steamer should have survived shipwreck on that savage coast!"

"She didn't survive alone--she couldn't have. That's where Tommy came
in. There was another man, but he didn't count for much, I guess.
Vievie merely wrote that he died during the second cyclone."

"What an experience!--and for a girl like Genevieve!"

"She, of all girls!" chimed in Dolores enviously. "You remember she
never went in for sports of any kind, not even riding. And for her to
be flung out that way into the tropical jungles, among lions and
crocodiles and snakes and things! Why can't I ever have romantic
adventures?"

"You wouldn't give the man a chance to prove himself a hero," objected
Ashton. "You'd shoot the lions yourself."

"I _am_ good at archery. A bow and arrows, you know, were all that Mr.
Blake had."

"Blake?" repeated Ashton in rather a peculiar tone.

"Yes, Tommy the hero, otherwise Mr. Thomas Blake."

"Blake--Thomas Blake?" echoed Ashton.

"I--rather odd--I once--seems to me I once knew a man of that name.
You don't happen to know if he's a--that is, what his occupation is,
do you?"