The evening world. Newspaper, May 3, 1915, Page 17

* i | WEXT WEEN'S COMPLETE | @. a Set “ ~ : An Ocean T of Peril ig oe ee And of Wild Adventure { i , 1 ontes if By JACKSON GREGORY By JACK LONDON ns : ; wed bis band with « rune the galley from new ihe at THE CALL OF THE WILD bee i w > Cesky pelt Co os, and EARP IBD D: did not tu — — hen he put te Nora, 1s hy the Mermiien Camreny 5. ahd, 00 6 vgn Of fenewed Bh vip uv Cc R J online, seked me how my arm . vy or @& le MAPTER 1. Was getting on . Larece epoke to me of his HEN the ferryhoat sank, In calizion, in Ban Pranciteo May, 1 went| | “it might have tees worws,” be brother, 1 asked the under and t nitew Ll eame to myself on the deck of ermiied bome fort of web in the harbor, Beveral men © chaning le tom te me “4 sromner might be my cold body an ne hot coffee down my threat, When | waa « or ‘Mester of the steamebip rong enough to move, I ken before the ain, whoee “ ant 119 Macedonia, seal hunter,” wae the an name, | gathered, wee Wolf Larken. Sted out between bia fie. ever “We wi) meet him moet prob Larson's height was probably five hunters at loosm-jointed chap The pulpy on the Japan coast, Men eal) oot ten and @ half; but Bained He aft at dropped back the Heath’ Larsen.” time f nd | had 4 Impression of oe ihe Mention FO ee have th Lareal” 1 involuntary Bot of his midehips sieeping quarters), to the 4 me had the monster put je be like your ath A newly jor was cabin, We f Larsen was on the poop, jiardiy, He is a lump of an ant ng at hie feot GRORiAs bie over naer without any bead. MMe has el A most surprising thing ocourred Ming yer ‘ook my he captain broke loose upon the dead 1 db ant cnew © ishneee!’ 1 eugennted hn iike w thunderciap, Oathe rolled was ¢ iM, and saw the galley door ‘You (hank you for the word @ii rom his lips in a continuous an bY bad with « bang oes 1 ver | my brutin *, bul be cam soareely enderson leaping Uke a thadiian for read or write De cause of It wil, as hear ast eould |) rien : not eeODR, UP Which be phot the tr And be has never philo huake out, Was that the man, WhO WAS on tie inside, till lie Waa many fork sinty ‘Thy "ty added. nis \ mate, bad gone on w debauch before higher than my head Also f aaw @ make me No, Wolf Larsen answered, with \) Teaving Ban Francisco, and then had Brea!) pave, curling and fouaing ye Ne tre jescribable air of sadness, “And . < ined far above the rail wae di- me continua the pier for leaw ry the poor taste to die at the beginning reetly under it, My mimi did not work own work upo « He ‘or, busy sass of the voyage and jeave Wolf Larnon quickiy, everything wan so new and ww hin fet to think about it, My mistake wes ip ishert-handed. str 1 grasped that 1 was in sHHHAL-LK® ever opening the books.” r, but that was @ Flood wy weit Nin foe ao Louie ain ave additional | wearing as nal in eibartiy eer te ‘han begun. He. re- in trepidation. "Then Wolf Lar Weribhy that at anu frightened formation about Death Larsen, whieh Ugpbied his cigar and glanced around, #*! shouted from the poor him back ft le ne § tpioture | tallied with the eaptain’s brief de- Mig glance fei on te, He demanded: hold sumething, you—you n conjure ul of myanit. iuaphrey seripiion. | We may expect 10 mest What di u do for a living?” ump Van Wosden, in tha Hips Death Laren on the Japan ooaat ; 1 shee Shandh § had never had such @ — fu wast Inte 1 osprang a vohet in ae er my “And look out fe Question asked me before, nor had 1b toward vigein which T might tak, ¥ fare raise he fave of \n'a propheoy, Ver canvassed it, | was quite taken he e clung, and Was met by the de. nv ature about to strike my ther ik rT pack, and before 1 could And mynelf acending Wall of water, What ha liye lifted and wnaring ke « dog's are” Death Larsen wab in command do sliiily staunmered, “I-L am 4 pened after that was very confusing. my eyes clearing with sone ani ¥ Lay hag seating * er in the atieman,” 1 Was beneath the water, suffocuting helpleawness, Lo dot like tha ples feet, the Macedonia, whieh carried iw lip curled in a awift snes and drowning, My feet wore out from ture Tt reminds me too strongly of fourteen boats, whereas the reat of ‘T have worked, 1 do work,” Leried under ine, amd twas turning over natrap. bdo