River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-09-03
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he told himself. But how?" At
times in bordering the question he
| would grow SO enraged that he thought
! of taking them from her by sheer
force. But always there was her face.
| the face OF her mother whom he had
loved, still loved in memory. to rise up
and deter him. No, she must be trick
ed into disclosure of the precious docu-
ments herself
That she carried them upon her per-
son he knew. The scheme he had
worked out through the evil eyed ma
| tive be had picked up in the jungle
and frightened into superstitious awe
and implicit obedience had shown him
that much. The big snake working
his sinister length through the thatch-
ed roof of her hut had frightened her
away sufficiently long time for him
to make such a search as permitted of
no hiding place for them.
His native had brought him word of
the way Lucille had saved the chiefs
daughter from death and In conse
quence been presented with the sacred
amulet Of the country. He realized
that the ignorant sayages regarded her
as something In the nature Of deity.
They would permit no harm to befall
her so long as she remained with them.
Night had long since fallen when he
stirred from his motioness position.
before the somber light was burned
from his eyes by the kindling fame of
action. While no visible symbol be
trayed exultation, there was stealthy
sureness to his stride that showed he
was about to work, that the time for
reflection was past.
Get up!' he told his savage follower.
The native swiftly rose and waited
his commands. Fear still lay heavily
upon him because of his two failures.
and he was willing to dare anything
now, risk even the proclamation of the
sacred amulet. rather than face again
the fame of this mans wrath, this
man he had stumbled across upon the
beach and who, though helpless, had
spat at him farther than his blow pipe
could carry and shivered the spear as
he held it uplifted in his hand. ad-
vancing with murderous design upon
the man. A small glittering thing of
metal was the weapon of this man.
yet he had seen giant lion drop dead
when his master raised it and threw
it's barking voice of orange flame
through it.
Swiftly Loubeque strobe through the
fvaIy o& hn inn oI0 hn4
med them in until he came to scarce
ly penetrable wall of creepers, swung
like giant hammocks between the trees,
twisting and writing about them
selves in hopeless confusion, all de-
irving sustenance from the stunted
trunks to which they chung. More like
great ropes of corded hemp they were
than anything else. their thick surface
covered with fuzzy hairs. 1t was the
creeper Loubeque had noticed the ma
tive using when he wished to start the
nights fire, twisting about a hard.
sharp pointed stick against the un-
yielding surface of the creeper till the
friction started fame. Now he point
ed to the wall of creepers, indicating
how much he wished.
But half an hour sufficed to satisfy
the spy, and, without more than nod
he turned and moved swiftly back to
the hut. There he superintendent the
splicing of the sections of creepers and
binding together in such fashion they
should make rope fully 100 feet long
The last fragment of the material was
used, and he stared at the giant coil
speculatively. At curt word of com
mand, Cor the native glided noise
lessly from the hut, one end of the
| rope in his hand.
Foot by foot, coil at time, the pile
of creeper before the international spy
unfolded itself, the while he prevent
| ed any knotting. The heap upon the
hut floor had almost disappeared be-
fore the constant vibrations ceased and
be knew the savage had finished his
part OF the work. He was still smiling.
grimly now, when the native returned,
and he commanded him to fire the end
| that was within the hut. Then Hugo
Loubeque stepped swiftly out the open
| ing and strobe along the line of creep
er rope that wound like some unbe
lievable monstrous serpent through the
lush grass and shrubbery until he came
within few yards of Lucille's hut
He halted, screening himself from the
chance observation of some prowling
native by hiding in the shadow of a
/ great tree that faced her abode.
| From far away, back in the direction
/ from which he had just come there in
] the blackness of the jungle tip. a
strange winking star seemed suddenly
! to twinkle upon the ground. fade for
a moment, then dance swiftly forward
toward him. At times the flame would
appear to waver. to be extinguished,
but always it would reappear again.
having made brave progress during
the time of its apparent extinction
Hugo Loubeque suddenly stirred TO an