MIKE AND TIGER TAIL PLAY CHESS. 415 



The hunter watched their course until they faded into 

 the distant shore, and then coming out of his retreat, 

 crossed over to the beach. For the first time since his 

 arrival he seemed in a hurry. When he hailed the 

 tower and called Lou Jackson by name his voice trem- 

 bled, and when no answer came down to his repeated 

 questions, he threw off his coat and climbed up in the 

 same way so ineffectually tried by the savages. 



Lou heard him call, and recognized his voice. She 

 was lying on the stone floor, and her mind had returned 

 with the (Soothing daylight, yet she retained the con- 

 sciousness of its wanderings, and thought she was 

 dreaming. The vision was so pleasant to her she held 

 her breath that it might not go away. Others had come 

 to her and gone during the night, and left her alone to 

 the terrors of death. She dreaded lest this one might 

 also go. Presently she heard the brushing of garments 

 against the outer wall, and the breathing of some one 

 near her, and then she knew the vision was gone, and 

 dreaded the spectre head she had before seen rising in 

 the self-same place. She drew back in fear, and closed 

 her eyes to shut out the Medusa head that was to trans- 

 fix her with horror. She heard a sudden bound, as 

 though something had swung itself onto the gallery, 

 and then in her vision came the brown face of Mike the 

 hunter, and she heard his low voice as he stooped over 

 her, saying, as he lifted her in his arms : 



" Lou, child, they haint put out the light yet." 



