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id and the Treno A Romance of Maa RaW can Dead Man’s Rock. and of a Strange Quest. | By A. T. Quiller-Couch a SIGRGRRNRER RID RATAN SS . The NMRA ‘ Buried Treasure 3 CHAPTER I. A Strange Will. AM Jasper *t whore enoweth, gran will ( ran My erandfatt ison of Amos Trenoweth of Cornwall, ed June 15, 1897) 4s still talked of down there, had led a wild and wandering life. Many @ story —not all of them over-creditable to his virtues—is told of him. ‘The will bequeathed to my father, Ezekiel Trenoweth, the testa- tor’s house and ¢. | lantrig, adding that if at any time tho sald Ezektel or any descendants of his should find himself in parity the heir in question ‘was to take ship for Bom Sanderson, There the heir wa eth family Bible, and and go direct to the East Indian house of Elihu to present to Sanderson a copy of the will scrupulously obey such instructions as Sanderson might give. The queer testament went on to say: “Also I command and enjoin, under pain of my dying curse, that the tron key now hanging from the middle beam in the front parlor be not touched nor moved until he who undertakes this task shall have returned and crossed ‘the threshold of Lantrig, having duly performed all the said Instructions.” Now my father fell upon evil days, and at last he and my mother de- cided that he should make the journey to Bombay, Away he sailed, carrying the will and the Bible sewn inside hig Jers At last caine a letter from him say- 4g that Sanderson had given him a sealed packet which he was bearing back to England by way of Ceylon. A slip went down one night off our own Cornish coast, My mother vowed she heard her husband's voice in a ery that rang through the dark Next day at dawn I went to tho beach—I was a little boy at the time 10 look for signs of wreckage. I was half-across the beach (having ween, of the debris, only a cap that had washed ashore), when suddenly 1 looked up toward our village of Polkimbra, and saw a man advancing toward mo along the edge of the tude. He wore no hat, and was dressed in @ red shirt and trousers that ended * in rags at the knee. Ilis feet were bare, and his clothes clung dripping to his skin. I had advanced somewhat obliquely from behind, #0 that at tho sound of my volce he turned sharply round and faced mo, but with a terrified hat was hurd to account for. sing only a child, however, the hesitation faded out of his eyes, and he advanced toward me. As he approached [ could see that he was shivering with cold and hun- “Boy,” he sald, in an eager and expectant voice, “what are you doing out_on the beach so early?” “Ob, sir!” I answored, “there was euch 4 dreadful storm last night, and we-that is, mother and I—heard a cry, we thought; and oh, I have seon——" “What have you seen?” and he caught me by the arm with @ nervous “Only a cap, air,” I eaid, shrinking, “only a cap; but I climbed up on Dead Man's Rock just now—that big rock at the end of the beach—and I waw oa cap lying there, and it @oemed”-—— - “Come along and show it to me; and he began to run over the sands toward the rock, dragging me helpisss after him. Suddenly he stopped. “You saw nothing else?” he asked, facing round und looking into my You are sure you saw nobody but me? You didn't happen to see a tall man with black hair, and rings in his you'll swear you saw no such man? Swear it now; say, ‘So help me, God, I haven't seen anybody on the beach but you.'”’ 1 swore it “Bay, ‘Strike me blind if I hav I repoated the words after him, and, with « hurried look around, he set off running again toward the rock. 1 had much ado to keep from tumbling, and even from crying aloud with pain, so tight was his grip. Fast as we went, the man's teeth chattered and his limbs shook; bis wet clothes flapped and fluttered in the cold morning breeze; his face was drawn and pinched with exhaustion, but he never slackened his pace unul we reached Dead Man's Kock. Here he stopped and looked around again. § there any place to hide tn here- he suddenly asked, “There is a nico cave in Ready- Money Cove, which 1s the next cove to this, sir. The smugglers used to use it because it was hidden »# but"-—— I suppose my eyes told him that I was wondering why he should want to hide, for he broke in again: “Well, show me this Out on the face of this rock you say—what's the name? Dead Man's Rock, eh? ‘Well, it's an ugly name enough, and fan ugly rock enough,” he added with @ shiver. T climbed up the rock and he after me, until wo gained a ledge where [ » A had stood before. 