Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 17, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 May 1934 — Page 19

MAY 31, 1934-

The Amateur Gentleman - Jeffrey Farnol==^^^

BEGIN HERE TODAX ReceivUne an inheritance ol seven hundred thousand pounds. Barnabas Barty. son of John Barty. the former champion prize fighter of England, decides to become a gentleman ratner than follow the fighting game. He bests his father in a duel of fists as climax of a quarrel over the son s choice of a career. Natty Belk another former champion, has aided the father in training young Barty to use his fists. After the fight. Barnabas changes his first name to Beverley and on his way to London meets among oth ers \he Cap’n. the Bosun and young Horatio Bellasis, a gentleman, and friend of Sir Mortimer Carnaby. . . Finding Sir Mortimer, whom he did not know at the time, leering; over the form of a young woman apparently un conscious as a result of a fall voune Barty knocks out the in truder in a fight, and revives the voting woman He leaves without learning her name, but picks up a handkerchief which she. intrigued bv her rescuer. ' e The trip *to b London continues with voting Bellasis as a companion. Beverly tests his companion in a battle the After the lie had been passed over the ability of the prizefighter s son. the combatants remain friends. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORE INSTALLMENT TWENTY - SIX (Continued) “Annersley,” said Barnabas, as he watched them go; “Annersley.” n an BUT now', with a prodigious clatter of hoofs and grinding of wheels, the viscount drove round in his curricle, and drew up before the door in masterly fashion; whereupon the two high-mettled bloods immediately began to rear and plunge, as is the way of their kind, to snort, to toss their sleek heads, and to dance, drumming their hoofs with a sound like a brigade of cavalry at the charge, whereupon the viscount immediately fell to swearing at them, and his diminutive groom to roaring at them in his “stable voice,” and the tw'o ostelers to cursing them, and one another; in the midst of which hubbub out came Barnabas to stare at them with the quick, appraising eye of one who know's and loves horses. To whom, thusly, the viscount, speaking both to him and the horses: “Oh, there you are, Bev—stand still, damn you. There’s blood for you, eh, my dear fellow—devil burn your hide! Jump up, my dear fellow—Gad, they're pulling my arms off.” “'Hien you w r ant me to come with you, Dick?” “My dpar, of course Ido —stand still, damn you—though we are rivals, we’re friends your livers and bones—so jump up, Bev, and—oh dommem, there’s no holding ’em—quick, up with you.” Now r , as Barnabas stepped forward, afar off up the lane he chanced to espy a certain jaunty hat, and immediately, acting for once upon impulse, he shook nis head. “No, thanks,” said he. “Eh—no?” repeated the viscount, “but you shall see her, I’ll introduce you myself.” “Thanks, Dick, but I’ve decided not to go back.” “What, you won’t come then?” “Lord, but this is a great day for the old ‘Cow,’ sir,” said the landlord, as Barnabas yet stood staring down the road, “we aren’t had so many o’ the quality here for years. Last night, the young vi-count, this morning, bright and early, Sir Mortimer Carnaby and friend, then the vi-count again, along o’ you, sir, an’ now you an’ Sir Mortimer’s friend; you don’t be no w r ays acquainted wi’ Sir Mortimer’s friend, be you, sir?” “No,” answered Barnabas, “w'hat is his name?,” “Well, Sir Mortimer hailed him as ‘Chichester,’ I fancy, sir, though, I aren't prepared to swear it, no more yet to oath it, not ’aving properly ob-served, but ‘Chichester,’ I think it were; and ’tw'ixt you an’ me, sir, he be one o’ your fine gentlemen as I aren't no wdse partial to, an’ he's ordered dinner and supper.” “Has he,” said Barnabas, “then I think I’ll do the same.” • “Ay, ay, sir, very gcod.”

