GIVEN TO THE PUBLIC. & Richard Le CHAPTER Ill—Continued we] Lo “By the way, dear king,” I said, as- suming a casual manner, “do you hap- pen to have a son?” “No!” he answered, “Calypso is my only child.” “Yery strange!” I sald, “we met a whimsical lad in our travels whom I would have sworn was her brother.” “That's odd!” said the “king” imper- turbably, “but no! I have no son;" and he seemed to say it with a certain sadness. Then Calypso came in to join my audience, having, meanwhile, taken the opportunity of twining a scarlet hibiscus among her luxuriant dark curls. I should certainly have told the story better without her, yet I was glad—how glad!—to have her seat- ed there, an attentive presence in a simple gown, white as the sea foam— from which, there was no further doubt in my mind, she had magically sprung. I gave them the whole story, much as I had told it in John Saunders’ snuggery—John P. Tobias, Jr.; dear ald Tom and his sucking fish, his ghosts, sharks, skeletons, and all; and when I had finished, I found that the interest of my story was once more chiefly centered In my pock-marked friend of “the wonderful works of God.” “] should like to meet your pock- marked friend,” said King Alcinous, “and I have a notion that, with you as a bait, I shall not long be denied the pleasure.” “I am inclined to think that I have, seen him already,” said Calypso, using | her honey-golden volce for the base | purpose of mentioning him. *'T eried: “he Is long | since safe in Nassau jail i “Oh, lately,” she our interrogative surprise, and gi swift embarrassed at her fa- which I at once connected with “Impossible! not answered to | ving : look 3 hie x et of the doubloons. fously, Calypso?” asked her fa- with a certain stern affection, as i i “On one of er, inking of her safety. thi your errands to town? And then, turn “Sir Ulysses, ¥ spoken well, and your speech has that free, open-hearted speech that wins its way alike among the Hpyperboreans that dwell in frozen twilight near the northern star, and those dwarfed and hy int that blacken in the fierce sunlight of that fearful axle we call the equator. Therefore, I will mnke return to you of speech no less frank and true . . . " He took a puff at his cigar, and then continued : “I should not risk this confession, but that it is easy to see that you be- long to the race of Eternal Children, to which, you may have realized, my daughter and I also belong. This ad- venture of yours after buried treasure has not seriously been for the dou bloons and pieces of eight, the million dollars, and the million and a half dol- lars themselves, but for the fun of going after them, salling the unknown seas, coral islands, and all that sort of blessed moonghine, Well, Calypso and I are just like that, and I am going to tell you something exciting-—-we too have our buried treasure. It is noth- ing like so magnificent in amount as yours, or your Henry P. Toblag’—and where it is at this particular moment I know as little as yourself. In fact it is Calypso's secret . , ." 1 looked across at Calypso, but her eyes were far beyond capture, in un- plummeted seas, “1 will show rou presently where I found it, among the rocks near by-— now a haunt of wild bees, “Can you ever forget that passage in the Georgiles? It makes the honey taste sweeter to me every time I taste it. We must have some of it for din- ner, by the way, Calypso.” I could not help laughing, and so, for 2 moment, breaking up the story. The dear fellow! Was there any busi. ness of human importance from which he could not be diverted by a quotation from Homer or Virgil or Shakespeare? But he was soon in the saddle again. “Well,” he resumed, “one day, some seven years ago, in a little cave below the orange trees, grubbing about as I am fond of doing, I came upon a beau- tiful old box of beaten copper, sunk deep among the roots of a fig tree. It was strong, but it seemed too dainty for a pirate—some great lady's jewel box more likely—Calypso shall show it to us presently, On opening it——what do you think? It spilled over with golden doubloons—among which were submerged some fine jewels, such as this tie ring you see me wearing, Ac tually, It was no great treasure, at a mogetary calculation——certainly no for- tune-~but from our romantic point of view, as belonging to the race of Eter- nal Children, it was El Dorado, Alad- din's lamp, the mines of Peru, the ing to me, he said: yi have been BW FON es *.7 ¥ whole sunken Spanish Main, glimmer ing fifty fathoms deep in mother-of- pearl and the moon. It was the very Secret Rose of Romance; and, also, mark you, it was some money-—oh, perhaps, all told, it might be some five thousand guineas, or—what would you say ?