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vening Wor Da Magazine, uesday. February P AT] the mere timbre of bis though the girl thought sho heard an found that dart. You're only sut- you touch a man like that? C cup half way to his lips, “Your— WHY Wy fener My Sukie urgent; eomothing underlying vote of nardness th hie priced that (twas ever fouad At Gelleve the les—" but there, with a. cCEDING CHALTERS, What?’ he questioned. “Oh, T undor- Yi ij ominous. voice. “You were at tho Point while all--it and the body of the man {it peremptory gesture, tte’ father LS BP ong I on TWEE’ ASM “Tv soomed an interminable while be- [was there, weren't you? Hut it’s slow.” tiienced him. hen ag eeciae caicudr, aie Gone, _ pte yA\E tore the returning boat came along- many yoars sinco I've scen you.” “Everything you say in perfectly Wut even he exclaimed at the gtrfs mines ly 1 intently Ys Into at My Wud) side the foot of the accommodation At that he crossed the deck to truvo,” sald Cayley, very quictly. “I next action, for she stooped, picked wd forge A oe or eters y i ///) ladder. When the new-comer 8P- where young Fanshaw was sitting am surprised that the body of that Up the blood-stained dart which igs kt im of yours ‘ iO peared at the head of it, bis face Bad ang heid out his hand, ‘Tom Fan- man was ever recovered, I'm a little at Philip Cayley’s fest, and handed tt bgt Vineet P oust Hl f a plainly written om ft the story Of shaw’s hands remained clasped tight- surprised, also, that you should think, to him, * w it away, please,"— he pressed her finger tips thought. ¢ - rg 5 iy some tragedy. ly on the two arma of his chair and because this stick fell from my belt ahe . “overboard, as far as you she’ bald, "it's ‘perfectly inoredibte, ph ee eae ‘ wy What, in tere gonnne caked, Rot the stern lines of his face never re- last night, and thie dart, which you ean. eed oe . Ra . . steadily. joase tho: was looking str: fix! "es throat this ther mt uae condition uncle Jerry, but it's perfectly true for : yy Ts"broak It to mol Fell me, just as inrececnouah he was looking straight found tratafxing @ man's t Kven before the other men cried out Donel a rearching @ll that. If ft was a dream—If he, ing —— at bis dot the ¢! you do the others.” at the Point very well.” ho sald, “but “acu ganshaw interrupted him. be Rasitaion abe bane “It's nothing concerning you, miss, unfortunately there are some stories 4; not especially, I mean; nothing to do of your subsequent career which Carle, devant, & the sky-man, was nothing but a vision, the Isather clad he certainly left me a material sou- s him to, he hesitated and looked other - eyes were blazing with excite- in ag surprise. ty it. “It was not from us that you it, please," she commanded; *T 1 picked uy. Roscoe, the venir of his visit.” Then, with a nod with your father.” Then he turned to pomamber al too well.” ment i yet hah eurtered toward the burtet, she spoke to Mr. Tir, Fansbaw. "I found Mr. Hunter, “hg rt ir not peed : learned that that dart transfixed the ask it seriously. Fanshaw's big negro vi who was sir.’ look of incandescent anger + le serving their breakfast: “Hand Mr. “Dead? The tone in which Dono- in pnilip Cayley’ face to turn the , "1 knew it, nevertheless,” sald Cay. Fanshaw that queer looking stick, Sam, the one on the buffet. Why— why, what's the matter?” For she had lifted her eyes to the man's face as sho finished speaking, It was wooden with fright, and the whites CHAPTER Iii. showed all around the pupils of his e looking had spoken made the question sudden tide of her sympathy toward !¢¥ in that quiet voice, not bard ly ‘necessary. him. It was not for this od wrong toward the bong! he . a tar. Pane “Yes, air. His body te lodged eep of his that they had summoned him, Still keeping his oyos im aseae dow none of the ico fleaures in th® ga toa bar of justice, to the Auroras shaw. “And also a little surpri ; Hactet: utdare got down tole tho tants oe Perey Hunan aioubee corrupted, “that you should think, be- "t murder of Per: unter, a “tom Fenshaw covered his face with he was guilty of {hat murdor or mor, cause this etick and thin dart At to- a Cart, ‘sien the gold was discovered, Yeats t safety, 1 as about. hands for a moment. Then looked this raking up of an old, unproved gether, that Iam, necessarily, a mur- Ph Cayley took tt (Continaed.) Jo, Mina Jeanne,” he sald, “Scuse wp ana. aahed, steadily: Seep Brutality Bho fou