Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-06-04

NenfanaS manner
! The blood ebbed away from Isobel's
cheeks, leaving her pallid as statue.
There was a gasp in her voice which
startled her own ears. Lest her agita-
| ton should be noted too keenly she
bent forward and propped her face on
her clinched hands. staring fxedly at
the distant cliffs in supreme effort to
| appear apathetic. Elsie heard that dry
sob, but her friends seeming indiffer-
ence misled her.
yes she said, wondering little
whether or not Christobals yelled hint
regarding bygone tenderness between
the two might account for Isobel's hys-
| terical outburst on the night of the
| ships breakdown So, bordering I'M
| spoken thoughts the while, she told the
others exactly what Tollemache, Chris
| tobal and Courtenay had said and even
revealed to them that which Courtenay
himself did not yet know.
'sYou remember the poor fellow who
got into trouble soon after we sailed
| from Valparaiso?' she said. His name
is Frascuelo He was wounded again
| in last nights fight, but not seriously,
and he and / are quite chums. He as
sures me that he was drugged by
man named Jose Anacleto, who took
his place among the coal trimmers''-
"Oh, Miss Maxwell, come quick!'
screamed Mrs. Someryille, for Isobel
had lurched sideways out of her chair
in faintihg fit, and the missionary's
wife was barely able to save her head
from striking the ships rails.
| Joey was shot out of Elsie's lap with
away without any exhibition of lame
ness He was quite disguised for at
least five minutes, but it is reasonable
to suppose that dog of his intelli-
gence would brighten up when he
heard the wholly unlocked for story
which Christobal was translating to
Courtenay word for word as it was
dragged hesitatingly out of Suarez.
The Argentine miner had been badly
injured during the struggle for posses
sion of the promenade deck. Owing to
loss of consciousness, supplemented by
an awkward fall, he might have chok-
ed to death had he not been rescued
within a few minutes He was very i'll
all night, and it was not until midday
that he recovered sufficient strength to
enable him to question the Indians on
board.
Courtenay wished specially to find
out what chance, if any, there was of
the Alaculof attack being renewed.
1t was obvious that some of the
MANNED Indians recognized Suarez,
Notwithstanding his changed appear
ance, the instant he spoke to them. At
once they broke out into an excited
chattering, and Suarez was so discon-
eerted by the tidings they conveyed
that he stammered a good deal and
seemed to founder in giving the Span
ish rendering.
This fellow is telling us just as
much as he thinks it is good for US to
know said Courtenay sternly when
the interpreter avoided his accusing
gaze. bid him out with the whole
truth, Christobal, or it shall be his
pleasing task to escort his dear friends
back to their family circles
Being detected, Suarez faltered no
longer. A ships lifeboat had been
driven ashore lower down the coast.
Fourteen men had landed. They were
captured by the Indians after a useless
resistance in which three were killed.
The dead men supplied a ghoulish
feast next day, and the others were
bound securely and placed in cave
in order to be killed at intervals, an
exact parallel to the fate of Suarez's
own companions five years earlier
But on this occasion a woman inter-
vened Suarez confessed very reIuc-
family that there was girl in the
| tribe to whom he had taught some
words of his own language. He
declared that the relations between
them were those of master and sery-
ant but the poor creature had fallen
| in love with him and had become near
| " frantic with grief when he disap-
| peared. 1t was difficult to analyze her
motives, but she had undoubtedly freed
the eleven sailors and led them over
4 ttC lOtho at loN ndtCI u Il cave Ou
Guanaco hill, believed by the Indians
to be haunted. The Indians dared not
follow. but they took good care that
no canoes We're obtainable in which
the unhappy fugitiyes could reach the
ship, and they We're confident that
hunger would soon drive them forth.
Courtenay's brow became black with
anger when he understood the signif-
canoe of this staggering story.
ut comes to this he said to Chris
tobal. .'The men who got away from
the Kansas in No. lifeboat fell into
the hands of the sayages early on the
day of the ships arrival here. Suarez
slipped his cable that night, being
aware of the time that eleven white
captiyes were still alive. Yet he said
no word, not even when he heard that
we had seen one of the boats water
casks in canoe What sort of mean
hound can he be?"