6 JR» TME JSy r\\o " r ROBERT u I T~^ — RENNET* ILLltfTmTm BY RAY WAIT£/L COf>YA/<?t/r /9C6 BY A.C.SfSC£<//fC A» CO. L —— f 1 • ■ """ - ■■ i*. SYNOPSIS. The story <| M ns with the shipwreck of the steamer on which .Miss (ienovleve 1 Leslie, an American heiress, Lord Win- | thrope. an Englishman, and Tom Blake, a brusque American, worn passengers. The three were tossed upon an uninhab ited island and were the only ones not drowned. Blake recovered from a 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 !.«•«!;<> Blake started to swim back to the ship io recover what was h ft. Blake returned safely. Winlhrope wasted his last match on a cigarette, for which J." w. s scored by Blake. Their first meal was a dead lish. The trio started a ten mile hike for higher land. Thirst at tacked them. Blake was compelled to carry Miss I.eslie on account, of weari ness He taunted Wlnthrope. They en tered the jungle. That night was passed coasting high in a tree. The next morn ing they d'scended to the open again. All three constructed lints to shield them selves from the sun. They then feasted on ecvoanuts, the only procurable food. Miss Louie showed a liking for Blake, but detested his roughness. Led by Blake " ry established a home in some cliffs. I •' aI: e f .i,nd a fresli water spring. Miss j.eslie faced an unpleasant situation. They planned their campaign. Blake re i overed his surveyor's magnifying glass, thus insuring lire. He started a jungle fire. killing a large leopard and smoth "rin r several cubs. In the leopard's cav ern thev built a small home. They gained the cliffs by burning the bottom of a tree until It fell against the heights. The *r'n secured eggs from the cliffs Minn Leslie's white skirt wna decided upon as a signal. Miss I.eslie made a •dress from tin- leopard skin. Blake's ef fort;; to kill antelopes failed. Overhear ing a conversation between Blake and Wlnthrnpe, Miss Leslie became fright ened. \Viuthrope became ill with fever. Blake was poisoned by t> fish. Jackals attacked the camp that night, but were ■driven off by Genevieve. CHAPTER XlV.—Continued. She was far 100 preoccupied, how ever, to consider what this might mean. Her first thought Was of a fire. She >\m to her rude stone fireplace and raked over the ashes. They were still warm, but there was not a live ember among them. Yet she realized that Wintlirope must have hot food when he awakened, and lilake had carried with him the magnifying glass. For a little she stood hesitating. But the defeat of the jackals had given her •courage and resolution such as she had never before known. She returned Unto the cave, and chose the sharpest of her stakes. Having made certain that Winthropo was still asleep, she set off boldly down the cleft. At the first turn she came upon B'akc'fl thorn barricade. It. stretched across the narrowest part of the cleft in an impenetrable wall, 12 feet high. Only In the center was a gap, which iCouli have been filled by Blake in less 'than two hours' work. The girl's eyes brightened. She herself could gather the thorn-brti3h and fill the gap before night. They no longer need fear the iacka ifi or even the larger beasts of |>rey. None the less, they must have lire. F I 'll'red on by the thought, she was about to spring through the barricade when she heard the tread of feet on the i ith beyond. She crouched down, and pi ered through the tangle of lir.is'.i in the edge of the gap. Less iha:i 'en paces away Blake was plod ji:: , heavily up the trail. She stepped out before him. "You —you! Are you alive?" she C&spcd "'Live? You bet your boots!" came back the grim response. "You bet I'm alive —though I had to go Jonah one better to do it. The whale heaved him up; 1 heaved up the whale —and it took about a barrel of sea-water to do It." "Sine . . I tumbled over twice on the way. Hut 1 made the beach. Lord! how 1 pumped in the briny deep! Guess I won't go into details— but. if you think you know anything about sb — Whew! Lucky for yours truly, the tide was just start ing out, and the wind off shore. I'd fallen In the water, and the Jonah bu.<in - laid in out cold. Didn't kn>i\\ anythii until the tide came up a gala and OHM '1 inc." "I am \'.'ry glad you're not dead. 3!u !)• '.v \ ; must have .suffered! You are ,i i}l white, and your face is all creased." lilake attempted a careler.s laugh. "[Vin't worry about inc. I'm here, O. K , all that left a little wobbly on my pins, but hungry as a shark. But •ay. what - up with you? You're sweating like a Good thing, though. It'll '.