tu think the schooners carry only sin. There $ dmpetuously, as though he were my and ov being swept along | bul it Was effective, for the Was wild t cannon aboard, and Judge and I required vindicatio yi knew not where. Several times | threatened blow did not deseend of atrani and expeditions @he @t the same time very much aware of collided against hard objects, once rh Mueridge backed away, make, wing from opium ; pd arrant idiocy In discussing the gulag, my right knee ¢ glaring as hatetully and vioiously as pithy nd ee. b: Aa g and ring i 4 ject at all. now » the flood ared A pair of beasta In what 4! \ ny blackbird / were et “feeds yout” wan hin next denly to subside and 1 was breathing awe together and ahow. (OK and open plracy i queation, \ the good air again, 1 had been awept ing our t te wae a ward, eee eee ‘| have an income,” 1 answered nat the galley and around the Tank to strike me tecause fF had | ‘The twenty-four hours have } etoutly, and could have bitten my steerage companionway from the Hot quatied sulficiontly in advanes; Withessed a carnival of brutality. fongue the next instant. “All of weather side into the lee scuppers jeeevc hase a thew Way to intimidate From cabin to forecaste it seems to which, you will pardon my observing, The pain from my hurt knee was J} y Wax only one galley knife Nave broken out lke @ contagion, | has nothing whataoever to do with agonizing, [could not put my weight tt, an a knits, amounted to any. Searcely know where it began, Wolf | what I wish to gee you about.” on it, or, at least, I thought 1 could thing Phis, through many years of Larwa was really the cause of It. But he disregarded protest not put my welght on it; and [ felt jasrvice and wear, had acquired a long The, Tolattane the — men, “Who earned it? Eb? [ thought sure the log was broken. But the eee ie tte was Unusually cruel: trained and made tense by feuds, | so, Your father. You stand on dead cook wax after me, shouting through | tnen’s legs. You'vo never had any the leo galley door ‘our own, Let me see your hand “ Don't tyke all night} His tremendous, dormant strength re'a the pot? Lost, must have atirred, swiftly and accur- ve you right if yer ately, or IT must have te . pace ‘ He for before I know it he had stepped called up all my resolution, set/-——— = siaaieieiie is o paces forward, gripped my right my teoth, and hobbled be! id fo) ‘ rea in hin, and held it Up tor In- from galley torcain me nee Tt q deal of grumbling on their part, It @8 a cur is kicked. I had not realized “Then you read consciousness. You night. I'm busy with Hump, and spection, ‘Then Wolf Larsen dropped galley without further mishap, “Two eeemed that Johansen, in hin aleep, there could be so much pain in a read the consciousness of life that it you'll do the best you can without my hand with a filrt of disdain. things I had acquired by my acei- lived over each night the events of kick, 1 reeled away from him and 4s alive, but aull no further away, no him. Xiead men's hands have Kept {t dent—on injured ‘kneecap thee want 7 i Tee Senne Cie) pani A a aie erie euen ais ce ae PTT Centra tar th soft. Good for little else tt dish- undressed and from which L-auffered ‘26 ay. His incessant talking and fainting condition, Everything was How clearly he thought and how established, That night I sat Vashing and sculiion work for weary months, and the name of Shouting and bellowing of orders had swimming before my ey and he expressed what he thought’ table with the ci and the ty yale FAL Rael geek nausea overpowered From regarding me. curiously he ers, while 'T 1 said “thamp, vhich Wo! beens too ‘ turned sick. The 7 Pee eitaywel® (st Gans called the tra the wert, caren shad been too much for Wolf Lurven, who rie and T managed to crawl to the turned hia head and glanced out over on us und waxhed th Try, hal pay you whatever Sou fore and aft, Towne known byte Dad accordingly folsted the nuisance sidg of the vessel. But Wolf Larsen the leaden sea to windward. A bleak- Ward—a whim, a Caliban « pea yore your delay and trouble to be other name, until the term became a UPD his hunters. id not follow me up. Brushing the Bess came nto his eyes and the lines Wolf Larsen’s, and one 1 foresaw