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Show Ii CHAPTER III. The Word of the Book. This awaUoninrr. v:is not ns had boon that of- yesterday. She prided horsoU' on being' in full possession of her faculties fac-ulties at once, and she arose instantly and stepped out upon the sand. The ninn gave way lo her respectfully as she passed through the entrance. The wind is brightest in I he enrly morning after sleep. She would give him another an-other concept before flio uses of the day impaired his receptivity. She had differentiated dif-ferentiated him I roin the rest of creation crea-tion when she taught hi in that he -aw? a man. She vould show him now that ho was u divided empire by declaring herself a woman. She laid her hand upon her own breast and said clcarl': "Woman!" giving the first syllable the long "oM and dctirjly accenting the second. She pointed to liini and j repealed "Man;" to lior?elf and repeated re-peated "Woman." Patiently, over and over again, she said the word, until by and by he could say it too. The' baby begins his language with monosyllable sounds which mean little ami vet which have been identified with the "mother. Tt was lilting that this I man, wno was as a child nun yet, as a man, should begin with something deeper than infantile babble. Man and woman! she drove these two ideas into his consciousness before she ceased Iter task. If his idea of man was at iirsl infinite, she gave him the concept of limitations immediately following. He was avid for instruction. Once he had learned the words, ho babbled them "man. woman; man. woman'' until the iteration was almost maddening. madden-ing. While she washed nor face and hands at the stream, he plunged into brimming brim-ming pool fed by tho brook ore it descended de-scended to the sea. She noticed that he could swim like a fish itself nat-nralli'j nat-nralli'j instinctively, in an untrained way, of course; without the fancy strokes in which sho had been taught hut brilliantly and well, nevertheless. Sho would have given the world for a dip. but it was not to be, nor yet that is. ' Then they breakfasted and she tried to teach him "no" and "yes," and the meaning thereof. She intended to make a circuit of the island later, but there was no hurry. She began to realize real-ize that time was nothing to her or to him. a'ud so she idled under the trees, sotting him tasks as the picking of fruit and then stooping him with "no" and encouraging him with "j-cs" until ho had some idea of those words also. It was a relief lo her to get them firmly fixed in his mind, for they provided him with alternatives to the man and woman words on which he harped. After a while they started around the island. It was perhaps six or eight miles in. circumference. There was a sand beach everywhere, except in one placo where the rocks eamo sheer down to the shore. From what she could tell by an inspection of tho surface, there was an under-watcr entrance lo some cave, in the rocks which some day might bo worth exploring. They could not follow the shorn at ihe foot of these cliffs, but managed to scramble over them, each for himself, although there wore places where the man's strong arm and wonderful agility ho climbed like a. chamois, sho noticed would have helped her. I.t was her policy, pol-icy, however, to be self-reliant, to de-pond de-pond upon him for nothing. Toi be independent in-dependent was her mental habit, too. She confessed to no inferiority when compared with the other sex, save that physical weakness which was hereditary, heredi-tary, for which she was in no way re-Hponsible, re-Hponsible, and which she assiduously strove lo minimize by every means or expedient at her command. On the other side, of tho island from tho cave, which was already denominated denomi-nated homo in her mind, she came across the remains of a ship's boat deep bedded in tho sand. The boat hud been, perhaps, wrecked and broken on ihe barrier reef, or possibly it had sailed through tho entrance near at hand the only opening in the enci'cling guard of splintered rock which she had seen and had been hurled upon tho beach, where it had lain through years until buried in the shifting sand. Only the gunwales of the boat and the stem and the stem wore exposed. She. had no idea ns to what its condition was, but she promised that so soon ns sho could she would make shift at something for a shovel and dig it out. She gazed at it for a long time, wondering if it were an explanation of the presence of tho solitary inhabitant of the island; but nothing was to be gained by wonderment wonder-ment and speculation. A little strciini, she noticed, trickled from under a thick covert across tho sand toward the sea. Sho turned and idly walked away from the beach, following fol-lowing the sircam. The man, who had stood with her watching the boat, did not for a moment notice, her; but so soon as he discovered her direction, ran after her and, without offering to touch her. barred the way with extended ex-tended arms. "No, no!" he cried, his first real spontaneous use of the word. She stopped, rollocled, waved the man aside and went on. There was something in the coppice that, he feared. Sho had not known that he possessod tho faculty. Ucr curiosity was too strong tobe denied. She must see whal it was, Sho auickened her pace as if to shake him oft", but he easily kept by her side, plaintively ejaculating his monosyllabic negative. ! It was evident that he knew the nican-! nican-! ing of the word, she was glad to see. , When she reached the undergrowth of the copicc, sho hesitated in apprehension appre-hension of she knew not what, but summoning her courage parted the reeds and peered in them. She shrank back wilh a sudden cry of horror, for at her feet, the vegetation springing through .in every