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WB dnd bo ARM sat tse ee od 8 CHAPTER VII. CAME on deck to find Ghost bevding up close the port tack and cutting ip to windward of a faut far apritsatl close-hauled on the aame tack abeud of us All lands were on deck, for they knew that something was lo bhaypen when Loach ead Jobnson were dragged Bt was four bolls, Louis to relieve the whoo, ‘There was dampness in the air, and 1 noticed he hed on bis vilskins. “What are you going to have? I asked hii. “A healthy young slip of a gale from the breath tv it, air,” he answered, “with a splatter iv rain just to wet our gs an’ no more.” “Too bad we sighted them,” I sald, ae the Ghost's bow was flung off a polat by @ large sea and the boat leaped for a moment past the Jibs and into our line of vision, Louls gave 4 #poke and temporized, "They'd never iv made the land, sir, Vm thinkin’, “Think not?” I querted. “No, air. Did you feel that? (A puff hud caught the schooner, and he Was forced to put the wheel up rapidly to keep her out of the wind) Tis NO o*E-sholl’ll float on this sea an hour come, an’ it's a stroke iv luck for than wo're here to pick ‘em up.” Wolf Larsen strode aft from amld- ships, where be bud been talking with the rescued mon. ‘Mie catlike spring!- ness in bis tread was a little more pronounced than us and bis eyes ‘were bright and snappy. For the bout containing Leach and Johnson bad just been sighted “Those four men in the boat with the lady are three oilers and a fourth 1,” was his grecting, “But we'll make suilors out of them, or boat-pullers at apy rate. Now, ewbat of the lady? 1 know not why, but I was aware of @ twinge or pang, like the cut of @ ife, when he mentioned hor. [ hought it a certain silly fastidious- Ress on my part, but It persisted tn epite of me, and I merely shrugged shoulders in answer, folf Larsen pursed his lips in @ 101 quizzical whistle, “What’a her name, thea?” he de- manded. “I don't know,” I replied. “She te » Bhe wae very tired. In fact, T am waiting to hear the news from you. What vessel was it?” “Mail steamer,” he answered 4 shortly. “The City of Tokio, from Frisco, bound for Yokohama, Dis- abled in that typhoon. Old tub. Opened up top and bottom like a sieve. They were adrift four days. And you don't know who or what she is, eh —maid, wife or widow? Weill, ‘He shook his head in a bantering way, and regarded mo with laughing oy: re you"—I began. It was on the verge of my tongue to ask if he were going to take the castaways in to YoRohama. “Am I what?” he asked. at do you intend doing with Leach and Johnson?" He shook his head, “Really, Hump, I don't know. You see, with these additions I'vo about all the crew L want.” ‘And they'vo about all the escaping they want,” 1 said. “Why not give them a change of treatment? Take them aboard, and deal gently with them, Whatoyer they have done they wang hounded into doing.” you,” I answered, steadily. “And, I give you warning, Wolf Lar- een, that I may forget love of my own life in the desire to kill you if you go too far in maltreating those poor wretches.” “Bravo!” he cried. “You do proud, Hump! You've found your legs with a vengeance. You're quite an individual, You were unfortunate in having your life cast in easy 8, but you're developing, and L Uke you tho better for it.” His voice and expression changed. His face was serious. “Do you be- evo in promises?” he asked. “Are they sacred things?” “Of course,” | answered, “Then here's a comp: went on, consummate actor that he was. “If I promise not to lay my hands upon Leach and Johnson, will you Promise, in turn, not to attempt to kill me? Oh, not that I'm afraid of you, not that I'm afraid of you,” he hastened to add. T could hardly What was coming “Ia it a go?" he “A go," 1 answere His hand went out to mine, and as I shook it heartily I could have sworn T saw the mocking devil shine up for @ moment in his eyes, The boat with Leach and Johnson in it was close to us now. It was aleak and at every moment seemed about to sink under the great combers me belleve my ears, over the man? ked linpatiently, a that threatened, Twas certain that Larsen would put about and pick tham up. Instead, at his orders, we hove to and ran away, and evor astern the struggling ed wkyward and fell valleys, It quarter of 1 mile away eqall of vain veiled it fr: never emerged. Tho wind blew the air clear again, but no patch of sail yreke the troubled surface, I thought @aw, for an instant, the boat's bot- show black in a breaking crest, best, that was all, For Johu- i Pr ort the travail of existence wh The Evening World Daily