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BY ANTHO} te *t tt sf et CHAPTER IV. (Ommtioued ) A Duel of Wills. UDITH finally arose to her feet, stiffy, and half turned her back to her fellow pas- fenger, whom she watched corner of her eye. She could nothing concerning the pos- @utoome of the voyage eave fa- but whe had long been past all of her own predicament as a of the cyclone or the uncon- Palloon. 4 was, however, nothing to be Gome change in the meteoric with the actual breaking of . The air became less depressing the gas. With the warmth of the rays at lenath expanding the exggoenn. the balloon began to as- ‘ G@nhent was not aware of the altera- of the altitude till he felt a sense pot podily oppression. 1 ttempted atolerouse himself from a species of stealing insidiously upon He realized abruptly how far physical weakness had proceeded his knowledge. He stumbled ee tried to move toward a rope he Hoped might open some orifice bag. to clutch at the basket to himeelf from falling head- on the floor, he clung there, help- swaying, and saw that Judith was similarly stricken and was Dut ready to drop. a Te of her vision had been adi ith's first intimation of their im- spending doom. She. knew less of qpanefostation than did Ghent; she re- “mémbered accounts she had read of sballoonists overcqme by the rarefied ait of lofty altitudes, and of frantio struggles they had made to open an qoulet for the gas, but her memory was pdf, ~Bhe had seen Ghent stub! had recognized the sign of his w Nees. Responding to her habit of mind so «dang fostered by the feud, she under- Went @ faint sense of ekultation.. The would kin him first! She Mve to see him perish before ‘Ye very eyes! After that—what mat- ter how soon she might be doomed to pellew? ; “Perhaps some telepathic hint of what | “wag in her mind was vouchsafed to the “mem. A grim smile played momen- “tagily upon his features, rendering his jas more sinister than before. “Ha, too, had suddenly comprehended j he and Judith were helpless, and, * tie the woman, he cared for one thing ‘ outlive the being of his hatred, for one brief second. ‘Decame a duel of wills that vacil- faded, and returned again to the as the thin alr starved them to » Judith filled her aching lungs mad desire to outlive t, Hung with her here by the tm @ realm that was neither mor heaven. 3 @wam in « hase before her . Already he seemed to be Bales as me felt di If slipping Reason. She heard the voice ‘mother, praying for strength to “the horse of Ghent, she fe! yew denees giving way, as if their sub- bad melted, With one tremen- g@ummoning of her strength, she impulse to wilt upon the 2 peneid John Ghent go | 1, in a half-sitting posture by wan of the car, his eyes wide hie scarred chin buried in bw ; ith, stricken down in that 8000 ond, red once, then fell wit fep’Read upon one of her arms, and no more, Her hair, entangled a slender cotton rope that went ard to the bée, wus held out t and taut by the weight of hody—and this cord was attached the valve. CHAPTER V. The Puppets of Fate. ESPITE the fact that a por- tion of the gas was at Dp) length escaping from the great balloon, there was no immediate descent. The @rifting airship encountered a pow- erful current of the upper strata that bere it slightly north of west at a reaccelerated speed. When a thousand feet of descent ly been accomplished Judith and rolled to an easier po etrain on her hair was r COMMANDMENT ie aor So Kentucky feud hatred trans- planted in o oasis, where a man ande of the upper atmosphere | Y VERRALL Heved. The valve wae immediately clveed Through Unmeasured regione of cloud abd mist, across vast reaches of space and over unseen miles of the earth's expanse the balloon was blown, with ie twe wneoneclous pas Hour after hour they jay unmoving, but alive help leasly rifts over forest, plain and mountains, Thus went the @ay. it wae late in the night when at length Ghent suddeniy started awake and serambied Wo his feet from some horribie dream. His foot struck Ju> 41th as be foundered about in the car to establish his balance, and she wae Awakened instantly. She too arose in| bewildered as Ghent till re vliection of Weir helpless plight came relentlessly surging upon her, | fresher, more bate! hed = caught balloon and was drivin fits and starts, jerking and ite ropes and bres for a time, t puffing it more at erthele its eou tt ward the great da @urface of which ing with aug Ghent an weakened tured with p sical str Al midnight they unk on more to floor of t ion, Abrupt- warning, the struction, It as the wind Kas ship on its course, One ropes that supported the car . The ot sagged, The were all but thrown over Then the great creature and swung along velocity, i The balloon had grazed the ridge of a granite peak. They had crossed &@ range of mountatna, | It was not until 2 in the morning that the car struck again, That death by some vicious manoeuvre of the atricken balloon wae imminent Ghent realized thoroughly. Judith was No less well aware of the hope- | Jessness of the wituation, When