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The Evening World Daily Magazine, Thursday, Decambées 31. 1914 q ‘\They’re Off! © xen. © By Robert Minor A STORY OF WAR AND WIRELESS BY ARTHUR STRINGER By Robert Ames Bennet ; ‘ iv i F ‘Thon he noiseledsly opened the door guns of the Laminian’s sentries. aye into rons ane 6 You back to , Neo fh. and drew her out after him into the ing the alarm. Then closed York harbor!” ue fh 5 ae / 4 PLN 588 t Diacknoss of the balmy, musky-odored eyes, and crouched, lower, for eRe ‘The Captain turned to McKinnon, Ng “ ' y . 4 Midnight air knew the car was under way. “Have you. picked, up. anythii ; ug ay < et ; © f heanway betere it acraee \ : i , fs \ te y, of headway before it stru ie about fightin’ in there’ demand ax : ) ? s HAPTER XV. pine door, that barred the tatiie with his guttural obligato of mari- = x Re : : . f BEY crept acrovs the deck, There was @ sudden rending and ‘Or have you been q k 4 3 ; | hand tn hand, wo where the sete ot9 oes ke tee ce’ . wone through the door oa : ay pets ma th Me iiitckianos cwung we beciée Ben Ge 4 3 é 5 > . R edo blee 01 icKinnon swung up beside ‘Then why can't you get Guariqui?”’ ’ Rs ‘ ” . ° Path. They slipped in un- the door went down. He was astride The ship's master wae etill slow in 7 ¥ der the bow of this lifeboat, roping Def body almost, fighting and panting, srasping the situation. bh 5 ’ i : . y their way to the davit, w for a awarthy-faced Logomblan wag T tell you we're cut off from every- * kt 2 te ue a + where the on the car step, making thing! My responder’s gone!' : ‘ a 4 : ‘ ; ship's rail ended. Before than waa thrusts at her with his carbl pts ier” 6 De Fon drop of aix feet, from the ship's dock Another was on the cartridge boxes, j r ¥ ro Ghee hg oer o's * at RB é and ne shot once, scorching the sponder brought aboard from Puerto Cave ee . : ; ok Ee elegy cane Ble, against tora taco with his powder fash ad 18 eee Locombi 3 : p ; ; Bac Sh ¥ side platen were passed him. He hud no time for ® CHAPTER Xil. “Can't you shift without it?” ‘ mis “ a ae i se ‘ "i Vg . creaking and groaning. : n second shot, for MoK'nnon'e (Oentianed,) o more than you can live without : : ters McKinnch made @ sudden motion Went up und his revolver barked. m HEN he save a gasp of re- * The captain turned on the strangly k e, ‘ Ky ; ‘ oe * - for the girl to walt, for dark feures tween thein ron. Locorabiat “nim “ lef, and fell back, slowly placid-eyed and listening Ganley. The 4 is Daa 3 Sy “ ‘ ee “Y Be oy 4 ‘ were moving about on tho pier bee rovcd sideways, to the left, with @ drawing himself upright as pay td eer Crise] 2 eting ie €, . ; a . wv, bog Maia | make ha the gloomy joe! of 5 m into @ renewed ecstacy of anger. ¢ ch fh 4 3 e res. , mass of tho Weigh scales shed, its fret, sway: econd, and then oe nT as He was armed "Get out o here!” he cried at Gan. s ‘ RP aS oy oxide-red paint leaving it black by toppled backward over the boxes, aad again; he was once more jey, in his arbitrary rage. “Get out 0 vs ; } at . night. She could see that the west fell from the car, ate to face the situation. this cabin or I'll throw you out!” f A 4 t ‘ door of th» shed was open, and: that other man took bis place as he a figure stood § inside this door, fell. McKinnon sprang for him, holding @ lantern, She knew dt was Catching and jerking upward the bar- It was at that moment that Ganley The mate, Seine ip forestalling his superior officer swung out with the oak-framed tention and action, dropped the long, hiner i 3 va ea YAY my $ note : ; the officer, for she could #ee the light Fel of his carbine as he fired, tearing ‘ain Ay a heated ory qa Lente a Ceetheath Ciemad eaerten Tt ; * othe " glimmer on the aword scabbard that @ ole throuxh the car roof. “hom the eapon of defense. which in his haste he hai P : ; back and forth with every tWo mon closed, and as they 1ought He swung it short and quick, with With him, caught the rebellious pas- oa : - * i. : Pb nent of ‘his body. “Sho could fd tore at each other in the racing @ forward and elliptical motion as S¢nger by the right arm, as though 7 , h : . / tl Wad smoking @ cyt. CAF, the aentries from the ship's, bow to drag him forth, } A i , : larette con ly. She could even kept firi ng the dark track. Then he leaned out toward the dimly qis- But one sweep of that huge right s cerned shad a” 4 . amell tobacco smoke, mingled @ third maa, tie officer who had held " earpitadd "ca Tite eee the Thin oF the weeaeer hep ‘ as ‘ with heavy odor of decaying the lantern, swung from the now rac. He heard it strike home; he heard falling over the ruins of the ateamer ts 4 , : Bie Ae) Naat v8 ; : shipments of bananas that rotted ing carve hand rail forward, until he 4 chair. Capt. Yandel beheld that of- y 1 out he pior edge. She reached the driving seat. He had he inarticulate little half-sroan, fensc, and it left him no longer a : ‘ ‘ : ts le Sun hear en eeene ay chums taken out his sword—the girl could hhelf-sigh as the etunned man reasoning being. His last instinctive F . 