The evening world. Newspaper, February 25, 1914, Page 15

oe eoWednesday, February’ 25, 1914 The Evening World Daily Magazine ‘There was neither sight nor sound; = LE Ti fear. Thie was The Gret sight of her father’s clear, born jaw, and Planck ia the there was not even a glint of ¢ f Hf wolitesdt ehe braced her- erect, precise handwriting warmed beyond his hopes for them. Now that Bis command had always d bright wings bigh up in the cloudless 4, yf, golf an@'dismiseed her fear. Solitude her with @ eudden courage, He bad ne was in possession of the yacht— Dim as that most undesirable Arctic aky. Z Ng 4 was what she had left the yacht for; not set out upon this voyage of dis- bat that cam be found in @ Ho utterly deserted did the land ap- - , i, and, then, it was a condition he covery without weighing and expect. Now that All the gold, except what sea iawyer Dear, so imy ible was it to believe if could terminate at will, Through the ing the possibilities ri failure and three or four more boats would carry hat did you leave the box ta that any wer could lurk there, z Ui, atill air and across that quiet water death. Weill, he had di but he had was transferred safely to the be- it for?” he demanded. “He 1 that, after their unsuccessful attempt / rn her voice would carry easily to Tom's not failed. He had @ NeW tween-deck space beneath the turtie- 20t have come back if you had to recover the body of Hunter, ol =f ‘ ears, She had only to hall and she coast line to the map of the world. back—now that the amoko was pour. !t in the cave.” comes Mr. Fanshaw and Scales, the first of- of dal Ls r ¥ iY, would hear his voice in answer. And she knew--knew as clearly as if ing out of the Aurora's funnels and — “Come back!” echoed Roscoe, with ficer, took Jeanne ashore in one of ‘ is oi For a moment ebe thought she his own spirit had stood there beside the steam rising in her pressure & the boats for an exploration of the - oi . Would do it. Then she decided the her talking to her in his old, dearly gauges, he fell to wondering just | beach and of the cluster of empty, . " other way. If Tom suould miss Lo] remembered voice, that next to com- what surt of trap the devil was the but to get it, and there to half-buried huts that stood just back 4) Pi ah he would certainly call aloud, and ing home alive, bringing the fruita of baiting for him, with this unbroken light inside, and there be sat, of it. They were gone from the yacht ‘ os, he could answer, and use bis voice his discuvery with him, Ris lest wish in train of successes, like he used to. And he had the about an hour. Pag me El to guide her back to the yacht. It the world must When with the arrival of another open"—— By 4 O'clock, however, tl had | ats me was, of course, impracti to at- should happen boat from the shore, one of the great "He! Who do you mean?” There decided that, whether or not the sky- 4 . zZ tempt ¢o row back without eome 8tch pow—that ah iden siabs it brought went over- Wan no trace of truculence in Ree- man's story might be true, it was Hi . Q assistance. She hud only & vague Wee hold that as they were lifting it up on Coe's voice now. He spoke as high time to send a reliet party a , » in what quarter the yacht lay, and and read the deck, ‘he astonished the boat's crew bis throat was dry. ashore to find the lost ones. an | the‘chance of missing it and get id had not died in vain. by taking the disaster good-natured- | “It was Capt. Fielding; him to the with him; when his plans succeeded t'o what I said. We went to behind her on to the rising wind that poured ita loy have called it, of a too te suc- there he sat with the box were mere : there Deaet ‘windowless, -bare, stream through the walle ef the cess was breken by this ing mis- him, and that red book of hi iy erie, any tee trees the cane Ricker; od- hia 4 was a good deal of necessary consul- Mee! ‘ p - ; really lost indeed was to great to Once she had plunged into the ly. Hife, And yet it was erent from tation about who should go. Clearly f r j 4 taken, bled out of the boat and fascinating narrative, the whole of the af em mind, boys,” he sald; “we've the way he used to be. We coulde’t it would be folly to send a party of ; ; ioe ae eign ap on the beach, ‘The