The evening world. Newspaper, March 24, 1914, Page 17

ey re mI 3 cptaes The Weckizeg World Daily Migavine: Tuesday, M ean 24: "A COMPLETE NOVEL EACH WEEK IN THE EVENING WORLD THE SHIP OF CORAL Gy Southern Seas and Pirate Gold [2S poooc0000000NK povoneccosoconCoONeR . — ' “aa. 95471000000000000000000000000000000000000000 (Covgrignt, 1911, by Duffield & Co.) sum in question. He feit certain wp @YNOPSIS OF, PRECHDING CHarTEeRs, Sagense, daya before, had worked ow jaapard Cadillas aod his chum, Yres, stoner the problem of what he should pa: oe tha treasure ship and the strand was It was the salutation that every on Gan atrewn with bars of gold kav rel, whose shop was in the Ree every one else in Mt Pierre and ite far-reaching. nature, was Victor Hug ®. frends, every one, She about to reply, But the old man had — Three days a week, apres on 8 tral for the coins, and had placed this Tost Sagesse and was hunting assing on when, picking up a read the fact in hie face,” morniag Just as etch suit i 4m) qum in readiness. and for Yves, It was full day, and spray of the fleur d'amour from the — “Don't trouble to say it--only this hard against the Jawp, 3b6 vislel he ona of the ee lay re- the island Jay sweltering under the beth ans Minging some coins on the if Re has, Paul Seguin will be your leave for M. Sartine’s, raneive vented, tn hat act, ao in the way sun. He could ree nothing of the BOtrh le handed the branch laden friend, Ah, you do not know Sagesse. tray of goods and start on Ber With delicate blongome to her She He has numerous poor folk here quite ney, carryin man he was in search of; then, far took it, xlanced at him with a bale under hia horrid thumb, men to whom thing of no welght, one ae away at the end of the litte coral Smile, then she looked at the flowers he haa lent money, men whom he haa } journey may be es far he pler he saw a form that mado him fe,though she had never seen flowers gut power over, and he works them Anse, afore, Her Nps Ww forget both Yves and Sagesse, the murmuring son form of a girl the flowers, to the brane As he drew@ closer ho naw that tt pt ppt thow art sweet, moment of his purpose. " Ganpard felt certain that had it suited hie interests Bagesse would have betrayed him to the authorities, . oe y be s moving, se Was Ike slaves, negroes, Well, now, whet pelt s alabasee, ome back from this expedition mil hr. oody at Cala near, ate will atay in St. Plerre, apd you the same to her. Will let me put you in the way of tn a year she was known aft He was awakened next morning b; nae the roar of the anchor chain througs the hawee-pipe. . i glance making money, Town many of thore tne ta, CHAPTER Vi. Five minutes later he was on geen. was the girl, The girl of the little « litt f the flow- boats that go to tho fishing. and. ‘The negroes cutting (Continued) La Belle Arlesienne, steered Place where the fountain playa). the ers s hie sieht make f cane would pause to look at Marte 4 Morne Rouge, the pretties Piac " fo caiied it Mh the colored moving. thro , the prettiest aves belay Spal as he called tt ut. ter fyolca | cuained with him, matry some pretty itl. Afine fellow i Martinique, and give her in his own mind, not knowiny iif Tel the carewsing Words she had spoken lke you Wit bave his pick of tho St the villages whero magic hands during the night, hi a The Money Changer. raleed some magic horison and passed OR, a moment only, then, it to encbor in paradiac. Bo it seemed to him as hig eyes travelled from the name to the flowers in the infantile Froneh best. thrusting hie hands out @@ oioud turbam of Mont Pelee colored Sho was standing with hor tray Of the tropies Gaspard laughed. Here was a pros though he were , putting by the dawn, and followed the tum- Balanced on her head an though she — "Oh. thou ort pretty—thou, art pect if the treasure hunt turned out @omething away from him, biing woods, the cascades of leaping hho burst out, “I did not kill him for Rites tor the hina ct te shadow money—it's a lie. If I eald eo I Hed— ti sweet Sho had spoken te the flow. fruitioss h ern wel ers, but it seemed to Gaspard she “Ma foi." sad he, "I will take your 24d a way with he had spoken of herself. She had des- offer righthanded. [have never struck ®Weetness, that made pribed herself unconsciously ina sens mich @ place as thia, and TE never hops ® Tose. had just lunded, now she was iaugh- ing as she saw him coming | her, laughing as only the 1! Montpellier or Avignon