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MONTREAL&NEW YORK
September 23rd, 1915
THE WI» GHAAM TIMES
Copyright. 1ple. by W. O. Chapmis
The Story by Chapters
0404.._...,_
Chapter 1,—A Hundred Thou-
asind Years.
Chapter i a...Today.
Chapter ill. -Tse Young Hunter.
Chapter 1V. --The Dream Mists.
Chapter V.—Tice Zebra Killer.
Chapter Vic—she Ancient Trail.
Chapter Vila -The Lonely Man.
Chapter VIII.—A prisoner.
'Chapter IX. --The Hunt.
Chapter X.—The Death Dano,.
Chapter XI.—Happiness?
SYNOPSIS
Na, the son or Nu, is abut up" in a cave
by an earthquake 100,000 years ago. Ne
has s sweetheart, Nat-ul,
Near his cave 100,000 years later Miss
Victoria Custer and her brother are on a
prating trip. She is haunteeeby a dream
asses and also by a real We lover. .An
• earthquake releases Nn
Xis is a cane of suspended animation.
Nis does Rot know he has been asleep.
Victoria Custer has strange dreams that
aeravare man Is seeking her.
—71/Tic 3e:sisVlctaia'and-thinks she W Nate
• M. Disturbed by visions of her dream
rasa. Victoria goes for a waist at night.
Ube to saved from s lion by Nu, who Its
wounded by a butler from tate gun o>s
Victoria's suitor. Victoria goes
fd march of Nu.
rosy Vie= -wasted. . st the
• tstioght.. He must OOb
smart a tragedy, and he my* et
• encs+, He drew, Lord Orepstoke to ale
• ruin
'Meteda and I must bas! at Cgeew
>te staid. "Tice nervous attain at,tbe
.-earthquake and this last adventers
have told upon her to such an extent
that I fear we may have a ''eta' sick
gir upon our bands, ft I do not get
:tieback to civilization and home as
• quit ly as possible."
Greystoke did not attempt to otter
,.any remonstrances. He, too, felt that
It 'would be best for Miss Custer to
, go home. He had noted her growing
nervouarness with increasing apprehen.
sion.
It was decided that they should leave
.on the morrow. There were fifty black
• carriers ensloits to return to the coast,
. and Butzow and Curtiss readily signi•
fled their willingness to accompany
the Nebraskan and his sister.
As he was explaining his decision to
Victoria a black servant came excited -
s ly to Lord Greystoke. He told of the
finding of a dead ewe in the corm
pound:
The animals neck bad been broken.
:the man said, and several atrips of
$meat cut from its haunches with a
knife. Beside it in the soft mud of
tthe inclosure the prints of an unshod
-human foot were plaiuly to evidence.
Greystoke smiled.
"The zebra killer agalur he said
"Well, he is welcome to all he can
. eat."
Before he bad finished speitkiag,
.Brown, who bad been nosing round'{n
the garden, called to him from a little
clump ofbushes beside the spot where
:the lion's body had lain.
"Look here, Clayton." he called;
"here's something we overlooked in
Ythe darkness last night"
The men upon the veranda followed
Greystoke to the gaden. Behind them
came Victoria Custer, drawn as though
by n magnet to the spot where they
fbagathered.
WAS SO WEAK
WOULD HAVE TO
STAY iN BED.
iMliburn's Heart and Nerve Phis
Cured Her.
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weak. I used three and a half boa
of Milburn's . Heart and Nerve Pine,
and I atn a cured woman: to -day, and as
strong as any one,eould be, and am dcirp
my own housework, even my own wash-
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CHAPTER VI.
The Ancient Trail,
I.N
the bushes was a little pod of
dried blood, and where the earth
near the roots was free from god
there were several • impressions of
a bare foot.
"He most bave been wounded," ex-
plained Brown, "by Curtiss' shot, I
doubt if the lion touched him. The
beast must have died instantly the
spear entered its heart, But where can
be base disappeared to?"
