The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-02-14

The boy was sitting down and groan
ing, his arms clasping his bent knees
his head dropped forward and rolling
painfully back and forth. For fear of
poison, Sheldon had Immediately scarf.
fed the wound and injected perman-
ganate of potash; but in spite of the
precaution the shoulder was swelling
rapidly.
well take him on to where Tudor
is lying" Joan said. THE walking
will help TO keep up his circulation
and scatter the poison Adamu Adam.
you take hold that boy. Maybe he will
want to sleep. Shake him up. II he
sleep he die"
The advance was more rapid now.
for Binu Charley placed the captive
bushman In front OF him and made
him clear the runway OF traps. Once.
at sharp turn where a mans shout
der would unavoidably brush against
q screen of leaves the bushman dis
played great caution as he spread the
leaves aside and exposed the head of a
sharp pointed spear. so set that the
casual paSserby would receive at the
least nasty scratch.
The sun sinking behind lofty west
ern peak brought on an early but lin
gering twilight. and the expedition
plOdded on through the evil forest
the place of mystery and fear, Of
death swift and silent and horrible
of british appetite and degraded In
stinct. of human life that still wallow-
ed in the primeval slime. of savagery
degenerate and abySmal.
They turned aside from the runway
at place Indicated by Binu Charley
and came TO an immense banyan tree
half an acre in extent that made in
the innermOSt heart of the jungle a
denser jungle Of its own. From out Of
its black depths came the voice OF Il
man singing in Il cracked eerie voice.
MY word. that big fella marster he
no diev'
The singing stopped. and the voice.
faint and weak. called out hello
Joan answered. and then the voice ex-
planned:
I'm not wandering. | was just sing
ing to keep my spirits up. Have You
got anything TO eat?"
Tudor, having pulled through the
fever and started to mend. was still
frightfully weak and very much Starv-
ed. So badly swollen was he from
mosquito bites that his face was I'M
recognizable. Joan had her own Oint-
ments along and she prefaced their
application by fomenting his swollen
features with hot clothes. Sheldon
with an eye 10 the camp and the
preparations for the night. looked on
and felt the pangS of jealousy AT ev-
cry contact OF her hands with TudOr's
face and body. Somehow. engn ced in
their healing ministraIionS. they no
longer seemed To him boys hanlS.
The mornings action had been set.
tied the night before Tudor was to
stay behind in his hanyan refuge and
gather strength while the expedition
proceeded. On IN" far Chan"e that
they might rescue even one solitary
survivor of Tudor'S party. Joan was
fixed in her determination to push on.
With Tudor, Adams Adam and Arahu
were to stop as guards.
Binu Charley led the way. by proxy,
however. for by means of the poison
ed spear he drove the captive bush
man ahead. They plodded on, pant
An N htImiI n
nant air. They We're immersed in a
sea of wantOn, prodigal vegetation.
Caught by surprise fifteen feet in
the air above the path in the forks of
a many branched tree. bushman
dropped ike shadow. naked as on
his natal morn. II was hard for them
TO realize that II was man. for he
seemed weird jungle sprite. IA goblin
of the forest. Only Binu Charley was
not perturbed. lie lung his poisoned
spear over the head OF the captive at
the fitting form. II was a mighty
cast, well intended, but the shadow.
leaping. received the spear harmlessly
between the legs and. tripping upon
1t. was flung sprawling. Before he
could get away Binu Charley was
upon him. clutching him by his snow
white hair. He was only young man
and n dandy at that. his face black
ened with charcoal his hair whitened
with wood ashes, with the freshly
severed tail Of wild pig thrust
through his perforated nose and two
more thrust through his ears. His
only other ornament was necklace
OF human finger bones AT sight OF
their other prisoner he chartered In a
high querulous falsetto. with pucker'
ed brows aud troubled. wild animal
eyes. He was disposed OF along the
middle OF the line. one Of the Poonga'
Poonga men leading him at the end
OF length Of bark rope.
"Close up he stop" Binu Charley
warned them In a whisper
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