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SERIAL
STORY
A ROMANCE
By Louis Joseph Vance
Illustrations by Ray Walters
(Copyright, 1910, by Louis joseph Vance.)
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SYNOPSIS.
man of New
while =
distant bo
and
from a
pe ht
CHAPTER Xlil.—(Continued.)
Pp kstock laughed
won't mind,” he
“Power's gone already
and he took
the rowboat
much’s by-¥
the Vineyard
th
he
Was never
ywer!”
: No,
nic
harshly he
plied, irc
We had a litt}
one of my
re
g out
1Hin
ing
only
our
850
rowed across to
in the f« {00 16 poor
if
£,
right
and
the hound!”
still Katherir
no indicatio
got car
to sea heard
hear him during t!
n't
He
ft
when
set down
takes a deal
my mir
led
d's s¢
evil
mn
“I'm sorry
shehaving, though”
“Well. profit by
don't mix in matte
here, at
about
cern you
Blackstock
$0
insolently
ming.” The woman reappeared
“1 couldn't find yor
as she crossed to the
of white, a of w
tween the fingers of her left hand
caught Coast's attention He sought
ber eyes and found them meaningful
With a word of grudging
edgment Blackstock took his
stick. “Come along, Handyside
» need a light: light hasn't
meaning to the blind. You
gight was gone, didn’t you?
"One would hardly it.”
Coast took up his sou'wester and fol
lowed the man to t
the woman's gown told him
was near behind him
Oh, 1 find my way
this cheesebox of
palm of my hand
pavigating your
dark
“Allow me ” C
the knob and opened the door:
stock bent his head to
wind and shouldered out
force
A hand touched Coast's;
paper passed into
ir cane.”
man
hite
A gleam
slip paper be
on't any
suspect
of
ghe
16
about:
island like
nn
an
own room In
Black:
the roaring
against its
the silp of
his palm.
of the woman he loved--looked and
read thelr message of pleading and
despalr. Then with a sadly negative
shake of his head he followed her hus
band out into the wind-whipped dark
ness, pulling the door to behind him.
Their shoulders touched as they
trudged off. The unavoidable contact
turned Coast sick with hatred and
loathing. Yet he held himself strong
ly im hand, crumpling flercely that tiny
slip of paper In his palma with a
strange sense of confidence, as it were
a guerdon of eventual success.
She had not denounced him. He
would save her, he would save her.
CHAPTER XIV.
“Look here, Handyside
Voorhis give you any message
me?"
Blackstock stood with his back to
the stove in the farmhouse kitchen
hands in pockets, his heavy shoulders
ifted, ae swayed all but imperceptibly
on the balls of his fc. t. In the dull
saffron illumination of two
kerosene lamps, he loomed hugely in
the room, overshadowing and dwarf
for
pattered about, preparing a meal
{
|
purpose.
Coast, tilting back in a kitchen |
chair on the far side of the table from
Blackstock, considered quickly
lied deliberately and whole-heartedly,
with full knowledge of the conse
quences of a misstep
was bound to come,
whether he will it or no. He was not
it yet, but
time Sooner
that word would fall from
or from Katherine's—or
untoward happening would precipitate
inevitable—revealing him, an im
The hour like the outcome
the knees of the gods The
fatality was strong upon his
it at
later
any
his
some
postor
was on
sense of
soul.
There he sald el
rounded me up
the midnight
wasn't time”
and they
time to catch
And Voorhis
stock demanded incredulously
“He you'd be
legs
gent no word?” Black
sald advised by wire
No more than that?"
I'd find this job afte
do as | id and m
1siness othing
shovi unaer my
“Only r my own
ind
ex
heart, to was 1«
my own 1 and
rept what you nose,
it would be worth while, and he
wll
Sd
w——
pipe His thoughts reverting to
Katherine, in natural course swung
back to the slip of paper reposing at
the bottom of his pocket,
He looked cautiously round; the serv.
ants were intent upon thelr work, |
stolidly incurious as to himself, to all |
appearances; from the upper floor |
came reiterations of the high-pitched !
and querulous accents of the wounded |
man—a sound to whieh he had be
accustomed since Blackstock
had left him He felt, consequently,
fairly safe.
