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Her ory candor linil betrayed her.
She would go nwny with these mon
strous captors, ondtiro them, even llnt
tor thorn, until she and they were far
removed from the Island, and then
she would kill herself. In her inno
cence she imagined that self destruc
tion uuder such circumstances was a
pardonable offense. Slip only gave a
life to save a life, and greater jove
than this Is not known to God or man.
The sailor, In a tempest of wrath and
.wild emotion, had It In his mind to
compel her Into reason to shake her as
one shakes a wayward child.
He rose to his knees with this half
iformed notion in his fevered brain;
Alien he looked at her, and a mist
corned to shut her out from his sight.
iVuB she lost to him already? Was n'
that had gone before an idle dream of
(joy and grief, a wizard's glimpse of
(mirrored happiness and vague jwrils?
iWas Iris, the crystal souled, thrown
to him by the storm lashed wave, to
(be snatched uwny by some Irresistible
4iti(l malign lnlluence?
In the mere physical effort to iwsuro
(himself that she was still near to him
lie gathered her up In his strong hands.
'Yes, she was there, breathing, wonder
ling, palpitating. He folded her closely
to bis breast and, yielding to the pas
sionate longings of his tired heart,
whispered to her:
"My darling, do you think I can sur
vive your loss? You arc life Itself to
ne. If we have to die, sweet one, let
is die together."
i Then Iris flung her arms around bis
neck.
"I am quite, quite happy now," she
pobbed brokenly. "I didn't imagine
t would come this way, but I am
(thankful It has come."
For a little while they yielded to the
glamour of the divine knowledge that
timid the chaos of eternity each soul
tad found its mate. There was no need
ifor words. Love, treraendoua In its
power, unfathomable In Its mystery,
liad cast Its spell over them. They
;were garbed In light, throned in a pal
aice built by fairy hands. On all sides
squatted the ghouls of privation, mis
ery, danger, oven grim death; but they
heeded not the inferno; they had cre
ated a paradise in an earthly hell.
Then Iris withdrew herself from the
man's embrace. She was delightfully
any and timid now.
"So you really do love me?" she whis
pered, crimson faced, with shining eyes
and parted lips.
He fondled her hair and gently rub
bed her cheek with his rough fingers.
fThe sudden sense of ownership of this
Efulr woman was entrancing. It almost
hewildered him to find Iris nestling
.close, clinging to him in utter confl
uence and trust.
"But I knew, I knew," she murmur
jed. "You betrayed yourself so many
jjjmes. You wrote your secret to mo,
jand, though you did not tell me, I
found your dear words on the sands
and have treasured them next my
heart."
What girlish romanco was this? He
(held her away gingerly, Just so far
Ithat he could look Into her eyes.
. "Oh. It Is true, quite true " she cried,
drawing the locket from her neck.
"Don't you recognize your own baud
writing, or were you not certain, Juat
then, that you really did love me?"
Dear, dear! How often would she re
peat that wondrous phrase! Together
they bent over the tiny slips of paper.
There it was again, "I love you," twice
blazoned in magic symbols. With
blushing eagerness she told him how,
by mere accident, of course, she caught
night of her own name. It was not
;vory wrong, was It, to pick up that
tiny scrap or those others, which she
could not help seeing and which un
folded their Blmplo tale so truthfully?
jWrong! It wob so delightfully right
that he must kiss her again to empha
size his convictions.
ThOT irniw calmer, more sedate. It
iwas so undeniably true they loved one
another that the fact was becoming
jvenerable wltti age. Iris was perhaps
the first to recognize its quiet certain
ly. "As I cannot get you to talk reason
ably," she protested, "I must appeal
to your sympathy. I am hungry, and,
oh, so thirsty."
The girl had hardly eaten a morsel
for her midday meal. Then she wus
despondent, utterly broken hearted.
iNow Bhe waB filled with new hope.
(There was a fresh motive in existence.
Whether destined to live an hour or
Jialf a century she would never, never
Jeavo him, nor, of course, could he ever,
ever leave her. Some things wero
qulto impossible for example, that
jthey should part . -
Jenks brought her a biscuit, a tin of
meat and that most doleful cup of
champagne.
"It Is not exactly frappe," he said,
handing her the Insipid beverage, "but,
under other conditions, It Is a wine al
most worthy to toast you In."
She fancied she had never before no
ticed what a charming smilo ho had
" 'Toast,' Is
word," she cried
zllng. In these warm clothes"
She stopped. Por the first time since
that prehistoric period when she was
"Miss Deaue" and he "Mr. Jenks" sho
remembered the manner of her gar
ments. "It is not the warm clothing you feel
so much as the want of nlr," explained
the sailor readily. "This tarpnulln has
made the place very stuffy, but we
must put up with it until sundown. By
the way, what Is that?"
A light tap on the tarred canvas di
rectly over his head had caught his
ear. Iris, glad of the diversion, told
him she had heard the noise three or
four times, but fancied It was caused
by the occasional rustling of the sheet
on the uprights.
thorn In it graceful parabola. This one
fell short. Missing the tarpaulin, It al
most dropped on the girl's outstretched
hand. Sho picked it up. The llsh bone
point had snapped by contact with the
floor of the lodge. She sought for and
found the small tip.
"See,'" she said. "It seems to have
boon dipped In something. It Is quite
discolored."
