Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-07-31
CHAPTER TX.


 tual good will, but each diminutive wou-wou must be taught not to pull any strings he found tied promiscu. ously to trees or stakes. AS pre- liminary essay Jenks resolved to try force combined with artifce. Failing complete success, he would endeavor Co kill every monkey in the place, though he had in full measure the in herent dislike of Anglo-India to the Blaying of the tree people.
 This, then, is what he did: After filling biscuit tin with good sized pebbles he donned Dyak hat, blouse and belt, rubbed earth over his face and hands and proceeded to pelt the wou-wous mercilessly. For more than an hour he made their lives misera- ble until at the mere sight of him they lied, shrieking and gurgling like a thousand water bottles. Finally he constructed several Drak scarecrows and erected one to guard each of his alarm guns. The device was thor o,lghly effective. Therceforth. when some adventurous monkey, swinging with hands or tail among the tree tops in the morning search for appetiz- ing nut or luscious plantain, saw one of those fearsome bogies, he raised such hubbrb that all his companions scampered hastily from the confines of the wood to the inner fastnesses.
 During each of tine two daily exami- nations of the horizon. which he never omitted. Jenss minutely scrutinized the sea between Rainbow island and the distant group. It was perhaps a needless precaution. The Dyaks would come at night With a favorable wind they need not set sail until dusk, and their fleet sampans would easily cover the intervening forty miles in five hours.
 He could not be positive that they were actual inhabitants of the islands to the south. The China sea swarms with wandering pirates, and the tribe whose animosity he had earned might be equally noxious to some peaceable fishing community on the coast. Again and again he debated the adrisability of constructing a seaworthy raft and endeavoring to make the passage. But this would be risking all on a fright ful uncertainty, and the accidental dis covery of the eagles nest had given him new hope. Here he could make a determined and prolonged stand. and in the end help must come. So he dis missed the navigation project and de- voted himself wholly to the perfecting of the natural fortress in the rock.
 That night they finished the rope lad der. Indeed Jenks was determined not to retire to rest until it was placed. He did not care to try a second time to carry Iris to that elevated perch.
 One of the first things he contem- plated was the destruction if possible of the point on the opposite cliff which commanded the ledge This. however, was utterly impracticable with the ap- pliances at his command. The top of the rock sloped slightly toward the west. and nothing short of dynamite or regular quarrying operations would render it untenable by hostile marks men
 During the day his rifles at ninety yards range might be trusted to keep the place clear of intruders. But at night - that was the difficulty. He partially solved 1t by fixing two rests on the ledge to support a rife in exact line with the center of the enemy's supposed position. and as a variant on the outer rest he marked lines which corresponded with other sections of the entire front available to the foe
 Even then he was not satisfied. When time permitted. he made many expert ments with ropes reeved through the pulley and attached 10 rife action He might have succeeded in his main object had not his thoughts taken a new line. His aim was 10 achieve some method of opening and closing the breech block by means of two ropes. The difficulty was 10 secure the preliminary and final lateral movement of the leveS bolt. but 1t suddenly oc- cured to him that if ha could manage to convey the impression that Iris and he had left the island the Dyaks would go away after T fruitless search The existence of ropes along the face of the rock-an essential 10 his mechanical scheme would betray their where sbouts or at any rate excite dangerous curiosity. So he reiuCtautly sbandoned his original design, though not wholly. as will be seen in due course
 In pursuance Of his latest idea he sedulously removed from the foot of the cliff all traces of the cleara1ce effected on the ledge and, although he provided supports for the tarpaulin covering. he did not adjust it frs and he might lie periu there for days with out their retreat being found out This development suggested the necessity of hiding their surplus stores and am intuition. and what spot could be more suitsble than the cave7
 So Jenks began to dig once more In the interior Iaboring manfully with pick and shovel in the loeaIity of the fault with it's vein of antimonF
 Rainbow island had given him the one thing a man prizes aboVs all else q pure yet passionate love for woman beautiful alike in tO1y and mind And now il was to e8dov him with riehss that might stir the pulse of eveu a S,sy-h AFrfrs- -rarrsre for rHe sail or. unmindfui of purpose other than providing the requisite cache- shovel- inT ard delviag with the energy pecuI- far to all his zc-iozs- suddenly struck a