The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-07-17
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by janice GRANT.

Mic feat achieved with consider
= neril. for the birds, when reused
their eyries, whooped, screamed,
wheeled in Locks and circles about
aanuing their huge wings; so that
H. 7 became so bewildered, that in
Ead Of clambering again to the sum-
Of the cliff, l began a descent to-
nd the foaming sea below.
H. reascending my hat was blown
~ and with it the wretched eggs
which had risked my life and
Ibis
liter this event 1 resolved to procure
n Nj for myself alone, and instead Of
#urning to Antonio, who usually
tered about the hut our men had
went to the opposite side of the
Ind and found banana grove,
herein | took up my quarters.
had been thirty-six hours without
Nina my pleasant chum, the Cubano,
q being near him with food. l knew
@,t his rage would be great, and feel
myself unusually weak, after all
mental excitement and bodily ex-
lure had undergone, necessity COM
s. led me now to avoid him strictly,
was totally incapable of contend
with MIN in any way.
Ii he found me to plead that had
when searching for berries about
#prise, on the western side of the isle,
81 d while the sun, though up. was yet
@Iow the great mountain and cast its
Madow to the extreme horizon of the
Mby morning sea, l encountered An
#lio at last.
HHunger, apparently. had rendered
IN furious; but feeling certain in a
Mment that timidity would do me no
Twice, l started back and said in
@anish:
MHa ha! l told you what would
open when I wanted food" said he,
hing the point of his knife.
by blood ran cold at these words,
Ia cast a longing eye upon my lost
Mchet; he saw the glance and
@mpled upon the weapon with a
Mcking laugh.
what do you mean, Cubano?" l
Ted, in an almost breathless voice.
Is IMPLY this-that, as self-preser-
8Hon is the first law of nature, l am
ind to kill you"
lie had the revolver in his hand, and
Die he cast a glance at the caps on
breach, as if to see that they were
right, and sheathed his knife, 1
de a bound aside and placed a
nlna tree between us. The bastard
h, and the ball, as it whistled past,
tipped off piece OF bark.
b the same manner l escaped a sec
shot, so Antonio, finding that his
#rh-prized ammunition was likely to
expended fruitlessly, rushed for
Nj to use his knife.
lhe tendril of pumpkin caught his
foot, he fell heavily and hurt him
severely. Then, darting past,
@wed my Ratchet, and rendered furi-
n by all that had occurred, and by
Il imminent danger which menaced
a light seemed to flash before my
~ | trembled with rage, and felt as
Mnbued with supernatural strength.
was about to spring upon Antoio
#A hands, feet and teeth, to hew him
y the Ratchet as I would have hswn
fee, when a new object suddenly
B fht nay eye.
was ship-but ship ashore.
Cubano," I exclaimed in a husky
(, look there!"
ntonio looked in the direction in
ned, and, pausing in his murderous
ntlon, uttered a fierce laugh of sat
action.
the rocky channel which opened
Reen the inaccessible island and
there lay the wave-beaten hull of
knasted vessel, which might have
Ded in over night, as it was certain
not there yesterday, and it was now
aned hard and fast upon reef OF
that connected them.
his new object changed at once the
lOle current of the Cuban's ideas.
grim smile passed over his olive
llenance, he shook back the elf-like
NeS of coal-black hair, which, i'll
e-terrier fashion, overhung his wild
eyes, and sheathing his knife,
N MO muchacho-come; l was only
ing. Yonder we will find food, per-
and who knows what more?
ae' 1t is bargain, and if you don't
tI me, | shall not modest you
Mln.p
proceeded at once toward the
ca and I was hungry enough, and
aaps reckless enough now, to be
OF truce, and to follow him, in
nope of finding something eatable
I'M board.
CHAPTER XXXIV.