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Each object produces ferent sound, from which it sible to determine its nature. Industry. i the sport and passion of young bare-armed and fresh of and fight and risk and •, to excel, and to control. I call to mei Ready to sw To n I am a struggle in the dust and smoke, Where wheels are whirling and the broad belts fly, I am the march of mankind from the past, To frontiers wide, adventurous and I am the game of Progress, where Against the power of the Spheres is hurled. I am the Creation carried on anew In the beginning of a greater world. --Herbert G. Stsson in Forbes Maga- Alaska's Flag Designed by 13-Year-Old Boy. PART III. Somebody cried: "MiriamI Miriaml What is it?" Miriam's voice came shaking, strangled: "Shies! Shiss! Not so loud. Don't anger it." "It? What?" demanded a voice dropped to a low note of fear. And Miriam's shaking voice called softly: "A jararacal In the room with me a jararaca. Oh, for God's sake save Jararaca! The mere sound of it turned them to water. It is the name of terror in those low jungle swamps. It is not merely the snake whose bite kills it is the snake that fights. It will face its enemy; it will attack. No wonder they stood rooted there. Most of them were big men, brave men, men afraid of nothing on earth, and they would face it on fair footing. But to face an angry jararaca in that narrow, pitch-black room was beyond the nerve of any of them, even though a woman's life was at stake. Horribly petrified they stood, then: "Oh, it's coming near!" screamed Miriam. They heard the frantic heave of he body on the bed--and the hiss. The cold, sibilant hiss that seems to curdle the very spinal marrow, the hiss that hynotizes in its cold, low evil. The hiss that gave the Rabbit a paralysis of terror. They heard him leap now, heard his half-stifled gasp of fear. They knew how he was feeling. Val's voice, strangely thick, came: "My God, we've got to do something! That poor kid helpless in there with --with it. Got to do something." Then somebody stepped quickly through the door of the sickroom, stepped right into the dark room where that deadly horror was lurking, angry and eager to strike. Somebody with a courage beyond any of their courage was facing the jara- A match scratched, flared up. The somebody was Calvin Boldre-- the Rabbit. The Rabbit, the man who became backboneless with panic at the mere hint of a snake. The Rabbit, who was not a real man at all! But they weren't thinking of that. They watched with tortured anxiety those slow instants between the striking of the match and the growth of its flame. A matter of half seconds only, but it seemed eternity. They saw his outline, crouched, alert, saXL that he held in his hand a billiard cue which one of them had been mending. They saw it in a flash, saw him sidestep in a flash and drop the match, and as the flame died they saw the hurtle of a long, ropelike body across the flame and the thud against some piece of furniture that told of the miss and the rattle of things flung down as the savage death-dealer turned in rage. Sheer and horrible blackness again. The Rabbit completely out of sight hidden in there with the jararac "Could snakes see in the darkness?" Helen was asking herself. Was Calvin absolutely doomed? She found her heart crying out against such a thing. Light suddenly bursting out again from behind the door. They couldn't see Calvin Boldre, who had struck another match. He deliberately struck another match to draw his deadly foe. Then a little scream from Miriam. The swish of something through the air, the smash of something struck. A plain and powerful "Damn!" from the Rabbit. "Got him?" cried Miriam's voice. "Chair spoiled my stroke," said Calvin Boldre. "Keep quiet, Miriam, I'm trying again." Again the light, again that deliberate drawing of death. A scuffle, a stamp, a shout of fear from Calvin Boldre. Then Miriam's voice screaming: "He's got the Rabbit! Killed him! What are you all doing out there to "Shut up. Miriam!" came Calvin Boldie's volte edgily. "He hit me, but didn't bite. I'm' quite all right." A m.-.tch burst out again, but this time it wasn't held. Those on the verandah saw it soar through the air and fall to the floor. It burned there for a moment in a small flame. Only for a moment, but it was enough. The jararaca attacked it. Against the light they saw the lunge of the sinuous body, the ham- 1 mer stroke of a devilish head. Then the cue swished like lightning through the air, the ropelike neck and body was smashed into a "V" and dashed rifcht across the room. Quiet. Then the steady light of a held match. "I guess it's all right," said the voice of the Rabbit. "He's dead." Then they swarmed in on him. Half a dozen flaring matches revealed that hideous broken-backed thing lying under the wall, revealed Miriam in a dead faint on her bed. The Rabbit was looking at them, green in the face, shaking, hardly able to stand. "Rabbit the Snake Killer," he said with his nervous, shaky smile, "I say, do you mind if I sit down? I feel j rather cheap." j "My dear," said Helen to him, "we're the people who are really , cheap." And as she helped him to a j chair their eyes met and held, and there came into his something so wonderful that Helen was amazed at herself for ever thinking him inconspicuous. For now she understood him as they all understood him. He had funked that pararaca, funked it with a sheer, backboneless panic quite beyond their understanding. Their own fear of the snake had been bad enough, but it was nothing beside the wringing ter-j ror that had attacked him. And yetj he had been the only one of them to go in and face that terror. Insignificant and ridiculous he might have seemed and more fearful than any of them, but he was a finer] man, with a finer courage than any there. Val admitted it. "You have us beat, Rabbit. You're a better man than any of us." He said to Helen later: "I talked like a fool about Boldre the other day. He's a magnificent chap.- We were blind not to see it." "Yes," said Helen, with bright eyes. "Blind--but we are beginning to see." | Her brother Maurice drove all this home when hp. returned. Miriam had told him all about it, but Helen had to speak of it. "Yes," said Maurice. "Thank God, Calvin was on the spot. He never fails anybody." Maurice took Calvin Boldre so much for granted that Helen had to say: "And yet one would never think--" "Rot!" said Maurice curtly. "You're going by his build. He can't help the way he's made. He always has been the right stuff, all through, and a true sportsman." "Yes," said Helen, though her brother's tone had been deliberately challenging. "Oh, you do think that?" smiled her brother when she ftsrd refused to be drawn. "I imagined that perhaps you followed popular opinion. You know, the others thought that because he didn't play games with them or join their bush expeditions he I wasn't a sportsman. As a matter of I fact, it was because he was. He knows •that he hasn't the physique up to | their standard and so keeps in the background not to spoil their fun fori them. That's real sportsmanship, I hold." "It is, it is," cried Helen warmly,] "and we were idiots not to appreciate j it. But, but it's all going to be made up to him, the dear!" "The dear!" said her brother, laughing and lifting his brows. "We're very ardent in our championship." "Naturally," she said, blushing. "I'm championing my future husband, Maurice." "By Jove," he cried. 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