Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-09-17
Copyright. 1908. by Dodd. Mead
q Co.


Continued from last week
SYNOPSIS
Chapter 1-Skaggs and Wyckholme,
two eccentric adventures, will the is
land of Japat and its ruby mines to
their respective heirs, Robert Browne
and Lady Deppingham, provided they
marry each other within a year. If
they do moi marry the island and its
treasures revert to the Moslem island
ers. Browne already has a wife, Lady
Deppingham a husband. Browne
and his wife and Lord and Lady Dep
bingham hurry to Japat. 3-Hollings-
worth Chase, American diplomat
stationed in Rapp-Thorberg, falls in
love with beautiful Princess Geneva
at a musicale. 4.-Chase overhears the
orchestra leader making unwelcome
love to the princess and attacks him.
The leader is Prince Karl Brabetz. the
princess fiance. She condemns Chase's
act, but apparently sympathizes with
it. Chase is relieved by his govern
ment. 5.-Lord and Lady Doping
ham and their lawyer, Saunders, re-
ceive a hostile reception in Japat. They
are befriended by Bowles, an English
resident of Japat. 6.-The Doping
hams take possession of the chateau
of the late Skaggs and Wyckholme.
CHAPTER VII.
THE W ARRIVE.
@ONTRARY to all expectations,
the Brownies arrived the next
morning. The Deppinghams
u and their miserably frightened
servants were scarcely out of bed
when Saunders came in with the news
that q steamer was standing off the
shallow harbor. Bowles had telephon-
ed up that the American claimant was
on board.
The deepest gloom pervaded the
household when Lady Deppingham
discovered that not one of their reti-
-nacKfgw N5Nzb~muKe-cofre or broil
bacon-not that she cared for bacon,
but that his lordship always asked for
1t when they did not have it.
Bromley upset the last peg of endur-
ance by hoping that the Americans
were bringing a cook and a house
maid with them.
1.-THE Americans always travel like
lords" she concluded, forgetting that
she served a lord and not In the least
intending to be ironical.
'That will do, Bromley" said her
mistress sharply. IF they're like most
Americans I've seen they'll have moth
ing but wet nurses and chauffeurs. l
can't eat this vile stuff. Come on,
Deppy. Let's go up and watch the ap-
proach of the enemy"
Scarcely half an hour passed before
the advance guard OF the Browne COM
pany came into view at the park gates
below. Deppingham recalled the fact
that an hour and a half had been con-
sumed In tie accomplishment yester-
day. He was keeping a sharp lookout
for the magic red jacket a4d the Tom
my Atkins lid Quite secure from OBJ
%servation, he and his wife watched
the forerunners with the hand bags;
then came the sweating trunk bearers
and then Grated objects in-what?
Yes. by the Lord Harry, in the very
carts that had been their private
chariots the day before!
Deppingham's wrath did not really
explode until the two were gazing
open mouthed upon Robert Browne and
his wife and his maidservants and
his ass, for that vas the name which
his lordship subsequently applied. with
no moderation, to the unfortunate gen.
tleman who served as Mr.. Brownies
attorney. The Americans were being
swiftly, coyily carried to their new
home In litters of oriental comfort and
elegance, famed vigorously from both
sides by eager boys. First came the
Brownies, eager faced, bright eyed,
alert young people, far better looking
than their new enemies could conscien-
tiously admit under the circumstances;
then the lawyer from the States; then
a pert young lady in a pink shirt waist
and a sailor hat; then two giggling, ut
terly un-Engfish maids, and all Of
them lolling In luxurious ease. The
red jacket was conspicuously absent.
1t is not to be wondered at that his
lordship looked at his wife, gulped in
sympathy and then said something
memorable.
Almost before they could realize
what had happened the newcomers
were chattering in the spacious halls
below, tramping about the rooms and
giving orders in high, though appar-
emily eficacious voices. Close at their
heels trooped the servants, all of
whom took part in the discussion in
cident to fresh discoveries. At last
they came upon the great balcony,
pausing just outside the French win
dows to exclaim anew in their delight
"Greatw said the lawyer man after
n ful1 minnie. FINEST I've eVer scent