The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-05

day, or 1T might be long deferred. He
could not pierce the future, and it was
ings as to what might happen next
week. The great certainty of the.
hour was Iris-the blue-eyed, smiling
| divinity who had come into his life
waiting for him down there among
the trees, waiting to welcome him
with a sweet-voiced greeting; and he
knew, with a fierce devouring joy, that
her cheek would not pale nor her lip
tremble when he announced that at
least another sun must set before the
expected relief reached them.
He replaced the glasses in their case
and dived into the wood, giving
passing thought to the fact that the
wind. after blowing steadily from the.
Fsouth for nearly a week, had veered
round to the northeast during the
night. Did the change portend a
storm? Well, they We're now pre-.
pared for all such eyentualities, and he
had not forgotten that they possessed,
among other treasures, a box Of books
for rainy days. And rainy day with
Iris for company! What gale that
ever blew could offer such compensa-
ton for enforced idleness?
The morning sped in uneventful
work. Iris did not neglect her cher
it was her custom to carry dishful
Of water to It's apparently arid roots,
and she rose to fulfil her self imposed
task.
Let me help YOU" said jerks. Il
am. not very busy this afternoon.
mo, thank you. simply won't
allow you to touch that shrub. The
. dear things looks quite glad to see
me. It drinks up the water as greedl-
ly as thirsty ANIMAL
Even cabbage has heart, Miss
Deane.' ft
She laughed merrily. st do believe
you are Offering me a compliment.
she said. II must indeed have found
Il favor in your eyes,"
| He had schooled himself to resist
the opening given by this class of res
, tort. so he turned to make some corr
rection in the scale of the sun-dial
he had constructed, aided therein by
s daily observations with the sextant
left by the former inhabitants of the
. cave.
Iris had been gone perhaps
| five minutes when he heard a
distant shrek, twice repeated
: and then. there came family
, but Robert" in the girls voice.
Something terrible had happened. 1t
/ was cry Of supreme distress. Nor
t tai agony or overwhelming terror
! alone could wiring that name from her
t lips. Precisely in such moments this
man acted with the decision, the ull-
: erring judgment, the instantaneous
acceptance of great risk to accom-
l plish great results, that marked him
3 out as born soldier.
He rushed into the house and
snatched from the rifle-rack one OF
+ the six Lee-Metfords reposing there in
apple-pie order, each with a filled
> magazine attached and cartridge al,
;. ready in position.
Then he ran, with long, swift
= strides, not thru the trees, where he
: could see nothing, but towards the
> beach, whence, in forty yards, the
!, place where Iris probably was would
? become visible.
! At once he saw her, struggling ir
r the grasp of two ferocious-looking
. Dyacks, one, by his garments, a per.
i son Of consequence, the other a half
E naked savage, hideous and ~repulsive
, in appearance. Around them seyer
j men. armed with guns and parangs
: were dancing with excitement.
y g, Iris captors We're endeavoring $te