outside world faded away for her. got a plenty without that. Comel see It very well. Ite face wae side three or four on such a mission. They a ‘ ; m Re made Tee oe tne end, thougn S24 was oblivious to the fact that the Loon'ailve with the rest of it.” ways and the ilgh must carry, in tne frat place, rations (f ee : alr seem cold, tous? darkness outside was no. lo For now his mind was at ease {t looked email sufficient not only for t ives, but bandoned mere darkness of the fog; vio The “1 “aa he would Uke @ womaa. for those they expected to fod. Ther enough, in the bea I this mysterious, pI overcome unknown band of my ppceing =f ; SHS { t atorage. the sound which He watched, tarosgh the the Suess not.” such @ band to exit. form such a . j Rd Bac we third, cat areset ee ‘she re. she had meant to walt For--the @ound successive arrival of the ‘other Boats, ‘There was & momentary silence party would take practically every membered it, offered a shelter that of Tom's voice calling out to her from bringing the laat of the treasure with after he had finished, and Rosesq I Serer aut ibere wae, warartlic; ahem ” : was becoming attractive, There were the yacht, and the sound of other them. ters: id . ould, sel se it stretched teele out Sinscktk Ce ’ ; . some rose beaks i it vase ee eee eu an im and eae if they had been so many the chill of thelr terror comfortabl; ugh; and, They all @ deaf care as she them as But Tom settled the matter, «1 (| iRA/P We pote 94 bw Se enceas Dekice hed wr are ser ol that sheep, noted vat they were al? here, Bie ime Uren it of be aimed, ‘confounded f sett Ie tee tae Sea ta eceksesee tts fk wen wettion: Ge, ener y None GHTT come bask” he pack of late, But in the waa he confounded anki as i " which they had used in exploring its It was written, in the main, in course, will rk saterlor. Bhe had « box of was actentific, observant, unimpassioned commanded. “I'm going below to see sprang down into one of the beats body else 0. S . vestas in her She could go in temper which she knew eo wall, He that everything's stowed all right. and said he would fetch the box Bim- enough to ‘ \ 4 there and make herself at home, and chronicled those days of peril, when When I come back I want to talk to self. Whether he believed their supposing party ‘| at the same time keep an alert ear their ship, crushed in the foe only you. or not It was the only thing for T ifitervals during the day twelve murderous rufians ashore for a hall from the yacht. kept from sinking by that very ice peared down the after to do, those enigmatical words of there, armed with te and throw- : he found the candle in the place which had just destroyed her, was hatchway, switched on a light and As he pulled shoreward he Mr. Fanshew's recurred to ing sticks, they can’t get aboard the . where sho remembered Scales had drifting along in the pack, to what indulged in a long, satisfied look at hard to convince himself that he 4 ie ht hout putting off in boats, Foss Ae laid it down, struck a light and seemed certain destruction, as quiet- the t masses of precious metal not believe it; that Rese and ithe girl with the reflection gh, good a shot T am. sh ’ wedged the candle into a knothole. jy and as explicitly as he did the un- which were stacked, according to his gon probably forgottes: that they .wanted serious thinking We'll keep a brisk lookout, and . 4 She turned toward one of the bunks eventful voyage through Behring @irections, in the strong-room. about the box, and had trumped over at the, first convenient oppor- see any piratical expedition setting m with the idea of stretching out there, strait. The man’s courage was 60 beg Mond ang {n coming down here the story to avoid the necessity But 4 out to capture us we will be able to Fs and by relaxing her muscles per- deeply elemental in him that he could wae id, sie mean? to see that going back for it. tunity. the day wore away and account for the whole lot of them ff suade, perhaps, her overstfung nerves not be self-conscious about it. the gold was atowed correctly and he He beached his boat, scrambled the opportunity didnot appear. before they can hope to:reach the ii to relax too. He told of the land, the strange, meant to lock the room up, eo that ashore