can it was an accident. True, we quar- and as ge came al the tldge of to leave it when T return from thix | Needless to aay, in Mi ay 8 Aral hit Wat Aloe ile thou art pretty—thou. art voyage-—-and to think that 1 should Where hearts are as inflammable relied about the money, but I did not Prot coral hell was Taughing. A He was to leave have the luck to meet you all through tinder, she had admirers, scores, 4 till him for it. Tho knife only ory of garden palupons Aimnwethy feaerit gt failine. market-plac a anake. dreds—but she hed no lover. eeratehed him and he dropped. I had .from street tu street; old mons-grown vac Pt aie, ie rat eae Ane from one of th “My friend,” sald M. Seguin, “there . When young men came to qaved hie life; does a man murder fists sf 4 old gereees sae erdere Gturat anw the Ofeewy: brows him wheel round is @ Martinique proverb that says, before at age § omesives ata lite he bes eaved? Scrape o BE r to apps areans! He stall Just behind him had been ‘He who Kills a snake ts forgiven Ld to ehether whose the ie le and feur d'amour; Ay ap La A re me 4p tive: de 4 the crowd was scattering in seven deadly sins’ So you have purged &Y frankly, erry ‘Waen 1 spoke, I was mad with your old house: vy-butlt and lightly his landiady's voice offered him cote every direction. yourself of seven sing and made « tisht apeak to a frisad. me oegeed Grink. If I had murdered him colored, all Pane ba from the great ly of tid “Ker de lance-—fer de lance!” friend for life—do not let us despise seem to know that was would I have told of it? I did not kill dikacuy wales te bi lB 37 be & Hale cerfew The ery echoed from one end of snakes.” other girla—all the girls in Bt, the place to the other, and Gaspard For tho first time Gaspard felt the Of her age—had lovers, him for money—do you believe me? found himself standing alone, face to pleasantness of the fact that he had love, Vistons of cupide wit “My friend,” replied Sagesse quite him and put the shutters back, so that the window space became a Suara Mimodiso Ge el intone face with an old gentieman dressed that morning saved a life, Dead Yves W!ngs, wedding wreaths, all the upmoved, believé you. But you morniug dive. Over on whit with 4 breathing Noe gd nda 1. sm nite and hold|ng a white appear id netore mie Here wi pery that goes to make marriage yourself admit the fact that you killed Morning Dive, Gver on | prelia over hi he to balance that ‘woman Footy Marie had hy seemingly Then in @ flash of t things. Her ad not dropped Anisette, selling drinks at the bar of Of that tare order of woman's syen were fixed on the Riga. Heavens! wan It possible Which hoide all the love of writhing in the that he had ever loved or thought of solution, but no Mersic oi came a tang from the sea below and “phe old a breath f Having dressed ine houre. man, th was already full and splendid, but rea, by accident,” here the shadow of peak and morn “And took his money? held everything in magical chiara n the woods above ff he left the the ground wher “Tt did not belong to him. He had oscuro. e city, seen as through He had taken his way along the Rue t, the ‘H si y man sh oaly just found it amidst the bushes— n vague vell of gauze, seemed asiecp, Vitor 1d MO ene ee ee oe ee ee Pia the fee walt ‘and the pouch. Why do you yet it was burning with early morn- Pla . It was a fer de bi three feet in lenst ath himself, Marie, Marie of Morne Rouge, had eas niain tho ovil shade of Anisette in his These ape, the we Y ind, just ae a sunbeam sli ry e grea marae dow, os lia and of ine faerie ee Mtentd and fara. Then he watd goodby to M. Seguin, ne Sartine gent ‘punlight, it wae promising to call and see bim at the call at a house on the high maa : to atrike at the man be- Address which the old man gave him leads across tho Morne Parnaase. It, terror atriking at terror, upon a card. business was to show some lace ¢@ ny fie latin boat? rhe sight of the reptile left Gaspard He turned down Bill to the sea Hpanish lady, Senora Vigil and to ohake head, do you not believe ing life, and Gaspard, as he watched, rane x,cane See ation he ssp ieve you or no! le, forms Ing down the steep it Tater? Tie man had found fights of eteps leading from atreet to money, ju killed tim—by accident, atreet, and ewarming by the sea steps with @ knife, and took his money. and harbor side. truo story of the Dees wee — not tell you that Gaspard had never seen anything want to know mc fa enough