The evening world. Newspaper, March 29, 1916, Page 15

SEPA Pen ego egg Man’s Dead ~~~ SYNOPSIS OF PRECKDING CHAPTERS. who tells the story) is a som . Who sailed from his. Cor- in warch of 8 Ao ancestral will, ia wrecked off Dead Man’ Jager, t India CHAPTER V. Sontinued,) My Father's Journal. Y father’s diary continued: ‘I nave forgotten to epcak of Collive He has been os delightful and indit. rent ever throughout the voyage. Certainly T can find no reason for crediting Mr. Sanderson's feuspicions, In the hurry of landing I Missed him, not even having oppor- tunity to ask about his plans, Doubt. less I shall see him in a day or two. What an entrancing country is this Ceylon! ‘The monsoon t@ upon us, and hinders my journey; deed, Mr. Eversieigh advises me not tart for s He promises company mea to Peak if I it, but the suspense is hard as y Weeks, the liver and “Jan. 1849-1 have been in no od lately to make any fresh entry fa my journal. But to-morrow I start for Adam's | At the last moment my host finds himself unable to go with me, much as he protests he ¢ wires it; two of his servants will te Met as my guides. It is sixty miles from Colombo @ foot of the Peal, 90 that in four days from this time I hope to lay my hand upon the secret. Whe two natives (their real names I do not know, but Mr. Eversleigh has hristoned them Peter and Paul, which shall doubtless find more easy of astery than their trie outlandish 8), are, as 1 am assured, trusty, visited the mountain before. ‘ond the nec- of my host's guns. impatient I am T cannot tell feeling. “Feb. 1—My journc lover. Whether from fatigue or exctte- nt I am iceling strangely light- ded to-day; but let me attempt to scribe as briefly as 1 can my ad- ‘Venture. We set out from Colombo in the early morning of Jan, 26th, “After a tedious but beautiful jour- ney I came to my destination. I made my two guides wait for me; and I made my Way on alone, In ren of the odd tree. “Soon I found tt, All around it spread the crimson Ddiossoms of huss rhododendrons; but strange tree was at once unlike any of its fellows and of a kind alto- gether unknown to me. Its roots were partly bare, and writhed in fan- tastic coils across the track. “Taking out my compass I started ate right angle to the track. Beatt down the creepers that swung ac "my face, twined around my legs, and caught at my cap, | measured thirty- two paces as nearly as | could and then stopped. “Before mo was © patch of velvet grass, some twelve feet square and dare of the undergrowth that crowded elsewhere; but not a trace of a stone, 1 looked right and left, crossed the tiny lawn, peered all about, but still w nothing at all resembling what I ight. T pulled out tho parchment again and read it throug en started to my feet with f ay. I was Just leaving the lit n and re- turning down iny patn when {t struck me that the bush on my left hand was of a curious shape. It seemed a mere tangled knot of creepers cov- ered with large white blossoms, and rose to about my own height, Care- lessly I thrust my stick into the mass, when its point jarred upon atone. “Yes, stons! In @ moment my knife was out and T was down on hands and knees cutting and tearing at the tendrils. Some of them were full three inches thick, but 1 slashed and tugged, with breath that came and went immoderat fa with Dleeding hands and thumping heart, until little by little the stone was dared and its outlines revealed them- selves. “But as they grew distinct and I saw what I had uncovered, I fell back in terror. Tho stone was about five feet ten inches in height, and was v to the Peak is roughly shaped to represen human head and ne Rut the fnea tt was +P that froze my heated blood in horror. Never until I di snall U forget that héllish expression, It was the smoothly shaven face of a man of about fifty years of age, roughly rved after the fashion of many of the ruins of this mountain. But who. ever fashioned |t, the artist must have been nd. If ever malignant hata was expressed in form, it stood before ine, Even the blanic pupils made the malevolence seem but the more undying. Every feature, every Iine was horrible, every touch of the chisel had added a fresh grace | devilish spite was simply Evil petrified As this awful face, bared of tha innocent c per thy for years had shrouded its ugliness from the light of day, confronted