direction, w.y a skeleton, a human skeleton. It Inj" athwart her path and at the feet was a smaller skeleton which she "judged to he that of a dog. With instinctive repugnance she released the rushes and turned hastily away. "Yes. yes." said the man by- ho.r side with" an oxprcss:on of unusual ro- lief on his face which sho could fa-aroely fail to notice. She know thai, she could not thus evade her duties or sin ink from her problems. She had marked tho gleam of metal amid the bones. She knew that sho would havo to como back and examine thoso last remainders of human hu-man presence, other than their own, upon tho island, but sho could not do it just, tlitfii. She was of tho stuff that when the danger is realized approaches it deliberately de-liberately rather than of the rash and headlong courage which proceeds upon an undertaking without thought of consequence. con-sequence. And yet, in spite of .the possibilities pos-sibilities of power in the knowledge sho bestowed, she was deliberately proceeding to enlighten this man in every way. If her death or worse were at the end of it, sho could no more havo helped it thnn sho could havo stayed the risiug of the sun, sho thought, although of courso she counted count-ed upon maintaining her control by spirit over the animal before her. She had not learned the lesson apparently that animal apprehension and spiritual development, sometimes grow side by side and that unless the superiority of the one is early and definitely established, estab-lished, the. superiority of tho other will inevitably como about. Thero was nothing olse that she discovered dis-covered on her tour about her prison until she returned to tho cave. It was afternoon by this lime and sho determined de-termined to employ soino of her hours in a more careful inspection of it. Realizing that tho lesson of the night beforo if re-enforced and maintained, would stand her in good' Btead, sho made tho man remain outside while sho wont within. Her hope was lo establish es-tablish in his mind a custom of avoid-anco avoid-anco of that recess which should develop de-velop into a fixed hgbit, olse she could not. be free. Sho could alwavs secure a few moments respite from his presence, pres-ence, at least she had done so heretofore, hereto-fore, but sho did not dare to try- how he would sustain lougor absences,-hence absences,-hence tlie necessity for establishing herself in the cave, as a harbor of ref-, nnn snnptnnrv At. first glance there was nothing within the little apartment, wntnei1 out ages ago from tlie hard stone, bv what action of water she could well imagine, but as sho scrutinized ic closely, she noticed in a recess a part where tho rock wall cropped out in a sort, of low sholf. On the shelf wonder won-der of wonders lay a book. Next to humanity, a book, sho thought, would be the most precious sharer of her solitude. Tt was a small, leather-bound volume. vol-ume. Dust, in the form of tiny particles par-ticles of sand lay thick upon it. The cave was sheltered from tliq prevnling winds elso it might havo been buried, but. under the eireunistancos it might have Iain there for ages and in that dry, pure air have suffered no deterioration deterior-ation or decay. Crusoo was petrified when he saw ' the footprints in the sand. The woman was not less startled or less amazed when she saw the book on the rock. "With a little cry of" delight she stepped toward it, bent down, lifted it up, handling it carefully in spite of- nervous ner-vous cxultntion, shook tho dust from it, and opened if. She instautty let it fall from her hands with a look of disappointment dis-appointment and disgust. One glance was enough. The book was the Bible. She had no interest in the bible, a collection col-lection of ancient genealogies and time worn fables, myths for the credulous and impossible legends, mixed up with poetry whoso inspiration was trivial and history whose details wove false. For this woman, who had forgotten how to pray and- who had abolished God, had little use for the book of books. "Rather any other printed page, she had thought bitterly, than that one. She had acted upon impulse, not in her disdain of tho bible and that for which it stood that, was . "rounded upon reason and philosophy, Sho fondly believed but in her action in casting it from her. It had no more than rolled upon the sand at her foot when, with swift reconsideration, ehb stooped and lifted it again. If had occurred to her that there might be writing therein and that the writing might give her a clew to the mystery of tho man. She knew that births and deaths were frequently fre-quently entered upon the blank leaves interposed between the Old and Now Testaments. Unfamiliar though sho was with the contents of tho book, she easily found the t1occ and eagerly looked at the leaves. Alas, they were blank. Sho turned to the fly leaves at tho beginning of the book. Thero was a name written thcXc" and in a woman's hand. "John Rovcll Charnock," she read. "Below was a date twenty-live years before the moment of her landing. John Revel Charnock! Tt was a strange name, English in part with a. suggestion of Franco in the middle name. It meant nothing to her. Was this John Revel Oharnock who stood outside looking at her? If so, who was John Rovel Charnock? The problem ?as not greatly elucidated. There was no evidence that( tho book belonged to the man or tho man to the book, or even that the one appertained remotely remote-ly to tho other. There was a certain hkolihood, however, that they had come to the island together. She had been sure that the man was a while man. She had thought that ho looked like an An'icricau, an Englishman, English-man, an Anglo-Saxon, and the longer sho looked at him with Ihe -Bible in her hand, the more sum sho became." She had been disappointed