to hang the at all likée this, He had seen many a ond | want to kno ‘of France? But {t is all tropic town where the thet tr nip. he had me torday he drifted to the harbor market pla oe 8 With these workir "8 claws could trate though explaining find friends at sight, ‘Vo the spirit of the place, hy were? golng the gunwale of one of th Jewel in iS peturning from the ra man of Hee and 1 with old In that belt. about that island, something about — “You, orning, about like a man with « ir, and es I said just now, roof of the trader, or 1) i Gash 4 Hele ‘1 ty akull; | eperated Hike a sur- ‘ ph ph Quite unperturbed. ‘The smallest min. ffnt, where, on the Place Bertin your, stfecria to let the thing lie. DO lines of the Methodiat ineeting house achat’ Stated at the captaln for cei ee iMook It owt: IK wan Uns frestman lauehine mud chattering with, ority of the great human race are cer. smidet tie Sumer homeneada, KAUN Marie sold the whole auentiay igs sit nak @imurb dead bones, Tat us for- broke crudely through the beauty of that's all dono with,” sald he at last pleasant, but there in the Jewel, andl hin in the patois which be only halt AN ereeP dy Math ty vrs Engen. ‘The owner of La Belle Ar. to St. Pierre well pleased and in tae an 4 nge. “T've told you tory; you've had Instead of charging you a tee L offer deratooe "he ey had , gue hia teen! Teta tee a’yon over tothe authori- Iny before Kim Bemutlful, absolutely yoyo (rite Tt My, Or? TOR Ne ad ee ree rcentN GO On tie values TET (ae it reltion wea tno aeane Age ' considering hia leslenne was laughing, gesticulating Te Was hee sutanee and, as Gaspard passed, to emphasize iy he knew gome remark he brought bie great | It had been a won And see here, what do had not thr dertul thumb down on the top of a sugar The sun was full in the shy VK. ure ship? 1 have told. Well u would net market (for the place was divided, the on the chart the position Wondertand, t do you say?" fish and meat being sold at one side, you mean about a iy aa to-morrow. Lhave beautiful, lke @ dream city set ii heltnve im boarded me, and the posi- = Nothing could be more strange or never da word about such a “ft don't say 1 won't come—on one fp i terrors, but if had, 1 bt if he « he ‘the which is the only more cl * ° Alttowne, fruit, vegetables, and flowers at the Qo tae hore camo along the road past , ae of vor so mit woult pare reser gaits reaching thing: con dition that you never name th they began td M their fish jd have done otherwise than he did. dea Plant The gates ban Gaspard could not but remember M. in or threaten me with tt” “pio : ‘The snake, ohmeasad by Its objective, . laced. Phvealen you; ni the boat without troubling aig jot perceive the fentions enemy Sekuin’e words about the unfortune they were, always opem, F8 rf > b.’ gone to dec oe a malt ants white tenth Behind It; springing forward in a flash People tmdor that “horrid thum risk ine wien eiee oe ’ agesse, “between aff the captain mate's cabin on +> fret be of the least cost fo me Fee Bf into trouble, Not in the least. harbor, boats were putting out from my vessel there Is only a plank, and Why ‘nhould 1? T have used the in- T“sould much sooner help you. Well, tho shore; now, clear and sharp cut, When the mun sleeping ate ment, : F Gaspard selzed it naked-handed jun be 7 ping in the mate's strument, L fllng it awe Lhave cot and dark eyes Mashing, th t a ann Just made by the trees. to business. ‘That money will be your through the varue nolsee of early cabin Shouts out in his sleep “Hullo all L want out of you, and how it ts eae yt ait ee ab rete nara ela below the horrible trianaular hew CHAPTER VIII. Mart . soe beh « passed the 4 y ofa bugle there, Yves, look, I can see through your turn to profit a bit. You Will be the sea-stepy of Naples, only better Slain OE ROHOR Lower eam. Wik Fate! al looked you tty to use it ashore, as as it ts, You from the fort, and from a sailing. her hatch; she's full of gold; we'll very useful, and [don't want a 4 ‘A his left hand he almost twinted the bap hyde plas ig A it for ‘American ship away to oar the lank OF foron ie pibeanare and en : 1 oe dressed, He had seized a huge eel iad trom hod: on HE atreet of the Precipice *ightened at the ‘on riot v2 hange rut 6 alike,’ stranger in the busin Salina ‘ yoment It m the breaking the apine [% E atreat of the Precipice r =) "oie “Bey "the table and I capstan Powls and the cry of sailors the captain sets himself to think, He "When do you star Se gone Winane: hand Terrelat, at the neck. ‘Then he flung the r ung literally between sea fr ptered tas vena as Ire wv oeapind, tT Wit Gok Cc oes says to himself, ‘This man talks of a “It will take me a week to clear Dhonse to. he had dubbed the ehiet Mans on the round and planted hie and sky; almost as steep seemed to fll it with Nght. saat “Go nothing unless you pelleve the Mantiane poten ave pane came ship full of gold in his sleep; he came the cargo and wet ready; meanwhile ieee nicknareing him with any Beet on the head, crushing b an a ladder, 90 ateep that ihe came through the Pleee 48 ns ue when I eay that I came by it tropic flowers jaamine and" vanilla on board my ship from an island over’ you have your pocket full of dollars, Aa eke was a lan demon brain and burning ¢: Fea A a ea A en ee bleed fronis ower jeamine arid vanilla there: he had in his possession « num- ‘¥ name that came first into his head, the causeway here and ber of old coins, old Spanish pieces; Hl RG can prune: YOUreelt: hs these men dorwas pocketing the the dust. there broke into flights of steps, just oy ‘Oa 1G, coat yan an accident, be yer le he confesses in drink that he has ‘will come.” é rf ‘The next moment it seemed to him clothes F a comin ‘The canoe men Wad offered to row Killed Monsiour Yves, the gentleman your word on. that hen Gaspard, turning to the boat that the world had gone mad and was ®® ® Fiver breaks Into waterfalls. tr Tam no mardere ri" agesee and Gaspar: : a ve, keen and trained to” n, tive you my word. to HAG ACInethlivg Binet eal trying te smother him. The old man You saw, looking upward, far above prod st once that thie wa eee orate the fi romeanty: shore, and the to whom in his dreams he talks of & | ‘They waiked out. Gaspard entered the midat of the aurrounding orowd he had saved wan og teat tele wee ee ~ wi ever since 8 first morning x h woods, stranger to captain had evidently told them of ship full of treasure--well, don't you the oflice of the Compagnie Transat - inPehae paren eee you, the green of the high woods, « Of their acquaintance had been atudy- th® fate of the Rhone, for, as they jantique, where Sagasse left the girl, “Sho wam without her tray: Thr Sivan taughings women weepins, and looking downward, far below from the foreign shipe, ne ing him minutely, rone to hia feet and cromeed the harbour, Gaspard found sant walking with an assured ste a ith 4 AP sete nid rein and crying out to the Virgin, One you the harbor, blue at noon and Me wih tghonsd fhe leoten hia right hand down on the imself an object of interest and e, confess, YOU his deposition before the mani had a basket in her hand, might have thought Gaspard the bear- 1d tn. tha mae astral in the face, \y, feat le palm uppermost. piled with ® hundred questions. Hava & Basra. othe full StOFY One of the port autho who was bad « basket in hor hand ven ate or of the news of some national meraid In the morning, she looked every one in the believe you, there, the words are , Saeesse was in grand good humor Of that affiir, or by my soul and on Hrosent, migned it, and then, quite sure bul | i o ahe trluimph, the savior of the island—that It was here in this old street that man or woman; hie eyes met said and let us say no more on the {his morning. So was Gaspard; so, ee eee Te yee lee of himself and disregarding Saxcnsdn Lope rrr piRyeeet re greentes mot and (eto may, If ono were not acquainted Marlo lived with her aunt, Man'm ¢ye# full, lit up, and—ehe had jratten— how ‘fer others fipel be; joeeuey. Pend seh es things I kno advice, gemancen an jadennlty te Piorre-Alphonse saw her, 100. with the Creole tind and Its excita; Charles, in @ house on the right as ovrhe crowd was there, let the matter end and come the languor of midda “Dieu!” cried Gaspard with a burst fOr net only, had she looked away, she V6 found nimeelt ik was formed ant you went up from the harbor and did not nee tt. Some one had tor teas fallen upon it and it ta of Irritation, “twas hiding nothing "1. once the wise Sngesse had MYA turned Away, a ou. the old man—atitt with the umbrella close to the passageway leading to fcr without words; she | i i t ; y g eck 0 : some one. The world one, ost down again, and Gaspard, ee ecansses by a kiss ona bright from yo! mid thine there wen kon the riven the wrong advice, for the man Th Miarlo-Atarie de Morne Tonge over hin head holding Mis hand, shak- the Rue Buonapart eee a eeinty