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"I'm Unprepared to Climb Precipices, Even Though My Costume Is That
of a Savage."
SYNOPSIS.
The story opens with the shipwreck of
the steamer on which Miss Genevieve
Leslie, an American heiress, l<ord Win
thrope, an Englishman, and Tom Blake,
a brusque American, wcro passengers.
The three were tossed upon an uninhab
ited island and were the. -niy ones not
browned. Blako v« o»rred from fx drunk
en stupor, make, shunned on the boat,
because of his roughness, became a hero
as preserver of the helpless pair. The
Englishman was suing for the hand of
Miss Leslie. Blake started to swim back
to the ship to recover what was left.
Blake returned safely. Winthrope wasted
hie last match on a cigarette, for which
he WHS scored by Blake. Their iirst meal
was a dead fish. The trio started a ten
mile hike for higher land. Thirst at
tacked 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
restating higli in a tree. The next morn
ipg they descended to the open again.
All three constructed hats to shield them
mves from the sun. They then feaatM
on coooanuts, the only procurable food.
Mtas Leslie showed a liking for Blake,
but detested his roughness. Led by Blake
they established a home in some cliffs.
Blako found a fresh water spring. Miss
Lesiln faced an unpleasant situation.
They planned their campaign. Blake re
covered his surveyor's magnifying glass,
thus Insuring tire, lie started a jungle
•tirf. killing a large leopard and smoth
ering several cubs. In the leopard's cav
ern they built a small home. They gained
the cliffs by burning the bottom of a
tree until it fell against the heights. The
trio secured egrgs from the cliffs.
Miss Leslie's white skirt was decided
tipon as a signal.
CHAPTER Xll.—Continued.
One after another, the keys were
welded together, end to end, in a nar
row ribbon of steel. The thinnest
one. however, was not fastened to the
Hp until it had been U3ed to burn a
groove in the edge of a rib, selected
from among the bones which Miss
Leslie had thrown out of the baobab.
The last key was then fastened to the
others; the blade ground s"ftarp, tem
pered. and inserted in the groove.
Finally, pieces of the keyring were fit
ted in bands around the bone, through
■notches cut in the ends of the steel
blade. The result was a bone-handled,
boue-baeked knife, with a narrow cut
ting edge of fine steel.
Long before it was finished Miss
Leslie had been forced away by the
requirements of her own work. In
fact, Hlake did not. complete his task
until late in the afternoon. At the
•end. he spent more than an fcnur
grinding the handle info shape. When
he came to show the completed knife
■to Miss he was fairly aglow with
justifiable pride.
"How's that for an Eskimo job?" he
domanded. "Tlunch of keys and a
bone, eh?"
"You are certainly very ingenious,
Mr. Hlake!"
"N'ixy! There's little of the inventor
In my top piece—only some hustle
and a good memory. I was up in
Alaska, you know. Saw a sight of
Eskimo work."
"Still, it is very skilfully done."
"That may be — Look out for the
■edge; It'd do to shave. No more
'ban-.boo splinters for me—dull when
you hit a piece of bone. I'm ready
mow to skin a rhinoceros."
"If you can catch one!"
"Guess we could find enough of
them around here, ail right. But
we'll start in on some of Win's sheep
and cattle."
"Oh, do! One grows tired of eggs,
and all these sea-birds are so tough
and fishy, no matter how I cook them."
"We'll sneak down to the pool, and
make a try with the bows this eve
ning. I'll give odds, though, that we
•draw a blank. Win's got the aim, but
no drive; I've got the drive, but no
aim. Even if I hit an antelope, I don't
think a bamboo-pointed arrow would
bother him much."
"Don't the savages kill game with
out iron weapons?"
"Sure; but. a lot have flint points,
and a lot of others use poison. I
know that the Apaches and some of
those other southern Indians used to
fix their arrows with rattlesnake
poison."
"How horrible!"
"Well, that depends on how you look
at it.l guess they thought guns more
horrible when they tackled the whites
and got the daylight let through 'em.
At any rate, they swapped arrows for
rifles mighty quick, and anyone who
knows Apaches will tell you it wasn't
because they thought bullets would
ic, less damage."
"Yet the thought of poison—"
"Yes; but the thought of self-preser
vation! Sooner than starve, I'd poison
every animal in Africa—and so would
you."