Magazine. Wednesda Rees, UR Ener nH ne np RP enenen weep THE Si/ W OLF) An Ocean Tale of Peril rd of Wild Adventure By JACK LONDON}! MUNA bh Rd MADE NO prominet” 1 i bot thinking . shen | made t o anewe And anyway, you'll) scree Tee not lad my bands upon ‘ tum tbe laughed « moment e ' inoar 1 was too eon @ time to think, Eke sleeping even now im the * cable we responathility | whieh | must bonsider, and the onty! * hat Mekered| through my mond was Chat Tmust do ® to be any phere CHAPTER 1X | We remainder of day poxsed uneventt rhe! young slip of « gale, having wetted our gills, proceeded | » moderate, The fourth, cincer and the three oilers, after al warm interview with Wolf Larsen, Were furnished with outfits from the slop-c is, asalgned places under the | hunters in the various boate and watehes on the vessel, and bundled | forward into the forecastle, They went protestingly, but thelr voices were not loud. They were awed by | what they had already seen of Woit Larsen's character, while the tale of woo they speedily heard in the fore. | wile took the last bit of rebellion | out of them | Miss Hrewster—-we had learned her name from tho engineer—slept on on | Was not ti next morning that she made her appearance, it had boon my intention to bave her meals | served apart, but Wolf Larsen put | down bis foot Who was she that #he would be too good for cabin table and cabin society? Mad been hie} demand, “And when a we ive at Yokohama?" she asked L As abe sat dinner, turning to him and lo him squarely in the eyes, “In four months, possibly three if! the season closes early,” Wolt Lar- wen suid. | She caught her bre, i mered, “L thougnt—L understand that Yokohi only a day's sail away. It"—Here she Daused and looked about the table ut the circles of unsympathetic faces staring hard at the plates, right,” she concluded. hat is @ question you must settle with Mr. Van Weyden there,” he re- pled, nodding to ine with a michiev- ous twinkle. “Sr, Van Weyden is what you may call an authority on such things as right, Now I, who am only @ sailor, would look upon the situation “It is not somewhat differently. It may pos- sibly be your misfortune that you have to remain with us, but it is regarded her smilingly. Her eyes fell before his gaze, but sho Hfted them again, defiantly, to mine. I read the unspoken question Gere. was it rigut? Buc T naa ae- cided that the part I was to play must be @ neutral one, so t did not answer. sWhat do you think?” she de- Jed “That it is unfortunate, especially if you have any engagements ling duo in the course of the next several months. But, since you say that you were voyaging to Japan for your heaith, L can assure you that it will improve no better anywhere than aboard the Ghost." T saw her oye: sh with Indigna- tion, and this time it was 1 who dropped mine, while I felt my face flushing under her gaze. It was cow- ardly, Dut what else could I do? “Mr. Van Weyden speaks with the voice of authority,” Wolf Larsen laughed I nodded my head, and she, having recovered herself, waited expectantly. “Not that he is much to speak of now," Wolf Larsen went on, “but he improved wonderfully, You should have seen him when he came aboard, A more scrawny, pitiful specimen of humanity one could hardly concolve, Isn't that so, Kerfoot?" Kerfoot, thus directly addressed, was startled into dropping h's knife on tho fi thoush he managed to grunt att on. “Develo inself by peeling po- tatoes and washing dishes, Eh, Ker- foot?" Again that worthy grunted. “Look at nim now, True, he ts not what you would term muscular, but still he has muscles, which is more than he had when he came aboard, Also, he has legs to stand on. You would not think so to look at hin, but he quite unable to stand Tho huntera were snickering, but e jooked at me with @ sympathy in her eyes Which more than compen- sated for Wolf Larsen’s nastiness, In truth, 1t had been so long since I had received sympathy that 1 was soft. on and L became then, and gladly, her willing slave, But I was angry with Wolf Larsen, He was challen| ing my manhood with his slurs, chal- jenging the very legs he claimed to be instrumental in getting for me, “Lt may have loarned to stand on my legs,” L retorted, “But I have yet to stump upon others with them.’ He looked at me insolently, educ “Your tion i# only half completed, ‘he sald dryly, and turned to “We are very hospitable upon the Ghost. Mr. Van Weyden has discov. ered that, We do everything to make our guests feel at home, eb, Mr, Van Weyden?” “Even to the peeling of potatoes and the washing of mshe an- swered, “to say nothing of wringing their necks out of very fellowship,” “L bog of you not to receive false {us from Mr. Van Wey- posed with mock anxi- Miss Brew- ho carries a dirk in his bolt, a most unusual thing for a “You will observe, th hem officer to do, While reaily very estimable, Mr, Van Wayden is some- times~how shail [ say?