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By FRANCIS PERRY ELLIOTT
ILLUSTRATIONS ~N NAYuAAzes


lers, and, I believe, cooks, for him
He and Jenkins belong to the same
how do they call it?-same club OF
gentlemen's gentlemen
Billings brought his fist down
Lets have Jenkins in,'' he suggested
And we did.
81 say, Jenkins" I began, ''this Pro
fessor Doodlebug above US"
"Doozenberry! Billings sharply
corrected.
"Well, some jolly rum thing about
him, don't you know, Jenkius-some
thing you said his man told you're
member, eh?"
"Why, sir, he told me that every
night he had to turn down the perfes
ser's bed and go all over it with
two-gallon watering can"
watering cant" gasped Billings,
I'm telling you what he says, sir.
Then he covers it all up again, and in
about a half-hour the perfesser turns
the covers down; and if It's what he
calls hne-that is, damp all over-he
climbs in and sleeps like top"
"Cold-water bug, you know" I ex-
planned, but Billings shrugged his
shoulders.
That's all right. Bug or not, he's
the goods, all the same. Greatest
ever" He spoke with quiet convic-
ton.
He deliberated a moment and
turned to me.
"Tell you what, Dicky: I'm going up
and ask him down. He's the one to
give us the right dope on these crazy
Ietters-Eh, what you say, jenkins? p
BEG pardon, sir; was saying that
the perfesser don't visit nobody; and
he never sees nobody but the big lit'ry
and scientific sharps'
"Oh, he don't, eh?" Billings snorted
contemptuously. well, Jenkins,
haven't been a prize fisherman in my
time for nothing; I guess I know how
to select my fly know what will
fetch him: Mr.. Lightnut's compli-
ments, and will he be pleased to hon
or him by passing upon an Oriental
curio Of rare scientific INTEREST,"
that sort of merry rot! Why, you
couldn't hold him back with a block
and tackle. Oh, you needn't worry;
I'll do the proper curves all right.
He turned toward the door. and
jenkins, you come along and work me
into the lodge"
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Celia something" 1 answered.
Dash it, I didn't catch her surname.
Oh, say, you know, this is awful
Out Of the professors mutterings
we caught a random sentence.
Found, found again. We heard him
say. Hers beyond peradventure OF a
doubt. I am not mistaken"
"Ah, gentlemen!" exclaimed the
professor, coming back again, what
thing this little Chinese woman did
for civilization when she gave the
world silk culture and invented the
loom! No wonder the Chinese deided
her as goddess"
"Goddess!" Billings swallowed hard.
And did these-h'm-garments be-
long to the LADY,"
The professor frowned at him in sur
prise. "Garments?"
Them said Billings in devilish
questionable grammar, pointing to the
table. They are pajamas, you know"
"Ha!" calculated the professor,
holding them up. $50 they are. You
are very observing, sir, very. Now, L
had not noticed that at all; I was so
interested in the material itself-the
wonderful silk of Si-Ling-Chi, gentle
men. Ha! Indeed a rare privilege!"
By Jove! He stroked the stuff light
ly, tenderly-as one likes to do a lit
tie child's hair, don't you know.
Beautiful, beautiful fabric" he
sighed half to himself "Only once
before have l seen a piece Of it-but
It was enough; l could never, never
forget" Something like a groan es'
capped him.
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CHAPTER XVI.
An Inscription and a Mystery.

