The Forrest City times., 1913-04-04
CHAPTER VIII.
Somewhere East of Nantucket.

The Sibylla under stress of her powerful turbines was racing easily reeling of her thirty knots with no eming effort and scarcely a percep- hble vibration. There had been a stin breeze during the night, but 1t had died down at sunrise, and now, at noon, the sea was calm as the bosom of a nun. The sun blazed on the yachts polished brasses. intensifying the snowy wilderness of her glossy paint, and turning to jewelled show srs the spray which fell away from her sharp prov and caressed her long, sleek sides. It was wonderful weather for late October. On the nineteenth fhe temperature had risen to ninety an New York, breaking all records for that date; and now, two days later. here at the meeting of sound and ocean, with Point Judith just coming into view over our port bow, and Block Island blur abaft our gtarboard beam, we sat, Cameron and !, shaded by spread awnings. on the after-deck, as though it were mid
 
 oy my righteous untruth. after re- peated and emphatic dinning, and had daily grown stronger; readily agree hg at length to cruise along the soast, with Bar Harbor as objective.
 That Is precisely what l had the Eibylla built for" he told me, when my suggestion found acceptance. 
 on the brass tablet over the fireplace An the saloon? No? Well, it's this: 'Sibylla, when thou seest me faynte, address thyselfe the gyde of my com %laynte.'
 q found 1t in an old book, published n 1563, poetic induction to The 9firror of Magistrates written by Thomas Sackville. You can fancy how my application distorts the orig final intention; but Sackville isn't likely to trouble me over 1t"
 repeat this explanation now main Ny to indicate the improved temper of the speaker. His mind was placid once again, and with this recovered placidity had come a return of his quiet humor For my own part was not altogether happy. My de light over my friends recovery, and Evelyn's pleasure thereat, was cur ,dled by self-reproach regarding the instrument l had employed to bring 1t about. A lie Is to me most con temptible agent. and to make use of one has been always abhorrent. In this instance l had salved my con science in a measure with the old ex ease that the end justified the means but 1t was only in a measure, and was far from being as happy as pretended.
 Moreover, I could not rid myself of an uneas,ness--a misery, indeed in which l was now without company concerning the day and its menace. say without company" for Gamer on, of course, had quite dismissed the subject, and Evelyn, who previously was greatly perturbed, had seemed tC put away all apprehension directly she saw us safe aboard the yacht There had been some talk of her ac tOnlRdIlf ALS us, but NANNOul eiSuiiS y hng my real reason, had managed to dissuade her.
 For my disquietude there was cer tainly no logical ground. I had talk .en the precaution of having the isibylla searched from masthead tC ikeelson before sailing. The coal was examined as carefully as that of bat tleship in time of war; every locker and cupboard was inspected; even the yentilators were metaphorically turn ed inside out and the record of ev cry man of the crew was looked into with vigorous scrutiny. So could see mo loophole unguarded. But the past was an argument which set logic at inaught. If such things could be as that which had happened a month ago in Cameron's dressing room, how much further might the inexplicable carry? Of what use were precau. tons against an enemy who with ap. parent ease calmly defed all natural lAws7
 All tho morning my thoughts had