The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1912-03-22
but Sheldon knew that the shaft had
gone home.
CHAPTER Xxx.

""HAT fella boy he SICK" Binu
Charley said. pointing to q
Poonga-P Oonga man whose
shoulder had been scratched
by an arrow an hour before.
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
p~recaution the shoulder was swelling
rapidly.
"We'l take him on to where Tudor
is lying" Joan said. 1.-THE walking
will help to keep up his circulation
and scatter the poison. Adamu Adam
you take hold that. boy. Maybe be will
want to sleep. Shake him up. II be
sleep he die" -. I.
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 a sharp turn where a mans shout
der would unavoidably brush against
a screen of leaves. the bushman dis
played great caution as he spread the
leaves aside and exposed the head Of a
sharp pointed spear. SC set that the
casual passerby would receive at the
least a nasty scratch. .
The SUI sinking behind a lofty west
ern peak brought on ar 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 a 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 a
man singing in a cracked eerie voice.
"My word. that big fella marster he
no die"
The singing stopped. and the voice,
faint and weak. called out a hello
: Joan answered, and then the voice ex-
planned:
I'm not wandering. I was just sing
. ing to keep my spirits up. Have YOU
got anything to eat?"
I 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 un
: recognizable. Joan had her own oins
. ments along and she prefaced theil
application by fomenting his swollel
features with hot clothes. Sheldon
!, with an eye to the camp and th'
preparations for the night. looked o.
. and felt the panRs of Jealousy at ev
= cry contact Of her hands with Tudor
face and body. Somehow. engaged i
their healing ministrations. they n
= longer seemed to him boys hands.
! The mornings action had been set
! tied the night before. Tudor vas (
stay behind in his banyan refuge an
gather strength while the expeditio
). proceeded. On the far chance this
they might rescue wen one solitar
survivor of Tudor's party. Joan wa
fixed In her determination to push o.
With Tudor. Adamu Adam and Arab
Y were to stop az guards.
kinu Charley led the way. BY prox
however. for by means Of the poiso
ed spear he drove the captive bus
4 man ahead. They plodded on. pan
ing and sweating In the humid. sta
III nant air. They were Immersed In
sea of wanton. prodigal vegetation.
Caught by surprise fifteen feet
the air above the path In the forks
III q many branched tree. a bushm'
Al dropped IKE q shadow. naked az
his natal morn. 1t was hard for the
III to realize that 1t was a man. for
Y seemed q weird jungle sprite. q COB
:. Of the forest. Only Binu Charley "
. not perturbed. He flung his poison
spear over the head Of the captive
"A the iitting form. 1t was*a migh
N cast. well intended. but the shade
A leaping. received the spear harmless
N between the. legs, and. tripping up
u Il, was hung sprawdng. Before
could get away Btu Charley Y
III upon him. clutching him BY his IN
NV white hair. He vas only a young n
" and a dandy at that. his face bia'
sned with charcoal. his hair whittier
With wood ashes. With the fres'
y severed tail Of . wild pig thr'
through his perfors ted nose and {
:" more thrust through his ears
only other ornament was a neckh
Of human finger bones. At sight