Amarillo Daily News (Amarillo, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 201, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 31, 1927 Page: 9 of 16
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his room, took out a packaze of artis-
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prophecies seriously, I would take the
neat steamboat back to ... .er.. • .Rio
do Janeiro and the next steamboat fron
there to New York."
He wiped his wrinkled forehead with
a tiny immaculate handkerchief. “Don’t
you...er... frighten me any more. You
eave your energies for carrying that...
or... bag of mine. You’re letting it drag
the ground every other foot. Yes, every
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She was a very beautiful person. Her hair was black; her skin tinged with olive; her eyen possessed that soft luster
peculiar to women of the tropics. She saw the old man, to his surprise turned and blew him a kies, then rode on down
the highway.
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The hair sweeping down over the high
forehead was biaek, but the bushy eye-
brows were in striking eontraat bleed;
• thin fine mouth showed below a leap
boohod none and heavy eheekbonem« bril:
Haul blue eyes fiaehed from deep-eel
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"Always the Lowest Prices in Amarillo"
elout and whose ears were piereed and
Jobes widened until they could hold
"heavy steel ornaments as big as saucers.
Aroun4 his neck he wore a string of
human teeth whieh probably represent-
ed at least four victories over his jun-
gle enemies; if spoken to, he could only
answer with a series of grunts. Next door
tn the chop which displayed the watch
was a store where. if one had a little
money and knew the proprietor, he could
enter a back room and be shown a col-
lection of dried heads. Those he could
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futile, nervous attempts, then sauntered inquiringly over his feeble beard, strode
outside to a blistered balcony whore a downstairs and through a door in a eor-
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vol, the beautiful and deadly Brasilian
rattlesnake dash across the road for a
frog or chameleon on the other aide; if
he chanced to be a native and left a pet
goal out in his yard one night, he might
wake up in the morning and find nothing
but the bloody tracks of a great puma.
The contrast extended to the land-
scape. Hore and there on the low hills
surrounding the valley in which lay the
town, showed a field plowed with an
English plow, fenced with American
fence; but everywhere else, behind, in
front, in back. beside, whosever man's
band has stopped, was jungle, green.
The Brailian shrugged his shoulder royal palm trees which grew everywhere
along the rood. Then his glance drift-
Thongs here. Evil theengs. Theengs
which kill. One month, one peoples.
Two monthd, two peoplea. Three
months, three peoples. And how? Knows
for tell you this.
or Portuguese may have seen some men-
tion of the case in South American
newspapers; others will not have done so
for nations naturally try to suppress
news of the calamitous or horrible, just
is the official communiques during the
war suppressed the news of defeats. In
fact, the correspondent of one of the
New«ork newspapers at Rio de Janeiro
told me afterwards that he tried to get
some word of it through and was gently
informed that even though some of the
persons concerned were Americans, it
would be infinitely more tactful not to
send any report.
The curious may find details which I
may have passed over in the "Jornal do
Commercio," published at Rio de Janeiro
or the “Las Razon" at Pernambuco. For
obvious reasons the names of Americans
involved have been changed. Those of
the Brazilians have not'. But I am 'wast-
ing time talking about the story and not
telling it.
The case began in Porto Verde, a small
town In the more mountainous section
of West Central Brazil on one of the
lesser tributaries of the Amazon. Despite
its smallness, it is really a New York in
its cosmopolitanism. Ite native popula-
tion is Brasilian, of course, ranging In
color from coal-black to mild-white — the
color not always indicating place in so-
ciety as there is no color line in Brazil.
I ides these are Italians who have come
t9work on the coffee plantations near-
by, Germans who have come to farm,
English to develop the rich industrial
resources of the region, a few Americans
ehe have journeyed there to co-operate
‘or compete with their fellow Anglo-Sax-
ons. and a few others, pioneers in spirit,
who seek the adventurer's ever shifting
frontier.
Like so many of these tropical eities,
the settlement seemed to exhaust its
energies on one or two buildings, making
these magnificent and letting the rest
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Changeable Taffetas—A wonderfully popular mate-
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SI.50 hone, in either chiffon or service weight, that
we are using for a leader at—
stent, when it would dart out its swift
green tentaeles and claim its own once
more.
