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'M afraid you're not going to be well, old chi was his cheery beginning. “A man as chock-full of drugs aa n't be expected to and the jndica- tions are that it's going to blow up pretty squally in the next few hours I'm the captain, y' know, Got a first mate's certificate a year ago, That's how I happened to make good with that novel I wrote—it had my own trials and terrors in it." There was nothing to be gained by &@ show of anger, so I put It to him enimiy. “Where is Miss Valentine?” T asked. “Here, of course,” he returned, a trifle surprised. “Where else would abe be?” “And baa she been subjected to the aame VIER Ses et as myself?" I asked. “Not at She was docile, But you wanted to fight everybody. So we had to keep shooting the hypo Into you. You've been under the in- fluence nearly four days. Wonderful, fan’t it?” I repressed my views on the sub- “And may I ask why I've been he responded airily. “It was tender-heartedness. If we'd been real, bullet-headed criminals we'd have cut your throat and left you up some dark alley. Because, you see, left to yourself in New York, you'd have raised an awful holler in the newspapers. As it is, everybody thinks you've eloped with the fair young lady and the pearls.” “Yes—the pearls,” I said, startled for the moment, and feeling in my pocket where last they had been. At this action, my friénd of the calculating eye took it upon himself to be mightily insulted. “Oh! I beg you not to insinuate,” he began, In a shocked tone. “You will find your pearls where they were before you went to sleep, We are not petty lar- ceny crooks.” “Then the hold-up"—— “We had information that Miss Valentine carried on her person a slip of paper giving the exact loca- tion of the island where Valentine procured his pearls, And we consid- ered ourselves better able to manage the case than you. That ts all, my dear fellow. We, however, antici- pated a certain bull-headed conti- dence on your part regarding your capability, and so we resorted to rather mediaeval methods. But we Bave no intention of defrauding Miss Valentine. She is to have a fair ehare of the profits.” “In other words,” I retorted, an- fered by his egotistical apeech, “ and your friends are temporary guardians of the universe—is that sere “No, only temporary guardians of Mr. Knight and Miss Valentine,” he returned, laughing. “And, really, @on't you think we've been pretty decent to you? I do. Why, outaide The Evening World D “If you took Mt any other way | Ghouls consider that you hed gone mad Why 40 pou auppece Tm Toors hee gone to the eapense of hiring thie yacht—to take you for « pleas- ure cruise?” “You're extraordinarily freak in your villainy,” | commented. “1 do not consider it villainy,” Tocca, He knows the jewel business wrong side out.” A heavy, lumbering man in unt- form came up. | looked this person over, He had “mariner” in hie walk and attitude, and “petty rascal” in his eyes, He saluted Orme, and I could see in his gesture a certain burlesque. “Well, Gedge?” inquired Orme, as he halted before us. “Begain’ your pardon, elr, there's ae litte matter of a stowaway, Of no consequence whatever, sir, but still there he He mentioned the fact as though he were discussing a monater of the neolithic period. | towaway, eh?” | es, sir, and he seems to have taken a fancy to this ship, alr, Ap- piled for @ berth as cook, sir, But there was the matter of him béing unable to apeak English or under stand it, sir, No keeping him away, | wir.” i “Put him to work scrubbing decks | and work him until he'a sorry he ever stowed away.” said Orme, dis- minsing the matter and turning again | to me, The mariner shifted from one foot | to the other, “There's atill a trifling | matter of where he is to bunk, air, being as how the crew object to his presence in the fo'c's'le. A proud lot him brought Orme sharply. Gedge wobbled off, and his humble voice became completely changed’ in quality as I heard him roaring orders from the bridge. They were attend- ed to quickly enough, for up came a couple of hands, dragging between them a man in a@ suit of loose blue serge. “Desprit character, sir,” said one of the seamen, as they came up. “Wanted to knife me, be did,” said the other. Apparently with intention, Orme arose and stood between me and the three men. At the same moment an- other man came running up, catching Gedge's arm. “There's the deuce to pay, air.” he shouted, as his eye caught Orme’ ‘The diving machinery’s been ruined. The