The Washington times., 1913-07-21

through the block. Presently it held:
| it sustained his weight. The fall was
fast. His heart bounded at the dis
| covery.
He passed a blight round Emily's
waist and darted from her side for
ward. Hurting himself into the smoth-
| ering suction under the bows, he
clutched the boobstay as 1t buried itself.
and further until II seemed that he
| must let the sea nave him. A monster
| with a hundred beaks tore at his lungs.
| Another clawed az his eyes. Still an
other gnashed at his heart. His glim-
! mer OF consciousness marked the end
Of the downward pitch.
AS the bark rose he climbed. the
buoyancy of the water experimenting
was clear Of the sea and half way to
! the cap of the bowsprit The fangs
which reached for him did not get him
again.
found himself lying on a deck with
water kissing over him and around him.
1t gurgled In his ears and foamed across
his throat. 1t was being spat at him
out Of three or four scuppers and 4 port
on his right. He was in the waist OF
vessel. This was a hatch-coaming
against which his left side was pressed
the coaming Of the vessels main
He sat up and saw Emily lying across
the hatch unconscious. The light of the
gantIine was still around her As he
struggled to arise, only to fall back
again. his cheek swept one of her feet
winch dangled over the edge of the
coamins,, Yes, he had torn that woman
out OF the seas arms. There she was
In evidence OF that, but where he had
round the strength, how he had done It
or when he had done it. he had no idea.
The names Of Emily and Daphne were
mixed in his thoughts. II took a severe
mental struggle to identify his own
name lie repeated II two or three times
before he recognized it Emily was the
Daphne?
This name puzzled him until his wan
aerlng gaze found row Of deck buckets
In rack on the edge Of the forward
mouse. Daphne was painted on each
bucket. Then slowly II came to him
that he had seen 1t on the bows Of a
vessel aboard which he had climbed a
long time before.
His senses were begged in the reac-
ton OF the despair of exhaustion-that
hopeless detection which follows a su-
preme mental or physical eXertion. and |
whose poignancy is the greater accord !
ing to the successful degree of the ef- |
fort He slipped back to his full length |
sky
Paul! Paul.
His name called in a plaintlve tone |
finally TO realization OF his situa- !
ton The voice touched a chord in his
being that impelled him TO action. 1t |
sent wave OF emotion through him. |
He rose to a sitting posture.
Again his cheek brushed the gold |
woman's feet, and at the touch he bent |
his head quickly and kissed them. 1t |
was not the first time he had done this. |
but II startled him now, for he sensed |
that she was conscious Of what he did. |
Yet thus on the island he had kissed |
her reverently and sacredly when he |
had bound her burns
AS he struggled TO his feet Emily sat |
up. Her hair fell across her shoulders |
and bosom, and across her limbs IN n |
golden shower. |
"Oh! woman OF all the world" he |
murmured, I'VE still live"'
This woman was his She had chal- |
lenged him against the seG-matcked |
him against all its brute force-and he |
had won her
For a second only Emily met and !
held Paurs glance. Then. lowering her
head and throwing herself in abandon |
across the hatch. she burst into tears. |
So did the reaction Of all she had
passed through come upon her.
Paul turned away. chastened by those |
tears. He realized that no word he
might utter then would assuage one |
drop Of them. Action called to him, but !
he seemed to be unable to put a hand |
on the situation. long weather roll |
caught him unawares. 1t flung him |!
across the deck and he brought up !
against the fife rail around the main |
mast His limbs qu!ver"d under him; |
his knees knocked together in weak !
and twitched from the effects of the |
battle he had waged with tt" sea.
momentary dread that he would rever .
recover his strength seized him /
II was In that instant that his gaze [
snapped a glimpse of the island far up /
to windword. It appeared very small. !
He marveled that the bark could have /
drifted so far.
A lee roll cut the bit OF land from
his view. He started to 7llI Emily, but
forebore at the sound If her sohbing.
As II fascinated. he waited until tie
bark lifted on the shoulder of the next
swell. Like sugar melting in a teacup
the island dissolved in his sight. II
,:Irred him nightly. 1t aroused in him
the spirit Of comhati"e1"Ss.
II made him realize that the sea
would stand not on his iaIliarce. II
ordered him to action and TO confront
the mystery Of the jcaan's .:ic with
the abandoned Daphne.
II required but a glance for him to
confirm his estimate of the vessels size
which re- had formed In his first view
of her rom the island and while he
swan beside her.
She was not less than l,2OO tons bur
den-about 200 feet long and less than
forty feet beam-and heavily Spared
Her lower masts and topmasts were of
iron or steel They were pole .nasts
that is to say. in one continuous piece.
The fore and main and topsail yards
also were built OF iron or steel Every
thing bespoke the fact that she had been
built for driving.
Calling to Emily that he would be
gone but a minute, Paul drew an iron
belaying-pin from the fife rail and
started aft. He armed himself against
surprise, although he felt instinctiyely
that he AMI Emily were alone. sui,
Everything TO be seen about decks indI-
(ated that the bark had not been long
: a tsakHood door xas oman and. hoo,.