As convenient a point as any at which
to begin the story is with the arrival
of one of the principal actors in the
tragedy, not because hie arrival in itaelf
la important, but because it happened
to co-Incide with events that began to
mark the caee climax.
He wae a little man of perhaps 65 or
70, with a sleeps, kindly look ia his
round brown eyes, one of the few fea-
turee of bio gentle face which could be
seen, for the reel wae much obscured by
heavy nose glasses. The lower part of
his head wae bordered by a slight fringe
of board, very scanty, but whose well
kept appearance showed hie pride of own-
ership. Hie quick, rather jerky move-
monte, ae he got off the steamboat that
chugged into Porto Verde, betrayed him
at once as a man of nervous tempera-
ment. which, together with hie appear-
ance. marked him almost certainly as a
scholar, a figure a bit unusual in Porte
Verde, bet quite common in Cambridge
or any other university town.
It is too late to buy Auto-
mobile Liability Insurance
after an accident happens.
The time to buy is now
and avoid future worry
and expense.
tainly de net think you sro wine ..or
le that he would see at least one caeca- ....choice to receive visitors here. Net
•Unfortunately too true. Too true,
my dear Nanny," Vilak replied blandly
as he flieked ths razor against the
other’s lamentable beard. “But I’m
afraid it can’t be helped. What do you i
expect when n wild end strenuous,
manufacturer goes to -the Balkans to
tell altet steel rails, falls in love
with a lovely Balkon princess, supposed-
ly with a streak of Turkleh or Chinese '
blood in her veins—there's more Tartar
la the Balkan races than moot people!
realize—sells the rails, marries the
princess, end they baptize their only,
child Vilaka Pennington Woet? Doesn’t
that only ehild -none other than my-
self-have to develop a seaee of humor
He listened with apprehension to the,...-
grumbling of the biaek, ohining Brazil- of chaine.
Ian who took hie beg and began dole-
might. There waa a splendid municipal
building that would have been a credit
to a elty tan timea ite also, built ef a
sort of red volcanic rock abnndant in the
region; a very creditable theater which
every man, woman and child in town
most apparently visit every night to pre-
vent a dreadful deficit; a fair hotel, and
beyond that nothing but shacks of every
description, shacks of wood, of battered
pieces of Un, and even of thatched
rushes, in whose every door fat negro
women sat grinding corn or shouting af-
fectionately at their naked children play-
ing in the mud.
It was a city of contrasts. Here was a
shop where for outrageous prices eould
be bought American soap, razors, chew-
ing gum or a single second-hand watch;
across the streot from it was the unes-
capable American cinema where the lat-
est exploits of the kings of Hollywood
waited all who had the necessary' num-
ber of reis. But between these two
baildingo walked a hugs black savage
. . . barber especlally. Tell me, why are
you . . . er . . . tallowing an oecupation
to ... or . .. unusual . . . yee positively
. . . unusual I And what are you .
er . . . doing here in any casef ... it
in a meat . . . or . . . aatonishing coin-
i Ide nee . yes, antonishing."
"It Isn’t e coineidence," Vilak repiled
suavely. "Quite the contrary. I sent
tor yea."
--- —----- mad, but they all seem . . . or . . . happy,
of a mildness So I shall not worry about it."
fully trudging off with it to the hetel.
bey if he felt so inclined, though the “Don't tell me....or.,.. any more," he
putla" rfadttca akin""n ble latt^ sockets. Buthe line of Ikeos eyee w
woman’s affectionate glances, might be
her son or daughter, though she seemed
extremely young to be a mother.
She was a very beautiful person, Nun-
nally thought, ae he watched her grace-
ful movements. He hair was biaek and
strayed shiningly around her delicte
cars; kor ekin was tinged with olive;
her black eyes possessed that soft lus-
trs peculiar to women of the tropics; he
might easily have mistaken her for a
lovely high caste Brazilian had not bar
informality ef dress and the fact that
she herself held the reins of the roan
horse and drove in most vigorous fash-
ion inatantly betrayed her aa Ameriean.
