Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-06-30
CHAPTER X.

AL lGHT after night the pleiades
NI swung higher In the f1rma-
I'M ment. Day after day the sailor
- perfected his defenses and anx-
iously scanned the ocean for sign of
friendly smoke or hostile sail. This re.
spite would not have been given to
him were 1t not for the lucky bullet
which removed two fingers and part of
a third from the right hand Of the
Dyak chief. Not even q healthy saw
age can afford to treat such a wound
lightly. and ten days elapsed before the
MANNED robber was able to move the
injured limb without a curse.
Meanwhile each night jerks slept
less soundly. Each day his face be-
came more careworn. He began to
realize why the island had not been
visited already by the vessel which
would certainly be deputed to search
for them. She was examining the
great coast line of China and Siam.
1t was his habit to mark the progress
Of time on the rudely made sundial,
which sufficiently served their require
ments as a clock. Iris happened to
watch him chipping the forty-fourth
notch on the edge Of the horizontal
block Of wood.
Have we really been forty-four
days here? she inquired after count
ing the marks with growing astonish-
ment.
Il believe the reckoning Is accurate"
he said. 1.-THE Sirdar was lost on the
18th Of March, and make this the LIST
Of May"
1T seems to be a tremendous time;
indeed, In some respects. 1t figures in
my mind like many years. That is
when am thinking. Otherwise. when
busy, the days fly like hours"
1T must be convenient to have such
an elastic SCALE"
Most useful. I strive to apply the
quick rate when you are grumpy"
Iris placed her arms akimbo, plant
ed her feet widely apart and surveyed
jerks with an expression that might
almost be termed impudent. They
were great friends. these two. now.
When the urgent necessity for con-
dnuous labor no longer spurred them
to exertion during every moment Of
daylight, they tackled the box Of books
and read, not volumes which appealed
to them in common, but quaint tones
in the use Of which jerks was tutor
and Iris the scholar.
1t became q fixed principle with the
girl that she was very ignorant and
she insisted that the sailor should
teach her. For instance. among the
books he found a treatise on astrono.
my. 1t yielded keen delight to both
to identify a constellation and learn
oil sorts Of wonderful things concern
ing it.
AS a variant jerks introduced
study Of Hindustani. His method was
to write short sentence and explain
In detail its component parts. She
knitted her brows In the effort to mas
ter the ridiculous complexities Of
language which. instead Of simply say
ing Take" or Bring" compels one to
say 'Take-go'' and ''Take-come."
One problem defled solution-that Of
providing raiment for Iris. The united
skill Of the sailor and herself would
not induce unraveled cordage to supply
the need Of thread. It was either too
weak or too kn0tty, and. meanwhile the
girls clothes were falling to pieces.
jerks tried the f1bers Of trees, the
Binews Of birds-every possible expedi-
ent he could hit upon-and perhaps
after experiments covering some weeks
I've might have succeeded. But modern
dress stuffs. weakened by aniIine dyes
and stifened with Chinese clay, per.
NIT Of no such exhaustive research. II
must be remembered that, the lady