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SYNOPSIS.
The story opens with the shipwreck of
the steamer on which Miss Genevieve
I.Tiiic, an American heiress, 1 ,nr<l Win
thrope, an Knglishman, 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 stupor. Blake, shunned on the boat,
because of his roughness, became a hero
aA preserver of the helpless pair. The
Englishman was suing for the hand of
Mist Leslie. Blake started to swim back
to the ship to recover what was left.
Blake returned safely. Winthrope wasted
his last match on a cigarette, for which
he was scored by Blake. Their first meal
was a dead fish. The trio started a ten
milo hike for higher land. Thirst at
tacked them. Blake was compelled to
carry Miss Leslie on account of weari
ness Me taunted Winthrope. They en
ured the jungle. That night was passed
roosting hitfh In a tree. The next morn-
they descended to the open again.
All three constructed hats to shield them
selves from the sun. They then feasted
on coeoanuts, the only procurable food.
Miss Leslie showed a liking for Blake,
but detested his roughness. Bed by Blake
thev established a home in some cliffs.
Blake found a fr> ih water spring. Miss
Leslie fared an unpleasant situation.
They planned their campaign. Blake re
covered Ids surveyor's magnifying glass,
thus Insuring Ire. lie started a jungle
fire, killing a large leopard anil smoth
ering several cubs. In the leopard's cav
ern they built small home. They gained
the cliffs by burning the bottom of a
until it foil against the heights. The
trio secured eggs from the cliffs.
CHAPTER Xl.—Continued.
Miss Leslie siglicd. "Why did you
speak of them? 1 am still hungry
enough to eat more eggs—a dozen —
that is. if we had a little salt and but
ter." >
"And a silver cup and napkins!"
added Blake. "About the salt, though,
we'll have lo get some before long,
ami pome kind of vegetable food. It
xion't do to keep up this whole meat
menu."
"if only those little bamboo sprouts
were as Tood as they 100k —like a kind
of asparagus!" murmured Mists Leslie.
"I've heard that the Chinese eat
them," saiil Winthrope.
"They oat rats, too," commented
make
"Wo might at least try them," per
sisted Miss Leslie.
"How? Raw?"
"1 have heard papa tell of roasting
corn when he was a boy."
"That's so; and roasting-ears are
better than boiled. Win, 1 guess we'll
have a sample of bamboo asparagus
a la Los-lee!"
Winthrope took the penknife and
fetched a handful of young sprouts
from the bamboo thicket. They were
heated over the coals on a grill of
green branches and devoured half
raw.
"Say," mumbled Blake, as he rum
inated on the last shoot, "we're getting
on some for this smell hole of a coast
house, and chicken ranch and vege
tables in our front yard. We've got
old Bobbie Crusoe beat, hands down,
on the start off, and he with his shipful
of stuff for handicap!"
* "Then you believe that the situation
looks more hopeful, Mr. Blake?"
"Well, we've at least got an exten
sion on our note for a week or two.
But I'm not going lo coddle you with
a lot of lies, Miss Jenny. There's the
fever coming, sure as fate. I may
stave it off a while; you and Win, ten
to one, will be down in a few days—
and not a smell of quinine in our
commissary. Then there'll be dysen
tery and snakes and wild beasts— No;
we're not out of the woods yet, not by
a—considerable."
thrope, "I must say, you're not very
encouraging."
"By Jove, Blake," muttered Win
"Didn't say I was trying to be."
"But, Mr. Blake, I am sure papa will
offer a large reward when the steam
er is reported as lest. There will be
ships searching for us —"
"Wore not in the British channel,!
and I'll bel what few boats do coast
there don't nose about much
these coral reefs."
"I fancy it would do no harm to
erect a signal," said Winthrope.
"Only thing that would make a
■how is Miss Leslie's skirt," replied
Blako.
"There is the big leopard skin," per
sisted Winthrope. To his surprise the
engineer took the suggestion under
serious consideration.
"Well, l don't know,"he said. "If
We had a water background, now. But
against the rocks and Irees—no; what
we want is white. I'll tell you—when
Miss Jenny sets to and makes herself
« dress of that skin, I'll fly her skirt
to the zephyrs."
"Mr. Blake! I really think that Is
cruel of you!"
"Oh. come now; that's not fair! I
wouldn't have safcl a word, but you
Baid you wanted to help."
"1 beg your pardon, Mr. Blake. I
I did not quite understand you. I
really do want to help—to do my
share —"
"Now you're talking! You see, it's
not only a question of the signal, but
of clothes. We've got to figure auy
fway on needing new ones before long.
Look at my pants and vest, and Win's
too. Inside a month we'U all be in
hide—-or in hiding. That's a joke,
Win, me b'y; see?"
"But in the meantime —" began
Mies Leslie.
"In the meantime we're like to miss
■ chance or two of being picked up.
