The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-11
CHAPTER XXI.
JINFoU'S RESTORATIVE.

BY this time Teddy should have been
we'll accustomed to surprises. But
Jayne's announcement, coming just as he
had begun to think that he had wrong
ed Rowland GaskeIl, amazed him. What
a nerve the man must have! And he
has been deXterous, too, wonderfully so.
Then he recalled the cruel way in
which Gaskell had endeavored to per-
suade Norah that Leonard was dead,
and the frequent denials that he had
made of all knowledge of Jayne's dis
appearance. And as he recalled these
things Teddy was consumed with rage.
To what purpose could he have done it?
He referred the question to Jinfou-
ITO get the idol of course" replied the
Chinaman. However, we can talk of
these things later, when this gentleman"
he bowed sneertngiy to Philip, lis gone"
But Philip, strange to say, was not in
clined to go. 81 want to know the mean
ing of all this he said, glazing at Jayne.
what is the idol you talk aboUt?'
81 cannot tell you," replied Leonard,
shaking his head YEARLY. Il am utterly
bewildered over the whole CHASTITY bust
ness. For weeks I have been pent up
in this dog-kennel, and my health has
gone to pieces"
''Come now" growled Philip, with
scowl, you've been well fed and lodged
round the ROOM which was fairly COM
Portable, and shrugged his shoulders.
''You haven't starved me, and I've had
a bed to lie on. But what does it all
mean, Philip? Vyse; do you known"
''Well, 1 know good DEAL" SAID Teddy,
sitting on the bed beside Jayne, and put
ting his arm round the poor fellows
shoulder He looked terribly haggard and
i'll. But 1 should like to hear what
Philip has to say. Since he has told us
so much, he may as we'll tell us a little
more Nothing he can say can make him
out more of a blackguard than he is
Jinfou said nothing, but eyed Philip at
tentiveIy. He was slouehing sullenly
against the wall with his hands in his
pockets. I'm not blackguard," he
muttered, ''and was hard up-desperate-
ly hard up, and l went down to Flet-
mouth to get some money out of Row
land. He wouldn't give me any, so 1
looked UP that old Marks, who had jolly
we'll plucked me when L had cash Of
my own. He promised that if I could
keep Leonard in conversation so as to
make him miss the launch back to the
Juno, he'd give me a flyer. Well, 1 did"
'Oh!" cried Jayne, looking at his cousin
with contempt so that's why you came
whining to me on that night. Why did
you lie to me then, ike you did, about
the idol?"
81 told you only what Marks ha3 told
me-" growled Philip. Anything to keep
you on the string, and make you miss
the boat. wanted to earn my FLYER, that
was ALL I know precious little about the
idol except that Marks wanted it for
some purpose He said afterwards he'd
give me another ten pounds If 1 got it out
of Norah. She sent for me, and in fact
promised it to me. Then she went and
sold it to old Burnley-I don't know why.
If I'd got it, I wouldn't have parted with
it to Marks for less than hundred"
ct would have given you two hundred
for IT, said Jinfou, in a low voice.
Philip stared. THE deuce you would!
What's to do about the thing that you
all want 1t? BY Jove! If l had it now
wouldn't part with it till 1 knew the
truth But I never got it, worse luck,
said Wharton, regretfully. Rowland
came to me after l had met Norah, and
told me what had happened to Jayne"
did he not tell you his reasons for
such a singular proceedings" asked
Teddy.
"No, he did not" replied Philip, with
q brassy stare He simply said that 1t
had been necessary to put Leonard away
for time, and that ne thought perhaps
he might not be so we'll looked after as
he ought to be. He told me that Norah
would not give me the idol, and offered
me fifty pounds to come up here and
loo3 after Leonard. / accepted, cause
always reckon a bird in the hands jolly
we'll worth any dozen in the bush. got
my fifty and cleared!
What about that note you wrote to
Norah?" asked Teddy.
"Oh, Norah told you about that, did
she? Well, I wrote that at Gaskell's die
tation He made ne put in all that rot
about there being danger, and telling her
to ask Bendigo about Jayne's disappear
anee.''
''Why that last?"
Don't know. The whole confounded lot
of you seem to me tn have gone crazy.
/ wrote the note, and didn't ask any.
questions, because l had the fifty in my
pocket. I chucked Marks and his tenner,
having done better. Now I've got another
hundred, and I'm going to scoot." He
slouched towards the door with a grin
''Forty-eight hours, mind!
s'Get out. you scoundreE cried Teddy.
'Or upon MY soul l shan't be able to
keep my boots off YOU.
Shut up, or III have you slung into