Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1920-05-21
CHAPTER X.

From that day Andrea'a henlth be-
gan TO mend with tremendous rapldity.
Trevor never tired OF watching her;
never ceased to wonder at u recovery
so rapid that Its duly transitions were
visible. II reminded him OF n Of the
mnrvels OF his boyhood. An old man
had said to him one dawn, "Henr the
corn growing. sonny1" and he laughed,
w%hereupon the granddad had taken
him by n n and marched him to
the nearest furrow. "Pick out n stalk
and watch II, you little e%gg-sucker,"
he commanded. "See It grow. II you
can't hear"
Andren was like that she was I'M
furling MS though In the morning OF n
new youth. Never had her yes been
brighter, never her cheeks so quick
to play with fire. Incidentally. she wae
full of n devil OF mlschlevous remin-
lscent innuendo.
TITS all n great Joke now, young
lady" Trevor would defend himself,
'but II you'd seer whnt have OF per-
nlcious malaria, you'd keep grave for
u year. I've seen three Swahllis that
had nourlshed mosquitoes from their
youth up, full like dogs, one after an
other, within Il mile and u half OF an
infected camp and the best of them
went stone blind for n MONTH"
"Did you nurse them, White Man
Did you see them through"
These were the questions that drove
him nearest to desperation. but the
CLEAN In the eyes above the demure
mouth from which they issued lnva'
rinbly warned him of the trap In time,
lie was on his guard he knew TINT
there were things between him and
Andrea that speech would turn into
ghastly skeletons walking by day and
which only consistent silence could
entomb. But 80 deep had grown his
sympnthies that even IN this he under
stood her. II was not that she WA
p%erverse, but that her pride demanded
n constant test OF his loyalty to heI
other self-thnt internal self that had
lain barred, revealed and helpless IL
his arms.
About those things which might have
aroused a Legitimate curiosity, she
asked few questions. Without n Wort
OF inquiry she saw him despatch twely,
picked men on some mysterious mis-
sion whose Intrlcncles and importance
nccessltated n preliminary palayer o.
an hours duration. Equally silent, sh'
watched his detailed preparations O
u weli.nppointed safari. Tents wer'
brushed and set TO air cots and mat
tresses put out for a sun-bnth provi
slons OF all sorts packed In one-loa'
cases; water boiled, filtered and hum
In canvas coolers. Only a few day
before, just such signs as these hal
made her heart heavy with unanswer
able questionings. but her illness hal
changed all that. The successive mo
ments OF the throbblng present eacl
In its turn filled her whole horizon.
She knew instinctively that he hnl
something big up his sleeve, and tina
he would shake II out on the sllghtes
provocation. She also had a long men
DRY, and had no difficulty In r%ecnllln
his exact boast as TO what he woul
do when she was well. He was goin
10 take her In free fight. She was we
now, she reflected she had never Eel
better IN her life, and II there was on
thing she hungered for more thnn M
other, II was the promised combat.
There Ii no telling how long Al
drea's innate stubbornness would hav
held out, nor at what point Trevor
evaporation would have driven hin
for their wordless contest was inteI
} rupted by an event which he had bot
foreseen and feared. They were slttln
at a table after dinner on
} cloudless night brilliant under
/ full moon. when n far-awaV aoun