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engaged myself ii sesiTeAEnE tks houses
an the beach but. although | lceksd Int
many Of them. | found ne sign Of armors'
Then l remembered that Black bad q
stand a Winchester rides In hss study.
I had hopes thar they would suffice. with
knives and any revoivers ! might lay
hands upoa, to hold ring Of men against
the company. This thought Rugged 70
me all day, going often TO the iron plat
form above the creek to know II there
were any sign Of the release of the min
ers, or Of preparation for getting rid OF
them.
Towards evening. when was weary
with the watching. there was the sound
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went TO my window, and saw the whole OF
a cruel scene. Some twenty of these sea-
men, black as they had come from the
coal shaft, were going ashore from a long
boat. while an electric launch was bring
ing twenty more from the outer creek
where the nameless ship lay. But the
men who had first landed were surround
ed by the others of Blacks company:
and were being driven towards the hills,
and so to the great desolate plain OF
snow where no human thing could long
retain life. The pirates hit Justify with
the butt ends of their pistols; the honest
fellows used their fists, and many man
they laid his length upon the rock. Inch
by inch they gave way, were driven to-
wards the rayines and the countless miles
of snow plain; and as the battle ragged,
the armed began to shoot with murderous
purpose. Death at last was added to the
horrors, and, as body after body rolled
down the rocky slope and fell splashing
into the water, those unwounded took
panic at the sight and fled with all posi-
BILE speed away up the side of the glacier
mount. and so to their death in that
frozen refuge beyond.
At Z O'Clock | dined as usual | closed
my own door, and for three hours or more
paced my chamber, the fever Of antici-
patton and of design burning me as with
fire.
OF the doors about, the majority were
closed; but the Doctors was open. ! be-
gan to feel my way In the binding dark.
Ny First proceeding was to run upon some
slight article of furniture and to overturn
It. Twice / went round the room, and
could not put my hand upon the rifles;
but at the third attempt / found them,
and gave sigh of relief. Then an over
terror struck me chill and pow
erlexs. Ny sigh was echoed from the cor
ner by the window; and a low chuckle of
laughter followed 1t. stood as man
petriiied, my hand upon a gun, but my
nerves strained to tension that was hor-
ribIe to bear.
In another moment the electric light
flooded the chamber, and ] saw Black
sitting at his writing table, observing me.
4 jeer upon his lips, and all the terrible
malice Of his nature written in his keen
and mocking eyes. He had q revolver
rocked at his left hand, but a pen In his
right; while manuscript lay before him,
q that he must have been In the room for
some time, and had extinguished his light
only at my coming. He leaned over the
table, and drew near to it lounge on
which the skin Of polar bear was spread.
.Sit here be said, and at the bluff
word my nerve came back to me. You're
/ Enart boy, and have ideas, but. like
iii little boys, your ideas don't go far
l was just the same when was
your age, always trying to climb perpen-
iicular places. and always falling down
gain. silly lad, to put your head into a
which never concerned you.
Il came here tonight to stop your
fifty innocent men," l said.
but be started up at the words and raved
like q maniac.
.And who made you judge? Who
Jet you to watch me, or give your opin-
Ions on what / do or what don't dot
who asked you whether you liked it o.
iidn't like lit"
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