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

shone through the opening, it would |
be flooded with daylight, but now
when the sun was sinking behind the |
hill, 1t was quite dark. 1t was dry |
and clean and apparently empty. The |
man 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 back
to his kennel and had taken this &C.
quaintance there, too.
1t would be 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 it 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. She was
suddenly afraid of the dark childish
fear at which her soul would have
Knocked in other days and under other
conditions. But now she was 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
door. "go!"
The words conveyed nothing, but
the gesture meant much. Even to the
man association with his kind for one
day had effected a revolution in him
He hung undecided, however, before
her, while she repeated again and
again her injunction. Finally she took
him by the shoulder, risking the pc
cular emotions that contact seemed
to bring to him, and thurst him gently
through the entrance outside Their
she went back into the cave farther
and waited with beating heart. Sh'
could see him silhouetted against thu
twilight standing where she had lef
him. He came toward the door a
last and stood in the entrance.
mo, mol" she cried fiercely, prayin'
that the note of terror might be los
in the imperative tones of her voice
Man, go!
; She stood waiting and he likewise
Mastering her courage at last, sh
] went over to him and thrust him Out
> Again and again the little drama wa
!. played until by and by it became IN
A pressed upon the mind OF the ma
. that he was to stay out and she wa
:, to stay in. He came no more to tn
, entrance. He stood outside, aioo
" looking in, although in the CROWN
! darkness he could not see her.
# 1t was the second thing he ha
+ learned. The first ray of light in h
% dawning consciousness had illumil
n ated the ego, the personal, the CO.
a. crete. He was learning now the 81
n nificance of verb and an abstra'
"a idea was being bred in him and SON
ID concept of constraint was entering
being. The first of those long checl
~ that circumstances impose upon ire
=; dom in order that civilization may b
he gin to be was then meeting him RAJ
". to face. lie had slept in that c3Yc, 81
he imagined. for years, and suddenly
ne was thrust out. There was no mar
adj ship in that, except the hardship
.o- the necessity for obedience, If har
". shin that might be. The night W
ID balmy and pleasant; no shelter W
az. needed. 1t was the fact that he had
ec- go; that he was subject TO anolh
IN. will and purpose; that sometnl
ba higher than himself was overruli
him which might be hard. 1t Wol
have been hard for the woman. )
ID thought, however, that the limit
~ comprehension of the man might I
40 enable him to realize 1t.
He stood long time on the sa
~ while she watched him. Had she G
,a uuered? Had he learned his Jesse
Had she laid foundations upon VIII
consciousness of life and its relate
, ,a might be builded? Would she be I
. .s from the terror of molestation, VIII
in spite of herself sought express
in her voice and manner? Would
VIZ be permitted to pass the night un
turbed? Was her power over him
iciently definite to be established
30 be of value? Suppose she had
Wv succeeded in mastering him, in d
~ mating him? She shuddered at
,,ns probabilities involved. OF all
n.,. beasts of the field, the most terri
INC when he is a beast is man.
She was not weak woman.
was above the middle height, athl'
s,ns splendidly developed, accustomed
ach. the exercises of the gymnasium
iftly the field. but her strength was
she match for his. One ray of safety
Il reared in the fact that she BELT
rom him ignorant alike Of the extent Of
after rover or of the possibilities of