| Show ck S h W W 1 S 4 d 11 BY BEATRICE illustrations by irwin irin J in myers copyright by hughes A faco co service 1 THE STORY on Is a pleasure trivin trip in eastern water philip amory english world war veteran now nowa a trader on the tha island of papua new J guinea plunges eel 0 overboard to save tho the life ot of ft a musical munica I 1 come corned ay iy JL ic otres known a a gln gin sling amory become interested inala laurier Laur ler member ember sn of a wealthy now new south wales wale family faintly he tells her of his know knowl ledea edice of a wonderful gold field on the inland chiq gln tells tell ahlm pla la in eng engaged sLed to I 1 sir richard van ean show ilia hla holiday ended ende dAin am t 01 ry y arrives back at itaru lie he neeta meets an spica there on development busl near tor for a syndicate lot 0 which ira pan n chow IM is I 1 head Fan fanshawe shaws name re recalls calle to amory a long lone te ten in incident in which he witnessed the th escape of ranshaw from a leper colony he tells his friend bassett about it and decides to inform Li Lurier ite he goes to thursday island aland to send the message amory bears hear pan fan chaw dictate dIcta tea masi sage which indicates that the secret cret of the gold bold held field in known amory meets meet a with iv ithan an accident that lays lay him upeor up tor three weeks recovered he be saile alove fr port moresby A compels him to put in at ahw thursday island asland where he an deFan a haw amory res resumes mes hit his voyage to port morsely Mor seby ranshaw follows in a motor boat and attempts attempt aito to run him down amorae amor shoots and kills ranshaw CHAPTER VII 13 from where I 1 was camped the whole world seemed to fall away in one huge wave upon whose crest the borsand boys boy sand and I 1 precariously hung pour four days we had tolled to reach this place four our days of I 1 hardest work cutting our road foots foot by toot foot through forest that was knitted and aind tangled together we were e pitted with with leech bites scarred 1 bym by mosquitoes I 1 had enough dinner find and likely to for months I 1 comfort was a dream ata and danger dally daily food and U I 1 was happy IP the way of one one who has long thirsted for a draught of the home airs about his native town and after long travel I 1 long 0 ug difficulty his has won back to it at 1 last ast I 1 wish I 1 could find words to tell the completeness of that conviction the certainty based on kopro no producible facts thata that I 1 was in my proper place and doing what I 1 ought litto to do here tour four days inland from the mid waters of the romilly river arver away from all the world whlor men andall and all their works berend here on the spine of the dreadnought ranges verging merging at last at last I 1 on the unknown I 1 from today I 1 knew the worst of the work began I 1 scanned the world below belov and ald decided that V I 1 had done well grace thi the dead incer miner h a ant left the Ron romilly lilly till he cama camei i right to tha head of the navigable part I 1 acting on what wha was more a guess than a conviction ead bad branched off from the river halfway up nobody knew ju just want lay ii a day or two beyond my present camp but from what I 1 could see cee and infer I 1 thought I 1 might succeed in cutting off weeks ot of work by going on just as I 1 was going I 1 might go adlonger a longer way round than grace had gone but I 1 was likely to gett get there heie sooner so go I 1 sit bat and smoked brooked and felt myself at pence peace and iho ibo sun went down upon my lyday my day I 1 should have slept well that night I 1 did pot not I 1 lay iny wakeful on my grid of sticks saw through theolen the open triangle of the tent fly the cross gwng round dihe to the movement of the earth about the sun sleep I 1 told myself you must sleep tomorrows a hird hard day I 1 but there seemed see medo to bedsprings be springs in my eyelids holding them up the muscles of my limbs were were stiff and I 1 could not sleep toward morning when I 1 should have bave bien been waking I 1 dropped into confused tired steep the I 1 first spears of woke me like aftab a stab t jt lenot Is not at sun sunrise but before that the ex clorer should leavi leave his bis none too downy bed with a curse at my own on blazt 1 ness mesa I 1 pulled on boots and was dressed already the carriers had their fire going j t they they sa al round li it blanket robed witching watching thi the pot of rice cook over the games flames I 1 looked at them almost through them felt as one fe elain such places that they the brown bron wen toen of the country made