A Se ” wy Cy Whittaker's Place Capn Eri. Etc. IMustrations by Ellsworth Young 3 SYNOPSIS. Mrs. Keziah Coffin, arranged to move from Pr following the death of her brother, or whom she had kept house. Kyan | Pepper, widower, offe is marriage, and Is indignantly refused. Capt. Elkanah Dan- lels, leader of the Regular church offers Keziah a place as housekeeper for the ge! minister, and she decides to remain a Trumet. Keziah takes charge of Rev. ohn Ellery, the new minister, and gives Mim advice as to his conduct toward members of the parish. Ellery causes a Bensation by attending a ‘‘Come-outer meeting. Ellery's presence is bitterly re. | kented by Eben Hammond, leader of the meeting Grace apologizes for her guardian and Ellery escorts her home In { the rain. Capt. Nat Hammond, Eben's | #on, becomes a hero by br inging the Packet into port safely through and storm. Ellery finds Keziah writing a let- ter to some one, Inclosing nfoney in re- Sponse to a demand. She is curiously startled when Informed of the arrival of Nat. Nat calls on Keziah, and it devel- ops that they have been lovers since outh., Daniels remonstrates with Ellery r attending “Come-outer’’ meeting. El- lery 1s caught by the tide and is resc Ned by Nat. They become friends. Ell | meets Grace while walking In the flel io : And learns that she walks there every | Bunday. The clergyman takes dinner Sundays with the Daniels. Annabel, the captain's daughter, exerts herself to make an Impression on him. She no- tices with vexation his desire to get away | every Sunday at a certain time. She | watches him through a spy glass. ARgaln !mportunes Keziah to marry He says he has had a quarrel with father, who wants him to marry Orace. llery asks Grace to marry She | confesses that she loves him, but says | she fears to displense her guardian El kanah Daniels tells Eben about the mee Ings between Ellery and Grace Eben | declares he will make Grace choose be- tween him and the preacher. Grace finds him In a faint, following the excitement ¢f Elkanah's visit, Just before he dies then exacts a promise from Nat and Grace that they will marry Keziah breaks the news to Ellery and Iater he receives a note from Grace saying she is to marry Nat, an i asking him not to try to see hy again. Keziah tells the story of her own marriage with a man who turned out to be a good-for-nothing, and reported to have been lost at Ben, and of her love whom she ushand Is supposed widow, is | Trumet to Bos- | fox who cannot m y becau alive Captaln Nat sails f« Manila to two years and Grace have decided not to marry he returns Nat Is overdue, and feared that he has been lost K Ah gets a lstter from eaying he is coming back a visit to relatives of the vessel lying distress signal be gone until Grace goes Hammonds gs is discoveres off the const board the + el ian is fou fering from small; rest crew having deserted CHAPTER XV.——(Continued.) The sick man was raving in delir ism when he reached him, but the of the water lapping the sides saucepan brought him to hi seized Ellery by the arm and drank. "hen at last the pan The ministe m ; gently back in the bunk and st De to the foot of the ladder for breath. This made him think of the for alr in the place and he remembered the window. It was and rusted fast. He went up to the deck, found a marlin ike, and, returning, broke the glass. A sharp, cold draught swept through the forecastle, stirring the garments hanging on the nails. An hour later, two dories bumped against the side of the San Jose. Men, | talking In low tones, climbed over the rail. jurgess was one of them: ashamed of his panic, he had returned to assist the others in bringing the brigantine into a safer anchorage by the inlet. Dr, Parker, very grave but business- like, reached the deck among the first. “Mr. Ellery,” he shouted, “where are you?" 4 The minister's head and shoulders | appeared at the forecastle companion. | “Here 1 am, doctor,” he sald. “Will | you come down?” The doctor made no answer In words, but he hurried briskly across the deck. One man, Ebenezer Capen, an old fisherman and ex-whaler from East Trumet, started to follow him, but he was the only one. The others waited, with scared faces, by