ic- - ' v ? !-js; v" - . r v t -,"' -j m- i4$'V-"'" --i-f- K'Z' 9 12X '. is-" ?t.2.:AT mm V ! MmlM 3 JWBERT AMPS LLUJTfiAWwwwiMrazr CQPYftlCHT ,90 mr JLCfSCUSAC CP. SYNOPSIS. Tlie storv opens with tho shipwreck of lie st vainer on which Miss Genevieve t-slie. an American heiress. Lord Win hrope. an Knglishman, and Tom Blake, i brusque American, were passenfiers. riid- three were tossed upon an uninhab ted ibiand and were the only ones not Irowned. Blake recovered from a drunk n stupor. Illake. shunned on the boat, because of his roughness, became a hero s preserver of the helpless pair. The Englishman was suing for the hand of Miss Leslie RIake started to swim back Jo the ship to recover what was left. RIake returned safely. AVinthrope wasted Ins last match on a cigarette, for which ie was scored by Blake. Their first meal as a dead llsh. The trio started a ten mile hike for higher land. Thirst at atked them. Blake was compelled to -arry Miss Ieslie on account of weari inh. He taunted Winthrope. They en 'tvu the jungle. That night was passed tostlng high in a tree. The next morn ing they descended to the open again. CHAPTER VI. Continued. "How wide is it?" inquired Win- thiojie, gazing at his swollen hands. "About 300 yards at high tide. May be narrower at ebb." "Could you not build a raft?" sug gested Miss Leslie. Blake smiled at her simplicity. "Why not a boat? We've sot a penknife." "Well. then. I can swim." "Rully for you! Guess, though, we'll try something else. The river is chuck full of alligators. What you waiting for, Pat? We haven't got all day to fool around here." Winthrope twisted the creeper about his leg and slid to the ground, doing all he could to favor his hands. He found that he could walk without pain, and at once stepped over beside Hlake's club, glancing nervously around at the jungle. Blake jerked up the end of the rreeper. and passed the loop about Miss Leslie. Before she had time to become frightened he swung her over and lowered her to the ground lightly as a feather. He followed, hand under hand, and stood for a moment beside her, staring at the dew-dripping foli age of the jungle. Then .the remains of the night's quarry caught his eye, and he walked over to examine them. "Say. Pat," he called, "these don't look like deer bones. I'd say yes; there's the feet it's a pig." "Any tusks?" demanded Winthrope. Miss Leslie looked away. A heap of bones, however cleanly gnawed, is not a pleasant sight. The skull of the animal seemed to be missing; but Blake stumbled upon it in a tuft of grass and kicked it out upon the open ground. Every shred of hide and gristle had been gnawed from it by the jackals; yet if there had been any doubt as to the creature's identity there was evidence to spare in the sav age tusks which projected from the jaws. "Je-rusalem!" observed Blake; "this old boar must have been something of a scrapper his own self." "In India they have been known to kill a tiger. Can you knock out the tusks?" "What for?" "Well, you said we had nothing for arrow points " "Good boy! We'll cinch them and ahk questions later." A few blows with the club loosened the tusks. Blake handed them over to Winthrope, together with the whisky flask, and led the way to the half brcken patch through the thicket. A free use of his club made the path a little more worthy of the name, and as there was less need of haste than on the previous evening. Winthrope r.nd Miss Leslie came through with only a few fresh scratches. Once on of.en ground again, they soon gained the fallen palms. At a word from Blake, Miss Leslie hastened to fetch nuts for Winthrope to husk and open. Blake, who had I lucked three leaves from a fan palm near the edge of the jungle, began to irplit long shreds from one of the huge leaves of a cocoanut palm. This gave him a quantity of coarse, stiff fiber, part of which he twisted in a cord and used to tie one of the leaves of the fan palm over her head. "How's that for a bonnet?" he de manded. The improvised head-gear bore so grotesque a resemblance to a recent type of picture hat that Winthrope rould not repress a derisive laugh. Miss Leslie, however, examined the hat and gave her opinion without a Mgn of amusement. "I think it is splendid. Mr. Blake. If we must go cut in the sun again, it is just the thing to protect one." "Yes. Here's two more I've fixed for you. Ready yet, Winthrope?" The Englishman nodded, and the three sat down to their third feast of cocoanuts. They were hungry enough at the start, and Blake added no little keenness even to his own appetite by a grim joI:e on the slender prospects of the next meal, to the effect that if in the meantime not eaten themselves they might possibly find their next meal within a week. "But if we must move, could we not take some of the nuts with us?" sug gested Winthrope. Blake pondered over this as he ate. and when fully satisfied he helped him self up with his club he motioned the others to remain seated. "There are your hats and the strings," he said, "but you won't need J them now. 1 m going to take a pros pect along the river, and while I'm gone, you can make a try at stringing nuts on some of this leaf fiber." "But, Mr. Blake, do you think it's juite safe?" asked Miss Leslie, and he glanced from him to the jungle. "Safe?" he repeated. "Well, noth ing ate. you yesterday, if thct's any thing to go by. It's all I know about it." He did not wait for further protests. Swinging his club on