PENROD.By BootH v! Tarking'tonvalued as «ome- avalanche. She to "worst in town" when the to. seemed - . S-gHE boy (pop- agitation, th?n£ *nd "acred,*nt,I to be acclaimed and redder: lightnings playedrro*. II ulation 125,000) emerged hast- «-«- In fact- th« very first head; he had a vague h*JJ from the kitchen door of 5 hS" tkii .i,ea. Schofleidie^ and Williams did the audience out®S1 In II lly dnj spraying ^ his father's house one scented lilV * and *¦ chair for hlm the tumult, squealing*, trampling*nigftt.ojl«n®: to"it o° dispersals of a stricken flel conceived that insult was in- housecleaning. There were ing to language. RENA ' her spring "That's all right, what I'd have. T& THE FAMOS "Prominent people here believed rloe» ioned victoria. the matter of he de- half-filled cans and buckets of paint in MUDERESS GoiNG To BE relations of woman sentenced to nangi This was Roderick '""What's you?" the storeroom adjoining the carriage have enough!" denial' Mrs. R. Magsworth Bitts, manded advancing. "You get fresh the side wall of have?** Insist¬ HUNG Angry by MagsworttL jr., a fellow sufferer at the Friday . house, and presently "Well, what would you NEXT JULY KiLED EIGHT PEOPIF Bltts Relationship admitted by younger afternoon dancing class, but other¬ the stable flamed information upon the ed Penrod, derisively. "You'd have to PUT ARSINECK IN THEiR MILK ALSO member of family. His statement J wise not often a companion; a home- passerby from a great and spreading have sumpthlng; you think you could SHERMAN HERMAN AND VERMAN firmed by boy friends..'' con»j sheltered lad, tutored privately and poster. be a show all by yourself?" demanded THE MICHIGAN RATS DOG PART "Don't:" said Mrs. addre preserved against the coarsening influ¬ SSHHaSfeS Subsequent arrangements proceeded Penrod. her husband Williams.^"We ve l ALLIGATOR DUKE THE GENUINE ing vehemently. ences of rude and miscel¬ with a fury of energy which transform¬ "How do you know I couldn't?** read it a comradeship to you." An InDlAN DoG ADMISSion 1 CENT oR dozen times. We ve got plenty laneous information. -Heavily over¬ trtraii «. ed the empty hayloft. Interpreta¬ Two white boys and two black boys AS BEFORE Do NoT of trouble on our hands vir¬ .why can't he answer. to whites 20 PINS SAME wltlymt hearing; grown in all physical dimensions, "He can't. He can't talk no tion of the spiral, inclining shrieked their scorn of the boaster. CHANSE TO SEE ROD¬ tuous and placid, this cloistered mut¬ bettern and was brilliantly effective too!" Roderick raised his MlSS THIS greens, of "I could, ERICK Singularly enough, Mrs. William* ton was wholly uninteresting to Pen- W"Oh » saTdapetniod? mon?fledn,Then he upon the dark facial backgrounds voice to a sudden howl, obtaining a ONLY LIVING NEPHEW oF RENA not look troubled; she looked as dlJ, rod Schofield. Nevertheless. Roderick Herman and Verman: and the counte¬ hearing. MAGSWoRTH THE GREAT FAMOS were trying to look troubled. Mrfe* Magsworth Bitts. jr.. was a personage nances of Sam and Penrod were each "Well, then, how'd you be a show?" Schofleld wore a similar expression. B® I on account of the of the *"'Tal'k'some nC'eT^gged eagerly black mustache and MUDERESS importance "I hoe yon ackoom aim gommo supplied with the Penrod demanded. "We got a show GoiNG To BE dl<1 Mr. Schofleld. So did Mr. WilUaaMl. Magsworth Bitts family, and it was Pen- vmotvia" lacking which no profes¬ if Herman didn't or "What did she say when she called rod's to was the prompt response. imperial, here, even point HUNG yon destiny increase Roderick's he en- sional showman can be esteemed con¬ Verman didn't talk. Their father stab¬ up'" Mrs. Schofleld inquired breaUilosa- "What's mean?" asked Penrod. were celebrity far, far beyond its present aris¬ scientious. Duke and Sherman a man with a I smiled again. The very ly of Mrs. Williams. bed pitchfork, guess, Prosperity . i tocratic limitations. he told 'at ain' secured to the rear wall of the loft, a her* first audience after the acquisition of "She could hardly speak at...first, aim The Bittses were C®!-iHeesays you 'coon got each other. didn't Magsworth impor¬ no name." considerable distance from "How do I know?" Roderick was larger than the largest then when she did talk she talked | tant because they were impressive; . for JO "What's your name? Benches were improvised specta¬ "Well, I guess he's in Jail, ain't he?" of the morning. Mr. Bltts.the only fast I couldn't understand most or Ita t there was no other reason. And they the rats were brought up; finally exhibit upon a box.was a were believed tors; "Well, what if their father is in jail? placed Impressive because they Penrod to the rafters, corncrib and haychute he did I?" supercurlo. All eyes fastened upon ""'Delia says there -were Just streams themselves important. Th^ adults of ¦^"ha^hls^amer' pointed with and I didn't say wasn't, In and j the tongue-tied boy. were ornamented flags strips "Well, your father ain't in Jail, is him and remained, hungrily feasting going out all day,- said lira. the family were impresrnably formal; "Verman." of bunting from Sam Williams* attic, throughout Penrod's luminous oration.' Schofleld. "Of course it wouldn t have they dressed with reticent elegance, excursion ac¬ he?" audience contained a Sam returning from the never said he was. did I?" The second happened, but this Is the day I *pend and wore the same nose and the same account of a rope) by "Well, I adult, a spectacled young every month in the which "Verman. Was three us boys 1n ow companied (on "Well, then," continued Penrod, how cash-paying country witb AQBt expression.an expression indi¬ encountered on the " whose attention was and I fam'ly Ol'est one name Sherman. a fine dachshund be a- He man, poignant Sarah, didn't dream.." < cated that they knew something ex¬ could you stopped abruptly, _ .N'en come me; I'm Herman. Sen com highway, and the entire party went at Roderick. He had suddenly very flattering. He remained after the "She said that the most awful thing quisite and sacred which other people to an line to the staring and put a few questions to about It." Mrs. Williams went never in him* he Verman. Sherman dead. "V er forth add enriching remembered his intention to ask Rod¬ on. could know. Other reople man. lecture,Koddy, which were answered rather that, though she's to their were to feel he de littles' one." poster. erick Magsworth Bitts, Jr.. about Rena going presence apt mys¬ They found a group of seven, includ¬ and this recollection col¬ confusedly upon promptings from Pen- the newspapers, many people wouldprosecnt^ teriously ignoble and to become secret¬ in the Magsworth, rod. The young man went away with¬ ways believe the a"d. awj ly uneasy about ancestors, gloves and Done6 move' in fm way ing two adults, already gathered lided in his mind with the irritation story, ¦> street to read and* admire this work. by Roderick's claiming some out having stated the object of his "Yes. I imagine they will." said Mrs.' pronunciation. produced interrogations, but it became quite Schofleld "Of course In fact, this painful family had for °U^enporntaedathomthe north with his right SCHoFiELD & WILLiams mysterious attainment which would musingly. you and hand, and Penrod's eyes opened warrant his setting up as a show in his plain later in the day. This same ob¬ I and everybody who really know* tn» years terrorized the community, though the BiG SHOW ject caused the spectacled young man Bltts and families the had never realized that thev followed gesture. Hermanwidens, single person. Penrod's whole manner Magsworth under-" community had no forefinger on that hand. ADMISSION 1 CENT oR 20 PiNS to make several brief but unsatlsfac- stand the perfect absurdity of It; but It was terrorized, and invariably spoke . changed instantly. "Look there!" exclaimed Penrod. MUSEUM oF ClIRioSiTiES "Roddy," he asked, almost over¬ dlrectl)r after leaving the suppose there are ever so of the family as the "most charming Now GoiNG oN LSchofleid?.C?il8.& Williams1 Big Show, and believe It. no matterwhatmany_whthe Bm circle in town." By common consent, " VERMAN whelmed by a prescience of something "Y..T murn map," with SHERMAN HERMAN & vast and magnificent. "Roddy, are you the consequences thereof loitered not and Magsworths say." Mrs. Roderick Magsworth Bitts offi¬ ^"verman. THEIR FATHER iN Jail, STABED A by the wayside. "Hundreds and hundreds, said ciated as the supreme model as well as any relation of Rena Magsworth?" interrupted Herman MAN WiTH A Roderick had never heard of Rena The Big Show was at high tide. Not Williams. "I'm will be a (rtttJ critic-ln-chief of. morals and deport¬ e^r°dUo8nePri'aV' PiTCHFORK auditorium filled and come-down for afrald_ltthem." ment for all the pros¬ chuckling. "Tessuh; done chop er Magsworth. although a concentration 4 unlucky people sprang oft. a SHERMAN THE WILD ANIMAL MRS. RODERICK MAGSWORTH BITTS SAW HER SON WEARING A throbbing. there was an Indubitable "I'm afraid said Mrs. perous enough to be elevated to her long go. Hp.3 SIDEBURNS OP WITH of the sentence yesterday pronounced so," Schofleld* a ax an' I lay my finguh on p!a>i".de do -sill*,,, CAPTURED IN AFRICA MUSTACHE AND BLUE, PLENTY OP OTHER upon her had burned, black and hor¬ .eans wholly juvenile- gently. "A very great one.yes. a j acquaintance. an' I HERMAN THE ONE FINGERED TA- COLORS UPON HIM. w^b/,"°for admission to the next puf- very great one." was the important part of say, .Verman, chop er oft. rific. upon the face of every newspaper waiting Magsworth Verman he chop 'er right sprang oft up TOOD WILD MAN VERMAN THE in the country. He was not allowed to formance. A group stood ln the street "Well." observed Mrs. Williams, afte# the name. Mrs. Roderick Magsworth to de TATOOD WILD BoY TALKS Herman. Each and all of into Sam's hand with a careless.nay, a and the and a Bitts was a roots! Tessuh.' SAVAGE jail. Point, read the journals of the day, his Poster earnestly, thoughtful pause, "there's only Magsworth born, herself, "What for?" ONHP" iN HIS NAiTIVE LANGUAGS. will have a chance to see. Point contemptuous.gesture. over the People in automobiles and other ve- thing to be done, and I and the Magsworth crest Cover a coro¬ you At family's Indignation sacrilegi¬ suppose >1 «¦« .'