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.)
Bee Want Ails produce results.
THE NEBBS good bye forever.
Directed for The Omaha Bee by Sol Hess
(Copyright 1926)
tawtc
WftS ft BOOT
PEftOV TO
fcftCK OOT
NE&TEROfttf
BO? HE \S
NOT CONVINCED
TUftT ftLLlKC ;
^ftCES MOOT '
HOPE kllOTIMEVER'v;
TOOTONC. ftRO J
TRUC — t
SO WEPE UE '
\S per “<*£
POST W'TW ft ,
LOT or RELRUVES
TPOM
WOMEWOOD 5
?
/
&S&._U
/do vooTkvce
( "\H\S V'jOt'-AfVts)
1 ro« vou«
\ Lf^WTOL WEODEO
\ we ? ./
|
mm
/well THAT’S OVER t MOW LET The\
Sum Swime aGA\m amO PEACE AMO )
COMTEMTMEMT come BACK 'M‘rP )
-TWVS HOUSE HOLD I PE.EL EUCE A ,
MULLiOw dollars WORTH Or SEL (
SaTvSTACT^Okj . THIS COST ME A ,
LOT OP DOUGH BUT SO DOES AM I
OPERATION! - But SOU DOmT m\m0/
\ IT WWEM THE RESULTS ARE ^
SATVSTACTORM^-:
k Ir? _
am .
I ID PATUFD Refi»tered see jiggs and maggie in full Drawn for The Omaha Bee by McManus
Dlvil AVjlINVji \jr r1 ITEjIV u. S. Patent Office PAGE OF COLORS IN THE SUNDAY BF.E iCopyrieht in;r,i
WELL'I MUbT SbE W.
CO'ts -there *b iOty-J
IMPORTANT MEETlN ' x- J
of the directort>
Of mx e>Ajsts, tohiCiht
TqoT
-(—
Tep-macwe.
THIHK.fi I'H AT
A. Ol«ecTOR.fi
. MEETtHC- y
-Ah/', __
' “biTATnors * vv-H-'f 1-.
tiROAvOCA.'bTlM FROM
THE COM. HE/WERL'j
r I LOOK ARCHJT l_
S the o^nce.
> SE.E MR D»MTT MOORE )
l ANO Ml?.JlCC,‘3-THIb (a
( lt> w-w-v- SPEA^tNO //IW
V FROM THE COM. JU^V
/"Vv-iemverAs <
tIl^IWu'^ic /
I III I .w / I
C Fcatuȣ Scwvicr. Inc
• ~ J
", * 1 *' '
\t» r
* i.
K rr •
; • :
- •
'
* J
• *
...
.. .___ — ■ .,i. - - ... ""
JERRY ON THE JOB nothing is Impossible. _D,‘»J for The 0m,h:a,Bet by Hob*n
K^WWE FlOjfcE- SEEEl)
1 A\>sr wao A VaJ S,
OPP 5i^£E N'ft.Tt&SBY'y
V &*T frE WOME
( Corns To \MO*K Ar )
s *X o ctosvc *- Atr /
( VJJEOJS v—^
1'AA \MOG*ltf TOO AMJCH
MA*'«i A BEAvJEG/
100* U*E A V\OSO
Ott A VASATOM -
1
/
MiSOSUl
TM kwt A
MACWWE « I
Cavst (So
TbSEMES,
I him wn iwt t- Smxt-cg. t-c p 1
(So
' ow SATUC.aAV NJ\SHT j
VF> Woo OOt^T
t)o SOME. VJOSX />
TILLIE, THE TOILER 1 - By Westovei
_ —--— i ■ ■■ ■%
LIST&M> i ILl_IE . I TOL.D
OUR TELEPHONE OIRL TO
RIMS ONCE IF IT'S f=OE
VOU /PAID TVMICfe IF IT'S
poR ME - that r *
-.MAliiSj/
.t? it X p’C-’s
■ \ SiMFlE/'x »»
1 I .
*s5kl\ lu \ -r^s:
1'VMHO ? TILLIE ^
V£S, SHE'S HERE
HOLD the UIUE
A SECOWD
1 C t*2S. \yy K.nf >• —mui 5ynH>c«f. \nr C*m% *>«»• |
"THIS KCLE IKJ j
the WALU IS A 1_ |
PAIM 1M THE MECICJ \ .
y—-pr Vi ,:
ii m
The Day* of Real Sport By BIuGGS
'JM *MY <So£>DM®3S I NEVSR |:
OlJi 5E«' 5UCH.*
p RUB IT in GOOD*
fP^.
m
Chapped
H A NO-S -
(it VavILI- BF OB '
V 5PRVBt> THAT
GnAMDMA PVJTi |M
HSR tvwo c«NT5 worth).
ABIE THE AGENT Drawn for The Omaha Bee by Hershfielt
111 S|\h>> ItKKOKK ri.KASl HK.
/wot a SEAT \/ woe, ul rusvA
( For , oyer to a
\'TVlIJ, PERFORMANCE / SPECULATOR A»ot
V_V manbe he's ;
V &OT ONE ?? I
i
1H-j .m ^ Ul f II 111 *mu f I 1 —■ In.- n.m 1
I
» i?>* '
ru
.* 4 *
» » -
TCOME ON) YO DO >OU METvTN
Y^E ACME to YFLu mE I
theatre u)iyh vou cam get !
a &¥xr ymeny
v'\fcS' MV PE \4 IS. T^FRE
| SEElNC, THE iHOU) - SVSUU Vv2^\
l Q'VE IT UP IN AN EMtRQENO '
V UKE TMlir_/
CD
