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CHAPTER III.
The Word Of the Book.

This awakening was not as had been
that of yesterday. She prided herself
on being in full possession OF her fac
ulties at once and she arose instantly
and stepped out upon the sand, The
man gave way to her respectfully as
she passed through the entrance. The
mind is brightest in the early morn
ing after sleep. She would give him
another concept before the uses of the
day, impaired his receptivity, She had
differentiated him from the rest of Gre
alton when she taught him that he
was man. She would show him now
that his was divided empire by de-
claring herself woman. She laid her
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away, she would find occupation, In
terest, inspiration in that nascent
man.
He lay so still and so quiet that
presently she arose and tiptoed softly
to the entrance where unseen she
could look down upon him. The moon
rose back of the hill. Although he
was in the shadow, there was still re-
fraction sufficient to enable her to see
his face. He was asleep. The quiet,
dreamless. unvexed sleep Of healthy
animal, she thought. Their positions
were reversed. He had watched her
before when she was off guard and
asleep with what dim, dumb, inchoate
effort 1t might be to comprehend her.
Now 1t was her turn. He took no
disfavor in her mind after her inspec-
ton. He was a bold, splendid piece
OF what? Clay. She would put
a soul in him, her soul. Her soul was
the only thing she knew. She forgot,
or II she remembered it, disdained the
ancient concept that before the dust
of the earth became alive 1t had to
be permeated with the breath not
merely of man or woman, but of God
She came back at last and sought
her corner, disposed her limbs to rest
and kept through silent hours her
lonely vigil. So long as he slept she
was safe. When he awakened, what
then? So long as his mind slept, his
soul slept, his consciousness slept, she
was safe, but when they, too, awak
ened, when whatsoever light there
might be that dawns in personality
dispelled the night of idle dreams In
which he lived, what would happen
then?
| Instinctively she shrank from the
thought of the future. She was as one
who had potent talisman in her hand
the fisherman in the Arabian tale, II
| he had known the contents of the
corked bottle thrown up from the sea
might have hesitated ere he drew the
stopper and released the prisonet
spirit. She must watch, she mus
wait, she must be on her guard. She
forgot that when she had called hin
| MAIL anu itilu nti manu- hpoh LIS
shoulder she had begun an evolution
which no human power could stop.
Never had the hours seemed so Ions
and so strange to her. Nothing hap
pened. Even the capacity to thinl
gives out in the strongest mind, the
acutest brain, temporarily or other
wise. She was very tired; the silence
was oppressive; the rusty scissors fel
from her hand and at last she slipped
down upon the sand and drifted ava!
into that slumber, that suspension o
consciousness in which for the mo
ment she was even as the man.
The upper edge of the sun was jus
springing from the sea when its leve
rays woke her. She opened her eye
to find the man standing in the open
ing.
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with that. 1t was pitiful, as she saw
it, that with a nascent soul to work
with, she should be compelled to en-.
tighten 1t through the medium of time.
worn superstition.
Below the shelf, not quite buried in
the sand, there was small metal box.
She knelt down, scraped the sand
away and presently uncovered It. It
appeared to be of silver. 1t was Of
such size that she could clasp It
easily in her hand She opened it not
without some difficulty and found with.
in it-nothing! Well, not exactly
nothing, but certainly that for which
she could see little value. There were
several hard pieces of stone of red
dish color Clipped and shaped in curl
GUS fashion. She turned the box over
and examined 1t on all sides. There
were initials upon 1t, monogram. She
rubbed it clean with her hands and
studied 1t carefully. r, c." The
book and the box had belonged to the
same person, John Revell Charnock
She laid the box aside and searched
the cave further. There was abse
lutely nothing else to be seen. Disap
pointed vaguely. although she had et
pected nothing and had gotten more
indeed. than she might have imagined
If she had thought about 1t, she lald
the book and box down upon the ledss
and went out again. She walked along
the sands until she came to the place
where she had landed the day M
fore. The tide was low. She coula
see the wreck of her boat, partly Oh
the barrier reef and partly IN wv
water. 1t would have been no UTICA
for her to swim to it in the stiffness
yet she hesitated to attempt IT, yer
tainly weighted down by all her ciOlI
