The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-11-10

of the sheik. In an Involuntary geS
ture of protection the Killer threw al
arm about the girls shoulders anC
stood waiting for the Arab to regain
consciousness. For a moment they re
manned thus, then the girl spoke.
"When he regains his senses he will
kill me-" she said in Arabic.
| korak could not understand her. He
| SHOOK his head, speaking to her first
| In English and then in the language OF
| the apes But neither Of these were
| Ineligible to her.
She leaned forward and touched the
hilt of the long knife that the Arab
wore. Then she raised her claSped
hand above her head and drove an i'm
aginary blade into her breast above
her heart.
Korak understood. The old man
would kill her.
The girl came to his side again and
stood there trembling. She did not
fear him. Why should she? He had
saved her from Il terrible beating at
the hands OF the sheik. Never in her
memory had another 50 befriended her.
She looked up into his face. 1t was
boyiSh, handsome face, tut brown ike
her own. She admired the spotted
leopard skin that circled his 1.-the body
from one shoulder to his knees.
And Kora& looked at the girl. He
had always held girls in Il species of
contempt. I3oys who associated with
them were, in his estimation. molly
codGIes. He wondered what he should
do.
lie stood Cor several ,ainutes buried
il Thought Inc girl watched his face.
wondering What was passing in his
mind. She, TOO Was thinking OF the
future.
She feared 20 remain and suffer The
vengeance If The shVih. There was no
one IN all the world 10 whom she
might turn other than this ha.f naked
stranger who had dropped miraculous
IL froln the clouds to save her from
one OF the Sheik'S accustomed beat
ings. Would her new friend leave her
now? Wistfully she gaZed at his in
tent face She moved Il little closer to
him, LAYING slim, brown hand upon
his arm.
The contact awakened the lad from
his absorption. He looked down at
her, and then his arm went about her
shoulders once more, for he saw tears
upon her lashes.
Come" he said, 1.-The jungle is kind
er than man. You shall live in the
Jungle, and korak and Akut will pro-
tect YOU"
She did not understand his words, !
but the pressure Of his arm drawing !
her away from the PROSTATE Arab and !
the tents was quite ineligible. One /
little arm crept about his waist, and
together they walked toward the pail I
SADIE.
Beneath the great tree that had har-
bored korak while he watched the girl
ut play he lifted her in his arms and,
throwing her lightly across his Shout
ders, leapsd nimbly into the lower
branches.
And so Meriem entered the jungle
NAtu
innocence, the stranger who had be-
friended her and perhaps influenced in
her belief in him by that strange in
tuitive power possessed by woman.
The two had gone but Il short dis
tance from the village when the girl
,pied the huge proportions of the great
Akut. With half stitled scream she
chung more closely to Korak and point
ed fearfully toward the ape. +.
Akut, thinking that the Killer was
returning with prisoner, came growl-
ing toward them. A little girl aroused
no more sympathy in the beasts heart
than would a full grown bull ape. She
was stranger and therefore to be
killed. He barred his yellow fangs as
be approached, and to his surprise the
Killer barred his likewise, but he barred
them at Akut and snarled menacingly.
"Ah," thought Akut, ''the Killer has
taken a mate." And so, obedient to
the tribal laws of his kind, he let
them alone, become suddenly absorbed
In fuzzy caterpillar Of peculiarly s
succulent appearance.
The larva disposed Of, he glanced {
from the corner of an eye at Korak. I
The youth hai deposited his burden !
upon large limb. where she chung
to keep from falling.
She Will accompany u.s. said 10
rak to Akut. jerking a thumb in the
direction of the girl. do not harm '
her. We will protect her."
Ahut shrugged. To be burdened by ,
the young of man was in no way to J
his liking He could see from her evil
dent fright at her position on the
branch and from the terrified glances
she cast in his direction that she was
unit.
BY all the ethics of Akut's training
and inheritance the unfit should be I
but if the Killer wished c
his she there was nothing to be done c
about it but to tolerate her. y
Meriem spent an evening and g night G
Il unmitigated terror.