Putnam patriot., 1909-08-13
 CHAPTER V.
N3EI atH T HI THE ENGLISH INVADE.

1HE granddaughter Of Jack I'll Wyckholme. attended by two
 maids. her husband and his
 valet. clerk from the cham bers of Bosworth. Newnes X Grape
 win. red cocker. seventeen trunks and a cartload of late novels. which she had been too busy to read at home.
 was the first of the bewildered iega- tees to set foot upon the island of Japat
 She was very pretty. very smart and delightfully."- arrogant after a manner of her own.
 Mir. Saunders was the polite but ex. cessively mssidle class clerk who went out to keep the legal strings untangled for them. He was soon to discover that his duties were even more coin- prehensixe.
 IT was he who saw to 1t that the luggage was transferred 10 the lighter which came out to the steamer when she dropped anchor off the town of Arafat; it was he who counted the pieces and haggled with the boatmen: it was he who carried of the hand luggage when the native dock boys refused to engage in the work; it was he who unfortunately dropped suit rase upon the hallowed tail of the red .rocker an accident which ever after ward gave him tenacity of grip that no man could understand.
 If Lady Deppingham expected roy al welcome from the inhabitants Of Japat she was soon to discover her error. Not only was the pictured scene of welcome missing on the aft eruoop of her arrival. but an overpow- ering air of antipathy smote her in the face as she stepped from the lighter copauest in her smile of conciliation She glanced from right to left down fhe lines of swarthy islanders and saw nothing in their faces but surfy. bitter unfriendliness- They stood stolidiy. xtanify at a distance. white robbed lines of resentment personified-
 Not a hand was lifted sk assistance to the bewildered visitors. pot q word. not A smile of encouragement escaped tbe ifpx ef the silent throng. -Is there no British agent heres' she demanded smperatiyely. perhsps lit fle more shr1iiy than usual No one deigned to answer. Chances of indifference. even scorn. passed amonc the silent lookers-on. but tha' was all
 .I,oes no enc here understood fhs English Iansuagey~ she demanded T don't mean you. Mir. Saunders. she added sharply as the little ciert set the suit case down abruptly and stepped forward again fumbiing hss much fumbied straw hat This wAs the moment when the red cookers tail came to grief The dog arose with an astonished yeip and fed to his mis- tress. He had never been 90 out rageously set upon before in all ms na mpered life Seizing the opporfuni- fv to vent her feelings upon one who eould understand. even as che poured soofhin9s upon the insuited fcn&. whom she clasped in her arms Lady Agnes transformed the uniucky saun- ders into a target for a most ably oi- rected voliSy of wrath
 Lord Deppingham. slow and cum bersome young man. stood by nersoas iy lingering his eyegiass For the first time be felt that the clerk vas better than 8 confouEded dog after sii- .My dear he said. wavfng saunders into the background. T think It was an accident. The deg had no business going to sleep He paused ana 'n- serted his rnonccle for the purpose of looking up the precise spot where the accident had occurred
 -Oh rubbssh- exclaimed her laoy- shin T euppo~e you expect the poo darling 10 apologize
 -Au this bss nothing to do with fhe