—er—quarrel- some, ar 2d harsh measures are neces- + quite reasonable and fair in his calm moments, and as he calm now he will not deny th yesterday he threatened my life 1 was wellynieh choking, and my fLop It Off! eyes were certainly He drew attention to me. “Look at him now. He can scarcely control himself in your presence. He is not accustumed to the presence of ladies, anyway. IL shall have to arm yee before I dare go on deck with him.” He shook his head sadly, muraur- Ing, “Too bad, too bad,” while the hunters burst tnto guffaws of Jaugh- ter. Have you ever earned a dollar by your own labor?” he demanded, cer- tain of her answer, a triumphant vin- dictiveness in bis voice, es | tery. swered slowly, and Leould have ‘inughed aloud at his crestfallen lL remember my a dollar onoe, when maining abso- tes,” To smiled Indulgentiy “But that was long ago,” ehe con- tinued. “And you would scarcely de- mand a little girl of nine to earn ber own living.” “At presen however,” she satd, after another slight pause, “I earn about eighteen hundred Jollarea a year.” With one acoord, all eyes left the plates and settled on her. A woman rn earned eighteen hundred dollars was worth looking at. Wolf tat en was undisguised in his admir- ation. “Salary or pio “Piece — work, promptly. “Eightoen hundred,” he calculated. “That's a hundred and fifty dollars a work?" he asked. she = anawered month, Well, Miss Brewster, there is nothing small about the Ghost. Con- sider yourself on salary during the time you remain with us.” She made no acknowledgment. She Was too unused as yet to the whims of the man to acoept them with equa- nimity. “L forgot to inquire," he went on suavely, “as to the nature of your occupation, What commodities do you turn out? What tools and ma- terials do you require?” “Paper and ink,” she laughed, “And oh! also a typewriter.” “You are Maud Brewster," I slowly and with certainty, almost though I were charging her with a crime, Her eyes lifted curiously to mine, “How dé you know? “Aren't you?" I demanded, She acknowledged her identity with a nod. It was Wolf Larsen's turn to be puzzled, The name and its magic signiied nothing to him, 1 was proud that it did mean something to me, and for the first time in a weary while I was convincingly conscious of @ superiority over hit. “I remember writing a review of a thin little volume’—— | had begua, carelessly, When she interrupted me: “You!” ‘she cried. "You are’~ She was now staring at me in wide eyed wonder, I nodded my identity, in turn, “Humphrey Van Woyden,” she con- cluded; then added with @ sigh of relief, and unaware that she had glanced that relief at Wolf Larsen, “Iam so glad,” “I remember the review," she went on, hastily, becoming aware of the awkwardness of her remark; “that too, too flattering review.” ot at ail,” I denied, valiantly. “You tmpeach my sober judgment and make my canons of little worth. Besides, all my brother critics were with me. Didn't Lang include your ‘Kiss Endured’ among the four su- preme sonnets by Women in the Eng- lish language?” “You are very Kind, T am sure,” she murmured; and the very conven- tionality of her tones and words, with the host of associations it aroused of tho old life on the other side of the world, gave mo a quic thrill-rich with inging sharp wit “And M sald, § ross at her And vou are Sram ey Van Weys n,”’ she said, gazing back at me with equal solemnity and awe. How unusual! I don't understand, We sirely ara not to arnant same wildlv romantic sea-story from your sobet No, Lam not gathering n assure you,” was ny answe nelther aptitude nor fiction.” “Tell me, why have you buried yourseif in Culifornia? next asked, ‘lt ha of you. We of the very ttle of you evial, | . “b have inclination for always 1° not been kind East have aeen vO little, Indes of the Dean of American Letters, the Second." I bowed to, and discliimed, the compliment. “L nearly met you once in Philadelphia, some Browning affale or other—you were to lec know, My train wan four hours lat And then we quite forgot where w were, leaving Wolf Larsen stra and silent in the midst of our flood of govsip, The tara left the table and went on deck, and still we talked, Woit Larsen alone remained, Sud- denly L became aware of him, leaning back from the table and itstening curiously to our alien speech