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The Evening World Daily Magazine. Saturday, May 6. 1915 SEA W THE SEA WOLF | Men Who Fail---XXV. | —_—-— An Ocean Tale of Perll And of Wiid Adventure TEE WEXT WEEK'S COMPLETE WOVEL IN THE EVENING THE OUTLAW § By JACKSON GREGORY i > “er a ee ONDON By JACK L ame ee t the wheel, a at * morning, near ihe TMK CALL OF THR WILD be . you must be hoist , ain Duftsied am worked oul of me, L had barely sulle « " - ‘ sto Keow the & (orrme ~~ ts ot and dragged him to the companton te Fag nl to - J oo way Al my direction Maud fetched apt hh | A . v ' he thie under bia el 4 1 te rt ; i sianeed bh actoes the three. | f . ' 0 On oe eee fand jowered mn down the ate 1 1 4 ‘ Poors T eould now itt hin d:| rapid vainly cent towed with } fectly into a bunk, but with Maud # wale " it f fod t would fall od firet ‘bin sidere an oe ee naioep in th f carrying food » hen hie body balanend my mouth a vin torment to ie, and rolied bim into @ find the completed. Me ¥ y heip 1 that she waa hea pol. ae 1 te be all, f rect up. the amy chair to c Acufts in his stateroom, eit inte te an Be ny ne to the Boor C tha uncles ahd ramar she heeled ty the fret Mii of herman BY | Violen bing of the . we loft hi “ i? m wees A > ne. Bo. wher at him, Ghose bow @wean ol nod or pansage m the galley dew 1 hand and vot For ' wheel dow few the ¢ nh lt knew nothing othe fire nany days | breathed pu see e *” sleep walkor Maud freely. L felt strangely lieht ae Tl Steady her ported f in eal erme on va ThouRn a welent had | 1 had devined an automatic $b jothing 1 pnd Mott, ente ete bean lifted fr my shoulders, | hy whieh passed the Ve J not lnagine, my bank with that Maud ath j Mae o be mere Was my boots off it was dark. Il wae wely wether And 1 won to attond t that eu aod lame, and eried out with telothes touched my too, felt it, am we walked nek #ide by side to where }hetating the Jit) why hard down, Tt waa an pain w went of ane poor Ong reenda foremast bung ia the ety, for the + was rushing di Morning bad evidently not come, eo tly upon the beaoh, watone’s (FOWL closed my ayes and Wont to Bleep * Liwtant. Mut ahe swung obediently in. Ut did not know it, but f had n ler he wind, was > t the clock around and it wae CHAPTER XX. s are me @ of night again 1 66) HATS a lie, Wolf Larsen,” iT ones we moved aboard the sve ho ied yg ala sinay Bo Nate eae my eure, Chen ah “ PM 1 ald, Just as quietly as } Ghost, occupying our old ar tac ' ma mana ea mt j before, “However, L am statoroomm and cooking tn fished her task and marked midniaht. And Thad’ not : aching for a chan to the gulle The imprison. stood beside me, left the deck tit three! 1 should IN you, so go ahead and cu t of Wolf Larsen had ry hi wind have horn puaaled had [not guessed 4 “You have the chance always,” he happened most prtunely, for what biown hair, eka fuxhed from the solution : pide happened moe ae ited vi exertion, ler wide and bright 0 wonder L was sleeping brokenly. . must lave been the Indian summ: jwith the excttement, her noatrile f had slept twenty-one houre [lis "Go ohead and cut,” I threatened this hig latitude was gone and driz- quivering to the rush and bite of the ¢@ for a while to the behavior of ominously. zling scormy Weather had set in, I fread salt vit, Her Drown eyem WerO the Chomt, to th fing of the seed [ike a at wild, keen lool rather disappoint you,” he went to visit Larson, bound in the iaughed, and turned on hia heel and giyorage. the wind on / and then turned over on my if seen before, and her It ide th alent ps pfull t 4 went aft. hat was the last play of the oe eet ee Cy hol hala | Bomething must be done, Hum- wolf he said, “l am paralysed. 