"f —I — You put it in such a horrible
way One must consider others, ani
mals as well as people; find yet—"
"Survival of the fittest. I've read
some things, and I'm no fool, if I do
aay it myself. For instance, I'm the
boss here, because I'm the fittest of
•our crowd in this environment; hut
back in what's called civilized parts,
where the law lets a few shrewd fel
lows monopolize the means of produc
tion, a man like your father—"
"Mr. Blake, it is not my fault if
papa's position in the business
wor'd— "
"N'or Iris, either -It's the cussea sys
tem! No; that's *»II right, Miss Jenny.
I was only illustrating. Now, I take It,
both you and Win would like to get
rid of a boss like me, if you could get
rid of Africa at the feame time. As it
<*. ♦ K et. , ph. I sr'ies« you'd rather have
me for boss, and live, than be left all
by your lonesomes, to starve."
"I —I'm sure there is no question of
your leadership, Mr. Blake. We have
both tried our best to do what you
have asked of us."
"You have, at least. But I know. If
a ship should come to-morrow, lt'd be
Blake to the back seat. 'Papa, give
this—er—person a check for his serv
ices, while I chase off with Winnie, to
get my look-in on 'ls Ri-yal 'lghness.' "
Miss Leslie flushed crimson— "I'm
sure, Mr. Blake —"
"Oh, don't let that worry you, Miss
Jenny. It don't me. I couldn't be
sore with you If I tried. Just the same,
I know what it'll be like. I've rubbed
elbows enough with snobs and big
bugs to know what kind of considera
tion they give one of the mahsses—
unless one of the mahsses has the
drop on them. Hello, Win! What's
kept you so late?"
"None of your business!" snapped
Wlnthrope.
Miss Leslie glanced at him, even
more puzzled and startled by this out
break than she had been by Blake's
strange talk. But If Blake was angered,
he did not show it.
"Say, Win," he remarked gravely,
"I was going to take you down to the
pool after supper, on a try with the
bows. But I guess you'd better stay
close by the fire."
"Yes; It is tim you gave a little
consideration to those who deserve It,"
rejoined W'inthrope, with a peevish
ness of tone and manner which sur
prised Miss Leslie. "I tell you, I'm
tired of being treated like a dog."
"All right, all right, old man. Just
draw up your chair, and get all the
hot broth aboard you can stow," an
swered Blake, soothingly.
Wlnthrope sat down; but through
out the meal, he continued to com
plain over trifles with the peevishness
of a spoiled child, until Miss Leslie
blushed for him. Greatly to her as
tonishment, Blake endured the nag
ging without a sign of irritation, and
In the end took his bow and arrows
and went off down the cleft, with no
more than a quiet reminder to Wln
thrope that he should keep near the
fire.
When, shortly after dark, the en
gineer came groping his way back up
the gorge, he was by no means so
calm. Out of six shots, he had hit one
antelope in the neck and another in
the haunch; yet both animals had
made off all the swifter for their
wounds.
The noise of his approach awakened
Winthrope, who turned over, and be
gan to complain in a whining falsetto.
Miss Leslie, who was peering out
through the bars of her screen, looked
to see Blake kick the prostrate man.
His frown showed only too clearly that
he was in a savage temper. To her
astonishment, he spoke In a soothing
tone until Winthrope again fell asleep.
Then he quietly set about erecting a
canopy of bamboos over the sleeper.
Just why he should build this was
a puzzle to the girl. But when she
caught a glimpse of Blake's altered
extression, she drew a deep breath of
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1909.
relief, and picked her way around the
edge of her bamboo stakes, to lie
down without a trace of the fear which
had been haunting her.
CHAPTER XIII.
The Mark of the Beast.
I 1 ORNING found Winthrope
more irritable and peevish
than ever. Though he had
not been called on watch by Blake
until long after midnight, ho had soon
fallen asleep at his post and permitted
the fire to die out Shortly before
dawn, Blake was roused by a pack of
jackals, snarling and quarreling over
the half-dried seafowl. To charge
upon the thieve® and put them to
flight with a few blows of his club
took but a moment. Yet daylight
showed more than half the drying
frames empty.
Blake was staring glumly at them,
with his broad back to Winthrope,
when Miss Leslie appeared. The sud
den cessation of Wlnthrope's com
plaints brought his companion around
on the Instant. The girl stood before
him, clad from neck to foot in her
leopard-skin dress.
"Well, I'll bo —dashed!" he ex
claimed, and he stood staring at her
open-mouthed.
"I fear it will be warm. Do you
think it becoming?" she asked, flush
ing, and turning as though to show
the fit of the costume.
"Do I?" he echoed. "Miss Jenny,
you're a peach!"
