Arizona republican., 1914-07-24

closed her eyes purposely, opening them abruptly. fighting for light, aghast with the terror of being lost in this strange wild country withou, power of sight. She dared not reach out for fear of having her conjecture con- hrmed.
 She lay sti! and silent. fighting against her self. slowly working up courage even as she re- constructed events preceding her wakening to find herself in this predicament. Gradually 1t all came hack to her. the squeal of the horse as the ground grew soft beneath his hoOfs and, with his rider. Le plunged down into this black hole. Swiftly with the recollection etching itself in every detail upon her mind in one picture of phosphorescent light. her hands sought her bosom and, with little groan of utter misery, she gave way 10 uncomfortable sobs.
 The reaction did her good, worked wonders with her. In that spell of self pity. father, home, sweetheart. everything was forgotten before the horror of her predicament. Finished with 1t. she gathered every faculty mental and phy- sicaL and scrambled to her feet Above her. as she lifted her eyes, she made out streak of light thrcaded between aisles of dense leafiness-- the sun piercing home into the jungle St@ moved forward. her hands before her, groping. Something soft and motonless and so still 1t caused her 10 shudder met the toe of her boot She drew back in swift alarm. knowing 1t to be the body of the horse she had ridden, great feeling of gratefulness at her own escape from r similar fate warming her through and through
 Mastering the innate repulSion within her she stepped upon the corpse. her hands reaching up and finding the smooth edge of the hole that had been dug across the roadway 10 entrap her. Her fingers found the roots of tree roots so stout they bore her weight. For a moment she waited. gathering her failing strength for the supreme effort. Then she sprang up, gathering her knees under her, relaxing slightly before put ting forward every ounce of her strength and drawing herself slowly. deadly slow, toward the warm surface of the road.
 For inst moment she lay here, half upon the road. her toes dangling over the pit, feeing the nortrirgnrss there. Then she scrambled to arf dlSheVeiiet and her.
 Ahou. ner. on every side. the jungle treathed. loathso,re, fetid, horrible. Like some giant monster il seemed to spread its myrlad t.ntaclas in every direction barring egress, fast eninr upon the who chanced to stray within it, sucking al ones very vtas. Riotous vegeta- ton about. trees fighting their heads to the ar and dwarfng weaker ones who, instead of sue cumbng twined but the closer to the conquerer and shot out creepers that fastened about the trunks and, reaching the lower branches sent down showers of vines that made passage inn penetrable. Wondrous colored orchids peered with their wickedlv malicious human faced petals from out the branches of these trces shaking their truncated bodies in diabolical glee at the girls predicament Chattering monkeys and bril- iantlv plumaged birds with horrid. squeaking voices made mock of her scampering about aloft, always out of possible danger zone from this strange being beneath them, yet never ceasing to mock and jeer.
 But no odds how bleak the prospect how for
 
 when one has just glmpsed greater danger and averted it. Lucille had known within the ouarter hour the horror of blindness and her heart leaped high with joy at being able to see these things. In this same jungle with her. in quite as bad a predcament was Hugo Loubeque and with Hugo Loubeque were the papers she had fought so hard to recover. She laughed aloud. her voice trlling note so foreign to this black abode that even the animal life was sil- enced in amaze She had conquered the air, fire, the wireless lightning, the waves, savages, the jungle to take away these stolen documents from a man whose identity at first, she had nor even known. And all these things had seemed to kneel before her. intent upon doing her bidding. And should she fear now, should she hesitate for one instant should she doubt but that an out iared Providence would continue to aid her in x the greatest hour of need?
 The thought braced her az would douse Of cold water To right, to left, before her and be Lind was naught but jungle. Which way should she turn to come across the international spy? She felt the amulet about her neck with nervous. plucking fingers as though seeking to read the answer there. Safety lay behind, back along the trail in the village of the chief who had so reluctantly permitted her to answer the trumped- up message from his neghbor. But she did not wish safety. She wanted the papers and civiliza- ton Before her thread of trail debouched thai must lead somewhere. but Hugo Loube1us