The Comrade., 1910-08-12

guage She decides to educate him. She
finds him in an attitude of prayer, bab-
bling an incoherent jargon.
CHAPTER Il-Continued.
The next thing she remembered, she
was unclosing her eyes as she had
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
it WEAKNESS overcame her. He had
watched by her side without melesting
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 desirous 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 once
more. They passed it, 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 sort Of amphitheater
and fair in the center of the face she
perceived an opening. He halted there
and entered fearlessly, she following.
The cave was roomy and spacious,
at least it seemed so in the fading
light. In the morning when the sun
shone through the opening, it would
be flooded with daylight, but now
when the sun was sinking behind the
hill, it was quite dark. It 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
Mved there. The dog had come back
Go his kennel and had taken this SC
quaineance there. too.
IT would be a coed place 20 pass the
night. The night had to be passed
somewhere. How, was the. problem.
Shs had little fear og any savage AMI
saals en- the island. There had been
40 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. She 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 she was a 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
4 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 revolution in him
He hung undecided, however, before
her, while she repeated again anc
again her Injunction. Finally she took
him by the shoulder, risking the pc
culiar emotions that contact seemed
to bring to him, and thurst him gently
through the entrance outside. Ther
she went back into the cave farther
and waited with a beating heart. She
could see him silhouetted against the
twilight standing where she had lef
him. He came toward the door a.
last and stood in the entrance.
NO, no." she cried fiercely, praying
that the note Of terror might be los
In the imperative tones Of her voice
"Man, go!"
She stood waiting and he likewise
g. mastering her courage at last, sht
went over to him and thrust him out
Again and again the little drama wa:
played until by and by 1t became i'm
s pressed upon the mind Of the mai
that he was to stay out and she wa:
to stay in. He came no more to thu
entrance. He stood outside, aloof
b looking in, although in the growinE
darkness he could not see her.
It was the second thing he hat
B learned. The first ray of light in hi
dawning consciousness had illumin
ated the ego, the personal, the con