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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.
Of law there can "06 no less acknowl
edged than that her seat Is the bosom
of God, her voice the harmony of th«
world; all things in hea"en and eartfe
do her homage, the very least as feel
ing her care, and the greatest as not
exempted from her power; both angeh
and men and crt-aturts oK what contfl
tion soever, though each in differed
sort and manner, yet all with unifori
consent, admiring her as the mother t
their peace and joy.—Hlohard liooka^
ANOTHER IMPORTANT VICTORY
FOR THE CARTER MEDICINE
COMPANY IN THE UNITED
BTATES COURT.
The United States Circuit Court for
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Bitting in New York City—has Just
awarded to the Carter Medicine Com
pany a decree which again sustains
the company's exclusive right to use
the red package for liver pills.
By the terms of the decree. It is,
among other things:
Adjudged that the Carter Medicine
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the style described in the bill of com
plaint; said right having been ac
quired by the prior adoption of said
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pills by the complainant predecessors
more than thirty years ago, and es
tablished by the continuous and ex
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increasing quantities by said prede
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The decision just announced is per
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Lost in Antiquity.
A little fellow who had just felt the
hard side of the slipper turned to
his mother for consolation.
"Mother," he asked, "did grandpa
thrash father when he was a little
boy?"
"Yes," answered his mother, im
pressively.
"And did his father thrash him
when he was little?"
"Yes."
"And did his father thrash him?"
"Yes."
A pause.
"Well, who started this thing, any
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A man will coax his wife till she
gives in, and is pleased with himself
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