> » CALYPSOI Synopsis—The man who tells this story--call him the hero, for short is visiting his friend, John BSaun- ders, British official in Nassau, Jahama islands, Charles Webster, a local merchant, completes the trio of friends. Saunders produces a written docurpent purporting to be the death-bed statgment of Hen- ry P. Toblas, a succesful pirate, made by him in 1883. It gives two spots where two millions and a half of treasures were buried by him and his companions. The conversation of the three friends is overheard by a pock-marked stranger. The docu- ment disappears Saunders, how- ever, has a copy. The hero, deter mined to seek the buried treasure, cl ters a The pock- marked man is taken on as a pas- senger. On the voyage somebody empties the gasoline tank, The hero ww clash, the pas- ving a manifesto bearing i wture, “Henry FP. Tobias, Jr." The hero lands on Dead Men's Shoes. There is fight, which followed by several rals. The hero finds a x ng the 3 a mas a few schooner is est—empty save for pieces of eight scattered the bot- tom. The hero returns to Nas- 3 and by goo learns the location of isl Webster b and he Shrift leaves “Jack and is a proves an ous passenger capture Tobias oves to be ¢ ha hero salls on the Harkaway,” OW ed to Interesting fellow, aboard Jack mysteri- ana land, sees a Spanish doubl more entrancing sight of the girl CHAPTER |1—Continued. i Ce called a pleasant voice, of an “Ha! {or AE% ha!" itly unusual Lpproad evi belonging to a man ing me through the y . tara runks;: “so dizcovered you have hidden paradise-—my Alcinous garden, SO 4 a 1 LO Bay found; “very true, indeed, and yet, wasn't it the great Bacon who said: ‘Whoever is delighted with solitude is either a beast or a god?—and this particular solitude, I confess, some- times seems to me a little too much like that enforced solitude of the Pontic marshes of which Ovid wailed and whimpered In the deaf ears of Augustus.” I could not help noticing at last as he talked on with fantastic magni cence, the odd contrast between his speech and the almost equaily fantas tic poverty of his clothing. The sult he wore, though still preserving a certain elegance of cut, was so worn and patched and stained that a negro would hardly have accepted it as a gift; and his almost painful emacia him generally the appear- gn animated framework of tion ance gave of a ~~ Tper or transiation, which 1 don’t you?—remains the best: . s Lireex, Pope's iT SD » defended n les, inclement ious gard and on. Alas! for an old man's nory! It grows shorter and shorter ike his life, ¢h? Never mind, you are welcome, sir stranger, mysterious ly tossed up here like Ulysses, on our island coast.” I gazed with it this strange ‘and 80 natural wonderment $ individual, who thus in the heart of the wilderness had saluted with a meticulously pure English aceent, and welcomed me in a quotation from Homer in the original Greek. Who, in the devil's name, was this odd character who, I saw, as I looked closer at him, was, as he had hinted, quite an old man, though his unusual erectness and sprightliness of manner, lent him an illusive air of youth? Who on earth was he—and how did he happen in the middle of this haunted wood? me CHAPTER III, Calypso. Of course a glance and the first sound of his voice had told me that I had to do with a gentleman—one of those vagabond English gentlemen in exile who form g type peculiar, I think, to the English race; men that are a curious combination of aristocrat and Gypsy, soldier, scholar, and philoso- pher men of good family, who have drifted everywhere, seen and seen through everything, but in all their wanderings have never lost thelr sense and habit of “form,” their boyish zest in living, their humorous stoicism, and, above all, their lordly accent. “Now that you have found us, Sir Ulysses” -— continued my eccentric host, motioning me, with an inde scribably princely wave of the hand to accompany him-—"you must certainly give us the pleasure of your company to luncheon. Visitors are as rare as black swans on this Ultima Thule of ours~though, by the way, the black Swan, cygnus atratus, is nothing like 80 rare as the ancients believed. 1 have shot them myself out tn Australia. Still they are rare enough for the pur- pose of imagery, though really not so rare as a human being one can talk intelligently to on this island.” Talk! My friend indeed, very evi dently was a talker—one of those fan- tastiec monologists to whom an saudi ence Is little more than a symbol. 