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Your en: Tregee med & CHAPTER Vi. On the Schooner. , We eet, sat for parts unknown it Het unguesaed, and J fall inte Orace with the lady. AWOKE some little time be- fore sunset, consequent upon a thumb and finger being @pplied to the back of my neck—and looked up to see onguehaye standing over me. “Pardon the method,” he said. “But elt was imperative to have you awake. Jones did not require so much pres- ne eid * “f hope not,” said I, rubbing rue- fully the injured spot. “We are taking the meal a trifle *Yeariier,” ‘he said, “because we are Jeaving the house to-night. I must § 98S you to hurry, Cousin Bobby.” \. | Pembroke Jones was absent, and 1 fy 2tPadged him in the bathroom. I found _"*" fim there, and later we hastened downstairs. It was evident that two od le, at least, had been served— formed, me that my lady and the dwenna were upstairs packing their a ° ju two will accompany them, eaid Longuehaye, “because 1 must remain behind; and you are the only 9 mén’ Who would—well, do for com~- na, There will be others along, {feet are their special bodyguard. ‘y Iyhelieve you, have nothing to ee aao Bobby. 1 havent Shey things + aad cord yenickerdeand 3 @ pair be = ae; Twas evalined by this thoughttul- mess and told bim so. ‘ saad een nse ais ee t as they came a be en “But you, Jones, have to pack, You'd better be ite ‘I'm afral@ I'll bave to ask today @ small foundation for ay! ,) 4 hurry your meal. The o! pepe ave to pack ail the dishes and t ‘taember of other things.” K ‘obe: bi ping down our oe egeeying bin, BD to his room; ip ee m when we entered. semtaiilage said Longushaye, “Paks, vy u nguebay' nt Tana wis to make the ing from now on that you ‘are to take your orders directly from me. I chose to mingle on an equal footing with you because I wanted °to insight into the character of and ope cannot, do ust jor ition, But m2 a are rordere 1 may issue will re a promptly or I will shoot on - 3 ittea and waistcoat, and k eteached to his belt at either ‘a leather holster. He did this in Dig usual calm, coloriess way, as one (mes Yea an interesting object; but ii had taken pn & certain ee command. {Bri PeAtn’t_no nosd ming, ¢ "87 fae, ar oo kick, Bo, We'll foller 4 jest you tell us what we're teh do.” timents were echoed. ‘no wish to—ah—'poke them ’” explained Longuehuye “| merely indicated them as ‘of my standing. There are of men here who are my Pare wReta save any of the mus- ‘wanted to save an: 6 Salar gentlemen referred to from mu- tiny reaulting from a belief that he +p mas able te Whip sae it 1s 9 peintut +2: pubject—I . Eveling’— = “Yes, ain ‘And the broken-nosed stood out. Simons, Paks"—— feosp'The other three ranged alongside edd i ng 3 , "You are a navigator, Eveling? >" ates ticket — dirtied — captain + jecalled, me—well, something @ man gan't astand—and—that’s mutiny— if, you called me the same "~—. He mentioned it. ‘Lopguehaye assured him "with a sneer that he meant for a ‘emile. “I'm not that sort. May I ask qu to stand aside, Eveling? Paks, I Balleve you can navigate a bit your- of you, 1 Goal Aye ban bo'sun on man-of-war"-— *)Qogan the Swede laboriously “That will do. y enoysh to call Mr. Eivéling hreréatter; and consider yourself un er his orders except when I choose 5 tow isagree with Mr. Eveling. © "Yetlast You were an A. B. = jieve?” ‘The nonde: “Good enough. Consid: SMa “Very. well, thank yo He turned to the first two. vanat tho Ikeliest fellows here for Gary seamen, You will need about fours 1 should say. ate ATONE the four named were Froch Pe walge “1d Warsawski, Longuehaye iahawir: inspected them waved them ee ™ -oniously from the room, at the vetae time Indicating that 1 was to 6. 34main, we ‘ell, my eye! ayote og tle ‘ere * Meghynaing abaout an vin’ or f “foguired the cockney, Chitty. He turned to me, ‘You don't ‘appen to be a @ook in disguise neither, do ” bac no!” I laughed, “But I be- “Why, ig sort of recognized that I'm eep order or something of the ud goin to ‘appen?” Chitty to know, ea him that my information Ne igned that I should, y ey below, ‘The cussing, ript confirmed 1 man to tyke any interest ee about the which ‘e ala’ kling? Mked Lord GI Te Bee Ms yme, le) ain't it?