The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-04-25
By FRANK r. ADAMS

Disappeared last HIBnL uuEIuS Tue
storm"
"Ohw Miss Dunmore did not seem
particularly impressed. II don't see
how any one could get lost On a little
island like this"
That's where the mystery comes In.
There are only about half a dozen
places she could be, and we've looked
In all Of them"
IL had a'brother who walked In his
Sleep" said Captain Perkins. follow
Ing up a train Of thought suggested by
Mrs. Green's disappearance. do you
want to hear the story about the funny
place where the zebra bit hImT'
"a little later ! suggested hastily.
Just now we all ought to scatter and
help look for Mrs. Green"
How was she dressedf' Captain
Perkins inquired
az don't know. Pm not sure wheth-
err she was dressed at all or not-that
is. she probably had on d kimono or
something, but ! don't think she had
ON regular skirts and things"
1--WE might take a stroll along the
beach," suggested Jim, whom i sus-
pected Of wanting to display his strip
ed clothing In public. Possibly we
might find something We could eat"
After the captain and Jim had start
ed out Miss Dunmore seemed lost I'm
deep and bewildered thought. I fore
bore to break in on so ~portentous a
brain struggle.
At last she spoke. where do you
suppose the zebra did bite Captain
Perkins brotherr
"If you go with him perhaps he win
tell you." l said, with an idea OF doing
my searching alone with a weather
eye constantly peeled for Lucille and
Bopp.
"No,' she demurred, II would much
rather go hunting with You. 1t viii
be more fun"
Evidently she thought that hunting
old ladies in the underbrush was one
OF our innocent island pastimes.
i sighed. We sailed forth. II / had
wanted 10 run across Lucille when /
was alone I was just as anxious to
avoid her while / was in the company
Of Miss Dunmore.
do we have to find her before
lunchfr
explained painstakingly the remote
possibility either OF finding Mrs. Green
or OF having any lunch. Contrary to
my expectations, she took the informa-
ton about the lack Of food Just as
cheerfully as she had everything else.
/ don't believe 1t would be possible 20
dampen the spirits Of that girl-not
that she was unresponsive to a~nother's
distress, for I have rarely met one SO
sympathetic. but she was persistently
optimistic.
sI don't mind going without lunch n
bit" she smiled. II very seldom eat
anything until after the show at night
anyway. Only there won't be any
show tonight to eat after, viii thcref
That viii seem funny. I've always
been In shows ever since I was q hid.
except c few weeks In the middle or
summer, anu them generally 4 wan "a,
hearstng.s
She lsaghed gayly.
Vida chartered away with all the
needless gayety of a child who knows
ssat soI.s ON. Is going 10 provide tine
next meal. She told me at length
about her fiance. That took q lot or
the man out Of our walk. Not
that I vas falling In love with Vida
not q bit OF it--but 1t was too bad as
long as I had lost favor with LsaesSe
ON her account to have her teI me
about her love affair with sSme one
else. \ have since reasoned that she
regarded me a. being ia enough to
be her father or her Uncle Jack and
treated me Accordingly.
II wouldn't mind being all alone
with yon or this island she conided
III you Sere only Jack"
"Jas12 Who is Jackfw
mean Ned" she explained. 81
was going 20 marry Jack, but Eed
wouldn't have It. We wouldn't care
much about food even,n she went ON.
Med would find something for me.
He's dreadfully ingenious. That comes
from writing plays. | guess. One has
10 Be clever to think out plots for
plays. don't Jon thinky'
mot most OF them" I lapsed into
my critical manner. mot at clever
as you have to be to sell them.
HE wrote a play once about two
people on 4 desert island. There was
q bully part for the giridn Il. They
found bananas and cocoanuts to eat
and some kind or birds eggs"
'sIn plays ana stories dealing with