The morning call., 1892-04-26
"..:.MET:: AGAIN.
LCoNTINUED.l

=. 'G0d heaven, Horst, have some pity! 1
. am engaged to be married. The girl is here
.::--on board at this instant"
=. All = it would be even a better moment
:: than j Thought then. would it notP Your
gains have made yoh rich, your Identity has
: been successfully sunk out OF sight; you are
=. about 10 " in 4 presumably go2d girl for
;,your wife: Yes. l think the moment would
DE well chosen for bringing you TO book.
AS 'to: pity, did you show ME anyP What
am I:tQ lie moved to compassion for? Be-
-. cause I6u :let me rot in a prison for five
years. iought to despise you too much to
get vengeance out of you. But don't. /
have. waited for this hour for FIVE years
Ihaye dreamed of II. planned for it. When
= got out to the light of day again l tracked
you. found you, followed you on board this
ship: It. wasn't easy work finding you
either. The highly respectable Roger Storr-
.. man Of to-day has obliterated every trace
of his identity with the John RogersoD Of
five years ago, who was forger, a thief and
felon-"
'Hush-for Gods sake, hushi'
= tAt last" Horst went on. unperturbed,
fate has. put you under my hand. Do you
. think1 shall let you slIp2
=. The last word died abruptly on his lips.
A wOman's slight figure was moving slowly
i
was behind her. Her eyes were fixed on
Sherman and a half smile parted her lips.
The man leaning back against the roll of
cordage at his feet did not notice al all. He
was. TO her usual glance, q shabby second
cabin passenger with whom Sherman had
been kindly enough to enter into curSOry
:: talk.
:."I:have been waiting for YOU" she said.
= with deepening of the adorable smile on
her. lips. She slipped her arm through
, 4 -
% And Them left behind watched the two
',retreatnG forms motionlesSly. bTeathlessly.
This. was the girl whom Sherman was
about to marry.
The last flame Of red had faded out of the
. sky and the stars were coming family out.
: The still heat had grown more still and d
dense bank, of cloud was forming slowly
againstthe. horizon. The captain passed,
his cap low over his eyes. a bTooding frOwn
-. In the latter. 4 sailor watched the hurizon.
And still II orst did not move.
- He had gone back FIVE, ten years. in his
life: There had been wild moments Of
early youth that had brought regret. and
then q bitter reaplng OF such wild oats in
O. further and perilous recklesSness. How
.. had Sherman and he first fallen in together?
Ii had been shortly after lis own coming
t. Australia, Sherman, sprung from moth
!. ing, vicious to the core, with naught but his
:; an NAL good looks and his unbOunded au-
.daclty 10 serve him, had aroused the
.::y0unger man, and, while Horst was half
centeinptu0us OF him. perhaps had in
fi1e,rced him as well. The one was utterly
nnscrupulpUs; the other, with all his reck-
lessDesS a man of honor. And Sherman,
. conscious Oe the difference, OF the indis-
tinet, the Irritating superiority, had hated
his boon companion. Horst had known il
and had not cared. HE would serve me
anv scurvy trick" he said to himself c0olly.
And 4 time came when his foresight was
Vindfcated.
BY a strange combination of crcum-
-' stances Sherman, who had forged, found
himself in position 10 cover himself by
" falsely accusing and involving Horst. He
did both. lie vanished, leaving no trace
behind him. HOrsf, the law at his heels
made desperate flight by nj ght. To pale,
:. fTail young girl. white in tie light of q sum-
-mer :HoOnbeam, he had owed a temporary
escape. But before many DAYS he had been
tFacked, captured and imprisoned evil
: denCe not being complete against him-for
-. five years only. Now the FIVE years were
overland in one O lay he had seen the man
and the woman with whom his every
thought in those five years had been asso-
clated--the man whom he hated and on
whom ne had sworn TO avenge himself, and
the woman whom he loved, for by one OF
the strange mysteries OF human passion,
Horst, reckless. careless, cynical had come
to: love this girl, seen but once. radiant as
=; an angel OF mercy, and Of whose name even
be was ignorant, And she it was whom his
enemy was TO maTryi
-. a sudden gust of wind tore his cap from
his eyes. There was a rushing sound In his
ears. He staggered to his feet. The sea
had turned over all its expanse O dense,
oilygreen, deepening in the trough of the
waves to, a gray blackness. What awful
Change had come over that smiling nature,
that Infinite blue that had subsisted for so
>. many days?
e. The force Of the hurricane, Of the fierce
.troplc storm, burst over the ship few Sec
.ofds later. 1t had grown swiftly, denseiy
dark. The orders of the captain rang
*taintly through the roar and hiss of wind
and wave. Then after a time-was it
minutes or hours ?-there came another
change. The fury of storm had spent
:: itself, but the vessel had sprung a leak and
, was sinking
-. "A wild rush for the boats, cries of women,
:, oatfls of men. And then-whO shall say by
Il what supreme instinct?-Horst found him.
self struggling through the frantic press Of
dying: souls near 10 the side of Rosalys and
his arms about her. A fash Of lightning
Illuminated her still white face strangely
composed and quiet. and StOrrman's dis
toEted with terror, eIbowing women out of
his: way like beast looking only for the
boats for his own safety. forgetful Of all
=: else.
:; Aieady Horst had lifted Rosalys In his
arms.
-..:"Stand back" be cried fercely And the
last boat was launched, and Rosalys had
place of safety In IL.
. There was another forward lurch, and
=. then Ii was seen that the women had all
. been transferred to the boats. And now
: there was room fer only one more-a man.
> They stood side by side-Horst and Storr-
man. Which should it be?
TWAS the work Of second. Should he
ia he his revenge nowa 1t lay in his grasp,
.. With one bound be could leave Sherman
behind him to face death. Who shall tell
the temptations Of that infnitesimal frae--
= tion OF time?
Then something thatha survived through
the wreck of much that had been nobIest In
the man asserted Itself. He stepped back.
Sherman was saved.
- -. -
:. : At the gate of small cottage in quiet
town a girl, dressed simply in black, waited
: toward the close of the day, II was RosaIvs.
and she was changed. Something of the
luminous young softness had gone out of
her eyes: In them was graver depth. She
was a: little oldeF-a little more serious
Onedread experience may add years to the
= life: Resalys waited for step to approach
" throughthe dusk, and finally it came It
= was that OLE man. and Rosalys flushed and
= grew pale. Then stiffness fell over her.
He was standing before her now. He had
>. come for his answer. But he did not ask
Tor 1t; he did not plead. His eyes were
downcast. He was like a. culprit before
Judge,
=" Suddenly she extended her hand.
He raised his eyes and saw hers through
thegloaming diffGsed with tender tears of
: love-. :: =.
IF you have only pity for me-" he began.
=. :..Pityl Mol: Or pity and something else
Yes. When you abdcated your own
:. chance OF life for man who had done Won
such harm; when you conquered your de-
:. sire Tor revenge and yourself, you did that
which more than atoned for the rollies and
sins OF a reckless youth. Aud now You
have told me that you love me- You know
: that; incurred that man-Roger Storru1an.
:: But~l Knew nothing Of his past Now / do
know"
She paused and Horst looked at her. For
IT was Horst. How Sherman had been