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PARDOT&CQ fm Si A HABPLD MCQMNIMJ The Cai-pg t The Place of Honeymoons, etc. tyyyvmgMT ay rn£DOBRJ-WtRUL CO/WHY V* SYNOPSIS. —s ■ Warrington, an American adventurer, and Jameii, his aervant. With a caged par rot, the trio known up and down the Ir rawaddy a* Parrot * Co., travel alone the road to the landing, hound for Rangoon to iwah H drufl for 300.000 rupee* Klaa ClwfwcMid, Hh American Kirl tourist. ace* Warrington come nhoarl the boat ut he landing, and, amai'd at his llkem-ga to bar fiance, Arthur Ellison, auk* the t"""; er lo Introduce liar. lie tells her that XVarrlnKtnn has heaten n nvtidlcute and ■old hla oil claims for £20.000 CHAPTER lll— Continued. ___ "Well, he wasn't above having his revenge He made the syndicate come up there They wired asking why he couldn't come on to itangoon. And very frankly ho gave his reasons They catne up on one boat and left on another They weren't very pleasant, but they bought his oil lands He came aboard last night with a check for twenty thousand pounds and two rupees in his pocket The two rupees were all he had In this world at the time they wrote lilin the check Arabian night; what?" "I am glad I like pluck; I like en durance; I like to see the lone man win against odds Tell me. Is lie go ing back to America?" "Ah, there's the weak part In the chain." The purser looked dlflldently at the deck floor It would have been easy enough to discuss the Warring ton of yesterday, but the Warrington of this morning was backed by twenty thousand good English sovereigns; he was a different Individual. "He says he doesn't know what his plans will be. Who knows? Perhaps some one ran away with his best girl. I've known lots of them to wind up out here on that account." "When do we reach Prome?" "About nix," understanding that the Warrington incident wjis closed "It Isn't worth while going ashore, though Nothing to 800 at night." "I have no Inclination to leave the boat until we reach Rangoon." She met Warrington at luncheon, and she greeted him amiably. To her mind there was something pitiful In the way he had tried to improve his condition. So long as she lived, no matter whom she might marry, she was convinced that never would the thought of this man fade completely from her memory Neither the amaz ing likeness nor the romantic back ground had anything to do with this conviction It was the man's utter loneliness "I have been waiting for Parrot fi Co all the morning," she said "I'll show him to you right nfter luncheon. It wasn't that I had forgot ten." linjali took the center of the stage; and even the colonel forgot his liver long enough to chuckle when the bird turned somersaults through the steel hoop Klsa was delighted She knelt and offered liiiu her slim white linger, liajah eyed It with his head cocked at tered his cage Since lie never saw a finger without Hying at it in a rage, It was the politest thing lie had ever done "Isn't he a sassy little beggar?" laughed the owner "That's the way; hls~ hand, or etnw, rather, all the world I've had him half a dozen years, and he bates me Just as thor oughly now as he did when I picked him up while I was at Jaipur." "Have you carried him about all this time?" demanded the colonel "He was one of the two friends I had. one of the two I trusted," quietly, with a look which rather disconcerted the Anglo Indian "Uy the actions of him l should say that he was your bitterest enemy " "He is; yet I call him friend There's a peculiar thing about friendship," said the kneeling man "We make a man our friend; we take him on trust, t'rank'ly and loyally, we give him the best we have in us; but we mjver really know liajah Is fraukly my enemy, and that's why I love him and trust him I should have preferred a dog; but one takes what one can He sides . ." Warrington paused, thrust the perch between the bars, and got up "Jah. Jah. jab! Jah—jab—ja-a-ah!" tbe bird shrilled. "Oh, what a funny little bird!" cried Elsa, laughing "What does he say?" "I've often wondered It sound like the bell-gong you hear in the Shwe Dagon pagoda in Kangoou He picked It up himself " The colonel returned to hiß elderly uarges and became absorbed in his aged Times if the girl wanted to pick up tbe riff-raff to talk to. that was her affair. Americans were Impossible, any how "How long have you been in the Orient s *" Elsa asked. "Teri years," he answered gravely. "That la a long time." "Sometimes it was like eternity." "I have beard from the purser of your good luck." "Obi"' He stooped again and locked the door of Rajah's cage. "1 dare say a good many people will bear of It" "It was splendid. 