ing 1t was a matter of difficulty anu
inconvenience. If 1t were not Tor UNI
man by her side! She tried 10 'uinA
of some way to restrain him, keep u,w
away, but nothing occurred to her' N
vention was paralyzed by the sltuauOD
|
| In which she found herself.
Desperately bidding him stay "uea'
he was, she went back to the oS,S .
She was face to face with o',, 49,
which had to be met. lnueeu'
question of clothes was becoinlne
very serious one with her anu '"'
knew she should have to declde up''
some course of action immeuia''"
For the present she took on het s' 10
ments, hoping and praying IN sa and
of dread and anxiety, that ne S,cb
remain where she had left hlm' LA.
indeed proved the fact. she Iaiu ,bs
all that she had worn exceps aodl,
blouse and skirt, including her , ,p
worn shoes and stockings lhus ain
ly clad she came out on the sanu a' As,
He did not notice any change shs
condition. AS a matter OF fa Ss,Ssd
gave him no time, for she n'' and
across the sand at full spesu ,,ster
plunged boldly into the smiilns ,", To-
of the lagoon. He followed Nv Nth
stantly and swan by her slu0
scarcely any exertion whateYo'
ITO BE CONTINUED
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hand upon her own breast and salu
clearly:
"Womanl" giving the first syllable
the long 20" and definitely accehtins
the second. She pointed to him anu
repeated Man" to herself ana re-
peated woman" Patiently over anu
over again she said the WORD un'ii
by and by he could say it, too.
The baby begins his language WIN
monosyllabic sounds which mean III
tie and yet which have been ldentiIeu
with the mother. 1t was fitting that
this man who was as a child and yet
as man should begin with something
deeper than infantile babble.
Man and woman!- drove these
two ideas into his consciousness BE-
fore she ceased her task. If his idea
of man was at first Infinite, she gave
him the concept of limitations imme-
diately following.
He was avid for instruction. once
he had learned the words, he pappleu
them man. woman, man, woman
until the iteration was almost mad
dening.
While she washed her face and
hands at the stream he plunged INTO
a trimming pool fed by the brook ere
Il descended to the sea. She noticed
that he could swim like FISH itself,
naturally, instinctively, In an I'M
trained way of course, without the
fancy strokes in which she had been
taught, but brilliantly and well, never
theless. She would have given the
world for a dip, but it was not to be,
not yet, that is.
Then they breakfasted and she tried
to teach him mo" and yes" and the
meaning thereof. She intended to make
circuit of the island later, but there
was no hurry She began to realize
that time was nothing to her or TO
him, and so she idled under the trees,
setting him tasks as the picking OF
fruit and then stopping him with
mo" and encouraging him with Yes
until he had some idea of those words
also. 1t was relief to her to get
them firmly fixed in his mind, for they
provided him with alternatives to the
man and woman words on which he
harped.
After a while they started around
the island. 1t was perhaps six or
eight miles in circumference. There
was sand beach everywhere, except
in one place where the rocks came
sheer down to the shore. From what
she could tell by an inspection of the
surface there was an underwater en-
trance to some cave in the rocks
which some day might be worth ex
| ploring.
On the other side of the island from
| the cave, which was already denomi
mated home in her mind, she came
| across the remains of a ships boa
| deep bedded in the sand. The boa
had been perhaps wrecked and broker
on the barrier reef, or possibly it hat
sailed through the entrance near a
hand-the only opening in the encir
cling guard of splintered rock which
she had seen--and had been hurled
upon the beach where it had lail
through years until buried in thu
shifting sand. Only the gunwales o
the boat and the stem and the sterl
were exposed. She had no idea as L
what it's condition was, but she prom
Used that so soon as she could sh,
would make shift at something for
shovel and dig it out She gazed a
it for a long time wondering if /
were an explanation of the presenc
of the solitary inhabitant of the is
land, but nothing was to be gained b.
A little stream she noticed trickle
from under a thick covert across tn
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She had been disappointed that INA
book had turned out to be the Bible
but at least it would serve one usefp,
purpose. BY it, without the laboriou.
effort involved in making letters
upon the sand, she might teach the
man before her to read. She wished
she had worthier volume from her
point of view through which to iptro.
duce him to the worlds literature
but she would do the best she coulS
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SYNOPSIS.