and set out walking It was a hard day for everybody. Aurore’s aide. = She had taken @ step toward it, uncharted shore, whose discovery of- its precious contents would not be along in the direction of the hut, brought At 6 o'clock accordingly the relief The news which Tom had brought | oaition went ashore, and Tom felt her whole face burning. “I didn't in, this time in genuine alarm. murk and candle smoke, the thing that destruction; told how he got his Away with him. He was not afraid even to his practised vision, (" abeard oy after bene - oe Fanshaw and the girl were left alone know," she said. “You shouldn't tried the deor, found that It was oe y tistt eae, eyes—a remeiniog stores estore and Leo Mtg that, oe. find ue toe Rk oo try to knew the shore like the pali ‘ if-ctased creature who ht. have let in thinking”— ne locked, and opening it an » brane. rosewood where, in juman probabi ateal hand, and on \ bore ever camp of the searchers °"rwo hours later, perhaps, after they MT didn't know, myself, until to- switching on a light. perceived that Dox or chest. Ag fared been here 10 he and hia companions were to spend effect of having it locked away bere Pause until he bc within pring had eaten the supper which Jeanne day,” he interrupted her. stormily; “I the stateroom was empty. the afternoon when they had entered the rest of their lives. it was inaccessible to them, and of perhaps, of his destination. _ Se showed & wish to gulde them roa concocted in the galley, they nat, didn't know I knew, that is. But Standing there, utterly pérplexed, the piace, for they had searched its Finally she reached the record of his Keeping the key in his own pow- ‘iut there he faltered and “ggmpdtwhere—the mnn whose language gio by side, in their comfortable when 1 saw you put your hands on unable either to guess at the girl's bare (pterice, ne rey iy I eg the day when he had consigned to the peanten. We ua be & ip in maintains turned about, under an -eoqeigted of two words, most sugges- deck chairs, gazing out across the that villain Cajtey, I wanted to kill possible whereabouts or to construct penn cape hood tore hat tas, WEE, sea the bottle containing the chart of Bet a ores wore omens el ‘: % impulse of fear, and would have tive) quest tantalising in their mys- ice floe, The evening gas unusually him, and in that same flash I knew any plan for finding her, felt a previous investiga: o the coast’and the account of his kne e Ben 4 t my bed had not sheer. necessity He mild, the thermomete? showing only why ! wanted to.” sudden rush of rellet on hi ‘This box, six inches high and @ foot plight, together with the course which a# he knew the nature of gold-bear- bin 15 stop again. a tert; be Cone who clustered round i degree or two belew frecting, and Turning suddbHly to look at her he Jong, (oF more, could not Reve. heen a relotanip Tust take, should such Ing fork. Jt was pecsesery to 20. dltused yellow glow, taint bat Biep-thid, in , wor ve been he f the deckhouse they saw that she hi yur! er face in » ry ip enough to awaken, among the people heraiy. needed thelr furs. mM OOe anda ona whe crying forlornly. the most conspicuous place in the at all of reaching them. pe Mg the Da pe Aeesy it dows of the hut. the yacht, a conse of strange, un- Finally the girl seemed to rouse “Oh, I am a brute,” he concluded, “to some one from the shore p yin Fogo ta the eo if one foe) a At the Sloss of the day's entry was oh ove dtee ee oe we ee He knew w Me rerled her mind, straight: “What doen the Sway matter? Thats hogan ‘in earnest. by” those, whose ivgeM aed of pain, Aurore, vould be short-handed enough the Aurore without that box; % indeed, before she saw, through the fered them a reapite at least from tampered with, and bring the key fog was atill all but in, bet BS but im of which caused astonishment or alarm in the heart with a d_ preoc y oer. Recessary both to his ened up & little and turned tor a oa not what makes it bard. at o) powers of getting about were unim- oe . Frese ed Md hin nalts: Mop kes “This is Joanne bs rth ay. tt i. Lahaye wikis obs eaten tania: Gols GAR Oe pat Reps es ¥ Me * a My aires D Into her companion’s face, | But thie you so much, the way J do. and ev: paired. rootateps crossing