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THE NORTH PLATTE SEMI-WKEKIjY TRIBUNE. icruijr COPYraiG"HT APOLLO. Bynopsls, Jnne Ilardlnrr. reupcct ablo and conservative old splruiter but nover too old to think of marriage with more money , than brains, Is inveigled by a strong minded spinster, Miss JIlBglesby llrowne Into financing an expedition to hunt for burled treasure on to ward Island, iter niece, Virginia Harding, learns of It by lottcr, makes ahurry-up trip to the Pana ma Canal and catches the steamer. She demunds her aunt. "Another lunatic!" yells the captain. CHAPTER I. Continued. I -2- Tills, tlicn, wa MIhs Violet IIIkrIos-by-Browne. , I suw a jjrlin, bony, Btocky Hhnpo, In n cnmimnlon cos tume to my mint's. Around the edges o her cork helmet lior short lron-Kruy hair visibly bristled. She hml n mas bIvc head, unci a sentned and rugged countennnco which did Its bent to live down the humlllutlon of a ridiculous little nose with no bridge. But whnt riveted my eyes was tbc deadly glare with which hers were turned on me. I saw that not only was she as certain or my Identity as though she had guided me from my first tottering steps, but that In n flash she had grasped my motives, alms and purposes, and meant once for all to face, out-general and defeat ine with great slaughter. So she announced to the company with deliberation: "Tho Young Per son Is modi" It nettled mo extremely. "Mndl" I flung hack ay her. "Be cause I wish to save my poor mint from such a situation as this? It would bo charitable to Infor madness In tlioBo who have led her Into It I" When I rovlowed this speech after ward I realized that it was not, under the circumstances, the best calculated to win mo friends. "Janol" said Miss nigglesby-Browne In deep and awful tones, "the time has como to provo your strength 1" Aunt Jnno proved It by uttering n shrill yelp, and clutching her, hair with a reckless disregard of Us having- originally been that of a total Btranger. So severe wero her shrieks and struggles that It was with diffi culty that she was borne below In tho arms of two strong men. I had seen Aunt Jane In hysterics before she had them that tlmo about the convict. I was not frightened, but X hurried after her neck and neck with Miss Browne. It was ilftcen minutes beforo Aunt Jane came to, and then eho would only moan. I bathed her head, and held her hand, and did all tho regulation things un der tho baleful eye of Miss Browne, who steadfastly rofuscd to go away, but sat glaring llko a gorgon who eees her prey nbout to bo snatched from her. In the midst of my ministrations I awoko suddenly to a rhythmic heave and throb which pervaded the ship Dropping Aunt Jane's hand I rushed on deck. Thero lay tho various pieces of my baggage, and In the distance the boat with the two brown rowers was skipping shoroward over tho rip ples. As for tho Itufus Smith, sho web under way, and heading out of tfee roadstead for tho open sea. I dashed art to tho captain, who tood Issuing orders In the voice of an aggrieved fog-horn. "Captain 1" I cried, "wait; turn around 1 You must put my aunt and yae ashore 1" lie whirled on me, showing a crlm on angry face. 'Turn around, Is It turn around?" he shouted, "Do you Suppose I can loaf about the harbor here o-wnltln' on your aunt's fids? You come aboard without mo askln'. (Now you can go along with the rest, frills here ship has got her course set for Frisco, plckln' up Leeward Island o the way, and anybody that ain't goln' In that direction Is welcome to Jttmp overboard." That U how I happened to go to Leeward Island. I CHAPTER IL 1 Apollo and Some Others. Tho Itufus Smith, tramp freighter, had been chartered to convey tho Harding-Browne expedition to Lee ward Jslund, which lies about thrco hundred miles west of Panama, and could be picked up by tho freighter In her course. She was a little dingy boat with such small accommodations that I cannot Imagine whero the ma jorlty of her passengers stowed thorn urtlves away. My aunt and Miss Brown hail u stateroom between them (ho si 7.; of n pncklng-box, and some