The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-10-24

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her fate. b-t OF the contrary led hel
away and eft her alone for time, I
prey 70 he- ON reflections, tie vic
liz OF her OH iGzginztions.
Only zt times her strong viii, hel
strong body. rebelled at the thought
OF death Then she would cry out
"Rolezu. Rolezu,- she would eIcisiu
raising her hands; Help, help. Coue
70 ne But more often than hi
name. she invoked that o. another
She heard her Own voice. almost With
out her Owl ~ill. calling aloud 70,
Count Frederick, the man so late he,
enemy. yet so ready and so powerful
II any tine OF stress or danger,
Frederick, she uoaned. again and
again Where are you' Why do you
not come
But TO all this, only the howlinl
derision OF her captors made answer
She must, then. die,
In the last moment OF their caprice
or il the full time OF their decision
they haled her once more forth from
the hut, Up to the brink Of the sacri
fetal Fit itself, whore now she saw
the awakening flames.
Facing this elimination OF their
heathen rites. whatever we're the!l
purposes. their innocent victim again
made such battle as she could against
her captors. Shrieking she called
again and again upon those names
with which once she could coniure-
called also upon the last name
spoken b. human hearts in despair.
Who shall tell whether or not there
be higher powers controlling circun.
stances such as these? At least, al
this crucial moment there came
rescue. If rescue It might be called.
There burst from the corner Of the
nearby forest a strange, ill-shapen
half-clad figure, whether or not human
Kitty scarce could tell II was a man,
white man. clad in tattered frag
ments OF what once had been a white
mans garment. Brawny, hairy. re
pulsiye indeed Of cultural and inco-
herent speech, he seemed like no
white man Kitty Gray ever had seen.
A swift conviction came 70 her that
he was Gemented, that he was luna
preserved from death by
the very reason OF his lunacy.
Whoever or whatever he was. his
design now seemed not unfriendly TO
tae victim OF these savage ceremonies /
already in progress. Sweeping aside .
with blows OF his great arms :he saw
ages who clustered about her. he .
caught Kitty up in a gorillalike EN-. /
brace, and with hoarse cries OF de- !,
iance made his way with her to the .
cover OF the woods
The natives did not pursue them
Kitty could not tell why. Indeed, she
scarce had time to reason, in this
new terror at the formidable appari.
ton which now had her in charge.
Then slowly, finding him not un.
friendly, she found time to ponder and
TO plan. Certainly this being was, or
had been. white man. Certainly he
could or once could have employed in
.elligible speech-might again be able
20 do So
But speech Of Ineligible sort she
lid not hear. Only he bore her away
% some distance, until at length safe
n the cover OF the forest, he set her
iown.
Kitty looked about her. She found
herself in a situation which she could
iken to nothing else in all her expe-
'ience.
A steep trail led down the declivity
# a craterlike opening, evidently the {
mouth OF a great cavern reaching
Jack under. the hill. The opening
would not easily have been guessed {
" a stranger in those parts, even s
hough passing close by in the forest. |
t was, in short the mouth OF one OF E
he vaultlike series OF caverns formed {
n the lava rock OF what had once
een a volcanic hill. {
Below, within, all seemed dark, cold,
ilent. 1t was a refuge-though what I
refuge She was rescued-but by G
That rescuer, t
He beckoned to her now, and she q
ollowed him down the steep slope
'ame then long stretches Of under b
round passages, how many, how long, T
,itty could not tell. t
At least she lived. In spite of all b
er terrors, in spite OF all these addi i
ional doubts, she still lived She 4
light have been more disposed tc d
lake some effort in her own behalf s
ad she not felt full upon her thai p
TRANCE oppression always expert
need by any human being finding a
imself deep beneath the surface o. n
nat earth upon which, and rot under y
'hich, he was born to walk t
So far as she could see, her captol e
ad No plan save that Of safety from Il
ursuit. And she still lived-she could "
ny so much as that, If no more! tC