1| charming upon the wall of roc at When I aros t 7 Leaw ni 7) Rigs Math td Mee arene, Ce ce ae ies salranos to oe eee pb bagy Maud and con rd she was in the +! when I had told her of the night's “ies unfortunat he continued. nate water, Fround. the Cinoat: doing aplenalaly : Deetiese Fit We DE WGAY, BS ol te rt tke aE ncn My first mate's berth on the seal- ‘ound the (host doing splendidly a) under her patch of canvas, But im may do anything. fe may sink the fiump. And 1 thought I had that ing grounds stood me in ate ’ ood aay the galley, though a fire was burnli Veubel, or set fire to it. There ia M9 jvueh left in mo." ares lack ais the hare nd tall nd water botling, 1 fou Man deliitig What he mov do, We must 44g yroko out in mocking laughter, router cove. Once again about and yt discovered her in the steerage, hy make him a priso “But, how?” I asked, with a h eas whrug. dare not come within Wolf Larson's bunk, t looked at him, ‘ the man who had been hurled down . from the topmost pitch of life to be then turned his left ear to the pillow | as 4 wign that he wished no further the Ghost headed out to open sea, She had now caught the bosom breathing of the ocean and was her- i buried alive and be worse than dead, conversation, | ei eo rhythm of it : self a-breath with the Thy} nd bs rede OC “his arms anaes et And yet, though 1 even remaved | aa ahi) wmoothly 1. ounted and slipped Precalnioees tess waiee Wan wee that 60 long as his resistance i pas- thy huucufs, We could not adjust down each broad backed wave, q wive I cannot shoot him.” ouravives to his condition, Our minds dull aad over. Maud looked at me and I understood. d had be we ey a dun now burst ttrough “Hin life fiickered out in the da, a welcome omen, and storm,” T sald. iene upon the curving beach where “Hut he still lives" sho anawered, toxother we had dared the lords of infinite faith in her voice. here must be sotie way," @ho revoiteds ‘To us he was full of poten- contended. “Let me think.” tulity. AVe knew nut What to expect “There is one way,” Laaid grimly, of hin next Bhe waited, ing woove t What teartul thing, ris- » ilesh, he might break 1 picked up a eval club, wut aud do. Meanwhile, 1 went on “Go On! My Father is Boss Here arem and slain the holluschickie, — {He has too great strength.” { “1 won't Kili him," L said, “And wath my work of repairing the ein ndeavor Island brightened under but now It no before he could recover I'd have him schyoner, the sun, Even the grim southwestern longer shackles him. He is @ free t bound hard und fast, Wolt bad received another stroke, I went below. By the light of the burned mo, and I jerked my hand “Do you still hear?" I shouted, hold- jubilantly, “We'll make them work, hontory showed less grin, and spirit. s ia She shook her head with a shudder, He had jost his voice, or Le was los- lantern 1 saw the butt twist slowly away. Then | understood, Through ing the fingers and waiting for the and trust our lives to them bere “No, not that, There must be some ing it. He had only intermittent use around Ull ita aides coincided with the cracks in the bottom of the upper which would signify — Certainly, among my m wet ity surface, high lights flashed less ‘brutal way. Let us wait.” of it. As he phrased it, the wires the sides of the step. Maud made bunk he had set fire to the mattress, response, The trades, 1 ahone least av a sailmaker, end dazzled in tho sun. But we did not have to wait Jong, Were up and he spoke us well as ever, fast and returned to the windlass. Ho still retained sufficient use of hia 5 1 could sail them better than make “L shall always think of it with orm broke that night, which and the proviem solved itself. In the thougn slowly and heavily, Then Slowly the butt descended the several left arm to do this, ‘The damp straw — “L noticed tho Mps slightly move,” them, and {had no doubt of my power pride,” 1 satd to Maud. Is to say that It diminighed as slowly morning, after 8) trials, I found speeca would suddenly desert him, in intervening inches, at the same time of the mattress, fired from beneath Maud said to bring. the achooner te some