6 $y A\O ROBERT U i AMBS J BEMSET ILLUSTRMJONJ SY RAY WALIT.HS (QpymCHr sr A.c.rt%CLuAct fc Cw. — % SYNOPSIS. The story open* with the shipwreck of th» steamer on which Miss Genev'»ve Leslie, an Amerl<;ini heiress, Lord Wln thrope, un Englisnr/iiti, and Tom Blake, - brusque American, were passengers. The three were tossed upon an uninhab ited island and were the only ones not drowned. Blake, shunned on the boat, because of his roughness, becama a hero «s preserver of the helpless pair. The Englishman was suing for the hand of Miss Leslie. Winthrope wasted his last match on a cigarette, for which he was scored by Blake. All three constructed hats to shield themselves from the sun. They then feasted on cocoanuts, the only procurable food. Miss Leslie showed a liking for Blake, but detested his rough i ess. l,ed by Blake, they established a home in Home cliffs. Blake found a fresh water spring. Miss Leslie faced an un pleasant situation. Blake recovered his •urvcyor's magnifying glass, thus insur "ng Are. He started a jungle tire, killing i large leopard and smothering several cubs. In the leopard's cavern they built h small home. They gained the cliffs by burning the bottom of a tree until jt fell against the heights. The trio secured eggs from tin* cliffs. Miss Leslie's white skirt was decided upon as a signal. Miss Leslie made a dress from the leopard *!iin. overhearing a conversation be tween Blake and Winthrope. Miss I>eslie became frightened. Winthrope became til with fever. Blake was poisoned by a Jlsh and almost died. Jackals attacked ♦ lie ( amp that night, but were driven off oy Genevieve. Blake constructed an ani mal trap. It killed a hyena. On a tour lhe trio discovered lioncy and oysters. Miss Leslie was attacked by a poisonous snake. Blake killed it and saved its poi son to kill game. Fur the second time Winthrope was attacked by fever. He nnil Blake disagreed. The latter made a strong door fur the private compartment or Miss Leslie's cave home. A terrible florin raged that night. Winthrope stole into lier room, hut she managed to swing !,-i door closed In tline. Winthrope was bajllv hurt. He died the following morn ing The storm tore down their distress iiag. so a new one was swung from a (>."!!• boo poll-. Miss Leslie helped i'l cov •eritiK Winthropc's grave with stones. CHAPTER XXIII. The End of the World. | N ilie morning he met Miss Leslie with a sullen bear -®- ing, which, however, did not altogether conceal his desire to bo on friendly terms. Having re gained her self-control, she responded to ihis with such tact that by evening each felt more at ease in the new re lationship, and Blake had lost every trace of his moroseness. The fact that both were passionately fond of music proved an immense help. It gave them an impersonal source of mutual sympathy and understanding —a common meeting-ground in the world cf art and culture, apart from and above the plane of their material wants. Yet for all his enjoyment of the girl's wide knowledge of everything relating to music, Blake took care that their talks and discussions did not interfere with the activities of their primitive mode of life. As soon us he bad finished with the barricade he devoted himself to his tailoring and shoe-making; while Miss Leslie, between hc-r cooking and wood-gather ing and daily visits to the cliff for eggs, had much to occupy both her thoughts and her hands. At. first every ascent of the cliff was embittered by a painful consciousness •of the cairn over the north edge. For tunately it was not in sight from the direct path to the headland, and, as she refrained from visiting it, the new happenings of her wild life soon thrust Winthrope and his death out of the foreground of her thoughts. Each day she had to nerve herself to meet the beaks and wings of the despoiled nest owners; each day she looked with greater hope for the expected rescue ship, only to be increasingly disap pointed. But the hours she spent on the cliff crest after gathering the day's supply of eggs were not spent merely in watching and longing. The inconven iences of carrying the eggs in a hand kerchief or in one of the heavy jars suggested a renewal of her attempt at basket-making. Memory, persever ance and a trace of inventiveness en abled her to produce a small but serviceable hamper of split bamboo. Encouraged by this success she gathered a quantity of tough, wiry grass, and wove a hat to take the place of the flimsy palm-leaf make shift. The result was by no means satisfactory with regard to style, its shape being intermediate between a Mexican sombrero and a funnel; but aside from its appearance, she could not have wished for a more com fortable head-cover. Before showing it to Blake, she wove a second one for him, so that they were able to cast aside the grotesque, palm-leaf affairs at the same time. The following morning Blake ap peared in an outfit to match her leopard-skin dress. He had singed off the hair of the hide out of which he had made his moccasins, and his hyeha-skin trousers quite matched the bristling stjibble on his face. "llbj. Miss .Jenny!'' he hailed; "what d' you think of this for fancy needlework?" "Splendid! You're the very picture of an Argentine vaquero." "Greaser? —ugh! Let me get back to the Weary Willy pants!" "1 mean you are very picturesque." "That's it, is it? Glad I've got something to call your leoparditie sown that won't make you huffy." "W» cau at least call our costumes "What Doe» Life Mean, Anyway?" serviceable, and mine has proved much cooler than I expected." "But our new hats beat all for that —regular sunshades. What do you say?