1 love to read .» ■.- ■, J stories like that, but I'd rather hear them told first-hand." Elsa was not romantic In the sense that she saw heroes whore there were only ordinary men; It wan tbe ob Bcure arid unknown hero who appealed to her: Hueh a one as this man might be "Oh, there was nothing splendid about the thing. I aimply hung on." Then a thought struck him "You are traveling alone?" "With n companion." A peculiar Question, Bhe thought. "It Is not wine," ho commented. "My father was a soldiers" she re plied f "It lan't a question of bravery," he explained, a bit of color charging un der his skin. "This world is not like your world. Women over here. . . Oh, I've lost the art of saying things clearly." lie pulled at tils beard em barrassedly. "Are you warning me against your self?" "Why not? Twenty thousand pounds do not change a man; they merely change the public's opinion of him For ull you know, I may be the great est rascal unhanged." "Hut you are not." He recognized that It was not a query; and a pleasurable thrill ran over him. Had there been the least touch of condescension In her manner ho, would have gone deep Into his shell. "No; there are worse men In this world than I. Hut we are getting away from the point, of women traveling alone In the (Cast. Oh, I know you can protect yourself to a certain ex tent. Hut everywhere, on boats, In the hotels, on the streets, are men who have discarded all the laws of convention, of the soelul contrnct. And they have the keen eye of the kite and the vulture." To Elsa this Interest In her welfare was very diverting "In other words, they can quickly discover the young woman who goes about unprotected? Don't you think that the trend of the conversation has taken rather a re markable turn, not as Impersonal as It should bo?" "1 beg your pardon! Shall 1 go?" „ "No. I w&nt you to tell me some stories." She laughed. "Don't worry about me, Mr. Warrington. I have gone my way alone since I was six teen. I have traveled all over this wicked world with nobody but the woman who was once my nurse. Now, tell me something of your adventures Ten years in this land must mean something lam always hunting for llarun al-Hnschld, or Slndlmd, or some one who hns done something out of the ordinary." He Inclined against the rnll and stared down at the muddy water "Ad venture?" He frowned a little "I'm afraid mine wouldn't read like adven tures There's no glory In being a stevedore on the docks at Hongkong, a stoker on a tramp steamer between . j^r "I Want You to Tell Mo Some Stories." Singapore and the Andaman Islands. What haven't 1 been In these ten years?" with a shrug. "Can you fancy me a deck-steward on a F. & O. boat, tucking old ladles In their chairs, stag gering about with a tray of broth bowls, helping the unsteady to their staterooms, and touching my cap at the end of the voyage for a few shill ings In tips?" "Tell me more." yHe looked into her beautiful face, animated by genuine interest, and wondered if all men were willing to obey her. "It always interests me to hear from the omn'a own lips how he overcame obstacles." "Bometimes I didn't overcome them. 1 ran away. After all. the strike in eH was a fluke.-'', —-> ----—•• : —1 "I don't think so Dut go oo." 'sbe prompted. "Well. 1-have been manager of a cocoanut plantation In Penang; I've Man-&'5.« > ' THE ENTERPRISE, WILLIAMSTON, NORTH CAROLINA helped lay In TTpper Inon*. tad a hand in some bridges; sold patent medicines; worked In a ruby mine: been a haberdasher In the Whiteaway Laidlaw shop In Bombay; cut wood in the teak forests; helped exterminate the plague at Cbitor and Udaipur; and never saved a penny I never bad an adventure In all my life." "Why, your wanderings were ad vehtures," she Insisted "Think of the things you could tell!" "And never will," a smile breaking over his face How like Arthur's that smile was! thought the girl. "Romantic persons never have any adventures. It Is to the prosaic these things fall. Because of their nearness you lose tbelr values." "There is some difference between romance and adventure Romance is what you look forward to; adventure is something you look back upon. Hut I always supposed