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Accompanied by the Exhibition of an
Automatic Pistol.

Accompanied by the Exhibition Of an
Automatic Pistol.
that gigantic wheel, drawn under,
crushed and mangled by the propeller
Of the vast black hulk whose flank was
sliding past. like the face of a cliff,
ten yards behind his shoulders.
Aware OF several dark objects dot
ting the surface within u radius Of
several yards, he swan for the near
est; the head was woman's, the face
turned toward him, the face of Rose.
He gasped wildly: Keep cool! Don't
struggle! Put one hand on my shout
der and
What happened then was never quite
clear to him; he only knew that he
was forced to fight for his very life
that the woman, as soon as he came
within reach, flung herself upon him
like some maddened animal clutching
his throat, winding her limbs round
his, dragging him down and down.
Primitive instinct alone saved him.
He remembered later, most vaguely,
the elimination of that duel beneath
the waters-rememb freeing an
arm, drawing it back. delivering 4
blow from his shoulder, with all his
strength. finding himself free, strug-
Cling back to the air.
Then boathooii caught the back Of
his shirt and dragged him. for some
distance, until two strong hands caught
him beneath the armpits and held his
head above the water.
He looked up witlessly into the face
Of Barcus, and, still bewildered, strug-
gled feebly.
The others voice brought him back
to his senses. Easy, old top! Take
it easy! You're all right now-rest u
minute. then help. me get YOU aboard"
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had the life-saving patrol to lock to
for protection. But the service is sus-
pended in June and July
A silence commenced eloquently on
this assertion, broken only when Mr..
Law voiced L thought bred of long and
malignant observation of the schoon-
cr's green eye:
I'D give Il deal to know who's
aboard that vessel"
You don't mean you think your reg
ular young woman-?"
It's possible. Judith kidnapped
Rose in Portland. That's not so far
from Gloucester; a motor car could
have caught that schooner before sho
sailed to waylay US, this morning. And
what better way to take care of an
able-bodied. full-tempered girl you've
kidnapped than to ship her somewhere
by sea, in the care of trustworthy
hellions?" ..
Don't ask me-Ive done very little
kidna-ing for one of my years"
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second impact OF shoulders backed by
q hundred and eighty pounds Of solid
flesh and determination, the lock spin
tered away frcm its socket, the door
flew open with bang-ana Alan into
the room with a cry: "Rose!"
His sweetheart met him halfway,
her arms uplifted, her countenance
TRANSPORTED.
And Mr. Barcus turned and slowly
ascended the paIionway, his nose
wrinkled with misgivings.
"Blest if | know hGw he thinks he
can tell 'em apart" he remarked Not,
that | blame him for taking q chance;
it wouldn't pain ne any to find cut
I'd kissed the wrong girl BY mistake
net. that is, unless she didn't care for
my technique.
in that case" he allowed, II guess
the sequel would be apt to prove toll
eratlc agonizing."
Some ten minutes later hail from
the deck broke the embrace Of the
lovers:
"Below there! l say-Law!-wind
a-coEl;ng."
"Risht-o! Half a minute!"
But that stipulated delay was sew
eral times multiplied before Alan
showed up on deck to tild Earcus
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CHAPTER XIV.
A Double Escape.


On Nauset Beach, in the shank Of a
midsummer night, two men sprawle6
on the sands, some distance back from
the water, and listened to the heavy
humping of their overtaXed hearts,
and painted.
Now and again one would lift his
head and stare out over the black face
of the waters at little line of red.
dish flames about q 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 venturcd the coast
wise trip from Portland to New York.
As far out again shone the star
board light of becalmed schooner,
whose people had been directly respon.
sib!e for the disaster which had over.
taken the smaller vessel.
In the course Of time, beginning to
breathe with more ease, one of the
two marconsd gentlemen said:
What | can't understand--anyway
is why these damned thugs out there
thought we'd be asses enough to stay
aboard the s5eaventure and get burned
up"
The other replied: Did they?"
Locks that way-doesn't it? II
they didn't, why were we permitted
to swim ashore at our elegant leisure?
There was nothing to prevent their
rowing round to cut us off,
Maybe they did at that, and missed
US, Mr.. Law-and- Order!"
but
I'VE were wee mite excited you've
got to admit It's just possible we
didn't hear the noise Of their oars.
And it's hlaci, enough for them to.
have overlooked US. y mans head
in the water isn't really q conspic-
ucus object on dark night
Tell me, Barcus, what's the near
est symptom of civilization?"
Chatham village" said Mr.. Barcus.
'siX miles to the moth ards, and cut Off
by an inlet q mile or SO wide at that
Mr.. Law Groaned soulfully.
