Show SERIAL STORY INTO THE By BENNET ROBERT AMES Illustrations RAY (Copyright loon b WALTERS by A C UoClurg & Co I SYNOPSIS The story opens with the shipwreck of steamer on which Miss Genevieve an American heiress Leslie Lord Winan and Tom Blake thrope a brusque Englishman American were passengers The three were tossed upon an uninhabited island and were the only ones not drowned Blake recovered from a drunken stupor Blake shunned on because of his roughness became a hero as preserver of the helpless pair The was suing for the hand of Englishman Miss Leslie Blake started to swim back to the ship to recover what was left Blake returned safely Winthrope wasted his last match on a cigarette for which he was scored by Blake Their first meal was a dead fish The trio started a ten mile hike for higher land Thirst attacked them Blake was compelled to carry Miss Leslie on account of wearl ness He taunted Winthrope They en tered the Jungle That night was passed roosting high in a treeto The next morn' the open again Ing they descended All three constructed hats to shield them selves from the sun They then feasted on cocoanuts the only procurable food Miss Leslie showed a liking for Blake hut detested his roughness Led by Blake established a home in some cliffs: they Miss Blake found a fresh water spring Leslie faced an unpleasant situation the CHAPTER VIII— Continued ''They’ll be dry in a day or two Say Winthrope you might fetch some of those stones — size of a ball I used to be a fancy pitcher when I was kid and we might scare up a rabbit or something” “I play cricket myself But these run” Without Waiting for a second — it’a absurd to think of having to warning Blake drew his club to him stay In this horrid country for weeks and crept back down the trail His or perhaps months— unless some ship " stealthy movements and furtive back- - comes for us!M ward glancis filled his companions “Look here Miss Leslie” answered with vague terror He himself was giak0i sharply yet not unkindly “sup- hardly less alarmed pose you just sit back and use your ‘‘Get out of the trees — into the open!” thinker a bit If you’r your daddy’s he exclaimed in a hoarse whisper and daughter you’ve got brains some- as they crept away white with dread where down under the l the unknown danger he followed at stuff” their heels looking backward his club “What do you mean sir?" raised in readiness to strike “Now don’t get huffy please! It’s Once clear of the trees Winthrope a question of think not of puttl ig on Miss Leslie by the hand and airs Here we are worse off thn the broke into a run In their terror they people of the stone age They had paid no heed to Blake’s command to fire and flint axes we’ve got nothing stop They had darted off so unex- - but our think tanks and as to lions pectedly that he did not overtake them and leopards and that sort of thing short of 100 yards it strikes me we've got about as many "Hold on!” he said gripping Win- - on hand as they had" "Then you and Mr Winthrope thrope roughly by the shoulder "It’s safe enough here and you’ll knock out should immediately arm yourselves" that blamed ankle" ' "How? — But we’ll leave that till “What is it? What did you see?” later What else?” gasped Miss Leslie The girl gazed at the surrounding "Footprint” mumbled Blake ashamed objects her forehead wrinkled In the of his fright effort at concentration "We must “A lion’s?” cried Winthrope Think how we suffered have water "Not so large — ’bout the size of a yesterday! Then there is shelter from puma’s Must be a leopard’s den up wild beasts and food and — ” there I heard a growl and thought it “AH right here under our hands if about time to clear out’ we had fire Understand?” “I understand about the water You better withdraw "By Jove we’d around the point!” would frighten the leopard away with "Withdraw your aunty! There’s no the fire and if it would do that it leopard going to tackle us out here in would also keep away the other But as for food unless ground this time of day The mals at night If only I had a we return for cocoanu’s — ” sneaking tomcat! match I’d show him how we smoke "Don’t give it up! Keep your think r holes” rat "! he’s Z f?!0!!!1 ‘Mr move Now our got Winthrope spoke of rubbing sticks to make fire” suggested Miss the fire sticks out of his head—1 "I say Blake I wish you would Leslie "Make sweat you mean But we drop that name It Is no harder to say may as well try it now if we’re going Winthrope” "You’re off there” rejoined Blake to at all The sun’s hot enough to fry eggs We’ll go back to a shady place “But look here I’ll 'make It Win if you figure out what we ought tn’dn and pick up sticks on the way next” Though there was shade under the "Really Blake that would not be cliff within