Arizona republican., 1914-07-31

nothing in calm water much less against this seethiDg whirlpool.
 Instead of dulfng her brain, the very use lessness of her efforts quickened every faculty tuned up her natural instinct for life. Quite abruptly a suIlen calm visited her, a calm that rested upon her spirit like a soothing balm, quieiing and easing without being soporitic She desisted from her efforts, drawing the paddle handle from the water with effort. Her eyes were alert, burning in their intensity as she looked before her. staring at the rock that seemed inevitably for her gTayestone without the slightest perturbation.
 Round and round in the circles of waters the frail craft sped. The nose of the catamaran spurned the graspng whirlpool aside, seeming to leap joyously at this opportunity for mag nifcent annihilatiOn against the rock instead of being slowly rent to bits by the water it had always conquered. For a brief fraction of a ond the circular progress was halted, the canoe being held steady, quivering another force seized it and tried to fight against the whrl- pool Lucille held her breath, measuring the length of time a new hope arrived in hours in stead of the seconds it really Then the craft shot out of the current and continued upon its wild chase toward the rock.
 It matter of but two revolutions at best before the end. Lucille saw this with eyes that finched not yet that refused to hold any dread. Half way round the circle in- stinct from within caused her to lift the paddle end. thrusting 1t out even as she closed her eyes against the contact with the rock that seemed
  hands as it crushed against the monstoR rock, tearing it from her grasp with such force that an involuntary cry issued simultaneously from her lips.
 She crouched back a-shudder her eyes closed against seeing the end, her lips opening and clos ing without the blessed relief of words. Once more the current that had withheld the craft reached out and fought against the whirlpool. Lucille knew it was useless but even this brief respite seemed worth while. Something sashed apainst her cheek and her hands inStinctlVelV reached up clutching, grasping, cnging to the thick tangle of creepers let down from the en- circling jungle.
 The canoe whirled out from under her while she clung there, the savage water leaping snap ping at her feet. Came crunching to her ears, a sound that made her hold tighter upon the vines. She looked up, reaching at a higher point tn the vine-tangle, a place where the suction of the water might be avoided.
 Desperation loaned her strength Times it seemed she could not draw herself another inch, but one look at the white whirlpool beneath gave fresh energy to her arms Reason came to her aid she her progress taking her to- ward land as well as in the air. For just a sec ond she rested, then bravely reached out and clambered along the thick vine until she saw the earth beneath, then dropped and lay panting upon the ground, shaking with nervous chill as the reaction seized her
 Loud voices wakened her from the state of self pity which followed the chill. She looked up swiftly. that the dense fastnesses encir- cling her were really pregnable fearing new enemy. moment before she in her loneliness and misery would have sacrificed almost any thing for the sight of human being. Now that che knew men, and men who spoke her own tons que, were within hearing distance she shrank back. afraid
 Fate had been so kind to her and so unknd that she realized her chief danger sim ultaneously with the recollection of what she had to guard. She clutched at the little sack, thrilling at the rustic of the papers she had fought so hard to gain, at thought of what they meant to her sweetheart in Manila. The diary told her that Hugo Loubeque had thousands of men working to do his will She must be very wary of whom she trusted. Better the jungle than Loubeque again.
 The shrl protesting creak of locks drove away her fear, supplanting it with one of wild alarm The men were going away, were leaving her alone here. She had chosen this jungle where she knew Hugo Loubeque to be in preference to a fairly certain chance of escape Of the millions of inhabitants of the globe why should she think every man 8 worker of the spy ;