the expressed. She dropped down on het and'eame to the, point ‘where the that hurried trip te the atrong room. ation. His one hold upon, those ‘word had back from little movement of iy ie He ted to Jen followers of his epee boop sak tak boyd rouse him. His eyes did not turn to my, brother—the ouly brother I ever deck overhead. No, that could not be [peseagtlugore dng Re edah may tes can? Walrus people, rent ‘ A ete the ieee oneea bee ee ae Bye being. tmperviows te eee t ‘who had followed this strang® jneet hers, but remained fixed on the had.” Jeanne; it was a heavy Guiuraie or une Taig Ene fative: thelr See the treasure and what few stores t© defeat. Yet, even under thas gitide, And then th-re-was the horror far horiso! ‘There was a long, miserable silence curious, shuffling tread. my r young arms, their welcome by the three men, coasity, it was or . 7 : “Jeanne, He closed the door behind him, cheek against the cold polished aur- by now were the only survivers of were taking away with them. re + @4, Donevan's discovery. He had | A moment later she strevenes eaten ¥ Sa eine ce much an that ‘Then he imped slowly down the cor- face of its blackeaed wood, and orled, the original expedition. little box had occupied much before, at the y Tom ie 4 one cae. ae ein ties ove te way, you. do, not the way I love Tider toward. the foot of the com. every as ion that might bave ghe was reading faster now, with of leisure Cy the day ween be will, Soran opening, poten Be tne tre nine ered. him, found It and interlocked you, but love me any wray_gould you pantonway. ‘The heavy, tread was al- 7 ed teelt bow the thing ‘could none of those little meditative pauses urdered the owner of it. He enon rere the her fingers With his. At that, col you—marry m game? ready deacending the a 4 hat had ‘hed mes wished that when And when he reached @ point ind. ta: make coger igh pulled himself ‘up, with @ start, and I'd never have any thought In the He turned the corner, stopped stort reelf or: to the earlier pages of the journal, WF Peg dente ans te ak he could ‘command ita interior abruptly withdrew hie own from the world but of making you happy. And and gasped. And that was ‘There peop! the narra- I'd always be there; you could count was no time even for a cry. He had was swept away in a sudden rush of tive began to foreshadow itself dark- thing had always mocked contact. , e and he lay prone upon the icy ored » you know. limpse of jonstrous filiat\ affection and regret which the ly frem the moment—the first mo- hi juetted witn him. alts olored a little, ang her brows On.Du. Jie she” interrupted curtly, §Avle‘clad in shine, huge-in bulk; sent of it instantly awoke, It had ment of the appearance of the Walrus He had often seen it lying open on M8 face buried in hia out Lee Scan tem’ , “a “Don't talk like that, Tom.” She pairy-faced sike-«.gorilla, reached her with that-audden paign- Beople on the scene. Her father's Ren table in the tiny the truth, o ‘4 to-day? shivered, and drew away from him “Ang then the man or beast bad, ant stab of memory which inant ription of the man Roscoe, of the ‘cubby hole of a room they A jaagree With a Little movement somewhere peastlike quickness, lifted: hig mate objects, familiar by long asso- expression that had been plain to read called the Captain's cabin while the | Presently be ap alae, beoatan eelcan ine near akin to disgust. sree ee ttruck. And ‘Tom Fanshaw. Clation, seem to be more potent to in his face as he had listened to the Captain himeelf was writing up his pauatted back cartie neukebest He winced at it, and reddened. dropped down at his feet, senseless. up than the very persons of the gecount of the gold-bearing ledge urnal or working upon his charts. hiding r been like thie 07 in a voice that sounded our- nds with whom they are associ. across the glacier, gave her = shi fe had during the firet winter fre- twurdered one stray member to me before.” fously thick to her, curiously ‘unlike ated. The it of her father himself dering premenition; a} tly, her quently thought of trying to open it of ibe, resoulng who fell Nato "et aiwaye fold you I was fo sullen his own, he asked @ question: “If 1 CHAPTER VII. could hardly have had so instantame- father bad