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Show BEAVER PRESS . STS1S. drenmaf ft Tl?"'- 4 Service r. Co. CHAPTER IX 1- 6and another two ,L before I tood again upon the Cm that I had topped with so light l0C iL nlro that KflUT rh Heart on me u.v. i nuu arrival oi Jinny, L.tpd ' . .!n nnA fYlV ttfirPS All. hoe I might the Lwith what patience -d r ond one delays that always tLbi the Dath of the Papuan travL .nd Kot away almost by main j" First, however, I had seen L safe aboard a local steamer Lns going to Port Moresby. Why to go mere, wuui sue wuu e wanted when she arrived, l couia do to Ug L conceive, and, In face of her hos- L obstinate silence, had little chance 7 i i Aa 1 coiuu W finding OUt. vuiy mj m would as she to Jinny good-bfcndlj Lw, and privately hope with a jradsing, smarting kind of hope that las entirely Illogical, but, I suppose, iuman that she would console her if!( as speedily as might be. I Then, being free, I hurried to my point, and drove Jonner turning-bacounce jie bovs and myself for every Stat was 1n us, up toward what 1 still loped might be eventually called the ia Laurier ranges. i There was need for haste. I was lot in the least surprised, when I the beginning of my cut leached through the forest, to find that others lad passed that way since. The camp l:es of Spicer and Caxon, the skeleton! of their tent poles, their empty lias thrown away, were marks plain lenoogh for the veriest tyro to underFor me, who was no tyro, prand. there was much more; things more '.cstarbing, because more significant of g.'ouble, traces of natives; who were Sflearlr spying and following. These fs;gns were plain to read, and caused m.m 4avt passed, rosts In 5, ftcjM n,l lam i - 't Off, W not it " Aspirin, P' tablet; lurab; Anting . "'""s ..., and surrounded before you could have drawn two breaths, by tall brown devi s whirling cluba and spears, and yelping the headhunted horrible dog. show yelp. Of how we fought them, A ft. a fin ts u,c"u i. nrmg low, shot one through the belly, and another through the Chest . before that, i ...... inracuj --BUIIUSl ashamed I was, a trained soldier "6uiuBi mese creatures with their sav-ag-e ... weanons! and rot numbers, and since they did not fear our - .. L .3 arrnn uuioi-arn- . or . ..a. ,(r,:::o:oxo:j e!tlr . -f Jh: T" by Hugh wvu time for I could, if 1 -- . of ever, hour of that nine me jaie Journey; relate Cr e?ch WNature bdq ever, counter that . , uunXM. an(j of th, or weariness fnnor.,ri... 7 . uiuiu ana Into one bod, Insensitive pulp Of a midday when I and boys, resting. IrwinMyart Hassle was ,..,,... V. uo.(iu,iiic) how they muic again, cnarging in tiue, piuihier man you would believe, so that I'd have spared them if I could:, but- thp tf . m; v tt u ursi .u -- . and the other carriers carriers, rusneu in oenina me, clubbing with rifle butts where they could not fire; and so In five minutes it was over, Mild flip trlhu r(T Intr. n,,. uuou ngU with a head they'd taken from one of ... .i me curysus wune tne nguting was too hot for mo to nntico Yes, I could tell much, a volume. But 1 will pass over that Journey, in y paluij in canaj : for k , tlyiij atingba novo tin aWia miij .GMl my own sleep to the very point compatible with keeping u the road in the day. . We had three down cut ast ctd, sat since a na carry more than he can eat twenty-on- e days. 1 had some stores of beads, salt and knives with me, and meant to use tliem when fairly driven to do so. Trading with the cannibal tribes of the nnexplored Interior Is playing with ieath; but starvation is death; so theres little choice between the two. I need not say that I looked for traces of Splcer's party, ceaselessly, tat so far, I had seen no signs of tuem In the distance ahead. I was, 10 H appearances, as much alone itb my boys as if no other human creature bad been left alive upon the sand continent of New Guinea- It ma here, as I had told Jinny, tokless Jinny, that the real work began. Down those appalling ridges. wn half a day Into a gorge as nar WW E8 a Milirnw llit)lnir than nn "gain, climbing with feet and hands !" was the day. Sometimes the nver would prove too wide and deep to cross, then we would fell a tree w rapidly as possible, and. one after "other, cross It like rope dancers Sometimes we sorunibled painfully long the tops of boulders In a river . sometimes worst of all we had to torn back, lose the height and the "'stance gained, and find, at Infinite Nns, another way across a ridge " had beaten us. And ail fairly tMs had tO hp linn a tiA at la!oiiio at the highest which I and speed " carriers could possibly keep up any of the party be- 7'ui I leaving had picked my boys ; they ere all mountaineers capable of rambling op a height with Pounds on their backs, till further ln eum cllIIdIil.e "ws, paricky. ndent utterly on the leader. If ' awt take thero through, these wn. bloodthirsty, muscular babies ' " an'fhltK happened to me. thP T would never, any one of them, Bnd wlfe nnd chl'lren again; tbt . And If they were to nn 8way frora ,ne- - 89 car rier. T'' d.me times without nnmher. '' all Port Moresby to a mango m tl,e amHl wo,, tit!. ever r 8oun,i of "Blafk AjbtI Sheep" m,,re- - We wpre dependent. "n!f- ou e"-other, . .. "lint ..i,i "u'u ' unnK or it an 7 . ""Jwlf. wonderlngly tn" If she. wmte-ros- e maiden, had been m eijierl- vealte ei tad ;er ifc etesn keJcj wen was as stores, no more, weeks Stive I fir an ilea. lit s:o ED N cannot in about one-in-tw- o J '"-e- ' ! mln! - lr,)0rt h ! ftde ni. i -- "' ineaL ' to picture u. uer wouia nnve 'nK"t i drJ ,n exactly the right 5 In, boots, shooting, fish rr....- I h.H,:,",K Bu- tWerally, . 