The Washington times., 1915-10-26
Continued from Yesterday


Only at times her strong Will. her
strong body. rebelled at the thought of
death. Then she would cry out. "Ro-
ueau! Roleauw she would exclaim.
raising her hands; Help. help! Come
to met" But more often than his name,
she invoked that OF another. She heard
her own voice, almost without her own
will, calling aloud for Count Frederick.
the man SO late her enemy. yet 10
ready and so powerful In any time of
stress or danAer!
"Frederickv' she moaned. again and
again. where are you Why do you
not Gomez"
But to all this. only the bowling de-
rision of her captors made answer.
She must. then, die!
In the last moment, OF their caprice.
or in the full time Of their decision.
they hailed her once moro forth from
the hut. up to the brink OF the sacri-
fetal Dit Itself, where now she saw the
awakening flames. Not yet wife OF
widow, she saw herself condemned to
suttee which could have found no favor
In the eyes even Of a heather god. since
she had neither done a wrong nor
owed debt OF duty.
Facing this elimination OF theiI
heather rites. whatever were their pur'
PC ses, their Innocent victim again madt
such battle as she could against her cap
tors. Shrieking. she called again ant
again upon those names WIN wnicI
once she could conture-callcd also upor
the last name spoken by human hearti
in despair. Who shall tell whether oi
not there be higher powers contr3nin.
at this crucial moment there came
rescue, n rescue II might he called.
There burst from the corner or TN
nearby forest a strange. ill-shspen. haii
clad figure, whether or not human KIT,
scarce could tell. II was q man.
Of what once had been a white man
garment. .Brawny. hairy repulsive In
deed, OF gueeural and incoherent speech
he seemed like no white man Kitty Gra,
ever had seen. A swift conviction cam'
TO her that he was demented. that HI
was a lunatic-perhaps preserved from
death by the very reason OF hts lunacy
Whoever or whatever he was. his de
| sign now seemed not unfriendly to thu
victim OF these savage ceremonies al
blows Of his great arms the savage,
who clustered about her. he caught
Kitty up In a gorilla-like embrace. ant
with hoarse cries Of defiance made hi,
way with her to the cover of the woods
The natives did not pursue them
scarce had time to reason. in this new
| terror at the formidable apparitior
which now had her In charge.
Then slowly. finding him not un
friendly. she found time 10 ponder ant
to plan. Certainly this being was. ol
had been. a white man. Certainly h,
could or once could have employed in
telligible speech-might again be abl,
to do so.
But speech of Ineligible sort she di,
nnIp ha h.r
some distance. until at length safe II
the cover OF the forest. he set her down
Kitty looked about her. She foun,
herself In IA situation which she coult
liken to nothing else in all her ex
steep trail down the declivity of ;
| crater-like opening. evidently the moutl
OF great cavern reaching back unde
the nil The opening would not easiI,
nave been guessed by a stranger ii
by In the forest. 1t was. in short tn,
mouth OF one OF the vault-like series o
caVerns formed In the lava rock OF wha
nad once oeen volcanic hill. Below
Wthih. all seemed dark. cold silent. 1
was refuge-though what a refuge
she was rescued-but by what a res
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lie beckoned to her now. and she fol
lowed MIN down the steep slope. Cam
sages. how many. how ,Sng. XII, puS
| coui9 not tell. The sights and sounds O
gay passed away AS though irreyoca bly
let she reasoned that the conduct O
,his man proved his familiarity witt
'hase scenes whatever they might be.
her terrors. in spite of all these adj
o'lonal doubts. she stiil lived Sh,
might have been more disposed To- max,
some effort In her own behalf. had sh,
not ielt fuil upon her that strange op
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human being finding himself deem he
meath the surface of that earth upo,
born to walk.
50 Tar as she could see, her capto
had no plan save that OF safety from
pursuit Ana she still lived-she coul,