Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-05-14

A2re t..v.s' N'aS Ho;a.Hg to fear, and. b"in- T.e:rE. slept on till the heat of L13.i WaS past. whoa once more they f>,, tl.e i3ar:eS an;, mules and. having uined themselves. set forward upon the.r H,ay
 No" tiIeir road-if road it could be ca.itd. for tI.@y cvl..,. seq noue-ran ever u.1N,alE., through ro:1@l. mountain ous country. wherr seemed to dwell neither n!;:n no' !t,'.lSt. 1t sunset they halted ag,ti!i aid :tt :tioo!i"isc went for ward till tila ni- ts..,nal toward mofnI.g. "hen t.,y t,laie to a place where was ii i..;,,e estTt. E. fore they rea"lle;! tA:.; spot ot q s,;. :eil t,.c si- lence If those '1nt'y l.::",..; was broken by a sound Of ro;;l.;..s... ID; very near to them. but loud and lo.:@.
 ''Lions." said Masoue.;i We draw near the country where there are many of them and therefore ;.,..l Go well to halt r:e icll.iy. since it is lest to pass throug.l hat land :l t.ey git
 So when they cane to tic cave. hay ing heard no more of the ion, or lions, they unsaddled there, purpD>ing to put the horses into ii. wieFe they would be safe from the attack of any such raven ing beast But when they tried to do this Smoke and Flame spread out their nostrils and, settiE. their feet firm be- fore them. refused to enter the place, about which there was an evil smell
 Perhaps iacials have been here," said Masouda. Let us tether them ell in the open.'
 This. then. they did, building a fire in front of them with dry wood that lay about in plenty. for here grew son. ber cedar trees The brethren sat by this fire: but, the night being hot, Ma souda laid herself down about fifteen paccS away under q cedar tree, Which grew almost in front of the mouth of the cave. and slept. being tired with long riding Wulf slept also, since God win had agreed to keep watch for the first part of the night.
 For an hour or more he sat close by the horses and noted that they fed un- easily and would not lie down. Soon, however, he was lost in his own thoughts and, as he heard no more of the lions, fell to wondering over the strangeness of their journey. He won- dered also about Masouda, who she was, how she came to know so much, why she befriended them, if she really was friend, and other things. Why, he was sleeping at his post, and the T o,J,,,o dnr vvvxp those of a woman. Women's eyes were not green and gold; they did not grow large. then lessen and vanish.
 The night was very still and the si- lence deep. Rising, he began to walk up and down in front of the cave. drawing his sword and holding 1t in his hand. Masouda lay upon the ground with her head pillowed on saddlebag. and the moonlight fell through the ce- dar boughs upon her face. Goodwin stopped to look at it and wondered that he had never noted before how beauti- full she was.
 Goodwin turned aside. It seemed not right to watch her thus, although ln truth he had only come to know that she was safe. He went back to the fire and, lifting a cedar bough. which blazed like a torch in his left hand. was about to lay it down again on the center of the flame when suddenly he heard the sharp and terrible cry of woman in an agony of pain or fear, and at the same moment the horses and mules began to plunge and snort. In an instant, the blazing bough still in his band. he was back by the cave, and, To, there before him, the form of Masouda banging from its jaws, stood a great yellow beast, which. although he had never seen its like, he knew must be lioness
 The woman in it's mouth cumbered it. and, running swiftly, Goodwin came face to face with the brute just op- posite the fire He hurled the burning bough at it. whereon it dropped Ma souda and, rearing itself straight upon it's hind legs, stretched out its claws and seemed about to fall on him. For this Goodwin did not wait. He charged
 +ro;rh+ ot if and with all the strength