"Thank you," she said. "And here
Is the skirt. I have ripped it open.
You see, It will make a fine flag."
"If it's put up. Seems a pity,
though, to do that, when we're getting
on so fine. What do you say to leav
ing it down, and starting a little
colony of our own?"
Miss Leslie raised the skirt in her
outstretched hands. Behind it her
face became white as the cloth.
"Well?" demanded Blake soberly,
though his eyes were twinkling.
"You forget the fever," she retorted
mockingly, and Blake failed to catch
the quaver beneath the light remark.
"Say, you've got me there!" he ad
mitted. "Just pass over your flag, anil
scrape up some grub. I'll be breaking
out a big bamboo. There are plenty
of holes and loose stones on the cliff.
We'll have the signal up before noon."
Miss Leslie murmured her thanks,
and immediately set about the prep
aration of breakfast.
When Blake had the bamboo ready,
with one edge of the broad piece of
white duck lashed to it with catgut as
high up as the tapering staff would
bear, he called upon Winthrope to ac
company mm.
"Ycu can go, too, Miss Jenny," he
added. "You haven't been on the cliff
yet, and you ought to celebrate the oc
casion."
"No, thank you," replied "10 girl.
"I'm still unprepared to climb prect
pices, even though my costume is that
of a savage."
"Savage? Great Scott.! that leopard
dress would win out against any set
of Russian furs a-going, and I've heard
they're considered all kinds of dog.
Come on. I can swing you into the
branches, and it's easy from there
up."
"You will excuse me, please."
"Yes, you can go alone," interposed
Winthrope. "I am indisposed this
morning, and, what is more, I have
had enough of your dictation."
"You have, have you?" growled
Blake, his patience suddenly come to
an end. "Well, let me tell you, Miss
Leslie is a lady, and if she don't want
togo, that settles it. But as for you,
you'll go, if I have to kick you every
step."
Winthrope cringed back, and broke
into a childish whine. "Don't—don't
do it, Rlake— Oh, I say, Mis 3 Gene
vieve, how can you stand by and see
him abuse me like this?"
Blake was grinning as he turned to
Miss Leslie. Her face was flushed
and downcast with humiliation for her
friend. It seemed incredible that a
man of his breeding should betray
Buch weakness. A quick change came
over Blake's face.
"Look here," he muttered, "I guesi
I'm enough of a Bport to know some
thing about fair play. Win's coming
down with the fever, and's no more to
blame for doing the baby act than
he'll be when he gets the delirium,
and gabbles."
"•"I will thank you to attend to your
own affairs," said Winthrope.
"You're entirely welcome. It's what
I'm doing— Do yo(r understand, Mist
Jenny?"
"Indeed, yes; and I wish to thank
you. I have noticed how patient you
have been—"
"Pardon me, Miss Leslie," rasped
Winthrope. "Can you not see that for
a fellow of this class to talk of fair
play and patience is the height of
impertinence? In Kngland, now. such
insufferable impudence—"
"That'll do," broke in Blake. "It's
time for us to trot along."
"But, Mr. Blake, if he is ill—"
"Just the reason why he should keep
moving. No more of your gab, Win!
Give your jaw a lay-off, and try wig
gling your legs instead."
Winthrope turned away, crimson
with indignation. Blake paused only
for a parting word with Miss Leslie.
"If you want something to do, Miss
Jenny, try making yourself a pair of
moccasins out of the scraps of skin.
You can't stay in this gully all the
time. You've got to tramp around
some, and those slippers must be about
done for."
"They are still serviceable. Yet if
you think —"
"You'll need good tough moccasins
soon enough. Singe off the hair, and
make soles of the thicker pieces. If
you do a fair job, maybe I'll employ
you as my cobbler, soon as I get the
hide off one of those skittish antelope."
Miss Leslie nodded and smiled in re
sponse to his Jesting tone. But as he
swung away after Winthrope, she
stood for some time wondering at her
self. A few days since 6he knew she
would have taken Blake's remark as
an insult. Now she was puzzled to
find herself rather pleased that he
should so note her ability to be of
service.
When she roused herself, and began
singeing the hair from the odds and
ends of leopard skin, she discovered
a new sensation to add to her list of
unpleasant experiences. But she did
not pause until the last patch of hair
crisped close to the half-cured surface
of the hide. Fetching the penknife
and her thorn and catgut from the
baobab, she gathered the pieces of
skin together, and walked along the
cleft to the ladder-tree. There had
been time enough for Blake and Win
thrope to set up the signal, and she
was curious to see how it looked.