Then there's the lighthouse on
Monomoy point" Mr.. Darcus pursued,
three miles to the south"
Mr.. Law said nothing whatever to
this.
''Of course" his companion reflected
r1orosoly, this had to happen in mid
summer! 4 month earlier we'd havo
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.,narpry tnrec times, ana the automatic
hcrn blared raucously a threefold re-
Spouse up forward.
"Necp that going he begged,
three blasts in a row and minute
interval-and if the devil takes care
CT his own we may possibly escape be-
ing run down."
With sigh, relinGuishing the wheel,
he collapsed upon the deck and was
a!most instantly asleep.
The wind haG fallen until barely
enough air stirred to keep way OH the
vessel; she moved in silence, spec
trail ship upon a spectral sea of long.
oily swells and the complexion Of lead.
Hither and yon in the obscurity, fog
signals of other shipping sounded a
concert of discordance-the man
power horn of catboat crying the
warning back to the deep-throated
whistle of a coastwise steamship and
the impertinent drumming Of motor
boats exhaust with the mufIler cut,
out.
This last boxed the compass, sound
ing now near, now far, though the COM
plants of other shipping diminished
in volume and died away in the dis
lance, giving place to others still, the
plutter-plutter of that motor was never
altogether lost; if at times it faded,
it seemed certain always to return in
even louder volume.
Vainly straining his vision against
the blank pallor of the encompassing
fog, Alan wondered, worried, dreaded!
At irregular intervals, starting
from preoccupation. he would r1anipu-
late the brass pull on the wheel-box,
provoking the horns suffering blasts
of protest. But the need for unremit-
ting vigilance and exercise of the fog
signal failed none the less to reconcile
Alan to that blatant clamor which so
widely and so hideously advertised
their whereabouts.
If there were anything still to be
feared from Judith and her craw-if,
for instance, as Earcus had suggested,
tHey uau SouSAI CUT GIG VI tAe Ale-
saving stations on Nauset beach, ap-
propriated its pcwer-driven lifeboat
and renewed the pursuit. if ever they
heard that horn there would beyond
question be the devil tc pay
The loneliness of his vigil was even
tually relieved by the appearance on
deck Of the woman Alan loved
The tableau that greeted her vision as
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C-EN1STg

The 3 of hearts is the death sign"
employed By Seneca Urine in the pri-
vhtc war of vengeance which. through
his daughter judith, q woman of violent
passions like his own, he wages against
Alan Law. son of the man tnow dcad
whom Urine held responsible for the
accident which made him It helpless
cripple Eose, .Iudith's twin ana double,
loves Man, and learning of her sisters
campaign against him, leaves home and
joins her fortunes to his. Under dra
matte circumstances Man saves Iu,!ith's
life ana so wins her love; but failure
to shake his constancy 10 Rose kintlles
Judith's jealousy and settles her i'll her
homcidal purpose.
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descended upon Alan's overwearied
faculties.
He woke mutinously, with q yawn
and a shiver in the gray Of furnished
daybreak, to find that fog pressed
heavily upon the face of the waters. a
mist so thick that from the stern the
waist of the vessel was almost invis-
ible, the bows completely so.
Barcus stood over him. 1T the wheel.
fairly Keeling with WEAKNESS. his eyes
Jlood.shot, swollen, and halfclosed In
L face like mask of fatigue.
Cant keep this up much longer"
he apologized thickly; stood it about
rs long as can. Take your trick and
give me forty winks."
| Grateful solcitude brought Alan i'll
stantly to his side, though he himself
vas sluggish and stiff and sore in all
his limbs.
You're brick!" he protested. why
didn't you call me sooner?"
NO good; l knew the way-yeu
didn't. That is, die until this ac-
! cursed fog closed down a couple of
hours ago. Now-God knows where
we are-by my reckoning, somewhere
i'll Nantucket sound, west Of Mono
! moy"
Grasping Il small brass handle
affixed to the wheel box. he iarl-ed it
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10 1..s iccC ara swung Jack over his
shoulder a heavy club OF driftwood.
A match spluttered beside the dory
and famed in the still air, relieving
with its reddish glow a bronzed and
evil visage.
The guard pulled fast and had the
tobacco well aglow when the sky took
advantage of his trustfulness and fell
upcE him like or avalanche.
Simultaneously Alan and Barcus de-
seconded the face OF the bluff in two
miniature laudslides, dug themselves
out, and by the time the dazed and
disarmed guard had sufficiently recov-
cred to cry cut for help the Gory was
q hundred yards off the beach anc
making excellent tiEle in the direction
CT that lonely green light.
