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6 ' imM) IM iPMi|aMiit By Evening Bhe Had Her Tree-Cava in a Habitable Condition. SYNOPSIS. The story opens with the shipwreck of the steamer on which Miss Genevieve Leslie, an American heiress. Lord Wln thrope, an Englishman, anil Tom Blake, a brusque American, were passengers. The three were tossed upon an uninhab ited island and wore the only ones not drowned. Intake recovered from a drunk en stupor. Blake, shunned on the boat, because of his roughness, became a hero RS preserver of the helpless pair. The Englishman was suing for the hand of Miss Leslie. Blake started to swim hack to (ho ship to recover what was left. Blako returned safely. Wlnthrope wasted his last match on a cigarette, for which he was scored by Blake. Their first meal wn.i a dead fish. The trio started a ton mile hike for higher land. Thirst at ♦ icked them. Blake was compelled to carry Miss Leslie on account of weari ness He taunted Winthrope. They en tered the Jungle. That night was passed roosting high in a tree. The next morn ing they descended to the open again. All three constructed hats to shield them selves from the sun. They then feasted on cocoanuts, the only procurable food. Miss lyeslie showed a liking for Blake, but detested his roughness. Led by Bla.ke they established a home In some cliffs. Blake found a fresh water spring. Miss Veslie faced an unpleasant situation, hey planned their campaign. Blake re covered his surveyor's magnifying glass, thus insuring fire. He started a Jungle flro, killing a largo leopard and smoth ering several cubs. In the leopard's cav ern they built a smnll home. They gained the cliffs by burning the bottom of a tree until it fell ugainst the heights. CHAPTER X.—Continued. The hot ashes flew up in her face and powdered her hair with their gray dust; yet she persisted, blowing stead ily until a shred of bark caught, the sparks and flared up in a tiny flame. A little more, and she had a strong fire blazing against the tree trunk. She rested a short time, relaxing both mentally and physically in the satisfying consciousness that Blake never should know how near she had come to failing in her trust. Soon she became aware of a keen feeling of thirst and hunger. She rose, piled a fresh supply of slicks on the fire, and hastened back through the cleft toward the spring. Around the baobab she came upon Winthrope, working in the shade of the great tree. The three leopard skins had been stretched upon bamboo frames, and he was resignedly scraping at their inner surfaces with a smooth-edged atone. Miss Leslie did not look too closely at the operation. "Where is—he?" she asked. Winthrope motioned down the cleft. "I hope lie hasn't gone far. I'm half famished. Aren't you?" "Really, Miss Genevieve, it is odd, you know. Not an hour since, the very thought of food —" "And now you're as hungry as I am. 01), 1 do wish he had not gone ofT just at the wrong time!" "lie went to take a dip in the sea. You know, lie got so messed up over the nastiest part of the work, which I positively refused to do —" "What's that, beyond the bamboos? There's something alive!" "Pray, don't be alarmed. It is—or — Vi all right, Miss Genevieve, I as »ure you." "But what is it? Such queer noises, and I see something alive!" "Only the vlutures, if you must know. Nothing else, I assure you." "Oh!" "It is all out of sight from the spring. You are not togo around the bamboos until the —that is, not to-day." "Did Mr. Blake say that?" "Why, yes—to be sure. He also said to tell you that the cutlets were on the top shelf." "You mean—?" "His way of ordering you to cook our dinner. Uealiy, Miss Genevieve, I should be pleased to take your place, but I have been told to keep to this. It is hard to take orders from a low fellow —very hard for a gentleman, you know." Miss Leslie gazed at her shapely l.ands. Three days since she could not have conceived of their being so rough snd scratched and dirty. Yet her dis- Eust at their condition was not en tirely unqualified. "At least I have something to show for them," she murmured. "I beg pardon," said Winthrope. "Just look at my hands—like a serv ant's! And yet I am not nearly so ashamed of them as I would have fancied. It is very amusing, but do you know, I actually feel proud that I have done something—something useful, I mean." "Useful? —I call it shocking. Miss Gen evieve. It is simply vile that people of our breeding should be compelled to do such menial work. They write no end of romances about cast ways; but I fail to see cbe romance in scraping skins Indian fashion, as this fellow Blake calls it." "I suppose, though, we should re member how much Mr. Blake is doing for us, and should try to make the best of the situation." "It has no best. It is all a beastly muddle," complained Winthrope, and he resumed his nervous scraping at the big leopard skin. The girl studied his face for a mo ment, and turned