A ROMANCE
By Louis Joseph Vance
Illustrations by Ray Walters
(Copyright, 1910, by Louis Joseph Vance.)
SYNOPSIS.
Ing man
wuglas Blackstock, who
rd pe arty He
@ dislike “8 Bl
g th at bot} are
erine Thaxte Coast 3
that Blac kat ock is
friendship At the party Ci
named Dundas and Van Tuy!
juarrel, and Blackstock she
dead, Coast struggles to wrest
waapon from him, thus ti
caver them. Co
He is conviete
tence, Dundas
my rderer and
mes free
K ath
chases a
man throw
‘Ues t! ef
te ov Ary
No Man's L and.
ast
Bet is arres
but as he Ri
16 . _Blackstc
rine
distant
10 is name
nely island
CHAPTER VIi.—(Continued.)
“Cleaning
sleep: your ti
“What's o'clock
Appleyard
coherent
and
as
Coast
when he
awake,
i later
wide
Echo had
lagt time
it seemed no
the moment his
he found himeel
ing dazedly
heart the
At first,
see
more than ;
eves
of
nothing
ing on a quie
with scare
The encom
tense, unfathomabl
the forward light
vellow opa'escence
with a question shaping
vard was nowhe visible
re
Coast req es before
of the
the
ired some
he was
Htitle
need of
m 8 disap
cabin proved as
pit, and the
The cabin
hour of four in the morning
As the echoes died, a
had evoked genius
a strange df
1 .
Qiu Cry
silence,
pearar
ni
empiy
Was gone
as
tender
‘ hi
er chi
chronome med the
the of
and drea
sounding
great
CHAPTER VII,
me moments elapsed, Coast's
and sense upon the rack
heard it no more, still that
£ in his head,
smitten dumb and
feeling his chilled flesh crawl
thralled by fearsome shapes
Jured up by an imagination
vainly to account for what had hap
pened-—walt (It geemed) intermin.
ably: for what hardly knew
guessed, unless it were for a repeth
tion or some explanation of that in
explicable cry.
He received neither
faculties detected none
noises,
Ingensibly he grew more calm. So
silent was the world, seemingly so
saturated with ike apirit of brooding
peace, that he was tempied to be
lieve he had dreamed that first shriek,
to which he had wakéned, and that
the second was but an echo of it in
his brain: some hideous trick of
serves, a sort of waking hallucination,
And yet .
Appleyard? © What of him? Was
there any connection to be traced be
tween his mysterious disappearance
from the Echo and that weird, un
earthly scream? Was there really
land near, and had the little man
found it only to become the victim of
some frightful, nameless peril? Could
that have been his voles, calling for
belp .? And In what dread ex-
tremity . . .2
There was nothing he could do, no
way to reach the man. The tender
was gone, the chore Invisible-and
who should say how far distant? Oth.
erwise he would not have hesitated to
swim for it.
Presently It occurred to him to won.
der where the Echo lay-off what
iand. Appleyard’s responses to his in.
Quiries, several hours back, returned
nerve
Though he
n
Cry ra
every
and he ¢
wail,
en-
con-
he
but familiar
The name, No Man's
intrigued. He interrupted his
vigil to investigate such sources of in-
formation as he had at hand.
In the cabin again, with the lamp
turned high, he dragged out a chart—
{ nxmber 112 of the admirable series
published by the Coast and Geodetic
{ Survey, delineating with wonderful
| accuracy the hydrography of Buz
| zard’s Bay and Vineyard and Nan-
| tucket Sounds, together with the topo-
| graphy the littoral and islands.
