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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,
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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.
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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. Benjamin, while the
dispute was still raging Butler died
and left directions that a hole should
be bored in the head of his coffin and
that he be borne to the jfrave
with his triumphant pigtail protruding
in dea«Laes. The family U-ailltloa, Is
tUat directions wo<rs <fci_'rka *iit
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