lim. Finally. iy sen part of my thought-processes and 1 After a sleepless night 1 arose, ashes from his clothes, he had re- of his mouth grew severe and harsh. would bring me trouble. In the mean ‘ously. Mock w sumed hi vi " , or a time and let the He looked at me curiously, ekery iMentinied is vith myself, thought of weak and in agony, to hobble through 4 his conversation with Hender- He was evidently in @ peasimiatic time we talked and talked, much to for me #0 a reat “4 \ , : shone in his ey myself as Hun work, as though Hum y second day on the Ghost. ‘Thomas *°)- mood. the diagust of the seal hunters, who t | was enduring from needs of the sailors, Whatever a Ane Ao Me eye tter proposition to were Land had aiwaya heen f ? Magture rated ime out at haltpast Later in the morning I received a (“Then to what end?" he demanded Could not understand a word sim ne “Mugridue becatise of the @alor purchases ie taken from. his ake, and for the good of your soul, — All the men must have seen my in the fashion that Bill #urprise of @ totally different sort, abruptly, turning back to me, “If I lays of favoritiem which had subsequent earnings on the sealing My mate's gone, and li be a lot condition, but not one spoke or took ist have routed out his dog; Pellowing the cook's instructions, 1 am immortal—why?" CHAPTER 111. heen shown me. Wolf Larsen regard- grounds; for, as it is with the hunt- of promot A ves aft to f me, till 1 was almost grat but Mr. Mugride’s brutality to me bad gone into Wolf Larse: 1 halted. How could 1 explain my i me with amiling ey ers, #0 it ia with the boat-pullers and at test 1 had shuddered Guarrels and grudges, were in a state Hit Th wok bor Of Unstable equilibrium, and evil rowed a) ston 1 Johansen and Passions dared up in flame liko prairie provesdad to sharpen the knife, He #rass. ‘| ee With great ostentation, glancing — Thomas Mugridge ts a sneak, a significantly at me the while, y, an informer. He has been at- Neveral days went by, the Ghoat tempting to curry favor and reinstate stil foaming down the trades, and Mimseif ia the good graces of the 1 could awear | aaw madness grow. Captain by carrying tales of the men ing a ‘Thomas M And forward, He it was, I know, that \ ecntoen thas tot carried some of Johnaon's hasty tall mach afraid, Whet, whet, whet to Wolf Larsen, — Johnaon, it seems, went all day long bought a suit of ollskina f the Neveral times Wolf Laraen tried to slop-chest and found them to Invelsio me into. dixccasion, but [ @Featly inferior quality, Nor was hi him short anawers and eluded slow in advertising the fact. The mmanded ma to slop-chest ia a sort of miniature at the cabin table foods store which ia carried by ok do my Sealing schooners and which ts OKIE, Fevewy Uline Tus TL PTT SST Se ERSTE eyed the whole Of the bunk, was a rack filed with something like the atrains of music ? ticles for the eriiixe, $20 per month bother you, You'll get used to such night) must have awakened one of books. 1 glanc take mate's pia y goes for= » Wolf Larsen later on (L was was paid back in kind and with in. T0om to put it to rights a idealism to this man? How could I HREE days of 4 tore ee you're afraid, eh?” he sneered. ateerers—in the place of wages they ‘atd to take satlor’ ace, and you s a dishes), when he said terest. The unnecessary noise he bed. Against the wall, 1 put into speech something felt, a } essed days of rest, are Yes,” E said defiantly and honest- receive a “lay,” a rate of eo much per take the cabin-boy’s place, sign the Don't let a little thing like that made (1 had lain wi | what I had with Wolf Lar- ty “tam afrdid skin for every skin captured in their cabia “That's the way with you fellow toover the: particular boat, noting heard in sleep, a something that con- rice iteacaditasetaanbaittis Sow Ww g y? And things in time, 1 ro ; 7 with astonishment such nan Vinced yet tr d fon, cating at the a But of J 4 found. Now what do you say? An es in time. It may cripple you the hunters, for a heavy shoe whissed With | a A ames is vd yet transcended utterance? he cried, half angrily, “sentimental ut of Johnson's grumbling at the y SRind “you, its for your own soul'® some, but all the same you'll be through the semi-datkness, and