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'h',‘, / ‘,L":n“f\ln-,..(“ stern ‘hu-e as| She cowered, walting for the crash |, .. caen \.p.’.. o —(Contint AL — 1 ""Why did the captain not beach her ithdiew R final horror. but, |, gy ite or h CHAPTER XXXVIIL |if they were anywhere near shore? swinging fre step once more. | e folt a twinze of c ; ’ | Perhaps there were g : Jonded coldly, | straizhtened on her seat. She would |y (T Ty BEE B DERERIE (e From Out the Fog. wait to grind them s 2 we lefi e ot T|'|u\\'_rln|-l'mtl~u|.-mnu,\' of fear-be-| iradi op fhis exention {n.hio weakened ament the two faced each | surcly it woul house that you had forfeited consid. | fore him if death cam S | state, but she told herself vehement!y n}:’?Pvn\ ;::]"1‘ were listening in l‘lmu that of Ivn‘l‘n “Hnmml ','\ml ;l‘mhl‘ ation and now you must “Put 'l"»‘ ".‘.“1‘1.».Mxnn\:,u(.-‘vl:m”‘\‘\r“.»‘(;]: that it served him right! He had Tontly. and when a bell sounded | by some larger eraft in this blind| . ce with the rest of us. il g e | shown 1o mercy to others, was shew eomerchere on shiphoard Mariott maelstrom sel that is chasing us is a revenue '-'3‘\’\"} M Were we Wit then? | iNE none to her,and he richly deserved sprang back, locked the door; mpey were driving forward i, cutter: o you Know what that| SWhyt' o Were (we Wit ARENTT 4o sufer! & and hoovied away. while Janet Sat[ihe roar of the enzine had chanzed |means : o Lo p sl | Then there arose behind ‘hem = f With clasped hands and a wildly beat- | o= 5y singing whine which| “Somefhing to do with the gov-| A chorus of hellowed rage and the sail- | ing heart. Could help he comin showed i be running at the op| ernment?” Janet hazarded. | . and the next one won't get us ) o' B GRCE SRS g e A he fos that huns over this | SN 0eq and every heam creaked smething very much to do with cidentally, but it will be the A G vt inknown body of water would the {4 chivered with the s When His tone was grim. “It would | ning. he captain will have S to theie KD he tlack doker appear? | WG LA come? e as bad for you to fall into their | (o lay (0 and wait to he hoarded. but 1% fo0. dpuatenit fhit tNeEReR Che had placed her eard, the seven of | “igiay was heginning to dash In| hands as for us, for the authorities ve @ chance left. Your parole e Ui, % et hearts, with the earlie o buried in| o fhe port and the fog. too, was are waking up. il clanged faintly hooming | the window box, but tha d easily | ceeping in. et could feel the ac: it what have T done?” Janet de course!” Janet responded, | of a horn once more cut the fog, but | he explained in the event that her|pig faste of it her mouth I should be glad to pl haughiiiv. do not hreak the letter | they shot ahead in long sweeping | rescuers were strangers to her; that | cahin srew m ; der its protection!’ . of my promise, Mr. Mar stroke: somehow, eHlolHIS, - et ik LR Cae T R S L T The deck was heaving beneath their | There was another figure in the | e able friends had found and fol | tion of Lucy's presence ft would no Jowed her she did not for a minute he go dreadful, but she had lost that bavrassing! But this—this is auestion and a little praver that theY | (hrough her own indiseretion, and | li th! You ran down =ome )t he successful in the chase rose [ pride would not let her ring again one just we you came for 1 &5 ok for Mariott. someth smaller than we. The Far there could be no doubt of Pur- | The minutes ecrept by and the €rash ... 1 heard the cries! Tt was enit- she must have known of it even [ warning note of the pursy horvible, and vou never stopped to ott had not spoken, v the | fainter as they palpably f pick any one up' You left them to mraft was sendding like a frishtencd | Janet almost wished that they would drown and you will have to answer wea-hird hefore a m. the spray hoil- | guidistance her. for this mad race | for it? st her sides and | could only mean disaster. but the Several Emaller erift “veie stand in stern with the | other vessel stuck srimly to her!ing by and they'll render what aid is mizhty kicks of her enaine, while be-fwake and all at onc» a whistle | necessary.” Janet wondered at 1 hind them that sharp blast sounded | squealed in sudden. strident alarm.