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PICTURE-PLAY WEEKLY
umph. But lie counted without George Allerton. "Stop!"
The boy's cheeks were still deathly white, but all the cringing fear had gone out of his eyes as he leveled them on Alec's.'
"I will die," he announced bravely, "as it is right that I should. I am to blame, and I will pay the penalty — if they can take me !" As he spoke, he took back the revolver which Alec, after slipping back the loaded cartridges into
for mine. I have sinned — it is right that I should pay the penalty, like a man. That was what she sent me out with you for. She told me so, the night before we left England. You were to make a man of me. Well, you have done it — by your example just now. I am going to stay here and prove it by dying to save you all from the consequences of the scrape I've got you into. Run for it !" And he finished by firing a shot at the drawn-up line of savages ahead of them.
took a solemn oath that they woi never reveal the real cause that had 1 up to George Allerton's death — should be allowed to die a hero in 1 sister's eyes.
In England, Mclnnery brooded ov the failure of his plan to remove Al McKensie as a successful suitor f Lucy Allerton's hand, and his broodi finally resulted in the determination break his vow to the others.
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But George Allerton, knowing that death must come, fought valiantly as long as possible, using the butt of his rifle
when his ammunition was gone.
it, still held in his hand. "You three run for it, and I'll stay behind to fight them off as long as I can. I've got cartridges enough in my belt to keep shooting until you've got far enough away through the jungle to make it unlikely that they can catch you. Go. now, and leave me !"
"No, I will stay," protested Alec. "You go back with Mclnnery and the doctor to your sister "
"I know what Lucy would wish, if she knew what had happened!" George checked him impatiently. "It would not be that you should lay clown your life
Outnumbered fifty to four, there was nothing Alec, Mclnnery, and the doctor could do but follow the boy's advice — run for it. And this they did, leaving him to the fate he had brought upon himself, a lone man armed only with a revolver and a rifle. But George Allerton, knowing that death must come, fought valiantly as long as possible, using the butt of the rifle when his ammunition was gone.
Arrived at the coast, where they learned that a steamer that would take them back to civilization was expected to touch the next dav, the three men
night after the party's return fror Africa without her brother, and led th conversation around to the scene in th jungle, where George had last been see; alive by himself, the doctor, and Ale — not a difficult feat, since she was eage to hear all she could of her brother' noble sacrifice of his life to save th others, as she had been given to under stand was the circumstance under whicl he had met his end.
"It's queer how a man you've alway thought brave will show up in his trm colors under fire." Mclnnery remarket musingly ; and then he checked him