6 i|Jirf .IJE *7iqbert °i m —5 — BEmET CfrZA 7 'SMS? ' F. (^/ Blake Pushed Out from Among the Close Thickets. SYNOPSIS. Tha story opens with the shipwreck of the sir uner on which Miss Genevieve Leslie, in American heiress, l.ord Wiri thrope, an Erißlishnian, and Tom Blake, a brusque American, were passengers. The three were tossed upon an uninhab ited island and were the only ones not drowned. Blake recovered from a drunk en st'ipor. Blake, shunned on the boat, bei at:."e of his roughness, became a hero tLF, p ..server of the helpless pair. The Entr 't-'iman was suing; for the hand of Mi:-- I,es!le. Blake started to swim back to • :i« ship to recover what was left. BI.V e returned safely. Wintlirope wasted his 'ast match on a cigarette, for which he was scored by Blake. Their first meal *nr .l dead tlsh. The trio started a ten tni!» i Ike for higher land. Thirst at- Taol'd them. Blake was compelled to sai rv Miss J>er,lie on account of weari ne» CHAPTER IV.—Continued. At first liis throat was so dry that fcc could no more than rinse his mouth. "With the first swallow his swollen tongue mocked him with the salt, bittc-r taste of sea waler. The tide w.v flowing! He rose, sputtering and choking and gasping Ho stared around. There was no question that he was on the hank of a river and wo;:!d be certain of fresh water with th.? ebb tide. Hut could he endure the agony of his thirst all those hours? He thought of his companions. "Good God!" he groaned, "they're goners, anyway!" Ho stared dully up the river at the thou-mds of waterfowl which lined lis banks. Within close view were herons anil black ibises, geese, pelicans, tla minsoes, and a dozen other species of birils of which lie did not know the ndmcs. But ho sat as though in a stupor, and did not move even when one of the driftwood logs on a mud shoal a few yards up stream opened an enormous mouth and displayed two rows of hooked fangs. It was other wise when the noontime stillness was broken, by a violent splashing and loud snortings down-stream. He glanced about and saw six or eight monstrous heads drifting towards him with the tide. "What in— Whee! a whole herd of hippos!" he muttered. "That's what tho holes mean." The foremost hippopotamus was headed directly for him. He glared at the huge head with sullen resent ment. For all his stupor he perceived at. once that the beast intended to land; and he sat in the middle of its accustomed path. His first impulse wan to spring up and yell at the crea ture, Then he remembered hearing that a white hunter had recently been killed by these beasts on one of the South African lakes. Instead of leap ing up he sank down almost flat and crawled back around the turn in the path. Once certain that he was hid den from the beasts he rose to his feet and hastened back through the Jungle. He was almost in view of the spot Where he had left Winthrope and Miss Leslie, when he stopped and stood hesitating. "I can't do It,"he muttered; "I can't tell her —poor girl!" He turned and pushed into the thicket. Forcing a way through the tangle of thorny shrubs and creepers "until several yards from the path he began to edge towards the face of the Jungle, that he might peer out at his companions unseen by (hem. There was more of the thicket be fore him than he had thought, and he was still fighting his way through it when he was brought to a stand by a peculiar cry that might have been the bloat of a young lamb: "Ba—ba!" "What's that?" he croaked. He stood listening, and in a moment be again heard the cry, this time more distinctly: "Blak!— Blak!" There could be no mistake. It was Winthrope calling for him, and call- In? with a clearness of voice that would have been physically impossible half an hour since. Blake's sunken eyes lighted with hope. He burst through the last screen of jungle and star»d towards the palm under which he had left his companions. They were not there. Another call from Winthrope di rected his gaze more seaward. The two were seated beside a fallen palm, and Miss L«eslie had a large round ob ject raised to her lips. Winthrop was waving to him. "Cocoanuts!" he yelled. "Come on!" Three of the palms had been over thrown by the hurricane, and when Blake came up he found the ground strewn with nuts. He seized the first he came to; but Winthrope held nut one already opened. He snatched it from him and placed the hole to his swollen lips. Never had champagne tarit'd half so delicious as that cocoa nut milk. Before he could drain the last, of it through the little opening Winthrope had the husks torn from the ends of two other nuts, and the convenient germinal spots gouged open with his penknife. lUake emptied the third before he epoke. Even then his voice was hoarse and strained, "liow'd you Strike 'em?" "I couldn't help it," explained Win «h rope. "Hardly had you disappeared when I noticed the tops of the fallen palms and thought of the nuts. Tnere Was oue in the grass not 20 feet from Where we lay." "Lm:ky for you—and for me, tot, 1 (Hiss,!* *aid Biako. "We were all throe down for the count. But this settles the first round In our favor. How do you like the picnic, Miss Jenny?" "Miss Leslie, if you please," replied the girl, with hauteur. "Oh, say, Miss Jenny!" protested Blake, genially. "We live in the same boarding house now. Why not be folksy? You're free to call me Tom. Pass me another nut, Winthrope. Thanks! By the way, what's your front name? Saw it aboard ship— Cyril—" "Cecil," corrected Winthrope, in a low tone. "Cecil —Lord Cecil, eh? —or is it only the Honorable Cecil?" "My dear sir, I have intimated be fore that, for reasons of —er —state —" "Oh, yes; you're traveling incog., in the secret service. Sort of detect ive—" "Detective!" echoed Winthrope, in a peculiar tone. Blake grinned. "Well, it is rawther a nawsty business for your honorable ludshlp. But there's nothing like call ing things by their right names." "Right names—er —l don't quite take you. I have told you distinctly my name is Cecil Winthrope!" "O-h-h! how lovely!