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Show "9 - v.-- i r jcToWNSEND Brady ( CHAPTER I. 11 Primitive Norm. .hi had fainted or fallen d!d not know, but this one sure, It had been dark iciousnea. toft her 'and It tread flay, aunuugu iuo uui '.coma to her with a greenish fal Quite unfamiliar. The nwr !M between ner smio wi 5 tlat of 'xtremely tl n village D M10N ik wa8 t0-da- 118 great ud been born Into morning romb of midnight and like UibsI ne drank It In blindly Substantial 'hlcb are la of four or a long time for the Idea to beat Into HIS Drain. She could waif, tin InnnF She rose to her knees and stretched oui ner nands again. "Water!" she gasped In a hoarse wnisper. "Water, or I die!" The man had started violently at her speech. Giving him no time to re- cover, she went through the motion again, this time with greater effect, or me man turned and vanished. She sank down on the sand too exhausted to follow him even with her eyes. If he brought the water she would drink It and live; if be did not, sha would lie where she was and die. She did not care much, she thought, which would happen. She had so sickened of life before she essayed that open boat, that she believed it was simply an animal craving in her which would make her take the water in case It should be brought her. And yet when he did appear with a cocoanut shell brimming with clear, sparkling liquid, she felt as though the elixir of life She could hear the of the breakers ' Piaza, TS l ,pon the Darner reer. Aione had been wrecked In the herds of cat had been, pro.Tered her. L before of the night iving and She seized the shell with both bands C mellowed aoftened and ielr tmporUi which yet so trembled that most of to the the precious water spilled on her dress ijgr accompaniment vlded beti as she carried It to her Darched llns. iiod nearer sounds of the birds The men This was good In the end, for if that U the breeze rustling gently and sheep, vessel had been the famed Jotunehelm trees of leaves the long its . and hat drinking horn, she would have drained imaller trad, pwnd on which she lay was It dry ere she set It down. As It was, ccupatloni. rleldlng and made a comfort- she got but little; yet that little was "omendottd enough to set her heart beating once for her tired body racked d vork, r more. Emptying the shell of the last :orn, matt was drop and with, that keenness of per of a small boat It !n ilaoketi t ene naa oeen arencaea ception which her long training had Mi :lothc. scrambled on the shore and Intensified and developed, marking the ine Tb while that It had not been cut clean ite on the beach, retaining jenerally igth enough and purpose by any knife or saw or human Imple17 the it crawl painfully Inward to ment, but was Jagged and broken as people and je tall palms grow before she If from a fall, she dropped It on the with the W I and looked again toward the j whatsoever way It might sand borne life J man. He held In his hand fruit of Into oblivion. )a ile boipl thoughts raced through some kind, she did not know what It which thej was. It might have been poison. What Mdered brain; each one, how iffer. mattered it? Having drunk she must bernearer little the -a niting The also eat It looked edible, it was In of Then realization. point aeatsrei pt lis through her young body a viting to the eye and smell, and as she southwest, Ling which dispelled the trem- - sunk her teeth Into It. she found it the beaut; kd vague Illusions which her agreeable to the taste also. He had coast regiai If he had meant ud woTen about herself as she brought It to her. Bpecial dir. h and snug and sunny at the harm, present harm, surely he would vantages, not have given the water. She ate It "Water!" She Gasped In a Hoarse he tall trees, and she realized large aim e was confidently. so Whisper. . irigbtiully thirsty, tourists in. As the man saw ber partake of what that she did not know how seekers, he had given her, he clapped his hands understand, to whom he would fain she was. In winter, q and laughed. She waa grateful for Impart his own Ideas If he could. mand for the material awak She stared at him perplexed. She year seen animal In her. Her thoughts that laugh. It was more human than was entirely at loss what to do, until tial Increase the sounds he which made babbling f instantly; they were at once her eyes roving past him detected a Influx of tisl k on one before. supreme desire. Coin Because There was but little of the fruit, Just dark object on the water line just tier eyes unclosed and she sat where the still blueness touched the the southed log In the strong light. The what a child would have' brought and esort, espefl a still low on the horizon this again was good for her, for had white sand. The sunlight was re f the respli Mr full in the eyes and left there been an abundance, in her need flected from gleams of metal, and cures made would have eaten until she had thinking that she recognized it ehe tie moment dazed again. She she made Drnla,grea! herself III. When she had par stepped from the shade