The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-01

r'-~e close upon the camp she sav some thing about the actions of the native that made her keep very stiII. She caught her breath with little gasp as she saw the man creep noiselessly toward his master and purioin from about his neck the precious bag which carried the papers she had come % far to rescue.
 As he crept away from his victim Lucille slowly rested her feet her whole soul qufvering with delight. for there would be no difficulty with this native compared to the coping of wits and resources with the powerful brain and body Of Loubeque
 LucilIe's trailing of the native was halted abruptly by wild cry of alarm, followed by a loud screecb of pain, the thud of bodies falling heav- fly, a horrid. ripping sound. Dimly she glimpsed the shadowy outlines of a magnificent lion. head lifted as though he listened for some one. his paw reaching out and resting upon a shapeless. grooming mass she knew for the thieving servant Without thought of consequence. with nothing save the primal urge of saving life she leaped across the narrow space that sepeanf
 
 ing the embers right and left. grasping the hardest famed knot of them ail and. darting toward the lion. waved the torch fearlessly.
 The animal uttered a low gro7Vl stood his ground for moment before this menace that darted at him. then tucked his tail between his legs and slunk back into the jungle from which he had appeared so unexpectedly Lu. ciIIe bent over the wounded man, ut. tering a low cry of sympathy as she turned away in terror from the hoEr1- bly, wounded torso Gradually ff dawned upon her that the man was dead, quite dead. She could not real 1ze it instantly; then the voice oe Lou beque's revolver spoke, and she utbaP- ed her warning cry.
 The shot brought everything back t1 her. She was here, not to syMTp even with one wounded to death but to save her sweetheartas honor. She found the sack and looked back t1 where she could see Leubeque ad- vancing
 For just second she paused Then, some impulse governing her. she thFusi the burning knot of wood between, ,taa interstices of nearby Iatticework >Bf vines and slunk stealthily to the right, knowing the spy would folIeW tho light instead of herself. Even as sha watched his movements, gIorying 10 the success of her strategy, her hand pressed against something cold and damp, She looked swiftly down al the stone ruins beside her, along which she had been walking ruins covered with thick tropical vegetation She passed her fingers over the stone she had first encountered. rubbing away the mud and creepers that covered A so completely.
 Suddenly, without the slightest warn ing. she saw the ground moving, mov. ing restlessly as it would move had some monster mole been buTowina beneath its surface. It was moving moving directly under Eouheque. She started back, wide eyed at the spec. tacle of a great stone door suddenly springing wide and hurling the man who had stood upon it to one side com. pleteIy out of her sight She advanc. ed timidly. staring about for sign ot the spy, but he wSs not to be seen. She peered down the black hole that had opened. wonderfngly, half inclin' ed to believe herself in trance. for a flight of stone steps reached up to her reached up from the blackness, blackness which her eyes could noi pierce, try though they would.
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