Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1919 — Page 7

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WHITE MAN

By George Agnew Chamberlain

Author of "Hom*," “Through Stained Glms,” “John Bocardua.” etc.

Copyright, 1919, The Bobbe-MerrUrCompany SYNOPSIS. CHAPTER I.—Andrea Pellor, handsome daughter of Lord Pellor, impecunious aristocrat, is doomed to marry an illiterate but wealthy middle-aged diamond mine owner. She disconsolately wanders from her hotel in South Africa and dis- ■ covers an aviator about to fly from the beach. Impulsively, of course imagining that the trip will be merely a pleasant excursion, ■ and a welcome relief from thoughts of her impending loveless marriage, she ‘begs to be taken for a flight, although she "does not know him. He somewhat unwillingly agrees, and they start. CHAPTER ll.—When she realizes her unknown aviator is not going back Andrea in desperation tries to choke him with one of her stockings. He thwarts her and they sail on into the very heart of Africa. Landing in an immense craal, Andrea finds the natives all bow in worship to her mysterious companion. She is given a slave boy, "Bathtub," and the White Man sets about building a hut for her. CHAPTER lll.—Andrea is given a glimpse of the home which is to be hers, and wonders at its completeness. White Man Invites her to dinner that evening, and In spite of the fact that he has refused to take her back to civilization Andrea accepts his invitation, but he continues deaf to her pleading that he restore her to her friends. CHAPTER IV.—Andrea is awakened from sound sleep next morning by loud pounding on her doorway and is told to B repare for a day’s hunt with White Man. he thoroughly enjoys the exciting trip and begins to understand more of he "host’s” character and the reason for his apparently ruthless slaughtering of animals. He is providing for the force of blacks he employs and who look to him for sustenance.

CHAPTER V. The seven days that followed were much as the first; when the white man [was not shooting for the pot he was iaway overseeing his army of laborers, fle ate but twice a day, at half past five in the morning, and twelve hours thereafter. To the latter meal Andrea was invariably and formally invited. At each successive invitation she hesitated a little longer before accepting, and on the seventh night she re fused. Any woman can easily understand why, but the surprising thing was that the man seemed to know just what was happening to her spirit No stomach living can stand pigeon fourteen days in succession, nor Is there a maid that can put on the same Identical clothes for half that time without feeling demeaned; She knew he knew,

ror twice during the week lie had told her bluntly to hand her lingerie to Bathtub at night, and she had found It at her door In the morning, miraculously washed, dried and more or less Ironed. There was nothing In the dawn of the eighth morning to Indicate that it was ushering in a day of days, nor did Andrea more than turn her head when Shortly after noon two bearers staggered into camp with a steamer trunk slung on a pole between them. There was no reason In the world why she should connect that trunk in any way with herself, even when, an hour after its arrival, she beheld approaching the magnificent and unforgettable specimen of black manhood she had last seen on the morning of her ravishment. The new-comer dismissed the two bearers, making them take the pole and its lashings with them. They departed after one long, disconsolate look. He then seated himself beside the trunk and never moved until, late in the afternoon, the white man appeared, when he arose, saluted and then made a solemn gesture toward the load others had carried. The white man’s eyes lighted up; he seemed more cheerful than he had been In days. He spoke to the black in dialect, whereupon he grasped a single handle of the trunk, and with one smooth movement passed it over his shoulder right side up to the crown of his head. He then marched with it into Andrea’s caia. , She sprang up. “Why!" she exclaimed and then added, her heart sinking within her, “You don’t think that’s one of mine, do you? Because It isn’t.” She watched to see his face fall, but it didn’t. From bls pocket be took a bunch of keys, quickly slipped one from the ring and handed it -to her. “Please open the trunk. It’s certainly yours, as is all that it contains.” He turned from her and added, “By the way, Fm dining In khaki tonight” As Andrea walked slowly to her room, clutching the key tightly, she confessed to herself that she was being eaten alive by curiosity. “If only," she breathed, “there should happen to be one whole pair of stockings 1” Half an hour later, when every last thing the trunk had contained was piled upon her cot she went to the door and closed it softly; then returned to drop on her knees, throw her arms wide across the accumulation, bury her hot face against one article after another and kiss each in turn 1 There is every reason to enumerate that pile of dry goods if only to put on record for the benefit of the sporting world in general a list that it took many years to compile; two to decide what was necessary; eight to determine what of that wasn’t. To begin at the bottom, there were two pairs of stout, brown, high, laced, walking boots; then, in rapid succession, six pairs of- lisle thread stockings to match; one pair of boys’ pig-skin puttees ; six dainty but sensible on,e-plece undies of softest and whitest woven ■■ "it.

