the bank his trick was obvious he had entered the fo to of the steamer and while the steamer had driven on into the fog in the chance of catching him he had come about and out of his shelter and was now down to to su in this the old of the needle in the would he indeed compared with his brother s chance of him the sea he did not long the fore and main sails and setting the again we headed back into the a� we entered i could have sworn i saw a va tie emerging to looked quickly at wolf l already we were ourselves buried in the but he nodded his head he too had seen it � the his and failing by a moment in it there was no doubt that we had escaped he can t keep this up wolf said he ll have to go back for the rest of his boats a man to the wheel mr van j ee for the present and you might as well set the for we won t do any tin to ht i d give five hundred dollars though he added just to be aboard the for five minutes listening to my brother curse and now mr van he said to me when he had been relieved from the wheel we must make these serve out plenty of to the hunters and see that a few bottles slip for ard i ll er every man jack of them is over the side to morrow hunting for wolf as as ever they hunted for death but won t they escape as did i asked he laughed not as long as our old hunters have anything to say about it i m dividing amongst ni i dollar a skin for all the skins shot by our new hunters at least half of their enthusiasm to day was due tn that oh no there won t be any escaping if they have anything to say about it and now you d better get for ard to your hospital duties there must be a f ward waiting for you chapter xxvi wolf took the distribution of the my hands and the bottles began to make their while i worked over the fresh of wounded men in the i had seen drunk such as and by the men of the clubs but never as these men drank it from and and from the bottles � great drinks each one of which was in itself a but they did not stop at one or two they drank and drank and ever the bottles slipped forward and they drank more everybody drank j the wounded drank who helped me drank only louis refrained no more than cautiously his lips with the liquor though he joined in the with an abandon equal to that of most of them it was a in loud voices they shouted over the day s fighting about details or affectionate and made friends with the men whom they had fought prisoners and on one another s shoulders and swore mighty oaths of respect and esteem they wept over the miseries of the past and over the miseries yet to come under the iron rule of wolf and all cursed him and told terrible tales of his it was a strange and frightful spectacle the small lined space the floor and walls leaping and the dim ht the swaying shadows and sly the thick air heavy with smoke the sea wolf and the smell of bodies and and the di the men � hall i should call them i noted holding the end of a and looking the scene his and luminous eyes glistening in the light like a deer s eyes and yet i knew the devil that in his breast and all the softness and tenderness almost womanly of his face and form and i noticed the boyish face of � a good face once but now a demon s � with passion as he told the of the hell hip they were in and shrieked curses upon the head of wolf wolf it was always wolf and of men a and these his swine suffering brutes t before him and only in and in secrecy and one of his swine i thought and no i ground my teeth in my anger and determination till the man i was attending under my hand and looked at me with curiosity i felt endowed with a sudden strength what of my new found love i was a giant i feared nothing i would work my will through it all in spite of wolf and of my own thirty five years all would be well i would make it well and so exalted by a sense of power i turned my back on the howling and climbed to the deck where the fog drifted ghostly through the night and the air was sweet and pure and quiet the where were two wounded hunters was a repetition of the except that wolf w is not being cursed and it was with a great relief that i again emerged on deck and went aft to the cabin supper was ready and wolf and were waiting for sea wolf while all his ship was getting drunk as fast as it could he remained sober not a drop of liquor passed his lips he did not dare it under the circumstances for he had only louis and me to depend upon and louis was even now at the wheel we were sailing on through the fog without a and without lights that wolf had turned the liquor loose among his men surprised me but he evidently knew their and the best method of in cordiality what had begun in his victory over death seemed to have had a remarkable effect upon him the previous evening he had reasoned himself into the and 