Show airy TW 7 wy v T D I 1 1 ja ap abent r u abst B bajet BW JeT w cv ft SYNOPSIS the etora open opens with tir the 1 are k of the he on wllie ale le I 1 all lie an american helm heiress lord min in hrop an in gl lhman and tom ulak blake a i brusque were passengers the ali three iceie tensed upon tn rm ib tied island and mere er the only one ones not dro drow Aried neil blake reco recovered erm from a drunk en blake hunnel on the boat because bt cabie of hie tile rou dougl ness became a hero am a preserver preer vr of it tie e lilylee lil liel pleas pair TI tie e hlll nl ll man va iu ter the hand of mies alias I lille iollie ollie blake started it arteil to win back to the klip blip to recover want wai as left illace 11 ake returned return ft birely IN In waste I 1 Hs 11 lat last match on a cigarette for he ri vaa aam cored scored by blake their first well meal wai was a dead null flah CHAPTER ill III continued to bo be aure sure the japanese eat raw fish admitted winthrope opo I 1 lee es and vou aoud d swallow knur share of it if 1 you had rin u ervite to a kwell dinner in lit tokyo oo 00 on now both of you its it i no joke I 1 tell i ou you ya got to cat eat it if ou e hect to get to ft a ter before night understand bee see that headland south NN ell its it to 1 w we ell cot not find water short of there find and if we make it by well A ell be doing butr better r than I 1 figure from the looks of these bogi bogs now go to chew chewing ing that a U that s fine aliss jenny I 1 mils miss lehe had forced herself to take a nibble of at the raw flah the flavor proved leas less repulsive than she bad expected and its moisture was so 10 grateful to her parched mouth that she b gan to eat with eagerness not to be outdone out done winthrope promptly followed her lead blake had already cut himself a second slice after be he had cut mole mote for hia his companions he began to look them oer over with a cle ness that proved embarrassing to miss baile I 1 here a more at 0 the good stuff he said alle nalle ouia out 4 chewing cheing it well bort sort of take stock er everybody shell out everything heres my outfit three shilling shillings liali a dozen poker chips and not another blesset say become of that whisky flask 7 have ou seen been my flask 1 here it la is right beside me mr air blake answered miss leslie but it ie Is empt might be worse arset bat you got hair hairline lins watch no coclet po clet I 1 suppose P none one and no watch kien even most of my pins are gone replied the girl girt and she raised her hand to her loosely colled coiled hair well hold on to what art oue got left they may conie come in for fish hooks I 1 let et it bee our shoe shoes miss leslie slowly thrust a blender slender hule little foot just bond the hem heni of her dangled white skirt good lord gunned blike slip pera pers and high heels at that how flow do you expect to walk alk in those things I 1 I 1 con can at least try replied tho the girl alth spirit hobble iasa pass lem em over here NN la in nie tile tny my boy the slippers were ere handed oi oer er blake took one after the other and keched oft off the heel bee close to its base bae now no auve at least got a pair of slipper slippers he lie said tossing them thern back to their owner I 1 lie ile them on tight with a couple of your ribbons it sou dont want to lose them in the mud no now I 1 In aliat you sot got beside the knife I 1 lathrope held out a it bunch of long flat I 1 ie e s and his cigarette case he lie opened the latter and was about to throw away the two remaining cigar ettee ettes when blake grasped his wrist I 1 hold on even they may come in tor kr something Bom ething melt e at least keep them until we need the case and the key keys make arro heads it we can get fire live I 1 ve hoard hear dof 0 savages making fire by rubbing wood yes and were a long way from being adages at present all the show we e have liane Is to find some kind of quartz or flint and the sooner we e start I 1 to look the better got your slippers tied asa jenny yes I 1 thin the 11 do think its it knowing the thing hero let me look 1004 the girl girt back but blake stooped and examined diet one slipper and then the other the ribbons about both were tied in daina bowa bows blake them loose and twisted them firmly oer over and under the slippers and about the girt girls a slender ankles before knotting the ends there that a more like I 1 inure nu re not going to a dance he grow groa led he lie thrust the empty whisky flask into his hip kocl tt t t and went ent bt bak to pass a sling of reeds through the gills ills of tho all ready now he lie called lot lets g get u h move on keep my coat closer about four your shoulders miss jenny and keep your shade tip if it you don dont t want ant a sunstroke eun stroke thank you blake III see to that bald said lathrope 1 I I in going to help belp alias leslie along lye I 1 ve fastened ou two hades shades together so that jhc thc th will anar er tor for both of us how flow about mr air blake inquired the girl I 1 do you not find the sun fearfully hof hot sure but I 1 wet in head in the sea and hei hete 4 anotoli another er boase a i xe he lie rose with dIr pInt bead frontu beside pool bo he slung ahe e ze V P stopped utterly spent an on bis his back and started oft off further words CHAPTER V A journey tn