air hose and the lifelines have been cut to bits, the air pumps’s been put out of commission and the hel- mets are gone. I just went down with Winters and Fisher to look them over, This is downright malicious deviltry, sir, We'll have to alter our course for Havana and hire another outfit.” With a sudden passionate rage, Orme sprang at the prisoner. Now that he stood aside for a moment, I could see that it was my old friend the black man, whom Valentine had called J. Crow, How he knew that treachery was afoot, and how, igno- rant of the language and the customs of a great city, he had managed to trace us to the yacht and smuggle himself aboard, was a mystery I could not fathom. I had forgotten all about him; the last time I had seen him he was crouched at Velen- tine's bedside, overcome with grief. He made no resistance as Orme caught him by the throat, but, stand- ing erect, he threw his assailant sud- denly off as @ Great Dane might throw a snapping cur from him. Orme sprawied on the deck, an un- dignified spectacle. The black man, his eyes expressioniess, stood erect and looked about him as though in- viting combat. Orme scrambled to bis feet, bis face purple with anger, just in time to face Barry Reyburn, who, rubbing here,” said the "The Enemy!” that peculiar sensation of being stared at by some person whom I did not see, I turned my head and noted, in one of the windows of the saloon, the face of Kitty Valentine. As my eyes met hers, she turned and stead- fastly regarded the black man. Orme finished hia recital. Barry Reyburn crossed to the black man and stared him full in the face; then, without a word, he stepped within the companionway and emerged a minute later, the blue barrel of a re- volver showing in his hand. Never have I seen @ man go so deliberately about the task of killing another as he ejected the cartridges, tried the trigger, reloaded, raised the weapon, and aimed. The black man had not moved; he was staring steadily ahead, where the sun lay on the water like gold on " Jade. I leaned over and gripped Barry Reyburn’s hand. “Kill him, Barry, and I'l) land you in the electric chatr,” I sald, He threw my hand off; but, all un- conscious now of my weakened con- dition, thinking only of succoring the brave man who had eo deliberately dared death for his master’s memory, I sprang up and grappled with Rey- burn, He was. coldly furfous and perhaps twice as strong aa I; but in my first spasmodic burst of flerce energy I knocked the revolver from his grasp. Immediately I felt myself crushed to him, and my back gave way. Helpless, writhing with pain, I tried to drag my hands to my ears that I might not hear the explosion of the weapon which would mean the black man’s death. But no explosion came, I pulled myself to my knees, and saw that the revolver had changed hands. Kitty Valentine, holding her skirts with one hand, pointed the other, which held the gun, at Barry Reyburn. Into the silence that followed burat Di Tocca, vivid as ever with his olive coloring and green necktie, He needed no explanation of what had happened. He gripped Harry Rey- burn's @houldere, “You wanted to Kill him, eh?” “He smashed the diving appa- ratus! What are we to do now? asily Magazine, Wednesdsy. Mareh 31. 1915 faland. And you would kill the ont man who can dive without appa ratus. If he refuses, then"-— He smiled significantly. With a short laugh of understand- ing and agreement, Barry stretched out a hand to Kitty Valentine. She Placed the revolver in it. As he turned away, there came a sudden ery from the lookout aloft: “Land ho! On the port bow!” ‘CHAPTER VIII. The Storm and After. I TOCCA alone was andis- turbed. While the others rushed forward, he re- mained to give instructions to the two hands regarding the black man. I tried to catch the prisoner's eye, and so did Miss Val- euline; but he kept his head per- aistently turned away, allowing him- self to be taken off by the sailors, Di Tocca followed. The girl sank into the chair next me, “IT can’t tell you how sorry T am that you have been brought into this, Mr. Knight,” she said. “Oh, that doesn't matter!” I re- sponded angrily, “It's the thought of being such a pawn in the game of being dragged off without my voll- tion, of being treated like a child in feel so absolutely puertie and “I'm afratd you've had rather a hard time,” she said. “Your system must be in a terrible condition with all those drugs. I begged them not to do it, but"——- She made « little despairing gesture. “I suppose it was ordained,” she finished. “Well, I don't,” was my flerce re- tort. “I'll get even with this bunch for what they’ did to me, Do you think I'm going to sit atill and let them work their will? Well, not much!” She laughed. she asked. The tone rankled, and reduced me to sullenness, particularly because I had no plan to suggest. “Mr, Reyburn assures me that I shall have one quarter of the profits from the pearl-gathering,” she went on, disregarding my !!]