of, eae ratand ir have admitted tt now, at, all tnrow it far out into the water, nt 4 . ‘ol inde “Yor . ‘2 The Murderers. fer ail de gol" and towvin ta Go worltt wae the same moment his father how kind hearted old Tom could have event,” Mr. Fanshaw replied. His . Thete was one more surprise th a oT "hot even to oblige him. hae ecie . Tit aes “What's that?” Fanshaw exclaimed, . Los : whirling upon him, “What do you ing the thinking. There bgt Sd the devil, are you talk- robably ten able- ing about?” paaiea: "he ee er ike “I seen him, Mr. Fanshaw; T seen . him myself, comin’ down out of de yaoht. That's not good enough odds, sky las’ night. I was out on deck, eonsidering the way they're armed. suh.” But about an hour ago I sent Miguel Anita ed hate beep 4 roe bod negro's face to the girl's, as down to the shore party to be their suspected a hoax, but tl : “Do you think wo shall be dono such @ thing. Thinking it over voice grew quister, too, as the inten. fore for the two Fanshaws, When shite to recover the body?” afterward, sho was able to under: sity of his purpose ateadiod It. “I ae’ ry jout @ glance toward Donovan answered this question stand @ little botter. suppose that ie because, upon this of them, walked out on the her own heart she did not be- ‘No.Man's-Land,’ you are outside the UPper landing of the accommodation “We can try, sir, though I've mot tieve Cayley guilty, Neither tho le of law and etatute—beyond the /adder, the girl accompanied him, and mach hope of our succeeding. story Tom had told her, nor the furediction of any court. T tell you aide by side with him, descended the after a moment's hesitation, damning array of circumstances this; 1 think we would be justified little stairway, at whose foot the ho turned to the 80M. |. ase ge Which pointed againat him had coun- jn giving you a trial and hanging you dinghy waited. didn't fall; at rng 1 feracted as yet the impression which from that yard there, Wo will mot ou are still determined on that wasn't fall that killed him. his singularly charming personality @o it, Wo will not even take you fesolution of yours, are you, to aban. found this in left in the So had made upon her during that pack to the Staten to prison. You 40m us all for the second time—all by. It must have heen, driven strange, mysterious hour they had may live outlaw here and enjoy, un- Aumankind, I mean? Thie terror in later Ho tan't going t - $ his throat had together upon the ice floe the freedom, such an it Ccusation against Ce ce a co te say PY ono face and tho myatifcation in the throng He trina shaking band a hid, ‘omsther Lurbed. Jorougnts and your een dleproved. bet aol ning much to them, but what he other wero obviously genuine, y dart, sharp almost bi t i be h, 1 Kk He’: Then hi 4 t Jong, slim ivory dart, ft To her, then, his manner of com- gcience, such as they must be. Bui ‘Diaproved?” he questioned. “That nd dha Ladin bail beat Sitial tend m ho rose and went over to the steel could be and stained brown with tng aboard the yacht had pointed to {f aver you try to return to the world beautiful faith of yours can't be to pretend lie's dotty and can't under- buffet, returning to the table with blood. "He was murdered, str,” Don- innocence rathor than to gullt—his of ee called proof.” etand what they say to him.” the oddly shaped, rudely whittled met ovan concluded simply. self-posseasion, his amtle, his extend- “Give me the dart,” the old gen! ‘t od hand. But to Tom, who enter- foro ‘was spok man demanded. As he examined It tained no doubt at all of his guilt, qo return to t! his fine old face hardened. “Do YOU these things were the simple manifes- paid. “I wish tho world were empty resets stick. “Do you mean to say,” he Planck's eyes widenod a little and demanded, looking up at the girl he did mot ask bis next question very with a puzzled frown—"do. you mean steadily. “Where is he guing to take to say that he, the man you dreamed you give us a chance 7” he unked, holding it out to Bis tation of effrontery, of an almost in- of men, as this part of it is, or aa I to disbelieve them?” about,, made you a present of this 3 , $, fon. ‘There inno notch in the end human coolness und impudence, and fought it, was. Tt abandoned man- ‘Be Old story, too? ‘Can't you guess that? He's going “tick? ==. ——— - for a bow-string, but it will Ile vo had 2§ but yesterday when She laughed. “If that seems a as ad exasperated him beyond his self- kind once