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The Adventures of Two Men And a Girl on a Desert Island BY ROBERT AMES BENNET a (opyright, 1908, by A, 0, MeCturg), eop a sharp Ni . (STROPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS) te. That ‘aint, aemauarte oe when this rain blows over, it your clothes dry you. I’ve ands full enough, without aving to nurse you through malarial and if 1 don't ahow up by soos save "t show . me ome." Up by noon, save stooped to drink from a pool in the rock which was overflowing with the cool, pure rainwater, and started CEAPTER V. off at his sharpest Ww pace. \ : . seek } 4 ‘Around the Headland. in dripping mee tched” io * 4 . ¥ : i th a His eerste! f ‘ i gorse. Un- wal T was mid-morning before ®Wing away through the rain, without ee oe Bury hoo Blake reappeared. He came Sners¥ enough to call out a parting youl” growled “Yeo: i from the mangrove swamp & i i Beneath the cliff ti where it ran down into the was succeeded by a talus ot b-- see. debris which in places sloped “Come on!” he called. “I've struck fan the water to near fifteen tect, hour.” ‘The lower part of the slope consisted it. We'll be over in half an hou! of bowiders and water-vors sruen “How's that? asked Winthrope. over which the surf, reinforced by “Bar,” answered Blake, hurrying the rising tide, was beginning to forward. “Sling on your hats, and~break with an angry roar. . Miss Jenny, , Blake picked his way quickly over get into my coat again, How the smaller stones near the top of The sun's hot as yesterday. W the slope, now and then bending te about the nuts?” snatch up a ent that seemed to “Here they are. Three strings; all Boner ae e others. Finding noth- ” ex. imestone, he soon that I fancied we could carry,” @X- oh nian ¥ te the turned his plained Winthrope. the headland.” Hore he had expected “All right. The big one is mine, I to find the surf much heavier’ But euppose. I'll take two, We'll leave in bape ba) Drotected by ‘a double 5 in me, if your ankle ie of reefs, so close that the hg as heat araamae channel between did not show a “Thanks; 1 can make it alone, But Whitecap. This was fortunate, since must wo go through mud like that?” !n places the talus here sank down “Not on this side, at least. Come &lmost to the level of low tide, Even en! We don't want to miss the ebb.” & moderate surf would have rendered ‘Blake's impatience discouraged fur- further progress impracticable. ther inquiries, He had turned as he Another hundred paces brought qpoke, and the others followed him, Blake to the second corner of the walking close together. cliff, which jutted out in a Uttle Instead of plunging into the man- point. He clambered around it, and @rove wood, which here was under- stopped to survey the coast beyond. in with a thicket of giant ferns, Along the south side of the cliff the Eire skirted around in the open sea extended in twice as far ‘until they came to the seashore. The the north. From the end of the talus My ‘was at its lowest, and he waved the coast trended off four or five miles ‘club toward a long sandspit which to the south-southwest in a curved out around the seaward edge bight, whose southern extremity was of the mangroves. Whether this was bounded by a second limestone head- | of the river's bar or had been jand. This ri ran iniand parallel up by the cyclone would have from a point some | been beyond Winthrope’s knowledge little distance back from the shore jhad the question occurred to him. It was covered with a growth of leaf- ‘was eno for ny that reap hres less trees. Wan Reo an poly cag Between the two ridges lay a plat Presently the party came to the end y & plain, ot eee where the river, water oben along the shore, but a short dis- slopled over the sand with the last feeble out-suck of the ebb. On their wight they had a sweeping View of the river, around the flank of the man- i : E i Hl ig F it HT 5 = 433 fit tance inl jovered with of tall yellow gr Blake laid his club on the top of Mise Leslie, with @ little frightened “Are not sea-birds good to eat?’ “Firel—firel Can't you eee! We've grove screen. Blake halted at the ; the ledge, and was about to vault catch in her voice. She was at last inquired Miss Leslie. wot iti” fi sage of the and haléturned. |, Staring upward. Dleke tor the rst atter it, when, directly beneath his beginning to realize what this rude “Some.” He «i open the stide of the se up,” he sald. “It’s shallow cliff swarmed with Poe Ppa a © nose, he saw the print of a great cat- break in her sheltered, pampered life if only we could climb the supposed it, and before either of enough; but do you see those logs “That's luck!” he muttered. “Guess like paw, outlined in dried mud. At “What shall we do? clift—mi wht there not be another his companions could realise what it might mean. over on the mudbank? Those are alli- 8 the same instant a deep grow! came It’s—it'’s absurd to think of having to place’ he would be about, was focusing the ” dat cae ig a | raged oe nests. rumbling down the “fox run.” With- stay in this horrid country for wecks . “No; I've looked at both sides. tens of fs enreavor ing i. In the centro of tha bar, where the 10°: “All the Bhd ‘.. * king out waiting for a second warning, or perhaps months—unless some ship What's more, that spotted tomcat bas upon the back of was a trifle over knee-deep, (5°M! Lonit, Fea an ie, rn bave Blake drew his club to him, and crept comes for us!", got @ monopoly on our water supply. The Englishman jerked the hand creature came darting {?. if FS gilt" ss other rock back down the trail. His stealthy “Look here, Miss Leslie,” answered The river may be fresh at low tide; away. down stream beneath the surface, and hy Pon movements and furtive backward Blake, sharply yet. not unkindly, but we've not nothing to boll water “Ow! ‘That burns!” pest ‘with a violent swirl between He advanced again along the talus, glances filled his com} jons with “suppose ree just sit back and use in, and such bayou stuff is just con- Blake shook the glass in their be- e 1 if 3 f E 85 ‘and his companions. At Miss and did not stop until he reached the vague terror. He himself was hardly your thinker 7 re ur centrated malaria.” wildered faces. and Lealie's scream Blake whirled sbout eand beach. There he halted to less alarmed. : Soe ee ee uve cut beams “Then we must find w Ae eres reetee ne chowted, “there'a situ: end jabbed with his club at the sup- make a careful examination, not only “Get out of the treea—into the somewhere down under the boarding- where,” responded Miss Leslie. ight fire; there's water; there's birds’ exus posed alligator. of the loose debris, but of the solid open!” he exclaimed in a hoarse school stuff.” we not succeed if we went on to the and deefsteaks! Here's where we “Where's the brute? Has he got rock above. Finding no sign of flint whisper, and as they crept away, “What.do you mean, sir?” other ridge?” trek on the back trail. We'll smoke he you or quartz, he growled out @ curse, white with dread of the unknown “Now, don't get huffy, please! It's | “That's the ticket! You've got @ out that leopard in short orderl” iI" easped Win- and backed off along, the beach, to danger,"he followed at thelr heels, « question of think, not of putting on headpiece, Miss Jenny! It's too “Ben don’t sean ¢0 en Siabe—— “There he is get a view of the cliff top. From a j, backward, his club raised in to start now. But first thing to-m: “No: ‘A long bony snout, fringed on either point a litte beyond him, outward to poy fs Blagg tM re ere Ot the Stone Ager They Fow Til take a run down that wa ; Hen Chae ei iaine Scans co es Gide by @ row of lateral teeth, was the extremity of the headland, he Once clear of the trees, Wintbrope had fire and fint axes; we’ t While you two lay ground camp an . the deal, into view. could