-humor, “And that will amount to a great deal, I “What can you do?" stalked away. When a man cares for @ woman, there ts nothing so humill- ating as the thought, suggested by any word of hers, that he ta not strong or clever enough to do any- thing upon which ho seta hia mind. From that moment I hed no other thought than how to best Barry Ray- burn and his crew. T would be aa cunning as they; I would mask my feelings on the sub- Ject, and pretend to take the altua- tion as perhaps the best eolution of the difficulty in finding the pearle, I found Orme on the bridge, eur- veying the horizon through a pair of binoculars, He handed them to ma “There's the island under disous- sion, right ahead,” he informed me. A thin rim of bluo eeemed to arise out of the rose-colored vapor in the distance; but the midday un was fiercely hot, and the glare from the water too strong to permit more than a fugitive glimpse of the distant island, I was still gazing when the beating of a gong summoned us to lunch; there I had the pleasure of sitting down with as fine a body of unprincipled rancala aa ever ealled forth on the Spanish Main—the vivid Di Tocca, the calculating Orme, the sleepy Shanafelt, and —buccaneer of buccaneers—Barry Reyburn in « suit of blue flannel and a red tie, “I'm sorry, W@#rison,” said Barry, with his customary all-embracing smile, “that It became necessary to uso you so roughly. But you were out for a fight, and you got a fight I offered to take you In on the deal, and you threw me down. Well, you had fatr warning, Harrison, my boy, to use your wits. Apparently you didn't use them." “Tam beginning to gather the loose threads," I said. “The hospital at- tendant was in your pay, wasn't he?” Barry winked myateriously, “Where is Mins Valentine, the fair Kitty?” he asked, looking around, “Hope you didn't expect her to con- descend,” sneered Orme, “Don't try to pretend to Knight that she's been eating here, because you know she hasn't, That's one on you, Barry you and your theory that all women will fall for that assortment of well chosen words of yours, combined with your famous masculine beauty, You're By Robert Minor will land auMfictent stores for alx mon, and put up that number of tenta; also land arms and ammuni- tion in case another party should come to the island to contest our priority—-which is unlikely. But one ‘must prepare for emergencies. Ieill @o ashore, taking the native, Barry Will come with me, and Shenafelt. Also the two divers, We will lecate these pearl beds while Orme takes the Sea-Mew to Havana or Jamaica and procures apparatua to replace that which has bees Broken. On his return we ehall be ready to ge to work. It ts necessary te take the native; for, ae I have potated eut before, he ts the only one among ws capable of deep sea diving witbeut apparatus, Mr. Knight and Miss Valentine will remain aboard.” Barry shrugged bis shoulders, and arose from the table; for Gedge had jJuat entered with the remark that the Sea-Mew was close to the coral reef which girdled the island, and that he did not dare to take ber within it. Orme, too, hurried off; and presently the creak of the windlass began as the ship's progresa aslackened, the anchor chain slipping over the aide. I stepped out on deck. A breese ruffled the sea-green water that stretched on ahead for perhaps half a mile before It lapped @ pale circle of beach, behind which lay the island. ‘The squally weather chat Orme bad predicted now gave visible warning of ita approach, masses of gray clouds drifting across the face of the sun, their velocity increasing minute by minute. “Looks like we're in for a dirty spell,” commented Barry. “Lot's land before it breaks, then,” sald Di Tocca, © spoke awiftly to Orme, who ransinitted the orders to the hands. wo of the boats were swung off, one loaded with supplies and luggage which would be left ashore with the landing party. The other was brought under the rope ladder for the con- venience of the descending passengers —Shanafelt, the native, Jackson and Lamb, the divers, Di Tocca and Barry Reyburn, “We'll