The evening world. Newspaper, March 28, 1914, Page 9

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St, Plerre—St. Plerre @rNopsis OF PRECEDING cHAPrEens, Martinique?” Gaspard Cardiac ave his chum, Yee, atokers on The mate nodded, a Meenct to Pelee from apex to base, clung its couse The place he loved, all Never, even in the old days of the a severe illness, he felt pews ie to St. Pierre, veiling the colored that hé loved, everything that meant! stokehold, had he experienced such wae seated upon a bank, al houses utterly from sight, and to the life to him had vaniah whole are of the bay, biding the His was the greatest 1, yet still he climbed, him in the trade wind waved He had reached, now, @ transverse huge fronds of ferns, and before traged For @ moment Gaspard could not trees, the triumphant palms, the an- which a ian has ever been conde ravine, a huge donga with steep banks lay a field of canes overripe, Qiak — fo the Genin dain, There u believe that such luck was hia, Out gelloes, the tamarinds. to act. He had sated, leaving the from which here and there broke out had been spared the nec P Bape aeleton, ami teide Kt 0 1 f thirt “My God!" said Skinner, The hand lovely city and the woman he loved the walls of ruined houses, It war knives, Gaitheaie Mold places, ‘They aloo find « coralin. © tty or forty possible ports she that held the glass was shaking, his gazing at him until dimmed by the the Rue Vietor Hugo. Haif drowsy, still exhausted, But Grated diy that has bong ag ome fut te was bound for St. Pierre, for Marte. face had be loodiess un veil of distance, he had returned, ‘The silence here wan terrible, the wrapped in the new feeling of welle Meath (ie mirface of the island's ingon. Gas Then he laughed and clapped hia bronge, Capt kK, the binoe raiwed the veil, and found—this. gilenco of Nineveh, she silence of the being, like @ man who is recovering: pard and Yros quarrel, in the eauing fight Gasherd’ accidentally kills his 6 Laer the “Nees with his hands; the oarsmen MifiNOr ta picked up by @ piesing #hin, whowe laughed half mockingly, poking fun at VY captain, Piere Sageme, 19 a thoroughbred « him in American slang, but the mate rel, Sager fete Gaspard dria, Ge Nabil of Tress Miliog, Nest inorning Uaspant U@ NOt laugh; he was a man who, hee forautten hia folly telling the mont, (2 Use his own expression, had no use Fee Hamme rons if to tiv meenoey in much a for laughter; besides, his eyes and his still clued to his eyes, was The immensity of it almomt made Nothing, which is*at the heart of from an anaesthetic, he noted his rapidly to himself ins an underton it a thing impersonal without in the thing Finotte and Lys; the corros- surroundings; and, as his eyes trav. Gaspard, who could not see as they least destroying the anguish of it, As sole sellers; the merchants and traf- elled from point to point, they eud. saw, who could not sunderstand as he lay there in his bunk he saw Marte fickers; the colored crowds, the little denly came to rest on # spot just they understood, could, yet, compre- and he aaw himself, he saw the city, children—nothing spoke of them here. before him. (Wy. hend dimly the terror before him, He saw the Rue Vietor Hugo and the — And, still, far above him went the On the dust of the road, shelt sunlit, and facing the gem-like sea, blue sky, the Place du Fort, and the mountain hes, the broken streets, the bank and the ferns from the Bt. Pierre had vanished? utterly, waving tamarinds; he heard the in th ad once been houses, jay the Imprint of a naked foot. 1 wap no longer the verdant Voices of the people and the carilion charred stumps that had once been woman's little foot had pressed gl mountain towering triumphantly of the cathedral bella, and all that palm trees. And still he elimbe f the road but a short time above tho flowor-like city ne of seemed the acenery of a beautiful He had cast off hia,cont, never think- ‘the print was warm to the diemal nehes smoking. ¢ #ky, Play, acted under a summer sky in a ing of the treasuré in its pocket. he and ‘living, one could almost see above a land of dismal that nd oof impossibl appiness gone had forgotten all that, even Marie ‘Heeting fgure swiftly moving as " f f that 1 am the become vague as a ghost in his breeze, and graceful as the n Was all Chere Wad Jere Oe Laat lovey One thing only stood clearly faim." The print of the heel was. f 4 had never been, never had he met her him, halt mesmerized as he : that of tee equity: "** inthe Place do la Fontalne, "Thos hauation, heat and the ruin marked than tore ruins of gr beach of Grande Part $ M.jduinsd an Colored streets, those gay people, that around him—the | beach ‘The volcanic dust, though gone from SURPUL tin fantupe, Ce eeee tiene town of plotures, those flowerk and Anse The. noot-biack beach and the folloas, aul tay ‘upoa ther . tr that reen curling wi ore he road, and Awere paddling in the sapphire com, all that wan an turion, ao it Brn tnd oblivion. He did not know oO this dust of ruin lay the wom w Gagard gat Ce captain has mind were otherwise engaged, Ld Bm tn tie yorer, He bullies Gayant ints com Gy, . 