1 looked down, The cap was still lying there, and the tide had ebbed still further, My companion looked for a moment, then, with @ short ery, scrambled quickly down and picked it up, ‘To me it he looked like any ¢ n sailor's cap, but he exe ned gered it, and pulled it about, mutter- ang all the ti > that F imagined d it must be his own, though at a loss to know why he mode so much of yecovering it. At last he climbed up again, holding it in his hand, and atill muttering to hi If “His cap, sure eno’ nothing in it, though. But he was much too clever a devil. Tlowover, he's gone right enough; I knew he must, ar unis proves it, curse him! Well, Tl ‘ 1, wear it, Ho's not left behind as much as he thot but mad enough he'd he to think [wax his heir. I wed it for old acquaintance’s sake, Sit ddwn, boy," he said aloud to me “we're safe here be seen, I want to talk w, t any. thing to eat? ad fo 1 up a hunch ad to verve’ me for breakfas with a half-apolo- getle air, ns if to deprecite its Ness, T produced from my. pock handed to bh Tle snatehe out @ word and ate it keeping his eve fixed uy most rrassing way AVENnOUSIY, .ime in the is your name?” he de. “Jasper Trenoweth." “Lord in heaven! What?" He started forward and was staring at me with a wild surprise, “Father by any chance answering ys the name of Ezekiel—Hzektel howeth!" h, yes. Do you know him? He was coming home from Ceylon and on his way back from India mother was % anxious; and then, what with the storm last night and the ory that we heard, we were go frightened! Oht do you know—do you think”— My words died away in terrified entreaty; but he seemed not to hear me Stull gazing out on the sea, he said: “Salled in the Belle Fortune, bark of six hundred tons or thereabouts, bound for Port of Bristol? Oh, ay, 1 knew him—knew him well. And. might this here place be Lantrig?” “Our house is on the cliff above the next cove,” I replied. “But, oh, please tell me if anything has hap- pened to him!” “And why should anything have happened to Ezekiel Trenoweth? That's what I want to know. Why should anything have happened to nm ‘But you seem to know him, and know tho ship he satled in. Tell me— tell _me what has happened, ‘ou sail in the same ship? And, what has become of 1?" “T satled,” sald my companton, still examining the horizon, “from Ceylon on the 12th of July in the ship Mary Jane, bound for Liverpool. Conse- quently, if Ezekiel Trenoweth sailed in the Belle Fortune we couldn't very well havo been in the same ship, and that's logt for the first time with a watery and uncertain smile, but quickly with- drawing his eyes to their old occupa- ton But he had lifted a great load from my heart, so that from joy at know- ing my father was not among the| crow of the Mary Jane I could not speak for a time, but sat watching Evening World Daily Magazine, Monday, March 27; 1916 THAT WAS A GREAT FIGHT| HE RIPPED IN A BEAUTY To THE SOLAR PLEXUS ~ Just LIKE THAT \ SToP| 1 READ ALL ABOUT IT ee a mysterious sealed box, with on, s CC civ - . . I Y ip en co open it until a certain date— Would you @y.,tiose orders? Perhaps you would follow the e™ple of the hero of ‘THE SON B: W. B. M. Ferguson Next wr's Complete Novel in The Evening World. By Maurice bab 1 WISH You Could >/ HAVE SEEN THAT | RIGHT UPPERCUT / To CHIN . JUST LiKe THAT a. — ed +. story——by the author of “Garrison’s Finish” poe aot baly alive with mystery and suspense, but Aich is altogether “different. } ‘ De t forget to read it. You can’t afford to miss this | git serial, ———————— == .0 wan on his feet, and had gripped © by the shoulders with a furious tutch. I turned sick and cold with terror, The blue aky swam and circled around me; then came mist and black darkness, Hit only by the gleam of two terrible eyes; a shout— on the Polkimbra Beach. ‘This would give an opportunity for an inquest; and, in fact, the coroner came from Penzance with an inte: er, for the evidence of the strange sailor, who, ft seemed, was a Greek. Little enougl had been got from him, but he seemed HT HOOK WAS Tust Uke THaT HE WoRIKED BOTH HANDS WELL AT CLOSE QUARTERS TusT UKE THAT You ARE MAKING ME ) ? sald he, turning to me| his face, and thinking how I should question