Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-24

| gain it. That is the secret Of Eleanor
| Valant's stage success. She is enort-
less femininity triumphant because OF
| it's femininity. She is the supremacy
of sex unmindful of its sex. When
Eleanor Valiant takes the man in the
last act you thrill not because OF
consummated romance, but because
dutiful nature has given Eleanor VAL
ant her desire-juSt as the Romans
thrilled because dutiful nature had
climate and season would acknowl-
edge the sway of Eleanor Valiant. I
looked out of the window and saw
the Wallababy. whom the climate was
killing. padding down the street. l
threw the rotogravure section on the
the other suit of whites and went
down to listen to William Pitt on the
subject of flying fish and sea eggs.
/ went to Kaiteur, of course. Any
one who comes to Demerara and has
the strength and the time and the
went up the river to Wismar and
over to Rockstone and then up the
Essequibo by launch. with the climate
and the insects making away with
my leather stuff and the launch men
reproaching me from time to time
form trunks. And 1 was bitten by
| mosquitoes and warned Of vampire
bats and I had touch Of Creeping
Johnny at Tomatumari and learned
to keep clear of the coral snakes be-
fore one got me, mostly because the
launch men and the guides beat the
path for me and saw that I didn't
get out of my hammock before my
boots were we'll laced on. and, final
ly. with every exposed portion of my
body raw and inf1amed and my bones
racked and the gin and Quinine most
I n
nah and lay on my stomach. looking
down through the veil of foam and
mist into that awful black chasm
which receives the power and the
| man with me was black and almost
| naked and gigantic, and ! think he
called upon some pagan deity when he
threw one of the big bTomeliads into
the abyss. And 1 know the thing
plunging into that terrific cavern
] myself had gone whirling into those
depths: and above the roar OF the
cataract 1 screamed at him to stop.
And ] thought of being alone in such
a vast fearfulness of the unknown.
And this. on the brink Of Kaiteur.
peddling candies for hapennies on
the High street of Georgetown.
got down to Georgetown again
| with my nerves quivering and my
DOdy ln1eCJeu-d OIL tHe
Guiana hinterland. even when you
travel de luxe, is sufficient to gain
you all that-and I had a doctor and
numerous baths and visitation from
Judson and an audience with Will
| liam Pitt, who was fairly bursting
with the information that while I
was absent my quarters had been
visited by burglar.
x X X
TREMENDOUSLY important about
the burglar was William Pitt, any
burglar being rare in Georgetown and
particularly any burglar with suffi-
cient mental power to escape appre-
hension by the note taking, solemnly
! reporting. British constitution pro-
tecting police. 1t appeared that this
burglar had proceeded about his bust
| into the hotel and up the stairs like
i any of the inconsequentia who fire.
quented the place. that he had entered
f, my room and that he might have
| made away with all the valuables
| had been naturally careful not to
| leave there, but for the fact that
William Pitt himself had come along
the corridor in time to detect him.
'Thereupon the burglar had slid down
| the waterspout and had taken himself
off, after doing no more than rumple
my extra shirts and upset the things
upon my writing table. William Pitt,
| having been concerned principally
with believing alarm, had been able
to take note of the burglars appear
ance only that he wore an old grass
i hat and clothes like those Of the
| laborers on the rice estates William
Pitt seemed to think it was a judg-
ment upon me for having gone to
kaiteur when might have spent the
time playing banker or Van John at
the club. And the burglar according
| to William Pitt, was particularly
desperate, purposeful burglar
! OF course ! knew the burglar was
| the Wallababy. ! senSed that while
| the doctor was salving my insect
| wounds and dosing me for the second
installment of Creeping Johnny.
sensed II while Judson was discours-
| ing on the increase of crime in the
! colony and the necessity for stricter
| enforcement of the vagrant laws.
sensed it even when l began to tidy
my quarters and came across the
rotogravure section, which I had still
to look over and which again turned
up to me the calm, untroubled world