3 erating (0) Water with tim to the idan to jaspard, in his excitement over landing at Marturne, treet UehtiNg the signal fire and the ap- proach of the boat, had forgotten one thing. He wad wearing the diamond ring he had taken from Sagesse, a 4 «fede taded trremirc, He dew Gaspant ant terrible blunder, almost unbelievable, J sf away without Im, A Iurricave wreckn tho did not one know the capacity of the q ret Tie cw are drowned. On Sagwne's human mind for error. f finds @ fortune in precins atheros, "] | A anlar The mate, he was first oMfcer of uch it had workd, And it was all so still, so Marie had never beet ve ov eurely al veful with t yoant bully a } ety Keenne é: mark, vivid, triumpltant over tdeoeh fire, lghtiea Ae with the only bit ot yee the Anne Martin and his name was ton elmer bs oes tea iotinoe in broken, yet still beating, told him ins in the least that It was the viele ce aspard gazed atit. He glanced he oan find—a fivediundeed pound mote, Skinner—though he could scarcely Mier. The children were smging (atnetly that all this had been, Hv. Marie that was callie hin to Toe lene fountain beside him singing and keep his eyes from the flashing jewel, . ing, Warm and real. Real as Marie, cliffs, where he had firs y rim was pcs and in the@treets. The m way with life, Hing their ‘Tim rke laughing beneath the shadow of the now dgad and lost to him forever. Ee oe coken, dazed, grimed ferns, then he remembered, It waa the garé . with dust, having a dozen times ea- here that he had paused that day with | «with laughter and CHAPTER XXII. imiracle from death, he Marte; it was here that she had given sald nothing, and now the boat was CHAPTER XIX. under the port quarter of the Anne -pla is Kay with rolor, the ines artin, oars were in and Gaapard re al wit the poetry ot eternal The Footatep in the Bust vaelt of the ruina of him the ratifia, it was here—it waa” climbing the ladder which had been summer, And now all that was with P * At Pierre, and the path of ashes here. ; + aceslil Deliverance. flung down, while a hard-faced man Thebes, with Nineveh-a world of T. PIERRE had passed away, that had once been the road to Me e eee ee eh ee & OW the bonfire was burning 10 & Panama—Capt. Stock, no less, viiecis the Yankee wunber) & iat and, with St. Pierre, Muri, Meus, Cine fined city, nothing Printing. Further on he ont t, for they . ' bravely, and Gaspard, at- the Master of the vessel—was lean- whom few things could move, low- and with Marie his will to Hee et et nea lay the aame witht had blown the dust actome ity tacking the bay cedara with !"& over the side shouting direction further on he found it, very faint, 7 but still discernible. where a little side path broke the road, he found it clearly ered the glasses, pressed his left hand live. tight over hix eyes as if they had phe extr bean hurt by some painful light and ,., bia then, loaning over the bulwarks, be- {ally poetic part ‘i cume violently alek. the manner in whieh St. Plerre, the Gaspard, who had seized the glasses ipst city, clung to the vision of the from his hand, looked. An he | woman he loved. Je swayed from side to side as thot the vision before him had grasped | She wore It as a garmen him by the shoulders and he was her surrounded by its beaut stting with it, lit her in the Street of the Pi as of old, and Dominica showed y and mont trag- Khostly and haze-blue o the far sea ‘i line, gulla were flying over the bay. Se a a LL! nmer sat by the ruined eae, and lost in eterna ‘Thouxh the silence of the Rue She had taken the path. . Hugo had been broken by no Along the National Koad you ind sound, up here, could be beard « faint MAQY paths like these. Amort cuts ta breathing from the sea, ‘The requiem Villages, paths used & Men dawn of the ocean whore tide wan now tF# and market folk. often mere ipice, flooding