The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1910-05-19
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

in the past on that boat, 1t indicated
that he was at least an American and
a Virginian. 1t identified him, If her
suppositions were correct, and wheth-
er there was warrant for them or not,
instinctively and naturally she con-
cluded that she was correct.
Admitting all this, however, 1t
gave her no clew from which to build a
history. The testimony of the boat
was interesting, that was all. Her first
thought was to leave it where it vas,
but her second thought was better.
With the aid of the stout piece of
board which had served her for a
shovel, she hammered away at the
stern piece until she broke it off, She
saw now that the boat must have lain
there in the sand for many years, for
the wood was brittle and the fasten-
ings largely destroyed, for the stern
piece came easily away. She laid it
aside for a moment intending to pre-
serve it with the Bible. Heaven
knows what dream of future useful
ness in the way of evidence establish
ing identity these might be, entered
her mind.
Then she threw herself down under
the trees and rested. She had left
her watch, her precious watch, back
in the cave with the book. She did
not dare to carry it around with her.
She had no way of carrying it in the
thin, single garment which she wore,
but she judged from the height of the
sun that it must be noon time. They
made their meal off the fruits of the
island, this time with rich and juicy
cocoanut added, which the man got for
her at her suggestion in the sign Ian
guage at which she was becoming ex-
pert, by climbing with wonderful agil-
ity, ape-like agility almost, one of the
tall cocoanut palms with which the
island abounded. There were fruits
of various sorts in great plenty on the
island and she was becoming accus-
toned to the diet by degrees.
She passed the noon hour in trying
to add to the mental equipment of her
companion. He could say a number
of words now and had some idea of
their meaning, although. he had not
yet attempted to frame sentences nor
had she yet tried to teach him so to
do. 1t was pleasant under the shade
of the trees. She found herself mar
yelling at times as to the contentment
that possessed her, a product of the
age suddenly plunged into the Eden
like existence which her forebears
might have enjoyed ten thousand
years before.
The hours ran on until the declin-
ing sun and the coolness that came
with the late afternoon warned her
that if she were to continue her ex-
plorations she must be about it i'm
mediately. So she rose and nerving
herself to her task went toward the
coppice where lay the ghastly remains
of what had been a human being.
Forcing herself to the duty with her
knife she carefully cut away the rush,
es, being particular not to disturb the
bones of the skeletons. AS before she
did all this in the face of a vigorous
remonstrance from the man. In some
way, she could not tell how, the place
was horrible to him. He would never
have come near it evidently of his own
will, and although the power of mem
ory in him was but latent, the impres.
sion that had been produced upon him
by what she found there at some
period in his life was strong enough
to make him avoid it forever.
She did not ask him for assist
ance, indeed, she would not have
trusted him with the knife under any
circumstances, and he made no at
tempt to keep close to her. He stood
on the outskirts of the ccppice in a
great state of excitement, uttering
without sequence or reason such
words as she had taught him. To him
! in this instance, she gave no heed.
Presently she had completely un
covered the two skeletons. She had
studied anatomy, but was not a spe
cialist in that department of human
learning. She thought that the skele
ton before her was that of a woman
| She measured its length with a piecE
of tall grass and compared 1t with her
own. They were both of size. The
soil in which the bones lay was soft