Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-05-14
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why he couldn't come OF to Rangoon.
And very frankly he gave his reasons.
They came up on one boat and left on
another They weren't very pleasant,
but they bought his oil lands. He
came aboard last night with check
for twenty thousand pounds and two
rupees In his pocket The two rupees
were all he had in this world at the
time they wrote him the check.
Arabian night; what?"
81 am glad. l like pluck; like en-
win against odds. Tell me, is he go
ing back to American
"Ah. there's the weak part in the
chain" The purser looked diffidently
at the deck floor 1t would have been
easy enough to discuss the Warning
ton of yesterday, but the Warrington
of this morning was backed by twenty
thousand good English sovereigns;
he was a different individual. He
says he doesn't know what his plans
will be. Who knows? Perhaps some
one ran away with his best girl. I've
known lots of them to wind up out
here on that account"
when do we reach Prome?"
about SIX" understanding that the
Warrington incident was closed. ut
isn't worth while going ashore, though.
Nothing to see at night"
Il have no inclination to leave the
boat until we reach Rangoon."
CL1 xoo4 e,t0n n Iunnhnnn
and she greeted him amiably. To her
mind there was something pitiful in
the way he had tried to improve his
condition So long as she lived, no
matter whom she might marry, she
was convinced that never would the
thought of t. y man fade completely
from her memory. Neither the an.az.
ting likeness nor the romantic b;Ls k
ground had anything to do with tfis
conviction. 1t was the mans nttar
loneliness.
q have been waiting for Parrot =
Co. all the morning" she said.
I'll show him to you right after
luncheon. 1t wasn't that / had forgot.
ten"
Rajah took the center of the stage
and even the colonel forgot his liver
long enough to chuckle when the bird
turned somersaults through the steel
hoop Elsa was delighted. She knelt
and offered him her slim white finger
Rajah eyed 1t with his head cooked at
one side He turned insolently and en-.
tere0 his cage. Since he never saw
a finger without flying at it in a rage
1t was the politest thing he had ever
done
Isn't he a sassy little beggar?'
laughed the owner. That's the way;
his hand, or claw, rather. against all
the world. I've had him half dozen
years. and he hates me just as thor
oughly now as he did when l picked
him up while ! was at Jaipur."
Have you carried him about all this
timer" demanded the colonel
He was one of the two friends
had, one Of the two trusted" quietly.
with a look which rather disconnected
the Anglo-Indian
By the actions of him should say
that he was your bitterest enemy"
He is; yet call him friend. There s
a peculiar thing about friendship
said the kneeling man. I'VE make q
man our friend; we take him on trust
frankly and loyalty; we give him the
pest we have in us; but we never
really know. Rajah is frankly my
enemy, and that's why | love him and
trust him. / should have preferred q
dog; but one takes what one can. Be.
sides Warrington paused,
thrust the perch between the bars, and
got up.
Jah, JAN. jah! Jah--jah-ja-a.ahi :"
the bird shrilled.
Oh. what funny little birdi" cried
Elsa, laughing. What does he say?'
I've often wondered 1t sound like
me bellgong you hear in the Shwe
Dagon pagoda in Rangoon. He picked
II up himself"
Inc colonel returned to his elderly
charges and became absorbed in his
aged Times. If the girl wanted to pick
up the rfff-raff to talk to, that was her
sHair. Americans were impossible, any
how.
How long have you been in tbs
orient?" Elsa asked.
Ten years." he answered gravely
That is long time"
sometimes it was like eternity"
have heard from the purser OF
-four good luck"
OH" lie stopped again and locked
uoor OF Rajah's cage. 81 dare say
so0d many people viii hear OF It."
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