The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-18
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 The two men picked up Gaunt ironi the ground and carried him to the small hut that was destined to De ms home for many months.
 He was treated with every kindness until he had recovered his health ana strength. Then it was made clear 70 him that he must either work or atarve. He worked willingly. and the hard. simple life of a sailor began to make a man of him
 At first he was kept close prisoner, and 1t was not until he had acquired something of the language spoken oy his captors that he was able to satisfy them that he had no wish to escape.
 The news was~not altogether receiv- ed with favor. The men had made up their minds that he would pay hand somely for his release. and. although they did not suggest a ransom. they hfnted at a reward. When they learn ed that he did not wish to return to his own country they scowled at him, among themselves.
 Then two of them gripped him by the arms and led him to the edge of big rock. which rose sheer out of the sea.
 .sThere is the water" one of them said: "what came out of the water shall return to it."
 Gaunt did not understand all that was said, but the meaning of their ac- tions was plain enough. He neither struggled nor spoke For minute they looked at the ledge of rocks be- low Beyond them the dim shadow or a great fish moved through the trans lucent water
 Then they grunted, and ran him in- land till they had passed through the green oasis and stood on the border or the great desert
 "There is the desert" said one of them that which goes into the desert does not return"
 Again he understood. though the words were not clear to him. He look ed out acros the waste of burning sand and smiled.
 "Take me to your father he said; and then, as they did not understand, he repeated the word Father and looked back towards the big hut.
 And they took him back to the cool shade of the tres, and brought him into the presence of the bent and bowed old man, for he was the patriarch, the father of eight of them, and the father- in-law of the remaining three. In that little settlement 'twixt the desert and the sea he ruled supreme. in spite of his feeble limbs and his failing intel lect All the children that played un- der the tres and tumbled on the beach were his descendants.
 'T want to stay here" said Gaunt quietly. T do not wish to leave you. Make me one of your family"
 The old man stared fxedly at him from under his shaggy white eyebrows. Gaunts words were not clear, but the patriarch semed to grasp their mean ing. He was apparently considering whether this young man of an allen race would be a welcome addition 10 his little settlement. Fortunately for Gaunt his conduct had already earned the approval of this stern old chfeftain. And the manner of his coming had moi been without its effect on a supersti- tious mind.
 Let him stay" said the patriarch. after a long silence. God sent him to us. When the time comes he will go.
 And from that hour Richard Gaunt was made free of the community, and lived as one of the others, and no man followed him about to see if he would escape without payment for the ser vices rendered to him. And as he grew more perfect in the language. and was able to understand and make himself understood, he learned to like the rough hard hearted men who were his associates from dawn to sunset. They wore stern and callous, like most ori- ontals, but they knew the dignity oi labor, and there was nothing common or unclean in their midst
 After the life that Sir Richard Gaunt had lived in London this life was won- derful in its simplicity and its purity In the old days he would have laughed at the idea of toiling for his daily bread and tiring himself out with long hours of physical exertion. But now he looked upon it as the esential part of a mans existence, and the rest aft CT labor was the sweetest thing that he had yet known in life.
 It must not be supposed tn at Sir Rich