A ROMANCE By Louis Joseph Vance [lustrations by Ray Walters (Copyright, 1910, by Louis Joseph Vance.) SYNOPSIS. Garrett Coast, a young man of New fark City. meets Dougins Blackstock. who vs him to a card party He accep's kes Blackstock. the rea. in love with Kath falls to convince he sSOn bin erine T ter Coast thut kstock Is unworthy of her friendship At the party Coast meets two named Dundas and Van Tuy! There Is & guarrel and Kstock shoots Van Tuy! dead Coast struggles to wreat the weapon from him thus the police cover them Coast is arrested for murder He is convicted but u8 he begins his sen tence, Dundas names Blackstock as the murderer and kills himself Coast be Omes free Blackstock has married Katherine Thaxter and fled Coast pur chases a vacht ur while aniling sees a man thrown from a distant boat. He res ues the fel Applevard They arrive ? snoly is Known as » Man's Land . out to ex ipon some are but CHAPTER XIV.—(Continued.) His hand remained der, obnoxiou on Cs ast’ mperative pressing, all but Coast ha It insufferable: was the blood in his face like fire. that hi pounding--so loud, {t other must be he of was conscious burned 8 heart was seemed, that the of it this must Aware choked at which he the man of all m atest cause to hate his nail to enfe almost cont dure, from the gre act He d an Blackstock's of his despise iz palms in effort sion face two feet (he fancied) ly modeled, animal feat ized suddenly that ft was the f i Satyr, simply, naively its lightless eves vinuous breath his bis own breath he held clenching his teeth own, a rested upon the ures; ACE sensual And nostrils; soulless as offended "Now | know He but that he you.” think of It was succeeded In enunc iating that The hands moved on. dow n over his shoulders, and felt of his arms “Hard!” commented Blackstock “You've got strength haven't you? Not as great as mine, though; you'd hardly realize how Immensely strong I am. See now!” His bands moved swiftly back tg Coast's throat and girdled it with a collar of iron. “Do you realize 1 could easily squeeze your breath out of your body. 1 could!” Coast’s face explored the face above bim. [Its smile was gone. Something ran cold along his spine, and of a sud den he was without emotion, quite calm and collected “But you won't you know,” he said easily: “that is, you wouldn't if you could Oh? nothing with to say pointing a pistol directly at your heart Would you?" Perhaps the fact that he had merely Stated the truth was responsible for his coolness. He noted Instinctive movement of the eyes, as if they sought to see if it was true; nd he thought: strong. Raising his left hand, he grasped Blackstocit's right by the wrist and removed it with a certain firmness. The other hand released him an in | HH reappeared on the Satyr's features “De you really tote a gun, Handy “Always.” Coast rejoined briefly. “Why-—up here—?' “You never can tell what's golng to “Perhaps you're right.” Blackstock the point mind, but you really ought However, don't full sleep hat, of John I'm be Handyside.” an “G'd-night, Blackstock hesitated summons of a subcauscloug alarm- clock. Such, in fact, was more or less the case; he who sleeps upon the thought of danger Is apt to waken A moment gone everything had been i back door with unerring accuracy "We'll get together after Mystified, the spot where waited, had last Coast he staring seen ly suggested that his room was ready He the fellow stupidly, pre ocgupled, his mind ranging far in fu tile speculation the riddle of Blackstock's conduct. long after he was left alone In the room that had been Power's he sat on the edge of the dingy bed, hls gaze fixed upon followed as to the window panel-—absorbed in the enigma He could not rid himself of the {m pression that an inarticulate menace ly unsuspicious reception of him Was Insanity the explanation”? Was the man in reality a homicidal maniac, at whose Intellect the lust to slay ate ike a But in such cancer? the overworked and Intensely conscious, in the middle of on the qui vive, every muscle Gradually he realized that his nerves must have tricked him, that the hair trigger of his suspended faculties must have been pulled by some com- The room bright with garish davlight; he had left them: there was not a Very stealthily he opened the hall door and looked out. From the slience within there was no one else astir and back to the After some returned to and took It doors, He went out he towel momentary hesitation his room, found a with him out Into the open He went quickly down Cold to the beach The Echo Was gone, but this did mot surprise him; it had been Appleyard's purpose a8 soon slacken. spit a dancing WAR evi rightly through the Lalrs showed signs of the sheltering gale Inside little its mooring the Was it Coast sturdy catboat erazily at dently deserted, guessed that the vessel belonged to Blackstock, that its tender was the boat which Power had been accused of ~-principally, no doubt al but and to other the assassination of Power? § means of accounting for the man's dis Did he or did he not suspect? that sudden slip of the mask that he had allowed 1? to appear to be deceived and was but signify merely mself 114 waiting to deliver some telling 3 { How much has Coast to apprehend, to guard against? To this latter question his every in stinct in chorus Every answered 3 thing leave no stone He dared un { might remain able to Kath érine. It came to him that it was not un Ikely he had been