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«win King Tommy MWWHvkM » rjturx MAHUM-JNMl . a S Copyright by Bobb»-Merrill C*. W N. U. Servkw ® JUNGLE ■gii . 1 By GEORGE A. BIRMINGHAM inffte [ ® Pauline Starke Wifh Cheerups and the Quixies ini 11 '' Grace Pli» Steward F " MRS. TRAPDOOR SPIDER away «<> snugly under your yard that you would hardly notice (but I'm there Well, you disagreeable to me, for I am a man ^lll.l.ltt PS gave a gasp of surprise C" you think you’ll mind?" know, if the worst comes to the worst of «ociabl« disposition with a gery “All Asia Minor is more or less and they still want a king, I'll be when he discovered Hint th« "Not at all, not at all." chuckled atrongly formed habit of conversation. Persian." said Norheys, "and. anyway, there." rround was rising under him. He was < herrupa. beginning to be amused. I could net blame Norheys and hl« I don’t want to take an action against rtandlng right In his own front ynrd, C able, who had been drumming Im But I would like to know something h*r. I don't believe I could even If patiently with his fingers on the table, wife for deserting us. They were on »Ot a step from his little palm lent about this curious house of your« How louse; and where could any one ba do you build It?" I wanted to. on account of having got moved over suddenly and looked at « honey moon and It was natural married myself before she did. So Norheys. I do not know whether he enough that they should shut them- infer than In his own front yard? Yet "I don’t ; f Just dl« It." hummed Mr« I Jiore wm no mistake about It. the Spider. “1 dig With my fang* way tbat'a that ; aud there's no use wor- actually thought that It might still be selves up together In their own com- partment. I did not see them, except rylng." (round under Cheerupa was moving. down deep Into the earth oh. about possible to make Norheys king of Lys- With n little spring be Juiniwd to two feet then I carry away nil the Troyte was talking fast to •omeone tria. If the thing were possible, it at meals In the restaurant ear. Troyte V Cable ignored me. Cable resented >ue side and then what do you <up. dirt I've dug out nnd hide It. ■<> mu in the foreign office. would certainly be a way out of a and ;><>»• happaMd? A small piece of enrth one "ill know I huv* bc«*n dlughig “There'll be the devil of a fuss." nasty situation. Even the Balkan war my being with the party at all and kept Troyte to himself In another Vow I mil thnt clever, don't you?” said Norheys, “If Uncle Ned stirs up might be averted. Hke a tiny lid popped right up juat Now compartment on pretense of talking where he had been standing nnd out all those ambassadors and "I always said.” said Norheys, "that business. They could not talk busi ___people. "I should any «o," gasped Cheerup«, !*ok«d a little head. And they won't like It. Nobody would 1 d no objection to being a king, so growing more and more astonished ness in any useful way because th«jy like It. I say. Unde Ned !” long as I didn't have to marry that "Good morning, Mr. Cheerupa." said every minute. Troyte, working steadily through princess. Well, that part of the pro did not know what had happened In i small voice from under the lid. "I’m “And now you nre wondering why Cable's telegrams, waved an impatient gram Is off now. But If the Lystrlans Lystria. AH they could do w-as to «pecu born in Ura. Spider. Mra Trapdoor Spider, nnd my housu doesn’t get wet In a heavy late. and I might have been useful to hand at Norheys. Joplln, Mo. She was educated In Kan- four nearest neighbor, I gucoa, so I shower," continued Mr«. Hpldrr "But don t care for the chauffeur, why not "It s all very tine," said Norheys to pop me and Viola on to a couple of them there. In fact, my guess about Ms City, and livsd thar* until several you sea, I always choose a location Emily s curate was the only good nie, "Uncle Ned may say what he thrones? Not that we want to hoof guess atfy of them made. ysars ago when her family moved to where th« water will run off the «hie likes, but they won’t like it. No am out the princess. We don’t. Only Just] Los Angeles. Miss Starke has bean of a bank, for Instance nnd I make Casimir, Count Istvan, who — . ---- Ilves bassador would like being pulled out If site happens to have done herseir my tunnel turn n little to on« «Ide nt of his bed at this hour of the night in by skipping off with the chauffeur. somewhere In thnt neighborhood got general approval. Tbl» I« one of her the bottom." into the train at Charlottenberg sta latest pictures. and set on to chase a princess up and And that’s the sort of thing it takes Then It's Just the ahap« of a stock down the Himalaya mountains, as if a girl a long time to get over_ tion. Just outside Berlin. King Wladis- ing. lent It?" cried Cheerupa. clapping laws Joined u» at the Friedrichstrasse she was a goat or a chamois or some specially if «he happens to be a prin Ills band«. thing of that kind. And what I al cess why. in that case what 1 say Is' station farther on. There Is not "Well, whatever a stocking may be I enough room for four people to be Vvhat’s in a Name?” us?” ways say is: If nobody wants a thing Why not----- don't know,” sniffed Mrs Spider, “but comfortable in a wagon-lit's compart Cable done, why do it? There are lots of Is an adventurer with no By MILDRED MARSHALL I find thnt n comfurtuble way tn build, unpleasant things every fellow has to Sense of responsibility and little re- ment. so Cable, who does not care anyway." wlmt he spends, etftaged an ordinary F»ct, »bout your nam»: Ha hmory do. It by chip in with unnecessary- Sard for convention. He may have m»»nln». wh»n<-» it w„ d»riv«d "Why. don’t you know about «tock- I Utanu, your lucky day, lucky i«w»< ones and make everyone uncomfort seriously contemplated financing an first-class compartment farther down Iga. Mra. Spider?" said Chourupa. the train. There the four, Troyte. I able?” other revolution in Lystria ami setting They mey ar« are auch such useful thing«! They “Notify the legations at Sophia," up Norheys as a king at the end of it. Cable. Casimir and the king, settled are what boys nnd girls hang up oq down. I was not Invited to join the SELMA said Troyte into the telephone, "and But Troyte Is a serloqs statesman. party. . Christmas Eve nnd find full of sweet- Prague and Bukarest. and Warsaw, He could not possibly have regarded meat« and nuts and lovely prenentR In Norheys’ plan as worthy of considera Neither the king nor Casimir could TF FAIR names should be given tn and Budapest, and Belgrade—" the morning." cross the frontier Into Megalia. but “Just listen to him,” said Norheys. tion. Nevertheless, he agreed to take fair women, Selma is a favorite In "Bless me. but you do «Ny funny “Jolly glad I didn’t go into the diplo the young couple to Lystria. It was they were willing to go as fpr ns Bres feminine nomenclature. Il I« uti thing«. Mr. Cheerupa!" sputtered Mr«. lau and tell all they knew about what matic service. They wanted me to. Viola who persuaded him. Celtic name, meaning "fair,” an<| ”1 Am Glad to Know You," Raplled Spider, growing n Huie cm«« "These She left her seat, went over to him had happened. Unfortunately, they named the beautiful daughters of Ire. You remember that. Uncle Bill? But nbuveenrth folks, with their queer did not know very much. I was firm about that. ‘Not my line in the prettiest possible manner. put land and Scotland for generation aft»r Casimir explained thnt he had all generation. Finally It spread over the thought I would tsi friendly and make way» nnd big words, are beyond my at all.’ I said. 'Hate complications one arm round his neck and set her along believed Tommy to be the Lord border Into England and was «tralght- the first call." With that out climbed understanding. The sensible ones nil and always did.’ Now I see I was Norheys. He had regarded the "Rev wuy adopted as a national favorite. Mrs. Spider onto tho ground nnd stood live below ground. I guess " quite right. I simply couldn't stand "Oh, please do exruse me. Mr«. erend Thomas A. Norrey s ’ " passport eying Cheerupa, a* |f a nttie doubtful being set on to persecute some poor Th»- Bible record» a Selnuil, which Spider," plended Cheorupa. “I wna as a clever trick Intended to deceive of her welcome. girl who d run off with the chauffeur. Von Steinveldt and the Germans may be taken ns Identical with Selma, "I am glad to know you," replied only teasing n little, «nd honestly. I And I expect that’s what’s happened. and the name Is thus given a religious while conveying him „.u.e convey mg to the new, that ( ’ heerups. as cordially a« he could for wouldn't miss the rest of yotir story Looks like it anyhow. What I always Lord Norheys had arrived in Berlin. significance. The Dutch also have a hts surprise, "but I never dreamed " for anything. I Juat can't wait to hear say is: If a girl wants to marry a Selma! which is generally regarded «» i hat would have been au Ingenious “No, of course you didn’t.” crhsl Mrs more about thnt wonderful house." chauffeur, let her, and be Jolly thank “Well, It Isn't very polite to Inter plan, much more Ingenious than any the equivalent of Selma. otherwise, Spider with a merry twinkle In nt least ful it's no worse.” th.ng Troyte or Cable had thought of. there Is little history onne> ted with «lx <>f her eight round eye«. "Nobody rupt, I must any, Mr Chirrups.” said Cable had edged over to the table the name, which |ieraist«d because ft» Mra. Spider with n gentle little hum. It did make Casimir certain that Lord at which Troyte was sitting at the sound, as well as Its significance. was would Is» expected to dream of n neigh "But If you be «.