of the palms ng upon her hands extended she rose to her feet. Before do and made her way unsteadily toward i larger proa ler back taken, staring seaward, say hcatheiaq ng, thinking nothing, until a ing this she had extended her hand it The man, without a sound, follow to him as if seeking assistance, but be ed closely at her side. the null:: sound to the right of her at had Her vision had been correct for she then to M er attention. simply stared at her uncompre It was a sound drew out of the sand a leather hand most m a human voice and yet It was hending and she had been forced to rs aa mm ing human that she had ever get to her feet unaided. Once stand bag, such as women carry. It had been elaborately fitted with bottles and It was a-- wordless, language- - ing, she trembled and would have mirrors and toilet articles. Alas, It she his but arm that fallen, pend most caught uiatlon, but It roused her in was In a sad state of dilapidation now. reach It once desDlte her material and steadied herself by holding tightly to it The man started back at her The bottles were broken, their con great vrotf Color came and went in his tents gone. The bag had been lying so rar w eakly turned ber head and touch. : means to little shudders swept over him; in the boat when it had been hurled face; lading erect with folded arms mouth his ment aM opened; he looked at her on the barrier In the night and the f own upon her was a man. He with a singular expression of awe not same storm and tide which had borne making H athed entirely save for a fanin his eyes, for her ashore had hurled it also on the with terror nmlxed Mle of palm leaves about his this was the first time in bis recollec- sand. But it had come open in the The Silence of the Man Oppressed thwMt war e stared at him puzzled, Her. and its contents were piti . all the w affrighted. He returned her tion or what would have been his rec battering With eager eyes and finmild. II an intent curiosity In which ollection if his retrospective faculties ably ruined. examined everything. She it. Eating and drinking evidently went no suggestion of evil pur had been developed, that be had ever gers she ience for a in the mind of the man, for a a little found intact mirror, touch of a felt the woman's of pair of together hand, The sum: her of great Incomprehension, when she raised her head, she found housewife was little a which scissors, wonderment. There was any human band upon him. eaert am him before ber with both Noticing his peculiar demeanor in not a part of the fittings and she won- bandsstanding months, fe About him, save the fact that filled with some of the fruit she failed of dered how washed it to her, perfectly natural situation, being there, which should have the, Nore enda partaken of before and other fruit the .woman summoning some of the away, two combs and a package of had She thought she recognized the bread r of tbetV Iny alarm In her heart, for remains of the reserve of force which hairpins. Roman's swift mastery of the e if fruit and a species of banana. At any She had fought against starvation lies of the other sex, she no- - Is in every human body until life is she ate again and having by this rate, his loneliness and arm and stared and thirst and despair her vague terror and wonder- - gone, released 'time recovered to some extent her n .CallfW It be was remarkably good to about her leaning against the trunk of as she had fought against men and mental poise, she ate sparingly and lern Tbls She nearest not she had had set with caution. palm. given way. time, and for Indeed, she thought that she the while It the first time, she took in that expanse her teeth and locked her hands and seen so a spedsplendid ft Then having satisfied her material Owlm like the stoutest be-- of Bea, lonely yet beautiful, upon which endured hardship she knelt down by the stream coast lb physical manhood as that needs, In most were look to so determined her often. Out soldier eyes hearted, in color he was white. Save washed li and her face and hands. How of human of the But and she had the the struggles. deep night history f as bronzed by the tropic sun, sweet was the freshness of that water nd hena misof Into come. small as this into realization what the what and deep perhaps whiter than she was. ' e waten fortune burst upon her, Bhe sank down fo her face burned by the sun and the which bung about bis bead in day had she arrived? oae to ttf She turned and surveyed the shore. on the sands and put her head In ber wind and subjected for a long time to patted tangle, not unplctures- beach curved sharply to the right hands and sobbed. Tears did ber good. the bard spray of the briny seas. She e Is r The golden; his eyes bright blue. would have been glad to have taken t growlni his beard, unkempt but short and to the left, the long barrier reef She had her cry out, utterly unhin off her clothing and plunged into the man stood the ver the I until contour for its the dered, by, roughly shaking ly, she could see hlB firm, following on either side. Back