Into the bay, traces half smothered by the tropical “Ah, the palms, the colored houses, KtAstes — his knife, cast younge™ to the mate, wood upon the flames, [It damped In a moment the crew were on them down, but it gave smoke, blank- board, the boat swung up at the eta and spirals of blue-gray smoke, davits, the braces manned and the J thickening, deepening and at last rise Anne Martin on her course again. ing in a steady column. He ran to Then, and not till then, “did Capt. the fallen palm trees and hacked Stock turn to the newcomer. away their fronds, half dried and half = “He's French,” sald Skinner, - eereesnd “witee ; ; b Skinner caught him ae the glass * e z nd Place de » folle withered by the sea. They inc 1 “wrecked over there, but he's got a fell trom his hand. "He had fainted more in the music-haunted Place do 10° ila geq-aterm I uned to waah—ihe , 0 followed the path which Isl Ste the flame and more green brushwood diamond on his finger worth ten tnou- and Diego, with the assistance of an- M4 Fontaine; evening In’ the twillt voleos of the canotiers, the Yall ships Palma with enormous trunks, thick em increased the smoke. sand dollars that wants explaining,” leaving Gaspard to settle into his new all through St. Pierre, wandering other sailor carried him below and put Jardin des Plantes 1 brought thee, where are they?” Palme Wit corn grown oak trees: It was now magnificent, a pillar of The Captain glanced at Gaspard, quarters, A palace would not have hither and thither, and touching this hin in his bunk ‘The super-mortal tragedy of the Vaguely, Hike a voice heard In 4 tree ferns and wild pines. pert t. Stock and the mate follow dreum came the whispered lament of darkness rising in the air, bending to fixed his eyes on the ring and then Pleased him better at the moment person, and that, with a loving hand. Nenned his Collar gad’ lett him OY had raised her image to supernal ye yoy, As He came. voice hailed him from >> the wind and breaking into fronds of said, “Call Diego; he can chatter to than this dingy place. He had dread- Man'm Faly, Plerre-Alphonse, the jying white they sat down at the sa. elehts, ‘The passion, ny that “Gaspard did not hear tt. Ho paused the th id nde ot Unease aaa ’ smoke. him—tt's all the Dago is good for." being berthed in the fo'es'le, to girls who were Marie's friends. Fin- Joon table and Diego fetched them lives alone in the highest poetry had to t and breathe, he had che vlalivery belf-like, the volee ‘of « He left it, and, shading his eyes, It was at this moment that Gas- have carried a fortune of many otte, Honorine, 1 they would all rum, . mixed itself in this common man's Slipped oon fallen many times in hin tho bird came through the silence of stared out across the sea, The vessel pard, seeing Capt. Stock’s gaze fixed thousands of pounds in gems into fhare in his jubilee, and there was It was British Navy rum. thirty tragedy, ‘The city obliterated from Sepia Gi Ste Were c : the sultry noon, There was no other above proof, and it gave them the colored with sweat-caked vole was almost abreast of the Island, on his hand, recognized that he was Such a place, tative in that mixed Something grim in the idea t the stiftenia they require the world was part of his grief. dust; his face was frightful; grimed hie Put the eee ‘of the palm about three miles away to northward. . wearing the ring. community for several weeks and to Pleasantest thing he was bringing — “it's that cursed untain,” said As he lay lik man fascinated by and seamed--it | as th Here, amidst the trees, by his o@ scarcely two miles to westward; she Ina moment Diogo, a fat Portuguese, Keep thg fortune hidden would have With him, the thing that would make Btock at last. | “She's bl er a side a serpent, motionless, searesly seem upon By Tula. In fow short, WH forgotten pathway lay & shrine A ’ ; » colored Out—mu ve occurred after i . whhie . . y ; thor was a small veasel, ship rigged; that with hack curls and earrings, came been a dificult task indeed, him most welcomed in tho colored er igton or we'd have had news (1K to breathe, with eyes fixed and chooks had fallen 15; his lips, baked ‘he, Virkin: one of the tie to say, with square sails on all her running aft. Then, thro Here it was perfectly simple; there City, was the news of Plerre Sax- 4 of the other pupily dilated, the roar of the ancher- and parched and ca is y , through the med- p y Pl f it p As prding: ; he saw th i e ed with dust, and pathways of