An Inscription and Mystery.
Billings rubbed his chin perplexed-
ly. by jigger, now, I wonder what
those hen tracks mean?" he uttered
musingly. Then he looked up at me
with sudden animation in his face.
Look here, Dicky," he exclaimed,
''do you happen to know Dozen
berry,"
1 tried to remember. I shut one
eye and studied the marks closely
through my glass, but had to shake
my head at last.
'eWhy, man, he's a member Of all
the great societies Of the world. Got
a string of letters after his name like
a universal keyboard, and is the main
squeeze, the great scream, among all
Che scientific push over here and in
Europe. Lots of dough, but of his
trolley with learning"
E.And in this building?" 1 said wonI
deringly. Whats he like?"
lawfully large head" said Billings,
elevating his hands some two feet
apart, "pear-shaped afair-big end
up-bumps on it like halves of grape
fruit, porcupine eyebrows, and"
"Oh, l know" said, nodding eager
ly; "and little, shriveled-well, kind
OF mashed sort Of face, eyes beadlike
and jolly small. I've got him now!
I've gone down with him in the ele-
Vator.''
Billings nodded. you've got him
painted" he said drily, That's the
professor; only, his eyes are anything
but jolly I've ridden in the elevator
with him myself. Always manages to
look like he was travelling with bad
SMELL"
"'Devilish sensitive, I dare say
Billings looked at me suspiciously,
hut I had got hold OF the thing I was
trying to recollect and I went on
quickly:
"By Jove, you know, believe Jen-
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he demanded.
"Ass-eh? 1 should say SOL" I
worked this off Indignantly.
"Tommyrot," murmured Billings alb
sently. He seemed thoughtful.
1 was thoughtful, too-wondering
by Jove, whether the professor would
go soon, so we could turn in and get
the earlier start tomorrow up the
river. But chiefly I was wondering
wistfully if Frances would still be
angry with me.
Moreover" broke in the profes-
sor's voice as he turned again to the
lettering, "to assert further that there
will be a semblance-not actual, gen.
tlemen, mind you, but an optical illu-
sion-taking the form of some crea-
ture Of the same kind that this silken
tenement has previously inclosed.
In other words, gentlemen, II I
were to don these garments, might
no longer look like myself, but like
some one else who had worn them
upon some previous occasion-per-
haps last night-perhaps a thousand
years ago. Eh? Is that what you un-
derstand?"
He ducked again over the letters
and came up, looking chagrined.
Moreover, am forced to confese,
gentlemen, that 1 fail to find a sys-
tem-any rule governing these ridic-
ulous transformations. The hypoth-
esis is, therefore, that the alleged
materializations merely follow the ar
bitrary caprice Of the magic" He
shook his head. well, gentlemen, Il
really, l must taught"
And he did! 1 hadn't caught tha
drift of what it was he thought he
was laughing at got the words, but
I was too dashed sleepy to get the
sense. But 1 was awfully glad 1 un-
derstood this much-that what he was
attempting now was laugh. I never
would have known it. 1t was more
like shrieking squeak-rusty hinge,
you know, that sort of thing.
The professor looked up from the
pajamas, and folding his arms, eyed
Billings with a cunning leer.
"I think 1 see," he said, leVeling
his finger. "You have both demon
strated how nonsensical is the asser'
ton in this inscription. Doubtless you
desire an experiment upon my part
to confirm your proof Of it's absurdity.
Reductio ad absurdum-eh, gentle
men?"
A devilish queer look had come into
Billings face. He nodded, gathered
the pajamas into the professors arms
and patted him on the shoulder in a
way 1 thought offensively familiar.
you've got it, professor!" he saidl
grlnning.
Then ne whispered to me aside:
''Not a word, .Dicky-great Scott!"
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CHAPTER XVII.
The Professor.


Billings ushered in the professor
with hourishing introduction.
The great man never spoke, but
gave me the end of one finger, and
devilish grudgingly at that. He just
came to anchor and stood there very
straight and stiff, ignoring the chairs
thrust toward him from every point.
One hand was stuck in his stiff broad
cloth bosom, with elbow pointing out
ward, and his great topheavy head
reared above us impressively.
1 addressed the professor hospita-
bly,: "Ah! won't you sit down, pro-
fessor?"
He drew back, frowning. "Sit down,
sir?" he questioned. And, by %ove,
by this time he showed his teeth. And
devilish white, even teeth they were,
too, only they didn't fit.
81 never sit down, SIR" he said stiff
fly; Never"
"By Jove!" I explained.
''To be sure!" calculated Billings,
looking extremely silly.
The professor appeared not ungrat-
ifed with the sensation he h&d pro-
duced and condescended to smile; that
is, if you can call a creasing and
wrinkling like the cracked end Of a
hard-boiled egg smile.
"You say, sit down. SIR he said,
addressing me. 81 ask you, IN turn:
Is not sitting down recrudescence
back to the primordial?"
So saying, he took a pinch at my
shirt front and stepped back again
impressively.
Then his great head shot forward in
front Of his rigid neck-so suddenly,
by. Jove, that reached out to try to
catch it, don't you know. He made
just two strides to the table, ten feet
away, and pounced upon the pajamas
with obviously trembling hands.
And behind his back Billings re-
lapsed into an armchair ard famed
himself with magazine.
The professor fumblingly sought
(uIOUSu LIS pOChSlS, anu pIOuuC4uS d
pair of spectacles with phenomenally
large lenses, adjusted them shakily.
He bent over the pajamas eagerly.
Impossible! And yet, it is, it isl"
he muttered. Il would know the
weave among thousand. 1t is hers
undoubtedly, undoubtedly-th lost
silk of SiLing-Chi! How comes it
here?"
He glared around rather wildly at
each Of US in turn. Without waiting
for a reply, he whisked back to the
pajamas, and fishing out thick mag
nifying lens, scrutinized the garments
closely. 1t seemed that he would GER
tainly nod his big head off its jolly
hinge; and his quick side glances at
Billings and myself, together with his
growing and muttering, just remind
ed me of a dog with a bone, by Jove!
1 stared at Billings and Billings
stared at me, and then he slipped over
to the divan upon which l dropped,
completely exhausted, dash it, from
standing so long.
Whose did he say?" he whispered.
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CHAPTER XIX.
The COLLAPSE of Billings.
=" 'Night!'

