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gay smile. She took the spear of Nu.
tbe son of Nu, in ber hands, and her
heart leaped In balf savage pride as
she felt tbe weight of the great missile.
"What a man be must be who wields
such a mighty weapon!" she exclaimed.
Barney Custer was watching his sis.
ter closely, for with the discovery of
tbe spear tu tbe lion's body had come
tbe sudden recollection of Victoria's i
description of her dream man: "He
tarries a great spear, stone tipped. I
should know It tbe moment that I saw
it"
Tbe young man stepped to his sis
ter's side, putting an arm about her
shoulders. She looked up Into bis face,
and then in a low voice that was not
audible to the others she whispered:
"It is bis, Barney. I knew that I
should know It"
For some time tbe young man had
been harassed by fears as to bis sis
ter's sanity. Now be was forced to en
tertain fears of an even more sinister
nature or else admit tbat be. too, bad
gone mad.
If he were sane then it was the truth
tbat somewhere in this savage land a
savage white man roamed in search of
Victoria. Now that he had found her
would be not claim her?
Barney Custer shuddered at the
thought He must do something to
avert a tragedy, and be must act at
once. He drew Lord Greystoke to one
side.
"Victoria and 1 must leave at once,"
be said. "Tbe nervous strain of tbe
earthquake and this last adventure
bave told upon ber to such an extent
tbat 1 fear we may have a very sick
girl upon our bands. If I do not get
ber back to civilization and home as
quickly as possible."
Greystoke did not attempt to offer
any remonstrances. He, too, felt that
it would be best for Miss Custer to
go home. He bad noted her growing
nervousness with increasing appreben
sion.
It was decided that they should leave
on tbe morrow. There were fifty black
carriers anxious to return to the coast,
and Butzow and Curtiss readily sign!
lied tbeir willingness to accompany
the Nebraskan and bis sister.
As be was explaining bis decision to
Victoria a black servant came excited
ly to Lord Greystoke. He told of the
Qnding of a dead ewe in tbe corn
pound.
Tbe animal's nçck bad been broken,
the man said, and several strips of
meat cut from its hauncbes with a
knife. Beside it in tbe soft mud of
tbe inclosure tbe prints of an unshod
human foot were plainly in evidence
Greystoke smiled.
"The zebra killer again!" he said
"Weil, he is welcome to all be can
eat"
Before be bad finished speaking
Brown, who bad been nosing round In
the garden, called to him from a little
clump of bushes beside tbe spot where
tbe Ilod*«' body had lain:
"Look here, Clayton." be called;
"here'* something wei overlooked In
tbe darkness last night"
Tbe men upon thé vert rida followed
Greystoke to the garden. Behind tbem
came Victoria Custer, drawn as though
by a magnet to tbe spot where they
bad gathered.
CHAPTER VI.
The Anciant Trail.
IN tbe bufthe* was a little pool of
dried blood, and where the earth
near the roots was free from sod
there were several impressions of
a bare foot
"He must have been wounded." ex
plained Brown, "by Curtiss' shot. I
doubt if tbe lion touched blm The
beast must have died instantly the
spear entered its heart But where can
he have disappeared to?"
Victoria Custer was examining the
grass a little distance beyond the
busbes. She saw what the others fail
ed to see— s drop of blood now and
then leading away in tbe direction of
the mountains to tbe south.
▲t the rigbt of It a great compassion
welled la ber beert for tbe lonely,
wounded ana who bad saved ber Ufr
s tad then s t a en rtd . Needing, toward
the savage wilderness from wbleb he
had come. It It e a sed te ber that some
where dot the## he wàs calling to her
now and that eh« aast go.
She did. ne* «eil the attention of tfcfc
others to her discovery, and {ireaetaOy
they all returned te tbe veranda, when
Barney again took up tbe discussion ef
their plans for tbe morrow's depart
ure. The girl Interposed no objections.
Barney wàs delighted to see that she
waa apparently as anxious to retuth
borne as he waa to bave ber; be bad
feared a flat refusal. *
Barney bad wanted to get a buffalo
bull before be left, and when one of
the Waziri warriors brougnt word that
morning tbat there was a splendid
herd a few miles north of the ranch
Victoria urged him to accompany the
other men upon tbe bunt.
"I'll attend to the balance of the
packing." she said. "There's not the
slightest reason in tbe world why you
shouldn't go."
