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sat hee Ack a ag | Scientific Sprague “=== Adventures in Queer Company =—— ; By FRANCIS LYNDE By Charles Wadsworth Camp | ce da lenin rx os GD enh aan ak aw them follow swiftly with the moment, then walked across MRR AM AMIN snake, ie += Tt camo £ 24, oi at room. (Copyright, 1915, by Dodd, Mead & Co) sailed into the inlet. “You wmyet have keown neue ontite left f ‘ SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS, Molly and the girl there and tod were kept there.” ‘New York in the hall what disposition to make The fish: nike: saath arctan atts cult OF their prisoner. Miler #uggebted the ucTny, oid me the sherman caught Dut as they Erew accuslomed Uf tHe A p i cupola, ight his countenance romed invthe ety of eae feat Ths ay “ “ 4 burg. ‘They are valuable. 1 belloved nance resi ie car hae spread throughout the ._ mal ‘Noyer rigged it up,” he sald, “as —_ that. T wanted to savo the man, but *“tuesque expression. 1 eae, ee norte tf & corrective for his hpuse servants, : you were the only one to whom [ . The girl faced him. She looked HE ante “titre "Moran “shows We can't lock him in, but it hae wrist could turn, and that meant probably !# eyes. She epoke to nim pare * land ogth which, he sara, is, for and leg iro I dare say we would killing him—my uncle, But when you #othingly. gopre, Seaneed Sy ines) every Sense be justified.’ came I only thought of saving you. | Miller understood. This was hypme- ‘. ound Bn Miers ate iiiecr maroon It Was the best expedient. With the : I knew if you went down that path sm. . J. AL bed Coroner revolver at his back the silent fisher- and discovered them they would try “Where did you learn that? Se man climbed willingly enough. ) Kill you, too,” whispered Miller set his lantern on the floor of the cupola. Hi one of the irons by its chain, He started. He "Millar said, “they would , She motioned him to be quiet. i few moments done that if they could. It % would have been necessary. ‘The right arm “But murder!” Anderson said, TO#* 4t her command while the " / “These cunning preparations for flashed the short-hand of the Andy,” he cried, doath, alwaye ready, always wait- Jn @ dreamy voice, wd ‘The edge of the iron was wet. Miller Ing! CHAPTER XVI. ran his finger around it. When he held “Kasential from Morgan's point of They (Centionet his finger up it was stained red. view." Diller sald. "He regretted jt, “wceoragiice in, Bares Oe “They had her here,” he said, \ . oe wut it was that or get out and let the 4 Within the Circle. baled isch pty Tee iets park y : : whole scheme go to blazes. Until he one of the Bahama Islands; how pum TE fisherman tossed the pole nown what way on foot and refused Trove you off the island he bad to be Drothers had gone there in and the snake behind him. to share in it. ‘Their only excuse for jprepared, He couldn't keep your ore ed tne acoda etawea them He turned as though for such barabarity would be to keep hor | aumaecea ot” your loneliness and in Miseellangvus cargo, end guldance to Morgan; put {fom coming to us. Her wrists are 3 using suspi- for Martinsbui how it had always small. You can sees, Shé managed to ity aad } of the start. efore, if any of been arranged for the echooner again, f ingly: be? Raeoitiry Peatone, Andyi Fhe nwmniteal Te Jou stumbled on the evidence, that Feach the inlet bar in the middle » fac revolver with which heavens, Andy! The humiliation! If} would ruin him and send the lot of the night, when the fisherman ‘Tony threatened him. he wasn't her father he had a father’s| them to Jail, your silence had to be slip out in hit silent tug and take “Don't lose sight of that fisherman, place, No wonder ahe wouldn tell assured, He had used ; the boxes: how the bi Je oignal - re ow wrists w ur "a curses, its superstition, to Was burned as a necessity Andy,” Miller said. “Keep an eye On “Ho raised his eyes to the fi man. hap the climate drive you out. For the schooner her course €or the mouth © him while you out this rope. You silent devil! I'll find a way to death, if it was necessary, he chose of the river and