The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-29

singular kind of gigantic cylinder roll- ing upon the ocean.
 The great wave came down on the breakwater with terrible shock. Its whole bulk became a roaring surf For some moments 1t drowned every thing. When 1t subsided. the barrier was still there. firm. undisturbed. Am and another. Then there advanced one that was immense. The rocks tn emselves shook as it broke on them. The barrier began to give way.
 Gtlliatt rush to the rescue. With great beam he uprooted a rock and heaved it into the boiling. He tore at the suspended wreck of the Durande and let a mass of 1t fall into the defile to act as a barrier from the other end. For twenty hours he wrestled. matching his strength against the sea, his wit against the tempest. Then sud denly the sky became blue. He had won.
 Gilliatt dropped on the deck of the sloop and slept where he fell. When he awoke again the swell was still too heavy to venture to sea with his precious freight. He stripped himself to the waist and climbed on the reef to look for food. Crayfish and crabs
 
 after a long hunt. It scattled under a great shelf or rock. He put his knife between his teeth and crawled after if. When he got under the rock he stood up in dumb amazement. He was in an underground cavern. Be- fore him lay a mystic green pool, out of which rose great columns losing themselves in the darkness of the roof. Strange sea growth hung every where and waved tender filaments in the gloomy depth.
 It seemed to him that the crab had taken refuge in a Assure. He waded into the water and began to grope in the dusk.
 suddenly he felt himself seized by the arm.
 Some living thing, thin. rough. flat. cold, slimy, had twisted itself around his naked arm and was creeping up toward his chest like tightening cord He recoiled. but he had scarce ly power to move. He was, as 1t were. nailed to the place. That which held him was supple as leather, strong as steel, cold as night.
 A second form. sharp. elongated and narrow, issued out of the crevice like a tongue It crept over his skin and wound itself about him. At, the same time a terrible sense of pain, compar- able to nothing he had ever known, compelled all his muscles to contract He felt on his skin a number of flat, rounded points. It seemed as if inF numerable suckers had fastened to his flesh and were about Ito drink his blood. ,#
 A third ligature came from the hole in the rock, and a fourth. firth passed over the others and fastened him. Then a large, round, glutinous mass issued from beneath the crevice. On the opposite side of this disgusting monster appeared the commencement of three other tentacles. the ends of which. remained under the rock. In the middle of the slimp mass appear ed two eyes. The eyes were fixed on Gilliatt. He recognized the devilfish.
 It held Gilliatt fast as the spider holds the fly. He was in the water up to his waist. His naked feet were on the slippery roundness of the stones az the bottom. Ills right arm was bound and held powerless by the tentacles Two hundred and fifty suckers were upon him, tormenting him with agony and loathing. He was grasped by gigantic hands the fingers of which were each nearly a yard long and fur nished inside with living blisters eat ing into the flesh.
 It advanced toward him with violent movement. The moment was decisive. If the peaked jaws once fas- tened on his side. Gilliatt was lost He struck with the knife. With rapid sweep he described circle around the two eyes and wrenched off the hideous head. Instantly the ter rible folds relaxed.
 AS 0iiliatt turned to fee he saw something smiling at him from a re- cess near by He looked startled. It was a skull. He stepped toward 1t. The skeleton was partly buried in a heap of crab shells. Around the waist he saw a belt. He pulled at it. It fell small iron tobacco box which contained few pieces of paper. They were three bank notes for 1000 pounds each.
 Two days later. when dusk had ai- ready fallen, Gillatt made his sloop fast in front of Mess Lethierry's house The engine was salved. He went quietly to 8 clumD of bushes and peered into the garden. Soon he saw her. But she was not alone. A stranger was with her He held her in his arms and she responded to his caresses. Gilliatt moved away like a shadow.
 The next day Mess Lethierry was as one possessed. He sobbed. laughed. sang. talked necessarily. And now" he cried. when he had praised Gilliatt for the theusandth time. you know you are to marry Deruchette"
 0illiatt leaned with his back against the wall and said: ''No!"
 One day soon afterward 6 vessel sailed slowly out to sea from Saint Sampson. On the deck stood Deruchstte and her husband.
 As she passed a rock near the en- trance, Gilliatt sitting there quite mo- tionless, could see her dear .GLS. Aaa 6id not aEaln turn his eyes from that