Mr, Shakespeare, Yennyson, Poo and De | “What do you believe, then? table and doing nothing but Ne cred. HAE Ni mortal soule and slop-chest 1 knew nothing, eo. that wake, It will be the making of vo learning to walk Mugridge, with a@ sharp howl of pain, Quincey, There were scientific works, tered. discuss Ife, literature and the Unie qfyaid to di At sight of @ sharp What l witnessed came with the ahock You might learn in time to wang, ton bat'a what you call a paradox, humb: begged everybody's pardon, 0% among which were re life is a me he verse the while ‘Thomas Mugridys knife and a cowardly Cockney the of a sudien surprise, I had just fin. he ad your own Ings and perhaps to Later on, in the L noticed that Men such as Tyndall, Proc answered promptly. clinging of life to life overcomes all ished sweeping the cabin and had been | dione a bit Ho seemed pleased when his ear was bruised and swollen, It Darwin. Astronomy a By the following morning the storm fMCd and raged and did my work Nee ad foolishness. Why my inveigled by Wolf Larsen into a dis- | “Pl give you a thousan Tbe- my head with the customa never Went back entirely to its nor. represented, and had blown Itself quite out and the Well as his own follow, vou Will live forever, cussion of Mamiet, his favorite nterrupted alr, mal shape, and was called @ “caull- fneh's “Age of Fable, st was rolling siightly on a calm “Watch out for squalls, is all 1 ean re a od, and God cannot be Shakespearian character, when Jo- - ’ “Stow tha you going “EL suppose you know a uaryoue duties as cabin boy? do literary things? Bh? Good, 1 YT have to take you in hand?” some talks with you sometime Be eevee tory of Buglish and American Litera ea without « breath of wit Oca. gay ou," te tana With miserable ture” and) Johnson's ural His- sional light aire were felt, however, 2) {° >! was tho warning of o Cooky) cannot. hurt you, hansen descended the | companion p of yo "1 mn, stairs follow The Phat taken my dried clothes tory” in two large volumes. ‘Then and Wolf Larsen patrotied the mony Mller, Louis, given during w spare You are sure of yout tenugrection. tite A mame att after the ane What was Ito do? To be brutally And then, taking no further account down from the galley the night be- there were a number of xrammars, constantly, his eyes ever searching Dalf hour on deck while Wolf Larsen Of nave eternal life before you, tom of the and he stood reapect- Daten, to be killed p ns, would of me, he Curned his back and went fore, and the first thing I did was to Such as Metcalf's, and Reed and Kel- the sea to the northeastward, from was engaged in straighten!ng out @ y,\, are a millionaire in immortality, fully in the centre of the cabin, sway- not hel cane, 1 looked steady up on deck. exchange the cook's garmenta for 10m8's; and J smiled ax t saw a copy which direction the great trade wind yow he h i) Thullionalre whose fortune can: Ing heavily and uneasily to the roll Po the crucl mray ey ey might My kneo was bothering meters them. 1 looked for my purse, In ads of “The Dean's English.” must blow, ee eeeeee TAL whattl bo happonin’."’ autbe lost, whose fortune is loss per- of the schooner and facing the cap- have been granite for all the Heht ribly, As well as Lt could make out, dition to some small chango (and I I could not reconcile these books ‘The men were all on deck and busy PR * ishable than the stars and as tasting tain, ‘and warmth of a human soul they tho kneecap seemed turned up on have a good memory for such things), with the man from what I had seen of preparing thelr various boat for the LOUlM Went on in response to my Oe ime, it ie ‘Shut the doors and draw the slide" aoa gined, Ono may seo the soul edgo in the midst of tho awelling, As it had $185 in gold and pa- him, and 1 wondered if he could pos- sason'n hunting. There are weven Query for hore dotinite information. Foy you to diminish your principal Woit Larsen said to me. stir in some men's s, but hiswere To sat in my bunk examining it (the per, The I found, but ite con- sibly read them, outs aboard, the captain's dingey ‘The man's as contrary as air cur- jimmortality is a thing without be- | As I obeyed I noticed an anxious nd gray as the sea six seal hunters