The evening world. Newspaper, February 26, 1914, Page 17

she Evening World Dafty Magustné; Thuteday; Pebsuary 46: 1013 | A COMPLETE NOVEL EACH WEEK IN THE EVENING WORLD 5 ae See ONS EO NE THE SKY MAN wm =[iere = (Copvright, 2018, by the Cautery Company) for t., Nothing ean happen | etores OF. PADCEDING CHAPTERS. &: uni i carey, had, very distinctly, in mind wy “aa a laewy what might happen then i¢ the Wal- % from Ht Bi ap § 3 they, wl the ‘opposite thelr anchorage of the premaca ver upon ir ny eve- ‘wall of the hut. It must have been ning, and that their return wae hope- ‘a im the attack they would undoubtedly t | i ‘who make I soon a8 mornii 4 light for hours. if they were eich vealed ‘the "tact that. they had’ two ‘te Dulled the outer door @ little id Mr, Fanshaw gave his arm to eee that the wee Uoeethions could net in their hands. way open and glanced slantwise up hie gon, helped him down from the Without at the girl, he was $ we tind “It’s all right in there,” she said. “I the beach. The brilliant light dassied bridge and thence to the now deserted aware that she turned and was cal Spent I don’t know how many hours him and made it hard to eee; but ap- smoking yer forward. Tom sub- gasing inteatly into bis face. reading before you came, But parently there was no one there. mitted to be led blindly and did Supported her look without meeting . the candle has burned out.” Stepping outside, he turned wi not hen his gather halted be- @he would find nothing there Cayley switched on his bull's. inland, along foot of the cliff. ig leather sofa and told him Would mot wish her to see. Mong 4 and cast a brief glance about the His mind was entirely preoccupied down upon it, a stretched outa 4 room. with the danger of a sudden rush of _ “It’s strange to me," he said, “that over the fire and twirles thane It was a dismal looking enemies fro hand. we ever recovered possession of this with tt. Lenn enough, fifteen feet square, Ee rood pened that, for ht at all, let alone that we were bi “Therve something here,” she and not more than half as high. In quite @ minute ai he opened the able to recover it without it comting mounting even a Ii whispered, “here im thie book of one corner was @ heap of smoke- door and stepped outside, he did not the life of a single man. This going to believe that father’s that—that I want you te” blackened stones, evidently the ruins cast a alt nce seaward. He did ig must have had a leader, and a Uncie Jerry and Tom, “ter of a fireplace. There wei Gheives ana not look at direction until he ver one. The way he manoeuvred rest. I am not gol at the papboatas ot the oaths and saw that Jeanne, awakened by the his men to keep them out of sight them. And so unti! had been when am Si: t we Saerew Gane : a num- Fed ine in Naa ks was stand! in phe pod — ‘ae first ae ay beh ay 2 thie day a ho! dropped it. first ce Cayley set his little bull’ ome the doorway. Her own eyos, |. a r from e | wh fd rf “A there i cae hew 25 shelf where could make most incredulous, only half awake, were wasn a piece of masterly strategy. He ere?” she questioned, sweeping Poy € of iT wher penctl of Heat He th gasing out to sea. ‘The expression he worked it out portectly in every de. arm found ine halt circle iand suddenly, to yader, i turned. his th tion to the 4 id “| saw in her face matic him turn sud- tail. He got possession of the yacht “Mustn't we go hunt Hal? after a little strugsle spcseeded i denty and look, without losing = man, without even OF ® snark oF somethi test sate ee getting it obi ands what mite, Of the floe, which they had consid. firing @ shot that might give the. “God!” he whisy as he turned about this in the two secure! bolted by means eh ered stable as the land itself, there ‘alarm.” away--"my God! {eare—e fom and & wi wooden. bar which dropped ir toy t4 wae no longer any sign, There was “He was probably killed in the firet He had his revolver, and besides blowing from the east. To me te 7 fron crotch, If the; we ttached noth! there, nothing at all to greet volley ie fired when they got cartridges which the cylinder Coming te a relief. It ta, in a way, the with the first of the “a ht, this their eyes, to seaward, but the sav- aboard,” said Tom, dully, “He alone contained there were perbaps thirty official begi of winter. The taa- place would afford them poe mir til ugy