to guide the fieber-— Anderson stooped and cut the cord, Make you speak when I get you in a the other, its poisonous snakes. If man to the entrance of the risky He helped Miller to his feet. Gourteroom). any one was found dea of snake- channel across the inlet bar. And k Morgan!” Anderson said. “What a Picked up another set of does this mean?” ve'ro justified, Anything Is justi- “He's been asking that,” Morgan g he hr nly I wish it was answered. “Well, find out if you can, “year we vite In such a place, why should he = To-night, she transiated, the or any man be suspected? He didn’t had alarmed the fisherman. jinive the value of & single card, but not dared wait for the light. He /r'll do him the credit of saying he taken his chances end come om hoped he wouldn't have to play that One of b - i The fisherman made no effort at re- one, But you wouldn't be driven out. him, He I can’t tell you.’ He stood stoically while Then the other day Jake saw too alarm and “I've found out one thing—how Jake ed the irons around his much, and his friends, the cook and As for himself, the blue light had deed. W's murder, Morgan.” wrists and ankles, and screwed the the man, clinked glasses with him." shown him Mi bolts tight. fit him well enough,” Miller No chance of bis slipping out of them. He brought his face close to the fisherman's, He stared into the un-| winking eyes. she tating before th too, gerous forest. had and, when Miller was about to en' . " he answered softly, “I the forbidden quarters, hi not him on the temple from behind. He tured back to the girt. ing him in the building with “But when you came to the peace pe fl had eolered tet. ® 1 “Do you realize you're likely to) the next morning you evaded my © y « ewing for this business?” questions. You told me things that trled unsuccessfully to find Morgan, But the mask-life face did not alter. were not quite true.” Sho turned to them wearily, shoulders did not tremb! She sat up. The color came back ‘There is nothing else, is there?* “Horrible!” Molly said; “and hadn't told us, guided us, you Jim" “You try to connect me with that!” “Ll try. And this attempt—" “Fortunately he wasn’t hurt,” Mor- wan answered, ‘My story,” Miller said, “and the evidence of these snakes, collected here, will hurt “Evidence! dence.” He pointed to the brushwood in the ;There goes that evi- corner where the flaming wadding from ns Gen't ‘ eg ta Tat Miller shook his head. He Anderson's gun had fallen. The brush- - “ san" to the rear window of the cupola. 4 ti Mth i You can't migunderstand that now wood was teginning to blaze. ra ted down the ladder, —. The struggle, the dreadful un- flames had done their work tried to stamp it out, but the twigs | were like tinder. ‘They crackled in the ‘wore attracted to the nty of the road I ought to fol- Only a red glow hung somb: 1 hoped to persuade | you to # blackened desert. | Tt failed to :} fire that quickly swept the length of the ol where the skirm! the wall. ‘The rattling of the snakes, % : : | eects ee (avba cet ead eee by the dawn with qulet confdapee fought Just now menacing, arose in a staccato js, Andy?’ ‘later they would kill ‘you. I tried to !t,bacl appeal, In a moment the fire would iH» pointed to a few yellow graing D make myself tell you everything, but ,, There's nothing else,” he said. Bring him out of it. directly beneath the trap in the roof I couldn’ 1 couldn't, He was my and keep them o¢ the cupola. The chain which held| uncle—the only father I have ever , He went down the ladder, beckon= covered,” Mijler suid. “Don't let them the fisherman to the wall clanked.| known. I wan given to him a baby, !"