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Hi 7 5 CHAPTER X. “tae P (Continged.) With the Caravan. HERD was but one way—to battle with tooth and nail until im anger the man himself should kill é yet until the last moment he might hope against hope for the ‘veeor which she knew in her heart of hearts it was Impossible to receive. Wor the better part of two hours Abul Mukarram kept on away from \ thet master he had robbed. *He apoke but little, and when he “G4 tt waa in the tone of the master * ‘hia slave, a Near doon they left the jungle and me out inte a higher. country, ~ Wheze the spece between the trees PAP greater and there was little or +80 underbrush. ‘Travelliag was much easier here, 4nd they made better time, They Wore stilt retracing the (rail along ‘Whteh the caravan had travelled. It would be some time during the “ext morning that they would turn forth again upon a new trail. Beside o stream Abul Mukerram halted. + He tethered the donkeys and then , turned toward the girl. . - "Come," he said, and took her » and, CHAPTER XI. “The Death-Dance. BMBACH day Nu realized that he Sy was gaining rapidly upon those with whom Nat-ul cam travejicd, “Zther life assured him that she must prisoner;' yet at the aame time ae, ized that such might not be the Bes 4U. for had he not thought of prisoner among the others who “Mad ‘held htm prigoner, only to learn that one’ of them claimed her as a aleter? . It all seemed very strange to Nu. Tt wag quite beyond him. Nat-ul could not be the sister of Giger, and yat he had seen her ap- ‘parently happy and contented in th goclety of these strangers, and Cus. ‘ter \nquestionably appeared to feel Gopher the aolicitude of @ brother. » Durtlee, “it ‘was evident, loved Nat- a that. much he had a ilions he had overheard be- ‘qyecn bim and Custer. >.< fdow the man could have become #0 “yall acquainted with Nat-ul between Kand,4Wo. @ayw that had elapsed since Nu bed wet forth from the caves be- Gadd the Restless Sea to hunt down ‘Oe, abd the morning that he had *a@akened following the mighty shak- jag ef the world was quite as much ‘a. myntery. es were the remarkable changes that hed taken place in the aspect of the world during the same brief period. Nu had given much thought to these miraculous happenings, with +4me remylt that he. had about con- vines@ Bimself that he must ‘have @ept much longer than he had be- Heved; but that a hundred thousand ~ years bad rolied their slow and weary progress above his unconscious head * could not, of course, have occurred to him, even as the remotest of possi- biiti . + He had also weighed the sneering words of Curtiss, and with them the atitude of the strangers with whom he had been thrown. He had quickly \ appreciated the fact that their man- \ ners and oustoms were as far re- oved from him as they were from Phose'\of the beasts of the jungle. » He 4 seen that his own ways more more ih accordance with the) 7 oi, *waye ef, the black and palf-maked a); (CemA, 1914, by Prost 4. atmo ©.) as go much their inferiors that. they: would not evgn eat at the same table! He had noted the fact that the blacks treated the other whites with marked respect which they did not, extend to Nu, and, being no fo@, Nu had come to the conclusion that the whites themselves looked ‘upon him even before Curtiss words convinced him of the truth of his suspicions. Evid was now in some subtle way different'from the other whites. Pos- Gibly it was in the matter of raiment. He had tried to wear the strange body coverings they had given him, but they were cumbersome and un- comfortable, and, thou; dom warm enough now, theless, been glad when the opportun- ity came to discard the hampering and unaccustomed clothing. These thoughts suggested the po “ul had found reco; Aitfon among thé strangers upon an equal footing with them that she, too, might bave those attributes of superi- ority which the strangers claimed evi- dent that she would consider Nu from the view-point of her new friends—as sibility that it Such reveries made Nu very sad, for he loved Nat-ul just as you or I would love—just as normal white men have always loved—with a devotion that placed the object of his affection * upon a pedestal, before which be was beppy to bow down and worship. His passion was not of the brute type of » the inferior races, wbich oftentimes solemnizes the marriage ceremony 1 and ever places the woman in the position of an inferior and a chattel. Even as Nu pondered the puzzling questions which confronted him his eyes and ears were alert as he sped along the now fresh trail of the cara- Every Indication pointed the recent passing of many men, and the troglo- dyte was positive that he could be but a few hours behind hié quarry, A tew miles east of him the rescue party from the Greystoke Ranch was pushing rapidly ahead upon a differ- ent trail, with a view to heading off Ton Aswad had taken @ circuitous route in order that he might pass round the country of the Waziri and slow moving slave caravan he had now: reached a point but a few days’ jourmey in a direct line from the ranch: The lightly equipped pursuers, hav- ing