Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-04-21

stroye TO throw it of. The silence OF
the man oppressed her as well. She
turned to him at last and cried out,
the words wrung from her by the nor
ror of the situation.
Man. man, whence came you? How
are you called? What language do
you speak? Why are you here?"
The sound of her own voice gave her
courage. Waiting for no answer. and
indeed she realized that none could
come, she stepped to the brow OF the
hill where the trees happened not TO
be and raising her voice called and
called and called. There were answer
ing echoes from the jagged crag be-
hind her, but when these died away
there was silence unbroken save by
the queer babbling, %chuckling noises
of the man.
She looked at him with a sudden
sinking of the heart. Had this godlike
creature roaming the woods, this faun
of the island been denied a brain,
articulate speech? Was she doomed
to spend the rest of her life alone in
this paradise of the Pacific with a
harmless mailman forever by her side?
What a situation was that in which
she found herself!
She was a highly specialized product
of the greatest of universities. In
science and in philosophy she was a
master and a doctor. She should have
had resources within herself which
would enable her to be independent OF
the outside world, a world in which
her experience, s~elf-brought, had beer
hitter. in which the last few weeks
had been one long disillusionment
And yet she was now overwhelmed
with craving for companionship, fol
articulate speech, as if she had neVel
looked into a book or given a though
to the deep things Of life. II thi'
man beside her would only do some
thing, say something, be something
rather than a silent satellite foreve
staring in wonder. If she could onl.
solve the mystery of his presence, an
swer the Interrogation that his yer,
existence there alone presented.
Her future, her present, indeed
should have ~engrossed her mind. VIVA
she was to do, how she was to live
the terrible problems in which hi
presence on the island involved he
should have been the objects of he
attention; they should have atforde
food for thought to the keenest {
women. She simply forgot them j
I her puzzled wonder at him. 1t woul
have been much simpler from OF
point of view if she had found II
island ~uninhabited, and yet since I'll
man was human and alive, in spite
her Judgment, her heart was glad thi
he was there.
She motioned to him to sit dow
, and then she sat in front OF him al
studied him. He looked as little Iii
: a fool as like a knave. She could,
y deed, detect no evidence of any lntelle
' tual capacity, but she thought, as s.
Y studied him keenly, that he possess
: unlimited intellectual possibllit1t
. There vas a mind back OF tho
) bright blue eyes, that broad mol
2 brow, but it seemed to her a mi
y entirely ~undeveloped, mind utte'
. latent. Here was a soul, she thoug
- half in fancy, half in earnest, that W
virgin to the world. How wise, h
ID deeply learned she might be she "
face to face with this primeval mol
Could she teach this man anythln
i'd. He seemed tractable, reVerentlal, q
be erential now. knowledge was pow
lily Would it be power with him? CO.
by she open those sealed doors OF
ire mind, what floods would outp'
therefrom, of power, OF passl'
wv. Would she be swept away? 1t N
tered not. She must try. The
MT. pulse seized her to begin now Fix
Log her dark eyes upon him, she poin
1st directly at him with her finger.
al. Man" she said clearly and
lis. phatically.
ted He was always at noA'
MS had scarcely taken his eyes from
J., a since she had seen him In the
xed grass by the shore, but at her gest
her and word his ayes frightened. tn
was that little wrinkling of the b
tn again which she had noticed, outW
and visible sign Of an inward attel
ely, at comprehension.