6 [ raiTcn) Tfc I Ji \/ J A JL_LiLJjd — «Li» fc AcLL JLk «1—!•; «LJi r V -^ ay (=9,0 ' ", - mamr^^ u l -c WsSShsg BKMET —- —/^>3w# /LIUmATIOfiJBY#AYMIIW <Qf*YMGNT />o3 BY A.C. fI\CL*J#C <- Cf. V \f . ■ Si SYNOPSIS. The story opens with the shipwreck of the steamer • >t) which Miss Oonevleve Leslie, an American heiress, I.oril Yv'ln tlirope. an Knglishman, and Tom Blake, n brusque American, wore puienitn Tho throe were tossed upon i'.n uninhab ited island and wcro tin* only ones not drowned. Blake recovered from a drunk en stupor, Blake, shunned on the boat, because of his roughness, became a hero as preserver of the helpless pair. The Knglishman was suing for the hand of M:>. i.i-.-l Blake started to swim hack to tiio ship to recover what was left. Make returned safely. Winlhrope wasted his last match on a. cigarette, 112 r which lie was seared !>y make. Their lirs.t meal v.is a iloud Hah. The trio started a ten rulie lilke for higher land. Thirst at tacked them. Blake was compelled to curry Mirs l.eslie on account of weari t :-s lie taunted Winthropo. They en tered ihi' .jungle. That niglit was passed r high in a tree. The imxt morn he: they descended to the op<n again. All Jl>r« e constructed hats lo shield theni selvi . l'rom tlie sun. They then feasted <r focoanuts. the only procurable food. Miss I.eslio showed u liking for Blake, • ■lit.detested his roughness. Led by Blake ihey established a home in some cliffs. Bl:ilio found a fresh water spring. Miss J e.slie faced an unpleasant situation. Vi'rv planned their campaign. Blake re tverod his surveyor's magnifying glasa, 1 lies insuring fire. lie started a jungle tin killing a large leopard and smoth ering several cubs. Tn the leopard's cav ern i hev built a small home. They gained <hu ' HlTs by burning the bottom of a tre 1 until it fell against the heights. The trio secured eggs from the cliffs. Miss T'file's while skirt was decided ~V'in is a signal. Miss T<eslie made a /ires, from the le-pnrd skin. Blake's ef forts t.i kill antelopca failed. Overhear ing eonv: rsation between Blake and Vim' rnp\ Miss l.eslie became fright" er.'il Winthropo became ill with fever. CHAPTER XlV—Continued. At noon, having learned lhat Win ?'irt p< s condition showed little change, Mia Ice ;ito a hearty meal, and at once set off down the cleft. He did not re : £;< ar until nightfall; though at in tervals .Miss Leslie had heard his step as he came up the ravine with his loads of thorn-brush. This course of action became the routine for the following ten days. It ■was broken only by three incidents, all relating to the important matter of food supply. Winthropo had soon 'irod of broth, and showed such an in satiable craving for cocoanut milk that the stock on hand had become •exhausted within the week. The day after, Blake took the rope ladder, as he called the tangle of knotted creepers, and went off towards the north end of the cleft. When lie returned, a little before dark, the lower part of his trousers was torn to shreds, and the palms 'J liis hands were blistered and raw; bathe carried a heavy load of cocoanuts. After a vain attempt to climb the giant palms on the far side of the river, he had found another grove near at hand, in the litl lo plain, and had succeeded in teaching the tops of two of the * mailer palms. l f nd?r his directions. Miss Leslie clarified a bowl of bird fat—goose- Rrea: e, Hlake called it —and dressed his hands. Yet even with the band ages which she made of soft inner bark and the handkerchiefs, he was unable to handle the thorn-brush the following day. Unfortunately for him, lie was not content to sit idle. During the night he had cut a bamboo fishing pole and lengthened Miss Leslie's line cf plaited cocoanut-fiber with a long catgut leader. In the afternoon he completed his outfit with a hairpin hook and a piece of half-dried meat. He was back an hour earlier than usual, and he brought with him a dozen or more fair-sized fish. His mouth was watering over the prospec tive least, and Miss Leslie showed her self hardly less eager for a change from their monotonous diet. As the fish were already dressed, -she raked up ihe coals and quickly contrived a grill of green bamboos. When the odor of the broiling fish spread about in the still air, even Win thrope sniffed and turned over, while Hlake watched the crisping delicacies with a ravenous look. Unable to re strain himself, he caught up the smallest fish, half cooked, and bolted if down with such haste that he burnt his mouth. He ran over to the spring for a drink, and Winthropo cackled derisively. Miss Leslie was too absorbed in her cooking to observe the result of FSlake.