, 1909-12-09

have broken in his hands, she DOM
mated him as the conscious soul ever
dominates the unconscious soul
h essayed no more lessons, but
turned and retraced her way to the
shore where she had landed, which
because she had landed there, she
called home. On the way she attempt
ed an experiment. She plucked from
a low bush a bright colored fruit Of
whose quality and characteristics she
was ignorant and slowly made as II to
convey it to her lips.
Mani" cried the voice behind her,
uttering its only word.
h turned to find her companion
looking fixedly at her and prorering
other fruit which he had quickly gath
cred. She handed him that she had
piucked in exchange. He shook his
mead. not in ~negation but rather in
bew1lderment and threw 1t from him.
and then she understood in some way
that the fruit was not good for food.
How he had OWNED it, she could not
tell. Some compromising instinct,
~sharpened by use into a protecting
quality, had taught him. She had no
such instinct. She had learned to de-
pend upon reason and observation,
and these failed her in the presence
OF this unknown. She was humbled
a little in this thought.
She craved meat and salt, having
been trained to these things, the arti-
fetal diet and stimulant to which she
had hannna aan,cEo.,ol -
ing was the more insistent because she
had been without them all that time
in the boat. And yet when she had
eaten the fruit that nature had pro-
vided in that tropic island, her cray
Ing was abated and she was satisfied.
She felt that she could soon grow &C.
customed to such a diet II 1t were nee
essary. So musing she passed on un
der the trees and sat down on the
sand again.
The next thing she remembered, she
was enclosing her eyes as she lad
done early in the morning and the
man was still watching by her side.
She had been so utterly. wearied by
her strange adventure, by her long
wrestling with thirst and starvation
in the open boat that before she knew
1t WEAKNESS overcame her. He had
watched by her side without molesting
her. 1t was late in the evening now.
The problem of the night had to be
faced. This time the man took the
initiative. He walked along the shore
a little way and then looked back at
her, and repeated the process once or
twice as a dog might have done who
was DESTROYS of bringing his master to
some appointed place. Understanding
she rose and followed him. He led her
along the sands now shadowed by the
tall palms until they came to the rivu-
let. where she stopped and drank n
more. They passed 1t, he plunging
bodily through its shadows; she leap
ing from rock to rock until she reach
ed the other bank. He went swiftly
around the face of the cliff. AS she
passed the point she saw that It
curved suddenly inward away from
the shores into a sort Of am~phitheater
and fair in the center of the ace she
perceived an opening. He halted there
and entered fearlessly. she following.
The cave was roomy and spacious.
at least 1t seemed so In h fading
light. In the morning when the sun
shone through the opening, 1t would
be flooded with daylight, but now
when the u was sinking behind the
hill. it was quite dark. 1t was dry
and clean and apparently empty. The
nan stood looking at her smiling. at
least there was a suggestion OF a
smile upon his lips. He was nodding
his head. She understood that he
lived there. The dog had come bach
to his kennel and had taken this ac-
quaintance there, too.
It would be a good place to pass the
night. The night had to be passed
somewhere. How. was the problem.
She had little fear of any savage ami
mails on the island. There had been
no evidence of them observed In her
progress; the man himself was testi-
mony to immunity of attack from that
source. Had 1t not been for him, she
could have lain down in that cave
with quiet confidence and slept with
out apprehension of molestation. but
he complicated the issue.
Twice he had watched by her asleep,
but that was in the broad daylight.
When darkness came, what then? Her
heart was filled with terror. h was
suddenly afraid of the dark. a childish
fear at which her soul would have
Knocked in other days and under other
conditions. But now h was q prey
to vivid apprehension and the night
was coming on with the swiftness OF
the tropics. She was glad that she
had slept through the long afternoon.
She would endeavor to keep awake
during the night. She must turn the
dog out of his kennel and occupy that
herself. How was she to enforce her
will under the circumstances? She
could only try.
MAN" she said, pointing to the