The evening world. Newspaper, May 7, 1915, Page 23

The Evening World Daily Magazine, Friday. May 7, 1918 | ‘7 PN fa mM Bo RR ; cet ) ew Wrneaeas?? 1 pe penre pepemper ese sa me ‘ Te. Things fou Never s OPEC! NEAT WGEh'S COMPLETE NOVEL BO THE OE A WOLF: THE OUTLAW F By JACKSON GREGORY. framiet) ay ee "2 write 2 BOE ARO IL By de debe: 4g “ . f Lyon we . ‘ . ‘ . nN , & awored “ * ‘ june . # ' . proud: | C ” ‘ i is taen Daren an \w renee ‘ we dodged st knew ne Wan WFORM, ' 1, like and | wondered if she Hhewien Wnew, , rn ” 4, | ' a i fair a ' S promptly, waving tim oe Whe Wolf Larne ‘ " i i H y it at, eft the deck for throwel 9 te | Tut Vien tt of hist | ‘ was glee tn our eyes, land, At “the after> Yan wine hee he wen the atid muipee i monte, f we 1 the southweaters | nthe sealing, opening of the . Hl we pw shows and clam Bromeéniory Not oniy were hun- . e Febieg. 6 And you Know “iso how 1 erept te bowl And &Fy. bul we were now suffering from . ven War wbout and avoided hun,” 1 eumtended, jas! inoked into Maud's clear brown a Ser re dey aed ‘athe there Meg tres. have 4 Jost your stioéa.” Wn) “ ay . ' new he em with our tongues, “ fed deneeted her a havea: Conon ASd Jost your Bote avoid Wrics FIRST Biscurts.. vt Chae bee Ho wind slowly died down, My nught st i — Ga ae era oes ar Wax tiie to w yiha Was dead calm and Twas toting CHAPTER XVI. of them sures world Me cure —biit weaklyy Continue We both laughed, and then went ee 7” — =. “ eft, tho in mar UT when the descending foot setimualy to™'work “constructing” the “Here! 7 sHows CRAY! Y Mane | | CHAPTER XIN. cove and | SASRAED. missed th Wd MOOFIMR Hasta UE the Ghost and retard to UK UP BETTER Now- Cy Aen Eg BRR wo days Maui and t make tie painter fast, | Maud and felt vacancy beneath, it world, 1 remembered aasily the phy: WITH ALL THIS , 1H eee ROCA (ho sea ant expioi Nore L fal 1 the sane Se wan the old Wolf Larsen sics of my school days, while the last H the beaches in search of the snd, when | had reoovered, cone and the tiger muscles that few months hud given me practical | missing mas The tow nted veel? with ing m hands ie experience with mechanieal purchases, i id ar Bi 4 de the falling body spring across ; 4 Hot til the third day that under her ahoulders and dragging ‘ Linust say, though, When we walked | ond he hut opening, even as Jt fell, so that down to Uhe Ghost to inspect more we found th 8 the her up the Beach to the bu! the The next day we did no work, ore is, that the clonely the task duded, and, of wll perit omach wi in the after~ jept till thre tact, we : S toon HAI of The great masta lying in the se aed ps 5 Pe Pa ; | With arma ontatretehed, on the Moor ee at dis ned ter Where. \" aces, in thi iting suet of the 4 af . ut Ke pe rT awoke Het the opposite side, ‘The next ins Were we to begin? If there had been {Bam ROUCHWRRtEES, Bromantery, “AG r of recuperation wai X be had drawa Up His legs and one mast standing, something high up| le rolled into my te Whieh to fasten blocka and tack= Hut there was nothing. It re. ed me of the problem of Ufting elf by one's bootstraps, Tune stood the mechanics of levers; but was L to get a fulcrum? There waa the matumast, fifteen bow we worked! At the dare end of Was something tenacious about the first day we returned, exhausted, that lily frail body of hers jto our Little cove, towing the imain. U8 es » whi one mast behind us And we had bean "Conel) with ite patent weakness. Jcompeiied to row, In a dead cals he lh ey ee Ae | practically every inch of the way. lingered at the fire after dinner an@ Another day of heart-breakin delighted in the movelessness of loaf- angen toll saw us in en jog. “Ll was not very strong, | never the two topmants to the ge was. ‘The doctors recommended «sea voyage, and I chose the longest.” ay followlog | was desperate, and ene are Prat ~~ you were ee rena ore