experienced the wame f¥el- should the opportunity otter itself. path mm of permane, to bewte ye inal pen never ula Geteve had told you all thia a month he?) The Rosewood Box. ous and overwhelming an effect upon ing himeelf, Day after day Rosces’s His interest now, however, in mak- the vest should opport' me, ot Crim sorry” told you how I felt toward you, an have her as tl it of this old chest, name a! always accom) ing sure that the box had really been ry added it,” he sal ieee bai Nexed silence she *4ked you, loving me the y you do, N THE girl Tom Fanshaw's which was of the earliest of her by some little pl of mi d t aboard the Aurora was Quis’ strange story added = After a little, perplened Sow things 22 marry me just the same, would passionate, stormy avowal associations with him. it was the next to the lest entry in dle went out. the teallng OF Somained on the Wore going wrong with you, 1 aid 20uT, Oh, | suppose Joe tet shud: had the effect of a sort of , It nad alnays stood, unti! he had the Journal, her lipe ti lowed, “hi * featli sana oan = mo » it was received with a good not even suspect it until this morn- oo" ang shrunk away from me— moral earthquake. It left age‘or hin, upon a certain ver: pal him with full foree, But, it sinoredulity. Tom Fat ing, when Uncle Jerry eaid"”—— ‘avowed is Qisbelief in every “What!” ‘Tom interrupted. “What and his fate, Sreuss oe sed hes SS “Why, nothing, but that you were fod followed, his terror returned’ furt! - gether when the array of : ea ike that?" the ground beneath herfeet ner of his desk in the old iibrary, Te Setore her told her Cal ahe away an suddenly as it had comm one governor iow about Itt angberhape note the. emereg suddenly unstable and treacherous; it was one of those objects of a class reached the end. The! ee eee een ee rete minitet with its recession there surged je say?” in that children alwa; love—ei ‘th, last words her father had ever writ- him a wave of brutish anger. It deal in the | leat month—asince a] threatened to bring down about her polished, beautiful Teautiral perwecd ong Lge anding outbuildings was a ue teat baa oat m San Francisco and ears the whole atructute of her life. the same time, defying curiosity. “Took the Walrus people to’ the i tion over the contents of that i sailed away t—h! » he us—or Id . Aurora's party at least would survive wane wie? Whrner—was on oy ne In atNST ears to be nice left, ine, world behind, we rout white The very thing she had relied upon | It was quite & masterpiece of cab- ledge to-day. Have no heart to de, the winter, if « relief ship should ar- ii.vae moving now, with human ie. against out- inet work, No hinges were visible, acribe the sce rive th th teps—faltering, uncertain ‘ecearc! but u. the world going badly— empty one, I don't know why that for shelter and seobrity 4 r an Roscoe certainly Tive the next summer, or even the 4: that. And when it Se ae Pasmdined reaity badiv—really badly?" Hid side troubles and dangers was, on the 44 the cover Atted no closely upon there, eeittne, Af it were not for summer thereafter, It would protably Visite and no more, outside the the line which sep- find this desolate shore “Yes.” That curt monosylinble was = 1 know." He was speaking with a ht with a greater dan- {ction that the danger from ind some one on ate way, {t called aloud tn a human evidently all the anawer he meant to ort of brutal inte is nt, fraug! arated them was hard to discover, my convic P er. ‘ho could tell the story of the disap- y that startled trace him is lari personal to mywelf, that a woman's b boy evlke, At that she gave up all at- her "1 know. It's not in the last ef than any of them, And there was He sage Meet ae Le ns ‘ino other, probably, Dearance of the Aurora and form © At the sound of it, he drew lock. To thor le him, dropped back ‘ ; ithin Her instinct, when she left him, ink IT should have more or lees definite surmise as to the ‘ data, though ja tempt to console him, month you've changed; it's within she Secret, it de: ‘attempt to for hie victim, I think up towering, before her, and, so, hair and cuddled little tne jast twenty-four hours; its since was simply one of escape. ‘open it. ide him shot af @ measure of justifieble cause of it, That