A young woman cast ashore on lone
~ island. finds n solitary inhnbitant. a
young white man, dressed like savage.
and not able to speak In any known Ian
guage. She decides to educate him, She
finds him In an attitude OF prayer. bah
bling an incoherent targon.
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The Question.

Stella-You have two propossa,ob 10
Bella-Yes. can't deciue
marry first.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-02-09
BALlNGER'S LAWYER

Carl Rasch, former United States
Attorney, and the partner of Attorney
Gum in Helena, has been selected to
represent Secretary Ballinger, Land
Commissioner bennett and Field
Agent Schwartz in the Ballinger-
Pinchot controversary in Washing
ton, d. G. An unusual interest is
being taken in this investigation,
owing to the fact, that at one time,
both CLAWS and Schwartz were resi-
dents of Montana being located ia
Helena, which they both claim rs
heir home. While Secretary Ball
niger is closely related to many prom
inent Montana families.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-02-09

DR.. William MaZyck Memmiger, OF
Glasgow died at the Deaconess hos
pital in this city at all early hour
this morning after being in that in
stitution for one day. Blood poison
ing received from a scratch while per-
forming an operation one week ago,
was the immediate cause of his death.
He leaves a wife and daughter, II
years of age to mourn his loss, be-
sides hundreds of friends in the
vicinity of Glasgow and Hinsdale,
where he had practiced medicine for
the past eight years.
Dr.. Memmiger was ~ years of age
and was born at Charleston, S. G.,
where his mother still resides, and
where the body will probably be ship
ped for burial. Bishop Memmiger, of
Episcopal church of South Carolina,
is brother of the deceased. He has
another brother who at present is
United States consul at Naples, Italy.
DR.. Memmiger graduated from a
medical college at Charleston. S. c.,
and from there went to polytechnic
school in Philadelphia. He served
four years on the hospital staff at
Bellvue island and also for two years
in rsimilar capacity at Ward s
Island, N. Y. Later he returned to
Philadelphia, where he practiced
medicine for two years. On account
of failing health he gave up his prac-
tice there and came to Montana and
settled at Hinsdale, where he practic-
ed medicine and surgery for five years
later removed to Glasgow where he
had been located fol the PAST three
years.
From his medical articles, which
have appeared from time to time in
the leading medical journals of the
United States, Mr.. Memmiger had
achieved a national reputation and
his advice was often sought in differ
ent sections of the country.
| While performing an operation one
week ago he received slight scratch
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-02-09
COWAN NEWS LITTLE ITEMS

Richard Towne was visitor in
Great Falls the middle of last week.
The reported marriage of a promi-
nent sheepman at Chinook the middle
of last week, is found to be without
foundation.
Sun Kist oranges and lemons on
sale at Malta Mercantile company.
Save the wrappers.
Mrs. David White, of Glasgow,
stopped off in Malta last Wednesday
for brief visit with relatives. Mrs.
White was OH her way home from
Great Falls.
Mr.. and Mrs. Milo Larock, of
Cowan, were in town the middle of
last week. Mrs. Larock left Thurs
day night for visit with friends and
relatives in Helena.
The Ladies Aid Society will meet at
the M. E. Chuch on Thursday after
uOOA VI tAl6 WCChs MAD. Sloo. 'oouSA~
wick will be hostess. All members
and friends are invited to be present.
City Marshal OFT Casady went down
to Glasgow last Friday night after
Roy Wilson who was charged with
stealing some wearing apparel and
some change from room mate in
this city. He was taken before Judge
Cox and given sentenced of 800 and
thirty days. He was taken Sunday
morning by Special Officer John Cas-
ady to the Hotel de Ski at Glasgow to
serve out his fine.
George Smith was in town the
middle of last week, exhibiting a
very pretty young colt, which he
raised. Mr.. Smith says that these
colts will match up with the very
best in the valley, and they no doubt
do, as he is one of the best horsemen
in this part of the valley and knows
good horse when he sees one.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-02-09
GLASGOW PHYSICIAN DIED
FROM BLOOD POISONING
DOCTOR WILLIAM MAZYCK MEMMINGER DIED AT DEACONESS
HOSPITAL IN GREAT FALLS LAST THURSDAY MORN
NC..WAS WELL KNOWN IN MILK RIVER VALLEY