me, a feeling of auch repulsion overcame ime nat for several min 4 1 could it ach it. The neck was loosely set in a sort of ‘socket fixed: in the earth; this w all the monsier’s pedestal, I saw that it barely needed a man's strength t send it toppling over. Yet for @ mo- ment [ could summon up none, At Jength I put my hands to it and with an effort sent it crashing over amid the brushweed. “The trouxh in which this colossal head had rested wa nut four fers in depth, and narrowed rd tho hottom, “I nut down my and drew out—a human thigh bone, Tho fouch of this would have turned me sick again, had not the statue's face Salready surfeited me with horror, As it was, | was nerved for any si The passion of my discovery was up- on ihe, and I tossed the moldering bgnes out to right and left, “But stay, There seemed a great many in the trough. Surely this was the tira thigh bone that I held now \ A Romance of Buried Treasure and of a Strange Quest. By A. T. Quiller-Co FARA AAA RIA RAAT Ad ROAR AIAG ock ~~ ~~! uch | ARRAN in my hand. Yee, and below, close to the bottom of the trough, lay two skulls, side by side, There were two, then, burted here, The parchment had spoken of only one, But I had no time to consider about this. What I sought to know was the Secret, and as I took up the second skull I caught the gleain of metal underneath it. I put my in hand and drew out @ Buckle of Gold “This buckle is formed of two ., bound to either end of a thin of rotten linen, and united by hook and socket. Its whole dimensions are but three inches by two inche but inside its curiously carved border it is entirely covered with writing in rude English characters, The narrow - ing funnel of the trough had kept it from being crushed by the statue, which fitted into a rim running round the Interlor. Beyond the buckle and the two skeletons there was nothing in the trough; but I looked for noth- ing else, Here, in my hands, lay the secret of the Great Ruby of Ceylon; my fingers clutched the wealth of princes. My journey had ended and the riches of the earth were in my grasp. “Forgetftul of my muides, forgetful of the flight of time, mindful of nothing but the Golden’ Buckle, I sat down by the rim of the trough and began to decipher the writing. The inseription, as far as I could gather, ran rieht across the ela Tt could be read easily enough, and contained accurate directions for searching in some spot, but where that spot was it did not’ reveal, It might be close to the statue; d T was about to start up and make the attempt when I thought again of the parchment. Pulling {t from my pocket, I read ‘Beneath this stone Hew the ae- cret of the Great Ruby; and yet not all, for the rest is graven on the Key ch shall be already Intrusted to you, These precautions have I taken that none may surprise this Secret but {ts rleht possessor? “Now my father's will had express- enjoined, on pain his dying urse, that this key uld not moved from its place until the Treno- weth who went to seck the treasure should have returned and crossed the af Lantrig. Consequently Adam's to return for the key would n #0 much labor wasted. ly, also, the golden buckie Was Valueless to anybody but him who knew the rest of my father’s in- junctions. Althou not yet in my hand, the Great Kuby was mine. 1 was folding up the buckle with the parchment before rejoining the guides when a curious thing happened, “The sun had climbed high into the heaven while 1 was absorbed in my. search and was now flooding the little lawn with Nght. In my excite. ment I had heard und seen nothing nor noted the heat was growing un- bearable beneath the vertical rays, But as [ was folding ap tha parch mont a black shadow suddenly fell across the page. I started and looked up. “Above won Colliver, fe was standing tn the broad light of the sun and watching me intently, with a curious sinile which grew as our ey t. How long he had been h T could not guess, but the ss of meeting him on this spot and the occupation in which L Was surprised, diseomposed me not a little. Hastily thrusting back the buckle parchment into my pocket, 1 scrambled to my feet and stood facing him, Even as I did so, Mr, Sanderson's flashing into my mind “For a full minute we stood con- fronting each other without a word. He was still standing in the full blaze of the sunlight, with the same odd smile upon his face, and peculiar light in his dark eyes that pever swerved for a moment. Finally he gave a low laugh and nodding lightly said “Odd thing, our meeting like thi eh? Hand of Fato or somo such thing might be mixed up In it fr om the way We rua across each other's path.’ “{ assented. “Queer, tov, you'll allow should both bo struck wit for ascending this mountain ; few Europ ang do it, so I'm told. i'm on my way up, aro you? No? Com- ing down and taking things easily, to judge by the way I found you ve- cupied.’ “Was tl all warnings came that we the fancy Very man mocking me? Or had he, after all, no suspicious? Ils voles was soft and pleasant ns ever, nor could I detect a trace of irony in its tone, But I was on my Buard. “This peak seems strewn with the handiwork of the heathen,’ be con- tinued. ‘But really, you seem to be in luck’s way. [ congratulate yo What's this?) Skeletons, eh? Upe my word, ‘Trenoweth, you've un- earthed a treusure. And this? A statue? Well, it's a queer place to come hunting for statues, but you've picked up all conscienc “Ho had advanced to the which lay in the rank herbag ing u the hideous spite of he Presently he turned to mo and said: “Well, this is very remarkable, ‘The fellow who carved this seems to ugly looking beggar in have borrowed my features—not very complimentary ot him, I must say Don't you sea the likeness? “lt was 80 nn truth, Feature for feature, (hat ms face was a re production of Coiliver's, As Ustared in amazem , It seemed more ani more marvellous that I had not noticod the resemblance before, True, @ach fea- turo was distorted and exaggerated to produce the utter malignity of its expression. But the face wis the face of Colliver. Nobody cou)! have called him a handsome man, but be- fore this T had found Colliver not un- pleasant to look upon, Now the hate of the statue's face seemed to have reflected itself upon him, T leaned against a treo for support and passed my hand across my brow, as if to banish a fearful dream, But it was no dream, and when ho turned to speak again I could seo lurking be neath the assumed expression of the man all the evil passions and foul wickedness engraved upon the stone. atro “Weil! ho remarked, ‘stranger things than this have happened, but not much, You seem. distressed, Trenoweth. Surely 1 tf any one, have tho h be annoyed, But you let your antiquarian zeal carry you too far. It's hardly fair to dig these poor remains from Pr sepule and leave them to bleach beneath this tropical sun, terestayot science,” even in the The Evening World Daily Magazine. We dnesday: March 29) 1916 | Jo Can You Beat It? weeks, By Maurice Ketten . . HATE IT | LIKE MY NEw / ~ \ 4 | \ Fs AwFut ! \ | a” | + + I mii lis Har ie om j MY HUSBAND CAN'T way DON'T C2 iG pid e Tr ae Us ie) ay wearin > " lu. ZB po] SEEPIT. Le Give a a Ch WHAT A NOBRY HAT YYou Have! | DON'T KNOW Way MY WIFE CAN'T GET HATS Like, Yours J \SO GLAD You / LiKe IT @ ———— i | “With this he knelt down and be- “July 6th.—Weak as I am, even how much this meet- sun to gather—very reverently, as J¢sterday's short excursion exhausted ing has depressed me. Certainly I I thought—the bones into « me, so that I felt unable io write have no reason for disbelleving the and replace them in their tomb, This a word last night, I have been over man's story, but the frequency and done, be kicked up a lump or two the Belle Mortune, and am more than ngeness of our meetings make It of turf from the little lawn and pleased, especially with her captain, 1 to belleve them altogether acet- pressed {t down upon them, humming Whose honest face took my fancy ut au. T saw Railton in the after- to himself all the while. Finally he ones. 1 have a most comfortable noon; he is greatly altered for the rose and turned again toward me: cabin next to his Ket apart for me, Worse, and, I should think, had beon “‘You'll, exeuse me, Trenoweth. at little cost, since it had been fitted drinking heavily before he shipped; It's sentimental, no doubt, but I havo up for a lady on the outward voyage; but the captain waa evidently too conceived a kind of respect for these 80 that I shall still have a@ little short hands to be particular, 1 remains. Supose, for example, this money in my pocket on my return, think I will give the Concanens my face was really 4 portrait of one of 4s my living, both hero and at