Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-06-01

HciE purple IlntS passed from clOuC
and wave. and suddenly it was night
With shiver Lille rose and stepped
to Don's side
4 am going below now" she said
coldly. Good night
The cold formality which had be-
come already habitual to both seemed
Tor the moment beyond Don to assume
for he took her hand. but did not re-
lease it.
The storm is coming" he said
Look" Sea birds darted screaming
along the crestS of the waves, the yes
sci pitched and rolled helpessly in the
trough of the pillows. and over all the
sky hung like a black pail Don spoke
again. and now more tenderness had
crept into his voice.
4 wish for your sake the sauall was
over. You must try and go TO sleep
She shook her head
Il don't feel like sleeping" she an
swered. She would have withdrawn
her hand. but Don's clasp upon it
frightened
Shall | come and sit with you for
a while?" he asked gently.
"Oh. no." The words broke from
her abruptly. almost with shrinking
dismay, and Don let her hand go, his
proud lip quivering
Lille, he spoke hoarsely don't
don't turn from me like this. 1t is
more than | can bear. Won't you
] won't you kiss me goodnight this
1 once?"
She drew back swiftly. Love and
price were struggling fiercely in her
breast: but pride dominated
All that is over now" she said. with
naughty bitterness She turned to
leave him
Lille" he cried again. and at the
passion in his voice she stood still.
trembling. don't say it is all over
have tried TO endure this and | can
not. Let my love atone Be pitiful.
forget my wrong and take me back
INTO your heart,''
She looked at him. and for an in
slant their eyes met-Dons wild in de-
Spairng entreaty. Lilies blinded with
sudden tears
How can | ever forget what has
broken my heart?" she said bitterly.
She rushed from his side then and
down to her cabin; but Don stood on
where she had left him. seeing moth
ing. feeling nothing but the blackness |
of his own despair. Love had driven |
him to break down the barrier and |
speak the anguish that was dragging |
his soul down to the very abyss of |
reckless remorse; but now she had re- /
pulsed him nothing mattered. She had
shrunk from him as from some I'M
clean thing. and death was more well
come than life
Blinded b. the salt spray and deaf
ened by the roar of the elements. he
leaned on al the taffrail when all 9TH
ers had gone below and he alone stoc3
there on deck. For suddenly. with
awful swiftness. the full fury of Che
storm had burst. The sea had become
d sheet of boiling foam The wind
ragged and shook the gallant vessel
which ever and anon rose with a long,
steady lift to breast the watery preci-
pice, while cleaving the darkness came
flash after flash of lightning and the
dull roll of thunder. rising louder and
nearer above the wild roar of wind and
wave.
And still through it all Don leant
on, clinging to the taffrail unmoved,
careless. almost expectant every mo-
ment might be his last.
1t was in a slight lull of the tenn
pests fury Lille stole back on deck
The rain had been descending in ham
nering torrents but now il came and
vent in gusts. The thunder was roll
ng away faiE.er and fainter: only the ,
sea ragged su.ienly on. The wind lifted i,
Up its unwsaried voice and the good
snip plowe-l on its way
The pitiG:l yielding 10 self-reproacb
lad followed swiftly Oh Lilies cold
md bltte' leave-taking OF Don. and
low love was battling for victory to ,
peak sCme little word of wifelv ten .
erness despite that ever-haunting re-
OF the dark Afrdi nuIlah :,
where h fathers blood had been :
he'd
ClihSls>' to the companion rail she 4,
troVe 10 peer through the darkness TO- i.
iards tE' spot where they had martial
rs. ne atood there still But as she -
duSed i:Fesolute. looking at that fig 81
re on the taffrail so apparently nm u
loVed, an awful fear clutched her "
cart. Creeping stealthily towards u
i'm 90 hands and feet under tho 9,
ladoS OF the bulwarks. was the h,
make Ike form of swarthy seaman a,
ln:-ian knife gripped between his is
eth. and hoarse cry-a cry that ST
ing above the storm from stem TO W
err of the great ship-burst from III
lilies parched lips. The cry was one
ore. Dom"
Her husband started and turned Too
IT,. ~
Trough the darkness flashed If
'an oil steel. and the Indians knife en-
lifted 10 plunge with deadly aim in lei
unconscious victims back was an
ried in Don's breast. For an instant TO
iged fierce. unequal hand-to-hand WI
'uggle With the rolling ship the qu
o hgures swayed madly to and fro dr
TO be continued.D