horths sie threw her head back in aqueen- a@ it had arisen, After breakfast the point of balance in the foremast the middle of a sentence perhaps, and Slightly twisting again. Aguin Maud and denied alr, had been smouldering 1 repeatod the “quedtton. “The Ips era-pert of Japan, in fact, 1 had ty way, but sald, “Dear, dear En- wall rning, when I had hoisted e ‘attached my hoisting tackle & {or hours, sometimes, we would wait Tectified the twiat with the wateh- all tho while, moved he placed> (he tips her crammed navigation from text-book qeavor Island! L shall alwaya love Ns olf Laatoen'n boily ‘on deck ready for few ‘feet above it. Muud held the for the connevtion to be re-estap- tackle, and again she lowered away As I dragged the mattress out of fingers Again 1 rep es, there was Wolf 4." arial, It was still blowing heavily turn on the.windlass and coiled down lished. He complained of great pain from the windiass. | squa the bunk it semed to disintegrate in the ¢ ue fon, Yes," Maud so imple @ de "sand 1" Easald quickly and & large sea was running, The while 1 heaved, Had the windliss in his head, aud it was during this '© square. the mast was midair, at the same time bursting nounc We looked at each other d work it It seemed our eyes must meet in a deck was continually awash with the been in order it would not have been period that he arranged a system of | 1 raised a shout and the se ray “He is a free spirit eurely.” T an and there, where 1 and, taking hor hand, I le@ “i ree that a child . into flames, [ beat out the burning expectantly As for the inventor, beyond an In. (understanding, and yot, loath, #4 which came inboard over th go dificult; as it was, I was com- communication against the tme down to ace. Int cA gis eee remnants of straw in the bunk, then “What good js ft?" Lasked. “What creasing deafness and the movement struggled away and did not 8nd through the souppers, The wind Delled to apply all my weight and when speech should leave him alto- likht we peered at what we had ace made a dash for the deck for fresh can We say now of the Lips growing fainter and fainter, mont, emote the schooner with a eudden Strength to every inch of the heav- gether—one pressure of the hand for Complished. We looked at each other, air, “Oh, ask him! — there had. bs fore wan @ ailence I might almost KUst and @he heeled over till her lee It. wai and our hande@ felt their way and Several buckets of water stated condition for a week. But well fHoed She hi ing. I had to rest frequently, In "yes," two for ying: Tail wos buried, the roar in her rig- A the d8y call awkward, tll I broke It, mn litte change in 1 : clasped. ‘The eyes of both us, I “Ask t ometh t re 6 finished bending the achoone: king rising in pitch to a shriek. We y lis of resting were that it was arranged, for by evening ¢ x to put out the burning mattress in . mn osomething that requires we finis nding the schooners black clouda to win peal thin those of working. Maud his voice had gone from him, By pine were moist with the Joy of (he middie of the steerage floor; and ‘no’ for an anawer,” [ suggested, swils he heard his last, and the Ina of, 1 told you tase Btood in the ee when allmy hand pressures, af ten minutes later, when the smoke we will know With certainty.” movement of his lips di an coven 1 away—but init the barometer was falliug ve: ” - ot bi e lass, swoered our questions, and whe: o _ “It was done so easily after all," I had fairly cleared, U allowed Maud to re you hungry?" she cried not before 1 had axked him, “Are you 'E 2 one,” sald, with the other to throw the weight thoughts with his left hand, quite Preparation, conscious, but it wax a matter of and she answered, "Yes." "Yer fer eyes oiled proved our, mastery tet wth tne in body to my assistance. legibly, on # sheet of paper. ‘And (all the wonder in the com- minutes for the fresh air to restore “Will you have some beot?’ was — The Inat line was down, Some. WhOr Wh NM Mea te the truest Maud looked at me, surprised: ani of her ai ‘a cf an hour the single ‘The fierce winter had now dascended pletion,” Maud added. lum. We were working ovor him, t query where within that tomb of the flesh deah that may fall to man shocked; but the spirit of something ae vane riiocks came together At upon us. Gale followed gale, with ,. "1 can hardly bring myself to realizo however, when he signed for paper she announced. still dwelt the soul of the man. Walled comradeallp had seen before was strong upon me, and dou! tthe hears. I could holst euow and sleet and rain, ‘The seals, tat that great mast is really up and and pencil. afte’? by the living clay, that flereo Intell. SAY WIOMMD Oy cee the wheat for ‘service to. Wolk Regt la A‘ he tthe most was not had started on their great southern in; that you have lifted it from the “pray do not interrupt me," he “Yes, he will have some beef-tea,” gence bad known burned on; but rer Leried gayly. “'A fair wind had once given ee more. iirely’ inboard, The butt migration, and the rookery was prac- Water, swung it through the air, and wrote, “Lam amiling. wald qu looking Up at me, it burned on in. silence and dark pean flowing sheet, you know, or another man, I lifted the AWUDE ertirae the outside of the tically deserted, 1 worked feverishly, (eposited It here where it belongs. “1 am atiil a bit of the ferment, you “Until his hearing goes we shall ba ness. And it disembodied. To Bre var it gues” end of the hatch cover, and the ei T ran forward, Y8s-shrouded body slipped fect first 4 By Po trail while the top of the mast In spite of the bad weather, and of 2t le & Titan's task.” gee,” he wrote a little late able to communicate with him, And that Inteliigenc tar to our knee as F | y shall be cast into the sea, | * p wotlve y Lashing the wh: Into the sea, The welght of 1 4 beyond the the wind which especially hindered ‘And they made themselves many Tam glad you as small a bit after th Jective knowledie @ body. It know | nia, took $8to the son, welght of trom Starboard val WES ehears Were too ie, 2 was on deck from daylight ull {aventions,” I began merrily, then as you are,” 1 aald She looked at me queerly. 1 aaw NO body. The very world was not. It waned ho lg Prager iets) Gragaed it down. It was gone, - rn ort, All my work had been for dark and making substantiai prog- Paused to eniff the air, “Thank you," he wrote. “But just her lips trembling and the teara Knew only itself and the vastness and vthing for the quartering breese ste ohio ter ores spirit,’ sorte, Mut no longer despaired ress, 1 looked hastily at the lantern. It think of how much smaller I shall swimming up in hereyes, She swayed Profundity of the quiet and the dark, ¢% it was j : . It wae a fresh Scat ie r in the old way. I was acquiring more 1 profited by my lesson learned Wa not smoking. Again } sniied. | be before I dic.” toward me and 1 caught her In ay which was ours drowned by the shouting of the wind; se in myself and more confl- through raising the shears and then OCT G Se OUR R. MAUS eR, Shad eet Aih all: here, Suey run as long as I dared. the possibilities of wind- climbing them to attach the guys, With sudden conviction, Wrote with a final flourish, “1 ean | Oh, Humphrey," aha sobbed, HF day came for our de- ly, when running free, It is impome MA ung to the lee rail ang jasges, shears and hoisting tackles. ‘To the top of the foremast, which was | We sprang together for the ladder, think more clearly than ever in MY ewhon will it all end? Lam so tired, ) oparture, ‘There waa no sible to lash the wheel, so T faced “i worked our way aft, | happened to Bo tired longer anything to detain # all-night watch, Maud inalsted giarce to leeward. ‘The Ghost, at the She buried her head on my shoulder, on relieving me, but proved taat @he moment, was uptossed on a sea, and yin which it could b® just Lifted conveniently’ from the but 1 raced past her to tho deck. A life before, Nothing to disturb m doae ena tt Fouained for me to Ond deck, I attached the rigging, stays, dense volume of smoke was pouring Concentration in pertect. 