Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-07-17

upon a common FOOTING. as 90 ornet
souls. and mate and die 70 be born
again to a new mating and a new life
with its inevitable death.
But you have defed the laws OF life
and death-you have refused to die
and now that we meet again at last 9
hundred thousand years lie between rs
an unbridgeable gulf across which
may not return and over which yoU
may not come other than by the samt
route which have foilowed-tnrough
death and a new life thereafter
Much that the girl said was beyond
NUS comprehension and the most of 1t
without the scope OF his primitive IAN
guage, so that she had been forced to
draw literally upon her twentieth Cen
fury English to I'LL Ia the gap.
Yet the man bad caught the idea In
q vague sort of way; at least that his
Nat-uI was far removed from him be-
cause of a great lapse OF tine that had
occurred while he slept in the cave OF
o. and thst through his own death
alone could be span the gulf between
He placed the butt of his spear upon
the ground. resting the stone tip
against MS heart
Il go, Nat-ul" be said simply. that
may return again as you would have
me"
The girl and the man were so Occu-
pied and engrossed with their own
/ tragedy that they did not note the rest
( less pacing of Terkoz, the wolfhound,
/ or hear the ominous growIs that rum
/ bled from his savage throat as he lock-
/ ed toward the jungle behind them.
/ The searching party from the Grey
/ stroke ranch had come upon Ibn AS
/ wad SO unexpectedly that not d shot
/ had been exchanged between the two
/ parties.
/ The Arabs, pressed from behind by
! the savage Wamb0H warriors. had lit
I orally run into the arms Of the whites
/ and the Wazirt
/ When Greystoke demanded that the
/ white girl be turned over to him at
/ once Lbu Aswad smote his breast and
/ swore that there had been no white
{ girl with them, but one Of the slaves
y
when the whites found thar Victoria
/ had been stolen from Ibn Aswad by
one Of the sheik's lieutenants only a
few hours before they fastened to
scour the jungle in search Of her.
To facilitate their movements and
insure covering as wide a territory as
possible each Of the whites took a few
WaziE and, spreading out in a far
flung skirmish line. beat the jungle in
the direction toward which the slave
had told them AbuI Mukarram had
ridden.
To comb the jungle finely each white
spread his Wazirf upon either side of
him, and thus they advanced, seldom
ia sight OF one another, but always
within hailing distance. And so it hap
pened that chance brought William
Curtiss, unseen, to the edge Of the jun
gle beside the parkIike forest, beneath
the giant trees of which he saw q
tableau that brought him 10 q Sudden
halt
There was the girl ne loved and
sought apparently unframed, and two
donkeys. and the dead body of an
Arab. and the great woIfhound. look
ing toward his hiding place and growl- +
ing menacingly. and before the girl the
savage white man stood.
CurGss was about to spring forward
when he saw the man place the butt
OF his spear upon the ground and the
point against his heart. The act and
the expression upon the mans face pro- /
~ 1T
drew back again. waiting for the per
petration OF the deed that he knew was
coming
A smile OF anticipation played about
the Americans lips.
Victoria Custer, too. guessed the
thing that M contemplated 1t was.
IN accordance with her own raasca-
ing, the only logical thing for the man
TO do; but love is not logical, and when
love saw and realized the imminence
Of its bereavement it cast logic to the
winds, and with little scream Of ter
ror the girl threw herself upon M OF
the Neoceue, striking The spear from
its goal.
mo. mol" she cried. You must not
DO it, cannot let you go! Hove you.
Nu-I love youg"
As the strong arms lnfolded her
once more she gave q happy sigh Of
content and let her head drop again
upon the breast Of him who had come
back out Of the ages to claim her
The man put IN arm about her waist,
and together the two turned toward
the west in the direction that Abul
Mukarram had been fleeing; nor did
either see the white faced, scowling
.ane veha lao nod frar7 rho Sr1,aerIa, l4a
bind them and with leveled rifle took
deliberate aim at the back Of the black
haired giant II
Nor did they see the swift spring of I
the woifhound nor the thing that fol- {
lowed there beneath the breeding ST. {
fence OF the savage jungle. I
Ten minutes later Barney Custer
broke through the tangled wall Of YER ]
lure upon & sight that took his breath I
away. a
There stood the two patient donkeys,
switching THAR tails a nj f4aDufyr~ that ( 2