were all in the steer- tents, with the exception of the amall — It was patent that this terrible man ni the six which the hunters will ae. Gurre 0 or end, Eternity ts eternity, Haht come into Johnson's eyes, but ing and talking in loud silver, had been abstracted. [spoke was no ignorant clod, such as one Use, ‘Three, a hunter, a bont-puller fonts OF Water currents. You Hii though you die here and now you I did not dream of Its cause. Tt did ces) Henderson took a passing to the cook about it when [went on would inevitably suppose him to be and a boat-steerer compose a boata BETer guess the ways iv bim Will geon living somewhere @lae and not dream of what was to occur until nea at it deck to take up my duties in the from his exhibitions of brutality, At crew. On board the schooner Just as you're thinkin’ you know him», tor And it ia all very beautiful, !t did occur, but he knew from the “Looks nusty,” he commented, "Tle ey, and though 1 had looked for- once he became an enigma, One side boat-pullers ai tecrera are the crew. and are makin’ a favorable slant this shaking off of flesh and soaring Very first what was coming and & reg around it and ivll be all right.” 1 to a surly answer [had not ex- or the other of his nature way per- The hunters, too, are supposed to be qiong him that he whirls around, of the imprisoned spirit, Cooky can- awaited it bravely. And in his action That was all; and on the land T pected the belligerent harangue that y comprehensible; but both sides In command of the watches, subject “ies “ ‘ vor hurt you. He can only give you I found complete refutation of all Would have been lying on the broat [ reeelved, ther were bewildering always to the orders of Wolf Larsen, dead ahead, and comes howlln’ down TOC On the path you eternally Wolf Lareen's materialism, The satlor of my back, with a surgeon attend. — He then put up his fists and started ‘This glimpse 1 had caugut of bis »A!! this, and more, U have learned. upon you and a-rippln’ all IY your fat tread. Jonnaon was awayed by idea, by prin- Humphrey Van ing on m 1 with strict injunes for me, To my sname be it, Leowered other side must have embuidoned me, TH® Ghost Is considered the fastest fne-weather salle to rags.” Tt was plain that T could look for no ciple, and truth, and aincerity. He ung but rest, But T away from the blow and ran out the for I resolved to speak to him abous “Chooner in both the San Franciaco 5. 4 way not Jtogether surprised help or merey from) Wolf Larsen, was right, he knew he was and jo these men justice. galley door, What else was T to do? the money I had lost. and Victoria fleete, ayy a Whatever wan to be done I must do he waa unafraid. He would die for y my suffering, Force, nothing but force, obtained on st naye been robbed," 1 said to him, , MY bands bothered mea great deal, When the squall foretold by Louie pone and out of the courage of the right If needs be, he would be sus to their own this brute-ship, Moral sunsion Wa% & 4 jiete later, when 1 found him py ; unused as they were to work, The smote me W ad been having @ four LT evolved the plan of fighting true to himself, sincere in his soul Jearn your duties when anything befell them. thing unknown. Picture it to yourself: dowh the poop alone. Ly nails were discolored and bluck, while beated discussion upon life, of course nos Mugridge with his own weap- And in thie was portrayed the vic- ‘And thus tt was that | passed into As T lay there thinking, [naturally a man of ordinary stature, sieader of “Y. hg Gorseoled; Dot harshly: the skin was already grained with —and, grown overboid, | Was passing ons | borrowed & whetstone from tory of the spirit over the flesh, the @tate of involuntary servitude to dwelt upon myself and my situation, build, and with weak, undeveloped sternly . * dirt which even a scrubbing brush stiff strictures upon Wolf Larsen and Johansen, Louis, the boat steerer, had Indomitability and moral grandeur of olf Larsen, captain of the sealing It was unparalleled, undreamed of, mus who had lived @ peaceful, “sr “have deen robbed, sir) p “Uuld not remove, Then blisters the life of Wolf In fact, | already begged me for condensed milk the soul that knows no restriction ‘hooner Gho! He was stronger that Humphrey y pitte: fe and was unused to violenc amended. 