that the book had turned out to be the Bible, but at. least it would servo one useful purpose. By it. without the laborious effort involved in making letters upon the sand, she might teach tho man before be-fore her to read. She wished she had a worthier volume, from her point; of view, through which to introduce In in to the world's literature, but sho would do the best she could with that. Tt was pitiful, as she saw it, that, with a nascent soul to work with, she should be compelled to enlighten it through tho medium of time-worn Bupqrslition. Musing thuF, sho. opened the book again and idly glanced at it. One phrase from the printed page caught her pyo, and sho read thepc significant words, f',The fool hath said in Ins heart thero is no God." It was a psalm of David's, sho recognized from tho heading; head-ing; a poet's dream, therefore. With a gesture of contempt, she closed the volume, vol-ume, not throwing it away whatever it was. it was a printed book and too precious to risk damage which would be irreparable through mistreatment and looked farther in the cave. Below tho shelf, hot quite buried in tho sand, there was a small metal box. Sho knelt down, scraped the sand away, and presently uncovered it. Tt mp-penrcd mp-penrcd to bo of silver. It was of such a .size thai. .sJic could claso it easily' in her hand. She opened it not with out somo difficulty, and found within it nothing! Well, not exactly nothing, but certainly that for which" sho could soo littlo value. Thorn were several pieces of hard stone of n reddish color, eJiippod and shaped in curious fashion, and a little bar of motal, nothing else. Sho turned tho box over and examined it on all sides. Tliorc were initials upon it. a monogram. Sho rubbed it clean with her hands and studied it carefully "J. R. C." Tho book and tho box Miud bclpngcd to the samo person, John Rovcll C'hnrnock. Sho laid tho box aside and searched tho cave farther. There was absolutely nothing else to be seen. Disappointed vaguely, although she had expected nothing and had gotten more, indeed, Uian she might havo imagined, if she had thought about it, sho laid the book and box down upon the ledge and went out again. Sho wnlkcd along the sands until she came to tho place whoro she had landed the day beforo. The tide was low. She could hoc the. wreck of her boat, partly on tho barrier reef and partly in the winter. It would have boon no trick for her to swim to it in tho stillness, yet she hesitated to attempt it. Certainly weighted down by all hor clothing; it was a matter of difficulty and inconvenience. If it i ' were not for this man by her side! She tried to think of some way to restrain re-strain him, keep him aw.-n, but nothing noth-ing occurred to hor. Invention was paral3'zod by the situation in which she found herself. Desperately bidding him stay whero he was she wont back to tho cave. She was face to face, with a crisis which had to bo met. Indeed, the question of clothes was becoming a very serious ono with her and she know she should have to decide upon 'some courso of action ac-tion immediately. For tho present, she took off her garments, gar-ments, hoping and praying in a shiver of dread and anxiety, that he would tc-main tc-main whero she had left him, which, indeed, proved the fact. She laid aside all that she had worn except the blouse and skirt, including hor sndlv-worn shoes and stockings. Thus lightly clad, she came out on the sand again. Ho did not notice any change in her condition. con-dition. As a matter of fact, sho gavo him no time, for sho Unshed across the sand at full speed and plunged boldly into the smiling water of the lagoon. He followed her instantly .and swain by her sidcwith scarcely airy exertion whatever. It was not long beforo she reached tho barrier reef. It stood up a foot or two aboye the water now, the tide being low, and she clambered upon it. The sharp rocks' cut her naked and tcuder foot, unused to such exertions and unfitted un-fitted to such demands, but sho persevered. perse-vered. The boat had been beaten to pieces. It had been forced over the reef by the hurl of the sea. The stern had been wedged in between somo projecting pro-jecting rocks. The rest of it had been torn away and had fallen into tho lagoon. la-goon. There was no wind, tho sea was unruffled. She could seo a3 if through a glass the wrecked remains of the boat. Thero was nothing in it except: the battered bat-tered motor, useless for days before she landed since, since hor supply of gasoline had been exhausted. Everything Every-thing elso had beon washed out of it and carriod into the deeper recesses of the lagoon, where they, were inaccessi-1 inaccessi-1 bio to the human vision. Stop! Under what remained of a i piece of thwart, sho caught a hltlo gleam of metal. Calculating the distance dis-tance nicely, she plunged in and dove. Keeping her eyes open, she easily found tho pieco of metal, dislodged it from the place where it had fallen, and eamo to the surface with it. It was a sailor's sheath knife with a bit of lanyard fastened fas-tened to it. She had had a fancy to wear it in her sailor's blouse and she had missed it since sho had come ashore. But there was nothing olse in the boat, not a thing: nothing on the barrier bar-rier reef. She tried to pull the stern away where it had been wedged, but found that impossible. She tugged at it valiantly, but could not move it. In despair she turned to the man. who had watched silently as usual, and pointed. He seemed to understand, for ho came and, with groat effort, lifted 1he torn part of the boat from tho. rocks and laid it down at hor feet. She threw it Into tho water, where, of course, as it was wood, it floated easily. Then, with a nod to him. she plunged in. and together to-gether thoy guided it to the shore, ho