Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 13, 1915, Page 3

o2 YRR i RIE - - The'l A Novelized Version of the Moticn Produced by § Pictur e ud'"l:" Dmmn:f the Same Name 2l Film C, 8 Auttor of “The Fortune Hurter,” “The Presy B, X Copyright, 1914, by Louis Joseph v 5 CHAPTER IX, Forewarned. o thing was managed with an in- ty that Alan termed devilish—ijt indisputably Machiavellian. | he lovers had come down from the ; h in hot haste and the shadow of h Two days of steady traveling cance, by woods trail, by lake mer—forty-eight hours of fatigue strain eased by not one instant's tion from the high tension of nce upon which their very lives nded —wore to a culmination ! gh thie tedious afternoon on the | from Moosehead—a trap of phys. | torment only made possible by | s luck in securing, through sheer fent, two parlor-car reservations od back at the last moment be- | Jeaving Kineo station. i matter—the longest afternoon pave its evening: the pokiest of < comes the more surely to its 'auon; in another hour or two would be in Portland—free at to draw breath of ease in a land w, order and sane living. it in answer to this thought, the slowed down with whistling e< t0 the last hill-etation, and as rucks groaned and moved anew, t of 2 boy came galloping down iele, brandishing two yellow en- nd blatting like a stray calf Lawr! Mista Lawr! Tel- s for Mista Lawr!” n had been expecting at every n a prepaid reply to his wire fcr vations on the night express from nd to New York. why two envelopes superscribed A. Law, Kineo train southbound, nd Sta.?” tore one open, unfolded the in- re, and grunted disgust with its advice, opened the other and ht Lis breath sharply as he with. part way only—a playing card, by of hearts. sting it back quickly, he clapped | envelopes together, tore them a hundred fragments, and scat- them from the window. But h wind whisked one small ck—and only one!—into the tie woman he loved. Inly he prayed that she might ecp. The silken lashes trembled r clieeks and lifted slightly, dis- g the dark glimmer of question- es, And as she clipped the scrap dboard between thumb and fore- be bent forward and silently it from her—one corner of the but inevitably a corner e figure “3” abcve a heart, uliman agent at Portland ible on any head. It leaves be a glum i up first, Too bad,” abstractedly, r eyes, and appwrently into semi-somnolence— deceiving him who could £ what poignant anxiety d at her heart. d have ground his teeth in ration—the impish insolence of arning, timed so precisely to set joerves on edge at the very mo- 'd Have Ground Mis Teath in Exasperation. they were congratulating bon the approach of a ity of the whole ' surdity of it! is was America, this tury, the apex of the tion the world d sill a man ted from pillar to post, threats, harried with at- ‘ssination in a hundred ‘ that by a slip of a girl £ of a madwoman, the ‘g, the face of a charm- the face of the woman that feature go uearly that even he 0 the one could scarcely dis- | "er trom the other but by in- | Btuition, bling suesswork. . . . *dded heavy-hearted confirma- ® Surmise slowly settling into > 0 bis mind, that such cun- { scheme to the gir | the door of the pest ide him, duplicating its every | cell of eilence ang ‘xork,fiday after day, eating his heart :\:t with impatience for the word that 8 vengeance had been consummated by the daughter who, i m he h. o execute it. L An hour late, the train lumber tion; and, heart i Rose from the st, shadows tn New in dusk of evening, ed into Portland sta- R mouth, Alan helped eps, shoulder vay for her through the crnwd.d:nedda‘lu:;)( litted her into o taxicab, J “Best hotel in town,” he demanded u:n':i be quick about it—for a doublé He communicated his one desperate 1 en route, receivi her indorsemert of {t. So, hu\-ing“rl::- istered for her and seen her safely to available room in t}]e houee within ready call of the pub- ‘hc lobby and office, ha washed* up, ! gulped a hasty meal—which Rose huli declined w0 share, pleading ; @nd hurried away into e m.lly the negro driver of public hack, picked up haphazard at some fli:luucc: from the hotel, for hig guide, CHAPTER X. ht with Fortuity. hour in advised as it wi , such ion down at the ex scovered a verched atop a pile. a poorly lighte treme end of which he gi lonely young man ¥ hands in pockets, gaze turned to a tide whereon, now black night had fallen, pallid wraiths of yachts swung just bly beneath riding ' light i “Pardon me” Alan ventured, “but perh You can help me out—' “You've come to the w rong shop, my friend.” the young man interposed | with