7 A letpe 4 speaking ‘cautious in| Spanish, aeo the white steel flash in the dim crumpled down over the doorsill, sense of order and right had been out- ae ¢ ree 2oKs tro barefooted soldicrs padded past ight, He was slashing blindly with tt ( Géealey heard the woman's cry of eet ee teasers. He awahe. tel 7 : 3 . ’ sh 4 lthe ewinging lantera, in through the a he climbed and worked his way up a4 \ p : ey © to the box pile. It was several seconds terror, but he had other fish to fry. back and down, blindly, in a quickly | F ae v por, They carried a heavy box that to « ‘wall Toa <b reminded her of a baby's coffin; and before she realized that the slashing Ho, pawed trenziedly about the cabin shortening half-clrcie, ‘bringing the : . : 4 ¢ y; Boe ate fa "tiey camo out auain two others «word-cnd wae meant for her. ° Max ‘e end turned on the hee Ho saw Suarpty down on Ganley nead, close y, Py fe 3 ‘ J MAR bs passed them on thelr way in, Then Kinnon’s revolver lay in the bottom vit Mok 1 nue! 7 of the car; the girl could feel it with ctianen still halt over his doorslil; behind the thick, red ear. SS % TES ig ; 1 De, om 2 ar indiy al: faib tae her, to be her shaking hands, There was only BT a aA, cn tie tas Want / y , j Aaa ; , ready, Hho could hear the slow treat one thing to do. a Soe ria’ officer, as the ent | 4 ie 4 oe ; , seatetb A bes She quietly raised einen down, without a sound. “Get ‘im i “ats of the sentry'’s feet behind her, to the ie 4 y = f a : ‘boi eyes, and fired. The shot went wide, ower ae ‘im off this deck Z 5 t ? - ie north of the shielding, We ea nae eve a ond aimed it low, os his : 1, ‘vas, lying at his feet, not six inches : < - f eae . as , ailenuy But it served to ilx her position in the from namo base. A Sg oy, x a wi £ she could, but mind of her assaflant, and again \he seamen screamed aquin, aod etill CHAPTER XIII. OE 2 r : . just make out the white patch of his saw bea rs — en foe 4 ere : i ‘ . ih 4: he stood (here waiting to lift mer in knees, ie ee seg eam etetD Bea: PMN EC RHEE Guan wolag 4 a a her aswne pou Nie geen oe before it had time to reach her. 6% She knew emotion beyond a She know the bullet had broken hie Peers pratruntec teense ihe figure without | speaking. ue cae Rage no amotien) Wayoud U0? Sra’ uaiirel cle eaep on re aes ee ‘Then he looked at his broken . Z a folt bie arms clasp ber surrendering hand rail relaxed. She saw baa away table that ehe realised her and dismantied apparatus. body. The moment's intimate con- back, helplessly, and then topple et nelthe fall outward against the string plece cle ectual intention “Ia ‘I: hopeless’ asked, with- = Punnunee. ie only knew that Me of the pier. She stood up and looked Hie fury now out turning her face to hin 1 Jing, her by the hand back for her companion. She bog he ge ae ae “waati’ ne caiied, in a vive ev Uritish ship ‘on? deaned further over the rail and “That's Ganlev’a move." exclaimed “I don’t think 1 could kill a man,” to the far end of the shed that far instrument that Must have help. Relay call to peered inland, McKinnon. @ne said very quietly and very siowly. tne wen Then Le wun away “He 1d just make out the two men aetill he was attacking. His second blow fell high-pitched tt sounded what was al- Ti Ying in rexch. Duran's au. Strugsting back and farth dowwadiv, | struest! 