knowledge of the route the Arabs from the messenger who had come to seek their assia- tance, had not been compelled to fol- low the spoor of their quarry, but. Instead, had marched atraight cross country im a direct line for a point believed would bring them ahead of the caravan, Thus it was that Nu and the party of whites and Wasiri from the ranch were closing in upon Ibn Aswad from opposite directions simultaneously. But Nu was not destined to follow the trail of the raiders to where they were atill engaged in repelling gavage attack of the fierce Wamboll, . ‘The experiencd of his} Betty Vincent’s Advice to Lovers “Interfering. interrogate a girl as to the attentions of other young natural privilese to anjoy the a tentions of sev- eral suitors and to choora between If sha in restricted to one it is because she is insufficiently tive or because faise social conditions limit the circle of her acquaintances. things being equal, has been popular before her! make @ better wife| {than the girl who feels herself com- | pelled to accept the sole matrimonial chance offered her, Besides the unfairness of ‘attempted interference from a young man who jim not yet accepted, such interference marriage will It will prejudic him’ more quickly than anything | “P. D." write: n twenty years old and deeply in love with a young lady who retur my affection. with me, but mine wishes in this matter?” T do not think your parenta & logical one, et married if you of the same mind, An Indiscreet Act. “Lam thirty years i; with anybody, old and enga though iny engagement has not been | should be made Would it be indiscreet to spend my vacation this year at the intain hotel where m, for as he trotted along with the dog at his side his quick eyes detected that which the hound, with all his won- Grous instinctive powers, would have passed by*tnnoticed—the well-marked Prints of the hoofs of two donkeys that had’ come back along the trail since the cafavan had passed. That they were donkeys belonging to the .Arabs was evident to Nu through his familiarity with the dis- tnctive hoof-prints of each, which during, the past fhree days had be- come af well known togin as his mother's face had been.” But what were they duing retracing the way they had but just covered? He halted and raised his head to sniff the air and listen intently for the faintest gound from the direction in which the beast had wone when they left the old trail at. the point that he had discovered their apvor. The , wind, however, was blowing from the opposite direction, so there was no chance that Nu could scent them, He was in doubt as to whether he should leave the trail of the main body and follow these two or continue on his way. From the manner of their passing-— side by side—he was gpnvinced that each carried a rider, athce otherwise they would have gone:in single file after the manner of beasts moving along a none too wide trail; but there was nothing to indicate that either rider wag Nat-ul. For an instant he hesitated, and then his judgment told him to keep on after the main body, for if. Nat-ul was a prisoner she would be with the Wit, make them sympathetic. i soul of the sinner was in question. would make of their sympathies, But the luwyers are quicker witted than either of the other professions and other men generally, They are good-natured; or, if they quarrel, their quarrels are aboveboard. ‘They are apt to tlk law in mixed company and they have a way of looking round when they make a point that is: mighty aggravating. The ministera come next in point of intere: full of good feeling, hard workers, always foremost in the whole the moat effictent civilizing clase—working downward from knowl- jedge to ignorance—that we have, The trouble is that #0 many work in |harness, They feed us on canned meats mostly; they evipple our instincts and reason and give us a cruth of doctrine. gence of their parishes; pow they do pretty well If they keep up with it, and they are very apt to lag behind it, to his ol@ course, straight itanding, too; for in all Ris life he Tt was the first opportunity that Gi ft ecom had never heard the like of that blood-freesing challenge. At the sight which met bis eyes he dropped the girl and darted toward hung bis long- barrelled rifie in ite boot. ‘Victoria Custer looked, too, what she saw brought unutterable relief and happiness to ber. the Arab had turned with levelled gun just as the cave man leaped upon yeu new, even fetern to my people There was the report of the frearm ere it was wrenched from Abul Mu- karram'’s grasp and buried to one eide, but the bullet went wide of ita mark and the next instant the girl @aw the two men locked in what she knew was a death strugsié. | The Arab struck mighty bigw the head and f whilé the cave of bis autegopist, in, the great musties ToHing beneath bis_.smoofh hide, gought for a hold upon the other'a About the two the vicious wolf- hound aslunk, growling and bristling, waiting for an opportunity to rush in upon the white-robed antagonist of ‘Victoria’ Custer, ter elencked fists pressed against her bosom, watched the two men who battled She saw the