Chooning,” jaughed, fted together the f remast, the fore Hut L different woman and main booms, and the fore and for the . an well a a gatts The wind was faverable, stronger woman,” she answered: “and and | had thought to tow them back § hope, a better woman, At least I junder sall, but the wind baffied, then shall understand a great deal more died away, and our progress with the of life.” E TIME you loare Was i snail's pace. And i wax — Then, as the short day waned, we . . Jyuch dispiriting effort. To throw. fell to discussing Wolf Laraen's bit OLED OUT, AT che's whole strength and weight on ness. Lt wax inexplicable. And that 3O YARDS -. iho oars, and to feol the boat checked It Was grave, L instanced his stat ite forward lunge by the heavy that he intended to stay and die Ae SE —lurag behind, was not exactly exhila. on Endeavor Island, When he, strong rating. man that he waa, loving life as he » the frst Night began to fall, and to make did, accepted his death, it was plain miderclothes aud " won lis face Was one > expres Of complete comprehension, But be- fore | could Kuess what he had COM> jycies in diameter ut what wi Peprenended we had al twa pped the trap tie butt, still sixty-five ttn length, Voor into place, ciosing the lazarette, and weighing, | roughly ealeuiated, Then 1 understood. Me thought he at least three thousand pounds. And had mo inside. Also, he was blind, then came the foremast, larger in diind 2 bat. £ watched hin, diameter and weighing surely thirty- breathing carefully so that he should. tiv hot hear me lie stepped quickly to to b is stateroom, { saw his hand miss yty the door Knob by an inch, quickly evolved 1h sy Blind. tha leone fumble tor it, and find it. This Was trivance known among sailore as My chance, L tiptoed across the “shears.” But, though known to sail- cabin and to the top , came b drageing chest, which he de the trap. Not con | fetched a second eb on toy of the frst up the im hundred pounds. Where was I win? 1 stood sliently by my side, r 8 He ors, L invented it there on Endeavor a leavy 84 Island, By crossing and lashing the wsited on top of ends of tw ars, and then elevating co with this, he them in the alr like an inverted “V," tand pl it T could get a point above the deck to en he gathered which to make fast my hoisting tackle: ,, lderelothes ‘To this hoisting tackle TL could, if ,."“But t say, Hump," be called down, We wore astonished the ease slipping on the deck, 1 natled down What 1 shall do to- morro’ and pus th When he sary, attach a second hoisting u can't do ity with which the spar Was lifted, It thick cleats, ything tn readiness, thing--run out a light. anchor and ers worne, the Wind spreng up that he was trodbled by sometht started up the companionway tre And then there was the wind- dh, yea | can," FI retorted. “Im was an improved Kk Windlass, and Ion a line fast to the apex of the kedge the schooner off the beaeh Not only did all forward mo- More than more biindne ‘There ha sileutly rolling over on top jass doiag it now." the purchase it gave Was enormous, shears and carried it directly to the And each aight when we como usbore tion cease, bul we began to drift back errife headaches, and we Maud saw that I had achieved a so- "ut this is my vessel, my partic. Of course, What it gave us in power windla: 1 was growing to have In the boat, Mr. Wolf Larsen will be ond out to sea. - atrugeled at the nd that It was some got siide part way back and re: his arms on it, his body still in th panionway, His atth tude Was of one looking forward the Jength of the schooner, or staring, rather, for his eyes were fixed and 1 and her 4 warmed syinpa- War property, What if} forbid you we paid for in distance; as many faith in that windlass, for it gave me left a prisoner on board, So this will 6 « played o kdown, and that inh sap “You forget,” L