Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-10-14

big dropping flowers on a treeg
| Nonsense, man.
| ''Oh, it's since, scr; and l shall droop,
too, wild all my moightv'
| No. no" said Humphrey, as he pom
dered upon the past, and saw in Dinny's
reprieve a desire to crafty him. eNo,
my lad. | appealed TO the captain to spare
your life, and this is the result"
/ 1t was not until the next morning that
he saw Dinny again.
rs all quiet in the placer he asked.
An is it quiet? Why, a tomb in
Agypt is lively place to it. The schoon-
er's getting rotting for want o. work. and
the men do nothing but schlape, and the
captains shut all alone whin he isn't
down in the forest saying his prayers
rs it the calm that comes before the
storm, Dinny? said Humphrey.
Sure, an | don't know, sor; but I'll
kape watch if l can, and give We word if
there's anything wrong; but me poor
heads in a mix, and since I've been out
Of prison seem to see nothing but black
Mazzard shwarming all over the place
and takir me 0arlin' away. Did We in
tersade wild the captain, sOr?"
"Dinny, l have not seen him again."
said Humphrey, frowning.
mot seen him, sor! Why, he has been
here half a dozen tonnes"
Been here? No."
Sure and I saw him wild me own OILS,
! sor. Twice he came to the windy there
and four tonnes along by the big pas
sage. Sure | thought ye'd been col
loguing."
| Il was not aware Of it, said Hum
l F1hrou lpnlx h,f 1;o dc Ala No
press the feelings that were raging with
in his breast, and as soon as he was alone
he tried to analyze them.
| He must fee. He could do nothing
else. and growing momentarily more ey-
cited. he tried to force himself to act ard
think.
The old temple. He would flee there
for the present, he said. 1t would re-
move him from Mary's pursuit, for she
would never dream Of his seeking refuge
there, and from that place he might per-
haps open up communication with Dinny.
| He had no weapon, so he caught up
large table knife and stuck it in his waist
band. 1t was not much, but something,
and at that moment he recalled Mary
Dell's history-how she had told him that
they had begun with canoe; through
that captured a large boat; that larger
| boat had enabled them to take a vessel;
and so on until the swift schooner had
been obtained.
! In the same way that knife should grow
| into a sword, he said to himself; and
then he felt a sensation of half-blind
rage at himself for making the compari-
| son.
What is this hateful unsexed creature
| to mep' he said. angrily as he stood
thinking IS to his next step.
| All was silent, and the drawing aside
Of the great curtain proved that Bart was
not on guard, for there was no dull, yell
low CLEAN of his lantern at tie end of the
corridor, and once more I. came over the
prisoner as a feeling Of wonder that he
should not again and again have taken
such steps as these. Almost unguarded,
his prison doors and windows always
open, and freedom given him 10 wander
about the ruins, and yet like pinioned
bird he had stayed,
They know that the sea before, the
forest and mountain behind. are stronger
than bolt and bar" something seemed to
whisper to him as he stood listening
but not to a determined man, ready
to do or diev' he cried, as if forced to
answer aloud; and he set his teeth as he
still hesitated and paused before hurry
ing out of the great dark place.
He stopped. What would she do when
she found that he had gone? What would
she say Of the man whom, with all her
faults. she evidently dearly loved, and
would sacrifice all to win?
Humphrey Armstrong stamped fiercely
h. IL A.
yaulted roof echo as he thrust his fin
gers into his ears in a child-hke attempt
to ecdt out and deafen himself to the ST.
lett whisperings which assailed him.
He gave one glance around. trying to
penetrate the darkness, and hesitated no
longer, but strobe away, passing out Of
the long corridor out among the ruins,
and well accustomed to the place now,
making straight for the pathway which,
at its division. turned toward the old
temple.
All was still; but it seemed lighter
away TO his left than he could quite &C
count for, and he was starting again
when a distant shout as of many voices
came through the silence of the night
and died away.
ITO start alone on cruise" he said.
half aloud. What Madness Then
passionately: "It all seems madness, and
1 can do nothing but drift with fate"
Fighting down the strange hesitancy
which kept assailing him in various
forms, especially now in that OF conjur-
ing up difficulties in the way OF escape,
he plunged sturdily into the forest path,
and as fast as the darkness allowed,
went on straight for the old temple,
grim place of refuge. with its CHASTITY
relies: OF Abel Dell lying. as it were, in
state. and the horrible, haunting re-.
objections of the cavern where tie would
be assassin had met his fate, and the
other had been consigned as to his tomb.
\ sudden turn brought him close to the
fork. where one path went winding 10
the left toward the mems and the cap
tain's quarters. the other to the temple.
As he approached he became conscious
of a rustling sound. as Of a wild creature
passing through the forest and he snatch
ed his knife from his waist. ready TO
strike for life il attacked; bat, firmly
convinced that there were no denizens
Of the wild there but such as were more
likely 10 avoid him, he kept on again. 10
reach the dividing path just as he be-
came aware that il was no creature pass
ing through the wilderness of trees, but
someone. Ike himself. hurrying along the
track for the mems quarters 50 rapidly
that they came in contact, and a hand
seized him by the throat. and the point
OF some weapon seemed 10 be pressed
against his breast. as voice exclaimed,
in hoarse whisper;
Make the slightest sound. and it IS
your last"
And as these words seemed to be hiss
ed into his face shoug arose from some
distance along the path. and the tramping
OF feet and ruStiing Of branches Intimat-
cd that people were rapidly coming in
pursuit.
-Your' exclaimed Humphrey. hoarsfly,
as be stood with hand uplifted to suike.
but suspended in the act as II every maS-
Gle had suddenly become stone.
Humphrey Armstrong;"
The hand thar had sv~auraH HE sh~as-s