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By VIEILLE CURE de CENON, France

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and his voice to be hard and even though he'd never con-hateful. "The Jungle has been a and yet you are six Rip Van

Relously admit to himself that miserable place," he continued. Winkles. Gosh, what a title that

her presence could still colour his the only good thing about it will make for a feature article! MERCANTILE BANK BLDG., world for him and bring it from me is that it will be good to get What a story!"

"I wis ugly flatness

from."

wish you'd please stop that tell us the news." perspective.

"But we've had fun." Spruy's raving and He would feel, then, that voice was almost pleading,

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"Fun!" He managed to put irritation.

bitterness into his laugh.

It had been wonderful.

He

knew it now, when he was on

"I'm cor

Eorry, Miss Newhall," said Mr. Bantling. "For a minule the dramatic aspects of the situation

the verge of losing it all. Here, almost overcame me. Let's all sli within the magic of this clear-down together. There's

lot of

ing he had had the only rent history for you to catch up on." happiness, security and coziness talker. But what he had to tell Hugh Bantling was a dramatic ever known. Nice people, fine talk. good food, work, pets told all of it,

needed little high spotting.

up music and flowers. And a beau- bour and an all-out war for the

he'd m

üful girl to look at. That been what he had wanted more

He

to Pearl Har-

had

United States.

"It's a big pill to take, isn't

than anything else in the

In the world

orld it?" asked Hugh Tantling. "You

as a child...

Spray, by candlelight, when see, for us it has happened "fair- y slowly over a period of years; they would all be dressed for

the and so, in a way, we have been dinner, and the wind in fronds of the rubber trees and able to absorb it as it came,"

nid a word. None of the alx said a the distant complaint of the

"Many a time I've wondered Jungle animals

would come to

would them faintly through their bam- just how this same thing

* | strike someone if it had to come boo binds as a sort of music..

all at once." went on Banting. Spray, in the green and rose "But it had never occurred to light of dawn. Spray, in the hot, me that I would over be break-

Highl aleaming, stimmering

ing the

the news to

who were people who noon. Starlight net moonlight.

modern, and

and Just What would they ever mean to young and

storting out in their lives." him now?

Three sleeping beauties, you "You're shivering again, Mar-

thren

xala," said Sterling, as he tin." Ann's voice was kind, but looked at the girls. And then he it brought him away from his looked a[ Spray more closely. themes, with a rude jolt.

"But you aren't any siceping

of

I feel sick," said Martin, beauty. You're flying right on as he felt his nerves suddenly the beam with your motors pur- go slack. He wasn't going to keep ring on all twenty-four. Tell you hose thoughts of his locked up right now, Miss Newhall you're Inside himself any more. "And in my corner. I'd give you the you all want to know what's green light. any time, becauso you've got more zing and five "Touch of malaria, "inter than any other little cooker with rupted Spray crisply. "You don't

gasser

I ever saw before. Strict- need to tell

us. Go get some ly station wagon-I mean that." quinine."

Spray frowned. "Listen, sald Jo, "do you hear them? I do, I think."

the, matter-

"

"It's, all right, Miss Newhall," Banting assured her. "He's per- He was right. There were fectly sane. It's the new stang. drums far in the distance which But that'll be the least of your were starting to beat, first so troubles. He's only trying to tell softly that they were no more you that he considers you quite than the whisper of heartbeata, O.K."

And then the sound began com- "Oh," said Spray. "Wal ing to their cars, swelling, loud thanks Mr. Sterling, Once and triumphant.

learn the language, perhaps we can"

It was very Elling. For more exciting, ever than they had "Don't worry, I'll give you the imaginod it would be. Flist of all pitch. I mean, I can explain to came the black bearers, ad you as we go along," Sterling vancing with huge packing cases told her eagerly.

balanced on theft heads, and then Martin felt-suffocated by n the three white men, looking like black fog of jealousy which was sunhelmeted explorers in geosweeping over him. What was graphical magazines:

anyway? You watched them enter the the matter with him,

He hated Spray, didn't he? clearing

under the bright light you've got quite a clearing of the moon, and you had the here," said Mr. Barrick then. He strange feeling that this exact hadn't spoken before. Mr. Bar- thing had happened many times rick was the type of man who before, not in your life, but in looked as if he should be wear- the lives of other white people ing a neat business suit and be who'd been lost in the Jungle sitting in a skyscraper office.

You wondered if

if you shouldn't "What are those trees? I've seen say something very alp when trees like that in pictures. Even you were shaking hands with

moonlight they look very

these men about its being good

od familiar."

talk about:

to see a new face. But, with a "ok here, what's cookin'" catch in your throat, you rea- burst in Sterling, lils eyes he- lized that it was too good to even gan to glisten with excitement.

"Look here," give out slowly," quite an establian-Don't tell-me--all-at-once that ment you have here. We didn't expect to see anything like this, those are rubber trees?”****

"Of-course they are," said said a newspaper correspondent Martin, His voice was curt.

wwelt

Wall

named Banting, who, seemed to to the spokesman for the trio,

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