& to Molly and Anderson. en, get away. We'll reach the "bottom of Milter looked up. The man’s face had when my mother died, And [ loved they were in the lower hall he i thia business no fat last altered. Its quality of a mask! ihm, We were ks i py until this ‘helt hands, Ind?” he He followed the others into the gale- had’ been destroyed by @ positive! Itrouble in New Yor *) ould you mi swept semicircle. The fire was through emotion, and that emotion was fear. She stopped and looked down. ‘Will you take her home with the doorway almost at hin heels. it t means something,” Miller cried | «fe minted at some money trouble,” shelter her until #he can forget i: @ wall toward the ope ess what. ! “Yes. J the quarters. ‘Phere the wind would Witte" Angerson and ‘Tony. pressed | lines,’ ‘Thea the’ government, fad t can tell whether— catch it finally and deliver to ite hun- ciose, and the fisherman, his taco him heavily for evading customs for me ite real” 9 tho evil piece of blank again, looked on, Miller bent duties. He paid the fine, but it dro eae pd oily cried. ou Bnow! rose the trees of the trance, Molly sat near ber in an easy 4 ink ?"* then. Now ctable Northern Y " . o1 ‘won laughed softly. a and scraped the grains into a +. iy ¥ do you thi . Now @ respectable Norther That's all. That's all I saw. him into bankruptey, He swore a: sprang Into Rargantuan, fee es chair. 2 “Two hundred thousand at the very {4mlly makes a winter home of it, ‘All you saw! But how did you would get even with the government, ‘To thin’ ter all, it was on Cap Peet a eT ee dtation “Looks like sand,” Anderson said. Is she asleep?” Miller asked MolY jus: she answered, a little awed by Z2eF@ wasn’t the slightest ground for get there in the woods, practically It became a passion.” tain’s Islan ua Mag ora cnes tne eae The fames also “I've seen such sand before,” Miller ‘0,8 whiaper, the Glaplay, suspicion. It was ideal except for tneonacious, unable to move?” “Then you knew bis plan when you , Thy heard her descending the ted- house gleamed w tone e, re 3 apawered n the Fourth of July for lolly shook her head. MMilice leanea \ tal da you and Molly, Your renting of the 1 soia you,” he answered, “A lit- came here?” der, Molly went to meet her at the showed Miller the backs o! i lolly and fivtance.” Miller approached the sofa. He inp ike die pnteartie nat mantel, star- coquina house was the fly in the olpt- 114 ager that {t got dark and | wae , ob, no. Don't think I'm bad. fot of the stairs, Miller led Ander- ea Tir ine arent fanen pre hiss He took his match box, struck a prety vena vty age gte Tou can fhante the duty on thle hers oneras, rt at ee fad frightened, I started down the path My woated herself beside her on #0” to the veranda. hy’, * match and touched it to the powder, “ 0 y it “yo M. to the boat, 1 don't know.” the sofa and took rhand, The girl Peach cay nea aerate oF the aif The yellow grains hissed. They sprang ‘Ufred {othe others. ow One wide of the Part hai evtiy ert Feo a or ae eet get you “But what happened before that— Kianced at her gratefully, wonde CHAPTER XIX. ’ uation stifled him. Her father involved into @ brilliant blue flame. The flame ne ‘said, “then— we ought to have seen it all from the out of that house and off the {sland.” after you had looked in the window? '"K/¥: The Dawn. 4 im this brutal scandal! Undoubtedly died, leaving 9 tiny mass of carbon HH» broke off, staring at the high beginning.” “Yes,” Anderson agreed, “from his Who was it disturbed you by coming , (1 knew nothing at first. He mai ; for introducing those two m cY he Ae he bad haved his life, yet what was 8 the floor. book shelves, piled with musty black- Molly looked at him Inquiringly. point of view we had to go. He bad °Ut of the kitchen? é oxemaee . EY sat on the steps, wateh- her own share? “The blue Mghtty Anderson cried. bound volumes. Be it don't know how, Morkun was fo have a clear Meld. But Jim, you The woman—the cook.” Oa RNS Bro ners te Ne Apeoerane Cae ing the sky lighten for the | He swung on Morgan angrily. | hey raised him to the trap in the “prehe, are. vatiees cepacia as lke thi suspect of anything heard yourself there in the coquina —..7ug the Apeak to you in the samo business, He told mo birth of day, fresh, smiling, pearee fig. SUene explain cof, He pushed it back and put hls Morgan called them!” This y "Yes, but Andy himself told me 20U* “"Well—what ?