in desolation iff 1 was well advanced ll 11 anil and the gun sun beat down upon the three with almost ovi po powering pring fierceness the heat would have haie rendered their thirst unendurable had not blake hacked off on tor for them bit after bit of 0 the moist cory piene flesh in a temperate climate ten mile over firm ground Is a pleasant walk for ono one accustomed to the exercise quite a different inetter la Is ten allej 11 across mud flat covered with a tin gle of rebas and rushes and arf frequently dipping into salt marsh and ooze be fore they had gone a mile miss alias leslie would hae have lost her slippers hal lint it not been for blakes forethought in tl tithe them so securely nathin a lit tie more inore than three rollee miles the girl a strength began to fall oh niika ikc called for the american wae was some farda in the lead pull up lit a bit on that knoll we 11 bae to rest a while I 1 I 1 fane mise leslie te to about pegged what is that demanded blake vere not halfway yet NN In did not reply it wae was all he lie could do to drag the girl up on the hummock she sank bank half fainting upon the dry reeda reeds and be he gat sat down beside her to protect her with the shade blake stared at the mile miles of swampy flats which yet lay between them and the outputting out jutting headland of gray rock ahr base of the cliff ws was screened by a belt of trees but the nearest clump of green did not look more than a nille mile nearer than the headland I 1 belll muttered make blake despondent 13 not ot even a short four miles mush and sas lety slety girls though he poke spoke to himself the others heard him miss nils 11 flushed 1111 shed and would have risen had bad not min put his hand on her arm sou on n r t go on oil and bring back a flask of water for miss leslie he asked hy ily that time sho she will be rested no I 1 don dont I 1 fetch back an flask flasks of auer shea going when hen I 1 go or can come on to suit ourselves air lelake huou wont go and leave nip here berel if you have haie a bitter sister if your mother she died filed of brint and ond both ny sisters did worse I 1 nt god man do or nean to say aull abandon a heln helpless less nung 1 not a bit mole mote helpless thin than were in alster sisters when hen you rich folks guar deans of Is law and jugged luo me winter cause I 1 didn dian t have a job and turned bolli both girle girls into the tile street onto the street if ion ou know what that mean sone only 16 and the other 17 talk about helpless young girls damnation alea leslie cringed back as though elie she hail baa been struck blake however seemed to have vented bin 1 aliver in the curse for he lie again spoke then there was nothing more than imps tience hence in hie lite tone come on now I 1 get aboard winthrope coulden couldn rit t lit 1 lou on a half mile rulle and longe longs jle its the ant waa wa don t bo be all day about it here look to tho tile fish but HI in dear fellow I 1 don t quite take your idea nor doit do lejlic I 1 fane ventured en lured Ninth rupe well weve got to get lo 10 water or die and an the lady cant walk alk she he a going on my back its it i t case of haie caeto to 0 nol o I 1 nm nin not I 1 aai am not I 1 I 1 id d die lie lin afraid will cull find that aas ea enough later on misa miss jenny stand by In to help belp her lit up do ou oil heart hear take he the knife unite and fash and lend a hand there m UBI as a no e in lit blake a voice that neither winthrope nor or mis atlas lee les lie dard disregard though scarlet with mith mortification site he permitted her tier act to lo 10 taken pick a back upon blake broad shoulders and obeyed his co command minand to clasp her tier hands about his ilia throat itt it even at that moment euch such are the Incon sis of human nature she site could not but admire he the efe epse with which he rose under her w eight now that he lie no to longer had the slow pace of the girl to consider he ad danced at hi its natural kalt galt the quick tireless relesa ti stride ot of an american rall roid suri eor hie ilia fiet fet trained to kanip travel in louisiana I and panama seemed to flud and the firmest glouid ai as by instinct and whether on an the half dried mud of at tho the hummocks hum or in the ankle deep satar of the boge bogs they felt their way without slip or stumble tn though burd burdened cried only with the half eates co ophene tolled along behind greatly troubled by the mud and the tangled reed and now and then flung down by unlucky ills III modish suit already much dama damaged od by the bait salt water was soon smeared afresh with a coating of greenish green leh slime ills one consolation N as that blake after jeering at hie his I 1 ret tumble bald no more attention ln to him film on the other hand he lie wan wait cut by the p driling of ml nil lusile intent on his own misery ho he failed to consider that the girl might ho be buffering suffering tar far greater discomfort and humiliation more than three miles lad beon been cov coy ered before blithe topped on a hum mock mine lelle leslie he out on lb tho 3 dr cret crest of thu the knoll and called for a elice slice of the fish at hie urging the other took a few mouthful mouthfuls although their throats were eo to parched that even the molet moist flesh af scant ellif fortunate Fortu natel for them all