the rail. “Get her under way and inshore as Boon as you can,” ordered Dr, Parker. | “Ebenezer, you can help. If I need ! you below, I'll call.” The minister backed down the lad- der and the doctor followed him. Par ker bent over the bunk for a few mo- | ments in silence, “He's pretty bad,” he muttered. “Mighty little chance. Heavens, what | a den! Who broke that window?” “I did,” replied Ellery. “The alr | down here was dreadful.” i The doctor nodded approvingly. “1 guess 80,” he sald. “It's bad enough | now. We've got to get this poor fellow | out of here ns soon as we can or he'll | die before tomorrow. Mr. Ellery,” he added sharply, “what made you do | this? Don’t you realize the risk you’ ve run?” “Some one had to do It running the same risk.” “Not just the same, and, besides, it's my business. Why didn't you let some one else, some one we could spare— Humph! Confound it, man! didn’t you know any better? Weren't you afraid?” His tone rasped Ellery's herves. “Of course 1 was,” he snapped ir ritably. “I'm not an idiot.” “Humph! Well, all right; I beg your | parden, Hut you oughtn't to have done ft. Now you'll have to be quarantined. Aud who o thunder I can get to stay | nas if and he desisted, was ne cessity little tightly closed You are shaken Just say smallpox to this town goes to pleces like a amashed Old Eb Capen will help, for he's but it needs more than one.” “Where are you going to take— him?" pointing to the moaning occu- pant of the bunk. “To one of the empty fish shanties on the beach. There are beds there, such as they are, and the place is se- cluded. We can burn {: down when the fuss is over.’ Then why can't 1 stay? 1 to be quarantined, I know that. me be the other nurse.- Why should anyone else run the risk? 1 have run it. I'll stay.” Dr. Parker looked at him. “Well!” he exclaimed. “Well! I must say, young man, that you've got— Humph! CEK. shall Lat sure to dle, ike the others, and, vol sides, they knew some one would see the distress signals and investigate. That was all, yes. Santa Maria! was it not enough? Captain Zeb Mayo went about cheer. ing for his parson. Mrs. Mayo cooked delicacies to be pushed under the ropes for the minister's consumption The parish committee, at a special session, voted an increase of ealary and ordered a weekly service of pray- er for the safe delivery of thelr young leader from danger. Keziah Coffin was, perhaps, the one person most disturbed by her parson’s heroism. She would have gone to the shanty Immediately had not Dr. Par ker prevented. Even as it was, she did go as far as the ropes, but there she was warded off by Ebenezer until Fllery came running out and bade her come no nearer. Keziah, after more expostulation, went back to the par- sonage. She wrote to Grace and told her the news of the San Jose, but she sald nothing of the minister's part In “Poor thing!” sighed Keziah, “she's I enough already.” The sick sallor grew no better. Days and nights passed and he raved and moaned or lay in a stupor. Ebenezer acted as day nurse while Ellery slept, and, at night, the minister, being! younger, went on watch The doctor | ‘ame frequently, but sald there was | time only, and no hope. A question of a short time, he sald upled his mind with specu- 11 I tient. Capen o« lations concerning the pa “Mr. Ellery!” he cried, it's settled for us—one part of it, any- how. He's slipped his cable. Yup. He must have died fuset a little while after you left and after I gave bim his medicine. 1 thought he looked kind of queer then. And when the doctor came we went in together and he was dead. Yes, sir, dead.” “Dead!” “Um-hm. good this we do? Ellery “No,” he “Mr. Ellery! | No doubt of tt; time. Mr. Ellery, what shall Shall I tell Dr. Parker?” considered for a moment. sald slowly. “No, Capen, don't tell anyone, 1 can’t see why they need ever know that he hasn't been dead for years, as they supposed. Promise me to keep it a secret. I'll tell——her-—myself, lat ter on. Now prom- ise me; 1 trust you.’ “Land sakes, yes! 11 you want me to." The next day the foremast hand on it's for promise, If body of “Murphy,” the San WAS buried in corner of the Regular graveyard, near those who were drowned In the wreck of that winter. Capen remained at the shanty another week Then, as the minister showed no symptoms of having contracted the disease and in compan i Eb Jose, the glsted that he ne eded no enezer departed to take nore, "Ellery hi; was most the decision that he back to the parsonage nself church was parson,” he sald, feller some- “Do you Know, “"seem’s if I'd seen the All right, Mr. Ellery; I'm much CHAPTER XVI, In Which Ebenezer Capen Is Sur prised. Before sunset that afternoon the San Jose was anchored behind the point | inlet. The fishing boats changed moorings and moved farther up, for | not a single one of thelr owners would | trust himself within a of the stricken brigant ne. The largest of the one which stood by itself a quarter of a mile from the light, was hurriedly red for use as a pesthouse and sick sallor was carried there on Improvised stretcher. Dr. Parker Ellery lifted him from his berth assisted by old Ebenezer ( ‘apen, the deck and Ebenezer beach sh him up to the 0 to the beach and the lowered into dory. rowed r § was comparatively easy. had three rooms, h w given up to the patient, is¢d as a living and, in rd, Capen and thg minister were to room never have, v'yages | i jon to | have wheres afore. 'Course 1 but I cruised from t'o ther, pretty when I used to go whalin’ one end nigh, and I might of creat the was much incessant. That night worse His ravings The wooden clock, ker, the doctor's although a half sick man were ticked steadily, Ellery, had fold Ad v medicine, nuddenly wife, hour slow, glancing at it to see if the ving how loud {ts ticking Wondering at thie, he was aware there | Was no other sound in the house. He time come for xl 1 sounded | rose and looked in at the adjoining ceased the bed The him. And, as b e opened his eyes “Hallon!™ Halloo! . he The patie was lying minister tir toed BLer over to lo 414 HH aia ‘ 4 80 % fey antl fF 83:0 fain wd the man he re What vs OA cast-off building as it could Sign keep donated tables and chairs, and the was made as mfiortable oy 1 wr at rn! arted townspeople umstances ng strangers to arected, Trumet stretched ac selectmen the inty. But ropes uperfiuou Trumet funk and TORS of the sh: approact Even when he the of groceries, pushed the under ropes, ere you be!” and, whipping departed at a rattling gal cart, left the p Rights to discuss | ry day brought a ¢ survivors of the Jose's crew, a wretched, panle- and chefided on the town below and were | and fumigated, t to the hospital at Their story was short but | The brigantine was not a | irks Islands boat, but a coaster from | Jamaica lage sat u and eve new sensation. Th San stricken quartette of mulattos were appr Denb IEUEs, Kirts of on the bay sequestered for Savannah Two days out | and the smallpox made {ts appearance | on board. The sufferer, a negro fore | mast hand, died. Then another sailor | was selzed and also dled. The skip Dr, Parker Lookad at Mim. per, who was the owner, was the next victim, and the vessel was In a state of demoralization which the mate, an Englishman named Bradford, could not overcome. Then followed days and nights of calm and terrible heat, of pestilence and all but mutiny. Phe mate himself died. There was no one left who understood navigation. At last came a southeast gale and the Fair weath- er found her abreast the Cape. The survivors ran her in after dark, an- chored, and reached shore in the long: boat. The sick man whom they had left in the forecastle was a new hand who had shipped at Kingston. His name was Murphy, they Selieved. They had “left him because he was: On Cape umet!” Was struggling to raise himself bow Ellery was obliged to 0 hold him down. He strug gled again. Then his strength and his reason left hin } simultaneously and the 1 od lelirfum returned » began t 4 name, a name th caused Eller: 1d upright and step back from scarcely believing his that ed and mutt All the rest of night on the bed ray people and which he And And every and bhappeni: bad not mentioned the minister, listening {1 word caught himself wondering if he also was not losing his mind vila Apne places 11 ntly When the more ling came, Ebenezer Capen was awakened John Ellers standing over him. “Cape 1," by a shake to ind “Capen, You u Wers nigh, by the down side of smell, if youl set ‘em blindfolded.” ever know anyone finished the sentence. wanted to Pretty but a fast goer, hill lke a young one’ got started. iis folks “Did you "Well’s I fe ler went dowr decent one time and } had Why, ried’ “1 know Ellery great en ‘course I knew him. He mar Now, went on listen.” talking rmesiness silently, rapidly and Ebenezer lis then breaking He sat up on the edge of “Rubbish!” he eried at last. ‘taln’t possible! Ti “Why, 1@ feller's dead as grandmarm. I remem- happened and" “It wasn't true. That much 1 know, I know, I tell you.” He went on to explain why he knew. “Judas priest!” he exclaimed again. “That would explain why I thought I'd There! heave ahead I've But it's a mistake. 1 don't The palr entered the sick The sailor lay in a stupor. ing was rapid, but faint. room His breath: Capen bent moved the band age on his face. For a full minute he gazed steadily. Then he stood erect, drew a big red hand across his fore head, and moved slowly back to the living room. “Yup,” he said, “it's him. Mr. E} lery, what are you goin’ to do about 1 ad “I don’t know, I don't know. | must go somewhere by myself and think, I don’t know what to do.” The minister declined to wait for breakfast. He said he was not hungry Leaving Ebenezer to put on the coffee. pot and take up his duties as day nurse, Ellery walked off along the beach. By and by he heard Capen call {ng his name. “Mr. Eldgry.” shouted Ebenezer “Mr. Ellery, where be you?" just yet. Better to wa sald, and Dr. Parke Dr. Parker him Van Horne's return to the villag She had come back, so th ct said, the day before , and for a while, at she had tain Nat now. “And say.” agreed, told Grace guessed of Cap The Old Man Came Scrambling the Sand. n bia bed and tried ie dozed a bit, wok r ot head begs ¥ And then, in the | ness and misery, fear began hold of him. Night came. and st Ara % bs fs BS Ae ars re 3 i$ lear, Insid or teve | violently $ ne lake ceased shanty the ministe YES on the bed, or staggeres about what did not smallpox gOme Coffin? near he must lled her the two rooms i wondered the time Care He was had him in its one ( me? And Grace? She was somewhere, ad said so see her before he died. He ca name over and over again The wing felt cold on his forehead. He stumbled amidst the beach grass What was this thing across his path? A rope, apparently, but why should there be ropes In that house? There had never been any before. He climbed over it and it was a climb of hundreds of feet and the helght made him giddy. That was a house, another house, not the he had living in. And there were lights all about. Perhaps one of them was he light at the parsonage. And a big bell was booming That was his church bell and he would be late for the meeting. Some one was speaking to him. He knew the voice. He had known it al ways and would know it forever. It was the voice he wanted to hear ‘Grace!” he called. “Grace! | want sou. Don't go! Don't go! Grace! oh, my dear! don't go” Then the voloe had gone. No, if had | not gone. It was still there and he heard It speaking to him, begging him to listen, pleading with hima to go somewhere, go back, back to some thing or other. And there was an arm about his waist and some one was leading him, helping him. He | broke down and cried childishly and | some one cried with him. (TO BE CONTINUED.) one heen am a aR The Real Trouble Makers. “Does your auto give you trouble?” | any “Here!” replied the minister, "Not so rauch as the police,” i Cannot Interfere With Interstate Commerce. VICTORY FOR THE SHIPPERS. Qrders Of rece Commis. Commerce Court Upholds Interstate Comm sion and Powers Of Congress. against compet it SATISFACTION IN TOK! Japanese Newspapers More Tranguil! Over Anti-Alien Land Bill "e Tokio pressed Presiden State consult with the land ownershi jority of the Jap adopt a more tranquil Satisfaction here over the decision of nt Wilson to send Secretary of Bryan 1 cramento, Cal, to there on proposed alien islation. The ma. newspapers tone = lators question paniesa WOMAN TO GET $3.000 POSITION, Mrs. Rogers Slated For Receiver Of Leadville Land Office. 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