taking his cue from her action. She had a fancy to test his strength and she managed to convey to him by signs, mainly hy trying herself in vain to pull it apart, what she wished him to do. The impossible t o hot was child's play lo him and in moment the several pieces of the boat which made up the stem wore scattered on tho beach. Thero. was ono straight pieco which went across . tho stern of the boat and made a little box for the coxswain to sit in, which would do for a shovel. It was too wide, but sho broke it. against, a big stone and was possessed of what, she wanted. Tho. ends were rough and serrated and unfit for her hands, but. these she smoothed by the aid of hor knife. She sharpened the other end and soon had a rude semblance of a shovel. She intended to use that on tho boat. 011 "the sand the next day. Finished with this, sho looked nt. tho man and sighed in despair. Could she evor get rid of hhji? Instantly there flashed into hor mind that which she had before overlooked as of no moment. A long, heavy boat rope, tho boal 's painter, she. had noticed when she dovo lay floating by the side of tho boat from which it had not boon severed. sev-ered. An iden came to her. Dropping tho. shovel and followed 1)3 hor satel-litot satel-litot she plunged in once more and again swam to tho boat. Wanting no time, she dove as beforo, found tho rope and having previously opened her knife, cut it quickly and eamo to the surface gasping. There were perhaps ten or twelve foot of it. Jt was a stout picoo of rope, of unusual quality, as had been everything every-thing on bonrd i,he j'aeht. The very best of stuff hail gone into it and sho did not believe any man on earth could break it. She" had amused herself her-self on the cruise by loarniug tho rudi-meuts rudi-meuts of seamanship and she could tic knots like any sailor. This little accomplishment ac-complishment was to stand her in good stead. She wrapped tho rope around her neck, plunged in the lagoon for the third time, and swam once more to tho shorp. She led tho way up the sands to tho j palpi grove. Then sho tied the rope j aropnd tho man's neck, not in a slip1 nopse, of course, but in a hard circle, and quickly made a running bowliuo around the nearest tree. lie had not njndo the slightest resistance. Ho had no idea evidently of whai she was doing do-ing or the purport of her motions. I Then sho turned and wont nwnj' from him quickly, lie started for hor at once and wns nearly jerked from his feet by the tautening of the rop. It waK a new situation for him. yet his hands instinctively went to his throat nnd he strove to 'tear away tiio noose, putting forth such a prodigious amount of strength that, she stood 'in honor lost he should part the lushing. But. it was made of stout stuff and he had no purchase: although ho pulled until the sweat, stood out on his forehead from l ho violence of his efforts, they were, of no avail. She had not dared lo interfere or to say a word, but when sho saw his efforts slacken, she pointed to the sands to indicate to him that, ho was loit down and thou sho wont away eonf-eious that, while the rope held she was free. She was conscious con-scious of another thing, too, and that was that he was learning a sad and bitter lossou of physical restraint to which he had never before been subject. sub-ject. Tho look in his eyes nnd she had learned to estimate with a reasonable degree of accuracy what was going on behind hie brows was one of intense a'ud utler bewilderment. Whether to it would succeed the natural anger consequent upon restraint tho cause for which is unrealized, and sometimes when it is realized as well, sho could not tell. At any rate, she was free. She did not believe that he could by any possibility got 'himself loose. Mis hands were free, but she knew that he could have no experience in the untying un-tying of knots and ho could bring nothing to aid him except brute" strength which had already proved inefficacious. in-efficacious. She had rejoiced in his companionship, companion-ship, of course. It had given hor something some-thing to do, her mind something to work upon, and would do more in the future, but she never enjo3-ed a moment's mo-ment's freedom more. Sho ran lo tho littlo amphitheater formed by the cliffs where the cavo was and throwing aside her blouse and skirt, sho luxuriated luxuri-ated in a bath in tho fresh, cool, delightful de-lightful waters of the pool at tho base of the fall. There, was a certain amount of apprehension, for. of Course, ho might break his (other at any time, but she was sufficiently confident not to lot I his take a wav I ho pleasure she felt in the bath of "fresh water aflor the long experience with tho salt seas. If she had had a cake of soap, she would have been completely happy. Sho had much to do and she could not linger, l-'or one thing, she had to face the problems of clothes. Sho had absolutely nothing when she landed except whal sho wore. Beside Ihe usual underwear, these consisted of hor blue sorgo blouse and skirt a short skirl at that and a silk petticoat. She left tho blouse and skirt' outside on the rocks whoro they would soon dry in the sun. They had boon wotted so often that there was no possibility of their shrinking furthor. Then she took stock of the rest. With needles and thread of which sho possessed some store in tho housewife which had boon saved from her bag, she thought. ho could make shift, lo manufacture throe or four garments, open at the nock, without sleeves and with skirts that came to the knee, garments just sufficient suffi-cient for modesty. .There was no other need for clothes, so far as that went, in that balmy island. Nat urn 11 v she shrank from this, but unless "she resorted to this expedient, her clothes would wear out. all at once. Tndnod, I hey were in none too good a condition as if was, and when thoy were worn out she would have nothing. Sho would not have hesitated a moment had it not. been for the man, but man or not. I ho decision in hor mind was one lo which sho must come. Unlike most ovoroducalod women, sho was still export with her needle and as her garments wore to be of the simplest, she had not much difficulty in making over her filk skirl in the wav sho faucied. Belted in at the waist, it would do. She would ns the rope that bound the man for that purpose, keeping keep-ing it always about her. Sho had. of course, but one pair of stockings and one pair of light canvas bonting shoos which wore almost cut to pieces. She would have to go barefoot- Kv Butting her l,l,I0 S(M.p lr ,uj?oi rent of hor clothing carefully8 aJjJ V n 5 1 eluding her shoes and MoekV f 10 stopped out on the sands. 