handsome black head ot her savage man bead lower ané lower toward the throat of his foeman, and when the strong white test! buried themselves in the jugular of the other it wae with no sickening quaim of nausea that the girl wit- nessed the bestial act. She heard the wolfish growl of Nu of the Neovene as he tasted the hot red ‘blood of his enemy. She saw the strong jaws tear and rend the soft flesh of the doomed Abul Mukarram. She saw her ferocious the man as a terrier shakes a rat, and her beart swelled in flerce prim- the prowess of her man. No longer aid Victoria Custer exist. It was Nat-ul, the savage maiden Neocene who; as Nu threw the lifeless corpse of his Kill to one side and opened his arms, flung herself into his embrace. It was Nag-ul, da Nat-ul of the tribe of Nu that dwelt beyond the Barren Cliffe beside the Restless Sea—who threw her arms about her lord and master's néek drew his mouth down to her hot dips. It was Nat-ul of the first-bory who watched Nu and the fierce wolf- hound circle abaut the corpse of the larger force--not riding in the oppo- site direction with a single guard, Even as he turned to take up tho Pursuit again there came faintly to his ears from the jungle at his left the sound of a human voice, Tt was a woman's, raised in ‘right- Again she let her eyes rest upon with diMiculty that she restrained a desire to throw her- self upon his broad breast and weep ont her doubts and fears close to the beating of hia great heart and ia the safety of those protecting arms. the wish there -ose again the question, what would they say?—~to hold her trembling and frightened from him. saw something of the Girl's trouble in her eyes, but he par- tially misintrepeted it, for he read fear of himself where there was prin- cipally eelf-fear, and because of what he had heard Curtiss say be thought that he saw contempt, too, for primi- tive people are infinitely more sensl- tive than their more sophisticated Tike « deer, Nu turned and leaped in the direction of that familiar voles. The fleet wolfhound was put to t: to keep pave with the agile cave man, for Nu had left the earth and taken to the branches of the trees, no underbrush retarded his flight. sometimes hurting twenty fect through the air from one jungle giant to another. Below him raced the panting T koz, red tongue tolling from foam- flecked mouth; speed the two moved with the noise. lessness of shadowy ghosts. At the edge of the jungle Nu came upon a parklike forest, and well tnlo this he saw a woman struggling with a white-robed Arab. One sinewy brown hand her throat, the other was raised strike her in the face, Nu saw that he could not teach the man in time to prevent the blow, but he might distract his attention for the moment that would be re- quired for him to reach his aide, From his throat rose the savage war-cry of his long-dead people—a that brought a hundred jungle creatures to their feet, trembling in according to their but with all “You do not love me, Na “Have the atrange: you against me? What one of them could have fetched you the bead of Oo, the man-bunter? He tapped the two great tuske that hung from his Joturcioth. “Nu slew the mightiest of the beasts ul--the head ie buried in the cave of Oo—yet, now that I come to take you as my mate, f see fear tn ind something else which never was there before, What ts it, Have the strangers stolen your love from Nu?” ‘The man spoke in @ tongue.@o an- clent that in all the world there lived no man who spoke or know @ word of \t; yet to Victoria Custer it was an intelligible as her own English, nor ‘The cave man, moving in the sav- age steps of the death dance of his tribe, now’ bent half over, now leap- ing high in air, throwlfig his stone- tipped spear aloft, chanted the weird victory song of a dead and buried while beside him bis equally savage mate beat time with slim white hands, CHAPTER XII. Happiness? IEN the dance was done Nu halted before Nat-ul, The girl rone, facing him, and for a long minute the two stood in silence. Wisdom and Philosophy By Famous Authors. fear or in rage, It brought Abul off three or four points and catches the breeze that left the old man's sails all shivering. By and by the congregation will get ahead of him, asd then The minister is coming down, every generation, nearer and nearer to the common level of the useful citizen—ne oracle knows it all, but a man of more than average moral instincts who, if he knows anything, knows how Uttle he knows. The ministers are good talkers, only the struggle between nature and Brace makes some of ‘em a iittle awkward occasionally. their best to apoil them, as they do the poets, goes over the dam. ' No. 1.