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THE LOST WORLD By SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE v___j (Continued front Yret«rd».) On the fourth day after leaving Manaos we turned Into a tributary which at Its mouth waa little smaller than the main stream. It narrowed rapidly, however, and after two more days’ steaming we reached an Indian village, where the Professor Insisted that we should land, and tlvat the Esmeralda should be sent back to Manaos. We should soon come upon rapids, he explained, which would make its further use Impossible. He added privately that we were now approaching the door of the unknown country and that the fewer we took into our confidence the better It would be. To this end also he made each of us give our word of honor that vve should publish or say nothing which would give any exact clue as to the whereabouts of our travels, while the servants were all solemnly »,n-orn to the same effect. It was August 2 when we snapped nur last link with the outer world by bidding farewell to the Esmeralda. Since then four days have passed, during which we have engaged two large canoes from the Indians, made of so light a material (skins over a bamboo framework) that we should be able to carry them round any ob stacle. These we have loaded with all our effects, and have engaged two additional Indians to help us In the navigation. I understand that they are the very two—Ataca and Ipetu by name—who accompanied Professor I’halienger upon his previous journey. They appeared to be terrified at the prospect of repeating It over, but the chief has patriarchal powers In these countries, and if the bargain is good in his eyes the clansman has little choice in the matter. The very next day we did actually make our start upon this remark able expedition. \Ve found that all our possessions fitted very easily into -— the two canoes, and we divided our personnel, six In each, taking the obvious precaution in the interests of peace of putting one Professor into each canoe. Personally. I was with Challenger, who was in a beatific humor, moving about as one In a silent ecstasy and beaming benevo lence from every feature. I have had some experience of him in other moods, however, and shall be the less surprised when the thunder storms suddenly corte up amidst the sunshine. It Is impossible to be at your ease. It Is equally Impossible to be dull in his company, for one Is always In a state of half- tremulous doubt as to what sudden turn his formidable temper may take. For two days we made our way up a good sized river, some hundreds of cards broad, and dark in color, but iransparent, so that one could usually see the bottom. The woods on either side were primeval, which are more easily penetrated than woods of the second growth, and w*e had no great difficulty In carrying our canoes through them. How shall I ever lor New York \ —Day by Day ■ ---■ —-' By O. 0. M'INTYRK New York. Feb. 19.—Thoughts while strolling around New York: Why do so many Japanese carry cameras? Metcalf, the dramatic crit ic. Undertakers are now murticians. An old warehouse now an Italian palace with pergolas afid yew trees. Owned by a former taxi driver. The site of old Daly's theater. The famous gambler—Nick the Greek. .Squat and puffy. No more outdoor shoe shine stands. A drum major’s fur cap In a pawnshop window. A Mock of old homes. With fan-lighted doors and high ceiled parlors. A legless man selling canes of candy. Gray lace curtains. Soon be house cleaning time. The flutter and flurry around the Flatiron building. < 'loak and suit salesmen. A parakeet shop. Somebody playing the ukulele in a contractor’s shanty. Dean and hungry cats. A Yiddish , play at the Garden. The only sun bonnet I ever saw here. It hangs from a fire escape. Sniggering corner loafers. Short skerted errand girls. Ttaclng to skimpy luncheons. Old men with scholarly stoops who teach the tenement pood. A German district. Stout men with red cheeks. And yellow pompadours. Wonder how the kaiser Is getting along with his wife? A beggar rolling sightless eyes. A pink silk shirt and a green necktie—mat ked down to SO cents. An ambulance racing toward the river. Kindling hunters and five cent soup houses. Also a Shakespeare club. A banana colored roadster wrecked against a lamp post. My am bition once was to he the village lamp lighter. And work an hour a / day. What ever became of the Dengue forwSmericRTi Wheelmen? The Hide c.