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of%/foe ] k 4 A TNI i W f KATO5 H ILLUSTRATIONS <XXPY/?/GYr /9// SY AaSBJ-rfJTj?/?. CHAPTER I.?Richard Lightnut, an American with an affected Ejglish accent, receives a presnt from a friend j in China. 1 CHAPTER II.?The present proves j to be a pair of pajamas. A letter hints I ? of surprises to the wearer. rt-rr k TTT T 1 Arma Via Tio_ i \_,n.Ajrx rurw nx.?jjisuiuui uv?a v- ( "Jamas and late at night gets up for a. moke. His servant. Jenkins, comes In and, failing: to recognize Lightnut, attempts to put him out. Thinking the servant crazy, Lightnut changes his clothes Intending to summon help. "When he reappears Jenkins falls on his neck with ioy, confirming Lightnut's belief that ha s crazy. "CHAPTER * IV.?Jenkins tells Lightnut vt the encounter he had vrtth a hideous Chinaman dressed In pajamas. CHAPTER V?In a message from his friend, Jack Billings, Lightnut is asked to put up "the kid" for the night on his ? -way home from college. Later Lightnut rflnas a beautiful girl In black pajamas ifi Ihia room. v;H.Ajri"Hirt vi.?JLagninut is Bnocxea Dy the girl's drinking, smoking and slangy talk. CHAPTER VII?She tells him her name Ss Francis and puzzles him with a> story -of her love for her sister's room-mate, -named Frances. Next morning the girl 4s missing and Llghtnut hurries to the $>oat to see her off. He is accosted by ? husky college boy, who calls him ""Dicky." but he does not see the girl. CHAPTER Vin?Jack Billings calls to spend the night with Llghtnut. They discover prlcesless rubies hidden in the but- . r tons of the pajamas. CHAPTER IX?Billings dons the pajamas and retires. CHAPTER X?Llghtnut later discovers to his apartment a Deeiy person in mui- ; ton-chop whiskers and wearing: pajamas. Jenkins calls the police, who declare the Intruder to be a criminal, called "Foxy <5ran#5>a." CHAPTER XI?The Intruder declares ?9 Is Ligfctnut's guest and appeals to the latter in vain. CHAPTER XII?He is hustled oft to Ja& CHAPTER XIII?In the morning Lightcut Is astonished to find Billings gone, *uid more astonished when he gets a message from the latter, demanding his clothes. Llghtnut. bound for Tarrytown. Billing's ly>me, discovers "Frances," the *irl \ the pajamas, on the train. ' CHAPTER XIV?Llghtnut speaks * to tier and alludes to the night before. She i declares indignantly that Llghtnut never ?aw her in black pajamas. At Tarrytown Frances Is met by a husky college youth, T qa ""PU^lrxr 99 Tho lqf. wnu liaao ijiguuiut ao .v.. ter ignores the boy, who then threatens f to thrash him for offending Frances. Lljrhtnut takes the next train home. CHAPTER XV?Billings storms over the outrage of his arrest. He and Lightnut discover mysterious Chinese characters on the pajamas. CHAPTER XVI?Professor Doozenberry is called in to interpret the hieroglyphics. CHAPTER XVII?He raves over what &e calls the lost silk of Si-Ling-Chi. CHAPTER XVIII?'The writing declares that a person wearing the pajamas will take on the semblance of the previous wearer. The professor borrows the pa jamas ior experiment;. CHAPTER XIX?"Billings" dressed in * pajamas is found in the professor's room and is taten home in an automobile with Frances and a woman Lightnut calls "the frump." CHAPTER XX?Lightnut is angered by "the frump's" slanderous talk about ""Francis." CHAPTER XXI. A Message and a Warning. "It's all right, miss," Wilkes report4 ?d; "at least, I hope so. Perkins is "with him?we've been trying to per- i B suade him to have a bath and lie j B <lown. But I don't know?" He shook his head gloomily, then I turned to me. "If you will come with me, sir? B Then he added, and It seemed a quesW "tion: "You must have made a quick Tun, sir. Seems like only a few minutes since we got Mr. Jack's 'phone message. His voice dropped: "From the station house, you know." "Eh?what's that?" I paused with xay foot on the first tread or tne stairway. "Jack's 'phone message? from the station house? I repeated . 