replied, “You Himws as {t doubled my strength, that power beyond. all expectation. As be the last night We huve to stand Mugd, Whom’ could Mever’ proses attacks he endured pain Yeyond eur ure you going to do? she 80 longer the biggest bit of the fer- many times was doubled the length usual, Maud held the turn while L wate because of that it Will © from working to the limit of her Comprehension, nt. You were, once, and able to of rope L heaved in, The tackle heaved, The shears rose in the air, the p strengty, lay weakly hack in the — Enoticed, as we talked over his con- that raffie” 1 anawered, ne, As you were ised to phrase dragged heavily across the rail, ine Then I discovered 1 had gotten Mn Giarn-nnsets. 2 could row a dition, that Maud’s sympathy went to the tangled wreckage ‘ti but there has b au diminishing, creasing its drag as the spar arose euy ropes, This necessitated my is ay 4 My bruised and awollen hands could out to him more and more; yet 0 and 1am now uble to eat you. The more and more out of the water, and ¢limbing the shears, which I did twice, “Oh, ILumphrey'" f heard Maud ery no le ake early breakfast a ight cau nblinking. I was only five feet away . wr elo . ld not but love her for it, 90 aweet- and directly in whac should have the decisiveness, the very sound Yeust has grown stale, the exertion on the windlass grew before Lt Onished guyihg it fore and in dismay and suddenly stop. My NTR Aaa. Pak uate Anas ly womanly was it, Besides, there deen his line of vision. Tt was un- of the words, was good in my ears, ,, He gave a short, disagreeable laugh. severe. aft and to either side, Twilight had L looked at her, She was gazing at jyiy, and, though | had eaton heart. Was no falve aentiment al her canny, 1 felt myself a guost, what ir that raffle!” Imaging so salty “I see you're working my philosophy — But when the butt of the topmast Set ID by the time this was accom- the Ghost, 1 followed her gaze, but jjy cra twelve o'clock lunch, | had feeling. She was agreed that the ef my invisibility ‘on the lips of the Humphrey back on me for all it is worth. L was level with the rail everything pilshed. Wolf Largen, who had sat nothing unusual. She look workod so hard that L way faint Moat rigorous treatment was meces- make the mistake of underestimating me. For your own good I warn you.” d listened all afternoon and dohis anouth, had taken T waved my hand back and forth, yden of a few months gon of course without effect; but when There must have been a@ touch of jooked inquiry bac he wald, and her voice to a standstill about a H as s ne ops haky from hunger sary if we were to escape, though she might have known ft," J satdim. Pever & «Lat the suggestion that T ° our x 1 pulled’ in the oars and bont for. 10! the moving shadow fell’ across his the melodramatic In my pose and p,;2inee When have you become a patientiy. “Naw wo have to do it all Pmsclt off to the galley and started . ward to the line which hold the tow, some time be compelled to t ie face T saw at once that he was sus- voice, for Maud smiled. Her re= pital Marne Sarat queried, over again is supper, had Forgotten their existence, I hand leaped out restrain. life to save my own—"our own,” she Pertricd le ansivee and iaentity the All things she uncrringly saw "He ignored my sarcasm, saying, iy, down the mast?" Maud sug> onod up with an effort and with pain, She put her hand sympathetically p.,Wuse &Fe you going to dum abe In the Perea “favlight Tt jac o is th a ow I c c| ” J M i! A b. bn ie bs sig ense va oy ‘a - jplahlas SM overshadine, the over. 2SUppose T clap the hatch on, now? Bye! [looked proudly at my work. [twas om mine, and SOU wil Dave te eae aire ie keome seine ee re tats betee one impression. He knew that he had of sham, t “I's what J should have done at SE ; T answored, alipping found a light kedge anchor in the fore responded to something from with- tone, It was thia which’ had given YO Won't fool mo ay you did in the grat” | angwered. hugely diovated ping “Cant it off, KY where such things were kept, beginning to show. | was wild with begin over agat & turn of the rope " lazarette,” on ew ” % sibility had been pose and penetration to her own t desire, Hike a ehild with a new toy, ‘Oh, belie . my anger am 7 4 with a deal of exertion got it ea out, Maa uy arene autaane Te eee ee ME TKAN Re WALT To ete COWIE Larsen! 