3 attach ; “Does it look like home?" bh Ki me that It's yellow fever— “But could you protect yourself, at hand and drew a revolver from his determinedly. Then she saw one man 77 on the “key” itself, tearing the heavy most a treble note. “Wait thority. Or if Chilean or Brit- the girl at his side, a little ae een, that we've entered the affected sone.” a pinch? Could you shoot round a pocket. It struck her that the odor raise the other up bodily, and bring ‘al lever free from its binding post. He stood rooted to the spot for a ish marines can be landed in a little bittorly. The intentness with which he was little with it, 1 mean? You eve, that from the rotting banana pile was be- him down with all his remaining had just caught it up and fluné moment, petrified by the new thought time advise them to push in by “It will never seem home to me Studying her face brought her won- toy couldn't kill a man if you tried corsins most unendurable, atrength on the close-packed car- Nhe followed him bilndly, her out- tridge boxes. The blow seemed to stretched finger keeping in touch with stun him; before his senses came back | his coat wl . She saw him step in to him his adversary had taken ad- tt tly out through the cabin that had come to him, way of Boracao, American Con ” . . dering eyes up to his, for a week ‘window, whirling out into the’sea, “it's not hopeless!” cried ex- sul Kjauser shut up there hold- Ce UHISIL IT ae can be he hr bs “I'm afraid you've got to be ver: “L have learned to shoot,” she @aid, .when she fired. ultantly, “It can be done! The tng wireless with Kilvert, United — movement and color and aewory oe Drave” he sald, as ently as he could, white-lipped. ‘Her first shot went wild. Before modela! My telephony models! They Fruit operator, but report bai {the tlestas, rena: the mystery of Why?" she asked, “Good; then that makes three!" he over the railway tracks that were vantage of that helplessness, and was had time for @ second, Ganley varry what is practically a re- sending. Is only disaffected town glitter pre pease Nar) hey idee the “Because you and I are going to exclaimed. ler wide eyes detected bridged by the nd pushing him out from the : sponder!” Outside capital, Katrain there, fey ‘that no patleted my fechoh ougt break that quarantine to-night!” the fact that, for ali his assumption of angle of light, the lantern with. back of the racing car. ‘The woman watched him, wide-eyed, Must hurry. ity, the wala 4 lind foolish van- She looked from him to the emoke jocularity, his hand was shaking a in, outli the hu loonely fitting -He remained so long there at the $ ‘The bu, aay soe Colt seemed too for he was down on the floor, on his Her hungry eyes rushed back and |: i and the freedom, the columns that hung over Parroto, and little as he held Ganley’s huge revol- door that covered the weat end of the rear of the car, panting and fighting * 1 heavy for Ddeyond her strength, knees, before the box of models, lift- forth along ihe second sheet whioen Passion and warmth of everything—I then back at the carbine rack and the ver and his own under the electric black-boarded buil ling, in this huge for breath again, that the waiting girl had no second chance of using ing out strange and delicate bits of McKinnon had thrust into her hand: = |4" Tenember when it used to make brass guns of the Commandante’s light. Ho saw that they were fully door « ainaller one had at some time was in doubt aa to who had been the ; ft, aa ehe knew she should have. But machinery—machinery for which she Can get Princeton, Some one fi2), ,jumost drunk, especially at emoke-belching ship of war. loaded, and then counted his cart- been cut; it was through this amaller victor. She lowered tho revolver abe caught at him and clung to him, had always felt a strange fear and from God's country. Must hurry, 8" ° ‘We can't,” she sald, with a little ridges, There were eighty-three, all door that McKinnon led her, cau- slowly as he clambered weakly back RS ‘blindly, panting, and screaming, aloofness, since the quiet evening he Yes, President and Cabinet safe. Ne turned bis anxious eyes to the ft ir, “We would have no told. tlously, nuiselessly over the boxes, and dropped in the 4 wond: why no one came. She had once spoken to her of high-fre- en hundred crowded in Pal- ‘Us sWinging authoritatively in under is no place to go to “What must I do? she asked, as = The track motor stood backed wl- soat beside her. clawed at him like a cat, quency oscillations and audions and aco yards and water shut off, the Laminian's quarter. He knew only 4nd they will have orders to shoot. bravely as she could. Most agatust the eastern end of the “Are you hurt?” he gasped. sheer tury of that jonising gas ‘Tell Princeton not to wait to land too weil, from the gasconading atti- It would be giving them the chance “He stood studying her with his im- shed, next to the door through whic “No!” she said, But the sound was hed to take thought 10 “My key’s