his head and staring at her and mak- pool, to have washed the salt of days or part of lips. His proportions were land obscured it from her tired body, to have had the oft and He was limbed and chested of her stretched a grove of palms and ing those strange little sounds, but ofstimulus and refreshment of Its molest no to United H her. way Apollo Belvedere. In him back of that rose a hill; its crest bare fering in cs: sparkling coolness over her weary a of sea towered crag-likwas and above water and clear The I potent beautifully i strr ngth strove for predora: limbs. But In the presence of ber dog-lik- e California on the other side of the verdure. Through a chance vista she she could see He was totally unlike all that attendant this was not yet possicitrus r ad of the aborigines of the saw the mass of rock as a mountain barrier the remains of her boat. Per ble. were On one side high precipitous haps some time, if there need, as. peak. an output Still she could and must arrange her vith a net the man who broke the si- - cliffs ran down close to the shore and she could get to that boat, but for the Of all the articles In her dresshair. Over them flotsam and water of Jetsam ! It bad been present all the the man who shut out the view. ing bag, she was more fervently a In fearful and beach. to wild the fell voyage her souM lay the spell of ber slumber. In Save in the person of the man be- water-soakebag full of broken glass thankful at that moment for the combs that queer, little chuckling rt countrj. of not evidence an was silver from which she than anything else, the combs and the battered side there and ber hla throat which sounded fa- arge ar. No a of smoke curl had rescued pair of scissors, a mir- little mirror and the hairpins small the Nigh and yet' she bad heard humanity anywhere. n No call trees. distant above the rose ror, two combs, a housewife full of things indeed, but human happiness as e of the "pa of no man before. It a rule turns on things so'small that holsmote fearful the voices rusty needles and some hairpins. 0 the NhlnR to her excerpt that he of human lexioao Investigator and promotor thereof ear. The breeze made music vanltas vanltatum! a lonely M H before her at least was not low of her overlook them. .And we generally verIn thick and the tall serviceable dress know She was wearing a palms 'hoiiKh the nolne he made in the M of irr'r not the significance of the little hill birds a the sailor's blouse and with side, farther dure up of blue serge 18 pltily no articulate speech as until upon some desert island we are but there short Bkirt Putting her precious left with neoplo speech or could Imagine It. sang softly here and there, only those. we it was a stimulus to her. was a tropical stillness to which the treasure trove within the loose blouse That was It still early, about eight on the distant which the battered w4 her own narched Una and great heaving diapason and carrying hag o'clock. How was she to pass the foundation of sound more was a examine to meant barriers ui she carefully soli "M reply, but her thirst. h She must do something. She terror and nervousness upon which to build a lonely quiet later, she turned and made for the day? felt she could not sit Idly staring from one For there there trees be, Human the of again. shade might beings thing "dUlllb And tin SVUUV jlled. anting V UamaV inland It the sun rising rapidly was gaining sea to shore. She must be moving. " nmn be preparing must be, on that island, if might No business called her; she must Inm rould do so, If he will-- were; but if so, they must be abiding power and beating down with great vent nf wnlci'1 some. The compelling necessity man the head. had She She nor side. and bare farther force upon ooiight. but she must drink or on the of a soul not born for Idleness was a of wonderful'he rOlllfl nnf anouU alone. were the protection enjoyed tQ her. She would explore the land. Standing on her feet, with a slight ly plaited straw hat on her long voy upon was ilgns. She leaned forward just Wu That logically the first thing to be nave what from not borne Bhe could the of her else renewal strength A age hnr hnnil tin done any way and this was a highly was woman the and Calif"1'6 too, gone. eaten drunk, from a Woll nn,l n,,,,!., m she hnd heat, but that, r woman who thought to live by trained wit " it Into her of the man. Ho had As she walked Inland, she noticed and lips. Then Bho now felt less fear law albeit her rules were and rule of stream that was His to her off t both right aspect agnln her.handB, to him treated her kindly. countrl' Ne of petition. ' The man gentle, even amiable. He looked at water which dropped over the tall poor ones. She started Inland, the man followher wistfully, bending his brows from cliff In a slender waterfall a sweet In!k h'r Hl8 brow wrinkled. base before it rnn ing after. She had gained confidence at the shakand ever and timo pool to again viting time B'Kn that any w2A"ln,p,e m nnve comprehended as a great dog looks at through the sands toward the