see that the upper ledges and... see if’ you can twist some sort of point, while engineer | ught Miss Leslie by the hand and nothing but our think tanks, and as . naif one ago tes, Witaeet Pee eee ene ce tel cia There broke-into-a Fun. In thelr terror to lions and leopards and that sort fsh-iine ou of focqanat thee. ay “Tho day was atill fresh when they a chance, he would smash the skull of me Gees eA) iow fairly crowded with seafowl and thelr toy°Daid no heed to Blake's com. of thing, it strikes me we've got about Pralding your hair, Misa Jenny, YoU sound themselves back at the foot of the female leopard as he had crushed ibe ots had been on the point broadened when he Gianced inland mand to stop. They had darted off as many on hand as they had.” fp spare, We yamr BAP Ae SF ee le her blinded mate. One moment after e bad been Slake's voice and saw, less than half a mile dis- 50 unexpectedly that he did not over- “Then you and Mr. Winthrope "“isit, Mr. Blake, I'm afraid—I'd , The men piled dry grass across the Passed, and hi er ee, coasty, tant, a wooded cleft which appar. ‘#ke,them short of a hundred yards should immediately arm yourselves.” suthor ‘you'd take us with you., With foot of the cleft leading to the cave ‘were 0 more scares. A few ently ran up to the summit of the 7 ‘der. “It's low t—-But well leave that dreadful creature so near’—— 20d set fire to Lealle, w! idge. Fri it near th thrope roughly by the shoulder. “It's later. What else? “ 1 had been left in a place of safety, smiagios, later, they, waded Sut upon Tieee ua tnobal tree wowored vup mate enough here, and you'll Knock “he girl gaded at tho surrounding gqqi ys” | CORt ROOM: Lave 400 YOU heded the tale of what followed froxt e je yelled. sn Isle glanced at him, ana Winthrope as the latter came beck The others saw him dart in through . out that blamed ankle.’ objects, her forehead wrinkled in the of the river, Before them, the ResLam dpe serine tke 6 Brobding- “what is it? What 4i4 you see? effort at concentration. "We must 4,Miss Toelle glanced at him, and 70,00) the hole, A moment later two limp hay tn & fattened sarply to the “Bay, we may have a run for our Sesped Miss Lealle. have water, Think how we suffered her akirt F foot from beneath ““vrhe beast—the leopard! At first srayish bodies were flung out into the far end hooked sharply to tht money, ‘after all,” he murmured, . “Footprint.” | mumbled Blake, yesterday! ‘Then there is shelter from "“tymm—stocking torn: but those we heard one roar; then it was that open. . immediately after, Blake re. eet to termimestone “Shade, and no end of grub, and, by *shamed of his fright. Wild beasts, and food, and”—— silppers are tougher than T thought. dreadful snarling and yelling—most Sppeared, the body of the the, fet of, Me tomering, HimemOee the green of thowe (eee, spring “A llon'er” cried Wingwrépe, “All right here under our hands, 1€ Som of ihe way will be mood walking awful aquallngt + tae wreiahed 200" l°ROCt: wneyre dead!” oried edged limestone water at that, Next thing, | ot * rast be « leopard’s den Up " "I understand about the water, You Mone the beach. We'll leave the Ash; thing end tumbling wi, Sind be ren forward to came lea! nt ing to Pat—er—beg pardon—Win! down the path, all singed and blinded. jor at the pedi He ped his leg, and both sound there. I heard a growl, and thought would frighten the leopard away with with hie le". of look at jen, and feeling reminded him that his !t about time to clear out.” the fire, and if it would do that, it Vaqn, nye a cnance the pinks, fired anoles ie nant Inte the oyMise, Leslie followed, hardly lee clothes were drenched. “By Jove, we'd better withdraw would also keep away the other ani- anxie, Don't leave me behind. curious. ” I wi ham was shocking—dreedfull “Are Yea. ch palms. ‘The greatest “Guess we'll wait about that fiint,” argund We point! 