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J k 1 I I s; it; .1 ' ''-rr-.i I"f'mi1""-'1 ' : The Quest of Betty Lancey x WAGDA jr. ITEJT Ces yritkt, 1909, br W. 9. Ouiprnjia. Copnfcht la flrwt BrlUla 0 CHAPTER XIII. (Continued.) "Your name?" asked Morris. "Bo nonl," answerod tho black. "Just Be nonl." "American?" asked Larry. "I've lived thero," volunteered Be nonl. "Where aro wo going: now?" "Anywhero to get away from them," replied Johnny. "Then don't go so far to tho right. Turn at the next crossing there now turn to your left again see? Beyond those hills we'll find a snug denlo! Horo we arol" Tho motor wheezed and grunted and turned awkwardly Into the debouch ment of the mountain side. "How'd you cotno to get in such a scrape?", asked Larry. "Ever see that woman beforo? Do you know her at all? What was her animus?" Benonl nodded. "Xes, I gave hnr passage money to go back to Maine to her family once, and she gambled It away. Then sho came to me again, and wanted some more money and I refused to give it to her, and she's hated mo ever since, I guess. I hadn't seen her for years." "Like a woman," commented John ny. Larry smoked In silence, till Benonl asked: "Exploring? Or Just tourlng7" "How long since you've been in the States?" asked Johnny. "Just came from there a week ago," replied Benonl. "Then you heard of the Wayne mur der mystery, of course? Well." we'ro hunting for the abducted Miss Lan cey. We think she's In Africa here." Benonl raised his woolly eyebrow. "You'ro a nice hunt," he observed. "Have you any trace of where she might be? Africa is vory large, larger even than your vaunted Stato of Texas.", "I know," responded Larry, curtly. "But If a man's heart's In the hunt ho doesn't stop to, reckon the length of the chase." Benonl smiled. "You are related to Miss Lancey?" "Not yet," said Johnny. "He's Just hoping that way." Benonl sprung out of the car. He paced by its side nervously for a few seconds, and then stopped beside Lar ry, r "I am black, as you see," spoke Benonl, "but I own the blood of king and my mind has been subjected to a thorough course of education in Euro pean universities. I am In Africa now on an errand similar to yours. I am seeking my wife, Meta, Unlike you, I have an Inkling as to where I may find her. Perhaps the woman you are hunting for is not far away from Meta. Will you Join forces with me? I am single handed, and I may need foreign aid men I can trus'tJ" Larry and Johnson grasped at the straw. It was something tangible any way, In this great wanton waste of sun and sky, desert and barbarians. And far more likely of result than the neatly red-taped government assist ance that had been proffered them. So they made a compact with Be .nonL It was taking a long chance with a stranger, but the boys had learned that long shots frequently won when tho short arc failed altogether. Tho three were to meet at the defllo .on the morrow early before the sun waxed unbearably hot Benonl told them to leave behind all luggage; that - he would attend to all of that, and to take with them but a nominal sum of money, If any at all. "You can both ride?" he questioned. "Well, I'm not much at It," confess ed Johnny. Tho black surveyed the small red beaded man half contemptuously. "I know what you thinking," blurted out tho American. "You're thinking that tarring the color of the skin and head that you've got ma beat on being a man. Perhaps you have. Anyway, I don't grudge you anything, and you needn't me!" They rumbled Into town as the false dawn broke. Benonl left them at the oorner of an obscure street, and Larry and Johnson took Sulveler back his auto. Sulveler was not yet home, so they went to the cafe, where they had -left him early In the evening, and found him there drowsing. "What a shame," groaned Johnny. "How can a man with a mind do such things as this?" "You never did," said Harry, quietly. "Here, let's take him home. Come, Sulveler, come on, we've got something to tell you." CHAPTER XIV." Benonl was waiting at tht defile. With him was a small Arabian serv ant Benonl