Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1915-03-12
CHAPTER III-Continued.


quail he wasn't above having his
NO. He made the syndicate
', W. nm there. They wired asking
J be couldn't come OF to Rangoon.
~ very frankly he gave his reasons.
@1sr rame up on one boat and left on
aatber They weren't very pleasant,
:, thew bought his oil lands. He
"no aboard last night with a check
!, twenty thousand pounds and two
,,sos in his pocket The two rupees
ra-o all he had in this world at the
sne they wrote him the check.
ll.bian night; what?"
a am glad. | like pluck; ! like en-
ar.nce | like to see the lone man
rh against odds Tell me, is he go
he back to America"
aAh there's the weak part in the
,ssin" The purser looked diffidently
! be deck floor. 1t would have been
nU enough to discuss the Warning
nm of Yesterday, but the Warrington
this morning was backed by twenty
thousand good English sovereigns;
Ne was a different individual. He
AVS he doesn't know what his plans
viii 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"
q have no inclination to leave the
boat until we reach Rangoon."
She met Warrington at luncheon,
md 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
vas convinced that never would the
thought of this man fade completely
from her memory. Neither the anaz-
ing likeness nor the romantic b:lt k
ground had anything to do with tFis
conviction. 1t was the mans utt'r
meliness
q have been waiting for Parrot e.
% 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;
md even the colonel forgot his liver
long enough to chuckle when the bird
turned somersaults through the steel
hoop. Elsa was delighted She knelt
end offered him her slim white finger.
fa]ah eyed 1t with his head cooked at
OAeSlde He turned insolently and en-
eTeN his cage. Since he never saw
anger without flying at it in a rage,
U vas the politest thing he had ever
done.
ISN'T he a sassy little beggar?"
aOsned the owner. That's the way;
lS hand, or claw, rather, against all
ue world. I've had him half dozen
'SalS' and he hates me just as thor
'lSnly now as he did when / picked
ln up while l was at Jaipur."
Have you carried him about all this
0ue' demanded the colonel.
he was one of the two friends ]
Dau' one Of the two trusted" quietly,
Win look which rather disconcerte6
ue Anglo-Indian.
0y the actions of him | should say
~aI ne was your bitterest enemy"
de is; yet call him friend. There's
peculiar thing about friendship.
''u the kneeling man. I'VE make a
lal our friend; we take him on trust,
salAy and loyalty; we give him the
' ''% We have in US; but we never
.'alIy Know. Rajah is frankly my
te'uly' and that's why / love him and
~ s1s' MN | should have preferred a
' w. out one takes what one can. Be-
s ssS >. Warrington paused.
Eotup.
II. ' ti jan jah! Jah-jah-ja-a-ah!"
We ord shrilled.
IN, what a funny little bird!" cried
No. 10 laughing. What does he say?"
a. We often wondered. 1t sound like
n. 0eA-song you hear in the Shwe
! 'sUn pagoda in Rangoon. He picked
f" Up himself"
.,1 1le colonel returned to his elderly
,sas sss and became absorbed in his
n ~ - ZINES If the girl wanted to pick
a. Ie Fln'raf to talk to, that was her
lo~ NIL americans were impossible, any
O,; now long have you been in the
|Sa'' Elsa asked.
.1 zen years" he answered gravely.
% slaH Is a long time"
q. SSOnetimes it was like eternity"
Nm, nave heard from the purser of
q. Va He stopped again and locked
Ooor OF Rajah's cage. 81 dare say