The Washington times., 1911-07-29
THE TIMES DAILY SERIAL STORY
MISS JACK, OF TIBET
By CHARLES WILLING BEALE
Author of Onyx Etc
Copyright, A.. Munsey
By CHARLES WILLING BEALE

I 1 could hardly tell them apart. Both
tall and-well-very handsome"
Exhaustive! An artist could give no
| fuller description; but, under the exist
ing conditions, l must make allowances.
| suppose ! am to save Jill, then, while
you take care of Jack. Is that it?"
II suppose soft she'll let you" ,,,,
bound to save somebody. This saving
business is not to be left entirely with
you, old man, III have a hand Gin 1t,
or wreck the air-ship. Do you under
Perfectly! 1 suppose we'll have to
work 1t out together and draw straws
for the girls, or let them draw straws
for us, which ever they please. But.
seriously, Peter. If We can get there
alive, and back again with Jack and
Tor. Every nerve will be strained 70
the utmost. It's not only at the rlsk
of life and limb, but of torture.
Those Iamas will do all they can to
I believe we can do IT. The Tioetans
are grossly, rankly, superstitious, anu
I've scheme for defeating them. Ihose
boxes you saw have got some queer
things in them, which we may have
to use before leaving the lamasary.
"But-Ill not strain your credulity at
this stage of the journey. Wait till we
get there. 1 only want t? prepare you
existing in this strange land"
/ was thankful for even these meager
scraps of information. Gwynne seemed
to have a dread that l would get up
and JUMPED overheard if he told me all
there was to tell He evidently wanted
to prepare my mind for what was to
come by a process of g-&dual indura-
tion which was to make 1t Shock-proof.
AS / look back, 1 am inclined to think
that Gwynne was right.
The VOYAGE lacked incident and
would have been pleasant enough had
II not been for my companions uncom-
frame of mind, which SEEM
ed unreasonable and was often irrita-
ting. What object he had for holding
back what he knew about the land and
people we were to visit was impossible
to guess at the time, and 1t was often
only through a system of strange pump
Ing that l could arrive at the simplest
fact. True. l did learn a great deal
during the entire voyage to Calcutta,
but 1t was picked up piecemeal, and not
as l should have wished IL.
I said the voyage lacked incident. OF
course, there were the usual common
places, hardly worth mentioning; but
there was one thing I was about to for
get, which, as it had a direct bearing
upon our future, should be spoken of.
1t was this.
One day, while on deck, I observed
a particularly brilliant stone upon
Gwynne's that he wore ring. and was
a little surprised 10 see IT. Ii was
green. quite striking in appearance, and
l remarked upon it,
Instead of showing it to me. he. COW
cred it quickly with his other, hand,
slipped the stone to the inside and
doubled his fist so that I could not see
II. I asked him what was the matter. |
but he put me off with a shrug, and
said:
oh. we'll, some time I'll tell you
about it-nOt now" And so 1 had to be |
That night. in the smoking room, I |
saw the ring again; but this time II |
was red. OF course I thought it was |
yeloped such a love for, jewels;
a ring before, and now. in a |
single day. he had worn two. He |
seemed a tyjfe irritated as he again
-urned the ring upon his finger and de-
Jared it was the same.
But / was not to be put off so easily,
and insisted that it was not.
II distinctly SAW that the stone was
yreen today. and now. If my eyes do not |
leCeive me. t IS red
Have your own way about II, Pete,
( you think YOU know better than I |
TO-" he said. holding up an instant for
ne to look at. The gem you see is an
Alexandrite, and has the popularity of
)eing green by day and red by night
is very rare-and-well. let's not say
INV more about 1t tuSt now. I've a rea-
on-I can't explain what II Is now, but |
promise to tell you more by and by"
This was all he would say. Why he
hOuld have been so seCretive about so
imple q thing. was another Of the
mysteries that set me thinking.
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