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A ROMANCE
By Louis Joseph Vance
Illustrations by Ray Walters
(Copyright, 1910, by Louis Joseph Vance.)
SYNOPSIS.
young man of New
s Blackstock, who
He accepts,
the rea
Kath.
Garrett Coast, a
York City, meets Dougla
invites him to a ecard party
although he dislikes Blackstock.
son ing that both are in love with
erine Thaxter
that Blackstock
be
is unworthy of her
friendshiy At the party Coast meets two
named Dundas and Van Tuy! There is
a quarrel, and Blackstock shoots Van
Tuvl Coast struggles to wrest the
him, thus the police dis
t is arrested for murder
i begging his sen
ckatock as the
himself Const be
Blackstock has married
xter and fled Co pur
and while sailing sees a
ym a distant boat He res
Applevard
1. known as
u y eX
upon some de
dead
Nt
8 named
ely Isl
comes
» discovers ft
CHAPTER X.~—(Continued.)
Coast
present
decided make himself
benefit m
the
to
of whatever
held to Inher in
gained rear entrance
with another found
the emb
e doub
in boun
himself
ankment, in
treacherous composition of loose sand
and gravel he struggled momentarily
aud vainly for a footing. Then he tell
and rolled 1ngloriously, accompanied
by a cloud of dirt, rubbish and small
stones. At e bottom of a descent of
eQme thirty feet he picked himself
up, unhurt but shaken, just as a sec-
ond bullet ploughed up the sand two
paces to one side
There was no longer any question
as to the identity of the target Coast
permitted himself a single, fleeting,
upward glance, caught cinemato-
graphic gi y8¢ of the
Iike some huge, ungainly
loose, flapping garments,
the bank-—and turned and
long
Presently,
shadowy
catboat tox
For
a oF QOpDe
what manner
held ou
nad ¥y a tion that
if only he could hold out until he
reached the it would afford him
that he
nonde
broken
a .
charging
whose
down
of
th
th
a
bird
ran head
proportions
k
reason
of the beached
shape through the m
balled
ist
ft with
Heaven alone knows
of the sight
» bis dazed preceptions
some
F
Coast
sob
hope
of It
bewildered
boat
BOmMe
might st
script
oar-—anything
sort of shelter—or else
imble
across
defence
some
weapon of a
as pigfron Still, | think I'm some
promisin’ entry in the David and Uo
lath class— what? Come along
now: no time to waste”
He dropped the weapon into a pock:
et, and seizing Coast's arm, began to
along the beach in the di
he commented
comes of going out
“You see”
“what
severe
alone.
i
i
little vessel,
pounding on
rear, doubled
stern
as he passed, of a curious something
crouching there; but with no time for
with
fteen
and,
not
like
his
feet In
a rabbit round
to the fact that he nad been mistaken,
that there was no refuge for him
there
Then he pulled up on the sound of
a heavy fall behind him—a dull crash
followed by a short. stifled cry and a
sharp crack as of two stoues coming
together
He looked back in time to see the
short, starved figure of Appleyard
straightening up from the body of the
Chinaman, to see the little man’s half
friendly, balf-apologetie smile, and to
Bear him say in a tone of quiet reas-
surance: “All right, old top
down and three times out”
incredulous and half exhausted,
Coast staggered back to the boat
The Chinaman lay like some mon
strous effigy of man, Inert, sprawling,
with a sagging jaw, shut eyes and a
ragged, bleeding wound in the mid
die of his forehead. A bit of drift
wood--part of the water-bleached
branch of a small tree—was twisted
between his feet: a formidably jagged
stone In Appleyard's hand eked out
the story of bis downfall
“It wasn't anything,” the little man
explaiped with his timid, makeshift
smile, noting Coast's expression. “|
&aw you coming--heard the shots to
begin with--and made preparation ac
cordin’ Lucky you chanced this
way Otherwise -
He shrugged and cast away the
stone that had served so famously
“We'd better be making tracks before
the others came down on us,” he sug:
gested calmly,
“You-~you've killed him?”
panted
“Um-m-—no; sorry to say.” Apple
yard moved to one side and plcked
up the wevoiver which had fallen from
the Chinaman's hand. “Uufortunsately
Just stunned. . . . Mebbe,” pe
added, brightening momentarily, “it'll
turnp out concussion of the brain, but”
~he made a dublous mouth-—"I'tn
afrald not Those brutes are tough
Coast
home and keep out of mis
Now you hear me!"
stay at
chiet
CHAPTER XI.