And so he went, and Victoria busied
herself in the gathering together of
the odds and ends of their personal
belongings.
All morning tbe household was alive
with its numerous duties, but after
luncheon, while the heat of the day
was greatest, tbe bungalow might have
been entirely deserted for any sign of
life tbat there was about It Lady
Greystoke was taking ber siesta, as
were practically all of the servants.
Victoria Custer bad paused In her
work to gaze out of ber window toward
the distant hills far to tbe south. At
her side, nosing his muzzle into her
palm, stood one of Lord Greystoke's
great wolf hounds, Terkoz. He bad
taken a great fancy to Victoria Custer
from tbe Urst and whenever permitted
to do so remained close beside her.
Tbe girl's heart filled with a great
longing as she looked wistfully out to
ward the hills that she bad so feared
before. She feared tbem still, yet some
thing there called to ber.
She tried to fight against the mad
desire with every ounce of her reasoD.
but she was fighting against an unrea
soning Instinct tbat was far stronger
than any argument she could bring to
bear against It
Presently tbe bound's cold muzzle
brought forth an idea in her mind, and
with it she cast aside the last sem
blance of attempted restraint upon her
mad desire. Seizing her rifle and am
munition belt, she moved noiselessly
into tbe veranda.
There she found a number of leasbes
hanging from a peg. One of these she
snapped to the hound's collar. Unseen
she crossed the garden to the little
patch of bushes where tbe dried blood
was. Here she gathered up some of
the brown stained earth and held It
close to Terkoz's nose; then she put
ber finger to the ground where the
trail of blood led toward tbe south
"Here, Terkoz!" she whispered.
The beast gave a low growl as the
scent of the new blood filled his nos
trils and, with nose close to the ground,
started off. tugging upon the leash, in
the direction of the mountains upon
the opposite side of the plain.
Beside him walked tbe girl. Across
her shoulder was slung a modern big
game rifle, and in her left hand swung
the stone tipped spear of the savage
mate she sought.
What motive prompted her act she
did not even pause to consider. The
results she gave not tbe slightest
thought. It seemed the most natural
thing in the world tbat she should be
seeking this lonely, wounded man. Her
place was at his side. He needed ber
—that was enough for her to know.
She was no longer the pampered, pet
ted child of un effete civilization. That
any metamorphosis had taken place
within ber she did not dream, nor is it
certain that any change had occurred,
for who may say that it Is such a far
step from one incarnation to another,
however many countless years of man
m ®asured time may have intervened?
' tag a
Darkness had fallen upon the plain
and tbe jungle and tbe mountain, and
still Terkoz forged ahead, nose to the
ground, and beside him moved the slen
der figure of tbe graceful girl.
Now the roar of a distant lion came
faintly to her ears, answered, quite
close, by tbe moaning of another—a
sound that is infinitely more weird and
terrifying than tbe deeper throated
challenge. Tbe cougb of the leopard
and tbe uncanny laughter of hyenas
added their evidence that the night
prowling Carnivora were abroad.
Tbe bair along tbe wolf bound's spine
stiffened In a little ridge of bristling
rage. Tbe girl unslung ber rifle, shift
ing the leash to the hand that carried
tbe heavy spear of the troglodyte, but
she waa unafraid.
Suddenly, just before ber. a little
band of antelope sprung from tbe grass
in startled terror, there waa a hideous
roar and a great body hurtled through
tbe air to alight upon the rump of tbe
blbdmoft öf the herd.
▲ single scream of (tela and terror
fröm the stricken animal, a iuccesston
of tow growls and the sound of huge
Jaws crunching through flesh and bone,
and then silence.
Tbe girl made a slight detour to
avoid tbe beast and Ita kill, passing a
few yards above tbem. In tbe moon
light tbe lion saw her and tbe hound.
Standing across his fallen prey, his
flaming eyes glaring at the intruders,
be rumbled his deep warning to tbem.
but Victoria, dragging the growling
Terkoz after her. passed on. and the
king of beasts turned to bis feast
It was fifteen minutes before Terkoz
could relocate tbe trail, and then the
two took up their lonely way once
more.
Into the foothills past tbe tortured
strata of an ancient age It wound. At
sight oi tbe naked rock the girl shud
dered. yet on and up she went until
Terkoa halted bristling and growling,
before tae laky entrance to a gloomy
cavi
Holding the beast back. Victoria peer
ed within- Her eyes could not pene
trate the darknaea.