blake had been thoroughly trained to endure thirst he lie rested less than ten then inking taking misa miss bealle up again like a rag doll hi h swung ana mia at a good pace the trees were lee less than half a mile distant when he be halted for the ccone second time he ile would have gope gone to 0 o them without a pairs though hie ilia mue mug cleg cles were quivering with exhaustion had not BIN lesile chanced to look around and discover dl cover that winthrope was w nr n 1 innvar folin wIne them for A IA I the last list mile he be had been ell lagging farther and farther behind and no he had suddenly disappeared at the girls girl a dis maest exclamation klake re leand hie film hold told and eho site found heisele standing stan dim in it foot toot or more of mud tat and n d the beat sweat aas StI kAmIng down tare face As he lip turned around he lip wiped it off with his MAN bleeps memos do ou can it t lip be mr tr blake that hf be hag has had a asked mise miss leslie sunstroke iso no he s just lall lal down th that at a all I 1 thought he lie bad had more sand confound him hut the run stin Is go to dreadfully hot and I 1 hae have hie tits aliade and he a e im be n tumbling into every other pool no it a not the eun still I 1 v 0 I 1 ault it mind to let him liehe lie he the I 1 aier at er legged ewell it would mould no more than equate square our aboard ship account accounts I 1 sun suri 1 b 3 sou oil would not do I 1 that lint mr air blakel it may be that hn he hae has I 1 hurt hline elf in falling in this mud bah balls hut but I 1 BP guess I 1 m in lit for the pack mule intile blunt stunt all around now now don t owl ml atilt jinn iro I 1 m going hut lint you cant ex hect nc me to loe love the snob As he splashed pla shed away on the ft turn trail mise atlas leslie dabbed at lir tier eyes to check the starting teare tears I 1 oh de dear arOh oh dear she moaned what have I 1 done to be an treated such stich a brute oh dearl de artand still I 1 am so thirsty in her tl the be would hao haio unk sunk down heip he site stood had not ho the of the waier ater re rebelled ellid her site gazed longingly 1101 at the tile treen trees in the foie tole of which blood stood it groia of stately palms the halt half mile seemed an dl di tance istance but the ride on blakes lakee Il bick had frembd her and thirst no her forward stumbling and ollai ing lie 10 waded on across the ho inundate i g avind and carny came out upon a hal bat I 1 aked nud nat flat where the walking wag he much emster hut but the suit un waa now almost directly overhead and tier hiatt and the heat ehe site soon found heindl falter filter ing sho site tottered tattered on a few steps farther and then stop estoppel et pei utterly spent As gho site bank sank ul on 11 1 dried rushes she glanced around and was aguf ly conscious of a strange double headed figure following her path acress the marsh all about lur hr be cime cinie black the next fhe she knew illace a as her tier head and feco face ah with I 1 water out of the bilsky flask rhe site raised her tier hand to I 1 her ter face NO and tint up sick and dizzy chats it ita said illace lie poke spoke in lit a kind tone though ate alro voice wai was and broken with hint thirst I 1 you ro re all now pull ou relt torether together and we a 1 11 I ret get to the tree in a jiff mr air winthrope V 1 I lin in here alia lene vloe it its only it ankle if I 1 bad ft a stick blake I 1 fancy I 1 could rould make a BO go of it over this till drier ground nd lay ourele our ou relt up for it month conic come aless jenn brace lit for an other try ite its only A A and I 1 ve vo got to pack him rho girl girt wag was gasping 1 with thirst yet she he luada made an effort and assisted by illige managed lo 10 gain 1 her tier fiot fet she slip was still till daizi but ae as blake owing winthrope Min upon tits hi back he old told hr h r to taku tako bold hold ot at ills his ami arm win litle lit id the shade over her head ahus and shOt erid front he the elifet hat nf of the ehe she tot tat tred red along beside lelake the remaining diM lanco lay across a stretch of bare dry ground for even illace lind all but reachel the tile limit of endurance steil by step he be labored on staggering under the eight of the englishman EaRlle hinan and gasping gawping with a thirst which his ex erstone rendered even greater than that of hie tits companions but through the trees and brush which stretched avrey inland in a wall lit of eldun neadum he had caught glimpses of a broad stream and the hope of fresh water tailed out every ounce tt tf its reserve at last the nearest palm wax was only a few paces diant biant blake clutched ilse 1 arm rad mad dragged her forward with i ft ruih rush in a final outburst out buret of energy A moment later all three lay lily gasping aa in n the shade hut put the river WIB was ct another yards die tant alake waited only to regain his hl breath then hd staggered stag gerod up tip and went on the othere others unable to 1 gazed after him in silent misery 1 bonn illane found himself K through the jungle along alon a broad trail pitted with enormous footprint footprints but he max aa no so mad ath ith thirst that he lie pal pall I 1 no heed to th spoor other than to cureo curse the holes for the tile 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