him next. He went on: “Well, it's a strange world. To think of him being dead!” “What! Father dead “No, my lad, t'other chap; him as this cap belonged to, Ah, he was a devil, Se was, Can't fancy him dead somehow: seemed ag though the water Wasn't made as could have drowned n; always said he was born for the fe and joked about tt. But he's gone this time, and I've got his cap. Ts a hard thoueht that I should out- live him, but, curse nim. I've done it, and here's his old cap for proof—why, what the devil 1s tho Ind staring st?” During his muttered solfloquy I iss tur for a moment to look across Polkimbra Beach, when suddenly my eves were arrested and my heart again set violently beating by a sight that almost made me doubt whether the events of the morning were not still part of a wild disordered dream. For re, at about fifty yards’ distance, nd advancing along the breaker: edge, Was another man, dressed lik my companion, and also watching the sea, “What 1s the matter, boy? Speak, ean't you?” It's @ man." A man! Where?” Me mado a motion forward to look over the edge, but checked himself aad crouched down close against the “Lig down!" he murmured in @ whisper, “Lie down and look arm was clutched as though © vise. I sank down flat and peered the edge, It's a man,” T sald, “not fifty yards off and coming this way. He has on @ red shirt, and ts watching the sea just as you did, I don't think that he saw us,” “For the Lord's sake, don't move. Look; 19 he tall and dark?" His terrified excitement was dread- ful. I thought I should have had to shriek with pain, so tghtly he clutched me, but found voice to an- swer: though I can't well see “Has ho got earrings? “Lcan't seo; but he walke with # stoop, and seems to have a sword or something slung round his waist.” jod defend us; that's ho! Curse Lim, eurse him! Lie down—le down, I sa It's death tf he catches sight of us." We cowered against the rock. My companion’s face Was livid, and bis Ups worked as though fingers were plucking at them, but made no sound. 1 never saw such abject, hopeless terror, We waited thus for a full minute, and then I peered over the ledge again, Ne was almost directly beneath ws how, and was still watching the sa. but perhaps he may let you off, “ ded, murde) ine but you might get off. Anyw For the love of heaven, look sharp,” Ile took SToPlon i's and I knew no more. to imply that the vessel had struck HE DRove A TERRIFIC 9! * ~ upon Dead Man's Rock from. the ee NOSE SLAP Yoré CHAPTER III. southwest, breaking her back upon T DREW THE \\ WRAT How the Sailor Gave Evidence. {\), Sunken, base. and then, allpping out and subsiding in the deep water. CLARET Just CAME gradually back to Also, [ was permitted to go with i ‘ my mother to the inquest, which was LIKE THAT F beige uenees Grid & UES 1A’ 6 held at the “Lagger’ fae, i of volces. Dr. Loveday, poikimbra. And thither we went: my uncle, was bending There was a small crowd around over me, his every button the door of the “Lugger Inn” when 7 gitstening with sympathy, and his “® drove up. It appeared that the coroner had just arrived, and t - face full of Kindly anxiety, What quest wae 4 begin at nee Means happened, or how I came to be lying while, the folk were busy with con- thus upon the sand, I could not at jecture. They made way, however, first remember, until my gaze, wan- for my uncle, who, being on euch ~— L dering over my uncle's shoulders, met oceasions « son of no little tm- the captain's eyes reganting me with portance, easily gained us entry into a keen and curious stare, the Red Room where the inquiry was Ho was standing in the midst of a about to be held. As we stepped small knot of fishermen, ry now along the passage the landlord’s par- and then answering their questions rot, looking more than ever like Aunt with a gesture, a shrug of the shoul- Elizabeth, almost frightened me out dera, or shake of the head; but chiefly of my wits by crying, “All hands regarding my recovery and waiting, lost! All hands lost! Lord ha’ merey as | could see, for me to spoal onus!" Its hoarse note still sounded Poor boy!" said Uncle Loveday, in my ear whe door opened and or boy! I suppose the sight of we stood in presence of the “crown- this man frightened him.” er’s quest.” Cone ROSS I caught, the captain's eye, and 7 suppose the Red Room of the TAM @tlEcTING “Ah, Yeu, yen, You soo," he ox. jLUsser,, wan