Arizona republican., 1914-07-10

such task she had laid out for herself, the way was so stormy and beset with thorns. But she could not lose. She must get back to Manila and clear her sweetheart of the charge against him.
 At times the task seemed impossible and there was no language for her misery save moan. Then she would take fresh brace as the picture of Lieutenant Gibson before her. stern mas terful, every inch man while her father was accusing him of betraying his country for money.
 It was on the eighth day she was awakened from one of the maps she had accustomed herself to taking by the girls turning on her pallet and regarding her out of eyes that held the light of sanity in lieu of the delirum it had seernc impossible to combat Lucille rose quickly, her hand feeling the stcadying puse smoothing the forehead that had been so feverish before.
 Slowly, very slowly, under the abrupt relaxa- tlon of the strain under which she had been, h knees sank from under her and beside the bed of rushes she knelt, shaking with ncoherent sobs, filled with joy so great the tears refused to 1ow
 How long she knelt she did not know, never to know But inerciful slumber came to her and she was awakened by the tender touch of calioused hand upon her shoulder. Startled she sprang to her feet, then laughed at her alarm as she looked at the Chief and saw from the express sion upon his face that he knew his child was out of danger.
 She turned to the patient, still sleeping. Yes no one could fail to that the crisis was reach ed and passed. The girls emaciated bosom rising and falling evenly, the breath coming with none or the e1fOrt that had racked the fragile frame before. And the black fever spots upon the brown cheeks had disappeared.
 From outside came sudden clash of sound, a rppling, drumming sound that diminished to almost an echo only to rise slowly, gradually into perfect thunderous There something musicaly triumphant about it which seemed to her to gibe with the majestic tones of a huge organ Fascinated Lucille listened to the barbaric music, suddenly becoming that the old Chief was standing motionless beside the hut ODeQinO. his face emOtiOuleSs for the pe3m of gratitude that suffused his eyes.
 Slowly his right hand reached out. his head slowly bending in obedience. Lucille wonderingly placed her fingers upon the forearm of the man and emerged into the open, her eyes rounded in wonderment at the sight that greeted her.
 Gorgeously caparisoned in scarlet and gold, back, bronzed native astrde his head, lsnet the huts stood the natives, their wide shields held across the forcarms of their right hands while they drummed out the chorus she had observed before by shaping their spears against the tightly drawn surfaces. The old Chief stood motionless besides the elephant and she realized slowly that he meant for her to take the seat.
 She shook her head in negation. She was too utterly tired and out to do anything. Be- stepped toward her, unwinding curiously shaped amulet from about his neck. Came 8 crowding forward of the natives from every d- rection, the men in the forefront, the women and children in the rear. Something in the silence that succeeded the drumming noise, in the sober faces of the orderly throng surrounding her made