before, y' a 4 ald; “can never In: ly in the groove of that throwing- control. I saw men here I felt a stirring of F lay that phan f lead them Into Fog Lake, of reasonable way of putting it, yes: at tnto the gitl’s face, mutely, half- couldn't tell it all to you." He turned ST thee Jeanne brought aboard the “rom behind Tom's chatr she could ihe Pinus tthe call of what, was In eer aan the world.” a course.” least it slipped out of his belt and I tetera He anche: to his father. “Youct think, already SUke' ants morning.” ace how heavily thia Blow he dealt my veinn, Laat night when I took to , “I am sorry.” sho aald, holding ont ‘The thought of it made Planck's found it where he had been sitting. ‘seemed to know it.” Then, with evident reluc- “men he turned to the girl. ‘T'm had told. For one instant Philip Cay. the alr again, after the hour ed is a and to bim. “I wish you'd give feeth chatter. Fox Lako was, per- But can you Imagine what he used tance, he began telling the story to afraid your visitor last night was 20 Joy'y sonsitive face had shown a look @pent on that {co floe yonder, I thour! hanes, by.” » the most curious natural pho- ‘ort Gooa This time h t Jeanne. Axton, my dear, after all.’ of unspeakable pain. Then it atif. 1, Wantea to come back to my own © took the he went quite white, and reeled a ‘There was @ man nar 4 Philip “Nor'she girl was looking and point- fened into a Mere mask tye dindeit: kind; wanted, in spite of the past, to over it and pressed ul. bowed is, but tha it lghtl: the deeper. iittle, ‘Then clutched at the shrouds Cayle; Oe oe oe ae ee nd at teat dee well neem, withou ther tenes omenon upon that strange Arctic “Oh, Jand—a little cup-shaped valley, from only mak he sald, “in Hunior’s class ing skyward. e it any of fare which the fog never lifted-had never It’s an Eskimo throwing stick. They for support. at the Point, three classes ahead of ‘* ————- It was a moment bofore he spoke. Tanta be quickly. Tar rid of it, asd te enn that, he dropped down to Hifted once in all the four years they use it to shoot darts with. It Hes in I suppose,"—the girl sald almost me, that was, Ho and Hunter were CHAPTER V. pWhen he did it was to her, “I don't [am rid of you—bloody, sodden, stu- the y and was rowed back te bad lived there. the palm of the hand, so, and the voicelessly, "I suppose I mustn't dare chums, the ‘David and Jonathan, know why this gentleman presum id, blind, ‘When she bis wings. “You aay Miguel 1s going, to ruide care a bat An vat sro0v9,, taowah even lot myself begin to hope yet, es Lad of poate ere antic The Dart. keep his seat,” hi . EE At Yet, with all my horror of you, mY found that returned to the deck ghe them ere?" Planck as! jow's one see! lously must I, not—yet?” “I lost sight of precaution agai blow, should not expect aro J iw had gene he going to get out himscif misshapen; 1 can't make it fit my td a blow, perhaps he disdain of you, I uld no! ui Fansha: laughed shortly: “Oh, he's hand. But I can't figure out how the fellow seem: half-crazed; seemed, It is only justice to Hunter to say likely to get out. But he's the cheapost thing got aboard the yacht; It wasn't almost, to are jost the power of that I never heard a word of the MAH We've got, and that's why I sent here yesterday. him. He's balf silly now, and he’ di r without ind to the other opaline alr was a Mose With blo courtaty Pruceace interfere one of you ee Lady A ed the aky man tite of Mt to wee golden gleam, Nearer “Ho has just met with an accident,” of gain, upon the body of a stranger, it Tom sat, rigid, where he was, came and broader it grew, sho said quickly, * can't stand. It is of that that you accuse me”—— For the first time that she could re- clear “I don’t know,” sald ‘Tom. “The whea they went to the Philippines. H IGH, high up in the heed not let hi thing that happened out there from MOE Sousee Lek? ahe aay age speech from long disuse of it. But pel nn him. He never seemed to want to No, Tom, ait still,” and her hands “A stranger!” Tom Fanshaw ech- ™ember, he was Hkely to go ice-crazy moat any time. man brought it.” that was clear cnough from hin ane: talk to me about it, and, of course, T and as it grew, ons ale Upon his shoulders enforced the com: ocd, “Why, when you confess to so POO anger. “I knew nes, Pe es Tve seen it coming on him. Oh, he'll He ran his fingers through hie tures. If 1 could only have seen you Never forced him. Well, I can make caught more fully tne slanting mand. much, do you try to ite at the end? YOU never ikea Hunter, wet thom in all right. Whether he bushy gray hair perplexedly, thon before I begun to blurt the thing out ® short story of it, anyway, though of the low-hanging Arctio eum, it Cayley bowed ever no slightly. “I You can't think we don't know that Sever could soe x r why you gets out himself, or not, doesn’t . 