-V-" - iSv"-" "v-- "r-rp7FT ". j - -T1 v C'Sf ,. " - r " -- y " A & KTTcmTln jrr ahd i .-w t ROBERT AMES BZNNET coricr rot arr A.c.itcLve qq. SYNOPSIS. The story opens with the shipwreck of the steamer on which Miss Genevieve Leslie, an American heiress. Lord Win thrope. an Knglishman, and Tom Blake, a brusque American, were passengers. The three were tossed upon an uninhab ited island and were the only ones not drowned. Blake recovered from a drunk en stupor. Blake, shunned on the boat, because of his rouRhness, became a hero as preserver of the helpless pair. The Knglishman was suing for the hand of Hiss Leslie. Blake started to swim back to the ship to recover what was left. Blakf returned safely. Winthrope wasted his last match on a cigarette, for which he was scoied by Blake. Their first meal was a dead fish. CHAPTER III. Continued. "To be sure, the Japanese eat raw fish," admitted Winthrope. "Yes; and you'd swallow your share of it if you had an invite to a swell dinner in Tokyo. Go on now, both of jou. It's no joke, I tell you. You've got to eat, if you expect to get to wa ter before night. Understand? See that headland south? Well, it's 100 to 1 we'll not find water short of there, and if we make it by night, we'll be doing better than I figure from the looks of these bogs. Now go to chewing. That's H! That's fine. Miss Jenny!" Miss Leslie had forced herself to lake a nibble of the raw fish. The flavor proved less repulsive than she had expected, and its moisture was so grateful to her parched mouth that she began to cat with eagerness. Not to be outdone, Winthrope promptly followed her lead. Blake had already cut himself a second slice. After he had cut more for his companions, he began to look them over with a close nsz that proved embarrassing to Miss Leslie. "Here's more of the good stuff," he said. "While you're chewing it, we'll sort of take stock. Everybody shell out everything. Here's my outfit thiee shillings, half a dozen poker chips, and not another blessed Say, what's become of that whisky flask? have you seen my flask? "Here it is, right beside me, Mr. Blake," answered Miss Leslie. "But it is empty." " "Might be worse! What you got? hairpins, watch? No pocket, I sup pose?" "Xone; and no watch. Even most of my pins are gone," replied the girl, and she raised her hand to her loosely coiled hair. "Well, hold on to what you've got left. They may come in for fish hooks. Let's see your shoes." Miss Leslie slowlj- thrust a slender little foot just beyond the hem of her draggled white skirt. "Good Lord!" groaned Blake, "slip pers, and high heels at that! How do you expect to walk in those things?" "I can at least try," replied the girl, with spirit. "Hobble! Pass 'em over here, Win nie, my boy." The slippers were handed over. Blake took one after the other and wreched off the heel close to its base. "Now you've at least got a pair of slippers," he said, tossing them back to their owner. "Tie them on tight with a couple of your ribbons, if you don't want to lose them in the mud. Now, Winthrope, what you got beside the knife?" Winthrope held out a bunch of long flat keys and his cigarette case. He opened the latter and was about to throw away the two remaining cigar ettes when Blake grasped his wrist. "Hold on! even they may come in for something. We'll at least keep them until we need the case." "And the keys?" "Make arrow-heads, if we can get fire." "I've heard of savages making fire by rubbing wood." "Yes; and we're a long way from being savages at present. All the show wc have is to find some kind of quartz or flint, and the sooner we start to look the better. Got your slippers tied. Miss Jenny?" "Yes; I think they'll do." "Think! It's knowing the thing. Here, let me 16ok." The girl shrank back; but Blake stooped and examined first one slipper and then the other. The ribbons about both were tied in dainty bows. Blake jerked them loose and twisted them firmly over and under the slippers and about the girl's slender ankles before knotting the ends. "There; that's more like. You're not going to a dance," he growled. He thrust the empty whisky flask into his hip pocket and went back to pass a sling of reeds through the gills of the coryphene. "All ready now," he called. "Le's get a move on. Keep my coat closer about your shoulders. Miss Jenny, and keep your shade up, if you don't "want a sunstroke." "Thank you, Blake. I'll see to that." said Winthrope. "I'm going to help Miss Leslie along. I've fastened our two shades together, so that they will answer for both of us." "How about yourself, Mr. Blake?" inquired the girl. "Do you not find the sun fearfully hot?" "Sure; but I wet my head in the sea. and here's another souse." As he rose with dripping head from beside the pool he slung the coryphene on hia back and started off without further words. CHAPTER IV. A Journey in Desolation. g5E5 fAm ORNING was well advanced JL Wr ana e sun eat down upon' " the three with almost over- uuitvuu. uwcucac. iiiu ucul nuuiu have rendered their thirst unendurable had not Blake hacked off for them bit after bit of the moist coryr.aene flesi. J CVS MBiJTfMLwuaMJl ftr Jg6-.