scarce a break in the glorious the intoxicating sense of of 1 ablit solitude ude that a white man knows on oni he be verge of lands over eliat pen segrest rest ridge p a couple of days march on there was no man lize knew ahat but bui when stopped 1 topped he mountain I 1 should know and 1 V said bald in my rashness ashness this I 1 la Is good coody 1 1 I ask no more of life in the same moments moment I 1 tur turned lied down the long cutting in th eforest that we had made the day before beford anti and saw a figure seated on a log the current of my blood seemed to toa ba therlow the flow of the homley river tops taps for an instant 1 when the gulf bore canies conies weeping in and holds it back then as the thet sore hoire hips ales up the j river driving driling all before k it anger and aid f tick dismay m my there I 1 I 1 was corsel else me too icv anra unkind af pf of anger love perhaps r t 7 17 but they were drowned beneath the j tide I 1 took tooh ten steps to the place where jinny was sitting and 1 salato aard to her heir G d jinny what made you do this she looked up at me leco ifould tild see gee now in the growing how het her beauty was wrecked how her eyes had sunk hack back into I 1 berheid her head and her copper hair most ta ita shine v how she bhe had worn herself hersel tto to a skeleton and let her clothes fall into anto rugs rags there sores on her arms and neck liek leech bite sores blue marks of bites dee deep I 1 p scratches ches made by lawyer thorn her shoes were bandaged on onto her feet her hat was d a tangle of torn siaw straw anger had bad possession of me and yet though 1 knew thal she had practically ked my expedition I 1 could not choose b but u t pity tho the I 1 bright thing brittle as a a butterfly w rho ho had wagered her hei light self against the terrific I 1 powers of the unknown 1 own chobe who before fore the threshold was well crossed lay benten beaten nothing but blot the slow pace enforced on me by the cutting of a track had bad kept her with me so tar far she bhe must have known this guessed thai that tier her ony only chance of life was to come forward and show lier hem self fling h herself on my mercy before it was too alite she had obtained a canoe as I 1 after afterward wara teamed learned from tile the village at romilly mouth and persuaded a small crew to ite accompany company tier her lulng and sleeping on board slie she wasilie wa was sibie able to keep beep her boys with her until she landed at the place where I 1 and de barked al few hours earlier there they ithai deserted as car carriers will and she had had nd no food save saye what she could earry carry herself no shelter save the frost during the tour four days of ayt my journey towards dreadnought range luckily for her it was impossible to lose the way even when she fell behind since the track we were clit cutting ting made our course plain its as a macadamized road read I 1 think she went in constant consta nt terror derror Jer terror of natives terror of wild beasts even terror of me for she must have guessed all too soon that her plan of following me right through was madness and that she would be forced ant into showing herself but I 1 do not think she knew even suspected that her coming stam stamped ed the expedition into dust she thought she had merely to placate meuse me use her womans comans tricks in ln order to find refuge in my party she doubt her ability jinny had not had much reason to doubt doub aher ther chance of success in this or r any other test where the weapons of hersea her sex were pitted against danli mans determination but it was not mans determination t that hat barred her now A it wash the IM m mense impersonal might of the untamed tamed ikwild wilderness emesi of papua against this ta the onest anest men en of the nineteenth century the pick ick of the twentieth had fought struggled and most often lost loit paying the loss with their ther lives who was the little lancer dancer to break lance in such ao an army she did not know she a stood up and cameto came to me with the red ft f sunrise rise on her red gold hair smoothing her torn shirt and pulling down her tattered breeches calling to work the smile that had gained a drop of new sweetness from every man who tell fell victim to Iti it now lt it was a very honey flower wherein the wandering kissing bee might drown she knew her work this jinny she made me in a minute forget per her rags her at stains ains her battered weary look and see her but aw as I 1 had bad known her months weeks ago on the liner and to ID thursday island yet yet ai at the same time awas I 1 was angry and sorry