1 am ; ; ‘ ‘ou « J ¥ of 18 ateerage compa a ang e i 6 badea¥al i hehe was considering the prod. and throat and peak halyards, As OU te Wolf le not yet dead," Tmut- It was like a message from the her frail ore Se ee ce ‘The GhOdt Sotto mec, Rad not the strength to steer fn 8 i caught a ¢ wot Tarsen came on deck. We cf work involved in this portion of tered to myself as 1 sprang down night of the grave; for this man’a {1 = ends ne doe 6 a foather voticed ymething strange about him the task, and two long days were through the smoke, body had become his mie not Aum Mahe wen ' at once. The indecisiveness, or feable- necessary to complete it. And there It was go thick in the confined space And there, pel sranee eeu ore, ‘noua ness, of his movements was more was so much yet to be done—the that I was compelled to feel my way; his spirit” flu ner eats Naat ling her help ranounced. sails, for instance, which practically and o potent was the spell of Wolf would flutter and live ti Be HOP wed and Dee totvered and fell, Tran to his pad ‘to be made over. Liraen on my imagination, 1 was quite of communication was broken, and | Hut 1 soothed and co aide, He gripped ne suddenly and While I tolled at rigging the fore- prepared for the helpless xiant to Krip after that who was to say how muon fil wha pulled hers fiercely by the wrist. tiast, Maud sewed on canvas, ready my neck in @ strangle hold, 1 hesi- longer \t might continue to flutter n oar view of small atumpy masta heavy sea, even if she could have gteaimship two or three miles away, ethereal, w, in place, her eragy sails bent, gained the wisdom on such short roiling and pitching, head on & the on down at Inst," [ay Aiwoi 1 notice een, as it steamed toward us. It was t can ft do without All my handiwork was strong, none “i” appeared quite heartbroken painted black, and from the talk @@ of tt beautiful; but I know that tt ovor the discovery, but recovered her the hunters of their poaching ex. forted her, Would work, and [ felt myself ® man spirits by coiling down tacklos and ploits L recognized it as a United of power aa I iooked at tt. halliards and all stray ropes. Then &rates revenue cutter, L pointed It ked In the out to Maud and hurriedly led her aft ty of the poop. te arena CHAPTER XXII. breess, very fresh, but yicenol conte but ig nw the movement of her lipe : ] yravely t i ' dat wi ther meneally AS i did itt 1 did i) With my own Ci “hada to make, Wolf Larsen to to the w were meals to be c My wrist was released, but his always to drop everything and come tated, the deaire to race back and up and live? . dulckly as sho was wont todo physl- yinda £ did it!" 2 wanted to cry be attended upon, di ahe finished = I start to rush ow to the flag i a erie pemeed | OER Smy DARE 16 tay menleianse “when! jaore banda eeu ahamen d ceseibated CHAPTER XX1. ht to be ashamed of myself,” aloud. the day with a grand house-cleaning locker, then remembered that in rig- held both my a 0 : aerekt than two were required, ‘The canvas Pow ahe said. Then added, with the whim. But Maud and [ had a way of vole- attack upon the cabin and steerage. ging the Ghost I had forgotten ; not mov His free hand went to MY was heavy The vision of her, as I had and hard, and she sewed THINK my } t side te sien le dored, " x each other's thoughts, and ahe All night [ ateered, without relief, provision for a Mag halyard, { aoe vand in that moment I kneW with the regular sailor's palm and last eecn her, in the lantern light of ¢ ¢ ing! Wolf, Larsen one small’ woman. but Tam only ink cain ve prepared to hoist the the wind slowly and steadily increas: — “We need no distress signal,” Mand ¢ throat Groat