of Sean Sete the nine he the table ina tesp, The. harbor sid dea; On her, but Thad put it from my "ser, on te ony responsibility, and —ho ‘Marie, are You dent thle moe ee ee ee Any of these woed yjTort sixteen years ago up at the only herself and that mysterious same Bagense counted them. nani, Narbor side was crowded: iiind. t talked of it-in my elecp, dia Partly, perhaps, ee & Mowe tine ing? Hore are the fish calling thee am M. Seguin, Any of these 00d viliage of Morne Rouga, she had one. She scarcely remembered bis foe copia her know m the erowd my life at the rink of and most self-respecting Then to Guspard, stoker he had ever fallen in with, “Nw what devil haw got into. ths | made out Oe fe money de girl sho often buys from me, she win manded, cashed tt and Gaapa i iter, the office richer by a hundred france eaener t areas nett Dinh, oO He was crossing the little square tw an from the # where the diamond fountaln fot was ee aie Murmurs he, holding one in his hand and ex- apricot-colored men, chatterini 1? Well, it must have been there in oa&iting 1 “Fancy trying to changa sprig colored men. chattering 1" my mind. You shull have tho story. thts lot at.a banker's or bureau de the language of the French West . Then, with his elbows on the table, Ke. They would be enough to Indies, « Iniguage in which Monsiciir he told how Yves had discovered the False &@ Diister on tho reputation of a Lecomos MI Maman, Manman, “Ip tn the lagoon; he described her, paint. T can get rid of them, tho and France, Fouance. . * Sagesse, also with his elbows on the pald for her life the greatest pay- *xcopt that It waa dark and 5 mood looking; but the eyes Ly etl my lite AE Sg, SAG ment that life can extract from @ foul fie had spoken to Iam not poor, my house ts y human being. She had lost her speaks to a woman with a mt ei i Joure ant mother. Her father, who owned the was nothing compared with paved it" ‘nly "ahop in the village, ‘had been that she had spoken to him. | i ie é & rl able, : asked Gaspard, tak 0 r4 zi i" fairly prosperous in a ami ; though something dumb in her, with part ilay true es still 1 Sngowre, bidding food-day to, the ee ee eee aa then, PUttPe IP & Gancing and singing in the aun, when jy thn barriaue, wy Nothing nothin,” cried Ganpard, fain proeperou in {ounh sornething ant 1a) Heke without a chance of good profits, Pot officers, struck uptown accom- hat’s ail,” finished Gaspard, ‘she he saw before him the Agure of & | “Murie—whose father lives, ut then with a touch of Tar- farm, and three times a week he the existence, had awakened from of snk : eae in his tone—"they never bite Would come into the market at St, escaped from darkness, spoken me." Pierre to sell his produce, Jeaving strange language, and then sunk who bag thé shop to the cure of his slater, ‘Ti to darkness, leaving her bewildered aad but the igh watay ig ites ; woman astonished, one i ely, beautiful as any 1 s how ri firat at Plead a dr woman in Martinique, but now @ a Fein 1 ite eolehs eek Meee nan. cripple, broken down, alain by hard dous wave which strikes veh ‘Deas e " work. She had been # porteuse. beings at some time of their as a poulterer The po ne of Martinique in 4 crest y be Peoid Joyous, bak panied by ‘Gaspard, Uptown, by fights of old steps, worn, moxs-grown, shadowed by the black ahadows of t hounes and roofed with a ribbon of Ut eG to dynainite her open and eee ey sald Gaspard. “T would Diliding agure uky, everywhere the "intend to dynainite her open and Oo) ton heud a tray of ome mer- ‘as soon throw them overboard sound ef say — Balai Bella Arlesionne has diacharged her Chandise covered over with @ Wasp- jt fur nothing next to nothing, two put both his elbows on the Sveti ew the sound of the sea Crk T will put her in ballast, take colored scarf. sous and it is thing, ‘tin as bis as a ‘table and laughed. uae the hag- échoing as in the whorl of a great S0Me diving apparatus and what else ‘The load would have taxed a man, baby’ began: Seenerd, Cie #0 Ong abel ix needful, and return to that island; yet she bore it as easily asa feather; “What in long in ‘the T will give you forty dollars for the y be up to the hatches with gold irl She wax coming © 4 all | know be for the matter of full blage of Haht, a girl of ac 1 jat-for all T care. sixteen, tall, swift moving, and Ri “Where does she live?’ With her aunt in the street of the cmasareat ful as Atalanta, a porteuse, bearing precipice. Ho, there, Mayotte, here ke Hey never bit him! Hi fish for thee pretty as thyself tate Baye hundled it as then, was a pr dreaded for de lance: wu chicken, Before noon that he, this M ion y me 0 oes, and her striped = “A porteu! here, “tis thine wait ey aur , Tace apart; she Im in reality a peddier, © O}asiness man in his nature. It was The atepways led to streets, lines yen ett een ne: pera pes up at the wale to tint fot the chanze, and thy mothe oe Bireet ‘a ey jelling everything from fruit to rib- pect lp fos She Sees eee strange picture, and not without Its of blasing Hght and color, veran- — “yog, you; do you think [ want the give her limbs free play, showing her how is she? All nw 1 » ‘ * , ae ous crest, a man seen the ihe object 3 antic wide. The two southerners dahed, broken by black house shad- whole of St, Pierre in the business? lex ost to the knee. there, take thy change, little one All the naw * paid old M. Seguin » his desire, the companion of his soul; t © gested opposite to each other at the ows, filled with colored people of 1 will take only my colored crew; — she was of that strange rice, whose ali in the patois that t , P. “yon have saved my life, monsieur, he does not seize her, he will sink: se table of the dingy deckhouse, the all shades, ali hues, from the mule- several of them are xood divers, butt jjocd haw bean mixed with the blood hess from words, makes new words but Twill thank you in anothor place ery it half @ the heart of the wave, thi inging Jamp overhead casting Ite fresno to the chabine: all bury. mov- must have anather white man on a tthe Cariba, colored like that of old, a tropical growth of language, than this hase vou breakfanted? She thinks nothing Of joneliness, to be carried to the share at ton the chart. the pieces of gold ing, drifting, chatter! BOF joi like ¢his, You will have your (jan atatuary to which duri colored, quaint, infantile N Well then, T pray of you come lant without ever seeing the true @um- spard turned to Pierre-Alphonse, with me . LE must be going, x aged bimacif f nd, follr by ‘ f thi - , Nand the strenuous faces of the bar- selling, finely formed, gr oral asthe share of tho fits— per cent. sand years the sun has lent ® ” they look back on their ilven with palmistes. ‘That may bo much, or it may be noth- cf v Among other things, Marie had te Raxeene, y t f his gold, till one can Imagine r Te eames tae in hl tale aad hoa tad ei eeran: Pek PS ge Mal Bove te worn for the munlight lingering in the honey He dis With his hand upon Gaspai hitrermoaa: fard though tho work im go to market to buy provisions, or It will be horae work getting the (he SUAnERE Unite embrace he led Win away through th Sona it in free from constraint of walls it way there, you remember, a is terme tered a river of light—the Rue Victor sturt off her if he lies us you tell mie, ¢ ha Of Od Winhow from Plorre-Alphonae which divided before them, acrors peghateee tna masters: it ts lonely had her second meeting with but that ‘would be wit Hugo. 1 heh ; he blue black of her hair jus fr fngled with tha onawd paasing from village to village amidst jing hi t the counting on the character of the : take it she has been lying in that snowed, covered with the turban of jifd his crew, mingled with the cr the Place, across the Riviere Roxe- the mountains, but they have tho DM! nd or oe vi raed White brelias, striped verandas, lagoon all of a hundred years. If she The girl was nowhere to be seen jane, into the Rue Victor Hugo. “Captain and the laws which gove sone jaughier, “motion, Isa Spaniard there may be a lot of wriped material on which rested tho wit vary venti” girlie everywhere, “Here at u cafe they breaktasted afte bray, pe sou come Yet they do not complain, nor ah ight again, A luck” tality companionship ‘of aun and wind and “amour peal to octal laws black dist ; a , , Next morning very early Marie ite, the last’ axtremity. Nev color, colored people, colored clothes, atuft’—- ‘Then, after a moment's "AY oi. came, walking erect and Dut he had no eyes for thom, | Ganpard’ told” of the wreck, and wan dging trom the mecdshine sce ize made her way to the Rue Yi force a inst a man stronger than lemon-tinted houses, flower-blue sky, pause, "There is stuff on that island; without a motion of the head, her Waa she angry with him?) Why had tched his story til he came to the and though #he loved little Marie, Hugo. received her tray of goods ot ke the py, but leave a streot of