1 ared it has to be a nasty on nt col- suppose,” he continued, “that since the man you murdered was once your like him; and it didn’ Ca matter.” belt at the table, "AC any raters be. unt there ee comeing to neeTee | ian came into che Poot one day, *hone with prismatic, {rideace nan, Mat Right you also have heurd the friend-—-oF thought he. was, God Walp Utee to ges ikaean fo one “and then?” Planck asked. 14, “we nooditt let even a myatery sorry, Jeane’ ™ the head man of one of the neighbor- or among the gold, like an arc tory Which this gentleman protests him! | Why, try to make ua belleve with Bis wings and hie fomacs ey a: ae bec out a seee party poll our breakfast. Come, my dear, “it's ai “er,” she sald, at the end of ing Vilaese ye a oe gel's wings. The reece’ (eae hat he, Torapeabere 80 muc@ap well?” eal Hunter was @ stranger to 4 scinated frdm tho yacht, of course. The yucht’s you've eaten almost nothing. ‘That @ rather long silence. “I'm there waite blood in, Bitn-—-Span! d. ered at last right above the mast- , u , you bad a b le know what rations the search- Omciet deaerves better sete was no Portuguese in father’s expedi- They carried him in, for he couldn't head but high, high up in the sky. sat ay: turned to olf Mr. Fan- ‘Tho girl's wide ree oe ipetbod gh) Justice than you ‘ehowed eens 66" ing party took with them, and when Qpbediently she took up her fork, but tion. Except for two or three Swedes Walk. He was in horrible condition. Ne teers uttered in Shaw: “Will you tell me, he Cayley's tace since mo ot Bho Row.’ Gaey't probably evt.out" from the Smo immediately ald i down fad Norwoslane they wore ail Amer. He id pata ieee Some acess ocr trsath fnorromsvceea ery, for vited t some nbeart Tar throwing stick: “Through “Tt alle= \y we ol orm e " i le' ia of at—Aal v4 tT) a bare G " i 4 yaoht, with every able-bodied. man peuiend he ae re eee [nog Baste Phar Ram sn Ma every ly to death, He sald that Cayley had ai ‘a falcon does it dropped hurtling. Tom pone Fete his through Fanshaw'’s hot accusation “Party and bring it in. As ‘soon ag Bech any news, if there'd been any- thee Bho el eee eee eee eee ae ey | Femonstrated wit wut not to the doatruction they fore- faugh: “veu weren't neice (a weed on Geata tt haa cover 5 3 ard.” % e rese! fe J By Fee i Ph ARSE at ey tore Par ap oem tect tabte sweeping the shore lino tna eee? hin daughters safety—eho was & saw; once more it darted forward, were, as the police may, ‘wanted thangea here has’ beast coats : a livin dee Sa . matic binocul: hi retty girl, whiter thua her fathor— the yacht, #0 close _ “4 quiet. Tom!" his futher com: and anger in ft, subdued by aa iron poul aboard her; and we certainly ANd patted the hand that lay there Stross her ahuuldera, “oe MBPS Pra’ some that the man's fearr had haeaglenpoaarier bern te nie, Manded. “That's not the way to talk self-control: no other emotions than can't leave one these. But we'll °",t Pe komo Eouahtn't rye At last she let the glass fall from somo justification. It appears .hat to her ra! —to anybody.’ poay. those two, until the very end, Until »=/ @t@am Up and take our gold aboard— her listless hand and turned to them, Cayley had come out there, blind ing scream of the alr as those mighty = Cayley's lips framed o faint, satiri- the montion of that name—'Perry all our gold. And then, woll—thero's “and I won't: it's your goodness her face haggard with the torture of drunk, with a couple of troopers, who Jeft through it, And then, as ‘i! smile, and again he bowed slowly. punter.” Where You'll como in, You must A" Kindness to mo as much an aM¥- Impousible hee Mt wish my MKY MAN eee tae, Sonne DIKNE end inane aehe. ight pipes hia planes up. [iut,he sald nothing and atood watts ari se the sound of that name know some harbor there whero we thing else. Ever since he wont away would come,” she said forlornly— handled the old man, The girl joined bin Maca 4 sg she the a AW necinat to fad ie {ust then the girl saw his face go yan Mo up for the winter and not bo You've been like a father to me, and “come whirling down out of the air, in her father’s accusation; at least standing straight, Cayley leape: in Mr. atasoae area if bis loodlees, nat all at once, slowly, rn: Rothoreat ‘Tom, dear old Tom, like a brother. with news of them.” phe didn't deny atiything backward clear of them and alighted Father dimcult to do. (At Inat, how. ther Athen after n tite, while be “¥es," ait Planck, “T could take And then building this ship and “your aky-man?” said Tom Fan- “Cayley was away on scout duty at 0 one age beside the ynobt. Le wanted “When Mian Wieldine uttered a great sob; not df grief, but all, but turned ‘her ‘attentlon aba ity ety Pit AN Gantt Surtlt fad ing hk tne MAT Ce Nae oo wae about Moe ReaReeptrad ain teary "Old Mr, Panahaw walked culty Pyaar ts anit” enimaninatat tues sttas bath ihe Panshos Bad Wand ean Where's @ very good harbor in behin i ‘om fa ere wan something to talk about thin; ppen: . Q 5 jeard before when, in bat si Hirehel island, “Wut what will we'do them, all for such an impoamble, at leet, Lea thesic eeutieman aeioed Just before he started out, It came around the deckhouse and hulled the the strange visitor she had received Sie on sktr. foment later ahu closed her mish, @ soft-nosed bullet smashes ita noculars snap and when we get there?” hopeless hope as that message the the chance it afforded. Ike a thunderbolt out of a clear sky. new arrival. “Won't you come aboard, last night, we were--T was, at least — way through eome great knotted around to the other side of the **After that it's my affair,” sald sea brought to us.” “Yes, we've another mystery,” he for everybody liked Cayley and sir?” Jeanne ‘heard him call. °Ti {nclined to think she had been dream- nerve centre. His hands went out in Where Mr, Fanshaw, lean; e . “We'll winter on the yacht. Her voice faltered there and she said. ‘See what you can do toward thought him an exceptionally decent, dinghy fo 4 ing it without knowing it. To con- a convulsive gesture, both the atick elbows on the "a md ‘Then when the weather begins to bent down abruptly and kissed the solving it.” With that for an intro- glean sort of chap, though he and e#end tho ding! ny ir you,’ vince me that you were real and not and the dart which he beld fallin the 1 m Up a bit, but before the spring band that was still caressing ber duction, he plunged into'a humorous Hunter both were drinking a good “Thank you,” they heard him an- 9 vision, she showed me a material from them, the stick at the girl's we, we sane ie wold and oor own. account af Jeanne’s rahort of Ld oa. deal just then, baer Ruabon wen Fon ewer. “There wasn't much room for oly : ne res; cache all the fold, except «. ” “ venture of the night before, about it. Everybody be- s ‘our call. Tt was an Eskimo throw- ning buck agal es What we can carry over the trail, 88Y; will were’ ike brothers sourer to man who. had dropped down trom Hevea thet he really know somo inz auienting on the deck or K could have your cull. Je wan un Hakimo throw. ning pack against the rail for sup- “about five hundred pounds of it, and Qui, | were jike brothers asurer to Man wend Mine middie of the Might, avinating tacts seainat Cayley, but spared you the trouble. Alaskan ‘and Biberian Todiane use to. bands. At tant wee they waited ni- “we'll leave the yacht’s seacocks oben. wont away, knowing that if bis ven- and talked to her awhile, and then he never would speak. Jeaane stole # glance tnto Tom throw darts and harpoons with. It lently he drew himself up and looked Cattle’ Meet We. sean Mopabiy ture failed, if ft ended fatally for flown away again, “She was really ay for Cayley himaelf, he made Fanshaw's stern, set face, wondering happens that I've had a good deat dazedly into Bee teas fing sledges, and perhaps a pony or him, as it probably did, I should re- out on the Ice fi no defense whatever. He denied if the tone and the inflection of that of experianca among thone people, and Suddenly, to the amasement of the two, on the yacht. If we do it will Gard you as my daughter—as J mineh 2 oopeedes bat we mn did it, and that was al yen Tamme voice would impress him as ft had that T know how deadly an imple- one ive aon, she crossed the deck ‘easy. It's only a short hike to one &* much a child of mine as Tom yh i she Rabe tinetions |ny, real Serrope rative astiai dice her, “Don't you find tt hard to be. Mont It ts. pare atood. “I'm perfectly the tributaries of the Porcupine If you hadn't