Producing the scrap
gtealthily smoothed {t ACTOS8S
{ knee, It bore a single sentence
| riedly and lightly in pencil
“Neither your life mine is safe
if you persist.”
Very thoughtfully he
a little
ol
he i
his
hur:
of
out
paper,
nor
twisted the pa-
lighted it over
of the lamps, ap
tobacco In
it burned
01
spiil,
one
into
the chimney
then held it while
one to under
* That Kath
the truth re
Van Tuyl—or
trusted lack
he by any
uspect Coast's tru
knew the trut
Or that through som
of feminine Intuition
Blackstock was
wholly the at
pted impersonification of Handy
and would, were his doul
seek to punish
for keeping si
Precisely what was
stand from that message
erine had awakened
garding the killi
merely that she
mper,
to
ng of
mis
stock's te hould
chance be led to #
identity? That she
about Power?
tle
had
sub $88
nroe
pro
divined that
hoodwinked
she
11
not
by
side
firmed
the
She
ie con
her as well as
impostor lence?
had not had time to write more
until {is
i expired
his fi:
nger
tiny
ith
wi
spark, and
agment
w 1 id deg
did, too I
kind of a
and Mr Vi
end on me. | guess
guess he Knows
man you need, Mr
orhis fan't the sort
erator out of the gr bag for
gpecial Isn't that so?”
“it 1 Voorhis, it 1s”
stock back and forth
feet, his full,
tell more
he said;
wnat
ab
ab
purpose
know
rocked
pursing
can
Black
on his
about
“Why ao
“Morni
decidedly
For some
not speak
not now
ng will do,” sald Blackstock
minutes Blackstock did
Coast glanced up at him,
were aware of that
the man shook himself out of
| had seemed profound abstraction
"How about Mr. Handyside's
per, John?" he asked.
“Leady vely soon,”
the Chinese meekly
“Hurry it up, then, he's tired
Guess 1'll step upstairs
at Chang,” sald
the fellow Power
you know.” he added superfludus-
room, moving lghtiy
sup
replied one
Blackstock
out,
j.eft alone, Coast fell to the food
get before him. Although up to that
the fact,
mid-day, and was now excessively hun
gry. The meal, plain but well cooked,
proved a great relief from the some
what monotonous diet of bacon and
eggs to which he had been restricted
since the previous morning. He took
nis time over It, however, and toward
the conclusion began to wonder what
Blackstock found to keep him so long
abovestalrs,
The dishes were removed and the
Chinamen set about washing up, chat
tering to one another In low, expres
glonless tones. Still Blackstock did
not come down. Coast lighted bis
iis pocket in a ridiculous
extravagance of precaution
became
he
of a
corner of
looked up
{lack
such
fel
Ad
conache
large in
vislon, and he
dia
at his elbow
so he
8
shadow bulking
hig fleld of
startled to over
With
the
almost
lightn
moved!
pushed back his
as if
stock dropped a
catlike ess and slience
Ww
Coast chair from
bat Black
compellingly
the table, to arise,
hand
NO,”
tired i
he said; "don’t get up;
m off--just stopped to say
night Guess you'll find your
comfortable—if Chang doesn’t
keep you awake with his jabbering’
“1 say, Mr. Black,” Coast could not
asking, “how the dickens
do you manage to get about with such
The inquiry was natural;
curiosity was piqued; the thing
natural. He tried to bring
himself back into character. “I don't
mean to be fresh, but you're a won
you're
room
his
not
only;
since
nothing remarkable, per
the eyes were dead.
sald Blackstock; “habit and
who wrote Trilby-—-d'you remember?
«the fellow that could feel the north
Sort of bu
Well, that's
Tell me where | am, and so long
as | kaow the ground, I'll find my
way. For instance, I'm golng back
to the bungalow now--alone. For that
matter, | came practically alone; my
wife tells me the night's black as a
stack of oats”
(TO BE CONTINUED)
-
me.
The Thinker.
You can usually tell a thinker by
the thifgs that make bl silent.
Life.
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Information and Gossip From
Harriscurg.
Cutaiar's Case Held Over,
The Pardons con
additional
State Board of
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for Alphonzo Cutalar,
ing a life sentence in the
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Johanna Logue, aunt The
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