beauty of the Ice, could hav alfa dozen !n his belt. For how many days or talizing hope rescue is now the people from the ‘Aurora’ could ‘The yacht had disappeared. * you 0 chance—a weeks nor they avall to keep off pst Ang Sas shit io walt for vine come to their rescue. His revolver ean a Bue whe ait . men in our at makes you calf him a io face was composed, ion @ temporary hopelessness MBAYLEY wheeled so that he was an ‘ation Bd oat yg ‘ER XI. oi ha ‘ a ' * Ppa eS, eek Sek ‘athore much more fae nope ie. use he was. He int ose esaae th aint her] onset beer poouriasred the best shot . i ihe Aurore. struck me down. with Sst o breakfast,” he sald—‘fire and wa: our lot thet . the army. with Bis back to her re “Without = word, he turned to hi treating assailant. He had bundle which he had deposited in “ TELL you, str, the thing !8 and as he raised his arm to beyond human possibility. saw that his shoulder There 1s no help—no hu- | 1 There {9 a line of driftwood down beach to the westward, there at tl foot of the talus, When we get a fire he, going" ho stopped himself short. ly. Hin ind i ferent eye o , r) i i @lmost vertically in order to corner of the room, and fished out man help in the world. I ther abandoned the subject _ He disappeared through the door- he said wi he finis| og blown out into the sea from, it his sheepskin, sleeping-bag. would swear to that be- abruptly, dnd for a while contrived Way, aud two minutes later she saw your father who told vow ait ta @truck the ice. Even as it 1.7a8 pec «Hyd he gt rrigr eo a fore Goa. But I think you must know * talk of other things; of the detatis him coming back with a big battered- past hour I've been wondering 4 Be went olithering down the fafvulos ar io] ie t his @: re God. Bui it of the fight, and how different mem. Woking biscuit tin, could tell zou how I could make yeu ‘# ‘the water, and moroccopound book whar we & it as well as I do” Capt. Warner, bers of the crew had borne themselves, He observed, without reflacting what Understand,” ar Hassy elope toward the water, side tt ae me) te standing upon the Aurora's bridge, | Hut his mind wos filed with a new the observation meant, that a Hounti. ,. There @ no chance at all, 60 you of nee te ent te a eece HOE ere followed “They're fa- ws - . : was the opeaker, terror, and A soon as he could feél ful #upply of fuel was lying in great think why Bimeelf flat on his ther’a papers,” ahe said, “I found the ae = = ‘The two Fenshaws, father and son, ‘Bat bis son was in condition to be long the, lower slope of the left alone he left him, with a broken talus. Jeanne accompanied him upon They told Cayley afterward that their faces gray with bese dpehoret were of excuse. He must either oat beg a. < * CM, mas ‘ “Wi . erry . “Tt will when he had finished speaking—be away and looked over the great tls new terror at rest or know the they ; He teak up the bos with bape ape peti vs See Grew Gow? ie cag had ma 6 confession on his Kn@0S masses of loose, churning field-ice, ptr tell at once. ‘There had been no one, $re tock s tae ‘ ey aed their ley?" almost reverent, laid {t in the litt! ud —he rose, with a face like a blind man h, filling the sea out to the ut- on among the survivurs or the tthe hue et stone front irty-one cartridges; besides the Presently founa nimeelf upon chest and set it down on the fl be ‘When it comes we'll signal to the or « somnambulist, and, before he Whic s ,, Slain of the Walrus party, who in of the hut, for the er i ye ones in the revolver.” ata uninjured, He at once set side the bunk. jo eevee be yacht, and they’ll send for you and could be prevented, walked straight most horizon, confirmed the captain's any jay resembled the monster Tom pd Me Ng oi lel be dar! ‘co pe i, Bacal ve said something more, imeking what haste he could, , The quality of the act brought the take you away—you ang this pre- Of the ledge of the rrow ridge words, al dene . cortaiir: vy a Uttle gesture she : read: ce " An hour later he went back to the had the fire biasing ' vented him. “You’ foo toward where be had hot look uence Cor ee cer eut he did clous find you've made. In the mean down without s cry, witheut e'ecund, “How long”— Tom Fanshaw began, ,.n Jean jie" he wont, Capt. War. FOr 8, while they sat, side by aide, 1¢ out,” ahe eata, vee enna, at a bummocl. which box in here. That's