Bisbee daily review., 1913-09-30

were her words, how untuSriy she pun ished mo. loved her. couldn't help didn't wnnt to help it would kiss the deck plank she hallowed with her footsteps
 There was another side to my con fnement. and l presently took thought on that swear that was not think ing of myself. but of her. l WIS ever thinking of her. 1 could see dangers that beset her as perhaps no one else could. and my confinement added to her peril She didn't realize that; nobody uft on the ship realized it There was a peril. imminent. menacing. about to break. feared.
 Ton see. the fact that we were treasure hunting had got about l had not thought much of the crew. inclHd- ing the villainous looking boatswain. Pimball. We had shipped a lot of smart seamen, about the average in quality and above the average In smartness. l decided as the days had passed with nothing happening. but Plmball had signed some could wish had been left ashore.
 Her presence on the ship. too, was a mystery. Alone in the little Rose of Devon with thirty men. By evil mishap the maid she had brought with her had died after a brief Illness two weeks out Captain Matthews and were for turning back, but she said TO, she would go on. We had lost too much time already and her all was F,fa 1Wor has blue waters of the Pacific. and l. mate of the ship and the only other officer to be trusted. locked upl
 We were nearing the latitude and longitude of the island Suppose the men rose in mntinyI I ground my teeth in rage. The men liked me well enough. and l had been particular to keep them in good humor, passing over many a thing for her sake that woCld have followed with a blow had she not been there. Captain Matthews had complained once or twice of my lax ity, but l knew things that he didn't, and l had done what l deemed best for her. l pledge you my word that I didn't care d farthing for the treas ure. 1 had never given It much thought. l grew to believe in 1t less and less as we got further from home, and if had been stronger for my duty and weaker in my love would have dlssuaded her from the voyage, follow ing Master Ficklin's lead.
 Now, that she was poor and alone, neglected and forgotten. l had enjoyed foolish dream that could be a com panion to her--a life shipmatei-fo- the captain was q rough, plain old sail- or. What a fool l was! And yet 1t had worked In some way as I had in- tended. We had been thrown into closer intimacy by the loneliness of her position and my faithful and. until that night, most unobtrusiye. self efacing devotion. .-
 I suppose 1t never entered her head that I could presume to love her, con sequently she was jess careful than she had been otherwise, and that very night when had poured out my decla ration to her sue had had no words
 with which to meet it. l thought her silence was consent see now that it was amaZement. l seized her in my arms like the brute she must have thought me. lifted her up and kissed her fair on the lips and then on her ayerted cheek. Arcester, the black guard. could have done no worse. l
 will never forget how she stigmatlzed me-"brute. coward, low born" don't believe she had rallied at that scoun- drel duke so iercely.
 Well, l didn't care what She had called me. Her safety. her life. her honor demanded that l be released That was the paramount concern. l listened. thought heard a foot fall in the outer cabin Could she be there? 1 suppose that had been lock ed up for perhaps an hour. Aye. on the instant the bell forward struck three. We kept man-of-war customs at her fancy. The sound came to me | faintly as l listened. Half past 9 i She. could not have gone to her berth | yet She must he there in the great cabin l ventured to call
 | What it cost me any man can imag- ine-and to humble myself to ask her | mercy too. l am a man of fierce tenn | per, as you have deemed. but l can control it. on occasion, and l did 1t | now. l shook the door of the abin
 gently at first and then vigorously
 and called once and again There was
 no answer. l beat upon 1t raised my voice. 1 scarcely thought l could
 be heard on deck The wind was blowing. the sea was heavy, and the
 ship was pitching wildly. The strain jag, the creaking. the grooming Of the f umbers would have prevented such a
 noise as I made from attracting stten-
 ton unless some one were in the cabin | But all iu vain. No heed was paid 1 to me, and yet 1 could swear that ! somebody was there. don't know
 how exactly, but was conscious of Der presence Perhaps because I was
 so in love with her that l could al ways tell whether she was about can to this day.
 Ii made me madder than before to 20 thus unhaedod I xvas 0u fbP Doint