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no matter what the reason for it?
But now they added the last touc
OF cruelty in their torture of her, tina
| OF delay. They did not carry her, r,
signed to the worst, at once to NEE
her fate; but on the contrary led he
away and left her alone for a time,
prey to her own reflections, the vic
tim OF her own imaginatfons.
Only at times her strong will, he
strong body, rebelled at the though
of death. Then she would cry out
"Roleau! Roleau!" she would exclaim
| raising her hands; 'Help, help! Com,
to mel" But more often than hi
name, she invoked that Of another
She heard her own voice, almost with
out her own will, calling aloud fol
Count Frederick, the man so late he1
enemy, yet so ready and so powerful
In any time of stress or danger!
frederick" she moaned, again anG
again. Where are you? Why do yor
not Gomez"
But to all this, only the bowling
derisfon 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 more forth from
the hut, up to the brink of the sacri-
fetal pit itself, where now she saw
the awakening flames.
Facing this elimination of their
heather rites, whatever were their
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 couture
called also upon the last name
spoken by human hearts in despair.
Who shall tell whether or not there
be higher powers controlling circum-
stances such as these? At least, at
this crucial moment there came a
rescue, If rescue it might be called.
There burst from the corner of the
nearby forest strange, ill-shapen,
halfclad figure, whether or not human
Kitty scarce could tell. 1t was man,
a white man, clad in tattered frag-
ments of what once had been a white
pulsive indeed, of cultural and inco-
herent speech, he seemed like no
white man Kitty Gray ever had seen.
swift conviction came to her that
he was uemented, that he was luna
.ic-perhaps preserved from death by
he very reason of his lunacy.
Whoever or whatever he was, his
1esign now seemed not unfriendly to
he victim Of these savage ceremonies
lIready In progress. Sweeping aside
With blows of his great arms the saw
lges who clustered about her, he
taught Kitty up in gorillalike en-
'race, and with hoarse cries of de-
lance made his way with her to the |
over of the woods.
The natives did not pursue them
Kitty could not tell why. Indeed, she |
carce had time to reason, in this |
ew terror at the formidable appari-
ion which now had her in charge.
Then slowly, finding him not I'M
r1endly, she found time to ponder and
D plan. Certainly this being was, or
ad been, a white man. Certainly he
Ould or once could have employed in
eligible speech-might again be able
} do so.
But speech Of ineligible sort she
i'd not hear. Only he bore her away
some distance, until at length safe
| the cover of the forest, he set her
own.
Kitty looked about her. She found
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ken to nothing else in all her expe-
ence.
A steep trail led down the declivity
craterlike opening, evidently the
outh of a great cavern reaching
tex under the hill. The opening
ould not easily have been guessed {
2 stranger in those parts, even {
ough passing close by in the forest.
was, in short, the mouth of one of {
e vaultlike series of caverns formed
the lava rock of what had once
en- a volcanic hill. 7
Below, within, all seemed dark, cold,
ent. 1t was refuge though what I
refuge. She was rescued-but by e
nat a rescuer! t
ne UeChOH0U TO ner now, and she d
lowed him down the steep slope.
me then long stretches of under b
ound passages, how many, how long,
tty could not tell. t
At least she lived. In spite of all b
r terrors, in spite of all these addi- i
nal doubts, she still lived. She f
ght have been more disposed to d
Ike some effort in her own behalf, s.
d she not felt full upon her that p
ange oppression always expert
ced by any human being finding a
nself deep beneath the surface of n
1t earth upon which. and not under y
ich, he was born to walk tt
80 far as she could see, her captor 81
no plan save that of safety from tt
suit. And she still lived-she could W