REALITY _V_.

ROMANCE--THE CASE FOR THE DEFENDANT Residents in tropical countries know that the heat is greatest, or certainly least bearable, between two and four o'clock in the afternoon.
At the conclusion of a not very luscious repast, Jenks suggested that they should rig up the tarpaulin in such wise as to gain protection from the sun and yet enable him to cast a watchful eye over the valley.
Iris helped to raise the great canvas sheet on the supports he had prepared.

Once shut off from the devouring sun rays, the hot breeze then springing into fitful existence cooled their blistered but perspiring skin and made life somewhat tolerable.
Still adhering to his policy of combatting the first enervating attacks of thirst, the sailor sanctioned the consumption of the remaining water.

As a last desperate expedient, to be resorted to only in case of sheer necessity, he uncorked a bottle of champagne and filled the tin cup.

The sparkling wine, with its volume of creamy foam, looked so tempting that Iris would then and there have risked its potency were she not promptly withheld.
Jenks explained to her that when the wine became quite flat and insipid they might use it to moisten their parched lips.