Martini three m she would not be more jumship of this interpreter, Capt, Was an upper and a lower bunk, each &sse’s death. (lands, nure.” say WOE ain through the hawse pipe ng wore. eeainae the re ot tragic pushed the Hinnas and the sir-ahoota than two hundred and fifty or three stock began to question the marooned With a mattress; there was no stew- He went below and turned in, and y rose fo go on deck, but be- the vessel, He aut up, leaning on his 4 of the wild pine aside, a vol : a c fore doing so they looked in to see ‘ ah fille him, obliterating all other feel- our de hundred tons. one. ard, so Diego had told him, so there fell asleep with his mind full of thege ) 7h) Coon! was Ablow, Ibow, exactly as a man ie UP 0 ll) Seals fim lay. the tig, tories than tne: vote oc he ee ae ‘The wind had veered almost Into «How long have you been wrecked?" would be no one fussing about mak- Pleasant imaginings: He had recovered consciousness, has been awakes suddenly from jens and bulked out with cinders and ceased, and through the murmur of the cast, so she had it on her beam. — “some days ing beds. He took the bundle from — This was the season of the must but he lay like aman dazed after some sleep. dunt, exactly aa the ship of coral had the wind in the trees came this voles, : 1) thin “ a . 1 heavy rains and he had been asleep terrible accident, eyes were fixed A disc of reflected suntight, liquid once lain beneath him bulked out the voice of a woman, sweeter than Oe liched Sp atlas repay Sis) peeatiand:planediit In QrSorneRs SOT Tr created Whe Anne Mage ax if on some form Been only by him- way treimwous ax the water from With coral Ih the still lagoon, the voice of the bird. and as divorced from reality ‘Storm. of the upper bunk under the mat- Searcely an bed ‘ a self and on his cheek there we nected saw Ah, that night when he had turned s 6 @+enae painted ship in some brilliant picture — “Where did you get that ring you tress; as he did so he felt the abso- tn sailed into a rain squall, and the fears, 6 beled Fedral Het th Wall of the, with Yves from the vision of the ese) of the sea, Never did it seem possible gre wearing lute physical pleasuré that comes thunder of rain on the deck reached Ais iepera te Wy aa He HERS: sane It trembled and moved (athe eunkee ship, feeling Ath wat Le} i Moving sieetiy ae a shadow, pam that she would respond to call or — “Found it when the body Is relieved of a heavy him in dreamland. » f Diy, a ne leasy . acarcely hand us thoueh to say Motion of the vessel ax whe rocked “ther moorings. He gaged at ity eyes as it leaped and quivered slipping from t on the floor of t Ashes. He was fully act of stepping from the bunk, his ( the genith and the dazale of the votary cami nent of th Let me by ‘This great- breathing, he reached a point Stem , Hlowing / with his &, Story of man's futility and th® which he could see vaguely in the then, (te of the imaginers of vain things! twilight of the trees the shrine end { . He turned, seeing nothigg of it all the woman kneeling before it. but the reat white sheet of light er voice was clear now, ap r . that leapt from the horigon half way soft, childish Creole words 0! eR 4 to him for whom gh. aignal. “Where?” load, He could move now freely, and, The scenery of his dreams at on She was abreast of the island now “On the Island.” having closed the of the cabin, took the form of the little Plac —and now—Gaspard could scarcely Picked tt up?” he came on deck. la Féntaine, where he had first: met CHAPTER XXI. believe his eyes—she was altering her «vq ° Marie, He was walking th ‘ course: the wind was spilling from Where?" Lat sod Tin caa maaan I her sails—she was heaving to. “On the beach." CHAPTER } iat hom the'aky was blue. ‘Ther, all at once, HEN they came on decks the full strength seem to Daye returned MM ; was giving thank. boat detach itself fro “ — p los | e had 1 amidst ee Ma HOR Ce ? * » door o! ; came alot path of cinders No supplicatory prayer was this, He saw a \e vareen, _ lire Gaspard broke across the Mount Pelee. he lost her, She had vanished am voxsel, still on 1 ' him. ed the ‘door OF the itt nad onon teen & Tomi apt orien, bint ain taku thanksgiving for: her, a tiny speck at first, now larger. questions with 7 the crowd of dream people who were | I ‘in and a moment later he was on vax making, ” Se aAtament HE good fortune that had " had drawn nearer to the (hil adillag and palms: merry with @afety of one who had been # now plainly