8rlously contemplated 'Jchan I ih.Uf.ra,te 00 Probability, as thnl ,he of the jU,Jril1PnCe 3 ......... a NVw I 1th V. dhuntcr for co,,k- '"I KO n hpr- - - tnowlJ fml. I" 1 hom ,0t "file pleasure the 8ve fne that thPr wn 'rl '10 would b coa,e,, J" lhe ''opuan wilds, and ,"and iiri """cner urn slice." bare " It V withdra. the f fc, my aignt kUif bad before me. "If. here," I thought; and In the Mma moment its herself." The sun was wertertn ,t WM !m Possible to descend Into the pit that With pity I remembered how flay. trace and Jackson, starving, sick, at the end of their resources, had stood fhere I stood now. locking, like Moses, over a Promised Land on which the, never to set foot If it was hard for me to wait until nest morning only, what must It have been to them to see all this, know what it meant, and leave It behind? Yet the, had done right The descent was all of two thousand feet the country rocky and difficult ; Grace and Jackson and the wretched remnant of their boys, even if they had succeeded In getting down to that distant hole, would certainly never have found strength to climb up again. The route through the limestone country had been their destruction. No one, assuredly, would ever go that way again now that I had shown another. On this, I remembered what for the moment had entirely escaped my mind the Spicer expedition. I had thought much of It In the last few days, and wondered where It wus. Traces of a party ahead had vanished some time before; but that was no serious pus-zla very little deviation from the route I followed might explain It I had been sure, however, that I should see or hear something of them when InlpT I Was a Trained Soldier Against These Creatures With Their Savage Weapons. retrospect, more easily than I passed in fact, and come to the crucial day, the morning when I made Tatatata. We were climbing a ridge, Just like a hundred ridges that we had climbed since the start. The ground was steep beneath our feet, as it had been for days; the air was thinning; nights had been colder. let, I did not think that we were very near; did not guess that the lane of our long Journey was reaching Its turn at last In front of us, the sky began to show pale through thinning tree-top"I'll halt there," I decided "and fall a look-ou- t. "Come on," I said to the carriers. "Double ration tonight." I had been holding back a little; I could afford that spur. I They raised a shout, and shouted with them, for encouragement And so shouting, plugging upward and for ward, like the men of Xenapnon wnen thpc rnme nnon the sea. we topped the and ridge, found empty air before us, Tit saw The wonderful By Heaven. It was a often arter, sight I was to seeI Itcome upon It, but never once did without something of the first thrill h pi7Pf1 me when I broke out of the forest and viewed, lying far below anu scarps me, the enormous slopes f m,o nameless basin. In the finding of which two white lives, and many umers dark, had already been lost, down by that yet were to be sucked before It was strange onaercurrem Some with. done hinted that prophetic feeling may have i whs or else auupij to me, looked at the rocks, marsea uie h hitia th nature of the whole all I had heard of place, remembered my hand, viostruck and lore, mining tree. nearest the lently, upon "Found." I shouted. 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I had the boys up at four o'clock; their food was cooked and eaten, camp struck, and every one ready to start before the first mysterious gray began to show above the basin's farther rim. Progress was Incredibly slow; still we kept on at It, determined to reach the bottom of the pit before No midday halt was even dark. thought of; through the heat of the without rest we foodless, day, plunged and struggled on. And we had our reward. It was not mora than half past four, by my watch, when we topped a ridge of strangely heaped, wild rocks that for a while had barred our view, and saw, so near that we could almost have taken a long leap into it the Pit I left the carriers there on the rim of the little flat and plunged downward. We had done a hard day's work, but I took those rocks, those stretches of sloping sand and gravel, e wearer of as a fairy-tal-e boots might have done; It was diving rather than descending. I took a toss at the very last, and came down with hands and feet outspread like a starfish, on a bed of gravel that cut m, palms, and tore the knees of my trousI raised myself up; I wasn't ers. hurt, scratched merely, but my hands and my knees were all over blood and and gold. gravel The thing was done and won, the Two handfuls of long fight over. had my world. changed golden gravel "I am Black Sheep no more," was the first thought I can remember. It was not entirely pleasurable. There are sweet pastures for black, wild sheep, and for them only. . . . This gold discovery I did not doubt or minimize Its value; I knew too much for that meant no small fortune, no meant quiet comfortable sufficiency; itmillions perhaps millions, and what no brought with them. Black Sheep wild more. The no Wanderer more. could a man of places no more. How had millions live In termed "a hole In the bush"? I went to supper, and to rest First, however, I washed from my hands ta dirt and blood and gold that syl bollcal, Inseparable three examined thp pnld with care, as It seeped to the bottom of the enameled basin, and found Its amount and quality, surpris"There's been nothing like It ing there never will be, again," I thought "And It's that pinch of yellow, not has anything I am or might be, that mnile me worth, of the most splendid masgirl on earth. A mad world, my '. ters!" The peaks of the Pia Laurier range, In the mounting moon, far, fairy-blulooked down npon me as I slept (TO , take Cltj, t'tah. W. lnd Bo. 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