- - - Pi v )K?y Stopped, Utterly Spent. t rva In a temperate climate ten miles over firm ground is a pleasant walk for one accustomed to the exercise. Quite a different matter is ten miles across mud-flats, covered with a tan gle of reeds and rushes, and frequently dipping into salt marsh and ooze. Be fore they had gone a mile Miss Leslie would have lost her slippers had it not been for Blake's forethought in tying them so securely. Within a lit tle more than three miles the girl's strength began to fail. "Oh, Blake," called Winthrope, for the American was some yards in the lead, "pull up a bit on that knoll. We'll have to rest a while, I fancy. Miss Leslie is about pegged." "What's that?" demanded Blake. "We're not half-way yet!" Winthrope did not reply. It was all he could do to drag the girl up on the hummock. She sank, half-fainting, upon the dry reeds, and he sat down beside her to protect her with the shade. Blake stared at the miles of swampy flats which yet lay between them and the out-jutting headland of gray rock. The base of the cliff was screened by a belt of trees; but the nearest clump of green did not look more than a mile nearer than the headland. "Hell!" muttered Blake, despondent ly. "Not even a short four miles. Mush and sassiety girls!" Though he spoke to himself the others heard him. Miss Leslie flushed and would have risen had not Win thrope put his hand on her arm. "Could you not go on and bring back a flask of water for Miss Leslie?" he asked. "By that time she will be rested." "No; I don't fetch back any flasks of water. She's going when I go, or you can come on to suit yourselves." "Mr. Blake, you you won't go and leave me here! If you have a sister if your mother " "She died of drink, and both my sisters vdid worse." "My God, man! do you mean to say you'll abandon a helpless young girl?" "Not a bit more helpless than were my sisters when you rich folks' guar dians of law and order jugged me for the winter 'cause I didn't have a job and turned both girls into the street onto the street, if you know what that means one only 16 and the other 17. Talk about helpless young girls Damnation!" Miss Leslie cringed back as though she had been struck. Blake, however, seemed to have -vented his anger in the curse, for when he agsln spoke there was nothing more than impa tience in his tone. "Come on, now; get aboard. Winthrope couldn't lug you a half-mile, and long's it's the only way don't be all day about it. Here, Winthrope, look to the fish." "But, my dear fellow. I don't quite take your idea, nor does Miss Leslie, I fancy," ventured Winthrope. "Well, we've got to get to water or die; and as the lady can't walk she's going on my back. It's a case of have-to." "No! I am not I am not! I'd sooner die!" "I'm afraid you'll find that easy enough later on, Miss Jenny. Stand by, Winthrope, to help her up. Do you hear? Take the knife and fish and lend a hand." There was a note in Blake's voice that neither Winthrope nor Miss Les lie dared disregard. Though scarlet with mortification, she permitted her self to be taken pick-a-back upon Blake's broad shoulders and meekly obeyed his command to clasp her hands about iiis throat. Yet even at that moment, such are the inconsis tencies of human nature, she could not but admire the ease with which he rose under her weight. New that he no longer had tie st)T.- pace of the girl to consider, he ad vanced at his natural gait, the quick, tireless stride of an American railroad surveyor. His feet, trained to swamp travel in Louisiana and Panama, seemed to find the firmest ground as by instinct, and whether on the half dried mud of the hummocks or in the ankle-deep water of the bogs, they felt their way without slip or stumble. Winthrope, though burdened only with the half-eaten coryphene, toiled along behind, greatly troubled by the mud and the tangled reeds, and now and then flung down by some unlucky misstep. His modish suit, already much damaged by the salt water, was soon smeared afresh with a coating of greenish slime. His one consolation was that Blake, after jeering at his first tumble, paid no more attention to him-t n e other hand, he was cut by the seeming indifference of Miss Ltslie. Intent on his own misery, he failed to consider that the girl might be suffering far greater discomfort and humiliation. More than three miles had been cov ered before Blake stopped on a hum mock. Releasing Miss Leslie, he stretched out on the dry crest of the knoll and called for a slice of the fish. At his urging the others took a few mouthfuls, although their throats were so parched that even the moist flesh afforded scant relief. Fortunately for them all, Blake had been thoroughly trained to endure thirst. He rested less than ten minutes; then taking Miss Leslie up again like a rag doll, he; swung away at a good pace. The trees were less than half a mile distant when he halted for the second time. He would have gone to them without a pause, though his mus cles were quivering with exhaustion, had not Miss Leslie chanced to look around and discover that Winthrope was no longer following them. For the last mile he had been lagging farther and farther behind, and nqw he had suddenly disappeared. At the girl's dismayed exclamation, Blake re leased his hold and she found herself standing in a foot or more of mud and water. The sweat was streaming down Blake's face. As Jhe turned around, he wiped it off with his shirt sleeves. "Do you can It be. Air. Blake, that he has had a sunstroke?" asked Miss Leslie. CAME TO HIM AS INSPIRATION When Mr. Sankey First Sang the Famed "Ninety and Nine." The story of "Ninety and Nine," the well-known hymn the music