«>), | || g,, ,,n. and Norheys had arrived. It would, ap fair. bur’s house right under his nose, or his telephone. maybe I will tell you bow I furnish parently, have deceived Von Stein- “Tell them,” he said. **to engage In this country, the South adopted toes rather. But thst’s the best part of I my houMe, too.” veldt and his police If their suspicions It. you w-e. sir! My bouse is tucked places for us In the Warsaw express. Selmn, probably because of it» us«<>- b> Little llrown a C o , had not been awakened by what hap We must go tomorrow elation with feminine beauty nnd pened In the Mascotte the night after finally "I suppose we must,’ said Troyte because Its vowels nre » ell Von with a sigh. . Tommy , ’s arrival. „ — ---- Steinveldt .-ulted to the soft, slurring pronuncia heard all about that from one of his “Of course we must. ----- . said Cable. tion of Dixie. Many lovely Southern spy waiters. ‘Heaven knows what muddle there’ll toasts of Virginia and Carolina The king also believed that Tommy ers. be if we’re not there. It’s a compli counties, hnve» borne the name nnd was Lord Norheys; but he understood cated business and you and I are the more than one state Ims bestowed the the passport differently. His view name only two people who understand the By H. IRV IN Q KI NQ on one of its towns or smaller was that Norheys pretended to be a citlej. whole of It Tell them to book two curate In order to clear himself of the Bleepers for us.” It Is fitting that the pearl, sygibal I charge of being entangled with Miss “I say,” said Norheys. “I say, of beauty and charm, should be sei THE MOON AND INSANITY NELSON MILES Temple. Here he expressed the great Uncle Ned. are you really going off ma's talismani? gem. It promires bet est desire to see Viola, und It was to this what-you-call-’em place to see great fascination and Jhe power of universal wns formerly the KJELRON a milek . with the utmost difficulty that Troyte trading the princess?" one of our admirers. belief there wn« n direct connec Monduy I« h kept him from wandering along the greatest »< »I « H^m, wa» born in Troyte took no notice of this so I lucky day nnd 5 her lucky nuu.be.-. tion between the moon and Insanity 1« Maxaach unetta August R, train to look for Norheys' compart answered for him. and shown by the fact that our words, lived through some of the ment. He said that he had particu most worn He must,” I said. "As minister for lunacy and lunatic, are derived direct derful events the country bns larly admired the way in which Lord Balkan affairs. Its bis duty to have Red Oak a Beauty ly from Luna, the Latin name of the Seen. Norheys had kept up his pretense his band on the helm when the ship “Do The red oak, found throughout th« Roman moon goddess corresponding Take Us,” She Said. "We Want evea acting the part of a curate when When he wns In his 'teens, he went Is In the rapids.” ------ - ... eastern half of our country, turns with the Greek Selene. Lunn was the , _ a to Go Most Awfully, and I Ought there was no real need for It. to Boston and found employment In Norheys turned to his wife, who had ' to Have a Honeymoon, Oughtn’t t?” later than most of Its hardwood neigh moon and she was only one of the n crockery store n tamo enough oc- Then came the question of who Rev. be<-n sitt.ng quietly and very comfort hors, says the American Tree n«Mt> various personifications of the moon Thomas A. Norreys really was. The cupatlon. But he bad studied military ably where Troyte left her. cheek quite close to his. "Do take elation. From a deep gri-en the leave, which existed In nil mythologies and I say, Vi, old thing, what about it?" us,” she said. “We want to go most king did not know. Nor did Casimir. become a rich red of striking beauty of which Isla of the Egyptians appears •Clence and. when the Civil war broke ¿he understood him at once, though awfully, and I ought to have a honey Casimir could tell exactly what wns against n yellow background. Even to have bjen the original. It used out, he raised a company of volun on the passport, and the king repeated more teers nnd enlisted with them ns their I confess that I did not. moon. oughtn’t I?” striking, however, are the uu to be n common belief, among sailors commander, all that Tommy had said about him I hat ended hl« mercan- “I should simply love it,” she said tumn Troyte picked up the telephone re- colors of the scarlet oak. especially, that If a person slept In tile career nnd self. But that got them no further. began an extremely "and you promised that we should celver again. -------- O ----- — the moonlight he was liable to go mad. Illustrious military one. have a honeymoon." IIpllo.’ he said. “Yes, Foreign 1 hey had to send for me. Cable was Thnt superatltlon la still In existence through the war, fliouxh He fought wounded n _ “Righto," said Norheys. "I say, office.- Lord Edmund Troyte speaking unwilling to do so; but Troyte Insist ns Is nlso the more common one thnt couple of times, nnd steadily rose In Uncle Ned, tell him to book four sleep again. Did I say two sleepers on the I ed. Cable remembered that I had said lunatics are more violent when the rnnk, being <|e< orn'ed for Mervlces nt ers, will you. VI and I are going to Warsaw express’ Well, four will be something about a curate. rnoon I» nt the full. Even Thnekeray. ( hnncellorsvUle nnd nt Fair Oaks By When I heard the story told by the trot along with you.” wanted. Engage four." In his story of ’‘Catherine." nppenr« the end of tho war, he wns In com Trojte very nearly dropped the re "Say five," I said; “I’d rather like king and Casimir, I saw at once that to credit tills mistaken belief; and It mand of nn army corps. । my guess waj very likely to be right. to go, too. ” ceiver in his astonishment. I was a Is not so very long ago that responsi My sister Emily lost a curate early But there was more work left for little startled myself. The very last Troyte took no notice of me. He | ble physicians began to doubt the the a mnn of his abilities. He wns sent place a man ought to take his' wife laid down the receiver, crossed the last week," I said. “He wa. In,t ory. out to siibdne the Indian* Indeed, he for a honeymoon is into the middle room holding Viola’s hand, and sat heard of at the Adlon hotel In Berlin It Is very common superstition to- where he stayed two nights and then got tho nick name of "Indian Fighter of a Balkan war, and that, if I could down. dny thnt to sleep In the moonlight In Mlles." Ho brought tho Cheyenn« and trust Troyte’» Judgment, was Just "Why on earth dp you want to go?" disappeared. The dates—" dnngerou« that "something will hap said Cable. what there was going to be. We discussed the dates and they pen" to one who does no, a belief aur- the Comnnche Indians to terms. "You can't go with us," said Troyte. “Well," I said, “I’m thinking of ap I fitted in with each other very well I vlvlng from the Insanity superstition. chs«ed the famous Sitting Bull over "I’m d—d If you do," said Cable plying for shares In the oil company | could not help looking nt Cable with This idea of the connection tietween the border Into Canada, and conquered Ho wns sent “You ought to be pleased to base of yours, so. of course,. I'd like to look an expression of satisfaction. The the moon and Insanity Is derived from the terrible Apachen. us," said Norheys. "Wed . heer you into things for myself. And Lord Nor man had been abominably rude to me the belief of the ancients that Inspira nbrond ns the country’s représenta five up and all that when you re feeling a heys Is my godson, so If you're going I since we left London and had snubbed tion and madness were closely con to nttend Quoen Victoria n dlnmond bit down and out." to make him a king, I ought to be me pitilessly. I did not actually say nected. The prophetess of the Del Jubilee, and, a year Inter, wns nom- “You've done mischief enough al there to help to crown him. God "I told you so.” But I looked as If I phian shrine worked herself Into a Innlly In charge of the military opera- ready,” said Cable. “You sha'n’t go parents have duties as well as rights. thought It. frenzy before she uttered her oracles tlona in the Rpnnlah-Amorlcan war. near Lystria if I can stop you.” Anyhow, said Cable, “no curate And, besides, I want to find out who nnd the priests of the moon goddess Actually, though, he directed the al “I don't suppose you can stop us” that princess has run away with. I would dare tc marry the princess." bathed themselves In her refulgent most unopposed Porto Rico expedi said Norheys. “I say, i nHe Ned, do believe myself that my sister Emily’s Like many successful business mon beams to obtain Inspiration nnd do- tion, doing some very wonderful Hunl- book those sleepers. J promised Vi curate has got her, and that Janet Cable underestimates the courage and In the Island« afterwards. claimed from her altar* after the man tutlon (© work Goorge Mntthew Adam».) that she should see the !,la<-k princess Church has gone along with them to ability of the clergy, in all proba ner of madmen. (> and she wants to, don’t you, VI?” be bridesmaid." bility ho never speaks to a clergyman Modem medical scfeme declare« "I should like