vi
care you sure, Mr.. Lightnut?"
I stood, cap in hand, one foot on
the sidewalk before the Kahoka, the
other on the running board Of the car
"a big double-tonneau red whale sort
of affair. This was as far as I had
been admitted to the vehicle.
For the trump was sitting there be
hind the steering wheel, looking down
at me in a nasty, sidewise fashion
Ever have them do you that way!
Besides. somehow felt that she had
a feeling toward me as man, an un'
voiced protest against my existence
at all. 1t found expression in her
suspicious, sniffy manner Dash it.
Just hated that woman from the start!
1 felt it was bad enough, her English
clumsiness in getting the introductions
twisted as I advanced to meet the
car, but now was of half mind that
she had done it purposely. Could see
with half an eye that she was de-
termined to make trouble about yes
terday.
Haven't we met before, Mr.. Light
nut?" she had asked.
But it struck me that Frances
glanced at me with kind Of wistful
light in her lovely eyes, and 1 saw
that the game was to lie like gentle
aan-that sort of thing, you know
And, by Jove, was getting kind OF
used to it now, anyhow mean since
I had broken the ice last night. Not
hard at all, though, after few goes
really!
So l stood out that 1 had never had
the pleasure, you know-all that sort
Of polite rot. And all the time felt
like jolly cad, too, meeting a girl
with that, when she remembered! But,
by Jo7e, it was worth sacrificing the
trump fifty times over just to see
Frances face brighten and note her
faint flush and smile as she looked at
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CHAPTER I.-Richard Lightnut, an
American with an affected Elgilsh &C
cent, receives presnt from a friend
in China
CHAPTER 1.-THE present proves
to be a pair of pajamas. A letter hints
Of surprises to the wearer.
CHAPTER III-Lightnut dons the pa
Samas and late at night gets up for a
and, failing to recognize Lightnut, at
tempts to put him out. Thinking the SER
want crazy, Lightnut changes his clothes
intending to summon non. help. When he re-
Joy, confirming Lightnut's belief that he
Is crazy.
CHAPTER Iv.--Jenkins tells Lightnut
OF the encounter he had with a hideous
Chinaman dressed in pajamas.
CHAPTER YIN a message from his
friend Jack d., Billings; Lightngt is asked
way home from college. Later Lightnut
6nds beautiful girl in black pajamas III
his room.
CHAPTER v.-Lghtnut is shocked by
saH saik. girls drinking smoking and Slansy
CHAPTER vII-she tells him her name
OF her love for her sisters roommate,
named Frances. Next morning the girl
IS missing and Lightnut hurries to the
boat to see her off. He Is accosted by
%'Dicl1y.' but he does not see the girl.
CHAPTER vIII-Jack Billings calls to
spend the night with Lightnut. They dis
cover pricesless rubies hidden in the but
tons Of the pajamas.
CHAPTER Ix-Billings dons the pa
3amas and retires.
CHAPTER X-Lightnut later discovers
IN his apartment beefy person in NUT
ton-chop whiskers and wearing paJamas.
Jenkins calls the police, who declare the
Grandpa"
be is Lightnut's guest and appeals to the
batter in vain.
CHAPTER XII-He is hustled OF to
CHAPTER KILN the morning Light
nut is astonished to find Billings gone,
and more astonished when he gets mes
sage from the latter, demanding his
clothes. Lightnut, bound for Tarrytown
Billings home, discovers Frances" the
girl Of the pajamas, on the train.
CHAPTER XIv-Lightnut speaks to
her and aIludes to the night before. She
declares indignantly that Lightnut never
saw her in black pajamas. At Tarrytown
Frances is met by husky college youth,
who halls Ligntnut as "Dicky." The lat
ter ignores the boy, who then threatens
TO thrash him for offending Frances.
Lightnut takes the next train home.
CHAPTER Xv-Billings storms over
the outrage Of his arrest He and Light
nut discover mysterious Chinese charac-
ters on the pajamaS.
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al Think | See."