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cotton; three pairs of khaki breeches (youth's else); three feiakl skirts, knee length, buttoned with real buttons and buttonholes all the way up the front and all the way up the back; four suits of pajamas, white madras, with silk frogs and knobs; six khaki shirts (two breast pockets each); one belt; three brown ties; one khaki-colored woolen sweater; one mackintosh, with hood; two khaki Jackets (enonnous pockets); two black hair ribbons and one nutbrown tam-o’-shanter! There were also a few assorted packages, one Or two of which even this frank chronicle refuses to open, but no harm can attach to the mention of a well-stocked housewife, an equally complete toilet case, a bathrobe, a pair of bedroom slippers, and a long, flat cardboard box that had been at the bottom of the trunk, and which Andrea had as yet refrained from exploring. On it was written in a strangely masculine hand: "The Return of the Native."

She opened it now and disclosed one of those adorable filmy hybrid frocks, a double cross between afternoon, evening and elf-land wear; one set of crepe de chine lovelies; two pairs of silk stockings, one pair of satin slippers. “And he said he’s going to wear khaki tonight," she moaned. Is it necessary to state that she presently got up off her knees and beginning at the head of the bed, started to try on every last thing?. She did, and she was only half through when Bathtub knocked on the door and announced, “Scoff ready.” No invitation this time —an order. “Oh, dear!” she sighed and rushed for the utterly Inadequate mirror. Five minutes later her door opened and she stepped put, slowly, like some shy thing of the forest. Flushed of cheek, brilliant of eye, she walked toward the man. Oh, big black bow! Oh, hair starting one way and going another, leaping a squared shoulder to come to rest and rise and fall against the rounded face of a firin young breast! Oh, vision! Oh, youth! Oh, day and hour of the gay heart! The man looked and saw that her knees were round, her legs straight. “Thank God,” he murmured. He was dressed as she was, tit for tat, except for the big black bow and the very short skirt; and, like her, his hands were thrust, boy fashion, in the side pockets of his open khaki jacket. Ac she came close their eyes met and smiled. “I didn’t put on the leggings,” she said shyly. It was as though In changing back to ways and clothes like those of childhood she had suddenly rid herself ot the hardening years between. “You were right,” said the man. “They’re for the brush and when mosquitoes are bad.” Hpr face lit with pleasure. “You’ll let me go into the brush?” “Never alone,” he answered quickly. “But you may go with me whenever and wherever you like.” “And may I still call you Just White Man? Somehow it seems Impertinent now." “Don’t tease me,” said the man lightly and then his face fell. “Don’t make me feel old.” “Old!” cried Andrea. “Who could be old tonight? Why, While Man, we’re —we’re kids.” He laughed in his sudden relief. “So we are. So we shall be.” “Excuse me,” said Andrea solemnly. “Did I hear you laugh?” At that he laughed again, not uproariously, but as though his slow smile had become vocal for the occa-

"I Didn’t Put On the Leggings,” She Said Shyly.

slon. Andrea nodded in a pleased way as if she were congratulating herself on guessing aright; it was a laugh. When the liqueurs and the coffee came she started chasing a pellet of bread around an empty plate with a straight, small finger. “You fix one,” she said, “and we’ll have a race.” The man watched her Indulgently, but absent-mindedly. Presently he filled two glasses. “My dear Andrea Pellor,” he said gravely, “let us drink to all the hearts in the world tonight that are happy and unafraid.” She stood up to the toast, and after It they sat in a long silence. It was Andrea that broke it. “You know, White Man. Pm a woman."

