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Mr. Illuke, 1 am sura it mu hi lip a iiiiiitulip; I am miip that if It is pxpluiii'-i- l to im pa ralilo finpu to nlfilit. "Yi'S; wi-'l-l pIsp to do. Mi'anllliie, we'u1 goiiu-iliiiiSupjiotip you two Kid u tniKile oil your-- j bi'Ivpb, and up BoinciliiiiK lo cat. I'm point; out to Rpe what's Ml of that blamed old tub." 'Oli, but I lt--- - u peek-a-boo.- thrope. Don't say do! rejoined lllake; and he started down the muddy shore. JOJ Though the tide was at flood, there jo was now no cyclone to drive the sea sjeifjoiM ojiueuoduii above the beach, and lllake walked a quarter of a mile before he reached .. XjJBtl b XufABq 3q jsnui po;) the water's edge. 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Winthrope and Miss Leslie had been watching hiB movements; now the girl rose in a little tlurry of haste, and set to gathering reeds. Winlhrope would have spoken, hut. seeing her embarrassment, smiled to himself, and begun strolling about In search of Ash. The It wag no difficult search. marshy ground was strewn with dead many of which were already shriveling and drying lit the sun. Some of the fish had a familiar look, and Winthrope turned ihem over with the tip of his shoe. He even went ao fur as to stoop to pick up a large mullet; but shrank back, repulsed by Its stiffness and the unnatural Bhapc into which the sun was warping It. He found himself near the beach, and stood for half an hour or more watching the black dot far out in the water all that was to be seen of lllakp. The American, after wading e another quarter of a mile, had reached swimming depth, and was heading out among the reefs with steady, vigorous strokes. Half a mile or ao beyond him Winthrope could now make out the goal for which he waa aiming the one remaining topmast of the steamer. "Hy Jove, these waters are full of sharks!" murmured Wintlmqie. staring at the steadily receding dot until it disappeared behind tile wall of surf which spunit d up over one of the outer reefs. A call from MIrb Leslie interrupted his watch, and he hastened to rejoin her. After several failures, she had contrived to knot lllake's handkerchief to three or four reeds In the form of a little sunshade. Her shoulders were protected by lllake's coat. It made a heavy wrap, but it .shut out the blistering sun rays, wHicli. as lllake had foreseen, had quickly begun to burn the girl's delicate skin through her open-worbodice. Thus protected, she was fairly safe from the sun. Hut the sun was by no means the worst feature of the situation. While Wlnthrojie was yet several UMOuq-ijeeqj 'Bq9nojjna uqof 'j;q distant, the girl began to comyards 'A3J8 J3A3 Xeqj Sujqj jsaq aqj bj him. to Tin so thirsty. Mr. plain 11 Xbb afdoad jo cpuvanoqx 'Xjjunos Winthrope! Where Is there any waqj ja.io n saaaana jsbjX b paAojd ter? Please get me a drink at once, aq "a X abj ibjoia jo uumapaag Mr. Winthrope!" OAOuq-naaqj apfjqo aj.vta'i uqof Hill, my dear Miss I'slle. there is Xq paonpojjuj pua JfUBqjttjf jaqjnq do water. These pools are all seaXq paittufSiJO jjnj; uapj3 BnofjAjam water. I must Hay, I'm dry I cant see why ilmt rail qi 'XJjaquus jo Xjjaqjapuo.Y aqj, myBelf. us like this. should go off and Oh. I'm so Xaqi mojo "Indeed, it la a Bujqi jaag eqj a,j Xs apuaa Miltsty! Do von think it would help a33n8 jaajg aioqA paAOjj aH if we ate something?" HeMdes. "Make It all the worse All bow cnuli we cook anything? AUU38NflS UO iLs ate green k e J3 AUU38U3QN0M 3H1 th-'s- p-- (wails?" Tools? h you know', Hiukc. I never thought or the sniIk. 1 slopped to watch you, at-.