—THE THREE PROFESSIONS, by Oliver Wendell Holmes HE lawyers are the cleverest men, the mini i learned and the doctors are the most sen rs aye the moat another new skipper. The lawyers are a picked lot, first scholars, and the like, but their business is as unsympathetic as Jack Ketch’s, nothing humaniaing in their relations with their fellow creatures, They go for the side that retains them; they defend the man they know to be a rogue, and not .very rarely throw suspicion on the man they know to be innocent. Mind you, 1 am not finding fault with them—any aide of a case has the right to the hest statement it admits’ of, but I say it doesn’t tend to The women go Now and then one of ‘om ‘They're always in the rapide, The doctors have not half the general culture of the lawyer nor a quarter of that of the ministers. L rather think, though, that they are more agreeable to the common run of people than the men with black coats or Yhe men with green bags. People can swear before ‘em if they want to, and I don't care whether they want to Suppose, in the case of Fever va. Patient, the doctor should aide with either party according to whether the old miser or his expectant heir wap his employer. Suppose the minister should side with the Lord or the devil according to the nalary offered, and other incidental advanti You can see what a piece of work it can't very well before ministers. or not—they don't want to be on their good behavior. er has a litttle smack of the sexton about hint. in extremia,’ but th 3 He comes when people y don't send for him every time they make @ slight moral slip-—tell a lie, for instance, or amuggie a silk dream through the eustom house, But they call in the doctor when the child is cutting a tooth or gets a splinter in its finger. So it doesn't mean much to send for him, only a ple news of the day, For putting the baby to rights doesn't take long. ean't like to talk about the next world. But everybody loves to talk physic of atrange cases: people are eager to tell the doctor of the wonderful cures They want to know what is the matter with somebody or other who in natd to be suffering from a “complication of diseases,” and, above all, to get a good hard name, Greek or Latin, fot some complaint mionplace in plain English. dache a cephalalgia it acquires dignity at ant chat about the ‘They are interesting men, works, and on People are modest in verybody loves to hear they have heard of. They used to lead the intelli- which sounds altogether too If you will only call a once and a patient becomes rather proud of it So I think doctors are generally welcome in most companies. Then they must have @ colleague. ‘The old minister thinks he can hold ye of human nature as he young minister falls Ailing right into the hat famous old skipper, John Bunyan, man friend, your fiance; will urge you, “RC writes: "I only objection to him is that | think | he 4# tuo old for me. 1 ain only six- teen, Please give me you advice," You ar is a friend, 1." writes: “Is it customary 1 engagement ring to a brid to-be und what sort of purcha: The customary Ja diamond solitaire. “E.G, © ob a nied by your ‘school with me without a forntal in-, very’ much in Jove with each other, | girt the same age, who is very pretty. nd} but Lam # good deal taller than she She has suggested that we get mar- ral|is and our friends say we shall not troduction? She knows who | a believe he} 1 know who al i times every d ried, and though I was not thinking of marriage, nd she loves moe. am old enough to rad 1 advise you to wait a while are young to marry a girl who is bold enough to take the initiative as the one you mention has done Please advise us.” Don't let such a superficial objece tion Interfere with your happiness. & format in+ nis not usually in Jove witha) {Man about forty years old and my! Parental Objections. too young to be in love! e up your mind) that you will think of this man only} is in love with a moving in love with picture actress to whom he haw never ; “Lam in love with my Junior, who recurn ng man who has left the city But he writes unce our en- sleep or eat and will talk of nothing | for me because [ have a sed Do you advise us to elc No, but since you are both engaged you can marry openly, whatever the! ridicule, girl's parents pay why you should defer to such a friv- olots objection, wants to anr agement as soon al agen inihetqne tentions of other proper for me Surely you ¢ How shall f do ino The best remedy in such to accept the at- ugagement ring is| ' THe Should Wait. ” writes: “Tam eighteon and | made n't care to do you love the absent young ma "Te tt proper to | know that he wants you to the eae wife, “atgst' talks” qpeaic to o gisl whe astends “Be Dy” wetiens “ae wirl and J are to her, tet ame Gither had bad to study the features answered Na te his own lagdnégn other since the strange mriralo §= “ay hears mo @at I am yours, that Beart prompta was che—of that there could be beef cond net be pllgh ge aber no doubt; but yet there was that threes jungte about her which cast a epell of rev: paler ee iA oh erential fear ever him; she was ta- finitely finer and more wonderfulthas he ever had realised. With the passing of the excitement 2 battle and the dance the eestasy which he@ held the Girl im thrall passed slowly away. The rhythm of ¢ black-haired giant touched some chord withia her which awoke the long dormant imstinets of the primordial. For the time ahe had been carried back ‘a hundred. thousand yeare to the childhood of the human race, She had sot known for those brief Instant Victoria Custer, or the twentieth