himself was astride a magnificent black horse, and smaller mounts "were saddled for the two Americans. The little Arab rode a wizened but sturdy beast and led the pack horse by a Bhort tether. The black was still more of the ' physically perfect by daylight than he had been under the lamplight and the later gleam of the moon. Ho was even yet more taciturn. Larry and Johnson jogged along sldo by side. Benonl paced them, at times making far excursions ahead, returning with foaming horso ' and lushed face. At noon they stopped beside a scant Uttlo creek for rest The sun was un endurable and despite their vlsored and veiled helmets, Johnny and Larry were suffering terribly from sunburn and their hands were blistered from tho reins, ' The little Arab spread their lunch" con cr Jem and want over to rest with tho horsos, staked a few rods dis tant Benonl produced healing salvo and showed his two companions how to relievo tho worst of tholr distress. Tho tropical nooning sped In heat, si lence and half-slumbor. At 6 o'olook Benonl roused tho llttlo caravan, and aftor a hasty supper, told thorn to make ready for a long, hard ride. All night they Journeyed. Through desert wastes and over rocky fastnesses, up steep mountains and across half-stagnant, shallow rivers. And even when tho dawn camo thero was no resting. Tho horses, Jaded and covered with a coating of dust andsweat stuck tholr feet wearledly Into tho sand or duns listlessly to the hilly slopes. Larry 'was weak as a woman, and Johnny too worn to talk. Tho sun contered tho sky when Benonl lot them halt. Thoy were Just past a strip of desert waste, and near a tiny oasis of parched grass and scrawny palms. A murky pool of water mocked .them with resemblances of Apolllnarls, seltzers, Ice-flushed lemonades and carbonated beverages to bo quaffed In the blessed land at home. Johnny, exhausted, had dropped from his horse and was trying to drag him self towards the muddy pooL Benonl was as unshaken as tho palm tree standing motionless in tho desert calm. He pulled Johnny up, bolstered him along with a draught from his flask, and set him to rights generally. "How are you, Morris?" he asked. "Oh, fair," replied Larry. This gaunt American found It hard to admit phy sical Inferiority to tho black. "Wo can rest but an hour or two," volunteered Benonl, curtly. "Then we must go on." "But where?" asked Larry. "I con fess I wanted to go Into darkest Afri ca, but this affair Is growing too shad owy for me. I don't care about being handled like a packinghouse cow!" Benonl turned a reproachful eye upon him. "I have promised to help you find the girl you seek, can you not rely upon mo? I know my Africa, I am trusting you, and trying to repay you for aiding me to escape from that cafe mob that corral filled with worse than the beasts of the Jungle drunken, Infuriated swine that once were men." "Hello, what's this?" asked Johnny. "I'm always finding things now ain't I? Look at this, and in the desert, too!" He held up to view a plump pigeon. Apparently it had been hurt In a fight with some heavier denizen of the air. For It was qulto dead, and Its head was severed almost from ItB body. Benonl reached out his hand for the bird. "Doves like that nest In but one place in all this continent" he remark ed, and his face became ashen gray as he noted the odd markings of purple and brown on Its snowy breast "Only one place," he repeated. Johnny had been turning the bird over and over, rumpling up the help less wings. Something caught his ey., and he held the dead dove out with up raised wing for the others to see. Scratched on its wing In rude letters they read: "Betty Lancey, Africa!" "Betty!" cried Larry. Then he seiz ed Benonl by tho wrist "If doves llko that nest In but one place on this con tinent, take us there, take us at once. What place is it? Where? Would sho be safe? Or In the hands of savages?" "That is where we have been trav eling to, my friend," answered Benonl. "I had suspected, but I had not cer tainly known. Wo will not even rest for the hour, If you wish." "I must" answered