The evening world., 1914-12-31
That's Ganlevs move" exclaimed

That's Ganlev's move" exclaimed
McKinnon.
"Iie claims that It's yellow fever
that we've entered the affected sono."
The intentnoss with which he was
studying her face brought her won
dertng eyes UP to his.
I'm afraid you've got to be very
brave" he said, az gently a. he could.
"Why?" she asked.
because you and ! are going to
break that quarantine to- night"
She looked from him to the smoke
columns that hung over Parroto. and
then back at the carbine rack and the
brass guns Of the Communicates
smoke belching ship OF war.
I'VE can't" she said. with a little
gasp OF despair. I'VE, would have no
chance. There Is no place to go to
and they will have orders to shoot.
II would be giving them the chance
they are waiting for. We can't go!"
We've got to-" McKinnon said
dogsedly.
Alicia Boynton stood on quad at
the door Of the wireless room, wait
ing for McKinnon's return. More and
more. in those last strange hours OF
uncertainty she dreaded being alone
The girls heart stood stlll as Nc
Kinnon himself Jerked back the cabin
door. lodged inside, and 8s quickly
closed and locked the door behind
him. lie stood there with his back to
her. listening. without so much az q
glance In her direction. lie heard
the pacing steps pass and die away.
and pass still again. Then no muir
INJURED grateful Thank Heaven"
took deep breath. and turned slow
~ about to the waiting girl. His
gaze was impersonal and abstracted I;
he scarcely seemed conscious Of her
presence AZ he stood there, deep In
thought.
"Well?' she whispered at last,
struggling TO keep some tremor Of
dread from her voice.
THAT letter was right" no said,
with the look OF perplexity stAl In his
studious eyes, Eighty eight boxes
OF fiuxing Stag have been passed out
from the hold and piled along tho
pier. They've boon standing there
covered with u tarpaulin."
is any one there?" she asked.
"Five Of De Brigard's men--four
men and an officer. Tho four mon
are moving those boxes now. They
are lifting them In through the east
door Of tho weigh scales shed The
south door has been kept shut; and
tho United Fruit Concerns track
motor has been kept there waiting
They have divided the eeyhty eight
boxes Into two lots. They intend to
take out only one-haif OF the ship
ment tonight. l counted the boxes
from under the lifeboat Forty'thrss
we're left; that means they are taking
OF forty Ave"
That means almost three hundred
thousand rounds OF ammunition!" she
exclaimed. hopelessly.
THE bennington rifles, OF course,
they can't touch. Tho forty Ave
boxes. ! imagine. have completely
loaded the body OF their car. filled II
up
but what are We 70 do?"
lie looked at her, and laughed a
little recklessly.
They have To run those boxes OF
Stag out through Puerto Loconba 10
DE BrIgards headquarters tonight.
They have TO get them out there
quietly, worry quietly. The track,
doubtless, has been cleared for them
1t has To be cleared for them. for
even hundred and forty horse
power motor can't s!detrack an ore
train or switch a string or banana
cars. And there In no longer any
telegraph between this port and the
inland points they have to pass
mo, there Ia no telegraph" abe said.
81 here are four men and an officer
he musod irrelevantly. Then no looked
down at his watch. and turned alb
ruptly 10 the CIR! again.
you have a revolver" he asked.
She showed him the slender, Jeweled-
handled toy that her brother Arturo
had given her three years before, He
looked II over. saw that It was loaded,
and handed II back to her.
Have you ever learned to use A.
he asked. She looked at him with
gr0wiGs6 Wondng.