' jj^
He at Once Began Experiments in the Art of Pottery.
just because we've failed to stick out
a signal that'd catch the eye twice
as far off as any other color than scar
let. Do you suppose I worked my way
i up from axman to engineer, and did
not learn anything about flags?"
> "Rut it is all really too absurd! I
do not know the first thing about sew
ing, and I have neither thread nor
needle."
"It's up to you, though, if you want
to help. My sisters sewed mighty soon
after they learned to toddle. 'Bout
time you learned — There, now; I did
not mean to hurt your feelings. You're
made a fair stagger at cooking, and
I bet you win out on the dressmaking.
For needle you can use one of these
long, slim thorns—poke a hole, and
then slip the thread through, like a
shoemaker."
"Ah, yes; but the thread?" put In
Winthrope.
"The cocoanut fiber would hardly
do," said Miss Leslie, forgetting to dry
her eyes.
"No. We could get fairly good fi
bers out of the palm leaves; but cat
gut will be a whole lot better. I'll
slit up a lot for you, fine enough to
sew with. And now, let's get down to
tacks. No offense—but did 'either of
you over learn to do anything useful
in all your blessed little lives?"
"Why, Mr. Blake, of course I—"
"Of course what?" demanded Blake,
aa Miss Leslie hesitated. "We know
all about vour cooking and sewing.
What else?"
"I—l see what you meant. I fear
that nothing of what I learned would
be of service now."
"Boarding-school rot, eh? And you,
Winthrope?"
"If you would kindly name over
what you have in mind."
"Um!" grunted Blake. "Well, it's
first of all a question of a practical—
practical, mind you,—knowledge of
metallurgy, ceramics, and how to stick
an arrow through a beef roast."
"I —ah—I believe I Intimated that I
have some knowledge of archery. But
I doubt —"
"Cut it out! You'll have enough else
to do. Get busy over those bows and
arrows, and don't quit til) ycu've got
them in shape. Leave my bow good
and stiff. 1 can pull like a mule can
kick. Well, Miss Jenny; what is it?"
"Is not —has not ceramics some
thing to do with burning china?"
"Sure!—china, pottery, and all that.
Know anything about it?"
"Why, I have a friend who amuses
herself by painting china, and I know
it has to be burned."
"And that's all!" grunted Blake.
"Well, let me tell you. When I was
a little kid I used to work in a pot
tery. All I can remember Is that
they'd take clay, shape it into a pot,
dry It, and bake the thing in a kiln.
We've got to work the same game
somehow. This kind of eating will
mean dysentery in short order. So
there's going to be a bean-pot for our
stews, or Tom Blake'll know the rea
son why. Nurse up that ankle of
yours. Win. We'll trek it to-morrow—
cocoanuts, and maybe something else.
There's clay on the far bank of the
river, and across from it I saw a
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1909.
streak that looked like brown hema
tite."
CHAPTER XII.
Survival of the Fittest.
|9 .115 next four days slipped
by almost unheeded. Blake
saw to it that not
only himself but his companions
had work to occupy every hour of day
light. When not engaged in cooking
and fuel gathering, Miss Leslie was
learning by painful experience the ru
diments of dressmaking.
At the start she had all but ruined
the beautiful skin of the mother
leopard before Blake chanced to see
her and took over the task of cutting
it into shape for a skirt. But when
it came to making a waist of the cub
fur, lie said that she would have to
puzzle out the pattern from her other
one. Between cooking three meals a
day over an open fire, gathering sev
eral armfuls of wood, and making a
dress with penknife, thorn, and cat
gut, the girl had little time to think
of other matters than her work.
Winthrope had been gazetted as
hunter in ordinary. His task was to
keep Miss Leslie supplied with fresh
eggs and each day to kill as many of
the boobies and cormorants as he
could skin and split for drying. Blake
had changed his mind about taking
him when he went for cocoanuts. In
stead, he had gone alone on several
trips, bringing three or four loads of
nuts, then a little salt from the sea
shore, dirty but very welcome, and
last of all a great lump of clay,
wrapped in palm fronds.
With this clay he at ooce began ex
periments in the art of pottery. Hav
ing mixed and beaten a small quan
tity, he molded it into little cups and
bowls, and tried burning them over
night in the watch-fire. A few came
out without crack or flaw. Vastly
elated by this success, he fashioned
larger vessels from his clay, and with
in the week could brag of two pots
suitable for cooking stews, and four
large nondescript pieces which he
called plates. What was more, all
had a fairly good sand glaze, for he
had been quick to observe a glaze on
the bottoms of the first pots, and had
reasoned out that it was due to the
sand "V<»h had adhered whilo they
sti)' ing in the sun.
i> .. Xt turned his attention to met
allurgy. The first move was to search
the river bank for the brown bog
iron ore which he believed he had
seen from tho farther side. After a
dangerous and exhausting day's work
in the mire and jungle, he came back
with nothing more to show for his
pains than an armful of creepers. Late
in the afternoon, he had located the
haematite, only to find it lying in a
streak so thin that he could not hope
to collect enough for practical pur
poses.