1 enid Moraly, for ate wits an . to hoixt something with my shears.” nothings | could not Tarts fy! yi Wane evs eats Sh ae Sex aaa ais boat. With a long world, ‘The serious critic, with the the first time addressing him by this m urn, lowered the Towish it weren't so tote,” TE oaald. xniled back bitterly. i " i down tn the stern, vironment; but what it w pie eid not discover, Teeased wave setise of humor and the power of ex- his moat familiar name, “am ynable hand, ao that tho shadow re- press! must inevitably command 0 shoot a helpless, unresisting man, And the worst “It in uacioaa’’ Leanswered, “Hore running lin he knows It, You are right. in night, and the wind blowing us | rowed well out into our little cove s destroyed the shears, [Toft the land.” nd dropped the anchor into the water. Mast back into the we and faa. * tened the tackle a third of the w down from th “a Tike to gee how it works of tt n't be a glutton, Humphrey.” it heh . . dR er TA EEE ak toon. NOU HAVE Bitene t butt, In an hour, Maud chided me, “Hemember, to- plait de no ee at be ft wiled ‘ B mained stationary, hig. slowly, ny Weill EG OTIS Gaon Aart ec ut ROMCIORE Qackint Sg Pa Nbaes Poithapcdberred (Of Nils and of Festa between the Lierrow Is coining, and you'r oo tired SHE AO HOUNIDS: @KGODe beRIG Aker , radut, this Humphrey It we can There was no wind, the tide was Bisa, tuened from aide to sie, now in the humor was really the artists instinct You now, and not so much for your Where | could helet vo mere Bee NaN tat youcan hardly #tand” | “eiut rit stand my wateh on bourd In for years on the idland foe the shore lines, f kedged hor out by for proportion. own good as for mine, that I shall main strength (the windlass sunshine, now in the shade, fesline hereafter,” LT Liurted out a moment ife even. If it has never ty solleitude, his. broken), tll sho rod , on shoot you the moment you atte feet of the built was abe ‘ou must be very tired i nearly hadow, as It were, testing It by; m sure I've neard it before, some- 4 you attempt @ i ‘a ” 4 later, And if he interferes" —— vered all thene yea: it oi TL too, was busy, trying to reason gleefully, i and if you are so mind- few nd nontiered. th r +. night ale Maud was saying when I nt forget the boat we found on {y's . cinesiie out how he was aiwaro of the exist- 1 had an instinet for proportion my- fy, HM Be, Ahead and try to Clap on Gt hot take long. 1 sprang jubilantly. noc eit tate Eroud as Tam of you, came back to myself. “It would be the beach,” 1 reminded he Tre ie, eT pee Anene Eaee eneo of so intangible a thing as @ golf, and L collapsed forthwith, de- Neth giana toroid to my feet. Revered. looking me atratght in the 80 much nicer if he would be friendly — “It was’ a seal-hunting boat.” ahe was at work on the windlass. shadow. “Tf it were his evebals only svoiiding from the dominant bose M6 annie yd forbid you, tia. Dir Gavel tel aDéried, 1 cums See ee Reena te toe with un and help us. We could live replied, “und you know pertactly woll “Three dayn T worked an that wind: Bae are Meee oti deattuyed, the Ue contnen walen waa to any ene 117, POPs to make the tac at the point in her own and a dancing, tremulous °°/nfortably abourd. tak ff the mon had escaped they tare Least of all things wae Je Nerve were not wholly y ; Geplanacion was simple, If other- least, very miserable. Roe man!" I expostulated, “you fauna wise, then the only conclusion I could — Fler baad leapt out at once to mine, AdVance the fact that it is your slip [th " reach was that the sensitive skin ry,” she said Gs though it were a moral right, You CH) we have t cognized the difference of temp be,” 1 gulped. “It doa have nover considered moral rights | Ohew nein Tun ture between shade and sunshin . There's too much of the your dealings with» othe Foy. ere A i rhaps—who can tel?