—'minds me of Longuehaye, some'ow, More dressy 'e was, thou and on deevey cream-colored spats. Longuehaye, 'e looks kinder dressed up, 'e te arb when you looks close at ‘is clothes they ain't no particular style—is they? “t oe bated could ey more show money,” I temporized. . Leould, But 1 ain't never ‘ad the hoppertunity to be a bit of a toff—but couldn't I do it proper if I d! Why from watching the pl’ 've eeen, I know jeat ‘ow the nobility dre: rather! And I've found that fe; the more I s realize thi when said: ‘All the world’s blooming styge’"—— “Who?” I asked. “'Oo—why, George R. Sims! Ain't * ghd Longuehaye, who was dating, in- % an earlier playwright was Jones came in while Chitty contin. ued his moralizing, with the informa- tion tee Toneueney®. ‘with the other men, had le! je house, going down the slope to the river. zi “There's some kind of a launch there,” he said. “And oh, Chitty! you remember the paralyzed chap w called ‘Captain’ ‘in London? Well, he's here!” $ “My word!” eaid Chitty, “I won- der what ‘is deep little. gyme ix For ‘e's got a an you know"—— For which illuminating exposition of motives we thanked him. It was close ypon an hour before Longueha} and Jones make ready. added, “you, nt mentioned some four or five others, “have your dunnage ready—eh? Yes? ‘Wall, better cart it down to the edge of the river. There's a launch there for it. There’ lot of our traps on the floor abo ivide ne take them bain no .time, pleage. e launch, has a number of trips to make.” In the dining-room we found my y and the duenna enveloped in Tong sable ‘cloat their headgear -se- cured and their faces muffled by meshy motor veil “Cousin ‘Bobby and Jones will took after you,” said Longuehaye. “The Captain and I follow in another boat. We will see you aboard the Crown of Grenada—that’s an oysterman's idea of a good name for a boat, Your lug gage will be attended to, Did you bring down yours, Jones? Right. It will be looked after, Now straight ahead down to the water and you'll find the launch. A demain!" =~ le was off with his usual quiet activity. ‘We made some trifling remarks to my lady, whose responses, no doubt equally ‘trifling, were muffied by the veil, As we passed out of the house fire-negreas followed, itasing several mall bags and © squirrel in a canary cage. My lady, showing the first gn of amusement for some time, in- formed us that the equirrel repre- sented s@me voodoo sign to the ser- vant. It was an undistinguished night —an occasional flicker of moon and wink of stars. We passed in silence down the road to the launch and found it in charge of a sulky fellow who was objecting to the quantity of He finally ruled off two of and the de- cision being upheld by me, he let the little launeh go down-stream, pass- ing through the rocky river gorge that frowned down upon us and had an unappreciated complement of rapide—bdut with this passed there were only “Sand-bars and marshes which the man at the wheel avoided with seemingly superhuman skill— and before any great lapse of fime we had passed into the Chesapeake, where the lights of Ferry Bar, River- view and Point Breeze flickered from as many directions. Dead ahead, the wash of the bay lapping her sides, was a schooner-rigged craft high out of the water as though unloaded. “All off,” snarled the man at the motor, as he brought his craft along- side. “Here's yer ship.” ntly a pair of lap- ef Va rope ater wwing: imy-green sides of he craft. ‘ “The ladies can’t ‘climb that, Evel- T said. re, I forgot,” be grumbled, ‘an't be kept here all night,” Eveling gave him his theory con- cerning the ultimate salvation of people who ran motor-boats, to which man replied in kind. During the ¢, exchange of complimen a looped rope flopped Itself into the launch. [ saw the idea and directed my lady to tuck her skirts about her and sea herself within the loop, holding the upper part of the rope with both hands. In this manner the three women were hauled over the bul- warks. The reat of us made time up the ladder; and the -dunni was swung up in @ huge basket dropped from @ portable crane, The craft was a three-masted echooner—probably not more than two hundred tons—with a flush deck, @ cabin aft and a deck house amid- ships. The cabin was assigned to the two white women and the negro gervant was told to find a place where she could. Longuehaye, Jones, Eveling, Paks, Simons and Yettas, together: with myself, were to share returned and bade me they t Eveling hailed