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cand sade feople Ly Charles B. Stilson (A Sequel to ‘‘A Man Named Jones’’) PRECEDING CHAPTERS BRIEFLY RETOLD EADERS of “A Man Named Jones” will remember that Jones married beautiful Katherhe Manning. With Molo—the wonderful dog—they setiled in Detroit, and were made happy by the birth of a son, Bobby. When Bobby was five years old he was kidnaped by an unknown man of foreign appearance. The day of the kidnaping Jones had read of the death of Kay-Kay—Kerwood Kinsella—the partner of Zalmon Grimshaw, who had been left marooned on Zaumouti Island, in the southern Pacific. A little later he received a cable from “The Martian ’"—otherwise King Kelly, who had married the Ariki Foyara of the island of Bomavalu and thus become its ruler—warning him that Grimshaw had escaped, and promising to come to Jones’s aid. What Jones did not know was that Grimshaw had killed Kay-Kay—after forcing him to make a will in the former’s favor— because Kay-Kay (who had been informed by Jones of his partner’s exile) had done nothing to rescue Grimshaw, but had, taken their joint business for himself. Grimshaw called upon Jones and offered tao help him find Bobby—after Jones had taken him to an emerald mine in Peru, of which Jones alone had knowledge. Jones was confident that Grimshaw was responsiblé for the kidnaping, but all efforts to find Bobby having failed he accepted the bargain offered. Meanwhile Jones had been joined by King Kelly and the latter’s native follower, Nambe. Accompanied by Katherine, his friend, Jim Arnold, and by Grimshaw, King Kelly and Nambe, Jones went to Peru. In the town of Huaraz he engaged as guide a Peruvian gentleman, Don Castro de Ulloa, who was anxious to return to the country beyond the mountains, of which few men had knowledge. CHAPTER VII. “*¥ AM NEE-NAH.”’ ON CASTRO proved himself a man 1) of works as well as words. Punctual to the minute of his appointment, he brought a list of supplies, prices, and places of purchase which convinced his employer that the responsibility for outfitting the ex- pedition was in capable hands. ki was evident that the don had expended his libras upon his person. He came shaven and shorn and in the costume of a Peruvian gentleman of moderate means, which be- came him well. “Even in rags he had an air of unmistakable distinction. When he learned how far Jones purposed _to penetrate the wilderness, even to the river Ucayli, he could not conceal his satisfac- tion. To only one point in his employer’s plans did he demur. In language carefully chosen, but none the less forceful, he ob- jected to Katherine’s going. “It is not a place for your beautiful senora,” he expostulated, waving his hands, ‘* Consider, senor, the nature of the country. She would be exposed to dangers and hard- ships of the greatest: the soroche, the moun- tain-sickness; the wasting fevers, the ter- cianans; the paludismo of the malarial swamps where the great serpents lie; the beasts and the barbarous C/unchos of the This story began in the All-Story Weekly for June 26. 47 DOO C©