With pencil it was easy to trace the
| Echo's courge from New Bedford har-
| bor through Quick's Hole; a little to
{ the east of which, say of Robinson's
{ Hole, the fog had overtaken them.
| the south and east of that point lay
| Martha's Vineyard, for all the world
| lke a trussed fowl In profile And
| there—yes, due south of Gay Head
| was No Man's Land, its contour
| that of an infant's shoe, the heel dig
ging into the Atlantic.
with the scale demonstrated it to be
{ roughly a mile and five-elghths long by
a mille wide-—extreme measurements
at it with renewed in-
first time convinced of
of a spot so oddly
A number of black dots along
to indicate
of
stared
the
existence
Coast
| terest, for
| the
named
its northern shore seemed
{ bulldings—hbut
{ ly said “uninhabited.”
back to the deck
{ There was nothing to be seen,
! ing to do :
He fidgeted
Then of confusion
temper, which ennul stalked in sin.
gular ef with perturba-
tion, he chanced ug
{ thought, one of those
formation, mostly ¢
tory reading,
every man’s brain
noth-
out the
in
ympanionship
upon
of
stray bits of in
illed from
that clutter back
desul-
of
the
AN sisi we ————
strewn xuhore the teat of the run- away
had left no trail. Though Coast cast
about In a wide radius, he found no
sign of the missing man. The peb.
bles scratched and bruised his un
protected feet, and he began to shiver
with cold. He gave it up, presently,
returned to the tender, pushed off
and sculled out to the Echo,
Then, having rubbed his flesh to a
blush with a coarse towel, he dressed,
{ took the small boat back to the beach,
| drew it up and, now fully committed
to an enterprise the folly of which he
stubbornly refused to debate, get off
to reconnolter along the water's edge,
feeling his way
After a time the beach grew more
sandy, and emboldened by the knowl
| edge that he would have
{ prints to gulde him back, he left the
{| water and struck inland-—but only to
find his in that direction
| checked by a steep wall of earth, a
| cliff-like bluff of height Iindetermin-
able, Its flanks wave-eaten and deeply
seamed by rain
| At random, with no design, he
| turned again to his left and proceeded
as before, but along the foot of
the bluff, trudging heavily through
damp, yielding sand
Still sign of Apple
He must have tramped,
| Ruess, several hundred
discovered either a
{ bluff or any change in
{ configuration of the shore
iy. however, the ope fell
{ land and the other widened
A moment later he
small careened abe
tide mark
tarboard side, {¢
waterline
She
progress
now
no yard
at a rude
yards before
break In the
the general
Ultimate
away In.
he
CAME Upon
cathoat ve
with a gaping wound in
rward and belo
lay stern to the
her
1 in
Elem
again
the point of
i Coast turned land
“Good God!” He
mbe r hearing
that fog
ving wa
ting one's vision upot
almost horizont the
warily pos: ible
ned to rem
me Where, rare
to the surface of mo
with
is ordi {Oo sev
scrambled out
which, after some in
ering and by dint
nsiderable physical Ingenuity,
| managed to suspend himself, at
{of a duc king, with his head near the
i water
He
pains;
| that
i the slowly
upon
of
he
peril
ricate
maneuy
Of
of his
foein
between
was promptly justified
the theory proved Iitsel
one instance nat
undulant floor, glassy and
colorless, and the ragged fringe of
the mist curtain, he discovered a
| definite space,
Directly astern and,
forty feet away, a shelving stretch of
pebbly beach, softly lapped by low
voiced ripples, shut in the view. The
Echo's tender, drawn up beyond
water's edge, bisected it
“Good,” sald Coast, abstracted,
covering from his constrained posi.
tion.
Curiosity gripped him strongly, cdu-
least ;
roughly, some
until be had probed for the cause and
fource and solved the mystery of that
wild ery in the night just gone,
Moreover, he felt in a measure re
sponsible for Appleyard. Burely there
must be some strange reason for his
protracted absence.
Abandoning himself, deaf to the
counsels of prudence, Coast rose and
stripped off his clothing.
He let himself gently into the water
(fearing to dive because he did not
know itd depth) and found it warm
warmer than the alr. He struck out
cautiously, using the slow, oldfash-
foned but silent breast stroke. In two
minutes, however, he was wading up |
to the beach.