us from over the bul- he deckhouse—so Eveling said—and the rest of the men could bunk where find room—below der the bow, forecastle along with the paint cans if they didn’t mind the smell of rosin and turpentine. Jones and I made ourselves useful sorting out the luggage and taking the bags of the women over their way. Then we perched on the bulwarks and watched develop ts. Eveling was in charge, and he spent most of his time cursing the stupidity of ht assistants; and when silent on that score had some evil things to say about the schooner’s rotten riggi Another boatload came from the tapso and the final one bringing Longuehaye. and the paralytic, Creechurch, who was hauled up Ilk a woman—and immediately had a hammock swung for himself In the gallery. Then I heard the cranking of the windlass as they hedved the anchor short. Eveling was at the wheel, his language more torrid than before, shouting orders to get out the headsails, The anchor come up atrip apeak and inboard and was made snug, and Eveling giving the wheel a gpoke or two to starboard, her sheets flattened out in the wind, and the schooner wobbled, then, gathering impetus, glided south, It was a cloudy night and a choppy little head wind blew up as we rounded North Point; but for all of that it was pleasant enough if one were muffied up in great coat as was I, Jones and I sat aft the foremast engaged in a brisk argument aneut the right of adventure fiction to be counted as literature; and the men in the bows, of which Chitty was of course one, started songs—songs cheap enough in sentiment, but we were far enough away to miss the silly words, and it was pleasant enough on the water. We were passing on to the discuasion of style, when Longuehaye interrupted us, requesting Jones to come below and report as to whether any of the wireless outfit had been injured in the shipping; for if it proved to have eustained hurt Lon- guehaye said roundly we would have to put back to port. After Jones had gone I discovered tar on the port side and was as to what It might be when a sable-cloaked figure passed me and, going to the rail, looked over, It was the ledy—and impulse sent me immediately to join her. I sald. “I won- der what it ta.’ “Venus,” she replied abstractedly— “the star a woman should be bora under. Mine was Mercury, unfortu- nately.” “You have outgrown the I replied. “I'm not in the mood for your insin- cerity,” she said. “I don’t want you insincere with me, Mr, think you cared whether IT was insincere or not,” I replied. he said, with supris- ing frankness. “Shall I tell you why? Yes? Weill, then, it is the nature of a woman to have an id you are silent and re’ sinister cynicism nor the heartless in- sincerity of your nature you approach my ideal man—strong and brave, n of morals, gentle and chivalrous. You look to be such s man, Mr. Strangitharm! But-—what are you?" She laughed so coldly that !t burt My eyes, long accustomed to the , showed me she no longer wore her veil and that derful bair lay across reproach in laugh and ‘Are you the one to preach to me?” I asked, remembering that she had spoken of gentleness and striving to ut that quality in my tones, “You ought me into association with mur- derers to put my sinister cyuiciem, or whatever you called it, to some use. have no idea what this expedition I am sure its end is not one on b 4 the law would look favor- she agreed hotly, “Your law aay law! And what is your ew— misfor- ‘ in the hold, or in the hi eb? It is a law framed for the ing business man of your time— a law to protect his tbook from those spoiled. Ob, I am no socialist —that, in my mind, is folly. My fath- ors taught me to treat those of lower class with kindness, however; to see they did not want the necessaries of Hfe—it is not that! It is that od brains, ancestry—everything wort! while—is subverted to the use of those cunning scoundrels who chance to have the ingtinct for piling up pyra- mids of dollars! And there are times when the law that protects them shall! be ignored. . “Your countrymen do what they call ‘freeing’ my native tand—ob, I am a Cuban, {f you would know, but edu- cated in London for most of the time —they ‘free’ my native land, your countrymen; and then send down their ‘business’ men to make the most of it, And what would you say if th: get mortgages forced upon my fath that