Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-19

One who had no veil over her face? Yes,
she had ridden to the north"
One dirty native had seen her
before the last going down Of the sun" She
spoke to me. She read from a book She
asked il were the only wife OF my husband
and when l told her was the fourth she
knet and prayed The dirty native woman
spat upon the ground
John Morey's face was white as he listened
That way?" he asked the nag She nodded
toward the mountain peak She will not 90
FAR. she exulted TO the Interpreter. "One Of
our women, a princess 10 Europe and
got education. She came back with strange
notions like that She told US We should be
but the one wife OF one man. One day she
was gone. No has ever found her the
hag laughed.
She has not gone far" she repeated
Morley and his little band dashed across the.
stopped not for supper to rest though the
men grumbled that they we're tired. Some.
thing strong inexplicable. compelling. drove
him on AT midnight. he approached the
group Of bouldets at the highest point in the
mountain he understood what had impelled
him. From the shelter OF the rocks came a
cry Of anguish. A womans voice wailing in
the presence OF death
Morley and his little band pushed on. They
huge stones to the source OF the cries turn
OF the largest boulder and they faced scene
that chilled their blood. Two huge halfnaked
head-hunters had gripped the girl by the
shoulders and urging her forward to a
tortuous death
In the centre OF the space surrounded by the
wall OF boulders pit from which pro.
ceeded sound OF the boiling over of
dozen tea kettles. Above it's dark, round edge
open mouths, poison dripping from waiting
fangs Into this Hadean depths the Moros
about to plunge the beautiful missionary.
In the background sat native women with their
fat. brown children, watching the scene with
stolid enjoyment.
Morley, at danger OF hideous death flung
himself between the girl and the kissing execu.
TONERS. blow from the butt end Of his
pistol and one Of the head-hunters was felled
senseless. At his command OF his men
grasped the other Iggorote. third menaced
the women and children and stilled their sum-
mons to neighboring Iggorotes by flourish OF
his revolver Others patrolled the bouldered
walls of what had been nearly chamber OF
death.
shot into the snake pit and the reptiles
slipped back to its depths to inspect their
brothers remains.
Myra Allen lay in a crumpled heap. John
Morley leaned over her his ear upon her heart.
to assure himself that she was still alive.
How the little band OF Canadians carried the
girl down the mountain path in the moonlight.
how her escorts conveyed her to safety, and
how, while she was recovering at the little hut
near the mosque, she abandoned all thought Of,
converting the Mahometans because John
Morley convinced her that 1t was her duty to
regenerate his life. is commonplace beside the :
girls awful peril on that mountain top.
She journeyed to Jolo with her rescuers con- /,
tnued her journey to Manila under the
chaperonage Of deaconess. With the dea.
coness as an impromptu matron the wedding .
was performed by young curate !,
In a villa out of Toxic the bride is trying to :
Danish memories of the tragedy Of the noun.
tain peak from which she was saved by her
bridegroom.