why I rt 2 te offer him @ precarious had to come ashore’— ware He pulled himeeif up sharply there i" ” rise them time, you must go to sleep. You hen C wicceeded in finding then he paused, moistened hie lips nr He thought that y had Upon his great sheepskin, warming 40 takn'oe thses tests ai sone STE, NATALY Mlept Af all While T ae reads @ coat white batestrd elENt end of aad rubbed them veughly with his sotaged thenests ve testale maa ae thelr fingers and watching the drip are wet but which will aere excel ing.” the same time afford some prospect pand—“how long,” he repeated, “shall mer time when they had talked to- © be ne Ly lecult tin, ; » gether there, but in this last hour he Hut presently Cayley got to bis feet. lently nevertheless for @ pillow, and He seated himself once more at her re Sood crecped eicens we. ved ‘we, have to wait before It opens up?” fag sounded a new abyss beneath i¢ “Unless I'm mistaken, there's an and get inside this beer ‘Since Oat feet, switched off the fading light from knot of meny only withheld from “It aot If Lunow anything abouttne tll. He knew now why the yacht had ¢xcellent breakfast waiting for us not trot dct'then, even before speaking, Ver Slept in one?” Me’ Have You tng’ bull's-eye and drew tho sleoven filght by the fat impossibility of It, SBN been so easily taken. He knew ail or re w the fire-wood. was to tnke out his pocket electric He was already tugging at one of of her coat across his shoulders, Arctic,” said the captain, who gazed at him as if they more *;, the boots, and her protest went un- “Good night,” he said, than baif-belleved that he was indeed _, Jt will freeze, thoug! Fan. the detatie of the devilish plan which But I'll go and make sure before I Mr. had so nearly succeeded. More than "S!8¢ your expectations any higher.” shaw sald, ‘freeze into a solid pack " an _He walked away a half dosen pan F uull's-¢ye gnd turn it full upon her. heeded—it was only @ half-hearted She answered drowaily. the Destroying Angel which Miguel thot’ we could cross afoot. How Roasos fran” chee or” Of the man without waiting for any reply: then, j “It’q jus} to make sure you're not Protest, after all. He had meant to indulge in the had declared him. aball we have to wait for that?” Planck had taken him aboard the {nial ing else, hurtcthat'f feally got down here in | When finally, with some Assistance luxury of a doze himself, for he had But Warner, the captain of BF he hard to tell. Generally in this became ietly Back south “ve +, Generally Walrus down to the hour last night %¢,came swiftly : o wise I might from him, she nestled down in: not slept since the frst light of the yacht and leader of the party, was a latitude the pack ts tty solid by “Do know anything about fre- vol oes ‘he terror, but it great fleece lined bag, whe had GAY, Perore One then for, only, fwo fr MAD Of well balanced common sen the first of September, But tha blond gy dl can arms?” he asked. “If t untll you cried out that I rolled her email boots into a bundie ‘ree hours, Hut the train of thought and he soon recovered from his arm current which caught Fielding’s Planck was dying, and old Mr. Fen. vomed te shooting, I'll leave ny re- . Rnd, made s pillew-of them for her [whlch her last words bed set going ship, which caught the Wall ahaw's questions had enabled iiiene Volver with you—No,” he weat on, an- she assured him. head, ae he had said he would, she /" his mind were quite enough to SEVIDE current which makes, every summer Snicy the luxury of a full erefeon S20 question whieh whe bad exclaimed, half rebellious}; it banish sleep, to find a way out. Without Cayley tiy, that lo! gap of open - not spoken—"no, I don’t foresee any NS comfort of tt all ee toe foe that Morning It bad Kee mite And his wings such a thing would Water which enabled us to reach the wr. (ney, Kew fon ihe bridge, white canger to, ,ou. ‘It's just on general |. _,“It te #0 deliciously warm and soft,” cd reppateht 8 nm with have been almost impossible. lund that Fielding reached—that our- JV principles.” é Fat talkie Hclant KNOW you were imaking ‘the long straight Dignt of gilt wag suse after a1 avet when the. rent would keep loose fleld-Ice Moat. ting inor Macys thee erro ncatte He took the revolver trom hie belt, hat you had abandoned us just Just being a luxurious sybarite when five hundred