rosewood box had came visible to ; the story of Philip Cayley's old i Det avn under her bear akin. Ker You saw and fell in love with that had Wane but a Capt, Fielding’s journal in it—e jour- " said, the relation between them yntion, He is not a man, blurred, uncertain F cei ewas to renson” he seid fee, thres-auarters Srey ie exe murderous, Twing brute of-a Cayley.” naa Nae toon tanen for granted; ber faiber hed aets ters ite None arene sinioter brute Starally ea nal inet had ‘when Hoscee bed murs tonne Feet eerece ie eenka Re £ war “) u ” v je 3 iq ‘ y ' Rnak coud feraed foward MAE Bar Say nage amon any ania war7 AMAL, hag “always een matterot-tact. (ry. bed done iby way of Conia aoa the ete ray, Foon fared mi fu aiscovery would oo & nm her and Rit er with a % tion. with the tints of sunset. love I have for you—the old love—or Long before her father’s departure on Pointment she had sustained, He hed Evidently that part of his long way toward bri the aD as hia brutish instinct of rage re A, ae ‘young Mr. Fanahaw . “You've never had any doubt a ail, not, Tom, "but unless you're very care that last voyage of his, ever since she opened it for her and, then had sat Wiah BAG come true, | 4 1. gosen sim trail In short, it that rose lt 1 00) he anaes Bee, 2 t aboard that there is one such pare 7 ee Sally, canons that ful you'll enocoed 1p doing it, 1 don’ could remember, in fact, she had watching her efforts to: ropeat the nanas book Slipped OMe Noten wide wood box wels left, vehi rr eyes, number of them left, ae I had been born that way?” going to take a little walk.” affection for him and his for her, Dolnting with « long, bronse letter- i¢ guttered and went out. Slowly, the more or less danger of detection. etraigm down upon i ot “ to walk across the gia- 1 had b oe nee opener, but never touching the box outside world began to take its place Consequently, when be discovered though the fog—out of the oky : enow ’4 be hi "No,” she said, “of course + He held himeelf rigidly still till she completely as a matter of course, itself nor her own clumsy fingers, her. She that she that the box was not board, ani 5 Mere Sours Waiting for us. Tom, doar, What put etich an 14e8 nad” diaappeared, rougge the end of ‘They could Rot have felt, any differ. | ‘Presently sho seated Peroall tn the Ruin around Der, ne ee” uae the tnat, Wis pertioulas iasonotios’ com he noe ey would into your head the deckhouse, bent over ently toward cach other if they had, bunk, took the lito chest on her ley wind was whining threugh the cerning it bad been elther neglected or PR vig Pgh Pty : Ind, Roscoe Fo; t here. if there were any con- Jo of Being your, bie notes: Jae think T want to talk to you any More tauen her association with Tom, her OP@ration; correcting her mistakes, one eyes, staring Ot the candle, until Would always feel that he was In wandering. unearthly. wes Be | nal us as He paled a little, and it was a min- and buried his face in his hands. indeed, been brother and sister, knees and set about opening it. Be- . ny 1 ute oF two before he could comniand What the thing was that roused For the first few moments after his tween the cold and her excitement Taiks trovent she heard Beme. one pared, Be come ream op cee {he reflection of Ke own Lett seem the words he wanted, to his lips. him to his present surroundings he avowal she had felt no motion other ghe found this rather a diMeult thi ebout outside, and that ohies Caused his companions, hard- stretched wings. va “Because of my hopes, I suppose,” he never knew. He was conscious of no than that of astonishment and in- to do, though her mind never, never thought brought her qutckty to her ened rufians though they were, to Then from up overhead, he uite gs glad 4s white men sald, seene “because I had hoped gound, but, suddenly, he sat erect and credulity, Even when he asked her If hesitated over the slightest detail of feet. She made her way to the Goof cower and shri from bim. heard @ Mg, vol “ pag | to go back with absurdly enough for the other answer; qtared about him in amazement. It she could not marry him, anyway, the necessary formula of procedure. of the hut, called out; waited @ In @ torrent of furious blasphemy here” it sald. “Don't be afraid