1 saw that there was no need for me to do any of the talking. He was more than glad to do it all. Plainly his en- counter with me was to him lke a spring In a thirsty land. “Solitude,” he continued, “is per. haps the final need of the human soul. After a while, when we have run the gamut of all our ardors and our dreams, solitude comes to seem the one excellent thing, the simmum bonum.” I murmured that he certainly seemed to have come to the right place for it. “Very true, indeed,” he assented, With a courtly Inclination of his head, as though 1 bad said something pro “Hal! Hal” Called a Pleasant Voice. rags and bones, startlingly embodyit the volee and the manners of a pri Yet the shabby tie about his neck wi bound by a ring, in which was turquoise of great size and beauty. Presently, as we loitered on through the palms, we came upon two negroes chopping away with their machetes, trimmi up the debris of broken and decaying palm fans, They were both sturdy, feroctous-looking f but one of them was a veritable glant, “Behold by bodyguard!” sald my magnificent friend, with the usaal pos. wave of his hand: “my Switzers, my Janissaries, so to say.” The negroes stopped working, touched their great straw hats, and flashed their splendid teeth in a de- lighted smile. Evidently they were used to their master's ways of talking, and were devoted to him, “This chap here is Erebus” said my host, and the appropriateness of the name was apparent, for he was certainly the blackest negro I had ever seen, as superbly black as some wom- en are superbly white. “And this is Samson. Let's have a look at your muscles, Samson—{here's a good boy!” And, with grins of pleasure, Sam- son proudly stripped off his thin calico Jacket and exposed a torso of terrify- ing power, but beautiful in its play of muscles as that of a god. Leaving Samson and Erebus to con- tinue their savage play with their machetes, we walked on through the palms, which here gave a particularly Junglelike appearance to the scene from the fact of their being bowed out from their roots and sweeping up- ward in great curves. One involunta- rily looked for a man-eating tiger at any moment, standing striped and splendid in one of the openings. Then suddenly to the right, there came a flash of level green, suggesting lawns, and the outlines of a house, partly covered with brilliant purple flowers—a marvelous splash of color, “Bougainvillea! Bougainvillea spec. tabilis—of course, you know it. Was there ever such a purple? Not Solo mon In all his glory, et cetera. And here we are at the house of King Alcinous—a humble version of it in- deed.” It was a large rambling stucco house, somewhat decayed looking, and evidently built on the ruins of an older building. We came upon it at a broad Italian-looking loggia, supported by stone pillars bowed in with vines— ver cool and pleasant—with mossy slabs for its floor, here and there tropical ferns set out in tubs, some wicker chairs standing about, and a table at one side on which two little barelegged negro girls were busy set ting out yellow fruit, and other ap purtenances of luncheon, on a dazzling white cloth. g “Has your mistress returned yet, my children?” asked the master, “No, sar,” sald the older girl, with ellows, sesgive a giggle, twisting and grimacing with embarrassment, “My daughter,” explained my host, “hag gone to the town on an errand. She will be back at any moment. Meanwhile, IT shall introduce you to n cooling drink of my own manufacture, with a basis of that coconut milk which I need not ask you whether you appreciate, recalling the pleasant circumstance of our first acquaint ance." Motioning me to a seat, and pushing toward me a box of elgarettes, he went indoors, leaving me to tuke In the stretch of beautiful garden In front of me, the trees of which seemed literal- ly to be hung with gold—for they were mainly * of orange and grapefruit ranged round a spacious beautifully kept lawn with the regularity of sumptuous decoration. In the middle of the lawn, a little rocky threw up a jet of silver, a tinkling murmur cular basin from which broad leaves and splendid pink oms of an Egyptian lotus, it was no far-fetched classical friend to speak mi falling with a broad emerged cir the into ¢ allusion of of the gar beach of a desert | statge in the moon As I sat golden-green light of sathed the orange trees dreaming, in the aun ng of the 1 with our drink: i % hicl rne learned dizsquisition ) ighly inte ree and characteristic though it ing Kg Suffice It that It was a dr v its f ifie § 3 «¥ ' ft—that from “stick” in been drawn the virgin earth, and invigorating it While we were slowly sipping it, a SGN L was, mw ing our cigarett in an unw » of my frien almost fur smok ' d's fanciful tua! in my s» fneln y followed by a light an the sound of a woman's and Then i oman emerged on t ogeia., “Ah! there you are!” eried my host and daug rs then turning t hier Sot #8 we both rose; me, “this is 44 my nonsense-—doesn't she look my dear, to for we had not changed each other's names I am a bound to say that she no better. For é ; % » ir ow me, introdycoe—-Xr Ulysses I” yet proved hersel she gave n and the olive of glowed as with submerged rose on me, lovely cheeks color, Our embarrassment did not es the father. “Why, know h ot! ready!” he exclaimed, with natural 180, on het yon of wr al “Not th actly"—1 was grateful sudden nerve with which I ten to the relief of her love distress-—"but o able to has iy Iypso recalls as naturally as 1 do, our momentary meeting In Sweeney's store, one evening. 