She saw the old man, to hie surprise
turned and blew him a kisa, then rode
on down the highway.
Nunnally ehuekled amusedly and
watehed her drive round one of the great
dark-skinned child ef perhaps two
years, which, judging by the young
$1.00 per Fair! I
enough ...quite....It’e abaurd, really
before the stately elty building, the con- ....absurd. I don't knew whether yea are
wind. and looked down upon the narrow,
shack-lined street.
He had been watching the motley
passersby who made up the town's
population for perhaps half an hour.
g woman drove by in a sort
Besiderhermeta negteaz
her arms a fine-feautred.
AB reathha
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Anybody come boro Porto Verde Mg
fool. RM people here. Merden
Spa Hilt Im tty. "No fright yaa," he mum-
bled thickly. "Why Praseito fright you T
toll truth. Fraseito always tell truth.
The newcomer hesitated, put his hand
Into his pocket and, drawing out a coin,
gave it to his gloomy servitor. They
reached the hotel from whose brick welle
tke plaster end paint had begun to fall,
and entered. The newcomer wrote in a
tiny, very legible hand i.iaeoln Nun-
nally, Ridgewood, New Jersey, U. 8.
eaid after a moment, speakine in jerks
much like the movemonte of hit wispy
body. "You’ve told me.... er.... quite
distinctly slanted and hinene. About thin
there wae no exaggeretlen, no doubt.
Further bizarreness wae added by the
left ear, which at the base was sharp
and triangular as though the lobe had
been smoothly slashed off with a razor.
Yet with all its bixarreness, it was not
a cruel face, though it gave the old maa
an uncomfortable feeling that he had
seen it before.
At length the planter departed. Nan-
nelly took the vacant chair. He no-
ticed the barber glance singularly at
him, but thought nothing of it and
stretched out in his chair, eloning his
eyes as one resigning himself to neces:
sary torture. He felt the other's dsft
fingers eoursing over hie ebook |ad wae
rapidly sinking into a doze when a few
quiet words from the barber caused him
to elt up in open-mouthed astonishment. I
“What did you .. erwayr" he j
demanded.
"I said, my dear Nanny, that I waa
wondering when you would coms.” tho '
barber repeated in smooth, cultured ae- ।
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cents. "And I added that you were al-1
ways bad at remembering fame. Even 1
such an unusual one ae mine. When
you've recovered 1 suguest that we
shake hands."
Recognition fashed ialo Nunnally’:
wrinkled visnge. His thin hands neized
the other’s wriet. "Vilak!" he exelaimed.
. , Er . . . Vilak . . . er . . really . "
He jerked out his handkerchief again
and wiped the bald top of bio head
“You're very .er.-, unpleanant. My |
vocabulary’s totally inadequate to . . .
or , . . describe you. Dou you realise
that the shoek you gave me will take
tuguese proclaimed a barber shop. He
nodded to the barber and to the richly
dressed Brazilian plenter he wes shav-
ing, then set down to await his turn.
The facs of the barber instantly attrac-
ted him, and with nothing else to do
but smoke one of his dainty eigarets, he
began to eludy it.
"This city is a «allery of...er...
rogues." he murmured to himself. "I
doubt whether I should . . . er . . . en-
trust myself to that barber .. 1 ... er
. . . doubt it."
It wae undoubtedly an odd face, a
face such as one sees only in the meeting
places of the world where racial mix:
tures are eommon. Such a Caee aa might
be found in the obscure cafes of New
York’s Mott Street or Mulberry Head,
er of Perla* Montmarte or La Villette.
To exaggerate slightly, tat it le some-
timen only by exaggeration that an ac-
curate picture ean be given, it wae each
a wiange M might have reeylted if a
sculptor ha4 began to mold (he head of
one of the swarthy rooM ebaDed Ori-
ental rhees, but in the midat of hie task
had changed Me design end computed
it with a leng angular head ef aa An-
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Let a Williams-Orr
Agency representative tell
you about this insurance.
The Ring of Death
A Grewsome ornament, myetifying, deadly. At ite touch men fall ia an
agonizing paralyeis and died. No one knew ite origin. Only a few knew Ite
terrible secret. It wae one of the baffling myateries of Porto Verde.