body turned out and resigned anoth er tn mo. Jl rnHral th3 to drews for ddiii'M. In tho hatte of my departure from Hn Francisco I had nt brought mink. ft tin bast I wuh nhlo to pro 6ucr in t!i w uy of i't"Mhi'r for Miss THE BOBBS-MER.R.1L.L COMPANY iIIpglesby-Browne and her fellow-pas-. Hungers was u cool little white gown, which would shine at least by con trast with Miss Browne's severely util itarian costume. White is becoming to my hair, which narrow-minded per sons term red, but which has been known to cnuse the more discriminat ing to draw heavily on the dictionary for adjectives. My face Is small and heart-shaped, with features strictly for use and not for ornament, hut for tunately Inconspicuous. As for my eyes, I think tnwny quite the nicest word, though Aunt June calls them hazel and I have even heard whispers of green. Five minutes after the gong sound ed I walked Into the cabin. Miss Browne, Captain Wntklns of the freighter, and half n dozen men wero already at the table. I slid unobtru sively Into the one vacant place, for- lunntolv romoto from tlm cnntnln. who clnrcd at me savucely. us though still Pinlilttorod bv tho recollection of my aunt's (Us. "Gentlemen," snld Miss Browne In Icy tones, "Miss Virginia Harding." Two of the men rose, the others stared and ducked. Except for Miss Browne nnd tho cnptuln, I had re ceived on coming aboard only the most blurred Impression of my fellow-voyagers. I remembered them merely as a composite of khaki and cork hel mcnts nnd astounded staring faces. But I felt that as the abetters of Miss Browne a hostile and sinister ntmos- phcre 'enveloped them all. Being thus in the camp of tho en emy, I sat down In silence nnd devoted myself to my soup. The majority of my companions did likewise audibly. Hut presently I heard a voice at my left: "I say, what a Jolly good snllor you seem to bo pity your aunt's not!" I looked up nnd saw Apollo sitting beside me. Or rather, shall I say a oung man who might huvo walked out of an advertisement tor a ready- "What will She Do If She Meets a Cannibal and Ha Tries to Eat Her?" mndo clothing house, so Ideal and 1m possible was his beauty. He wus very tall I had to tilt my. chin quite pain fully to look up nt him and from tho loose collnr of his silk shirt his throat rose Hke a column. Ills akin was a beautiful clear pink nnd white Just tinged with tnn like a meringue that has been in tho oven for two minutes exactly. Ho had a straight, chiseled prolllo nnd his hair was thick and chestnut and wavy nnd ho had clear sea-gray eyes. To glvo him at once his full name and titles, ho was the Honorable Cuthbort Patrick Ituth more Vane, of High Staunton .Manor, Kent, England. But as I was Ignorant of this, I can truthfully so.v that his looks stunned me purely on their own merits. Outwardly calm, I replied, "Yes, It's too bad, but then who ever dreamed that Aunt Juno would go ad- venturing at hor tlmo of life? I thought nobody over tho ago of thlr- teen, nnd then hovs. over went trens. ure-huntlng." "Ah, but lads of thirteen couldn't well como such a dlstanco on their nwn vmi If firm' rntiirtinit Annlln w-IMi thP, ItlntW nlr nf mnlrlnn. "nllovvnn. ice ' for tho female Intellect. I hurriedly turned tho subject. "I really can't Imuglne Aunt Jano on a desert Island, What will she do If sho meets a cannibal und ho tries to cat her?" "Oh, really, now," argued the para- gon earnestly, "I'm quite sure there's no danger of that, don't you know? I hcllovo there are no natives at all on tho Island, or elso qulto tamo oues, I forget which, and there are four of ua chaps. with no end of revolvors nnd things. Mr. Shaw sitting opposite Miss Browne, you know Is rnther running things, so If you feel nervous you should talk to him. Was with tho South Polar expedition and all that knows no end about this sort of thing wouldn't for a moment think of let ting ladles run the rljk of being eat en." I peeped around Apollo for a glimpse of the exierlcnced Mr. Shaw. I suw a 8trong-feuturcd, weather beaten profile, the face of a man some where In his thirties, and looking, from this side view nt least, not only stern but grim. I made up my mind nt once that the buekbono of the party, and Inevitably tho leader In Its projected villainies, whatever they might be, wan this rugged-looking Mr. Shaw. You couldn't fancy him as the misled fol lower of anybody, even the terrific Violet. 