for which Mr. Ira D. Sankey improvised in a burst of deep feeling, was told by Rev. Dr. C. E. Locke, at the funeral of Mr. Sankey. The evangelist had found a little poem, "The Lost Sheep," in a Scotch newspaper, so runs Dr. Locke's account In the Brooklyn Eagle, and had clipped it. One nighty in Edin burgh Mr. Moody asked him to sing. Mr. Moody had just finished his ser mon. "The Good Sh'epherd." Mr. Sankey had no thought of composing a new son?, but as he used to tell the story: "As I sat at the organ my fingers fell on A flat and my eyes fell on that little pec. I began to sing, and I sang the words of that poem." When he had finished, Mr. Moody rushed down from the platform and asked him where he had found that song. He said it was the most won derful song he had ever i:erd. Mr. Moody was weeping, Mr. Saiify was weeping and the audience was in "Sunstroke? No; he's just laid down, that's all. , I thought he had more sand confound him!" "But the sun is so dreadfully hot, and I have his shade." "And he's been tumbling into every other pool. No; it's not the sun. I've half a mind to let him lie the paper legged swell! It would no more than square our aboard-ship accounts." "Surely, you would not do that, Mr. Blake! It may be that he has hurt himself in falling." "In this mud? bah! iBut I guess I'm in for the pack-mule stunt all around. Now, now; don't yowl, Miss Jenny. I'm going. But you can't ex pect me to love the snob." As he splashe'd away on the return trail, Miss Leslie dabbed at her eyes to check the starting tears. "Oh, dear Oh, dear!" she moaned; "what have I done to be so treated? Such a brute. Oh, dear! and I am so thirsty!" In her despair she would have sunk down where she stood had not the sliminess of the water repelled her. She gazed longingly at the trees, in the fore of which stood a grove of stately palms. The half-mile seemed an Insuperable distance, but the ride on Blake's .back had rested her and thirst goadedher forward. Stumnling and slipping she waued on across the inundated ground, and came out upon a half-baked mud-flat, where the walking wa3 much easier. But the sun was now almost directly overhead, and between her thirst and the heat she soon found herself falter ing. She tottered on a few steps farther, and then stopped, utterly spent. As she sank upon the dried rushes she glanced around and was vaguely conscious of a strange, double headed figure following her path across the marsh. All about her be came black. The next she knew Blake was splashing her head and face with brackish water out of the whisky flask. She raised her hand to shield her face, and -sat up, sick and dizzy. "That's it!" said Blake. He spoke in a kindly tone, though his voice was harsh and broken with thirst. "You're all right now. Pull yourself together and we'll get to the trees in a jiffy." "Mr. Winthrope?" "I'm here, Miss Genevieve. It was only a wrenched ankle. If I had a stick, Blake, I fancy I could make a go of it over this drier ground." "And lay yourself up for a month. Come, Miss Jenny, brace up for an other try. It's only a quarter-mile, and I've gotto pack him." The girl was gasping with thirst; yet she made an effort, and, assisted by Blake, managed to gain her feet. She was still dizzy; but as Blake swing Winthrope upon his back, he told her to take hold of his arm. Win thrope held the shade over her head. Thus assisted, and sheltered from the direct beat of the sun-rays, she tot tered along beside Blake, half-unconscious. Fortunately the remaining distance lay across a stretch of bare dry ground, for even Blake had all but reached the limit of endurance. Step by step he labored on, staggering un der the weight of the Englishman and gasping with a thirst which his ex ertions rendered even greater than that of his companions. But through the trees and brush which stretched away inland in a wall of verdure he had caught glimpses of a broad stream and the hope of fresh water called out every ounce of his reserve strength. At last the nearest palm was only a few paces distant. Blake clutched Miss Leslie's arm and dragged her forward with a rush in a final outburst of energy. A moment later all three lay gasping in the shade. But the river was yet another 100 yards dis tant. Blake waited only to regain his breath; then he staggered up and went on. The others, unable to rise, gazed after him in silent misery. Soon Blake found himself rushing through the jungle along a broad trail pitted with enormous footprints; but he was so near mad with thirst that he paid no heed to the spoor other than to curse the holes for the trouble they gave him. Suddenly the trail turned to the left and Sloped down a low bank into the river. Blind to all else, Blake ran down the slope and dropping upon his knees plunged his head into the water. (TO BE CONTINUED.) tears, so great was the impression produced by the song. "I sang it as God gave it to me," Mr. Sankey replied. He never changed a note of the song from the time it fell from his lips. Youth's Companion. Fled from Hoodoo Cat. Deserted by her crew at the very moment of sailing for the north, the fishing schooner Edrie, due to leave at two o'clock Friday afternoon, still lies at her moorings and all because of a cross-eyed black cat. Friday the crew was making final arrangements to sail, when a yell resounded out of the hold. 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