The Mena weekly star., 1920-04-08

IfIIiliIIIlfzIIiIIIIIIIIiiIiiliilIIIIlIIIIIIiI ,xzfsnz. 7s5s, Tns Bobbs-NsEriii Company ou,<inued from a previous issue.) Be zFnast shoot again." he finished. 1l1R to her with a ghastly smile. you're safe-safe with me. don't you to love me for my looks-only myself r
 ndrea looked anywhere but at his s Ton and I know" she said after auae. Hthat I am quite safe with man you once were"
 Here" said MacCloster, his eyes rowing Its tco late to pull any that stuff. Why didn't you try it k there when I was really soft2" When you were sincere" answered irea, q was sincere. You knew 1t; you wouldn't have known it-Lt bIdn'f have been true-if had taken chance to save my skin."
 Thnt's so," conceded MacCloster uehtfully. "But if you're not going De per6uaded to love me. will you kse tell me where I get off7 What you good for. anyway? Do you Iize that I gave up a case of gin you and that case of gin in these HbIad times is worth all of three u11 6terlIng7"
 ndrea wfnced. "So I'm really not fh fbree pounds" she said half to se1f.
 Iac( (]Iosfer heard and took quick
 on tho wistfulness in her voice. eIl. he said, comfortingly, T lIdn'f say that. Where 1t was s(i0n Of sentiment or a matter of InE something pretty around the se | man might go further. Why, I anlone the blacks"
 Le paused. looked caiculatIngly at and then went on: "Old-timers will y0u that there are two qualities { don't exist In Africa at all; one is dfude and the other Is affection. I lk fhey're right about ne first, but at the second, I snow , t.or There c&see where a black likes a partlc-
 wofnan. and when that happens fnce is marked by a peculiar look. ROW f and every time catch sight { I'm two extra pounds in pocket" Whyf asked Andrea "what do mean 7't
 Why, my dearf Don't you know7 nt Trevor tell you that Tm-T'm -==. 1 =:.ze answered s4.=es Andrea "shes
 were engaged in some horrible 1=zs ssss< sss< that he couldn't conceive anx rea1on why he should tell me hf 1t wa. was very curious then. nov re11ly don't care"
 BinjckiDg. growing prudei" ex- med NacCl Closter. his mind on Ire Whg It's the most legitimate Idred per cent little business that crawIed out of a big brain. If 1t mt for me this whole back eoun- would rnn short of wives"
 You mean ysu buy and sell wom- aeked Andrea.
 No, net exactly" answered Mac ster. q raise them. I'm the legal sessor of hundred and eighty-two, five CT eIx. wives. Can't just re- mbersn oh ]" gaEped Andrea, crouching still ther into her corner.
 There you go," said MacCloster, nly. Don't let your imagination
 away with you, my dear. 1 said
 the legal possessor and 1 mean [ thaf But what's the use of talk Yon'El see"
 T through the night and we'll into next day the boat travelled stead iipsffenin. MacCloster yawned pro ioueiy three or four times, but ier esixe up the tiller to a boy" n the early morning they entered a reach of the stream flanked on h sides by fiat plains. MacCloster od erect and his eyes made the cir
 of fhH horizon. Nothing" he
 If he could have beaten us to
 our name would have been Den
 He's given up his favorite little tied hen. Flap your wings and say ziby.''
 ndfea's heart, already low, sank a lower Not once through the right
 she closed her eyes and she knew
 that she had been hoping and xfuS thaf the first gleam of morn would lInd Trevor, the avenger. on bank. She could not know. as did c<;l9sfer. that an impossible forest nnbroken thorn stretched for miles
 <e0 the two camps. There was
 95io open road to MacCloster's-- i{6and on that nc other boat ld equaI the speed of his own. Sa eaid MacCIoster, moved by q den thought. lis there anyone that 1Id kive lot of money for you7" E{lrca's brows drew together in fst valuation of what was left of old self. q don't know" she said kIg Perhaps not now"
 Hhaf would he give for you?p Mac s1er akked. jerking his beard over sh0u1der.
 Ie srid he wouldn't give three .< ,&.<r<.x a s~tff ll Foite. She began to cry.
 Iozter's eyes grew round with
 Oh come now" he protested
 & y00'fe been hours without even
 of that dd old trick. Stop
 T9ared suddenly. "Stop it or H1ozA your head jn.r 0Ie4 you would" sobbed Andrea n tt..x