on one of the fingers Of his left hand.
Poison set in and spread with alarm
ing rapidity to his elbow and then to
his shoulder. The end came shortly
after midnight this morning. His
wife and daughter were with him
when he passed away. He was fully
concious until he died.
DR.. Minniger was J. member of one
of the oldest families of South Caro-
lima, and his grandfather was one of
the leading spirits in the Confederate
army during the Civil war. His
father died several years ago and was
buried at Charleston, while his
mother still resides on the old home
stead.
The body was taken to the under
taking establishment of w. H. George
where it will be prepared for burial.
Great Falls Tribune.
Sunday the funeral services took
place in Glasgow, and were largely
attended.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-02-09

Chas. D. Mead took the census
examination at Malta.
The Cowan- Malta mail route is
opened to bidders for earring mail
March 1st. The period for which
contract is to be made extends from
July /, 1910 to June 80, 1914. For
particulars see bulletins in either
office, or inquire of the postmasters.
Supervisor Garland has had force
Of men at work on the approaches to
the new bridge. The work was COM
pleted several days ago and the bridge
in now ready for travel.
County Commissioners Davidson
and Farris and County Surveyor Mann
were here last Tuesday, inspecting
the new bridge. We did not learn
their decision, but think it must have
been favorable.
The grade to the bridge at the south
end cannot be built until frost goes
out of the ground, and for the present
persons coming from the south will
keep the old road until the gate op-
posite the postotfice is reached, then
turn to the right and follow the trail
through the field to the bridge.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-02-09

Sun kist oranges and lemons on
sale at Malta Mecantile Co. The
largest and best in the city for the
money.
Nick Schmitz sold his colt, Jerry,
which has been advertised in The
Enterprise. Mr.. Schmitz rece we'd
a good price for the animal, it being
unusually handsome. Mr.. VIM.
Dunbar wa, the purchaser.
Mayor John A. Tressler attended
to legal matters in Harlem last We'd
uesday and Thursday appearing as
attorney for the defendant in the con-
test case of the United States Govern
ment vs.. the Farmer desert Entry.
The land involved is located south of
Wagner.
Henry Duba, one of the well known
Wisconsin settlers who settled west
of Malta on the bench, was in town
Monday for supplies. Mr.. Duba says
the present weather in Montana COM
pares very favorably with Wisconsin
and Michigan April weather.
C. H. Weston, young man of
Lincoln Nebraska, arrived in Malta
the middle of last week and was locat-
ed on choice 32O acre tract in 31-31
by the Malta Realty Company. Mr..
Weston is an accomplished young
man, and being a good musician will
be a valuable attache to the famous
Malta Cornet band. He has accepted
a position as clerk with h. M. Traf-
toms we'll known establishment.
A report comes from Saco that Chas.
7. Eline, commonly known as Boom
er," has departed for parts unknown
and that all avilable Saco property
that he had any claim on has been
seized by W. II H..Taylor for an account
There is also rumor that Eline ap-
propriated all the fines collected il
his court since his appointment as
justice of the peace, amounting tC
several hundred dollars and has made
no report of it to the county.-Glas
Cow News.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-02-09
TRAMP COMET GONE

The comet has come and the comet
has gone, and the sinner feels easier.
A little over week ago a heavenly
wonder of considerable size made it's
appearance in the western sky just as
the sun was sinking from sight, and
at first it was thought to be the fam
Gus HALEY comet, but as that is to
make it's appearance further to the
east and is not due to the public gaze
until May, the sudden appearance of
the wonder caused considerab BILE ex-
citement, with it's head down and tail
up like flaming arrow shot from the
heavens. Astronomers everywher are
greatly excited over the unexpected
visit of the comet, as it seems to have
come from under a cloud without
warning, observation or previous an
nonncement. There have been great
many other comets visible to the
naked eye, but this one was better
situated for popular observation than
any that has appeared in generations.
Many have been so close to the sun
as to be obscured or so far separated
from it that they could be seen only
very late at night or early in the
morning. Our last visitor was not
only unusually brilliant, but was at
it's best soon after sunset, and is sti |
family visible to the naked eye. The
new wonder is said to be complete
stranger to scientists, and is with
out doubt the largest comet which has
visited the solar system in over
twenty years.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-02-09
NEWSY AND INTERESTING LOCALS