-. greediness. She had turned the fish for the last, time, and was about to lift them off the fire, when Blake Ccxnie running back, and sent .grill and all flying with a violent kick. "Sal 1.!" he gasped—"whore's the <aalt? I'm poisoned!" "Poisoned?" "l'oison fish! Don't eat! God! Where's the salt?" The girl stared at him. His agony was so great lhat beads of sweat were rolling down his face. lie writhed, and, stretched out a quivering hand —"Salt, quick! - warm water—salt!" "Hut there's none left! You remem fcer. yesterday—" "God!" groaned Blake, and for u moment he sank down, overcome by a racking convulsion. Then his jaw closed like a bulldog's, and gritting his teeth with the effort, he staggered up and rushed off down tho cleft. "Stop! stop, Wr. Blake! Where are you going?" screamed the girl. She started to run after him, but wai halted by an outburst of delirious Saiighler. Winthrope was sitting up right and waving liis fever-blotched tatndii —"Hi. hi! iook at lm run! 'E'b LJ" vl,' fßiimw nm,\rvmr, nAo " J^M. The Girl Was Now Frantic. got w'at'll do for Mm! Run, you swine; you—" There followed a torrent of cockney abuse so foul that Miss Leslie blusheil scarlet with shame as she sought to quiet him. But the excitement had so heightened his fever that he was in a raving delirium. It was close upon midnight before his temperature fell, and he sank into a death-like torpor. In her ignorance, she supposed that he had fallen asleep. Her relief was short-lived, for soon she remembered Blake. She could see him lying beside the pool or out on the bare plain, his resolute eyes cold and glassy, his powerful body contorted in the death agony. The vision filled her with dismay. With all his coarseness, the man had showed himself so re sourceful, so indomitable, that when she sought to dwell upon her reasons to fear him, she found herself admir ing his virile manliness. lie might be a brute, but ho did not belong among the jackals and hyenas. Indeed, as she called to mind his strong face and frank, blunt speech she all but disbe lieved what her own ears had heard. And anyway, without his aid, what should she do? Winthrope had already become as weak as a child. The emaciation of his jaundiced features was a mockery of their former plump ness. Blake had said that the fever might run on for another week, aqd that even if Winthrope recovered, he would probably be helpless for several days besides. What was no less serious, though she had concealed the fact from Blake, she herself had been troubled the past week with the depression and lassitude which had preceded Winthrope's at tack. If Blake was dead, and she should fall ill before Winthrope recov ered, they would both die from lack of care. And if they did not die of the fever, what of their future, here ou this desolate savage coast? But the very keenness of her mental anguish so exhausted and numbed the girl's brain that she at last fell into a heavy sleep. The fire burned low, and shadowy forms began to creep from behind the bamboos and the trees and rocks down the gorge. There was no sound; hut greedy, wolfish eyes gleamed in the starlight. Only the day before Rlake had told Miss Leslie to store the last rack of cured meat inside the baobab. The two sleepers lay between the fire and the entrance to the hollow. Slowly the embers of the lire died away into gray ashes, and slowly the night prowlers drew nearer. The boldest of the pack crept close to Miss Leslie, and, with teeth bared and back bristling, sniffed at the edge of her skirt. Whether because of her heavy breathing or the odor of the leopard skin, the beast drew away, with an uneasy whine. There was a pause; then, backed by three others, the leader approached Winthrope. He was still lying in the death-like torpor, and he lacked the protection which, in all likelihood, the j leopard skin had given Misa Leslie. | The cowardly brutes took Lim for j dead or dying. They sniffed at him I from head to foot, and with ■ CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1909. ferocious outburst of snarls and yells, flung themselves upon him. Had it not chanced that Winthrope was lying upon his side, with one arm thrown up, he would have been fatally wounded by the first slashing bites of his assailants. The two which sought to tear him were baffled by the thick folds of Blake's coat, while their lead er's slash at the victim's throat was barred by the upraised arm. With a savage snap, the beast's jaws