1 if biu-o. tooted, a gloaming rigur K i,W' :.n Olympian goddess. .4, vs lie woman na urally dark in rompSioiS 1 and while the sun would probably ffi JT sh her cruelly and bum her young f?S nr! never exposed to ils intensity, da rkS l ? she would not grow rod or blister. Sh rfo wnsjhankf.il lor that with uncoiisciou x Ion..,.,,, y. At any rate, she must gS a hat, too Popple natives w, w$ J'V, born and lived ,., this latitude did hi Lor come neeuslonied to such things v ! knew ,o undoubtedly could sh' With hose thoughts, sho Stopnej around the headland and walked n'ero-i t: , the beach toward the palm Iree whorctf U she could see in .the fading ext o th?K f altornoon her prisoner was still tied. ra3 Modesty is a negative term. Thai' ,1-ro which is indecent exposure in a balFi Tn room is tho height of convention on W imi seashore. Certainly this man had n, J concept of such a quality He hn.l nolJ, noticed beforo when she had come outV ,n baretoot to swim the barrier Toef, aniri fcni yet somehow she fancied as ho. stareifY wi at. hoi- approaching that this time hVi nv marked the difference. And a slow, Mi fiery flush flamed over her .from hor-bare hor-bare feet to her bare head. PxtenrtcarKts along her bare arms. She stopped un$ rtn dor the persuasion of impulse to turJS and go back to the cave nnd resume hcr',i clothing, at. least so long as it inighf a last. But she was a woman of stromfJiilC will. Sho reasoned that all the emo3fi,ii tious of which she was subject wero Hr u hor own bosom; that the man beforifVM her neither knew nor cared as to thi5' ,j 1 things which vexed hor. So she wcntH t on. fJ$Dl She had in her hand the sailor'!8?!? knife, with the blade open. She conlo- nol toll oxnetly in what mood her pris-'Jo oner might be. Indeed, she appronehcilf ? , him with a certain terror, accounted for parlly by the situation and partly b!0inn; the fact that in making this change iiri h her garments shf had, ns it wore, cihVf. herself off from civilization amf-H11 -uf lirot i rpnt limed on Following Pago, fiulnc alhL!g!!g0 REGENERATION i ;ontJnul Front Preceding Pane. ,cit hcrsolf in some dogrce at least cr physical level. Hut she i not leave him tlieie all nilir. moniiiff lipr cnurae, I liPiclore, anil a hold limit. Iielore him, she ad-cJ ad-cJ to tin' tree and untied t he ropo ; ftm trunk and untied it from his J :1S well. He stood silent, nnre-through nnre-through it a rather pitiful rc phe thmiglil at first, until ho freed from the degrading halter, ken she waited in int'enso and r curiosity as to v.hat lie slumld est. The iron of hi .situation had n'iato his soul. He had been mas- hv force. Ho could not. undcr-J undcr-J it. Ife 1101 lovo the mastery, without the knowledge ()f his 'puffers, there qconrrori to him no to resent the ignominy to which he j been subjected. Mo turned and I pd n,va,y from her. She stood I jril, staring after liim. It was the I (inic he had withdrawn himself I her presence. Vhere was he go-Was go-Was this a declaration of war? there to be enmity between if In vague terror, moved by a en impulse again, she called him. ;n!' she s:iid. ' stopped, hesitnted. looked back, .tl and went on again. He was jv hurt. She eould not see him it was unthinkable that ho should IIo was dangerous away from her, rr side sht could control him. iniil" she called again, t this time lie. did not hecd. An sprang to her brain, working ;y under the ressure. She lifted er voice, for ho was far from her and plodding- steadily, doggedly ra the trees, olm! ! J she cried. "John Uevcll d at ilial sound the man stopped, iirnod and looked at her again, olin!" she repeated. "John!" approached him. As she did so when she could get near enough im, she observed that wrinkling ic brow, that look of amazement l sho had noticed before. It was some latent memory, some rccol m of the past, were struggling st the obscurity of years, as if thing were endeavoring to thrust through the sea of oblivion and tfulncss that overwhelmed his , as if fihe were a voice which hi back things he could neither stand nor utter, and yet which t something to him, ; olm'" she cried again, coming r to him. ! thrust out her hand; she touched Again she noticed that strange on consequent upon her touch, aid her hand upon his shoulder. ! was amity, confidence, rcas-ce. rcas-ce. She patted him as she might ohni" she said, and (hen she d nwny and walked toward the :d.icntly lie followed her. She I the ' knife between her waist the rope which she had rapidly :d about her middle and walked t triumph. If he had learned hinp, so had sho. Some one else ailed this man John in days gone The sound was not unfamiliar to JIc answered to his name. That, he. John "Revell Charnock! She is if sho were entering upon the on of the mystery of his pies-Perhaps pies-Perhaps the morrow would toll, irould examine that b'oar. and decaying evidences of humanity o farther shore i felt elated that night, ere she to sleep in the