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Through herlike an adequate realization of the vast, abys between these barbarians and Allan and herself

"Civilization," she staenerations!"

All at once she wondered if she were going to faint A sudden pain had stabbed her te had attacked her ears

She put out her hand against the rock wall of the cliff at the right to steady herself Her et back ho Overexertion--"

Painfully she began to climb the stepped path toward the upper level and Cliff Villa And again it see; but now she felt positive she heard a voice--a voice she knew but could not exactly place--a hail very far away yet near--all very strange, unreal and terrifying

"Oh--a to be ill?" she panted "No, no! I mustn't! For the boy's sake, Irather than walking--for her knees were as water--the girl dragged herself up the path almost to her doorway

Again she heard the call, this time no hallucination, but reality

"Beatrice! Beatrice!" the voice was shouting "O-he! Beatrice!"

His hail! Allan's!

Her heart stopped, a long uish of revulsion fro with e fever, half-blind, shivering, parched and in agony, the girl made a tremendous effort to hear, to see, to understand

"Allan! Allan!" she shouted wildly "Where are you? Where?"

"Beatrice! Here! On the bridge! I' eyes toward the suspension bridge hung high above the swift and lashing rapids of New Hope River--the bridge, a cobweb-strand in space, across the chash now she could be sure of nothing, so strangely did the earth and sky and cliffs, the bridge, the jungle, all dance and interplay--there, it seeure

Disheveled, torn, al still of power and co over the swaying path of bamboo-rods lashed to the cables of twisted fiber

Now it halted as in exhaustion and great pain; now, once , hanging fast to the ropes like so filaments

She saw it, and she knew the truth at last

"Allan! Allan--come quick! Help me--help!"