White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1916-06-11
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EDWARD MALONE. newspaper man il
II m love with Giadysa Huneertpn. she
tells him the man she l6Ses must do, some
brave act Malone gets an assignment to
interview Professor Challenger. explorer.
when Challenger and Mdi6ne meet chal-
ienge ptoclainis Malone an irnpostor. and
they have a fierce personal encounter.
challenger expresses a liking for Ma
lone when the latter fefnses. to hdse him
arrested. The professor then psoceeds to
show Malone proofs of n prehistoric land.
Malone reports To McArdie. his city cd
ftor, that Challenger Is not an impostor
and that he has arranged to be present
at q scientific meeting Of professors.
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ture OF groans and cheers. Professor
Challeneer's electric brougham sid
fromrtbe curb, and I found myself
walking under the sllyery lights of
Regent street. full of thoughts of
Gladys and of wonder as TO my fu-
ture. -
Suddenly there was a touch at my
elbow. / turned and found myself
looking into the humorous, masterful
eyes OF the tan. thin man who had
volunteered to be my companion on
this stranee quest. : ~
"Mr. Malone. understand, said he.
We are To be companions-what? My
rooms are Just over the road In the
Albany. Perhaps you would have the
Kindness TO spare me half an hour, for
there are one or two things that I bad
~ want to say to You
Lord John Roxton and | turned down
vigo street together and through the
&c rookery. At the end OF a long drab
passage my new acquaintance pushed
open "A door and turned on an electric
switch. A number OF lamps shining
through tinted shades bathed the whole
great room before us In a ruddy radi-
ance. Standing in the doorway and
glancing round me. ] had a general Inn
preston of extraordinary comfort and
elegance combined with an atmos-
phere Of masculine virility. Every
where there were mingled the luxury
Of the wealthy man Of taste and the
careless untidiness OF the bachelor.
One by one he took out a succession
" beautiful rifles, opening and shut
ting them with a snap and a clang
and then patting them ms he put them
back into the rack as tenderly as a
mother would fondle her children.
This is n BANDS .5I7 axite express
said he. II got that big fellow with
IT," He glanced up ut a stuffed white
rhinoceros. Ten more yards and he
would have added me to his collections
o that conical bullet his zone chance
hangs.
It's the weak ones advantage fair.
Hope you know your Gordon, for
he's the poet of the horse and the gun
and the man that handles both. Now,
here's a useful tool-.470, telescope
sight. double c%jector. point blank up
10 three-fifty. That's the rifle | used
against Peruvian slave drivers three
years ago. | was the fail of the Lord
up In those parts, | may tell you,
though YOU won't find II I'm any blue
book. There are times, young fellah,
when every one of us must make a
stand for human right and justice or
you never feel clean again. That's why
l made a little war on my own. DE
clared 1t myself. waged 1t myself, end
ed II myself. Each of those hicks is
for n slave murderer good row of
~them-what? That big one is for Pc
dro Lopez. the king of them all. that |
killed In "A backwater of the Putomayo
river. Now. here's something that
would do for you" He took out n
beautiful brown and silver rifle. We'll
rubbered at the stock. sharply sighted.
five cartridges to the clip. You can
trust your life to that" He handed 1t
to me and closed the door OF his oak