Fred W. Hall and Herman G. Rob
inson, two of Malta's well known
businessmen, transacted business ia
Zortlnan the early part of this week.
George Campbell and Jack Shaffer,
two we'll known followers of the man
ly art, visited in Great Falls last
Sunday, where they looked James J.
Jeffries over before his coming fight
with Mistah Johnson.
Louis Goslin, proprietor OF the
Malta-Zortnlan stage line was a bust
ness visitor in Malta yesterday. He
states that he looks for an early
resumption of all work in the Little
Rockies if this kind of weather con-
tinues few weeks longer.
Miss Madge Clark accompanied by
Mr.. r. W. Garland and Miss Elsie
Dunbar, left Sunday night for AL
hambria Spring, where her brother
was dangerously ill., She did not
reach her brother in time to see him
alive. He expired several hours be-
fore she arrived.
A hobo, who claims to be a past
master in the culinary art and who
possesses the euphonious name of
"Goldie", was up before his honor
Max Sklower, for displaying and
prominading the streets in delicate
lingree, the poperty of some woman
of the under world. He was given a
tloater.
George Mann, a popular young
bachelor of this vicinity, who has
been on an extended visit with rela-
tives in Illinois arrived home last
Saturday noon, all by himself to the
great surprise of his many bachelor
friends but to the joy of his numerous
young lady acquaintance throughout
the valley. Mr.. Mann was so glad to
get home that, he says, all seemed
like dream, to leave the chilly cline
of the east and in q few days arrive
in to the salubrious cline of Malta.
He had splendid time on his visit,
and enjoyed himself immensely.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-02-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO ALL

Col. G. E. Hinton, TO rmer editor of
the Glasgow Democrat, has started a
new paper in the thriving town of
Cascade, in Cascade county.
J. A. Sheetz, prominent Chinook
ite was business visitor in Malta
last Thursday.
-Chas. Whitcomb arrived in Malta
late Saturday night with 2o24 ounces
of bullion, from the famous August
mine. He said that he believed the
mines would reopen very soon if this
kind of weather continues to predom-
mate.
FREE-A VIM. A. Rogers & Son
standard plate orange spoon, sent to
any address on receipt of twelve Sun
Kist oranges or lemon wrappers
and SIX &c stamps to pay packing and
mailing. Address, California Fruit
Growers Exchange "a Clark street,
Chicag 60, Ill.
John Hackshaw, who has dandy
ranch east of town, is in Malta for a
few days looking after his interests
here. Mr.. Hackshaw is another old
timer who has proved that the soil in
this vicinity is the very best, by
starting one of the best little orchards
in the state. He states that all he
had to do was to apply little common
sensce and work and nature did the
rest.
The following little boost for Malta
will be interesting to our citizens to
note what outsiders think of us:
Messrs. Schuster & Stevens,
Malta Montana.
Gentlemen:
We have received your little pamph-
let "Get off at Malta which we find
very interesting. TIE writer has had
the good fortune to spend quite good
deal of time in different parts of your
great state, and says without any
hesitation that "Great is Montana"
Your resources are unlimited. Your
possibilities of development are prac-
tically beyond conception. We are,
Yours respectfully,
The Hamilton, Brown Shoe Co.
By H. o. Peyton, H. B.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-02-09
MILK RIVER PROJECT
WILL BE- THE FIRST

Special to The Enterprise
St. Paul. Feb. 6.-lf congress favoraby
propositions discussed today by house committee
ways and means, and the senate committee irrga-
ton, orders will be issued in the comparatively
future that will the dirt to fly the irrigation
project in the Milk River Valley in Montana.
Secretary of the Interior Ballnger appeared before
the house committee today to urge that favorable
ton be taken without delay President Tafts
mendaton that issue of C00000o of certificates
of Indebtedness be used irrigation works already
under way and projected be authorized The ndica-
tions are that the house committee will act favoraby
At the same time the senate committee irrigation
had up for hearing the bill providing that alloments of
the $3000OO00 of certificates be made approved by
the president The chances that both propositions
will be reported favorably and passed by the senate
and house. If so, the Milk River project will not be
long in starting has the Endorsement of the pres
dent and the secretary of the INTERIOR and all that is
lacking is the funds to put it through"
L. w. HILL.