Bom- tin box to hide in their cadin, Of this buried pair. Why, then, the de- bay, has cost me nothing, and the course I can trust them, and this will ceased was very like me. I forgive doctor's bills have not exhausted ny baffle theft; the clasp 1 will wear lim for earicaturing my features store. The Belle Fortune belongs to “bout me, ‘This is a happy idea; I now; were he alive it micht be dif- Messrs, Vincent & Hext of Bristol, Will go to thelr cabin now and ask ferent. As Ihave to be up and mov- and ts bound for that port, ‘The only them. It ts 9.30 P.M. and the wind ing for the summit, I'll say ‘Goodby Other passengers are a Dr, Concanen | Still fair, I believe, for the present.’ We may as well @nd hfs wife, who are acquaintances ‘July 20th.—-We have so far kept © this image where it is; the of Mr. Eversleigh, Dr. Coneanen is up an average speed of seven and a dead won't miss ft, and {t's handy a physician, with a good practice tn half knots an hour, and Captain by, at any rate, Addio, Trenoweth, Colombo, or was—as his wife's deli- Holding thinks we shall make even and the best of luck to your future cate health has forced him to throw better sailing when the hands are researches.’ up his employment here and return tore accustomed to their work, Lf “He was gone, I could hear him to England, Mr, Eversleigh intro- spend my timo mostly with the Con- singing as he went, a strange song duced ino to them this morning on canene—who readtly, by the way, which he had often sung on the the Belle Fortune. lertook the care of my tin shart outward yoyage: “The husband 19 slmont as telt S8d Hind them the most seresable of xing hey! for the dead man's te my ads! as my host, and looks a man of great fellow-travelers. | Mins. Coneuhen hie oie cane A's OM, rength; Mrs, Concanen Is frail and . amgany it On the again T came upon Peter and Paul uy my cabin, whieh ts really much Very pleasant evenings, Who were seeking mo high and low, more comfortable than theirs, Hut “July 24—Our voyage, hitherto so with dismay written on their faces. ying would not hear of it, insisting prosperous, has been marred Excusing my absence as best I could. that 1 was by far the greater invalid, BY 4 sad accident, Mr, Wilkins, the I doclared myself ready to make all ang that. a sailing vessel would was standing almost directly ste in the descent quickly set her right again—especi- tho main mast about 4.80 The object of my Journey is now Ally a vessel bound for England. Al- when Railton, who wi accomplished, and 4t only remains together they promise to. be moa cidently let sil a block, to hasten home with all speed. But pleasant companions. I forgot. to Which descended on the mate's head, 1 am feeling sirangely iil aa T write say that Mrs. Concanen ia taking © Stfking it with fearful force and kill this, My head haa never fully re- ‘native maid home to ast us her ng him instantly covered that blow at Rombay, and T nurse nr Ahg. PORE of our hands, Grit- hink the hours during which ° ” ” 7 , ithe, fell overboard to-day and wag bahia aN ‘ < ‘July 17th, 7.30 P. M—We cast off i y ° Tide Ge that amen teGe muce OUF Warps shortly atter 4 o'clock, and Urowned. He and Colliver were ou A EB abla ul imag * were quickly running homeward at Upon the foreyard when Griffith cin aang about seven knots an hour, tie eee Ws tai wes nine ak une Strange wherever ‘ the le o capta us below a Tah Gosnitaniy aniarinthed Ureceme 2 our 18th.—I_ am moro disturbed the time, but rushed. uj ko ensa my host by falling Ml In his tan I care to own by @ very curious jearing Colliver'a ala f ‘Man house. Since my laat entry in thia “scovery which | made thie morn- overboard!’ It was too oweve Journal I have been lying at the gate {8 Ae I issued on deck I saw @ «Aug, 22-—Dr, Concanen came into of death, smitten down with a sore Man etanding by tho forecastle, whose |. cabin early this morning and told sickness, Mr, Eversleigh, indeed, as- back seemed familiar to me. Pres 1% that his wite hi Nalven birt i gh, (> he turned ant f him to in? that his wife had Just given birth sures ma that my life has more than eAuy t caw © a son, He seemed prodigiously onea been despaired of — and then be Simon Colliver, He has inost [0 talaga 1 “Gon ted bh 4 4 rangely altered his ap) ce, be. Slated, congratulated hin what would have become of poor Strangely alter appearance, heartily, as