Jenks frowned peculiarly. A star
tling explanation had suggested Itself
to him. Fragments of forgotten lore
wero taking cohesion lit his inlml.
"Put It down. Quick!" he cried.
Iris obeyed him, with wonder In her
eyes. He spilled a teaspoouful of cham
pagne Into a small hollow of the rock
and steeped one of the llsh bones In the
liquid. Within a few seconds the cham
pagne assumed a greenish lingo and
the bono becamo white. Then he know.
"Good hoavous," he exclaimed, "these
are poisoned arrows shot through it
blowpipe! I have never before seen
one. but I have often read about them.
The bamboos the Dyaks carried were
Btimnltans. These llsh bones have been
a peculiarly sultablo steeped In the Juice of the upas tree.
1. "I am simply friz-. IriS( my tioar Kiri, lf one of t,em i,nil
bo much as scratched your linger noth
ing on earth could save you."
She paled and drew back In sudden
horror. Another tap sounded on their
thrice welcome covering. Evidently
the Dynks would persist In their efforts
to get one of those poisoned darts
home.
Jenks debated silently whether It
would be better to create a commotion,
thus Inducing the savages to believe
they had succeeded In Indicting a mor
tal wound, or to wait until the next nr
row fell, rush out and try conclusions
with dumdum bullets against the sum
pltan blowers.
He decided in favor of the latter
course. He wished to dishearten his
assailants, to cram down their throats
Jenks hnd not allowed his attention tll0 benef thnt hc wn8 invulnerable
to wander altogether from external nntl could vlsjt thclr every errort with
events. Since the Dynks last escapade a joftluy reprisal,
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They waited and listened silently.
Another tap sounded on the tarpaulin
In a different place, and they both con
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darted In curved flight over the ledge
and fallen on top of their protecting
shield.
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The last arrow ell, and he sprang to
tht right of the ledge
irlovA meant by warning me against
the trees on the right."
lie did not tell Irla all the Moham
medan said. There was no need to
alurui her ciuifielessly. Even while
they examined the curioua little mlssllo
anotlter flew up from the valley and
lodged on the roof of their Bbelter.
The shaft of the urrow, made of some
extremely hurd wood, was about ten
Inches in length. Amxed' to it wus a
pointed flsh bone, sharp, but not barb
ed and not fastened In a munuer sug
gestive of much strength. The arrow
was neither feathered uor grooved for
a bowstring. Altogether it seemed to
be a childish weapon to be used by
men equipped with lend and steel.
Jenks could not understand the ap
pearance of this toy. Evidently the
Dyaks believed In Its efllcacy or they
would not keep on pertinaciously drop
ping an nrrow on the ledge.
"How do they Are It?" aBked Iris.
-Do they throw it?"
"I will booh tell you," be replied,
reaching for a rifle.
"Do not go out yet," Bhe entreated
him. "They cannot harm us. Tcrhaps
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3IM3l
spirit prevailed. Their love Idyll immt
yield to the needs of the hour.
He had not long to wait. The last
arrow fell, and he sprang to the ex
treme right of the ledge. First he
looked through that Invaluable screen
of gross. Three Dyaks were on the
ground and a fourth In the fork of n
tree. Tney were each armed with a
blowpipe. He in the tree was Just fit
ting an arrow into the bamboo tube.
The others were watching him.
Jenks raised bis rifle, fired, and the
warrior In the treo pltchod headlong to
the ground. A second shot stretched
a companion on top of him. One man
jumped into the bushes and got away,
but the fourth tripped over his unwieldy
sumpitan, and a bullet tore a large
section from his skull. The sailor then
amused himself with breaking the bam
boos by firing at them. He enme back
to the white faced girl.
"I fancy thnt further practice with
blowpipes will he at n discount on
Rainbow Island," he cried cheerfully.
But Iris wus anxious and distrait.
"It Is very snd," she said, "that we
are obliged to secure our own safety
by the ceaseless slaughter of human
beings. Is there no offer we can make
them, no promise of future gnln, to
tempt them to abandon hostilities?"
"Nons whatever. These Borneo Dy
aks are bred from Infancy to prey on
their fellow creatures. To be strnngers
and defenseless is to court pillage and
mnssnere at their hands. I think no
more of shooting them than of smash
ing n clay pigeon. Killing n mad dog
is perhaps a better simile."
"But, ltobert dear, how long can we
hold out?"
"What! Are you growing tired of
me already?"
He hoped to divert her thoughts from
this constantly recurring topic. Twice
within the hour had It been broached
and dismissed, but Iris would not per
mit him to shirk it ngaln. She made
no reply, simply regarding him with a
wistful smile.
8o Jenks sat down by her skle and
rehearsed the hopes and fears which
perplexed him. He determined that
there should be no further concealment
between them. If they failed to secure
water that night, lf the Dynks main
tained a strict siege of the rock
throughout the whole of next day, well
they might survive It was proble
matical. Best lenvc matters In God's
hands.
With feminine persistency sho clung
to the subject, detecting his 'unwilling
ness to discuss a possible final stage in
their sufferings.
"Robert," she whispered fearfully,
"you will never let me fall Into tho
power of tho chief, will you?"
"Not while I live."
You must live. Don't you under
stand? I would go with them to save
you. But I would have died by my
own hand. Robert, my love, you must
do this thing before the end. I must be
the first to die."
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