* things that weren't true about the full of the health of this business. ean th This room wi d y, Yes, but inevitably that th ¥ hal thing,” M head and shoulders through, After @ Morgan epent most of his enough the night I got here to have os, but inevitably that was the «she told me Mr. Morgan had said Andersons, That was why I wouldao’t They reveed themeeieall I_can explain nothing,” Morgan head and showered a long, rusty rod Walaa edie tis noua the night T got here to bave iover he'd use—the aupernatural for 1 wan ti have a soit of eelkeye” be friendly even at first, why I held Y cerned thi Ae te ug to explain be. tO whose end was fastened on old — He walked to Whe abcives and com: we bad oaly reasoned. I dont know Which the island was notorious, with " Miller grasped An rn. \hem away. Sooner or later I had to only when they heard the oh eee eee und you in the fashioned brasier protected by wire menced pulling down the books, What there !s about a suspicion of /\# Totten loneliness to back It and = phats it! Of cour a been discover everything. ‘That day came. of the gasoline launch. Thea . ata et that Fant and told you the n, handing them to Tony and Anderson, the supernatural that knocks one's Sri eranan hemes You ou ne watched. And you drank it! Did ! suffered alone. 1 tried to find th walked to the pler and met the deputy obvious thing that I couldn't handle who placed them on the floor. There reason into a cocked hat. You £0 jag Byer bo heard you were 7U @rink it allt right thing to do, You don't kno’ sheriff and the rough native passe, Coren Gettyou away. What do I when f th ; was nothing behind them but smooth, against It with a certain mathematl- Coming to atrange the trickery of Ol 1 ain't thought much of that, the unhappiness of that time, What 7 “pd Their pur- “something from Noyer's days. unpapered walls and an accumulation cal contempt as I started down here. H Maybe half. I'm not much of « Was I to do” ‘There was no one to which Tony had brought from Samd+” Know? ssa bevond me, You people Ho held’ the brazier 90 he coula of dust. That's it. You face the supernatural 20 y op uMe, tO, MMe fancy | He dd A whiskey drinker.” Waom 3 could sp. And 5 BAS Bei gape, vad seem Gevermined to_ incriminate me glance in its top. ® Fecins failure hare, too, he hurried rest * oni ee your shoulder, Your ing, we'll have to grant him that.” nee < it, ven, gee! Je warsen big ai Robles ce the i Jerod ‘They answered the necessary ques~ il " “Fro i ie - t t tive. i * ai slowly, je wasn’ ru yt ne, and could Wig somehow or other. That's nonsense. rom the amount of carbon here his tas! piel up several vol- fight is likely to be negative. Your fig glanced at the girl FA Ramaiatae only“, not find it easy to betray @ father. tions, ‘They told all they knew. ‘They the house it was kept well filled to-night. It umes at once and cerelessly passed first concern Is to prove a fact Js not be oe ea k mails Rome ‘burns,’ was a signal, Andy. For what? For them to the others, tis carelessness supernatural rather than to find out Miller grasped Morgan's arm. He those wild oystermen— grew with his disappointment. A why it seems supernatural, It's the thic! b i reeie P think prokubiy in’thae £6W minutes. They caught him in the It was tho thing. Ho 1 went to gave the sheriff the address of the ‘et Duck Of thee kitchen M4! woods and ‘bound him in cave he him and begged him to glveit Up. L noter to which they would go tm Mage Hh odded at the fisherman. book fell to the floor from a pile he doubt of the unexplored that, sub- . Should come out of it before the snake couldn't mave him. In the end be aboek it savagely. | Terabe EONS eee eee eimpiices Was handing to Anderson, He heard consciously affects ‘the sounddat of gaicy 1ierged,,t2, THe table and fin- jA4"Anished him, He began tw come wade me promise tinsburg., annotate by ARs of his.” something click on the boa: us. wi ve been told wo often of the "fi had to take chances, He waa Out: That wouldn't have mage any “Why were you treated so brutally Tho sheriff left two of his 5 xXistence ie ecaw tunuanital) glanced down. The light of th whet it te you ‘wel “The girl knows, but I hate to put Mas cauant there and fi lamp forces that play across i MA difference, \but they heard the girl