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"You ought to charter a low, racking, hangâ€"dog schooner with a grim captain and a cutâ€"throat crew," he said "That‘s the way to tackle Pacvific isâ€" lanmds. Then when you‘ve lifted the booty and set sail for home, the men mutiny and do you all in, and you are never heard of again. Probably that‘s what happened to Benny Boss." "Coward!" answered Jane. *"You can stop at home now, Nick, and look after the birds." "I haven‘t the slightest intention of coming," he said. "Will you come, Greg?" she asked. "We don‘t want a crowd, of course. This is a matter of business, not a picâ€" nic. But if you like to share in the exâ€" pensesâ€"" "Well," she said that leaves us three Tom and Angus and I." "Where do you find these beautiful words, Greg?" sighed Jane. "But I believe Tom‘s right." "It can‘t be unhabited my dear child, if there are manâ€"eaters in it,"" argued Grezory. *"*The place does not get its sinister name for nothing, and many other sreatures are quite readyâ€"nay, even willingâ€" to eat men beside his fellow men." "It doesn‘t matter," declared Jane. "It‘s a detail,. Benny found the island in the first place and called it "Tableâ€" top". Feminine intuition is dead certâ€" ain there is a Ttbletop, and priceless Inca treasure lying snugly concealed upon it." "HMe lies low for a bit, lives an inâ€" nocent life, and waits for the clouds to blow away. They blow away. One Garcia brouther dies, and the other sells his fruit farm leaves Peru, and goes to Cuba. Benny Boss now feels that the coast is clear, so off he goes again to Tapletop to get his hoard, and no doubi turn it into money. But this time he doesn‘t come back. He vanishes, and we can only assume that something happened to prevent him from coming back. His wife never heard any more news of him, and his end is unknown Probably is wasn‘t peaceful, being the sort of a man he was. He may have liked tabletop so much that he deâ€" cided to stop there. There may have been canni‘zals on Tabletop who liked him so much they felt they couldn‘t part from him. They may have eaten him, or they may have made him their king and thought the world of him. Or he may just have~died a natural death before he gsot back to his treasure, and been buried at sea. In that case no doubt the cache is still intact.‘ "He would have hardly chosen a canâ€" nibal island," said Tom. "He wouldn‘t have liked the idea of a lot of poking, prying cannibals watching him bury his treasure. T‘ll bet it was an uninhabâ€" ited island, Jane." "Against that, however, you must set the fact that a district of Tabletop is called Maneater Gorge, Tormf" said Gregory Banbour. ‘"To me that has distinctly anthropophagous connation." ion." *‘*Maneater Gorge." answered Mr Barbour. "No, Jare." that Benny had been engaged in dredâ€" ging work on Lake Titicaca, where jewels were said to have been strewn at the time of the spanish conquest. Fermandez advises that the bird be taken to an expert linguist to see if he can interpret the words used by the parrot, The linguist ic baffled, but Jane Bradshaw, Tom‘s fiance eventâ€" ually solves the puzzle by discovering that most of the words are English spelled backwards they make the sentence:â€"*"Table Top on Equator wesi Galepegos Cache Maneater Gorge at Geyser" This is construed as a directâ€" ion to the hiding place of the jewels in which Benny Boss was interested. Now read on!) VISION OF ADVENTURE "I feel perfectly certain he did," she answered. "It was the inevitable startâ€" ing place if he meant to follow the equator till he reached his island. You can see that on the map. To find an uncharted island in the heart of the Pacific would have been like looking for a needle in a haystack; but his seaâ€" man‘s knowledge embraced the fact that it lay on the equator, so he had only to go ahead due west till he pickâ€" ed it up, went ashore with his treaâ€" sure, hid it, came back to the ship, and probably said that the island was no use, or something like that. Then he came home again. a rich man who has made a specia study of birds is greatly interested in the parrot and particularly in the birds repeated reference to "Benny Boss" Fernandez says he once knew a man mamed "Benny Boss", a fellow part English and part Peruvian, who tried to sell him jewels. Later he learned You can start this interesting story here and enjoy it from begining to end. For convenience, if you have missed the opening chapters, the following synopâ€" sis of previous chapters is given:â€" of Previous Chapters Tom Aylmer is the manager of a peruvian silver mine owned by his father. He gets word that his father has died and knows that the mine is bequeatted to him. Tom decides to go to the Cld Country and take his friend Angus Maine, with him. Before leayâ€" ing Peru, they purchase a gift for Tom‘s fiance. On the boat Jacob Fernandez, # Â¥* #*% n oo oo e io 6. . t ## .o.“‘OO.“.O0.00.0Q.