Victoria Custer was examining the
grass a little distance beyond the
bushes. She saw what the others fail-
ed 'to 'see—a drop„ of blood now and
then leading away in the direction of
the mountains to the south.
At the sight of it a great eompassion
welled in her heart for the lonely,
wounded man who had saved her life
and then staggered, bleeding, toward
the savage wilderness from which he
had come. It seemed to her that some-
where out there he was catling to her
now and that she, must go.
She did iiot call the attention of the
others to her discovery, and presently
they all returned to the veranda, where
Barney again took up the discussion of
their plans for the morrow's depart-
ure. The`•girl interposed no objections.
Barney was delighted to see that she
was apparently as anxious to return
home as he was to have her; he bad
feared a flat refusal
Barney had wanted to get a buffalo
bull before he left, and when, one of
the Waziri warriors brought wordsthat
morning that there was a splendid
herd a few miles north of the ranch
Victoria urged him to accompany the
other mea upon the hunt.
'Til attend to the balance of the
packing," she said. "There's not the
slightest reason In the world why you
shouldn't ga."
And so he trent, and Victoria busied
herself b the gather together of
the odds and ends of thter personal
belongings. ,
All morning the household was alive
with its numerous duties„ but after
lomeheon, while the heat of the day
wee greatest, the bungalow might have
been entirely deserted for any sign of
Idle hist there was about it. Lady
Orrtoke was taking her siesta, as
Imre practically all of the servantat.
Victoria Ouster had paused in her
work to gaze out of her window toward
the distant bilis far to the 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 Vletoria'Custer
tram the first and whenever permitted
to do eo remained close beside her.
The girls heart filled with a great
longing as she looked wistfully out to-
ward the hills that she had so feared
before. She feared them still. yet some-
thing there called to bet.
She tried to fight against the mad
• desire with every ounce of her reaso%
but she was fighting against en unrea-
soning instinct that was far stronger.
than ady argument she could bring to
bear against it.
Presently the hound's cold muzzle
brought forth en idea in her mind, and
with it she cast aside the last sem-
blance of attempted 'restraint upon her
mad desire. Seizing her ride and.am-
munition belt. obs moved noiselessly
Into the veranda.
There she found a number of leashes
hanging from a peg. One of tires she
snapped to the hound's collar. 'Unseen
rho crossed the garden to the little
patch ot bushes where the dried blood
was. Here Oho gathered Up some of
the Sown etaltted earth and held It
Ctoae to Torkoa's node; then the put
her finger to the gtound where the
trail of blood led toward the south. '
"Here, ai'erkort" she whlsperecL
The beast gave a low growl as the
scent of the new blood filled bis nor
Ude and, with nose close to the ground,
abided oft, tugging upon the leash, in
the direction of the mountains upon
the opposite side Of the plain.
Beside hint walked the girt Acmes
her shoulder was slung a modern big
game rifle, and in her lett hand swung
the stone tipped spear of the savage
mate she sought.
What motive prompted her act she
did not even pause to eonsider. the
results she gave not the slightest
thought. m
It seemed the robs a
gt n Lural
thing in the world that she should be
seeking this lonely, wounded main. Her
place vets at his side. Be needed her
—that Wail enough for ber to know.
She wits no longer the pampered, pet:
ted child of an effete civilization. That
any metamOtpbosis had taken place
within her She did not dream, nor ie it
certain that any change had occurred,
for who may say that it fi such a far
step from one Moire:then to another,
however teeny countless yearns of mat
measured time May have intereenedi
Darkness had talion upon the plain
t;' -'e. teaslinial-a atutalreatileinillil Ara
S/ '"'er u[ ;oC$Cd ait�tlhd; bustq ttie
ground, and beside him moved the filen-
der figure of the graceful girt
New the roar of a distant lion came
Wrathy to her ears, answered, quite
close, by the moaning of another—a
Sound that is infinitely mare weird and
terrifying than the deeper throatedr
challenge. The cough of the leopard
and the uncanny laughter of hyenas
added their evidence that the night
prowling carnivore were abroad,
The hair along the wolf f'ound's spine
stiffened in a little ridge of bristling
rage. The girl unslung her rifle, shift-
ing the leash to the hand that curried
the Meavy spear of the troglodyte, but
she was unafraid.
