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.. « i . _____ PARROTS'O3 MOD MMTGPATrtf ) Author The Garpe t The Place °f ffoneymoons, etc. copr/VG/tr ffy rnr oasAJ-ffrM/u. eon/wiY W SYNOPSIS. ——ll— Warrington, an American adventurer, and James, his servant, with a caged par rot, the trio knqwn up and down the Ir rawaddy as Parrot A Co., are bound for Rangoon. El»a Chetwood. rich American g«rl tourist. sees Warrington and ask* tln punier to Introduce her. He tells her that Warrington has beaten a syndicate and •old hla oil claims for £2H,r*M. Warrington puis Itajab, the parrot, through his tricks fcw Elsa and they pass two golden days together on the river In Rangoon, War rington Interferes In a row over cards caused by an enemy. Newell Craig Elsa Is annoyed by Craig and staba him with a hatpin. Warrington discovers Elsa on the Singapore steamer, lie avoids her. Craig Is aboard and la warned tiy Warrington who ceases to avoid Klsa 'ralg stirs up •vll gossip Klsa t-ll* Warrington of the hatpin Incident nnd he hunts up Craig, on * murder bent H* finds him stretched out drunk on deck nnd tutns the hose on iiltn. At Penang Mallow, who drove Warring ton from ills plantation when he learned his story, come# aboard Warrington tells Kins that Mallow and Craig both will tell that he spent money that did not belong to him ovar tha gambling table to Craig, and asks her not to speak to him again. Mallow baits Warrington, who keeps his tamper. At Singapore Klsa calls on her fa ther's old friend the American consul gen eral. Mallow calls and relates the steam •r goaslp about Elan Warrington also calls ana aends a cable to the Andes Con struction company, offering to restore the stolen money if they will lift the ban. CHAPTER Xlll—Continued. "And a man may break any one of these laws. I consider it horribly un fair." "So It Is. Rut If you wish to live In peace, you must submit." "Peace at that price 1 have no wish for. Thl* man Mallow lives within the pale of law; the other man Is out side of It. Yet, of the two, which would you be qulckwatto trust?" The conxi'l general laughed. "Now you are appealing not to my knowledge of the world but to my Instinct." "Thanks." "Is there any reason why you should defend Mr. Warrington, as ho calls himself?" The consul general's wife desperate ly tried to catch her husband's eye. Hut either he did not see the glance or he purposely Ignored it. "In defending Mr. Warrington I am defending myself. My dear friend," Elsa went on, letting warmth come Into her voice once more, "my sym pathy went out to that man. He looked so lonely. Did you notice his eyes? Can a man look at you the way he does and be bad?" "I have seen Mallow dozens of times. I know him to be a scoundrel of sorts; but 1 doubt If bald sunlight could make him blink. Liars have first to overcome the flickering and wavering of the eyes." "Me said almost the same thing Would he say that If he were a liar?" "I haven't accused him of being that. Indeed, he struck me as a truth ful young man. By the way, what la the name of the* Arm your father founded ?" "The Andes Construction company Do you think we could find him some thing to do there?" eagerly. "lie builds bridges." "I shouldn't advise that. Rut we have gone astray. You ought not to ■ee him again.'' "It is a hateful world!" Elsa ap pealed to the wife. "it Is. Elsa, dear. Rut James Is right." "You'll get your balance," said the guardian. "when you reach home When's the wedding?" "I'm not sure that I'm going to be married." Elsa twirled the sunshade "I'm Not Sure That I'm Going to Be Married." - again "Oh, bother.with It all! Din ner at eight. In the big dining room." "Yea. But the latroduction* will be made on the cafe verauda. These peo ple out here have gone mad over cock tails. And look your best, Elsa. I want them to see a real American girl tonight. I'll have some roses sent up to you." Elsa had not the heart to tell him that all interest In his dinner had suddenly gone from her mind; that •van the confusion of the colonel no longer appealed to her bitter malice, ■he knew that she was going to be bored and miserable. When ah* was gone, the consul gen amla wile aaJ4: "Poor girl!" Her husband looked across the room Interestedly. "Why do you say that?" "I am a woman." "That phrase is the City of Refuge. All women fly to It when confronted by something they do not understand." "Oh, but 1 do understand. And that's the pity of It" CHAPTER XIV. According to the Rules. Elsa sought the hotel , rickshaw