- ilmn we were so iihiiul you " Hlake grunted and turned on hix heel to wade into the half drained pool in whose midst lie had b- - it deposited d Two or Three Small Fish Lay Faintly Wriggling on the Surface. "Hut Mr. lllake said to gather some fish. Had you not best " "He can pick up all he wants. I shall not. touch the beastly things." "Then 1 supitose there Ik nothing to do hut wait for him." "Yes, if the sharks do not gel him." Miss Leslie uttered a little moan, and Winthrope, seeing that she was on the verge of tear, hastened to reassure her. "Don't worry about him. He'll soon ret urn. Miss tioneviove! with nothing worse than a blistered buck. Fellows of that sort are bom to hang, you know. "Hut if he should be if anything should happen to him!" WlnthroH shrugged his shoulders, und drew out his silver cigarette cusp. It was more than half-fuland he was highly gratified to find that neither the cigarettes nor the vesta matches In the cover had been reached lv the wet. Jove, here's luck!" lie ex-- j "Hy claimed, and he bowed to Miss lcslie. "Pardon me. but If you have no ob- Miss Is-sli- e innde uo At lnai lllake was our or ilte water and tolling up Ihe muddy heaeh to the sKt. when1 he had left bis clothes. While dressing he seemed lo recover from his exertions in tin- - water, for the moment he had finished lie sprang to hiK leet and enine forward at a brisk pace. he approached. As Winthrope waved his fifth cigarette at hint with languid enthusiasm, and called out us heartily as his dry lips would permit: "I say, lllake, deuced glad the sharks didn't get you!" "Sharks? huh! All you have to do Is to splash a little, and they haul off." "How about the steamer, Mr. lllake?" asked Miss turning in face lif in. "All under but ihe mainiopinust purse it! win rigging at that! Couldn't even get a bolt." "A bolt?" Not a lxdt; und here we are as good ax naked on this infernal Her, you! what you doing with that match? jections " Dam-na- t The girl nodded as a matter of form, Light your cigarette light it! ion!" and Winthrope hastened to light the Heedless of lllake's warning cry. cigarette already in his fingers. The smoke by no means tended lo lessen WlntlmiM- - hud struck his last vesta, the dryness of his mouth; vet it put and now, angry and bewildered, he him lu a reflective ntood, and in think- stood staring while the little taper ing over what he had read of ship- burned Itself out. With an oatli. lllake wrecked parties, he remembered thHt sprang to eatch It as It dropped from a pebble held In the mouth is snpimsed between Winthrope's lingers. Hut he was too far away. It fell among Ihc to ease ones thirst. To be sure, there was not a sign of damp rushes, spluttered, and Mansi a el)hle within ntlles of when they out. For u moment lllake knelt, staring sat; but after some reflection, it occurred to him that one of his steel at. the rushes as though stupefied ; keys might do as well. At first Miss then he sprang up before Winthrope. Ills bronzed fare purple with anger. Ijsslle was reluctant to try the "Wheres your matchbox? Out. any and only the Increasing dryness of her niouih forced her to seek more?" he demanded. the promised relief. Though it failed faney yes; last one. "Ijtst one. to quench her thirst, she was agree- and there are still I wo cigarettes. Hut ably surprised to find that the little look here, lllake, I can't tolerate jour " fiat bar of metal eased her craving lo talking so dem-cdl.: "You Idiot! you von- and a marked degree. Winthrope now thought to rig h (very one for eigareites!" From a growl lllake's voice burst simile as Miss Leslie had done, out of reeds and his handkerchief, tor the into a roar of fury, und sprang upon sun was scorching his unprotected Winthnqic like a wild beast. Ilis head. the two hands closed upon the ICnglishinnn's Thus sheltered, crouched as comfortably as tlieyrotild throat, and he hegnn lu shake him crest or the hum- about, paying no heed to the Idows upon the mock amt waited impatiently for the his victim showered uxn his face and return of lllake. body, blows which soon began o lessen In force. Terror-stricken- , CHAPTER III. Miss e put her hands over her eyes, and began to The Worth of Fire. scream the piercing shriek that will unnerve the strongest man. as though transfixed, and as the Krtglislimnn struggled in his grasp, he fluug him on the HDUCH tbe sen within the ground ami turned to the screaming reefs wits fast smoothing girl. "Stop that squawking!" he said. The to a glassy plain In the dead calm, they did not see lllake on girl cowed down "So: that's