Suddenly, just before her, a little
band of antelope sprung from the grass
in startled terror, there was a hideous
roar. and a great body hurtled through
the air to alight upon the rump of the
hindmost of the herd.
A single scream of pain and terror
from the stricken animal, a succession
of low growls and the sound of huge
Jaws crunching through flesh and bone,
and then silence.
The girl made a alight detour to
avoid the beast and its kill, passing a
few yards above them. In the moon-
light the lion saw ger and the hound.
Standing across his fallen prey, his
gaming eyes glaring at the intruders,
be rumbled his deep warning to them,
but Victoria, dragging the growling
Terkoz after her, passed on, and the
king of beasts turned to his feast
It was fifteen minutes before Terkoz
could relocate the trail, and then tbe
two took up their lonely way once
more.
Into the foothills past the tortured
st hta of an ancient age it wound. At
sight of the naked rock the girl shud'
dered, yet on and up she went until
Terkoz halted, bristling and growling,
before the inky, entrance to a gloomy
cave. , 9 .'F''d.V,a}Ata
Holding the beast back, Victoria peer.
ed within. Her eyes could not pene-
tratethe darkness.
Sere evidently the trail ended, but
of a sudden it occurred to her that she
had only surmised that the bloody
spoor they had been following was that
of the man she sought.
It was almost equally as probable
that Curtiss' shot bad struck Old Raf-
fles'
atfles' mate and that after all, she had
followed the blood of a wounded lion-
ess to the creature's rocky lair.
Bending low, she listened, and at last
there came to her ears a sound as of a
body moving, and then heavy breath-
ing and a sigh.
"Nu," she whispered, 'Is It you? I
have comet" Nor did it seem strange
to her that she spoke in a strange
tongue, no word of which she had ever
heard In all her life before.
For a moment there was silence, and
then, weakly from the depth's of the
cave, a voice replied:
"Nat-ult"
It was barely a whisper.
Quickly the girl groped ber way Into
the cavern, feeling before her with her
Victoria Kneeled Beside the Prostrate
Form of Nu.
hands until age came to the prostrate
form of a than lying upon the Cold,
hard rock. With difficulty she kept the
growling wolthound from his throat
Terkoz had found the prey that he
had tracked, and he could not under.
stand why he should not now be al-
lowed to make the kill. But he was a
well trained beast, and at last at the
girl's command ho took up a position
at the cave's month on guard,
Vietoria kneeled beside the prostrate
form of Nu, the son of Nu, but she
was no longer Victoria Custer. It was
Nat -til, the daughter of Tba, who kneel-
ed there beside the roan she loved.
Gently she passed her slim fingers
acmes his forehead, It Was burning
with a raging fever. She felt the
wound Along the side of his head and
shuddered. red. 'rise h
Theta the raised
him in
her
arms so that his head was pitlowed in
her laP.and kissed his cheek.
Halfway dote the tnotintainside, alio
recalled, there was a little spring of
trash cold Water. Removing ber ,hunt-
ing jacket, she rolled it into a pillow
for the tincormeidus tram and then, with
erkos at her side, clambered down
the rocky 'syty.
- Pilling ber hat with Water, oho re
tarried to the save.
Ail night she bathed the breezed head
and Washed the tigly *bund, at tints
sduee1ing a few refreshing drops b's•
t..tts iiet liiorf.
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At'"lasC—the restless tee -slug of the
wounded man ceased, and the girl saw
that he bed fallen into a natural sleep
and that the fever had abated.
When the first rays of the rising sun
relieved the gloom within the cavern
Terkoz, rising to stretch himself, looked
backward into the ipterior.
