The Washington times., 1913-07-26

| his rheumy eyes and stared at the SKY
| for a second.
Hello. strangerw said Paul. Feel.
| ing betterT'
The eyes closed again and the crack
! ed lips muttered an inaudible blur
wer.
A little while later, while Paul was
taking another observation of the sun.
Emily thought she saw CLEAN OF
consciousness in the faded gaze which
| found her face and held 1t.
Are you from the bark Daphne
the Daphne?" she asked.
Both she and Paul had discussed the
possibility of this being SO.
'He-walked-'tween-
This was the strange whispered ut
terance that came from the cracked
lips.
Paul, he Is speaking"
Lavelle sat down his sextant and
knelt beside the stranger.
Il asked him.; the gold woman ex-
Plained, IF he belonged to the Daphne.
The cracked lips were speaking
again.
He ked-tween-rween with
The stranger was repeating what he
had said to Emily.
Paul ran the words over under his
breath, They sounded familiar. They
had a rythm that touched some for
y,
mind groped upon discovery. Emily
uttered an exclamation in the same
instant. Both of them knew what the
stranger was attempting to say.
Don't you remember Hoods The
Dream Of Eugene Aram,' Paul?"
Yes" he said with nod. "tAnd
Eugene Aram walked between with
gives upon his wrists
The line as he repeated It had
startling weirdness.
Tk,oN ~. h-ol olrrh ha Hfxrlr rar.r
Paul? What is hidden back Of this
strange thought?' Emily asked In a
whisper.
''It may be as we have thought-that
haps in its disorder his brain Is reflect
Ing the crime committed aboard here In
the words OF Hoods strange poem. Yet
one would imagine that II there Is any
thing in the theory Of crime suggesting
crime that II would be something Of the
sea Of which he would be thinking
Eugene Aram was schoolmaster and
he killed in the woods This man Is
sailor. There Is no doubt about that.
Could he have been the one
Emily shrank from the stranger at
the thought which leaped into her mind.
Don't think that, Emily. II he had
hand In what happened here-but let US
not think Of what's past"
Paul carried the derelict below and
put him in the room next to the mates.
tied him in the bunk 90 that the rolling
Of the vessel would not turn him out.
The man had become unconscious again
Immediately after mumbiing the bit OF
Eugene Aram," which Emily had called
Paul to hear.
LaveIle left the derelict sleeping in ap-
parent peace, but with heart acton
that was extremely weak.
IF he lives he will be godsend
toward helping us work ship" Paul told
Emily IS they went aft together to the
lounge.
Maybe that is why it was given to
us TO pick him up.
Paul smiled doubtfully.
What time is II Emily?' he asked
Only quarter past four" she said,
looking at the silver watch which he
had given her to carry when he put her
Didn't have much Of sleep, did l."
NO. you didn't Please lie down
again"
:'WfI in a little while. Got to. But
first 1 must work out this observation.
See where in this world of kingdom
He sat down at the charitable, and
In a few minutes. weary though he
was, finished his calculations. The re-
suit checked and confirmed his noon
reckoning.
the edges Of the chart while he pricked
to the southeastward. 1t ended at Ocean
Island He ran a second to Midway; a
third to Honolulu. The gold woman
watched his long. fine fingers-won-
drously fine for the rough, hard things
Of which she knew them to be capable
handling pencil and ruler and dividers
with a fascinating deftness and GER
tainty. He seemed oblivious of every
thing else. An eager stimulation seemed
to be driving him. The mystery of the
student was about him.
A feeling of woeful incompetence pos
sessed her. She realized how narrow
and little her life had always been Until
now: how little she actually knew of
all the things there were to be known.
Her heart stirred OF q sudden with a
marvellous thrill at the thought of what
a woman's triumph must be to suffer
the giving of such q man as this to the
world Her breath paused tremulously.
What Shanghai Elsie had said to her