at| length she sank in the basket, atunned by a blow tha: crushed in a) portion of the car, Ghent was far too sed to observe that she had The balloon was etriking with greater frequency and force. It was bowled along in the path of the wind Uke @ monster toy created for de-| struction. Ghent | withstood the! shocks and travatl for an hour; then | in some collision of exceptional might his senses were suddenly blotted out and he fell, with Judith, to the floor. | The basket had struck between two post-like objects, short, thick, and not to be torn from thelr foot- hold, There the last remaining ropes were snapped. A portion of the bag was blown through a rent that was torn in the net of cordage, The gas flowed rapidly outward to swell thie liberated portion of the vessel. Rip- ping and jerking as the wind laid hold upon it, the whole silk envelope was presently dragged from the wreskage, and away it went, rising rapidly, and crumpling and rolling in the air as it lost ite gas and van- ished in the gloom, The remains of the basket and cordage had dropped at the foot of the fibrous posts. The two stunned beings in its hold were rolled in one Inert heap at the bottom, flung down ike mere worn-out puppets of which the Fates had grown weary at last. When the wind died away, a brief time only before the dawn, a silence of almost terrible intensity brooded on the world. The daylight came, the sun rose, and the morning was hot and well advanced when at length John Ghent regained his senses and, sore and bruised, crawled from the basket to look upon the scene. The man could scarcely credit his senses. He passed his hand across his brow and stood there staring about him in swiftly crystallizing awe, Judith had disappeared. He was alone beside a pair of ugly cactus plants in @ treeless land of desolation—a desert, glaring, forbid- ing, and rimmed about by life! hills of adamant, shimmering alread: In the heat. CHAPTER VI. The Desolation. EAKENED, as he was, by the long endurance of stress and privation, Ghent felt a new sense of helplessness take Possoasion of his being as he turned from one barren aspect to an- other of this region blasted by nature's deadly curse, Time after time he looked once more in the basket to convince himself that Judith was gone. He circled the wreckage about. He tried to recall What had occurred in that last mad hour of their flight. He could remem- ber nothing. If @ grim reminiscence of his feud with all the house of Haines prompted the man to a certain sardonic tri- umpb in the thought that Judith had doubuess been tung or dragged to death, his exultatiun was tas he contemplated this land of silence and lifelessness wherein he was cast, al- ready exhausted and tamishing. A wild sort of desperation seized him. He refused to perish here upon the sands of this terrible place. Water there must bo somewhere, and food he must find, if only enough for a day! In somo of the mountains, di- vided by huge ravines, he might come upon # spring—and shade, Ho felt he must soon fod shade, or wither and crack in his clothing. He started for the nearest range of mountaing, taking nothing from the ruins of the car, He soon removed his coat and held it above his bead in lieu of a hat. After half an hour of walking he toro a piece of the light gray cloth from the coat and threw the remainder away, The piece was sufficient for his head, and all added weight was a burden. Ghent had been attracted by the purple tints of a canyon filled with shadows, By the time he had come there the sun had risen to an em!- nence from which it searched to the World UNDERSTAND, ! THE 80SS IN THiS HOUSE, ‘LL DO LISSEN' WHY DON'T You KEEP LITTLE MINCON QUIET. HOW Do You EXPECT ME To READ. very floor of the chasm, The gor} Was still slightly cooler than the slopes, however, and for more than an hour he labored up its narrow bed in the hope of discovering @ spring. Obliged at length to abandon all hope of relief to be found in this an- c‘ent channel, he could think of one more expedient only—to climb to some height and obtain a wider view of the desert and its ranges, trusting that somewhere the emerald sign of God's indulgence might greet his ach. ing eyes. He started for the summit of the ridge that rose on his right. i was not go steep as the rise on la left, but its whole vast bulk was appallingly barren. When he came there, after half an hour of labored climbing In the heat and rocks, he found it @ flat sort of table land, which must etill be trav- ersed before he could look up the canyons and rises beyond. He almost surrendered in his disappointment; et he staggered on, bruising his nees and his hands as he fell to the blistered sands and rocks beneath his feet, and thus arrived at length upon the further side. Here, indeed, he beheld a vast pan- orama of the desert. The waterle valley lay below him, drunken wii the heat. Its breath roso in quiver. ing fumes; its sands glared back at thesun. Nearer at hand more cany and ravines lay wide open to the sky, if the very mountains bad split in the