The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-03-30

trine ABOUT arming 1.-The obdurate beast
with stubborn patience, as with triple
steel" hope they are able TO do it in cru
eial emergencies. To me, seek it as
might, the stubborn patience would not
come. In vain | pricked the will, i'm vain
recalled lofty maxims about the duty OF
bearing pain heroically. 1t is glorious to
shine as hero, but at times exceedingly
difficult. i cannot be of the godlike race,
for the harder / strove for fortitude the
faster my power ofendurance ebbed,
/ started and iidgeted, listened, held my
breath, shivered, shrank together and per-
spired the air was full of ominous sounds,
and horrible Shiny things seemed TO be
crawling over me. At last the agony of
blind suspense became insufferable. Come
what might, would have my eyes free.
With trembling hands and a caution
that was amazing in such burning impa-
thence, / raised the bandage and glanced
from under its edge, first on one side, then
on the other. Seeing no watcher, tore the
cloth off and got TO my feet, looking round
with more care and deliberation. Not
soul was about. was alone.
There was just light enough to enable me
to discern | was in the middle of wild
desolation of gorges and piled up cliffs,
rising in the dim distance to what appeared
to be range of mountains. More for vari-
ety's sake than from any definite object
took up my pipes and began to walk for
ward from the sea. But some falls and
frequent trippings with sudden glimpses
of yawning world of blackness at my
very feet mGde IL plain that TO proceed in
such a chaos OF crags and clefts was to risk
my neck at every step. Weary, faint and
in nc heart to face unknown dangers, / sat
down again. my back against big stone,
To reflect on the new turn affairs had taken.
Hunger fell upon me with the fierceness
of beast of prey. Most people | suppose
have felt a sharp craving in their stomach,
but mine was an acute pain that soon be-
came a maddening anguish. You are TO
remember that / had eaten nothing that
day, that ] was active and had the edged
appetite that comes with a full recovery
from sickness when nature is squirting TO
make up for lost time. Yet all could do
was to tighten my waist belt and think
yearningly of the hard tack of the Bird of
Paradise and dream ineffable dreams of the
sumptuousness of home. Let me tell you
that they who dine on such fare are not
likely Co die Of repletion The sting of the
sword or the bullet is keen, but give il TO
me before the inappeasable pang of starva-
tion.
The stars began TO come out presently,
very large and lustrous and suppose, TO the
proper eye. full Of poetry. BY and by a sill
very lightness fell on the landscape, and a
little latter the white moon rose in a sap
phire sky, revealing the haggard dreariness
OF the scene as clearly as IL the time were
MONDAY.
got to my feet, and some strange birds
that had their dwelling among the fast
nesses of this desert fockcd about me in
evident curiosity, then flew away. scream
ing at my invasion OF their retreat. No
other living creature did see or hear. Too
weak and drowsy to make any effort Cor
succor. crawled into shady spot beneath
the ledge Of great rock and in spite Of
trouble and pain soon fell asleep.
l awoke near the dawn chilled TO the
marrow--for the dewy night air in these
parts Is sharp-and fallen together like an
empty sack. The pain OF my stomach was
excruciating, being for all the world like n
living. consuming flame in my inside. To
the tortures Of hunger, too, was now added
that Of thirst. and in all the black riven
wilderness there was not a drop Of water.
Nor, what was equally dsshearteping, was