A ROMANCE By Louis Joseph Vance Illustrations by Ray Walters (Copyright, 1910, by Louis joseph Vance.) is SYNOPSIS. Coast, & young man York « . meets Douglas Blackstock, who invites h although h i son being that both are in love erine Thaxter. Coast falls to that Blackstock Is unworth y friendship t the party Coast mes named Dur das and Van Tuyl There & QquUAarr and Blackstock shoots Tuy! je ad Coast struggles to wrest the we apon 1 thus the » di cover t t is arrested He is ut as he begir ‘nan ey Blacksts convir of he out oid my sencing loud as the tO save my lack failed te hear were at the other end of the back and exterminate 80 I beat it on the dead jump “The farm-house i sweat radse 11 as I could: COG a and Trump of Doon ; neck unders if alan island. it, even and come was pulled uj There ; volces front, back the and snooped ped though however, and | reconnoiire out way vesdrop hoarse sr dreamed Heaven : a} eak when Ap lifted a wide at com with a 00k” b id, with and if you're is to say, hu fort to heart going to take may please Overborne by wind, which blew through a funnel back like a scroll laughed gently to and there '—he indicated headland astern that Man's Land from their vision—"still they walk In darkness, bound upon the wheel of their own naughtiness?” “Well,” conceded Coast a little du- biously. “But on the other hand here's this wind brewing. Doesn't §t smell like an easter to you?” Appleyard sniffed contemptuously “it do, it sure do,” he admitted. “We'll have a bit of a blow by night tall, certainly.” And that means nt “Why?” “Because 1, for one, am going back to No Man's Land tonight. And the more wind, the tougher the job of working back . . Appleyard grimaced his “Who's afraid?” ture -that superstitious hug part omen man For my this for an your You yourself down the Sound as the fog was rolling The little nan Haven't we won while the shut off light freedom, No trouble, doesn’t disgust. he demanded, trucu- lent. “A pessimist,” he misquoted with a large If inconclusive alr of philosophical contemplation, “is a fel low who has to live with optimists. Not only that, but you make me tired.” IC CHAPTER XII, within another hour (and the morn ing was still young) the Echo rode at anchor in Quick's Hole, on the edge of the navigable channel, near the Na shawena shore, about midway of the passage between Vineyard Sound and Buzzard's Bay; and within ten min. Mr. Appleyard, nis and communicated noisily asleep In rest which weariness of not begrudge ylans formulated Mr. Coast, was cabin—enjoying a for all his own body and mind, could him. For six a by buoy the hours the younger man lonely watch, companioned the melancholy voice of the off the southern entrance, the forlorn and dreary which came fitfully to bell most wind As six sounded Appleyard yawning and rubbing but with a light in the lat as soon as he permitted them seen, and a springiness In which testified to the bells his eyes, ter, re “Howdy?” he “Nothing alarming turned “Not a thing,” said Coast. “Good enough Don't look for ‘em When'd this lull set in?” him “That's their landing chirruped up, eh?” informed in make a with plans; in the right; ft dark, anyway.’ “What differ make?" “Not much; touching at Man's | wm attracted i 8 there's a life saving Head? Sure; and p keep a list of by, fre rowboat ence would that boats the BORE pose only the fewer No and, less ittent! Kn Gay you station on its IW job that art of to everything to a coast Wilke look here, Apple “Doesn't It Smell thing me been troubling it taking a Of course, to begin too keen to believe ackstock. But, serious warrant have you for believ up with this smuggling seems we're lot for granted with, | was worst of B! what 10 only ly. Appleyard rubbed his nose reflec “Well,” he drawled, grinning “l haven't got any sure’'nough good admit. I just know It's so That's all.” “But—" “What's Blackstock there for? Not you can bet; afraid of getting caught tled on No Man's Land das come through with sion: not because he in some corner of the water—" “1 told you his wife sald “She sald precisely what he told her. Naturally Probably believes it Rot!! reason why he dropped tances to Dundas; because he's broke, and down, and desperate-—ready to turn his hand to anything to earn a dishonest dollar. And this job's ideal for his purposes,” Appleyard wound up triumphantly. “But,” Coast argued, money. “How do you know?" “At least, her aunt had, and it was to go to her” “But did 1t?7 I'll lay you a hand some wager that either she never got ft or it wasn't much anyway and Blackstock managed to run through {t with the customary [facility of geoundrels of his class, . Don't talk to me: I tell you, 1 know a lot of things for certain that I don’t know for sure; and this Is one of ‘em. . . . And now If you'll just kindly quit finding fault with my un Impeachable management of this af fair, and duck below and pound your sticking he likes because for he set his confes his remit “she has ear for a couple of hours, or until 1 call you, you'll be in much better ghape for what's before you this night.” (Coast, soothed by waves and the softly modulated toll ing of the distant buoy, presently dozed off: nor did he wake until Ap pleyard shook his shoulder hours later He started up in some perturbation with that singular flutter of the heart that men sometimes waken to face a crucial hour. he asked, half dazed. “Time,” returned Appleyard coolly. “They're just about to stand in round Lone Rock. Cecme on deck. His small head and narrow shoul ders were momentarily silhouetted against a violet-shaded square of sky filled the companion opening, disappeared Coast, realizing from the twilight within and without | that the hour was late, followed with expedition “What's | stepped on | ‘About Take the Appleyard dropped lightly into the pit as obediently moved {to the stern and grasped the spokes comprehensive, in a single awake and the swash of | that { then he asked as he oO clo K » deck seven wheel.” Coast His first glance Was the IAtion fully summing up sity cal he was very alert With a 10 red starbos the HOW i8t mufMed cough the motor be The Echo swung her gent Appleyard, throt half, climbed out Ean throb and drum gathe way (‘oast ly tling to ard as spe ed man approved Easter to Youll" id her steady for y channel, and not to Pasqus tand ready suut when [| give the we intelligy the onst ntiy boat #OO8 “this as inst the ruptly, unpleasantiy 3 with con it be? inted t's got 1 w,” he afiir viction You'd nn you want to know.” about ise COU gambler, If bustiicg a shine he inke added busily Coast subsided, although he | tinued to eye the oncoming boat | unmitigated Appleyard, having cast off all but one of the stops securing the gaff to the boom, first lighted and set out the starboard lamp, which was of course invisible to the approaching boat, then lighted and placed the other be neath the seat “1 got an eye-full of her with the | glasses as she came across the bay” con with mistrust ancing himself lightly against the mo. tion of the boat. “She's a stepper all right: a cabin cruiser about thirty. four over all with a good, in her—twenty-five H.-P. I'd guess moves when she moves!” “That argues a crew of two?” surmised. “oust about the passenger, Mr. Handyslde-—who's in such a sweat to get on his job that he has to risk the passage in the teeth of an easter,” sald the man. “You ean bet your boots nn one else would run the chance-—nor he, unless it was on urgent business. . . Now go about and stand across again, a bit further up the channel” he advised as the Echo drew under the shadow of Pasque. “Soo: that's in" (TO BE CONTINUED) wa Er Varied Instruction Wise men are Instructed by reason, men of less understanding by expert ence, the most ignorant by necessity. «Unknown. PENNSYLVANIA STATE NEWS Newsy Items Gathered From All Pats of the State. 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