heat, revealing rocks for their mighty bones and sinews, all parched and cracked and forbidding. He paused, bis ey abruptly caught by a tint far down below bim in a wrinkle of the hill, Then a hoarse cry escaped from his lips. The tips of some growing things, far down the elope, were fringing the bill's huge bulk of gray—and excitement sent a flood to his brain id heart. With hope inspired and strength renewed, he plunged madly down the runway of some bygone freshet and beheld the jewel of emerald expand and lengthen out below him, He came to the upper limits of a narrow oasis, panting wildly, He crashed his way into the growth of stunted low, alder and brush, startling @ covey of quail from cover, till in whirring wings they scattered in every direction, The growth here Was mengre,. and closely confined to 9 the bed of a gulch. He came to it presently-a hole no more than six inches deep and less than two feet across, but filled with clear, cold water that flowed @ lite through the gand and then sank to rise no more. In his famished condition he did not hear a sound of something moving, a little removed from the spring, but, concerned with restraining his natural inypulse to drink to satisfaction and doubtless make himself ill, he t himself down upon the dampened revel, and filling bis mouth, under- tasy that nearly made him fairly embraced the earth on which he was stretched, laying his face in the cool damp sand where the outflow disappeared and thrusting his hands in the trickling stream to cool and moisten Then he drank again, barely a nd rolled on his back to resist the temptation offered by this miracle—this sign of Gods mercy in the desert At length he had taken a quarter as much of the precious fluid as his fam- ished body demanded, and he rose to look about. He had barely turned, tn his rapid survey of the place, when once again he was atartled to the depths of his being, There in the shade stood Judith Haines, her eyes fixed deflantly upon him, her aspect > ‘ we a Bg that of a creature of the wild In the lair she had made for her own. A Desert Battle-Ground. OR @ long, poignant minute | cast here together by the whim of chance faced each antagonism, which the struggle for existence must presently re-embitter accepted the unspoken challenge of the other, in a mood already conform- into which they had both been flung. It was Judith who turned away at the pla she made her way down through the narrow valo of greenery climbed the right bank of the go! to a ledge of rocks pierced by a rud sh®@ finally balted, determined to guard the shelter sho had taken part of Ghent. Already she felt the sense of own- emption engender. Her coming had been amazingly direct. She had CHAPTER VII. the man and the woman other in their long-fostered spirit of between them. Bach understood and ing to the rude, elemental conditions Inst. Like one already famillar with for a considerable distance, then sort of cave, at the mouth of which against any ible intrusion on the ership that prior discovery and & been aroused from her stunned con- dition within an hour of the atr- foot of the two dried cactus-plants the prostrate form of Ghent s! 4 clambered out while darkness till lay upon the world. She had found the cave, she had looked on the mighty desolation, and & eense of terror and helpivssneas had been succeeded in her mind by a fierce desire to live, even here, whi throughout the very fibre of her bein; long latent instincts and emotions pri- mordial had faintly stirred with her blood. Wearied and with hunger incroas- ing her desperation, she had returned to the spring more than half a dozen times, and at length had beheld tho arrival of the man, John Ghent, from Whom she had turned In her hatred Ghent, in the meantime, had gratt- ed hia body as far as mere water could appease its demands, Hoe clam- bered up the hillside above the fringe of green, and walked there in the » heat to make his first reconnolssenc Up the slope were mountains shrut stunted, stout and harsh, A few wild gooseberry bushes maintained them- selves in the tangle, Altogether, the growth was as heterogencous and in- congruous as the land made possible. It extended for several hundred yards down the bed of the gorge, termin ing just above the perpendicular walls, and bounded on either side by the rocky, barren slopes that were finally flanked by the mountains, Emerging from the thicket of ald- ers and willows near the centre of the limited ¢ he beheld the one additional fa looming large in t! eof the Fates—Judith and OH, MOTHER, GUS AN’ | ARE SO IF YOU DON'T KNow ENOUGH To Come HOME EARLY, You CAN STAY OUT ALTOGETHER , % oa she still stood 4 before the shi rahe had claimed, « ure of © ‘wy. determination and defiance. & that he too must provi some manner of shelter. ere would never molest, or @ proach, He wae starving, and to eat must Kill some wary creature of the green- ery with nothing save his hands or the rocks he could take up and fling. For a day or two at the least he must make his oasis his abiding place and prepare