of a 3 world he did not know. I broke short off in the middle of a sentence, The present, with all tts perils and anxieties, rushed upon me with stunning for It smote Miss Browster likcwise, @ vue and name less terror rushing into her eyes ay she regarded Wolf Larsen. He rose to his feet and laughed awkwardly, The sound of it was metallic, “Oh, don't mind me," he said, with a self-depreciatory wave of his hand. “L don't count. Go on, go on, I pray you.” But the gates of speech were closed, and we, too, rose from the table and laughed awkwardly. CHAPTER | x. ARSEN, to wreak his chagrin on some one, went to the galley, There he professed } to find the place too greasy for his task, and be ordered poor Mugridge “towed In other words, the luckless cook was fastened to @ ropo and cast overboard. Fifty or sixty feet of rope were paid out, and Mugridge was thus towed be- hind the vessel. ‘The crew were howling with laugh- ter at his splashing etruggies, when Maud Brewstor came on deck, “What is the cause of the merri- ment?” she asked me. “Ask Captain Larsen," I answered composedly and coldly, though in- wardly my blood was boiling at the thought that she should be witness to such brutality. She took my advice and was turn- lug to put it into execution, when her eyes lighted on Oofty-Oofty, the Kanaka sailor, immediately before her, his body instinct with alertness and grace us he held the turn of the rope, Are you Ashingt she asked him. y, He made no His eyes, fixed intently on the sea astern, suddenly ‘Shark ho, sir!” he cried, ‘Heave in! Lively! All hande tail on!" Wolf Larsen shouted, springing himself to the rope in advance of the quickest, Mugridgo had heard tho Kanaka’e warning cry and was screaming madly, I could see a black fin cutting the r and making for him with greater swiftness than he was being Pulled aboard, It was an even toss whether the shark or we would get him, and it was a matter of mo- ments, When Mugridge was directly beneath ua, the atern descended the slope of a passing wave, thus giving vantage to the shark, The fin die appeared, The belly flashed white tn a swift ipward rush. Almont equally @wvift, but not quite, was Wolf Lur- gen. He threw his strength tnto one tremendous jerk, Cockney's body left the water; fo did part of the shark's, He drew up his legs, and the man-eater seemed no more than barely to to touch one font aining heal into the wetes ut With a splash. But of eontact Thomas Mus out. Then he came in | caught fish on a line, clea generously and striking a heap, om hands and kne ing over. But @ fountain of biovd ing forth, ing, 1 looked Her fac with hor was white, r She was pai her The right foot was amputated neatly at instantly to Maud Brewster, at the moment ridge cried ike a fresh ring the rail th ck ia #, and roll- h. 1 was gus 8 the ankle, eyes dilated wing, not at Thomas Mugridge, but at, Wolf Lar won, And he was aware sald, with one of tans p what rougher, you have been L warrant, used ark was not oning. But at this juncture, Mugridxe, who ‘taln had lifted his head and the exte on the dev Wolf Larsen’s leg. Wi stooped, cvolly, to the Cockney, of it, for he his short laughs: » Miss Brewster. Some- than what to, but still—aman in the ree t of his loss, floundered over k and buried his teeth in ‘olf Larsen and pressed with thumb and finger at ths rear of the jaws and below the cara. ‘The jaws opened with reluctance and Wolf Larsen stepped free, “As | was saying,” he went on, as though nothing unwonted had hap pened, “the shark was not in the reckoning. 1 WaS-~ahem—shail we say Provid 7 Will you get a tour niquet, Mr, Van Weyden?” 1 hesi tated. Mand Brewater's lips moved, and though they formed no words, she commanded me with her eyes, plainly * as speech, to go to the hel p of the un fortunate inan. “Please,” she man o whisper, and E could but obey. now [had developed such skill at surgery that Wolf Larsen, with a few words of advice, left ‘me to my task with a couple of sailors for as- tants. For his task he elected a vengennce on the shark, A heavy awivel hook, baited with fat salt pork, was dropped overaide; and by the ‘time 1 had compressed the severed veins and arteries the sailors were singing and heaving In the of fending monster, T did not seo it my- self, but my assistants, first one and then the other, deserted me for a few moments to run amidships and look at what was going on, The shark, @ sixteen-footer, was hoisted up against the main rigxing, Ite jaw: is were pried apart to their greatest extension and a stout stake, sharpened at both ends, was ao inserted that when the pri were removed