They wrought with the cars like
men possessed. yet witt. machine
like precision that drove the boat fast
and furiously-without attempt to still
the splashing Of their blades. Cen
cealment CT their purpose from these
who remained aboard the schooner
was cut of TIE question. The shouts,
The shots, the play Of 1lashlanl IS
along the beac.-as though Bedlan
. had lCosed half dozen lunatic will
G. the wisps upon the holy peace Of
night-nlust have betrayed the fact
that they had turned the tables long
before the dory left the inshore shoals.
Tbs ccnlmcncst precautions, how
ever, made them pause and rest upon
their oars while yet a. little way from
their goal.
Only an omincus silence rewarded
the utmost Efforts OF their strainins
senses; no sound was audible other
than tic gentle wLit.a of an INCREASED
block: nothing was visible beyond tho
sinister glare CT that almost stationary
srec.. lantern.
What Think" Barcus inquired in
dubious undertone.
NO telling" Alan replied in the
came manner "All a chance"
you've get that gun handy" -with
reference to the rifle Of which they
had despoiled the victim Of the sky's
ill-fath.
Here"
"Then-lets go to it! Give way!"
A dozen lusty strokes brought them
alongside the schooner, and as the
dory scraped the waist Of the larger
vessel the two young men dropped
oars, rose, and Selling the low gun;
wales, lifted themselves to the deck.
Nothing opposed them; the deck was.
ignorant Of other footsteps than their
own, the schooner as silent as only a
becalmed ship can be.
Without further consultation, Alan
led quickly aft and down the compan-
ionway to the cabin, where dim light
burned-a smoky lamp swinging in,
gimbals above cluttered table.
or the two stateroom doors one dis
closed an empty cabin, the other was,
locked.
Trying the handle roughly, Alan
fancied he heard sound within. Paus-
ing, he called, with q thrill Of fearful
hope:
Hello, in there!"
The respone was cry Of incredulous
delight: "Alan!"
BY way of answer Alan hurled him
self bodily against the door. At the
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srant later two men fell bodily upon
him-active, strong fellows in tho
dress of fishermen. He was suffered
to rise only as a prisoner, helpless in
the grasp OF two pairs Of powerful
hands.
He saw Barcus, rudely reused and
still dumb with sleepy confusion, in
no better case-jerked to his feet and
held captive by two more fishermen.
A fifth had taken charge of Rose.
clamping her wrists in the wise Of
one big hand.
The sixth and sole ether member Of
the boarding party. likewise in the
rough-and-ready garb Of a fisherman,
was Judith Urine.
Down the side heavy life-boat
ground its way astern, the loose end
OF it's painter slipping over the rail-
even as Alan caught sight of it. $50
it seemed BGrcus had guessed shrewd-
lyD
Observing this. one Of the men in,
charge of Alan made as if to leave
him to the other, addressing Judith
fer permission to prevent the loss Of
tho lifeboat. She stopped him with
peremptory gesture.
"No-let it go. We're better off
without it. Hold that man fast till
fetch a rope. Well make sure of
them both this tima!"
Straining forward in the grasp of,
her guard, Rose implored her sister:
Judith, in PHYS name. think what
you are doing!"
Hold your tongue!" Judith snapped
viciously. Another whimper out Of
you, and I'll have you gagged" (
The balance of her threat. though
accompanied by the exhibition of an
automatic pistol, was drowned cut by
the sudden rear of steamship fog
signal, so close aboard that it seemed
almost to emanate from the forepart
Of the schooner herself
AS il was answered Ey shrill and
hcarse cries of terror or Of warning
from dozen Threats, Alan found him
self released. his captOrS leaplng 1Cr
their lives to the taffrail. 80.
He caught an instantaneous glimpse
of the knife-like bow Of great steam
er towering above the two-master-
sweeping toward it at speed which
raised smart jet of white under the
cutwater.
Someone aboard the schooner, with
the voice Of a stentor, beloved ter
.ritied appeal:
stop your engines! Shut off your
propeller! Stop your"
Then, like the wrath Of God the
steamship overwhelmed the lesser
ship; it's bow seemed to slice through
the schooner as knife through
cheese And the two halves were fairly
driven under water by the frightful
force of the blow.
Thunders deafening him. Alan was
hurled bodily through the air fully
twenty feet.