visible; it was Ee “Tell M, le Capitaine the ring is followed him pursued also trolling through the Place. land, severn— men-of-war "i the crow were gathered forward bells and songs of the cane- the darkness and the terror of chaos, not for the western side, but for the mine, 1 found it, and I shall sell it at Sra ( . sed ay ‘Then, just as on the day he first niet relief ships were at an a boat was rowing away from the ship, Glitters by day, drifted over by fire- the horror of death, the fate of her aouthern beach, where the landing the Anne Martin, the win * St. Plerre and pay him handsomely was good. Evidently the vessel knew the island and had landed a boat here before. He made for the beach and stood in it, Mex at night. ‘The volownie dust, the ruined world, for one who was safe sun, the terrible climb amid the ruins and who would return. “At morn- had called up the thirst which Ix ning, noon eng evenings | have praieed Known only In the desert. He walked thes on mer Kea | Mave seurcely knowing where he went, — tt t casting his eyes from side to aide NR aN er nd UE her “clasiteripple—clash” came the chor in the bay carillon of the éathedral bells, but The erew of the Anne Martin wer they did not bring him to Marie, held spellbound by the disaster, just as clouds darkened the sky and the thunder of rain filled the air, and pt Stock and the mate w do they were making for the nearest warship. ‘The Anne Martin was close in we und t vast, form! ir officers had been. Nor did use blanketed city cast ita chill gray re- roof the ha held steady, ¢ ky clear; flying, fresh weather and a sparkling sea brought her into the Caribbean; they sighted ships, but My passage. 1 have friends at St, re who can speak for me. I want to Ko on this ship as a passenger; not to work my passage." i passed devoutly from a prayer of e scene break the spell, for the Hection on the wa . f wa . : : Iways at a distance, saQs that the scen Baciion ort the fet ae praine to one of supplication—sup- there waiting. The rocks to westward who can you name at St. Pierre as fremed the far off horizon and van. trough it all the bells ringing on Joy nearer they approached the more ap. Mounds of ashes terraced Dy the Rewwy forgotten the black beach blieation fur the souls-of the dewd ¢ cut off his view of the oncoming boat 4 friend» Maen one weuatiw ot steamer ameke, uf triumphant, golden, ikke “the paving did the picture of destruction (ar wild seit Ctahes ahosts of Ase and hie Resire for the oblivion and for the Yving, for Mianle Began . "4 joment’s 2, ‘ ished, « a ol a ORE. voice of the love that lives: beyond ety ore oe 6 of the seu © had only one imme- i b pared e 1 (and be had time for a m Monsieur Seguin—Paul Seguin. phantoms speaking as vaguely of the disaster : he—then he awoke appear Dullainges vamely ined beneath diate desire—to drink, Toes pare ae he melt Ae thought, had to the mame appeared to have an ef- world of men as the strips of fucus It was pitch dark and the thunder Had you not known of the catas. [er eonument uf miles nite hirst in its acutest form like this not deserving the protection that had He felt like an actor who had 10 feet on Capt. Stock floating past on the swell of the rain on deck was ceasing trophe, had you Known that this yy Ur denulatte here anny is quite divoreed from the rensatidn waved her, that had led her away to Nappear on the stage with a half: what was the name of your ship?” — Not only had they good weather but aa ay avers eee ue pee nee place a few weeks ago was the most pow and then a call from paige SOE OD ERATE be Sta: the #8 ly of Grande Anse when Pi Iearned part, Thinking as oe La Belle Ariesienne, good temper reigned on board dren Heauti{ul corner of the world, you working parties, half invisible amidst hutmed or desire; it affects the wout ad aboken and? the world had Ealldes og ‘f how to hide his treasure, he ha { No sooner had the words left Gas- stock, a “hard case” in the lan- A little after dawn he awoke with would have said, “this tx surely the 1he DR evewavenl ital no lewx than the body, it drives all Then whe rove to her teet, the white = frotten to invent a atory to account pard’s mouth than an extraordinary guage of sailors, had taken in, with~ the bells sounding so loudly in his great cinder dumping ground of the yyen Oe to Pe mali eunaltie Gate athe iT id Li eal oat is Fne magic of Love and Faith will lke a g for his presence on the island, change took place in the face of the the news of ‘s death, a cargo That he could have sworn they Were universe, Here from the beginning of yindless blue. Like a Mat, X= “nothing compared 60 tee mental light upon her face. As her eyes fell ~~ 55 4 It wan too late now, for here cam captain; long enough by nature, it of good humor that promised to last the boat's nose round the western jengthened still more. He came for- him till they fetched Martinique. but he knew by the movement of the cities their detritus, if T were to poke rocks, a large, white-painted boat, ward and grasped™Gaspard's arm, Gaspard had his meals in’ the ship that this was not. so, ‘a tick amide! ail that £ would a flashing eight oars in the sun. “La Belle Arlesienne cabin, with the few words of English | Hy his {into the upper Win aoa ly find amph 7 ” bunk, and taking e treasure bundle Now she was coming dead on for “Out he knew and a f {het from’ heneath the imattress, put tt in broken gourds. fr the gre inexpressibly sininter é of the elty it had: pi sears, fed with the gouyave water, s 1 from the winds. Gaspard the ashes ce if he winds (Gnspard niaw to vol Vout bis arms bis nee bieree and the western portion of the u the st tor tong 89 pauxed with breath caught back, Aw he turned the shoulder of Pelee, spirit-like, and ringed with the twi- wed on the road giving light as with a charm, anic dust, for only mt ee 8 8 & © UE thedral was ine them with a peal, time men have cast their ashes and . and womor n Nineveh along ai 98 h eds it ow ough th Where the trade wa 5 the beach and Gaspard was wading “Relonging to Pierre Nagesse picked up daily, he could make his pocket, ‘Phen he came on deck. with the empty tomato tins and the ee eee eeeemeain, iskind had been exposed ty the full arsan taves LOAN aa ous knee-deep to mect her, Within “Pierre Sagesse—oul.” his wants understood without the ‘The sun had already showed himself hroken erockery-ware of the modern “Ah, whut Te not de with -sou Blut of the eruption. ‘The read he- aking 0 Grande Anse, weicome and th w life were waiting for them, The man he had suved from the fer de lance had the will and the power ie 7 en ow, . ve a —_ 4 just abo horizon, fut the sky fen strokes of the beach the mi Was ho on board—Hi, you d-— assistance of Die was clouded to southward and rain World, What ah ceased rowing, and she came bravely ask him was Plerre 8 tion, he did just as well with his half gquatis dimmed the horizon Time expose this on, the bow oar standing up and dosen words as with a thousand, for — 8. 8. KE. and perhaps not more came a road again, and, had he pot seannd eyed tO se to him. ax for conversa ver How dare Hf toonly had you in my grip! he clambered over the star bourd rail , hope might have ibbish heap to in than suit the gaze of the Creator, this mon The men forward did not hear the — Mor here, where Marie used to to open the doprs of a golden future. ~ eheuting something in English which — Diego put the question conversation there was none amidst ten miles away lay Martinique with strosity of desolation to insult the ese did they notice the black Pause of 4 roing to drink in the for them; yor they ula not break t understand; he = “Yes.” the after guard of the Anne Maptin, Pelee wrapped in ragged and dirty. 00h view before her, sUll lay the view 4# from yenterday wo soon Gaapard did no 4 wae x, a colored clouds. He Ked like a sis shore of ald. p dust that had Heediess of time or place they sat waved and shouted a reply in French ‘Was he lost? As day fgllowod day and Martin- king whose robes had to tatters | And even then you would had not even kicked off th jajn wray shrub had been by the roadsid tauuraie Nite the and the next moment he was clutch- “Yes.” ique crept Goser to them, so did the till the sun rising more fully, touched felt the heart of this great di shoes he was wearing, He swam with Washed away by rains and the green and half unconsciously In hiv Waving canes, the pala and) wild shadows wi lengthening on the fag the thwart, being hauled aboard “He's deade-sure road and the valleys humming with “Yes—O ma fol, yes. I left him with spard's him with against the deepening blue and white, and f the sky, Volees of the art ton, you Would net haye heard. the ied: Sof Bacie Grow i ardens, the complaint s the idea of For 9 ‘ tondition all things were possible to. pines, the tamarinds and ¢ . the night. Darkness found tt and shoved aft. ; mind, ousting the id f Fortune "Gaspard gazed awhile at this ma- Of the fleur d'amour, the p him: he would have guided hit way Mmornes, mountainy and valleys lay yuined road above. the ruined a The mate of the vessel, who was the crabs eating him and all other ideas and pre-occupa- jestic sight. ‘They had not opened the kouyave water, the volcus through at nt just aeaurely stretched befote him; who saw noth- — ‘They had come almost unconscioll ateering, a hatchet-faced American, stock had been one of Pierre Sa- tions, Just as, on the approach to the Hay of St. Dlerro yet. hut the Vanished streets. You would aerous this summerssinooth harbor, ing of it at alj, walking like q som 1y to look at it aguin, to breathe f mbulist in the dream of thimt air of the past through which they ing h ly alt e have known tha be th that m ele hauled Gaspard down beside him and, gogse's many victims. Stock was not Skeleton Island, tho vision of trea- eee ea it hale an hour or tess erable rubbish of attire, that, dust, ‘ie eet tick aie ea “et as Wad passed Morne Rouge where had so miraculously wand: and. without waiting for word or question, owner of the Anne Martin, only mas- ure drove her Image from his mind, they would have the hay and city full KT&Y ws the bri W dust ae the old rs from “the once quay wall and slob there wax no sign of lif and the ‘asping each other, which would have been useless, ON- ter, but he had once owned a ship in now on his approach to Martinique, jn view ; pape of Hutns tay children grasbing fered round by the tide. He dragged Morne Avril wax mhowing Kreen, » the VagueneNt ak the sidering that he could scarcely speak tno West India trade, had become in- 80 did her image cast out the vision | Demin she cha Moncite Conn.the Howerssnitha wardens, oan, Times am 50 1k end: Sromenie Xo Khe! Oe vce a The sp ships in the bay, the Prenc’ ted orders y, ! ed. of treasure, If he thought of his Clouds on the mo in MAN, a ayllable of French, shou volved in Sagesse’s net and rujned. next volce of wa liquid, and laughing, a sudden became touched wit! ‘a young and brave but a few w he Place Bertine had been here: broke the at o 1 Was & Ways silver and the rising moon reke to the crew and the boat poled off sq natred of hell would scarcely ex- wealth at all, {t was only in connec- aspard, turning from the weather vd filled with the joy of tite, : i hte iy OFM & here in the sunlight the tamarind’ fountain, Crystal water pouting above the shoulder of Pelee . from the shore and began its return viogs in words the hatred of pimon Hop whi ba Heya. Ae Ane Pee On er be Hon een ons 1 Pale the ‘geod: ail abuken their Teaves to the wind from a monsegrown Honshead, w ligt flooded acrows the harbor Journey to the ship Stock for Plerre Sagesse, No wonder, e ' a Balm of hin hand to fil bis pl 1 friend of sailors. ee acer ee COnAMOR THR fiveam sinaideionine (fa) chefs truck, ouded ¢ dd ate, vhe! a ° i on dec! y on at 4 the noone Abd n Pp nent, 6 hej a « « Our he ruling of the PL “French?” ald the mate, WheN then that he did what he did on the With stars, he was standing on deck While he wax engaged in this busi | Even till, aimidat the | rut) Canotiers had mixed with the sound? wing in the distance became moun- came into view. ite broken and ¥ they were under way news of Plerre Sagesse’s death and Watching the phosporescent gleams ness, he heard a hurried footstep and tw ome tr ef the configura f trade here Where tamurind trees wold bloom no more: whi tien of the city tains again; the wind, the wind; and cathedral, the thread of darkness owt. th ruined by some “herrible Viera one ej the sunlight, the sunii¢ht; @he world lHning the Rue Vietor Hugor ; ina a aon he om may recomnl the ehoate of foat Dhastin scoriae had fuse 1 brol * of shadows and semi -deliriune In the moonlight the desolation Be- i i his scrawny and vulturous Panion-way, came toward him, Finmediately. re Appenred, with. ate NV gun followed by a sirnal from Stames and broken building; Wher through which he had been walking, came robbed of its terror and all was + chin t is sera " At us in a face ng aft k, who had Skinner came run abin com. . The mate darte “Gaspard nodded, “oui, oh! then ihe statement about the crabs, and in the water. Capt. Ste pointing behind him, eres: ‘at wae what he did was this: Flung up his Just emerged from the Lane of the fo gilsh words tent tin about sand made foro te hed. the duat that had served once for a third of- twang, but he hud not reckoned that Of St, Pierre was veiled by she on it. Phe SUNTLRTE Wak BOE Ty faded aw Like # good