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“In the meantime could you let me have a pen, ink and paper?” “Ay, sir, sdrely, in the sanded parlor, this way, sir.” INSTALLMENT TWENTY-SEVEN FORTHWITH he led Barnabas into a long, low paneled room, with a wide fireplace at the further end, beside which stood a great high-backed settee with a table before it. Then Barnabas sat down and wrote a letter to his father, as here follows: ' “My Dear Father and Natty Bell. —I have read somewhere in my books that ‘adventures are to the adventurous,’ and, indeed, I have already found this to be true. Now, since I am adventuring the great W'orld, I adventure lesser things also. “Thus I have met and talked with an entertaining peddler, from whom I have learned that the w'orst place in the world is Giles’s Rents down by the River; from him, likewise, I purchased a book as to the merits of which I begin to entertain doubts. “Then I have aready thrashed a friend of the Prince Regent, and somewhat spoiled a very fine gentleman, and, I fear, am like to be necessitated to spoil another before the day is much older; from each of whom I learn that a prince’s friend may be an arrant knave. “Furthermore, I have become acquainted with the son of an earl, I and finding him a man also, have ! formed a friendship with him, which ! I trust may endure. “Thus far, you see, much has happened to me; adventures have befallen me in rapid succession. ‘Wonderful!’ say you. ‘Not at all,’ say I, since I have found but what I sought after, for, as has been said —‘adventures are to the adventurous.’ Therefore, within the next few hours, I confidently expect other, and perchance weightier, happenings to overtake me because —I intend to. So much for myself. “Now, as for you and Natty Bell, it is with deep affection that I think of you—an affection that shall abide with jne always. Also, you are both in my thoughts continually. I remember our bouts with the ‘muffles,’ and my wild gallops on unbroken horses with Natty Bell; surely he knows a horse better than any, and is a better rider than boxer, if that could well be. Indeed, I am fortunate in having studied under two such masters. “Furthermore, I pray you to consider that this absence of mine will only draw us closer together, in a sense. Indeed, now. when I think of you both, I am half-minded to give up this project and come back to you. But my destiny commands me, and destiny must be obeyed. Therefore I shall persist unto the end; but whether I succeed or no, remember, I pray of you, that I am always, “Your lover and friend, “BARNABAS.” “P. S.—Regarding the friend of the Prince Regent, I could wish now ! that I had struck a little harder, ] and shall do so next time, should the opportunity be given. “B.” Having finished this letter, in which it will be seen he made no mention of the Lady Cleone, though his mind was yet full of her, having finished his letter I say, Barnabas sanded it, folded it, affixed wafers, and had taken up his pen to write the superscription, when he was arrested by a man’s voice speaking in a lazy drawl, just outside the open lattice behind him. n an | “TVTOW ’pon my soul and honor. Beatrix—so much offended virtue for a stolen kiss—begad! you were prodigal of ’em once—” “How dare you! Oh. coward that you are!” exclaimed another voice, low and repressed, yet vibrant with bitter scorn; ‘you know that I found j you out—in time,-thank God! To Be Continued.)

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TARZAN THE INVINCIBLE

Dorsky, who was lolling in a chair before his tent, leaped to his feet as he heard Tarzan's cry. The blacks quickly seized their weapons. “What; was that?” Dorsky asked his black boy. He said: “Such a noise comes only from Tarzan.

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‘‘Well have a look at him,” said Dorsky. But the black held back and the white man went on alone. A strange foreboding filled him; so that as he neared the tent, he went more slowly and held his revolver ready in his hand.

—By Akern

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Entering the tent, he saw the man lying where he had been left; now his eyes were open and in them the Russian saw an expression like that of a wild beast that has been caught in a trap. It sent a shiver up his spine.

—By Edgar Rice Burroughs

“So ycu have come to,” said Dorsky. ‘‘What do you want?” The captive made no reply but his eyes never left the other’s face. So steady was Tarzan’s gaze that Dorsky became uneasy. "You had better learn to talk.” he said angrily.

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