.Tes' fo' nothin'." Do NoT FAiL TO SEE DUKE THE again, Herman. This is the only gen¬ sight of Marjorie. Penrod Schofleld ous conincidence of the name had not halted wheel in the street better be done right net)) decorated not only Mrs. Mags¬ flushed new away." .'He hoe me hoo," remarked... INDIAN DOG ALSO THE MICHIGAN uine one-fingered tattooed wild man. under his mustache (re¬ been in his presejice. But he toto°readread theth!> message so plquantly Riven She glanced toward the two worth Bitts* note paper, but was on and since and as he expressed guiuap .Tessuh. I tole him to, said Herman, TRAINED RATS. Last on the program, gen-til-mun painted noon) lectured saw that it was an awesome name to These were the condi¬ men. the china, on the table linen, on the "an* he 'er we have Verman, the savage had never lectured before. A new grace Williams. tions when a crested victoria arrived on the of chop off, an' *ey ain t airy Penrod, with pardonable lay-deeze, Penrod Schofleld and Samuel "Certainly." Mr. Schofleld chimneypleces, opaque glass oth* one evuh on self-import¬ tattooed wild boy, that can't speak only invested his every gesture; a new sonor¬ Verman were in¬ sallop, and a chastely mae* "But where are on grow wheres do ole ance in the of an audience Even Herman and «« large, they?" the front door, on the victoria, and one use to presence Talk ousness rang in his voice; a simple and Rena and flushed woman .lku- omitted from the grow. Nosub!" now increased to the native foreign languages. formed on the subject of Mags¬ ,hig:hly de¬ "Have you looked In the stable" the harness, though Both brothers looked nine.slowly painted some, crman." manly pomposity marked his very walk and they Joined scSnrtAHscended, and progressed across tha asked his wife. J hose and the lawn mower. pleased and the words inspired by the dachshund: as he passed from curio to curio. And worth through hearsay, 1 garden proud. Penrod's profound interest was Verman obliged and made an instan¬ in the portentous silence. yard with an air of violence. "I searched It.K They've Naturally, no sensible person dreamed IMPoRTENT Do NoT MISS THE He was encored when he fearlessly handled the box of Is At of her the adults r»f th« probably., tof that illustrious crest flatteringly visible, a tribute to their taneous hit. raptur¬ rats and hammered "Roddy," repeated Penrod. "honest. sight started for the far west. connecting unusualness. south american Dog part alli¬ ously, again and again: and, thrilling upon it with cool in¬ Rena Magsworth some relation of disaPPeared. and "Did you look In the sawdust boxT" with the unfortunate and notorious gator. of ap¬ souciance, he beheld.for the first time most of name had "Verman say tell 'bout with the unique pleasure being in yours?" Hhe na8ti!y vehicles moved "No. I didn't." Rena Magsworth. whose you pappy," misunderstood at the his life.a purl of admiration eddy¬ no more InstanMvinstantly on. theirtop of the sawdust box. though were enraptured positions among the exhibits, near the out and with "Roddy." said Penrod again, with sol¬ He looked within and room 200 miles away, and he had it he For the first time in their ll\es wall. taken. Pray pass quietly curiosity, perhaps on account of a pin Rena some rela¬ discerned the dim as The Scho- emnity, "is Magsworth ' Rod(ly s outlines of two In mind.so frank he was.to ask thev moved in the rich of sen¬ as little jostling possible. famine, the attendance began to lan¬ . quiet figures. glamour Sam stood at the entrance, officiating will tion of yours?" jS.K.flSSTSjSs?her only living nenhew » Thev rose, Roderick Magsworth Bitts, jr., if the sationalism. Herman was prodigal of fleld and Williams Military Band guish. Then followed an interval almost upon command, descenaea as barker and ticket-seller; while Pen- before each and each when "Is Ph<», RoddyT asked Sam, the ladder after Mr. Schofleld. and murderess happened to be a relative. gesture with his right debonair as play performance, the band played in vain. stood man rod, with suavity, acted and all are welcome for the same and hoarsely. before the' authors of their who The present encounter, being