-Wee Home for stray dogs and cats The gloomy water front. Deserted barges. The smell of stagnant water. Tin can shanties with their wisps of 3moke. And the walk is over. A New Yorker recently sailed for France to undergo a very serious op eration. He sailed with Ills current wife. Five other wives went to the pier to say good bye. All wept. lie had married and divorced them but they still remain his friends. There's *n achievement! Six New York theatrical stars pay income taxes of more than $50,000. One was a former cash girl In a d» partrnent store. Two were restaurant waiters at one time. Another was n newspaper huckster In Brooklyn and the other two were tojvn loafers until after twenty. The best dressed man In France. J«an Patou, designer of women’s gowns, lias been regaling New Y’orlt with his wardrobe. He dresses six times a day and carries some SO suits. One of his sartorlni creations was a brown suit with snow white Stripe*. With this he wore lavender spats, a shirt with tiny red stripes with collar to match and a white derby with lavender liand. Fifteen newspaper reporters saw a woman fall from a window at a big fire. Kach Is trained and reliable, yet not one gave the same account, ss to liow It happened. Psychologists might explain If. For some months a little place called The Cheshire Cheese which specialized In after-theater Welsh rarebits seemed to be doing no busi ness. Then somehow it caught on and Is crowded nightly and a down 'tairs addition has been added to take cate of the Increased patronage '.Copyright/ 1 $ I It • 1 get the solemn mystery of it? The height of the trees and the thickness of the boles exceeded anything which I In my town-bred life could have Imagined, shooting upwards in mag nificent columns until, -at an enor mous distance above our heads, we could dimly discern the spot where they threw out their side branches Into Gothic upward curves which coalesced to form one grout matted roof of verdure, through which only nn occasional golden rav of sunshine shot downwards to rate a thin doz zling line of light amidst the ntn jestlr obscurity. Of animal life there was no movement amid the majestic vaulted aisles which stretched from us as we walked, but a constant movement far above our heads told of that multitudinous world of snake and monkey, bird and sloth, which lived In the sunshine, and looked down In wonder at our tiny, dark, stumbling figures In the obscure depths Immeas urably below them. At dawn and at sunset the howler monkeys screamed together and the parrakeets broke into shrill chatter, but during the hot hours of the day only the full drone of the Insects, like the beat of a distant surf, filled the ear, while nothing moved amid the solemn vistas of stupendous trunks, fading away into the darkness which held us in. Once some bandy-legged, lurch ing creature, art ant-eater or a bear, scuttled clumsily amid the shadows. It was tint only sign of earth life which I saw in tills great Amazon.an forest. “Yes, sir, war drums," said Go mez, the half-breed. "Wild Indians, bravos, not tnansos; they watch us every mile of the way; kill us If they can.” "How can they watch us?” i asked, gazing Into the dark, motionless void. The half-breed shrugged his broad shoulders. ”T!»e Indian* know. They have their own way. They watch us. They talk the drum talk to each other. Kill u* if they can.” By the afternoon of that day— my pocket, diary shows me that if wa. Tuesday, August 18—at least six or seven drums were throbbing front various points. Sometimes they beat quickly, sometimes slowly, sometimes In obvious question and answer, one far to the east breaking out in n high staccato rattle, and being ful lowed after a pause by a deep roll from the north. There was some thing Indescribably nerve-shaking anil menacing in that constant muttei, which seemed to shape Itself into the very syllables of the half-breed, end lessly repeated, "We will kill you if we can. We will kill you if we can. No one ever moved lt% ibe silent woods. All the peace an t soothing of quiet nature lay fn that Atrk curtain of vegetation, but away irom behind these came ever the one message from our fellow-man. "We will kill you if we can.” said the men in the east. "We will kill you if we can." said the men In the north. All day the drums rumbled and whispered, while their menace re fleeted Itself in the faces of our col ored companions. Kven the hardy, swaggering half breed seemed cowed. 