*—twenty-five odd thousand dol- lars ; Calypso knows better than I, and she, as I sald, alone knows where It Is now hid, and how much of it now re- mains” He paused to relight his cigar, while Calypso and I— Well, he began again: “Now my daughter and 1” and he paused to look at her fondly, “though of the race of Eternal Children, are not without some of the innocent wis- dom which Holy Writ countenances ns the self-protection of the Innocent— Calypso, I may say, Is partieslarly en- dowed with tnis quality, needing it as she does especially for the guardian. ship for her foolish talkative old fa- ther, who, by the way, 1s almost at the end of his tale, So, when this old chest flashed its bewildering dazzle upon us, being poor folk, were not more dazzled than afraid, For--like the poor man in the fabie—such gocd for- tune was all too likely to be ous un- doing, should It come to the ears of the great, or the indigent criminal The ‘great’ in cur thought I am ashamed to say, the sacred treasury, by an ancient law of which, forty per cent of all ‘treasure-trove’ belongs to his majesty the king. The we, was, well, our colored (and not much colored) neighbors. Of ure to your friend, John Saunders ol t * didn't, port, in the snug; had an idea, Lb He paused— untarily pleading to be spare Iation—and then with a smile, ued: “We determined to hide little hoard where it would from our neighbors, and dispose © according to our needs with a certain in the town whom we could trust—a tradesman, who, by the way, quite naturally levies a little tax #pon us for b No blame to him! long to be hard on human nature. “John Sweeney? 1 asked, looking over at Calypso with eyes that dared at last to smile, “The very same, answered my friend. And so I came to understand that made a away tradesman thought " we 07 Lord Ulysses” I Came Upon a Beautiful Old Box of Beaten Copper. had, at the moment, appeared; that it had in fact come of a loyalty which was already for me the most precious of loyalties, “Then,” sald I, “as a fitting conclu. sion to the confidence you have re posed In me, my Lord Alcinous, If Miss Calypso would have the kifidness to let us have a sight of that chest of beaten copper of which you spoke, I would Ike to restore this, that was once a part of its contents, wherever the rest of them” (and I confess that I paused a moment) “may be In hiding.” And I took from my pocket the en. ered doubloon that I had bought from John Bweepey-—may Heaved® hve | mercy upon his soul l—for sixteen dol lars and seventy-five cents, on that im- mortal evening. i CHAPTER IV, in Which the “King” Dreams a Dream -and Tells Us About It. The afternoon, under the spell of its vurious magic, had been passing all too swiftly, and at length I grew reluctant ly aware that it was time for me to go. King Alcinous ralsed his hand with a gesture that could not well be denled, That led me-—his Invitation being ac- cepted without further parley-—to mention the idea I bad conceived as | came along, of exploring those curious old ruined bulldings., “Tomorrow,” he announced, “tomor- row we shall begin—there is not a mo- ment to lose, We will send Samson with a message to your captain--there is no need for you to go yourself ; time is too preclous—and in a week, who knows but that Monte Cristo shall seem like a pauper aud a penny gaff in comparison with the fantasies of our fearful wealth. So, for that evening, all was laugh. ingly decided. In n week's time, it was agreed, we should have difficulcy in recognizing each other. We should be so disguised In cloth of gold, and so blinding to look upon with rings and ropes of pearls. When met at breakfast next morning, glad to see one another again as few people are at breakfast, it was evident that, as far as the “king” was concerned, our dream had lost nothing in the night watches. On the contrary, its wings had grown span and iridescence, Calypso, it transpired, had certain household matters—of which wo “In the usunl colnage?’ 1 ventured She gave me a long, whimsical smile—once more her father's daugh- ter, “That, I'm afraid, was the trouble,” she answered ; “for as I Inld my money down on the counter I suddenly no ticed that there was a person at the back of the store” “A person? 1 interrupted. “Yes! Suppose we say ‘a pock- marked person; was it you?" “What a memory you have for de- tails,” I parried: “and then?” “Well! I took my change and man aged to whisper a word to Sweeney a good friend, remember-—-and came out, I took a short cut back, but the ‘person’ that had stood In the back of the store seemed to know the way almost better than I—so well that he got ahead of me, He was walking qui- etly this way and so slowly that I had at last to overtake him. He said noth. ing, just watched me as if interested in the way 1 was golng—but, I'm ashamed to say, he rather frightened me! And here I am." “Well, then,” 1 sald, “let's hurry home and talk it over with the ‘king.'” The “king.” as I had realized, wus a practical “romantic” and at took the matter seriously, leaving—— once livious—that would take her errand into the town, of. we two eternal children liberty to be as The “king” bowed on $ his have bowed their diadems before the quiet command and it was arranged that I should be Calypso's escort em her errand So we set forth in the freshness of the morning, been so black Ord Ope of coming d before in paths, and ail that that had been foul with sweat and in sed vernal to me, lily believe that i And for us tropical strangely n all the way ong y other companion-—was + World, the the ! have a Time—Time, w at biz girdle, reads : im y we e with WAYS Was t ing of our ui How shoul was to walk 1 that we both knew fice Gily believing 4 Y rf. with eve 1 i a lHyving ated like a ving 1 Los § nis Changing a happy. trembling » salt peg hi | keep it poised, in that 1 Twixt time this crystal made of the meaning the woman upon the eart of As we came to the borders of the wood pear the edge of the little town we called a counsel of two, As the out come of it we concluded that, having in mind the ambitious plans for our cloth-of-gold future, and for other obvious reasons, it was betier that she went into the town I to await her in the shadow mahogany tree, As she turned to“leave me she drew up from her bosom thot hung by a silver chain, snd@spening it drew ont, with a laugh-—a doubloon ! I sprang toward her; but she was too quick for me, and laughingly van ished through an opening in the treca. “king's” nlone—— of the little bag il ony goigen Calypso was so long ing back that I began to grow anxious—was, in. deed, on the peiut of going down into the town in zearch of her, when she suddenly appeared, out of breath and evidently a little excited as though, in fact, she Son runs ning away from Shae caught me by the arm w laugh. Do you want to se friend Tobias?" she said. “Tobias? Impossible!” ‘Come here,” and she led me & yard or two back the way she had come, and then looked through the trees, “Gone [” she sald, “but he was there u minute or two ago——or ai least some one that Is his photograph-—-and of course he's there yet, hidden In the brush, and probably got his eyes on us all the time, Did you see that geven-year apple tree move” “His favorite tree)” 1 lnoghed. “Hardly strong enough to hang him on, though,” And I realized that she was King Alcinous’ daughter, We crouched lower for a moment or two but the seven-year apple tree did'nt move aguin, and we agreed that there was no use in waiting for Tobias to show his hand, “Byt what made you {hink It was Tobias?” I asked, “und how did it sll happen?” “1 could hardly fall to recognize Bim from your flattering description” she answered, “and indoed It sil happened rather like Lerienes mine, I had gove into Sweenoy's store--you remember Yep ul was Jast paying my bHL" con rather meting. th your ] oo Sfsthar of we Hom She From Her Littl Chain, and, Opening Drew Up worth a Hit if yo about maember, things 3 evil always be some dragon or such Hke: and i= alway driigon enters at Tobins; and we be happ) that very account. It shows t race of dragons Is no tinet. And as for the happy ending, we will arrange it, afler which, by the way, you are somewhat late After lunch the “king™ in a brief and entirely practical vein: SOLO sa happy ending. in the should last said. “The woods, probably, are sl ready thick with spies. For ment we must suspend operations on our for the ra- ing that we were to excavate—“and, f8 our present purpofe--yours no less than ours friend Ulysses—is to confuse Tobias, my suggestion is this: that you walk with me mile or {Wo to the nor'srd. The an risining mangrove swamp 1 should to show you, and also give me your opinion of an ming that you will understand ail better when I have taken you over ground.” So wo walked the pines, down onto a long, interminable flat Inn of marl marthes and mangrove trecs—s0 like that in which Charlie Webster had shot the snake and the wild duck-—-that only Charlie could have seen any difféerence. “Now,” said the “king,” “do you sec a sort of river there, overgrown with mangroves and palmettos?” “You,” 1 answered, “almost though it's so choked up it's almost impossible to say." “Well,” sald the “king.” “that's the idea; you haven't forgotten those oid ruins we are going to explore. You remember how choked up they are. Well, this was the covered waterway, the secret creek, by which the pi rates—John Teach, or whoever It was; perhaps John P, Tohings himself used to land thefr loot. It's so over grown nowadays that no one can find the entrance but mysclf and a friend or two do you understand?” We walked a ltde farther, and then at length came to the honk of the crook the “king” had indicated. This we followed for hall a nile or ao Goloonda” hig name re IR ents can 4 beyond till we heard the murmnr of the géa, CIO WR CONTINU RI — he A A HO OR AA 10 —————— Forecast of Materials and Shapes That Will Mark Fall and Winter Hats. TRIMMED BRIM IS CERTAIN Will Be Used In Many Ways, Most of Them Charming—High Draped Crowns Sure to Be Another Feature. While it seems somewhat early In the season to speak with finality of the fall and winter hats, enough new shapes have been displayed to give us some inkling of what ig to come, writes Martha Goode Anderson in the New York Sun. For several weeks now we have seen a sweeping rage of the felt bats with wide brims and ‘exploited In the palest pastel shades and ornament ed with bright and guy wool stitchery. As this wool stitchery 1s to be so much in evidence throughout the winter not seriously and the recognize winter's coming fashions, lug have been used primarily and the bright-hued cannot and We skirts complain of of lack of