merely chuckling with hand.and^r-delight. talKea curator, master of ceremonies and lec¬ About 3 o'clock Schofleld and Wil¬ shouted being, one of apathetic greeting:, did not af¬ fluently. They cheerfully agreed to simple price of admission." liams were gloomily various "She's my aunt!" Roddy. bent upon them sinister and threaten- turer. He greeted the first to enter with All of the first audience returned, discussing Silence followed. Sam and Penrod, Ing brows. With heads ford the opportunity. Penrod took off keep the raccoon-already beginning a bow. unpromising devices for the hanging and/ be as courtly They consisted of Miss most of them having occupied the in¬ startling gazed upon Roderick Mags¬ despondent countenances, each still or¬ his cap. Roderick, seated between his mentioned "our coon by 1 ento_ and her nur¬ public into a renewal of interest, when spellbound, mother and one of his sis¬ rod.in Mr. Schofield s Rennsdale, aged eight, terval in hasty excursions for more worth Bitts, jr. So did Herman and 8ee,n? »."" namented with a mustache and an grown-up empty sery governess, and they paid spot cash another patron unexpectedly appeared lie had Penrod and Sam awaited ters, nodded sluggishly, but neither and. when the animal had been'chained pins. And the third performance found and paid a cent for his admission. Verman. Roddy's staggering awfulthfnr0teforeUSh1maselfP"j:'e perial, men*. to the wall near for their admission. all of the same inveterate patrons once changed the face of things utterly. presence Mrs. Magsworth Bitts nor her daughter the box of rats, th y Miss Rennsdale and were News of the big show and museum of assented to s governess more crowding the auditorium, and "Roddy." said Penrod, in a voice ^Mr* Williams took his son by the ear. acknowledged the salutation of the their new friend sug followed by Mr. Georgle Bassett and curiosities hed at last penetrated the will boy in the yard. They disapproved of gestlon that the heretofore "a'"*1"* seven recrtiits added. far cold tremulous with hope, "Roddy, you Rod,'.r'e,c Mags- "You march home!" he commanded. sister (Georgie being an almost perfect there was no spaces of interstellar niceness; our show?" worth Bitts^saw h'er Sam marched, not back him as a person of little consequence, pet be christened Sherman, in honor Prom the first, question for this new join Roddy joined. looking and of their character) and six or seven other which feature of the entertainment was patron consisted of no Even he could see that the offer im¬ his father followed the small figure lm- and that little bad. Snubbed, Penrod deceased relative. children.a most satisfac¬ less than Roderick "POST'S? restored his cap to his At this Juncture was heard from th neighborhood the attraction extraordinary; Verman. Magsworth Bitts, plied his being starred as the paramount SSS^StffffiSHs thoughtfully jr., in a white "sailor head. A can be cut as front vard the sound of that tory audience. Verman. the savage tattooed wild boy, escaped suit" attraction of a new order of things. It to whip mer- quavered boy effectually yodellng "Gen-til-mun shouted from the Manor a of se¬ out Pl"YouIygoIn' as a man. and this one was chilled to which* is the peculiar accomplishment and lay-deeze," speaking only his native foreign lan¬ during period was obvious that he had swelled oa:r^'&i£d Ve.an, the Penrod. alone with Justice. "I will first vere maternal and tutorial rat* 1d m a low temperature. £ those whose voices have not Penrod, call your at-taln- guages.Verman was a triumph! Beam¬ preoccupa¬ suddenly, in the estimation of the other Michigan "Wash your face at that hydrant, The resilient spirits of youth, how¬ shon to our genuine South American ing, wreathed in smiles, melodious, in¬ tion. boys, to that importance which he had the ^ Part "afngator16' said his father sternly. dog, part alligator!" He pointed to the credibly fluent, he had but to open his He seated himself without parley, and been taught to believe his native gift TodP hef°r'' hlm" About fifteen minutes later ever, presently revived. Delia, the it Penrod, cook, upon the back daschshund, and added, in his ordinary lips and a dead hush fell upon the au¬ the pufformance was offered for his en¬ and natural right. se?f nee°deda^oS°^et t0 the hurriedly entering the corner drug stor* depositing porch £3sS- him." reas- tertainment with He had of the two a large rat trap from the cellar, the a tone, "That's Straightway dience. Breathless, they leaned for¬ admirable conscien¬ The sensation was pleasant. countenam® dread*!rtread apparition in blocks dixtant. was astonished to ?S^i£=reda the character of showman, he tiousness. True to the Clara with effusion by the entrvwav hi. a prison of four live rats awaiting exe¬ "Yay8 Penrod'.""was gating, cas