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Well it’s 100 tol 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 it! That’s fine Miss Jenny!’’ Miss Leslie had forced herself to take 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 Not she began to eat with eagerness 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 lobk them over with a closeness 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 Here’s out everything my outfit-th-ree half a dozen poker shillings 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 “But Blake” answered Miss Leslie it is empty” Stopped Utterly Spent “Might be worse! What you got? — hairpins watch? No pocket I supnot been for Blake’s forethought in pose?” Within a littying them so securely “None Even most tle more than three miles the girl’s and no watch of my pins are gone” replied the girl strength began to fail and she raised her hand to her loosely “Oh Blake” called Winthrope for coiled hair the American was some yards In the “Well hold on to what you’ve got lead “pull up a bit on that knoll We’ll left They may come in for fish- have to rest a while I fancy Miss hooks Let’s see your shoes” Leslie is about pegged” Miss Leslie slowly thrust a slender ““What’s that?” demanded Blake little foot just beyond the hem of her “We’re not yet!” draggled white skirt Winthrope did not reply It was all “Good Lord!” groaned ' Blake "sliphe could do to drag the girl up on the pers and high heels at that! How do hummock She sank you expect to walk in those things?” upon the dry reeds and he sat down “I can at least try” replied the girl beside her to protect her with the with spirit “Hobble! Pass ’em over here Win- shade Blake stared at the miles of swampy flats which yet lay between nie my boy” them and the headland of The slippers were handed over Blake took one after the other and gray rock The base of the cliff was but the wreched off the heel close to its base screened by a belt of trees “Now you’ve at least got a pair of nearest clump of green did not look more than a mile nearer than the slippers" he said tossing them back headland to their owner "Tie them on tight “Hell!” muttered Blake despondentwith a couple of your ribbons if you “Not even a short four miles ly don’t want to lose them in the mud Mush and sassiety girls!” Now Winthrope what you got beside the knife?” Though he spoke to himself the ‘ Winthrope held out a bunch of long others heard him Miss Leslie flushed flat keys and his cigarette case He and would have risen had not Winon her am hand his and to the was about thrope put latter opened throw away the two remaining cigar"Could you not go on and bring ettes when Blake grasped his wrist back a flask of water for Miss Leslie?” “Hold on! even they may come In he asked “By that time she will be We’ll at least keep for something rested” them until we need the case” "No I don't fetch back any flasks "And the keys?” She’s going when I go or of water “Make if we can get you can come on to suit yourselves” fire" “Mr Blake you — you won’t go and ‘Tve heard of savages making fire leave me here! If you have a sister — If your mother — ” by rubbing wood” “Yes and we’re a long way from “She died of drink and both my All the sisters did worse” being savages — at present 6how we have is to find some kind of “My God man! do you mean to say quartz or flint and the sooner we start you’ll abandon a helpless young girl?” to look the better Got your slippers “Not a bit more helpless than were tied Miss Jenny?" my sisters when you rich folks’ guarI think they’ll do” “Yes dians of law and order Jugged me for “Think! It’s knowing the thing the winter ’cause I didn’t have a job let look” Here me and turned both girls Into the street “To be Can quickly be overcome by by SYNOPSIS sure fish” admitted The Wretchedness1 of Constipation by RAY WALTERS Th girl shrank back but Blake stooped and examined first one slipper The ribbons about and then the other 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 You’re “There that’s more like 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 “Let’s get a move on Keep my coat closer about your shoulders Miss Jenny and if you don’t want keep your shade a sunstroke” “Thank you Blake I’ll see to that” “I'm going to help said Winthrope I've fastened our Miss Leslie along 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 his back and started off without further words — 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 again spoke there was nothing more than Impatience in his tone “Come on now get aboard Winthrope couldn’t lug you a 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 It’s a case of going on my back But the sun was now almost directly overhead and between her thirst and the heat she soon found herself faltering 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 doubleheaded figure following her path across the marsh All abiut her became black The next Bhe knew Blake waa 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 If I had a only a wrenched ankle stick Blake I fancy I could make a ' go of it over this drier ground" “And lay yourpelf up for a month Come Miss Jenny brace up for another try It’s only a quarter-miland I’ve got to 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 Winthrope held the shade over her head Thus assisted and sheltered from the she totdirect beat of the tered along beside Blake “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 to help her up by Winthrope Ik) you hear? Take the knife and fish and lend a hand" There was a note in Blake's voice that neither Winthrope nor Miss Leslie dared disregard Though scarlet with mortification she permitted herself to be taken upon Blake’s broad shoulders and meekly obeyed his command to clasp her hands about ‘uls throat Yet even at that moment such are the inconsistencies of human nature she could not but admire the ease with which he rose under her weight Now that he no longer had the slow pace of the girl to consider he adFortunately the remaining distance vanced at his natural gait the quick ' of bare dry tireless stride of an American railroad lay across a stretch His feet trained to swamp