-f M>ur spell of fever a whlli ilov. .1 you happen to be com ing down hero so early?" "I was stalling to find you." "Me!" "Not you that Is. I thought you were dead I was going to make cer tain, and to to get the burning Blast." ' I tti m I ■ e l.et tb' fire go out. •It *" 1 I>o not b! Hue tn«*, Mr lilake! I was so ill and worn out, ami for II twle, over, leally I have. Didn't tin <- a*lul beu -1s attack you?" • It iv '* II i* » that?" hi demanded "(lb but you must have heard Hum' The lion id things tried to kill us!" she cried, and she poured out a half In coherent in mint of all that bad hap pa tied Mm . lie left lilake listened Intently, his Jaw thi Us' but Ids eyes blowing upon In r wpli a i<uk which sha Had never be fiti«* e«n Iti au> man h eyes. Ilui bis dist •'Mutuant bad nothing to do with fewr cenduet llo» a i|i»t* turry Win not roust M eul of his iiliio in tl#> lauiito "I Don't Believe Win Was Built for the Tropic*. Why, don't you know, we'd been all alone in our glory by to-night if it hadn't been for those brutes. He was in the stupor, and that would have been the end of him if the beasts hadn't stirred him up so lively. I've heard of such a thing before, but I al ways thought it was a fake. Here you are sweating, too." "I feel much better than yesterday. I did not tell you, but I have felt ill for nearly a week." '"Fraid to tell, eh? —and you were so scared over the beasts — Scared! I!y Jiniiny, you've got grit, little wom an! There's two kinds of scaredness. You've got the Stonewall Jackson kind. If anybody asks you, just refer them to Tommy Blake." "Thank you, Mr. Blake. But should we not hasten back now to prepare something for Mr. Winthrope?" "Ditto for yours truly. I'm like that sepulchre you read about —white out side, and within nothing but bare bones and emptiness." CHAPTER XV. With Bow and Club. 1 fij | UK fire was soon re-lit, and a pot of meat set on to stew. It had ample time to sim mer. Winthrope was wrapped in a life-giving sleep, out of which he did not awaken until evening, while Blake, unable to wait for the pot to boil, and nauseated by the fishy odor of the dried seafowl, hunted out the jerked leopard meat, and having devoured 1 enough to satisfy a native, fell asleep under a liush. The sun was half down tho sky 1 when he sat up and looked around. I wide awake the moment he opened his eyes. Miss Leslie was quietly placing an armful of sticks on the fuel heap b< s-lde the baobab. "Hello, Miss Jenny! Hard at U, I ; see," he called cheerfully. "Hush!" sh«; cautioned. "Mr. Win ; thrope Is still asleep." '"Good thing for him. He'll need all of that he can get." "Then you think —" '"Well, between you and me, I don't believe Win was built for the tropics. ' This fever of his, coming on so soon, j wouldn't have hit nine men in ten half MO hard, lie's bound to have another spell In a month or two, and —" "But cannot we possibly gel away from here before then? Is tlmre no I way? Huiely, you are so resource- I f U |—» "Nothing doing, Miss Jenny! (live me tool*, and I'd engage to turn out a seagoing boat. But as It la, the only i tiling 1 could do would be to fire bum j a log That would t(\k<i two or three • month*, and In the end we'd have a ■ lop sided canoe that'd live about half a sei iiiid in one of thes>e tropic tMuall* " "IMI not the natives - all In canoes?" "Maybe they do and they make Are * itt rubbing sticks. We dou't." > I" Unt what can we do?" "Take eur uiedh Ine, and wait for a »h'|t to Show up " •I • Bwt we have uo nedlciua." CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1909. "Have no— Say, Miss Jenny, you really ought to have stayed home from boarding-school and England long enough to learn your own language. I meant, we've got to take what's com ing to us, without laying down or grouching. Roth are the worst things out for malaria." "You moan that we must resign our selves to this intolerable situation— that we must calmly sit here and wait until the fever —" "No; I'll take care we don't sit around very much. We'll go on the hike, soon as Win can wobble. Which reminds me, I've got a little hike on hand now. I'm going to close up that barricade before dark. Me for a quiet night!" Without waiting for a reply, he took his weapons, and swung briskly away down the cleft. He returned a few minutes before sunset, with what appeared to be a large fur bag upon his back. Miss Leslie was pouring a bowl of broth from the stew-pot, and did not notice him until he sang out to her: "Hey, Miss Jenny, spill over that stufT! No more of that in ours!" "It's for Mr. Winthrope. He has just awakened," she replied, still in tent on her pouring. "And you'd kill him with that slop! Heave it over, lie's going to have beef juice." "Oh! what's that on your back? You've killed an antelope!" "Sure! Hushbuck, 1 