The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1915-02-12
CHAPTER IIl-Continued.

We'll, 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 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?"
Il am glad l like pluck; like en-
durance; like to see the lone man
win against odds. Tell me, is he go
ing back to America"
"Ah. there's the weak part in the
chain" The purser looked diffidently
ct 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. 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."
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
If ss-;;- ~ v'ran 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
loneliness.
81 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 it with his head cooked at
one side He turned insolently and en-
tered his cage. Since he never saw
a 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 / 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 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's
peculiar thing about friendship"
said the kneeling man. 1--WE make a
man our friend; we take him on trust,
frankly and loyalty; we give him the
best we have in u.s. but we never
really know. Rajah is frankly my
enemy, and that's why I love him and
trust him. / should have preferred a
dog; but one takes what one can. Be-
sides - Warrington paused.
thrust the perch between the bars, and
got up.
"Jah, jah, jah! ah-jah-ja-a-ah!"
the bird shrilled.
"Oh, what funny little bird!" cried
Elsa, laughing What does he say?"
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"
II have heard from the purser of
your good luck"
oh" He stopped again and locked
the door Of Rajah's cage. II dare say
good many people viii hear of It,