to-night?” Molly asked. to take the fisherman and the : hed up into the barrier of death that we are more profit’ in this stuff; you'kaow, ahd ime talking by the ruins, They “Hecause I knew the boat was.com- (0 sanaport, He set out with the seat Why you've put the Andersons her on the stand now. is eyes. afraid, almost unknown to our rea- than there ever was in flesh and 4dn't know how muoh she was telling Ing to-night. It ed te be the biggest ie aaa cline end yt the beng ‘a a why you killed Jake, why "I think she knowa everything, Miller stooped quickly. Anderson soning selves, of the possibility of blood. And 1 wouldn't be surprised 7) p Sos prev pt ti at pea eros wa” Rd wal o Dime, peeeiige ‘plore men—why you've t. and Tony were already on their knees conviction. For that matter the cli- if there was | erchandlae—f He marsh chapnels to the north of the q ‘| ye forward with an exclamation. pressing atmosphere are enough to it h x m arge down path pre- sen man to the coqu Ouse al 1 ” in that house of yours I won't search said, | “But she knows why this light “the book waa very thick. A hole foster superstition, ‘That required no inst drop from his opportialtes: Fi Moog ey, : | 5 pared for them. They didn’t dare riak midnight. He gaid he would try to And your daughter! was burned. Anyhow we've done ail naq heen scooped in ite pages in such trickery. That was all in bis favor. a i Hi sald. “WWeny, got to the dingy ‘hen where”—— Anderson it, It wan easier to throw Morgen keep you inte ed there, you ‘eo . Cor We can here, Go on down. We manner that it would leave no.trace And your talk of what you had gut: “Certainly not in the house, ‘Itfhas down and let thelr share in the amyg- Woulda't hear anything outside and TOY Quinto une Dart, Coas het enw a Peer hene aE ‘a manana When the book was closed. Curled fered hero, Tony's overwhelming be- no cellar, and he had to keep it free sling come out than to face a murder bo tempted to meddie. But he she holds together, sne'll have wa" Ree. Ag It they" ifaw, ee, in this nest lay a string of perfectly lief and fear, and Morgan's carefully for your friendly visits. I'm afraid Charge. So they flung Mis cords off. if you did meddie you would have to Martinsburg this afternoon. 8 CoO ey're still here We MAY matched diamonds. Planned alluslons—creeping allusions we'll never see that evidence. It It was the looped snake he heard pay hie price, Then I told him if A Y , lights, and the rac! waved my iife. get something out of them Anderson picked it up. As it un- from the sanest, the most material of was probably stored in the elave rattling. That's why Morgan rushed couldn't let it go on. I could risk it. . | man is @ sphin They found, however, only the curied, its myriad facets caught tho types!—All that was enough to make quarters, In the ones he had repaired. oUt to the boat the next morning—to I took back my promise. 1 said i "i jife ahead, Wo keep silent now K imate Dian “aa OF ey ors light and sparkled, It seemed almost one doubt, even though he told him- The fire"— find out what I knew, He saw he was would warn you. I #tarted torun out woived across the hall, and at Morgan's jaw dropped. An animal fire, she ad unied ner hivering conscious of this superb exposition self, aw I did, that there was nv’ He broke off, looking at Tony, Un- safe.” of the house.” the library door, The girl sat im am tke crv left his mouth, As the covers and lay there, shivering of {ts value. doubt.” uorstanding flashed from the native's He smiled mirthleasly. She raised her torn wrists to her mele le gy Als | ‘the rily surprised, lowered and—when they shook her and ques- “It's worth thousands,” Anderson “We tried, Jim," Anderson an- ¢¥@#. He wanted to speak, “Ry and by, Tony, you'll be asham. face. Re ee ae eta thought a o \. % ie native’s ps parted, eo " iv 0 go to Sand~ e. e g there, and leaped the window, ‘The entire sky in the " But Miller was not xazing with the scnemewas too carefully planned, too Lointtg “toward the ruined’ alave post’ Are yours om oa?! After a moment ahe continued. eit tee been atiting mele rere aimed at But