— See-sill! See seal!—Bet they called you Sissy at school. English chum of mine told me your schools are corkers for nick names. What'll we make it —Sis or Sissy?" "I prefer my patronymic, Mr. Blake." replied Winthrope. "All light, then; we'll make it Pat, if that's your choice. I say, Pat, this juice is the stuff for wetness, but it makes a fellow remember his grub. Where'd you leave that fish?" "Really, I can't just say, but it must have been where I wrenched my ankle." "You cawn't just say! And what are we going to eat?" "Here are the cocoanuts." "Bright boy! goto the head of the class! Just take some more husk off those empty ones." Winthrope caught up one of the nuts, and with the aid of his knife stripped it of its husk. At a gesture from Blake he laid it on the bare ground and the American burst it open with a blow of his heel. It was an immature nut, and the meat proved to be little thicker than clotted cream. Blake divided it into three parts, hand ing Miss Leslie the cleanest. Though his companions began with more restraint, they finished their sihares with equal gusto. Winthrope needed no further orders to return to his husking. One after another the nuts were cracked and divided among the three, until even Blake could not swallow another mouthful of the luscious cream. Toward the end Miss Leslie had be come drowsy. At Winthrope's urg ing. she now lay down for a nap, Blake's coat serving us a pillow. She fell asleep while Winthrope was yet arran.sring it for her. Blake had turned his back on her and was staring moodily at the hippopotamus 'll Winthrope hobbled around *nd CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1909. sat down on the palm trunk beside him. "I say, Blake," he suggested, "I feel deuced fagged myself. Why not all take a nap?" " 'And when they awoke, they were all dead men,'" remarked Blake. "By Jove, that sounds like a Joke," protested the Englishman. "Don't rag me now." "Joke!" repeated Blake. "Why, that's Scripture, Pat, Scripture! Any way, you'd think it no joke to wake up and find yourself going down the throat of a hippo." "Hippo?" "Dozens of them over in the river. Shouldn't wonder if they've all landed and're tracking me down by this time." "But hippopotami are not carnivor ous—they're not at all dangerous, un less one wounds them, out in the wa ter." "That may be; but I'm not taking chances. They've got mouths like sperm whales —I saw one take a yawn. Another thing, that bayou is chuck full of alligators, and a fellow down on the Rand told me they're like the Cen tral American gavials for keenness to nip a swimmer." "They will not come out on this dry land." "Suppose they won't —there're no other animals in Africa but sheep, eh?" "What can we do? The captain told me that there are both lions and leopards on this coast." "Nice place for them, too, around these trees," added Blake. "Lucky for us, they're night-birds mostly— if that Rand fellow didn't lie. He was a Boer, so I guess he ought to know." "To be sure. It's a nasty fix we're in for to-night. Could we not build some kind of a barricade?" "With a penknife! Guess we'll roost In a tree." "But cannot leopards climb? It seems tom 3 that I have heard—" "How about lions?" "They cannot; I'm sure of that." "Then we'll chance the leopards. Just stretch out here and nurse that ankle of yours. I don't want to be lugging you all year. I'm going to hunt a likely tree." CHAPTER V. The Re-Ascent of Man. ■ "VI ■: IIN() ON ivas" far'* ad- W" vanced and Winthrope was -*■ beginning to feel auxious when at last Blake pushed out from among the close thickets. As he ap proached he swung an unshapely club of green wood, pausing every few paces to test its weight and balance on a bush or knob of dirt. "By Jove!" called Winthrope; "that's not half bad! You look as if you conlA bowl over an ox." Blake showed that he was flattered. "Oh, I don't know,"he responded; "the thing's blamed unhandy. Ju«t the same, I guess we'll be ready for callers to-night." "How's that?" "Show you later, Pat, me b'y. Now trot out some nuts. We'll feed before we move camp." "Miss is still sleeping." "Time, then, to roust her out. Hey, Miss Jenny, turn out! Time to chew." Miss Leslie sat up and gazed around in bewilderment. "It's all right, Miss Genevieve," re assured Winthrope. "Blake has found a safe place fer the night, and he wishes us to eat before we leave here." "Save lugging the grub," added Blake. "Get busy, Pat." As Winthrope caught up a nut the girl began to arrange her disordered hair and dress with tho deft and grace ful movements of a woman thoroughly trained in the art of self-adornment. There was admiration in Rlake's deep eyeß as he watched her dainty preen ing. She was not a beautiful girl— at present she could hardly be termed pretty; yet even in her draggled, mud dy dress she retained all the subtle charms of culture which appeal so strongly to a man. Blake was sub dued. His feelings even carried him so far as an attempt at formal polite ness when they had finished their meal. "Now, Miss Leslie," he began, "it'f little more than half an hour to sun down; so, if you please, if you're ready, we'd best be starting." "Is it far?" "Not so very. But we've got to chase