The daily morning Alaskan., 1904-01-08
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 clouds of spray. From a cottage set iust beyond the reach Of the highest monster a young girl descended to tho entrance of the tower and was about to enter when, looking aside, she saw man coming or, rather, running along the narrow roadway. When he came up there was a wild, hunted look In his eyes. a look that excited an the pity Of her tender young heart.
 Hide meg' be gasped
 She did not walt to hear his reasons, but, placing key she held in her hand in a door opening into the lighthouse unlocked 1t and motoned the man to follow her Mounting a circular stair way. she led the way to the llght room
 "Here you will be safe," sue said "I was coming to light the lamps when you appeared. No one is allowed In this tower except the keeper, my fa- ther. He Is away at present, and J am taking bis place. When go down l will lock the door below, which Is of iron and not easily forced. Besides. no one would dare to force an entrance into a place owned by the govern ment"
 While she spoke she was lighting the lamps, casting glances at the stranger and following his eyes out to where be was watching for his pursuers. He was young and would have been hand some were 1t not for his haggard ap- pearance. As soon as the last lamp was lighted the girl passed out of the room. and as she did 80 the mau caught her hand and kissed it, but spoke no word. A few minutes later the bolts on the door below shot for ward. The girl dropped the key in a crevice of the rock and hurried on up to the cottage.
 She had barely time to sit down by a window and take up some sewing when two men appeared and stopped at the cottage.
 Have you seen man pass here, asked one of them, "a good looking young fellow, with a crazy look in his eye? He has escaped from a lunauc asylum, and we got OO the track just below here. There's a big reward of fered for him-a thousand dollars"
 The girls decision must be made in stanty. 1T the man was a lunadC there was every reason for her to sur render him both for the good of socie ty and his own welfare. Besides, thousand dollars was to her a sum far beyond what she had ever dreamed Of possessing. On the other hand, might not these men be mlsstating the truth in order to induce her to surrender one whom they were endeavOring to take for some infraction of the law, or might they not have some private req son for prosecuting him?
 "No," she said without a moments hesitation.
 "Now, see here, little girl" said the spokesman, "the patient could not pos slbly get beyond this point and you're hiding him. Here is my badge as a keeper of the - insane asylum, and you need have no doubt that if you sur render him you will only be doing a duty. Besides, think of the reward"
 He hasn't been here" said the girl without a blush at the falsehOod.
 "I see that we shall have to take the case into our own hands," said She man. And he stalked through the cot tage, looking in every corner, closet and under every bed There were but half a dozen rooms in all, and 1o great time was required to prove that the fu- gitlve was not in the house. Then the man turned to the lighthouse. Cross ing the road, he went to the door and, finding it locked, demanded the key.
 My father took it away with him." said the girl
 There was a sound of wheels on the road. and a man in a buggy drove up to the lighthouse. He was an arlsto- cratic looking man, though of a dissi- pated appearance. about fifty years of age.
 "WenY he asked, looking at the men.
 We've tracked him here. think this girl has hidden him ln the light house. She says her father has taken the key away"
 The man in the buggy looked fercely at the girl and. reaching back to bis hip, drew a revolver and pointed 1t at her
 "Go and unlock that door," be said Tor diew
 In one way at least the girls work was from this time easier She made up her mind that the fugitive was not wanted for a legal purpose, but for some kind of persecution. She stood looking into the mans eyes, apparent ly unmOved Lowering the pistol, be offered to pay her 5000 if she would surrender the man they wanted This had no more effect than bis threat The man looked at her searchingly for a moment. then said to the other two:
 She's not hiding him. No giI4 could stand such tests. Re must have gone on. Come" And. whipping his horse he disappeared. followed by the keep CTS on foot
 In one of the splendid country seats on the eastern end of Long Island dwells a gentleman who when a young man was through the instrumentallty