gone, you see; but that KU Remember Boracao switch tudes of its uniformed officials, from they are waiting for. We can't go!" personal and abstracted eyes once the barefooted suldiers were more like a sob. ren of defend himself. He fell back @ step qovan't make it hoy eer can ad- bridge is mined, Bullet against the sober offrontery with which they | “We've got to!” McKinnon said Pi the heavy boxes. ‘The offic L ¢ or two, and the movement eent them just a piece o’ heavy copper wire to switchboard. Get me south of swung in and overhauled the bigger doggediy. . both falling over the broken steamer my rear binding post here. Then | oston again—hurry—use—power Steumship, that he was a it behold- ck- the lantern atill kept his position just ‘ould you run a motor, a ¢ 4 6 @ 8 6 motor ike this?” he asked, with a aide inwide this door, placidly smoking his sontries SOL eteiaiaty Seely, BUC EOE Cas take the other and on that aire. dyingccnurry, ing the local instruments of the new Alicia Boynton stood on guasd at jork of his head toward the pier, cigarette, ‘The girl and McKinnon ing after them foollahly, for. the ear ; » for a moment did the woman cease, and touch it at the contact point here That was the endof the message. ‘Liberal” dictatorship, And he knew the door of the wireless room, wait- ~ « ” ad to stoop low to keep In the shad- by this time had covered more than forngnt and acream, ‘Tho sound of It’ where my Key used to strike, T-can “But the Princeton!" gasped the ‘Hat With thelr advent the curtain was ing for MeKinnon'a return, More and ,i,0ave,rua one, often,” was her , 1, heavy bod- half of the mile long pier. A land all seemed to sting the dazed Mc- e@pel! out the Morse that way, word by . “If you can’t get the Prince- About to rise on a new uct of the more, in those last strange hours of ‘ ; breeze, balmy and many odored, dlew n the ship were atill Stinson into a consciousness of what word. We'll be able to talk! We'll tangled drama, Ilo racked his brain uncertainty, she dfeaded being alone, IK -Wheel, | Tt ie simply & maring od in under its acety= in their faces was going on. He dragged himsoif be able to send out our message! By —""Walt—wait—I'm getting her,” an- {9 understand what Ganley's move — ‘the girl's heart atood atill as Mc. S04 abeod-lover and the brakes: ; to the rust-covered, “Thank God we're free!” said Me- up to @ sitting posture; but before dawn we'll be ready—by the time the swered the man, bent low ovor his Would be. He knew that all day long Kinnon himsolf jerked back the cabin [iow to keep the tracks clon many-dented clreulaténg coil. as & Kinnon devoutl he could atruggle to his feet Capt. operator of the Princeton 1s at hls responder, as thouh the sense it ap- the kun runner had kept to his cabin. door, dodged: inside, and as quickly VOW to keep the cartridge box was lifted into the body - Yandel and an officer from the bridge key. pealed to were vision und not sight. A Steward had Feported that his head closed and locked ‘the door behind “The boy will not be needed to- of the car by the two barefooted car CHAPTER XVI. were in tho cabin. He saw them ‘And things will go our way!” he “They've been waiting for me to re- WS bad and was causing him much him, He stood there with his back to 2!sht,” was his grim rejoinder, a he riers, with « muffled thump as the * fearing and dragging at Ganley’s declared ruminatively. “Once we get uy, they've been" —- ain. He had eaten nothing; he had her, listening, without ao muot as, once more atudied hie wa\ great limbs, He saw the white and this message out, we'll} Vie lett the speech unended, for he Kept to his berth, cursing the Lam- giin a » in her direction. He heard 4rew back from him, slowly, step by of wood against w the hox was ness was cut short by an ex- clamation from the girl at his side as the car rocked t feet, und the nonchalant “Forty- and swayed along the um- three, forty-four” of the counting oven pier track 1 otticer. je piaoe | “ It wan then that McKinnon titted "100k!" she gasped. “They are her bodily into the driving aent, whis- Cloping the gates abead of us!" ering to hor to eit low, even lifting McKinnon peered through the danke she whispered at last, “Listen,” he sald, #o slinply, ao her outstretched hand to tho atarting ness. He could see a number of mov- 4 t of b fanting and dishevelled group once hundred American bluejac was busy sending his spark cannon- !ian and the h She weight was