adventure was the finding of treasures, on land and on sea, of filibustering; of fighting with sabers and pistols, and all that rlgma role. I can't (julte lift my Imagination up to the height of calling my six months' shovel engineering on the Gallo an adventure. It was brutal hard work; and many times 1 wanted to Jump ov(«r. The Lascars often got out of trouble that way " . "It uii depends upon how we look at things " She touched the parrot cag« with her foot, and Rajah hissed. "What would you say If I told you that I was unconventional enough to ask the pur ser to Introduce you?" The amazement In his face was an swer enough. "Don't you suppose," she went on, "the picture you presented, standing on that ledge, the red light of the torch on your face, the bird cage In your hand—don't you suppose you roused my sense of the romantic to tho highest pitch? Parrot & Co!" with u wave of her hands. She was laughing at him It could not be otherwise It mad£ him at once sad and angry ' Romance! I hate the word I again affirm that young women should not travel alone They ihTnk every bit of tinsel Is gold, tfvery bit of colored glass, ruby. Ro mance, adventure! Hah! So much twaddle has been written about the East that cads and scoundrels are mis taken for Galuhuds and D'Artegnans Few men remain In this country who can with honor leuve It. Who knows what manner of man I am?" He picked up the parrot cage end strode away. "Jah, Jah!" began the bird. Not all the diplomacy which worldly wise men have at their disposal could have drawn this girl's interest more surely than the abrupt, rude manner of his departure. CHAPTER IV. Two Dsys of Paradise. At first I'llsa did not know whether she was annoyed or amused. The man's action was uhsurd, or would have been In any other man. Ills ad vice to her to go home was downright impudence; and yet the sight of the parrot cage dangling at his side made It impossible for her to take lasting offense. Once upon a time there had been a little boy who played in her garden When he was cross he would take Ills playthings and go home. Tho boy might easily hawe been this man Warrington, grown up. Of course he would come and apolo gize to her for his rudeness. Perhaps he had resented her curiosity; perhaps her questions had been pressed too hard; ~ and perhaps Tie hatT BWdenly doubted her genuine Interest. At any rate it was a novel experience And that bewildering likeness! She returned to her chair and opened the book again. And as she read her wonder grew. The diction was ex qiNsfte; there was style; but now 4* sfiejread there was lacking the one thing thot stood for life—blood It did not pulsate In the veins of these people. Until now she had not recog nized this fact, and she was half way through the book. What had happened to her since yesterday? To what cause might be assigned this opposite angle of vision, so clearly defined? The book fell upon her knees and dreamily she watched the perspective open and dlvu-icnte. Tie low hanks ! with their golden haze of dust, the cloudless sky, the sad and lonely white pagodas, charmed her; and the lan guor of the East crept stealthily Into her northern blood. She was not con scious of the subtle change; she only knew that the world of yesterday waa unlike that of today. Warrington, after depositing Rajah In the stateroom, sought the bench on the stern deck. - He filled his cutty with purser loaned tobacco and roundly damned himself as a blockhead. He had forgotten all the niceties of civi lization; he no longer knew how to be have. The first young woman In all these years who had treated him as an equal, and he had straightway proceed ed to lecture her upon the evils of traveling alone in the Orient! And yet he had told her the truth. It was not right that a young and at tractive woman should wander about In the East, unattended save by a middle-aged companion. It would pro voke the devil in men who were not wholly bad. Women had the fallible idea that they could read human na ture, and never found out their mis take until after they were married. He knew her kind. If she wanted to walk through the bazaars in the eve ning she would do so. If a man fol lowed her she would Ignore tbe fact. If he caught up with her and spoke ahe would cdbtijuie on. aw if she had not, heard. If a man touched her she would rely upon the fire of her eyes. She would never call out for help. Some women were just that