The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-22

to pass in the darkness was indeed tho Springbok. passing close to the island. though quite by chance. She had been cruising more than four months with out finding anything to arouse hope, and she was then steering for a 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 blindiy. had said that Arthur Wardiaw was on board. Con- fronted with the issue between the two, her heart spoke in a manner not to Dc 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- tent to spend her days there. the is- land was Paradise indeed. with the sun smiling down on it and the ocean smil- ing up. the world forgettings by the world forgot"
 But the Springbok, steaming 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 Springbox ran northward 300 miles along by the 1o3d degree. 30 min. drifting by night. Then she ran south 800 miles On the eighth day q sailor cried. Land ho!'' Three hours later their eyes saw the giant inscriptions on the reef.
 Before that sun set. the sprinsbok was on her way home to England. with Helen Roileston aboard--but without the Rev. John Hazel. That man had told General Rolleston and Helen the 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 vie back my honorable name for me. Sift the whole story. And promise me not to marry Arthur wardlaw till you have reversed that lying sentence that blast ed me. l shall walt here. alone"
 "I. too. pledge my hand to help" said the General. "You are q 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 her plighted word. Then she told him that she could not marry him until she had cleared Penfold's naine. He assented with apparent eagerness and explained his inability to apear st the trial with what seemed convincing reasons, But in his cunning he overreached himself.
 He calculated that the best way to prevent her from setting dangerous if1- vestigations on foot was to supply her .yN tznA mh n Ef want Therefore he went so far as even to have a printer set up accounts of the trial that looked exactly as If they were clippings from newspapers 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 fore see. Helen met the counsel who had prosecuted Penfold for the Grown. With quick decision she connded her story to him.
 Charmed no less by her beauty than by the romance, the keen lawyer took up her cause with real interest. He told Helen that Penfoid's counsel had made a sad error in not insisting on a postponement till wardlaw could at- tend as witness. There was some thing mysterious about the thing" said he. "thongh my side of the case was clear enough"
 The next day he sent to her Burt, the Scotland Yard detective who had worked up the case and arrested the clergyman. The detective. far from feeling malice, had conceived a great respect for the hard hitting ability of his prisoner. and was willing to do all in his power.
 Chance, or rather Arthur Wardiaw helped him before twenty y-four hours were over. He had not been on the case a day when he found that Helen was being shadowed by spies. He fol- lowed them and discovered that they reported to Wardlaw.
 That simple discovery not only rem