The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-15

they buffeted one another amiably, and
there was baby who seemed to get in
everybody's way and the grownups
treated him shabbily. BY and by they
too tro,ted off. Then came the wild
pigs and .furtive antelope and foolish,
chatteiing apes.
At last the truce water became de-
serted and kathlyn lay down again.
only 10 hc surprised by a huge ape
who stuck his head up over the plat
form. The surprise was mutual. Kath-
yn pushed the idol toward him. The
splash of it in the water scared off the
unwecome guest. and then kathlyn lay
down and slept.
\ day or so later Bruce arrived at
the temple. Day after day he had hung
to the trail, picking It up here and los
inG Il there. lie found Raia the ele-
plant. the howdah gone. and only the
ornamental hcadpiece discovered to
Bruce that he had found his rogue.
Hajah was docile enough; he had been
domestiCatcd 50 long that his freedom
rather irkcd him.
Bruce elected from the mourning holy
mon the amazing adventure in all its
details. kathlyn had disappeared in
the jungle and not even the tried aunt
srs could find her. She was lost. Bruce.
though in his heart of hearts he be-
licved her dead. took up the trail again.
iiut many weary weeks were 10 pass
ere he learned that she lived.
lie shook his list toward Alfalfa. 20
Dursa Ram. one Of these fine days you
| and | shall squar" accounts"
kathryn had just completed herself a
dress of grass. Three years before she
had learned the trick from the natives
| in Hawaii. The many days of hardship
had made her thinner. but never had
she been so hardy, SO clear eyed. SO
quick and 1.-the in her actions. She had
lived precariously. stealing her food at
| dusk from the fields of the rynts: sugar
cane, raw vegetables, plantains. man
goes. Sometimes she recited verses she
| remembered in order tina, she might
! break the oppressive sllcnCcs which al
ways surrounded her.
She kept carefully out of the way OF
all human beings, so she had lost all
hope of suCcor from the brown people
| who had become so hateful to her as
the scavcngers of the jungle. There
was something to admire in the tiger
the leopard, the wild elephant; but she
| placed all natives, perhaps wrongly, In
II class with the unclean jackals and
| hyenas.
Tanned deeply by wind and sun
kathlyn was darker than many ma.
tive woman. often she thought OF
Bruce. but hope of his finding her hat
long since died within her. Every nigh,
| when she climbed To her platform sh,
vowed she would start south the mex
mornlng-south toward The land wher,
there were white people; hut eaci
morning found her hesitant.
Behind her tree there was a clearing
then tumble of thickly growing trees
beyond those was another clearing upor
which stood deserted elephant stock.
AIDE. The grass had grown rank in /,
Tor want of use. She was in the act OF
putting on grass sandals when she saw
to her dlsmay, the approach of men ant
elephants. Two elephants were r!dder
by mahouts. Two other elephants wer,
being jostled toward the stockade
evidently new captives. They pro.
'e"d"d passively however, for elephant,
submit to captivity with less rea
trouble than any other wild beast. Katb
lyn crouched low In the grass anf
waited TIL men and elephants entered
the stockadc: then she ran quickly tow.
ard her haven, the platform in the tree