miles to Point Barrow. brgeod s' whew hours before he bad !g about foi Jeast another month.” not alone upon that terrible frosen NoWever, and held it out to her. “Our Or srtutrett tant ones tor tla te Blankets ce the saan ae ouly Von got’ meant to go. would have seen them, under Miguel's guidance, FENN deowre peledh Aeon sods shore, ‘The man Roscoe was there breakfast doesn't bave to be shot. when I ci out just now for holp ‘ou gone—at any rate have started, had n 8) “ " “ was you that Icalled to. And then Sold be warm too, and comfortable!” Hot a small thing checked hecho disappearing Inte tne oF ne glacter, C20't live a month!” he cried. “Bhi Fou Sama out of the sky, just ast ethion'ot that erent coat of SBIR redia wi ce ata acABtICe*—* atl "tong jon eaward. them, he fu0ne, Unarmed! She haa ne, feod: Was sure you would.” al in the direction of the wind. _ Before, he could find anything to FP Yine bunks “Pore tite foot in crass to mteer tbe, course, he yown to them ee.quichly asyoucaay? 7 rer tl 16! another + wanted, he mus! ly igher, ‘*e tp’ the fon trom the about ime. , you're to prove the eM. gaining that necessary altitude, up Of peenine aid Capt. Warner, “But still, amazement, when he looked up at sticks to the fire, and then, in default Aurora, and in are the sleeping bag by going to long, easy gradient, he cut &@ great “They left him some ship's biscuit What you say is perfectly true. Bhe them, they saw that somehow his face Of uny more active occupation, teok sald vy ayes circle inland. Circling thus he found ,.4' bacon, and set out down the can hardly hope to keep alive a week.” hag cleared, ‘There was @ grave look UP the red-bound book which lay be- nd what will you do all the while himself, presently, looking straight 29 bacon, t d the glacier, _ It was only an hour since they had ce peace upon it. aide her’ and began once more to whi fitting there and keeping watch? down upon the shore party from the Trellmarked trail toward the glacler; ascertained, beyond the shadow of a thought of something,” he peruse ite pages. he ha Would you—would you like to read yacht. them departing, that now at least doubt, that Jeanne was not aboard fer he had clambered up beside !eans exhausted them. In he’ fy er’s journal? If you would, I'd He went on watching them with a hie duty toward them was done, the Aurora. ‘Until Tom had recovered thought of something that Ing of the night befdre, 't L-get out there any fone age wpdct A eee SER eta Gat Us tas atk he ca Zs guide would rest a while, and then enjoy a Coie inne ate retane wie antely makes It seom ponlble to go on living, skipped the pages of aclentidg ‘ae: Fel on T came ashore tn 18 ang lost their lives trying to reach to the score of people from the yacht 10g, calm sail acrose the ice and #68 Hiaten somewhere about the ship. &n4 even hopin scription for those parte of the brave man lives, a day at a deck below attract- ita: y Fotorpmag pone ‘Tom, ‘Ke did. wi al a vy cane, was Walrus people doubtless left jimping precariously alone the deck nt aw ‘When she res there, if she could fnd toward the bridge ladder, and, tothels Was left alone, the girl added freeh A sound on ¢ Fi ee The two old 2 exchanged a journal wRich were most purel: » And he died, he died the Pole. I think if you will re. was clad in skins, aa the party of ‘© Point Barrow. ‘They had had a grim night of it, as y Der. tear, book you will Sndecoead ie a ee men had been who had murdered _ There was no fog in the great val- the condition of the Aurora's, decks, ee F 1 now the whole pages of iinself, but tbat, be net ealy our wings. And—well, I'd like to Hunter. ley along whose edge the glacier lay, when the dawn first brightened them, at ie it you've thought of, ulated data con . he helps us im a wag . hive you understand,” He had sighted the cup-shaped and he thought when he took wink testified, When the two parties, which Tem?” his father asked unatendily. ture or BY end have He moved the bull’s-eye to an- Valley which Rowcoe called Fog Lake that he would be able to get @ last hug been reunited by Cayley’s ef- ‘a—it's Cayley. He's there with fe variations got scant atten-. . Her eves cuddenly k for your Sther part of the hut, where the When the little party, who were mak- View of the yacht and mi forts had reached the shore on the ber: I'm.pure he He turned