1 There’ mals at night. But as for food. un- you my word, you'll not have to lor fees Tha “Cretched ereaters ing area” Ol! end, Mr. Blaket” che Gidth of the open space was hardly he said, and started back to where he Pe ithdraw your aunty’ ore ‘3 re less we return for cocoanuts' me.” oer A Mout all it tagute . than a quarter of a mile. had left the others. pard solos to tackle us out herein = Don't give it up! Keep yourthink- — “Oh, of course, Mr. Winthrope must plunged into the pool. .. . When ‘paused for a moment at bigh- | Briefly he told them of his discov. thie time of day. The er going on the side,while Pat tells ith us!” fe sought to craw! out, all black and g open tantly ery.and the trio set out for the spot sneaking tomcat! If only I had @ us our next move. Now that he's got mark, and Winthrope instanuy 2” nad seen. match, I'd show him how we amoke the fire sticks oui of his head” —— wapaties down to nurse his ankle. “oan' ‘With due consideration for Win- rat holes. “I say, Blake, I wish you would say, Blake,” he said, “can't you Y “Mr, Winthrope spoke of rubbing : ind of a crutch? It is sareoe'e ankle—not for Winthrope— ee: eal fre.’ s ted Ming “FOP that name, It is no harder to Leal id to go alone, eh?” demanded pideo Blake went up and killed frowning, I with'bis club—erusbed in —Ughi" ‘They started at once. Miss Lesiie in 188 say Winthrope.” ke set so slow a pace that thi few yards around to thove b.1¢ mile’s walk consumed over h . “You're off there,” rejoined Blake. “Why should [ be afraid, Mr, Blake?” the lead. As they rounded the point, winthrope. sick and faint ‘ Lord! you haven't been fool 8" hour. But his smouldering | ke sweat, you mean. But we «ut look here, I'll make It Win, if she asked. tho caught sight of the smoke still WiEthIODO oy ung and tender! he previous day, kara! yom avon’ bene may as well try it now, if we're going you'll Agure out what wo ought todo , lake stared at her moodlly. But ane oe ee clot, A tie later what more could you ask? Get a run out into the erstral L, ye le 101 ugh to ” pen she met his gaze wit! confid- ticed the ” erew you have, Why couldn't you tell the cleft. he almost fry eggs. We'll wo back toa shady "Xo uy lake, that would not be ine amile, he flushed and looke Streaming down out of the aky from "Ove on you. Presently she til quarters other than seaward, Their . (Cant do anything, Mr. Blake?” ES $F 33 - i Ff | L ft i thlike stillness of mid-afternoon, place, and pick up aticks on the way.” e' valle “All right.” he muttered: Mat aid not feel oo painful in the Cooling Oalniting water came tO ‘Though tiere was shade under, tne HUE bad, | They,—or—they called Mo 1,000) aim iogether, Hut don't ex- focal point seemed to be the trees at “KV. Milyn eo on along the gully t, ” bay ” . th lear and musical. cliff within some six hundred fee! or of pect me to pack his ludshin, if we the foot of the cleft. A nearer view Y Pee pest Pe mala. Fig 4 e#houted Blake, “I they had to go some distance to the 4, area Ay Bourbridues” went Graw a blank and have to trek back showed that they were alighting in ue “you could pia up E i nthro} — bus! uth bones?—big ", guessed right. Look at those green nearest dry wood—a dead thorn bush. ~ «. - ” without food or water. the thorn hes on the so border tne way back, if Bete Wino take. “How plants and grass; there's the channel Hore they gathered a quantity of “He started 1p line you; sort of top- of the wood. have’ to furmigate thle tree ‘hole’ ber oe ee reel, fink it would take me Where it runs out in the sand and branches, even Mise Lesite volunteer- jorty, But he chummed all right-- CHAPTER V. Of Blake there was nothing to be fore wo adopt it for a residence.” half mosey, e the mud? And look C700 UPS oa nim eagerly as nit wes thrown down in a heap tier? took out a lot of his, Heritish I. voen unl Mies’ Leale, atl ta, the halt-covered long i jead, pushed recs. family’s last - e aquatted be: “ton, ‘really ‘now, ‘Wlake, 90 The Leopards’ Den. _‘rnete they found him crouched ve. CHAPTER VII. mat i fi cloud! We're in for e squall, », pushed in among the trees. They near the cliff, and Blake squatted he. 4 . - “Oh, really now, Blake, you can't saw 1 water, the tiny . HILE Blake made cone. email fire, near the edge of thar handed the girl the smaller PAW 00 Tented down the aide tt, ng hand, | Having expect any one with brains to believe W @ made @ suc ee 8 mY fire, near the ocee, st Problems in Woodcraft. le in ledges was no! larger that, " ‘ful trip for the abandoned of cocoanuts, flung the other matted over with vines, But at the sticks, he bored a ho a Oe eee ab > cor Tee auanden wore rivoted in @ hungry stare T beach and atoo to yee the slope lay @ pool, soe dropped in & of one de "No; I don't know, you know—and cocoanuts, his companions ore HA pyar Bask, guse was se slennemt —_ that to mount his back, Ho ten yards across, and overshadowed Laying the stick in ee rennet ended over the flames on spits of met Mise Leslis's gase off alo sharp ‘There was seat, followed as best abe UY ‘he surrounding tress, the oun, he thrust a tw! and fe I don’t know if you've got any brains, uu know, he Thow us, What's our next move?" the ledges chosen by Win- gi it ff levelled the stones beneath pended ‘® your chance to upon her ggturn. The neat- ne sang out ito ti Teen t Lee ieee cecotnuts omtngiag e, eneernram: and the 67OUnd 8S hole, and began to twist ft between moat, Wer acon Neat ne experi- thropa and gathered enough dried |, “Hello!” ng out a9 ne heard est of butchering can hard- with every step and Drulelag “Ry Joye sald Winthrope: “600 tae ee aoe ue for ware ee mre art nat ma-weed along the talus to soften the jenny, Your brotied steak ‘ll be ready a1, tre termed sonteetie. | hes ine ind ako coming faster than ‘There must have been ® 414) minutes; but whether he was ; or for the bard beda, ta short order” fire! fm simply ox Blake hed calculated, Before they «fee: replied Biake, Unable to twirl the twig fast enough, should return to yopr Soothed by the monotonous wash of oh, a 2 me Gee! dt “Leen ae 9 A had run two hundred paces they y feoper prints OF Whether the right kind of wood should also be near the the sea among the rocks, even Miss pas perl and delight. ere 2 wo Place to climb up,’ peard the roar of ruin-lashed WAL, gt the edge of the pool, ‘These ain't oF tinder was lacking, all bis efforts Lasiio slept well. Blake, who had in- Knthrope was hardly lees keen; Me reported. “It runs along like this ‘ad the squall struck them with ® sheep tracks, A lot of them are failed to produce @ spark. “That's one wide. Here's the other. ted that she should retain bie coat, yet his hunger did not ‘altogether and then slopes down, But there te t that almost overthrew the girl. foram." ‘ Unwilling to accept the failure, Bar to wade acrons—sharks and alll. sted that she should retain hia coat, yor, hin Niles Y a ol at the ond, os high as these Mth the wind came torrents of rain "ould you not uncover the brook?” Winthrope insisted upon trying in tora; then ewampy ground—ma- was wakened by the chilliness pre- Dit ‘say, Blake,” inquired, “where 4 that drove through their thickest #4" asked Mine Laulie, “If animals have (urn, and pride held him to the task Mosquitos, thorn jungle. Guess ceding the dawn, Five minutes later aig you get the meat?” walls, ew powdered mente and drenched them to Lhe skin one would prefer yee De wes dronene’ with eweat of beth of you are still BOFe te started on their journey, “ptow it. W! my. boy. zhi ain't “Tweaty foot,” muttered Blake gray Sustr vet ehe within the firet half minute, Ray yo some. omen ear lee id cream!” And on the way Winthrope sug- # packing ho he stuff may be “Confound the iuck! It isn’t thet ateadily until » Blake slackened his pace to « a “Told you #0," jeered Blake from If only 1 had a pot of cold cream * tough, but ite pot-—er—the