he tancieg the fre would bUEn Ite Cees ge ep oekiace:, Hie eves “Yes, and as Molly says, it was not @Arters a ‘The man nodded sheeplahly “But I got free, Without thelr put ut Miller's entrance, she ised his arm. were drawn by the girl who easy to wuspect Morgan, He was too | it Was kept there,” he said. Anderaon said. “This knowing it I went to the edge of the and hurried past him. Miller arted uneasily and had buried her “How can you be eure of that?’ poceres fa? e \ ed. Hi convincing fellow victim. Then was evidently to be a big haul. The clearing at the coquina house, Imade her join Anderson on the poreh. ne, It isn't necessary. hoped for that. in the Haht of what oeegis tame AB her arms. He turned when he did turn from the unknown Miller asked. | 44 1 1, authorities ought to be warned, They up my mind to stay there all night, closed tho door softly, He walked No, Tomytorgan had jumpe they already knew they might find " “It's worth your peace of mind,” he {t,,Wa# only to the unseen, to those wainy! ‘You idiot! And you never ‘Mi@bt oateh the man and possibly and, if you heard anything, If you ward the girl whe looked up, & yor vr aatean Yi something there of value, He Was gaid.It'a the whole answer, " oystermen that We knew were not far those alleged ers in the river or ran out, to keep you from coming frightened, uncertain. He stood N@pped shrieking w almost afraid now that the fire would roth np toed back. Miller struck the self out in the marshes, that the u ke! When?" off in the marshes, and the possibility “Pony the marshes.” this way where the danger was. Then fore her. He waa ill-at-ease, The tenny ; 4 “Take Mo launch,” Milier 4!- #ome one called from the boat and “You have never told me your é alon, . ny ‘olly asked, “coul ed si Co t - beac} ere we left the dinghy. e burn new it was too it now-—-couldn’t you rmiah, Tine. ibe fire Wickes SORE | AL teat to The Menace of the Slave you havo’ foreseen anything like ger’ Manced mamiticantly at An- een ene to the right. Geert te Bale wou eoud take year ike. te Wat ieee take We Waa tae trunks NM. ne binding. Quarters. this? “He was caught, ax he calle it, after find the path open to the river end of your handy to find out what the blue had come into her face : he mare becaMgravely to Anderson. «1 don't know,” ah ney ‘Andy told mo the bistory of Noyer ne had meen enough to give the whole the island. ‘Take the boat you hired Heht was.” softened. Her lips parted, Miller turned gravely to AT back —«2,00R.t know.” abe answered. JOLLY came forward and and his island,” he answered. “Sinco game away, But why didn't he know? this afternoon and rouse Handport. "We know {t was a stgnal,” Ander- | “You can ask that now? You reat nee sand hands. Perhaps it's eg) oly Hs Hi ad ¥ knelt with them over the the days of the buccansers, when they Why did he see no one? Tony, why Tell them to send a fast launch to son began, “and’--—~ to know after everything that ike 8 tices deserved. You and ery DIM £0 Qui e ok, Out 3 don't volumes, from which an “fed bring their ships in here to ca- didn't you tell me you bad discovered Martinsburg with the news, and todo Miller raised his hand. happened?” peter tee that tongue-tied fellow to epestaite 4%, 0'9100% Academio odor of. ataje (eh, them, it has offered a refuge for the loot?” what they can themselves.” “Understand,” he said to the girl, es, I care very much—ell ny tatation house, I'll bring Molly Pratt ah ke lawlessness, He also spoke of that "1 Oniy saw big packing cases. 