away tion. In her present mood the home- *24 & smile of a divine, ead: ry . light from tt would not shine in her 1s thelr unconscious way toward it, sho was still safe before ine Previous evening, the yacht was still & little from Capt. Warner and spoke ilest little adventure, the Idigat dives- Cronin Soagnet fer an they ¢ye#. and would flluminate the pages Were still a mile or two away, He 80, whon he crossed the great line invisible in the fog, and—though this . rectly to hie father. “I don't know sion of a winter's day meant more © know. Ours Ling 8Y of the book she offered him to read, himself was slow to perceive that it of cliffs which formed the coast, he they did not know—the Walrus iow I know, but it’s as if I saw them her than all her father's discoveries “2°¥- fen't as i g while he wan their destination, He did not was both surprised and disappointed pie were already in possession of it. there together. He has fallen in love put together. Wh Coat, at the foot oP tee baner STAs Faity teatime tee tar Pont, Until he cee io ind a dese ray cloud of vapor pia,were,! lying unconscious at, the with herr f think: “t'm guite sure ‘one coming toward h ice, she Your - Watching him them disappear at the edge of it, obliterating everything. foot of the mpanionway where has with him. I wanted to k‘ 1 him put the book down half reluctan , wings.’ ented 0 * of her father's Journal une wentes When it became evident at last Tt'made tim shudder now, as he sat {00t, Of the chmpanion Jeanne, ob- for that yesterday, but now"—his "nvidentis his our fee bc 2 above a whisper, ae ‘eho anid fire the story Tom had told herabout that they were not coming out that there at the feet cf the girl who slept livious to everything in ‘the world, volce faltered there, but the look In had nat weer in vain; he had o big Ij Peston s @ little paler and her brave “af him was false—no; it was not Tom's W®Y, he wheeled about and set out #0 quietly—as he sat there and except the narrative ahe was reading his eyes did not change, tho light of bianck and white bird in hin hand, “Do rs rembled. i$ falsehood; she knew that he believed in the direction of the yacht, He tened to her slow, steady breathing, in her father’s jou was if the rene, untroubled hope—-“he's there you guppose it's At to eat?” ot called ving chim her ine. he + the story—as sure he was innocent of Was flying across the glacier on his it made him shudder to think how abandoned but on the shore. with © went on, ind with out to him, meant iim to asaiat but s A that imputed treachery and tortureas Way seaward, when he encountered nearly, for a second time that day, he at the Aurora's people were not God’ ip he'll keep her tare, the te ive, Until “Fit to eat! It's a duck. What’ intention Pee tones Mote It's an elder, which means that fa ane, "nee Deelde Rev. “1 Ma tol her coat is worth saving.” rai , of the murder of the the relief expedition, headed by old had abandoned her. What if that ter- surprised by what amounted to an can get back with the rel once been his intimate trend. tena Mr. Fanshaw and Scales, the: frat rified cry of hers had gone unheard! ambush and beaten off on thetr re- He said no more, and hi which her own discovery and her offi The reflection that in order What if Roucoe— turn to the ship had been due to two the rail tight in his gaun' ted hands Het color duttered tag oS father’s journal cleared him. to wend out so numerous a party, He sat stiffly erect and rubbed his causes, ons of which they did not even and gazed out north across the tee t how did you contrive to kill that, aad. she coupe her ‘oa For a while every change tn his they must have left the yacht al: eyes like one trying to get ra of & Yet suspect. cpaptaraeiigged didn't. Ghe killed herself, she hank You—Philip, H g sensitive color, every contraction or most deserted, exe him his first in- nightmare, then, with a long expira- Cayley's warning, together with the CHAPTER XIi. wan Oe eo ae 4 “We'll have our nl Set eshte sen aetey pase guna” gon, VW Suicingy Ra Stred Whats $ON"Riind nm CAT METS: Cayley’s Promise, __‘eteeiag Gon ibe. le'eudNs Soke aa Sore e nos ev in. his wit 3 m once cal ie le 5 a Biove of his halt-parted lips, Tevealed As be recalled the situation now, perp! “hey had made their compen: the Aurora as allently as possible wee rre he fog she went