Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-10-22

to relieve the worst OF their distress.
The tropical incoming sped in heat, ST.
lence and lf-slumber. At o'clock
Benoni reused the little caravan, and
after hasty supper, told them to
make ready for long. hard ride. All
night they journeyed. Through desert
wastes and over rocky Businesses, up
steep mountains and across half-stag-
nant, shallow rivers. And even when
the dawn came there was no resting.
The horses, jaded and covered with a
coating of dust and sweat, stuck their
feet weariedly into the sand or chung
listlsssly to the hilly slopes. Larry
was weak as a woman, and Johnny
too worn to talk. The sun conferred the
sky when Benoni let them halt They
were Just past strip of desert waste,
and near tiny oasis of parched grass
and scrawny palms. A murky pool of
water Knocked them with resemblance
OF Apollinaris. settlers. ice-hushed
lemonades and carbonated beverages to
be quaffed in the blessed land at home.
Johnny, exhausted, had dropped from
his horse and was trying to drag HIM
self towards the muddy pool
Benoni was as mistaken as the palm
tree standing motionless in the desert
calm. He.pulled Johnny up, bolstered
him along with a draught from his
flask, and set him to rights generally.
How are you, Morris?" he asked.
"Oh, fair" replied Larry. This gaunt
American found 1t hard to admit ply
steal inferiority to the black.
I'VE can rest but an hour or two"
volunteered Benoni, curtly. Then We
must go on"
But where?" asked Larry. II con-
fess I wanted to go into darkest Afri-
ca, but this affair is growing too shad-
owy for me. / don't care about being
handled like packinghouse GOVT"
Benoni turned a reproachful eye
upon him. Il have promised to help
you find the girl you seek. can you
not rely upon me? 1 know my Africa,
l am trusting you. and trying to repay
you for aiding me to escape from that
cafe mob-that corral filled with worse
than the beasts of the jungle-drunken,
Infatuated swine that once were men,
Hello. what's this?" asked Johnny.
I'm always finding things-now amt
II Look at this. and in the desert
tool" He held up to view a plump
pigeon. Apparently II had been hurt
in fight with some heavier denizen OF
the air. For II was quite dead, and its
head was severed almost from it's body
Benoni reached out his hand for the
bird.
Doves like that nest In but one
place in all this continent" he remark
ed, and his face became ashen gray as
he noted the odd markings of purple
and brown on its snowy breast. "OnlS
one place." he repeated.
Johnny had been turning the birC
over and over, rumpling up the help
less wings. Something caught his eys
and he held the dead-d dove out with up
raised wing for the others to see
Scratched on its wing in rude letter,
they read:
Betty Lancey. Africal"
Betty" cried Larry. Then he seiz
ed Benoni by the wrist. IF doves lik,
= that nest in but one place on this con
tinent. take us there, take us at once
= What place is 1T? Where? Would sh
be safe? Or in the hands of savages /?
THAT is where we have been trav
. cling to. my friend" answered Benoni
II had suspected. but 1 had not Ger
tainly known. We will not even res
l. for the hour. II you wish"
II must" answered Johnny. "Safet,
razorsl I'm beat out I'm not a came
= in the legs, If l can go without a drinl
for six monthsi"
Tell me. tell me something" plead
e ed Larry.
e But the sands were not more silent
t Benoni made but one reply. II dar
}. not. 1t might destroy all hopel"
:. Day after day, clinked off this ardu
Gus travel Once they met a carava
e and Benoni bargained for fresh horse.
e The erstwhile novelty was succeede
y by feverish unrest. Both American
s were dead with fatigue. the little Ara
0 stood the journey well, and Benor
d was in the pink OF condition. Ten day
d later they found second pigeon.
This one was alive and fiuttered
,, their very luncheon table. Larry GOV
h cred 1t with his hat and bent its wing
back nercely only to find a bitter dis
y. appointment. for there was no messag
E. traced upon the wing.
< Two days later they reached n nativ
village. hanging tassel-like upon tn
borders of an immense Jungle BenoI
hired beaters to break the way 10
them. and for a week they journeyed /
>, setting OF tropic grass and dusk
a skins. One morning Larry awoke I
n find the camp deserted OF all but BE
n noni and Johnny. The horses wer
a gone and even the little Arab had dis
70 appeared.
What are we lost In this Jungle
lie Betrayed and deserted?" QUESTION:
lie Larry.
lie "No. indeed. I sent them away. W
"A cannot leave here till nightfall
IN sleep again or lounge till / return" r.
"a piled Benoni II will be back In a fe
rs hours"
Sc Divesting himself OF his garment
Benoni swathed his loins with a grid
NJ Of flexible grass, and strobe away II
l. to the Businesses of the thicket.
90 Larry reused the sleeping Johnr
ry rudely. "Firehead. get up. and tell n
rn what you think of It," he commando
m Johnny. roughly disturbed fro