Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-17

an exclamation Of relief he struck his
palms together and turned toward his
clothing upon the chair. Money would do
anything Money would save him and
Atutl
He felt for the bankroll in the pocket
In which he had been accustomed TO carry
II. II was not there Slowly at first and
at last frantically, he searched through the
remaining pockets of his clothing. Then
he dropped upon his hands and knees and
examined the floor. Lighting the lamp, he
moved the bed to one side, and inch by
inch felt over the entire floor.
Beside the body of Conlon he hesitated,
but at last he nerved himself to touch IT,
Rolling it over, he sought the money be.
meath It, Nor was II there.
He guessed that Conlon had entered their
room to rob; but he did not believe that
the man had had time to possess himself OF
the money: however as II was nowhere
else It must be upon the body of the dead
man.
Jack searched the Americans clothing
futlely Again and again he went over
the room. only to return each time to the
corpse; but nowhere could he find the
money.
He was half frantic with despair. What
were they to do? In the morning they
would be discovered and killed. For all his
inherited size and strength he was, after
all, only a little boy-a frightened, home.
sick little boy-reasoning faultily from
the meager experience of childhood He
could think of but single glaring fact
they had killed n fellow man, and they
were among savage strangers. thirstng for
blood of the first victim whom fate cast
into their clutches. This much he he-
CLEANED from penny-dreadfuls.
And they must have money!
Again he approached the corpse This
time resolutely. The ape squatted In a
N,If Ia Inn
The youth commenced to remove the
Americans clothing piece by piece, and
piece by piece he examined each garment
mnutely. Even to the shoes he searched
with painstaking care. and when the last
article had been removed and scrutinized
he dropped back upon the bed with dilated
eyes that saw nothing in the present--only
a grim tableau of the future in which two
forms swung silently from the limb of a
great tree.
He sat thus for quite n WHILE but finally
he was aroused by noise coming from the
floor below. Springing quickly to his feet,
he blew out the. lamp. and, crossing the
| floor silently, locked the door. Then he
With money he might have bought jus.
tice: but penniless-ah, what hope could
there be for stangers without money here?
But what had become of the money? He
tried to recall when last he had seen 1t.
He could not; nor could he, would he have
for he had been entirely unconscious of
the falling of the little package from his
pocket into the sea as he clambered over
the ships side into the waiting canoe that
bore him to shore.
Now he turned toward Akut.
Come" he said in the language of the
great apes. Forgetful of the fact. that he
wore only a thin pajama suit, he led the
way to the open window. Thrusting his
head out, he listened attentively. A sin.
gle tree grew few feet from the window
| turned toward the ape, his mind made up.
Nimbly the lad sprang to its boe, cling.
ing catlike for an instant before he
clambered to the ground below. Two hun
dred yards away a~spur of the jungle ran
close to the struggling town. Toward this
the lad led the way.
No one saw them. and moment later
the jungle swallowed them and John Clay
ton future Lord Greystock, passed from
the eyes and the knowledge of men.
, 1t was late the following morning that
native houseman knocked upon the door
of the room that had been assigned to Mrs
Billings and her grandson Receiving no