released and the grating t "KINNON's cry of thankfule d x collinike the pacing stops puss and die away, Step, aghast pushed and twinted and jerked into more upright, each shaking and Guariqui inside of two days, W Male unoue tteleas: cabins, Yet McKinnon know it would and ‘pass still again Leama 2s Teen ta eee u are not going to try to take . They could hear the sigh facing the other, Then for the first have a banana train filled with ma- “He kept up the cannonading until it t#k@ more than a sore hoad to keep sho asked. ofthe men, the pad of bare t motor from them’ mured a grateful "Thank Heaven!" time he saw his disnfantied appa- chine guns climbing up through seemed, to the wulting woman. that him from acting when the moment for took a deep breath, and turned slow- "We've got to take that motor. It's those hills and every rebel in Locom- 4, was never going to end. Then he “tlon arrived. The one thing that jy gbout to the waiting girl. Hie our only way out, And with your “What's this shooting on my ship?" bia under cover!” switched off and listened again, and PUszied the operator was what form gaze was impersonal and abstracted; help I can do St.” poared the Captain. The firet faintest gray tinge of again cannonaded his answer. Then that first move of Ganley's was to he scarcely seemed conscious of “But these sentries! And there are “That cat trie@ to kill me!” cried morning, deepening slowly to pearl, he dropped wearily into hia chair, take her presence as he stood there, deep in five men! And forty-eigt milos of ” thiml® short and quick, showed along the eastern sky-line wiped the sweat from hia face and The solution of that problem came thought. Do Brigard!” Tae ye man atrugsied to speak, but before he had completed hie task. remembered that he was not alone, oven as he stood there ut the sulp's —“welty ooupera Bele By De Fase the Captain gave her no attention. Then he signalled the Princeton, And, He looked up at the woman with oe see a fan the door opens,” she heard !2€ iehts. He could also make out on nnon leaning against the “I've got them.” he cried exult- pallid face. the Laminian to the deck of the in- 278d from her voice. problem, that hia very quietness nin whisper, and she know that he the ebadowy lines of a building rail watching. It came in the form of ' ‘g tn His for the first time had fallen presently: strangely transfiguring smile on hie @ shoo, flung from an open porthole of GUERIINE to Keop aomo tremor of matter-of-fact’ in the facing of the ” tho ih SO semen ith a. litle trickle of antly, as he turned to hin key, ‘I've ““"it'a over,” he said, with the elm- drawing tug. This mboe—it was a lu. "That letter wan right,” ne suid, Prousbt ber etampeding thougiin “There are just two had crept forward again, and that she or two. Where the track ran between cabin wan ig down over one aWol- got two of then. ‘They're both talk- pticity of utter weariness, “T've got dicrous, wide toed, well worn thing of With the look of perplexity atiil in hia back to The Arete in the Was alono in the car, ‘She tried to these buildings, at the end of the pier, ‘len cheekbone. ing at once. I've got to make one them! humble calfskin—was picked up’ by Studious eyes. “Righty-eight boxes 1anger-sones, nehool h if to calmneas, to coerce a white-painted wooden gate had The second will be in her attention on which was thoatart- swung and locked across the rails ¢0 | renee eDon ts mean?” he demanded hold back. if can reach him. If not, {gave them what they were ach- the epauletted ofcer of the local com- °f MUxing slag have been passed our “eikt-seales shod, where Chore five of his operator. McKinnon's senses I've got to try to tune him out ing for! They were lying there andante, looked at with open disgust, ffm the hold and piled along the mon will be ing lever and which the speed lever, stop tho car. to force Into life the hope that all ie knew what It moant, but tt wae " might still turn out well, Once free too late for half-measures, she asked Til attend to him. Before the other of that door, she felt #he could breathe quickn oi ee ‘The officer will Pi pome back to nim by this time, Ilis volce was cut off by the famil- gteaming and baking and fretting for, But McKinnon noticed that before Bier. ‘They've been standing there 1? Hrigard's lines. be the only man armed of those five. But a hopelessness that was almost jar spit and flash of the huge blue the very one word I sent on to them. this