Johnny. "Safety razors! I'm beat out I'm not a camel In the legs, If I can go without a drink for six months!" "Tell me, tell me something," plead ed Larry. But the sands were not more silent. Benonl made but one reply. "I dare not It might destroy all hope!" Day after day, clinked off this ardu ous travel. Once they mot a caravan and Benonl bargained for fresh horses. Tho erstwhile novelty was succooded by a feverish unrest. Both Americans were dead with fatigue, the llttlo Arab stood the Journey well, and Benonl was In the pink of condition. Ten days later they found a second pigeon. This ono was alive and fluttered lo their very luncheon tablo, Larry cov ered It with his hat and bent Its wings back fiercely only to find a bitter dis appointment, for there was.no message traced upon the wing. Two days later they reached a native villago, hanging tassel-Iiko upon tho borders of an immense Jungle. Benonl hired beaters to break the way for them, and for a week they Journoyed In a setting of tropic grass and dusky skins. Ono morning Larry awoko to And the camp desorted of all but Be nonl and Johnny. Tho horses were gone and evon the llttlo Arab had dis appeared. "What! are wo lost in this Jungle? Betrayed and desoitod?" questioned Larry. "No, Indeed, I sent thorn away, We cannot leave hero till nightfall, so sleep again or lounge till I return," re plied Benonl. "I will bo back In a few hours." Divesting himself of his garments, Benonl swathed his loins with a girdle of flexible grass, and strode away In to the fastnesses of the thicket Larry roused the sleeping Johnny rudely. "Flrohead, get up, and tell me what you think of It," he commanded, Johnny, roughly disturbed from dreams of home, kicked viciously In Larry's grasp. "Can't you let a fellow slenn wbp he's having a pleasant drcamr no manded. "You're worso than an alarm clock 1" , "Look around and go dream again, growled Larry. Johnny sat up. "Safety razors V he crlod. "What's become of thorn?" ( "What's going to becomo of us?' gruntod Larry. "Benonl said ho'd ba back." "Then I think ho will." allowed Johnny. "Did he loavo us anything to oatt "There's somo datos, that confound ed meal cako they mako In this coun try and some figs," Itemized Larry, "and, say, Johnny, these look like hen's oggsl" "Well, you can sample them, 1 won't!" declared Johnny, with visions of tho stomachic Illness that had bo set him early on tho routo, thanks ts an overly curious appetite "I'll stick to tho viands that have como tho least near to killing mo during our African peregrination. Wero we fools to come. Larry, or not?" "Oh, I don't know, quit your kick ing," said Larry. "I suppose If Be nonl don't como b'ack wo might stay hero all night." "I reckon we will," added Johnny, grimly. For tho want of a hotter occupation, their meal finished, they foil to play ing mumble-peg In tho clearing where camp had been struck. Mumblo-poii falling as a tlmc-killer. they tried roll ing marbles out of tho soft clay, ami had put up a very passable game ol "Mlbs" when they heard a rustllns and crackling in tho brush and follasv around thum. "Bets on a Hon," said Johnny. "Oh, make It a cannibal king or v boa constrictor," suggested Larry. "Something novel!" Benonl appeared at the edge of the clearing. "Larry wins," was Johnny's greet ing. "I bet on a Hon ho said 'twas a cannibal king approaching." "I'm nelthor," answered Bononl. "I want to sleep. I worked all night while you fellows rested. Will you keop watch for me? ' Wake me at the slightest sound. And If I'm not up 1 y starlight, call me then. Don't forget." Long beforo that hour, though, the great black was up and ready. All of their luggago he stacked In a great heap and set fire to it They waited till tho pile gave signs of thorough Ig nition, then led by Benonl tho trio sot out through the Junglo. The walk was a fight for breath. There were briars that prlckod, gnats that stung, knotted vines that trapped unwary feet. Sometimes tho foot stepped upon a sodden snake, causing tho reptile to coll around tho ankle In a horrifying