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He is the author of a number of novels and other volumes. His home is in New Jersey. THE SERIAL, "STRANDED IN ARCADY” D [WHAT HAS HAPPENED UP TO THIS NUMBER] ONALD PRIME, a writer of short stories, and Lucetta Millington, a young teacher of Domestic Science in a girls' school, open their eyes on the shores of a lake in the wilderness. They have never seen each other; they have no recollection of how they came there; each remembers having been in Quebec. There is no clew as to how they arrived by the shores of the lake except a double track on the sand which seems to suggest an aeroplane. Prime discovers a canoe filled with a lot of dunnage and near by two Indians or half-breeds lying side by side, both dead after a terrible duel. There is a great storm and a runaway canoe which is recovered in the nick of time. Then they begin their sure-enough journey toward civilization. Soon they struck a series of rapids. The great catastrophe came at the end of a long rapid which suddenly plunged in a waterfall over a ledge. Donald could not swim but Lucetta managed to drag him ashore, unconscious. After a long time Donald became conscious and they were able to pursue their way. In the course of their evening's talk the real mystery of their disappearance from civilization begins to take form. Each had seen a legal advertisement, one in New York asking for the heirs of Roger Prime, one in Cleveland asking for the heirs of Clarissa Millington. The chance mention of a name reveals the fact that Donald and Lucetta, four generations back, had a common ancestor, so that they figure they are third cousins. They began again their canoe journey, the river broadening and the rapids disappearing. They come upon some old clearings, and one night out of the dark sprang a man who introduces himself as Jean Ba'tiste. It is revealed that he was a friend of the two dead men who owned the canoe, and he points out to them the name of one on the rifle. They try to persuade him to guide them to civilization. He takes it under consideration and apparently leaves for his camp a few miles away. In the morning Donald discovers that their canoe has disappeared. In their alarm they endeavor to escape by tramping along by the river. Lucetta is seized with a severe fever. Donald discovers by accident some. boneset and makes a tea, and a dose of it secures a quick recovery. They are about to resume their journey when, talking it over by the camp-fire, several men suddenly appear from the darkness and tell them to hold up their hands. They are under arrest for murder. (Continued on page 6) |