sea. She In herself with every passing moment. It, ing his head, t. and whom he would fain made her way thither and'ut the brink The man who looked at her as a dog with master yet It appeared to the and took long draughts of she would treat as one. She muBtj n' deipalr, that it took speak, whose language he would fain knelt down d eyes. C roaring - M W le , e d 111 , 1 . . have some privacy. She could not al ways have blm trailing at her heels, She turned by a great boulder, pointed to 'It laid her hand on the man's shoulder and gently forced him to a sitting position by It Then she walked away. He stared wistfully after her departing figure, and as she turned around to look at him, he sprang to his feet. "No. no!" she cried Imperatively, making backward threatening motions with her hands, whereat he resumed his sitting position, staring at her un til he )ost her among the trees. , Presently she turned and came back to him. It was so deathly lonely with out him. He leaped to his feet as he saw her coming and clapped his hands as a child might have done, his face breaking out the while Into a smile that was both trustful and touching, She felt better since Bhe had him un der this control, and together they walked on under the trees. ' CHAPTER II. Conscious of His Manhood. High noon and they were back at the landing place and she at least was very tired. Accompanied by the man. who made not the slightest attempt to aiide her, after some difficulty she had succeeded In forcing her way through the trees to the top of the hill. Part of the time she had followed the course of the rivulet from which she had drank at the foot of the cliff. She was determined to get to the top, for she must see what was upon the other side. Humanity's supreme desire when facing the bills has always been to see what was on the other side. The stim ulus of the unknown was upon her, but It was coupled with a very lively desire begot of stern necessity to know what there was to be known of the land upon which she had been cast . up by the sea. Her view from the hilltop she did not essay the unclothed and Jagged peak ; she could make ber way around its base and see all that there waa to see was not reassuring. She could detect on the other side of the Island no more evidence of life than were presented by that she had first touched upon. In every direction lay the ua vexed sea. The day was brilliantly clear; there was not a cloud In the sky. No mist dimmed the translucent purity of the warm air. Nothing broke the far horizon. The Island, fair and was set alone In a beautiful, mighty ocean. In bo far as she could tell, she and the man were alone upon It The thought oppressed her. She strove to throw It off. The silence of the man oppressed her as well. She turned to blm at last and cried out the words wrung from her by the hor ror of the situation. 'Man, man, whence came you? How are you called? What language do you speak? Why are you here?" The sound of her own voice gave ber courage. Waiting for no answer, and Indeed ehe realized that none could come, she stepped to the brow of the hill where the trees happened not to be and raising her voice called and called and called. There were answer ing echoes from the Jagged crag behind her, but when these died away there was silence unbroken save by the queer babbling, chuckling noises of the man. She looked at him with a sudden sinking of the heart Had tbls godlike creature roaming the woods, .this faun of the Island been denied a brain, articulate speech? Waa she doomed to spend the rest of ber life alono In this paradise of the Paclflo with a harmless madman forever by her side? What a situation waa that In which she found herself! She was a highly specialized product In of the greatest of universities. science and In philosophy she was a master and a doctor. She should have had resources within herself which would enable her to be Independent of the outside world, a world In which had been her experience, bitter, in which the last few weeks had been one long disillusionment And yet she was now overwhelmed with craving for companionship, for articulate speech, as if Bhe had never looked Into a book or given a thought to the deep things of life. If this man beside her would only do something, say something, be somothlng rather than a silent satellite forever staring in wonder. If she could only solve the mystery of his presence, answer the interrogation that his very existence there alone presented. Her future, her present Indeed, should have engrossed her mind. What she was to do, how she was to live, the terrible problems In which his presence on the Island involved her should have been the objects of her attention; they should have afforded food for thought to the keenest of women. She simply forgot tbem in her puzzled wonder at him. It would have been much simpler from one point .of view if she had found the Island uninhabited, and yet since the man was human and alive, in spite of her judgment, her heart was glad that he was there. She motioned to