through tho jungle. Are you sure youjo quite ready?" "Quite, thank you. But how about Mr. Winthrope's ankle?" "He'll ride as far as the trees. I can't squeeze through with him, though." "I shall walk all the way," put In Winthrope. "No, you won't. Climb aboard," ro plled Blake, and catching up his club he stooped for Winthrope to mount his back. As he rose with his burden Miss Leslie caught sight of his ooat, which still lay in a roll beside tho palm trunk. "How about your coat, Mr. Blake?" she asked. "Should you not put It on?" "No; I'm loaded now. Have to ask you to look after it. You may need It before morning, anyway. If the dews here are like those in Central America they are d-darned liable to bring on malarial fever." Nothing more wa3 said until they had crossed the open space between the palms and the belt of junglo along the river. At other times Win thrope and Miss Leslie might havo been interested in the towering screw palms, festooned to the top with climbers, and in the huge ferns which they could see beneath the mangroves In the swampy ground on their left. Now, however, they were far too con cerned with the question of how they should penetrate the dense tangle of thorny brush and creepers which rose before them like a green wall. Even Blake hesitated as he released Winthrope and looked at Miss Leslie's costume. Her white Bkirt was of stout duck; but the flimsy material of her waist was ill-suited for rough usage. "Better put the coat on unless you want to come out on the other side In full evening dress," he said. "There's no use kicking, but I wish you'd hap pened to have on some sort of a Jacket when we got spilled." "Is there no path through the thick et?" inquired Winthrope. "Only the hippo trail, and It don't go our way. We've got to run our own line. Here's a stick for your game ankle." Winthrope took the half-green branch which Blake broke from the nearest tree and turned to assist Miss Leslie with the coat. Tho garment was of such coarse cloth that as Win thrope drew the collar close about her throat Miss Leslie could not forego a little grimace of repugnance. The crease between Blake's eyes deepened, and the girl hastened to uttqf an ex planatory exclamation: "Not so tight, Mr. Winthrope, please! It scratches my nock." (TO BE CONTINUED.) Crocodiles Along the Nile. At the sound of the shot the whole of this bank of the river, over the ex tent of at least a quarter of a mile, sprang into hideous life, and my com panions and I saw hundreds of croco diles, of all sorts and sizes, rushing madly into the Nile, whose waters along the line of the shore were lashed into white foam, exactly as a heavy wave had broken. It could bo no exaggeration to say that at least a thousand of these sau rians had been disturbed at a siny' shot. —Strand Magazine. Wretched Pay for Labor. At a hearing last summer in London on the "sweating" question, evidence was brought forward showing that 56 women who sewed hooks and eyes on cards earned at an average a little over 75 cents a week. Another woman was instanced who worked from nine one morning until the next morning and earned 16 cents in that Uiaa. It would seem better to 01*. MME. MELBA'S FIRST ENCORE Her Concert Was a Big Success, But Little Playmate Saw Her Garter. When six years of age Helen Mitch ell (Melba) appeared at a school con cert, organized by her aunts in Rich mond, Melbourne, the suburb of her birth. At this entertainment she sang "Shells of the Ocean" with such ef fect that the audience asked for an encore, and the child on her reappear ance, created a still greater impres sion by her singing of "Comin' Through the Rye," for which her grandmother had taught her the Scottish accent. At the earliest opportunity she hur ried to her favorite playmate, who lived in the same street, and breath lessly waited for reference to the en tertainment of the evening before, but the little comrade was adamant and ignored the whole subject. After many attempts to introduce it, Nellie at length found herself unable to wait longer, and exclaimed excitedly: "But the concert, the concert! I sang last night, and was encored." And she looked with eagerness in the face of her friend, who answered witheringly: "Yes, and, Helen Mitchell, I saw your garter." Little Miss Mitchell had been particularly pleased with her neat at tire, and the unexpected shaft com ing in place of the looked for com pliment, in an instant blotted out the memory of the intoxicating encore, and drew the little singer from the seventh heaven of her brief delight to limbo.- Detroit News-Tribune. COVERED WITH HIVES. Child a Mass of Dreadful Sore, Itch ing, Irritating Humor for 2 Month* —Little Sufferer In Terrible Plight. Disease Cured by Cuticura. "My six year old daughter had the dreadful disease called hives for two months. She became affected by play ing with children who had It. By scratching sho caused largo sores which were irritating. Her body was a complete sore but it was worse on her arms and back. We employed a physician who left medicine but it did not help her and I tried several reme dies but without avail. Seeing the Cuticura Remedies advertised, I thought I would try them. I gave her a hot bath dally with Cuticura Soap and anointed her body with Cuticura Ointment. The first treatment re lieved the itching and In a short tima the disease disappeared. Mrs. George L. Pridhoff, Warren, Mich., June 30 and July 13, 1908." Pottor Drue k Cham. Corp., Solo Prop*., Boston From Overhead. A canary hung directly over the big square table in the Hungarian res taurant. 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