light beneath a roof of [ smell it.” dark yes glanced from alde to side, She turned ww ay? Five minutes ago, Sp gesse Mario's ®tarted on her journey, It was@ wey ie the chalice tin ether words asure, the Rue Victor Hugo lay be- He fell into a moment's reverie, and a6 she reached Gaspard her eyes "8 he stood there helping Vlerre-Al cried his questioner intention of mak. Journey to-day, right away to ., do not strip a man ao bare that fore Gaspard. then, as if talking to himself, “The iret his full, nor did they lower nor phonse to well hin fish, he bad forget enn? ink & porteuse of the child, ‘Anse, on the eastern side of the if he had never seen her would not hive t much; but ble bud ‘wijl turn upon you in desperation)’ ‘There is no sound of feet; every one fellow those bones belonged to had ‘were three of the laws govern- is shoeless; they walk in a whisper something to do with her; he was one <"C ing this wise man’s actions, He was under the wonderful blue light of the of her crew, as he wos there hunting pe turned. Ma wis VaniEninn * ‘artist in scoundreliam, for he knew sky, thene people, these men and for trensure. He may have died of jmidat the erowd in the Rue Victor value of restraint. women of all shades of yellow, grace- starvation or accident, or he may a aa if to fol turn away till she had passed him He felt blinded as if by @ fame hat i his name.” Marie was four years of age when #4 have fancied that he came to thi dhe c Yesterday when she was shad shown Itaelf, to it because he ce no better the market she had heard A thing and hutred future for her, Bi birth of screains of the market wOmea, the face of M, Marto he had fallen upon evit days; had turned to ase him aut allered in 1 se “sixty dollars, then,” said Saresse, ful, dignified, gracious, who might have discovered the stuff and been ) ra Tee ae dead os though to a man simothered hin Wishing to extend his farm, he had With people, He had killed the fer OR nadtee thes had been bagaling for AN ceom the inhablarye of a dream city killed by hie companions: if that wna though helene arharionn dead Os i inty road the Vv Finotions and helped bimeeif to more berrowed money, and he had bor- Iance with his naked hand; snakes Jhour. or mo You agree, 004, Of but for the sounds! of everyday Ilf¢, wo they would not liave left that belt ‘rie glanee had only lasted a mo- and ub rowed It from Sugease, then a rising could do tim no harm, ao the nit Pog will make my profit on cries of cigar venders, and pastry and money behind them.” yet in that moment, ina flush, “enly appeared throw Meware of that mant He ia not a Bower In Bt Pierre; a bad crop and ket people had sald. That fact but what would you have? I venders, and frult sellers, children’s Gaspard sat hing Sagesse; @ spoken one to the other, Tt mist. which el sed man: ho laa fer ded Folmonvae, & tornado erippled him in thin ni the fer de tance less fearful to her, der-—and I will give you more voices, laughter man’s mind # development of his business, he had red. ferreting He did not fear it. Why should she? He ban about was os thong y had reeos iat 1 you hor ny wil " ixty dollars; I will give you From a flower-seller an they en- thi HOUNd Ne aberiAd: ee teeny a a0 Hie landed you here Welly you will to apply to Sagesse for another loan, In this tropical mind, sealed so tered the Rue Victor Hugo, Sagesxe actually to smeil money in the thing.” Jte could read a mysterious some- him." ang From Shab gated bin ruin to love, love had suddenly disc! had bought a gandy blossom which Verhaps he did, ‘There are men who gying in her glanee, and tt wis on ae hen Mar fifteen and himself full grown and statuesque, spon't go back to the stokehold. ne put in his coat tn some tineanny the power though she had said, “Ah, there you 1 flowers were Ned ATS TE, MOA Stith to) Me the business of po As she passed ulong the cliff read, _With sixty dollars in Martinique you He was en fete and his good of scenting fortune; ir spceula- are, from away beyund the beginning urd had eeamed be pg se 4 Finotte 4 nd Marie t ile Anse, Marie saw by the imay start (a little business. © Go numor was Infectious; linking his tions rarely fail: they know what of time!” girl an fhe sai for de tance aa morn an La Helle cane to ive with the aunt In the sea edge two white figures, the Agure 3.’ shares In a fishing boat, deal in fruit iim in that of Gaspard, he had led Will app ein value, whether jn fountain was playing in the around: hin ia nothihe af 1G Pa epee Maga GAC I cipice and to act as of an oll man and a young man, *.