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A ROMANCE
By Louis Joseph Vance
§ Illustrations by Ray Walters
Copyright, 1910, by Louis joseph Vance.)
SYNOPSIS.
Garrett
York City
invites him CRI
although he dislike
son Hheling t
erine Thaxter
that Blackstock
friend
man of
kstock, wh
epts
ung
uins Bla
‘oast mes
Ts ol
» party
Van
ckst ack
CHAPTER XXi~—(Co
ntinued
satisfied
thia, won't
Here,
you?"
with CO
nanaged
Chang to a side sea!
rail A sullen
spray,
were
Together dim
the
4 * "
and ther
stable
culty they raise
body of
over the
shower of
moonlight,
the
rite
molten silver |
1
i
all his funera
“And now for the quick” said
pleyard; "and quick’s the word"
But as they approached Blackstock
the man drawing upon some uns
pected reserve of nervous
dberately if with torturing
together, lifted a
Ap
force, rid
himself
the wheel and slipped off the box
to the seat to leeward
of a smile showed upon his face,
for a fugitive instant there shone
from his eyes a gleam of their one
time mocking luster, a little
and diadainful, altogether unrepent
ant. Then with a long sigh, his chin
dropped down on his breast again
“Thanks,” sald Appleyard, callousliy
“you've saved us a deal of
end exertion, I'm sure. Coast,
the wheel, will you, while | get Mr
Blackstock a drink and see what can
be done to save his worthless hide
for a more evil end.”
+11 ¢
pulled
over
take
the box.
he asked
Blackstock roused at the query and
raised his head, staring round the hori.
zon. “Vineyard sound,” he croaked
hoarsely, with a nod to leeward,
where, against the pale blue splendor
of the sky the twin red masthead bea-
cons of the light vessel watched them,
several miles abeam
Coast consulted Appleyard’s face.
“New Bedford?” he asked, tersely.
“Any idea where we are?”
concerned,” he added; “especially if
this festive hydrophoblac Is to get
proper ritendance.”
With a snort of disgust he moved
her course; then turned and went for
wurd to the companion door, descend:
ing to the cabin,
Thereafter for a little Coast heard
the murmur of Apple
volce, civil and pleasant
contending with Katherine's
that she was arguing
own wishes and natural
yard's
firm,
understood
against her
ald, while the little
And
was furnished when
blonde-thatched
the sort
detective's small,
madam,” he
“Leave him to me;
I'm: an old hand at first ald to the In
fured, and | can do for him
nore than you'd dare attempt. If
there's the slightest need of |
be the first to let you know.”
He wagged his head obstinately and
on deck, grumbling privately
personal oplolon us
eral and
the feminine
“Don't worry, WHS say
perverse intracta
sex
himself hefore Bl
the interim had
of lethargy
half gl
ity of
Balancing
cK, who in
good ass of
evard holding
Said. .
a corner, where they
(inss In
ger of
and
sre in no dan werturning, now
that a trained
the helm and the E«
r and easily to a leading n
harf a mo,” he continue “I'm
to get this motor going and
this he dropped into
and then I'll have a look at your
inds " He
flywheel
was at
ho me
the open engine
bent over and began to
the
Slowly the warming spirit worked a
hange in Blackstock, lending
fictitious and evanescent sense
strength. He straightened up against
the back of the seat, a faint tou
dyeing hia cheeks, and with a
half-smlile the little
work
What's the use?
ly in a volce
tofore
What's the use
Appleyard sharply,
“Of troubling with
save my life?
Oh
him a
'
Color
peculiar watched
* he asked abrupt
more clear than here
of what?’ asked
looking up
me-trying to
With a suaden cough
motor began to hum; Appleyard
down on the edge of the hatch
coaming, folded his hands before him
¢ye the wounded
“1 don’t know,” he said with an
alr of open confession. “I don’t know,
Business, so far as I'm con
commonplace humanity with
the
ant
cerned,
Coast,
sense, Why?
-gaved?"
Soberly Blackstock
head. “No,” he sald evenly
the usa? I'!n at the end of my tether,
Don't you want to be
shook his heavy
of life's concerned
to be only a burden to me {rom now
on, Prefer to be let alone.
He swung his head as
were lead, to bring his gaze to rest on
Coast: for a full minute be eyed him
steadily, wonderingly; then with a lit
vy
only in
everything'll
of you.