snarl. But Bononl paused for nothing. With one arm plunged forward, with the other he grasped hold of Larry and bade him pull John ny In tholr wake. This nightmare struggle lasted not longer than a quar ter of an hour, but when they had come out of tho Jungle Larry was shaking llko a leaf in tho wind and Johnny was too far gono for words. A tramp ovor an arid plain brought them to a loathsome, turgid stream. From a small cove In the bank Benonl punted out a flat-bottomed scow with small sail. He leaped Into It and bade the others follow. Then began a pull to which the struggle through tho Jun gle was as child's play. The days and tho nights had all tho furies' tortures far outdono. And through It all thoy lived! This was tho wonder that came to Larry afterward. For they fought hand to hand battles with snakes and hideous water reptiles, fat crocodiles leered at them and more than once sent them scurrying high on the bank. Once the punt overturned and Benonl stood breast high In water, a black, slimy ooze that reached to Harry's chin and almost overflowed Into his mouth. Poor Johnny, the shortest of the three, was carried off his feet and almost drowned, but they got ashore somehow, but all their food except two tins of biscuits in waterproof canisters were soaked. This happened their third day on the river, and they had yet anoth er day's travel ahead of them. The next day the rains commenced and the river teemed with tho floods. Benonl moored the punt at tho mouth of a cavo that yawned from a little hillock on what had once boon tho river' y bank. (To be continued.) For Forty Years. Mrs. Perkins (calmly reminiscent) Jonathan, we've been inarrled forty years and never had a cross word ylt Mr. Perkins I know It. I've Btood yer Jaw purty well. Mrs. Perkins Jonathan Perkins, you're a mean, hateful, spiteful old thing, I wouldn't marry you aglu fer love ner money! Exchange Obeyed Order. "What," said the Magistrate, severely, to the prize fighter arraigned before hlra, "made you knock your own child Into a state of unconsciousness?" "Didn't mean to hurt the kid," re sponded tho repentant parent, "but I Jest forgot moself when mo wife told me to put tho boy to sleep," Baltl. more American. Wu.ter Power. "So you are in favor of protecting water power?" said the forestry ex pert. "I am," answered Mr. Dustln Stax "A man don't appreciate tho power there Is In water till ho has had as much to do with tho stock market as J havo." Washington Star. Keeping Time, "What's tho trouble?" ,"Blg crowd waiting for tables," ex plained the head waiter. "Tell tho orchestra to strike up something llvoly," ordered tho pro prietor. "Maybo It will mako these people chew faster." Louisville Courier-Journal. In Selr-Defeuae, "You didn't really need a wig." "I was driven to It. Now the bar ber won't try to sell me any tonics or hair restorer." Louisville Courier-Journal, CURRENT EVENTS OF THE mm Doings of tho World at Large Told m unci. General Resume of Important Eventi prosented In Condomea rum. for Our Busy Roadors. A.nn.,i n Inmllntr Hungarian politician, hna warm praise for Rooao- velt. Tho first death from bubonic plnjruo in three years has occurred In Hon- olulu. nvf imo withdrawn 3C- 073,164 acres of coal land in North ami South Dakota. A receiver has been named for tho Boston Herald, which is bankrupt with $2,200,000 indebtedness. A new opera by Wagner, son of the famous composer, nearly caused a riot at its first production in Berlin. Experts say that oiling of ronds and streets goes a long ways toward ex terminating flies nnd mosquitoes. A Chico, Cal., man has twice at tempted suicide on account of disap pointment at the defeat of Jeffries. 