1. came, in @ painful and never-ending was vivisecting him and tur K over suger, ‘I lazarette, where auch and rises above time and space and than I, that was all. But it wasvery scholar and dilettante, if you ples of any sort—what could such a man “UNS ie happen?” he asked. d Thad a great burn on his soul-stuft as koonly and thorough- jcacies were stored, was matter with @ surety and invincibie- Unreal at the time. It is no less un- in things artistic and literary, should possibly do? There was no more rea- Then 1 told hi Lai whole clroup> forearm, acquired by losing my ly as it was his custom to do it to beneath the cabin floor, ness born of nothing @lae than eter- real now that I look back upon it. It be lying here on a Bering Sea seal son that I should stand and face there geanen Row mh tothes hed been tore Naance in a roll of the ship and pitch- gthers, It may be « weakness of my chance, [ tol five cans of the nity and immortality be to me a monstrous, hunting schooner, Cabin boy! Thad human beasts than that [should i by 1 tg against the galley stove, Nor was mine that [ have an incisive way of milk, and that night when it was But to return. T noticed the a age, sme y eae must as th #That'll do. e cook and were SS. ht- never do vb abe . ri ( ° to dry in the galley, and how, lay my knee any better, The awellin ec a " yada’ vatch on dec! traded t n fous lieht in Johnson’ \ inconceivable thing, @ ROFFIBlO MIEN Tn tabor in my iter Thad lived van T ARCuEht it aut at the the. feel. Wa# Hearly beaten by the cook When had not gone down and the cap was (Peectin daly Ce Mal heated Math With nine tora dick aa leanvand crust took iC forthe native shyness “aed t What happened to me next on the a placid, uneventful, sedentary ex- ing the nead of vindication and desir. 2 mentioned the matte: still up on edge. Hobbling about on the whole man of him was snarling. looking as Thomas Mugridge'’s veges embarrassment of the man, The ' sealing schooner Ghost, as 1 strove to Intence ll my days—the lite of & Ing tobe at peace with my conscience, , fie nmlled at my ecltal rickings.’ {1 from morning to night was not ‘Tio dark auli-bronee of hia face went table knife. It was rusty and dull, but mate, Johansen, stood away. several ; ’ t+ scho! dl rec! an ¢ rindleatic 3 Ce s. ita Vhat T needed was ce ‘ 4 We ed the grindste le Louls feet to th W) cook, who was called “the doctor” by athletic sports had never appealed to hood to look back upon these évents NYC [ne prin’ tmnidess master tf Rest! I never before knew the sanity in them nothing but the ter. than usual that night i Larsen on one of the pivotal cabin : the erew, “Tommy” by the hunters me. Thad always been a bookworm: and feel entirely exonerated, ning after breakfast Thoms ch mes of the ‘dd. had e le of ma Next ni Pand “Cooky" by Wolf Larsen, ab- so my sisters and father had called —T cama back and went on with my {&S® care LWA Sane Pie eeaene Pea all ay {Ife kod GIA tae hace Ga NTH thant aay, and’a mae an Music began hia whet, whe sixted upon my addressing me during my childhoad, I hack work; and here the episode ended for erat’ shail iy it whet Calmly, though my rt wos Ory te Murridge, and hin bee sone camping but onice in my life, 4 though. furthe Gone. ts AVF yolk. OF Your “business f, Kolng pltapat, 1 pulled out Loule's dirk nd bie be am ning may nd the tin 1 evelop- agent.” At last, after three days of variable ina with a halter Apat, X pulled out Louies irk ro inated fully havior and carriage were insufferab! i eft the party almost at its ments were yet to take place set aa r fe winds, we caught the northeast &Tipping my arm had steeled my nto whe! eo stone, en by olf Larsen, as he showed me my duties. Besides start and returne { could feel the quiet sneer through 4 dd for alm: t of ox Yonson,” hr began. to the comforts and the breakfast table in the cabin, and i " cin trades. T came on deck, after a good #élf to brazen tt out, though Twas 1 Baan ane ae cabin, with ita four convenie his words, but demanded, “How can i van the Cock bul My names Ie OeRnaom ale Ane irs, An appreciable pause fel) I had closed the doors and wn the slide, a pause that