He saw a black hatred giant sleeping
quietly, his head pitlowed upon khaki
hunting coat. and beside bim sat tbe
girl, her loosened hair tumbled about
her shoulders and over the breast et
the sleeping man, upon which ger own
tired bead had drooped in the 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 the reality of her surroundings.
She thought that this was but another
of ber dreams.
Gently she put out her hand and
touched the face of the sleeper. It
was very real; also she noted that the
fever bad left.
She sat in silence for a few minutes,
attempting to adjust herself to the
new and strauge conditions which sur-
rounded her. She seemed to be two
people—the American girl, Victoria
Custer and Nat-ul. But who or from
where was Nat -al she could not fath-
om other than that she was beloved
by Nu and that she returned his love.
She wondered that she did not re•
gret the life of ease she bad abandon-
ed and which she knew that she could
never again return to. She was\still
sufficiently of the twentieth century to
realize tbat tbe step she had taken
roust cut her off forever from her past
fife, yet she was very happy.
Bending low over the man, she kiss-
ed his lips and then, rising, went out-
side and, taking Terkoz with her, de-
scended to the spring, for she war
thirsty.
Neither the girl nor the hound saw
the •white robed figure that withdrew
suddenly behind a huge bowlder as
the two emerged from the cave's
mouth.
Nor did they see bim signal to others
behind him who bad not yet rounded
the shoulder of the cliff at the base of
which they had been marching.
CHAPTER VII.
The Lonely Man.
VICTORIA stooped to till her hat
at the spring. First she leaned
far clown to quench her own
thirst.
A sudden, warning growl from Ter.
koz brought her head up, and there,
not ten paces from her, she saw a
dozen white robed Arabs and behind
them half a hundred blacks. All were
armed; evil looking fellows they were,
and one of the Arabs had covered het
with his long gun.
Now he spoke to her, bat in s tongue
she did not understand, though she
knew that his message was unfriendly,
and imagined that it warned her not
to attempt to use her own rifle which
Itay.b.egide her. lYext he spoke to those
.
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tX`bfm "anti two' ort them"'ap
proacbed the girl, one tram either aide,
While the leader eoutin1e4 to keep his
piece leveled at her.
A tate two cane toward leer rbc
beard a menacing grfrothrYoU.'
hound and, theist sateavel ldi leap
m foer tate
nearest Arab. The fellow clubbed its
grin and swung it tall upon Terkoz'tt
skull, so that the faithful 40u114 c$F
lapsed in a silent heap at their feet.
Then the two rushed in and seized
Victoria's rifle. A, moment later she
of
ryasthe 1 roughlyfavoredraggeddgang. toward the ieader
Through one of the blacks, a west
coast negro who had picked up a
smattering of pidgin English, the lead-
er questioned the girl, and when be
found that sbti wits it guest et Lord
Greystoke an ugly grin crossed his
evil face, for the fellow repelled wbat
bad befallen another !arab slave and
ivory caravan at the hands of the Dug
listrman and bis Wazlei warriors.
ilere was an opportunity for partial
revenge,
He motioned for his followers to
bring her along. There was no time
to tarry in this country of their ene-
mies, into which they had accidentally
stumbled after being lost in the jungle
for the better part of a month.
Victoria asked what their intentions
toward her were, but all that she
could learn was that they would take
her north with them. She offered to
arrange the payment of a suitable ran-
som if they would return her to ger
friends unharmed, but the Arab only
laughed at her.
"You will bring a good price," be
said, "at the court of the .sultan of
Gulad, north of Tagwara, and for the
rest I shall have partly, settled the
score which I have against the Eng-
lishman."
So Victoria Custer disappeared from
the sight of men et, the border or the
land of the Wazirl, nor was there any
other than her captors to know tbe de•
vious route that they followed to gain
the country north of Uzirl.