full: and: indeed. as plained, turning to the shipwrecked twotve men and coroner, to. may “your sudden appearance upset : nothing of witnesses, !t must have been very full. ‘The Coroner was speaking as we entered, but his voice sounded as though far away and faint, Unele iinet" Loveday gave evidence, Then Jona- Ik anawer to my uncle's apologetic than, the coast guardsman, was hesitation the stranger merely spread Called. He had seen, or fancied he Jout his palms and shrugged his St, @ ship in’ distress near Gue | shoulders, Graze; had noticed no light nor “Ah, yes. A foreigner, evidently, heard any signal of: distress; had Well, ‘well, although our coast is not glven Information at Lizard ‘Town. precisely hospitable, IL belleve its in- ‘The rocket apparatus had been got |habitants are at any rate free from and searchers had scoured the that reproach, Jasper, my boy, can cliffs as far as Porth Pyg, but noth. lyou walk now? If #0, Joseph here ing was to be seen. ‘The search party | Will see you home, and we will do our were revurning, when they found a host for the—the—forolgn gentleman shipwrecked sailor in company with ‘thus unceremoniously cast on our a small boy, one Jasper Trenoweth, | shores."* in Ready Money Cove. | Turning to the captain, he asked. At the sound of my own name T | syGu do not happen, my friend, to started, and for the second time since be ina position to inform us whether our entry felt the ayes of the stranger any-pardon the — expression—any question me, At the same time [ felt corpses are now lying on the rocks to my mother’s claap of my hand | bowr witness to this sad catastrophe?” tighten, and knew she saw that look. { and to tell you the honest truth, y friend, in your present condition in your present condition, mind you ~—your appearance is perhaps some- what -startling. Shall we say, start 5 see, 60 quickly he made me hide It comrade did I know my for myself, I could not take eyes from that fiendish face, At last he spoke; in a swee, silvery voice, that in compan,wte s was an awful and f eed. To vice about John Ratlton; and #0 a plece of weed he had picked up on to face with one whom [ may per- like those of a dr ? in flesh truthful, too—the very soul of truth! the rock, and regarding me with & hans bo oss an old comrae him five Couldn't tell @ lie for all the riches steady stare, ally, a dweller in) Mesopotamia.” my ears as distant murmurs of the later is one of the Indies. Ah, you are in luck to [ now suppose that during those “hs ho one answ in life, isn't have such a friend! It’s not often few moments my life hung tn the bal- wiignoe for consent, and call ackcloth and @ good companion is such good com ance; but at the time [ was too daze efusing to be pany.” Tasievak tiie cota! oF and stunned to comprehend anything, v jooked helplessly at the model of ‘The t hin eves queatio rate is oF oat ate pets cow Me teok this tribute; hesitated, went to the ledge and Mn. felt his question me, again my limpse of something that looked like rass, and the packet was hard and death, I say; but you may be you'll never give it up to him. your Bible oa d look here; ’ to get off, swear you'll give | Say, ‘Strike me blir He clutched me again, and trembling, I gave the pr “And look, here @way and read it after. for me—curse bim! ‘Well, this {9 pleasant tr’ when you thoy in the salt of the pleasantest thi to find ° Joy becouse an old shir drowned, and they upon him doing t why, there's 9 Kuddenly to come but his eyes were still fixed in that peered over and then finally came very same for you eternal stare at the sea. back to me. Ching that compares “And ao, John, you saw tim fall? “Ara you the kind of boy that's hearty pleasure; 1% Who saw him die?'