the spread jaws we fixed upon it, This ac hook was cut out. back into the sea, helple its full strength, doomed starvation--a living deat for it than for the man tho punishment, CHAPTER KNEW what it came toward om minutes IT had watched talking earnest! nplished, ‘Tho shark dropped as, yet with to Mngering h lows meet who devised was as sho me. For ten her y with the engineer, and now, with a sign for silence, I drew rahot of the helmsman. “What is it?” [ asked her out of gently “T can readily understand,” she be- gan, Jargely an accident; but talking with Mr, Haskin: » that this morning's affair was 1 have been s. He telis me that the day we were rascued, even while I was in the cabin, two drowned, deliberately There was 4 query in her volee, and she faced me accusingly, as though [ were guilty of the deed, or at least a party to it. “The information is quite correct,” I answered, dered.” “And you permitted it!" “LE was unable to prevent ter way of phrasing it,” 1 wently “But yout was an emph 4 pleading “Oh, but to preven sis on tho ittle note in you didn't, on, givining my answe “The two mea were mur sho orled it, is a bet. replied, still tit There ay i and vo! he hurried “But why y. May 5S. Ey Robert Minor’ Ste. JACKS 30 “nh did ne to weet denied « alin "We ware talking of Harris to Wolf Larsen Oh, you be acknow ! remember the Norge’ Willed witb etty sentiments and an air faith in human lusions Mr. Van Weyden, yo on Cooky Hee complal lene” nr anty Hy the way better look (6 ing and rest reture d when t did I was » Mine Hrewator in animated con n Wolt Larsen Ast 1 grained me whe was following my advice And yet | was cots f a slight shook of hurt | was able t lo th orto do and she had notabl ! CHAPTER X11. RAVE win biowing fair, awiftiy drove the Ghost northward into ¢ weal herd Wa encountered it well up to the ath lol, Ina raw and stormy sea across which “ the wind harried the fog banks tn ternal Might For days at a time we could never the min nor take an vation, (hen the wind would of the ocean cleag, would ripple and flash, and jeatn where we were. A r weather might follow, ye or four, and then the face aweap the he waves we would day of « forty hours su ing the discovery of my Maud Brewster. 1, who had lived my life in quiet places, only to enter at the age of thirty-five upon & courme of the most irrational adventure I could have imagined, never had more Incident and exette mont crammed inte ny forty hours of my experience can TE quite close my earth to a& sinall voice of pride which tells mo f did not do 6 love Keed my shoulders. “You must remember, Miss Brewster, thet Jou ure w new inhabitant of this Little world, and that you do not yet un- dorsiund the laws which operate with- in it. You bring with you certain fine conceptions of humanity, man- hood, conduct, and such things; but padiy, all things considered, here you will find them misconcep- ‘That day at dinner Larsen informed tions, T have found It so," 1 added, the hunters that henceforth they were an involuntary sigh, to eat In the steerage, As they were 6 shook her head incredulously, looking blankly at lim the cry came would you advise, then?” ET trom the de That 1 should take @ kalfe, eyo or a gun, or an axe, and Kill this How's at bear?” Wolf Larsen man?” Nhe half started back. ws “No, not that!” b !an," “Thon what should bdo? Kill my 1iMa'oe WA Wasa eee Cameras 1¢?" lis worda brought anstety tuto the You speak in pur _materiallgtle faces of the other hunters, A Rus- terms.” she objec! here is such sian could meam nothing but one @ thing a# moral courage, and moval thing—a cruiser, The hunters, never is never without effect more than roughly aware of the poal- ." L smiled, “you advise me to tion of the ship, nevertheless knew Kill neither him nor myself, but to let that we were close to the boundaries him kill me." I held up my hand as of the forbidden yea, while Wolf she about to speak. age is a worthl Hittio foating worl the men who w moral courage to an unusual degree, So had the other man, Johnson, Not only did it not stand them in good stead, but it destroyed them, And #0 with me if f should exercise what lit- Ue moral courage 1 may poasess, “You must understand, Miss Brew ter, and understand clearly, that this man is a monster, Fle ts without con- science. Nothing t# @acred to him, nothing t# too terrible for him to do, It was due to his whim that 1 was detained aboard in the first place. It is due to his whim that [am still alive, 1 do nothing, can do nothing, because am a sieve to this monster, a8 you if now @ slave to him; because I de- sire to dive, as you