SERIAL
STORY
A ROMANCE
By Louis Joseph Vance
Illustrations by Ray Walters
(Copyright, 1910, by Louis Joseph Vance.)
54 SYNOPSIS.
Coast, a young man of New
York City, meets Douglas Blackstock,
invites him to a card party He accepts
although he dislikes Blackstock,
son be "ing that both are in love with
erine axter. Coast falls to convince
that Blackstock is unworthy
friendship
named Dundas and Van Tuyl
quarrel, gnd Blackstock
Tu iyl dead. Coast struggles to wrest the
weapon from him, thus the police dis-
cover them. Coast Is arrested for murder
He 1s convicted, but as he begins his sen
‘tence, Dundas names Blackstock as
murderer and kills himself, Coast
Comes but Blackstock has
Katherine Thaxter and fled Coast pur
chases a yacht and while salling sees a
man thrown from a distant boat. He res
cues the fellow who is named Apt pleyvar
hey arrive at a lonely Islan 3
No Man's Land Coast sta
Garrett
Kath-
There is
free,
ing a
who expl
name of
He is blind, a wi
a station there
her husband m
sees RBlackstock and
burying a m "
1s resct
to th
CHAPTER X!|.—(Continued.)
“A change has come over the
of our dream—yes?’ Appleyard
quired. "Nothing like food on the hu
man stomach to make the skies seem
brighter. Not that it seems to affect
this weather any: it's thick as curds
We ought to pick up that before
long—won’'t be happy till | get it”
“You're sure about this thing?
asked Coast, perhaps not quite co
herently The other seemed to un
derstand him, none the
“AS-solut-lully,” be
know where we started from and what
we're aiming for; this is a perfectly
good compass, so long as you keep It
from flirting with the coll; and I've
made allowance for a lee-tide You
watch!”
Coast
with the
denied
buoy
less.
returned =]
1
down “Well? he
al ¢ | PE
air ol ionger
sald,
be
a
sat
.
one no to
said little
gp
il
man
know
an am
rs."
re
rust all
ived ised
Ja Pe
g0 to do
when you
that
ki 3
ne your real name, after your
wruing, |
what you
were enough
rescue yesterday m
\ just who and
biankly
curred to you
character, in
And your lack
interested me
” sald Coast, a thou
80 It never
ght
“Just
that you & publie
a way? 1 noticed that
of self-consclousness
Also the aroma of mystery you
hale, intrigu {if 1 may coin
word) my romantic imagination.”
Coast flushed
he exclaimed
“Don’t
1 know 1
oC
were
lad
eq
angrily
your
sound impertinent, but |
don’t mean to be so; {it's just
tempryment makes me such a cut-up
When | waked up before you
did yesterday, | thought it all out,
and | sez to myself, sez I: "His blog:
raphy ain't half-written yet, and un-
less I'm mistaken something grievous,
Romance is a-leadin’ of him by the
hand, like a little che-lld If 1 can
work it, I'm goin’ to stick round and
see what happens next” You see, it's
my business to go about nosing into
other people's.”
“l see,” sald Coast curtly, with a
feeling of contempt which he took no
trouble to disguise,
“Yes,” assented Appleyard serene
ly. “I make my living that way.
Government pays me a handsome sal
ary for doing it.”
“What!” A light was beginning to
to dawn upon Coast
The little man nodded gravely. “The
U. 8. Secret Service,” he affirmed.
“Let us begin ot the beginning, for
clearer undrestanding,” Appleyard
continued. “I'm not here for my
bealth—1'm on the job; and things
have shaped round so that | want
your help temporarily-—-while you cer-
tainly need mine. That's why I'm let-
ting you in by the basement door and
speaking In stage whispers. You get
me? What I'm telling you Is to be
kept under your hat.”
“Certainly, that's understood.”
“Right you are. . . . Now, the
particular phase of lawless Industry
at present engaging my distinguished
professional attention I8"-}e allowed
himself the dramatic pause-—"smug-
gling. For some time the Treasury
Department has been aware that a
very considerable quantity of highly
dutiable goods was finding its way
into the country-—malinly for the Now
York markets—without paying toll
A syndicate of Malden Lane jewelers
has been reaping most of the profit,
although other goods have been com:
ing through; but that’s Ly the way.