When at last Nu, tiie son of Nu.
opened his eyes from the deep slumber
that bad refreshed and invigorated
bim he looked up expectantly for the
face that bad been bovering above
bis, and as be realized that the cave
was tenantless except for himself a
sigh that was half sob broke from
the depths of his lonely heart, for be
knew that Nat-ul had been with him
only in his dreams.
Vet it had been so real: Even now
he could feel the touch of her cool
hand upon his forehead and her slim
fingers running through his hair: His
cheek glowed to her bot kisses, and in
his nostrils was the sweet aroma of
her dear presenee.
The disillusionment of his waking
brought with it bitter disappointment
and a return of the fever. Again Nu
lapsed into semiconsciousness and de-
lirium. so that he was not aware of
the khhki clad white man that crept
warily into the half darkness or his
lair shortly after noon.
It was Barney Custer, and behind
him came Curtiss, Butzow and a half
dozen others of the searching party.
They had stumbled upon the half dead
Terkoz beside the spring, and there
also theyah�3c found Victoria Custer's
hat, and plainly in the soft earth be-
tween the bowiders of the trtllside they
bad seen the new made path to the
cave hlgber up.
When Barney saw that the prostrate
figure within the cavern did not stir at
his entrance a stifling fear rose in his
throat, for be was sure that he had
found the dead body of his sister, but
as his eyes became wore accustomed to
the dim light of the interior he renilzed
his mistake—at first with a sense of in-
finite relief and later with misgivings
that amounted almost to a wish thnt$t
bad been Victoria, safe in death; tor
among the savage men of savage Af-
rica there are fates worse than death
for women.
The others had crowded in beside
him, and one had lighted a torch of
dry twigs, which for a few second. 11.
lumtnated the interior of the (sire
brightly. In- tbat time they saw that
the man was the only occupant and
that be was helpless frorn fever.
Beside him lay the stone spear that
had slain Old Raffles. Each of theca
recognized it How could It have been
brought to him? A9
"The zebra killer," Bald Brown
"What's that beneath his head': i,noks
like n khaki coat'
Barney drew it out and herd It up.
"God:" cried Curtiss. '•it's berst"
"He must have come down there
atter we felt got his spear and stolen
your sister," said Brown.
Curtiss drew his revolver and post)
ed Closer toa•nrd the trncunselons �n
"The beast!" be rrowisd "Shwa;
Thg's too good for him. Get out of the
way, Barney; I'm going to give him
alI six chambers."
"No." said Barney quietly.
"Why?" demanded Curtiss, tering to
push hast Custer.
"'Because I don't believe that he
harmed Victoria," replied Barney.
"That's sufficient reason t'or wilting
until we know the truth. 'then I
won't stand for the killing of an un-
conselons than, anyway."
"lie':; noticing but it beast—a rand
do," insisted Curtiss. "I -Te should be
killed for what he is. I'd never have
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who killed your sister."
"1toa t be it font, Curtiss," snapped
I?ai•ucy. "We deal know that Vic-
toria's dead. The ebniiees are that this
plan has been helpless from fever for
a long time. There's a wound in his
head that was probably made by your
shot last night
"If he recovers frail that be may
be able to throw some light on Vic-
toria's disappearance. If it develops
that he has harmed her I'm the one to
demand an accounting not yon. As 1;
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"What do you know about him?"
demanded Curtiss.
"i never saw him before," replied
iBarney. "I don't know who be is or
l,wbere he came from, but I know—
Barney.
never mind what I know, except
that there isn't anybody going to kill
him other than Barney Custer."
"Custer's right," broke in Brown.
"It would be murder to kill this fel-
low in cold blood. You have jumped
to the conclusion, Curtiss, that Miss
Custer is dead. If we"fet you kill this
man we might be destroying our best
chance to locate and rescue her."
As they talked the gaunt figure of
the wolfhound, Terkoz, crept into the
cave. He had not been killed by the
Arab's blow, and a liberal dose of cold
water poured over his head had helped
to hasten returning consciousness.
He nosed, whining, about the cavern
as though in search of Victoria.