will desire to liv dead safe,” he assured them laugh, “No salt mines thin Hut Pil tell you what—l'll lay with time odds of 5 to | it's my brother, Death Larsen's, Macedonia, No one accepted his offer, and he in witch event, Fit lay 10 trouble breeging up. thank you," Latimer spoke "I don't object to losing my money, but I like to get # run for ft, anyway. There never was a time whon there waan't trouble when you and that brother of yours got to- wether, and I'll lay 20 to 1 on that.” A genera) amilo followed, in which Wolf Larsen joined, and the dinner went on smoothly, thanks to me, for ho treated me abominally the rest of the meal, aneeriig at mo and patron- WENT WEEN’S COMPLETE NOVEL IM THE EVENING fog would settle down upon us, seem fogly thicker than ever I, Humphrey Van Weyden, was i love! And the woman | loved wa Maud Brewat \ Among the most vivid memorios of my lifs are those of the events on the Ghost which occurred during the eos N GREGORY » made theme days th r Fr Lving 1 devermined by e money he posemes w my peree steaks ash J Who steals my purse stole live, was the reply ines to go around, when men have om ie feos (hey wmnally die, and die amie iy Uniows they are able to fill (heir purses pretty speadily,” Hutt fall to seo That this steamer any designs on y: Wait and you will ae,” carried fe a to our five, (we wore one short) and she began dropping them athwart our and fini them far te windward weather beat. The hy for us, wae spotied. There were no seals behind us, and aleed of us the line of fourtees boats, lke a huge Broom, ewept the herd before i Our boats hunted geroms the (we oF opped, for home, ‘The wind had fallen to rf, the Croan Was gr rut imer, and this, eow with of the great herd, made a perfect hunting day—one of the twe ov three days to be encountéred in the whois of a lucky @eanon, An hee 4 4 lot of inen, boat-pullers and ae well as huntets, awarmed ver GF ch man felt that he had been robbed; and the boats were holsted nh ama curses, which, if curses had power would have settled Death Lar- sen for all eternity—"Dead.” Listen tothe and find a “4 is hard to discover the Te thing oula,” olf ie. th? and love? @ The good? the beaut! te P ee of right ud Brewater Joining the pe Me she was stant a dosen be away, one hand resting on the shrouds and her bod, praying to the slight roll of the ship. had not rained her votce, and yet was struck by {te clear and bell-! tone, “You hardly behave if your me told urse hed been touched, rren ‘Then it so happens Mat I am Be- having differently, for my purse and my soul have both been touciied. At the current price of aking in fan ioe don market, and based on mate of what the stternoon'e ‘come would bave been had not the be donia, hope it, the Ghont has about’ fifteen hundred folare’ ® of akina.” You mpeak #0 calmiy’--ehe “But I do not feel calm; t could kil the man who robbed me,” he in- terrupted. = "Y¥. yes, T know, aa@ that man my brother—more gentle meal! Baht" CHAPTER xm. 66 OU'VE been on deck, Mr. Van Weyden,” Wolt Larsen said, the follew- ing morning et the breakfast table, “Hew do things look?” “Clear enough,” | answered, a. Ing at the sunshine which down the open campadionw: 5. Pair westerly breese, with @ promise of oiffening.’ . “Any aligns of tox “Thick banks im the north an@ northweat." “What of the Macedonia?” “Not alghted,” [ answered. 1 could have sworn bis face fell af the intelligence, but why he should bo disnppointed I could not coacetve. T was soon to learn. “Smoke bet” came th ball stom, ow deck, and tle because I cannot fight and overcome tging me till 1 was all a-tremble with face was bright him, just as you will n able to suppressed rage, Yet 1 knew I must “Good!” he exclaimed, and left the fight and overcome hii control myself for Maud Brewater’a table at once to go om deck and into She waited for me to go on, sake, and 1 received my reward when the steerage, where the tere were “What remains? Mine is tho role of her oyes caught mine for a Meeting taking the firat of thelr the weak, [remain silent and suffer scond, and they said, as distinctly as exile. ignominy, as you will rematn silent if she spoke, “Be brave, be brave.” Soon, the five boats went over and suffer ignominy. And it is well, It is the best we can do if we wish to live.” She brushed her hand across her forehead in a@ puzzled way, saying, “Still I do not understan You must do as I say,” I tnter- rupted authoritatively, for I saw Wolf Larsen's gase wandering toward ua from where he paced up and orn with Latimer amidships. “Do say, and ere long you will find iM am right. “ “What shall [ do, then?” asked, detecting the anxious glance L had whot at the object of our conversa. tion, and impressed, I flatter myself, with the earnestness of my manner. se with all the moral cour- ou can,” T said, briskly, “Don't Woe left the table to go on deck, for a steamer was a welcome break in the monotony of the sea on which we floated, while the conviction that it was Death Larsen and the Mace- donia addod to the excitement. The @tiff broose and heavy sea which had sprung up the previous afternoon had beon moderating all morning, #0 that {t was now possible to lower the boats for an afternoon's hunt. The hunting promised to be profitable, We had wailed wince daylight across a sea bar- ren of seals, and were now running into the herd, The smoke was still miles astern, but overhauling us rapidly, when we lowered our boats. They spread out and struck @ northerly courso across the ocean, Now and again we saw a arouse this man's’ animosity, Be sail lower, heard the reports of the quite friendly with him, talk with shotguns, and saw the sail go up him, usy literature and art with again. The seals were thick, the wind You 4 fond of such things find him an interested lis and no fool And for your own sake try to avoid Witnessing, as much as you can, the brutalities of the ship. It will make t* easier for you to act your part.” “Tam to lie,” she sald in ateady, rebellious tones, “by apeech and ac- tlon Tam to Ie. was dying away; everything favored a big catch, As we ran off to get cur leeward position of the last lee boat, we found the ocean fairly car- peted with sleeping seals, They were all about us, thicker than | had ever seen them before, in twos and threes and bunches, stretched full length on the surface d sleeping for a the workd like so many lazy young dows. Wolf Larsen had separated from = Under the approaching smwho the Latimer and was ooming toward us. hull and upperwerks of 0 steamer L was desperate. vere growing larg It was the Please, pleaso understand me," I Macedonia. | read her name through said, hurriedly, lowering my voice. the Klasses as she passed by scarcely “All your experience of men and @ milo to starboard, Wolf Larsen things is worthless bere. You must begin ever again, I know-—I can aee it--you have, among other ways, been looked savagely at the vessel, while Maud Brewster was curious. Where is the trouble you were so use to managing other pepole with was breeving up, Captun Lar- your eyes, letting your moral courage sen?" she asked gayl speak out through them, as it were, Ha glanced at her, a moment's You have giready mana mo with amusement softening features. your eves, commanded i ch them," W hat did you oxpact? ‘Phac they’ Rut don’t try It on Wolf Lar You cou d and eut o could as easily control a lion, whie doniet inns uke that," he would make a mock of you. Ha fes You understand, would {have always been proud ers ew and stra ne that the fact that 1 discovered him,” fC ba ite ready to expect anything.” said, turn the conversation’ aa | ie nodded his head Quite right, Wolf Larsen stepped on the poop and quite right. Your error ix that you Joined us. “The editors wi afraid to expect the worst.” fail why. what can be worse than out. | ‘of him and the nublishere would have sie bs wy) a rush, 3 fa read out i oe ple afternesa, Dreceding for us to follow, 5 watched fo: time, curtously, as C was certain thas Lursen had given them secret orders, but there seamed nothing extraordl- nary about their behavior. lowered galls, shot agale, a8 and salle again, and continued on thelr C had al aeon th > ated ber pe ance of yesterday, the by dropping her line ore ielus in he ane ace of ours aud across our Fourteen boats require a spread of ocean for opmnrielee hunting, and when she had pletely lapped our line she contingea steaming into the northeast, dropping more boats as she went, “What's up?" [ asked Wolf Lag- sen, unable longer to keep my cart n check. er mind what's up,” he am- erufflly, "You won't be thousand years in finding out, a in tho mean time just pray for plenty of wind,” ‘Oh, wall, I don't mifd telling you," he sald the next moment. “I'm going to give that brother of mine a taste of his own medicine. tn short, I’ going to play the hog myself, and nos for one day, but for the rest of the season--if we're in tuck.’ nd if we're not?” T queried, “Not to be considered,” he laugnet. “We simply must be in luck, or ét! all up with us” (To be Continued.) —- GOING AWAY FOR THE SUMMER? Remember The Eve- ning World prints each week @ complete up-to-date novel—a veek's reading! Have The Eve. ning World sent to your sume mer address,