Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-24


partner after him OBrien passed out into the garden
John, said Percles, putting arm in Laysans and
drawing him beyond earshot OF woman sobbing within
the house. "you got what the phone?"
"Yes | got it all Randolph pulled that Norwegian
brute off the rocks hawser parted and broke his leg,
the Electra is back, and you intend going out in her
tonight-on hopeless search.
At any other time John Laysan would have already
been bound cityward to that the injured master of
the wrecng steamer Electra lacked nothing for his
comfort; but he worried about Pericles.
"You can't to take up this search, Pericles.
You must know that it's hopeless business. That
ships gone
ohm Laysan, my friend, said Percles putting his
hands affectionate his partners shoulders, al" you
were out there and believed it. though the whole world
gave you up for lost I'd go find you and help you
if had to steal ship to do tiff had to swim. And
you'd do the same for me-"
"But you can't believe the Drumliebank-"
THAT girl in there-she has made me believe that
ship still lives
But Peric1es think what it will to her to have
the search end in disappointment.
"Then all her life she will know that she proved her
faith she will have the thought to sustain her that she
didn't let the she loves 60 without trying to
him in going.
bridge of the wreckng steamer Electra unconsciousy
invoking the calm, purple plain of the Pacific which
stretched away emptiy on every hand to give him the
grace to pass the moment that rushing upon him.
On the opposite side of the bridge Helen Muir and
Proctor, standing beside redheaded, devil-may-care
Johnny Coogan, the Eectras chief officer, silently
When the dipped below the horizon the search for
the Drumiebank would be at an end. The Electra's
whole company knew this, and perforce it in the
knowledge of Helen Muir. She knew well as Pericles
and his officers that the Electra fuel supply forbade her
going farther 1t had been impossible for Pericles
conceal anything from her. With latent genius of
craft she had comprehended the smallest detail of the
expedition She had been seepless urging it forward
and as Pericles wondered when she slept she
deed when he found the time to close his eyes and rest
Now, in another ten minutes, Helen Muir would have
face the fact that the end of hope had been reached
1t had already; but human kind lives upon its
fictons and in this the fiction the swiftly
ing sunset.
All that Percles O'Brens surprising sea mastershp
had been capable of suggesting he had performed in
carrying out what had practically amounted to sitting
of the waters of the North Pacific, where the missing
Drumebank should have been lying along, taking
basis her position at the time she had been spoken
crossing the equator No trcker that the Electra
had met, spoken within the three hundred mile
radius of her wireless had heard aught of the
overdue In his heart Percles felt that it possible
find Willie Faulkner the Drumliebank.
This whom Helen Muir loved-ths young Scot
fish Captain whom her grandfather had forbidden her to
love, only at the last, with his dying BREATH to raise
the ban had become very real to Pericles during the
time since the Electra had cleared from San Fran
cisco. In admitting himself that Faulkner gone
was like saying goodby to the friend of lifetime Helen
Muir had painted for Pericles picture of worthy