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 The captain nodded, and Lucille, See Ing now the maddeningly unbelievable quality os the story she had told re- garding her adventures, felt hot rage fairly burning her up. She sprang at the captain, taking his coat in her hands and shaking him ferce1y.
 "I am not 1nsane-it's the truth every word''-she sobbed. then lifting eyes in which the clear light of sanity glowed enthusiastically. Captain, I swear to you that every word is true" The captain turned from one to the other in the very extremity of perplex- 4ty. Finally he nodded to Loubeqne that he might leave, and. with a slow smile, the spy turned away.
 Young lady," the captain said, 'syou - will resume your duties for tonight, and in the morning will see that you are properly clothed. | will immedi- ately send wireless to the authorities in San Francisco and see that you are met by them at the pier. No harm can come to you from this man. You understand why I am unable to do more for you. I"-
 Lucille extended her hand, mrasping his firmly and meeting the troubled eyes of the man with her own-her own eyes, in which glowed gratitude and confidence and truth. And in that hand clasp the pair cemented com mon union against any enemy.
 Hugo Loubeque stood a little apart from the eager passengers gathered at the rail watching the giant harbor of. the Golden Gate creeping about them, encircling them.
 To others the sight meant home. but to L4oubeque it meant bitterness gall It meant the country that had been his. but. which had cast him forth an unworthy son unfit to be itc citizen. His eyes fastened moruseIy upon the. slender, pretty slip of a girl clinging to the rail, her lips parted as she watched the dock, black with eager friends and relatives, coming closer, closer.
 Then a slow crunching as the great ship swung into her moorings- Hugo Is sLoubeque slowly lifted the cigar from hiB mouth and waved it in a deliberate FsrVle that ended with it's tip pointing toward the slender girl He caught | her eyes and smiled at the expression Of terror. of fear in them, SIS he saw she had marked his. gesture. Came a crowding forward in the cen l Ter of the throng upon the deck. The 1 gangplank thrust it's nose out. ont. un- l kfl 1t rested upon the dock. Some of the passengers booked about insur- prise at souNd Of guttural oath. They saw tan, somber, saturntne passenger smoking a cigar. his eyes fastened upon a squad of Diuecoated policemen edging their way from the rear of the l throng into the exact center. They l wondered.
 1 Lucille trdpped down the gangplank. | Once more the man who had uttered the oath lifted his cigar. Came a quick upIleavals in the fhrong. The spy snail- ed to himself, then moved toward the | plank. He looked down upon the crowd of men surrounding the slip of girl. l surrounding her so closely she was hid- den from sight The policemen were 1 lighting their way to the ship. Game a scream in a woman's voice. Loubeque I bent forward, his .knuckles showing a blue wilderness from the ierceness of his grip upon the liners rail. l Help. help! Cap
 The officers wiirIed in the direction of the girls voice. The crowd of men l damned closer, resisting. without the 1 appearance of resistance. the shoulders of the law. From outside the jam l darted a woman clad in deep mourn ing. Easily the throng of men gave way before her. Her arms were about the neck of the girl who had screaned. smothering her lips with kisses.
 ''My poor, dear sister!e she sobbed l uncontrollably, her arms about Lu- ciIle's waist, bearing her through the crowd of men.
 0koiTa SSfN af AT bow, his face troubled The policemen fought their way to the center of the l group to find n0sw0man there. Their leader, a sergeant. stepped toward the captain.
 NYou sent a wireless, sir, regarding g young Woman"-
 The captain txrned to Loubeque. his eyes threatening.
 '@The girl." he demanded. What has become off
 Hugo Loubeque lazfly pointed his cigar toward a black, high powered motorcar Ieaping out into the city's street
 -The insane girI?' he smiled q be Heve I saw her step into that machine 5 captain"
 The sergeant waited curiousiy Knowing there was something between | the two A0us SCSuLluS tue dlA1OSp44CGS 1 of hatred. he waited.
 ''No use now, sergeant" sighed .Lucil1e's friend.
 Something told Lucille as she stood at the ships rail that trouble awaited her once her feet were set upon the wharf And her hand closed about the diary hidden in the bosom of hel dress. the diary she had read so many times she knew it well nigh by heart