foretanto of death enrned three-cornored suil-needie, Her hands the echooner's hold, her brown eyes going, OR WORN ey the wind slowly, SAG mLOAGIY inaretes aye ee cee eee 4 by She's own idiocy. Why had 1 wero soon sadly bilstored, but she Warm and moist with Joy, flashed be- wrote, the Mornin® woman,” wartiad mo ike an electric "To think, Humphrey, you did it morning Maud brought me hot coffee | "We are saved,” I said, soberly and Prasted myself within reach of thos® struggled bravely on, and tn addition on oe and I knew ¢ SONG BR after his attempt to it was my own phrase, my pet, all with your own hands!” and bisculta ahe had baked, and at solemnly, And then, in an exuber- terrible arms? I could feel other hands doing the cooking and taking care of Li ome bok! A enttocating. © fire the ship. “The phrase, my love phrase for her. But there were two other hands,” 7 « substantial and piping hot break- @nce of joy, "I hardly know whether at_my throat, ‘They were Maud’s the sick man. L said on tho “tne Teresched Wolt Largen's cumbness ts growing. I can hardly | “Where did you got that phrase?” I angwered, “Two small hands, and fast put new lif into me. | | tobe glad or not” | | j hand! striving Vey trotting “Ee Friday Suorniog, “That mast goes bunk. [reached my hand and felt for move my hand, You will have to 7 demandod, with an abruptnods that don't may that wan 6 Phrase, also, of | Throughout the day, and as slowy | 1 looked at her. (Our eyes were nat | Bho gave it up, and I heard her in to-day.” eee aretha touch et my epeak louder. The last linea are Bo- What phras Nhe laughed and shook her head, creased. It tmpreaved one with its each other, and before I knew tt my ; m in @ way that cut mo to the Everything was ready for the at- moved sltghtly at the touch of my 124. u “ORK Artall aud held her hands up for tnspection, #ullen fetermination to blow, and @fins were about her, | oom for it was a Woman's scream Of tempt, Carrying the boom-taekle to Hand t salt, Over Bad, VAM Be nF yeu in| paint? Taehed ite 16 yanrat? Bho Aakon Lehn never get them clean again,” Plow harder, and Keep on blowing Need 17" L asked) | _ t-breaking despatr the windlass, I hoisted the mast Diankots, “You,” 1 answered, “mine ene “nor soften the weather And atill the Ghost fonmed aloi nd she answered, je ne . } toPr ait the wuole man sink under me, nearly clear of the deck, Making this , Tuere was no warmth. no alg of 1 was compelind to repnat My QUeBe ypu © ANAWEN imine. “F made: sho wy flog ot the tnilea tit Twas. car, Reed, though the telling of tt would be ‘The breath Was leaving his lings and tackle faat, 1 took to the windieas the dy ‘et ok ee soush aad. gasp ton loudly before he answered “Then you must have talked ta your "Then dirt and Weather bent shall tain she was making at leant steven aMSE OA WECL oa crane’ gh iniaa’ ; h fart was collapsing under f shears-tackle (which was connected I lost my head “Not all the time.” Bleep.” she st 1 be your guerdon 0! On id knots Tt waa too good to lose, bu Pe, " ' @ end of the boo must have @ source. ost C ? ‘ ing the 7 e id, apite of nicht fall e a ‘ and, by what strange trick uf the Wola eed off and over to the deck sear da had the mast perpondicu: temporarily and dashed frantically ‘The left hand stumbied slowly and Re ey Opa f MR UODe L WOuId HAWS Kineed Io Tetensth. DNotleRT teint 4, Thine, Magination T know not, the ecene tm on my back,! gasping and Dlinking lar and clear about the atearage. A collision with painfully acroms the paper, and it far five, Mine knew. wore sneaks Nanda had whe Wot six-hour trick at the wheel was the the cabin of the Ghost flashed upoe t fe thy sunshine. Maud was pale Maud clapped her hands the tnstant Fee ea ally drought mo tomy. Waa With extreme dittculty that We jJeaned toward Without volition Ly limit of my endurance. Rest Hantiy ob My lipe eae said, "eae ; but compored—my eyes had gone