some 600 feet they had They — er — they called me to go some distance to the nearest dry half bad wood— a dead thornbush Here they Win at Harrow” "That so? My EngHsn cnum went gathered a quantity of branches even Miss Leslie volunteering to carry aM° Harrow — Jimmy Scarbridge1 "Lord James! — your chum?” load “He started in like you sort of top- All was thrown down In a heap near the cliff and Blake squatted beside it lofty But he chummed all right-a- ftpenknife in hand Having selected the er I took out a lot of his British starch dryest of the larger sticks he bored a wi a good walloping hole in one side and dropped in a really now Blake you can’t pinch of powdered bark Laying the expect any one with brains to believe stick in the full glare of the sun he Oiat y°u know! “No I don’t know you know — and thrust a twig into the hole and began to twirl it between his palms This 1 don’t know If you’ve got any brains you knew Here’s your chance to show us What’s our next move?" Really now I have had no expert- ence In this sor4 of thing — don’t Interrupt please! It seems to me that our flrst concern is shelter for the If we should return to your night tree nest we should also be near the cocoa palms” "That’s one side Here’s the other Bar to wade across — sharks and allithen swampy ground — magators laria mosquitoes thorn jungle Guess the hands of both of you are still sore enough by thelr look” "If only I had a pot of cold cream!” sighed Miss Leslie "If only I had a hunk of jerked beef!” echoed Blake “Um-mstocking torn but thoss slippers are tougher than I thought Most of the way will be good walking along the beach We’ll leave the fishPat— er—beg pardon— Win! With his ankle — ” the “Hy J°ve Blake I'll chance ankle Don't leave me behind I Eve y°u my word you’ll not have to lu "Oh of course Mr Winthrope must wlth us!” “’Eraid to go alone eh?” demanded ®lake’ tone startled and offended her y et aB tie saw was a politely quizzical toting ° ier brows Mr "Why should I be afraid Blake?” $he asked ' Blake stared at her But moodily when she met his gaze with a confiding smile he flushed and looked away "we’ll “All right” he muttered move camp together But don’t expect me to pack his ludship if we draw a blank and have to trek back without food or water" g0 ”3 CHAPTER The Leopards’ IX Den IIILE Blake made a successful trip for the abandoned cocoanuts his companions leveled the stones beneath the ledges chosen by Winthrope and gathered enough dried sea weed along the talus to soften the hard beds by the monotonous wash of thHea amon6 the rocK8 even Mis Leslie slept well Blake who had in- slsted that she should retain his coat pre- was wakened by the chilliness ceding the dawn Five minutes later they started on their journey The starlight glimmered on the waves and shed a faint radiance over the rocks This and their knowledge of the way enabled them to pick a path along the foot of the cliff without Once on the beach difficulty they al?ng ata Bmar gaB Jnvlgorated by the cooi alr Dawa found them half way to thelr Blake called a halt when the goal flrst red streakg ghot up the eastern All stood waiting until the quick-gky ly following sun sprang forth from the sea Blake s flrst act was to glance from one headland tothe other estl- mating their relative distances grunt of satisfaction was lost in Win Htrope’s exclamation: "By Jove look at the cattle!” OLD ITALIAN FEAST IS THAT MARY IN OF HONOR OF THE CHAINS HOLY Its Origin In Years Long Past Based on Miracle That Neapolitan Continue to Have Moat Do vout Belief In Had One of the oldest and strangest feasts that take place in Naples is the one in honor of Santa Marla della Catena (Holy Mary of the Chains) It occurs the last Sunday in August In front of the church dedicated to her facing the Bea at Santa Lucia Soon after daybreak crowds of people line the embankment opposite the church dressed In strange paper costumes adorned with squibs and crackers some carrying umbrellas of the same material and with some adornments others large baskets with fruit decorated likewise with fireworks At the first stroke of the church bell for early mass the fireworks are let off the fruit baskets emptied on the ground over the contents of which hundreds of children begin to fight undaunted by the palls of water which are freely emptied over them A second bell is the signal for hundreds of the crowd to throw themselves in various states of dress or undress from the embankment into the sea women and children Included Invalids even are brought to take a dip and those who are unable to swim are assisted by others This practice originated in the faith that the sea water the Sunday In August 8 Bure remedy against infirmity present and future The Madonna della Catena is