Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, October 31, 1914, Page 6

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Reeves put out a staying 4 sonny?” - Le “Get that thing back to where you “Sparklers.” 2 found it quick as you can,” he di- “Good nmame. It fits. Give me a rTected. ‘dogen boxes.” “Why, what for?” inquired the sur | “What in the world are you going : ;o do with them, Mr. Reeves?” in- prised Ronald. quired the companion of the old pros- “If you had looked up into that tree you would probably have seen a burial platform. These are the trophies of some big chief,” ex- plained Reeves. “For any one to even touch them is held as sacrilege by these superstitious natives. Missing that memento, the war clab, they would trall you to the end of the earth to recover it. 1 advise you to:. take it back at once” This Ronald did. He replaced the object just where he had found it and turned to retrace his steps to his friend, half a mile away. Just then a wild uproar greeted him. Fierce yells rent the air. From behind a score of bushes as many dusky natives | sprang into view. | Donald was surrounded, seized, his arms bound, and dragged along by his ' angry-faced captors. He was led past an encampment of rude huts and into ' a large spreading cave in the moun- tain side. popular “sparklers,” which ignited at one end and cascaded out & harmless shower of brilliantly scintillating flery stars. > Reeves had never seen them be- fore, and the display pleased him. He purchased two boxes of the toy, slim, narrow and easily pocketed, and then they wandered on. “Tll carry them along with our traps,” he laughed. “Just about the Fourth of July we'll be out in the| This seemed to be a sort of tem- wilderness a thousand miles from ple of the savages, for it was hung civilization, and if we get homesick, | with skins upon which was daubed in we'll have a little patriotic spurt and , crude colors the picture of a tour-i fire them off, see?” - headed idol. There was a stone pil- | Then Reeves slipped the two-lttle | lar in the center of the cavern, and to boxes into an inside pocket of the this Ronald was securely tied. 2 l coat he wore, and forgot all about| He noted that overhead an open | them as some new display of interest space ran up like a matural nunel.’ attracted his attention. and about the post he fancied he dis- Reeves was bent on a peculiar mis- | covered ashes as if this was the. spot where the natives offered up their prisoners and enemies as human sacri- fices. His captors squatted in a circle and Jabbered away at a furious rate, They made menacing motions toward him, and Ronald could readily discern that they were discussing his fate, Finally after several hours’ delib eration they appeared to arrive at a definite conclusion. Most of them went away, leaving two of their mem-| bers to pile up firewood about the post, “It's good-by Nellie! sure,” di ruminated Ronald, “and sion. He was a skilled mining en- gineer and had been engaged by Eng- lish promoters to invade the center of a district hitherto very slightly ex- plored. There were rumors of great metal wealth in a certain chain of hills, and he was to secure ore specimens, olefully nald, Mr. noom' will never know what has happened to me.” ! It grew dusk, and some lighted torches were placed around. The, natives came back in solemn proces- sion led by a man beating a hideous tom-tom. They paraded around their victim. Ronald felt.that his doom was drawing nigh. Suddenly he strained his gase. Away | back in the gloom of the cave he grew to a sudden blinding radiance. A rushing whirlwind form, emitting & thousand dazzling sparks of fire ap- proached. | It must have been a weird and, thrilling sight for the natives. 'l‘o' their unaccustomed eyes an angry “fire \ god” was bearing down upon them. All | over the onrushing figure there were ; spouts of blinding fire. They turned and fled to a man. 4 “Quick, now, and follow!” lllouwlI the fire god to Ronald, cutting his bonds and leading back the way he had come. | “Those sparklers,” explained Reeves as they gained the open air, and re- gaining their traps, started to get speedily away from their present nest of peril. “I found out they had cap- tured you. I happened to think of, those two boxes of sparklers.: I stuck them all over me and lit them. It was & narrow escape, but the secheme worked fine.” So fine that the awed natives did not even attempt a pursult, and two they resumed their journey. :om.ln later they reached home—and A hired guide piloted them by a de- | Nellle! tour around the “bad lands” most| (CoPyrisht WM by W. G Chapman) T2 SR SEE EAMILY AVOIDS SERIOUS SICKNESS of note during their initial rugged ex- perience. 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