Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-06-19
SYNOPSIS.

Agatha Redmond. opera singer, starting
TOR an auto drive in New York, nnos a
stranger sent as her chauffeur. Leaving
the car. she goes into the park to read
the will OF an old friend Of her mother.
who has left her property. There she IS
acoosted by = stranger. who follows her
to the auto, climbs in and chlorolorms
her. James Hambleton of Lynn, MOSS
witnesses the abduction OF Agatha RED
nond. Hambleton sees Agatha forcioly
taken aboard a yacht. He secures a sus
and when near the yacht drops over
boarn. Aleck Van Camp, friend OF ftam.
oieton. had an appointment with him. MOI
meeting Hambleton. he makes a call upon
friends. Madame and Miss Melahle r'ey-
uie-. He proposes to the latter ana Is re,
fused. Melanie explains that she 10 OF
high birth in a German p~rincipality, from
which she had fed to escape an unwisIsu
marriage. The three arrange a coast ZIP
on Van Camps yacht, the Sea Gun.
Hambleton wakes up on board the Jeanne
D'Arc, the yacht IN which Is Agatha
Redmond. His clothes and money belt
have been taken from him, He meets a
man who introduces himself, as Monsieur
Chatelard, who is Agatha's ebductof.
They fight, but are interrupted by the
threatened sinking of the vessel me
boat sinks. Jimmy and Agatha are both
abandoned by the crew, who take to the
boats, Jimmy dives into the sea and
reaches Agatha. They swim for hours
and finally reach shore In a thoroughly
exhausted condition: Recovering silgntiy,
the pair hnd Hand. the chauffeur who
assisted in Agatha's abduction. He
agrees to help them.
CHAPTER ax.-contlnued.
Hand already, earlier in the day,
had made a path for himself up the
steep bank through the ~underbrush,
and now Agatha went with him to
the edge of the thicket. She watched
and listened until the faint rustling
Of his footsteps ceased, then turned
back to the camp on the beach. She
went to the fire and stirred up its
Goals once more before returning to
James. He was sleeping, but his
flushed face and unnatural breathing
were signs of i'll. Now and then he
moved ~restlessly, or seemed to try to
speak, but 10 coherent words came,
She sat down to watch by him.
After Agatha and James had been
brought ashore by the capable Mr..
Hand, IL had needed only time to
bring Agatha back to consciousness.
Both she and James had practically
tainted from exhaustion, and James
had been nearly drowned, at the last
minute. Agatha had been left OF the
rocks to come to herself as she would,
while Hand had rubbed and pun
meled James until the blood flowed
again. It had flowed too freely, in.
deed, at some time during his ordeal;
and tiny trickles of blood showed on
his lips. Agatha, dazed and aching,
was trying to crawl up to the sand
when Hand came back to her, run.
ning lightly over the slippery rocks,
They had come in on the flowing tide
which had aided them greatly; and
now Hand helped her the short dis
lance to the cove and mercifully let
her lie, while he went back to his
work for James.
Later he had got a little bucket,
used for bailing out the rowboat, and
dashed hurriedly into the thicket
above after some tinkling cowbells
Though she was too tired to question
him, Agatha supposed he had tied one
Of the COWS to a tree, since he re-
turned three or four times to fill the
pail. What a wonderful life-giver
milk was! She had drunk her Ali
and had tried to feed it to James,
who at first tasted eagerly, but had,
on the whole, taken very little. He
was only partly awake, but he shiv,
cred and weakly murmured that he
was cold. Agatha quickly grew
stronger; and she and Hand set to
work to prepare the fire and the bed.
Almost while they were at this labor,
the sun had gone down.
Sitting by Jim's couch, Agatha grew
sleepy and cold, but there were nc
more coverings, Hands coat was
over Jim, and as Agatha herself felt
the cold more keenly she tucked II
closer about him. Alone as she was
now. in solitude with this mar who
had saved her from the waters. with
darkness and the night again coming
on, her spirit shrank; not so much
from fear, as from that premonition
of the future which now and then
assails the human heart.
AS she knelt by Jim's side, cover
ing his feet with the coat and heapine
the fir boughs over him. she paused
to look at his unconscious face. She
knew now that he did not belong tc
the crew Of the Jeanne Dare; but
of his outward circumstances she
knew nothing more. Thirty she
guessed him to be, thereby coming
within four years of the truth. His
short nustache concealed his mouth
and his eyes were closed. 1t wal
almost like looking at the mask o
a face. The rough beard of a weeks
growth made a deep shadow over thu
lower part OF his face; and yet, be
hind the mask, she thought she coult
see some token of a real man M