been in the case at 18 skeptical about my ss againat him, so the cou Ayal td Pypieetlag uch a pti? made & Iittle pause there, and sure, for my part, that you dida’t do River. On-e we reach the Porcupine all we'd have built this ship and ‘But even you can't exp! jain, missed the case as not proved. » Neve that he cou! e done ai then looked up suddenly into Cuyley’s !t; that you are not the murderer of it will be easy, for it flown into the come up here to find Tom Fielding protested, “how I could dream al he wouldn't tontity Rimeelt, now | yas thing? she asked; “a man with @ face. “And I tmagine,” he continued Mr. Hunter, Won't you shake ‘san good as u rail- just the same. There, don't cry, Put an Eskimo throwing stick, ond thee @ single iinees colle’ 1 potion voice like that?” very slowly, “that you know that as hands?" way line. ‘e'll make a raft nnd on that big fur coat of yours and bring it back to the yacht with me and he resigned from cho far ae“ only wish I found it possible to Well as T do.” He made no move to take hers, * float all the way down to St. Michaels come out with me on dec! when I wes wide awake, and show and there, and disappear: Y heard . Cayley made no answer at all, but ®24 though bis eyes were turned with no trouble at all, The gold we The moment Mr, Fanshaw and it to you at the breakfast table this I know, from the world. nN © believe he hasn't, Not every villain it Mr. Fanshaw hoped to find, with UP08 her, he seemed to be looking have with us will be enough to take Jeanne emerged upon the deck they morning.” had a ranch down eon aig <4 Aste in this world looks and talks Ike ® those shrewd Aree a) ble, one Ince ce through rather thaa at her, so in- ““, ws down to Vancouver, and thero we heard the sound of oars beneath them, 111 have to admit,” sald the old Mexico, near Sandoval, al thug. If they did, life would be sim. guilt or ‘consternation ‘ie tha Gal tense was his preoccupation. / / can charter a ship. You take com- and looking over the rail eaw one of gentleman, ‘that thy explanation Place was.’ ler."” He paused a moment, then faco that confronted bim, ‘he ue , Seeing that this was 90, she laid mand of her, and we go north through the boats in which the shore party His father saw a quick tightening P " eas H re ey uta rule ths duapectted nm im, W88 her band upon his forearm. “You the Straits again that very summer— had set out, pulling up alongside the ‘The expression of the youn; in the girl’a horror-stricken ¢: at other’ this ut there in the Philip Gutteats “he ¢ e didn't do It,” she repeated, “but you next summer that will be, of course. sccommodaiion ladder. Three men man's face was perplexed rather than the sound of the name, which evi- ines SRS mer: urned to his son, know something about ft, don't you? y%e@ Ko back to the harbor where we wore in it, two of the crew and Tom {ncredulous, Gently, in some way, helped corrob- D' ie 6 alod little at thet, etif- ere is that thing that Donovan You saw it done, from a long way Tee the yacht. Ton can Sgure ot Panshaw, “Well, if you dreamed that,” said orate the story to her, but he He aeekoe. and Mid not ProMane aboard with him just now?” off—suw the murder, without ‘know. rent for yourself. T gue ‘What news, Tom?” his father Tom, “it was a mighty intelligent question her ut it. . Hater ina} . ing who te victim was.” “Yea.” said Planck. out aaxiously enough to belie m, I’ ” “Well, that’s all I know,” said Tom, answer. Thoy sat silent, listening to ‘The blood-stained dart lay on the well—only, won't. there be Bo Sia titan theca uceier, Wetees ergeey Ril may that foe Ie, “Tho thing aout broke the receding ars of the dinghy ea lt deck bealdo ‘Tom's chair. To picked inure Sesjeae, aes ae bem mnany to trust that nort of secret to?” you found anything? I hope there's ghe cried. “Didn't I help him take Perry Hunter's heart, and he quit the made for the ico floe. Suddenly the it up and held it out toward he aloft there tee. to: ao | Ls. Rorcoe looked at him with @ #AV- pothing wrong.” the thing apart and fold ft up into a service himself shortly after. It had girl saw an expression of porp.exity father, but the elder man, with a soft, there too long, just out of “age ort of erin. “Come, you're im- phe young man looke¢ up. He saw bundle? And didn't he say that he this effect on him, though. He told come into Tom Fanshaw's face. gesture, indicated to Cayley that he me inet Ad f ey bad been men to Ina. Fut