The Mena weekly star., 1910-05-19

io" aitef ner and without offerino ta touch her barred the way with ay. tended arms. " eA NO mol! he cried. his first rea spontaneous use of the word
 She stopped. reflected wavea man aside and went on. There ss something in the coppiee that L reared. She had not know. ,,at h., possessed the faculty. Eur an. ,.,tv was too strong to be del .4 e,,e ,e. -, see what 1t was Sbe c .a,l re.i .,a pace as If to shak. u1 Spt NO easily kept by her .,is., o1, calculating his nonosy. ,ega,,,o It was evident that he kae, nean, i Ing or the word, she was gl see
 When she reached the undergrowtb or the eoppice, she hesitated in apnra- henslon of she knew not what hn. summoning her courage parted tba reeds and peered in them. She shrapl, pack with a sudden cry of horror for at her feet, the vegetation snringiro through in every direction. lav 9 skeleton, human skeleton. It lay athwart her path and at the feet was smaller skeleton which she Judged to be that of a dog. With instinctiye repugnance she released the rusbes and turned hastily away.
 Yes, yes" said the man by her side with an expression of unusual ra. i lief on his face which she could scarcely fail to notice.
 She knew that she could not n. evade her duties or shrink nm ha problems She had markoa IT,, gleam Of metal amid the boaes ;hs rev that she would hay, "' cJrl, oak 9 ,d examine those last ind a, h, man presence, other ' ir ,wr upon the island, but sl jpld 70, in 1t just then.
 There was nothing el that she discovered on her tour about her pris- on until she returned to the cave. It was afternoon by this time and she de termined to employ some of her hours in a more careful inspection of if Realizing that the lesson of the night before if re-enforced and maintained would stand her in good stead. she made the man remain outside while she went within Her hope was to es. tablish in his mind a custom of avoid. ance of that recess which should de. velop into fixed habit, else she could not be free She could always secure a few moments respite from his pres ence, at least she had done so hereto. fore. but she did not dare to try how he would sustain longer absences, hence the necessity for establishing herself in the cave as a harbor of ref. uge. sanctuary.
 At first glance there was nothing within the little apartment washed out ages ago from the hard stone by what action of water she could well imagine, but as she scrutinized it closely she noticed in a recess a part where the rock wall cropped out in a sort of low shelf On the shelf-won- der of woDdersl-lay book Next to humanity, book. she thought, would be the most precious sharer of her solitude
 It was small, leather-bound vol ume. Dust in the form of tiny par ticles of sand lay thick upon it. The cave was sheltered from the prevailing winds else 1t might have been buried, but under the circumstances 1t might have lain there for ages and in that dry, pure air have suffered no deterio- ration or decay.
 Crusoe was petrifed when he saw the footprint in the sand. The woman was not less startled or less amazed when she saw the book on the rock With little cry of delight she stepped toward it, bent down, lifted 1t up, handling 1t carefully in spite of ner- vous exultation. shook the dust from 1t, and opened it. She instantly let 1t fall from her hands with look of dis appointment and disgust One glance was enough The book was the Bible She had no interest in the Bible. col. lection of ancient genealogies and time-worn fables, myths for the credu- lous and impossible lengends, mixed up with poetry whose inspiration was trivial and history whose details were false. For this woman, who had for gotten how to pray and who had abol- ished God, had little use for the Book of Books. Rather any other printed page. she had thought bitterly than that one.
 She had acted upon impulse, not in her disdain for the Bible and that for which 1t stood-that was grounded upon reason and philosophy she fond ly believed-but in her action in east Ing 1t from her. It had no more than rolled upon the sand at her feet when, with swift reconsideration, she stopped and lifted it again It had occurred to her that there might be writing there in and tha. the writing might give her a clew to the mystery of the man. She knew that births and deaths were ire uuently entered upon the blank leaves lnterposed between the Old and New Testaments. Unfamiliar though she was with the contents of the book she easily found the place and eagerly looked at the leaves. Alas, they were blank. She turned to the fly leaves at the beginning of the book There was q name written there and in a woman's hand.
 John Revell Charnock,' she read.
 Below was a date 25 years before the moment of her landing.
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