took place, the officer in question Covered With a tarpaulin.” worse than death itself crept through spark, and a thin ogonio odor filled They were lying there whimpering had extracted from its wide-toed in- “ls any one there sof thought, he jerked down two of the heavy curiridge boxes to . straining through the the left side of the driving seat as @ minder ng what kept Me- barricade against @ chance bullet. He onde ve the car. VN be holding way broken by dim. the closed room, strangely iike the to get up at De Brigard, just like a terior a slip of closely folded paper. ve of De Arigard’s mon—four fur can gut to thelr carbines well be off—you'll be off, T mean, for re- 9 killed our wireless! Our wire- amell of summer air after @ thunder rat terrier whimpering to get at a He promptly disappeared from sight, MOR and an officer. The four waite Jase! Can't you see he's Killed tt kitten, in the wheel-house, and when he re- moving those boxes now, They member, whatever happens, You er dim light, storm. °, 2 fs id got ‘The Captain's mental state waa such — “Thank God!" he cried, “It's Guarl- “And before to-morrow night they @ppeared, his tug was grating and #Fo lifting them in through the east to get to that starting-lever and Ret Kinnon Ko the quietness felt sure it would be only @ chance ; the sudden sound of bullet; his coutempt for both the arme plates, heediess of the blasphemous #0Uth door has been kept shut; and the mea oif until we're clear. Ones metal raxping on metal, of a falling and tho markmanship of the Latiwe J that ideas filtered into the narrow will be anchored at Puerto Locom- bumping’ along the Laminian's side- “oor of the weigh-scales shed. ‘The &WAY with seat of his consciousness but slowly. echoed the woman. bia. ‘But how? And why? “It's the Guariqui operator,” he ex- “Refore to-morrow night?” she re- and atentorian imprecations of Cap- the United Fruit Concern's track oUt of the town, We've Kot @ Clear piece of wood that, echoed cavern- Ame: an am of ously through the high-roofed shed, hauled und twisted end relied toe “Who ts there?” cried the startled boxes as quickly down on the right. "They intend to Fushing them—and trusting to luck.” meer, in Spanish, as he swungabout hand end of the driving seat ¥ it, + “Took at that responder!” cried the plained, as he worked. “He's sending peated, with sinking heart. tain Yandel bellowing and gesticula- motor has been kept there waiting, Tun until we wtrike De Brigards ow operator. ‘It's smashed. And the voak; I can hardly get him. He “ “ghe has to steam all the way fram ting from his bridge-end. They have divided the e@hty-elght Posts. It will bo etmply 4 matter * ke: ruined! He's cut the heart out says his power's giving out, and De Torreblanca—she can't cover the dis- McKinnon, however, was busy DOxes Into two lot of our apparatus! Brigacd’s men are targeting at his tance in lees than thirty-six hours watching the port hole, from which t&ke out only one-half of the ship- | It'# hopeless, she sobbed with his lantern, He whipped out © to the woman at his aide to “But T-want to know the meaning aerials with carbines.” nder @ny nes.” the shoe had ‘appeared, He saw a Ment to-night, I counted the boxes , “To bo here at daybreak when Gan revolver from hin belt an he repeated down between his knoos am he w ctroumsta: : : reached of this barroom brawling aboard my = Then he flung himself into his chair, “But we will be at Puerto Locom- boat hook swung carelessly up to it, fem under the lifeboat. Forty'three ley holda the trump card ts more the challenge. The door had not out and took the speed lever in hie 4 ” hopelews!"" opened; they were hut in, trapped. own hands 1" atill thundered its master. and caught up his form-pad for tran- pia to-day before nightfall! @ red hand reach out and lift some. Were left; that meana they are taking DOP 14 get through,” #be offic 3 ere cKinnon pointed landward sav- scription, with his recelver onte more — "1 know it," he sald. thant from the end of ft aud the bowt. Of, forty-five Cie eee ee sane anne atic aprang forward, holdIne Alicia’ Toynton had Inatinetivaty agely, toward the mangrove swamps over his head. He wrote slowly, with «then Ganley will have one whole hook continue to scratch along the hat means almost three hundred Guariqul They would fire on & Car Then a sudden Tour of sound. filed owed down the car, for the moving nd mountains of Locombia. intent eyea and wrinkled brow, word