1 As It seemed an nnpropltiojs mo-, ment for tnking counsel wltlqpfr. Shaw about cannibals, I tried another tuck with the beautiful youth at my side. ' How did you like Panama? 1 , fancy esqnp.' the old town Is very plctun "Oh, rnther 1" assented Mr. vViuiq. "At least, that Is what those painter ! chaps call It met a couple of 'cm at i tho hotel. Beastly little nnrrow streets and houses. In a shocking state and all that. I like to see property kept up, myself." "I am afraid," I said severely, "that' you are a phlllstlnel" He blinked a little. "Ah quite so 1" he murmured, recovering himself j Britain and Japan shull scrap sixty gallantly. "One of thoso chaps that slx capital ships, aggregating 1,878, backed Goliath ngalnst David, what?" i Oi'A tons. From this conversational Impassa we were rescued by the Interposition 1 of the gentleman opposite, whose small twinkling eyes had been taking mo In w,t'1 '"tentness "I did some fllttln about that Httla old burg on my ..own hook," ho In formed us, "nnd what I got to sny Is, It needs wnkln' up. I might have took n hnnd In It myself, If I hndn't hnve met up with Miss Browne and your n'nt. Yes, sir, I hnd a slick little proposition or two up my sleevo. Backed by some" of tho biggest capi tal In the U. S. A. In fact, there's a bunch of fcUers up thero In God's country Hint's pretty sore on old H. II. for pnssln' things up this war. Kep the wires hummln' for two-three days, till they seen I wasn't to be switched, and then tho Old Man him self no use mentlonln' names, but 1 guess you know who I mean Wall Street would, quick enough, anyway the Old Man himself threatened to put his yacht In commission and come (lown t0 flnd ou wlmt rt of little &mo wns P'nyirr on mm. uut 1 uono llK0 ur cr naDDit jest lay low. "miiton a. xudds Knows a good thing when ho sees it about as quick as tho ne3Ct one ana ne unows enough to Keep mum auout it, toor Three or four rough-looking men, of whom one, a certain Captain Mag nus, belonged to our party and the rest to. tho ship, continued vigorously to hack their way through tho meal with clattering knives and forks. Of other sounds there was none. Such gloom -weighed heavily on tho genial spirit of Mr. Tubbs, and he lightened It by rising to propose a toast. "Ladles and gentlemen, to her now unfortunately laid low by tho pangs of mal do mer our friend nnd bony dear, Miss Harding 1" This was bowilderlng, for neither by frlond nor foo could Aunt Jane bo called bony. Later In tho light of Mr. Tubbs's passion for classical allusion, I decided to translate It bona den, and consider tho family complimented. At the moment I sat stunned, but Miss Browne, with greater self-possession, majestically Inclined her head and snld : "In tho name of our absent friend, I thank you." In splto of wistful looks from the bcuutlful youth as wo rose from tho table, and the allurement of a tropic moon, I remained constant to duty nnd Aunt .Tune, nnd Immured myself in her stateroom, where I passed an enlivening evening listening to her moans. She showed a faint returning spnrk of llfo when I mentioned Cuth bert Vane, and raised her head to murmur that he was Honornblo and sho understood though not tho heir, "l" "kely to Inherit nnd perhnps after nl' Providence Tho unspoken end of Aunt Jane's sentence pursued mo Into dreams In which an unknown gentleman oblig ingly broke his neck riding to hounds and left Apollo heir to tho title and estates. "I say, MU Harding, you'ra bound to like Shaw. No end " tTO BIS CONTINUED.) Has Light of 600 Million Candles. A one-half billion candlepowcr searchlight, tho most powerful In the world, whoso rays can be seen for 70 miles, has Just been received at San Francisco, where it will bo installed on Mount Tamalnais. at tho entrance to tho