other y “ai bis baw levied om @ plodded ne beneath where he lay the shade. We'd sighed Mine Laalie gested supplementing the one pen 5 Miss Jonny, /“np-of; 208 living a unpour. ite kept to the H'met it out of the spring stand more chance cracklog stpnes “if only 1 had 4 hunk of jerked knifo with knives made of bamb« 0; thing. | Ware, you fn going to got up on the cli? There's lower edge of the Leach, where the We've got to go up anyway, together.” beef!” echoed Blake the bamboo's being rasorlike, Though Winthrope had bie eumpt~ an everlasting lot of omeleta tn those was Urment, fur the force of the tr wun wast cap we 4 sent eked “T way, why couldn't we chance it jiske eagerly accepted the ougges- clone, . tools, the piece, tf halt- winds’ nests. if only that bloomin’ deluge beat down the waves Las becom! tor the night around on the ward burn joo per jew whi iake we that, Win, me b'y?=thet heck the breakers whick tired of covoanuts, and there seems un?” asked Winthrope, Yon. Aw they moved on Miss Leslie panded him in turn and fell to eat- ho . " y 7 oaeee vo toll UP the beach. circ to be nothing else around hei In- 9°02", pace where the ledges picked up something that fell from ing without further question, As dicomin’, biaweted baobab wae o rain siorm wae ot ite belght the farther side deed, I think this is all such a waste overhang-—almost a eave. Do Yo" jiake’s cout and banded it to him, Blake had surmised, the roual Vother side, The wood's almest soft they reached the foot of (h@ Hiake ran arcund beside him, and of time. If we had walked straight think it probable that any wild beast J in tender, Hunger, how- a. ainy We could drive im pegs ‘The wray rock towered 4bOVé wared at the tunnel-like passage slong the shore this morning We would venture so clone to the nea?” dropped your locket, ver most appetizing flavor, * . pods. thom, thirty or forty (eet high. Glake whiew wound up the limestone ledges might have reached a town.” “Can't aay, Didn't see any tr echoed Blake. 1 ast ended when there was and climb up the is A intnrope upon & Wet beneath the over-arching thickets. “We might, Miss Jenny, and then, go we'll chance it for ton! loci nothing left to devour, “There are other trees beyond it,’ ‘and straightened up to sean "Odd piace, is it not?’ observed again, we mightn't. | happened to Next?” dat it, un~ ‘The cleft now had « far different renarked Mies Leslie, o ee teudiand. iere and there ledges Winthrope, “Looks like « fox run, overhaul the captain's chart—Quili- — “Hy morning 1 telleve my anki: fo naners i, thon be aspect from what It nad presente? “Then inaybe we ean shin up"— more than holf-way up the rocky only larger, you know.” mane, Mosambique—that'’s a! f will be in such shape that I 4 up, with at ment t on thetr fret vie The largest of a ‘eal! in other places the crest was Too low for deer, though—and hundieds of miles, Towns on back for the string on of obras and antelopes fying the trees, though scorched it the I fear the branches that overbans by deep vlefia; but nowhere thelr hoofs would have eut up the eoast are about ca thick ae ben's which we dropped on t nto the tall erame. base, still etood with unawithered ihe cliff are too slender to bear any t did either offer bes 74 mons and ferns more, Lat'a get « roots ai ” a ie car srereamed Mie " Sellage, Mitte Sermaty of Canons Eas ” uous 1 wun mat. Jone look." “How about native villages?” de- re potting “Ie nake re you man: Ul , 5 with diag wihs ho spoke, Bighe stooped. and anid Win ‘ips. 9 those nuts wa ttitien? You, by Jobe Harleycora! boon killed ond part! by ane ie too infernaily high to take ladder to get up climbed a few wo " ; me} ‘m enough ust va boon runk to pul heat flame from sre b, this overhanging baobab . 4 1 sour or Ave to go into town without it Je may cnet Alwi tin my brush, In places the fire was faci rReehG Se yateas ade ’ ‘ ' CEES e” eens ta edna ae eate BS Ee