Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29

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his name was John Smith.
Henderson shook his head helplessly.
Il don't wonder you think it queer, said
Sylvester. at struck me all of heap when
all of us here had begun to piece things to-
gether But the short OF it IS that your
friend who has been pretending to be Lar
rabee Damon is Larrabee Damon
IS Larrabee Damon!" echoed Hender-
son family.
"Tust so. When Bates took the Urania
and French leave at the same time, we soon
saw that the natives meant to keep us; but
we planned for getaway. We couldnt
both make it: so we drew lots to 60 and the
chance fell to Larrabee He found out where
he natives hid the boat. and he got away.
dare say the fierce adventures he had on
this awful ocean knocked him out. He
seems to have called himself John Smith
when he came to; then after he got to Japan
he sailed for Europe and brought up in
Switzerland. When he was asked for his name
he said Jimmy Sylvester. We've always
been the closest pals you ever heard of, =
Damon and Pythias, they called us,-and |
guess it was natural enough for him to think
he was | and to recall the things that had
happened to me as happening to himself.
"Then-then haven't compounded a fell
ony?" cried Henderson. "It-it is relief to
know it"
"The thing that worries me, said Sylves-
ter, "is what Damons memory will be when
he wakes up. Cad! 1t was tough to go up
to him this morning and have him look me
in the eve as if | were a stranger, after all
we've been through together!'
Mrs Beldon gave his arm a tender press
ure, to remind him that he still had her. He
responded; but with the slightest air of abb
straction. Mrs. Beldon said to herself that
no married man really required another close
friend of either SEX and Jimmy Sylvester,
all unconscious had forged upon him in
that moment the first fetter of sweet but
firm domestic slavery.
"Of course, things must have looked pretty
fishv to Wallace, said Sylvester. damon,
he had reason to know, had begun to be in
tcrested in Miss Give
"What?" cried Henderson. did Damon
the real Damon, | mean-ever meet An
gela Give till saw him in New York;
"Sure, he did, returned Sylvester, "half a
dozen times The minute he saw her he for
got the other lady he had been interested in.
1t was quite natural that he should look
Miss Give up when they were both men
toned in old arrabee Damon's will. After
he saw her it was all up with him. He would
have given anything if he could have
chucked the cruise with me; but of course
he couldn't
well, well, it's all very stranger Hen
dcrson said.
"Strange enough to. have upset Wallace.
When he found out, or guessed from some
thing Miss Give wouldn't tell him that she
had ceased to get letters from Damon-why,
then he smelt a rat and naturally began to
bone for his money
"The thing now is to get my boy well,
said Henderson nervously. II wish we had
a little ice
THREE days later Arapi lay quivering
gratefully in cool breeze. Sara keene
and Wallace sat under a clump OF palms,
assuring each other that they had money
enough, and that all they had asked was to
see Justice done. Sara said she was sorry
that Larrabee was not so stable character
as her dear Will, but that she hoped he
would be happy. Wallace said tactfully
that Angela Give was a nice girl, who could
doubtless content man of a certain type;
but that he liked a woman to be yielding and
womanly: when you came right down to it,
frmness was nothing but obstinacy es-
pecialy when used against man.