With me out of it,
more smoothly for all
way
run
stood swaying while Appleyard
geat and Coast from his
duty watched bim In amaze
and
"
sald the man slowly,
recently spoken
briefly and without
like that I'm
which you can't
No; I'm just a
I've played the
you can't under
played ono the
I've lost out
and paid for
intend ever to
again
tepentance?
iterating
word. He laughed
mirth “No: nothing
not that sort
understand
as If BOme
bad
game |
lager, that's all
liked-—which
either, for
and
you
side
It's over
a8 much as |
He
smile
pay
his curious,
“That's
Here Illes a
smiled
all
bad
lemen
heavily on the
convey respects 10
»"
Obituary
R. 1. P
He
Gent
leaned
coOam Kindly
wife-—and regrets
With an
NR
ymprehen
ing
awakening
tried sud
exclamation of
Appleyard
to lift himself
wekstock sno
y down at him
y late.” he sal . , mph at
G'dn
i » (‘oast had grasped an
s¢ the man,
ut fo
Jion
denly out of the engine
fled strange and
ight
inkling
placing
rth his fing! ounce
plunged over the slide
wheel down hard and
up into th
wake
That's All. *“G'd-Night.
against his chest and thrust
yack upon the box Sin
Appleyard
fiat
t itaneou
gent
1 oes & id
Seward
seized the wheel
the gpokes spinning round to
With a jerk the boom shot off and the
mainsheet tautened
cried Applera rd,
wizened face singularly white and sol
emn in the moonlight ‘No, let him
go—-iet him go the way he wants to
go, 1 tell 40 whatever God he
owns, with this, at least one decent
act to plead for mercy on his soul!’
[THE END.}]
and
No!"
his small
¥yot~
it Induces Some to Drink, Others to
Be Profane, and Others to Tell
Falsehoods.
When riding on the harbor
boats use your ears
steam
Then you will
paying heed to the Intentionally aud!
blp remarks of your neighbor It will
be possible to pick up more inaccurate
Information than in any other piace In
‘he city The deck of a ferry or the
rall of a steamer acts curiously on the
If It does not know, It
will risk a guess, and the wilder the
it is well known that salt water acts
in freakish ways on the conscience. To
some It brings an overwhelming Im
pulse to get drunk; to others it brings
never think of fibbing from
gin to tell the most shocking whoop
—— AARON.
More Pressing.
“Did you ever consider that eld prob
tem of where all the pins go?
“No, | am going to take up the so
ution of that problem sas soon as |
have learned where all the dollars
Interest |
at Harrisburg.
Prison Case To Court.
Board of Publi
ommendations for the
the
The
whose rec
State Charities,
better
county
Gre
management of
Jalil
ders”
Dauphin
and the abolition of "kitchen
were ignored by the
have determined to
prison in-
the
notice
spectors, bring
conduct of the inapectors to the
of the Dauphin county «
trict atic
word
f »
I" the
ourt and dis-
ney When the
wis received that the
jail as to sal
were the same as
i
mittes nspeciad
had
thare
o
Bigelow Names Superintendents.
!
Test Treasurer's EI
*
{
tstand
State Seeks Ou
ly $15.8 {
Breaks Wrist
Kenneds
of the Harrisburg Water Department,
ing a party of
the
in Capitol.
George G superinter a
fell while escort Balt
more officials through Capitol
broke his wrist Notwithatal
injuries he accompani
the office of t}
wing his
jedd hin guests
ie yovernor
Students Guiltiess Of Cheating.
All of
High School
charges of cheating in
tions having been found
the faculty Deas gident T
Dickinson, delivered the
the the Ce
yy § 1
nirai
the
Seniors of
graduated,
the examina
by
p, of
were
baseless
A Noble
address
State Gets 600 Acres Of Land.
The State Forestry Commission has
purchased six hundred acres of forest
land in Shirley township, Huntingdon
county, for addition to the
The land is well wooded and adjacent
to one of the largest reserves
reserves
Sugar Company Takes On Debt.
The Pennsylvania Sugar Manufae-
turing Company, of Philadelphia, filed
notice of an increase of debt from
nothing to $1,040,000
Heldelberg Daniel D. Fisher,
liam A. Schall and Daniel K. Flannery |
Sunbury. Thomas Arbogast, who
held the record for being the longest
in service of any hotel clerk in cen.
tral Pennsylvania, died here at the
age of sixty-seven years, He was con
tinuously in the employ of a local
TERME. ~The terms of sabeoripuon
Pores are one dollar por pen: I5 advan &
ADVERTI®ING Vine or hres sAvertage
ment of wo or more lnebes tor ‘Brews or ro >
sertions, sight cents per neh for each imsus
sdve i ving oooupying lem space then lon
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WE to twenty oxiils por for seach Wl wo
oordleg Ww esompusition.
Loos] notices Aootmpan
ing vp cents pet fine Top
, of ot sents par Mus,
twenty-five cons
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