3n ntnern f.n1.. WOUld elect A. G. Spalding, veteran sport and sporting goods manufacture, lor u. o. soiiuum. A Belect commission from parlia rv.nf haa Hirnmrnpnilcd B raiBC of $05, 000 per year in the salary of King George. witVinnt wnmintr or explanation tho Western Union cut off its bucket shop brokerage wires in ten of tho largo cu ies of the East. Oklahoma has won its Buit against tho Waters-Pierco Oil company, wnicn has agreed to pay a fine of $75,000 and obey the laws hereafter. Miss Nellie Anheuscr, daughter of the St. Louis brewer, is fighting her dentist over a bill of $500. mo uen tist charged $25 an hour for his work. Th Pullman Palace Car company will fight the proposed reduction in rates by the Interstate commerce com mission, claiming that under the pro posed new rates some lines would be operated at a loss. Director Newell is to bo dropped from the reclamation service. David Starr Jordan denounces col lege football as sordid and degrading. The headquarters of tho Independ ence league in Chicago have been abandoned. It is believed that a train dispatcher caused the Big Four wreck in which 21 persons were killed. A toy balloon'Bet fire to tho town of Newburg, Indiana, and destroyed the principal business buildings. Roosevelt plainly implies that he II 1 Wl TfJ . TT win support miies roinacxicr, ior u. S. senator from the state of Washing ton. It is believed beyond doubt that ox Governor Hughes, of New York, wil be appointed chief justice of the Uni ted States, to succeed the late Chief Justice Fuller. A miner in Colorado Springs now claims to have ascended Mt. McKinley and found the records Dr. Cook claims to have left there. Dr. Cook's backers will investigate the story. Premier Canaleias will submit to tho king of Spain a bill forbidding further religious orders to enter that country pending negotiations at the Vatican for the revision of the concordat. Race riots growing out of the Reno fight have caused the death of 14 ne groes and two white men, and it is feared that more trouble will follow whenever the moving pictures of the tight are exhibited. Twenty were killed and nine injured in a train wreck in Ohio. Ballinger promises that Oregon Bhal have full share of the $20,000,000 rec lamation fund. Melville W. Fuller chief justice of tne supremo court of the United btates, is dead. Receipts from the sale of Beats at the Keno light are estimated to have been not less than $250,000, Only nine fatalities aro roportcd as the result of the Fourth throughout tho country aB against 45 laBt year. Tho standing army of Greece is in chaos owing to many dismissals of old men to make room for younger ones N,ew York City will have permanent puuuc exniDii oi insects which spread uibuubu mm menace ncaith and com lort Lumber for 10,000 cara has been acred by the Hairrmun llnn f, iu Booth-Kelley Lumber company at Eu- gum;, vrogon. exultation of negroes over tho vic tory of Johnson In tho great fight at Reno, havo caused many raco riots and no less than nine negroes aro roportcd killed and many injured In various ciiiea tnrougnout tho country. Bryan BayB ho doesn't know whether no win ever again run for tho pros! Harvard university beat Yalo In the great annual boat raco. hntnm tin ni1 lenco of 20,000. J CURTISS SAILS OVER SEA. Mishap on First Trial Nenrly Dumps Aviator in wuuun, Attnntln Cltv. N, J. Glenn II. Cur- tiss mndo an oight-mlnuto (light direct- . M y over the ocoan nt uwa mcsuoy ovening. Tho trip Included a flight along tho entire front or llio city, about a mllo off shorn, nnd 1,500 foot nbovo tho ocean. Wl... aiinpnxnflll HI If lit Wflfl tilO OCCOtld i IIU I J . " - wm - - ono attempted, tho, first resulting in n mishap that nearly eont Curtlsn Into Ikn nonnn. Wllllo llO WBB nittltltlff 1111 attempt to turn from tho bench to ,go l:i II.. ..I to soa, an air cuuy caugni mo puuiu and dropped It within ton foot of tho i. r...Hua .i nil, i it nulcl turn find water, unmo ,.. .. . -...-.---.. ...... drovu his machino on tho bench with BUCll forCO lliai a wouu nuummu iiiuiik t.i t.t .Ant t.ft.a tfmitirwwl. 8IUU I"" oil" " m.'