he may have to sell his estates because there is contained in them something that your clever business man wants; and about which my father knows nothing. And when he has been made by your Government to sell his ates—because of what they call a railway right—to sell his estates for a small sum—sonie few hundred thousands of your dollars— the capitalist is bidding fair to make as many hundred millions—and then there Is no redress before the law? Pah! That is why we take men.who have a grievance against this same law with which to work our ends, to gain our own and to depouit the rob- bers of my dead father—peace to his memory”— ‘She crossed herself devoutly. “You have taken it upon yourself to judgo me,” she continued, in the mame repressed tones, that indicated a flory harangue held in check, “be- cause you find me utilizing the means that God has given into my hands, You, think me perhaps many things that’ are insults, But in this thing I am working for the sake of others— for many hundreds, I hope many thousands of others, Do you know to what my lite has been dedicated? No—but I will tell you. In London I work among the poor. I do not seek to raise them out of their class—that iw futile—but to make them comfort- able in it. I seek to make it possible for women to live clean lives, that they may live cleanly as some decent man’s wife and bring strong, healthy children into the world. The few hundred thousands of your dollars that my father bequeathed me goes for the work of helping poor sone. “L have built a beautiful house for poor girls and have found clean, in- telligent work for them to do—it la my hobby if you like, and you may say it ls but a form of selfishness that 1 pursue it, for it gives me ploagure. But I find myself handicapped from lack of funds to extend my work, And then this man Longuehaye, who has hearé of the despoiling of my father, comes to me and tells me that if he had twenty or thirty thousand dollars he could show me how | might re- ge what has been stolen—and that will plan the thing for me on shares if | am able to give him the money he needa to carry it out. And then—what? I am in need of the money for what any one syrely will call a good purpose. I do not wish it selfishly, but I do wish it—and it my father’a by. right, and mine ein my father ia dead. It is the case of wrong done to right & wrong that May come to pass. And t! to be wronged are the despoile: I will not eay there in not some wish for revenge in my nature, for although . my mother was English, | am more wholly a Spaniard, And [ gonsent to the plan—thia plan which neceasitates the services of a number of evil men leat your fine law know of it and ronounce it il, And, now you now, judge me again and tell me her or not you think me what you have thought before?” “My dear girl,” I said gently. am not the one to judge you.” “No,” she replied bitterly, you are not. You, whose face speaks of @ long tine of comme ot 1 4 4 tors, whose }uind of an intelligence, ir wines bay ol for the highest form @ trifling sum to do the dirty work AS man like your—ah—cousin! ahi” “I don't see how it is that, think- ing so little of me, you can conue- ascend to tulk to me at all,” I said, She laughed, a rather hard laugt. “I will tell you why if you wish know. Because, for all my .aime~ interests, I'am, as you said on our first acquaintance, essentialiy femin- ine, and os a woman I am sorry W"" Ot see a good man spoiled.” I leaned: over suddenly, a rush of wild-fire to my brain, Her body had swayed close to mé—in her last words she had fallen from harshness to a caressing tenderness, I caught. her suddenly Into my arma and kiseed her. For the moment she succumbed to the caress, returning it, clinging to me; then suddenly something ran through me as an electric shock; an 1 was thrown off as she might have brushed uway a creeping thing. When she spoke her voice was hushed, horrified. “Keep away from me—go away—you drunkard, you murderer,” I caught the ratl in somewhat of a stupor, With her return kins had come & new thrill to me, an insatiable craving for her—as one suddenly out of darkneas the light dazzied me, the light of a freely given love by a wom- an so splendid as was this one, And with the realization of this upon me 1 saw I had shown her scant courtesy. anne then I saw myself for what I as. 1 do not