1 blankly. "What are you talking About?" Wilkes coughed reproachfully. <fWhy, you know, sir, he told about being arrested in front of the Kahoka Apartments. He mentioned that it -was about?h'm!" He stole a furtive TFTMf "Of Course You Know, Sir." backward glance at the frump, but she was enjoying herself berating a fat girl she addressed a? "Flora." He . looked at me eloquently and whis- ! pered: "About his?h'm?stealing ' some black silk pajamas." 4 . My monocle dropped, and I almost f tdld, myself.... "" ) JuB K /jjFI m R * I ( H H 3HHT ELLIOTT ; 4^ MYUMifina fJLJL OOATPMY ~ "By~Jore!" I gasped feebly. "Yes, sir." Wilkes looked up at the paneled celling and stroked his j chin. "He mentioned that they found i them?or thought they found them In ; the bag he had with him." "But he's got them on, and they are j his own," I managed to get out. Wilkes' face lightened understand-j ingly. "Oh-h, I see, sir," he said, nodding with his jolly chin hanging; "so that's how you got him off?I was awondering!" He looked at me, his fishy old eyes twinkling admiration, j "Very neat, If I may say, sir?making, as it were, a sort of alibi?very neat, j indeed! Of course, when they puts j 'em on him, they see for themselves they are his'n, and not any lady's what had been stolen? Oh, I see!" Dash me, If I did! The only thing I saw was that it must have been Jenkins that had telephoned and the message had been twisted. What he had said, of course, was that Billings had almost been arrested^ But the police finding the pajamas in his bag ?I did not like that. Could it be that,; after all, Billings had found his sis-; ter's pajamas in the guest-room and had quietly confiscated them? It looked devilishly, ominously like it! Or perhaps he, himself, had recovered them from Foxy 'Grandpa, and j with more delicacy than I thought him j capable of, had kept the whole matter to himself. One thing only was certain: the sleuth hounds of th9 law, stimulated by the extravagant reward I had offered over the telephone, had ' run down and recovered her pajamas, i It was a relief that they were out of! his hands, anyhow?I couia get mem j again, but h6 couldn't. By Jove! Alone in my room, I stood before j the mirror, hands in pockets and ! rocking on my toes?kind of smiling, ; you know?and thinking what a dare- f devil, reckless thing it had been? clever, too, dash it?in getting them away from old Jack, and right ;under his nose. By Jove, I felt a bit proud about It?sort of exultation, don't you know?and I had just got off a wink j at myself, when Wilkes appeared j again. "Pardon, sir, for disturbing you, but ** ?? "DilUnero 5o o of-in cr crv nilOPP. WA 1 lYli, JL*9 UVI.AMQ ww p .. _ . are afraid to cross him; and he just insisted I take his message to you at j once." "Message?" I repeated, sobering. "Yes, sir?something about some pajamas?" "Pajamas?" I faltered, and I dropped into a chair.- "Oh!" Wilkes looked grave. "Pajamas j seem to be the thing with him this : time, sir?it's the queerest go! That's a new one, that is!" He shifted con- j templatively. "The last time it was lizards and the time before blue dachshunds, but his main stand-by, so to speak, is piebald rattlesnakes? them we're used to; but this new turn, j pajamas, gets me!" He shook his head dubiously. "And he won't take his off?you can't get him to; he just gets kinder peevish and goes off on the queerest streak of freak talk you ever heard. Perkins tried to coax him to take a bath, but he said he never had taken a bath in his life?and he called Perkins something awful? some name about a yard long. It squelched Perkins so that he?" "But the message?" I suggested nervously. "I was just a-coming to that, sir. j He asks me if I knew whether you ? xt- - wh/>n I wei^e sun on uie yiac-e, auu nucu * said you were, he says to me kinder j excited and impressive like: 'Well, j you go to him at once?at once?and j tell him I'm on the trail of the mystery of those pajamas, and I'll soon know as much about 'em as he does. Just tell him that?he'll know what 1 mean." "Oh!" I gasped shortly. "Yes, sir," Wilkes nodded, "but that ain't quite all. He says: 'Tell Mr. j Lightnut that when I first saw those j pajamas in his rooms?'" Wilkes i paused inquiringly. "Did you say something, sir?" I had not?I had only groaned! He went on, repeating as by rote: ! " 'When I found and took them away, I was curious and amused, but skep- j tical?firmly skeptical?of there be-1 ing any dark mystery about them. But j now I know I let myself be deceived : ~ J T ?"