But he needn't have said that, even II
I had been mind-reader enough to
guess what word he meant. 1t was
about all I could do to get out "a last
word to the professor, as he went out
the door:
"'Night!"
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ITO BE CONTINUED
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RoBBER EMPLOYS III.
UNIQUE METHODS
Registers at Best Hotels In
vites Visitors to Room;
HOIdup Follows

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Ia, Sept. IL
Richard Wade was captured at a no
tel here today while attempting to
carry out swindle which, it is said,
he has worked successfully in sew
eral large western cities within the
last three months. His latest attempt
was made in Omaha Thursday, when
he narrowly escaped capture.
Wade's work was unique. He reg
istered at the best hotel in a large
city and his stay usually was short.
From his suite he would call prom
inent jeweler to whom he confded
that he, Wade, was a former custom
er, and asking him to come to the ho-
tel to make large loan on some dia-
mondS. When the ieweler arrived
Wade relieved him of his money at
the point of a revolver and escaped.
In trying to rob w. c. Flatau of
Omaha, the latter overpOwered Wade,
who made his escape while Flatau
was calling the police.
Wade, who is 80 years Of age, IS
wanted, it is said, by the police of
Seattle and several Colorado cities.
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FORT Street


4
taken out of the organization. The
board is waiting for delivery of new
instruments by the Bergstrom Music
Co., which has the contract
j. A. Gilman presented estimates for
laying bitulithic from Queen street to
the Haekfeld wharf, the amount being
$3.50, and they we're referred to com
mittee.
A request for Waialae, Kaimuh and
Palolo Improvement Club for the use
of Liliuokalani school for meetings,
etc, was unanimously granted on mo-
ton of Low
Low was appointed to investigate
the complaint of Prof Scott about the
disturbing of Mckinley High School
by the passing of wagon trains hauled
by traction engine. Engineer White.
house made light of the grievance.
A letter was received from the
Rapid Transit Co. and referred to the
engineer and the road committee, cali
Ing attention to the necessity OF ar
ranging with the Pearl Harbor Trae-
tion Co. for crossing its right Of way
by the Puuloa road under constrnc-
ton. 1t was pointed out that the
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SUGAR
COMPANY EXPANDING

SAN FRANCISCO CALL, Sept. 26.
The Alameda Sugar Company is pre-.
pairing to issue $500, 900, of 6 per
cent 20 year gold bonds TO provide
funds for the purchase of an exten,
siye area of sugar beet lands on the
Sacramento river, near Meridian. The
bonds will be. secured by the lands,
10,350 acres in, extent, and the new
factory to be erected upon them. The
factory itself will cost 81, 000, 900. It
has been estimated by engineers that
the soil is worth $500 an acre, and
1900 acres are now being deep plow,
ed for a crop in 1913. The entire
holding will be in a condition to fur
nish beets for the new factory, which,
ii is estimated, will be ready for SER
vice by June 1, 1914. The beets
grown on the 5000 acres in 1913 will
be sliced at the company's present
factory at AlvaFado, and the COM
pany is expecting from 10000 to 49,
600 tons from that planting.
The Northern Electric Railway
Company now, has it's rails down from
Marysville- to the Alameda company's
holding on the Sacramento river, and
is operating freight and passenger
cars. This, in the opinion of the Of
ficers of the company and the ex.
pertsr who appraised, the land, gives
potential values to the property.
The Alameda Sugar Company was
incorporated in February, 1889, as the
successor of the Pacific Coast Sugar
Company, whose beet sugar factory
at Alvarado was, for time, the only
one in operation in the United States.
During its first year the Alameda
Company sliced only 1924 tons of
beets and made S72 tons of sugar, but
in 1911 the slicing reached 1880
tons, yielding 10000 tons of sugar
product
The new factory at Meridian will
be capable of slicing 1900 tons of
beets a day, which is double the pres
ent capacity, and from this bringing
together of the agricultural and man
ufacturing ends of the business great
saving in cost of production is ex-
pected to result. Freight charges
will be saved and double handling of
the beets done away with.
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LAND DEALS
tcontinued from Page y