suming ward, hanging upon his every semisyl- Lady often been treated perceive familiar form at the so«» cution. bellowed: "Next you see Duke, the gen¬ lable, and, when Penrod checked the caste and training. Roderick's pale, fat grown-up callers and by acquaintances fiYled t^fcuy full-blooded Indian dog from the burst into thunders of face an im¬ mother and sisters, and little wiathnead.?H-then n0t Un" said Sam Penrod at once took possession, re¬ uine, flow, applause, expressed nothing except of his C°'*Yay!" Penrod." Williams :S far western plains and the Rocky which with as shown him defer¬ "Want some Come on. He dldn t tiring to the empty stable, where he Verman received happy pervious superiority, and, he sat. girls had sometimes ^th'apprehension. sody? Installed the rats in a small wooden mountains. Next, the trained Michigan laughter. cold and unimpressed, upon the front ence, but until this moment no boy had m^led Undpr th* lick me. He didn't do anything to me box, with a sheet of broken window- "t guess yo» Wte rats, captured'way up there, and trained The climax of his popularity came bench like a large, white lump, it must ever allowed him. for one moment, to at all. He gave me a quarter. 3-^nrthe to and run all around the box at the Now, in a Mrs. Roderick "So'd jump during fifth overture of the Scho- be said that a even to ttt mine." said Penrod. glass.held down by a brickbat.over Penrod. proudly. he made discouraging presume equality. Uk. MagswOTth1®^! the top. Thus the symptoms of their "They's a good deal more'n him to look the.at the.at the slightest pretext. fleld and Williams Military Band, when audience "to play to." He was not, how- trice, he was not only admitted to com- proaching some^Iui'"mountainTn tCopyright, 1917, by the Wheeler Syndicate, lae.l. THE GOD OF THE INVINCIBLY STRONG ARMS Tlk^oiry md Pracftk® off (Continued from Fourth Page.) by wind and water. traced the different tongues to their "Master, you ask what they were lascivious incense odor which I had as¬ It flared up In the still air with a 6check saucer, -we descended into a steaming I bent down and looked, thorough study of oriental languages. "Guarding:?" The next moment Yuan Kee himself In fifteen minutes the which we paced for Ave Instinctively guardians. street which is called "short sell¬ upon undue inflation of prices. valley, through and instinctively gave an exclamation The first distinct phrase I heard was "Yes. For can there be a safer gruard came round the corner of the cave. flames will be in the chamber of the As an illustration of the operation of tedious hours. in Behari. Then came a in all the It the ing" is a mysterious process to We to eat and rest, and I of surprise. spoken spitting world than leprosy? is "Ah," he purred gently in his fault¬ explosives. Hurry'" short selling-, it may be assumed that stopped "Mascasenhas!" I cried. Armenian; soft, limpid Turkish; Georg¬ one thing: you dread and fear, you men less "Mr. Yandewater and rushed away as fast as most men, and is generally considered by an or a in smoked my last cigar with lingering English. Yuan Kee "operator," dealer stocks, I handed him the thing I had found. ian and Tcherkessian; halting, twangy of America and Europe. But they, the Mr. Mascasenhas. Welcome, my his fat legrs would let him. while I took the public as a questionable and repre¬ believes that a particular stock is sell¬ regret. Then we were off again. bowl of a Chinese sonorous men the tiers of ran with a It was the red clay Chinese, Manchu, explosive of Asia, they do not fear it. You friends." He pointed to Mascasenhas by the hand and hensible the ing: too high. It has been established Once I thought that, little to the exam¬ virile a circular air. practice, because operation the same direction pipe, recently used. Mascasenhas Phrases of Arabic, soft-gliding know that." explosives with generous, him up the hill, into God's clean that stocks sometimes sell too higrh, -west and leading in ined then tossed it among Persian harsh Pukhtu, Jap¬ We were presture. must us a long visit. is usually described as that of selling sell too were I could see it, snifTed it. words, oily silent. I thought deeply, "You pay and that at times they low. which we taking. the basalt rocks with a light laugh. anese, and the sharp, exclama¬ and as I about as as you please. Stay OP THE NEXT STORY stock which does not to the seller, The for lower called In deep ruts such as are made by heavy guttural thought I looked me. Stay.ah, long THE TITLE belong operator prices, "Some nomad Mengol shepherd may tions of the bewildering, uncounted The walls of the cave in which we until you die!" IN THIS SERIES IS "TALE OF THE but which belongs to some other person the terminology of the market place a wagons and huge caterpillar-wheeled have