The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-25
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when do we reach Prome?''
about six" understanding that the
| Warrington incident was closed. 1T
isn't worth while going ashore. though.
Nothing to see at night"
Il have no inclination to leave the
boat until we reach Rangoon."
I She met Warrington at luncheon,
| 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 this man fade completely
from her memory. Neither the amaz-
/ ing likeness nor the romantic back
ground had anything to do with this
/ conviction. 1t was the mans utter
/ loneliness.
Il have been waiting for Parrot &
+ Co. all the morning" she said.
/ III chow 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 it with his head cooked at
/ one side He turned insolen.ly and en-.
! tered his cage. Since he never saw
finger without flying at 1t in rage,
it was the politest thing he had ever
done.
isn't he sassy little beggar?"
! his hand, or claw, rather, against all
the world. I've had him half a dozen
! years, and he hates me just as thor
oushly now as he did when picked
4 him up while l 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 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
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
best we have in us; but we never
really know. Raiah is frankly my
enemy, and that's why love him and
trust him. l should have preferred q
I dog; but one takes what one can Be
sides :" Warrington paused
thrust the perch between the bars, and
got up.
"Jah. jah. iah! ah-j2h-ia-a-ah!"
the bird shrilled.
"Oh, what funny little bird!" cried
Elsa, laughing What does he 5ay?"
I've often wondered, 1t sound like
the bell-gong you hear in the Shwe
Dagon pagoda in Rangoon He picked
it up himself
The colonel returned to his elderly
charges and became absorbed in his
aged Times Ii the girl wanted to pick
up the riff-raff to talk to, that was her
affair. Americans we're impossible, any.
how
How long have you been in the
Orient?" Elsa asked
Ten years, he answered gravely.
That is a long time"
sometimes it was like eternity.
4 have heard from the purser of
your good luck :
OH" He stopped again and locked
the door of Raiah's cage 81 dare say
a good many people vii hear OF it.
1t was splendid | love to read
stories like that, but I'd rather hear
them told first-hand
Elsa was not romantic in the sense
that she saw heroes where there were
only ordinary men; it was the OBJ
scure and unknown hero who appealed
to her: such one as this man might
be.
"Oh, there was nothing splendid
about the thing. | simply hung on"
Then thought struck him. "Ycu are
travelling alone?"
With a companion" A peculiar
question, she thought
1t is not wise," he commented
] My father was soldier she re-
piled
1t isn't a question of bravery" he
explained bit of color charging un.
der his skin. This world is not like
your world. Women over here
Oh, I've lost the art of saying things
clearly" He pulled at his beard en-
barrassedly.
Are you warning me against your
self?"
Why not? Twenty thousand pounds
do not change man; they merely
change the public's opinion of him.
For all you know, may be the great.
est rascal unhanged."
But you are not"
He recognized that 1t was not a
query; and pleasurable thrill ran
over him. Had there been the least
touch of condescension in her manner
he would have gone deep into his
shell.
No; there are worse men in this
world than l. But we are getting away
from the point, of women travelling
alone in the East Oh, | know you
can protect yourself to certain ex.
tent. But everywhere, on boats. in
the hotels. on the streets. are men
who have discarded all the laws of
convention, of the social contract And