Now the Customs net is fine enough
to assure us that no such heavy im:
lose
All we were certain of was that fit
was getting in duty free—though we
couldn't prove even that so
then, | was turned loose on the prob
lem, and I've been puzzling over {it for
six months.”
He was briefly silent, apparently in
mood “Karly In the
he resumed, “] had cause to
that most of the stuff was
| sat me down and tried to figure It
from the other side's point of
view—supposing | wanted to turn
my own account, See?”
“Clearly. Go on.”
“Being a product of this
*he woods made It some easier; |
know the «coast pretty thoroughly. It
struck me how all-fired easy it would
to establish a depot for the re
neck of
islands hereabouts- Or eveén at some
retired peint on the mainland. Then
one could ship the stuff over by any
old uniikely tramp, trans-ship it to a
smaller vessel at some agreed
off the coast, and stow {it away
distribution practically at one's
With such a central
the stuff could be smuggled
through any number
of small harbors—a trunkful here, a
trunkful there, all disguised as pas
for
so thick with small craft that their
comings and goings attract practically
attention Plausible, fea-
certainly.”
short, | finally satisfied
the schooner employed
fisher
“Ingenious,
“To cut {it
that
saw, preferred
I took
lucky
as you
room to my company
there like a fool
a chance
to get off
of the maln-traveled routes; fnally,
I knew that, once south of Devil's
Bridge, the set of the tide would
snake us out toward No Man's Land.
So, when we ran aground and | went
ashore, leaving you asleep, | wasn’t
surprised to recognize the place.”
“You could—in that fog?"
“I've an excellent memory, and had
visited the Island a good many times
on fishing trips when | was a boy in
these parts.
these waters there used to be quite
: However,
possession
there
fortunate in the
and though it was pitch dark,
and thick as mud, | wasn't
losing myself. So | struck
first,
afrald of
interesting discoveries.
Good morning,
a number of
Hello!
Twenty-seven!"
The little man got
profoundly, as to a
tance, to a black can
ously numbered "27."
up and bowed
valued
buoy conspicu-
swimming past
“Some navigatin', that!” Appleyard
observed complacently. Coast watched
Appleyard shif: the spokes until] the
Echo swung upon a course at a sallent
angle that which sbe had been
holding “And now where?”
Appleyard looked up from
nacle. "“No'th by east” he sald ab
stractedly; then, rousing: "Quick's
Hole, and it please you. | venture to
| recommend the spot it's quiet, re
charmingly salubrious: quite a
cosy corner for a day's loal”
“Loaf!” exclaimed Coast
peration
“Tut,”
mild reproof;
will a tale
to
the bin-
in exas
sald the little man in a tone
“and again tut Kft
unfold that'll shed
{ of
i soons |
But by the time
I hit the water | felt pretty sure they
some sureenough good
for not wanting any strangers hang
ing round.”
“I'd think you justified in assuming
that much.”
“The worst of it was,
made me a marked man;
wee mite too indiscreet.
I thought I'd have to
that
fade into the
sleuths polish off the job. You
fancy how that would have galled.
Fortunately you offered yourself"
“1 like that” Coast commented.
“Anyway, my magnificent imagina-
tion offered you to me,”
-{ineonsplicuous, unsuspected. You
of what you wanted to do, where you
wanted to cruise, And I'd
suspect myself of fallure of the parts
of speech if I couldn't insidiously talk
you into going where [| wanted to—
No Man's Land, Muskeget, Tucker-
nuck, Chappaquiddick, or wherever.”
“I'm ready to certify you're quall
fled to talk the hind legs off the do-
mestic mule,” Coast averred with en-
thusiasm.
“Don’t worry; I'm a merciful man.
. Rather cheap, that-—what?”
“Extremely.”
“Your fault: you fed it to me. I'm
beginning to think you must be the
only original, porfectly-pasteurised
mascot. Since we met the very stars
have seemed to battle In thelr course
for me. Even the fog helped-—shunt-
ing us off to No Man's Land.”
