Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1915-04-07
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WHAT EN- tt-SOuttUuSO.
well. he wasn't above having his
revenge He made the syndicate
come up there. They wired asking
why he couldn't come on 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 a check
Tor 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?"
Il am glad. like pluck; like en-
durance; / like to see the lone man
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 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 1T
isn't worth while going ashore, though.
Nothing to see at night"
Il have no inclination to leave the
boat until wo roach Rangoon
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
1t was the mans utter
loneliness
II 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
ong 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 insolently and en-
.ered his cage. Since he never saw
| finger without flying at it In rage.
{ was the politest thing he had ever
lone.
Isn't he a sassy little beggar?"
aughed the owner. That's the way; |
lis hand, or claw. rather, against all |
he world. I've had him half dozen !.
years. and he hates me just as thor.
,ughly now as he did when picked
lin I'D while ! was at Jaipur."
"Have you carried him about all this
ime?" demanded the colonel
HE was one of the two friends I
lad, one of the two trusted" quietly.
With a look which rather disconnected
he Anglo-lndian
by the actions of him ! should say
hat he was your bitterest enemy"
"He is; yet call him friend There's |
peculiar thing about friendship"
aid the kneeling man. I'VE make
nan our friend; we take him on trust.
rankly and loyalty; we give him the
rest we have in US: but we never
eally know. Rajah is frankly my
nemy, and that's why love him and
rust him should have preferred a
log: but one takes what one can Be-
'ides :" Warrington paused,
hrust the perch between the bars. and
,ot up.
"Jah, jah, jah! Jah-jah-ja-a-ah!"
he bird shrilled.
"Oh, what funny little bird!" cried
LISA, laughing, What does he say?"
i've often wondered 1t sound like
he bell-gong you hear in the Shwe
lagoon pagoda in Rangoon. He picked
/ up himself.
The colonel returned to his elderly
harges and became absorbed In his
ged Times If the girl wanted to pick
j. the riff-raff to talk to. that was her