine her en­
they had forced their v y into Tom­ ing table, seized a pen and began to
which bad been given by the Earth- tirely satisfied tlmt her life of turmoil
my's apartments again«: orders which scribble at a terrifle pace, faster than
Queer "Felicitation
goddess to Juno, the patroness of mar­ nnd intrigue was nt an end nnd the
any one I ve ever seen write, except on
he had repeatedly given them.
riage, nt her nuptials. Hence nn np­ pence of the convent hers until death.
Ignorant of English, a Frenchman
Then he marched over to the win­ the stage. He talked while he wrote,
ple Instead of n ram was often sacri­ For, the court life of Louis XIV was
to telegraph his congratula
wished
another
thing
which
reminded
me
of
dow, where Tommy was standing, and
English friend on his mar
ficed to Hercules ami hence today we artificial nnd hectic, nnd poor La Vai-
an
tlons
to
saluted. After that he marched back the theater.
i scq)< to know the name or face of our Here, like many other women of her
“I shall wire to Berlin at once. Cas­ riage.
to the door, flung it open, stood to at­
He wrestled wtlh the dictionary until
future wife' or husband by means of day, wns a victim of the times, rather
tention at one side of it and said. imir Is still in Berlin. I shall wire to the happy couple were fulrly on their
I tipple», npple seeds ami apple parings. than nn example of them.
King
Wladlslaws.
I
shall
wire
to
the
“Please.”
honeymoon, and by that time he had
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It was evident that Tommy was at patriarch in Lystria."
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evolved the following: "May you be
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“
Seems
a
pity,
doesn't
It?"
said
liberty again.
very happy In the workhouse!"
Norheys,
‘
'to
butt
In
like
that.
What
Turn
About
la Fair Play
The
Safer
Way
Casimir,
Janet, eagerly questioning
•
His friend was about to demand an
The suitor had finally come to the
Two Highland farmers met nt mar­
scarcely pausing io translate his an- I always say Is: If a thing’s done, then explanation, when It dawned upon him
ket, and one said to the other, “Whitt’s point, but the young holy was not dis­
swers to Tomm: got an outline of It Is done, even if It happens to be the that what was meant wns: "May you
thing which a fellow would rather
come over Donald lately? I haven’t posed to make Immediate reply to his
what had happe;
be happy in the union." (For the ben
proposal.
The princess I...d cargled her point. wasn't done."
seen him for weeks."
Troyte passed bls hand over bls eflt of American readers It should be
“Why not give mo your nnswer
Casimir, who did not much care who
"Och, have ye no’ heard?" replied
stated
that
all
English
workhouses
(or
was king of Lystria. so long as there forehead anxiously.
the other. "Pulr Donald got three now?” he urged. “It Isn't fair to keep
Institutions
for
the
poor)
are
known
as
“There'll be trouble In the Balkans,"
me In suspense."
was a king of so ne sort, backed her
months It» Jail for stealln' a coo!”
union workhouses.]
up. The patriarch, who was a kind- he said. "I don't see how this busi­
"But." objected the young Indy,
"Och, the big fool I Why did he
ness
can
end
without
fresh
trouble
In
hearted old gentleman and really fond
> no’ Just buy It an' no’ pay for it?"— “think of the lime you have kept me
The honctzln, a bird found along the
of the princess, hud given way in the the Balkans."
in suspense 1”
I Tit-Bits.
"The marriage has probably not tak- Amazon river, has feet on Its wings.
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z^Grace Dliss 5fewarr
CHAPTER XVII—Continued
Part IV
London and Lystria
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CTHE WHY of
SUPERSTITIONS
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