guess they call him. Sneaked up when he was drink ing. and stuck an arrow into his side, lie jumped off a little way. and turned to see what'd bit him. I hauled off and put the second arrow right through his eye, into hi brain. Neatest thing you ever saw." "You nurely are becoming a splendid archer!" "Yes; Jim dandy! I could do It :«r*aln about once in 10,000 shots. All the same, I've raked In this peacherlno. Trot.out your grill and we'll have something lit to eat." , "You spoke of beef Juice." "I've a dozen steaks ready to broil. Slap Yin on the lire, and I'll squeeze out enough Juice with my flat to do Win for to-night." He made good his assertion, using several of the steaks, which, having lost ler f , than half their Juices In the process, were eamn with great relish by Miss l.< sliu and himself. Winthrope, after drinking the stimu luting be< f juice and a quantity of hot i water, turned over and fell asleep again while Hlake was dreeing his wounds None of these vva- serious of Itself; but Hlake knew the danger of infection In the tropics, uud carefully washed out ihe gashes before applying the tilllow salvo which Miss Leslie had tried out from the antelope fat. The dressing was completed by torchlight. Illak# then rolled the altti per Into u comfortable position, took the torch from Mlas I.exile, and left the i ave, pausing at the entrance to uiutter a gmff good night. The girl mummied a let poiise, bu< watched him anxiously us he passed out A i j step bey end the cutrauee he paused ' and turned again Is the red glare I of the torch, fat e U/ok uu an •* presslon that filled her with fright. Shrouded by the gloom of the hollow, she drew back to her bod, and without turning her eyes away from him, groped for one of her bamboo stakes. But before she could arm herself, she saw Blake stoop over and grasp with his free hand the mass of inter woven bamboos. He straightened him self, and the framework swung lightly up and over, until it stood on end across the cave entrance. The girl stole around and peered out at him. He had spread open the antelope skin, and was beginning to slice the meat for drying. Though his forehead was fur rowed, his expression was by no means sinister. Relieved at the thought that the light must have de ceived her, she returned to her bed and was soon sleeping as soundly as Winthrope. Blake strung the greater part of the meat on the drying racks, built a smudge fire beneath, and stretched the antelope skin on a frame. This done, he took his club and a small piece of bloody meat, and walked stealthily flown the cleft to the barricade. Quiet as was his approach, it was met by a warning yelp on the farther side of the thorny wall, and he could hear the scurry of fleeing animals. He kept on until the barricade loomed up before him in the starlight. From cliff to cliff the wall now stretched across the gorge without hole or gap. But Blake grasped the trunk of a young date-palm which projected from the barricade near the bottom, and pushed it out. The dis placement of the spiky fronds disclosed the low passage which he had made in the center of the barricade. He placed the piece of meat on one side, two or three feet from the hole, and squatted down across from it, with his club bal anced on his shoulder. Half an hour passed—an hour; and still he waited, silent and motionless as a statue. At last stealthy footsteps sounded on the outer side of the thorn wall, and an animal began to creep through the wall, sniffing for the bait. Blake waited with the immobility of an Eskimo. The delay was brief. With a boldness for which Blake had not been prepared, the beast leaped through and seized the meat. Even'in the dim light, Blake could see that he had lured an animal larger than any jackal. But this only served to lend greater force to his blow. As he struck, he leaped to his feet. The brute fell as though struck by light ning and lay still. Blake prodded the inert form warily; then knelt and passed his hands over it. The beast had whirled about just in time to meet the descending club, and the blow had crushed in its skull. Chuckling at the success of his ruse, he drew the palm back into the open ing, and swung his prize over his shoulder. When he came to the fire, a glance showed him that he had killed a full-grown spotted hyena. In the morning, when Miss Leslie appeared, there were two hides stretched on bamboo frames, and the air was dark with vultures streaming down into the cleft near the barricade. Biake was sleeping the sleep of the just, and did not waken until she had built the fire and begun to broil the steaks which he had saved. Again they had a feast of the fresh antelope