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THE LOST WORLD] By SIR ARTHUR COX AX DOYLE V*_ v ||^ (Continued from Yntfrdar.) Btak* my good nam« at a >i *arrer>," anid h#». "that tha trark la a freah one. The creature has u°t passed ten minutes. Book how the water is still oozing: into that deeper print! By Jove! See, here is the mark of a 111tle one!" Sure enough, smaller tracks of the same peneral form were running parallel t«» the large ones. "Hut what do you make of this? riled Professor Sumnierlee, triumph antly, pointing: t«» what looked like the huge print <-f a tlve-fingered hu man appearing among the three toed marks. "Wealden!" cried (’hallenger, In an ecstasy. i ve seen them in the AVeal den clay. It is a creature walking erert upon three-toed feet, and occa sionally putting one of its five fingered forepaws upon the ground. Not a bird, my dear Roxton—-not a bird." "A beast?" "No; a reptile—a dinosaur. Noth lug else could have left such a (rack. They puzzled a worthy Sussex doctor sume ninety years ago; but who in the world could have hoped hoped— to have seen a sight like that?" Ills words died away into a whis per, and we all slood In motionless amazement. Following the Hacks, we had left the morass and passed through a screen of brushwood anil Hees. Beyond was an open glade, an 1 in this were live of the most extraor dinary creatures that I have ever seen. Crouching down among the bushes we observed them at our leisure. i There were, as I say, five of them, kwo being adults and three voting ■ ties. . In size they were enormous, liven the babies were as big as cie Itauls, while the two large ones were W beyond all the creatures I have Ej,v seen. They had slate colored lhin, which was scaled like a lizard’s and shimmered where the sun shone upon It. All five were sitting up, bal ancing themselves upon their broad, powerful tails and their huge three toed hind feet, while with their small flve-fingered front feet they pulled down the branches upon which they browsed. I do not know that I can bring their appearance home to you better than by saying that they looked like monstrous kangaroos, twenty feet In leigth, and with skins like hiack crocodiles. I do not know how long we stayed motionless gazing at this marvelous spectacle. A strong wind blew to wards us and we were well concealed, so there was no chance of discovery. From time to time the little ones plaved round their parents In tin wjeidv gambols, the great beasts hounding into the air and falling with dull thuds upon the earth. The strength of the parents seemed to be limitless, for one of them, having *nme difficulty in reaching a bunch of foliage which grew upon a consid erable-sized tree, put his forelegs. I New York --Day by Day j By O. O. M INTYRE. y York Feb. 27.—There should cure for the stageetruck girl at tage Door Inn. This is a lunch ml dinner place on West Forty \ street run for the benefit of stranded on theatrical shoals. waitresses are Jobless chorus ind tile waiting list of applicants .minus. Some of them are able rk only a day or so a week so itheis in distress may have their e. Most all of them have had 1 stage experience, position in New York Is so , as that of the ehcorus girl, meagre salary at best provides a hall bedroom and meals at known mostly by initials. There repuently six and seven weeks en engagements. •ery slim percentage of musical i last more than four months he majority 7.lp to Cain's store inside of a month. And at .10 unless the chorus girl is particular^ deft at cosmetic camouflage she is told she Is too old. Musical show rehearsals are the most trying ordeals that a girl can face. It means work from morning unlit late into the night with sand wjches on the fly ss meals. She must face a director whose nerves are al most always at the breaking point. And after five weeks or this and perhaps a week out of town, the show may come to Broadway to "flop" in less Ilian a week. Again the dreary round of the agencies and the tedious waits In the anterpom ■with the final “Nothing doing today. Come again!" Out of town engagements—or the road tours—have never proved so dis astrous as they have this year. More than 500 chorus girls have been forc ed to depend on the private collection of friends for railroad fare hack to Broadway. (Copyright, 1926.> round the trunk and tore It down as If It had been a sapling. The action seemed ss I thought, to show not only the great development of its muscles, hut also the small one of Its brain, for the whole weight came crashing down upon the top of It, and It uttered a series of shrill yelps to show that, hig as it was, there was a limit to what It could endure. The Incident made it think, apparently, that the neighborhood was dangerous, for It slowly lurched off through the Wood, followed by its ntate and its three enormous Infants. We saw the shimmering slaty gleam of their skins between the tree trunks, and their heads undulating high ahote toe brushwood. Then they vanished from our sight. I looked st my comrades. T,ord John was standing at gaze with his finger at the nigger of his elephant gun, his eager hunter s soul shining from his fierce eyes. What would he [not gl\e .for one such head to place between the two crossed oars above the mantelpiece In Ills snuggery at the Albany! And yet his reason held hint In, for all our exploration of the wonders of this unknown land de pended upon our presence being con cealed from its inhabitants. The two professors were In silent ecstasy. In their excitement they had uncon sciously selz.ed each other by the hand and Stood like two little children In the presence of a marvel, Challenger's cheeks hunched up into a seraphic smile, ami Summerlee's sardonic face softening for the moment into wonder and reverence. Nunc dimlttls!" he cried al last. "What will they say In England of "My dear Summarise, I will tell you with great confidence exactly i w'hat 'they will sat* in England.’ said Challenger. "They will say that you are an Infernal liar and a scientific charlatan, exactly as you and others said of me. "In the face of photographs?" "Faked, Sutnmerlee! Clumsily faked!" "In the face of specimens?" “Ah, Ihere we may have them! Malone and hia filthy Fleet Street new may he al! yelping our praises yet. August the twenty-eighth—the dav we shv five live lguanndons lit a glade of Maple White Hand. Put it down In your diary, my young friend, and aend it to your rag." "And be ready to get the toe-eml of the editorial boot in return." said Hnrd John. "Things look a bit dif ferent from the latitude of Hot ’.on. young fellah, my lad. There's loony a ntan who never tells his adventures, for he can't hope to he believed. Who's In blame them? For this will seem a hit of a dream to ourselves in a month or two. What did you say they were?" "lguanndons," said Summaries. "You'll find their footmarks all over the Hastings sands, in Kent, and In Sussex. The South of England was alive with them whep there was plenty of good lush green stuff to keep them going. Conditions have changed, and the beasts died. Here it seems that the conditions have not changed, and the beasts have lived "If ever we get out of this all\e, I must, have a head with nte." said Hold John. "I.ord, how some of that Somaliland Uganda crowd would turn a be.-t tit If ui pea-green if they saw It! I don't know what you chaps think, but it strikes me >hat we an on mighty thin ice all this time.” I had the same feeling of mystery and danger around us. In the gloom of the trees there seemed a constant menace and as we looked up Into their shadowv foliage vague terrors crept Into one's heart. It Is true that these monstrous creatures which we had seen were lumbering. Inoffensive brutes which were unllkelv to hurt anyone, but In this world of wonders what other survivals might there not be—whal fierce, active horrors ready to pounce upon us from their ^lalr among the rocks or brushwood? I knew little of prehistoric life, but 1 had a clear remembrance of one bonk whtlch I had read In which it spoke of n eat tires who would live upon our lims and tigers as a cat lives upon mice. What if thess also were lo be found In the woods of Maple While Hand? • ,, , It was destined that on this ver> morning—our first in the new court Ivy—w'e were to find out what strang-. ha sards lay around us. It was a loathsome adventure, and one of which I hate to think. If. «" land John said, the glade of the Iguano dons will remain with us as a dream, then rtirely the swamp of the petero dactvls will forever be our night mare. Het me set down exactly whal occurred. We passed very alnwlv through the woods, partly because Hord Roxton acted as scout before he wostld let tic advance, and partly ibecause at every second atep one nr other of our pro fessors would fall, with a cry of won der. before some flower nr Insect which presented him with s new type We may have traveled two or three miles In all, keeping to th ; light of the line of the stream, when we came upon a considerable opening in the trees. A belt of brushwood led up to a tangle of rocks—the whole plateau was strewn with boulders, j We were walking slowly towards these rocks, among bushes which reached over our waists, when we be came aware of a strange low gab bling and whistling sound which filled the air with a constant clamor and appeared to come from some spot im mediately before us. Lord .John held up his hand as a signal for us to stop, and he made his way swiftly, stooping and running, to the line of rooks. We saw him peep over them and give a gesture of amazement. Then he stood staring as If forgetting us, so utterly entranced was he I v what he saw. Finally he waved usj to rome on, holding up his hand os a signal for caution. Ills whole bear ing made me feel that something won derful hut dangerous Liv before us. Creeping to his side, we looked n\ °r the rocks. The place into which we gazed was a pit. and may, in the early days, have been one of the smaller volcanic blowholes of the pin tenu. It "as how shaped and at thej bottom, some hundreds of yards from where we lay, were j>ools of green scummed stagnant water, fringed with bullrushes. It was a weird place in itself, but its occupants made it; seem like a scene from the Seven (Mrcle.s of Dante. The place was n rookery of pterodactyls. There were hundreds of them congregated within view. All the bottom area round the Hater edge waa alive with their young ones, and with hideous mothers brood Ing upon their leathery, yellowish eggs. From this crawling, dapping mass of obscene reptilian life came the shocking clamor which filled thi air and the mephitic, horrible, musty odor which turned us sick. Hut Shove, perched each upon its own stone. tall, gray and withered, more like dead and dried specimen* than aotunf living creatures, sat the horrible , males, absolutely motionless save for the rolling of lhrir red eyes or an occasional snap of their rat trap beaks , as a drawonfly went past them. 1 (To ltd ( nnllmicil Momim.) 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