rust e lasted fully a minute, It war ft sof a roof, And here T at 7 o'clock waited on the hunters and H night's rest in trembling inwardly, but the enormous Hite of my poor kne 1 get it back again? , dreary less vista. Th 4 rear ol 1 ‘ irprise he did not appear aware @uilor boldly correct small staterooms, I was supposed t with dreary and endless vistas officers. The storm had evidently bro- | i ra ven't to find the Ghost foaming. along, strength of the man was too much Wy sur sailor boldly correc be his assistant in the galley, and my re ome of table sotting, potato ken during the night, though a huge ,,7pats your lookout, | You havent tt yng and every sail draw, fF my fortitude, He had gripped of what lwasdolug, He wenton whats “Weil, Johnson, then, damn colossal ignorance concerning such perling and dishwashing sea was still running and a stiff wing Sty lawyer o , jibe, with freak Me bY the biceps with hie single Nis knife. So did 1 And for two Can you guess wh N e sit there, face to face, WHE, your" © FP nars' $n Hill the news of it spread Yes and no, sir.” was the sh ad ne he slow re nd half the ship's company ply, “My work is done well, Th: ity o depend. on yourself, Ink except 1 Tian Fay kal’ g Walbe harcore le iatern., Oh, the wonder ofthe hand, and when that grip. thehte T wilted and shrieked aloud. My fe went out from under me Tsing And Twas not stre ay things as peeling pe es or Washing greary pota was a source of unending 1 dind sai ctastic wonder to him, fo re- s ‘The doctors blowing, Sail had been made in the When ¢ a hana On te th tT ha rey carly wat hes, # t the host was When you ast 9 tollar hang on ee Rreat trade-wind! All day: we sailed fon, Du 4 raclng along under everything excep! Bey by ia’ dauary and all night, and the next day, and Was ¢ t Fused to take Into consideration what ne ved ft Or omy hedy the two topsails and the flying Sib. round eke he aa pa ary CARD Attar AY, the wit ne could not stand upright and endure 4 wading the galley doors to se: mate knows that, and you know it o ‘and blowing steadily the agony. The muscles refused these "he Men sir, So there cannot be any com duty, The pain was too great My (HUC ho@ing happened. At the end fiiint biceps waa being crushed to a pulp. f two hours Thomas Mugeidae put Tle se ed rec r himself, for a way k h and stone and beld out team came into bis eyes, and dia hands. ed his hold with a short laugh Wows like a growl I foil t abr } was or, rather, what my Ife and through exercise. My muscles were These three sii the things I was accustomed to had small and soft, like a woman's, or so been, This was part of the attitude the doctors hud ead time and’ again chose to adopt toward me; and nthe course of their attempts to per= also, that Wolf Taraen was anxtousto piace ortal soul in. jeopard Pe. fesa ere the day was dono, that I sunlo mato eo infor physical culture make the Moat cf the storm, whicn Puna bis min ae alta inthe tee shated him with more lively feelings fads. Fut Thad preferred to use my was driving him to the southwest mortal soul?” than Thad ever hated any one in my head rather than my boty: and here into that portion of the sea where 'iie ide lifted lazily T gathered from tho have no right to put temptation in the were to be wet imme way of your fellow-creatures, You breakfast. T learned, tempted Cooky and he fell. You have i@ that all?” Wolf Larsen I think Wo ‘s nk itt . his voice soft and low and Lat least, what of and vagaries, At oe ohim for a great ) & genius who has new sel f mykin’ a toly rothem mugs know you have it in for me.” Johnson continued, with his unalt that _was mor he asked the X ved. the foo: very fomanded. ‘They don't love. us, 1 : Hie beto T waa, no ndition for the jie expected to pick up with the 44 ‘ed that the hee ' beatles that na the floor, feeling very faint, while he ‘ y » able and ponderous elowness. ‘You This first day was mado more diff rough life tn prosnect northeast trades, Tt wam before this Gere opening tome end that 1 was in the perfect ‘type et the priaiive SA ytiwhe lighted a vlgar ant and blowdy | well glad thoy'd be do ‘not like me... Youyou It for mo from the fact that the rE ~~ steady wind that he hoped to make gazing into his