Chapter 24 -A TALE OF PARADISE.

At the insistence of Long Jim, Art and Jack, who had been called to join the pair, speedily re-aroused their friends.

"I ain't no hand for talkin'," Long Jim declared in answer to Art's requests for further information. "I got to tell this. But onct oughter be enough. No use my tellin' you an' then tellin' the rest o' them all over agin."

Jac