The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-07-28

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'You the tale Of
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cidence.' ssssA 49, 49,
"A coincidence" Jack Mky%Sx&S3SS A.
Banning up with HgkN Nc NJ ILL.,
movement full Of nervous &' 3Ss8 Rsx y HAM
energy peculiar to him. EHgy 9EM m 4&ss9
"Surey it is than k sM &ssk III -
that! Why, look here. &AHNpEN
among ls1le the typewriter - ~
sheets the table near HapsAs8Sn@ AZ
at hand and selected one, egssSss~~-ss.s
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succeed Prof. Christy Jar ssSss98Ss gseeS
WIS., who three months isS131sEs1
ago, in sudden attack sSSlMu.
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of madness, killed Mex
lean attendant and has
since died himself in the SSssS
hospital Jarvis had fol- ~ sSsesSS 5'1
lowed on the recall OF ksssss11sSs
Palen whose health, ~ ~
Banning read again, was 81
so unfavorabe as to cause $$$a<1
him accesses OF delirlum,
in which he endangered
the life of his compan-
ions" Palen, you OBJ
serve, however, has recov-
cred since his return
home"
Il knew all that" was Grendon's comment
"but-'
But. Isn't it rather big 'but?" Banning inter-
rupted "and when go still further back-now
let's look Jarvis is dead, Palen duty at Copan
for five months, left there in 1905. His predeces-
sor Langton Eustace had started the expedition
in 1903 and after two years. cut his own throat in
a fit of mania! Three men in four years; never
heard anything like it,!
oh it's nothing but coincidence, Grendon as
serted easily 81 know that part of Honduras and
so do you Banning It's not healthy eXactly-but
it doesn't kill, if one is careful don't believe
these fellows were. that's all. Why. there's the
chap in charge of the expedition now, Norquoy, ne
went down with Eustace originally, and has stayed
right through since 1903, with only two short Holt
days. Nothing has happened to him. you see
'.Norquoy? l don't to know the name,
said Banning.
ebony Norquoy Antonio l believe Grendon
explained His mother Mexican though
his father is English. He writes me his health has
been excellent. Come now what do you say?
There isn't a chap I'd rather have than you, Ban
ming for aide and secretary. You know the coun-
try, and you're good photographer. The pay is
fair-and the glory will be considerable, II we
have any kind of luck with those ruins
81 know, and yet" Banning hesitated, "Eustace
goes crazy and kills himself; Palen, derious-en-
dangers the lives of his companions; Jarvis kills
a fellow and dies insane. Doesn't that make you
creep-a bit?"
mot creep--and Norquoy?"
1--WE not made up my mind about Norquoy.
ooh come now, Jack! Don't be absurd" and
Grendon sat up to laugh his joval peal. do !
look like mania? Come along-uness you've some
thing better to do
you know haven't and of I'll come,
said Banning, at last. resignedy, but mark my
words-well have to keep sharp lookout"
"Sit up all night and look out if you want to
old man." said Grendon, good humoredy; and
plunged at once into discussion OF stores and
equipment. For him, the sinister fate of his pre-
decessors in the Copan Excavation Expedition
dropped out of mind as if it had not BEEN
MYTH Jack Banning this not the case. A
w younger man, perhaps more highly strung, the
facts remained in his mind though they came bu