New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-01
THE MAN WHO WAS LOST
Continued from pag. 9

"P." These ran in the order Of their dating:
DEAR DAMON.-While | know you are an
xious to lavish the last of your old cousins
dollars on me. allow me to remark that there's
such a thing as silly generosity. Also WHY do
YOU butt in where angels are ignorant. Yor,
knowledge of ships as compared TO mine {, Ike
a childs to a graybeard's. This ship, Uran;a
is worth twice what | am giving for it. and
your precious skin will be quite safe. As 10 old
Bates. the fact that he has lost his certificate
is a point in our favor: he'll keep his mouth
shut and the mouths Of his crew. There's No
better Captain: except when he 5 Stewed which
happens once in three weeks. When that tms
comes round. we'll simply tie him up. Leave
this end to me. old man.
Yours. p
Blackstone. Chicago. August Is.
DEAR OLD DxMoN-I'm glad YOU Tended
off the man Wallace If he wants to 20 ON
cruise. let him get yacht OF his own. Besides
| have the impression he is looking forward 10
burying you. and wants to watch the eartb
shoveled down hard. Lord wouldn't il he
awful TO have a man around whose conscious.
ness must always be full of the thought that !,
only you'd croak he'd be ten million dollars 10
the good. No deaths head in ours. believe mo-
Well have enough excitement on our wild
goose chase as it is. Can you telegraph me
thousand
Blackstone. Chicago. August p.
DEAR OLD Massive grand piece Of good
luck to spit forth. and il all comes from having
done a virtuouS deed. My old Aunt Anne veS
down in indianapolis. and spent Sunday with
her. gently drew the talk around 70 Uncle
Nathan-with trepidation. mind you; for the
whole family considers that he disgraced them
and went TO the devil. and disgracing nice
pious lot like us was worse than going to the
devil. But guess the poor old lady has melted
toward her only brother. She talked quite
lot about him. and said she'd had a letter from
him about twenty years ago. and could read
it If wanted to.
snaffied onto it 50 hard almost bust the
paper. At the time he wrote Uncle Nat was
living on Arapi Island. and he made some
pretty descriptions OF it. and talked Of thee chief.
whom he called Tuomotu. How that for
clues, She had a chunk Of stuff too. exactly Ike
the ones we had. What a sad thing for nv
family that they had 10 wait for me 20 be born
before brains could be introduced among theml
But do YOU see. old man. that brings US ten
wears nearer. and the chase doesn't seem 50
wild-goosish after all? I'm off 20 San Francisco
this morning. and mind you I've got our sail.
ings for two weeks from SATURDAY. Don't LEI
your fool girl business delay you. | though.
I'd brought you up better. Didn't tell you
only last month that women aren worth the
powder it takes to blow them up: Not one in
the world is. far less two. Cut her or them
out Come 20 me running.
Yours always. P.
Blackstone Hotel. August 3lst.
"AIy friend p has a lively style Of his
own, remarked Damon feebly. What do
you suppose he means by his last mystic re.
marks, Mr.. Henderson: Am | mixed up
with girl
1.-Two Of them. he seems % imply" said
Henderson cruelty. "Never mind. Larrabee
you must have got away from her or then,
nicely. or I'd never have seen YOU rushing
across that gangpank in San Francisco.
Besides, should Judge by P's bitterness
that some nice girl had just Tilted him, prob.
ably deservedly, and 50 he want, 70 dislodge
the whole sex.
Damon laughed rather ructuly Look
here" he said. Il am beginning 20 be IN
easy again about Larrabee's past. But !
suppose you'd know if he had married.
Its Larrabee's future We are concerned
with. said Henderson briskly. Put your
mind on the real contents OF these letters.
Our quest is. as Larrabce S was. o. find Uncle
Nathan. last known to be on Arapi Island
Uncle Nathan has the stuff. and Whateyerit
is. its that stuff YOU and p wanted. rather
than Uncle Nathan. What you and must
do is TO get TO Honolulu and on Nh. track Of
the Urania. commanded by Captain Bates
SAY, things have lightened up for Il, con.
siderably. haven't they, said Damon