The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-08-31

smooth edge of the hole that had beea dug across the roadway to endap haEs Her fingers found the roots O9 a 4pee. roots so stout they bore her weight For a moment she easyatted, gx.GheE3ng her falling strength<fOr tho eupcene. effort Then she spEang<upS .Rslf1heE4nS her knees under her. xe1axfue slightly before putting forzaxd evexy. ounce Of her strength and drawing heHel8 to the warm surface,of 4heEoad
 About her on every ,Efds the Jungle breathed, loathsome. Ge23d horrible. Like some giant mensteE fl seBme1 Co spread its myriad tentades Aa every direction. barring egreass 9sGats1ing upon the ore who ehaDca s0 1txay within 1t, sxsalgsat one's yeEsY WEtals, The chatter of moukeys and ths ahxieks of birds dHed the aAE.
 But no odds how RszeaAEefHaG pHcIpect, how foTlOrn the hope 1ua 31s srleels courage renewed when lSoaae Elas suse glfmpsed greater dan and agaEtsd it. LuciIIe had knosE 1ElsgEsEs ter hour the hozrOr oG and her heart leaped high with 5o.Y &t be- ing able to see these &Ezlnens 2 flIls same jungle with her. i'm Qu2tEtsas bad q predicament, was Hngo LGnbeQue.
  pers she had fought 60 hard DO EeSDBeg- She spoke aloud, her xoace44 s note so foreign to this black abode that even the aufnnals s1s Esed in amaze tHe shall net lreeu uetlae 9a- peRs longp' were her words
 The thought braced her a8 8sEoE6 q douse of cold water. To ,r1glls to aeets before her and behind WasAnsE lgl1 1ut jungle. Which way should she turn to come across the sinteEnaffoIaag gpET She felt the amulet a110nE her Hse< with nervous, pIucking, dnsPerA as though seeking to read the angWeE there. Safety lay behind. back aloag the tran in the village oG tue chief who had so reluctantly permitted her to answer the trunped up mGaaSe from his neighbor. But aRS did not wish safety. She wanted tho papsrs and civilization In which direction Co go she must leave to the power that had guided her steps so far. but she knew she must make quick choice
 AS though her question Nas b be answered for her, she noticed tae chat ter Of the monkeys suddenly changing observed wild alarm in their voices. and, looking up, aaw a host. an army of them, hHddled close together then slipping swiftly fa wild disorlleE from tree to tree. Lucille felt a thrill of something more than uneasiness cegus ing upon her as she stared into the blackness to make out the reasoR dor their alarm Swiftly she sllrank back before the blazing balls of Ere that were fastened upon her nrOm the heavy wall of vines and creepeEs.
 Again that cracking Of tv1gs, this time in greater volume. and where be fore but one pair Of wild eyes had stared at her there were noVz many eyes. She recollected the fires her saw age friends had built of nights that the jungle beasts might not disturb them But she had no means Of lighting fire. She was alone with nothing Co assist her save her own ingenuity She retreated slowly, fear hanging upon her feet, holding her back even as low grovls indicated that her retreat wss observed and would probably be taken for sign of fear
 At the sound the trees were shaken violently by another rush Of the little tres men. It gave her an 1dea instant g. Even as the eyA grew ra1racu- lousry into long, graceful bndies In ellie reached up and grasped the tl1lclE walls of c1seepers dangling rcln a eslant Hunked tree. Came a rush % Galent and sure footed she could hear but the faint pat. pat of the leOpard's feet fol lowed by .a hc&yy ezSck of 5ayE. h. stfncfiveiy nhe Grew her fsst up uD8eT her and. felr lending tmpeEEA tO her movements, clambered swiftly up the vines until the welcome cr0tch 0G the tree supported her.
 Higher and higher she climbed until the terrifying Eight of the leopar6s encircling the tree YVES slaut from her eyes by the heavy foliage bmesth, climbed until her muscles ache6. SGlanb- ed until even the crunchtng Of tVFiga beneath failed to reach up Go her.
 Beneath her swayad Ghs jungle. Above her 6ickered a nayFIais ce Eza1zs Like peepholes in some greE& tssa6eE curtain they were through which the master player might watch what y7as going on in his world They thrilled Lucille with their familiarity. So long she had been hero in this jungle ahe seemed to have forgotten the exisbence of stars, regarded them as old fyiendE. These same stars that looked down upon her now were looking down upOn Manila. upon her father, upon her sSEeeb' heart These same stars were ca1clea of truth that would not, could not, uD- blushingly look upon such disaster as threatened her being coasum matet.
 And then her eyes were halted, stay' ed in their review of the starr by the sight of long, thin spiral q smoke rising and reaching up toward the Ntars in wispy hagIlity. It caHs from miles to the westward. But Ein- cKlle knew that smoke for fire and the Aneto De that lighted by human hands,
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