Show iab lff w CYRUS ta Y Y himy BRADY 0 rs arar awn SYNOPSIS A young woman cast ashore on a lone ty I 1 island 81 and finds a solitary inhabitant a young white man dressed like a savage and not able abla to speak in any known lan guage irus g she decides to educate him she rinds him n in an attitude att to ude 0 of prayer babbling an incoherent jargon she finds a buman skeleton and the meleton skeleton of 0 ft a dog she finds a bible and a silver box bearing the tha nane nana ot of john revell nevell char nock with a date 25 years before her landing CHAPTER ill continued it was not long before she reached the barrier reef it stood up a toot foot or two above the water now flow the tide being low and she clambered upon it the sharp rocks cut her naked and tender feet unused to such exertions und and unfitted to such demands but she persevered the boat had been beaten to pieces it had been forced over the reef by the hurl of the sea the stern ebern had been wedged in between some projecting rocks the rest of it had bad been torn away and had bad fallen into the lagoon there was no wind the sea was unruffled she could see as if through a glass the wrecked remains of the boat there was nothing in it except the battered motor useless for days before she landed since her supply of gasoline had been exhausted everything else had been washed ol of it and carried into the deeper recesses of ct the lagoon where they were inaccessible to the human vision stop under what remained of a piece of thwart she caught a little gleam of metal calculating the distance she plunged edin in and dove keeping her eyes open she easily found the piece of metal meta dislodged it from the place where it had fallen and came to the surface with it it was a sailors sheath knife with a bit of lanyard fastened to it she had had a fancy to wear it in her sailors blouse and she had bad missed it since she had bad come ashore dut but there was nothing else in the boat not a thing nothing on the barrier 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 bad watched silently as usual and pointed he seemed to understand for he be came and with great effort lifted the torn part of the boat from the rocks and laid it down at her feet she threw it into the water where of course as it was wood it floated easily then with a nod to him she plunged in and together they guided elded it to the shore he taking ills his cue from her action she had a fancy to test his strength and she ehe managed to convey to lo him by signs mainly by trying herself in vain to pull it apart what she wished him to do the impossible to her was childs child splay play to him and in a moment the several pieces ot of the boat which made up the stern were scattered on the beach there was one straight piece which went across the stern of the boit boat and and made a little box for the coxswain to sit in which would do for a shovel it was too wide but she broke it against a big stone and was possessed of what she wanted the ends were rough and serrated and for her hands but these she smoothed by the aid of her knife she sharpened tharp ened the other end and soon had a rude semblance of a shovel she intended to use that on the boat on the sand the next day finished with this she looked at the man and sighed in despair could she ever get rid of him instantly there flashed into her mind that which she had before overlooked as ot of no moment A long heavy boat rope the boats painter she had noticed when she dove lay floating by the side of the boat from which it hid not been severed an idea came to her dropping the shovel and toileted by her satellite she plunged Ino in or riemore e more and again swam to the boat wasting no time she dove as before mund faund the rope and having opened her knife cut it quickly und ind came to the surface gasping there were perhaps 10 or 12 feet of JL it it was a stout riece of rope of unusual quality as siad iad been everything on board the yacht the very best of stuff had bad grao into it and silo she did not believe oily man on earth could break it ahe had amused herself on the crula by learning the rudiments of S filp and she could tie knots like any sailor this little ac was to stand tier her in good stead she wrapped the rope around her nock neck plunged in the lagoon for the third time and swam once more to the shore she led the way up the sands to the palm grove then she tied the rope around tile the mans neek nt k not in a slip of course but in a hard circle and quickly made a running bowline around the nearest net tree ile he had not made the slightest resistance ile he had no idea evidently of what she was doing or the purport of her motions then she turned and went away from him quickly ile ha started for her at vice once and was nearly jerked from his bis feet by the tautening of the rope it yasa aasa new situation for him yet his hands instinctively went to hla his throat mid and h adrove to away the nc noose I 1 ase putting forth such a prodigious amount of strength that she stood in horror lost lest he should part the lashing but it was made of stout stuff and he be had no purchase although he pulled until the sweat stood out on his forehead from the violence