himself for escape to some outlying town or farm from which he could journey to the east, Singularly enough, the man felt no impatience with his plight. He cer- tainly had no fear of the stripped condition in which he found himself thus face to face with the very first principles of life, He was young, v orous, healthy, ready to match his wits and cunning againat the naked scheme of existence, and even eager t® begin. All this line of thought had been travorsed by Judith Haines before tho man’s arrival at the spring. She, too, had comprehended what the desert signified; she, too, bad entertained w#ome thought of remaining here only long enough to recruit her strength for a bold attempt to win a way out to haunts of her kind. Actuated equally by the pangs of hunger, the man and the woman both finally descended to the slender field of life and greenery with intent y and eat. ent returned to pper limits of the growth in quest of the covey of quail he had frightened from cover when he came, Hoe fotind them at last and then with stones to hurl whensoover ho could he followed the awiftly run- flying birds for about two hot » all in vain, his animal eav- agery increasing as he found nimseif utterly baffled. Judith could throw no Dillete of rock. Bhe had broken @ twigtess branch from an alder tree and finaily ran a rabbit to its hole beneath @ ledge of stone and then stood there to wait till it should again come forth to be pounced upon and slain. Rigid, yet ready to strike first soft patter of the rabb Upon the ground, she watcher till muscles ached with the strain, Then at last from the cover of brush near by a great rattlesnake crawled on bis way to the hole where the rabbit had sped for security Judith, intent upon her savage business, falled to note the reptiles approach till the creature was almost close enough to strike her foot. Then @ sound of startiement and loathing abruptly burat from her lps, and she brought dow~ her club with a blow that broke the rattler’s back t it writhing in death upon and. Sho beat him again and again till his head was crushed and his decorated tail was twisted belly upward to the sun. The creature's skin was broken along its back, re- vealing the whiti#h flesh beneath, Judith remained there no longer. Bhe went down through the green- ery, startled by everything that made @ sound about her. She all unstrung for bunting, What er: tures she saw appeared to flee from t the 8 fee ING WORLD WITH YOU ON YOUR VACATION So that you will not miss any of the weekly novels and may continue to enjoy the daily magazine, comic and other special features. Include them in your summer reading. Order the Evening World Blailed to Your Summer Address brought together in a | | Me features 0 he thuaght of being lebiged by clrewmwtenes © whitte himeelf @ bow and arr with when to bunt for the game woul and mayhep to defend bie seh, however, ea @ led would be | Baaree, Motors the wenges, Be ens to at one to ow ‘ c neiruct hem « | oun r Lie cowoh, tne postage of the ai Afterpoun he iavored stoutly im the at the fear by @ numver of mamive a J b, toiling the slope to her cave, with her hea she moute of up cloth ekirt bulkily laden, threw down her joad at tl her shelter Ghent knew what is was dried grass which ehe pulled from the earth with ber bands. She returned for more of this natural and the man's vexatious problem been solved, There was much of the seeded grass among the treag and shrubs, but it srew in tufts and punches, often far apart. Until dark’Ghent tileg with his knife and hands to euppl wante for @ bed; then be it all to his aheiter, making several trips judit je her ace 48 comfortable as a rock floor and a total absence of bedding would per WHERE Do YA’ GET THAT MARRIAGE )| | pensea Worn ‘out wher ee Ieneth the night deacended on the world of STUFF 2 in silences, she sat for a time before her cave grimly wondering what would result on the morrow, and the day after (hat, and all the days to come in thie land of desola- tion und than alone, Presently, ; taps ag Loire Ce the pre slopes, and welling miles deep in t! chasms, a Lae glow af tel ey upon the slope, up the hent had lighted a fite for comfort, It shone out, @ beacon, nature was stirred, ‘act that John Ghent had 84. uncompromising, her termination to live rekindled to frenzy. When the fire across the ied on the background of wi . In vividly alive with worrying thoughts, Ghent, in his roofless fort of rock, had Hkewise thrown himself down to They were reet for the night. ever, he did pot close his eves. He had much to plan and much to do, for he meant to escape this living death and return to the world of men and deeds, CHAPTER IX. Judith’s Feast. her path in a new despair of securing mea’ ined the acorns and ma ries growing in the place. hopelessly green, Meantime, Ghent hi learned Jesson in the usclessnes« of throwing at birds that ran with such amazing swiftness or sought the shelter of bushes too thick for either a misal! or his sight to penetrate, to fly from borieath his very feet when at length he came