? 4- rh a f Am nf i cti-lU 1 JHfail iu gci ai |.UC uuvtum | the whole thing.'" Wilkes seemed to kind of waver | and fade before me, and then go out like a candle. Then he came back into view, and I heard his voice again: " 'And what's more, you tell him 1! say?'" i The butler hesitated and seemed i embarrassed?his heavy jowls red-! dened a little. He looked beyond me ! and coughed. nnn IrTl /-\TTT oi r " ha c a i KJL liUUlOC, JUU auun, ui? , , shifting uneasily, "Mr. Billings ain't exactly himself, so to speak, so you 1 mustn't mind. Fact "is?if, I may say so?lie's got the most considerable | case of jimmies I ever see him with, > so?" "Oh, go on!" I breathed miserably. 1 "Yes, sir?h'm!" Wilkes heaved distressfully, then drove doggedly ahead: "Oh, well, sir, what he says was that it was his duty, he thought, to tell j the family the truth about those pa^amas^ so that ttiey would know that FIFTEEN LOUISIANA PARISHES FLOODED FLOOD STAGE WILL GO AT AT LEAST FOOT HIGHER. Oyer One Hundred Thousand Persons Driven From Homes by Mississippi Floods. From Vicksburg, Miss., south to New Orleans, the Mississippi River is from half a foot to two and'a half feet above any previous flood record stage. An additional rise this week of ap - ~ - * * xt?? r\* proximately one root irom .i>ew vileans north to Baton Rouge is predicted by the weather bureau. Soundings made by United States army engineers show that this recordbreaking volume of water in the big river is moving at the rate of 8.1 feet per second, or approximately one mile per hour faster than ever before recorded in the Mississippi's flood history. T"1" rv/->ir> tr? in fVlP IpVPPS in xsaiifaCL yuiu w ~ ~? Lousiana: Baton Rouge, Bonnet Carre, 25 miles north of New Orleans; Morrison, Plaquemine, Scott's Landing, Cypress Hall, New Roads and third district, New Orleans. River Sunday: Almost stationary, from Toras, south. Weather: Sunshine Sunday morning: around midday cloudy; heavy rains from Torras, south, from 4 to 6 p. m. Forecast: Showers in Louisiana and Mississippi Monday and Tuesday. New Orleans, May 5.?Large sections Of fifteen Louisiana parishes west of the Mississippi river are under water, four other parishes have some flood water and are bound to get more this week; approximately one hundred thousand persons *in that territory have been driven from their homes; trains are taking out hundreds of families daily, fleets of motor boats and skiffs are being used to rescue marooned people; about a dozen lives all fold have been sacrificed; princi pally because the people refused to heed the warnings; several hundred thousand dollars' worth of rations have been distributed among the refugees, who are sheltered in all manner of houses from cabins to churches and lodge buildings. Every day brings stories of sufferings and of heroic rescues, of new sections inundated by the waters from the crevasses already recorded in the levees of the Mississippi river. The funds that will be required to take care of the flood victims for yet other weeks, many of them for months, perhaps, can not be expressed in a few hundred thousands of dollars. A Stupendous Problem. It is a pathetic picture and presents a big problem, which Louisiana and Mississippi, ably and generously assisted by the federal government, are giving their sympathetic efforts in grappling with. But, withal, the still bigger question of protecting the remaining levees the man they were harboring under their roof wasn't what he seemed to be." His gaze bored higher over my head, his voice tapering off so faintly I could hardly hear. But I heard all right! Oh, yes, I got the full devilisfl force of it; but I couldn't speak. My dry lips touched wordlessly and I hunched deep into the hollow of the big leather rocker. I would have liked to get even deeper, and I studied wistfully a tiny floorcrack under the radiator. I thought I could make it if I were alone! Wilkes coughed again. I winced? there was evidently more! "Yes, sir," he murmured, as I cut a quick glance upward. "He did say further that if you weren't satisfied, though, and