silly. .JbiS fie bit hard npun tas stem of Ma pipe. What was all tbia to him? Why should be bother his bead about a woman he had known but a few boura? Ah. why lie to himself? He knew what Kiss, usually quick and receptive, did not know, that he was not afraid of her. but terribly afraid of himself. For things ripen quickly In the East, men and women, souls and deeds. And be was something like the pariah dog; spoken kindly to. It attached ttaelf Im mediately and endurlngly. fie struck tbe cutty against his boot heel. Why not? It would be only for two days. At Rangoon their path* would aeperate; he would never see her again. He got up. He would go to her at one? and apologize. And 'thus he surrendered to tbe very devil he had but a moment gone so vigor ously discountenanced He found her asleep In her chair. The devil which had brought him to her side was thrust back. Why, she was nothing more than a beautiful child! A great yearning to brother her came Into his heart. He did not disturb her, but waited until five that grave and sober hour, whftn kings snd clerks stop work for no logical reason whatever—tea. She opened her eyea and saw him watching her. H e roM quickly. "I was very rude a little while ago- Will you accept my apologies?" "On condition .that you will never take your playthings and go home." He laughed engagingly. "You've hit It squarely It was tbe act of a petu lant child." "It did not sound exactly like a man who hnd stoked six months from Singapore to the Andaman Islands. Hut there is one thing I must under stand before this acquaintance contln "No, I Am Going to Singapore." ues. You said, 'Who knows what manner of man I am?' Have you ever done anything that would conscien tiously forbid you to speak to a young, unmarried woman?" Take care of herself? He rather be lieved she could. The bluntness of her question dissipated any doubt that re mained. "No. I haven't been that kind of a man," simply. "1 could look Into my mother's eyes without any sense of shame, If that Is what you mean." "That Is all I care to know. Your mother Is living?" "Yes. Hut I haven't seen her In ten years." His ntother! His browa ..met in a frown, ilia proud, beautiful mother! Elsa saw the frown and realized that she had approached delicate ground. She stirred her tea and sipped It slowly. "There has been a deal of chatter about shifty, untrustworthy eyes," he aatd. "The greatest Mara 1 bare ever known could look St. Peter straight and serenely in the eye. It's a matter of steady nerves, nothing more. Some body says that so and so is a fact, and we go on believing it for years, until someone who Is not a person but an individual explodes it." "1 agree with you. But there Is something we rely upon far more than either eyes or ears. lnßtinct It la that attribute of the animal which civilization has not yet successfully dulled. Women rely upon that more readily than men." "And make more mistakes," with a cynicism he could not conceal. She had no ready counter for thla. "Do you go home from Rangoon, now that you have made your fortune?" "No. 1 am going to Singapore I shall make my plans there." Singapore. Elsa stirred uneasily. It would be like having a ghost by hsr side. She wanted to tell him what had reully drawn her interest But it seemed to her that the moment to do so had passed. "Vultures! How I detest them!" She pointed toward a sand bar upon which stood several of these abomi nable birds and an adjutant, solemn and aloof. "At Lucknow they were red headed. I do not recollect seeing one of them fly. But I admire the kites; they look much like our eagles.** "And thus again the eye misleads us. There is nothing tbat flies ao rapacious as the kite." Little by little she drew from Mm a sketch here, a phase there. She was given glimpses Into tbe Itfe of the East such as no book or guide had ever given; and tbe boat waa circling toward the landing at Prome before they became aware of tbe time. (TO BE CONTINUED.) **■ ■ • : —-7 Tact. -" " Social (act is making your company feel thoroughly at borne, tbougk you thoroughly wish tfcv Peek INTERNATIONAL SIINMrSOBOL LESSON . (Br E. o. SELLERS, Actinic Director oil Sunday School Course of Moody Biblf Institute, Chicago.) r LESSON FOR JUNE 20 PRAYER FOR THE TEMPTEQ. LESSON* TEXT Psalm 141. OOLDKN TEXT—Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me.