upon them, He heard the scattered members of the covey aoft- ly whistling their call as ihey alow! WENT had finally slept. He reassembled, He had gone to the awoke at daylight, com- spring again for is vy oe A Cunning made rapid growth tn his pletely rested, and tre mendously alert for the business of the day. Intent upon ac- compliahing much of the labor he had planned for the day, be concluded bie toilet rapidly and returned to cook and devdur hie eecond quail for breakfast, after which he meant to cut the material for bow and arrows from a clump of willows he had noted the previous day far down the mountain oasis. : Once more the pungent odor of his fire and crude scorching of meat was floated in tantalising guste to Judith, who bad been baffled in her efforte to slay @ wild creature for food. helng. He answerod the quail whistle, Imitating readily the simple note that they repeat. Around him half tures reaponded. two great fistfuls of pelding four of ti lump brown biréa dart swiftly to the cover of a sorub dense that he failed to see whore they concealed themselves be- neath it, he suddenly altered plan, Quietly discarding the fr ments of rock he had ‘gathered, took Up @ large hunk of porphyty Iving near his feet, and raising it length above his head, cau- ¥ approached the shrub, While moving on the hiding place more quail scampered to tte elter with their féllows, anding within five feet of the piere Ghent hurled the rock with all Sie BAS stat Sees ma -3e 8 is might fairly down through the [d6e of rock beneath which @ cot- branches of the shrub, from which @ tontatl had its burrow. There lay fare of te her rattlesnake, cold and stiff. Judith instantly, pl ‘upon brueh himesif, and beneath the stone looked at the ugly form attentively, and crushéd in branches two of the ber faze held, fascinated, by the one birde were lying, stunned or killed, spot on the reptile’s back where the and his eager hands descended upon skin had been broken away, showing them flercely. exultation leaped in bis blood, He ‘lean white moat. would eat! Great bunger has no compunctio! Judith passed the atages of delicate CHAPTER VIII. demands; she was famished for food, Need 7 she was savage with the need to rhs sof Life, In the purely animal mood thet pos- Fe opie no mistake at sessed her she took up the anake by the prompting of hia appe- the tail and carried it away to her tite, He roasted and ate cave. There she laid a heavy rock but one of hia quail ‘The Upon Its usly head, and then with fi ath sharper fragment of stone loosene: ae 2 er he kept against the more of the akin on the reptiles back, Posmible disappointments of his next and Prenently succeeded In skinning excursion for food, But, tremendously the ecl-like body to the tail, With refreshed and strengthened by his orn sherp-edeed poche, ont to strike with, the other to strike upon, she eanre meal, he paused to plan fOr & hacked the clean white meat’ into betterment of the crude conditions pieces a few inches long, then cast Into which he had been #o abruptly an eager scrutiny toward the camp cast. He reckoned entirely without of the man up the canyon, he reflected that she woul probably ing enbers of his fire where he had perish in hor cave of privation and cooked and eaten his bird, but Ghent hunger, If #he whould, it would be himself had disappeared. d te the solemn judgment of the Fates on ,,judith sped down the hill to the the feud of the two depleted families, his camp with all her speed. She had The man’s first precaution was to caught up @ handful of yellowed hide his uncooked quail where no grass and @ number of dried out prowling beast could find it, He twigs as she went. She even tore a thought of the coolest shade about shrub from its hold tn the sand, and the spring, but determined upon @ thus was prepared with inflammable cavity dux in the earth, This wag a fuel before she came upon the dying single expedient, quickly concluded. fire He scraped out @ hollow with a piece Without a@ look at the structure of Mattened rock, then lald @ similar Ghent had built, without the slightest fragment at the bottom, and wath curiosity as to any possessions he pieces at the sides and @ slab on the’ might have gathored, she knelt upon top soon had his “cupboard” com- the ground at once and, blowing upon plete, with the meat inside, the graying ember Two things he knew he rust fagh- and then her twig , to & ion without delay. One was a pbel- crackling flame, and fied with t¢' ter here among the boulders, with blazing torch to the natural prot geome sort of bed on which to #leep; tion of the tr the other was that first, most univer- Replenishing her etock of twigs as eal of primitive man's weapons, @ she hastened along, and pausing from bow, A imirthlcss smile passed acroms time tg time to foster the Games that MY LADY OF DOUBT By RANDALL PARRISH A romance of the Revolution with hero and heroine series of neree-trying deepens with rvery chapter, BEGINS IN NEXT MONDAY'S EVENING WORLD At the end of thle Bret fever of “ creation be had y ol up