meat. But with repletion came more of fastidiousness, and Blake agreed with Miss Leslie when she remarked that salt would have . added to the flavor. He set off pres- j ently, and spent half a day on the I talus of the headland, gathering salt ! from the rock crannies. For the next three days he left the ! cleft, ouly to gather eggs. The great- J er part of his time was spent in tan- ' ning the hyena aud antelope skins. Meantime Miss Leslie continued to j nurse Winthrope and to gather fire j wood. Under Blake's directions, she j also purified the salt by dissolving It in a pot of water, and allowing the dirt to settle, when the clarified solu \ Hon was poured off and evaporated over the Ore in one of thu earthen ware pans. At first Winthrope had been too weak to sit up. Hut treated to a lib oral diet of antelope broth, taw eggs, hot water, and coceanut milk, he gained strength faster than Blake h:id 1 \peeted. On the fourth day Blake sot him to work on the final rubbing of the new skins; on the fifth, he or- i deml hltn to go for onus. Much to Mlnh Leslie's surprise, Win 1 thrope started off without a word of : protest. All bU peevish Irritability bad gone with the fever, aud the Kir I was giiitltled to see the quiet manner j In which In* set about a ta*s which seemed an Iriiixisltlou upou h«»- half-re i .ilm-d strength. But the very motive which, seemingly, prevented hlni from j proti-stinr, unpolled ht-r to speak for hltn (TO OK CONTINUED.) Premium on Total Abstlncnc*. A prominent manufacturer of Wsst phalia, Germany, has offered to pat ten marks to auy on* of hit employe* »•<» has Joined a total at> stluence society, with extra and lugei rewaid fur those who maiii'alu tltali tu<'lll bet ship fur detiuit* p«iiu4s a tiius BUFFERED TERRIBLY. How Relief from Distressing Kidns) Trouble Was Found. Mrs. Elizabeth Wolf, 388 W. Morgan St., Tipton, Mo., says: "Inflammation of the bladder vwflßjk reached its climax last spring and I suf f —fered terribly. My / Y * back ached and \ r pained so I could V, 1 hardly get around " ,e secretions mm':were scanty, fre- OTjjl It ii'iii PP?" quent of passage and painful. I was tired all the time and very nervous. I began using Doan's Kidney Pills, and after taking a few boxes was cured and have been well ever since." Remember the name—Doan's. Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster- Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. HE DID HIS BEST. Merchant —What? You were robbed of everything on the way? Messenger—Yes, but don't worry. They gave me a receipt. SAVE THIS RECIPE FOR COLDS "Mix half pint ot' good whiskey with two ounces of o»ycerine and add one half ounce Concentrated pine com pound. The bottle is to be well shaken each time and used in doses of a tea spoonful to a tablespoonful every four hours." Any druggist has these ingre dients or he will get them from his wholesale house. The Concentrated pine is a special- pine product and comes only in half ounce bottles, each enclosed in an air-tight case, but be sure it is labeled "Concentrated." This is one of the best and quickest reme dies known to science. Stated in Cold Figures. It costs on an average about J250 to cure an incipient consumptive or to care for an advanced case of tuber culosis until death. If he is left in des titute circumstances without proper attention he will surely infect with his disease at least two other persons, and possibly more. Considering that the average life is worth to society in dollars and cents about $1,500, the net loss which would accrue to a com munity by not treating its poor con sumptives in proper institutions would be, for each case, including those who are unnecessarily infected, at the very lowest figure, $ 1,250. On this basis, if the poor consumptives in the United States who are now sick were segre gated from their families, and either kept in Institutions until they died, or else cured of their disease, the sav ing to the country would be the enor mous sum of J1,275,000,000. Slow Recovery. "Is the editor out?" asked a visitor to the office of the Ridgeville Banner. "Yes, sir," answered the editor's small assistant. "He's gone out to put away a jug of licker left by a sub scriber." "Do you think it will take him long to put it away?" "Naw, sir, it won't take him long ter put it away, but after that he won't be able ter do nuthin' fur a week." j His Retort. Newzance —Do you know, young man, that five out of six people who | suffer from heart trouble have brought ' it upon themselves through thu filthy habit of smoking? Karmley—Really! And possibly I you are aware that nine out of ten j j peopl'3 who suffer from black eyes : can trace the complaint to a habit j , of not minding th9r own business.