Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-05-26

but they bought his oil lands. He
came aboard last night with a 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?"
ST am glad. I like pluck; I like en-
durance; I like to see the lone man
win against Odds Tell me, is he 60
ing back to American"
"Ah. there's the weak part in the
chain" The purser looked difldently |
at the deck floor. It 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. cit
isn't worth while going ashore, though.
Nothing to see at night
81 have no inclination to leave the
! boat until we reach 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
conviction. It was the mans utter
loneliness.
81 have been waiting for Parrot &
Co. all the morning" she said.
"Tn show him to you right after
luncheon. It 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 insolently and en-
tered his cage. Since he never saw
finger without flying at it in rage,
it 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 I 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 I
had, one Of the two | trusted quietly,
with look which rather disconnected
the Anglo-Indian.
''By the actions of him I should say
that he was your bitterest enemy"
''He is; yet call him friend. There
a peculiar thing about friendship
said the kneeling man. eve make a
man our friend; we take him on trust,
frankly and loyalty; we give him the
:, best we have in US; but we never
5 really know. Rajah is frankly my
: enemy, and that's why I love him and
Y trust him. I should have preferred a
r dog; but one takes what one can. Be
i sides :" Warrington paused
1 thrust the perch between the bars, anc
: got up.
Q "Jah, jah, jah! ah-jah-ja-a-ah!'
g the bird shrilled.
y ooh, what funny little bird!" CRIED
y Elsa, laughing. What does he say?'
tive often wondered. 1t sound like
It the bellgong you hear in the Shwt
y Dagon pagoda in Rangoon. He picked
n it up himself"
l. The colonel returned to his elderl.
70 charges and became absorbed in hi
y aged Times. If the girl wanted to picl
10 up the riff-raff to talk to, that was he
10 affair. Americans were impossible, any
le how.
j. How long have you been in tn
u Orient?" Elsa asked
20 ''Ten years." he answered gravely
I'd THAT is long time
Sometimes it was like eternity"
>, Il have heard from the purser q
~ your good luck
49, Obj He stopped again and locke
~ the door of Rajah's cage. 81 dare sa
&c a good many people will hear of it."
- 1T was splendid. l love to rea
~ stories like that, but I'd rather hea
- them told irst-hand"
-, Elsa was not romantic in the sens
that she saw heroes where there we1
only ordinary men; it was the o.
scure and unknown hero who appeale
81 to her: such one as this man migl
~ be.
=? ooh, there was nothing splendi
- about the thing. [ simply hung on
-, Then a thought struck him. "Ycu al
travelling alone?"
o., With a companion" A peculi;