believed to work the miracle ?uo did cen- turies ago when the church was built in her honor according to the following legend: At the time when the chores of the Medterranean were lnfegted wUh pl rateg some inhabitants of Santa Lucia the Turks and a heavy raPgom WJ demanded for thelr reease g0me fishermen with the aid Bt atue of 0r!unhe1vMfound vv alhne neaTh sSLeeded in coHecXJ the r reeas® or taelr friends captured The pirates were asked to bring their prisoners and to receive their ransom on a certain day which hap- pened to be the last Sunday In AuThe pirates however fearing gust gome treachery but not wishing to re- turn the prisoners took ihim—ta (TO BE CONTINUE!?) seashore at some distance from Santa Lucia and having chained them hand YOUNGSTERS TAUGHT TO SMOKE and foot threw them into the sea Blake set so slow a pace that the The people of Santa Lucia notwith-Two Centuries Ago English Children walk consumed over half an Carried Pipes to School standing the distance and the chains hour But his smouldering irritation succeeded in having them and attrib-Thwas soon quenched when they drew practice of Juvenile smoking in uted this to a miracle of the Madonna near the green thicket at the foot of this country In the seventeenth cen-- 1° whose name the ransom had been the cleft In the almost deathlike and In her honor a church tury was practically universal says collected stillness of the sound the London Chronicle Jorevln de was erected In the year 1576 of trickling water came to their ears Rochefort a French traveler of that Dire Peril of the Ocean clear and musical period in an account published in 1671 An unknown derelict narrowly “A spring!” "I shouted Blake gives a description of an evening he missed the cause of a terrible Look at those green spent In Worcester He was catechised disaster being guessed right in the Pacific recently as reone and there's of the channel townsmen to the as hah grass by plants the lated by the steamer Star of Scotland where it runs out in the sand and when it reached Melbourne from Londries up" don When in the vicinity of The others followed him eagerly as Island a furious gale of wind he pushed in among the trees They "I noticed a place where the ledges when the children went to school they anc snow was blowing during the saw no running water for the tiny rill that trickled down the ledges was Do in their satchels with thelr agkL driving the steamer on at ft’ overhang — almost a cave you carried think It probable that any wild beast books a pipe of tobacco which thelr JashinS speed when suddenly an matted over with vines But at the venture so close to the sea?” foot of the slope lay a pool some ten object mother took care to fill early in the “’8Hnct and 00med aP only a few yards from the "Can’t say Didn’t see any tracks yards across and overshadowed by the morning it serving them Instead of The steamer was at so we’ll chance it for There was no Next?” breakfast and that at the accustomed ves8e18 bowsurrounding trees once to a standstill and it brought was underbrush and the ground "By morning I believe my ankle will hour every one laid aside his book be in such shape that I could go back to trampled bare as a floor light his pipe the master smoking awas discovered that the object was derelict which had been shaved by for the string of cocoanuts which we with them and “see the "By Jove” said Winthrope teaching them how to a Back Down 8h0 wallowed few Trail the feet As Crept tracks! There must have been a drove topped on the beach” hold their pipes and draw their to- - only “I’ll go myself of sheep about” else we’ll bacco thus accustoming them to It ®runkenly in the ocean with the gale movement he kept up for several minround and the have no supper remains of Now we’re getting shrieking “Deer you mean” replied Blake utes but whether from their absoyouths believing it he was unable to bending to examine the deeper prints twirl the twte fast enougn or whether down to bedrock If those nuts have lutely necessary for a man’s health” Dne soltary ma8t fibe looked a ghostly and fearful visitant wa f not b There appeared at the edge of the pool “These ain’t the right kind of wood tluee“ by away or tinder was we’re The Public Eye to be no signs of life aboard and as A lot of them fixed for are and for two sheep tracks lacking all his efforts failed to prt)- meals such as y In a little more we came to an open of Scotland was in Immediate But what arger” they are duce a spark next? Even the rain pools will be space very thronged danger of fouling some of the wreck- "Could you not uncover the brook?” to Unwilling accept the failure dried up by another The Public Eye!” shouted the age and the gale was too violent to or "If animals have so” asked Miss