Porto Verde, a jungle-fringed town in South America, where Elise Mor-
berry, a girl from the United States, encountered the enmity of a plottiag
band of cutthroats, a mo rd crons gaag to whom killing waa ae casual a per-
formance as eating or sleeping.
A man named Vilak caved her and solved the mystery of the ring. A
strange man, but shrewd and courageous. Not »ince Sherlock Holmee has
fiction produced a greater detective character. Not In yearn has a more en-
tertaining adventure story been written than the story that introduces him—
“Jungle Breath," by Ben Lucien Burman.
“Jungle Breath" ia a story for every member of the family. Clean, whole-
come, red-blooded adventure. Romance. Mystery. Each chapter superbly
illustrated by Paul Kroesen.
It starts today.
eheek and an ugly protruding Adam's
apple, stood pointing furtively in the
direction of the girl end making some
queer signals wilk hie fingers. The old
man, who could make nothing of these
eigne at first thought they were Intended
for himself. Not satisfied, he looked
about and saw that they were being
directed toward an individual in the
second etory of a shabby dwelling ad-
joining the hotel. Thio man, like the
other, waa decidedly Italian, with a
ragged stump instead of an arm and a
mouth in which four of the upper teeth
had been broken off as though he had
been struck by a belaying pin or a crow-
bar. Aa Nunnally saw the necond man,
the signaling abruptly ceased. Then
the doors of both houses opened quiet-
ly, the two men stepped out end, taking
opposite aides of the rood,* hogan skulk-
ing through the brush in the direction
of the eerriage.
Nunnally's first impulse was to has-
ten end tell the hotel people of the
seene he hod just witnessend. Then he
realized thet he was in a strange coun-
try. that he knew nothing whatsoever
of the meaning of what he had seen, that
he would probably be interfering in acme
perfectly innocent matter of two of the
natives, and that he would undoubtedly
moke himaelf ridiculous.
“Everything le . . . er . . . queer down
here,” he murmured to himself. “Noth-
ing normal since I landsd at Ria . . .
nothing. Everything neems somehow
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The men who eaid romance wae dead
muat have died without leaving the bed
e which he wae bora. The events which
■MNoecrlbod here happened to take place
in South America; with a few variations
callowing for locality they might have ee-
eurred in Africa, the interior of Auu-
tralla, Mongolia ar any one of those num-
wous regions where civilisation sudden-
ly stope short and the primitive ae sud-
denly begins. Where a half-clad native
oomee to a rattle-trap moving-picture
ehoy, seea American pictures not mere
ean a year old, listens to jazz made on
a squeaky American phonograph, then
gone off to his home in ths jungle which
marks the end of the main street and has
to ba very careful that a tiger does not
spring upon him from tho bushes or a
dark shadow looking like a tree breach
suddenly come to life aa a huge ana-
coada searching for a pleasant supper.
I got my first hint of this tragic but
fascinating case from a vary casual con-
versation with the conductor of a train
of the Brasil Central Railroad when I
was going up to Manaos to get some
background for a rubber story. It struck
me as so vivid snd so extraordinary that
aa soon as I had the opportunity I went
to considerable trouble to get as many
of the details as possible from anyone
left in Porto Verde-or any whore elee
for that matter—who could tell me any-
thing.
As a one-time newspaper reporter and
editor, specialising in the eriminologieal,
t have written or read probably more
detective cases than falls to the lot of
the average newspaper man; and I have
tome upon some which eould properly be
sailed bizarre. But I did not dream how
bizarre and mysterious a case could be
antil I encountered this. I claim no
credit for the narrative. I heve merely
visualized and tried to put down in as
dranatic a fashion as possible what I
saw and what I heard from the lips of
persons whose euthority was unquestion-
la order to hoop from withering like
the leafr
The old saaa shook his head la be-
wilderment. "I suppose it le yeu. You
are always . . . ar . . . where a ought
not be. Though I think I can" be ex-
cooed for not recognizing yee after tea
years ... tea jeers I had ae reason
te expect to see aayoae I knew here . . .
er ... la thio wild place, and a ... er
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