merose civility; “I couldn't help anybody out of anything—the way I | am now.” G “I'm rry,” said Alan, “but 1 thought possibly vou might know where T could find a seaworthy boat | to charter.” | The young man “down from his perch. “If you don't 1ook sharp.” he said ominously, “you'll charter the Seaventure.” He waved his hand toward a vessel moored alongside the wharf: “There she is, and a better boat you won't find v where— schooner-rizzed, fifty feet over all, twenty-five horsepower, motor aux- two staterooms—all ready for ire cruise as you care » aboard.” kly uneasy slipped smartly a coast He led down a pa the wharf. . then aft 18 the onway, by which the n gained a comfortable and cabin, bright with fresh white across i to @ compar roomy pre the cabin lam 1 JAiny a g man in American That's the d, shame A hard up this hands, trodinced tened TI ate of 1 rub, ) faced. "l found spring with this sunk every cent I hud—and then some | —fitting out on an oral charter with | a moneyed blighter in New York, who | was to have met me here a fortnight since. He didn't—and here I am, in pawn to the ship chandler, desperate enough for anything.” | “How much do you owe?" “Upwards of a hundred.” “Say 1 advanced that amount—when ! can we sail?” Sativity, hoat on my The younz man refleccted briefly | “There's something 60 engagingly idi otic about this veding,” he ob | served wistfully est kind of 4 through. | off inside a He ¢! dismay, ¢i troubie s ne e got the strang to go 1 we can be going e cru auspices But when one surpris & gave him new ! seemed @ turned. For, o6 he paused by the desk cashie ‘.:‘r"and his bill, the | Siviar jpened and Rose cameé tor gate opened .le(‘:.:arh to meet him with an :;q‘;: :‘lxr of ho{m that masked measy’ y signs of fatigue u:l l::rrhd so 1 coul told him guanrdedly aside; “so I arose snd watched from the mdfl"“n rt He 2coma’nted ker bries fortunc unable to ¢ to overcor 1 spirits whea their dventure, set them red, was the cru- r—if the intluence hearts was to bring er upon them it would be here, in the hush aad darkness of this de- serted water front. And he bore him- self most warily as he helped the girl from the car and to the gangplank of e trey of Lingered Watchfully on Deck. the Seaventure pened; while Mr. as his word. Alan on deck, following gangplank came al and the Seaventu the wharf. Until the distance was too great for even a flying leap Alan lingered watch- fully on deck. At length, satistied that all was well, he returned to the cabin “All right,” he nodded; “we're clear of that lot, apparently; nobudy bat the But nothing hap- us was as good ¢ set foot When the Lov bes ca. A thud i, to his amazement, the Cloucester she — overhavled with such e:: morning and now, by rights, w« n the northern he-i- zon—not twvo v.les distant, and staud- ing squarely for the smaller vessel, Bewildered, he darted to tha girl's side, with a shout, demanding tn know what was the matter. Sie turned to him a face he hardly recog- nized—but still he didn’t understand. The inevitable inference seemed a thing unthinkable; his braln faltered when asked to credit it. Only when he saw her tearing frantically at the painter, striving to cast it off and with it the dory towing a hundred feet or 80 astern, and when another wouder- ing glance had discovered the head and shoulders of Mr. Barcus rising over the stern of the dory as he strove %o lift himeeif out of the water—only then did Alan begin to appreclate what had happened. Even 8o, it was with the feeling that all the world and himself as well had gone stark, raving mad, that he seized the girl and, despite her struggles, tore her away from the rail before she had succeeded in unknotting the painter. “Rose!” he cried stupldly. “Rose! What's the matter with you? Don't you see what you're doing?" Defiance inflamed her countenance and accents. thing but ‘Rose! Rose! Rose!' Is there no other name that means any- thing to you? Can't you understand how intolerable it is to me? 1 love vou no less than she—better than she ever dreamed of loving I hate you, too! Wh is no more than love? Car der nd?” g h!" he cried in a veice of stu pefaction. “Put—Good Lord! —how did you get aboard? Where's Rose “Where you'll not tfind her ex again,” the woman aungrily retorte rust me for that!" “What do you mean came in a bl g flash Do you mean it was you ou whom 1 brought it e you—Yb love you un that Hlumination Who else “You waylaid her there in the YLotel substituted yourself for her, d = She Whips Out a Gun as Big as a Cannon. three of us aboard. Now you'd best turn in. This is evidently