-- . . I 1 1 I - 1 1. tMM .. u 1... Tho drop in wiu iur wi mv ju o iiu struck tho beach unseated Curtlss, nnd might havo thrown him out but for n new braco built ncrosa ni Bnuuiuons nnd lashed to tho machino. i or MANY DYING CHICAGO Wnf-nv Tm T m. "'.r !jh mom Relief, Buljdlngi Arc Hhm n to En b. ChicngoWlththoKMcDrit( and no lr stirring Chlc2 MIlcdbyUiohentsiH Thoro is no prospect h, woathor fnr I...! " ' nnd roofn nm ! i i V uwuca m, . ROUkllllf II l.r,,tt. . . ""'I r - "vum gj( 4 Iff!' t 0 ift Ml I. VII. I. K. W KIM.I.V'.lt Chief Jiuilcoof tho Sujironu Court of the Unltwl SUtw, whudlfd Jul(.W,13? FIGHT FILMS MENACED. lovemont Slaris in Boston to Put Ban on Pictures. Boston Declaring that Independ ence Day was dishonored by u brutal prizeght, that tho moral sense of the nation was outraged, but that this harm is nothing compared to that which will be done by allowing, chil dren and women to view tho reproduc tion of the Jeffriea-Johnnon fight by moving pictures, William S. Shaw, general secretary of tho United Soci ety of Christian Endeavor, in n formal statement, announced u campaign against the exhibition of these pict ures. Telegrams calling nttentlon to tho race riota that have followed tho fight were dispatched to Thcodoro Roosevelt, Governor Hughea and Mayor Gnynor, of Now York, asking their co-opcrn-tion in suppressing tho pictures. Mayor Fitzgerald, of Boston, will be asked to prevent tho exhibition In Boston. Telegrams will bo Bent to tho gover nors of all the Btates, making a similar request London "Plays Up" Fight. London Tho London nowspapcrfl gave more space to the Reno prizefight than they gave to tho biggest batt)o of tho Boer war. Tho rounds wcro de scribed In detail, and tho scones nt tho ringside fully pictured. Opinions of tho affair wero quoted from both Bri tons and Americana and nearly every paper discussed tho fight in long edi torials. Tho Bporting world is less surprised at the fact that tho negro won than that tho whites at tho ringside permit ted him to win. Forest Fires Hem Town. Duluth, Minn. Cornucopia, Wis. on tho Houth Bide of lako Superior, ia entirely surrounded by forest fires on its land Bides, and thero is no way of getting out of tho town, oxcopt by boat. Tho atcamor Barker arrived at Bayfiold having on board HG women and children from tho village. When the boat left tho villago, all roads out of tho town were cut off and tho llamea wero approaching, borno along by strong wind. Wheat Advancos In Now York, Now York Tho local wheat pit wnH much excited ovor tho ubsonco of rain In Bpring wheat Btates during tho holl days, and prices udvanccd 8c jlor bushel, Soptcmbor reached $l,07;a December sold at $1.08. " Corn was quiet and not much nffected by Iho per bathing beaches and every oja contain sweltering btimsnitj. ilnhAiti litiVA nmtf liPfnmfi M)ih34 UVIIVS ,..... heated through by the locg sieg no relief is to .be obUintd las houses. . hospital Buffering from MMb .... . . l .J ...Li, in an Illinois irawsncu n train. Her lxxiywas w nltnr'a instead of the w A man was stricken bj ...UJI ..,.bi.i,r nn II roof. lit the ground and died iMrtlj Annlnoc (mnn WES BirKKS AltVMIVI ....... - heat and fell down nn elenw nr thn mnnv nrostrated ml half will die after illness of less lingering degree. ... Vi . limn h( Bila i?or ino urow , .u lako was too warm forcomfort era. ThiB is tho sun w. : t .-.. f.nn t,ft Wit 1" of hot water nullifies the f off tho lake, . . Tho coniinucn nu y- intr tho grain crops of he inw and tho most cwwmws tho fields admit that all Pf gcd between 30 and M I Every day witnout . ... .1 ,.. n much lwia " "uu..:v:. "wi ton Wheat is uh . . t Btalks no moro than a W tho grain Is badly ehriwW Collon Mills CurUllHf Kfiinv Of mo lv. , J of tho United Stntca i J . ,ii 11 fnr thO POI unui .iu.j m tailing ffV "bwt wmcn cioauu " X u,e tap operatives,. KlJncudo no wur-Bco u Kn ia mum oi w ... - -dIlS, of Manchester, .""p factories In Nor Cnrolina una receiW curtailment agreed upon .iJ(!f tho cotton wwrcs' m . affect about lGO,00MVCfc I . ...us. Planrt. BIOW m " , (,M Caracas. Vcneiuela -I w patch received czuolan mlnlBtor to thoj i ...Mni. lm ronortctl . ,.. i onco, which will M In 5J July 0, had advocated j, American alliance States, has can J.- here. Foreign Mim y n cnblo message to wo ,,1 monlBhlnff thorn Ontario ForaiW J Winnipeg, Manitoba-;. invaded tho townB 01 .J va Ipo, in tho K"Sf i wL L nithouKi hunow . a and railway men tried w