Baca evidently the trail ended, bat
of a sodden It occarrad to her that-«he
had only surmised that the bloody
spoor they had been following Waa thai
of the man she eought
It waa almoet equally as probable
tbat Curtlse' shot had atriich Old Rif
fles' mate and that after all. she had
followed the blood of a wounded lion
esa to tbe creafure'a rocky lair.
Bending low, abö listened, and at last
Ihere came to her eara a sound a« of a
body moving, and tben heavy breath
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"Nu," she whispered, "is it you? I
have come!" Nor did it seem strange
to her that she spoke In a strange
tongue, no word of which she had ever
heard in all ber life before.
For a moment there was silence, and
then, weakly from the depths of tbe
cave, a voice replied:
"Nat-ul!"
It was barely a whisper.
Quickly the girl groped her way Into
the cavern, feeling before ber with ber
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Victoria Kneelad Beside the Prostrate
Form of Nu.
bands until sbe came to tbe prostrate
form of a man lying upon the cold,
bard rock. With difficulty sbe kept tbe
growllug wolfhound from his throat.
Terkoz hud found the prey tbat be
bad tracked, and be could not under
stand why be sbould not now be al
lowed to make tbe kill. But be was a
well trained beast, and at last at tbe
girl's command be took up a position
at tbe cave's mouth on guard.
Victoria kneeled beside tbe prostrate
form of Nu, tbe son of Nu, but sbe
was no longer Victoria Custer. It was
Nat-ul, tbe daughter of Tha, who kneel
ed there beside the man sbe loved.
Gently sbe passed her slim fingers
across bis forehead. It was burning
with a raging fever. She reit tbe
wound along tbe side of bis head and
shuddered. Then she raised blm In her
arma so tbat bis head waa pillowed In
her lap and kissed bis cheek.
Halfway down the mountainside, a be
recalled, there waa a little aprlng of
freah cold water. Removing her hunt*
tag jacket she rolled It Into a pillow
for the unconacioua maa and then, with
Terkoa at ber aide, clambered down
tbe rocky way'.
Pining ber hat with water, ehe re
tuned to the cave.
▲II night ahe bathed the fevered head
and washed the ugly wound, at titnea
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squeezing a few refreshing drops be
tween the hot lips.
At last the restless tossing of the
wounded man ceased, and tbe girl saw
that he had fallen into a natural sleep
and that the fever had abated.
When the first rays of tbe rising sun
relieved tbe gloom within tbe cavern
Terkoz, rising to stretch himself, looked
backward Into the interior.
He saw a black haired giant sleeping
quietly, his bead pillowed upon khaki
bunting coat, and beside him sat tbe
girl, her loosened hair tumbled about
ber shoulders and over the breast of
the sleeping man, upon which her own
tired bead bad drooped in tbe sleep of
utter exhaustion.
Terkoz yawned and lay down again.
**•••••
After a time the girl awoke. For a
few minutes she could not assure her
self of tbe reality of ber surroundings.
She thought thnt this was but another
•>f her dreams.
Gently sbe put out her band and
touched tbe fnce of the sleeper. It
was very real; also she noted that the
fever bad left.
Sbe sat In silence for a few minutes,
attempting to adjust herself to the
new and strange conditions which sur
rounded her. She seemed to be two
people—the American girl. Victoria
Custer aud Nat-ul. But who or from
where was Nat-ul she could not fath
om other than that she was beloved
by Nu and tbat she returned his love.
She wondered that she did not re
gret tbe life of ease she had abandon
ed and which she knew that she could
never again return to She was still
sufficiently of the twentieth century to
realize that tbe step she bad taken
must «-ut her off forever from her past
life, yet sbe was very happy.
Bending low over the man, sbe kiss
ed bis lips and then, rising, went out
side and. taking Terkoz with ber, de
scended to the spring, for sbe waa
thirsty.
Neither the girl nor tbe bound saw
tbe white robed figure that withdrew
suddenly behind a huge bowlder aa
the two emerged from the cave'a
mouth.
Nor did they see him signal to others
behind him who bad not yet rounded
the shoulder of tbe cliff at the base of
which they had been marching.
(Continued next week.)
Justice.
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crowns of glory and heavenly rewards
for good people.
"Now, tell me," sbe said at the close
of tbe lesson, "who will get the big
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There was a silence for a minute or
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Becker's Execution Halted.
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