cave, The clew to aystery, she fancied, was in her 'She'hnd such occupation before is she had never hoped to come upon in ii desert island, at least The rope added to her security. By jiiling stones beforo the entrance to the cave nl reinforcing them with the boards from the wreck of the boat and some I alien tree branches on the shore, she made a sort of a barrier to it, not a barrier that would have kept out of the cave any one who desired to enter, but one which would have to be removed bc-toro bc-toro one could enter. And she .so arranged ar-ranged matters, tying the end of the rope to her waist, thai am- attempt to remove it would immediately waken her... That night she slept secure and unmolested. CHAPTER 'iV, lesson and Labor. The task to which she set herself in the morning would have been an impossible im-possible one to many women., and indeed in-deed it was a hard one to her. The buried boat lay in the sand some rods distant from the nearest tree. There was absolutely no shelter from the fierce heat of the tropic sun. Sho was not yet fully accustomed to it. and indeed perhaps she never would be able jo endure it. without some sort oi a head covering. She improvised a bonnet from the lfnf of a low springing spring-ing palm tree, which, with her remaining remain-ing handkerchief, she tied about her head. And then with her watchful friend by her side she descended the beach to the boat and began to dig. It was hard and vev tedious work. With the Hat makeshift shovel in the shape of the rough piece of board it was almost impossible to lift the sand. Yet she attacked the task resolutely and persevered sturdily for along time until the sweat, beaded her forehead, fore-head, her back nehed, her hands, un-. used to manual toil of a 113' kind, were almost blistered. She realized at. last that she would have to give it over. She wondered as she ceased her labors whether the constant observation observa-tion which the man had subjected her to would enable "him to continue the work. As an experiment . she handed him the shovel, stepped out of the excavation ex-cavation she had made and pointed ioward il. He understood instantly. She was surprised at the unusual quickness of his apprehension, for ho set to work with a right good will and in a minute, the sand was Hying. She noticed half in envy how much more progress he mado than she could effect. ef-fect. What was . labor for her was play for him. and yet after a little space he "slopped, threw down the shovel and looked at lior. She had got in (he habit of speaking to him as if he understood, so she pointed to the shovel. again, cclaiming: "Pick it up and go on." Her meaning was obvious to him if her language was not. It equally was evident to her that he had no desire whatever to proceed with his task, but. he was still under the constraint of her superior personality and presently he did as she bade him. Jt amused her to rellcct that to all the other lessons, so remarkable as almost to make his brain reel and whirl, he was now learning learn-ing the lesson of toil. If she could only keep pace with these great abstract concepts she was putting into his being by giving him some mental realization oi' them, so that the spiritual development develop-ment would keep pace with the practical, practi-cal, she would be thoroughly satisfied with or educational processes. She mused on the problom as he labored la-bored silently and vigorously. He stopped once or twice, but she kept him lo it, a font vastly greater than she realized, until Iho interior of .the boat, which was a small ship's boat, a dingy, had been entirely cleared out. Sho had w;i tched carefully ovory spadeful of sand which had been tossed over the buried gunwales and now she searched eagerly the boat itself. Her inspection revealed nothing. There were lockers at either end. These he opened, find-"ing. find-"ing. nothing therein but moldering re-1 re-1 111 ai 11s of cloth, bags of some sort which she surmised might have contained ship'n bread, and a little barrel or keg. which had probaly carried water for the voyagers. The boat appeared in be in an excellent ex-cellent state of preservation. There were even a pair of oars lying on the thwarts. If she could have dug it out of the sand entirely, she fancied she eould have launched it and used it. But such a task was utterly beyond her. Hesidr'q there would have been 110 gain in having the boat alloat. She would not dare lo take it out beyond the barrier reef and (here was nothing to row for in the lagoon. She easily broke the rotting lines with which the oars were, secured and took thorn out. They would be useful perhaps in some wa3". And then, after a long look at the boat and with a feeling feel-ing that her labor had been mainly wasted, she was about fo turn nwav when the thought struck her that sometimes boats carried the names of thy ships to which they belonged on their bows or across their sterns. She had recourse to the shovel once more, and after some deliberation essayed the stem of the boat, JL was not so hard to - shovel the sand away from it and here she did make a discovery, for although the letters let-ters had been almost obliterated by the action of the sand she could still make them out. After fome stud she decided that the name of the boat, or of the ship to which it had bo-longed, bo-longed, had been Nansemond of Norfolk, Nor-folk, Va. That was the net result of the hard labors of a long morning. morn-ing. It told her something, but not. much. Assuming that the .man with her was John Revell Charnock and as-fliimiug as-fliimiug that ho had come to the island in the past, on that boat, it indicated that he was at least an American and a Virginian. It identified him, if her suppositions were correct, and whether there was warrant for them or