know how long I stared over the rail; one cannot use the ar- bitrary distinctions of — timepleces when a soul is suddenly stripped naked—and {t ia your own soul. I knew she had gone and left me— that seemed only as it should be, I was all she sald I was; had been, rather was, no more. For | knew that there was hope for me, that I wan not to be always what she had eaid; that some day she would acknowledge herself wron, and in the hours that passed many times I stretched out my hands to the blurred sky; and finally words came to me almost in the form of a prayer: "Give me one opportunity to use what has been given me for good— let there be a chance for mé to efface ah big l of omission: ri T will not fall to take advantage of t - tunity," - sie hertach And when I looked again that al star atill glittered. mee CHAPTER VII. The Expected Island. We erect a wireless outft and signal to passing ships; and incar~ cerdte two meddlers in a slave dungeon, F T’S pretty hard to get back to earth, as the colloquialism goes, after having shame- lessly written down the par- tlculars of an emotional eri- But it had to be done just much as the reat of the story has to be told, even if the commonplace part 1 am to treat of now comes in nature of a fourth act that some dramatiat has tagged onto a play that properly ends with the third curtain, but hasn't been long enough to while away the customary two hours and three-quarters, But ‘1 must confess that the remainder of the voyage was Jacking in detail far an | was con- cerned. 1 sat on deck all night and was ostensibly listening to Pembroke Jones; and when dawo came and he suggested we go into the forecastie for a sleep L' was ready enough to consent. We-awoke somewhat late in thd joni dine of Maryland; and Da ; i TT i nt £05 iH Hi} Pid 3 & z ; A dawn be told haye that he was ready rooms back into a shado afternoon when the Crown of Gren- ada was beating up the Pimgt crest was in dark of the cregcent moon that jut into the cove almost towering rocks which I the nati harbor of Otter re 4 land! I think,” knew to be we've put up the Teland. hav ent blac! the lol You eatd For of course there had been all can you along no doubt in my mind that ‘were going to the island of ti Longuehayes; and when the present owner smiled at my sald something to the that I now percelyed he bad acted on my tend to -angeestion, ¥ ENN rine thet herbed hot. ine took my lady's ba t ! “Don' é 11 . p of = Pe Sire etka Sein ot Wad gone ‘be » bout the living room look! t the sleeping faces of his farther remaved goer on his face an be to go there’sll along. of an oyster shell; and has, more- over, the angle of the said shell vle- vated on its broad end. The broad alde of the oyster, to pursue! the whimsy, was th Island ig Bomewhat the shape arama trys When tion and the black. they from: the land, and a.ship-sheltéred Over them to an old eet in @he cove was therefore unper- an id then L ceived from the shore unless the tele- joja'him that Jones was scope used by the curious possessed any messages he might the power of looking through 4 wall gmiled approval of dof solld rock. The rock in question me has an altitude of seme thirty fect, wh and the island, to @ person approach- Chitty, the ing it from the shore, has the pearance of an inclined plane. perhaps a mile’ in didmeter pe wooded Reig gy Cs ye meen ee ardy enou io Krow jon, i rind There had been various the relative juxtaposition of ¢he.ep: paratus. It was a com produce cropa of wheat and oats, but this wireless ow crops was not ap- keys, @ was namos, dars, rocky soll, abortive attempts on the part of suc- ceeding generations to make the soil the succesn of *th parent when the nelling compared with the cost of farming. sta terial two chests upon By dint of much fertilising matertal oR, handili and Chi ohanlont eve viewed loads of earth from ‘Worcester County, they had succeed- ed in making vegetable garden, ne however; but thie was now rank trom Wt! disuse, and wry = “0 at hed the house through :*' gerden it seemed only @ place set + rt for the produc- 000 tion of rare weeds. ‘aa ae “ Phe hause itself been bulit ing, among the pines and cedars; and, be- and several ing & low, two-storied structure, was strained our eat entirely hidden until, when one was tappin; “The Pesonator’ roadway disclosed it. Gray and grim paid Jones, Ld