The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-06-10


know any more except being ssea, -
/ told you. and waking up on board
that yacht, and getting mere!
Now, who could that LIE Malheu-
reux have been?" asked Larry. and
why did they want to steal you
Maybe 1t was Benoni," suggested
Johnny He took us to her. maybe he
brought her here"
steal this girl p
/ Benoni clinched hts hands 1t the
suggestion. Il steal herr" he ragged.
And I with wife!"
Nonsense" said Betty. HE does
not talk like LIE Malheureux. and-well
IL don't feel the repulsion for him
had for LIE Malmeureux. don't know
what.it was. can't explain it. shiv-
! err still!'
Perhaps it was Man-Aperilla who
stole you. Betty" volunteered Johnny.
You remembers you went out to the
park for the Inquirer with a photo
| grapher to get the brutes picture.
Have you forgotten? Perhaps he fell
| in love with your charms, and stole
you to make you his bride, like Larry
here is going to do
He might have stolen me-" admit
ted Betty. but Johnny. don't be nom
sensical!"
| About what?" asked Joining
| About Larry marrying you? A man
doesn't risk his fool neck like Larry's
done for you If he isn't going to marry
the woman at the end Of the risk"
We'll, but you did it, retorted Bet
| ty.
| Il know, but I had wife to start
out with, and felt / ought to get Larry
tied up, too. Besides, / think It will
be a joke to assist at the wedding. Oh.
know Larry hasn't asked you yet, but
then he's afraid to. He's planning TO
just carry you off,"
I'm going to draw the line at be-
ing abducted twice, till get prodi-
gals return on the strength of the
first kidnapping" laughed Betty. do
| you suppose that the Man-Aperilla
| could have stolen me? And If 50. why?
! I'd like to find LIE Malheureux. perhaps
| he'd tell me. The why Of things as
| they are is troubling me-"
Were going to find LIE Malheureux
| right now said Meta. IF we don't
we'n never find ourselves again. We
must make haste out of here. Miss
Lancey."
ooh. call me Bettista. like you have
DONE" begged Betty. mimicking the
name Meta had given her in the days
of their broken dialect. Il like it bet
| ter"
Anything. only make haste" eau
toned Benoni. I'VE cannot take you
women where we men have gone.
Time is life just now"
| Meta aided Betty to don some heavy
wraps Of panther skin. brought her
stockings and the dancing slippers, so
| the only shoes the American girl pos
sessed and her feet were not Injured TO
the hard ground and cold stones like
Metals. Benoni had slowed some pro-
visions in a leather wallet and Meta
| carried a similar bag heavy and hard
| What have you there. my wife ?"
| questioned the black.
| "A few Of the Jewels" she answered,
II thought we might need them No.
there are not many left"
| They were an odd cavalcade Be-
noni was at the head OF the process
sion, then Johnny. close behind him
Betty, with City Editor Burton tug
| ging at leash. then Larry, and last
| of all Meta. Each of the men carried
pistol. and Meta had put tiny re-
volver into Betty's hand They went
down the steps. retracing their way
along the same corridors down which
| Tyoga had brought Betty so many
weeks before. In the lower passage
| three pigeons flew out and rested on
Betty's shoulder. lowering there an in
stant then darling away. up towards
the rain-gray sky:
The boat that awaited them was Z
smaller model of the yacht that had
borne Betty across seas. and Of less
elaborate construction. Benoni disap-
peared below deck to location similar
| to the one where lie Malheureux had
been wont to station himself. Betty,
looking backward through the arch
| way, saw to her surprise hundreds (
| stalwart negroes embarking from a
| fleet Of boats that had suddenly ap-
ared upon the swollen bosom of the
| river. She started to cry out, but
| Meta.s hands closed over her mouth
The yacht ducked its nose to the water
and went spinning along the tunnel
| "Benoni, Benoni," called Meta. when
| they had gone distance of several
rods. They have come! They are
| there! / must help him." she added to
the Americans, and followed her hus-
band below stairs.
Ito be continued
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