The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1910-12-10

ClOH Oh uldTIu lu1tI IOSe uilDluuch' ouI
Hozier read her distress in a hardly
| audible sob.
ut is our friend Marcel" he whis-
pered. $50 Domingo has made good
his landing. Be brave The sea is
quite calm. This man has been to the
island and back in less than quarter
Of an hour"
The catamaran swung round and
grated on the shingle. Marcel was in
hurry.
"Are you ready? asked De Sylvia,
bending toward Iris.
"Yes," she said.
"Then you had better kneel behind
Marcel and steady yourself by placing
your hands on his shoulders. Yes,
that is it. Do not change your posi-
| tion until you are ashore. Now, you
Mr.. Hozier."
Marcel murmured something.
"Ah, goodr' cried De Sylvia softly
"nomingo, too, has secured cata-
maran. lie Is bringing 1t at once in
order 10 save time"
A second spectral figure emerged
from the gloom. Without waiting for
| further instructions Marcel swung his
paddle, and the one craft passed the
other in the center of the pool. Iris
felt Hozier's hands on her waist. He
obeyed orders and uttered no sound,
but the action told her that she might
trust him 1rnss!2tly. When the mar
row cleft was traYsfSed and she saw
the open sea on her y.ght there was
ample need for some sc&A assurance
of guardianship.
Viewed from the cliff tie sgall that
broke on the half submerged reef was
of slight volume, but it presented
very different and most disconcerting
aspect when seen in profile. 1t seemed
to be an'almost impossible feat for any
man to propel three narrow planks,
top heavy with human freight, across
a wide channel through which such
sea was running Indeed, Hozier him
self, sailor as he was, felt more than
doubtful as to the fate OF their argosy.
But Marcel padded ahead with unaag-
ging energy once he was clear of the
tortuous passage, and, before the cata-
maran had Travelled many yards, even
Iris was able to understand that the
outlying ridge of rocks both protected
their present track and created much
OF the apparent turmoil.
At last the raft. for 1t was little else,
bore sharply out between two huge
powders that might well have fallen
from the mighty pile of Grand-peie It.
self. Pointed and angular they were
and set like a gateway to an abode of
giants. Beyond there was simmer
OF swift moving water. with silver
mist on the surface, though from a
height of few feet ii would have been
easy to distinguish the bold contours
OF Fernando Noronha itself.
Marcel held up warning hand even
while he brought the catamaran
ashore on the shingle so gently that
not pebble was disturbed. He rose,
u gaunt scarecrow, stepped Off and
drew the shallow craft somewhat far
ther up the sloping beach. Then he
helped Iris to her feet and indicated
that she was to come with him. AT
once she shrank away in terror.
Though In some sense prepared for
this parting, she felt it now as the
cruelest blow that fortune had dealt
her during day crowded with mis-
fortune. In all likelihood those two
would never meet again. She needed
no telling as to the risk he would soon
be called ON to face, and her anguish
was made the more bitter by the neces.
sity that they should so from each
others presence without u spoken
word. %
Nevertheless she. forced herself to
extend hand in farewell. Her eyes
We're blinded with tears. she knew
that Hozier drew her nearer. With
the daring OF one who may well cast
the worlds convention to the winds he
gathered her to his heart and kissed
her. Then she uttered little sob OF
happiness and sorrow and tainted.
1t was not until she was lying help.
less in his embrace, with her head
pillowed on his breast and an arm
thrown Imply across his shoulder
that Philip understood what had hap.
pened, He loved her, and she, the
promised wife of another man. had
tacitly admitted that she returned his
love. Stumbling through the gloom he
carried her until the Brazilian left him
and went on alone toward a wretched
hut.
A dog barked. Marcel whlstled soft
ly. and the animal began to whimper
The Brazilian vanished, Hozier still
held Iris in his arms. His heart was
beating tumultuously. His throat ached
with the labor OF his lungs. His
stmining ears caught rustllngs among
the grass aud roofs, but otherwise a
solemn peace brooded over the scene
Then Marcel came and aroused him
from the stupor that had settled on
him, and together they entered the
hoyel. where u dark skinned woman