him to sit down and then she sat in front of him and studied blm. He looked as little like a fool as like a knave. She could, indeed, detect no evidence of any intellectual capacity, but ehe thought, as she studied him keenly, that he possessed Intellectual possibilities. unlimited There was a mind back of those bright blue eyes, that broad noble brow, but It seemed to her a mind entirely undeveloped, mlud utterly t, latent. Here was a soul, she thought; half In fancy, half In earnest that was) virgin to the world. How wise, learned she might be she wa face to face with this primeval norm. Could she teach this man anything? He seemed tractable, reverential, deferential now. Knowledge was power. bow-deepl- y Would It be power with him? Could she open those sealed doors of his mind, what floods would outpour therefrom, of power, of passion? Would she be swept away? It mattered not. She must try. The lm? pulse seized her to begin now. Fixing her dark eyes upon him, she pointed directly at him with her finger. "Man," she said clearly and em- phatically. He was always looking at her. lie had scarcely taken his eyes from her since she bad seen blm In the tan grass by the shore, but at her gesture and word his eyes brightened. There was thaf little wrinkling of the brow again which she had noticed, outward and visible sign of an Inward attempt at comprehension. "Man!" she said passionately. Man," she repeated over and over again. And then the unexpected happened. After Innumerable guttural attempts, her unwitting pupil managed to articulate something that bore a dis- tinct resemblance to the clearly cnt monosyllable. "Man!" he said at last It was a tremendous step in evolu tion, almost too great for any untu tored human brain, for at once the man before her received a name aid the Idea of name as well In that Instant on the heaven kissed hill, he was differentiated from all the rest of creation forever. His consciousness hitherto vague, floating, Incoherent indefinite, was localized, given a habita tion and a name. He knew himself in some way to be. "Man!" he cried, growing more and more confident with every repetition and more and more accurate In catch ing the very intonation with which Bhe spoke. "Man!" he cried, laying his hand upon his breast. "Man!" He leaped to his feet and stretched out his arms. The doors were open a little way. Ideas were beginning to edge their way through the crack. "Man! Man! Man!" he cried again and again, looking eagerly at her. She rose in turn and patted blm on the shoulder encouragingly as she might a dog. And again the touch. the second touch that she bad given him strangely, so him, affected strangely that for a moment she felt . the soul within her shrink, butrealis-- ' Ing Instantly that her domination over him was spiritual and Immaterial and that the slightest evidence of timidity would be translated into universal language which even the lowest creation understands and that her dominion would go on the Instant she mastered herself and mastered him. Although she was but a woman whom be might have broken In bis hands, she dominated him as the conscious soul ever dominates the unconscious souL She essayed no more lessons, bat slued and retraced ber way to the. , shore where she had landed, which because she had landed there, she called home. On the way she attempted an experiment She plucked from a low bush a bright colored fruit of whoso quality and characteristics she was Ignorant and slowly made as if to ' convey It to her Hps. "Man!" crlod the voice behind her. uttering its only word. She turned to find her companion looking fixedly at her and proffering other fruit which he bad qulc&ly gath ered. She handed him that she had He shook his plucked In exchange. head, not in negation but rather In bewilderment and threw it from him, and then she understood In some way that the fruit was not good for food. she could not How be had divined Some compensating Instinct, tell. sharpened by use Into a protecting quality, had taught him. She had no such instinct She had learned to de pend upon reason and observation, and these failed hef in the presence of this unknown. She was humbled it a little in this thought She craved meat and salt having been trained to these things, the arti ficial diet and stimulant to which she had become accustomed, and her orav- Ing was the more Insistent because she had been without them all that time In the boat And yet when she had eaten the fruit that nature had provided in that tropio island, her crav ing was abated and she was satisfied. She felt that she could soon grow ac customed to such a diet if It were necessary. So musing she passed on under the trees and Bat down on the sand again. , (TO BE CONTINUED.) Looking Out for Him. Yeast Looking for some one you expected to come back for old-hom- e week? Crlmsonbeak Yes. , "Can I help you?" "Perhaps. I was looking for a fel low who borrowed J5 from me ten years ago and who forgot to pay It back. I thought perhaps he'd come to town and try to borrow $3 more. . |