<you are young and active, and {0 fin into a cafe, a cool, spactous shop !224 or riocks, and they will throw hundred men and women Stall half Beat oe tha ition. | rah ete porteuse in the roy of M Sartine, The olf man was M, Seguin, the Martinique sixty dollars are equal to ge out with marble-toppod tables, UP the most likely venture Just be fruit of ¢ echash, whether M, Bewuin would ti Free RA aRGR ate aah wane, abe YOURS Tan Was, CRanAre: etx hundred at Havre or in Paris, T yt 00) Wail Meet aga little bowl Cause thelr genlum haw dircovered In Ma , with every he Naa, whi wuin would have deas handkerchtefs und women's aps (To Bo Continued.) show you the ropes, an the En- Ath’ bright-colored blossoms; !* some hidden and fatal flaw unper- meeting and passing of colored phan trnins. lv tur ll ni ' os filled with bright-c ba ; Hur you will not go arene . Fie. Do you know, monateur, be 1 celved by other men. ' ride him “But 4. Pierre Sagesse, have s eee a ot rae panama AS Garpard sat watching Sagesse |, . Haat She was quite unconscious of the | “But To must-T have given my © white an ro. i i Saresse 4 man and a woman had just met ( a t way Word.” f a) advice and help ha An Gan fo faint giow of enthusiasm began to é t 5 fa \ Av rawil } 1: . Sanat , sg \. pard followed his com- and passed one another, e had ), toner A wiven your word! es {a Martinigue who are Row PFS" anton between the tables he noticed TMM hn ntugheine Keon ireabe yd otteacte. Of Hite hd taken pinen sho had a ) in, touched wll Ue ea danas Next Week's Complete Nove Novel that all these men gave Sagesse good- B pe hidden treas~ she old, strange miracle forever fresh, aware of whom «hi na touching BACK even from Pierre Sagease. But iter 2 pen ond ail the. ie be day as though he were an old ac. Ure does not appeal? The ites of forever new, aware of whom ahe waa ‘ouchiny do not get entangled with him if you A sea tale a tale (by the eau. - + locker Where be kept his charts, At (uaintance, Lut without enthusiaam, heen hateful to him half an hour —— for the third time int y then, Can Help tt Took!" He pointed to a | thor oj EVEN a rew forth a little chamois : oi i: y allat once, and a faint bu spider passing along the wall, ‘ one Hee eae toe {t, shot out on the Then, choosing a table In @ cornor, psc put aineady Bis Hoare was: atly CHAPTER VII. reflection of a row heen cast 1a Pierre Bagense, He ts # DAYS") with a mye taste the money it contained, The thoy sat down, and Sagesse beckoned — Hq would not be alone Love. upon h and neck, ahe blushed -apt who treate other men aa tery that the cleveNt itis bag held exactly sixty dollars t0 the bartender, He came running, “wnat you offer is, perhaps. fair ft wae lene a blush than a laepening & spider ta fies, Geta them Into By Mary Roberts Rinehart reader cannot 14 coin and some silver. Sagesse ordered drinks, When paid Gaspard, “but ania { J] SSPARD secured a room at of the southern dusk beneath her his power, binds them up and sucks i enti the final ch fol, the exact sum; that is odd they were on the table he Nt a cigarg ¥, straight out, you treated | the lodging house of Skin them dry. He ia my greatest enemy," WILL BEGIN IN ‘ Ne ‘and ought to be banded Gaspard another, and then, a friend this morning; you tok Maman Paley, a place rece It told him at ones that she rerog. sald the old man, frankly enough, a. . ter, “The Aes ‘your money, and T crossing his loge and suddenly chang- my arm, you brought me im hers, you. | ommended to him by Bags Matt tim: not only that, tn nome “and Tam he only man who has ever eee House” ia not like p Mg iY and pouch; you can keep ing hie manner: ood for drinks, mmens y K- myaterious way It told him that she got the better of him. He nates me. = “Lat us talk business,” said he bod for drinks, and thon you threat: oage, Going to his room he slept until had been thinking of hin It gave | think I am the only man he really any other mystery SGampara Bocketed, the “Business ; sped me with that effalr, don't Goo him courage haten: a nature ike hie does not give Mond ’ E H Wi ld story or sea stor, you pan saa that the | Sat he lusts itttle “Me for ris ke what they call * “He had been dreaming of the 131.nd pee eget ne ety thon’ auddenty, Bow ie ay $ vening OF have read. @, , H-dupiness. wan' ef Gagesse, They bad buret into sieur'), bound yout” d