1 learned, however, that day once for all that both Summerlee anjJ Challen ger possessed that highest type of bravery, the bravery of the scientific mind. ' Theirs was the spirit which upheld Darwin taming the gauchos of the Argentine or Wallace among the head hunters of MaTaya. It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of ’wo things simultaneously, so that if it be steeped In curiosity as to science it has Bo room for merely personal considerations. All day amid that incessant and mysterious menace our two Professors watched every bird upon the wing, and every shrub upon the bank, with many a sharp wordy contention, when the snarl of Sum tnerlse came quick u|kui the deep t owl of Challenger, but with no more ease of danger and no -pore refer nee to drum-heating Indians than If they were seated together in the smoking room of the Royal Society's club in St. James street. That night we moored our canoes with heavy stones for anchors in the center of the stream, and made every preparation for a ]>osslble attlck. Nothing came, however, and with the dawn we pushed upon our way, the drum-beating dying out behind us About three o'clock in the afternoon we came to a very steep rapid, more than a mile long—the very one in which Professor challenger had suf fered disaster upon bis first Journey, 1 eottfess that the sight of it consoled me, for it was really the first direct corroboration, slight as It was, of the truth of his story. The Indians car ried first our canoes and then out stores through the brushwood, which is very thick at this point, white we four whites, our rifles mi our shoul ders, walked between them and anj danger coming from the woods. Be fore evening we bail successfully passed the rapid*, and made out way some ten miles above them, There's at Least One in Every Cabaret By BRIGGS I He ORDERS THE MOST DANCES EvSAY DANCE AND THEN WHEN TUlS. EXPENSIVL 'rMINGS ON W,TH.THe BEST LOOKERS VVAITKR APPROACHES VNITM The MENU . THt WB6TCHSJ) CHECK-. MG ClrtlMJ MS HAS A VttRY IMPORTANT TELEPHONE Call To ivAAwiy /Tmb AMD l-te KE MAINS IM THE BOOTH umtiu we sees Tue CHECK PAID AMD Tne H/MTCR Tipped. - ThPkI HE. IRETORN.S AND PROTEATi THAT Ht WANTED Te» TAY The liA^AiiE I if ABIE THE AGENT Drawn for The Omaha Bee by Hcrahfield sol M»S I .(Hi It VI. I_ \ UJfcKir TO QO TO THAT BENNY &ALVIN AFFAIR ON THE 24 UJ - CAN YOU LEND ME FIFTY DOLLARS HAUE YOU \ / x HAVEN'T SEEN ^ ‘ / I SIQMUND HIM SINCE X LATE\.Y« J | (^v/E HIM FIFTY tOUAIKa l CAN YOU INAAQINI \TVENflF \ HAb ??? i where we anchored for the night. At tills point 1 reckoned that we had come not lei-s than a hundred miles up the tributary from the main stream. It was In the early forenoon of the next day that we made the great departure. -Since dawn Professor Challenger had been acutely uneasy, continually scanning each bank of the river. Suddenly he gave an exclama tion of satisfaction and pointed to a single tree, which projected at a peculiar angle over the side of the stream. — "What do you make of that?" he asked. m “It is surely an Assai palm," said Summarise. "Exactly. It was an Assai paint r which T took for my landmark. The secret opening is half a mile onwards upon the ether side of the other. There is no break in the trees. That is the wonder and the mystery of it. There where vou see light-green rushes instead of dark-green under growth, there between the great cot ton woods, that is my private gate into the unknown. Push through. and you will understand." It was indeed a wonderful plane. Having readied the spot marked h\ a line of light-green rushes, we poled our two canoes through them for some hundreds of yards, and event ually emerged into a placid and slinl low stream, running clear and trans parent over a sandy bottom. It ma\ have been twenty yards across, and was banked in on each side by mo&t luxuriant vegetation. No one who had not observed that for a short distance reeds had taken the place of shrubs, could possibly have guessed the existence of such s stream or dreamed of the fairyland beyond. (To Hr Contluuril Tomorrow.! Bee Want Ads produce results. Gasoline Price Boosted to 21 Gents at Golumbu? , Columbus. 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