Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-01-07

| fng red robes darted forward and held
out quivering hands toward Annette.
Give her to Them" cried the priest.
Give her to tiem," commanded
| Hernandez.
But the brute, his feet planted wide
apart, stood his ground.
Hernandez sprang toward him, an
| grily seized the ever-ready whip from
| Ponto's hand and dashed the brute
| fiercely. He nodded to the four Grim
son-clad men and they tore Annette
roughly away and dragged her to the
temple. Neal hurled himself at the
four acolytes, but Hernandez dragged
| him back.
Neal was then thrust into dungeon
and it's door was locked.
Meantime within the temple things
were happening. Annette found her.
| self in an apartment gorgeously fur
nished with Aztec tapestries. Two
old women-toothless, ugly-women
with boards, attended Annette, chuck
| ling and mumbling to themselves in
glee. They produced from the re-
cesses of the temple dress, gorgeous,
bizarre. They draped it upon Annette's
| slender form. They hung her head,
neck and arms with glittering orna-
ments, and then they beckoned to her
and led her to window, and pointed,
| chuckling, through it.
Annette knew not what they said,
but Ponto without distinguished easily
the meaning of the high shrill tones.
1.-THE sun god waists waiting for
| his bride"
Annette's glance travelled past the
sun god She started back in horror.
| Into that seething pit beyond the
acolytes were casting huge quantities
of fuel-pouring the contents of huge
| jars of oil upon the flames. Her glance
travelled still beyond, and across an
| intervening space she saw dungeon
window and the white face of Neal.
| He waved his hand. And then strong
hands were placed upon her shoulders
and she was lifted from her feet and
half dragged, half carried out Of the
| temple into the center of the clear
space before the sun god. The cere-
mony had begun.
Neal tore his glance for moment
| from this scene and examined his cell.
| There was window at his back
| a heavily barred window. He seized
| the bars in desperation and found to
| his surprise that they were loose.
| With Crn0rh1YrnoY1 effort hn fh rlICf
the bars outward, leaped through the
| aperture and darted swiftly into the
| Jungle; then he looked about him for
a tree and found the one he wanted.
1t was high tree, very high. He
| climbed it swiftly-climbed it to its
| topmost branches. Cruising slowly
off the shore-and the shore was not
very far away-was his cruiser AL
| bany.
He braced himself among the
| branches with his feet, ripped off
his shirt, tied it by the arms about
| a broken branch and signaled to the
| ship.
Within the walls Ponto, still terror
stricken with the sun gods anger,
| turned his back for moment upon
| that deity and upon that deity's high
| priest. Then suddenly he saw some
thing. In the top of high tree without
| the walls there was white rag fiut-
| tering to and fro-and something
| more. A man.
Ponto gripped Hernandez's arm and
pointed upward. The face of Herman
| DEE froze. He darted toward the
| reckoning Ponto and the brute he
| darted to the stone wall and with their
aid clambered over it.
Ponto, with considerably less agil-
| ity and with the assistance of the brute,
followed his companion over, and
! the brute in turn, his head and Shout
| ders dashed with Ponto's whip WELD
| ed over the top of the wall, swung
himself over and followed them.
Annette noticed the confusion-was
| the first to see it. Suddenly striking
| an attitude she raised her hand and
arm and pointed toward the white flag
| fiuttering from the tree top. The high
| priest stopped his dronlng and fol-
| lowed the direction of her hand with
his glance. His acolytes stopped and
stared-so did everybody else.
Annette saw her opportunity. Upon
| a standard by her side lay a heavy
| copper scepter. She seized it. 1.-the
as her body was she had inherited
great strength-wonderful agility.
Without a moments hesitation she
swung the scepter viciously about her
| head, dashing the high priest and his
acolytes to the ground, knocking the
| Aztec warriors to right and left. Like
whirlwind she fought her way to-
| ward the gate, slammed it behind her
and sped away.