The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-11-18

speak in any known language.
Man. she repeated over and over
again.
And then the unexpected happened.
After innumerable cultural attempts.
her unwilling pupil managed to ar.
uculate something that bore a dis.
tinct resemblance to the clearly cut
monosyllable.
Mani" he said at last.
1t was tremendous step in eyolu.
tlon, almost too great for any untu-
tored human BRAIN for at once the
man before her received a name and
the idea of name as we'll. In that
instant, on the heaven kissed hill,
ne was differentiated from all the rest
OF creation forever. His consciousness
hitherto vague floating, incoherent, in
definite, was localized, given habita-
tion and name. He knew himself
In some way to be.
Mani" he cried. growing more and
more confident with every repetition
and more and more accurate in catch
ing the very information with which
she spoke
Mani he cried laying his hand
upon his breast Man"
He leaped to his feet and stretched
out his arms. The doors were open
little way. Ideas were beginning to
edge their way through the crack.
(. Man! Man, Man" he cried again
nd again, looking eagerly at her.
(>She rose in turn and patted him on
the shoulder encouragngly as she
might a dog And again the touch,
the second touch that she had given
him. affected him strangely, so
strangely that for a moment she felt
the soul within her shrink, but realiz-
ing instantly that her domination over
him was spiritual and inmaterial and
that the slightest evidence of timidity
would be translated into universal Ian
guage which even the lowest creation
understands and that her dominion
would go on the instant. she mastered
herself and mastered him Although
she was but a woman whom he might
have broken in his hands, she dom
mated him as the conscious soul evel
dominates the unconscious soul,
She essayed no more lessons. bu
turned and reiraced her way to thu
shore where she had landed, which
because she had landed there, sh
called home. On the way she attempt
ed an experiment. She plucked from
a low bush a bright colored fruit o
Ahose quality and characteristics sh
Twas ignorant and slowly made as If t.
Convey it to her lips.
Man" cried the voice behind her
uttering its only word.
She turned to find her companion
looking fixedly at her and profferin
other fruit which he had quickly gait
cred She handed him that she ha
plucked in exchange. He shook NJ
head not in negation but rather
bewiiderment and threw it from hin
and then she understood in some wa
that the fruit was not good for 100
low he had OWNED it, she could nj
sharpened by use into a protector
quality, had taught him. She had
such instinct. She had learned to d
pend upon reason and Observable
and these failed her in the presen
of this unknown. She was humble
D little in this thought.
~She craved meat and salt havil
been trained to these things, the ar
fetal diet and stimulant to which
had become accustomed, and her crf
ing was the more insistent because
had been without them all that til
in the boat. And yet when she h
eaten the fruit that nature had p
vided in that tropic island, her cr'
Ing was abated and she was satish'
She felt that she could soon grow
customed to such diet if it were n
essarv. So musing she passed on
der the trees and sat down on
sand again.
The next thing she remembered,
was enclosing her eyes as she 1
done early in the morning and
man was still watching by her 81
She had been so utterly wearied
her strange adventure. by her IL
wrestling with thirst and starvat
in the open boat that before she KIN
it WEAKNESS overcame her. He
watched by her side without modest
her. It was late in the evening n
THE problem of the night had to
kAced. This time the man took
hitiative. He walked along the sh
little way and then looked back
her. and repeated the process once
twice as a dog might have done
was DESTROYS of bringing his maste
some appointed place. Understand
she rose and followed him. He led
along the sands now Swallowed by
tall palms until they came to the
let. where she stopped and drank
more. They passed 1t, he plum
bodily through its shadows; she
ing from rock to rock until she re
cd the other bank. He went sw
around the face of the cliff. AS
passed the point she saw thai
curved suddenly inward away
tha shores into a sort of amphitht