—'I’ said the soul talxative?” His voico was an sweet “ou seem a bit dazed, o¢ truth, ‘with my Ittle eye'—and you ag ever, but his eyes were scorching good to be true, YOU jaye two sharp eyes, John. However, ma like Ive coals Mi our 00d the poor fellow's gone, ‘fell off” You | suppose 1 must have signified my al feeling. gay? I don't wonder you feel tt #0; gonial, for he went on: oe wee bes ways were @ true friend, put, John, with all our sympathy for p tf one to depend upon, ¢h, the unfortunate dead, don't you think Yhy don't you speak, y glad you are to 860 YOUT the w alive and hearty?" py. were trembling, and sure our young friend—what name did will and testame: But you ought to go half s little Jenny; You'll find out wher: there letter, there, John? hat I call r Again I promiaed, an awful thing Look over again, y Ing—perhaps he'll go thr next beach, and then we'l Tu, but no sound came, A you were always the like the molancholy @atisfaction o ing a thing, and now the bearing tho will. how they hide, is too much for you, Consider: The man's eyes were devilish. John, was of you, and really as he faced about and Caumnt eee behind when they are not looking: socket but without any corresponding but that’s you, Join, all over gaze, looked wround Ike & wild PEW’ thore'a no escaping m4. You've heard hook. On the metal were traced some wear an old shipmate'a ong in ase By bey “arn BA to ag ad vewie of Apollyon, perhaps? Well, that’s characters which [ could ‘0, John, don 0 ow—| ot no wi Again I peered over, bit draw back as if shot; for just helow black head and its owner was ste up the path toward CHAPTER II, A Song Is Sung and a tnife Drawn on Dead Man's0¢ HERE was no cag! Ascent of Dead 4 was possible, a! leprive yourself of it. ched man folt with quiv rs for the cap, took ft off a the rock beside me, but Pes aN Sa Bu Lord, strike me"— then thelr fathers and mothers don't prize, for such was my fear of the man [Chkslsh lansu iti ee And who is the hoy, Joho? But witueh, Joka, hush? ‘Think of O00 een ane aie ee ee enoy dO eh” cate Laie eat or the MAR iat of abips and I will point her out loves you; they youns friend, Mr. Jasper, Hesldes, YoU very siowly, very slowly Indeed you could know no pew Taicy 16 wouldn't look Ge You were rays 80 a ; ove A gular onan eat 2 John, that 1 am gure if you only COn- 7 way quite aatiafied, and apparently empty cowhousa had fallen loose, (Y here, YOU were from which We utterly cut off, were between the ger cliff and t Precipice, we coul/ Only sit etl! “Yer, awalt the man's comin , he seers tall, and dark, $00) Within Benner da of our hiding Pla suddenly cea, and a full, r broke out ty 80! Bing bey! ¢¢ the ven you didn't mean any harm; Who Watched hia last mom wasn't 8 A shade whiter, worked tn his but still he uttered no word. ° Meht up, i " > emMeMbOr; YOU pe wa : for, after staring at me With ae mane Pap the drink was ou; and Sider quietly, you must remern| he was also; for, a ith a y glance over my sl ler An! this ae i Wed hed nts, WhO «iittie longer, ho told me to Ket UP T crept around aud into the shed. ‘The thee je re! this is the ship 1, fw him "fall did you aay and go down’ the rock in front of stones came away engily In my an a wrecked 1 jd ; Yo answer, = bir With another hurried lool ‘ ner took the paper me, come John, I'm ferry to “rig agontes I suffered during that the packet into the openin, crwiy read out: “The James ang press you, but really our you i the} 1 descent no pen can des vibe. vary of the shed and entered the house by | me He la Cp tain Aan and I must tnsist on an answ ‘OF moment L expected to feel my shoul- the back door, tonius Mey a reaj Consider, John, if you refuse to foln In Ger gripped from behind, or to feel My mother had been up for some pe 7 hat isshe. The babe here sa weil, Cur conversation we shall have to 6" tng hands of some mysterious and time—tt was now about 9 ofclocke. Was tho captain's child, born on the on she struck another with us? “itt 1 i ou devil 6 to think of ft, there must the mermai sips » jump, too, John” vind speech at think he Jumped." i bo ian that This Bing ho! for the bell shall toll! bouad, my lads, The words He had turned tho At his side hung @ short sheath, eop- ner, and stood facing us; and as | ty, T coukl not well gee his /9ce, faced us, but the rings in his ears glisteged in jon the suniight, shirt of 1! drew back cautiously, F MY comrade, and trousers companion was plucking at MY stuff, but leas cut and Akal, rocks. TAsten,” he satd—and Ms hoarse sheath, that must on volea was sunk so low that [ could short knife, cdrcely eatch his wordg="Hsten, If other knife ha catches us It's degth—death to band, cinated ull my other caus never forget the lines y, mouth or i'll be safest for you to have this. eyes as their first sharp fla Here, take it quick, and stow It away prise faded into a movktn) in your jacket, 9 aa he can't see It. @mile. For a minute or so he stood tran- rmething out of @ pocket quilly watching our confusion, wl inside his sbirt, and forced it Into the smile grew more and m my hands. What it was I could net tably bland, At his side He didn't Jump." He just let go and struggle, an oath, @ gleam of light keeping his evil eye upon ime, he siro to hear more, and ten “let go~-and fell, I saw {t companion fell backward over the “Hy the way, boy, what did you beyond, Not @ word was spoken, Again the stranger made a gesture The air grew closer an the bh Ns 6: though whistling inaud!