three rouge sdimal envoveanat phe | Welle and leveled the gravel hoor, #0 bea | thet what he wae @ revtiess he feltwal, open at the front, and fenked cook ortion of ber eupply ta Like Judith, how- last ad- on @ mystery that Amp wed to perish tm her ot length to her bere she hastily i brush to feed to fre she had stole The roasted on « Pere streaked them inviungly. Th Juditn prementt) devow The flea 4 mew hands, she ee of meat that she nally at ve the coals wan i Waa clean, juley and ERi A end of her cave, #2 g52 » ay boulders, The oun was sinking = As Ghent | when bis task was done Me began to crude meal Soon consbanek, wonder what manner of bee a J and woman began to reflect needs pee the casa would afford bim whic’ very mucceedii would vie bed, th hile he eteod dovening and se ber bie atiention wae attracted ; ohe wement far down on the op- srew Bhe almost smiled as her recalied the burning glass which wed finally been adopted under pretense Seonins eae, Bint 4 steel, That reliable, ‘ wi hed she had te with in to puszie her er where she had like it recently— indeed, T abrupt); inew-—the lantern ane ned noted be soon something quite recent; sho ki lashed to the car of the captive bal- loon, and thé bulging lens with which it was provided. tonne ue her ar at and bas- ning along e roc! made her way down to the bed o the green oasis, and 0 to the . jar walle at ite lower extremity, then past the scattered boulders down eee hopes) gravel where the @ ravine debouched pe tampon was in pecially here on the plain, Judith kept a straight, determined course, however, and at the end of nearly two houre of walking came in sight wre sought. “Bee of the last a beam of hastened on, and at unendurable light flashed from ¢! ruins of the gleam from the flare at the wun. “Bhe rane aed etn he came there fairly threw heresit n the precious lantern, in the lens of which lay the latent power to ignite the v world, The prize ‘she coveted was he: Ind crept the thought of snares and traps for rabbits and birde—de- vices she had helped to construct me young woodsman, her therefore took nearly of the tangled cordage which had formerly served to enmesh the bag of the captive balloon, and with eat and ve lantern i @ burden she urned t! . e mountain retreat” jad a3 F Ghent, in ig! absence, had in a fever of impatience to whittle out his Low and a number of noe Hoe had gone to the spot where the wings from his quail had been thrown the day before, and, having Satracted te pest, ot the feathers to ‘upon his shafts, asea!| task with joy. mina Long before noon he had completed the tapering down of his weapon. He had smoothed and notched it before he was finally confronted by the prob-* lem of furnishing a string. He had quite overlooked this vitally impor- tant feature. Fatlure mocked him a the height of his hopes. Then he, lke Judith, the wrecked balloon below on e desert by the cactus plants, ond dropped all employment to hasten to somure whi “ Fesneined of the cordage. en at lengtl came batterod car he knew bad’ me there before him. The lantern, how- ever, he did not miss. It had been forgotten in his stress of other needs, RS te thoughts were concerned ex- ¢ ively with the cords he for his bow, bila That Judith had taken first choice of these he was promptly aware. All that remained of ropes and net he cut a nd reflecting on uses to which the wicker basket might be put, he hacked out some unbroken portions, secured them in a pack, and plodded in Judith’s trail across the desert and up the slope and into and past the Oaaia till he came once more to the work he had been obliged to abandon for a time. Beforo sunset he had finished his Weapons sufficiently to take them In hand and go upon a hunt. He shot at two quail and @ rabbit, all of which he missed, One of his arrows was broken, a second waa lost, and th third was too crooked for usefulness, Tn his disappointment and tmpatience he attempted to repeat his success of the evening before at hunting with a heavy piece of rock, In this he falled. To add to his helpless discomfort, he caught his pocket on a toughened shrub and tore {t entirely open. His matches were lost, @ fact undiscov- ered at the time, Fiercely hungry again on his diet of one small bird a day, the man was forced to retreat to his camp for the night, ohagrined and defeated. Com- fortiess, wearied, and with bllstered handa and aching body, he sat on a stone at the door of his fort while the world rolled deeper into gloom. Dis- covering the loss of his matches now, when with stiff, bruised fingers he had pulled and fetched some brush fuel to the place for a fire, his im- patience was rendered complete, He cursed at the twig that had torn his pocket open and found himself thrust face’ to face, as Judith had been, not only with th wretchedness of a firetess evening at his camp, byt also with, thi problem of obtaining ad the days to fire for the morrow, ai follow after that. A realizing sense discomfort of the night of Judit before was finally vouchanfed ae remembered the portion of “ oe Oe oe Cede