Leslie day insisted upon trying In launch a boat and visit the stranger megaphone man of our party "Are not been drinking here one would prefer Winthrope good to eat?” Inturn and pride held him to the task There were some curious people she was once more put on her course cleaner water” until he was drenched with sweat quired Miss Leslie within the space but even more curl- for Melbourne “Some” "Sure” assented Blake "If you’re The result was the same w®re th?s® Just 0ut8lde we could climb the ou “Then If game for a climb and can wait a few About Aviation “Told so” Jeered Blake ' from cliff — might only Of these latter we thought certain there not be another minutes we’ll get it out of the spring where heyou in the “Do you know anything about ths shade women especially Interesting “We’d place?” they itself We’ve got to go up anyway to stand more lay cost of flying?” chance cracking stones towere their families busily neglecting “No I’ve looked at both sides get at our poultry yard!” “No but I can tell you all about the in order to get Into the Public Eye A “Here’s a place that looks like a gether" What’s more that spotted tomcat has not flying” “Hut pathos attached to another group of cost of Z? We d° n0W(? asked sot a monopoly on our path” called Winthrope who had cir- Miss "The cost of not flying?” Wh° bee“ WOme“ had PubllC am the i no becoming very cled about the edge of the pool to the er mV be fmh I was introduced to a widow "Yes C0Uld tired be of and of neVer Ey® cocoanuts and there seems to happy out farther side and instead got nothin- - to 1)011 of be nothing else around here flying I thay conldnt in the least yesterday Indeed Blake ran around beside him and such bayou stuff is just constopped to talk to her now I am entell think this is a all why such waste tunnel-likstared at the centrated malaria" passage which Positively funny were a few men gaged” wound up the limestone ledges be “Then we must find water else who kept trying by a variety of droll All the Symptoms neath the overarching thickets where” Miss Leslie devices to break into the Public Eye responded “That kid of mine was born in a “Odd place is it not?" observed "Might we not succeed if we went on our candidates!” We might Miss Jenny and then to the other “Looks (ike a fox run log bungalow" Winthrope ridge?” — Puck megaphone man explained I happened “Which makes him a presidential again we mightn’t to only larger you know” “That’s the ticket You’ve a got to start — — overhaul the with” chart Quilllow for deer though and "Too possibility captain’s A Little Learning headpiece Miss Jenny! It’s too late so As soon as he gets a their hoofs would have cut up the mane Mozambique — that’s all for hun- to start now But flrst Earnest Female — Professor I hear "Exactly thing little older I’m going to have him chop moss and ferns more Let’s get a dreds of miles Towns on this coast row I’ll lake a run down that way you are a great ornithologist a tree and also split it down are as cherry about thick as I am an ornithologist close look” Professor while you two lay around camp and rails into "How about native villages?” de- see If madam As he spoke Blake stooped and you can twist some sort of fishEarnest Female — Then could you climbed a few yards up the trail to an manded Winthrope line out of cocoanut fiber By braid- Just as Good me the botanical name for "Oh yes maybe I’m fool enough to Ing your hair Miss overhanging ledge four or five feet “Have you any postage stamps?” Jenny you can klndly tell ' a wbale? high Where the trail ran up over go into a wild nigger town without spare us your asked the man entering the drug store for hooks” this break in the slope the stone was a gun Maybe I didn’t talk with felnot” have “I afrald-- rd replied the druggist JhBUt’ M£ BJake’ Increate ln Chinese Newspaper Blake laid his lows down on the Rand” bare of all vegetation “but I’ve got plasters that stick just with you With There are 200 newspapers in China "But what shall we do?” repeated that dreadful creature so near—” club on the top of the ledge and was as good" about to vault after It when directly Miss Leslie with a little frightened "Well I don’t know Let’s see your while ten years ag0 there was but one Uncle Ezra Says: recognized as such beneath his nose he saw the print of catch in her voice She was at last “The chief reason thet some folks a great catlike paw outMned in dried beginning to realize whai thiij rude Miss Leslie glanced at him and The other smiled scornfully “Arrah don’t hatch out a big scheme is mud At the same Instant a deep break in her sheltered pampered life thrust a slender foot from beneath her they set on it too long”— Boston g’wan you foreigner! 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