Golden Gate, Tho light Is ten feet high, weigh nearly thrco tons and Iiob a 60-lnch tens A mnn ntnnfllnir ton mllpo tram tho light could read a newspaper. Ten feet away ho would bo able to light a cigar by means of it. A citizens' Urn ll-hr could rend . nnwar.nr.nr T-n cigar by committee of San Francisco is arrang- Ing for Uio searchlight, which will shoot its rays out across the Pacific ocean nnd give the first Indication to Incoming steamships that land Is near, W. D'A, Itynn, tho Illuminating cn- glncer who lighted tho Panama Pa- clflc International exposition, first sug gested the use of the light to stand a a Bentlnel at the Golden Gat. U.S. LAYS BARE PLAN TO DISARM Secretary Hughes' Proposal Hits Opening Session Like Bombshell. SUGGESTS NAVAL HOLIDAY Chief Powers of World Challenged By America to Destroy Great War ships Concrete Program Is Promulgated. 9 "Washington, D. C America's pro- posnl for u radical reduction and strict limitation of nuval armament by the -'''of naval powers which was laid before the jnrins conference nt tho opening session by .Secretary of State Hughes descended upon the nssemblaco like n bombshell. Beforo the dele- ! gates scarcely were aware of what wis happening, Mr. Hughes, true to '8 promise, had laid the curds of uncle .Sam's hand face up on the table. The proposal literally amazed the delegates assembled nnd created it sensation In many parts of the world. A ten-yenr rmvnl holldny Is the pro- Posal, and the United States. Great Within three months after tho corv elusion of an agreement the United Mutes would . ve eighteen capital B,1'PK; Oreat Br :uln twenty-two and Japan ten. Tonnngo of the three na tions, respectively would be 500,050, UO-1,450 and 290,700, Ships when twenty years old might be replaced, and tho replacement scheme Is 500,000 tons for the United Stntes, 500,000 tons for Great Britain nnd 300,000 tons for Japan. Tho United States would scrap thir ty capital ships aggregating 834,740 tons; Great Britain, nineteen, aggre gating 583,375 tons, nnd Jupan seven teen, aggregating 448,028 tons. The figures Include old ships to be scrapped, ships building or for which material has been assembled. What America Proposes. The principal features of the Amor lean plan propose: That for not less than ten years competitive navnl building cease as between Great Britain, the United Stntes and Jnpnn. That all capital ships building or planned to be scrapped, and a few re cently placed In the water be destroyed within three months of ratification ol tho agreement. That the older ships also be de stroyed, reducing th British force to twenty-two battleships, tho American to eighteen and the Japanese to ten, each ship to ho retained being named That during the ngreement, no cnpl tal craft to be laid down except under n detailed replacement scheme In eluded In the proposal, which would provide for ultimate equality of the British and American llcets and for a .Tuponeso force nt GO i.er cent, of tho strength of either other two. That nil other naval craft be slml larly provided for in the same ratio, specific figures for nggregato tonnage In each class being laid down. That naval aircraft bo disregarded In the scaling down processes ns a problem incapable of solution owing to the convertibility o commercial aircraft for war purposes, That no naval building be under taken in nny of tho three countries on foreign account during the agree ment. Thnt no capital ships hereafter laid down exceed 35,000 tons That, the life of a battleship shall be fixed at twenty years, and that ships to ho replaced be destroyed be fore the replacement vessel Is more than three months passed completion, Thnt no hnttle&hlp replacement whntever bo undertaken for ten years from date of tho agreement That no combnt craft be acquired except by "construction, and none bo so disposed of that it might become part of another navy Thnt regulations to govern conver sion of merchant craft for war pur poses be drawn up, because o the importance of the merchant marine, "In Inverse ratio to tho size of naval rmnments." These nro features of tho sweeping ehnllenge Secretary Hughes presented to the other nnvnl powers. Thero was complete dctnll covering every phaso of tho question, but the essenco of tho proposal lay In this: Thnt the United States offered to go far boyond what she nsked Great Britain or Japan to do, viewed from the finnncial losses Involved. The whole American big ship build Ing program Is on the stocks, while Grent Britain has no capital ships construction and the Japanese . 