not, instinctively and naturally she concluded con-cluded that she was correct." Admitting all this, however, it gave her no clew from which to build a history. The testimony of the boat was interesting, that was all. Her first thought was to leave it where it was, i but her second thought was better. With the aid of the stout picco of board which had served her Cor a shovel she hammered awav at the stern piece until sho broke it off. Sho saw now that the boat must have lain there in the sand for many years, for the wood -was brittle and the fastenings fasten-ings largely destroyed, for the stern piece came easily away. Sho laid it aside for a moment, intending to preserve pre-serve it with the Bible. Heaven knows what dream of future usefulness useful-ness in the way of evidence establishing establish-ing identity these might be, entered her mind.. Then she threw herself down under the trees and rested. Sho had left her watch, her precious watch, back in tho cave with the book. Sho did not dare to carry it around with her. She had no way of carrying it in (he thiu. single garment which she wore, but she .pidged from the height of the sun that it must be noon time. They made their moal off the fruits of tho island, this time with a rich and juiev cocoanut added, which the man got for her at her suggestion in the sign language lan-guage at which she was becoming expert, ex-pert, by climbing with wonderful agility, agil-ity, apelike agility almost, 0110 of the tall cocoanut palms with which the island abounded. There were fruits of various sorts in great pl.enty on the island, and she was becoming accustomed accus-tomed to the diet by degrees. Sho passed the noon hour In trying to add to the mental equipment of her companion. He could say a number of words now and had some idea of their meaning, although ho had not yet attempted to frame sentences, nor had she yet tried to teach him so to do. It was plensant under the shade of the trees. She found herself marveling mar-veling at. times as to the contentment that possessed her, a product of the civilization of tho very end of the age suddenly plunged into this Eden-liko Eden-liko existence which her forbears might have enjoyed ten thousand years before. The hours ran on until the declining declin-ing sun and the coolness that came with the late afternoon warned her that if she were lo continue her ox plorations she inuct be about it un m,cli:ilely. So she rose, and nerving 1 herself to her task, went toward I he coppice where lay tho ghastly remains of what, had been a human being. .'Forcing .'Forc-ing herself to the dut' with her knife she carefully cut away the rushes, being be-ing particular not to disturb tho bones of the skeletons. As beforo. sho did all this in tho face of a vigorous remonstrance re-monstrance from the man.- In some way, she could not tell how, the. place was horrible to him. 11 o would never have come near it, evidently of his own will, and all hough the power of mem ory in him was but latent, the impres sion that had been produced upon him by what she found there at some period in his life was strong enough to make him avoid it forever. Sho did not ask him for assistance, assist-ance, indeed, nhe would not have trusted him with tho knife under any circumstances, and ho made no - attempt at-tempt to keep close to her. He stood on the outskirts of the coppice in a great state of excitement, uttering without sequence or reiison fcuch Avords as she had laugh I him. To him. iu this iustauce, sho gave, no heed. Presently she had completely uncovered un-covered tho two skeletons. She had studied anatomy, but was not a spe cialist iu that department, of human ! learning. Sho thought that tho skele 1 ton before her was that of a woman Sho measured its lcnglh with a piece of tall grass and compared il. with her own. They were both of a size. The soil on which the bones lay was soft and porous. Every vestige of clothing , had long since rotted 11W113 and disnp I peared with the flesh it covered. If 1 the person whose bones In' there had worn any article of gold or silver, which, being rustless, would have sur vived the long exposure, they wero probably buried in tho earth "beneath the bones. She would attend to that later Then sho looked toward tho "bones at the feet of the human remains and decided de-cided instnntly Lhat they were tho bones of a dog. Across the vertebrae lay a piece of metal. She picked it up. recognizing it instantly as a plate which had probably belonged to a dog collar. There was an inscription on it which she did not take the trouble at tho moment to read. Slipping it into the bosom of her tunic and making siize that tho confining ropo would keep it from falliug out. she stooped down and gathered the bones of tho human being up in her. arms, tcpulfcivu as tho tusk was, arid carried them down to the boat on the beach. She laid them in the bottom of tho boat carefully and then moved by a sudden ini pulse, sho went back- and gathered up those of the dog which she put in the boat also. It was an easy matter lo tumble a few spadefuls spade-fuls vt sand over the bones. Then she left them in that rude Viking sepulture, knowing that time would soon refill the empty dinghy and the bones would be. safely buried, unless some other investigator in-vestigator should uncover them. The man had assisted her in no way in this process, but his excitcme'nt was very great. While she stood looking town at the little heap of sand which covered all that remained of this forlorn for-lorn and forgotten visitor to this island, wondering if The fate of that trespasser upon these silent shores would some day be hers, the man suddenly dropped on his knees as she had seen him do on her first night on the island. Me put his hands together and began that, mumbled jargon which she had not been able to understand, but which had seemed lo her more like language than anything to which lie had given vent. She w.