- How long the silence lasted I cannot of perplexity. seamed to draw nearer as Jonathan's Leabieed turned to mae. J tell. What happened next—whether “Doar, dear! T forgot. Jasper, voice continued its drowsy tale. The “So you know John, my boy? He's I cried or fainted, looked or shut my when you get home, read very care- afternoon sun poured in at the win~ and a good fellow, 1s John; just the sort eyes—1s to me an absolute blank. fully that passage about the Tower dow until it made the little wains of quiet, steady, Christian man to Only I remember gradually waking of Habel. Whatever the cause of that coated parlor like an oven, but atill make good companion for the up to the fact that the captain was melancholy confuston, its reality 18 6x- for mo it only lit up one pair of eyes. young. No swearing, drinking, or standing over mo wiping bis knife on Jrossed upon us When We stand face ‘Tha voices sounded tore and more n; the scratching phoric- of pens and shuffling of feet were to wed to call, meta my uncle took sea until the Coroner's voice called: d him so teorgio Th jani” twice-to his own great satisfaction —[nstontly T was wide awake, with and the obvious awe of the fisher- every nerve on the stretch. Again [ aptain slowly replaced his knife, “It is evident,” he continued, “that mother's hand Ughtened upon iin this gentleman (call him by what as the stranger stood up and in goft you will) I# In tmmediate need est, most musical tones gave his evi- and raiment. If such, ns Edo den And the evidence of Georglo ubt, can be obtained at Polkim= [hodojant, Greek sailor, as translated ur best course ia to accompany by Jacop Rousapoulos, interpreter, n thither. I trust my proposition of Pensa was this * with his approval.” “My name is Georgio Rhodojant. I nger was led away ama Greek by birth, and have been w friends; and [went home, 4 sailor all my life.’ 1 was seaman called me @ devil; ‘devil,’ mark you; for @ time, my mind was tn a on board the ship which was wrecke and that's what T am." { night on your horrible coas' In my state of mind I could bellove — Suddenly T remembered the packet The ship belonged to Bristol, and waa anything, so I easily believed this. and the letter. I put my hand into my neward bound, but I know neither that “Boing’a devil, naturally Lean hear pocket and drow them out. ‘The packet her Hame nor the name of her eap- what little boys say, no matter where was a tin box, strapped around with {in Jam; and when little boys are talk- 4 leathern band; on the top, between After a pause, seeing the marvel. ative T can reach them, no matter tho band and the box, was a curious !f looks of his audience, the witness T como on them In piece of yellow metal that looked like ‘lttly explained: bed sometimes, and sometimes from the half of a waist buckle, having « “You heard what ho called me? He Jono, thtw 1s a good opportunity for readin 7 We three, you know, may ibly never meet again, and T am io bis you say? Jasper?—I am our young friend Mr. Jasper would ; but tam not master your hard 1 the slip at Colombo, n was short of hands. I was wrecked tn a Dutch vessel be- longing to Dore . off Java, and not read, o tin box was heavy and plain, and “None of your own, John, none of “7 had read of Apollyon in ‘Pilgrim's the strap soaking with salt water, warked a I your own; but maybe you might KNOW progress; and T had no doubt he T turned to the letter, 1t was all but MOPKed my pas 4 oy seek something of the last will and testa: way apeaking the trath 4 pulp, and In its present state itlegible. | \frcuriinure that Toots, herefore, nt of--shall we say—another party? “st Catch Mttle boys when they are Carefully «moothing cout slipped i |kauunary that Lam eo ignorant, k, John, don't hurry, think @ bit ot looking, and carry them off, and fnside the strap and turned to hide my English langua BA hie tae Jour who T am." to you.’ of mind while tt sae loved know, you such a friend of the