r - J'i.'. Ei"' . wr. - v MTOTIEIMMI 0 JtOBZRT AMES ILLUSTMIJOWWRMmiW SYNOPSIS. The stcry opens with the shipwreck of the steamer on which Miss Genevieve lcslie. an American heiress, I-ord Win thrope. an KriKllshman, and Tom Blake, a brusque American, were passengers. Th three were tossed upon an uninhab ited island and wvre the only ones not drowned. Klake recovered from u drunk . en stupor. Iilake. shunned on the boat, because of Ids rouijlim-ss. became a hero as preserver of the helpless pair. The .Englishman was suinjr for the hand of Miss I.-slie. I'.lake started to swim back to tlie ship to recover what was left. Blake returned safely Winthrope wasted Ins last match on a ciRarette. for which he was si orcd by Blake. Their lirst meal --as a dead fbh The trio started a ten ;mle lnli- for liiKlier land. Thirst at tatked tlit-in. Blake w.is compelled to carry Miss Ix-slie on account of weari ness He taunted Winthrope. They en tered tin junsie. CHAPTER V. Continued. "You'd find those thorns a whole lot worse," muttered Blake. "To be sure; and Miss Leslie fully iij reciates your kindness," interposed Winthrope. "I do indeed. Mr. Blake! I'm sure I never could go through here without your coat." "That's all right. Got the handker chief?" "1 put it in one of the pockets." "It'll do to tie up your hair." Miss Leslie took the suggestion, knotting the big square of linen over her fluffy brown hair. Blake waited only for her to draw out the kerchief before he began to lorco a way through the jungle. Now and then he beat at the tangled vege tation with his club. Though he held to the line by which he had left the thicket, yet all his efforts failed to open an easy passage for the others. . Many of the thorny branches sprang back into place behind him, and as Miss Leslie, who was the first to fol low, sought to thrust them aside the thorns pierced her delicate skin until her hands were covered with blood. Nor did Winthrope, stumbling and hob bling behind her, fare any better. Twice he tripped headlong into the brush, scratching his arms and face. Blake took his own punishment as a matter of course, though his tougher and thicker skin made his injuries less painlul. He advanced steadily along the line of bent and broken twigs that marked his outward passage, until the thicket opened on a strip of grassy ground beneath a wild fig-tree. "By .love!" exclaimed Winthrope, "s. banyan!" "Banyan? Well, if that's British for a daisy, you've hit it," responded Blake, ".lust take a squint up here. How's that for a roost?" . Winthrope and Miss Leslie stared up dubiously at the edge of a bed of reeds gathered in the hollow of one of the huge flattened branches at its junction with the main trunk of the banyan. i!0 feet above them. "Will not the mosquitoes pester us here among the trees?" objected Win thrope. "Storm must have blown 'em away. I haven't seen any jet." "There will be millions after sun set." "Maybe; but I bet they keep below our rowst." "But how are we to get up so high?" inquired Miss Leslie. "I can swarm this drop root, and I've a creeper ready for you two," ex plained Blake. Suiting action to words, he climbed tip the small trunk of the air root and pwuim over into the hollow where he had piled the reeds. Across the broad limb dangled a rope-like creeper, one end of which he had fastened to a branch higher up. He Hung down the free end to Winthrope. "Look lively. Pat," he called. "The sun's most gone, and twilight don't last all night in these parts. Get the line around Miss Leslie, and do what you can on a boost." "I see; but, you know, the vine is too btiff to tie." Blake stilled an oath and jerked the end of the creeper up into his hand. When he threw it down again it was looped around and fastened in a bow line knot. ' "Now. Miss Leslie, get aboard and we'll have you up in a jiffy," he said. "Are you sure ou can lift me?" afked the girl, as Winthrope slipped the loop over her shoulders. Blake laughed down at them. "Well. t guess yes! Once hoisted a fellow out o! a oO:foot prospect hole big fat Dutchman at that. You don't weigh oer 120." He had stretched out across the broadest part of the branch. As Miss T "?- .- tkrl I"!...?-. 1 f ?r f tin lnnn r I , ,-V"-" ""-" '" " - t ii'ii'itoii rii in n "inn iiiii!iti i ri'im iiti iiii i A-VVIA UV'MI UilU Uf-,! . J UU.U l VJJ. the creeper, hand over hand. Though frightened by the novel manner of as cent the girl clung tightly to the line above her head, and Blake had no dif ficulty in raising her until she swung directly beneath him. Here, how ever, he found himself in a quandary. The girl seemed as helpless as a child, and he was lying fiat. How could he left her above the leel of the branch? "Take hold the other line," he said. The girl hesitated. "Do you hear? Grab it quick, and pull up hard if you don't want a tumble!" The girl seized the part of the creeper which was fastened above and drew herself up with convulsive en ergy. Instantly Blake rose to his knees, and grasping the taut creeper with one hand reached down with the other to swing the girl up beside him on the branch. "All right. Miss Jenny," he reas sured her as he felt her tremble. "Sor ry to scare you, but I couldn't have made it without. Now, if you'll just hold down my legs we'll soon hoist hi? ludship." He had seated her in the broadest part of