—there's a good breeze— Let's take a hike." "Not to the river! The very thought of that dreadful snake—" "No; just the other way. I've been thinking for some time that we ought to run down to that south headland and take a squint at the coast be yond. Ten to one it's another stretch of swamps, but—" "You think there is a hance we may find a town?" "About one chance in a million, even for a native village. The slave trade wiped the niggers off this coast, and I guess those that hit out up country ran so hard they haven't been able to get back yet." "But it has been years since the slave trade was forbidden." "And they don't sell beer in Kansas —oh, no! I'll bet the dhows still slip over from Madagascar when the moon is in the right quarter. At any rate, niggers are mighty scarce or mighty shy around here. I've kept a watch for smoke, and haven't seen a sus picion of it anywhere. Maybe the swamps swing around inland and cut off this strip of coast. It looked that way to me when I made that trip along the ridge. But there's a chance it used to be inhabited, and we may run across an abandoned village." "I do not see that the discovery would do us any good." "How about the chance of grain or bananas still growing? But that's all a guess. We're going because we need a change." She nodded and hastened to pre pare breakfast, while he packed a skin bag with food and examined the slen der tips of his arrows. As a matter of precaution, he had been keeping them In the cigarette case, where the points would be certain of a coat of the sticky poison and at the same time guarded against inflicting a chance ; wound. But as he was now about to set out on a journey he fitted tips into the heads of his two straightest I shafts. The morning was still fresh when : they closed the barricade behind them ' and descended to the pool. There was • no game in sight, but Blake had no i wish to hunt at the commencement of the trip. The steady southwest wind had blown the sky clear of its malarial haze and gave promise of a day which should know nothing of sultry calm—a day on which game would be hard to stalk, but one per fectly suited for a long tramp. Mindful.of ticks, Blake headed ob liquely across to the beach. Once on ' the smooth, hard sand, they swung along at a brisk pace, light-hearted 3 and keen with the spirit of adventure. Never had they felt more compan c ionable. Miss Leslie laughed and chatted and sang snatches of songs, ' while Bluke boat time with his club, t or sought to whistle grand opera—he \ had healed his blistered lips some I time before by liberal applications of e | anteloue tallow CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1910 Gulls and terns circled about them or hovered over the water ready to swoop down upon their finny prey. Sandpipers ran along the beach within a stone's throw, but the curlews showed their greater knowledge of mankind by keeping beyond gunshot. Once a great flock of geese drove high overhead, their leader honking the alarm as they swept above the suspicious figures on the beach. Like the curlews, they had knowledge of mankind. But the flock of white pelicans which came sailing along in stately leisure on their immense wings floated past so low that Blake felt certain he could shoot one. He raised his bow and took aim, but re frained from shooting at the thought that it might be a sheer waste of his precious poison. A little later a herd of large ani mals appeared on the Iwrder of the grass jungle, but wheeled and dashed back into cover so quickly that Biake barely had time to make out that they were buffaloes —the first he had seen on this coast, but easily recognized by their resemblance to the Cape va riety. Their flight gave him small concern; for the time being he was more interested In topography than . game. The southern headland now lay i close before them, its seaward face i rearing up sheer and lofty, but the approach behind running down in broken terraces. Mid-morning found • the explorers at the foot of the ridge. Blake squinted up at the bowlder ■ strewn slopes and the crannies of the I broken ledges. ! "Likely place for snakes, Miss Jen ny," he remarked. "Guess I'd better - lead." i Eager as she was to look over into • the country beyond, the girl dropped ■ into second place and made no com ! plaint about the wary slowness of ! her companion's advance. She found 112 the most difficult parts of the ascent ! quite