=it was that voy in me, All of which iy ay Gree that gu consider 1 ” sloulat ve which conveyed to neither here nor there. What we've a dealing with you Ano, at wi Heoeeis Hage of un uiioet gat todo is actually and literally to. | had stepped underneath the open Of the mast ony would have been back to make thelr fortunes from the ro hever escaped silent, undec janic, and in that time I accom~ ed what an ordinary machinist would have done in as many hours. T had to learn my tools to begin with, of balance, And wo learn of light whieh I had not seen’ before and 4, We WIL" 1 aanerted, still savagely © us with everything Which Rave me a pang of quick do- for, Any festruction bg ear ee Vuaw th to holst abourd Hent—t know not why. for } did aot ind’ i will live aboard, drioudly oF Bot { remi ta alt my work by yoce ane then eau notion her with Wolf Lara: . Besides,” she added haltin and every simple mechanteal print {tun point of bale “If our old friends could sce us ,, 108 ebildiah." 1 laughed jater, “for Your idea, and [want to see you auc- which such a man would have bod that when T heaved the top now," she sald nok at us. Have MM to do such things, and for ine to Se! anh us te end of tatee dave Gn 2 up instead of the you ever paused for a momont to STOW Anety over them, for that mat. Now | could harden my heart. As And at the end of three al ee and fi n nce n t Mite aiead net ‘ r i ter” son us she put it on @ flattering Windlass which worked clumsily, It | ave ‘tle. It you'll come with hatchway ao that I could see hin, Jespals, but 1 consider our appearance? , ont re . Clone ARONA ianipitaditeratua me, inthe. bent Nell et te work The lack of expression on him face, Muwhed and sald iv would do just as "Yes, L have considered yours, free, Mt my heart xmote me when we eee ne ay ear, Mneroety Sambellee era haa civent her ic ee ce | | Se ae ee le atappes on deck And straighten things out. go different from when I had watched ¥¢ auently,” 1 answered, puraiing over flinbed aboard and looked at the Mn” feny her fade may wack pouanie, ici started fo Ws 5 ’ + asta 8, vi and be ready to slac led by den « Kun, Rone altore ye had been ale to-night, morrow, pet scandence which surprised W tieir clasp knives in their blinking, Lene Oe ee ws not a AUK ae . a2) AG MIRGKC AWAY: Be n y her sudden Of 8Ub> giawhed right and loft next day, in the open boat. We are @4sts aboard and the shears rigged And stil there Was that hint teeth,” sho quoted at me; and for Pleasant fac The WW y ni om of the feebleness of the blind In his the rest of the afternoon we made “And none so poor, not even Hump, With my The throat-halyardy which I had Bot prepared to brave the nea, We “id Kuyed as before. And that night sho erled, "And what do rigged were cut cross through every have no food, no water, no blankets, 1 slept on board and on deck beside mand tried to ba ATOR re oss the ral. When 1 7 look Ike, pray? Nae Bae HAE merry over our labor, to do him reverence,” he sneered, it inboard. ac A f 4 é my work. Ma fused epee EAU AS Mae ane "Her task was to bold the boat in — The sneer was wholly in his volce. thought I had it | eried to her. to gana erorom, Tm afraid,” t repiied. re ae prey af ad Gh aye A eit aurea serine Os. Mone ushore, alcpt in "the forvcantie. ered my shoes on the forecastie head position while | worked at the tungle, His face remained