Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-08

heard them come in. They out there helpless
with that tempest beating upon them! Obi if
could only be out there with them
Christabel did not in words. She
listening to the voice of her heart. 1t
poignant than any her heart had ever spoken in
before Yet she knew it was hers.
You too!'' it said. You had rather at this
moment stand unsheltered in the tempest with that
who kissed your hands last night, the you
threatened to kill this morning. the who knew
your mind better than you knew it yourself the man
whom neither contempt nor peril nor defeat can
move-you had rather stand beside him at this
moment than anywhere else, in the world. It's true
it's true it's true!'
Florences hand was resting on her shoulder.
Come, dear" she said I'VE had better 60 down
with the Others
Mechanically Christabe rose to obey her. They
left the room their linked together and started
down the broad stairway. Halfway down Florence
They may come yet" she said "Of course they
would come that way, and never thought of il"
Then she explained. The cave under Fort House,
which Gregg had used for wine cellar, which,
in the good old days of Calico Jack, had served
many more sinister purposes, boosted tunnel
which ran quite through Fort Hill and opened the
hillside just beyond and below the wireless station
The rescuing party when they got their man out
would undoubtedly come back by the tunnel, rather
than risk being caught by the second half of the hur
ricane while traversing the distance IN the OPEN
The vauted echoes of the tunnel might be answering
their footsteps at this moment. AT any moment the
and rescued might still be expected to ap-
pear.
The possibility Florence suggested had evidently
not occurred to of those who had remained in the
library and it lifted for little the pail of horror that
had settled all of them with the recurrence of
the storm. But their little candlelght of hope was
soon extingu1shed. servant who despatched
down the tunnel to verify this possibility back
with the report that was there.
A FTER that, grim endurance was all that was left
II for any of them 1t seemed interminable
time before thestorm began appreciaby to diminish
Toward the end of it. amid perfect rain of light
ming bolt fell that they thought at first it
had struck the house. The room full of flame
for perceptible space of time. The next instant
the house shook, and there crash as if the
whole cliff was going into the sea; but after
that every half-hour marked a lessening of the
violence in the gale 1t brought corresponding
elation of spirits the exhausted group about the
gutterng candles in the library The thought of the
four men who had been out at the mercy of the
worst of it became sharper and more depressing
the discomfort of their situation grew less
About ten o'clock the lighted lanterns and
set out as relief expedition; but were able to
complish nothing, the gale was still too high
Their lanterns were almost instantly extinguished
and thew came back, after half hour of falling
about over trunks and the of the debris of
the storm, without getting more than hundred
Yards from the house. Clearly there nothing
more for them to do till morning They must
out the nigh: as best they could.
After that no one quilted