closed on the arm, biting through to the bone. At the same instant the fourth jackal tore ravenously at one of the Out stretched legs. With a shriek of agony, Winthrope started up from his torpor, and struck out frantically in a fury of pain and terror. Startled by the violence of this unexpected resistance, the jack als leaped back —only to spring In again as the remainder of the pack made a rush to forestall them. Winthrope was staggering to his feet, when the foremost brute leaped upon him. He fell heavily against one of the main supports of his bam boo canopy, and the entire structure came down with a crash. Two of the jackals, caught beneath the roof, howled with fear as they sought to free themselves. The others, with brute dread of an unknown danger, drew away, snarling and gnashing their teoth. Wakened by the first ferocious yelps of Winthrope's assailants, Miss Leslie had started up and stared about in the darkness. On all sides she could see pairs of fiery eyes and dim forms like the phantom creatures of a nightmare. Winthrope's shriek, instead of spur ring her to action, only confused her the more and benumbed her faculties. She thought it was his death cry, and stood trembling, transfixed with horror. Then came the fall of the canopy. His cries as he sought to throw it off showed that he was still alive. In a flash her bewilderment vanished. The stagnant blood surged again through her arterios in a fiery, stimulating tor rent. With a cry, to which primeval instinct lent a menacing note, she groped her way to the fallen canopy, and stooped to lift up one side. "Quick! —into the tree!" she called. Still frantic with terror, Winthrope struggled to his feet. She thrust him towards the baobab, and followed, dragging the mass of interwoven bam boos. Emboldened by the retreat of their quarry, the snarling pack in stantly began to close in. Fortunately they were too cowardly to rush ut once, and fear spurred their intenaed victims to the utmost haste. Groping and stumbling, the two felt their way to the baobab, and Miss Leslie pushed Winthrope headlong through the en trance. As he fell, she turned to face the pack. The foremost beas'.s were at the rear edge of the bamboo framework, their eyes close to the ground. In stinct told her that they were crouch ing to leap. With desperate strength she caught up the canopy before her like a great shield, and drew it in after her until the ends or the cross bars were wedged fast against the sides of the opening. Though it seemed fo firm, she clung to It with a con- vulsive grasp as she felt the pack leaders fling themselves against the outer side. But Blake had lashed the bamboos securely together, and none of the beasts was heavy enough to snap the supple bars. Finding that they could not break down the barrier, they be gan to scratch and tear at the thatch which covered the frame. Soon a pair of lean jaws thrust l'n and snapped at the girl's skirt. She sprang back, with a cry: "Help! Quick, Mr. Win thrope! They're breaking through!" Will til rope made no response. She stooped, and found him lying inert where lie had fallen. She had only herself to depend upon. A screen of sharp sticks which she had made for the entrance was leaning against the inner wall, within easy reach. To grasp it and thrust It against the other framework was the work of an in stant. Still she trembled, for the eager beasts had ripped the thatch from the canopy, and their lnthrust, jaws made short work of the few leaves an her screen. Unaware that even a lion or a tiger is quickly discouraged by the knife-like splinters of broken bamboo, she expected every momenL that the jackals would bite their way through her frail barrier. She remembered the sharpened stakes of her screen, hidden under the leaves and grass of her bed. She groped her way across the hollow, and uncovered one of the stakes. Ia her haste she cut her hand on Its razor-like edge. All unheeding, she sprang back towards the entrance. She was none too soon. One of the smaller jackals had forced its head and one leg between the bars, and was strug gling to enlarge the opening. Fearful that the whole pack was about to burst in upon her, the girl grasped the bamboo stake In both hands, and began stabbing and lung ing at the beast with all her strength. The jackal squirmed anu snarled and snapped viciously. But the girl wan now frantic. She pressed nearer, and though the white teeth grazed her wrist, she drove home a thrust that changed the beast's snarls into a howl of pain. Before she could strike again, it had