would prefer another trial?" "TTh?" T hnnnrieri nut Of" the Chair. "What's that? Oh, dash it, yes?I would, by Jove!" "Very good, sir.'' Wilkes looked relieved, himself. "In that case, he said he was willing to experiment again?that was his word?experiment. He said he wouldn't detain you here on his account, but he would have to ask you to stay another day or two while he made his observations." it was a devilish cold shoulder, but I had no choice. Fact was, by Jove, I was so jolly glad for that chance, and for being trusted again by Billings, even in this half-hearted way, that I just ground my pride under my heel?why, dash it, I would have ground anything under my heel for her! I was as happy as a bird, and life was again one grand, sweet what's-its-name. And then I just flopped down upon a divan and lav there Danting like a what's-its-name?reaction, you know. So he had known! He had known when he let me come to Wolhurst, and had waited for the moment when he would have me under his roof and be able utterly to confound me. This, then, explained his mental condition, his relapse to drink again?his madness on the subject of pajamas. It was awful! (TO BE CONTINUED) 'along the Mississippi river from the|, mouth of the Red south, is causing deeper concern, for the moment. Mil- j | lions of dollars' worth of property is ! I at stake, and thousands of lives would be jeopardized if some of the biggest | of the levees should give way. X1 euerai eilgiuetfis, oun.e aim yanou j officials, and an army of men scattered j along the river from a point 60 miles j | below New Orleans to the Red river, iare bending every energy to prove1 j themselves equal to the task which; | they shoulder. j Reports today were more reassur- j j img than on yesterday, ana the Federal j 1 AA??ci ^AAlorn fll^V Vl Q Vn 1 j dUU OUILC CllglUCCIO UCVIOIO uu. ? ^ j firm faith, in their ability to hold every | remaining levee on the Mississippi. I But the danger is not past by any; means. Indolent Negroes. Lack of labor, due largely to the unconcern of negroes who have been drawing government rations, has been the most serious drawback. Stringent tactics have been forced upon the officials and planters, however, and today | Governor Sanders ordered the Louisij ana militia to round up 500 negroes and make them work on the levees, at the point of rifles if necessary. At Baton Rouge reports came in that planters in several instances were compelled to corral negro laborers at the point of shotguns. < Thousands of paid laborers and convicts are working, in some instances, day and night on the weak stretches of the Mississippi levees from the Red River Junction to the mouth of the river. At New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana's State capital, gangs of laborers are working at night under the glare of electric lights strung along the levees' and aided by searchlights of steamers. Critical at Baton Bouge. At Baton Rouge the situation is cri| tical and equally so along the Atcha- i | falaya and Bayou Des Glaizes. | There is alarm among some of the ; residents of New Orleans, though the i daily reassuring statements of the city officials and levee board engineers have been accepted at face value by others who feel not the slightest apprehension. Extreme precautions have been taken to meet any emergency, and at points all along the river barges and flat cars are loaded with timber, sand sacks, wheelbarrows, shovels and oth- j er material necessary in . stopping j wash holes, arresting cray fish and muskrat depredations and closing 1 small breaks and threatened crevasses of every description. At New Orleans i ' the railroads, whose lines pierce the protection levees above the city, were ordered to place pile drivers and all necessary material right at the gaps and keep ready at all hours sufficient laborers to cloth levels in event of a ! break in the Mississippi levees at any | point north of New Orleans. The pro- i ; tectine levees extend from the Missis- i sippi river back toward Lake Pout-! chartrain and would prevent any serious damage to New Orleans in event of a crevasse further up the stream. Water in >'ew Orleans Streets. In the "third district" of New