of his efforts they were of no avail she had not dared to interfere or to say a word but when she saw his efforts slacken she pointed to the sands to indicate to him that he was to sit down and then she went away conscious that while the rope held sho she was free she was conscious of another thing too and that was that he was learning a sad and bitter lesson ot of physical restraint to which lie he had never before been subject she had rejoiced in hla his companionship of course it had given her something to do her mind something to work upon and would do more in the future but she ahe never enjoyed a moments freedom more she ran to the little amphitheater formed by the cliffs where the cave was and throwing aside her blouse and skirt shirt she luxuriated in a bath in the fresh cool delightful waters ot of the pool at the base of the fall there was a certain amount of apprehension for of course he might break hla his tether at any time but she was sufficiently confident not to let this take ariy away the pleasure she felt in the bath of freshwater fresh water after the long experience with the salt seas if she had had a cake of soap she would have been completely happy she had much to do and she could not linger for one thing she ehe had bad to face the problems of clothes she had absolutely nothing when she landed except what she wore besides the usual underwear these consisted of her blue serge blouse and skirt a short skirt at that and a silk petticoat she left the blouse and skirt outside on the rocks where they would soon dry in the sun they had bad been wetted so often that there was no possibility lity of their shrinking further then she took stock of the rest with needles and thread of which she POs possessed d some store in the housewife which had been saved from her bag she thought she could make shift to manufacture three or four garments open at the neck without sleeves and with skirts that came to the knee garments just sufficient for modesty there was no other need for clothes so far as that went in that balmy island naturally she shrank from this but unless she restarted ted to this expedient her clothes would wear out all at once indeed they were in none too good a condition ag as it was a and nd when they were worn out she would have nothing she would not have hesitated a moment had it not been for the man but man or not the decision in her mind was one to which she must come unlike most overeducated women she was still expert with her needle and as tier her garments were to be of the simplest she had not much difficulty in making over her silk skirt in the way site she fancied belted in at th the waist it would do she would use the rope that bound the roan man tor for that purpose keeping it always about her she had of course but one pair of stockings and one pair of light canvas boating shoes which were almost cut to pieces she would have to go barefoot putting her blue serge dress and the rest of her clothing carefully away her shoes and stockings she stepped out on the sands bare armed bare footed a gleaming floure like to an olympian goddess she was a wo woman man naturally dark in complexion and while the sun would probably burn her cruelly and burn her young flesh never exposed to its intensity darker she would not grow red or blister she was thank thankful fulfor or that with unconscious bem fem femininity at any rate she must ki get et used to lo going out in the sun without a hat too people natives who were born and lived lu in this latitude did become accustomed to such things she knew so BO undoubtedly could she with these thoughts she stepped around tile the headland and walked across the beach toward the palm tree where she could see in the fading aig light t ot of the afternoon her prisoner was still tied modesty Is a negative term that which la Is indecent exposure in a ballroom la Is the height of convention on a sea shore certainly this roan man had no concept of such ruch a quality ile he had bad not noticed before when she had come out barefoot to swim to the harrier barrier reef and yet somehow she fancied as he stared at her that this time lie he marked the difference and a slow fiery blush lamed flamed over her from her bare feet to her bare head extended along tier her bare arms arma she stopped under tinder the persuasion of impulse to turn and go back to the cave and resume her clothing at least so BO long junk as it might last but she was a woman of strong will she reasoned that all the to which she was subject were in her own bosom that the man before her neither knew nor cared as to the things which vexed her so she went on she had in her hand the sailors knife with the blade open she could not tell exactly in what mood her prisoner might be cindee she approached pro ached him with a certain terror accounted tor for partly by the situation and partly by the tact fact that tant in making this change in her garments she had ab it were cut herself off from civilization and brought herself in some degree at least nearer hla his physical level dai but rho bhe could rot leave him there all night summoning her cour age therefore and with a bold front before thin n lm sie sae advanced to