The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-13

lowing. They stopped by little stream,
running down the valley. Here a native
retilled the gourds. Mary Armstrong felt
better after drink of water.
II think" Ronald said to her, "that if
you were to battle your face and hands it
would refresh you. There is no K here
just at the edge of the stream. am sure
your feet must be sore and blistered. 1t
will be half an hour before there is CLEAN
or light, and / should recommend you to
take OF your shoes and stockings and pad
die your feet in the water"
That would be refreshing" the girl said
My fest are aching dreadfully. Now
please tell me all that has happened; how
you came to be here"
Sitting beside her, Ronald told her of
everything, from the time when his party
arrived and beat off the natives attacking
the wagons.
''How can thank you enoughr' she said,
when he had finished. "To think that you
have done all this for me.n
Never mind about thanks, Miss Arm
strong; we are not out of the wood yet, our
dangers are only half over, and if it were
not that trust to the cunning of our good
friend kreta and his Fineoes l should have
very little hope of getting out of this mess
l think that it is just beginning to get light;
L can just make out the outlines of the
trunks of the trees. which is more than [
could do before.Y i will go and ask Kreta
what he is going to do, and by the time
come back perhaps you had better get your
shoes on again, and be ready for start.
L don't suppose we shall go far, but no
doubt he will find some sort of hiding
place" Kreta, in fact, was Just giving
instructions to his men.
1--WE are going out in different directions
to look for some piaceto;lie.up to-day" he
said. ''ln the ThdraiAg they search all about
the woods. We. must get into shelter be-
fore it Is light enough for the men on the
hill tops to see down through the trees,
You stop here, quiet. In half an hour We
come back again. Tiers, is plenty time;
they no find out yet that woman gone"
In a few minutes Mary, Armstrong joined
Ronald. 'illM
"How do you feel now" he asked.
"All the fresher and better for the wash, :"
she said; "but l really don't think l could
walk very far. my feet are very much
blistered. | don't see why they should be
so bad; we have only gone about twenty
four miles each day, and | always consid
cred that could walk twenty miles without
difficulty"
1T makes all the difference how you walk,
Miss Armstrong No doubt, if you had
been in good spirits, and with pleasant
party, you could have walked fifty miles in
two days, although that is certainly a long
pressed and almost despalring, as you were,
it told upon you generally, and doubtless
you rather dragged your feet along than
walked
81 don't want to think about it." the girl
said, with a shudder sit seems to have
been an awful dream. Some day 1 will tell
you about it; but l cannot now"
Here are some mealies and some cold
meat. We each brought weeks supply
With ha, 1oFk THox 7
sure that you will be all the better for eat
ing something"
u do feel very hungry, now think of it, -
the girl assented; II have hardly eaten a
moutnful since that morning."
II am hungry myself" Ronald said; 'I
was too anxious yesterday to do justice to
my food"
II feel very much better now" the girl
said when she had finished. 81 believe /
was faint from want of food before, al
though did not think of it. l am sure
could go on walking now. 1t was not the
pain that stopped me, but simply because
didn't feel as if l could lift my foot from
the ground. And there is one thing 1 want
to say: | wish you would not call me Miss
Armstrong, it seems so formal and stiff,
when you are running such terrible risks to
save me. Please call me Mary, aud 1 win
cal you Harry. 1 think l heard you tell
my father your name was Harry Bluntn
THAT is the name | enlisted under, it Is
not my own name; men very seldom enlist
under their own names
why mott" she asked in surprise.
"Partly, l suppose, because good many
of us got into scrapes before we enlisted,
and don't care for our friends to be able to
trace us"
II am sure you never got into scrape,"
the girl said, looking up into Ronald's face.
II got into a very bad scrape," Ronald
answered, "a scrape that has spoilt my
whole life; but we will not talkl about that.
But 1 would rather, if you don't mind, that
you should call me BY ny. own name now
wo are together. + We ct out of this 1
shall be Sergt. Bldft again, but I should
like you to call me Ronald new.n
. Ronald the girl said. that sounds
81 am not Scotch, nor SO far as know is
there any Scotch mabd trtmy veins, but the
name has been in the family good many
years: how it got there l do not know"
Il almost wish it was dark again." the
girl said with little laugh; sin the dark
you seem to me the Sergt Blunt who came
Just in time to save us that day the farm
was attacked; but new ! can see you l can
not recognize you at all; even your eyes
look quite different in that black skin"
L flatter myself Tthat my get up is very
good" Ronald laughaaillsI have had some
difficulty in keeping up the color. Each
day before starting we have gone to your
fires and got fresh charcoal and mixed it
with some grease we brought with us aAd
rubbed it in afresh."
But your hair; what have you done to
your hairp
Ronald told her the source from which he
derived his wig, and Mary Armstrong had
difficulty in restraining herself from BURST
ing out into merry laugh. Two or three
of the Fingoes had by this time returned,
and in a few minutes all had gathered at
the spot. Kreta listened to the reports of
his men. There was a short consultation.
Then he came up to Ronald
zone of my men has found place that
will do well, " he said. at is time we were
going"
One of the Fingoes now took the lead !;
the others followed. A quarter of an hours
walk up the hill, which grew sleeper and
sleeper every step, brought them to spot
where some masses Of rock had fallen from
above. They were half covered with the
thick growth of brushwood. The native
pushed one of the bushes aside, and showed
a sort Of cave formed by a great slab of
rock that had fallen over the others. Krsta
uttered an expression OF APPROVAL. Two of
the natives crept in with their asSegais in
their hands. In two or thres minutes one
of them returned with the bodies Of two
puff adders that they had killed. These
were dropped in among some rocks.
lyon can 60 in now" Kreta said. There
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