to be your etateroom, this one to port, and you'll | have a long night's sleep to make up | for what you've gone through-—dear- | est.” | He drew nearer, dropping lis vcice | tenderly. And of a sudden, with al little low cry, the girl came into his arme and clung pasionately to him. “But you?”’ she murmured. “You need rest as much as 1! \What about you?" “Oh, no I don't” he contended. gides I'll have plenty of time to un once we're fairly at sea. Darcu and [ stand tch and watch, of course. There's nothing for you to it be com at your ease. ust let me go,” Josed, her head thrown d to suffer his kiss pond, then tur taleroom bow r at But 1 . her Seaventure th-southeast, cle est wind rtland head was of Pe ern CHAPTER Xil rest e ded cous!deration Barcus to let his crew sleep zh t ret afternoon watch. Six re ringing when, in drowsy ap- jon that something had gomne y and radically wrong, Alan }ie was on deck agaln almost before he rubbed the sleepiness from his eyes, emerging abruptly from the half- ]:‘gm of the cabin to a dazzle of sun- | light that filled the cup of day with | rarefled gold, even as he passed from | conviction of eecurity to realization ot immediate and extraordinary peril. His first glance discovered the wheel deserted, the woman with back to him me into thinking vou--!" “Of cour: she said simply. “Why not? When I saw her sleeping there - the mirror of myself, completely my mercy—what else should I think of than to take her place with the man I loved? I knew you'd never know the difference—at least I was fool enough for the moment to believe I coull stand being loved by you in her name! It was only today, when I'd had time to think, that I realized how impos- sible thet wa A gudden s':n of the maineail boom |:uhw:ms'hi1vs and a simultaneous cry from over the stern roused Alan from Lis consternation to fresh appreciation of the emergency, With scant cor - cration he hustled the woman to the compenionway and helow mm-d its h the slid- breath—tlien just in nd sorely efforts ed ner inow n oa ifter he up under the to climb hud pulled the dory stern by its painter. © the rail in a towe Lis temper *“I he Impertir as soon ble to articulate coher. entlv—"hat iev 1 laquire It that bloody-minded vixen is your blushing bride-to-be ? Alan shook a helpless head. The thing defied reasonable explanation. He widde a feeble stagger at it with- out much sfaction either to him- f or to » cutraged Barcus. all a da mists ! her te mean, the right girl's sister—and her vrecise double— fooled me—not quite right in the head, I'm ¢ ia.” ‘You may Mr. B » yeu'll pardon the apparent ence.” he ested acidly 0—it's She's r—I well be afraid, you poor rcus snapped “D'you know what did? Threw me over Loard! Fact! Came on deck a while ago, sweet as peaches—and all of a sudden whips out a gun as big as a cannon, poiuts it at my head and or- flat ders me to luff iuto the wind. Before | I could make sure I wasn't dreaming, she had fired twice—in the air—a sig- nal to that blessed fisherman astern ! there—at least, they answered with two toots of a power whistle and ! changed course to run up to us. Look | how she's gained already!” “But how did she happen to throw you overboard?” “Happen nothiag!™ Barcus snapped, getting to his feet. “She did it a- purpose—flew at me like a wildeat, and before I knew what was up—I was slammed backwards over the “Can’t you ever say any- | XD, FLa., JAN. T T . T SR —— rou how sorry I am,” d gravely. “There's —Llut cone thing to be done Mr. Barcus inquired “To st rid of the lady,” Alan an- nounced fi “Make that fisher- mon 8 pres of the woman in the You don't mind parting with the dory in a good cause—if I pay for it “Teke it for nothing,” Barcus grumbled. “Cheap at the price!” lie took Alan's place, watching him with a sardonic eye as he drew the tender in under tho leeward quarter, made it fast, and reopened the com- panionway. As the girl came on deck with- out other invitation, in a sullen rage that only heightened her wonderful loveliness, Alan noted that her first look was for him, of untempered ma- lignity; her second, for Barcus, with a curling lip; her third, astern, with & glimmer of satisfaction as she rec- ognized how well the fisherman had drawn up on the Seaventure. i “Friends of yours, I infer?” Alan | inquired civilly. ! Judith nodded. “Then it would save us some trouble | —vourself included—Iif you'll be good enocugh to step into the dory without a struggle.” { | Without a word, Judith stepped to | the rvil and, as Barcus luffed, swung | hersel! overside into the dory. | Imm diately Alan cast off, and