away. She had been trying so hard to forget. He heard her leave, and called after, without looking up: "Please remem ber. He said to cook some meat." She did not answer Having satis fied her thirst at the spring, she took one of the bamboo rods, with its haggled blnckoniny places of flesh, and re turned to the fire. After some little experimenting, she contrived a way to support the rod beside the fire so that all the meat would roast without burn ing. At first, keen as was her hunger, she turned with disgust from the flab by sun-seared flesh; but as it began tO| roast, the odor restored her appetite to full vigor. Her mouth fairly wa-1 tered. It seemed as though Winthrope and Blake would never come. She heard their voices, and took the bam boo spit from the fire for the meat to cool. Still they failed to appear, and, unable to wait longer, she began to eat. The cub meat proved far more tender than that of the old leopard. She had helped herself to the second piece before the two men appeared. "Hold on, Miss Jenny; fair play!" sang out Blake. "You've set to with out tooting the dinner-horn. I don't blame you, though. That smells mighty good." Both men caught at the hot meat with eagerness, and Winthrope promptly forgot all else in the animal pleasure of satisfying his hunger. Blake, though no less hungry, only waited to fill his mouth before inves tigating the condition of the prospec tive tree ladder. The result of the attempt to burn the trunk did not seem encouraging to the others, and Miss Leslie looked away, that her face might not betray her, should he have an inkling of her neglect. She was relieved by the cheerfulness of his tone. "Slow work, this fire business —eh? Gaess, though, ft'll go faster this after noon. The green wood is killed and is getting dried out. Anyway, we've got to keep at it till the tree goes over. This spring leopard won't last long at the present rate of consumption, and we'll need the eggs to keep us going till we get the hang of our bows." "What is that smoke back there?" interrupted Miss Leslie. "Can it be that the fire down the cleft has sprung up again?" "No; it's your fumigation. You had plenty of brush on hand, so I heaved it into the hole an'l touched it off. While it's burning out you can putin time gathering ring grass and leaves for a bed." "Would you and Mr. Winthrope mind breaking off some bamboos for me?" "What for?" Miss Leslie colored and hesitated. "I—l should like to divide off a corner of the place with a wall or screen." Winthrope tried to catch Blake's eye; but the American was gazhig at Miss Leslie's embarrassed face with a puzzled look. Her meaning dawned ui>on him, and he hastened to reply. "All right, Miss Jenny. You can build your wall to suit yourself. But there'll be no hurry over it. Until the rains begin, Win and I'll sleep out in the open. We'll have to take turnabout on watch at night, anyway. If we don't keep up a fire some other spotted kitty will be sure to come nosing up the gully." "There must also be lious iu the vi cinity," added Winthrope. Miss Leslie said nothing until after the last nieces of meat- had be»" CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1909. handed around and Blake sprang up to resume work. "Mr. Blake," she called. In a low tone; "one moment, please. Would It save much bother If a door was made and you and Mr. Winthrope should sleep inside?" "We'll see about that later," replied Blake, carelessly. The girl bit her lip, and the tears started to her eyes. Even Winthrope had started off without expressing his appreciation. Yet he at least should have realized how much it bad cost her to make such an offer. By evening she had her tree-cave — house, she preferred to name it to her self —in a habitable condition. When the purifying fire had burnt itself out, leaving the place free from all odors other than the wholesome smell of wood smoke, she had asked Blake how she could rake out the ashes. His advice was to wet them down where they lay. This was easier said than done. Fortunately the spring was only a few yards distant, and after many trips, with her palm-leaf hat for bowl, the girl carried enough water to sprinkle all the powdery ashes. Over them she strewed the leaves and grass which she had gathered while the fire was burning. The driest of the grass, ar ranged in a far corner, promised a more comfortable bed than had been her lot for the last three nights. During this work she had been cure ful not to forgot the fire at the tree. Yet when, near sundown, she called the third meal of leopard meat, Blake grumbled at the tree for being what he termed such a confounded tough prep osition. "Good thing there's lots of wood here. Win," he added. "We'll keep this fire going till the blamed thing top ples over, if it takes a year." "Oh, but you surely wili not stay so far from the baobab to-night!" ex claimed Miss Leslie. "Hold hard!" soothed Blake. "You've no license to get the