expresstoniess as slick away; but tho spar rightod, p7USt slunce at your draxgled skirts, Windiaws, fy would eat wok Ye strong you are, You are shivering Wolf Larsen had sat about, listeniag Mrougut them back with him Abd such a tangle—halyards, sheets, OE | despite my éfforts, and dropped buck for, instance. | Look at thofe three: Nai broken it” We looked et euce NOW." to my repairing the windlass and talk- hin build guys, downhauls, shrouds, stays, all | "How do you do, Mise Brewater,” toward tle water, Aguin I heaved Word not ruautren Brecicnk trots other in conaternation, ‘Then I'tan — “It is only nervousness ing with Maud and mo upon indifter. d about and back and forth’and he #aid auddenty, after a pause. | It up to ite old position, for f had Now not realre w Sherlock Holmes tA" the pide he mania, boo ewared, “I am atria you Ca GIERGe side’ fo teen ee ome eee Aa oit no more than wes Whatever, liad not even moved. Could watchtackle—a email double and sive IK OVer a camp-fite, to way nothing Kat® I had cleared were gon: Of the masta In epite of me the ‘shears, not did he nay. anything iy, and What With passing the it be that some «ilmmer of vision re- gle block affair-and fetched it, Of trying out seal-blubber, And to Md found the lines which held them "Oh, please, please, Humphrey, further About my. leaving, yes long ropes under and around the Mained to hin or that his vision While | was rigging it between the SA? it all, that cap! And all that tw cast them adrift. don't!” she burst out, a moment later, alone. But still Thad red him, hooms and masts, of unreeving the Was comng back? top of the spar und the opposite (re, Woman Who Wrote ‘A Kies En. 4 Vin wore in Maud’s eyes, and I And wo’ it ended, with the blind and helpless and listening, al: end into the galley. T watchs the fire and set about cooking food for himself; then I. stole into the cabin for my marmalade and under- clothes, slipped back past the galley, and climbed down to the beach to Cellver my barefoot report haivards and sheets, of coiling down — “How do you dy, Capt, Larsen,” she yall, Wolf Lars 0 01 oe “ i Kaew hed oil power Ways listening, and T never le {n' the boat and Uncolling Iu order to auswered, “Pray, how did you know We’ exclangey nce eet BEERS. he” made me an elaborate and Suid have wept myself. Where now shivered mixcrably strong arms Ket within Teach ‘ef te CHAPTER XVI. pass through another knot in the I was here? good mornings, and, though he could *ttely courtesy, and sald, “Aw for Chom? He hed doce minaating othe the night. | Now and again 1 Attully while I worked Ghost has bight, 1 Was soon wet to the akin, “Heard you breathing, of course. fot sea, he wet cae thee he could you, sie ‘host? He had done hia work well. slept, but the pain of the cold always On this night, ing under my sé 2 DAG the GHAR I The sails did require some cutting, 1 say, Hump's improving, don't you way and followed by tho wound ait. And yet, through the five minutes Mit town on the hateh combing and aroused me. How Maud could stand beloved shears, 1 was aroused by his } lost her masts, WHY, ang ihe canvas, heavy think’ so?” way and a by the woudd all oe vanter which followed there wan, rested my chin on my hands in black it was beyond ime. 1 was too tired to footsteps on the deck. It waa a stare I we could sail away 1 tried my strength severely; but I auc. “E don't ahe answered, AUT dds ny serious something underneath the tun Ose thrash my arms about and warm hight night, and [could seo the bulls Mor. Don't wou think we eroded before ightfall in getting it #miling ut have never seen | AMaln jiatructing Maud to slack which I could not but relate to tha a, li eserves to die,” I ered out; myself, but 1 found igth time of him dimly as he moved about. T bea Ry Do i all spread out on the beach to dry. him otherw: away at the windlass