better his return until he struck shallow wa- Next time keep your mouth shut." "You yon brute!" ter and stood up to wade ashore. The "flood! You've got a litth spun. to elili before tide had landward, and though lie was ehr "You coward -- to attack a man not a powerful swimmer, the long pull half your strength!" against tlo1 current had so tired him "Steady, steady, young lady! I'm that when lie took to wading lie warm enough vet. I've still half a moved at a tot toiselike gall. "The iiioomin' lo.ifer!" coinim nted mind to wring Ills fool neck." "Hut why should you la so angry? Winthrope. He glanced quickly a'lout. and at sight of Miss Is she's arching What has lie done, that you " "H--browr.. hastened to add: "Why why 7 laird! what hasn't he par don! lie uh reminds tin- - r.o much dne? This coast fairly swarms with beasts. We've not the micil of a gun. nf m npvvv nil Lrifiw ' l, 1 - Ih-li- Imlf-drie- Ij-sli- ISluk-pause- unx-Ioii- June 29, 1909. His Terrible Threat. Aviation has improved since t li linn- - wln-- Col. then and for years a county well known Chirugonn, made a balloon at a county fair over In Michigan, says (la Chicago Journal. As the guest of honor the colonel was sei-- i ut ward with the assurance that there wns absolutely no danger. Hut as the distance from the earth grew greater the colonel leaned out anxiously. Pull me in'." he shouted. The men who were bulling out Ihe rojin paid no heed to his demand. Higher and higher went the balloon. Wilder und wilder grew tbe colonel. Finally, almost standing on Ills head as he tried to keep a precarious balance, he gave a final cry of panic: "Pull me in, I tell you, or I'll cut the ruH-- ! CU-ar- thn -- "In I tow l.iis. South Wales, about fifteen years ago. families were strick-i- n wholesale by a disease known as the itch. me, it is the most terrible disease of Its kind that 1 know of. as if itelu-all through your lody und makes jour lire an inferno. Sleep is out of the question mid you feel as if a million mosquitoes wer attacking you at the same time. I knew a do.i-families that were so affected. "The doctors did their best, but their remedies were of no avail whatever. Then die families tried a druggist who was noted far und wide for his remarkable cures. People came to him from all parts of the country for treat uieiit. but his medicine made lnnMvrs still worse, as a Inst resort they wen- - advised hy a friend to use the ('iiticura Remedies. I am glad to tell you that after a few days treatment with ('iiticura Soap, Ointment and Resolvent, the effect was wonderful and the result was a perfect cure in nil cases. "I may add that my three brothers, three sisters, myself and all our families have been users of the Cutlcura Reined Irm fur fifteen years. Thomas Hugh. 1 fiiiO West Huron St., Chicago. 111., whi-rc'r- i3i 'BBajSojil uj oja.tc 8aai.Jd8 uaq.u JUJU3A3 XBpunsj uo am i) Bfqj 'if.ijnifj oqj Xq uajfBj ujbSb bb.h puqa aqj : lo-e- " BJBaa WELSH ; lu-e- (, aqj IN VILLAGE - ".-'l- mouj Jf JBqj 338 pUB - EPIDEMIC OF ITCH r Minn "Surely you'll not venture to swim out' so far;" protested Winthrope. "I saw the steamer sink as we cast off." "lawks like a mast slip king up out 001 01 there. Maybe some of the rigging is Q3SV3H3M 1II9I3A U3H loose. "Hut the sharks! These waters swarm with the vile creatures. You Jf J must not risk your life!" .1UOU UKI JKIIdXd JlMJtl V JdJJoq 'CauBe why? If I do, the babes in i.iinatuB'iini 'Mlulinnmr ntot woods will be left without even tbe HJWUHM' tljUO h4MIU) iUN J.ll AU ill MX JUValMUl tfjNlllftiU the robltiB to rover them, poor things! Hut rlteer up! maybe the mud-hen- s Jf IfJl.Vt XbUjJS Jil.VdU will do it with lovely water-liliea.JJU DA (SI OJ d.lfApR dAlilf Olf.Vl UOfV "lieasc-- , Mr. lllake, do not be so n9 "papaii jbj fauma jo Xvp fj Ait cruel!" sobbed Miss U4? HaipiuiU.1 J J uiKWiy plum Islie, her tears uiq.i AUK 1UI1.I 111 MclUlUI!lllHka'KJ.0 OZVd sun makes my afresh. "The starting 1 OX K1 H.1U M IIJ head ache dreadfully, and 1 have no iiiomimud joj uiiifi hat or shade, and I'm becoming so .uoiii AOf joj jJufjoSunq iiJQ pjo HX thirsty!" And you think you've only to wait, .ifilo.Hl Alums uf sjqBii-ifif.iott aqj. anI half a dozen stewards will rome ii i! juk'iks Uikiniiji 1H IV Ml.nr.uin .UK c.ipintl running with parasols and let1 water. i;im mrJiMiuH un iihii uni luca iauii iniii.i ium u.rti i:iuni Neither ou nor Wimhropc seem to pu jnuiia JI J l llM.MVa A1AI ve got your eyes open. Just suppose BdlUfX pill! pjllflUBJS you get busy and do some tiling. chase yourself over the mud, Ofioifj)!;) ..Sdsmu aqj jo auo hj siiqj obit jnqj Siiisodilns jo aqviBfiii aqj and get together a mess of fish that are not too dead. Must be dozens, aft-tlBaqsm aq.. Japfa sfif paffilaj ..'jnjf.. blow. As for you, Miss Jenny, 1 Basnui ffB oajob pfiio.K aqj ,,'djfi siq B you ran pick up some reeds and J.KJlI ub guess J aif uuiuoji BiioHiquiB Suno.( rig a headgear out of thin handkeraqi pBB Baaainj.Aachief Wait u moment. Put on my jojjS jifBfis roiit, if you don't want to lie broiled iqlnofl BiBAtfV 0ABH noji pufM aqx alive through the holes of that Bjnax of; jbao joj aan. ni I "Hut 1 Bay, Wake- began Winjo ajnjBuSjg 'savnod hi-t-- Victim-- - - I CHAPTER hat's the nine, please? Much too kit- for you. Your pal Just got my watch. 1 i m-- - Of - and now this idiot tills dough-lu-ahas gone anil thrown away urn ouh rlinui e - lire ami on bis nicas'y i l-.-i ri'lles!" Kink- - (diokcil willi urniug rage. Wfntlirnpe. Mill pauliiig for Ineatli. begun to creep awav. at the s.iim nu.was unclasping a small priiliiiii- while wiih lear; but his giay which mi shipboard Itl.ike bad seen id iii i" than iifTeiisireiv rcili mis now glinted ni a manner that served to alicr the Anii'iican's mood. "That'll ib," he said. "Conn- here ami show me lint' kliilT." "I'll shew it you wlieri- - it will do the most good. in ui Winlhrope. ris ing luislily to repel ihe x peeled at tack l jou'w- got a lit iii- - sand, tun." said I "a lo almost guild iiiituredly. "Say, that's nut su bad. Well call it quits un tin- - mulches. Though how you could go und throw them away "Deuce fake it, man! How should I know 7 I've never before in a wreck." "Neither have I lliis kind. Hut I our think tell you, we've got to tanks going. Ii'k a gm-s- s if we see tie morrow, and that's no joke. Now do you wonder I got hot?" "indeed, no! I've been an ass,' and heres my hand to you really mean l's culls. "It's- quits all right, lung us you don't run out of sand," responded Hiukc, and he gripped tlitt oilier's sort winced. hand until the Hu: that's settled. I've got a hot temper, hut I don't hold grudges. Now, your lish? "I well, they were all spoiled." "Spoiled 7" "Tin- - suit hail shriveled Ihem." "And you call that- - spoiled! We're We're like to eat them rnltcii through with this picnic. How about it li I) H!.:pwrMk of n un wiu-i.Mih i Aim'iU'sm un l.oi.l ). in Knuiihliinnii. uiitl Tom . h lrmuiiiv Aiii.riran, nutiinsHrimri-HTl'i li.rri wii luhM'd Umiu an il.iinl ;nnl Merc tip only iiiim tia i linitviii'il. lKp frnin a (imiiki'fi Hit nr. liliikt. HlMimtM m thu biM'uiiHr of lift roiiisliitrHft, Iktuiip Lumt, u iuvsitmt uf i lit liflplih p ilr. Tilt KimliHiiiiiaii wan Kiting lor tlio hannl JUdJ.IJJip IIIOJJ dill Jlloql pUB V SYNOPSIS. rtlif. 011 I w WRAY Mil ILimmmtiJ Cl. (OPtMifAr itu4 iuoa h hy the hurricane. Two or tluee small fish lay faintly wiiggling on the surface. As Hlake splashed through the water to seize them Ids fool struck against a living body which floumh-reviolently and Hushed a brilliant forked tail above the muddy water, lllake sprang over which was entangled in the reeds, and wit It a kick llung it clear Real Early Rising. our umn tli ground. Farmer Hrowit und Farmer Jones A cory phene!" cried Winthrope. were near neighbors, and many a disam he ran forward to stare Ht the pute took place as to who was the earcolored prite. gnrgcu::--!