for Wailuku lands, consisting of a
large number of small parcels.
The Transfers.
One of the deeds mentioned above
is to the Kuhua Agricultural Co. Ltd,
70: the consideration of S24,040.65.
conveying the following lands in the
district of North Hilo:
l. Land at Honomu containing 9.61
acres with an exception mentioned.
2. Land at Honomu containing Is
acres.
Q. one-half interest in $3.50 acres,
equal to an acre Of 1890 acres, az
Kukua.
4. Land at Kukua containing 1870
acres. :,
5. Land at Kukua containing 10
acres.
6. Land at Malamalaiki containing
= so acres.
Z. Land at Laimi containing 104
acres. = H. <-. 4
s. Land at Kukua containing 7
acres.
g., Land at Kukua containing 703
10. Land at Honomu containing o.
q acres.
II. Land at Honolu containing "a
IS acres.
Goes to New Company.
A deed to the Paukaa Agricultural
Co, Ltd, for the consideration Of
$6513,03, conveys the following men,
toned lands in the district of Hilo;
. /. Land at Kalaoa containing 1875
acres. ....
g. Land at Puueopaku containing
,i3 acres.
8. Land at Puumoi containing
1850 acres. -
4. Land at Puueopaku containing
q acres. -~: =. -.
5. A portion of the ahupuaa of
Puumoi containing S.O7 acres.
6, Land at Mauliilii containing 1.26
acres. -. 49,. =. .
7. Land at Kawainui containing
1858 acres.
The third is q deed to the Moaula
Agricultural Co.,, Ltd, for the consid-
Grafton of 1895, conveying the fol,
lowing mentioned lands in the dis.
trict of Kau: -.
1. Land at Palma and Paauau
containing % acres. .-r ...:..
2. Land at Palma and Paauau con-
tanning % acres H.. g.. ~. j..
5. Land at Punaluu containing Las
tanning so acres. .-....- ......
a. Land at Keaiwa containing
3.705 acres.
j. Land at Punaluu containing LA
acres. 49,. s.s.. ..,.s.n .... ="
6. Land at Palma and Paauau
containing 10 acres. i. 800
T. One-sixteenth undivided inter-
est in land at Hionamoa, equal to an
area of CTS acre. ##a
s. One acre of land at Hionamoa.
8. One-tWelfth undivided interest
in land at HionaInoa, equal to an
area of l. acre. g
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SEVERAL SUGAR STOCKS
SHOW 81 light GAINS

Several slight .reeoveries are a feat
ure of today's stock sheet. Oahu and
Waialua are exceptions IN the matter
cf price. Oahu fell an eighth in re-
cess and three-eighths more in two
drops on the board. Forty shares Of
Oahu were reported at 26.125, and at
session II sold at &c and % and so at
25.75. Waialua scaled off five points
to lis for 30 and shares in recess.
On the other hand, McBryde recov-
cred a half point, 1870 shares in five
uneven blocks selling at 500; Pioneer,
a quarter to 81. % for shares. but los
ing it for 40 shares, which sold at 81;
Eva, one-half point, 30 shares selling
or the board at $3.50, and Olaa, an
eighth, 100 shares going at 6. Hawai-
ian Sugar in unchanged at Al for 20
shares reported
In the non-sugars, Brewery advanc-
Ell a point to 80 for 100 shares be-
tween boards, and an additional quar-
tel for so shares at the session, while
Pineapple is unchanged at "A for so
and 40 shares reported.