his shoulder he started for the break in the jungle which marked the hippopotamus path. The others looked at each other, and H Saaha .aPt HSniiBnf a JkLW nil Kv Juii lllNSI&iECSmH -lJr raFrTa Stopped to Survey Miss Leslie sighed. "If only he were a gentleman!" she complained. Winthrope turned abruptly to the cocoanuts. CHAPTER VII. Around the Headland. was mid morning before Blake reappeared. He came from the mangrove swamp where it ran down into the sea. His trousers were smeared to the thigh with slimy mud; but as he approached the drooping brim of his palm-leaf hat failed to hide bis exultant expression. "Come on!" he called. "I've struck it. We'll be over in half an hour." "How's that?" asked Winthrope. "Bar," answered Blake, hurrying fotward. "Sling on your hats and get into my coat again, Miss Jenny. The sun's hot as yesterday. How about the nuts?" "Here they are. Three strings; all that 1 fancied we could carry," ex plained Winthrope. "All right. The big one is mine, I suppose. Til take 'two. We'll leave the other. Lean on me if your ankle is still weak." "Thanks; I can make it alone. But must we go through mud like that?" "Not on this side, at least. Come on! We don't want to miss the ebb." Blake's impatience discouraged further inquiries. He had turned as he spoke, and the others followed him, walking close together. The pace was sharp for Winthrope, and his ankle soon began to twinge. He was com pelled to accept Miss Leslie's invita tion to take her arm. With her help he managed to keep within a few yaids of Blake. Instead of plunging into the man- rrvswa VTrtl Vitrtl- Tiovn nr ! am I wirC .m LV r Z "UUCI i grown with a thicket of giant ferns, I T)f..l.h nl.MJ n......3 .l- I uiatvc stviiicu aiuuuu in lilt; ujujii un til they came to the seashore. The tide was at its lowest, and he waved his club towards a long sand pit which curved out around the seaward edge of the mangroves. Whether this was part of the river's bar or had been heaped up by the cyclone would have been, beyond Winthrope's knowledge had the question occurred to him. II was enough for him that the sand was smooth and hard as a race track. Presently the party came to the end of the spit, where the river water rip pied over the sand with the last feeble out-suck of the ebb. On their right they had a sweeping view of the river, around the flank of the man grove screen. Blake halted at the edge of the water and half turned. "Close up," he said. "It's shallow enough; but do you see those logs over on the mud-bank? Those are al ligators." "Mercy and you expect me to wade among such creatures?" cried Miss Leslie. "I went almost across an hour ago and they didn't bother me any. Come on! There's a wind in that cloud out seaward. Inside half an hour the surfll be rolling up on this bar like all Niagara." "If we must, we must. Miss Gene vieve," urged Winthrope. "Step behind me and gather up your skirts. It's best to keep one's clothes dry in the tropics." The girl blushed, and retained his arm. "l prerer to relp you," she replied. "Come on!" called Blake, and he splashed out into the water. The others followed within arm's length, nervously conscious of the clST the Coast Beyond. rows of motionless reptiles on the mud-fiat, not 100 yards distant. In the center of the bar, where the water was a trifle over knee-deep, some large creature came darting downstream beneath the surface and passed with a violent swirl between Blake and his companions. At Miss Leslie's scream, Blake whirled about and jabbed with his club at the sup posed alligator. "Where's the brute? Has he got you?" he shouted. "Xo. no; he went by!" gasped Win thrope. "There he is!" A long bony snout, fringed on either side by a row of lateral teeth, was flung up into view. "Sawfish!" said Blake, and he waded on across the bar without further com ment. Miss Leslie had been on the point of fainting. The tone of Blake's voice revived her instantly. There were no more scares. A few minutes later they waded out upon a stretch of clean sand on the south of the river. Before them the beach lay in a flattened curve, which at the far end hooked sharply to the left and appeared to terminate at the foot of the towering limestone cliffs of the headland. A mile or more inland the river jungle edged in close to the cliffs; but from there to the beach the forest was separated from the wall of rock by a little sandy plain, covered with creeping plants and small palms. The greatest width of the open space was hardly more than a quarter of a mile. Blake paused for a moment at high tide mark, and Winthrope instantly squatted down to nurse his ankle. , "I say, Blake," he said, "can't you find me some kind of a crutch? It is only a few yards around to those trees." "Good Lord! you haven't been fool enough to overstrain that ankle Yes. you have. Dammit! why couldn't you - mn wro,.. - ".V uvv Country Has They Are as Scarce in Bulgaria a " Black Swans. Bulgaria is the nearest approach to a peasant commonwealth which the world has known in modern times. There is not a Bulgarian Slav who is not the owner of a plot of land upon which he lives and out of which he gets his own livelihood by his own labor. Large landowners are almost un known, says the London Illustrated News. The few men of wealth in the country are mostly of foreign birth or descent; and even they would not be counted as wealthy according to the standard of other European coun tries. The smart