i- she was relieved from holding the {11m MY body and hrouKht me te ee ai onered the scrawl, It was like @ [levied toward her awa tre9. te " an beaming Mand hemged me to heave to, and T Hey 1. / Looking et A heavy seal-club in our lives to it!” he ay. ened to Wolf Larson's bunk, @fed at arances of spiritualists for a hemhook her head, as one might mg me. Wilfully’ nad it disobeyed that ¢ would anon be Impoasibie to TSat my tree Rank peine, hee her band caught my eyes, and at ‘Thon she assumed @ rusful expres- quire cneguntered Mud, ifew long dollar admission . f sleep or a dream, saying Loerie ae yea aha a ave to. Bo, as twilight, deer Ahoumh never learn in school \ that moment, she followed my gA%0 sion éhe had been there In that suffocating , “But 1 am still here, ail here,” the have known it all my life. Tt of vae ee ey were mad this Madly and at the same time raluo- usty man said, looking at me down to it. ‘The club dropped {fom | “Its not over the hole” she said. {itnoauhore T could, Dot KuCSS, hand scrawled more slowly and paln- wa my’ father's name. for” my MY Uns for they were HN Tantly, T brought the Ghost up tn the » 7Sl¥ man.” she sald, looking a€ me her hand ag tnoaey at the samo I amiled in suverior fashion, and, _"° UP on deck!” 1 commande fury tian ever nd we had to Me fn which had toiled ao f "Thut I had not reckoned uyon the "hich fluttered down and veiled hee denly stung her, ane : ; Shion, and, seremptariiy. no vencil dropped, a It iy my phrase, too," Tania stub. Wien had & ap eaty Lut 1 had not . 1? eyes as whe snuggled her head againat ‘moment my heart surged with ® slacking off on one of the boom-guya Pet opeon he began to Feplace tt in the hand _ bornty , 1 $08; WA coloasal task the Teellng of tires SYe4 4s ahe aniewiod her head agal great joy. ‘Truly she Was my woman, and taking in on the other, swung pictert Bupenrer’ Sanke eo Pogan to Wien there is no pain [have par- Wor your mother?” Wan a cry In my Cenk iro wos s ealle meant for one inan, While run- "Y oVed toward the cutter, It was my mate-wonmn, fighting with mo the mast perfectly in the centre of Protest in a queer, husky volee | tect peace and quiet, I have never PT anawered: and cha quens yea Ue ie tO er Bae eee een Rite eway trom the wind t bad not vaca oo Moca te oy eee My Tor me as the mate of Rcaveman he deck. Still {t was not over the e! pleas a thought so clearly, I can ponder lite od no further, though 1 Could Rave eee eee an oe very body of Appreciated ite force, but when we grey Would have fought, all the primitive hole, Again the rueful expression harshly, q #nd death ike a Hindoo sage.” Sworn hor avon retained tor some tose tok TAN et SmeziGe the Very tune conaed to RUA fT Inaried to My got “Ta. . iiss dese lowe? ¥ whlenaeee } in her aroused, ‘forgetful of her camo on her face and again I smiled antee, Am Array, obediently, and and immortality?” Maud queried 4° in . ng. Oxpreae ee ene TE inened 1 gia TOW, and well nigh to my despair, wong Kine morn before they cole $ culture, hard under the softening in a superior way, Slacking away then Foy attea ateee hor, 20Udly In the ear With the foremaat in, the Work Now fnew It. She could not but how florcely it was reully blowing, And rescue us from ourselves,” she Gvitzation of the only life she had on the boom-tackle and hosting an find the ste Mhiee times the hand ‘essayed to wei’, h fs ace. Almost before 1 knew as sho swiftly drew away th ow balked my every effort, eompleted, with most adorable ver known. equivalent amount on the shears- to stop at the foot of the companion~ write, but fumbled hopelessly, The ‘ houtrahn aarionn hit ll MTS. Sot ebehek plone ng the canvay out of imy hands Sohn! i ; ewMDear woman!" Ieried, scrambling tackle, I brought the butt of tho Way. Perhaps sho had gone up. A® Pencil fell, In. vain we (ried to To: fhid'tlie sWiliTHAsl tepped A erie. ae ee a oe ee ay ih an instant