ground for even Blake had all but surveyor Step travel in Louisiana and Panama reached the limit of endurance seemed to find the firmest ground as by step be labored on Btaggerlng under the weight of the Englishman and by instinct and whether on the mud of the hummocks or In the gasping with a thirst Which his exwater of the bogs they felt ertions rendered even greater than that of his companions But through their way without slip or stumble the trees and brush which stretched Winthrope though burdened only away inland in a wall of verdure he with the tolled coryphene had caught glimpses of a broad stream along behind greatly troubled by the mud and the tangled reeds and now and the hope of fresh water called out and then flung down by some unlucky every ounce of his reserve strength At last the nearest palm was only a His modish suit misstep already Blake clutched much damaged by the salt water was few paces distant soon smeared afresh with a coating of Miss Leslie’s arm and dragged her with a rush in a final outburst greenish slime His one consolation forward of moment A later all three energy was that Blake after Jeering at his first But the tumble paid no (more attention to lay gasping in the shade him On the other hand he was cut river waa yet another 100 yards distant1 Blake waited only to regain his seeming Indifference of Miss Leslie Intent on his own misery he breath then he staggered up and went failed to consider that the girl blight on The others unable to rise gazed be suffering far greater discomfort and after him in silent misery Soon Blake found himself rushing humiliation More than three miles had been cov- through the jungle along a broad trail ered before Blake stopped on a hum- pitted with enormous footprints but mock Releasing Miss Leslie he he was so near mad with thirst that stretched out on the dry crest of the he paid no heed to the spoor other knoll and called for a slice of the fish than to curse the holes for thd trouble Suddenly the trail At his urging the others took a few they gave him mouthfuls although their throats were turned to the left and sloped down a Blind to all so parched that even the moist flesh low bank into the river else Blake tan down the slope and afforded scant relief Fortunately for them all Blake had been thoroughly dropping upon his knees plunged hla He rested head into the water trained to endure thirst (TO BE CONTINUED) less than ten minutes then taking Miss Leslie up again like a rag doll SURELY WORTH HAD MONEY’S he swung away at a good pace The trees were less than half a Uncle Hod Had Come Far to Get It— mile distant when he halted for the and He Got It second time He would have gone to them without a pause though his musThere being no dentist In the little cles were quivering with exhaustion town where he resided Uncle Hod had not Miss Leslie chanced to look Rowdybush had gone to the county around and discover that Winthrope seat to have an aching tooth exwas no longer following them For tracted “I see it's one of your large the last mile he had been lagging molars” said the dentist at whose offarther and farther behind and now fice he called “and it will come pretty he had suddenly disappeared At the hard Don’t you think you’d better Blake regirl’s dismayed exclamation take gas ?” leased his hold and she found herself “I don’t know" answered Uncle standing in a foot or more of mud and Hod “Does it cost anything extra?” water The sweat was streaming “Yes it will be two dollars if you down Blake’s face As he turned take gas and one dollar if you don’t” around he wiped it off with his shirt‘How long does it take to pull it sleeves that way?” — “Do you can it be Mr Blake that “It won’t seem any time at all to he has had a sunstroke?” asked Miss you You go to sleep and you seem Leslie to wake up Immediately and the tooth “Sunstroke? No" he’s just laid is out" down that’s all I thought he had “And I don’t feel it come out?” more sand — confound him!” “Not a particle" “But the sun is so dreadfully hot Uncle Hod reflected and I have his shade” “Well” he said ‘Tve come 27 miles “And he’s been tumbling into every to have this tooth and I think other pool No it's 'not the sun I’ve I’m entitled to thepulled of satisfaction half a mind to let him lie — the paperknowing when you yank It out— to say legged swell! It would no more than nothin’ of savin’ a dollar I don’t want aboard-shlour accounts” square no gas" “Surely you would not do that Mr From the manner in which Uncle Blake! It may be that he has hurt Hod groaned during the subsequent himself in falling” It was inferred that he had operation — But I guess “In this mud? bah! a dollar’s worth of “satisfaction” I'm in for the stunt all fully —Youth’s Companion around Now now don’t yowl Miss Jenny I’m going But you can’t exFled from Hoodoo Cat pect me to love the snob” Deserted by her crew at the very As he splashed away on the return moment of sailing for the north tho trail Miss Leslie dabbed at her eyes fishing schooner Edrie due to leave at to check the starting tears two o’clock Friday afternoon still lies “Oh dear — Oh dear!” she moaned at her moorings and all because of a “what have I done to be so treated? black cat Friday the crew Such a brute Oh dear! — and I am so was making final arrangements to sail when a yell resounded out of the hold thirsty!” In her despair she would have sunk A sailor burst through the hatch down where she stood had not the scrambled over the side and made off sliminess of the water repelled her before anyone could stop him She gazed longingly at the trees in While the others were gazing after the fore of which stood a grove of his retreating form a yowl came from seemed the darkness below and a black cat stately palms The an Insuperable distance but the ride appeared upon the deck One look at on Blake’s back had rested her and the feline was thirst goaded her forward enough Every man of the crew Stumbling and slipping she waded picked up his bundle and silently deon across the inundated ground and parted nor can the captain by any t means lure any of them back on came out upon where the walking was much easier board— San Francisco Chronicle |