Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 243, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 February 1925 — Page 10

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THE jLOST WORLD By Sir Arthur Con*n Doyle

SYNOPSIS Malone, m young: London newspaper reporter, rejected by the rM he loves because he has no great deeds to hie credit, goes in search ol adventure. An appeal to his editor. MeArdle. for a dangerous assignment, ret ills in his being sent to Interview Professor Challenger, a scientist, who has recently returned from a solitary ex'/edition to South America with an aliasing story of adventure which no EbeUerves. Angered. Challenger since -efused to talk. By a ruse one obtains an audience with him, but Is uncdwmoniously ejected when Challenger discovers he Is a importer. But becaufJ Malone refuses to press a charge against hlio, Challenger Is sufficiently mollified to ordor him into the house again. After extracting a promise that nothing he tells him will be repeated. Challenger brings forth a tattered sketch book. which. he says, he found among the possesselns of an American artist and explorer, Maple White, whom he had come upon during his expedition, dead from exhaustion and starvation. Malone examines some of the drawings without finding anything unusual. CHAPTER IV—Continued T wag still unable to sympathize. It was a full-page sketch of a landscape roughly tinted In color —the kind of painting which an open-air artist takes as a guide to a future more elaborate effort. There was a pale-green 'foreground of feathery vegetation, which sloped upward and ended In a line of cliffs dark red In cdlor, and curiously ribbed like some basaltic formations which I have seen. They extended In an unbroken wall right across the background. At on'e point was an isolated pyramidal rock, crowned by a great tree, which appeared to be separated by a cleft from the main crag. Behind It all, a blue tropical sky* A thin green line of vegetation fringed the summit #f the ruddy cliff. “Well?” he asked. “It is no doubt a curious formation,” said I, "but I am not geologist enough to say that It is wonderful.” "Wonderful!” he repeated. “It Is unique. It Is Incredible. No one on earth has ever dreamed of such a possibility. Now the next.” I turn It over, and gave an exclamation of surprise. There was a full-page picture of the most extraordinary creature that I had ever seen. It was the wild dream of an opium smoker, a vision of delirium. The head was like that of a fowl, the body that of a bloated lizard the trailing tail wag furnished with upward-turned spikes, and the curved back was edged with a high serrated fringe, which looked like a dozen cocks’ wattles placed behind each other. In front of this creature was an absurd mannikin, or dwarf, in human form, who stoo'd staring at it. “Well, what do you think of that?” cried the Professor, rubbing his hands with an a r of trium h. “Tt is monstrous—grotesque. “But what made i:im draw such an RnimaW” “Trade gin, I think.” “Oh, that’s the best explanation you can give, is it?”

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‘ '‘Well, sir* what Is yours?” , “The obvious one that the coture exists. That is actually sketched from the life.” I should have laughed only that I had a vision of doing another Catherine-wheel down the passage. “No doubt,” said I, “no doubt,” as one who humors an imbecile. “I confess, however, I added, ‘that tbs tiny human figure puzzles me. If it were an Indian w-e could set It down as evidence of some pigmy race In America, but It appears to be a European In a sun-hat.” The Professor snorted like an angry buffalo. “You really touch the limit,” he said. “You enlarge my view of the possible. Cerebral paresis! Mental Inertia! Wonderful!” He was too absurd to make me angry. Indeed, It was a waste of energy, fcr If you were going to be an-’Tv with this man you would be arg y all the time. I contented myself with smiling wearily. “It struck me that the man was small,” said I. “Look here!” he cried, leaning forward and dabbing a great hairy sausage of a finger on to the picture. “i'ou see that plant behind the animal; I suppose you thought it was a dandelion or a Brussels sprout—what? Well, it Is t vegetable Ivory and they run to about fifty or sixty feet. Don’t you see that the man Is put In fhr a purpose. He couldn’t really have stood In front of tha* - . brute and lived to draw it. He sketched himself in to give a scale of heights. He was, we will say, over five feet high. The tree Is ten times bigger, which is what one would expect.” “Good heavens!” I cried. “Then you think the beast was— Why, “Apart from exaggeration, he Is certainly a well-g Town specimen," said the professor, complacently. “But,” f cried, “surely the whole experience of the human race Is not to be set aside on account of a single sketch”—l had turned over the leaves and ascertained that there was nothing more In the book— “a single sketch by a wandering American artist who may have done It under habhlsh, or In the delirium of fever, or simply in order to gratify a freakish imagination. You can’t, as a man of science, defend such a position as that.” For ainswer the professor took a book down from a shelf. “This is an excellent monograph by my gifted friend, Ray Lankeste> !” said he. “There is an illustration here which would Interest you. Ah, yes, here It is! The inscription beneath it runs: ‘Probable appearance in life of the Jurassic Dinosaur Stegosaurus. The hind leg alone is twice as tall as a full-grown man.’ Well, what do you i lake of that?” He handed me the open bouit. I started as I looked at the picture. In this reconstructed animal of a dead world there was certainly a very great resemblace to the sketch of the unknown artist. “That is certainly remarkable,” said I. "But you won’t admit that It Is final?” v “Surely it might be a coincidence, or this American may have seen a picture of the kind and carried It In his memory. It would be likely to recur to a man in a delirium.” “Very good,” said the Professor, indulgently; “we leave It at that. I will now ask you to look at this bone.” He handed over the bone which he had already described as part of the dead man’s possessions. It was about six inches long, and thicker than my thumb, with some Indications of dried cartilage at one end of it. “To what know creature does that bone belong?” asked the Professor. I examined it with care and tried to recall some half-forgotten knowledge. “It lrfight be a very thick human collar-bone,” I said. My companion waved his hand in contemptuous deprecation. “The human collar-bone is curve \ This is straight. There is a groo\ a upon its surface showing that a great tendon played across it, which could not be the case with a clavicle.” “Then I must confess that I don’t know what it Is.” “You need not he ashamed to expose your ignorance, for I don’t suppose the whole of South Kensington staff could give a name to it.” He took a little bone the size of a bean out of a pill-box. “So far as I am a judge this human bone is the analogue of the one which you hold In your hand. That will give you some idea of the size of tht creature. You will' observe from the cartilage that this is no fosil specimen, but recent. What do you oay to that?” “Surely in an elephant—” He winced In pain. "Don’t! Don’t of elephants In South America. Even In these days of Board Schools—” “Well,” I interrupted, “any large South American animal—a tapir, for example.” “You may take It. young man. that I am yersed in the elements of my business. This Is not a conceivable bone either of a tapir or of any other creature known to zoology. It belongs to a very large, a very strong, and, by all analogy, a very fierce animal which exists upon the face of the earth, but has not yet come under the notice of science. You are still unconvinced?” “I am at least deeply inters ested.” “Then your case is not hopeless. I feel that there Is reason lurking In you somewhere, so we will patiently grope around for It. “We will now leave the dsad AmerQuiets coughs Safe and reliable for coughs, colds, spasmodic croup, i bronchial “flu" and whooping coughs and those alecdisturbing night coughs. 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