The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-22
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Quick! Help ne to tho hill!" said
| Penfold. "Tho bonfire Will attract
their eyes at once, and In three hours
that ship Will be at anchor and you
lyou VIII be rescued"
give me the torch" said Helen.
you cannot climb up the hill. / Will
light the pile"
THANK you! Thank you!" said Pen
fold. To light that bonfire was as
bitter as death to him. He was glad
enough that she should do 1t herself.
There are eight bundles Of straw
placed in just the right places Light
each one"
to the cave TO prepare the evening
meal, for both were faint from hunger.
After long time Helen returned and
sat down. The two looked at each
other in silence. They tried to eat. but
could not. After half an hour of this
Penfold lifted himself by his crutch
and crawled out to see the blaze.
! There was none. All was dark.
] He turned to look at Helen. II
/, She hid her blushng face in her hands.
and then suddenly fed from him like
| the wind.
The vessel that had thus been al
| lowed to pass In the darkness was in
deed the Sprngbok, passing close to
the Island. though quite by chance.
| She had been cruising moro than four
months without finding anything TO
arouse hope. and she was then steer
| ing for n higher latitude, intending TO
call at Easter Island.
| Had Helen even imagined that her
father was on board searching for her
she would have lit the bonfire at once
But Penfold, whose reasoning she had
come to believe blindly, had said that
Arthur Wardlaw was on board. Con-
fronted with the issue between the
two, her heart spoke In manner not
to be gainsaid. All conventions fell
away. She knew that she loved this
man OF her island dearly. and she tried
no longer to hide 1t from herself or
him.
AS for him--now that she was con-
tont to spend her days there, the
island was Paradise indeed, with the
smiling UP. the world forgetting; by
the world forgot"
But the Sprngbok. steamins north
with her disheartened crew, fell in
presently with a sea gypsy. half pirate
half trader, who haunted the South
American coast in his disreputable
craft He had run far up from his
usual course TO find the springbok, of
whose quest he knew: for duck had
flown aboard OF his schooner and he
| had found a message tied TO its leg
The Springbok ran northward 400
miles along the 103d degree, 80 min,
drifting by night. Then she ran south
500 miles. On the eighth day a sailor
cried Land hor Three hours later
tEeir eyes saw the giant inscriptions
on the reef.
Before that sun set the springbok
was on her way home to England with
! Helen Rolleston aboard--but without
the Rev. John Hazel. That man had
| told General Rolleston and Helen tha
story OF his trial. Helen had thrown
her arms around him and vowed that
she would not leave him. but Robert
Penfold had insisted that she must not
marry a convict.
GO to England said he, land win
back my honorable name for me. sitt
| the whole story And promise me not
to marry Arthur Wardlaw till you
| have reversed that lying sentence that
blasted me. I shall await here. alone
I, too. pledge nv hand to help" said
the General. You are a noble fellow,
] On her arrival in England Helen told
Arthur Wardlaw honestly that she
/ loved Penfold. Overcome as he was by
the information, he refused to give her
| up, and held her TO iler pighted word
| Then she told him that she could not
marry him until she had cleared Pen
loid name. lie assentcd with sppa-
rent eagerness, and explained his in
ABILITY TO appear at the trial with
| what seemed convincing reasons. But
In his cunning he overreached him
| self.
lie calculated that tho hest way 4,
! prevent her from setting dangerous m
| Vestigations on foot was to SIMPLY her
| with all the documents that she might
| want. Therefore he went so far ~
| even TO have printer set up accounts
| of the trial that looked exactly as IL
they We're clippings from newspa pers
| Of the time. In these forged clippings,
| of course. Penfold's case was set forth
! In the worst aspect
! His plans were excellent but some
| thing happened that he could not for
see, Helen met the counsel who had
| prosecuted Penfold for tile Crown With
quick decision she confided her story
| to him.
Charmed no less by her beauty than
by the romance the keen lawyer took
up her case with real interest lie told
Helen that Penfold's counsel had made
a sad error In not insisting on post
poncment TIL Wardlaw could attend
| as witness. There was something
mysterious about the thing" he SAID.
though my side of the case was clear
enough
The next day he sent to hcr Burt,
the Scotland Yard detective who had
worked UP the case and arrested the
/ clergyman. The detective, far fro.n
/ feeling malice, had conceived a grea-
respect for tho hard hitting ability
Of his prisoner, and was willing to do
all In his power.
| Chance, or rather Arthur WardlaW,
We're over, lie had not heen on tho
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