Orleans the situation is still grave and a thousand laborers worked all day long today filling in dirt between the levees and the revetments. The water is over the dock at Esplanade street and the rear of the Southern Pacific transfer station there is 18 inches deep in water. Sacks of sand are piled on j top of the levee at that point and dirt i has been bulked along the rear of the j big steel wharves from Canal street; down to Esplanade. At Flood street there is considerable seepage and cray fish holes have given | the engineers considerable trouble, j | Work continued tonight and armed j guards patrolled the levees at all weak points in the city. 3Iorganza Levee Holds. i Water from the break at Torrasj 1 . . ? j reacnea -viorganza luiugui, uuu ucan; < i all of the women and children had j | been removed to places of safety. The ! depth tljis water will reach there in time is only to be conjectured. Xo break in the Morganza levee is feared, | as all weak places have been repaired and watchmen are constantly on the 1 alert. A heavy rain extending over the Southern portion of the State began shortly after 3 o'clock/this afternoon, land the outlook was regarded as any- ! I thinsr but encouraging by the engin eers, who are making a heroic fight against the constantly rising stages that have already eclipsed former flood records by as much as two feet at places. Open Your Door. ( Open the door of your house; Hoard not its splendor and its space, 5 Its .heart's ease or its stately grace, ( Xor hold it an abiding place For you alone; i Suppose God kept his heaven for him j 1 And let you in the shadows dim With wisp of light and snatch of hymn, Sport n uOO( HBHHBDHi THE KIND THAT GIVES' AND IMPROVES Y Baseball Goods of all ] Goods, Roller Skates, Indian Tents, Marble Games, Dolls, and e hw linp BUY BETTER GOODS AT THE MAYES' mm THE HOUSE OF A THOU! REDUCED Confederate I Marnn. Ga.. A I Account above occasion i Line, the Standard Railroad q special reduced round trip rate: SELLING DATES, I and 8th, 1912, FINAL LIMIT, To rea< nninf not later than midi 11912, unless deposited fo: igioal purchaser, with Jos. I Agent, No. 414 Fourth S not later than May 15th,; fee of fifty cents limit m June 5th, 1912. n 111.. I, rates, scneauies, rest on local Ticket Agent, or addi T. C. WHITE, General Open your door. A cei pen the door of your heart; j g0Vern.E Shut not your sympathy away t0 U1]de Prom those who need it day by day; ^I e ( Reach out a hand and bid them stay Tj0 Within your love. <0 earn Suppose that you should one day come, "I sa: Devoid of hope and starved and numb, "you do &nd cry for love and get a crumb? bor, do Open your door. ?Xo, I Dpen the door of your sour, Aren [-lide not the spark of faith divine, c< rhe sweet,-pure hope that is the sign "v-p oqH toriHpr and henisil get 3. JO J1- VJTWU._XA^C*.\U. w That man retains. haven't Suppose one came in sorest plight, anything 3ame groping through the spirit's night, ind lost his way for lack of light 3ecause vou hid your lamp'from sight? A ^ *e ^ stamp, Open your door. a 1q^ ?Sara Beaumont Kennedy. to facts inu * o Is! fTAtr rirfii\ Atnii YUlUAtKLM OUR HEALTH kinds, Tennis Indian Suits, ;s. Children's w sverything in " ,4| 1 4 SAME PRICE AT ! STORE I 5AND THINGS , ?? RATES I 1 *' Reunion ( 4ay 7-9 }j the Atlantic Coast \ j if the South, offers ' / * v - i > from all stations. i fey 5th, 6th, 7th ? A .rigid startup J light of May 15 th, > r extension by or y-l^i q?la ucuarusuii, opciiai . I itreet, Macon, Ga., and upon payment ay be extended to i nations, etc., call ress D A?t rasseiigci Agi. Wilmington, N. C. I Compensation. tain young fellow received a [lent berth, for which he had rgo a very strict examination, jay a friend of hi? who n*d il Icing how littl? work he did his salary tackled him. 7y Walter, my boy," he began, , n't perform a great deal of la your' don't have to." 't you expected to work?" )urse not," was the candid ret takes so much hard work to b like this that the authorities the nerve to ask a man to do I more to earn his salary after it" - * Fear Well Founded. .. ... ar," sadly said tha postagr?' ... when it found itself fastened tc. letter, "that I am not sticking