SERIAL
STORY
A ROMANCE
By Louis Joseph Vance
[Mustrations by Ray Walters
(Copyright, 1910, by Louis joseph Vance.)
SYNOPSIS.
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PTER XVi.—(Continued.
CHAPTER XVII
ting the ring upon
schooled himself
well,” he said ir
You've got
a civil request, and
to like It; but I'll be gre
struct this Chinese giant t
Your owr
What! are you there, C
Blackstock's simulation of
was admirable—-if it were
“You may release Mr
1ed ; he
hang?”
surprise
simulation
Handyside,” he
contin has promised to be
good.”
Withou a
dropped
His
gtolid as
glinting like a
heavy, half-closed
a hint of derision
Coast lifted his shoulders in a shrug
not bravado but of endurance,
turned to the tool bench by the motor
and replaced the wrench
thoughts were all confusion;
incident mocked him with
meaning.
that Blackstock recognized his voice
and knew him for himself, ©urrett
Coast? That be suspected him of be
ing another than Handyside-—a spy of
the Treasury Department, in short
and had determined to disarm him as
A matter of common precaution, sus
pending sentence until he had deter-
mined precisely who he was?
“You're wondering,” sald Black
stock, “why 1 didn’t demand this gun
before taking It by force. Aren't
you?”
“1 am,” Coast assented bluntly.
word the Chinaman
and stepped aside.
it, was as
only the yellow eyes,
through their
lid#, seemed to hold
arms
when
WAYS,
face Const saw
cats
of
hidden
Would 1?”
“Certainly mot. What right
“One moment: 1 'm coming to that,”
smiled his
weighing the weapon
bestowing it
pocket gi’ § am
morale is the bi
had to be made to understand that
this island 1 dictator, my
quivalent
secret
reflectively be
hip
ine
You
on
in a
ding ip
word
fore gecurely
WAS itter ol
ter
am word law,
ud refu
means
day
wer
weular
spect
relations clear as
Pe
ated conception of
when
maki
light The main trouble with
WAS
ng our
his exagger the
portance
him a ractica emonstration
I gave
the
or did
r didr
and
sckstock with an
“Instruct
|
|
i
anxieties,
all ry well
the
Ve
make best of a
Appleyard
until nightfall It
four of a sultry,
afternoon. In the two
a half or three hours of daylight to fol
what might not happen? What if
Blackstock purposed leaving No Man's
Land in the little catboat within that
tari *T Wh could possibly be
contrived to stop him by one man, un
Soutrive and unarmed?
Pausing at the farmhouse
to make sure Katherine
there, without purpose, in weary
pondency wandered
through Cold Lailrs
beach
As he drew
collie kept
bad
was not to
now
turn WAS
half-past overcast
and misty and
low,
at
only brief
was not
des
down
the
he
the
on,
toward
near the spot where the
its vigil, the animal, ap
recognizing his footsteps,
and whined a woebegorne
He
sensible
rose
come
passion, of a
too, was outcast,
potent, the sport of malign circum.
stances. That thought rankled.
Presently It occurred to him that
the dog must be hungry. On sudden
impulse he left it, went back to’ the
farm-house kitchen, and without word
of explanation to the Chinese there,
foraged for scraps until he had heaped
a pan with food; with which he re.
turned to the collie,
It ate ravenously, as If breaking a
long fast. And while he stood watch.
ing It, wondering at the dumb fidelity
which had kept it steadfast beside the
|
though It slowly starved-—he
heard a faint cry from seaward, turned
in surprise, and saw
hurriedly up
Though had evidently
ning dis nd
d breathless Lhore WAS
than haste in her manner;
there wag its stimulu L mingling
pendent
un-
ily in
they
the
been rune
was flush
BOMEe-
from
she
for some
tance
ed an
if strong
ontu
and them
2d fee]
you
igh
She
eb
while
her
tho
Me Go.
im He
do with
me: Mr.
ed him
£ hated,
the
brief explanation had he
her
blankly
in her lashes
as she breathed convulsls
It's so terrible
even n
The
juliet
iped to
gtood stare
trembled
trembled
in a dull
and
bring
to all
sald
dispirited
Was [I born only
and
chet
suffering and
me?
Don't say 811¢
pleaded wretched!s
longer and
“But nothing
get, Garrett
Kind don't
principled or g
thoughtful
ireatment
that they
and now,
Garrett,
Silent,
fort her,
ond t one
rless to
terror and
and death
can ever make me fon
Mr. Power was
believe especially high-
yod but was
and his
was of
ily oddg--
that Oh,
she sob
he
as to
of
wi
me
It
constar
resented
be CAUs«
at
ne
re
because of
Garrett!
who knew
he let
bed
no words to «
grief apend
When she was more
composed, he ventured a question that
had been troubling him ever since she
had betrayed her fears
learned of this?
“It was the boat-<the boat they sald
he stole,” she explained listleasly
remember thinking at the time
wasn't like him--that he would have
‘waited until the fog cleared, and then
would have taken the sall-boat.
knew a great deal about the water,
and knew that the tides run very
strong between here and Squibnocket.”
S8he named the nearest point on Mar
tha's Vineyard. “1 thought it strange
he should try to row across with noth-
ing to guide him and the dauger of
being swept out to sea"
(TO BE CONTINUE
om.
itself
her
ED)
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Five Food rests Ordered Here.
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