reaction from the dull and somber hues of the war period our clothes have caught and reflected the radiant of the rainbow every group has been resplendent in its vivid colors, most {ones The First Showing. Always at the season It seems as beginning of if the first showing included only the brimmed and large hats. as we find ourselves preparing for the ding and sort of protection for nd skin. Just why | for fall and winter, however » need some hould be 1 do not YER 6 fronds high in the air so much used formerly. Trimmed Brims, The trimmed brim is used in many ways, 8 we shall see us the season advances, Single flowers of velvet are being used In fiat masses around the wide brims whi¢h turn up and away from the face gancer fashion. These hats are not so cleborate and dressy as the pleture hats of velvet and paradise, but they are suitable for morning wesr and make a trim finish for the shopping dress worn with smart veils and furs, One of the simplest {3 exploited in a midnight-blue velvet in the saucer shape with upturned brim. Around the crown is placed a eircle of loops made of beaviest blue silk floss In a lighter shade. These loops are used to imitate ostrich fronds, which are also much in evidence as a winter trimming. At one slide of this model is placed a large rosette of the loops of the silk floss and sn edge of the sume finishes the brim sround the | face, Another treatment of this upturned which has a flaring brim across the front of the hat, giving something of three-corpered effect seen from the This is particularly sulted to young feces and youthful types. The flaring brim is often thickly studded with tiny steel beads or dotted with knots of silk in the kind we call French knots, meaning a tiny dot of the silken thread made by wrapping it twice around the needle and pull ing through to the The effect 1s that As this often done in contrasting colors it 8 most effective trimming. of the great demand for i8 of soft materials, such as duvetyn under side, of silken beads, js f Taxes Because i ha and velours and velvet, and because the iner ing these soft I fabrics, the price is con- i mounting. especially 88 so h of the trimming used this year done by band and is really hand the favorite ef- use of simple blos- as nasturtiums, single pe- roses and kindred blooms done of cost of in One of fects is seen in the embroidery. roms, such the dressy hat, ss most women go on the principle that having invested in a smart and very good hat almost any- thing will do for every day. I do not means, but it may be one of the rea- song why we are shown so few of the and simple every-day sort of of the splendid velvet picture hats, Paradise feathers are predominating 6s trimming. They sweep down, but not up as heretofore, and thick sprays are used more than the single feathers of In recent times. Black paradise is really lovely disdained by even the most exacting and conservative. One of the newest shapes which is neither iarge nor small in size is the round turban with the draped and heavy brim. This is not an easy shape to wear, as it is apt to look very heavy 80 close to the face. However, it is really very splendid, for it is developed in the rarest and richest of brocades, heavily embroidered in gold and sliver and resplendent in a mingling of colors entrancing to see, The crowns of these wide draped turbans are of velvet or duvetyn as the case may be and are entirely un- trimmed, as the present indication In the matter of trimming is seen In the draping of the bri, Where feathers are used they sweep down close to the face, even resting almost under the chin In a soft curve. This way of placing the paradise is an old, old one. borrowed, doubtless, from portraits of great ladies of some hundred or more years ago. It is in distinet contrast to the upstanding and jaunty aigrette which showered in a little fountain of in outline around crown and brim These are extremely simple to make. High Draped Crowns. The high draped crowns are again seen. Sometimes they point up almost a foot above the brim and are draped in a series of folds which keeps them from being awkward and very ugly, as they #o easily could be. Of course the brims which accompany these high draped crowns must be wide enough to set them off successfully and pre vent a topheavy look. Among the new trimmings are seen much glycerined ostrich feather banding. This sort of treatment of the feathers makes them shiny and glossy. The fronds are placed singly along a narrow band to hold them and are used thus against the brim in a width sufficient to entire ly cover the brim and extend ®ightly beyond. They are used effectively on a rather wide hat of rose-colored vel- vet of which the crown is of the high draped design thickly brocaded in sil- ver. The feather band lies flat over the brim and a narrow strip of silver ribbon encircles the crown where the feathers and the brocade come to- solutely untrimmed. achieved by a clever velvet, as in one inst the ix so arranged that it seems to a fold over the crown and is in over the brim in a double 7! H fs pH : :
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