Tombstone epitaph., 1915-09-19

cred with white foam Poe caught sight of his feet: a bloody bandage on one had worked up to his ankle, and the maimed foot lacked two toes. A quick motion from beside the
 huddled form made Poe spin around just in time to eYade the snap of ferocious teeth Babo, the ape. con fronted him. struggling toward him weakly, evidently injured.
 Poe leaped upon the ape. caught him fairly about his hairy throat, and strug
 gled for a violent half.minute with him. Then the monkeys steelgrip- ping hands relaxed their hold. Poe jumped to his feet. turned hastily to-
 ward a mass of frenzied men bursting from the front door of the lodging house. and. gathering up the dead | weight of the powerful monkey. clutched it close. and managed with difficulty to stagger down the winding alley to the water. turning but once
 to find that the group had stopped at
 the insensible form of the black man. He jumped into the waiting skiff l threw his heavy burden in the bottom, l and pushed off. telling the man to row
 like the devil back to Haggerup wharf During the trip Poe wound rope about | the orang-outangs muscular limbs, and
 noted with relief that the animal was still alive and beginning to struggle again.
 The member of the firm was wait | ing for him within the big Haggerup warehouse. in which order had now l been restored.
 | Poe gave Babo to the keepers, and
 not stopping for explanations, grasped the astounded member Of the firm by
 the arm and rushed him into tht | street.
 They found a cab some blocks away ! and drove at once to the hospital near ! est Hell's Quarter.
 In answer to the Germans breath | less demands for an explanation. Poe sketched the following briefly during | the ride:
 That black man your assistant keeper described and called Jock
 pulled of the trick. I thought it from | the first. when I found he had moved
 the glass tank into the sun.
 That's why asked you to wait be. | fore sending out news Of Babo's es- cape; I didn't want the thief to take Borneo are shrewd: they made fire
 with the suns rays through glass crys. | tals. He saw the power of that tank l and figured out the inevitable result. ! Providing himself with a hood and a | shawl. he went alone in a rowboat this | afternoon 10 the end of your ware | house, where he climbed to the mar | row ledge around it. and worked at the
 window bars while he was waiting for
 the fire to start in the straw he had 1 attended to placing where it would | catch the suns rays and surely ignite;
 possibly he put some matches there to | hurry matters.
 When he saw the fire finally flame | up. he jerked of the remaining bars, | and when your surprised keepers | dashed from their quarters through
 the smoke and confusion Jock jumped
 in at the back window, barefooted for l
 aboard ship, carrying one of the bars
 with him to break of the lock of | Babo's cage. In his haste and eager | ness he accidentally stumbled into the
 crocodile pen; one Of the aroused rep
 tiles nipped of two of his toes. He i promptly killed the beast with the l pointed steel window-rod, rushed to
 Babo's cage. and released his pet, who
 probably clung to him. though, of ] course. he was very heavy. That 1 species of ape. as you know, is very faithful to a chosen master. and only dangerous with strangers. Jock then i broke open the big common monkey | cage with the bar, to insure the elapso
 of greater space of time before Babe
 should te missed. if the fire were con. | trolled. He calculated well. Then he probably pushed BabO first through
 the window himself I heard the splash. Then he must have helped | Bato into the boat. crawled in h'sn-
 self, disguised his frightened pet in
 the hood and shawl. and rowed along
 the more deserted and smaller wharves back to the foreign quarter, where he
 had rented the boat Then he ex. | plained to the boatman, suspicious of
 his bundle, that it was his sick daugh.
 ter, and told the same story to the
 lodging house woman, making some ex.
 planation for lis sore foot. which he
 stopped to bandage in burlap anew at
 the waterman's"
 l By this time they had arrived at the
 hospital. and, as Poe expected, found
 Jock. who had just been brought iii by
 the astonished sailors, who had nc
 wish to have the man die on their
 hands
 Poe and the member of the Hagger.
 up firm sat with the black fellow until
 be became conscious. Then Poe easily
 possessed himself of all the facts His
 story sketch had been correct in all
 essentials Poor Jock sobbed pitifully
 for lis pet. and explained how he had
 caught Babo when young. with his
 own hands. and had only been led to mart win him ID the se3DOrr trader