1 | When Tony had gone, stil! ehame~ “I appreciate-I know the strain, I more because of what has pe rantatics ie ilies naigs "im be leather arose, fisherman's tub, moving AllentlY pucyyed it was furniture they hadn't faced but reluctant in spite of it, hate to put you on the rack, but the Her eyes were moist, 4 th—the fivowly, reluctantly to Saything to you? Age you ‘ “Yes,” Miller sald, “we must run through the water at night. That unpacked, I didn't think any more Miller walked over :to the srl. He fsherman—tI've tried. He won't talk.” mered @ little, ef e . je ONS « "he said. “ 7 ” ou wouldn't do " heir backs still turned, He wonaaes was going?” ‘ For long periods they worked with- lowed on that boat, Noyer could , cM), how tt Rapnened. Talk What we know already.” ut FOU gee way. “But he le dumb. wNoniy very eeitianly,” be ancwengll he girl's bowe . No. Um afraid. I'm—— Why do out reward, but occasionally a book snuggle slaves in here unmolested "n, “nitia wayed from foot to , She turned, r were red vy, “That wae why they used “Then—" whe said 5 tl isan tt you ask me? I'm the one that wants coped After the law had made it a dead) ba aad iy nent Gower, He VO Fee io he had here.) Miller Logg ie rote pity er ee Srigee esause, os Andy explained: unhappy in soy rete ky (8 A a to ow, ee, hee ee ad to stoop to catch her answer. said. "Wo'd better scatter.’ I told rich stones, When the last one had jis was king of it and of this Inlet “f Was waiting for you at the end e Leetuah the path; therefore you (Tho Fest Were my uncle's awn people “He is not my father. have Morgan I'd search every rat-hole in been examined they arranged their and of this lonely coast. Is the island of the avenue. It was Hght then. I ynew what they were doing with He could trust them. Ww ell—my uncle She sald no more. He did not the place ‘and he let me seo plainly discoveries on the table, Morgan any less isolated now than it was wasn't afraid, I reckoned I'd stand Tony.» Ie dead. Oh, T know! If you wish, 1 6 heart to question her then, enough he didn’t like the idea It'S qoubtiegs had often set them eo to ‘Ben? Isn't the dweller in this pian- outside and peok through the window ghd gid not answer, Ho spread his think I have a way of siaking the ‘os from weeping. Hi foot, embarr unaccustomed and from weeping. | ipa droope: 3 ua been She reached up and drew hie head — that “DIRK” Ne in outcast, Ho hates normal men, slate to her lips. Her line a worth a chance, may turn up tation house as much of a king now —they tell such stories about the arms helplessly. fisherman speak, and, since there ts 3 something, We'll meet in the library.” gloat over them late at night when ae Moyer was before th ro- quarters, you know, And it was day. "i itas n these much that I can't tell you"—— N £ CHAPTER XVII When Miller entered the brary he had fancied himself secure, while vided, of course, that the T font want to believe these Oi ows Miller asked GOING AWAY FOR uina Meht. I sorter dared myself. 1 went thing 8 “ he yet VACATION? elics. empty-handed an hour later he found . house doesn't shelter strangera? Mor- over, The window was broken, An Ht ‘i cel t tantt=E don't Mk Remember The Noyg's R the plantation Annerson and Tony aires4y there, ‘ne Pratrgred Lerkrnayt aoe Peck gan bad heard tho history, of the old rag hung over it. I pushed It more thane whisper vee ee" od with him easily befor Evening World prints each does HEY entere They, too, had been unsuccessful, |/n€ against the manifestations of the piace, and, since he was out for that aw ‘There w these packing “1 wasn't walting—-to warn you at first came my uncle asked me to do | a complete ul te no * house through the kitchen, “We thought we'd wait until you coquina house. wort of thing, !t suggested the ideal cases, There was writing on then. | first it, I thought 1t was fun then, but oe They saw no one. A lamp came before beginning on this room,” There were thirty pieces in all of oportunity everyting. phere is only was golng to read that, but somebody He sat on the sage of the sofa. Inter 1 understood w week's reading! Have The By lerson said. a rate revenue officer in Mar- waa com! out ol e an # ou in't know it was to . u turned low burned in the Aniston fenced around. ‘The girt Various worth. saad awe ¥ M "It makes no difference, . si ee 4 tinsburg, and this coast has keen no down the avenue.” lay on the sofa, her face to the wall, | “t éen't know much about such gmy; Hie bad ‘pot iooked' up t'his en shiny” Andersan oni “Malls. wees injand ing since before the war, The He stopped and wet his ipa c I knew other things, but I “I'll uninhabited “Ge on!” om. _ aight he des bean atthe Attnle,nnem thet, Whe Leaied 3 “ln