“Yeg—17"
“1 had no particular notion of in-
vestigating that island first of all; but
8 number of circumstances made me
suspect we were in its neighborhood.
| had figuréd it out that the variation
of the magnetised compass must have
carried us sou'west, for one thing:
and the absence of fog signals made
me think we must have got well south
1a heap of light
ue of the Hal
upon the pilot of this
{Dime Library. Know
you not that Dx smond the Dachshund
Detect is on the scent?
where'd | get off 7”
“You were on the point
interesting discoveries,”
prompted patiently.
“To
ive
Le's see:
of making
some Coast
be sure.
about to say, |
! lost it, and
seemed
« vo AR} was
felt my way along,
presently stumbled onto
a pretty raw slice of
| melodrama The first thing |
| struck for was the farmhouse Last
i I heard of the island, it was inhabited
| by a single family, a farmer, his wife
and a couple of kids. Must've been
a bit lonesome, but they didn’t seem
! what
! to mind.
petitioned the State Legislature
{ build a school-house on the island to
| Commonwealth. Shrewd customer:
the job of janitor and his wife to be
school-mistress, both on salary! . .
I had It in mind to pump him, you
see, but somehow | missed the farm
house, the first cast. And when |i
pulled up to take soundings | heard a
curious sort of noise—singuiar In
that locality, at least: one of those
noises that, once heard, Is never for
gotten; as nearly as | can describe It,
a sort of ripping crash--very irregular
in duration and much muffled by dis
tance and fog. | picked up my ears
and tried to mark down the quarter it
came from. Then 1 followed it up as
best | could. After two or three false
turns | fell over what seemed to be
a wire stay, groped round and found
a mast. The nolse had stopped by
this time, but | knew what had made
it without doubt; that mast was an
perial, and I'd been listening to some
body operating a wireless station.
Next thing, | made out a glow of light
that led me to a window. By now |
was Interssted and laying very low.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
ATTAGKS
MONEY POWER
in This Country.
Launches Into a Flerce Denuncia-
tion Of the Methods Of the
Financiers.
Washington Representative
Henry, Texas, chairman of the
House Rules Committee, made a sen-
sational speech in the in which
he attacked the power in Wall
Street inquiry into
“the Black Hand me the Fi
nancial Mafia in this He
counseled a thoroughgoing investiga
tion before Congr accepted the
Aldrich plan of curr
Chairman Henry
A money trust in:
tion, which was beaten
Democratic Leader
Speaker Clark. A sul
man Pulo, House
Currency Committee, which
the Bryan
and
agreed
Of
House
money
and demanded an
thods of
country.”
“BES
reform
the author of
astigation
ency
WHS
resolu-
by
and
by Chalir-
in caucus
Underwood
stitute
of
Was op
posed by Democrats, Chalr
Henry
himself,
man
was
ROBERT L. HENRY
Congressman from Eleventh District of
wre than 75
I resources,
ons Ww
trolled by not more ti}
groups of financers
hy has
This finan
hin
and funds
paralyze com
gare now wit itn
resources, deposits
the powers
petition and destr
“It is certain these same finan-
cial ew York have a
cloge community of interest with the
centers of Eu-
in protecting
at
2 competitors
that t
interests of N
bankers of the mu
rope and act tog
ney
ether
inn
ion
WOULD MAKE
IT FREE.
Move To Have Government Secure
Mount Vernon,
Washington —A
te the purchase by
Vernon, George
estate on the Potomac,
campaign
Washington's
was started here
Wis. ),
first president
Representative Cary (Rep.
The Mount Vernon Antifee Associas
tion wants Congress to authorize gov-
ernment purchase.
Lyle Carr, Artist! Dead.
New York.--Lyle Carr, one of the
best known of American painters,
died suddenly in his studio here. Mr.
Carr was best known for his land.
scapes and pictures of mountain
passes. He decorated the town house
of Thomas F. Ryan and had recently
completed the designs for the new
Newark Courthouse. He was a per
sonal friend of james A. Patten, the
grain operator at Chicago, who
bought many of his pictures. He was
unmarried,
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