here with his ani¬ tribes which roam the of cen¬ were I him with a of to sell that trucks. I said of the passed through steppes were painted with a typical scene interrupted cry rage, HALF-CASTE'S REVENGE." who has no "bear," begins particular motor something mals. You see, there are grazing lands tral Asia from Baikal to the Caspian. of Buddhist iconography. On the left and turned to the half-caste. presumably at that moment stock. He does not own a share of sort to the half-caste. to the west of here. No, no, master, we I motioned the to follow from of his own stock. It sells it the But he smiled and forged on without half-caste was Ix>rd Gautama standing:, dressed "Let's try to get away here. thought selling that stock, but he just head. are safe." me, and led the way toward the fissure in a simple robe of that dark red-brown Let's- make a fight of it, anyway." The Two Codes. seems to be a puzzle to most persons, same. turning his Of course, the man was right. I was in the rock wall whence the light and color The Chinaman, As the stock must be delivered to the "Just a shadow, master of mine. Per¬ which Indian tradition since an¬ laughed. a ban¬ even to those who stocks and seeing specters In broad daylight, and the sounds were drifting. cient times for "My white friend, do not exert your¬ Patterson said, at purchase purchaser 011 the day after the sale, haps the mark of a dried river bed. But at own prescribes ascetics and how a man can he does the next moment I laughed my T looked. of all sects. . self. Do not fight a torrent with the Bishopin Columbus: bonds, sell stocks the broker for the seller borrows the there can be no wagon ruts here. "Why, "We walked steadily saintly preachers quet stock for from another broker who been here since the silly apprehensions. Below me, in a yet deeper and bigger The halo and the characteristic, words of your tongue. Stay, my friends. world will be a better place not own, and whenever any public in¬ him there's nobody days in a direction, and was scene had top¬ "The deals when Kublai Khan and his Tartars rode on, still southerly cave, the strangest I knot made it certain to me that the You will be well guarded. You will quiry touches upon stock trading the in¬ principally, perhaps exclusively, stopped in front of a mawlike opening ever beheld. have races when a uniform morality prevails in lending stocks. The seller makes their horses into the ships to subjugate teacher was meant for Buddha. I company of many races.the seem become among the ruins. Mascasenhas pointed It was a symphony of all the races and walked to the and of that which you love so. everywhere. Nowadays it's quite moral vestigators to immediately delivery of the borrowed stock to the the Shoguns of Japan: except, perhaps, down. up wall studied the great Asia, in of "short If the seller has guessed once in a while a Buddhist abbot or sage tribes and faiths of Asia. Hundreds figure of the Buddha himself. And then and which you try to benefit. And if to do a friend in business, whereas Interested in the matter sales," purchased. '"We have arrived, Mr. Vandewater. arid hundreds of men were rushing and I which to do one's friend is wrong. ensues a discussion of right and the stock has gone sufficient¬ searching for the buried shrines of his us here. And noticed somethingr strange. For while they have the little scaly spots society and there always at he sold it faith." Yuan Kee will never find jostling about, some directing, others the hand of the teacher you call the pre¬ "A young millionaire once said: ly below the price which us from right was leprosy.remember " the reason or Justification and the right he directs his broker to buy the stock We made camp on a small hill shaded my cousin will send provisions loading boxes and bundles on wheel¬ raised in the correct traditional cepts of your Christian faith.be kind 'I'm in a quandary about my fu¬ time to time. In a week, or a month, barrows, others again trundling them pose, ture. I can't decide whether to on or wrong of the practice. in for him to make a settlement with by enormous, gnarled thorn trees. Mas- search. He known as that of Abhaya or protection, to the sick and lowly!" go the broker from whom he borrowed the casenhas south. the Manchu will give up the off through a large opening cut into the which have been "I*m Yuan Kee, that we can¬ Wall street and live up to my late fa¬ The principle of the "short sales" of pointed will think our overturned the but all left, should hang¬ afraid. stock for delivery to the purchaser, "See, over yonder," he said. "We are that sampan opposite wall of the cave; ing flat the was not hospitality. ther's reputation, or to go into society in the narrows, and that we were drown¬ were and hurriedly, against side, lifted in accept your