landowners, wno form the vast majority of the population. are peasant born and peasant bred. They are extremely thirfty. They are content with very plain food; they wear the same sheepskin garments from year to year, only turning their coats inside out with the changes of the season. Wnole families, even of well to do peasants, Fieep in the same room upon mats stretcied out on the floor. They live under conditions of dirt and dis comfort which no British or German or French laborer would tolerate for a week. Yet notwithstanding their disregard of the simplest sanitary ar rangements they grow up bi..jularly strong and healthv. Moreover, they are free from the irritation caused among ctler labor "It did not feel so painful in the water." "I helped the best 1 could," Inter posed Miss Leslie. "I think ityou could get Mr. Winthrope a crutch', "Crutch!" growled Blake. "How long do you think it would take me to wade through the mud? And look at that cloud! We're in for a squall. Here!" He handed the girl the smaller string of cocoanuts, flung the other up the beach and stooped for Winthrope to mount his back. He then started off along the beach at a sharp trot. Miss Leslie followed as best she could, the heavy cocoanuts swinging about with every step and bruising her tender body. The wind was coming faster than Blake had calculated. Before they had run 200 paces they heard the roar of rain-lashed water, and the squall struck them with a force that almost overthrew the girl. With the wind came torrents of rain that drove through their thickest garments and drenched hem to the skin within the first half-minute. Blake slackened his pace to a walk and plodded sullenly along beneath the driving downpour. He kept to the lower edge of the beach, where the sand was firmest, for the force of the falling deluge, beat down the waves and held in check the breakers which the wind sought to roll up the beach. The rain storm was at its height when they reached the foot of the cliffs. The gray rock towered above them 30 or 40 feet high. Blake de posited Winthrope upon a wet ledge and straightened up to scan the head land. Here and there ledges ran more than half-way up the rocky wall; In other places the crest was notched by deep clefts; but nowhere within sight did either offer a continuous path to the summit. Blake grunted with dis gust. "It'd take a fire ladder to get up this side,'he said, "'.'e'll have to try the other, if we can get around the point. I'm going on ahead. You can follow, after Pat has rested his ankle Keep a sharp eye out for anything in the flint line quartz or agate. That means fire. Another thing, when this rain blows over, don't let your clothes dry on you. I've got my hands full enough without having to nurse you through malarial fever Don't forget .he cocoanuts, and if I don't show up by noon save me some." He stooped to drink from a pool in the rock which was overflowing with the cool, pure rainwater, and started off at his sharpest pace. Winthrope and Miss Leslie, seated side by side in dripping misery, watched him swing away through the rain without energy enough to call out a parting word. Beneath the cliff the sand beach was succeeded by a talus of xocky debris which in places sloped up from the water 10 or 15 feet. The lower part of the slope consisted of bowlders and water-worn stones, over which the surf, reinforced by the rising tide, was beginning to break with an angry roar. Blake picked his way quickly over the smaller stones near the top of the slope, now and then bending to snatch up a fragment that seemed to differ from the others. Finding nothing but limestone he soon turned his atten tion solely to the passage around the headland. Here he had expected to find the surf much heavier. But the shore was protected by a double line of reefs, so close in that channel be tween did not show a whitecap. This was fortunate, since in places the talus here sank down almost to the level ,ol low tide. Even a moderate surf would have ' rendered farther progress im practicable. Another 100 paces brought Blake to the second corner of the cliff, which jutted out in a little point He clam bered around it and stopped to sur vey the coast beyond. Writhin the last few minutes the squall had blown over and the rain began to moderate its downpour. The sun, bursting through the clouds, told that the storm was almost past, and Us flood of direct light cleared the view. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Few Rich Men - ers, overworked if not underpaid, by the spectacle of neighbors living in affluence and ease without any neces sity to curtail their expenditure. Rich men are black swans in Bulgaria. I was told by a foreign banker in Sofia who had traded for many years in the country that he doubted greatly whether there were 50 men in all the rural districts who had net incomes of $5,000 a year. The Language of Science. "I must say," remarked the plain every-day man, "that I feel as if I had a cold in the head. And I'm so hoarse I can hardly speak." "I see," answered the scientist. "You are suffering from a slight cohyza, causing congestion of the mucous membrane and suffusion of the optical organs, and inducing a somewhat phlogistic condition of the pieglottis. Perhaps, however, you had better send for a physician." "Send for a physician? No. I don't want a doctor. Send for an inter preter." Home Help. 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