Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-27
CHAPTER xxxVIlI.
A Brides Revolt.


Then he nodded.
Well do it," he returned. Tell
that beast out there to bring the
white girl in
Ponto turned and ran waddling out
side the gates. He gave a brief COM
mand to the brute and at the word
the brute seized Annette and held her
high upon his shoulder. At another
work of command the brute marched
toward the gate and entered it.
The high priest stood quivering,
watching the approach of Annette and
the brute. The four Aztecs in fam.
ing red robes darted forward and held
out quivering hands toward Annette.
Give her to them,' cried the priest.
Give her to them," commanded
Hernandez.
But the brute, his feet planted wide
apart, stood his ground.
Hernandez sprang toward him, an
grily seized the ever-ready whip from
Ponto's hand and lashed the brute
tiercely. He nodded to the four Grim.
son-clad men and they tore Annette
roughly away and dragged her to the
temple. Neal hurled himself at the
four acolytes, but Hernandez dragged
him back.
Neal was then thrust into dungeon
and its door was locked.
Meantime within the temple things
were happening. Annette found her.
self in an apartment gorgeously fur
nished with Aztec tapestries. Two
old women-toothless ugly-women
with boards, attended Annette, chuck
ling and mumbling to themselves in
glee. They produced from the re-
cesses of the temple dress, gorgeous,
bizarre. They draped it upon Annette's
slender form. They hung her head,
neck and arms with glittering orna-
ments, and then they beckoned to her
and led her to window, and pointed,
chuckling, through it.
Annette knew not what they said,
but Ponto without distinguished easily
the meaning of the high shrill tones.
"The sun god waits-is waiting for
his bride"
Annette's glance travelled past the
sun god. She started back in horror.
Into that seething pit beyond the
acolytes were casting huge quantities
of fuel-pouring the contents of huge
jars of oil upon the flames. Her glance
travelled still beyond, and across an
Mt oh
window and the white face of Neal.
He waved his hand. And then strong
hands were placed upon her shoulders
and she was lifted from I.er feet and
half dragged, half carried out Of the
temple into the center of the clear
space before the sun god. The cere-
mony had begun.
Neal tore his glance for a moment
from this scene and examined his cell.
There was a window at his back
a heavily barred window. He seized
the bars in desperation and found to
With superhuman effort, he thrust
the bars outward, leaped through the
aperture and darted swiftly into the
Jungle; then he looked about him for
a tree and found the one he wanted.
1t was high tree, very high. He
climbed 1t swiftly-climbed it to its
topmost branches. Cruising slowly
off the shore-and the shore was not
very far away-was his cruiser AL
bany.
He braced himself among the
branches with his feet, ripped off
his shirt, tied it by the arms about
a broken branch and signaled to the
ship.
Within the walls Ponto, still terror
stricken with the sun gods anger,
turned his back for a moment upon
that deity and upon that deitys high
priest Then suddenly he saw some
thing. In the top of a high tree without
the walls there was wNite rag fiut-