the shallow hollow, where the branch joined the main trunk of the fig. Heaped with the reeds which he had gathered during the afternoon it made such a cozy shelter that she at once forgot her dizziness and fright. Nestling among the reeds, she leaned III W n Frn W K i I Ik W vlEa WW A WJJNX 1 I ZmrrUI ir i ym L-" vfllM r c 'mini!' i II 'It's Only a Beast That's Killed over and pressed down on his ankles with all her strength. The loose end of the creeper had fallen to the ground when Blake lifted her upon the branch and Winthrope was already slipping into the loop. Blake ordered him to take it off and send up the club. As the creeper was again flung down a black shadow swept over the jungle. "Hello! Sunset!" called Blake "Look sharp, there!" "All ready," responded Winthrope. Blake drew In a full breath, and be gan to hoist. The position was an awkward one, and Winthrope weighed .10 or 40 pounds more than Miss Les lie. But as the Englishman came within reach of the descending loop he grasped it and did what he could to ease Blake's efforts. . A few mo mer's found him as high above the ground as Blake could raise him. Without waiting for orders, he swung himself upon the upper part of the creeper and climbed the last few feet unaided. Blake grunted with satisfac tion as he pulled him in upon the branch. "You may do, after all," he said. "At any rate, we're all aboard for the night; and none too soon. Hear that?" "What?" "Lion, I guess Not that yelping. Listen!" The brief twilight was already fading into the darkness of a moonless night, and as the three crouched together in their shallow nest they were soon made audibly aware of the savage na ture of their surroundings. With the gathering night the jungle wakened into full life. From all sides came the harsh squawking of birds, the weird cries of monkeys and other small crea tures, the crash of heavy animals moving through the jungle, and above all the yelp and howl and roar of beasts of prey. After some contention with Win thrope, Blake conceded that the roars of his lion might be nothing worse than the snorting of the hippopotami as they came out to browse for the night. In this, however, there was small comfort, since Winthrope pres ently reasserted his belief in the climbing ability of leopards, and ex pressed his opinion that, whether or not there were lions in the neighbor hood, certain of the barking roars they could hear came from the throats of the spotted climbers. Even Blake's hair bristled as his imagination pic tured one of the great cats creeping upon them in the darkness from the far end of their nest limb, or leaping down out of the upper branches. The nerves of all three were at their highest tension when a dark form J swept past through the air within a yard of their faces. Miss Leslie ut tered a stifled scream and Blake brandished his club. But Winthrope, who had caught a glimpse of the crea ture's shape, broke into a nervous laugh. "It's only a fruit bat," he explained. "They feed on the banyan figs, you know." In the reaction from this false alarm, both men relaxed and began to yield to the effects of the tramp across the mud-fiats. Arranging the reeds as best they could they stretched out on either side of Miss Leslie and fell asleep in the middle of an argument on how the prospective leopard was mostly likely to attack. Miss Leslie remained awake for two or three hours longer. Naturally she was more nervous than her com panions, and she had been refreshed by her afternoon's nap. Her nervous ness was not entirely due to the wild beasts. Though Blake had taken pains to secure himself and his companions in loops of the creeper, fastened to the branch above, Winthrope moved about so restlessly in his sleep that Some thing Down Below." the girl feared he would roll from the hollow. At last her limbs became so cramped that she was compelled to change her position. She leaned back upon her elbow, determined to rise again and maintain her watch the moment she was rested. But sleep was close upon her. There was a lull in the louder noises of the jun gle. Her eyes closed, and her head sank lower. In a little time it was ly ing upon Winthrope's shoulder and she was fast asleep. As Blake had asserted, the mos quitoes had either been blown away by the cyclone or did not fly to such a height. None came to trouble the exhausted sleepers. CHAPTER VI. N IGHT had almost passed, and all three, soothed by the re freshing coolness which pre ceded the dawn, were sleeping their soundest, when a sudden fierce roar followed instantly by a piercing squeal caused even Blake to start up in panic. Miss Leslie, too terrified to scream, clung to Winthrope, who crouched on his haunches, little less overcome. Blake was the first to recover and puzzle out the meaning of the crashing in the jungle and the ferocious growls directly beneath them. "Lie still," he whispered. "We're all right. It's only a beast that killed something down below us." AH sat listening, and as the noise of the animals in the thicket died away they could hear the beast beneath them tear at the body of its victim. "The air feels like dawn," whispered Winthrope. "We'll soon be able to see the brute." "And he us," rejoined Blake. In this both were mistaken. During the brief false dawn they were puz zled by the odd appearance of the ground. The