easy after her training on the 5 tree-ladder. Blake could have taken ) ledges and all at a run, but as he ) mounted each terrace he halted to spy t out the ground before him. Like Miss Leslie, he was looking for snakes, i though for an exactly opposite reason. i He wished to add to the contents of the cigarette case. > Greatly to his dlsaj)pointment and. t the girl's relief neither snake nor sign t of snake was to be seen all the way 3 up the ridge. As they neared the i crest Blake turned to offer her his 112 hand up the last ledges, and in the 3 instarit they gained the top. The .wind, now freshening to a gale, struokithe girl with such force that i- she would have been blown back l down the ledges had not Blake ; cfutched her wrist. Heedless alike of 1 the painful grip which held her and . of the gusts which tore at her skirt, the »irl stood gazing out across the 1 desolate swamps which stretched i, away to the southwest as far as the i, eye could see. She did not speak s until Blake led her down behind the 2 shelter of the crest ledges. 112 "What's the matter?" he demanded. "Didn't. I warn you''" She looked away to hide the tears whioh sprang into her eyes. "I can't explain—only, it makes me feel so—so lonely!" "Oh, come little woman; don't take on so!" he urged. "It might be a lot worse, you know. We've gotten along pretty well, considering." "You have been very kind, Mr. Blake, and as you say, matters might have been worse. I do not forget how far more terrible was our situa tion the morning after the storm. Yet you must realize how disappointing it is to lose even the slightest hope of escape." "Well, I don't know. If it wasn't for the fever that's bound to come with the rain, I, for one, would . just as leave stick to this camp right along, providing the Company dort't change." She turned upon him with flashing eyes, all thought of caution lost in hoi anger. "How 'dare you say such a thing? You are! contemptible! Ide spise you!'""" "My, Miss Jenny, but you are pret ty when you get mad!" he exclaimed The answer took her completely aback. He was neither angry noi laughing at her, but met her dtiflant glance with candid, sober admiration. There was something more than ad miration in his glowing eyes; yet sh« could not but see that hor alarm had been baseless. His manner had n«vei been more respectful. Suddenly sh« found that she could no longer meet his gaze. She looked away and stammered lamely; "You—you should n't say such things, you know." "Why not? Hasn't everything been running smooth the last few da.vsl Haven't we been good chummy com rades? Of course you've got the worst of the deal. I know I'm not much od fancy talk; but I like to hear it when I've a chance. I've led a lonesoms sort of life since they did for my sis ters — No, I'm not going to rake that up again. I'm only trying to give you an idea what it means to a fellow to be with a lady like you. Maybe It Isn't polite to tell you all this, but it'i just what I feel, and I never did amount to shucks as a liar." "I believe I understand you, Mr Blake, and I really feel highly M>m plimented." "No, you don't, any such thing, Miss Jenny. Own up, now! If I met you to-morrow on your papa' 3 doorstep you'd cut me cold." "I should if you continued to bo sc rude. Have you no regard for mj feelings? But here we are, talkinj nonsense when we should be going—'' "Is it nonsense?" he broke in "What does life mean, anyway? Hert we can be true friends and comrades —real, free living people. It can't b« that you want togo back to all those society shams after you've seen real life! As for me, what have I to gain by going back to the everlasting grind? I don't mind work; but when a man has nothing ahead to work foi but a bank account, when it's grind, grind, grind till your head goes stale and all the world looks black, then there's no choice but throw up youi job and goon a drunk, if you want tc keep from a gun accident. Mayba you don't understand it. But that'i what I've had togo through, time and again. Do you wonder 1 like to fancy an everlasting picnic here, with a little partner who wouldn't let me come within shouting distance of hei in the land of lavender —trousers and peek-a-boos?" "Mr. Blake, really you are most uo just! I could not be so—so ungrate ful, after all your kindness. I —we should certainly be glad to number you among our friends." "Drink and all, eh?" "A man of your will-power has no need whatever to give way to such a habit." "Course not, if he's got anything in sight worth while. Guess, though, my folks must have been poor white trash. I never could go after money just for the fun of the game. No family, no friends, no—what-you-call it?—culture — What's the use? 1 have a fair head for figures; but all the mathematics that I know I've had to catch hot off the bat. It's true 1 grubbed my C. E. out of a corre spondence school; but a fellow has to have an all-round, crack-up educatior to put him where it's worth while." 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