jumps yet a while. We'll have another fire by the baobab. So you needn't worry." A few minutes later they went back to the baobab, and Winthrop began helping Miss Leslie to construct a bamboo screen in the narrow entrance of the tree-cave, while Blake built the second fire. As Winthrope was unable to tell time by the stars, Blake took the ttrst watch. At sunset, following the en gineer's advice, Winthrope lay down with his feet to the small watch-fire, and was asleep before twilight had deepened into night. Fagged out by the mental and bodly stress of the day, he slept so soundly that it teemed to him he hardly lost consciousness when he was roused by a rough hand on his forehead. "What is it?" he mumbled. " 'Bout one o'clock," said Blake. "Wake up! Iran overtime, 'cause the morning watch is the toughest. But I can't keep 'wake any longer." "I say, this is a beastly bore," re marked Winthrope, sitting up. "Um-ra," grunted Blake, who was al leady on his back. Winthrope rubbed his eyes, rose wearily, and drew a blazing from the fire. With this upraised as a torch he peered around into the darkness and advanced towards the spring. When, having satisfied his thirst, he returned somewhat hurriedly to the fire, he was startled by the sight of a pale face gazing at him from between the leaves of the bamboo screen. "My dear Mis» Genevieve, what is the matter?" he exclaimed. "Hush! Is he asleep?" "Like a top." "Thank heaven! Good-night." "Good-night—er—l say, Miss Gen evieve—" But the girl disappeared, and Win thrope, after a glance at Blake's placid face, hurried along the cleft to stack the other fire. When he returned he noticed two bamboo rods which Blake had begun to shape into bow staves. He looked them over, with a sneer at Blake's seemingly unskillful workman ship; but he made no attempt to finish the bows. CHAPTER XI. A Despoiled Wardrobe. OON after sunrise Miss Leslie was awakened by the snap and dull crash of a falling tree. She made a hasty toilet and ran out around the baobab. Tho burned tree, eaten half through by tha fire, had been pushed over against the cliff by Blalce and Winthrope. Both had already climbed up and now stood on the edge of the cliff. "Hello, Miss Jenny!" shouted Blako. "We've got here at last. Want to come up?" "Not now, thank you." "It's easy enough. But you're right. Try your hand again at the cutlets, won't you? While they're frying we'll get some eggs for dessert. How doe 3 that strike you?" "We have no way to cook them." "Roast 'em in the ashes. So long!" Miss Leslie cooked breakfast over the watchflre, for the other had been scattered and stamped out by the men when the tree fell. They came back in good time, walking carefully, that they might not break the eggs with which their pockets bulged. Between them, they had brought a round dozen and a half. Blake promptly began stowing all in the hot ashes, wbllo Winthrope related their little adven ture with unwonted enthusiasm. "You should have come with us, Miss Genevieve," he began. "This tlm« of day it is glorious on the cliff top. Though the rock is bare, there is a fins view—•" "Fine view of grub near the end," interpolated Blake. "As, yes; the birds —you must take a look at them, Miss Genevieve! Tho sea end of the cliff is alive with thenj —hundreds and thousands, all hud dled together and fighting for ro<»m. They are a sight, I assure you! They're plucky, too. It was well we took sticks with us. As It was, one of the gannets—boobies. Blake calls them— caught me a nasty nip when I went to lift her off the nest." "Best way is to kick them off," ex plained Blake. "But the point is that we've hopped over the starvation stile. Understand? The whole blessed cllC end is an omelette waiting for our pan. Pass the leopardettes, Miss Jenny." When the last bit of meat had disap peared, Blake raked the eggs from th» ashes and began to crack them, sol emnly sniffing at each before ho laid it on its leaf platter. Some were n trifle "high." X»ne, however, wera thrown away. When it was all over, Winthropa contemplated the scattered shells with a satisfied air. "Do you know,"he remarked, "this is the first time I've felt—er—re plenished since we found those cocoa nuts." "How about one of 'em now to top off on?" questioned Blake. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Why Musicians Wear Long Hair. "Why do musicians wear long hair?" said the barber. "Pshaw, I thought averybody knew that. They wear long hair to protect their ears, of courso— their sensitive ears. All depends, with musicians, on the ears, the same oa all depends on the eyes with paint ers. And the eais of musicians ar® delicate, liable to take cold, liable Ua aches, inflammations and what not. So they protect them with long hair, and you have no more right to laugh at the mane of a pianist or violinist than at the protective shields and pads of your favorite halfback." Law. 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