gay to act. The Sanibella guna Will ship's aide-plates ax though searching ‘thousand rounds of ammunition!” she breaking into their iines—they would the shed, foll an ae Rr ce lights were now not more than two “He's at the root of that revolution. after word, sometimes going back and he pushed up to Guariqui. Ulloa’s fora hold, ‘hen the tug made fast, &Xclalmed, hopelessly. Pek oth before they could under- jelnam It want whet from Mekine 2uAdred feet before them. McKinnom, + Fie's been trying to stop my sending. Acratohing. eR eg omatines men will be without ammunition. Two minutes later w coffer-colored |, he Remington riften, of Course, Stand!” Danln MaVAIUEH’ AB AUlnanate (Rant wall basis) a foot held ready on the He sald he'd kill mo if I sent. puzzled by a lost dot or dash in The thing will be over and done be- officlal wearing cavalry boots, red- they can’ 0 forty Uo ; ’ n om be ou, threw the motor out to fult retorted Ganley. " sometimes quickly fore we cun help them, “And we Will striped, biue denim trousers, a yellow boxes, T imagine, have completly Ha mhock his head disserlingly.. put anor that shattered, the lantern apend.' He no longor felt atraid of ve working with this woman i: King and aaking the operator 19 he hero at the mercy of Ganley!” raided white Jacket and 'w gold. loaded the body of thelr ears Mlled It yy 4i"t) yao gut forum, aixteon HOW “Quick ccome ahead’ called, Me~ YB filmey wooden gate, What he jugsle messages for Duran! or is breath came eh ———e braided cap, came aboard. He carried UP’ by gk a a ps a in dates was a tie across track or making a tool of you and your ship!” quicker as he listened and wrot CHAPTER XIV. ree ter aat Nit aian ty aretacan. | UBUE WHat Are walto do?! wR by Wirele aaa dropped Kinno mn out of he darknone roto a ewitch throws open ta derail hier “That shows who's making a tool of Then he called frenziedly, and lis ! , and waa followed by an_alert-eyed, He looked at her, and laughed a 4 payolver into exch side pocket, and toward the sound of the intruder’s A®4 Spy moment, he felt, aa the * cried McKinnon, pointing with tened, and called again. T was nine hours later that narrow-shouldered,yellow-faced youth little recklessly After them the loose cartridges, in voles, Tha whdj/. in rapid succession, MC&¥Y car gathered speed and once Jean and shaking Anger to the | “They're deadi” he exclaimed, in the Laminian made her way in blue denim striped with red. The “They have to run those boxes of handfuls. ‘Then he slipped his wicker= filled the shed #.th tumult, left the air More, hurled itself forward, they ' @battered responder. Tho ship Cap- disgust. “I can't get them! Their under half speed into the offcer with the sword brought his slag out through Puerto Lacombla to coy brandy flask Into his bip stifing with’ .owder am Quick would start shooting at him witb tna horvibie to Peenete thie nies Wifin une of the word “dead” terrified roadstead at Puerto Lo- heels together and saluted Captain De Hrigard's headquarters toenlght. pocket, and once more consulted his calla and cor .ter-calla came from the SWE bet-mecal rifles, my a tn loon at by the ee A URS OF oe Wore ; ~ Yandel. ‘That worthy. #es They have to get them out there ’ dae ser br ; crouched lower and i 7. “And he's killed our wireless?” the woman at his aide, He had no time combia, scending from tis brage, demar quictly, vory quietly. ‘The. track, “St Sa Linn le up!"* he satd. setnginee or Hae eenaien: sellers, tween his barricade of boxes as ie It,” anawered McKiwnon, to explain. Ho simply thruat his in- woie the firet tux cast off and to know, in Engliah, why he waa so doubtless, haw been cleared for thor ye fonked up at Inet, for ahe had {n'ihrapea the narrow cast door, They CaF swung In toward the shadowy teak second time Capt. Yandel goribed pad-aheets into her hands a# ie puffing and wheeling about to slow about getting pratique, and what It has to be clearmd for them, for not apo It tortured him to #0@ fred wy tiey came, but only into utter Pler-end, so that his stooping body of the thing, threw hits ie lowly new iahatrecloun torriely? precious. meet the nowcomer into the road- @!! the fuse was about, even a hundred ~ and - forty - horse- wuch hopeless fear on her white face, darks ss, forced the girl to the very floor of ie. Stene, Saree, Bim Inte & Bie died h me fol ward, POWer motor can't sldetrack an ore put he knew it veriious to eur. S ahead! called McKinnon