Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1910-06-25

Whisper.
understand. to whom he would fain
impart his own ideas II he could.
She stared at him perplexed. She
was entirely at loss what to do, until
her eyes rowing past him detected a
dark object on the water line Just
where the still blueness touched the
white sand. The sunlight was re-
1ected from CLEANS of metal, and
thinking that she recognized 1t, she
stepped from the shade of the palms
and made her way unsteadily toward
1t. The man, without q sound, follow
ed closely at her side.
Her vision had been correct, for she
drew out of the sand a leather hand
bag. such as women carry. It had
been elaborately fitted with bottles and
mirrors and toilet articles. Alas, it
was in sad state of dilapidation now.
The bottles were broken. their con-
tents gone. The bag had been lying
in the boat when 1t had been hurled
on the barrier in the night and the
same storm and tide which had borne
her ashore had hurled II also on the
sand. But It had come open in the
battering and it's contents were pitt
ably ruined. With eager eyes and fin
gers she examined everything. She
found intact a little mirror, a pair of
scissors, a little housewife which was
not part of the fittings and she won
dered how 1t failed of being washed
away, two combs and a package of
hairpins.
She had fought against starvation
and thirst and loneliness and despair
as she had fought against men and
she had not given way. She had set
her teeth and locked her hands and
endured hardship like the stoutest
hearted, most determined soldier in
the history of human struggles. But
as the realization of this small mis-
fortune burst upon her, she sank down
on the sands and put her head in her
hands and sobbed. Tears did her good.
She had her cry out, utterly unhin- ,
dered, for the man stood by. shaking
his head and staring at her and max
ing those strange little sounds, but Of
fering in no way to molest her.
The water was beautifully clear and
she could see on the other side Of the |
barrier the remains OF her boat. Per. /
haps some time, II there we're need, |
she could get to that boat, but for the |
present all the flotsam and jetsam of |
her wild and fearful voyage lay in a |
water-soaked bag full OF broken glass |
n nd ed -.
had rescued a pair of scissors, a mir |
ror, two combs, housewife full of |
rusty needles and some hairpins. Ol
vanitas vanitatumi
She was wearing q serviceable dress |
of blue serge with a sailors blouse and |
a short skirt. Putting her precious |
treasure trove within the loose blouse
and carrying the battered bag which |
she meant to examine more carefully |
later, she turned and made for the |
shade of the trees again. For one thing |
the sun rising rapidly was gaining
power and beating down with great /
force upon her bare head She had |
enjoyed the protection of a wonderful
ly plated straw hat on her long voy-
age else she could not have borne the
heat but that too, was gone.
AS she walked inland. she noticed
again of to her right that stream of
water which dropped over the tall
cliff in a slender waterfall a sweet In.
vting pool at the base before It ran
through the sands toward the sea. She
made her way thither and at the brink
knelt down and took long draughta of