— ' Pearson's Weekly. HABIT'S CHAIN Certain Habits Unconsciously Formed and Hard to Break. An Ingenious philosopher estimates ' that the amount of will power iieces» sary to break a life-long habit would. If It could be transformed, lift a weight of many tons. It sometimes requires n higher de gree of heroism to break the chains of a pernicious habit than to lead a for lorn hope in a bloody battle. A lady writes from an Indiana town: "From my earliest childhood I was a lover of coffee. 11.-fore I Has out of my t«ens I was a miserable dyspeptic, suf fering terribly at times with my stora I ach. "1 was convinced that It was coffee that was causing the trouble and yet I could not deny myself a cup for breakfast. At the ago of 3d I was In very poor health. Indeed. My sister told me | was in danger of becoming u coffee drunkard "But I never could give ip drinking j coffi-e for breakfast, although It k«*j>t | me constantly 111, until I tried I'vstuni. , I learned to make It properly according | to directions, and now we can h tidly i do without t'ostum for br<-.ikfu»t, aud care nothing for coffee "I am no longer troubU-d with dys P« -palu, do not have spells of suffering with my stomach that used to troubls me so when I drank coffee" Look in pkgs fori he little hook, "The ! Head to Wellvllle " "Therms s Iteason ' I »rr rrfttl IN* «!»»«• Inifit « <»•» r npp»«r« frufM llMt In llwr, I* %•» «r# mvmmlmv, try#, mmd full «| kmmmm COUGHING BURST BLOOD VESSEL Says Danger Avoided and Cures Coughs in 5 Hours. A writer for the medical press i states that coughing is responsible i for the bursting of blood vessels frequently. A cough or cold means inflammation (fever) and con> /estion, and those in turn indicate , that the body is full of poisons and "vaste matter. Simple relief, as found | in patent cough medicines, and whis ' key, often result in more harm than good; as they cause more congestion. A tonic-laxative cough syrup will work marvels and here follows a pro scription which is becoming famous for its prompt relief and thorough cures. It rids the system of the cau::o, except it be consumption. Don't wait for consumption to grasp its victim, but begin this treatment, which cures some in five hours. ."Mix in a bottle one-half ounce fluid wild cherry bark, one ounce compound es sence cardiol and three ounces syrup white pine compound. Take twenty drops every half hour for four hours. Then one-half to one teaspoonful three or four times a day. Give chil dren less according to age. HIS STATUS. Dat's a swell horse youse got, Jitn mie! What is he, a charger, or—?" "Aw, by de way he is always kickin', I guess he's just a plain mule!" AGONIZING ITCHING. Eczema for a Year—Got No Relief Even at Skin Hospital—!n Despair Until Cuticura Cured Him, "I was troubled with a severe itch ing and dry, scrufy skin on my ankles, feet, arms and scalp. Scratching made it worse. Thousands of small red pim ples formed and these caused intense itching. I was advised to go to tho hospital for diseases of tho skin. I did so, the chief surgeon saying: "I never 6aw such a bad case of eczema." But I got little or no relief. Then I tried many so-called remedies, but I became so bad that 1 almost gave up in despair. After suffering agonies for twelve months, I was relieved of the almost unbearable itching after two or three applications of Cuticnra Ointment. I continued its use, combined with Cuti cura Soap and Pills, and I was com pletely cured. Henry Searle, Little Rock, Ark., Oct. 8 and 10, 1907." Potter Drug & Chi-m. Corp., Solo I'rops., Borton. Taking the Tips. "Why did Dollarby sell his hotel?" "He wasn't making money fast enough." "What is he doing now?" "He's luxuriating in the position of head waiter." Heroic souis in old times had no more opportunities than we have; but they used them. —Charles Kingsley. Your Liver is Clogged up That'* Why You're Tired—Out of Sorts —Have No Appctite./fflfew CARTER'S UTTfJE^-SM"! LIVER PILLS 1 JX They do AW- sJITTLE t(y ir duly, iouioMS, ladigeitioa, aad Sick V-adacke. SMALL PILL SMALL DOSE. SMALL TRICE GENUINE must bear signature: Wanted At Once A Man 10 tr.zitQ SICO Pfr Month /bove Ekfmucs IC-C3 WEN W" " ' ' I j r » . ♦ .«.. I 1 * «' • WE NOW W*NT $lOO Per Month Clear Profit | I • » ill* W T.'nAWIIHN CO. 38 Ufcftytl. fpt—rt.m. >4 Beit for Baby and Be»t for Mother J Piso's P CURE m ust *u*tu to* || |t tiM t<« tliil ir«n and adutlt. wry (J*a»*al 1 taha t ■! »)iim>. h iMikw I •1.1 h, »i> iK* < ,1' »' »t • i tMUir<l».ili.l 1 * tu butK i au.l cka.l ah r>iu« a ut«. xa «. hu. . - i
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