when T gave the strange and flecting expression T had att God forgive me, Tam not man and again to chafe her hands and rolled out of my blankets and crept opuid: tun i a MDROA Ok Gh Ele bench 19 Ey You should have even him before, “rd, 1 proceeded to heave on tho tuughe we hee ee, xR! Wena ity @hough to be his executioner," foet to restore the cireulation, And noiselessly after him in my. stockings I sprang excitedly AOGd: Off foe aul and Wehed then Watch. wekle Slowly the mast swung Could it be that our eves were fe if Hut Maud was by my side, passing still she pi 1 with me not to oaat feet. He had armed himself with a “1 wonder, LE weird 1 repeated, ork, too. though to the “Wolf Larsen, in laree dos in until it balanced at right angles ing beyon the will of cae ans her hand soothingly through my hair off the masts, About 3 in the worn. draw-knife from the tool locker, and ‘ ‘ ared insignificant murmured, “before and after tak ae hy? ie rally and then I discov- sty eyes had spoken, I knew ne though 1 wore a child, and saying, ing she was caught by @ cold cramp, w this he prepared to cut across pa ‘ . WEN, WEN ALCL as able "Lwant to tell vou,uain, Hump,” €fed £0 tay amazement that there waa To ha tount’ reel nt e There, there; It will all come right. and after L had rubbed her out of the throat-halyards | had rigged to Masid's eyes Were SNE Wee ee eee ee nD he hold ee tie he sald threateningly, ho need for Maid to wack away. In siienced them, This NAG cowureet Cn, are in the right, and tt mustcome that she became quite numb. [| was the shears, Ha felt the halyards with vation a9 they fullawed me, ShO Ghost to’ elear the sof the mast ter leave thingy alone, {aot tha very Qppoulte waa NeccHRATY. Seat timoa, Thue Nat she eee ing Tene frightened. 1 got out the oars and his bands and discovered that T had Als aS eiead year ie atone ot fhe neat ut don't you care to eacapo as Mal the wateh-tackle fast, J hove Sral tl Nh 0 nen ir 1 Michelet and leaned though she Was SO not mate them fast. This would not , vin \ + rf . ; on the windlass and brought in th in them and understood? An b ; el tio sound of my knocking Wel ag we?” Laxked incredulously, Of the windlass and broug Rad hon ee Sage: ADS irae Hondl thers and truly tbe. t she would faint at do for a draw-knifo, so he laid hold . carey esa fois aula was hiv answer, “! intend Maat, inch by inch, till it top tilted Wiraeaing cota tae emg tO MO? cue at on ‘Tho blessed every stroke, of the running part, hove taut, aad man, PETG rare ae pele sor rar dows to the deck and Anally ite whole (out Sige could iat oxpreasion hive an was an unfailing fount of — Moraing broke, and we luoked long made fast. Then ho’ prepared to saw Har opan neten we don't." T conoluded ength lay on the deck, fs » trariulous leh r to me. What did it matter? in the growing Meht for our island ae withthe draweknite and a someting more whieh swords AR te , ently, besin ock- 1 looked at my wateh. It rr] Onl wetback, a 4 v feet? 5 . . y fall the sound of his volce made Maua fontly, ‘beginn ain my knock- ny watch. WAS TE Tree aes oma Only a seth a delay. The tide At lust it showed, small and black, — ‘i wouldn't, 4¢ 1 were you,” I sal Or TAD Cie AWE RIGA LO CoRR ee tocTntee duis ead NAMIE o'clock, My back was aching aurely, (olla net Heweribe® And vee tt could could not have carried the maata far on the on, fully fifteen miles quietly: a, is Ah BiG Phelan cia Rend oa and L felt extremely tired and hun- twas not ekiliod in’ the Beane, to sean and there had been no away, 2 scanned the seu with my — Ho heard the click of my pistol and atron ned m while we parieyed. CHAPTER XVIII ery, And the on the deck was a 0 Y wae 1 i ech OF wind inoant merely more work glasses ‘ar away in the southwest laughed. know his lo on deck,” I replied, “Good J ningle stick of tinber to show for a Warrant