Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-04-28
CHAPTER Il-continued.

u next tnlng d remembered. Sne
was enclosing her eyes as she had
done early in the morning and the
man was still watching by her side.
She had been SO utterly wearied by
her strange adventure, by her long
wrestling with thirst and starvation
in the open boat that before she knew
1t WEAKNESS overcame her. He had
watched by her side without molesting
her. 1t was late in the evening now.
The problem of the night had to be
faced. This time the man took the
initiative. He walked along the shore
a little way and then looked back at
her, and repeated the process once or
twice as a dog might have done who
was DESTROYS of bringing his master to
/. some appointed place. Understanding
she rose and followed him. He led her
along the sands now Swallowed by the
tall palms until they came to the rivu-
let, where she stopped and drank once
more. They passed it, he plunging
bodily through its shadows; she leap
ing from rock to rock until she reach
ed the other bank. He went swiftly
around the face of the cliff. AS she
passed the point she saw that 1t
curved suddenly inward away from
the shores into a sort of amphitheater
and fair in the center of the face she
perceived an opening. He halted there
and entered fearlessly, she following
The cave was roomy and spacious
at least it seemed so in the fading
light. In the morning when the sun
shone through the opening, it would
be flooded with daylight, but now
when the sun was sinking behind the
hill, it was quite dark. 1t was dry
and clean and apparently empty. The
man stood looking at her smiling, a.
least there was a suggestion OF {
smile upon his lips. He was noddins
his head. She understood that hi
lived there. The dog had come bacl
to his kennel and had taken this &C
quaintance there, too.
1t would be a good place to pass thu
night. The night had to be passet
somewhere. How, was the problem
She had little fear of any savage ami
mails on the island. There had beef
no evidence Of them observed in he
progress; the man himself was test
mony to immunity of attack from tina
source. Had it not been for him, sh
could have lain down in that cav
with quiet confidence and slept witt
out apprehension of molestation, bu
he complicated the issue.
Twice he had watched by her asleeI
but that was in the broad daylight
When darkness came, what then? He
heart was filed with terror. She wa
suddenly afraid of the dark, a childis
fear at which her soul would hav
Knocked in other days and under othe
conditions. But now she was a pre-
to vivid apprehension and the nigh
was coming on with the swiftness
the tropics. She was glad that sh
: had slept through the long afternoon
. She would endeavor to keep awaE
during the night. She must turn th
dog out of his kennel and occupy ths
herself. How was she to enforce he
will under the circumstances? Sh
could only try.
Man." she said, pointing to tn
door, "go!"
The words conveyed nothing, bl
the gesture meant much. Even to tn
man association with his kind for or
day had effected a revolution in hir
He hung undecided, however, befol
her, while she repeated again an
again her injunction. Finally she toe
him by the shoulder, risking the p
culiar emotions that contact SCENE
to bring to him, and thurst him gent
through the entrance outside. The
she went back into the cave farth'
and waited with a beating heart. 81
could see him silhouetted against Il
twilight standing where she had lie
him. He came toward the door
last and stood in the entrance.
mo. moi" she cried fiercely, prayir
that the note Of terror might be 10
in the imperative tones of her voic
Man, go!"
She stood waiting and he likewis
Mastering her courage at last, 81
went v e to him and thrust him OF
Agar and again the little rama WI
played until by and by 1t became II
messed upon the mind of the m:
that he was to stay out and she W
to stay in. He came no more to =
entrance. He stood outside, alot
looking in, although in the grown
darkness he could not see her.
II was the second thing he hi
learned. The first ray Of light in B
dawning consciousness had illumi
ated the ego, the personal, the &C
crete. He was learning now the s.
niacance Of a verb and an abstra
idea was being bred in him and sor
concept Of constraint was entering /
being. The first Of those long chez
that circumstances impose upon frt
dom in order that civilization may |
gin to be was then meeting him ia
10 face. He had slept in that cave, s
imagined, for years, and suddenly
was thrust out. There was no hal
ship in that. except the hardship
the necessity for obedience, II hal
shin that might be. The night W
balmy and pleasant; no shelter v
needed. 1t was the fact that he had
20; that he was subject to anoth
will and purpose; that somethi
higher than himself was oyerruli
him which might be hard It wot
have been hard for the woman. $
thought, however, that the limit
comprehension Of the man might
enable him to realize II.
L. etnnd a long time on the Sa