expect you back im a couple of days," said Barry to Orme as the boats were pushed off, t Serr ere ‘ | Pl 4 4 Avthe: of “TARZAN OF TI APES” tia Tower fot (he merve to @ ' Oh: asked breethionny (i you (hiek bam? wee ae enery mm teary city man—met food for ween out of « city, Tou ypeeal mas of that ee eS te ae oe very dewide at he had nies won of tae benees 615 6 Tener “ee anded wily thine ae thet’ he eid. ming ever \o an after half ae bour had clapeed The anchored ehip had heavily oe ewiriing ' + heave @ fae t . putting up lenis in thie wind And by rent Thi 0 the shore in We ought to be por The wind died down, and ao ow 4 Gaim eneued that rine eprend the ginse With ar 4 to th n to heave up the and the deadiy silence w of the wind stick wut at A sudden whistiing eound, see far off ‘ into an eo rushed to take the w he f, forcibly away Lighta flared up on [the ship; looking imto the wheel- house, 1 caw Orme'e white, drawn | face over the wheel Itself as the ship drifted trom her anchorage and slowly | turned. | Getae w shouting down to the jenaine-room. The ahip's sorew began | to revolve, Men in otishing hurried | past us, Inshing movable objects with | bite of rope, One of them touched | Mine Valentine on the arm | “Get in, mins, It'@ a atorm-—a bad lone.” The whistling sound approached junttl ft aeemed to 10 become @ | ereat abriek, a long-drawn wall, With the firat blaat | waa thrown againat the rail #o forcibly that I imagined 1 had broken a rib. I gripped Mies Val- rm and struggled toward the firat opening, getting the door of the galoon compantonway half-open and holding it against the wind until she could enter, ¢ slammed after me like a crash of artillery. ‘The ahip shook like a human being in agonised torture, Ite walla vibrat- ing. Outaide, the wind roared and Ghrieked and great volumes of water dashed themselves against the closed portholes unavailingly, but with « horrible promise of returning ito stronger force to battle against a weakened prey. violence and tearing on toward the other islands of those southirn seas. Miss Valentine bad said uofhing. ‘That she clung to me wae imey table, for one ciinge te anything tu mo- ments of pert!; and I suppose I clung as tightly to her. The ship now calmly resting on the waters again, seemingly drifting with & sidewise motion, I arose and flung open a port-hole, There was at first nothing te eee but dull gray murki- nese; then the ourtain of clouds part- e4 for @ @scond, and I caught a glimpse of a amoky moon tossed high above the sea and beneath it the dark splotoh of the island. Men were rushing to and fro on deck, Orders were being shouted and paased along. A sudden inspiration seized me. Catching the girl's arm, I dragged her to the port-hole and pointed to the Island, ‘Not a mile away,” 1 whiapered. Then the clouds piled up again and the picture faded out. “Listen,” I said. “Barry Reyburn thought he had everything tn his own hands. This storm has disorganized things a bit for him. If we alipped away now they would think we had perished in the storm, d’ you under- stand? There's a black man ashore who's faithful to Against us only Reyburn, Di Tocca, Shanafelt and the two divere—five to three. That's even enough. They don't expect an . Hat you tuer inde't | ewageet itr Hut can you ewimr" Weil eooven if not” 1 added, youll have a to help me. chance They tell me youre wonderful ot #” 1 made my living by it.” wae response “Til do it) They eont Ow my things, my bethi in my You'll have to hurry,” I called after ber as she ran y In the darkness and fog we stepped noiselaasiy frow (he companioaway te the deck; neither of ua wore shoes I oaw lanterns swung forward ea@ beard commands on the port side, Wet on the starboard side, where we steed, there was no movement of any esgt, ‘The great clouds of fog shrouded @o of otually. “The island lies out there,” I wht pered. “A mile away, perbaps. Ave you ready?" “You,” she whispered beck. “Dest be afraid for me. But remember te take « clean dive, one that will mais little or no nose, Like thie! Hetore I had time to speak she hed eprung to the rail, poised bereelf aad ewung downward, | heard @ Gaim splash below. Instantly I fellewed her example. An I came to the surface, short of breath and with tingling ears, | heag@ a little cry of fear. “Mise Valeatiagt* I whispered. “Oh, I thought you were e shasht T had forgotten about the shaska” she added. “Don't bother about sharks,” I re- turned, my ohattering teeth giving my reassuring statement the lle, fee here was a danger I had not contem- plated when I proposed the “There's a man who offera te any one who can prove that a shart ever b-bit a man—and the rewaré’a ettll unclaimed!" ‘The terror of the water is indese#- able. I was a good enough swimmer, and bad been taking the reguiatien steady etroke; but already I was shert of breath and exhausted. In ewim- ming races off Long Island I had done two miles easily, but that was with @ boat alongside, into which I could clamber whenever I felt tied. But here I was dependent upon my own exertions. 