The log cabin Democrat., 1914-10-16

ground of thick shadow behind him. But there was an ominousness of pur' pose about his very movement, about the long. gliding shadow of him. that told her instinctvely who 1t was
 Simultaneously with the knowledge she beca me aware of the precious sack in her hand She made as though to fee. but something horrible about the ad vancing man deterred her. made her hesitate She felt herself yielding finally to the inevitable. There could be DO possible thwarting of such a one as Hugo LoubeQue. no chance for her a frail. weak girl. to thwart this man.
 With little cry of despair she start ed to flee He was almost upon her when a tall. half naked figure darted to her side She reached out instinc lively and ciutched the friendly bare arm And then she hugged the sack with the papers and diary to her bosom and her lips moved silently.
 Hugo Loubeque had disappeared disappeared as silently. as mysterious ly. as ominously as he had appeared But thwarted. the man only seemed to exercise more cunning. more des pefate remedies. The proofs of her sweetheart's innocence had been close to being taken from her this time. She must not risk such a chance again She must leave this place. must trust DO longer to these people for protec- ton, must trust herself DO longer to the fate that seemed so constantly to look after her She must hide herself away from the master eye Of the spy Wherei IL made DO difference She must hide herself-away. That was all
 All through the remainder of the night Lucille clung to the child she had nursed through her illness And now the situation between the pair was reversed and she. the competent white woman, became the child. while the little brown savage sat beside her si lently all through the night, her hand clasping the trembling one.
 Sleep was out of the question. There could be no sleep while the mighty spy dogged her steps, knew where she was Morning came and passed. the sun striking obliquely down upon the village before she dared even stir out. side the hut. the little daughter of the chief at her side. silent and shy, but al. ways comforting by her presence Lucille felt great desolation upon her. a sense of lighting a useless bat tie that day. A mighty wave of nos talgia seized her in it's grip and she felt she could willingly give over every thing to be back in Manila. But the thought of LoubeQue made her pause She would yet prove to him that un der her fragility was a composition which had needed but the ordeal O, love denied to turn 1t into steel, a stee against which even such a one as HugC Loubeque might hurl himself in vain
 But l must get away from here. she told herself. She determined f. get away immediately. There wa, nothing to gain and everything to los. by remaining here. Primarily she wish ed to find some method of getting bacl to civilization. The papers meant noth Ing to any one save Loubeque here and To 1beque knew where she wa, and his interruptions brain would tint . method of gaining them She mus ret away.
 She was quite positive some diff culty would present itself in makin an escape from the native friend who had fairly idolized her from tn moment of the child's recovery. Br they should be easily eluded.