charming stocks is almost universally defended by and his profit is the difference between nearly at the place of our destination. " working feverishly a attitude. I think we will return whence we and live it down.'" ed. And then.presently as if their life depended on the pointing the authorities on stock trading in the the price of his sale and his purchase, By tomorrow night we shall be there." not very Instinctively my eyes followed the came, and you yourself will show us minus his commission to the broker for I rose and looked over the scene. Be¬ He talked on. But I was listening. task which they were doing. the our own exchanges. They believe that short sell¬ I at to the cave, direction in ^hich the hand was point¬ way. We shall return to executing the orders and a certain fore me stretched a flat, hesitated the entrance They were lifting and sorting and A Panama. a huge, gray and had all I could do to keep myself boxes and bundles ing. people." ing serves useful purpose and they say amount of interest about which it Is with long lines of basalt here and there trundling away There was a small opening in the The Chinaman that the experience of France and Ger¬ not now necessary to inquire in order to seaming the surface. from crying out. For again the fetid, which seemed very heavy; and they wall. I laughed. straw hat's reappearance led acrid, odor assailed and choked me; and with the motioned to Mascasenhas to "A little of your famed American many, both of which governments put understand the outline of the "short A cold wind set in from the south. I handled them with speed, but follow me, and stepped through the bluff?" THEBarclay Warburton, the Philadel¬ short sales under the ban of the law, sale" transaction. wide to drink in the this time it came from below my feet, utmost care, scrupulously avoiding the opened my lungs from the which the half- opening. I laughed, in my turn. phia newspaper owner, to say: found that business was seriously crip¬ If the price of the stock had gone air. And then I gasped and shuddered very cave into vicinity of the torches. I found myself in a still the contend the "bear" would caste was me. larger and "So, my friend. This isn't bluff. I'm "Before the war I often at pled by prohibition. They up instead of down, a little. For on the wings of the even¬ leading And as they worked that same heavy higher cave." But there were no and". golfed short is an economic neces¬ or later to The caves were in several rows, piled fetid and acrid and paint¬ holding a pat hand. Four aces Biarritz, at the Chambre d'Amour that selling have had sooner purchase ing wind came a strange, acrid, fetid odor, sickening, ings covering the walls. Instead there I from golf and they point out the fact, which is the stock at a loss to him. It is odor. Somehow and on top of each other. rose from the swaying masses. Yet I were tiers and tiers of pulled the big automatic my pocket links, looking out over the Bay of Bis¬ sity. very vaguely quite row a boxes, thou¬ and twirled the loaded chambers sig¬ overlooked by most of the critics of short wrongly assumed that when a stock it reminded me of a We approached the upper by knew they were all men of clean races. sands and thousands of thein. I walk¬ cay. man's inexplicably day, cut the rock. I nificantly."a Joker." selling, that the seller of another has gone down 5 "points" the besr years ago, which I had spent with a rough staircase from living saw that there were many gentlemen, ed up and examined them. And I "Sometimes I had for caddie an old soon afterward the to In a fissure of the rock who jump¬ Yuan Kee paled. But at once he re¬ stock is compulsory makes that profit. In trying buy friend of mine, a British army surgeon, Then, crossing deep many high-castes among them, ed back with a cry of fear and sur¬ Scotchman. I said to the old Scotch¬ of the same amount of stock. to cover his short sale J on a cholera by a time-worn rope bridge, we observed the three daily ab¬ prise. gained his composure. man one buyer the stock h#; duty in camp in India, be¬ rickety, rigorously nor vestment" Is sometimes very thin an& J sharply disgust. whirling mon one same at $19,000, he has depreciated the As a rule, it is only I Is in the air.like corpses." another, larger temple cave, and then "Lepers, lepers, lepers," I whispered fernal, damnable riddle. Then the Chinaman bowed deeply. spring morning, pointed his It vague. general Late the next day we I Here was the chief armory, the chief "You at a fat man in a front value of A's property by $1,000. the professional operator who will reached the stopped short. He bumped against me. into the ear of the half-caste. Then "Yes, my friend," he purred. forefinger pew, be that the intrinsic value is un¬ to .ell/ farther ridge. The smell had become in¬ and I could feel him tremble. clutched his arm and ran away, depot of the yellow man. And he an unbeatable hand.this and roared: may stocks "short," hoping buy themdUtj rapidly have, indeed, " But if A seeks to borrow at a lower creasingly fetid and hot, but I accept¬ "What is it. Mascasenhas?" My voice hack in the direction whence we had guarded it carefully. He had buried it time." 