The Mena weekly star., 1910-05-19

l oNl dDCu tue SaD( away and presently uncovered it. I appeared to be of silver. It was o sueh a size that she could clasp i aSily in her hand She opened it no Wltnout some difficulty and found with In it-nothing! Well, not exactl, nothing, but certainly that for whicl 'he could see little value. There were several hard pieces of stone of a red. 1lsh color clipped and shaped in curi. ous fashion. She turned the box over and examined it on all sides. There were initials upon 1t, a monogram. She rubbed 1t clean with her hands and studied 1t carefully-"J. R. C." The book and the box had belonged to the same person, John Reven Charnock.
 She laid the box aside and searched the cave further There was abso- lutely nothing else to be seen. Disap. pointed vaguely, although she had ex- pected nothing and had gotten more. indeed, than she might have imagined IT she had thought about it, she laid the book and box down upon the ledge and went ont again. She walked along the sands until she came to the place where she had landed the day be. TOT e The tide was low. She could see the wreck of her boat, partly on the barrier reef and partly in the water. It would have been no trick Tor her 10 swim to it in the stiffness. vel she Lesitated to attempt it. Ger tain V weighted down by all her cloth Ing It was matter of difficulty and inconvenience. If it were not for this man by her sidei She tried to think Of some way to restrain him, keep him away but nothing occurred to her. In. vention was paralyzed by the situation In which she found herself
 Desperately bidding him stay where he was, she went back to the cave She was face to face with a crisis which had to be met Indeed. the question of clothes was becoming a very serious one with her anc sne knew she should have to decide upon some course of action immediately
 For the present, she took off her gar ments, hoping and praying in a shiver Of dread and anxiety. that he would remain where she had left him. which indeed proved the fact. She laid aside all that she had worn except the blouse and skirt, including her sadly worn shoes and stockings Thus light ly clad she came out on the sand again He did not notice any change in her l condition Aa u OT fa oh gave him no time, for she flashed across the sand at full speed and plunged boldly into the smiling water Of the lagoon. He followed her in stantly and swan by her side with scarcely any exertion whatever.
 It was not long before she reached the barrier reef. It stood up foot or two above the water now, the tide be- ing low. and she clambered upon it. The sharp rocks cut her naked and tender feet, unused to such exertions and united to such demands. but she persevered The boat had been beaten to pieces. It had been forced over the reef by the hurl of the sea The stern had been wedged in between some projecting rocks. The rest of 1t had been torn away and had fallen into the lagoon. There was no wind, the sea was unruffled She could see as if through a glass the wrecked re- mains of the boat. There was nothing In 1t except the battered motor, use .ess for days before she landed, since her supply of gasoline had been ex- hausted Everything else had been deeper recesses Of the lagoon where they were inaccessible to the human vision.
 Stop! Under what remained of a piece of thwart she caught a little gleam of metal. Calculating the dis tance nicely, she plunged in and dove. Keeping her eyes open she easily found the piece of metal. dislodged it from the place where it had fallen and came to the surface with 1t. It was a sailors sheath knife with a bit of lanyard fastened to 1t. She had had a fancy to wear it in her sailors blouse and she had missed it since she had come ashore.
 Hut there was nothing else in the boat, not a thing; nothing on the bar rier reef She tried to pull the stern away where 1t had been wedged, but found that impossible She tugged at 1t valiantly, but could not move 1t. In despair she turned to the man who had watched silently as usual and pointed. He seemed to understand, for he came and with great effort lifted the torn part of the boat from the rocks and laid it down at her feet. She threw it into the water where. of course, as 1t was wood. 1t foated easily. Then, with a nod to him she plunged in and together they guided 1t to the shore. he taking his cue from her action.
 She had a fancy to test his strength and she managed to convey to him by signs, mainly by trying herself in vain to pull it apart, what she wished him to do. The impossible to her was child's play to him. and in moment the several pieces of the boat which made up the stern were scattered on the beach. There was one straight piece which went across the stern of the boat and made little box for the coxswain to sit in, which would do for shovel It was too wide, but she broke it against a big stone and was possessed of what she wanted The ends were rough and serrated and nnit for her hands, but these she