as | the little boat sheered off, Barcus, with a sizh of relief, brought the Sea- | venture once more back upon her | course, For sor lence bet tender dr | woman ply > few minutes there was si- | on the two men, while the *ned swiftly astern, the brisk pair of oars. Then, suc! uly elevating his nose, Barcus snitto 4 audibly. “Here,” he said sharply, “relieve me for a min- ute, will you? 1 want to go forward and have a leo at that motor.” In the time th»t he remained invis- ible between ¢ vks the fisherman luffed, picked v the dory and its occupant, and cioe round again in open chase of the aventure, When Barcus ippeared it with a grave face “The devil and th* feep She,” he ob- served obscurely, ‘ing aft, “from all their works, good 1 crd deliver us!” “What's the troublc now?" “Nothing much—on's your plavful little friend has been un to anotlier of her light-hearted tricks If you should happen to want a smoke or anything to eat when you go below, Just find a mirror and Liss yourself good-by before striking (e match. The drain-cocks of both ‘uel tanks have been opened, and there are up- wards of a Lundred and fi'ty gallons i of highly explosive gasoline sloshing around in the bilge!"” CHAPTER XIIl. No Quarter, said Mr. Barcus irdul- ng a long silence. “Very interesting. Very interesting, ine b I've seldom listened to a more enter: ! taining life-history, my poor yonng friend. But I tell you candidly, us man to man, 1 don’t believe one word of it. It's all d n foolishne e His veiee took on a plainti ac cent. “Particularly this!™ he expos tulated, and waved an indignant hand, ing their plizht rest of adventures are onahle enoug said, “they credulity ive of Missouri. Hut th t chapter is im- possible. And that's flat. It couldn’t happen—and h And there, in a manner of speaking, we are!” Aczainst the western horizon a long, low-lying strip of sand dunes rested | 1ike a bar of purple cloud between the crimson afterglow of sunset in the sky and the ensanguined sea that mir- d it The wind had gone down with the sun, leaving the Seaventure becalmed —her motor long since inert for want of fuel—in shoal water a mile or so off the desolate and barren coast that Barcus, out of his abounding knowl- edge of those waters. named Nauset Beach. | Still another mile further off shore the so-called Gloucester fisherman rode, without motion, waters as still and glassy. Through the gloaming, with the aid of glasses, figures might be seen moving about her decke; and a8 it grew still more dark she lowered a small boat that theretofore had swung in davits. humming noise drifted across the tide, “Power tender,” the owner of the Seaveuture Interpreted. “Coming to call, } presume. Sociable lot. What | I can’t make out is why they seem to think it necessary to tow our dory back Uneasy conscience, maybe— what?" | He lowered the binocvlars and | glanced nquiringly at his employer, } who grunted his disgust, and said no more, “Den’t take it so hard, old top,” Bar- cus adviced with a change of note from irony to eympathy. Then he rose and dived down the comnanio Y, presently to reappear with a m phone and a double-Larreled shotgun., No cutting-out parties in this out fit,” he explained, grinniog amiably, None at old stuff, revised to suit was nr won 1 the once himself at the length above his head, ! stertorously through the ! Keep off! This means e within gunshot and I'll vour fool heads off!” Putting aside the megaphone, he sat down again. “Not that I'd dare fire | this blunderbuss,” he confided, “with blow | this reek of gasoline; but just for moral effect. Phew-w! I'd give a dol- lar for a breath of clean air; I've in- haled so much gas in the last few hours I'm dry<cleaned down to my silly old toes!™ Galning no response from Alan, he observed critically: “Chatty little cus- tomer, your are,” and resumed the binoculars. (Continued Next Wednesday.) ,cine at home at -one-fifth the cost. | Merely go to A little later a faint | STOP BUYING EXPENSIVE | Worst cough or cold. Also excelient COUGH REMEDIES for broanchial asthma, bronchitis Money spent for the old style, tcroup, hoarseness and whooping T -made cough syrups in bottles cough. CGne bottle will make enouzh holding only 2 to 2 1-2 ounces is -made cough medicine to prob- very largely wasted, because most of ably !ust the whole family the o1 them are composed principally of [ winter. Children like it, it sugar ang water. Yet you have to|pleasant to take and it po:it pay the same price as if it was all | contains no chloroform, opium, mor- medicine. 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