Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-09-20
CYNTHIA's GAMBIT.

Throughout every dragging hour of
that day Cto Cynthia all but intermina-
ble) the work of transshipment was car
ried forward without let or hindrance.
A veritable saturnalia of labor en-
gagged every soul aboard both vessels
the women excluded. Even Rhode. from
at first sulking mutinously at a dis
lance. at length thought better of it and
condescended to lend a hand-iending, in
point of fact, two hands able and puts
SAINT, vying with the strongest and most
energetic Of the joint screws; melted.
perhaps. by the knowledge that If any
thing were to be salvaged from the
wreck OF his fortunes it would be only
through united and swift action.
Madame Savaran and Cynthia had the
4 entire superstructure and the upper deck
20 themselves. MeaItimes alone inter
rupted the days work. and that but fit
iully. the men breaking off in small
squads TO snatch hasty bites and then
incontinently Fastening back TO their
several tasks.
The two women having laid their
heads together over the case of Critten-
den. made up a compact package cou-
tanning an antiseptic dressing and band
ages. and waylaid Lobb after lunch,
with a demand, disguised as a request.
to lie put ashore. BY way of response
the Nova Scotian laughed showed them
his back and swung semi-contemptuous-
~ down the ladder to the main deck
ere madame had time to uncork upon
his devoted head the phials of her
mordant wrath. Shortly after. by his
order. the lifeboat, which after it's
morning employment had been permit
ted to drift alongside at the length Of
its painter, was again hoisted back upon
it's davits.
Perez remained judiciously invisible
no doubt busy enough with that thor
ough ransacking of every nook and cor
ner which. Acklin reported, was in
process throughout the vessel. No news
of the lost, stolen or secreted treasure
was, however, reported in the hearing
of Cynthia, who had been hildly divert
ed by the account. from the lips Of
Madame Savaran, of that lady's vigor-
Gus reception OF a catephism PROFOUND
ed by Lobb and followed up by sugges-
ton from him that both women submit
to a personal search. That the sug-
gestion was not renewed was accounted
for by madame, complacently enough,
on the ground of her complete readi-
ness to make use of the small revolver
she kept conspicuously displayed in the
mouth of her reticule.
Il told him." she reported with VI
vacious relish, that if he dared so far
hole through every bone in his head.
1 would, too" she asssr-
waited with a decided nod. &.
| Much less lay even a finger upon ME!
.. Search, indeed!"
Cynthia could must but the most
| faint of smiles. Her care for Critten-
den preoccupied her every thought ana
/ faculty. She could not rest for think
/ ing of him. Nothing else mattered.
In retrospect, in after days, she
/ thought il strange enough that she
gave the episode of Perez so little con-
sderation, after the first Vehemeuee
of her anger waned. AS for appre-
hension lest he resume his advances,
/ the possibility never occurred to her,
who held his declaration. like himself,
sc insignificant that she forgot both
altogether the urgency of her more
pressing affairs; considering hinn,
when she considered him at all. in the
light of an exceptionally Objectionable
and annoying element in the mixture
% her dilemma. rather than as a SEN
/ tient human being, potent for good or
evil, or owning any actual claim upon
her heed.
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