smack into the , R this small mercy Cayley of the cliff and broke her neck. That some’ of the spirit of the his eyes on the relaxed, sleeping body mome: th I's Not a word had been ken by any man who read, of the girl who lay here, safe, asloep red cas up Metin. tence the of the party, and the sound of ti thanked God. The girt did Was ® Very destructive storm for the fog. She saw him close the book at last within reach of bis hand, irem~ eould ver rising wind had drowned the cre: not understand. birds, There must be fifty of them, Buddenly he took up the book in, had resulted in hie flashing down on ,,8b® told him she had cried out to armed men had stolen al over the >, d it hers and putting back into the foot of the cliff. opened it and referred to the enteyon the ce beside them end® taking cs, Bim—to him, Philip Cayley. And his bows to reconno jeart wen i as Making out the figures place stray locks of hair that were _ And that’s what might have hap- 4 t that last page. hand in their affair. He had accom. heart went racing madiy now oe the | the Wairue people on deck and pened, oh, 0 easily, to you. Yes, it doval T always ” . . He wes thinking now, not dream- hed with the res: strange admission came back to his in the way. @ floe must have might. I've nD realising that, And !t as @ right that I could exeroiea (i ing.’ His mind was on the ective party. His urgent request ther ines, mind and. the decluration of faith knowing that they had « fight on their gone to plece ae “4 3 she said, “and I sha‘n't forget.” Her eyes had bright- When I chose, Perhape that is one ef Heap Refo: that had gone with tt. Well, he had hands, they had worked their way, A neler Oe d Sten aie wet tiene | oe Mate fare kes bee tack a his reward. "Atl thoge lonely yeare in unobserved, 10 & position amidships, Hl igerg pad ia He ee sehen {hork tee Sete Can tenants net we I 1 ‘Tm giad father told us the man solemn w, ‘ andoval; ail the y peril. tha . : pose + nee Bo ats, ° poinat the yooht wae i nuoe the man whee eiled "ie Ailke on incredulous, suspicious ears had made up the tale of them: all the Dre, ‘hey made Jt Possible for the ing when they'll be back; very likely Til not make a accry eeout Aree ‘ CARUSO e@ man 10 le ir. Cc eart-hunger, for §=whic! eo * LT i. {bem 90 my, Hunter was left-handed too.” trudged away. Thon with @sudaey soucht ce Gnacethetic in the sky, _ The Walrus people, several of whom NOt for hours. aho said how @ little practical you with the break. ind : nense and he She had spoken the very thing his determination, again’ took wing aud were paid for now and made proft. Were below, came tumbling up on deck She had turned to him quite casu- fant.” you know about the Wale Onpemind [itd been groping for wit flew, as fast aa a long slant down the able in these hours he had had with BY One (rene Se Miner 00 fue Whole ally for an answer, but, not getting “No, we're camping out to-di izes, Bnew soot iared at her.’ “Why do you nny Pend Would carey lia, back to Fog her and in the memory of them thet feck houne,, ‘They had found armarn? tt Témained looking intently nto bis on auch eccasions the, man alwe do 3 ” c - the king. K versed your Afet party Gowe Kenwranne Cemanded, “How do YoU ening, wuriace he skimmed, this way could be nothing more than a mem: YaTious Birr nocers the Aurorn, 4nd she sated Drow: Walls T akts tmis fool ond oneo Ihe far Cees parse dane. knew ‘. and that, finally catching the thing ory, that he knew full well. Wels Gukiy exeenimae vetore Chay ling me last bight ‘Then aa she atili hesitated, he went ue y of perpetual fog, | “it wane left-handed atick, 1 took he hopeti tor—tho sound of human ‘Fe could not take her faith in him as Auvarie Caeein uakee tha oaek ‘rime OB: “The most beautiful garment I was trembling uncontrollably, erase Se. shenden vee anaes that was tion I eee tching it our Yolce® coming up through the fog. and use it for a cloak. The world, as ‘ ; PR, ever saw anywhere was ona Chucotte “It waa not a threat,” he sald Ho was under no delusion aa to the whe had sald, had to walk by aight, Nevted command of Warner and the Sow afraid, after ai, Wdlan girl. It was made of nothing fly. “It was @ promise—e promis ai ty fog, you know— of the cabin for Uncle Jerry.” da oes confessed—a: A ms Thad tensed Gah be Fanshaw, had proceeded in » yt nd “Suppose Urn r of