The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-01-15

| daughter, and found no hope there. He
had taken his uncle apart and charged
him to labor for the cause of flight.
Ursula" the planter began gravely, ad-
dressing Mrs. Stansbury, peter has ask
ed us to spend a few days with him in
the Caribbean, on board the Madame. l
confess that l don't like the way Pelee
is acting, and the heat Is telling on US
all. The prospect Of a refreshing breath
of the Trades il a mighty pleasant one to
me. Doesn't it sound % to your
As 4 specialist in volcanoes, I should
think Mr.. Constable would find It i'm
possible to leave at such q time" the
mountain needs his doctor more than ever
now"
II have not yet attained unto such
scientific passion that l can forget my
friends entirely" Constable said earnestly.
For my part" the girl FASTENED to
say, Mr.. Constable's invitation IL i'm
mensely alluring."
Mrs. Stansbury's eyelids contracted
ever 20 little, and she fingered upon the
words Of her ultimatum, as II there were
q tang Of pleasure in the utterancs. 1.-THE
Panther arrives day after tomorrow
morning, with the New York mail.
would not under any condition think Of
leaving Saint Pierre before receiving Mr..
Stansbury's letters
Constable stared at the face Of the
daughter. He read there terror Of the
mountain, and pity for himself. He arose,
not daring to trust himself to speak again.
Breen found him in his room few min
utes later.
Peter" he said softly, has it ever
occurred to you that the map Of Europe
and the history of France might greatly
have been altered II our beloved Joseph
inc had been gifted with q will like that"
CHAPTER Nv.
In the Rue de Rivoli there was a little
stone fruit shop. The street was short.
narrow, crooked and i'll paved-a cleft in
Saint Pierre's terrace work. Just across
from the vault-like entrance to the shop,
the white, SCARED cliff arose to another
flight Of the city. Between the shop and
the living rooms behind there was a little
court, shaded by mango-trees. Dwarfed
banana shrubs fourished in the shade of
the mangoes, and singing birds were Gag
could find no entrance, the shop was dark
as a cave, and as cool. One window,
il an aperture like the clean wound of
a thirteen-inch gun could be called a win
dow, opened to the north; and from 1t.
by the grace Of a crook In the Rue de
Rivoli, might be seen the mighty caliber-
ed cone of Pelee.
Pere Rabeaut's fruit was very good,
and some Of it was very cheap. The ser
vice was much as you made it, for II you
were known you were permitted to help
yourself. In this world there was no
one Of station too lofty to 60 to Pierre
Rabeaut's; you would meet no one there
to whom 1t was not . privilege to say
bon jour-"
Come and see my Birds" the crafty
Rabeaut would say. II he approved Of
you.
"whsrs do you liver" yos might ask.
being q stranger.
"In the coolest hovsi Of Saint Pierre"
was the invariable answer.
And presently, II you were truly alive,
you would find yourself in the little stone
shop, listening to the birds. In due
course Soronia would appear In the shad-
owy doorway and It would seem that the
bird songs were hushed a. she crossed the
court.
II the little stone shop were transplant
ed In New York, artists would find II
and have difficulty In getting In and out,
for the crowd o nights. Thither Con-
stable and Breen made their way on this
burning morning which Mrs. Stansbury
darkened with her decision. The pair sat
down in the cherished GOODNESS, Constable
at the little window, 20 that he could
look at the mountain.
'Breen. I dare not leave them here for
forty-eight hours. until the Panther
comes" Constable said.
do you really think Peles can't hold
out that long7"
Constable shook his head impatiently.
"I'm not q monomaniac-at least, not vet,
Breen," he said. and his voice suggested
the world Of pent savagery in his brain.
1.-THE ways Of volcanoes are past the pre-
visions Of men. I do not say that Pelee
will blow his head OF this week, or this
millennium. I say I'm afraid for this
girl. l say there are vaults Of explo-
sives In that monster, the smallest Of
which could make this city look like
leper's corpse upon the beach. I say
that the internal 6res are burning high
that they are already lingering the vital
cap; that Pelee sprung a leak last night,
and that the same force which lifted this
cheerful archipelago from the depths of
the sea IL pressing against the leak at
this instant. say that vesuvius warned
before he broke; that Krakatoa warned
and then struck that down the ages these |
safety valves scattered over the face Of |
earth have trembled before giving way.
Pelee 10 trembling now. and there Is a
woman here whose safety is-important
to me. She 10 two miles away this mo-
ment. and am as powerless as a man In |
a street fight. with his lady's arms about
him. What shall dor"
peter. there II . short cut" Breen
aid.
Tell mel" Constable urged.
Are you sealous and strong souled?"
Try me-"
At this juncturs Soronia entered the |
shop from the little court Of the song
birds. 6lling the eyes Of the Americans.
A dark. ardent, alluring face; nesh like
dull gold. made wonderful BY the faintest