While bis
dory's headwarp
Coast stood In
Echo, frowning thoughtfully
blurred loom of land to
whose shadow seemed to
crew was whipping the
round a
the cock-pit
ol the
at
fall cold
of suffering and disaster For
death;
must
mystery,
there Le
sake
Out of
the last
conviction
terror,
himself be, for
the horror and turmoll
half-bour he emerged
and understanding
must not be left alone in
of nameless perils Such doubts
he had previously entertained
longer found footing in hls thoughts:
it was settled now; he would stay
In the emotional stress of his un
foreseen encounter with the woman
temporarily he had forgotten the vie
the bowstring But now, bas
conclusions on what she had
told him of the personnel of the
land, he saw without that
man could have other
that Mr. Power
as
tim of
ing his
doubt
no than
she had named as
Blackstock’'s assistant Power was
an Irish name: Coast had catalogued
the man as of Irish extraction,
sight
been
———
Ing sense, and I'll prove It Listen
you're cudgelling your — hmm!
brains tor an excuse to go back ana
establish yourself on No Man's Lang
~~persona grata to the Iphabitanis
temporarily at least. Aren't you?
Coast's jaw dropped “How do you
know that?” he breathed, thunder |
struck |
“I'm the best Hitle guesser you ever |
met,” replied Appleyard complacent |
ly. "Take It from me. I'm wise to a |
lot more than you ever dreamed |
Furthermore, I'm for you Now, with |
that entente clearly established, are
you willing to put’ yourself in my
rest easy in my assurance |
that you'll win out, or do you preter |
headed way and take your chances?
“But—but
know?”
the man the know fn this
all right jut that's not the
point. I'll explain, and to your satis
faction, later For the present, the
questions Will you won't you |
me?
-~-who are you? What do
“I'm in
case,
in: or
Coast made a helpless gesture. “Go
on,” he sald
“Good enough Now.” continued
Appleyard, rising, “the first thing to
do is to clear out of this. You get the
anchor up and I'll start the machin
“"Bugt—"
“Tut, tut! Leave it to me: I'm the
of
you'd
the symptoms
better hump
the tile
trace
dlagnosis
And
As things stand’
with
haustive
él cetera
yourself
man paused to explain a
the
yo lections
and of In
further
advantage
We know
know
was point
“we
on
have
friends
WF
of ashore
they don't
our
who they are, but
us But If we stick round here
If the
remained
to
for the assassination
that Blackstock was
if not the prime instiga
crime, was as patent as
motive
dark,
it,
tor of the
daylight
Coast knew In his heart that he
was fated never to leave No
Land while the woman he loved re
mained there with the man he feared.
despised and hated
Mr. Appleyard, having made
once contemplative,
sympathetic
his employer with an enigmatic obser.
vation
“Silly of you,” he remarked coolly
Coast came out of his abstraction
with a start. “What's that?” he de
manded sharply
“1 said: ‘Silly of you.'"
“What d’you mean by that?"
“I mean” drawled the little
“that you're wasting valuable
penetrating and
and trying to make up your mind
what's best to be done about it. If
We were only a bit better acquainted,
or If you had a grain of persplcuity
In your make-up, you'd have realised
long ago that you'd better leave it all
to me.”
“What-—!" stammered Coast. “What
in thunder are you talkisg about?”
Appleyard removed the pipe from
his mouth and waved it comprehen
sively toward the island. “That,” he
sald, sententious, smiling sweetly up
into the amazed face of his companion.
“Your predicament,” he added. “if
you'd only stayed put, I'd have had
everything fixed, but of course you
had to butt in and complicate matters.
Not that I'm at all dismayed; | can
still arrange everything satisfactorily,
I think. But you oughtn't to inter
fere. If | dido't like you so much I'd
be awful’ vexed, honest | would!”
Const sat down and gasped with
and Irrational resens
ment. “Either you're mad!” he said
"PAVING = OP =="
“You lose your first guess,” the it
tie man interrupted calmly. “I'm talk:
of time before
Whereas, If we told
our tent and silently beat it. we can
return anon (get that ‘anon?”) and
only a question
ing us with
Morevover,
the first
wo shall
the situation
rash intruders
have had time
in detall] and
Now will
up?
He turned his back
you get that mud-hook
to Coast and
sis, silently rose and clambered for
ward
By the time be had weighed In the
anchor and returned to the
the little engine was trot
Isfaction as Coast began to coll the
cable, still dazed and almost Inclined i
to credit the preposterous situation
“Good!” sald the little man. “Now |
get below and change-—you can't af- |
ford to catch your death, standing |
round in those dripping rags—and re |
lleve me, that | may do the same. |
Furthermore, I'd be glad of a drop of |
grog. We'll talk later.”
“Do you mind telling me
we're bound?”
mild sarcasm.
“Not at all. This course ought to
take us clear of Devil's Bridge,” re
turned the little man helpfully,
Coast was In a more cheerful mood,
too, when he returned, the confidence
and courage of his manner bearing
witness to the restorative power of
plenty of hot coffee and bacon and
CEES.
where
Coast inquired with
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
A Good Business Man,
Doctor—-“Now, Mr. Macdonald,
must take your temperature.”
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