The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1906-05-04

He pressed Medworth's hand, ANA
stepping into the canoe, said:
Away, Ramana!" Then to Arthur:
my brave friend, to you and your
companion l leave my dear ones"
"You will find them safe on your re-
turn" replied Medworth.
The canoe shot away in the dark
ness. and Medworth speedily made his
way back to the cavern.
In the meantime Philip had been
reused from his reverie by the messen-
ger who had been sent by Don Juan
with the information that Mattazudo
had arrived. bringing Namampa, the
herb-doctor.
Throwing off his detection and
moody misgiving, he hurried to Lola's
room.
He found Don Juan and Mattazudo
there, with an aged Carib whose
twinkling black eyes looked out from
| under bushy eyebrows with an express
sion of great cunning.
His skin was wrinkled and scared,
and looked like rusty parchment and
his hands were long and skinny, SEEM
| ing to be but the bony skeleton with a
covering of skin drawn tightly over
| them.
| Namampa bent over Lola, felt her
pulse, looked at her tongue and SOL
emnly shook his head.
VERY bad, Much fever Bring me
| some water.' he said.
Water was brought him. and he dis
| solved some crystals in it. Then he
poured the fluid down Lola's throat.
In an hour the anxious watchers
| could see that the condition OF the
| sick girl had improved Her painful
restlessness had given way to a sweet
repose. The high fever had subsided-
| Don Juan's hope was renewed.
The Carib remained in the castle,
| and was constant in his attendance
| upon Lola 1t seemed for five days
| that Lola was on the way to complete
| recovery
Five days of anxious watching for
| Don Juan. Five days of cruel sus-
| pense for Medworth. Five days of dis
| sembling for Gomez. Five days Of
villainous plotting for Mattazudo.
| Then. one day, when Medworth was
| in his accustomed place. crouching be-
hind The secret panel, he heard the
sound of sobbing and voices that were
very sorrowfui. At first he pricked
up his ears eagerly for Lola's name
was mentioned. He listened-then he
heard what he had hoped he would
never hear Lola was dead.
He staggered away. and crept back
| to the cavern and his friends.
| The pallor of his face was CHASTITY
in the light of the lantern that hung
above their heads.
Whats the matter, boy?" cried
| Tempest in alarm. ''You look like q
| ghost What's happened?"
"She's dead!" he gasped. "Lola's
| dead. | heard them talking about It
| just now She died last night They
are going to bury her in the garden to-
/! day."
$50 soon?" said Tempest "Why do
| they not wait longer?"
"They do not wait long in this coun.
| try" senor,' said Jacinta; and then,
| with her long las1es hiding the glealn
| of satisfaction that came into her
| eyes and could not be held back. she
| placed her jeweled hand in Med
| worth's, and, leaning forward, she
| pressed her rich, warm lips to his cold,
| white brow in what seemed to be q
| token of her honest sympathy.
That afternoon there was a sad and
solemn gathering near the fountain Ia
the garden of Salvarez, and while Don
Juan, Philip and Gomez looked silently
on, the body of poor Lola was lowered
into a shallow grave.
| They did not see two pairs of eyes
| that peeped from secluded bower,
one pair being dimmed with tears.
| Medworth and Tempest had risked
capture. and perhaps death, to witness
the last sad rites
! (To be continued.)