left In that lonely cottage with the three Chinese they might quietly make away with him while he slept. With this in mind he took a more of his surround and found them hopelessly ex protect ings; Unquestionably he would have been Sheets of seemed misery if Danger within preferable More than with Black- to that, bad The boat be scen: caused (it in noe ibtiess Black. stock had carried up and the abandoned dwellings, or In some recess beneath the bluffs to the west and south essarily be of appearance ned to vented Was, do to Course, where to be secreted In one of It was in the shelter of the westerly bluff that Coast stripped and took to the water Here, as all round the island, the beach shelved boldly, the suri breaking close Inshore Scrubbing his flesh aglow, he dressed quickly, tingling with the ex. trace of fatigue and drowsiness washed clean away. A sense of ile and wellbeing ran lke quicksilver through his veins: he could have sung thought, never far beneath the sur With Katherine to there could be Ifttle room for i i well know it; for he was armed and unafraid, and he who knows what to with a short laugh. “But you wouldn't have fired 7 tried to strangle me.” “Of course I'd no such idea" “Of course not; but you shouldn't have suggested It You made me nervous.” For a moment it was as if the mask had been dropped, as if they openly acknowledged one another as implaca. ble enemies. And again Coast re marked that Blackstock quivered as he had when surprised. an hour be fore; a ripuls of tensed muscles, hard: ly to be detweted, seemed to shake Bim from hezd to foot-—and was goue knob of each door, he placed the lamp upon the table, turning it low that its of oll might last the night, and sat down on the bed, the pillow at his back, Appleyard’'s pistol ready at his side Insensibly as the dead hours lagged marked by no disturbance foreign to the storm, his weariness bore heavily upon him. His thoughts blurred Into A chaotic jumble of He nodded, drowsed with chin bluff, which at this point pre observatory set atop the higheat nil | slept the sleep of the exhausted, pro- found and dreamless., , , CHAPTER XV. Coast awakened with a gasp, Jump Ing to his feet as if to the peremptory ened his steps and took her suddenly from the breeze and wholly Invisible from the body of the Island, her back to the weather-beater and lichened in somber reverie, (TO BE CONTINUED, SS. Why Willie Was Late. “Why, Wille, what kept you mo late? Did vou have to way after school? I'm afraid you have been naughty.” “No, ma'am, | ain't never naughty, Hobby Jones was licked fer bets’ naughty. an’ | stayed after school te hear bim yell” FROM THE STATE CAPI 4 Inform:tion and Gossip | Harris. urg. — — Warns About Moving Day. State Health Commissioner Samuel Dixon the dangers which attend the annual “fit April 1 is has called attention to ting” day in Pennsylvania and the Commissioner thinks that they should look into the previous his tory of their new residences pretty closely, especially from a health standpoint. He says: “In every community in monwealth there are houses with evil records, and there are ever unsuspect ing victims who come to make homes within their deadly walls. No man would knowingly in peril, how quire the Com- put his loved ones yet many persons In into the previous nistory of a engaging it’ bill of proper dwelling before How ith place many demand a for it and precautions be habitability?” Within Harr nas of clean hea insist that to insure taken sight of the here stands a for The as they Capitol at ishurg t that death house been the neighbors do and there Bpirits responsible eight persons not point it out pass i8 no tale of haunting with it, five been its connected persons, father, mother a4 grandchild have inherited, Consumption said neighbors and friends 6f this un tuberculosis,’ Depart- fortunate the family ‘Yes, said experts of the State ment of inherited, proper hamlet and town too often To Use County Road Payments. Asn : f { held the result of a cont uditor Highway Hunter Foster, of the erence Ge Sisson, Deputy Ww D Depart Bell and is probable that close Commisaione r Joseph Chief Engineer Samuel State H ghway ment, and Attorney General his deputies it to half a million dollars, paid into the State Treasury their shares of highway construction ex pense will be made available for road construction. This money has been accumulating for some time and, thanks to the energy of State Treas urer Wright, against counties are now as close as they can be made struction act provided that the State should bear one-half of the expense and that the remainder be divided between the county and dis trict benefited. The idea was that the counties should collect from the small er districts and settle in sixty days by counties as ¢ the accounts of 1505 last year or so the State Treasurer had to start “dunning” Veterans Shift Celebration. Harrisburg Grand Army veterans have been great occasions in erans hereafter. This year the Grand it will be for the last time. To Study Care Of Weak-Minded. feeble-minded are to be taken by the State Commission on Feeble-Minded and the State Board of Charities. Sec. will inspect Maryland institutions. Spring Arbor Days Named. The Governor has selected April &. and April 26 as the spring arbor days and a proclamation announcing the dates and urging tree planting will be issued. Oxford Powsr Company Approved. 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