1 had no expecta tion of course, that we again under such pleasant stances as this” She gave me a grateful look as she took my hand, and with it—or was it : i i tle pressure, again as of gratitude, I had tried to get into my voice my assurance that, of course, I remem bered no other more recent meeting though, naturally, ns she had given that little start in the doorway, there had flashed on me agnin the of her standing, moonlit, in And her eyes—I could have sworn way! speculation. As we sat down to luncheon, walted upon by the little barlegged black chil dren—walted on, too, surprisingly well, despite the contortions of their primitive embarrassment--my host once more resumed his character of the classic king welcoming the storm. tossed stranger to his board. “Far wanderer,” he sald, raising his glass to me, “eat of what our board affords, welcome without question of name and nation. But if, when the food and wine have done thelr genial office, and the weariness of your jour. neying has fallen from you, you should feel stirred to tell us somewhat of yourself and your wanderings, what manner of men enll you kinsman, in what fair land is your home and the place of your loved ones, be sure that we shall count the tale good hearing and, for Hur part, make oxchange in like fashion of ourselves and the pres age of our days in this donely isle” We all lnughed as he endod-himsolf with a whinny of laughter. For, odd as such discourse may sound in the reading; it was uttered so whimsicedy, and in so spirited and humorous o SHH nna style that 1 captivating. “You should have been an actor, my lord Alcinous,” I sald, laughing. I seemed already curiously at home, there at that table with this fantastic stranger and that being out assure you it was very seated by such talk made you ull turn my now and again stealth, The strange fellow had a way with him, and his feel that he had known life. “Ah! I have had my dre: had my dreams!” he ans eyes gazing with an momentary ness across the orange trees Then we talked at random, as friend ly strangers talk over luncheon, tho we were giad thut he do the talking—wonderfui, cent, madcap talk, such as a man hor and there | eyes ou ur og v ’ § vy igh enough all e1ftod wu gil i all hu nag most attractive of in ten the the Adi ¢ 1 i 1 his command. man gifts, has And, every and falling on the paradoxical s clothing, would remind Wf this yurtis I say it? other bu that at now ¥ Oe i HAE, W v reed x nd ich Ones of bh 4 across th vine-dar that 3 &@ plain straightforward » vents of the past i not, Mn, fi three months however with a courteous rais “Behold My Bodyguard!™ his hand, King Alcinous suggested a pause, “If you would not mind,” he said, “J would like my daughter to hear this too, for it is of the very stuff of ro mantic adventure in which xh» de lights, She Is a brave girl, and, as | often tell her, would have made a very spirited daredevil boy, if she hadn't happened to be born a girl.” This phrase seemed to flash a light upon the questionings that had stirred at the back of my migd since 1 had first heard that volce in Sweeney's store, The hero's search for the Tobias treasure begins again under most fascinat. ing circumstances. ; A ——— (TU BE CONTINUED) A (CHIC LACE BLOUSE Effective Garment Designed for Early Fall Wardrobe, May Be of White or Colored Material, to Suit Skirt With Which it Is Worn. — The sketch shows a very smart lit. tle blouse of Ince which will be found 1 valunble addition to the early fall wardrobe, It may be made of black, white or lvory.colored lace, or, if de- sired, n lace may be dyed to match the skirt with which the blouse is to worn, Dyed laces have been very nuch favored during the last season sr two, This blouse is finished at the riet with a narrow ribbon girdle, ind as originally designed the ment was made of lvory-colored ntilly lace, -..The girdle was of inch and a haif wide double-faced ribbon, green on one side, black on the other. 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