that hike across the nig gather, but not the “Nothing was a taxpayer, and that bis name me the other night that he hed never “When you talked with him, Jeanne, Was to take it in his hand: then, me Instead of puppets, But when I mountainn to the upner trinntarion he growled, “except this in- was Philip Cayley?” drunk a drop since ho had left the jast night, did you tell him our Jeanne, my Gear.” he asked, “wit wieesed tne ah heir intent was, of the Porcupine ina hard trail. Thera fernal'anklo of mine. I've sprained it “She was addrocsing the elder man aFmy. 1 ee ee ane ae eae a ORION Torin Cees emcee eter it: sree ctak tee nea Ome aren't likely to he many of ue loft again, and I did it just when”— He as she spoke, and as she mentioned | “But you can see how aueer it ts, Did you give him any bint who we stick whic Gropped from Mr, Cay. ‘ister, It was done before I could in- OF by the time we get started flonting broke the sentence off short there, his the namo—it was the first time she can’t you? What an odd, nameless were, or that we were people who ae - it vad peda 9 Md pit gone backward down oven water. When we eet to eye falling at that moment upon had mentioned it to any one—she saw feeling of foreboding it gave Mm might know him?” le pa: on the er. ofa ure in the ice, id highly interesting souvenir of feet, the dart at his own, Then lean- doesn’t adequately account for tha: 2, g % er. f erry Hunter end wae ful nke to Cayley: “You will tugging at a dart that was in his ,.~Jt’® quite clear that the brains the Yukon it won't be surprising if Jeanne, him shoot 4 startled, inquiring glanco When, on the night timit Pei 'No, only my own; an: ! this ‘are there av't anybody Yett at all, but ‘ihe pated a Mttle, for she had been at is son Following it, she met disappeared, I learned that 8 inom w Raked me about that ot rotched anit aout throwt, | And when they had gone— {m# expedl fo act pretty Seas te auick to perceive that something he ‘Tom Fanshaw's eyes staring at her 0 Q jo said, “Then 3 ti ee “a ¥ Cd had been about to tell would not be in utter amazement, . Cayley, came fying down out of th® counts for his coming back. HE UE Ware anol from a bows They?” she cried. “Was thore Yo i ; toll now, or must be told differently, —« midnight aky and talked to you! She had hoped that in some WAY ay he gpokn bur at hie hae tees more than one? 4 CHAPTER IV. 2ut she waited until his father, to- ‘The girl wan looking at him in ® of other the trend of her answer ; ould ; , ort © “Lo , it be possible, he wondered, One ay vee” ho sald, “there was # party. SI%Hla SBC Tyce Sky, might be in tho wey mane fone thd Nana bs The hing abet ‘here uae have betta grea “" i was disappointed at siniater brown sti east, ion they had gone low nt a nd safely installed in an eaay chair, , she sald, “When he was telling me yt atte. oe bere unter Loe tiene down and picked up that atick, which } ry, 1g Suppose,” sald Jeanney’ won gravely, but steadily, “Just as h Se ante eaing Teaid She bad to repress a sudden im- trembling? They wero stendy enough, On® of them had dropped. And to ¥ one no use worry. what, eae Led fie hi eee name to you in my life.” vt © eee he must te for pulse of flight when they beard the though, fo far ho could neo. think 1 might ‘saved him!" ing.” found just as you had to come a’ “No,” she said. “Why should you? tl Id, for all us wingloss ones, returning dinghy scrape alongside en Jeanne came out with the , Hor hand still rested on bis arm. Across the table from “It was very wonderful,” he said, 1 know you didn’t. I knew I had never a reer. iittle mountains, seas, the accommodation ladder. And even stick he handed that to Cayley also, “I'm glad you told me,” ahe said. She man answered. “Take it by and large, ; where she sat at break- “quite inexplicable. Just as wo were jieard it before when he told me it and rivera opposed such barriers, though she resisted it, sho shrank ‘You will notice,” he anid, “that that felt the arm atiffen suddenly at the 1 should gay that Cayley was claves jous lit- about breaking camp this morning was bis.” She hesitated a moment; And he gave a short, rather bitter back, no holess, into a corner be- dart and the groove in this atick wore sound of Tom Fai '# voice. to luck.” fast in the snug, warm, luxurious lit- 4. saw a man coming toward ue then, “Did you ever know # man fort of laugh, and said if it were hind Tom Fanshaw’s chalr. ‘The old evidently mide for