Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 11, 1914, Page 3

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(Copyright. 1914, bv W. G. Chapman.) A brilliant flash shot across a stretch of greenery where a valley cut the contour of a flowery isle, set like & glowing gem in the midst of an em- erald sea. Instantly a responding flash criss-crossed the other. There was more rapid heliograph signaling. Then within the hour two young men met on the shelving beach. Each carried a netted knapsack across the shoulders. From it pro- truded the signal mirror, and through the meshes could be seen various sclentific instruments, such as com- passes, theodolites and measuring and surveying devices. Besides this outfit, a package now produced held & goodly array of compact but nour- ishing edibles. They seated them- selves on the grass and began to dis- ocuss them. “Well, Harper,” spoke the one who had waited for the other, “I came out here on this geographical survey for health and adventure. The first phase of the situation has come out all right, for I am eating like a horse and sleep- ing llke a top. The other end is rather tame, though. The natives on these islands seem mild as mush. I've seen no stir since we left Borneo.” “If you will cast your eye due west towards that distant speck, Elliott,” and Harper pointed, “you will view a spot scarcely as quiescent as when, a week ago, we spent a pleasant three days there with that rich exporter and his daughter.” “You mean Hedza?" asked Bruce Blliott, his face instantly manifesting quickened interest. “Just that,” assented Harper. “On the other side of the island here this morning I ran across a native pearl diver. He informed me that the Briti, 8aw Coming Rapidly a Group of War. riors. who live on that nearest island to the east, had made a sudden onslaught on Hedza, looted the temple and car- ried away half a dozen native women, and among them this Miss Dewar.” “Why, this {s simply terrible!” ex- claimed Elliottgreatly concerned. He had a most pleasing memory of the young lady named. All his heroic and chivalrous instincts were immediately aroused. He recalled the generous hospitality extended towards himself and was not ungrateful. “Now, don't get excited, Elliott,” spoke Harper. “We can do positively nothing in this affair except to get cut up or roasted alive if we venture out- side of our province and intrude on those close neighbors of ours, the Britl. work here is done, we can take each our canoe and make for Hedza, and if our services would be any good in a rescue party, why, then the adventures you so crave may come thick and fast.” Harper was of an easy-going, phleg- matic nature, and soon threw the in- cident of the moment off his mind. Not so Bruce Elliott. He had not for- gotten Eleanor Dewar. Now that she was in deadly peril, he could not rest. When they stretched out for a night's sleep he rolled and tossed. Harper was snoring in dense slum- ber as Elliott arose shortly after mid- night. He directed a brief note to his companion, telling him that he was de- termined to reconnoiter Briti island and would return that morning. He : took his trape with him, so as to im- press any stray natives he might meet with the idea that he was simply on duty and business bound. Then he got into his canoe and paddled in the direction of the little spot on the water a few miles distant to the north- oast. Ellfott had heard at Hedza that those natives isolated from the main islands resented the invasion of civilization. Colonel Dewar had encouraged com- mercial activities, and a brisk export trade In the spices, dye woods and metals of the archipelago had resulted. The inhabitants of Briti had shown their enmity toward the new system from the beginning. Now they had been guilty of an overt act of deflance and viclousness. As Elliott realized that some of the tribes were still given to cannabalistic orgies and human sacrifices, he shuddered at a thought of the possible fate of the It you are very anxious, as our | gentle, refined young lady who had 80 attracted him at Hedza Elliott beached his canoe and sat ' out equipped with his usunal surveying outfit. e skirted the shore for some ; hours witlout Jdiscovering any signs of the natives. As, however, just after suurise, ke mounted a steep declivity to take a general survey of the island, ' he saw coming rapidly in the same di- rection a group of warriors armed with spears. “They have caught sight of me,”' ruminated Elliott, correctly, and at the apex of the hill he unstrapped his out- fit and made a play of being busy at his usual scientific observations. He counted on the natives accepting this invasion as peaceful, still he could not : reckon on this absolutely. The sun was just right for heliographic signal- ing. He began to flash a message across the water, hoping Harper would catch it. Ellott stated his situation, telling of the approaching savages and directing if he did not soon rejoin his friend that Harper should hasten to Hedza and urge forward a rescue | party. If Elliott had not used the helio- graph his reception at the hands of the natives might have been friendly. The flashes, however, excited their suspicions. He was rudely seized. The menacing actions of his captors | were shortly emphasized by the ar~ rival of a plumed and bedizened chief, who gave some gruff orders. Elliott was bound hand and foot, placed on a litter and borne along in ominous si- | lence until & spot was reached where & great high post was set in the ground about two hundred feet up ul steep declivity running sheer down to the sea. “Horrors!” gasped Bruce Elliott, as nearing this giant stake he saw a hu- | man form tied to it and recognized' Eleanor Dewar. Great heaps of dried brush and dead i tree wood were massed up some twen- ty feet away. From what he hud! learrred of the hideous customs of | these people, Elliott at once surmlsed| that this fair captive was about to be offered up as a living sacrifice to the deities of the superstitious tribe. Her lips whitened, a new despair came into her anguished eyes as El- liott was led to the great stake and secured to it with stout withes direct- ly at her side. Both comprehended the ' flery doom that hovered. “I hoped for better fortune in seek- ing to be of aid to you,” he said. “Then I am the c2use of this fate— yours as well as my own!” breathed Eleanor, distractedly. He tried to comfort her, to arouse ' her courage. All hope died out as he saw a procession from the near vil- lage approach them, a gaudily be- decked priest at their head. A num- ber of the natives bore bundles of sticks, evidently meant to feed the sacrifice fire soon to surround the stake. Suddenly there was a rumble, and joined with it frightened yells from the natives. The ground rocked, the scurrying throngs seemed to flatten out and vanish, the earth yawned! “An earthquake!” voiced the ap- palled Elliott, as the great stake was torn up and they, bound to it, shot down the steep incline and into the sea. One of those glant convulsions of nature common to the island group had intervened to save those two im- periled souls. The rough progress of holding Elliott captive. submerged, but Eleanor had fainted. As he freed himself and then his help- ber, safer afloat than on land. the stake loosened one of the withes ; “Courage!" he spoke as they were ' less charge, it was to hold to the tim- Was “Eleanor” and “Bruce” before & week had passed by, and then, in rapid sequence, an engagement and a wedding. | SANTTARY PRESSING CLUB CLEANING, PRESSING. REPAIRING and DYEING. Ladies Work a Specialty. Satisfaction Guaranteed. GIVE US A TRIAL Kibler Hotel Basement. 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