Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-09-02

Sf1Ar lEN t-DepTayuoy yUuuB
bachelor Of Independent means,
has been. ordered on a trip around
the world AZ last chance to recover
his shattered health. On his lazy tour
through Europe, he crosses the trail
several times of beautiful girl who
ererts An odd fascination over him,
but whose face he has never quite
seen. He loses her trail In Cairo.
where, in the hope of adventure, he
Joins a young scientist bound for q
remote corner OF the South Seas. Tho
Young scientist, while at hotel in
Cairo. has found diary lost by some
sirl-a document which reveals an al.
luring personality, but gives no hint
Of the writer's name.
CHAPTER II-Oddly enough, In De-
prayne's mind, the girl of the diary
and the other girl-the one who has
fascinated him, but whose face he has
never seen. begin to haunt his dreams
as a single person.
CHAPTER Ill Just as the heat Of
driving Deprayne to the verge Of mad
ness. the ship is wrecked.
CHAPTER Iv-When he RECEIVERS
consciousness, he finds that he is tho
sole survivor cast UP on tronic
shore.
CHAPTER V-From a sea-chest,
the only thing he has rescued from
the wreck, Deprayne finds full-page
newspaper portrait of an exceedingly
beautiful girl-"Miss Frances"-but
the paper is torn. The chest also con-
tains a gorgeous kimono and a couple
of oriental daggers.
CHAPTER VI-Portrait, daggerS,
and kimono all serve to impress the
cannibal natives OF the island that
this, the first white man they have
ever seen, is the high priest Of won
derful goddess.
CHAPTER VII-Making Impressions
on the inhabitants of the jungle and
defending his life with burlesque.,
CHAPTER VIII-Arrayed in the
splendor of high mandarin Of China
Deprayne receives the savages, who
fall PROSTATE before him.
CHAPTER IX-Across an invisible
line Deprayne steps into days Of lux
ally and prosperity. The tribes at war
and his subjects become victorious.
The green light and hopes or rescue.
CHAPTER X-The rescuers arrive.
Again on the ocean. Transferred to
q liner. The captain recognizes the
portrait as "the liveliest girl In Dixie" "
CHAPTER XI-Deprayne at home
in New York. Goes to Kentucky to
Investigate options.
CHAPTER XII-There finds Fran.
ces, the idol of his dreams supposedly
welded to Weighborne, business as
sociate.
CHAPTER XIII-The call Of the
wild from famished heart.
CHAPTER XIV-Deprayne and
Weighborne off to the mountains on
a prospecting tour. In the feud re-
gions.
CHAPTER XV-Between the fires
of two factions.
CHAPTER XVI-The ambuscade In
the mountains and the wounding Of
Weighborne.
II lost one somewhere" she &C
knowledged; then as she colored di
vinely: "You didn't find it, did your
she demanded. "You didn't read those
foolish things?"
"It wasn't foolishness,' I quoted
"There was destiny in it," and then
I made full confession.
"I'm glad you wrote It," added. 81
owe that diary something and I want
all my debt to be to you"
For a moment she was silent, then
she looked up again and confronted
me one more with charge of stupid
ity.
"And YOU read that. and knew wha;
uCNCl diiatu vi LudlI BIG
firmed. Sometimes I have known
that you were in danger-and later
I've known that you escaped. Then
there was the dream-the one dream
about the door that came over and
over. At times it seemed that you
were very near. Once, at Cairo, felt
that I was going to meet you around
some corner or in some bazaar-but
didn't"
"You might, If you had turned your
head" I declared. did you by any
chance lose diary at Cairo?"
This time 1t was she who was sur
prised.
CHAPTER XVII-Through the door
of dreams. The revelation
CHAPTER XVIII - Dreams come
true. Deprayne takes unto himself his