Arizona republican., 1914-11-22

stancy in purpose eon.. to burn schooner in which Alan h is asss. With Barcus owner of the schooner island south Of Cape Cod.
 DEAD RECKONING.
 On Nauset Beach, in the shank of midsummer night, two men sprawed on the sands, some dis tance back from the water and listened to the heavy humping of their overtaxed hearts, and Ipanted
 Now and again one would lift his head and stare Iout over the black face of the waters at little line of reddish flames about mile off shore. all that remained to witness to the fact that, an hour since, these two had, been in command of as trim a small schooner as ever ventured the coastwlse "trip from Portland to New York. l AS far out again, shone the starboard light or ibecalmed schooner whose people had been directly Irresponsible for the disaster which had overtaken Ithe smaller vessel.
 In the course of time, beginning to breathe with more ease one of the two marooned gentlemen said l Tell me. Barcus, what's the nearest symptom of civilization?"
 Chatham village" said MT. Barcus. "six miles ito the no'th'ards. and cut of by inlet mile or wide at that"
 Mir Law groaned soufu1y.
 Then there's the lighthouse on Monomoy Point" Mir Barcus pursued three miles to the south
 A silence commented eoquently this tion, broken only when Mr. Law voiced thought bred of long and malignant observation of the schooner's green eye:
 I'd give deal to know who's aboard that yes sell"
 You cont mean you think your regular young woman"
 Its possible Judith kidnapped Rose in Port land That's not far from Gloucester; motor could have caught that schooner before she sailed to waylay us this morning. And what better way to take care of an ableboded, full-tempered girl you've kidnapped than to ship her somewhere by sea, in the care of trustworthy hellions?"
 Don't ask I've done very little Kidnapping for of my years" lrs .eht-, . For tuppence," said Mir Law, "Pd risk swim of to that boat and see for myself"
 For two million doars-I would not!" Barcus affirmed with great decision.
 moment later the line of little flames went out altogether and unexpectedly; and the owner of the late Seaventure fanced he could hear even at that distance, the hiss of charred and smodering timbers sucked under and drowned out
 Exit he announced plaintively, exit Seaven- ture, with heroic gesture. R. l. P good little ship"
 "Oh, let up, cant you" Mir Law exclaimed peev fshly I'm sorrer than you are-and after all, it's my loss: I've got to buy you another boat. All iyouve lost is your temper"
 And my susceptibility to the charms of the we'll known sex, MT. Barcus corrected Nothing can lever restore my lost faith in gentle woman's gen. tleness. When you brought that young woman aboard thought butter wouldn't melt in her mouth
 
 the kindness of tipping you over into the drink. sos she could lavish her tender affections on reg ular guy, someone able to appreciate her-meaning me of course. And first thing know, she ups and points gun at my head and tips me board and then makes pretty bonfire out of my saiIboat. And all the you produce is that she's crazy in the head We'll who said she wasn't? Any woman who would consent to elope with you is fit subject for a commission de lunatico inquirendo, all right"
 s."If YOU inflicted any such monologue as that on Judith" -etorted Mir Law, T don't blame her for trying to slay you, and I'm sorry interfered"
 There's gratitude for you." MT. Barcus marked bitterly. risk my life for you, and you won't even let me talk about t!
 Tt isn't your talking mind-its the everlasting noise you make, MT. Law explained like reason able being. "Besdes-listen"
 For a moment the two maintained attentive si- Hence
 I silken whisper troubled the silence little ifutter of sound from far across the waters Grad tually it gathered volume, became recognizable as Ithe lisp of cautious oars.
 1 I'm going away from here" MT. Barcus an pounced guardedly, and gathered ms legs unoer him preparatory to rising.
 | Half second Alan Law insisted, rising in turn and grasping the other by his arm. They've got to and--haven't they9-and leave the boat | while they look for us. We'll then, what's to pre- vent our hiding in the dunes and-?"
 In the next breath Look out!" he shrieked
 With no warning whatever and within fifty feet of them, ghastly flare broke out in full blaze on the surface of the water, revealing the shape Of 6ory which had drawn in unseen under cover of the profound darkness and at the same time dis covering to it's occupants the two startled figures on the beach.
 1 Before they could stir the weird light glimmered m polished weapon in the bow of the boat, a spiteful tongue of reddish flame spat out bullet sang between Messrs. Law and Barcus and with n sad thud of disappointment buried itself in the sands of wave-eaten bluff behind them.
 Like twin automatons stirred to action by the 1 renort the two turned and pelted off down the beach to escape that deadly area of illumination. ! Other shots sped after them, but so well aimed and presently. finding break in the blur they swung of into the grateful shelter ~ the night-wrapped dunes