The men watched him in silenee aft-
er Brown had said: "If this man harm-
ed Miss Custer and iaid out Terkoz
the beast '11 be keen for revenge.
Watch him, and if Curtiss is right
there won't any of us have to avenge
put* sister. Terkoz '11 take care of
that. I know him."
"We'll leave it to Terkoz," said Bar-
ney.
After the animal had made the com-
plete rounds of the cave, sniffing at
every crack and crevice, he came to
each of the watching men, nosing them
carefully.
Then he walked directly to the side
of the unconscious Nu, licked his cheek
and, lying down beside him, rested
his head upon the man's breast so
that his fierce, wolfish eyes were
pointed straight and watchfuli'at the
group of men opposite him.
"There:" said Barney, leaning down
and stroking the beast's head. `
The hound whined up into his face,
but when Curtiss approached he rose,
bristling, and. standing across the
body of Na, growled ominously at
Lfm,
"You'd better keep away from him,
Curtiss,:' warned Brown. "He always
has had a strange way with him in his
likes and dislikes, and he's a mighty
ugly customer to deal with when he's
crossed. He's killed oue man already
•—a big Wamboli speartnnn who was
stalking Greystoke up in the north
Country last fall. Let's see If he's got
it in for the rest of us."
One by one Terkoz suffered the oth-
ers to approach Nu. Only Curtiss
seemed to rouse his saIvage, rotective
instinct.
As they discussed their plans for the
Immediate future Nu opened his eyes
with a returu of consciousness.
At sight of the strange figures about
hire be rat up and ivnehed for his
spear, but Barney had had the fore-
sight to remove this weapon, as well me
the man's knife and hatchet, from his
reach.
.is the time man came to a sitting
posture Barney laid a hand upon his
sJtou]der.
"We shall not harm yen," he said,
"if you *11.1 tell tis what has become of
my sister." Then, placing hie lips Biose
to the other's ear, he whispered,
"Where its Nat -u ?
1
Nu understood trot the single Word
Nat•ul, but the friendiy tone and the
hand upon his shoulder convinced him
that this Man was no enemy.
"Te stook his head negatively.
-ansan does not understand the strata
ger's tongue," he said.
ILe nalcil Alle..,satnN,:.t1eation es
ahildrert Orp`
FOR FLETCHER'S
CASTORIA
4/
"We shall not harm you if you will tell
us what has become of my sister."
hail`w x ra'7',7*nrit•u17
Bnt #_e a ierir'an could translate
Only the name, yet it told him that here
indeed was the dream man ot his sis-
ter.
And so they set out for the ranch.
Four half naked blacks bore the rude
stretcher.
Upon one side walked Terkoz, the
wolfhound, and upon the other Barney
Custer.
Pour Waztri warriors accompanied
them.
Nu, weak and sick, was indifferent
to his fate. If he had been captured
by enemies, web and good. He kneve.
what to expect—either slavery or death,
for that was tbe way of men as Nu .
knew Them.
CHAPTER ViiI.
A soner.
Olt a week
Prithey doctored Nu at
the bungalow of the Grey -
stokes,
There were times when they
despaired of his life, for the bullet
F
wound that creased his temple clear
to the skull had become infected, but
at last he commenced to mend and
after that his recovery was rapid, for
his Constitution was that of untainted
physical perfection.
The several searching patties return-
ed one by one without a view to the
whereabouts of Victoria Custer. Barney
knew that all was being dene that
could be by his friends, but he clung
tenaciously to the belief that the solu-
tion to the baffling mystery lay locked
In the breast of the strange giant who
was
Cobval
estin
upon the po t re cot that
had been set up tor hint in Barney's
own room. Curtiss had been relegated
to other apartments, and Barney stuck
close to the bedside of bit patient day
and night.
Ills principal reasons for so doing
wore his wish to prevent the man's
escape and his desire to open some
seethed of communication, with the
etteueetassrapidly art possible.
' Mate Continued)