this t# the first child born Margery? T hope Tam thankful to ink dressed now as a common sailor, [Ory “this ta the frat child horn God fe so 0omereifully sparing my and w oring rings in his ears, as t » with me, and ther ae t back to poor life, the more so becausa con- Custom is. Catching aight of me, fond " rep ee 5 . J espyl i Saag attend to his wife. [ spent most of scious how unworthy T am to ap. came forward with a pleasant simile {Oo deck with Capt. Holding. pear before Him, Gnd explained himesit, who ts eaningly vigilant now “L trust I did not betray my sreret ‘It is no manner of uae, Treno- Wind continues steadily 8. a my wanderings. Mr. Hversieigh Weth: we're fated to meet, You did sth, 9th.-Wind dropping off tells me I talked the strangest stuff "ot €xpect to eee mo hero in this got ftively stifling, urioug at times—about rubles and skeletons, UP: but I learned last night you were Ohi tance occurred tos (the and a certain dreadful face trom which board. You look aw though you had (eee ows that Laid well to T was struggling to escape. But the Sen @ ghost. Don't stare ao, man—I | ful of my Journal, 1 was att security of my Journal and the golden Should gay “alr.” now, [ suppose 1 was clasp, which [ recovered to-day, some- what reasaltel ms, fell tll after that jou and although y to th it's only another of fortune's rubs. Railton nursed 1 1 ting on deck with the Concanens, be- neath an awning which the doctor had rigged up to protect ua from the eo Peak, ike July 4.—-In answer to my entreaties 4 woman-—he' rood fell tition, Neat, When our supply of tobacco ran Mr. Eversioligh has consented to make and mot aa weil ce ee Tuto ort. Aw T was descending for more inquiries about the homeward bound peot—1 woke up out cf my fever at | met Colliver coming out of. 1 vessels starting from Colombo. The lig to find all the money gone Tm cabin, Ho was rather disconcerted result is that he has at once allayed 4 fellow of rosource, Trenoweth, wo at aeeing me, but invented nome my impatience, and compassed hla end | nit on the Idea of working my pas, trivial excuse about fetching @ ‘he of keeping me a little longer, by #o- saga home: by Kood luck fomedétie mometer which Capt. Holding had lecting——upon condition that approve ficiio nf Mertunete me oroe foun ent me, Tam confident now that ho his cholee—ar sail abroad tr East Indiaman due to about a fortnight's time. offered my services, was acc having been at sea before, yo was on the lookout for my paper the more so aa I had myself restored u know ine of the ship ts the Belle For- -—sold my old clothes for this cos- the thermometer to the captain's and of the captain, Cyrus Hold- tume—must dress when one is act abin two days ago. It is lucky that In spite of the name the ship ts @ part—and | 1 am, T confided my papers to the English and ts a barque of about six Is Rallte th yout T asked, anens for Railton, the hangde hundred tona register. Her cargo con- "Oh, yes, similarly attired, [ did look on that manta face had Increased sists of sugar and coffee, and her crew not seo you lay, being busy with hig travels, Ho seams quite number about eighteen hands, To- with the ca >» that it's all the unable to meet my oye, and returns morrow T am going down with Mr. more pleasint to meet here. Hut short, surly answers if questioned, 1 T leigh to inspect her, but I am work is the order of the day now, cannot think his dejection ts solely prepared beforehand to find her to my You'll give me a good char to due to poor Wilkins's death, for Tr liking, ‘The only pity !s that she does the captain, won't you? (uod-by for ticed something very ltko it on tho not statt earlier, the present,’ @utward voyage” low “Sept. 2%6th.—One of the hands, Wal- ters, diod during the night in great agony. Others are ill, We alighted the Peak of Teneriffe early in th afternoon, and | remained on deck with Mrs, Concanen, watching It. Tho is Ww, analyzing the food | believe he is completely puzzled by this curious epidemic, bt, With.—Wind N. E,, but soma. loctor what lighter. Three moro men seized last night with precisely the same symptoms. With three deaths and five mon ill, We aro now left with but nine hands (not counting the captain) to work the ship. Walters was burive to-day. I learned from Mrs’ Concaned that her husband has made a post mortem examination of ths body. I do not know what his conclusions are, 1 open my journal agala to record anot disquieting ac: ident, It in odd, but I have m 1 one of the pieces of my father's clasp. 