usdolng what 1 fmlle, whimelcal a f bad never seem to my feet. mast into position directly over the I stood there, hesitant, 1 heard her cry piace it, The fingers could not close goum, rigged to the foremast. had pees Kained by ten minutes of se. 7 Sor a) The next moment she was in my hole in the deck, ‘Then I gave Maud eofdy: on it. Then Maud pressed and held accomplished this; and several days Ay means of deck-tackies { had ar At & o'clock T had ————___-_ ¥ arms, weeping convulsively on my careful instructions for lowering ‘Oh, Humphrey, I am lost." the fingers about the pencil with her more found all stays and shrouds In panged to carry the halvards forward n putting the second ; houlder while I clasped her close, T away and went into the hold to the I found her fumbling at the wall of own hand, and the hand wrote, in place, and overything set up taut te the windlass; an® now | hotsted into the foremad, At It o'clock GOING AWAY FOR THE ‘ ked down at the brown glory of step on the achooner’s bottom, the after bulkhead, and, half leading large letters, and so slowly that the sally would be a nuisance and & the mainsail, peak and throat at the bo owas ono further along, Blood 3 A SNES / hair, glinting gems in the sun- l called to her, and the mast moved her, half carrying her, I took her up nuinutes ticked off to each letter: danp a crow of two, so [heaved game tin it was & clumsy W but dripped from every finger end, while | SUMMER? Remember The Eve- hine far more precious to me than easily and accurately, Straight the companionway, The pure air was = "B-O-8-H." the topmasis on deck and lashed them jt did not take long, and soon the the naily were b to the quick : ' those In the treasure-chests of kings. toward the square nole of the step Jike nectar, Maud was only faint and It was Wolf Laraen'a last word, fast foresiil as woll was up and fluttering, From pain ands exhaustion I J ning World prints each week a And I bent my head and kissed her the square butt descended; but aa it dissy, and I left her lying on the deck “bosh," sceptical and Invineible to Several more days were consumed — "We can never met tii! Nor wept in the darkness, secretly, so me halr softly, so softly that she did not descended tt slowly twisted @o that when I took my second plunge below. the and. The arm and hand relaxed, in finishing the sals and putting them in thia narrow place, ones it hash that Maud should not know complete up-to-date novel—a know. square would not fit Into i j quare, But The source of the smoke must be ‘The trunk of the body moved slight- on. There wore only threo--the Jib, the bottom 1 had not even a moment's Indecision. very close to Wolf Larsen—my mind ly. Then there was no movement 1 maid, “Ww should be » In desperation, [T abandoned we ched, on the rocks first.’ the attempt to reef the magesail and s ‘as a real attack this time,” I s reading! Have The Eve- nother shock like the one that foresail and mainsal and, px Calling to Maud to cease lowering, was made up to this, and I went Maud released the hand. The fingers shortened and distorted, they were & “What can you do eh Ked. resolved to try the experiment of J ning World sent to your sum made him blind. He feigned at first, I went on deck and made the watch- straight to his bunk, Aa! felt about spread slightly, falling apart of Pidigutoul y tileAtting suit for #o trim “St Ci t cat Sy me neers . nd heavily to under the close-reefed iol a gad in doing #0 brought it on. tackle fast to the mast with a rolling among his blankets, something hot their. own weight, and the pencil a craft as tie host when 1 do; you muat do your firet foresail, Three houra more were re- | mer address, 3 caught Bim under the sbouldere hitch, I loft Maud to pull on it while fell op the back of my band, It rolled away. “Bul they'll worse!” Maud cried work vn the windiags, I sha have Quired to gasket (be mainsail and jib,