— Psalm 141:1 The style of this psalm closely re sembles the known psalms of David ta the first part of the psalter. From Its structure and character, It Is to be credited to David. ID It are pre sented complaint, prayer and confi dent bopa of relief. It Is a petition for deliverance from sins to which bis af flictions tempted him, and from the enemies who caused bis affliction. I. Prayer, "My., prayer directed" (vv. 1, 2). There is good reason for believing David wrote this while go ing through the experience recorded In I Samuel 24. It is evident be Is passing through a time of great stress and was In dire need of help for be urges "haste ' in giving heed to his call, (Luke 18:1-8). David looks to Jehovah as his only and sure helper. We are told to omit the first word "unto" in this verse and to read, "I have called thee." Every human help bad railed and faith fearlessly turns to Ood. Can God be urged* Surely we are taught that God respects his "remembrancers" who cry "day and night*' (Psalm 40:13; 69:17, 18; 70:5; 71:12; 143:7). To fold the hands weakly and to "bide his time" Is usu ally an evidence of spiritual debility and of a desire to shirk the work Involved In a true exercise of prayer. True faith knows but one way of de liverance, that of prayer (Phil. 4:6, 7), and those who call In faith get deliv erance (Rom. 10:13). Such prayer, the fruit of heart and lips, is before God "as Incense" and Its effectiveness does not depend upon Its being pre sented In the tabernacle —It Is a "sac rifice" of praise well-pleasing to God. We are to pray to God through his Son and In the Holy Spirit. Such prayer Is set forth before him as a sacrifice of sweet smelling savor. 11. Practice. "Incline not my heart to practice wicked works" (v. 4). Such prayer as here suggested demands a preparation of purity. As the "incense" was prepared with great care (Ex. 30:36) and Its fra grance was brought out by fire (Rom. 8:26, 27; Eph. 6:18), so likewise there must be a continual practice of prayer and an absence of "wicked works." In no way are we so apt to sin as with our lips, but back of the lips is the heart (Matt. 15:11; Luke 6:45). The tongue can no man tame (James 3:8), yet God 1b able and his way is to cleanse the fountain To have the mouth filled first with prayer and praise and then with evil is contrary to reason and to God's commands. David recognized that the heart is the source of "wicked works," and prayed that he be not even "inclined"' to them (Matt. 6:13; Jam. 1:13). If he "keeps the door" we have a safe guard Ps. 127:1). 111. Position. "Let him reprove me" vv. 5-7. "Faithful are the wounds o( a friend." This seems to be the po sition David desired to occupy, one that would be "a kindness" to him. Such correction is as sweet 4l. Oil Is healing and soothing and here sym bolizes the healing effect of correc tion. Fools hate reproof, wise men plead for K. David not only welcomed wisdom but (see R. V.) promises to pray for such friends when calamities come upon them and in the time when they are overcome by wickedness. When such are cast down by the rocky roadside "they shall hear my words," says David, and they will be sweet. The psalmist's experience, when bunt ed as a partridge, taught him bow to appreciate the petitions of Jonathan, —his friend, whose words to him were "sweet." A careful reading of verse seven reveals David's dire extremity (see Am. R. V.). Death stared him in the'face. His soul was tbrn as "one pioweth and cleaveth tho earth." IV. Protection. "In thee do I put my trust" (R. V.). Though thus brought low David knew where to turn, and one to whom he could look. The church of Chrlßt needs to look to God, to become like him. fields the transforming, encouraging, eneriUflng vision. David is now taking his eyes off the difficulties and fixing them on the one who enables him to over come. "Look unto me and be ye saved." Literally bis prayer is "make not my soul naked" or "pour not out my soul." Whoever else a mas harms by his sin be harms himself most. Saloonkeepers and their sons most frequently fill the grave of the drunk ard. Gamblers nearly all lose their easy gains. "They that take the sword perish by the sword." Our only safety Is' Jo hovsh. —*" God is constantly answering this last prayer, and we do see the wicked falling into their own nets (Ps. 7: 15:16; 37:14, 15; Ex. 7:10). This lesson has a strong temperance suggestion and application. 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