-ib surprised beyond measure, yer she listened list-ened with, every faculty on the alert if possible to comprehend what he might be saying, and presently a familiar sound or two flashed into her mind that he was making uso of a prayer which she herself had used in childhood; that, absurd, ab-surd, fantastic, impossible though the conclusion was, he was saying the child-ish child-ish petition, "Now I lay inc down to sleep!" The fir.t impulse of the woman was to laugh. The next impulse was to lake off the palm leaf hat and stand wit li bowed head and clasped hands. What marvelous miracle was this that throughout the 3-cars which she could no longer doubt, this man had been alone on the island, there had survived the ono childish habit of pra3or and that the one vestige of language which had remained to him was the language of petition. She did not. believe in it, of. course. It. was absurd to her. but. it was none tho less wonderful. It filled her with a certain awe. Tt was as if fouie power had maintained a hold upon tho consciousness of this man in this 'Now I lay me down to sleep! " How long had it' been since sho had said that? She believed nothing, she cared for nothing, but the woman hid her face in her hands for a moment. Sho clenched her teeth and forced out of her mind that which at that moment was striving for birth. Sho was to leach this man ever3-lhing. Slip was to make him know life and history. She was to bring him in touch with all tho glories of loda-, and she recognized recog-nized in that hour, although she did not and could not admit it. that perhaps per-haps he might teach her something as well, something thnt she had not known or something that sho'liad forgotten, for-gotten, without the knowledge of which all her seienco was in vain, a foolish, a futile thing. As she stood there with these thoughts running through her mind, there came back to her recollection those words of scripture which she had read with such disdain last night. "The fool hath said in his heart there is no God." Was the poet right'.' Had there been vouchsafed to him revelations revela-tions greater than those revealed to the microscope of the scientist, tho scalpel of tho anatomist, the' telescope of the astronomer, ihe pure reason of tho philosopher. Was she a fool'2 Nonsense. Non-sense. The little prayer was ended. The man rose to his feel. Sho took her spado and went back '.to Ihe place where the bodies had lain and there began carefully lo scrape away the earth, examining scrupulously ovory shovelful ere she threw it aside. I'J one place, whore the hand had lain, she remembered, her labors were rewarded. re-warded. She came across two rings, a diamond and a plain circlet, of gold. These she placed in her tunic with the collar and continued her digging. It. was 'growing late and growing dark, but she left no square inch of ground unexplored. She found nothing else. The rings belonged to a woman evidently. Her surmise in that particular particu-lar was' right. There wero -no other metal parts of her apparel left. The nails in her shoes, tho sleel of her corset cor-set had rusted away and left no sign. There was nothing remaining but. the two little baubles' pressing against her own warm flesh. So intent had she boon that the sun had gone down beforo she ceased and upon the island there descended that quick and sudden night of the tropics. The wind had risen. Ihe old ocean was thundering on tho barrier reef and a heavj- sOa breeze was ' shrioking through the trees. The sky on the hori'on was Overclouded and , the clouds wero rising rapidly. There would be a storm, which was developing develop-ing with tropic rapidity. Quickly she rot raced her steps along the sand toward ' the cave on the other side, the man ! following. : They had progressed not more than i half the wny when the storm burst I upon them. Peals of thunder and ' flashes of lightning filled tho air. It I was such a display of the Titanic I fQrces of nature as might have ap- 1 pulled the stoutest heart. It filled the woman with a vague terror. She no iiced with satisfaction that the man was entirely unmoved by the terrific t demonstrations of nature. Uv the 1 flashes of lightning as they stumbled I along in the olherwiso total blackness ' she could sec his face serene. In a moment of apprehension she caught I his hand with her own and clung lo it tight I3-. It was the unconscious ap- ' peal of tho physical weaker lo the physical stronger. Her hand had clasped the hands of her fellow creatures crea-tures many times. Never before had his palm met the palm of , human being, be-ing, much less a woman's. She could feel that tremor run through him, but by instinct, as it were, he niol her hand clasp with his own. and together they made their way to the cave. ; They had scarcely reached ifc when the rain burst upon them. Tho heavens j wero opened, tho floods descended, they beat upon the sand3 in fury. She I could not drive him out there in that flood for the night. She motioned him lo come within the entrance of the cave, which was sheltered from the wind and which was dry and still. She-made She-made him lie down ncau (ho entrance, and then, withdrawing herself into a recess at the side, she disposed of the oars, which sho had carried home on her shoulders, iu front of her from wall to wall, and lashing them with the rope to her person, made another feeble barrier, but which would yet. give the alarm to her and waken her if it wero moved. And presently she went to sleep- She was too tired even to speculate specu-late on her discoveries or to piece them together; that would bo occupation for tho morning, (To be Continued) 1 |