1 could not eee the girl ewimming by my aide, eo I called to her agaim, “Come on! I'm away abesé you,” ehe replied from out ef the wourity. It seemed hours before the cleared up a little, and once mere. @e had a rupee of the islan@ under the von, We passed the most Gam- *vrous point of our swim in ovmpase> tive safety, 6 great breaker carrying us over the coral reef before we knew wo had near tt. Once iast®e the breakwater we were able te smoothly and placidly; for had died down entirely now, inclosed water was as smooth traditional millpond. We at be seen on the beach—come!” We hastened into the cover of the woodland, Turning, I aaw the The moonlight lay on it in @ Good, the foreshortened shadow ef burned brilliantly beside the On three eldes the junste mysteriously about us its tope vered by the streaming radiance, inner recesses black and heavy. From somewhere within its depths the call of an owl cleft the allenos. The great calm of a tropic night was there, 1 glanced toward Miss Valentine. at Jett We're off the island almost, they tell jeep from his eyes, appeared on dare say. You shall have one-half getting fat, Barry. Kitty Valentine came to my side, attack when they're asleep, 4’ you She was on her '.nees, with her hair @f outting your throat, we had the deck. me, and no way to locate the pearia. of my share for the indignities that Reyburn colored. His vanity con- and we watched the boats ride safely see? Once we get the armsand ammu- thrown over hey head and hiding Ber @hance to shangha! you on a two “What's all this noise?” asked Think he ought to live after that, you have been subjected to.” cerning his personal appearance and over the menacing reef, We soon nition we've got the island until this face while sty combed ite gleaming years’ voyage to help gather in whale Barry, irritably. “A men can't eh?’ “You don't think I'd take any of his abi women was his lost sight of them, however, for the ship comes back. And \y that time strands wi'n two tortoise-shel etl But we didn't. We only put you sleep, it seems.” Di Tocca laughed and smoothed your money, do you?" I demanded one we fox Nad begun to settle its gray we'll be ready for them with some combs she had worn, Presently ake aboard a steam yacht, and are carry- In a voice that shook with rage his mustache, hotly, “It'a this man-handling, this Di 4 changed the subject meshes over us, blotting out the thin sort of a fortification. And Barry threw back ber hair and began to ing you south to watch our Interest- Orme told him, Meanwhile, the black “This time it {s you who are the abduction! What right have they swiftly. line of beach Reyburn will find he's not to have put it in place; and when she had ing experiments in deep sea diving. man, almost insolent in his thorough fool, Barry. You have answered to go about altering the course of “We approach the island now, gen It was, of course, necessary that things all hia own way.” completed her task she turned, te No work, ail play, And you're huffy lack of emotion, moved toward the your own question. The diving appa- another's destiny tlemen,” he sald, And [ have a the Sea-Mew should watt until the “You mean to swim to the Island?” sce me staring at her, about something. I think you're a rail and lenned against {t, Moved by ratus is broken, We are near the Overcome with wrath, I arose and plan; a very good one, | think, We return of the elgit sailors who had = “Yes,” I answered, (To Be Continued.) SRESAP NEARY PAE AEN SPE SANA UAPS ASS PNA SSPE PAP AEE APRA SA SFP APNOEA ESPEN ASAP ENE PSU SAPNA RNAP UCSAAN ASU AOUNE SAPP AP UAPPMAPN ACU APA SRSA HASSAN ASUS AES SREP ZAMS PN SAAN NSN AFA SANNA gar APMP NAN Ag AA SMAPS AMMA APN A Story of Jungle "THEE MUCKER, (12°2.2/nm By-Ydgar Rice Burroughs Author of “TARZAN OF THE APES,” Ete. WILL BE NEXT WEEK’S COMPLETE NOVEL IN THE EVENING WORLD This Is Perhaps the Best of All the “Tarzan’’ Creator’s Great Romances. READ IT. PORTRAIT RR BARS ARLENE Mires eeeacmmorttl ‘ ? \ if * ”