There was no sign of Appleyard:
only the tender. Upon that stone
Cried Aloud. “What—"
as straight
the slanting
imp aibilit fs fry anyt
nd a
feet
H¢
tack Wr Te mibled
of hardpacked eartl bviously
| by human f . n
self mounting a rather steep
ther
made
found him
grade,
and in and
» with a pla
vooden Bu
There
could
face to
arded wad
moment was
n weather be
ilding
he
and
heard no
ws that
aide
though he latened keenly he
{ sounds from within
Other
. selves
were no wind
discover on this
bulldings presented them
cessively, as like as peas
to one another and to the first he had
encountered: all peopled exclusively
| by the seven howling devils of deso-
{ lation and their uttendant court of
| ratg—or so he surmised from sundry
sounds of scurryings and squeaks.
He gathered that he was threading
fringed on one
to seaward-—with the abandoned
dwellings of what had apparently been
| a small fishing community
{ “No Man's Land indeed!” he com:
| mented. “Certainly lives up to the
| name. even if it's some place else.
| begins to look as if I'd drawn a blank.
But Applevard . . 7
He was moved vaguely to liken the
! place to the Cold Liars of the Jungle
i Books, "Only infinitely sordid”
| mused, at pause: “lacking the maj
esty and the horror Wonder
had 1 better go back?”
Ag he hung in the wind, debating
| what to do, whether to press on or
{to be sensible, swayed this way and
that by doubts and halfformed im.
| pulses, somewhere near, seemingly at
his very elbow, certainly not twenty
{feet away, suddenly a dog howled.
| Long drawn. lugubrious with a note of
| lamentation, the sound struck discor
(dant upon his overtaut senses, shock
fhg him (before he kmew it) to out:
spoken protest,
“Good God!”
"What?"
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
BUCK
| side
he eried aloud.
STATE
CAPITAL
CHAT
Grange Forming Buying System.
Steps for the formation of a State
organization for
of articles used by
the the es
protect
in frau-
farming
discussed
of the
and
to
to consumer
of a system
investments
real estate,
were
committee
dulent mining,
and other schemes
by the executive
State Grange here. Practically every
member of the directing body of the
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two projects which are favored by the
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W. T. "Creasy, the worthy master,
stated that Grange purposed
incorporate organization which
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granges and enable buy
coal, agricultural
fertilizers,
the
became ne
of mines
The
wil
nmittees
methods
the to
an
hie
members to
implements,
1 other articles at
price if
bi 15 output
factories.
headquart
be
and by a system of
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possible
essary to
west even it
the
and
erg of the
organiza
tion shed In this
reports
IEO8 Can
establi city
crop ail
members of the grar keep in
touch that if
kind of
State
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for any
gection of the
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the commit
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Retail
OTrEanizalions
Niiere
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“te $ i shes
Mr stated that
Lions
eiphia Grocers’
OLher
the west
Must Obey Orders.
A
from
calling th tention of th Ean
has been issued
ard headquarters
iZa
tions of fact that
the reguls
regard i
Arms
Department in
tia te
War
naterials for
lowed
an sie
be
that
fe
is WW
Pardon.
icted in 1510
impersonating
Division of the |
ladelphia, has ap
petitioning the
the ground that he is
tuberculosis Gal-
sentenced to eighteen
early part of last Jan-
conv
by
the Ninth
Ward of Phi
plied for a pardon,
State Board on
suffering from
lagher
months
uary.
a voller
Eighth
im
was
in the
Must Mave Oleo Licenses.
Dairy and
Foust has instructed his agents
Philadelphia, Allegheny,
and other counties where
Food
in
there
in
without a State license. The license
period expired on December 31,
Prepare Bank Act Case.
Attorney General John CC.
in equity brought against the
To Open Ballot Boxes.
Judge 8. J. McCarrell, presiding in
he District Attorftey contest, an.
pounced that he would hear very lit
@ additional testimony garding the
counting of doublemarked ballots,
but would open the boxes and find
out. The count of the votes will be
made DY an examiner and then the
Court will determine the legality of
Attorneys for
Stroup have protested against the re
fusal of the Couft to hear testimony
from their side.
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