the tree and untied the rope from the trunk and untied it from his bis neck as well he fie stood silent unresisting through it all a rather pitiful figure she thought at first until he was freed from the degrading halter then she waited in intense an and eager curiosity as to what he should do next the iron in his situation had eaten into his hia soul ile he had been mas maa by force ile he could not understand it ile he did not love the ni mastery asterY still without the knowledge of his bla own powers there occurred to him no way to resent the ignominy to which he h had bad been subjected ile he turned and walked away froni from her she stood amazed staring after him it was the first time he had bad withdrawn himself from her presence where was waa ho he going was waa this a declaration of war was there to be enmity between them in vague terror moved by a sudden impulse again she called him man alan she said ile he stopped hesitated looked back turned and went on again ile he was deeply hurt she could not see him go it was unthinkable that he should go ile he was dangerous away from her dy by her side she could control him man alanl she called again but this time he did not heed an idea sprang to her brain working quickly under the pressure she lifted up her voice for he was far from her now flow and plodding steadily doggedly toward the trees Jo john hial she cried john revell charnock and at that sound athe the man stopped ile he turned and looked at her again Job johnt til she repeated john she approached him As silo she did so and when she could get near enough to him she observed that wrinkling of the brow that look of amazement which she had noticed before it was as if some latent memory some recollection of the past were struggling against the obscurity of years as it if something were endeavoring to thrust itself through a sea of oblivion and forgetfulness that overwhelmed his mind as if she were a volca voice which to the mystery she fancied was in tier her hand she had such occupation before tier her as aa she had never hoped to come upon in a desert island at least the rope added to her security by piling stones atones before the entrance to the cave and reinforcing them with the boards from the wreck of 0 the boat and some fallen tree branches on oil the shore she made a sort of a barrier to it not a barrier that would havo have kept out of the cave cava any ono one who desired to enter but one which would have to be removed before one could enter and she so arranged matters tying the end of the rope to tier her wrist that any attempt to remove it would immediately waken her that night she slept secure anil and unmolested CHAPTER IV lesson and labor the task to which she set herself in the morning would have been an impossible one to many women and indeed it was a hard one to her the burled boat lay in III the sand some rods roda distant from the nearest tree there was absolutely no shelter from the fierce heat of the tropic sun suit she was not yet fully to it and indeed perhaps she never would be able to endure it without some sort of a head covering she improvised a bonnet from tile the leaf of a low springing palm tree which with her remaining handkerchief she tied about tier her head and then with her watchful friend by her side bide she descended the beach to the boat and began to dig it was waa hard aud and very tedious work with the flat makeshift make shift 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 tor for a long urns time until the sweat headed beaded her forehead tier her back ached her hands handa unused to manual toll of any 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 which the man mail had subjected tier her to would enable him to continue the work As an experiment she banded handed ear U RAM inia A gleaming figure like an goddess brought back things lie he could belth neither er understand nor utter and yet which bic I 1 meant something to him I 1 johnl she cried again coming nearer to him she thrust out her hand she touched him again she sno noticed that strange emotion consequent upon tier her touch she laid her hand upon his shoulder there was amity confluence reassurance su sg rance she patted him as she might a dog john she sald said and then turned away and walked toward abo tl shore obediently he followed her she thrust the knife between her baist and the ropo rope which she had bad rapidly twisted about her middle anil and on in triumph it if he had earned something ad so bad she some one else clae had called this man john la in days g gone one by the sound was not unfamiliar to him ile he answered to his name came that was he be john revell charnock she I 1 felt as it she were entering upon the solution of the mystery of bf hla his presence 1 perhaps the morrow would tell she would examine that boat and those decaying evidences of humanity on the farther shore sho felt elated that night ere she went to sleep in tae luave cave the clew it him 1 th I 1 shovel stopped out of th the e ex danl cavalier a alei she had made and pointed towar it ile he understood instantly jbf sh aas aa surprised at the unusual debs of his i fusion for or hf bo set to work with a right good will |