euch other, Mr. ‘Jeanne tako your hand away! Can (To Be Continued.) tle dining-room on the yacht, old Mr. across the tce, We thought at first named Philip Cayley, ‘Tom?" true, then he had only conquered for gentleman was waiting at tho bead Cayley.” Fanshaw methodically laid his coffee that it was Hunter, and wa were Ho let the question go by, wn the world the feeling the world had of the ladder, blocking, with the bulk ‘The pupils of Jeanne's eyes dilated “spoon in the saucer hesido his cup and mighty glad to sea him, because he heeded, and, for a long time, gazed held for him.” of his body, the newcomer’s view of as sho watched the acctised man fit 4 had strayed off somewhere and hadn't silently out over the land. "I sup- t, thé deck and those who were waiting them together and then balanci looked up at her with his slow, de- (or tag with us, But we soon saw it pose,” ho said at lust, “that a coin. _ There was a ailence after that, n balance the her with the two sailors, had got The Throwing-Stick. the disabled ‘man up onto the feck t there on the there until he should havo fairly stick in his hand us if trying to din Uberate smile wasn't he, wasn't a man anything cidence like this, any coincidence, if Yulle the, three cut, there on the there brand, Gores tia it onald ta Butta te nome “My doar,” ho said, “remember that like him, He wan @ queer, slouching, only It be strange enough, will bring gach other's faces. “Mr. Philip C 7 he inquired a use aa Mr. Fanshaw had indicated ty. Unless they find shuffling creature, dreased in skins, a touch of superstitious fear to any- iT was broken at ro tn ivnaa te the utmost stretch and he came up in a hesitating way, body. I never had even a touch of It , cco mience was brok everything that by id ine 24 !f he was afraid of us, He couldn't before, in all my life; and I alway® shore. “Ahoy, Aurora, of hope they could find, he would In- ta), English, nor understand it, ap- had a little feeling of contempt for ica. aist on keeping up the soarch an long parently, Ho looked to me like a the men who showed it. Hut now— ‘Ql’ renshaw answered with a wave by stiffly. “My name is Fanshaw, sir, Ho seemed preoccupied by nothing last, from’ the more than a purely intellectual curios. cried ity His coolness seemed to anger Mr. THE LADY DOC A story full sit ' ag the Night lasted, and when the Nght Portuguese, and I tried him in Span- well, well, 1 wish poor old Hunter o¢ his arm. ‘atta Donovan," Fanepay eet bed torments snenced By Caroline Lockhart of the h, \ here would be no more ight Ish—sood Filipino Spantsh--on the hadn't strayed away last night. I gaid to the others; then, “Ye His soo, Tor @ womest this sudden das , fold je home by, Don't. think of SRARCC F Sought If started im & woan't elarmed about him before, and fs it2" he cried. ge 4 d amr OF Nia e900 romance ft@ compa no! Ad y little, and he pricked up hie ears at I've no rational ground for alarm = yi you send a din, or mo, t! ‘ Me $ , worrying: don't. We'll hear noth- ju but he couldn't understand that about him now. Only" — please?” or Sire coma tate PAnlp Cayere cace. | we dont Want ® Aamonstenticntt and thrill ing of them for hours.” either, He just kept beckoning and He did not go one until she ‘The boat was despatched at once, Evidently he be ogn a ome eee carne} AN ean er oO sa ick~ Ww t “It won't be as long as that," she ropeating two words'-— prompted him with @ question. “And and while they waited, Mr. Fanshaw thaw a! once and after an almost te. fre gun. ne 20m BAYS Fe 1 oar of the Wes predicted confidently. "My sky-man , "What words, Tom? Out with tt!" has the eky-man, Philip Cayley, any- borrowed Jeanne’s feld-glasson for a perceptible hesitation, seem m rying experiments. You knew how ry Ly map had , Up bis mind to overlook the singular- nicely that dart would fit in the allt probably bring me nows befure TAM" cctrouled hie patience with dite But it was'a little while before he “He's in's Murty. aald the old gentle: {ty of bis welcome, "I remember groove that was cut for it. You know then.” : ficulty di the silence. But . “I suppose I'd better tell you man. “He looks aa {: news Lieut, Fanshaw well,” be said, emiling altogether too well what the stain is °"@id Mr. Fanahaw halted bis coffes the younger faan hwettated and iookag eo storys part of it, at least; I of one sort or asother.” They all and speaking pleasantly enoug®, that discolorsit. You know where wo ! f o + ’