sf Ps ‘Michaels. And becaus#—because—I've come to love had grown quite dark. It must be two though the question revolted her, @he Bhe' knew in just what order you brenthless inatant—and cried aloud in he demanded to know why that bos Blindly, Roscoe flung + Af ghey were not Chucotes, ‘ut some you in the other or three hours since Jeanne had left told the truth in saying that she was pressed in tho.e innocent looking lit- sudden terror. had not been it aboard; and the whirled around and fe! . ‘unknown, murderous hand of = She looked Perfectly the chair beside him and announced not angry. ‘ tle ornamental tacks in the brane concentrated rage he to hie feet again and fied, like a mam iw ines, there wouldn't be that she was going to take @ little The anger came later, but it burned binding; remembered the right mo- CHAPTER VIII mptied at last upon the two men hag-; ‘down the shore. bu te he his own, their pupils walk. into @ flame that was all the hotter ment to turn the box up on ita end il whom he bad ordered to do it, As he @id eo he heard a 4 gased out, unseeing, He spoke her ‘name, not loudly at for its tardiness in kindling. It must to let the just released atee! ball roll A itions “Now,” he concluded when the tor- volley of shots from the 4 ‘ firat, for he thought she must’ be close have an outlet ‘somewhére, and ag down Its channel to the pocket, where pper rent had spent itself, ‘you go ashore, the Aurora. This sound. of yy by. “But the infinite silence spaces such the promenade up and down the it must Ie before the pressure SCOR 414 not pause to tn- . Yes, you, Carison—-I mean human fighting, which he Pa seemed to absorb the sound of his other side of the deck was altogether upon the last spring would prove you-—and you, Rose; go ashore now and did not fear, hell e voice, There was no sign that any ingumcient. 7 ffective.: fhe no more faltered over Veetigate the effect of his Wy ts sentient thing, except his very self, ‘The sight of a mall boat at the it than she would have faltered over blow, mor to wante @ sec- Hence, bi be known each other from the had heard the words he uttered. Then foot of the accommodation » ladder ber alphabet. ond one. If the man who "sed out the command again, amid ‘ when we were quite small kita he called louder. seemed to o & foul flood of abuse r something better. Bo, And at last, when her numbed fing- T was a kid as much as you: no It was not until he raised himself, pulling on a pair of fur gauptiets, she ers had completed their task, the had confronted him there {9 ut still they made no move to obey politer term would describe us. We've stiffly and clumsily, from his chair dropped into it, cast off the painter, coun: weighted lid rose slowly by the companionway were and the Swede, in evident terror, always loved each other, and played that he realized that it was more than shipped the pair of light oars it con- itself, just a it had used to, and re- dead, so much the better. If he were Snswered him. “I won't get it, Ros- together, and spatted and plagued dark; that the atmosphere about him tained, and rewed away without any vealed to her only balf-dead, the job could be fin- C',,/f you want that box, you can each other, and made agein, and was opaque with fos. thought of her destination—of any contents of the pe ’ ‘ Hi e of get it yourself.’ relled on each other to see us through He groped for the heavy walking destination whatever; without, éven, Up to that moment she had not at any time Me was ou! ‘hat in hell do you mean™ the rs to each other's end pointed out stick which leaned against the arm of g very clear idea of what she was realised what the finding of the de- the way fer the present at least. leader stormed. But his voice, even aoe Barty o and over his chair and, with its aid, hobbled doing. She must do something, that spatch box meant. It te Bot eccur- Roscee hurried en, searching otace- 27 he ra foat ite confident tang of = wes wan't exch other's whippings, We've sot slowly along the deck. Hie damaged was all ghe knew. Certainly abe red to her that full aoceunt of her as ‘and finally °' - ry but if Cayley sald they more civilised, of course, now ‘ankle was held rigid tn a plester puted away from the yacht’s side father's