“. # *# _ ## .. # _ _# * t # .00 ik. (t. 00..0 w# w# *# # #* Lad ## # # ## t # w# # # Cad t# # *# LJ Cad Cad * # w# # *# #* w# + 4 ... #, * .... o“:“o“ w to« ## #* # La w# *, # w# # *# Â¥ «4 Nicholas Bradshaw made a suggestâ€" MONDAY, JUNE L 1939 TABLE TOP PUBLISHED BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Eden Phillpotts "He never cared what he put onâ€"the old dad." "I know. That was trying enough: but he never cared what I,. put onâ€" quite another matter. It left a scar, dear Tom, because it meant so much. When a man becomes indifferent to his wife‘s clothes, you may say that the rift in the lute has a set in, or whatever a rift does exactly. You will no doubt tell me that it is late in life to begin to gress: but I‘m certainly going to do so. I owe it not only to myself, but my acquaintances." "Black always suited me. It ages some people; others it makes look younger than I am of course. And since we are on this subject, I will talk about Jewclilery, Tom. You‘re always so patient and understanding. So‘s Jane. I‘m ncot going to pretend that "I see you‘ve started," he said. "You look ripping nowadays." "I was never one to interfere with the enterprises amusements of young people," she told her son. "I remember too well how the youthful mind soars, and can never forget all my own bitter experiences from the past, when I wanted to soar, but was not allowed to do so. Your dear father always seemed to know by curious instinet the natural bent of my girlish spirit and invariably intervened at the critical moment. had a strange and complete insensibility over clothes for example. He didn‘t seem to think that an elementary thing like clothes mattered as long as the human form was adequately covered." "Perhaps she‘d like to come?" he suggested. "Noâ€"she‘s far to busy. You can simply see your remarkable mother‘s ideas expanding day by day." Tom had indeed, endured some unâ€" settling conversation with Mrs. Aylmer. At first she protested against the proâ€" posed adventure, but after Jane had come to luncheon and converted her, she supported her. They ‘both regarded Jane, but she offered no objections. "Then that leaves four," she said "A nice easy number." CHAPTER VII NO RETREAT Jane was not to be shaken from her purpose, and somewhat to his surprise, her sweetheart found that Angus Maine supported her strongly. Calmer reâ€" flection had decided Tom that such an enterprise must be nonsense, but none the less he instituted inquiries, and decided that he would be guided and by another opinion. "Felice has got more horse sense than Angus and I put together," he told Jane, "and I have written a full account of the whole fantastic business to him. If he thinks it‘s good enough and I find the probable expenses fairâ€" ly reasonable, we‘ll go and meet him down South; but if he says we‘re mad then it‘s off." "It isn‘t off in the least," she proâ€" mised. "Angus is game, and if you‘re going to show the white feather, Tom we‘ll go without you. I‘m going anyâ€" way, and I‘ve told your mother soâ€"â€" much to her surprise." "And he certainly ought to have hi share," declared Angus. They chatted, but found Jane meant all she had said. Indeed she was exâ€" ceedinly firm. "There is one other who will certainly have to come," said Tom, ‘"and that‘s Pelice Pardo." Jane Bradshaw reflected. "It was a man called Felice Pardo that Julia Boss married." She said "D‘you remember? How queer!" "That need not detain us," declared Tom. "There are Hundreds of Pardos at Lima alone and of Felicesâ€" a very common name and Christian name in Peru. Felice would never forâ€" give us if we took a jaunt like this without him. He‘s a keen photogâ€" rapher and will be able to immortalize the island. "And what do you estimate the eggs in the basket to be worth, Jane?" inâ€" quired Angus. "I am counting on them before theyâ€" ‘re hatched, no doubt," she admitted. "but we have to consider Benny Boss again. He was a very able man, whatâ€" ever he wasn‘t in o6ther directions, and he wouldn‘t have fled and taken all this prodigious trouble for anything small, The thing is in a nut shell, Tom; you have only got to engquir:® roughly for what we can charter a small steamer at the Galpagos, take it for say three months, and set along the equator to hunt down the island. AÂ¥few thousand pounds perhapsâ€"al>â€" solutely nothing avainst the probalble result." "You don‘t waste much time, do you?" asked the Scot. "If it‘s going to be our honeymoon trip, Jane, we shan‘t want to bother Angus to come, shall we? asked Aylmer. "It isn‘t," she answered. "My idea is a treasure recovery company on a purely financial basis. It‘s a gamble, posible against the probable." "With what result?" asked Gregory. "With the result that the possible turns the scale," she assured him. "It is frankly possible that we might draw a blank. As far as I can see it is puréiy a mater of expense, One doesâ€" n‘t want to go exploring de luxe of anything silly like that; but against the cost of the expedition we may fairly set the probable returns." "And what do you estimate the eggs in the basket to be worth, Jane?" inâ€" anything silly like the cost of the 6 fairly set the proba by Toronto Telegram: Few mos have appeared yet, notes a write they prefer us fried or boiled. she is blessed with plen sense, and she knows . she sees it, though she n Well my jewellery, so to tically worthless. 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