The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1910-03-12

stay in this horrid country for weeks
or perhaps months-unless some ship
comes for us!"
Look here, Miss Leslie" answered
Blake, sharply yet not unkindly; Sup
pose you just sit back and use your
thinker a bit. II you're your daddy's
daughter, you've got brains some
where down under the boarding-school
stuff"
What do you mean, sir?"
Nov, don't get huffy, please! It's
a question of think, not Of putt ,g on
airs. Here we are, worse off than the
people of the stone age, They had
fire and flint axes; we've got nothing
but our think tanks, and as to lions
and leopards and that sort Of thing.
1t strikes me we've got about as many
on hand as they had"
Then you and Mr.. Winthrope
should Immediately arm yourselves"
"How?-But Wen leave that till
later. What else?"
The girl gazed at the surrounding
objects, her forehead wrinkled in the
effort at concentration. I'VE must
have water. Think how we suffered
yesterday! Then there is, shelter from
wild beasts, and food, and"
"All right here under our hands, II
we had fire. Understand"
Il understand about the water. You
would brighten the leopard away with
the fire; and If it would do that, 1t
would also keep away the other ami.
mails at night. But as for food, unless
we return for cocoanu's-"
Don't give 1t up! Keep your think.
er going on the side, while Pat tells
us our next move. Now that he's got
the fire sticks out of his head"
Il say, Blake, wish you would
drop that name. 1t is no harder to say
Winthrope."
you're off, there" rejoined Blake.
But look here, I'll make it Win, If
you figure out what we ought to do
next"
Really, Blake, that would not be
half bad They-er-they called me
Win at Harrow"
THAT so? My English cnum went
to Harrow-Jimmy Scarbridge."
Lord James!--your chum?"
He started in like you, sort of top.
lofty. But he chummed all right-aft-
er took out lot of his British starch
with good walloping."
"Oh, really now, Blake, you can't
expect any one with brains to believe
that, you know"
mo; l don't know, you know,-and
| don't know If you've got any brains,
you know. Here's your chance to show
us. What's our next move?"
Really, now, l have had no expert
ence in this sort of thing-don't in
terrupt, please! 1t seems to me that
our first concern Is shelter for the
night. If we should return to your
tree nest, we should also be near the
cocoa palms"
That's one side. Here's the other.
Bar to wade across-sharks and ALI.
gators; then swampy ground-ma-
laria, mosquitoes, thorn Jungle Guess
the hands of both of you are still
sore enough, by their look"
IF only had a pot of cold cream!"
sighed Miss Leslie.
"If only | had hunk of jerked
beef" echoed Blake.
81 say, why couldn't we chance 1t
for the night around on the seward
face of the cliff" asked Winthrope.
II noticed a place where the lodges
overhang-almost a cave. Do you
think it probable that any wild beast
would venture so close to the sea?"
Cant say. Didn't see any tracks:
so Wen chance it for tonight. Next?"
by morning believe my ankle will
be In such shape that | could go back
for the string of cocoanuts which we
dropped on the beach,"
III go myself, today, else Wen
have no supper. Now we're getting
down to bedrock. If those nuts have
not been washed away by the tue
we're fixed for tonight and for two
meals, such as they are. But what
next? Even the rain pools will be
dried up by another day or So"
Are not sea-birds good to eat?" in
CURED Miss Leslie.
Some"
Then, If only we could climb the
clift-might there not be another
placer"
mo; I've looked at both sides
What's more, that spotted tomcat has
got a monopoly on our water supply.
The river may be fresh at low tide;
but we've got nothing to boil water
in, and such bayou stuff is just con.
centrated malaria"
Then we must find water else.