enchan- touched with the poepry of d s ; M : ‘ ; ‘one af the war vosacla, muda ths aded away. cs nets che poepry of deep an he knew, The hands In the boat, all netk was sunlit from hyold bone to leaned over the bulwark, took hix S60 aD ' af i Dim ete £ aot ibe “ Ria Ratti ehave iS ba HAW wie \ dohin tay nothios but mounds trea, the water had washed away tiquity, from the flooding sea to the Americans, lean-faced, bronze, chew- orpum, clicked his fingers like cas- cigar from his mouth and expecta Lat of etal Hd ey 7 full of wrecks and dangerous to nav: Where onee the erie he the stains of his jou nd the forms of the lovers set fur above the : ookdd a hs Severe od nthe DP Aue , suat lon whore lay t stile filed, where — buildings ON. Uninwt from his son 1 mo- ruins. tng as they rowed, lookdd with Ine ed horribly, called the “ted Into the sea bow, Gaspard followed eA PML tale Hee UE Mounds like the sand dunes on a des mont, just like one convalescing from THE END terest at the marooned one and made [UNE MURINE COR her to serve “TO-morvow,"” wuld the ca judged from thetr manner apple! x wash, al ben late coast A HUA, wind hud arise ' hands aft, ordered : sh AM i dudged fran Khair nner f ‘out the shipping. tha i z uv MS eR Temarks about him one to the other ey tot of rum aH round and, Polnting right ahead Moe Wel eaal dng “lbantie en inthe bay: tha fateral morn and just asa at. ge UnGe th but the mate, afer the Hist neh on, taking Gaspard by the arm, led GUD MaRS swalnat the weather bn:lWwathy tle Me lay fashomn deop withwred by the brings the Whianer Of gal, gation socmed to have ee terest him down the companton-way to the ta") 1 forward ene dum, that gallant ship saved by the dust Wy anything but getting back to isinal place that went by the nam» — Yes- : pointed iat Martiniai energy and of her com. — He Mad no objective sno ship as quickly as bie, ‘There CM oon Then the Captain went forwa dee eee ee et that mander here, but to feel the rm (by the au- wan life belt in the stern of the Of th ae he door of w dog? hore (OtY!DM Garpard alone waa nothing to be eren, for the cloudy | Warned by a out from te war walk amidst it, Meson pel of “SEVEN worda “Anne Martin’ He opened the door of dow hole He Knew they were close to the on Pelee had fanned out aud the bay Shim Capt Stock pur the « wre his . of pout with the worda "An r 1 DAYS") with a myer ; nun dazaled rain against thet down the coust there to walt sheet, the deaulation ber silence tery that the cleverest ; 3 ‘a cabin and 1 who had fol- , Were ao near an that mah the. £6 i © owne ¢ the mounds, In (] Gaspard pointed to the SEER CF vere Bi it Vvanlahing clouds. tppeared th leis f vt ; n ikon Pe therahip they were @ lowed, translating, tdi ‘Tosmorrow, he would see Marle tos stem of a brolken 4 When the Sense) was on ' of janes hefore By Mary Roberts Rinehart reader cannot solve ie “You can berth here and for noth> jnorrow, ‘To-morrow, he would be rainbow 1 pase Pioude wourae. he went dawn. tM 1 eahed GUE ene re until the final chap» “Anne Martine? usived ii lw; (ie nawe chat Diorre Bspeake 1618 walkiig thn Eloabai aunt xitwote of, MVE, tHY aun MUTE Murtiniaiie, | > Camuard wha, oli Ate wa, Loli neniaed the Uw of & ntall koneeRe Wikh REGIS LN “The Afters The mate nodded and spat into the hell is all the payment 1 Wini Make gt Pierre, he remembered the shops He Western coast over the wtraiht t Bl V ooclimh it Phis horribte p Was =_=N E xX * te not like . yourself at home, sonny, call for What of the Rue Vietor Hugo. 0, what sioulders I" und the is if sone definite vi ta by m fait sek of cor ——4 T —— aise io k i 7 Arink nokes, and din . h tou tig tains net a cloud | edu he When he imate toe ough the r he ernst of ve broke “Quelle port?” asked Gaspard, you want, drinks oF smokes, would be pat Gey her eo would iand, exvept a cloud, @ cons of inarine glimmes, when he bad swept beneath bis fect se plunged U pointing southward. bie Bore at eight hell take her and way, “Al St. Pierre I smoke rising from Pelee, yet to Gage the acene of destruct) Woxmok- xomethined Knowle sweat fan on ay S vent “Mm. Pierre.” Then be turned on his heel and yours—take what you please. pard, as he strain wn his brow, and the sun etruels a d his eyes... it Ing Pelee to the sea, the whole tras fi Al mt, Pierre!” cried Gaspard. “Oh, went on deok, fowed by Diego, Them he vast bis thoughts abroad, sooucd that o tlk giey cloud clung ody was made plain to Lup, sven ty Morgely om bia, Tbe beat Be a