| ealm impassivity of his volce, and again and in to be choked off as thouzh she felt ) e hated him more Janet climbed once more on her ut its metal than she I know it possible to bunk, but thro the port she conld nt the crash cam hate any one. “We are getting out wee nothing but that lurid glave | A roaring, rending sound shattered [of the line of lesser tonnage now, and _shrouded in opacity. Then there was|the vibrant stillness with the loud it will be a comparatively open race, the swift menacing boom of a horn | hiss of steam and faint, stranzled|That cutter would have overhanled cries as the ship st impact, her engine clattering red from (he | frightfully near and subdued shouts | came from the deck overhead accom panied by the rush of feet as the ves | el veered so suddenly that Janet was most flung to the floor, and a dark. | huge shape passed so ciose that she could hear the execrations of its crew as it vanished like a shadow in the us lonz azo if she were not moving madly fmore cautiously than we, .and if the ind then ceasi She seemed o he | fog holds we may show her onr heels wallowing helplessly in a troush of |yvet. but she's waining, Hear that? the water which rose almost to the | The warning call was indeed creep port as she listed and then fell away ing up on them and Janet eried: as she keeled to starhoard. T “I hope she docs! 1'm not were sliding throuzh the murk my own government. M in SonlEy Elbbim. and presently the engine started | I know more of you t Sick with the horror of their escape, | once more as there came a knock on | I pray that she captu Tanet dropped to her bunk and cov- the door and Mariott stood before | As thouzh in answer, a deafening ered her eves with her hands. ‘The | her. [ report crashed suddenly on the air, hlasts from hehind were nearer now ing your cost and come into'and Mariott rose. as they had lost speed with the re.| the ncabin, please,” he said I fan i wish will he Versal of the engines, hul they were auictlv. “T am sorry to expose vou That w 1ot across onr hows rushing straight on to destruction' to this danzer, but there is no help she means business! Wait here until Any moment might bring death.| for it now. 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The little boat pitched and Surely Mariott could not be | tossed violently and Janet could not | ena? | mad enough to let them sink, riddled | have told wheiher they were gaining with shot, before he would accept de- | headway or not, save that the zcunds feat! | hehind them were dropping away In Bt the Daisy D. was ploughing | the distance. {ahead with undiminished speed and | gpo glanced at Tucy but fhke girl second shot came tearing over her, | (T G and itortiy hoting | 0 close that Janet heard ir its echo |\ | the whistling rush of wind caused by | ing. mds, and M ith a more rigid | feet and sonked with spr | shrank from the lowerir L of the suilors as they rusk to orders bawled hoat wh hut port - of the th of counte was evide | no more than L | vient to the will h she hid not noticed before, w Janet could make out the yre hunched on o Tt and insts | while a whistle sound [ vun up. A section erous both, they held by [ heen removed and Janet alone (o do his hide ind Janet won- {ling rope ladder 1 h | dercd at his control over them. | splash s A small hoat was lowered | gt \Chare were they headed for in over the side. A long blast sounded | St e ddey \ates L but was his master, were ! this Minding them a lowered, emitting squawks in tones very much like Luey’s. but Janet had e far no time to think of it, for she was hersell being swing down nto the brawny arms of the receive her. cast lonse just as a vagy ed up out of the fog on the other side [of the ship, and a stern voice roaved |4 command. silently the oars slipped into the | padded rowlocks and they glided i {into the dreadful yellow curtain that | seemed to press down upon them ! sailor w and the Great South Bay and she sur- mised that they were upon one or the They must land soon, ond then t would follow? 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