- ' lier riser. Hoth maintained that each l "Cory phene?" repeated lllake. folthe other. lowing his example. "Hood lo eat ?" One day Farmer drown determined "Fine as saltniin. This 'Is only a to put the subject to test. Rising very small on-- , lint " early one morning, about two o'clock, "Fifteen pounds if an oiiuXe!" cried he proceeded to visit hia friend. Great Hlake, and he thrust Ills hand in Ills wns his astonishment when he saw . siThere was a momi-nt'- s Mrs. Jones hanging out the clothes In lence, and Winthrope, glancing up. saw the garden. the nrher staring In blank dismay. "FHrnu-- r Jones about? he asked. "Whats up? Iip asked. "Well." replied the lady, he waa "lgist my knife." thn first part of the inornln, but I "When? In ihe jaxol? If we felt diinim where he Invnnw ezas-IK-ra'e- d tie-lis- d cxei-lli-i- law-kcl- about--- "No; aboard ship, or in tin surf" "Here is my hiiir-- . Yes; almost big enough to whittle a match! Mine would have done us some pond." "It is Ih- - l steel." All light: let's si-you cut up the IMi." "Hut yon know, lllake. I shouldn't know how to go about it. I never did such a thing. "And you. Miss Jenny? Ctrls are supposed to know about looking" I never cooked anything In all my life. Mr. Hlake, and it's alive and and I am very thirsty, Mr. lllake!" . "fllve gr(l!" eummeiiled 111hL-iiithat knife." Though the blade was su small, the American's hand was strong. ATter some little haggling, the coryphene was killed anil diessed. lllake washed both it and his hands In the pool, and began to cut slices of flesh Trittn the fish's tail. We have un fire," Wintluope reminded him. (lushing at the word. "Thai's true." assented Hlake. tn a cheerful tone, and he offered Winthrope two of the pieces of raw flesh. "Here's your breakfast. The trimmed piece is Tor Miss jsli." "Hut it's raw! Keally. I could not think of eating raw fish. Could you. Miss Alias shuddered, "till, no! and I'm so thirsty I could not eat anything." "Yoii bet you can!" replied Hlake. 'Moth of you take that, fish and go to chewing. It's the stuff to ease your thirst while we look for water. Hood Lord! In a week you'll lie glad to eat raw snake. Finnicky over clean fish, all but whi'ti yon swallow raovnx-hacraw. ami beef running blood, and raw full of oysters witli tlii-i- r stomachs nni mil inato-r- . to put It politely. You couldn't tell raitlrstiake broth Trout chicken, and flog makes first-ratveal when you'vo gut to out it. I've bail It straight from Ihem that knows that over In France they eat It's ail a mat snails nml ter of custom or the style." lu-s- r e fish-worm- (TO U CONTi-N- IJIV) How It Struck Him. the wondroua beauties of yon sunset sky, exclaimed the poet. "How prodigal nature is with Its resplendent glories." Yes. answered the busy publisher, in un absent-mindetone, it Is going some to throw In a colored supplement every day." "lb-hol- d True Friendship. "Why did you tell your friend that the drassmaker had totally ruined your dress?" Oh. 1 simply thought It would make her happy." Kllegeitde Hlaetter. INSOMNIA Leads to Madness, if not Remedied in Time. Experiments satisfied me, some 5 years Hgo," writes a Topeka woman, that coffee was the direct cause of tbe Insomnia from which I suffered terribly, as well as the extreme nervousness and acute dyspepsia which made life a most painful thing for me. I had been a coffee drinker since childhood, and did not like to think that the beverage was doing me all this harm. Hut it was, and the time came when I had to face the fact, and protect inyself. I therefore gave up coffee abruptly and absolutely, and adopted Iostum as my hot drink at meals. I began to note improvement in my condition very soon after I took on rosturu. The change proceeded gradually, hut surely, and It was a matter of only a few weeks before I found myself entirely relieved the nervousness passed away, my digestive apparatus was restored to normal efficiency, and I began to Bleeji, rest fully and peacefully. These happy conditions have continued during all or the o years, and I am safe in saying that I owe them entirely to Pueimu, for when I began to drink It I ceased to use mcilteiue. Read the little book, "The Rotld to Wcllville.'in pkgs. "There's a Reason. mil the above Irllrrf aew one appeara Irtim time to time. They are aeaulae, true, aaii (all of huinaw latereat. |