"Lucky we've got something to fall
back on,"he added, after telling of
his failure. "Pass over those keys of
yours, Win. Good! Now untangle
those creepers To-night we'll tako
*
turns knotting them up Into some
sort of a rope-ladder. I'm getting
mighty weary of hoofing It all around
the point every time I trot to the riv
er. After this I'll go down the cliff
at that end of the gully."
Wlnthrope, who had become very
Irritable and depressed during the last
two days, turned on his heel, with the
look of a fretful child.
To cover this undiplomatic rude
ness. Miss Leslie spoke somewhat hur
riedly. "But why should you return
again to the river, Mr. Blake? I'm sure
you are risking the fever; and there
must be savage beasts in the jungle."
"Tliats my business," growled Blake.
He paused a moment, and added, rath
er less ungraciously: "Well, if you
care, it's this way—l'm going to keep
on looking for ore. Give me a little
j iron ore, and we'll mighty soon have
a lot of steel knives and arrow-heads
that'll amount to something. How're
we going to bag anything worth while
with bamboo tins on our arrows?
Those boar tusks are a fizzle."
"So you will eonlinue to rlslt your
life for us? I think that is very brave
and generous, Mr. Blake!"
"How's that?" demanded Blake, not
a little puzzled. He was fully con
scious of the risk; but this wo# the
first intimation he had received or
conceived that his motives were oth
er than selfish —"Um-m! So that's the
ticket. Getting generous, eh?"
"Not getting—you are generous!
When I think of all you have done
for us! Had it not been for you, I am
sure we should have died that flrat
day ashore."
"Well, don't blame me. I couldn't
have let a dog die that way; and
then, a fellow needs a Man Friday for
this sort of thing. As for you, I
haven't always had the luck to b»
favored with ladies' company."
"Thank you, Mr. Blake. I quite ap
preciate tho compliment. But now, I
must put 011 supper."
Blako followed her graceful move
ments with an intentness which, in
turn, drew Winthrope's attention to
- himself. The Englishman smiled in a
disagreeable manner, and resumed h?a
work on the bows, with the look of
one mentally preoccupied. After sup
per he found occasion to spend some
little time among the bamboos.
I When at sunset Miss Leslie wlth
dr<nv into the baobab, Winthropo
I somewhat officiously insisted upon
1 helping her set up her screen in the
1 entrance. As lie did so, he took the
' opportunity to hand her a bamboo
knife, and to draw her attention to
'' several double-pointed bamboo stakes
which he had hidden under the litter.
'< "What is it?" she asked, troubled by
1 his furtive glance back at Blake.
"Merely precaution, you know,"he
whispered. "The ground in there ia
1 quite soft. It will be no trouble, I
fancy, to put up the stakes, with their
1 points inclined toward the entrance."
'< "But why—"
1 "Not so loud, Miss Genevieve! It
1 struck me that if any one should seek
1 to enter in the night, he would find
these stakes deucedly unpleasant. Be
■ careful how you handle them. As you
see, the sharper points, which are to
' be set uppermost, run off into a razor
edge. Put them up now, before it
grows too dark. You know how nine
pins are set —that shape. Good-night!
1 You see, with these to guard the en
-1 trance, you need not be afraid togo to
sleep at once."
"Thank you," she whispered, and
1 began to thrust the stakes into the
Rround as he had directed.
He had not been mistaken. The
vague doubts and fears which she al
ready entertained would have kept her
awake throughout the night, but
thanks to the sense of security af
forded by the sword-bayonets of her
silent little sentries, the girl was
soon able to calm herself, and was
fast asleep long before Blake wakened
Wlnthrope.
Immediately after breakfast, Blake
—who had spent his watch in grind
ing the edges from a stone and ex
perimenting with split and bent
twigs—put Winthrope's keys in the
I fire, and began an attempt to shape
them into a knife-blade. To heat the
steel to the required temperature, he
used a bamboo blowpipe, with his
lungs for bellows.
Winthrope turned away with an in
different bearing; but Miss Leslie
found herself compelled to stop and
admire his dexterous use of his rude
tools.
(TO BIS CONTINUED.)
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is not due to the sun, but to the stars
The Milky Way is above the horizon
in summer in our latitude, and it givea
a great deal of light by night, enough
to make the night sky of that time
brighter than when it Is not a part
of our night sky, as Is the case In
winter. Then, too, the stars which
cannot be seen by the unaided ey«
give us much light. The stars wliicii
are not visible to tho eye give marc
light than those which are visible."
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