the thing he contemplated. Unless xclentific, military style that dive into water of uncertain depth could convince thove two jyink, Unless cou thowe ot 1p possession bus the esene ef Chase worm Bus have the Lt bed to make. I make - 1 5 ~ had i ms » orn pa \ tty. I'd much again, now, Jeanne—e solemn promise breast of left-handed too,” and bottom was safe in comparison, Fanshawe, for instance, of his inno- had wpared them many serious casu- of thy Aurora, wherever she in? process isn’t pre bh ‘ Sianrarci he mpde © sean 1 Aian't think of that, But It because water would check the down. cence of the old charge, ae tho gtrl gitiog, “1 toid you dhe truth inst night, 2 TRAE 20M wane back to yous Book.” before Goa Ng Be 4 spoken rather dlecoanected- wouldn't have made any Aifference ward rush of the entaving body; ie Ht" convinced them 0 COU GO yo) ALTA People. however, had vant inuvine “auy possibility by ene wpe, Arhanes ten, minutes a vine, 5 OREN 9 eee ee, Agr his sentences puuctuated by the to me. When you really have faith in buoyancy would o moana of ro: Of the later one-—uniess he cou not murrendered until their plight was vhich ths wen who came here on the ‘Pat when he saw the book drop sud- (Fo Be Contin a be) from the yacht, By anybody it tsn’t easily shaken: not by that—why, with the coming of morn- wholly despérate, Only five of them Walrus could get the Aurora away y eounda Oring A east.” ing, with the coming ashore of a boat were left alive, and two of thene were from ycur people, except by stealth.” : There was a long stlence. from the yacht, he mu ¥ goodby mortal! “Bu ———— eee te Gan, weet fat har os cus cf bie lite mortally wonnded when the strugsie ‘But if our people beat them off, for always Altoganet, it wae eno or three sron't any ot ‘them around, are || WEXE Week’s Complete Nove =r be Gnished they were almost mere circumstances, at I it con: + it sound so much fainter than it “did?” she asked, “It's not CHAPTER X. ae loud as that frst volley we men he had set out to save; #0, | The yacht would wall away and he hours after the Auroru’s People had 07" What the Dawn Brought. long, steadying breath or would fly cack to Point Barre. fow- regained undisputed pcesersion of parently not, “Fog toa tfully treach- 7H man rose from his seat down, knew that he would a!waya have any defisite idea of what had fore they could get b to shore, or thing. It decei at the foot of the bunk . Before Crylay cowl! make out the something of ter that he could keep In the excitement and the ; their | “ some of them may have been cap- A sto full and, with restless strides, figures of eae telow him, he the Bimpealty which nar faith haa of everybody doing two or tured. No, I really don't think you ry r let hrgy at once, Tom Fanshaw need wo i began pacing back and checked his descent, The voice bad him tell her #o wher they stould tnd hy’ aes By Caroline Lockhart of the dash, forth in the narrow limits of the little cried ou. in a foreign tougue, sound- sled vi the here Watting for cover r romance hut, The girl lay still, but her eyes ike Spanish, enough like Spanish, the boat to como ashore, He would ly regained: tineRs, da WILL BEGIN IN aeee bi ast, for him to i:nderatand uot tell hor any more tha that, He low moan for help, which was heard ff the horri- and thrill follow im. ‘The Angel of Death!" it cri “I did not mean that the parting should by a chance panserby. ble, silent menace that lay before her N E xX T He went beck to the foot of the will confess—-confess everything give her pain—-he wanted to bear all ‘The gale, which had been raging all until he himseif should have had time : of the West bunk and picked up the big morocco- And then as swiftly, in that same that bimeelf, But he hoped that just this while, had gone screaming by to look it in tho face; to plumb the . sibilant, ex; ve tongue, the confes- once she would give him her hands unheeded, and it was not until nm depth of its horror; to see if there ing posed, "Soretare’ sas’ suseioue’ too sion poured forthe confession now again and Tot him kiss ther that ‘the ‘hori ied" conauerors ot thy were anytfing that could be built Monda § Evening hap- Uttle, comforted @ it ht di that th ry Into @ hope, or into the mere illusion come way,” he onid, wine ast ‘hope, and eppreand te Kiea'e eign re tebe” . s ~ " ere IR crt MP ornare