0,K,,t an(l P'K"1 P'" 8 J'et largely on puper. Hou&e Passes Bonus Bill. Jefferson City, Mo. The Missouri an ?l ,'mB,u ,,, oll"cr, omw 1,1 "n tlio form the bill P"""' tho senate. Final count show- hs0 of representatives passed tllC cd that, only one voto was enst agulust tho measure. Bandits Make Heavy Haul. St, lentils, mo. Two armed men entered the jewelry store of Kdwnrd J. Gallant In tho downtown section forced three employes in the, rear room nnd escaped with Jewelry -rallied at from S"rtKX) to $50,000, ft THE LDflON (Copy tor Thin Department Supplied br trie American Legion ntws (service.) FINDS JOBS FOR LEGION MEN Minnesota Department Commander Holds Remarkable Record as Sol dier, Citizen and Legionnaire. Dr. A. A. VnnDyke, Minneapolis, Minn., newly elected commander of the Minnesota Depart ment of the Amer ican Legion, Is ac credited, among other things, with Having found Jobs for 1,300 ex-service men. The new commander has a remurkuble record as a soldier, cltl ,zen nnd legion naire. When the Amer ican Legion came Into being, Dr. VunDyke Immediately became an active member. He wus tho first vice commander of St. Paul Post No. 8, which at tho lime was the larg est post In the United States. He has served us chairman of the Itnmsey county welfare committee nnd was a member of the legislative committee instruments In getting the soldiers' bonus bill before the legislature. Doctor VunDyke wns born In Alexan dria, Minn., und wus graduated In 1003 from the University of Chicago School of Medicine. He inter completed a course In dentistry at University of Minnesota. During the war he enllstod In the slgnnl corps nnd because of pre vious training In artillery wus sent to the M. O. It. S. enmp In New Jersey as Instructor. THE DISABLED ARE FAVORED Director of the Government Veterans' Bureau Alms to Give the Doubt to Claimants. Gen. Red Tape, merciless foo of the disabled man, has been almost en tirely eliminated through efforts of the American Le gion, In its suc cessful campaign for the passage of the Sweet bill and the efforts of Charles R. Forbes, director of the govern ment veterans' bu reau. Himself a vet eran and a Le gionnaire, Mr. Forbes has udopted a policy of seeking out the disabled man, Instead of letting the disabled man's claim find Its way Into a pigeon hole via the route of red tape. The government put an end to di vided authority in Its dealing with ex service men with the appointment of Mr. Forbes ns bend of the veterans' bureau. This bureau dispenses the insurance, looks after hospital car ntui the difficult task of restoring disabled men to their former earning cupaclty, or creating them anew through voca tional training. Mr. Forbes' policy in denllng with compensation claims of disabled men and women gives the doubt to the claimant. "No clnlm," says Mr. Forbes, "shnll be disallowed unless the disallowance Is Imperative, and doubts are to be decided In favor of the dis abled man or woman." HOW TO CURE UNEMPLOYMENT Secretary of Labor, Writing in Legion Weekly, Tells How Situation May Be Relieved. Writing In the American Legion Weekly on "Seeking the Cure for Un employment," James J. Davis, secre tary of labor, sums up the cure in a single paragraph as follows: "Wage earners can help by giving up unreasonable demands, so thnt em ploycrs can nfford to start their mills again, or so that buildings can be built houses, schools, factories, stores. Merchants can help by giving up unreasonable profits, so that more people can nfford to buy clothing, furniture, food and general supplies. 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