struggled back out of the hole, beyond reach. Tense and panting with excitement, she leaned forward, ready to stab at the next beast. None appeared, and presently she became aware that the pack had been daunted by the ex perience of their unlucky fellow. Their snarls and yells had subsided to whines, which seemed to be coming from a greater distance. Still sho waited, with the bamboo stake up raised ready to strike, every nerve and muscle of her body tense with the strain. So great was the stress of her fear and excitement that she had not heed ed the first gray lessening of the night. But now the glorious tropical dawn came streaming out of the east in all its red effulgence. Above and through the bamboo barrier glowed a light such as might have come from a great fire on the cliff top. Still tense and immovable, the girl stared out up the cleft. There was not a jackal in sight. She leaned forward and peered around, unable to believe such good fortune. But the night prowlers had slunk off in the first gray dawn. The girl drew In a deep, shudder ing sigh, and sank back. Her hand struck against Winthrope's foot. She turned about quickly and looked at him. He was lying upon his face. She hastened to turn him upon his side, and to feel his forehead. It was cool and moist. He was fast asleep and drenched with sweat. The great shock of his pain and fear and ex citement had broken his fever. With the relief and joy of this dis covery, the girl completely relaxed. Not observing Winthrope's wounds, which had bled little, she sought to force a way out through the entrance. It was by no means an easy task to free the wedged framework, and when, after much pulling and pushing, she at last tore the mass loose, she found herself perspiring no less freely than Winthrope. (TO BE CONTINUED.) INSISTED ON HOLE <N COFFIN Though It Col. Butler's Triumphant igtail Should Protrude. ) Thomas Butler, a colonel in the army of the United States early in the nineteenth century, died in New Or leans in 1805 in the midst of his cele brated controversy with G»u. Wilkin son regarding the wearing of his queue. Col. Butler Insisted on wearing his hair in the old-fashioned style in dis obedience to Wilkinson's orders. Ac cording to Pierce Butler in his biog raphy of Judah P. 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Our capital and surplus t* Ono Million Dollars. V.o make over 60 product*. all guar anteed. Our factories have over 3 acres of fl-or space. WE NOW WANT ukHlm".''* all deli varies to farmer# and others from a wagon similar to tho al«»ve; In short. a man able to take full » harge of everything pertaining to our business In his district. Not every man can till this position »or can we afford to con tract with one who is too extravagant or !"<.» old or to young Wo want to hoar from men who ha*« been fairly succossful-honokt. industrious nien who will U» satisfled to uiako not less than SIOO Per Month Clear Profit ahoTg ox]"""" tho flrnt year. SIBOO tho »ocon4 your, ui 92400 the third year. If you are fairly well acquainted In your locality and you think you can till tho p«.»itioo, losa no time in writing us for full particulars as w« are now rapidly tilling oil ▼ai aiit territory. We do not want to hear from men undor 21 or over BO years of age. colored ptn-ple. c-r women. To get this position a inan must ho ahlo to furnish 1 or 1 hors.'t to conduct tho business, alio go<»d buhinoM" men as referenced. If y<"i cannot meet these re<|uirements do not writo; if yon can meet them, writou*: you aro tho man we aro looking for. The position pays big is honorable and W. T-'nAWiriSH CO. 36 LlbwtySt. Frwport.lll. The difference remember this — it may save your life. Cathartics, bird shot and cannon ball pills—tea spoon doses of cathartic medicines all depend on irritation of the bowels until they sweatenough to move. Cos carets strengthen the bowel muscles so they creep and crawl naturally. This means a cure and only through Cascarels can you get it quickly and oaturally. SBI Cascarcts —10c box—week's treat ment. All druggets. Hifffirest seller in tho world—million boxes a month. H/UR R BALSAM JB Cleanse* anil heautifiug hair. JR Wover Palla to K«Btoro Gray to U« Youthful C'ol^or. MEPO CURES CATARRH LL.TFRF.R, HR.D.EHR, COLDA. Two weeks' troatineiit N«'IU od receipt of 25c. ■KPOI'O., I»0 St., llrootlyn, K. T. |% ITPIIVA WntiionE.Coleman,W»sto. pi I pN I Iniftoii. l).t,'. Hooknfree. HlKt> I M I bll ■ W eat refeieouOk Best rcouiia. W. N. U., CLEVELAND, NO. 50-1909.
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