sudden flood of full day light found them staring down into a dense white fog. "So they have that here!" mut tered Blake "fever-fog!" "Beastly shame!" echoed Winthrope. "I'm sure the creature has gone off." This assertion was met by an out burst of snarls and yells that made all start back and crouch down again in Arm is Longer - Man and Gentleman. J&te?ftn(nm Or It Should Be If the Person Is Well wroRg. The arm of a weil-formed Formed. j person, man or woman, measured , from the pit, should be three-quarters There are men whose arms when i of an inch ionger than the les. meas they walk are like a couple of excited j ureU from the crotch. The runner pendulums, trying to emulate the j usuaiiy carries his arm bent at the stride of the leg, the right arm swing-, eiDOw.' Whv? The best runners are ing in unison with the movement of j pigeon-toed. Why? Most athletes the left leg. and the left arm keeping turn in their toes. Why? time with the right leg. The military "J. 1 man is taught not to swing his arms; the civilian swings expansively, often covering a L gger radius than that cov ered by his legs. When a man swings his arms excessively he appears to be paddlin- along. When a man doesn't swing his arms at all he seems to be advancing automatically. He is altogether uncanny. The Gorilla de Luxe has arms seven inches longer than his legs. Can any reader tell instantly, withe;;' using a tape measure, which is the I. ager, his arm or his leg? Not one! The uni versal reply will be the leg. All their sheltering hollow. As befon Blake was the first to recover. "Bet you're right." he said. "Thi big one has gone off, and a pack o these African coyotes are having t scrap over the bones." "You mean jackals. It sounds likt the nasty beasts." "If it wasn't for that fog I'd go dowr and get our share of the game." "Would it not be very dangerous Mr. Blake?" asked Miss Leslie. "Wha a fearful noise!" "I've chased coyotes off a calf with i rope: but that's not the proposition lou don't find me foo:;ug aronud ir that sewer gas of a fog. We 11 roosl right where we are till the sun doei for it. We've got enough malaria it us already." "Will it be long,-Blake?" asked Win thrope. "Huh? Getting hungry this quick: Wait till you've tramped around z week, with nothing to eat but youi shoes." "Surely, Mr. Blake, it will not be sc bad!" protested Miss Leslie. "Sorry, Mis3 Jenny; but cocoanut palms- don't blow over every day, anc when those nuts are gone what are w going to do for the next meal?" "Could we not make bows?" sug gested Winthrope. "There seems tt be no end of game about." "Bows and arrows without points! Neither of us could hit a barn door anyway." "We could practice." "Sure six weeks' training on ail pudding. I can do better with a hand ful of stones." "Then we should go at once to the cliffs," said Miss Leslie. "Now you're talking and it's Pik Peak or bust for ours. Here's ont l night to the good; but we won't last many more if we don't get fire. It's flints we're after now." "Could we not make fire by rubbing sticks?" said Winthrope, recalling his suggestion of the previous morning "I've heard that natives have nt trouble " "So've I, and what's more, I've seen 'em do it. Never could make a go ol it myself, though." "But if you remember how it is done we have at least some chance "Give you ten to one odds! No; we'll scratch around for a flint good and plenty before we waste time thai way." "The mist is going," observed Miss Leslie. "That's no lie. Now for our coyotes Where's my club?" "They've all left," said Winthrope, peering down. "I can see the ground clearly, and there is not a sign of the beasts." "There are the bones what's left of them," added Blake. "It's a small deer. I suppose. Well, here goes." He threw down his club and dropped the loose end of the creeper after it As the line straightened he twisted the upper part around his leg and was about to slide to the ground when be remembered Miss Leslie. "Think you can make it alone?" he asked. The girl held up her hands, sore and swollen from the lacerations of the thorns. Blake looked at them, frowned, and turned to Winthrope. "Um! you got it, too, and in the face," he grunted. "How's your ankle?" Winthrope wriggled his foot about and felt the injured ankle. "I fancy it is much better," he an swered. "There seems to be no swell ing, and there is no pain now." "That's lucky; though it will tunc up later. Take a slide, now. We've got to hustle our breakfast and find a way to get over the river." TO BE CONTINUED.) Sounds Which Carry at Sea. Examinations by naval experts in wireless telephony as to the sound which will carry the greatest distance at sea develops that a siren under T2 pounds of steam pressure will emit a blast which may be heard 40 miles. Next comes the steam whistle, the sound of which is carried 20 miles Among the softest sounds which carry a considerable distance is the whis tling buoy installed by the lighthouse board, which has frequently been heard a distance of 15 miles. Our children are growing more in dependent. It is not the fauit of the parents nor of the children; we are not careless, and they are rot un grateful. The conditions of life ars responsible for the medern "youm.' Familien Zeitung, Vienna. Than the Leg The Cress of a Good Wife. 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