stand, selected a sturdy coolie, and asked to be run to the botanical gar dens and back. She wanted to be alone, wanted breathing space, wanted the breeze to cool her hot cheeks. For she was angry at the world, angry at the gentle consul general, above all, angry at herself. To have laid herself open to the charge of Indiscretion! To have received a lecture, hQwever kind ly Intended, from the man she loved and respected next to her fatherl To know that persons were exchanging nods and whispers behind her back! It was a detestable world. It was folly to be honest, to be kind, to be Individual, to have likes and dislikes, unless these might be regulated by outsiders. Why should she care what people said? She did nt-t care. What made her furious was the absolute stupidity of their deductions. She had not been Indiscreet; she had been merely kindly and hurian; and If they wanted to twist and misconstrue her actions, let them do so. Once or twice slip saw Inwardly the wtll-o T -the-wisp ligh'.sof her soul. But resolutely she smothered the simrks. The coolie stopped suddenly. "Go on," she said. Hut tiie coolie smiled and wiped his Shaven poll. Elsa gazed at the hotel veranda In bewilderment. Hlowly she got out of the rlckshuw anil paid the fare. She had not the slightest recol lection of having seen the gardens. More than this, it was a quarter to seven. She hail been gone exactly an hour. "Perhaps, after all," she thought, "I am hopeless. They may be right; I ought to have a guardian lam not always accountable fof what I do." She dressed leisurely and with cal culation. She was determined to con vince everyone that she was' a beau tiful woman, above suspicion, above reproach. The spirit within her was not, however, In direct accord with this determination. Malice stirred into life again; and she wanted to hurt someone, hurt deeply. It was only the tame in spirit who, when Injured, sub mitted without murmur or protest. And Elsa, only dimly aware of It, was mortally hurt. "Elsa," said Martha, "that frown will stay thero some day, and never go away." . , Elsa rubbed It out with her finger. "Martha, do you recall that tiger In the cage at Jaipur? How they teased him until he lost his temper and came smashing ngalnst the bars? Well, I sympathize with that brute. He would have been peaceful enough had they let him be. If Mr. Warrington calls to morrow, say that I am Indisposed." Martha evinced her satisfaction visibly. The frown returned between Elsa's eyes and remained there until she went downstairs to join the cons-.tl general and his wife. She found some very agreeable men and women, and some of her natural gayety returned. At a far table on the veranda she saw Craig and Mallow In earnest conversa tion. She nodded pleasantly to the colo nel as the head boy came to announce that dinner was served. Anglo-Indian society had so many twists and rami fications that the situation was not ex actly new to the old soldier. True, none had confronted him Identical to this. But he had not disciplined men all these years without acquiring abun dant self-control. The little veins In his nose turned purple, as Elsa prophesied they would, but there was no other Indication of bow distasteful the moment was to him. He would surely warn the coftsul general, who doubtless was Innocent enough. They sat down. The colonel blinked. "Fine passage we had coming down." "Was It?" returned Elsa Innocently. The colonel reached for an olive and bit Into It savagely. He was no fool. She had him at the end of a blind alley, and there he must wait until she was ready to let him go. She could harry him or pretend to Ignore him, as suited her fancy. He was caught. Women, all women, possessed at least one attribute of the cat. U was dig ging in the claw, hanging by It, and boredly looking about the world to see what was going on. At that moment the colonel recognized the sting of the claw. Elsa turned to her right and en gaged the French consul discursively; indeed, she gradually became the cen ter of Interest; she drew them Inten tionally. She brought a touch of home to the Frenchman, to the German, to the Italian, to the Spaniard; and the British official, in whose nands the civil business of the Straits settle ments rested, was charmed to learn that Elsa had spent various week-ends at the home of his sister in Surrey. I And when she admitted that she wn« trie daughter of General Chat wood. the man to whom the Indies government had cause to be grateful upon more than one