“Of course you are," he said quickly, a wary look coming Into his eyes. •‘Yes.” said Andrea. “So of course, too, rm curious.” He gave the deep sigh of relief of one who finds that the ice is quite thick, after all. “Specify, please.” “Well,” said Andrea. “It’s that trunk. Fve puzzled and puzzled, but I can’t make out quite how that trunk happened.” “And no wonder,” said M'sungo. “It’s simple enough, however, to the male mind. Let me help you. When I came out eight months Ago my sister was with me —just about your size, just about your age. That trunk was meant for her and had been sent ahead with my kit. She 'never needed It.” He paused and added, “I lost her at Cape Town.” “Oh!” cried Andrea, too-ready tears springing to her eyes. “Yes," he continued calmly. “It was pretty bad. She married a cub of a naval officer and is traipsing around the world on the chance of hitting the right port and lunching with him once." Andrea’s hand went to her breast and stayed there as though to imprison her fluttering heart. “White Man,” she said, “please don’t do that to me again—ever. You see. I’ve always been silly about things that get hurt” “Forgive me," he said. “I was thoughtless." “Careless, perhaps; thoughtless, never,” said Andrea, smiling once more. “Well,” she went on, clasping her hands and throwing her head back, “I’m for your sister. The woman that could make up that trunk is a genius.” “She would be," remarked the man enigmatically. Andrea paused in her thoughts; then came wide awake and looked at him narrowly. “White Man, didn’t a woman make up that trunk?” “No, there are few women living that could. Think It out. That trunk was all bone, muscle and sinew—with an a/ter-dlnner cigarette at the bottom. Why, the last time I saw Maisie she had two small moving vans and a wicker house . she thought she was going to bring with her. I’d fixed It with a quartermaster to drop the lot overboard in the night and at the last moment. She never even heard of this trunk.” During his long speech the color had been rising in Andrea’s cheeks. “I don’t think I like you as much as I did,” she said slowly. “Somehow you were getting too good to be true. You bought and packed all those things yourself.” He met her gaze steadily. “Don’t,” he whispered, “don’t let's be oW ” ' (TO BE CONTINUED)

NOTICE OF HEARING AND DOCKETING DITCH PETITION. State of Indiana,) County of Jasper)S3: In the Jasper Circuit Court, to February term, 1920. In the Matter of the Petition of Joseph Nagel et al, for a Drain. Cause No. 165. To Emory s“ Mills; Francis J. Donnelly; James R. Parklson; Richard B Wetherill; Mary C. WetherUl; Juliette Moore; Andrew K- Yeoman; Jane K. Parklson; Boan W. Ellsworth; Earl A. Barkley; William Snedeker; the Civil Township of Barkley, Grant Davisson, Trustee; Mary Jane Moody; Nathan Eldridge; Doris Mills; Granville Moody; Nellie Long; Jane Hall; Mary Dunn; Clifford Lewis; Granville Moody, Junior; Mrs. Nathan Eldridge; Laura Leach; Jesse Eldridge; Emmet Eldridge; Thomas Eldridge and Clara Eldridge: You and each of you are hereby notified that the petitioners in the above entitled cause .have filed their petition in the office of the Clerk of the Jasper Circuit Court, praying for the location and construction of a public tile drain upon and along the following described line and route, to-wlt: Commencing at a point near the northwest corner of the southeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section 2, township 29 north, range 6 west, in Barkley township, Jasper county, fhdiana, and from thence in a southeasterly direction about 400 feet; thence southerly about 800 feet; thence easterly about 850 feet; thence southerly about 1300 feet; thence in a general southeasterly •direction about 5,750 feet; thence in a general southwesterly direction about 6,250 feet; thence south about 1,250 feet, to a point near the southwest corner of section 14, said township and range, where the proposed drain will have a good and sufficient outlet in th/ Plnkamink River. You are further notified that ya

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are named In said petition as neln* the owner of lands which will b* benefited by the location and construction of the proposed drain. You are further notified that salt, petition Is now pending, and wil come up for hearing and docketing In the Jasper Circuit Court, at the Court House In Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, on Monday, the 9th day of February, 1920, the same being the first ’judicial day of the February term, 1920, of said court. a , JOSEPH NAGEL, Et AL, Petitioners. Attest: ’ JESSE NICHOLS, Clerk Jasper Circuit Court. A. Halleck, Rensselaer, Indiana, attorney for petitioners. dl7-24 CHRISTMAS STATIONERY The Democrat now has on hand Its holiday stock of fine correspondence papers and cards In all the latest styles and shades. Our stock Is very complete at this time and the wise Christmas shoppers will get in early and make their purchases soon, rather than wait until the last moment when the stock has been depleted and only odds and ends afe left. A box of correspondence paper and envelopes, or correspondence cards and envelopes make a very acceptable and appropriate Christ mas A present and something that Is, useful as well. We have them In prices to suit. —■ THE DEMOCRAT. ’ m USE THE TELEPHONE ( Whenever you are In need of anything In the printing line, tall phone 315 and we will be Johnny-on-the-»poL The Democrat employs first-class printers and enjoys the distinction of turning ont nothing but first-class work. It means to retain this reputation, and If your printing has not been satisfactory elsewhere let The Democrat show you what good printing is. We are here to please and bars the help and faculties to do pleasing work ' Try a want ad In The Democrat.

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