it atood Ike some ghost in the pallid resonator within ten yards, a curve tn an old moonlight that filtered In through the 4¢) evergreens, even the ivy, which had qt once clustered jt #o thickly, reduced one is ere snaky windings of dead = It had never been a pleas his ing house, this which the pessimistic hermit and the gray stone of the island in the beginning of the eighteenth cen tury, and now it squatted in an It is colle and is window to “They're his slaves had built from Longuehay ‘What “Yacht Seytla, Philadelphia to Palm, its Beach,” replied Longuchay up to t ere Jones sat of & eam giving ‘ul inspec’ 0 wireless been the genius of knew but as Jones eat nd, rudely improvised one the sta to th approval, ‘All fixed, are you?” sald La haye. “Well, try getting some etation or some passing p nd reinee id that's in—and—oh, well, wha! tak ones clamped ¢ ears and eat Lstenin, asking who he guid, hall I tell ‘em desolation as if during all its career “Ask ‘em whe they are.” it had sought to achieve this entire solitude and was frowning upon US the key, for our intrusion. Jacked a door—the latter giving proof that some vandals from the shore had utilised these complementaries Was 6! the fires, whose embers we found chi! in’ the all ‘and the kitchen, Doors cal and shutters had not alone suffered— bits of manteling and shelving were ne, and Ge held. revealed, scratched on the crumbling white walls of the kitchen, bits of verse evidently Inacribed b; the unwelcome visitors of the past. Longuehaye's face was not pleasant as he viewed these desecrations the family house; and I should not have cared to see the perpetrators at } that time, lest thelr sup) wit bring about a punishment that Wes yma: ‘ou, iJ The furnituke had, of course, been hope,” Jones tlon, perhaps too seve: long removed, all save @ few heavy clothes presses and like cumbersome articles of furniture, and the place thi ituolf was full of the dust of the two toc decades duri; stood negtected: and myself had come ahead of the ‘pi others, Op our returg to the shore we found moat of the company dis- porting themselves on the bea in the childish game of leap fro it appeared Chitty had su an antidote for er: muscles. The game was broken u; a blue the flickering torches that Styx. which the house had can't swim, Longuehaye, Jones Or, by the way. who kept the Qlym- and for the thought the outst had exploded. so teriess and startling was the hissing. Follow: Tt was moreover, spat ark, then quiot, except for fisXer, the rattle of Jonen’s signalling, Ho his honest; tl smiling with the joy of a was public what he & prophecy © resonator began to tap ever should a4 in led tt now toy whe again. Yacht Charon, He's ovid hee! ell alo Ce American laughed in ‘You'd hav: answer, jaw to get Pe in three of his Next, livery stable?” tepped over to whether everythi seaen fl Not necemary,* replied J0 . “Lieten!* In tho stillness that followed we ha: ra, catching a faint locked is : rip ‘ ' ° minute after pause, r "Cerberua has . owity @ he cobwebby old attic, wit up ReadMe: of wire that san sa pire Cait cis pened, +! fit, with ite al wires, switohes, tonere and Deters, the fa trained 1 arrangement emttl~ 3 g : re Rs if fi “He = man in rby threshold, At ‘9 picked woo the fire—tell went Say up—a billet of wood i Mansons em oom “Well, 7” } asked. ‘a the too long to explain. Some rtainly tr to get us.” receivers over nohing. intently, moment this of #on of the rich chafing us o' air-currents, classical education, Let's ohaff pire, thes dives arn not in the ik, my walllin€ fers ” Uy had rei on ouK, Li jnterpola- heads ‘and ° little Phaeton! tut It out,” came back the’ anewer, You're aaron jest come over fer negt— P “Never mind,” anid Jones, fallen libly,) The nolse of the mel oe the al Jones put his finger hard down on 4nd seve! IT came ave man, reported of them jedly across this man,” said 1; who had. been examin\y affray to a alt he two who came up secured the who Cortinued hip wails the fact belng, according We're crossing the sheril But I'm glad we ‘kept away ither Hcylla or Charybdis.” ” s'y," murmured Chitty, whet siven aloud. “ a My Pp look house bi fe “The th “Liked; that cept to Bae the his bim, a of Worcester County. meant no ‘harm ‘whispered, : Tare cenmel ‘ whuttera of ming.» But»that te ry seomel" 1 up? I've Wye io eae Qeavcad Sartre .