occasion, for the solidity of his atructures, the colonel realized definitely the seriousness of his crucifixion. He sat etiffer and atlffer In his chair, and the veins In his nose grew deeper and deeper In bus. He saw clearly that he would never understand American women. He bad committed an outrageous blun der He, Instead of dominating, bad been dominated by three faultfinding old women; and, without being aware of the fact, had looked at things from their point of view. A moat Inconceiv able blunder. He would not allow that he was being swayed less by the admis sion of bis unpardonable rudeness on board than by the Immediate knowl edge that Elsa was known to the Brit ish official's sister, a titled lady wbo stood exceedingly high at court. "Miss Chetwood," he said, lowering his voice for her ears only. Elsa turned, but with the expression that signified that her attention was engaged elsewhere. "Yes?" "I am an old man. I am sixty-two; and most of these sixty-two I have lived but I am not too old to realize that I have made a fool of my self." Interest began to fill Elsa's eyes. "It has been said," he went on, keep ing the key, "that I am a man of cour age, but I find that I need a good deal of that just now. I have been rude to you, and without warrant, and I offer you my humble apologies." He fum bled with his cravat as if It had sud denly tightened. "Will you accept!" "Instantly." Klsa understood the quality of courage that had stirred the colonel. But ruthlessly: "I should. She Nodded Pleasantly to the Colonel. however, like your point of view In re gard to what you consider my con duet." , "Is It necessary ?" "I believe It would be better for my understanding If you made a full con fession." She did not mean to be re lentless, but her curiosity una too strong not to press her advantage. "Well, then, over here as elsewhere in the world there are standards by which we Judge persons who come un der our notice." "Agreed. Individuality is not gen erally understandable." "By the mediocre, you might have added. That's the difficulty with Indi viduality; It refuses to be harnessed by mediocrity and mediocrity holds the whip-hand, always. I represent the mediocre." "Oh, never!" said Klsa animatedly. "Mediocrity is always without cour age." "You are wrong. It has the courage of Its convictions." "Rather is it not stubbornness, will ful refusal to recognize things as they are?" He countered the question with an other. "Supposing we were all Indi viduals, in the Benae you mean? Sup posing each of us did exactly as he pleased? Can you honestly Imagine a uiore confusing place than this world would be? The Manchurian pony Is a wild little beast, an individual If ever there was one; but man tnmes him and puts to uae his energies. And so It la with human Individuality. We of the mediocre tame and harness nnd make it useful to the general welfare of humanity. And when we encounter the untamable, in order to safeguard ourselves, we must turn it back Into the wilderness, an outlaw. Indeed, I might call Individuality an element, like Are and water aQd air." "Rut who conquer fire and water and air?" Elsa demanded, believing she had him pocketed. "Mediocrity, through the Individual of thla or that being. Humanity in the bulk la mediocre. And odd as it aeems, individuality (which is another word for genius) believes it leads medi ocrity. But It cannot be made to un derstand that mediocrity ordains the leadership." "Then you contend that in the haado of the stupid lies the balance of power?" "Let us not any stupid, rather the unimaginative, the practical and the plodding. The stubbornest person in the world Is one with an idea." "Do you honestly insist that you are mediocre?" "No," thoughtfully. "I am one of those stubborn men with ideas. I merely Insist that I prefer to accept the tenets of Mediocrity for my awn WELLIAMSTON, NORTH CAROLINA. peace and the peace of others." Elsa forgot those shout ber, forget ber intended humlllstion of the man at ber side. He denied that he was an individual, but be was one, as inter esting a one ss she hsd met In a very long time. She, too. bad made a blun der. Quick to form opinions, swift to judge, she stood guilty with the com mon lot, who permit impressions In stead of evidence to sway them. Here was a man. "We have gone far afield," she said, s tacit admission that she could not refute his dissertations. This knowl edge, however, was not Irksome. "Rather have we not come to the bars? Shall we Ist them dowa? In