Arizona republican., 1905-05-21

! him and the starboard rail with some i secret intent as the two eyed each i other, he caught sight of a revolver swinging from her belt. He saw i something else. also, that made his i heart stop beating for an instant: and i then the qUadroon held up her hand and listened attentiveIy.
 1 Do you hear that beH?" she asked. | Scarcely had she spoken when in the l distance a fog whistle sang out across the water, and through the flying scud a yellow light winked and went out. Were right off Alcatraz," she said. Here. you, stand by this lever-mind my orders. Watch now, how I do it. l Way forward for full speed ahead, way back to reverse and midway to stop; and turn off the naptha at this throt- tie. I'll take the wheel and we'll make l across for the Lombard street wharf Keep a lookout ahead; let me know | the instant you see a light or any i thing"
 ! She went forward to the wheel, and | the launch forged ahead at half speed with Vango shuddering at the engine. l But it was not only the piercing wind that frOze him stiff as he stood, for 1 there was a ghastly horror aboard that | W ciS aiiAAOSl uiiJtetA eiD4F l4i- WOiAleti1 had stood by the engine swinging her l lantern to show the working of the ma chinery, the light had sought out one corner after another, and, though she stood between. the rays fell once upon an object protruding from beneath the seat. It was a foot; there was no mis- i taking the outline, though the light had tonched it but for an instant. With his resolution he put the sight out of his mind and said no word to her, for her eyes terrified him and he dared not question.
 At last, in the gray of the dawn, the launch arrived off Hunters Point and the mediums eyes were straining through the murk to see some land ing pier. when he received a sudden summons to stop the boat. He obeyed and looked up at the woman who came rail in terror of her. for, sure now that one murder had been done aboard the launch, he feared another.
 Now" said the quadrOon woman, ''I want to know who you are and all
 about you"
 In a few stuttering sylabIes he told her his story, persisting with a child ish fatuity in the deceit he had all ready begun, and welding it to bits of truth from the strange procession of events that had carried him through the past few months. When he mentioned the fact that he was a medium, he noticed a change in the wOman's atti- tude immediately. His cunning awoke and the sharper began to assert him. self, following this clue, telling of how many persons he had aided with his wonderful clairvOyant powers and the success of his frances.
 At the end of his explanations she had melted in a burst of feminine ere
 dulity and hunger for the marvellous.
 "'Then you can help me- she exclaim-
 ed, throwing herself upon his leader
 ship in swift submission to the dOmi-
 mant sex. You must help ms. am
 in great trouble. and what must be
 done, must be done quickly. Can you
 hold sitting now? I want to find
 something now-it is of the greatest
 impOrtance-I would give auy price to
 now where to find it. You must get
 your spirit friends to help mel"
 The medium shuffler. You're rather
 CT nervous and the condition ain't flaw orabIe when a party is nervous or suf-
 ferin from excitin' emotions. The
 proper degree of mutuality ain't to be
 obtained unless a sitter is what you
 might call undisturbed." Then he put
 all his shrewdnes into a piercing gaze
 Besides, you got murder on you! see a red aura lowering over you like
 you had bloody hands!"