She paused at the foot of the tree,
and gazed up to where the withered
crown lay crushed against the edge
of the cliff. The height of the rocky
wall made her hesitate; yet the men,
In passing up and down, had so
cleared away the twigs and leaves and
fyroken the branches on the upper side
of the trunk, that it offered a means
of ascent far from difficult even for •
young lady.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
A Harder Job.
The tributes to the popularity of Mr.
Hammond's son pleased the father,
who was the oldest summer resident
of Slirubville. They pleased him th«
more because they came from natives
of the soil, whose good op'nion could
not be forced in any way.
"He's a real good boy, that boy o'
yours," said Capt. Hollla Towne, and
Capt. Lcthrop James added his word
of approval.
"I like the cut of his jib," he an
nounced, with decision, 'and I like hia
ways; he ain\ oo forth-putting, no*
yet he ain't too s^nd-ofitsli.
"Thing of It is you and his ma
haven't tried to have him 'brought up,'
same as most of the summer folks do
with their children; he's just been
'raised' like we were, and that's whj
he gets on with everybody in thi:
town, sir!"— Youth's Corapsuicn.
NEW DIVORCE ILL
Reno, Nev., Has Corner on Quick
Decree Business.
Law Recently Enacted in Nevada
Makes the City Mecca for Those
Who Would Cure Marital
Woes.
Reno, Nev.- — a popular song of the
summer has been changed to fill a
new want and now reads:
My wife has pone to Reno
Hooray; hooray!
It is stated officially that upwaid
of six hundred persons have establish
ed a residence in this city and have
either liled divorce proceedings or will
do so as soon as they have been here
six months. Every train brings new
applicants, and every part of the Unit
ed States is already represented by
those who have found marriage a
failure.
The new Nevada divorce law is,
perhaps, the most elastic ever entered
on the statutes of any state. It was
enacted by the legislature to attract
immigration and money to the state
in the popular belief that every new
arrival would make more or less of an
investment in the vast mining and
other industries of Nevada. The plain
tiff must reside in the state for at least
six months. He or she need not live
there continuously, but may leave the
state, at any time, returning and fil
ing suit when six months have passed
after legally establishing a domicile..
Here is what a Reno divorce special
ist says in a treatise on the procedure
required: "While the laws in other
states generally contain some provi
sion for the dissolution of the mar
riage tie, it is obvious that in cases
where extreme cruelty, desertion and
failure to provide form the basis of
the grievance, the laws in such states
offer no substantial relief to the ag
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ments of proof, duration of offense,
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corroboration of the plaintiff and pro
cedure under court rules are so exact
ing and irksome that the desired re
lief sought by the applicant is rend
ered impossible of attainment, and the
client, when consulting local counsel,
is almost invariably advised that he
has no remedy. In Nevada the appli
cant, without deception or fraud, upon
almost any charge from which lack
of harmonious relations may be rea
sonably inferred, may apply to our
courts and secure prompt results by
decree of absolute divorce, valid and
binding in law."
Upon the passage of the new law
Nevada promptly succeeded to the
easy divorce crown that formerly char
acterized South Dakota, the people of
which state one year ago made its
requirements harder and the time of
required residence one year. It need
ed only the filing of suits there by
such well-known persons as Nat Good
win, Margaret Illington (Mrs. Daniel
Frohman) and others of stage circles,
with the consequent wide advertising,
to cause a stampede in that direction
of hundreds, many of whom married
at leisure and repented in haste.
Heno is a city of 18,000 population,
acting as a supply center to the vast
mining areas of Nevada, and being the
site of the State University, the Mac
kay School of Mines, a big Carnegie
library and other institutions. It is
known as the city of the finest
churches and homes in the state. It
has every modern equipment in the
way of paved streets, traction service,
waterworks, lighting, etc. Not only
is it a center of intellectual attain
ment and wealth, but it is a railroad
center and of climatic and scenic note.
Intersecting it is Nevada's most beau
tiful mountain stream, the Truckee
river, on which the government is
spending millions, and surrounding it
is the richest agricultural land of that
region.
With all those and other advan
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larger part of the divorce industry.
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weather boarding and shingles it has
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are still in as perfect condition as
when Gen. Jackson and other noted
personages were entertained there.
Later it was occupied as a residence
by Thomas Holland.
In the days of overland travel com
modious stables were kept in connec
tion for the purpose of taking care of
the horses and vehicles of the guests,
also the stage coaches which ran be
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