1 am positive It was in my pocket Jast Meht. Tnow have an indistinct reco! lection. of hoaring whilo T was dressin but although 1 cabin and stateroo a tind nothing, However, even if it has fallen into Colliver'a hands, which ta unlikely, he can make nothing of it and luckily I know the words written upon it by heart. Still, the loss has vexed mo not a little.” Twill bave nother search before turning tn to- night. something — fail iB this inoraini, avo searched both mu thoroughly, Te “Sopt, 27th.-Wind has shifted to W. The doctor was summoned during the night to visit one of the men taken ill two nights before, The poor fellow died before daybreak, and ! hear that another ts not expected to live until night. ‘The doctor hus been on deck for only a few minutes to- day, and these he occupied in talk with the captain, whe ms to have caught the prevailing depression, for * been going about in a state of ervous disquietude ail the afternoon, L expect that want of sleep is telling Upon him at last. The clasp is @till missing. ‘Oct. bth.—Lat me roughly put down in few word’ what has hap- pened, not that [ see at present any hance of leaving ¢ alive, but in the hope t may thus be aided aid may go—1n bringing these villains to justice, 1f this Journal should by any means survive me, accursed ship tt Providence as far as human last night shortly before ten I went at Dr, Conanen's invitation to chat in his cabin. Tho doctor hin self was buyily occupied with some uw al works, to which, as his wife assured me, he had been giving his whole attention of late, Suddenly we heard @ scream, and then the cap- tain'’s voice eallin, “Trenowetal Doctor! Help, help!’ “The doctor immedtately rushed up the companion. [ was just following at his heels when I heard two shots fired in rapid succession, and then a he y crash, Immediately the baby's native nurse fell with a shriek, and the doctor came staggering heavily hack on top of her, Quick as thought 1 pulled them tnaide, locked the cabm door and began to examine the ounds, Tho girl was quite dead, being shot through the breast, while Concanen was bleeding terribly from a wound Just below the shoulder; the bullet must have grazed his upper rin, tearing open the flosh and cut. ting an artery, passed on and struck . Who was Just behind, Mrs, Coneanen was knecling beside him and vainly endeavoring to stanch the flow of blood. “Oddly enough the attack, from whatever quarter It came, was not followed up; but I heard two more F you should receive a my sterious sealed box, with | solemn orders not to open it until a certain date— || Would you obey those orders? Perhaps you | would follow the example of the hero of THE SON By W. B. M. Ferguson Next Week's Complete Novel in The Evening World. Here is a story—by the author of “Garrison’s Finish” | —that is not only alive with mystery and suspense, | but which is altogether “different.” Don’t forget to read it. You can’t a { great serial. fford to miss this == shots fired on deck, and then aloud Sprang to their fect aad made for crashing and stamping in the fore me, the Chinunan first. Altering my part of the vessel, and judged that @im, 1 waited unwil he camo close and the mutineers were battening and then fl I must have hit him, f barricading the forecastle. 1 unlocked think e ankle, for he staggered the door and was going out to ex- and fell, with a loud ery, about tent plore the situation when the doctor aces from me cing this, | made spoke In a wenk voice: all speed again down the ladder, turn “Quick, Trenoweth! never mind {ng at the cabin door fora hasty ab me. I've got the main artery torn with the second barrel, which I think to places and can’t last many more Missed. The other two pursued me minutes—but, quick, for the captain’s unt) fT gained the cabin and. then cabin and get the guns, ‘They'll be went ts rade. The rent down presently, 29 soon as they've of the day lias teen quite quie fintshed up there.’ Luckily we have a large tin of bis “Opening the door and telling Mrs, Oil's in t “0 as food Concanen—who, although white as a FCs We can hol! out for some they sheet, never lost her presence of Mrs. Concanen and Tare going to mind for a moment—to lock It after Ske turn watching to-night me, T stole along the passage, gained ‘Oet. 6th, 4 P. M=—At about 1.29 the captain's cabin, found two guns, A. M. T was sleeping when Mrs. ¢ a small keg of powder (to get at ¢anen woke mo, on hearing a nolse which [ had to smash in a locker the skylight) The mutineera, finding with the butt-end of one of the this to be the only point guna), and Kome large shot, brought, they could attack ws wi T suppose, for shooting gulls. had hit upon the plan of lasht t found also a large packet of re- 1? the end of long sticks and wer volver cartridges, but no revolver; “tempting to stab us with thes and it suddenly struck me that the Tumsy weapons was so dark that munt have been | could hardly see to aim, but a cour in’a revolver, taken f Shots fired in rapid succession drove shots already fir from the capt probably from his dead body. — Yes, pepe quickly away Th rest of th as T remembered the sound of the St was passed quietly enoug' shots, | was kure of It. The muti- CPt for the cries of the infant. w are very pithable, The 1 without event, ex day pt that I hav neers had probably no other ammu- hitlon, and so far TE was thelr maste mM heard occasional sounds In the neigh Fearful that by smashing the lock- joint at cnet th if er Thad made noise enough to be borhvod of the furecastie, whieh T thin heard above the turmoil on deck, T MU come from the sick men Imprin returned swiftly and had Just reached Wied there and attempting to cut the the door of Concanon'’s cabin, when “NU oo a gy I heard a shout above, and a man 4.0 {i 3! q this whom L recognized by the vole as Muetion L made another e vo phnaton, the carpenter, cama rush. (Ne companion to-day. Tose waa The Gown the Misoe Cryin; Gide la: ing and Railton standing by the wheel talking to h ts n. He had a bott! As Mrs. Concanen } in answer to my ‘P Nis band a ned very exci 1. the man [could not se Colliver at first, but on handa and &lancing up at the rleging saw a most curious: sigh ere was a man on the main-top, atawain, Kelly, stor, hide me opened the door call, another shot was fir suddenly threw up his we tumbled Into the cabin together, [ turned as soon as L had locked and barricaded the door, and saw him @Pparently asleep, Helow him Colliver lying on his face—quite dead. He Ws climbing up, knife tn mouth, and 1 been shot in the bnek, just be- Wa" already within a couple of yard the shoulder-blades. of him. I fired and missed, but a Kelly, who jumped up and. seize The doctor also was at hia last [ly ¥ cap, and the floor literaliy swam Do which he had cut off to defend with blood. Aw we bent over him to Melt with. At the same moment Raiiion and Rogerson made for me. ate Ai nba 4 “As I retreated down the laddér Ratlton—-th. is he whispered, ‘It wa. 1 saw. Goodby, Alice,’ Pee aes stdlat a! Tled the Hit Rogerson, who wes (iret, Wa tohied aa abe bia ute at Ja face, down, tie atairs together, be gu top De otycaenc teens * nite. At" this, moment I heard. the “Give me the guns: whe sad Peport of a Kun and my assallant’s quietly, ‘and show me how to | p suldenly relaxed. Ho fell back, on, Who was following id so giving me time to » door, where Mra. Con then “L was doing so when I heard foot- steps coming slowly down the com- panion, A moment after two crash. Caen Wes standing, a smoking gua tn Ing blows were struck upon the door her hand. Before we could shut the panel and Colliver's voice erted: door, however, Colliver, who by this ““Prenoweth, you dog, are you hid. time had gained the head of the stairs re? Give me up those papers f"*2. and she dropped backward inside the cabin, Locking the door, I foand ot her lying with a wound just below the heart. Sho had jusi time to point to her child before she died. Was ever two unste gain the cab ing tl and come out.’ “Por answer I sent a ch: through the stant heard with all spe ree of abin door, and in an in- him serambling back ne “l up the stairs, ghastly « tragedy “Hy this time it was about 3 A.M, , "Uct. 10th—Awake all night, trying and ‘to add to the horrors of our to sothe the cries of the child, and at plight the lamp suddenly went out te same time keeping a good lookout; ind left us in utter darkness, {drew pitched from side to aide of the cabin. Mrs. Concanen aside—after strength- At midday I heard a cry on deck and ening the barricade about the door— Judged that Kelly had dropped from put her and the chiki ina corner, the rigging in pure exhaustion, The cre she would be #afe If they at. Bolse In the forecastle 1s awful. I think tempted to fro through the skylight, Some of the men there must be dead, and then sat down beside her to con. | “Vet. 11th, 6 P. M—The child ts wider, dying. ‘There 1s a fearful storm raging, “If, as [ suspected, the mutineers and with this crew the vessel has no had only the revolver which they had Chance if we are anywhere near land. taken from the captain, they had but God help’ one shot left, for 1 tad already ere count five, and {t was not likely that Holding—who alwaya, as | knew, CHAPTER VI. carried some weapon with him— would have any loose cartridges upon him at a time when no one suspected jf The Writing Upon the Clasp. O ended my father’s Journal the least danger, | } ~in a silence full of trag. “Next, a to numbers, Excluding | edy; a silence filled in with Capt. Holding—now dead—and In- the ech: cluding the cook, T reckoned. that e echo of that awful ery borne on the wings of the storm; and now, in the of this mute witness, shap- itself into the single word “Mur- there were fourteen hands on board. Of these, five were sick and proba bly at this moment barricaded In tho forecastle, One, the carpenter, Wis {1 lying here dead, and from the s! which preceded tho ta another had already ace for by the mutineers “This reduced the n mber to eleht. and for The next question was, How many "% hand for his pine, fled it, and were the mutineers? 1 had guessed (eked up. His kindly face was tur. at once that Colliver and Railton had rowed with the marks of weeping, and presence When my u pause, b bese, Je flnished there wage willy he reached out his a hand in the business for cn. ad- big re yet standing tion to my Drevious dtatrus’ of the ¢y, = ie nen) it was Just upon midnight when Ost gored,” ho sald: we heard the first cry—that is to 84¥, gy. uraerude’ he said: “murdered, 1¢ the time when the watch was changed eis et en et iurdered,” and I knew that these two belonged tyr well have vilteiers to the captain's watch, But could alsin,” he ex. y be alone? snare Sane “It seomed impossible, and yet T tie aiken See knew no other among the crew to als- 8 eh, trust; and certainly Davis, who was aeting as mate at’ present, was, ale away et 1 ie at st 4 far though an indifferent navis 44 him: oh, yea, we'll have hime. [SVe uo an ator! “Jasper, my boy,” sald he, seannin, had arrived at this point in MY me for a second time oddly, “maybe calculations when @ yell, which I rec you'll bo better in bed. ‘Try’ tonetee oxnized, told mo that they had caught again, my pe d—what do” you Cox, the helmsman, and were mur think? sina dering him, 1 think, I answered, “that T must hasten to conclude this, have not yet looked at the els we have no light in the cabia, and I wyty dear boy, you're righ you’: am writing now by the faint evening right ag et us 100K at it romire raya that struggle in through the re piece of metal resembied skylimht. As soon as morning PTOK® nave said, the half af a w istebaene Tougtermined to reconnoitre. Cais haying a socket bit NO correspondee’: tlously removing the barricade, - In shape it Was lightly “obt ir opened the cabin door and stole ¥ about (wo by ‘one any the companion ladder, Arrived a aif inches. T a brent the top, I peered cautiously over and le'a ma ne saw the mutineers sitting with lus handke ward hateh, drinking, 8 spectacles qltogether four tn numbe [looked over his on, @ seaman calle! of the clap was re who had lately been punished bY r of flowers and beset ! Capt, Holding for sleeplax Nien 02 é We Within tng yateh, and the cook, a Chinaman by wwch rougher hana togxerson was not with the rest. ! ption which Was pieit had hold of the wheel and was str ugh to read, thouRh matin Dele ing. ‘Tho vessel at the time wis 8! = The writing w ing under crow vas before a Sone t rae Or Jes Rogerson should seo me, but be “! INP. sour. was obviously more than half drunk ing * Peer.” and Was ehtefly occupie! in t q ee: fn bis companions with anyching but 4 '% . HOURS, pleasant air, rds a , “Juat as 1 was drawing a desitittt yee taline of amy teed times, bead, however, and had well cover! {0 Yurned to, Unele ‘Loveday re” olliver, he saw m (To P&S Continued.) alarm, and gave tho | the three a