soul, But it was an man, born a thousand yours or gene we hed’ me as ee en i sv ) 1 i) AOR e Yer i Wolf Larsen pro: Rost, under close rears forms such CHAPTER II the major portion of the run to Japan. fitusion. Far as it might have seemed, erations too late and an anachroniam fu2ule) As 1 welthed Pin) i apt eeu ye ae rn't be afraid of my feelings.” these I did not learn till late 2 if J curving south Into the troptes ant no man has ever seen very far into in this culminating century of civili+ Ny, spunk, as you Yanks s'y, an’ ft Uke +t am not afraid,” the sailor: re firat night In the hunters’ north again as he approached the Wolf Larsen's remeen It at all zation that aieatinn: ther yee came an an’ ahyke.” torted, a alight angry flush risin i Buealicd an ‘0 ster steorage was also my tast, Coast of Asia of this 1am convinced, It was avery One day, again, he lured me into Ne ee ete rem a evard that 1 might be, | was leas through hie sunburn, “It T apeak alt past five, under his directions, | Noxt day Johansen, the new _ After breakfast T had another un- fonely soul, 1 was to learn, that never a talk on photography, and the theme aii anane oe to ' ee a ee deat Tt cetuatnice fast. it te because T have not been wet the table in the cabin, with rough ; nAARR, enviable experience. When T had fin- unmasked, though at rare moments it «hifted to literature. | So interested | “Asatly erawted to my feet and Sictery | had kained, and f refused to from the old country as long as you. feather trays in place, and then ex hiate, was routed from the [shed washing the dishes T cleaned the played at doing 80, did he become in our discussion that ascended the companion ataire, Falr of it by shaking his de- You do not like me “ecause Tam ried the tea and cooked food dow cabin by Wolf Larsen and cabin stove and carried the ashes up — “T read immortality In your eye: he kept me talking for an hour or weather w uae, and Thad whe » hand . too much of a man; that la why, air, from the galley. fn this conection T cane into the steerage to sleep there. On deck to empty them, Wolf Larsen anawered, dropping the “ an ex: more there in his cabin nothing left hut to return to the gal right 1 pritelessly, “You are too much of a man for » Beannot forbear relating my frat ese oe eb took possession of the “id Henderson were standing near tha periment, for ¥ thought the intimacy ‘Time passed. Supper was at hand jey. My. left arm. was numb, as rieave it, Til like yer none ship discipline, if that is what you y rience With a buarding sea efter, while » ion of the iv aversation, I passed of the conversation warranted it and the table not laid. I became though parcvged. and days pasned t! ric’ And to save his face mean, and if you know what I mean,” “Look sha * you'll get doused," tiny cabin stateroom, wh on the } nand the hunter and — He took no notice. * restiess and anxious, and when Mug: PT oconld use tt, while weeks fe turned Cercely n the onlookers. was Wolf Larsen's retort. s Mr. Mugrids: arting injune- first day of the voyage, had already flung the ashes over the side to wind- something tha ridge glared down the companion: went by before the last stiffness and Get outa omy doors, you “i know English, and I know what ton, as T left the galley with a big nag two occupants, The reason for Wart. ‘The wind drove them back, that necessarily does not have to live way, sick and angry of countenance, pain wi ut oof it. And he had bloomin’ swabs!” you_ mean, sir," Johnson answered, bot in one hand and in the hollow |) pe eset 1 by And not only over me, but over Hen: I prepared to go About my duties done nothing but put hie hand upon — “E sea Cooky's finish,” TL beard a his flush deepening at the alur on his the other arm several loaves of this change was quickly learned by Gerson and Wolf Larsen, The next read more than that,” I continued But Wolf Larsen cried out to him: my arm and squeeze, There had sailor named Smoke to Horner. knowledge of the English la: Daked bread, One of the seal the huntem, and became the cause of instant the latter kicked me, violently, bojdly. “Cooky, you've got to hustle to- been no wrenching or jerking, He "You bet,” was the reply, “Hump (To Be Continud.) en | . 7 wanes Aaah