the driving seat, He saw a red STINE neared that shot?” he dee Duron’ IL here, Shut stoad McKinnon and Alicia Boynton 4." the talk was remimed in the caps (ki ci _-SWItch & string of Danann ender. this fesiihes atic again “hut of that Qurkaeeoane tongue or two of flamo dart out of ene Tea ered that shot? he ppDuren'a man all here: Shut UP stood at the rail, gasing landward. — {ain's stateroom, with thunderous vol. CAPs. And there ix no longer any "| know it's hard,” wad all he eatd, cobd not. tell whore, “Hit low and th? blackness ahead of him, and he é eta the caticivation of fi Miner then; Agtt skirmishes fast tuo “And those are the tools that Gan- jeys of broken Spanish on the one telegraph between this port and the “put it has to be done take the door on the run! knew that the firing had begun. He Gelight in the anticipation of further mont, Light skirmishes last two jey works with!” sald the operator, wide, with calm and dictatorial ino- !nland points they have to pam.” "T understand,” she said. She hesitated, bewildered, for the Could hear the whine of the bullets tal for a efit! more towering Sre. aye, Ulloa held De Brigard jooking with open scorn at the lence on the other. It was to thie talk , there is no te ph,” she sald, He turned, with his hand on the command aeamel a foolish one. ‘The 44 they passed overhead, he could Hee ee ee et emt tay. veht. Mhore | @trauke tug, the strange ensign, the Alicia, Boynton, as she leaned here are four men and an officer,” light awitch, "Te there anything You carbines were spitting close about ear the lead ping and pound againg ou did,” purred the captaln, fall back on city at night, Bhort ‘stranger figures in uniform. the ship's rail, listened no atten- he musod irrelevantly, Then ho looked fecl you ought to take along with her. Sho heard the cries of aturm, the carsides, He had little fear for Marie: seating the torrent. “Aad of ammunition. We are shut i. ‘Thome are the tools that can cut tively. down at his watch, and turned ab- y, the deatentua detonations, the crash the bexes of ammunition surround. a@ nice pair, the two of you, De Brigard’s forces surrounded geyp when they have to,” the “What is it?” asked McKinnon, no- ruptly to the gir! again, othing,” she whispered. ing him; the cartridges were covered @ pot-house of my ship! You city at daybreak. Courier reporta woman's answer as she shuddered a ticing her wide and terrified eyes, "You have a revolver?" he aaked. “Then vou are read God's sake, come ahead!" tm. enough by the powdered fluxing- a ‘ McKinnon. knew he was Slag to be cushioned aint concus- guns up through hills, from Sant- “They're burning Parroto!" cried swered. handled toy that her brother Arturo She heard the anap of the light atill eafe. She no longer hesitated, sion. Once, indeed, a bullet splin- 4 \ ‘breed filibusters! You garlic rebels bringing down Pas ” _ . e Ug ” 7 } ‘outlaws! You murderin’ Uitue, and once more looked landward. ‘We are in quarantine,” she an- She showed him the slender, jeweled ‘Quite ready,” was her anawor ) vin’ tin-horn conspirators! Get out hella. We must have help before some one from @ lower deck, in plain- ‘Do they say why?” had given her three years before, He switch. She heard him quietly turn She threw the stacting-lever back, tered agatnst the wood of the very here, you: fiimfiam beach-combers! guns join bombardment. Car- tive wonder. ‘That's Parroto going “The Commandante han ordered us looked it over, aaw that it was loaded, the key in the cabin door, She knew, threw the speed out full, and crouched box aginst which he leaned. He Get out o' my sight! Get down to bines are picking at my aerials up in smoke there!" to be held here. They are sending a and handed it back to her. as she stood with her hand on his low in the bottom of the car front. held hiv breath and waited, rocking » iy a6 Bey there until fem Ferase Gillan’ batteatins A Mem ianom “near the posi awn- Getaohrpent of goldlere 2 atch ne he Rae, TOM aver learned be use ts sleeve, that he was lis! lag ft She knew that somebody was club- and swingag onward toward asho! Locom- C ing could n er . ‘e are \e. %, DI e ked at him Wwalting until t! passed a jh the seat above her with moving 5 . @ by the living God, if you eo two days off Puerto Locombia or the het oun of the late afterncom, ontre, fncide their dead line.” growing wonders. away toward the bow of the ship. musket end. She could hear the (To Be Continmens