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
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men of less understanding by expert
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