YoU remained about me. How should Tq nue eas 2 mustling of papers, and ch ond—and 9 lst of B Indiamen was } led rased—such a real friend—and taiing hide it? After some thought L re- %™ hande wall his secrets go thoroughly, “jut 1 aid not at all want to know: membered that a stone or two in the UP to Bim: he hastily ran his finger the pages, Suddenly his face 1 out how If ever T cate at me, of aif Teluctantly, of course, but still we infirnal power around my neck. Close and had prepared our breakfast, Her YOY@se. Tiere wa jive Shall have to Ko-and talk somewhere Vey ing ma followed my companion, face was atlll pule, but some of its Hoard, an English | else, Just think how very awkward oo) ning anxtety left ttaa T entered. She was [0's wife, ‘The ehi that would be. i ais Art ch devil hae got hie due. my tede~ evidently waiting for me to speak. a AtTOaN com you devil! King ting! tat 0 isha Min. aware Jolombo on the © John's Volo Was still howe and And though I was far from singing fomoling in my looks, however, must VOCnho Of the cod of July laat with me of tow, but i had @ admething ta it ‘hey!’ at the prospect, I felt that he jive triahvened her, for as I sald noth- Sorte OF coke and sugar | Twe now that sounded nelther of hope nor meant what ho ald “Wall, dascar ik era ane newaw . of whack I do not know ihe came No; 1 fe Arrived at the foot of the rock, we . fe any news: sos v ps Be but ly yesterday ; Woll, yes; devil tf you Mke: but the passed through the archway on to 4,,1here was a ship wrecked on Dead Dut early yestar _— iteen mon the eap- was born off We sailed from dof July last with f t “ a ; . Man‘a Rock last night, but they've not breast of what you hink, arse) id with d evil m now: ay Cove. f b y've n At him; ‘cold and shivering an “Tait int ama seine ae gouete:, Ready Monoy Cove, ‘Turning down 9 found anything except — Baers in Wind ee south ag) Yes, Jolin, devil evil, I'm wait- > , F anno 7 4 hip? n vere tacking w lucky fellow like you shouldn't JPhR. “ade o 4 No, mother, no! Father aha been il ever since Multa purefauousiitcionnt Paint oe Boe a trl along the Boren aide Of tha Soni: JURE right: A) #ald—[ mean—it was not I the iy of Biscay, We be a John; what more can you want? We Move | ere ahs h vp no stg new not what tles 1 ho were thrown up both wanted Lucy, but you got her, inlo the depilis. | tince more Lay nt thank God! Rut you are hi Was sick, and solate shore without scoing and now she's waiting At home for (Mwappolnted. Maan oe dntil from ik something from What is it? The mate began to sof his old friends. Bo I honn you. It would be awkward it I he dived wgatn and again, Wot) from Jasper dear, what are you hiding?” y k. 1 alone got on John; th turned up with the news that you Sbecr exhaustion Or, cantante wad Hother, I think {t was the Mary tju | What i) were languishing in jail merely bundled on his shirt and trousers, and Jane, Hyt it was not father's ship. became of 0 put a case, John—and ittle Jenny climbed back to moa. sas, Father's all right. And mother, don't T jumped o wouldn't have many sweeth. it "Curse him! where can he be ask me any more; Uncle Loveday you fo wot about that her father 1 T now saw for the firat time how will tell all about ‘it. A I'm not # K 1 fellow!" purpose you are har tether mee terribly worn and famished the man very well, mother, [ think 1 heard the mer ipa coctant awed Hefore the words were well out of was: he looked ike a wolf and his Want of slow), indeed, and tho ex [suppose there 1s.) hie mouth John had him by the white tecth were bare in his rage. Ha cttement of the morning, had broken ‘Phe t t end?” throat. ‘There was a ahort, ferce had cut his foot on the rock. Still me down, My mother stifled her d rly captain—it's and then, with @ sereech of mortal knelt down by the water's edge and ma to bed, guessing my fatigue, but have rishel wnor That's how jt happened; pain and a wild clutob at the als, my began slowly to bathe the wound, only dimly apprehensive of anything ise wok. k twice, but mans yen, and-—captain, st litt hay your pane Waa? Jasper? Jasper ‘This ts what my mother told me K poet en ee se © eo we ew what?” Jater tn the day: tha ; gore a sharp keen It was all the work of a moment—n noweth."" s A hody had hean Atacovere:t glance, smiled softly, set big thin Ups ebriek, a splash and tion “Ten thousand devils! b wall inten 1 up 1.) i " |