dorher tor her andhor and for myself jinny 1 a jinny 1 I 1 said to I 1 her herand and again J jinny jiuu ily J jinny I 1 it seemed as it if 1 cu could ldla find in DO ocher other words but bikit jinny was only 00 too oo eager aage I 1 to talk my oath phil she declared catching meby me by the loose folds of my shirt as if she feared thit that somehow I 1 might vanish my I 1 thought it was all in with me 1 did straight last night I 1 see a s sign 1 of your fire anywhere jamea sa same mea as I 1 id d seen it other nights aadi and il I 1 fair gaye in myself up for dead and 60 so this morning I 1 f started off ifasi ag soon as im roe feet and bald to mezell jinny my girt ial if you oaf dont bad him quick the robins or whatever lt it le la will could coma and cover coter you with leaves today so I 1 hurr hurried lid and when I 1 ame come on you just like that it too took kald mi queerly leei and f had to sit bit down because of 0 course I 1 was afraid that be augry angry phil youre Yul not ani gry ay with little aln iii are you ahll mil I 1 just had to come t i blont dont mind anything abw now ive round you and aid 1 I know im with you t 0 el r jinny my dear if 1 said and vill 1 did bot not think my black haired dian herself would grudge the kiss that wenc wen with the words jinny tell me me foi or I 1 wanted to vuc put off the b bad ad moment as long as as possible tell me have yoi you b had ad any breakfast no nor dinner last night she said 1 I anything left 6 then you must breakfast at once I 1 called a carrier s spoke oke to him and set him hIrn to tomake make tea and bir bring ang meat I 1 and biscuits shi she llad had eaten her meat and biscuits abe she had bad air thirstily atily finished her I 1 pan n akin of tea lite v was ere creeping 1 back into her tired face and with it SOM billing that I 1 knew tay my next few I 1 words roust kill hope bope 1 I thought be angry she sa said setting the down upon the ground imald I 1 said nothing I 1 took her scarred burned hand band and bigan began amoo smoothing thi ngit it gently in mine angry she little knew tho the very rage of h 1 had bein been in my heart when first I 1 looked down the clearing saw b her e r sitting bitting there knew lit it meant to ta me and knew in the same moment that she could levei never if the she lived to be a hundred understand what she had done how could one be angry leave anye ago go of my hand she said suddenly theres some something you arent telling me phil what Is it jinny anny V I 1 said there are a great many things youl you lavent told me and I 1 propose to know them before very long but theres there a plenty of time for all that plenty of time I 1 repeated for or anything either of us as wants to tell theother the other months on the way yes she said the way to the p place lace they call Tata Ta talata tata the way toabe to the mouth of the rivert river I 1 mean said L youre coln botn back again cried many jinny were going back i because of me 7 because I 1 india find it necessary to go phil id have drowned myself rattier rather than if id known phil dont doit do it olda boy lets go on and alid chance it im not afraid of anything 9 rii ill ga tilli drip drop dead let me me phil I 1 she was almost crying she held my i sleeve 18 tightly and a nd shook me in her eagerness jinny I 1 said were up against hard facts drop dead as you call it Ilie before fori noon today yu you 1 I 1 I do done newell well up to this anyhow I 1 kept with jau you phil I 1 you kept with me ibe because the work w akl had begun if you yon had been on an hour five minutes later in finding me janny the meat ants would have been picking your bones tomorrow ow maybe before you were dead r if you came on with ui us now now we might bl be e able 16 to help you along yes hit her eyes glowed with hope for a dy or so carrying you in a litter where we me could and slinging you up precipices with ba like ailed a tied pig that jinny would cut our days work down by athard a third maybe a half we should get a little way and turn turnback back I 1 prefer to turn back now dont cry oln gin slang you never never cry you yau known know that war cry of bours yours drink larink hearty iksoon soon be deady lets hear it aja again ajalat lut I 1 clapped her on the back assuming a gaiety I 1 iiii was very tar far fio from f feeling 1 13 g te fl one I 1 of 0 pie t h e swift changes typical ot of her h er 0 sad ad merry kind bieze d bold on her without warning she flashe dInto sudden fury vor for 1 slie she said id kill him swine I 1 wh the swine gw IneA I 1 asked but she looked at me and made no reply I 1 saw the she was shaking with rage TO |
