The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-04-18

uraltst. stretching himself on the
plated nyak mat There IL no
place Nn the earth whore n man
goes that u woman will not follow
II the necessity arises. and for tha
thank God This Samaritan river
In as near hell IA YOU can 80 with.
out making n hole In tho wall, yet
a woman came here"
Tell me- said.
Hochdorf. the greatest naturalist
In the Malay archipelago. who know
moro OF tho ways OF animals than
any OF the seventy collectors en-
ployed by tho biz Amsterdam firm.
spoke soothlngly 20 n black monkey
that whlncd In the shadow,
Il will tell YOU first OF the man,
said Hochdorr quietly. We VIII
call him Hanslaw, that ia as good
name as any. and he came from
Baltimore. lie had the bungalow
on the other side OF the river. and
after he was here some time We be-
came great friends. lie was a fine
naturalist, mono better lilo loved
his work, and he would not stop
from dawn TN midnight.
'lIanslaw.' | would say. YOU are
fool TO work like that You are
Just what all you Americans are,
Just bundle OF nerves. and n you
20 pounding along like that some
thing viii stop all OF n sudden IN
your head. and you will 30 up like
rocket on the kaiaer'a birthday
i've got 20 make good. Hoch'
dorf. he would say. I've got TO
make good. and make good quick.
Work Is nothing II you have the
right incentive TO work. and, by all
that is holy. have that incentive.
"You are an old bachelor. and
You do not understand. he would
say.
bachelors have done some big
things. I would snap back az him.
Perhaps so. be would laugh.
but by the bones OF the great GUY
Ter. fiochdorf, Il Is the man that
the woman is watching who has put
the marks OF his knuckies on this
old mud ball.
Then one day the thing that ]
said came about. He snapped up,
Something In the back OF his head
gave way like a piece OF elastic.
lie was working on the skeleton OF
simla wurmbli. the orang-outang.
and he laid down his knife quietly.
very quietly. and he went out and
started 10 play with the little peb-
btes on the hank OF the river. Gott
steh uns belt, II was so. II chilled
my blood
What was I TO do with a man
In that condition In this ll;tl. helif
For eight days he loafed around
the bungalow. doing no work aud
talking little. and In those eight
days something happened that was
peculiar. II was more than pccui-
lar. When that little belt slipped
Oft the flywhcei In his head. Il made
him lose connection with that part
OF hIs brain that had been built up
through centuries OF civilization.
Do you understand
Ills brain was like n bit OF new
clay. and II picked up impressions
like a dry sponge sucks up water.
He flung or his clothes. tied a
chawat OF bark cloth around his
waist and did things native fashion.
He broke up specimen cases 20
make fIsh traps.
"On the eighth day rf3echmann
came up the river because ! had
sent message telling him what
had happened. and We held con-
sultation about Hanslaw.
I'VE should take him down TO
the coast. said Brechmann. II II
bad to let a white man run wild
with the niggers.'
ia. I said. IN we could get him
on a tramp steamer and get him up
TO Singapore, his consul might look
after him
"'will We start nowr asked
Brechmann.
NO. We will leave II I'll the
morning I said. We will invite
him on trip down to your place.
and II he gets suspicious we must
kidnap him
Now / know that Hanslaw dia
not hear what Brechmann and {
had planned to do. We took good
iatt " ot oGA vi utafthb WIN We
talked the matter over. but instinct
Ia better than hearing. Hanslaw
had his instincts sharpened when
that flywheel went wrong. And he
felt that Brechmann and ] were
up TO something that concerned
him. In the morning when We were
making preparations to go down
the river he bolted. Yes. he bolted
into the Jungle. We went In pur-
suit OF him with n crowd OF Dyaks.
and be made fools OF US. We were
what is that word you use? An.
tenderfooti We were tenderfeet
compared to him in his knowledge
OF the jungle. Meln Gottl Yes.
He fooled US like as II We were so
many children. He chartered like
the orang-outang, and no laughed
when he found that we could not
tell his cries from the cries Of the
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