'George Jones, this is the third time changed. and cover his sale price, ed the half-caste's He in a deserted ruin, and he had brought I've had to to wake money on hi« stock the bank will as¬ explanation. He knew sounded hollow and unreal. did not come. He turned and motioned to me. stop you up. If I on the basis the land. answer a a lepers from all over Asia to guard the have to I'll sess its value as oollateral word, but pointed shaky Finally my breath gave out. I sat treasure. "Follow me." stop again. expose you to of the at which B offers to sell Mascasenhas led the way with the finger. down in a and the Eurasian fol¬ death-dealing He led us a of the whole congregation by name.*" price quick, swinging step of the I heap I understood the meaning of .the up rickety flight and not on what A considers it to be The Best of Answers. ^V' Jungle- looked. I shi\*ered a little. lowed suit. and motor I stairs which connected direct with the worth." born, and I followed him painfully. We Dead from a crack in the wall, of ref¬ wagon truck ruts had seen climbed for ahead, "We looked for a safe place two days ago when we were valley outside. I walked backward all Nevertheless it must be confessed, marshal joffre is,.aik* ( steadily about two hours; came a light.a light which spoke of uge, for an and we found ¦' crossing the the store of The Same. then we descended. And hid¬ asylum, the basalt lands. I understood the fe¬ way, covering explo¬ said Mr. Pratt, that it is difficult to dis¬ Fieldother taciturn great men, ¦ suddenly, lamps and torches moving about. "What, mastflp*?" verish with which sives with my revolver, and stopped in the nature den away in a curious, baylike depres¬ At the same instant my senses regis¬ speed the lepers back war taxes," said a sen- tinguish any difference of sion between red "Yes.what?" I repeated, and paused. yonder were working. I understood only when I had arrived on level tfajrNDIRECT transactions on the "long" and the matlc. "j steep, dunes, the ruins tered two distinct sensations which Then I continued: ground. Then I revolver to « ator, "seem easier to bear, but di¬ his at school on came into sight. seemed to connect with each other. One what was contained in the boxes and gave my "short" side. If it is right to speculate In youth, the military At "Let's figure this out. Of course, these bundles which they were Ms scasenhas.' rect war taxes are perhaps the fairest. for a it is to for St. Cyr. he was once asked the qnM i' first they were unin¬ lifting and .' rise, right speculate absolutely was again the oppressive, fetid odor which lepers have been brought here from all in their that for a love,* said a 'what's habitable. There was neither cave nor I had when I was trundling wheelbarrows. "Keep Chinaman covered 'My young wife, a fall. In further defense of the short tion: ~i smelled first, within over Asia. For they are of a dozen I turned to Mascasenhas. few minutes.'' the difference between a direct and an a ' shelter. Then we came upon a bit of sight of the the other was a seller Mr. Pratt said that the "bear" "Suppose you commanded land where I could ruir.s: sound races, a dozen castes. You saw them. "Come, Mascasenhas. We must go Then I busied feverishly. indirect war taxT has his in the market, that he that was Invested by the enemy, uA a still trace the .a series of sounds. myself " place marked by the remains of But, tell me, what were they doing? away.quick, quick.back to the coast Heaping up a huge mass of dry wood The same differences my dear,* the sometimes performs a useful service this town was threatened with starva* ground-plan, It was a shifting, twirling babel of What is in the boxes and bundles? .to Macao.to and ask¬ walls made of plastered reed matting. many echoed from rock to Hongkong." fragments of timbers, I piled the husband replied, 'as between your in restoring prices to their proper level, tlon. How would you get provisional*.! was tongues, Why the speed and hurry? And why I stopped short. For suddenly from mass against the entrance of cave ing me for money and going and that, like the minority in Congress, "I'd get them from the half pstrifled. sroded aw&y rock, i listened more Intently. 1 to the through enemy,"- 4M lepera do the work," nowhere in particular camo again that and put a match to it. - my pockets while I'm asleep.'" which serves as a check upon the raa- mdu -1 ) cuck answered. _ 4, k ?