expedition, a narrative which ToOOM an€ passageware i bien.” oni, Cartoon, oat «aero ‘then there they were, and we've grown up, but the relation is pandage. Though the pein in it was with no idea that she was running would reach, perhaps, to the morning the crew’s quarters, forward. Rove, sor q@meeree of great, though undefined, really the same. There can't be any jegs, he found locomotion dificult, into any posible danger. of the last day of all, was lying here, When he had satisfied himecif that 78 © eauatly man with a stub- Qaspenil they must be to the unsuspect- romance about it, no mystery about — As he opened the door at the head it was half a mile, perhaps, from right under her eves. he and bis men were in undlaputed - ‘sebore party. And though she + rou can't posaibly love of the companionway he called the the yacht to the particular bit of Rut now when the cover rg — +4 Converts to her bellef, still hat! girl's name again; and this time the pneivine beach toward which she un- she maw beneath it « th ” “her earnestness added & good deal to he naid, “Can't 1? Will absence of any answer frightened consciously propelled the boat. She bound in red morocco, erent’ possession of the yacht, be emerged o realized on deck again by the forward hatch- eany feeling which mounted al he chance and see if I him a little, though he tried to reason owed ateadily, without so much as that here, under her hand, was the way and found Captain Planck al- a sepa, aboard the ark, oT ee can't? Love you? Rimoott ont of id fears, ene pn) a Mianoerovar tier shoulder, uatil she yery Shises cy sonroh OF WRI See ready there. He directed him to ge rT a low, no doubt, sh urora wet out upon her lous ae: the party remem A atith the door anus, felt he erate of the shingle beneath Aurora po pei below with Schwarts, who had been jo} 1m thts uneasiness Tom himself had would hardly hear him, But he had “‘gne hecame aware, not only that . With the first realization of what engineer aboard the whaler, and get smnaniidsted.a hare, although ho re- of no thought of accepting that explana- had unconsciously come ashore the contents of that book must be, ® steam up as promptly as possible, fterated Die hellef that the only living tion without investigating further, also that the vacht was nowhere tragedy, and the central figure of It tie pimasif ramainad on deck, direct- : "1 besides the members pen to have an assdciation with you— Hiven if she wore there and quite 481% to he seen. A bank of fog had tome her own father, the man ene hadlovea M* = B: Caroline Lockhart of the dash, half- thinen t T don’t realize are as- he did not want to let another qua roying in from the eastward, so heavy best in all, the world, she found it {ng the uploading and stowage of y into sociated with you at all until they ter hour go by without finding her 44 (o render an object one hundred almoat (mpossible to open the book. romance samp as he had been leaving |}. bring up with them a picture that has and asking her forgiveness. paces away totally Invisible. The #he took it out of the despateh box Wer ell that he.npent a good part of you in it—make a lump come in my The steps were rathor diMcult to clump of empty buildings here on the and for a little while nat, dry-eyed, and thrill the day sweeping the land, or 8 throat! And when you caress me negotiate, but by using both hands to beach could hardly be half that dis- hugging the precious, poignant thing it_as Be could see, with @ with your hands®’——— He flung out supplement his one good foot he suc- tance, as she remembered, yet looking up tight against her breast. mace ot 5 it for all he saw, hia own with an impulsive gesture coaded in creeping down ‘them, and round from her seat in thé row boat, Put at last she put the despatch hours hed the tence; and then then in making his way along the she could make out no more than box to one side, brought the candle that finis! clutched them ity together, for corridor to the girl's door. their blurred masees t the white nearer, so that its light would serve op tl ai He r at first; then and sand which to read by, began turning the aires seer sreenes reid anions tesla. aisainlihiainsaadiaaiats lian tibiae li en nats ha nsdn Andi theilliniaat