to see Lystria1 she at all and only sees one once in two I picked up the telephone receiver, that there Is not the «lightest connec Time’» Heavy Hand said. <©, Ibaa. McClor» Newspaper Syndicate ) and asked for the Foreign office. years or so clad In a surplice, at some tion between the moon nnd Insanity Had Made Changes So there you are, Unc’e Ned," said Cable growled. Troyte lit a cigarette wedding or funeral which he's obliged nnd modern research shows Hint the Two brothers, who thirty nine yenrs Norheys. “You can't g back on VI to attend. A curate In a surplice back on VI and poured himself out a glass of whole Idea Is a «uperMItlon surviving ago In their home In Germany looked when she comes rushing home all the brandy. Norheys clapped me on the looks Innocent and mild, not at all from the day» when the priests of Isis A LINE O’ CHEER so much alike thnt their friends some way from Paris Just to -ell you that back. the kind of a man who would seize a by the bnnks of the Nile waved their times confiiHed them, met recently In she d married me. V< -y few girls “Good old Uncle Bill I” he said. "I vacant European throne. The same wild arms toward their shining god Massillon and failed to recognize each By John Kendrick Bangs would have done that.” always knew you were a sport. Tell curate on the golf links Is a very dif dess nnd with "eyes In fine frenzy other until they were Introduced, says “I protest strongly—” «aid Cable ferent person. Besides, Besides. Tommy Tornmv wn« was us all about that curate, won’t you?” rolling" declaimed her orncles to an the Canton (Ohio) Repository. “That's no use,” said Norheys. ‘"If “That the Foreign office?" I shouted an exceptional curate. I told them awe-struck people. THE KINDLY PHILOSOPHER They were Henry Lnschlnske, of of Lncle Ned won’t book the sleepers for down the telephone. "Yes. I’m speak what Emily and Canon Pyke had said by McClura Newspaper Syndicat« ) Lanton, and his brother Carl, who had us well have to go without them ing for Lord Edmund Troyte. Please about him. ■----------- o- F I CAN’T «ay (TO BE CONTINUED.) Just come to thl« country with his I ve got my passport all right. You gave engage five sleepers in the Warsaw good Wit Saved Situation A about a feller family. When tho former came to it to me yourself, Uncle Ned and I'll express tomorrow instead of four. If I'm Koln' to k., p my mouth The wastrel non had come to the America thirty nine years ago he was Facta About Com past manage to slip Viola through some they haven’t that number vacant tell j '' ,d ‘'«ht. end of his resources, and sertt n pite And If I know for certain that how. You gener Uy can, you know, them to put on another coach. Yes. twenty two years old and left hfs nine The angle between the true north ous appeal to hl« father for funds, teen year-old brother, Carl, nt home In he'»! yeller If you tip the r ht man. Besides, A whole coach. Never mind about the nnd the magnetic north Is called the Um goln' to try with all my Wing that If they were not forthcom Germany. The arrival of the latter I might come in useful. You never expense. Mr. Cable will settle that “magnetic variation," and has to be main and might ing he would starve to denth. He, re and his family In this country was un- know. That prim -ss has run off with whatever It Is.” allowed for In navigation. Thus, when To dig down deep Into the Inner ceived this crushing reply in the form announced. When the two met nt the Him the chauffeur and the Lystrlans may the song any “True as the compass to of n telegram: "As you have made home of Miss Mary Kutrlh, of Massil To see If there ain’t somethin not want him for a king. It's a bit the star,” It Is talking nonsense be- to unfold your bed, so must yon lie on It." The lon, neither knew thnt he wns face to CHAPTER XIX awkward for them. A fellow who's cnuse, although the star Is fixed, the To show that all his yellernes, quick-witted scapegrace was equal to fnce with his brother. so grim touching his hat to you one day and compass Is not. Nevertheless, Be varf- I did not enjoy the first part of the atlnns are well known, so that the the occasion, nnd wired back: Is but the sign of streaks of you have to take yours off to him the They chatted for some time before hidden gold, "Haven’t n bed. The sheriff took It Miss Kntrlb Introduced them to ench n«xt day. Nobody likes to be let In Journey to Lystria, for J was left al compass remains the seaman's moat most entirely alone. That is always valuable possession. yesterday.” A substantial check was other ns brothers. Then they Ibst no the reward for his wit. । time In calling up boyhood memories CHAPTER XVIII—Continued for that sort of thing. CTHE WHY of SUPERSTITIONS a