When he came up he struck out at
random, blindly tormented by the
vision of Rose caught in the suck Of
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she emerged from the compan,onway,
of the haggard. unshaven wretch at
the wheel and the other who lay at his
feet, where lie had fallen, in q stupor
of fatigue instantly wrung from Rose
u little cry of sClcitude. And she was
quick to Go what little she could to
alleviate their discomfort. For Barcus
she fetched pillow and blanket from
the cabin. and this one suffered her
ministrations without once rousng
from his slumbers. Then Fastening
forward, she go. the galley fire going
and prepared makeshift breakfast
for her half-famished lover.
Warm food and hot coffee-such as
they were-lending little tone to
Alan's spirits, he was presently able
to discuss their situation with some
optimism. Yet nothing could gloss
the fact that the problem confronting
them was one whose solution batIled
their utmost ingenuity-one the simple
contemplation Of which taxed their
courage and intelligence to the eX-
IRENE.
He summed up: Il can't see any
thing fer it but father and Judith are
determined to have my scalp, and I'm
hanged if l can see how TO protect my
self without taking a leaf out of their
books. What I'm most afraid of is
that some time | may forget it's
woman I'm defending myself against,
When a fellows fighting for his very
life he can't always stop to calculate
the weight of his blows
The young man sighed, shook his
head, laughed uncertainty. and held
her closer to him. Don't fear; I'll
find some way out without injuring
either of them. l promise you that!"
He sealed the pledge upon her lips.
And in that moment of their obliv-
ion to the world from some point for
ward muffled crash sounded stimuli
taneously with the dull shock of a
collision with q smaller vessel. and q
strange voice cried out with an ac-
cent Of high exultation.
Before either Alan or the girl could
disengage the decks rang loud with Il
rush of booted feet pounding aft.
The figures of the boarding party
were already taking shape through the
fog as Alan sprang toward the COM
panionway to fetch the rifle. And in
this action his feet slipped on planks
greasy with moisture deposited by the
surcharged atmosphere. He went down
with stumbling t.iumn, and an in
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.n1.ng a .-5orious PACK to tic cap.

Dcn.1Hg a 1.-CUriOuS BACK TO the cap
stan.
Lend a hand. can't you?" Barcus
complained. blowing heavily. II didn't
interrupt your amcurs just to get an
audience. The sooner we get this
anchor in"
Alan checked him with a hand on
his arm. whats tllat?" he demanded
in tone tense with apprehension.
The mufiled running Of hcavy-duty
marine motor drifted down on the
wings Of the sluggish wind.
Lent ask me-l'n. arraiG to guess!"
But they couldn't POSSIBLY"
"Since when did you set up to be
4 judge Of possibilities? Nothing prob
able ever happened to you in all your
yong lfc-'s far's I can make out. AS
for mel know there are at least two
lfe-saving stations on Nauset, both
with modern luipInent-rlotor life
boats and all; ant nothing will ever
persuade me that pack OF wolves
would stick at breaking in and confis
eating enc of the same. It's as likely
as nct-only more SO. Our present
business is to get the HI cut Of here
and not advertise our exit, either.
Take th:t port light in and dowse it,
while Go the same by the starboars.
Then duck below, warn your DulSinea
and put out the cabin lamp. That way
if this blaclness and our bull-luck
only holds-we may manage an eva.
Sion!"
There followed an exceedingly busy
quarter Of Gl hour FIR tive constrained
IL pitch darkness to gropo their way
about the decks and ralniliariZe them.
selves with the idiosyncrasies of a
strange twc-master. Nevertheless, tho
end Of that reros. found the schooner
with canvas full ans, sheets taut, q
scod easterly freeze abearl, swiftly
weaving a wake soutllwards-tile light
en- Mcnomoy Point watching her Curl
ously from ever the starboarl beam.
Hear anything more of that power
boat?" Alan asked, Joining Barcus by
the wheel.
"Nothing-wind too fresh. Make
yourself easy Oh the soft side Of q
plank here. I'll land you a kick in
the Stats when SO ninded-or when
it's your trick at the wheel :
With a chuckle, Alan obediently.
stretched himself out on the deck.
4 81 say-Law"
"Well?" ,
you seem pretty easy in your mind
about this young woman below. To
me, she's the same that tried to send
me to Davy Jones locker. How does
she explain her presence aboard?"
Much as surmised," Alan replied.
Il fancy they chloroformed her while
she slept in that hotel in Portland.
Whether or no, Rose woke up in a
closed motor car-bound and gagged,
of coursc-and was brought aboard at
Gloucester about midnight"
simple when you know how" Bar
Gus commented. "Of course, always
did say that truth was a stranger to
fiction. Cuddle down, now. and I'll
talk you insensible."
His accents already merging in with
the swish OF the 'longside waves, the.
bubbling of the wake, and the many
toned composite voice Of the ship in
being, Inconsistencies like a cloud
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