wus only I to find them and tow them back. He TF eouid a dark line on the Hello, Hump." he said. "I knew wari hem. 1 © to you." MEEXT day, the maat steps Whole morning's wor OH CHO Aiwe AG hve ond te el ia y ve waited and destroyed our which grew even as [ looked you were here all the time. You Mauu w ling “What are you doing down ther clear and everything tn Wyre } thotoustly relia 1 the extent Aint uray pla lot etd Mar Sy titectuaily when we had ° “air wind!” 1 eried in hus can't fool my ears. Ure c » oud Bits . ‘i 5) Patiad icaleat Kk bets ut 1 wun Pat e 8 us AnOURH for nore ae sath did not recognize aa my own "To Re Continue: bey ae Ret igem FEES 38. MOUs readiness, we stArten $0 ge B Would show MO. And thus T thought, even ns w . comes now." whe whis- Maud tried to reply, bat could not SEO Ee SOAUAU DEL, “Qt the opposite; I'm repairing = the two topmast aboard \ A And it did; bi od 0! ‘% sppanrs UN prved speak. Her tips were blue with cold, =< s 1 hal Y he pAlntop as Ove returned at “'elock, Te i A bg aehora and vere were 1 glanced up. He n troiling and she was hollaw-eyed but oh, hew ~ raye 7 ad eu Mae in tide Are you re+ thirty fe in eretherit Torecopienat #d strengthened by a hearty diuner, “ther things to think about Ivisutely along the Poop on the port bravely her brown eye looked At mo! GOING AWAY FOR THE ] i“ H « a i] der a i > thirty \ le e forevopr t t) ni rr ame, affer wor ” ho 2 . y ! 4 j Sy 1 havo done, Lcan do; and pairing?’ ‘There was pussewent Ie nenriy y, and Jak, Gt) Lead) (oC ERNE RENE Gad Tie neiba! eB AUADIEL Bela Blow Bard ‘sid How pithcusly kraxe: SUMMER? Remember The Eve- if they. have never done this before, his voice. nearly thirty, and it was of thes on deck and waa cons ni doy, that we cannot have on un “Take 0 of T whis- Ajain L fell to ehafing her hands . @illarean doit? ve tWhy, I'm getting everything ready Patt intended making the shears, tho shears. | lashing the ty te fog nighta aleep,'’ J caine pared coming to how we and to moving Ner arms ip and down ~ ning World prints each week @ iH y cant a Pea WL a a % toning ono musts t yer, and making allowance Plalned, after supper. take it ont tet n know that we and about until she could thrash | | aetna, fay mondness sake." Mund for reatepping the masta," 1 replied Tt was puzzling ere ru DINE OMY tor their unoqtal length. at the point | “Hut Tiere ean he no danger now? kn ae can deny him inat atiee them heraclf. Thea fT compeliod ner | complete up-to-date novel =. a nd obo meres hat cosily, as though it were the sim> end of a heavy tackle to the windlass, of intersection f attached the doubio from a hilnd man?’ she queried fuotion * off your that’s to stand up, and though she would | woek? ! | Ban aD empudads avin. te Prodeet Ag nade, ctanding SN With the other end fast to the block of the main throat halyards, | 1 shall never ha able to trust right -and carry them in your hand.” have fallen had not supported her, week s reading! Have The Even nothing elaa (han put the musts buck on your OWN lemM AL lost: Hurpe me Putt of the foretopmast, 1 begun to This, w the | single biock | and him ue averred ite af {lens now And then we played, hide-and-seek 1 foreed her to waik back and fork | ning World sent to your t ; Nd gail ae) meld ara ay eld th \ on the *0 throat halya Homselvos, that he ts bling e lability ia that with the blind man Ag he came up the several steps between the thwart s . j ing Ghost and sail away heard him say; and then for some heave, Maud held the turn on the vive me a hoisting ty To his part helplessness wi) make him port side we slinped past on the and the stern-sh and flaally to | mer address. j umphiey!" she exclaimed, Line he Was sileay windlass and coiled down the slack. prevent ihe butts of She m. i from more malignant than car, I know starboard; and from the poop we epring up and down,