the civil and military life on tbls side of the world there are msny situa tions which we perforce must tolerate But these, mind you, are settled condi tions. It is upon new ones which arise that we paas judgment I knew noth ing about you, nothing whatever. So I judged you according to the rules." Elsa leaned upon her elbows, snd she smiled a little as she noted that the purple bad gone from his nose and that It had resumed Its accus tomed rublcundity. "I go on. A womsn who travels alone, who does not present letters of Introduction, who . . ." "Who attends strictly to her own af fairs. Go on." Imperturbable be continued: "Who seeks the acquaintance of men who 4* not belong, as you Americana aajr." "Not men; one man," she corrected. "A trlfllnc difference. Well, It arouse* a disagreeable word, sue piclon. For look, there have been U amples. It Isn't as If yours were an Isolated case, there have been ex> amples, and these we apply to such af fairs as come under our notice." "And It doesn't matter that you may be totally wrong?" Hl* prompt answer astonished her. "No, It does not matter in the least. Blmmered down. It may be explained in a word, appearances. And 1 must ■ay, to the normal mind . . ." "The mediocre mind." "To the normal and mediocre mind, appearances were against you. Ob serve, please, that I did not know I was wrong, that you were a remark able young woman. My deductions were made from what I saw as an out sider. On the krrawaddy you made the acquaintance of a man who camC out here a fugitive from justice. Alter you made his acquaintance, jou sought none other, in fact, repelled at/y ad vances. This alone decided me." "Then you were decided?" To Bay that this blunt exposition was not bit ter to her taste, that It did not act like acid upon her pride, would not be true. Hhe was hurt, but she did not let the hurt befog her sense of jus tice. From his point of view the cola nel was In no fault. "Let me tell you how very wrong you were indeed." "Doubtless," he hastily Interposed, "you enveloped the man in a cloud of romance." "On the contrary, 1 spoke to him and sought his companionship because he was nothing more nor less than a ghost." "Ah! Is it possible that you knew him in former times?" "No. Hut be was so like the man at home; no identical in features and build to the man I expected to go home to marry. . . "My dear.young lady, you are right Mediocrity ia without imagination, stupid, and makes the world a dull place Indeed. What woman In your place would have acted otherwise? In stead of one apology I offer a thou sand." "1 accept each and all of tlfem- Morn, I believe that you and I could get on capitally. I can very well imagine thn soldier you used to be. lam going to ask you what you know about Mr. Warrington." "This, that he is not a fit companion for a young woman like yourself; that a detracting rumor follows hard upon his heels wherever he goes. I learned something about him in Rangoon. He Is known to the riff-raff as Parrot A Co., and 1 don't khow what else. All of us on. shipboard learned hia previ ous history. And not from respectable quarters, either." "If I had been elderly and without physical attractions?" Elsa inquired sarcastically. "We are dealing with human nature, mediocrity, and not with speculation. It la in the very nature qf things to distrust that which we do not under stand. You aay.old and without phys ical attractions. Beauty la of all thinga moat drawing. We crowd about ht, we crown it, we flatter It. The old and unattractive we pass by. If I had not seen you here tonight, heard you talk, saw In a kind of rebelUoua en chantment over your knowledge of the world and your distinguished acquaint ance, 1 should have gone to my grave believing that my suspicions were cor rect. 1 dare say that I shall make the same mistake again." "Did you learn among other things what Mr. Warrington had done?" "Yes. A sordid affair. Ordinary peculations that were waated over gaming tables." Warrington had told her the trutfe. At leaßt, the story told by other* coincided with his own. But what wu it th'U kept doubt in her mind? Whjr should she not be ready to believe what othera believed, what the maa himself had confessed? What waa it to her that he looked like Arthur, that he was guilty or innocent? "And hia name?" She wondered It the colonel knew that also. "Warrington is assumed. His reel name is Paul Ellison." vpaul Ellison." She repeated It slow ly. 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