Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-26

| reputation. Carter was always full OF sur
prise at prolonged spells Of good behavior.
He did not go up direct as he had come
down in the king of Okkys sixty man.
| power war canoe. He prospected the LADY,
rinth Of waterways for other channels and
| charted them out with infinit ecare. he
intended to take every possible pfecau-
ton for preserving the secrecy of his mine
| Even If he was followed, and he took 1t for
granted that on some future voltage ne
presently would be followed, he wanted to
be able to puzzle pursuit.
At point agreed upon he put INTO a
village which sprawled along the bank and
presented the kings mandate and he
manded canoes The villagers gave them
without enthusiasm and without demuT:
He took these in tow, great cottonwood
dugouts that would hold hundred men
apiece, and hauled them after him, WIND
ing through great tree-hedged waterway .
where twilight reigned half the DAY; AM
then coming out between vast park-nke
savannas where the sun scorched tnem uh-
checked and grazing deer tempted the rlne.
When he arrived at Tin Hill again the
kings finger had left visible marx. u. .tao
heaps of picked ore lay along the waters!de
ready for loading the fiotilla. GOOD man.
Kalleev' said the Englishman, appreciatlVe-
ly. "I'll dash you new state umofeiia ior
that"
The water-bellows organ that he had set
I'D at the foot of the waterfall beloved out
its boo-paa-bumm, and against each OF the
great bamboo pipes there fluttered bunch
n
iu-iu man his majesty of Okky, counter
signed the warning not to unduly trespass.
Cargo after cargo Carter rushed down to
the coast and dumped on land he had mred
behind a factory. Ever and again he sent
a tidy parcel of ore to a smelter IN England
and in due time had more money put 10 MS
credit at the Bank Of West Africa. But ne
did not try any expensive tricks with tne
home tin market just then. He had got out
new launch more solid affair tins time,
driven by a siXty-horse-pow gasoiine en-
CINE that had low-tension magnetic ignition,
and 40 MANY other improvements on It's
nredecessor that White Man Trouble, who
had II in charge, tied dried monkeys paw
to the compression COCK OIL each cynhoer
head as an extra special protective 1u-Ju;
He carried a cook and an oil-stove galley,
and at last even bought two tin plates and
a knife and fork to assist his meals he
felt 1t was pandering to luxury, put ne olo
it all the same. When he made that puf-
cha Sc he wondered how he would behave In
a woman's society after so long living as
savage AS an afterthought he told himseif
that Laura was the woman ne had IN MS
mind, and hoped he would not snock heI
with his crudities. By way of carrying out
good Intentions to the full, he sat down
there and then and wrote to her, and mar
yeled to find how little he had to say.
Then one day he came across Slade.
A canoe drew in alongside as he was tow
ing down river with his tenth cargo, and
brought off a note which said that there
was white man ashore who had run out
of everything and would be eternally crate
full for any European food that could be
spared and would gladly give him l. .. U.
for same, as he was out OF hard cash at the
moment of writing. and had misiaid his
check book
Carter had his misgivings, but sent on
eoodly parcel of food and tobacco, ana con-
tinued his way down stream. But the cham
mel was new to him-he had suspicion OF
being watched on his ordinary route-and
he ran on a sand bar on an ebbing tide,
perched high and dry. So White-Man's
Trouble switched off his magnetic and stop
ned the engines, and Carter put hand
Under the gauze net to greet his prospective
father-in-law.
Siade looked curiously at both the launch
and her tow. you've been getting hold OF
q gold mine Of sorts, / hear. By the way,
as you've arranged to start work as my
son-in-law, I suppose ought to get more
familiar and call you Henry, or whatever
1t is"
'I believe you're right. George Is what
Laura did say. My mistake. Where is your
gold miner"
''Its tin, and it's up the rivers"
"Oh keep 1t dark, my dear fellow, II you
like. Not that 1t makes the smallest odds
catch me sweating after a mine. Besides.
as a point of fact. I'm doing pretty well at
my present job. Getting rubber properties.
you know. for the mysterious Kate"
"oh. certainly. Miss o.Neill If you prefer
It.. though don't see why you need be a
prig with me-"
"My late employer, you know"
"Ah OF course. And you admired her
more than little. 10 I Gathered from