century, or ite civilisation, for they were yet a thousand cen- turtes in the future Fut mow once more through the eyes of generations uf culture and refinement. Befere her wes @ primitive man. In bis eyes was the fire of a great love that would not be denied. ‘the wild, flerce for- jel jungie and bebind all this, dnd beyond, her vision wan- dered to the world she had always known—the world of cities and homes and gentefolk. She saw ber father and her mother and her friends. What would thoy i i } : i thad 1 lend; ft woulé otife and you Y thtak 1 ccc now camething of the miracle that hes overwhelmed us ‘Te you it hee been but a few days ince you left your Nat-ul to hunt dewa the ferocious Oo; but tn’ reality counticss ages have rolled by. “Dy soma.strange freak of fate you ave remained unchanged during all these ages, until now you step ferth from your long aeep an unepoiled cave, man of the stone. age into the midst of the twentieth century, while 1, doubtless, have been born and re- bern a thousand times, merging from one tmearnetion te ancther until tn iy bee fi i i i fy is Ee a Fe fi 4 ir i i itt iH a ceatury Bagiish to fil in the gap. Tet the man had caught the & vague sort of Way: at least that bi Nat-ul Was far remevedé from | i os. ii PEEER &s SE pon the ground, Yd agaiset bis heart, “T go, Nat-ul,” he cata T may returm again as have me.” ‘The girl and the man were se pied and engrossed with tragedy that they aid not restless pacing ef Terkos, hound, or hear that rumbled from hie savage throat de. at THe Japan Leads in Divorce; Uncle Sam Is Second. HERE are, in proportion te the inhabitants, more divoress im the little island of Jepan than in almost all the rest of the world put together. And Uncle Sam comes second. There are, proportionately, more Givorces in the United Mates then in Austria, Great Britain, France, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Belgium and Hungary combined. It te not a savory record, but it is pm true one. For every hundred thousand tabab- itants of Japan, 315 are divorced. For every hundred’ thousand inkabt- tants of the United States seventy- three are divorced. Here are the figures for some other countries: Austria, one in 100,000; Great Bri- tain, six (of whom tho Irish supply @n annual average of less than one to the 100,000); France, twenty-three; Italy, three; Sweden, eight; Norwa: six; Belgium and Hungary, eleven each. Little Switzerland, for some ren- fon, has thirty-two divorces to every 100,000 inhabitants, The number of divorced persona in the United States by the lust cen: was 156,176 men and 185,101 womer In other words, 3 per cent. of the tota) male and 4 per cent. of the total female population. Fourteen boys and thirty-thee girls under the age of ft- teen were included in the list New York State, according to the same census, contains 7,4 divorced | men and 10,208 divorced woe THE FULL OF THE MOON| 1 sro ow a js £ P itl i : s i ram bed ridden. Girl the eavage white man stood. Curtiss was abeut to spring for- ward whee be saw the man place the butt ef bis spear upes the ground @n4@ the point against his heart. ‘Fae act anfi the expression upen the man’s face proclaimed bie tnten- tion, and so Curtiss drew tack agais, waiting for the perpetration of the Geed that he knew was coming. A smile of anticipation played about aes ee spagie ‘tetoria Custer, too, guessid thing that Nu contemplated. in accordance with her own the euly logical thing for the man to’ do; but love ts not logical, and when | ‘winds and with a little soream of ter- For the girt threw herself upon Ne of the Necesne, striking the spes? from ite geal “Nol Mol” eke eried. “You must par) T cannot let you go! I love you, love youl” As the strong arms enfeléed her once more she gave & happy sigh of content and let her head drop again upoe the breast of Bim whe had come Dack out of the ages to claim her, ‘The man put an waist, and toward the west in the Abul Mukarram did either ese the ing man who leaped Qehind them and took deliberate alm Diack-baired giant. Nor did they ace the owl aprng ef the wolfheund, nor the tBing that followed there beneath the breeding Silence of the savage jangie. ‘Ten minutes later Barney Custer broke through the tangled wall of verdure upon @ sight Gat tock Sig breath away. Fg Aun iret Ladsbitt i i Wh He caw the imprints of @ man's naked feet and the smalter impress of @ woman's riding-boots: He looked toward the jungle where Terkoz had disappeared. ‘What had his sister gone to within the sombre, savage depths beyend? What would he bring her beck to were he to follow her? He doubted that she would come without her dream-man. Where would she be happler with him—in the piti- leas jungle, which was the only world he know, or in the still more pitiless haunts of civilized man? A moment later he had reached his decision, and with resolution strong in the very sawing of his atride he en- tered the jungle, but whether toward the east or the west I do not know, for I was not there, (The End.) By Caroline Lockhart author of. “Me, WILL BEGIN IN Smith,”) and of a = New York girl's ==NE X T=> | Monday's Evening World